The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

GERMANY.

We make the following extracts from letters re-
*lived from oar correspondents :
VIENNA. Drc.l2.

It appears from the ministerial Reichs Zeitung
that the preliminary difficulties to the installation of
the interim have been removed, ani that the Prussian
rommissioners, MM. Radowitz and Batticher, will
join the Austrian without delay at Franktxt. This
journal says:—" It is fortunate that, after long inter.
ruption of harmonious action, the cabinets of Vienna
and Berlin have at last come to an understanding to
form the organ of the German confederation for con-
ducting the general affairs of the federal states ; and
we hope that such an approximation will exercise an
important influence upon the definitive settlement of
the German question.
A tax upon beer is going to be introduced. Daily
conferences take place in the finance ministry on this
subject. The brewers are bound to assign a certain
definite place for the deposit of their malt, which is
to be always accessible to the excise officers, they are
also to declare the quantity of beer to be brewed from
so much malt ; pure malt mast not be need in

brewing.
A society has been formed at Vienna with the ob-
ject of discouraging the wasteful expense attending
pompous funerals.
The Preaburger Zeitung contains correspondence
from the Lower Theirs, stating that the moat exag-
gerated notions prevailed there among the Megyare, es
to the sympathies of the English government for their
cause. They believed that Kossuth was in England,
where he had been received with a salute of 101
guns.

VIENNA, DEC, 13.

It appears that the ministers have returned upon
their purpose to defer indefinitely the convocation of
the principal laidtags. The feelers put forth in the
government organs have roused eo dangerous a
feeling throughout the country, that this daring vio-
laticn of the constitution will, in all probability, not
now be ventured. lam given to understand, indead,
that the ordinance for the convocation of the trindtags
is already in the hands of the government printer.

BERLIN, Dec. 14.
It would be quite impossible for me to state within
the limits permitted me the variety of reports in cir- ,
culation respecting the convocation or non-conv.:ca-
tion of the Erfurt parliament; and if 1 had the
power of oor.densiog them into a small compass they
would throw no new light on the subject. One fact
is quite certain, which is that the interim is on the
j point of being constituted, and it is indeed the only
fact in connexion with the German question that can
be asserted with anything like certainty. There is
one other point though which seems to be gaining
implicit credence; indeed I have been assured by
I very good authority that the ministry here are fully
\ prepared for the int.), vention of Austria in Saxony,
and that they are taking the necessary Ave for
counter demonstrations of the most energetic kir.d.
Meanwhile, the Verwaltungsrath is to adjourn for a
fortnight.
The official accounts of the reverse and expendi-
ture of the country, the principal points of which I
communicated yesterday, have been published to-
day. The accounts of 1849 were contained in two
i very large and one small volume; those of the present