The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

GERMANY.

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All the Zollverein States bordering on the Rhine
have expressed their assent to the treaty with Rol.
land negotiated by Prussia.
The Prussian Gazelle states that the Hanoverian
Government has refused to send a plenipotentiary to
the Customs Conference at Vienna.

The eutogne Gaz.lic says it has mason to belkse
that the treaty which has fear its object the renewal
of the treaty of commerce between Prussia and
1k -
gium, will be signed in a few days.
Dr. Edward Banks, Syndicus and Secretary to the
Senate of Hamburg, frequently employed by that
city in important diplomatic missions, has died .a
Switzerland, where he was travelling for the restora•
tion of his health.

Madame Schroolcr-Derrient, now Baroness von
Bock, the celebrated prima donna of the Bredai
opera, who was charged with being implicated in the
last insurrection in that city, has been jot.
doned by the King of Saxony, on condition of ha
paying the costs of the proceedings commenced
against her.

BERLIN, DEC. 26.
The chief topic of conversation here to-day is the
telegraphic announcement of Lord Pahrierston's lc-
signation, and Lord Granville 's succession to the
Foreign-office. The reactionary party. greets the
measure us an augury of total change in England's
foreign policy ; the democrats express fears that the
asylum given to political refugees on British soil 161
be withdrawn. Persons acquainted with English
affairs, however, know that the change has no other
aim but that of putting the Foreign-office into the
hands of a man whose negotiations with the cones
nental powers, at this critical moment, would nut be
' mpeded by the remembrance of past differences.

ITALY.

VENICE, DEC .;
Gold is in peat request here. The Lombardi
Venetian loan is at 75i buyers. Bank bills, WI.

LEGHORN, DE,.. 20.
-Henry Stratford, calling himself Lord Aldborough,
and his brother Edward Stratford, have -been con-
demned to death by the court-martial, upon the
charge of conspiracy to overturn the government,
and the unlawful possession of arms. The third
brother, Charles Stratford, has been sentenced to a
year's imprisonment in chains. But the punithment
has in each case been commuted. Henry Stratford,
is to suffer 10 rears' imprisonment, Edward Stratford
6 years, and Charles Stratford has been set it liberty,
the imprisonment previous to his trial being reckon,d
as a sufficient punishment.

TRIALS FOR THE REVOLT OF BIAY_IS,

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NAPLES, Inc. 11l
The long-expected trials of the accused for tba
revolt of May 13, 1818, commenced on Friday last.
The celebrated President of the Grand Criminal
Court, Navarra, took his seat surrounded by doe
judges who have already proved themselves to be the
political tools of the government. The prisoner!,
forty-five in number, occupied the seine benches 0*
which Poeno and his companions sat a few mouths
since. The court presented precisely the same ep
pearanoe—a strong body of gendarmes, and ant
number of spies, placed at different points, to repsr
the words and looks of the crowd which tilled the
body of the court. Before the trials could einnmencs
it was of course necessary that all the aceu,cdshoia
be present, one of whom; Archdeacon Cagauw,
man upwards of eighty years of age, was reposed
as unable to sustain the fatigue. The president pro
posed that he should have a lawyer to represent lux
but the old man stoutly refused, and was brought
into court in a sedan chair.
As the forms of an Italian court are tedious and
unintelligible to the English reader,l shall endeava
to give a clear statement of the facts as they sofa!
without following tho details of the law. In the IF!'
place, however, it will bo necessary to give the origin
of these trials, I will then follow the printed aeon:•
tion of the Procurer-General who acts for
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crown.
The 15th of May, 1818, was the day appointed for
the meeting of the first parliament—Of the lICNV COrl:
atitution. A difficulty had arisen about the form
the oath, when the members of the tower hon-4
illegally met at Monte Oliveto. A pernicious Mal
threw up barricades—it was feared the King.wou'ut
not prove loyal to his oath; the former Port, ie
the Neapolitan Bourbons was quoted as an esinnP, •
A street fight ensued (a terrible day)/ find erenlill
the royal authority was triumphant. More than o(ki
were taken with arms in their hands—more than •-,01
were killed or wounded. Then followed a royal ar?:
linty. The King told the people that all should I"