The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

L'lreketie Fedhale. of the 19th inst., states that
there are now only 85 refugees in the canton of
Tessin, all the others having been sent across the
frontier.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—The ice on the Danube and the
Danube canal, in consequence of the sadden thaw,
began to loosen during the night of the 15th. and so
completely blocked up the Danube canal that the
water rueMd from the sides over the bones, and soon
laid the suburbs of Leopoldetadt completely under
water. Towards one o'clock many of the streets near
the Danube were seven feet under water, and the
basement stories, shops, stables, and cellars were com-
pletely flooded. Several craft floating down the
Danube were shattered to pieces against the muses of
ice, and at the chain bridge the blocks dice were piled
up almost as hiixh as the bridge itself. Eye-witnesses
assert that the impending danger aas great as that
of the awful devastation of 1830. Great apprehen-
sions are entertained for the night. Several hves
have been lost. One of the pillars of the large bridge
on the Danube has been carried away, and injured
four pillars of the railway bridge.
The Wiener Zeitung of the 18th gives a detailed ac-
count of this event, and states that an the night of
the 16th the water providentially began to sink, and
hopes are entertained that it will pass off without
causing much more damage. In many houses in the
suburbs the water reaches the first story, and whole
families have been plunged into ruin. In the neigh-
bourhood between Vienna and Presburg the ice also
shows indications of a rise.

In the sitting of the diet at Kremaier, on the 16th
last, an application made by the late Frankfort
minister &handing for six weeks' leave to go to
Frankfort, was unanimously refined.
BAVARlA.—llates from Nuremberg, to Jan. 16,
state that in consequence of the sudden thaw the
Pegnitz rose, at midnight, to the greatest height
within the memory of man. Many fives, it is said,
are lost, and the damage sustained by the warehouses
lying along the banks mast be very considerable.
HESSE DAItMSTADT.—The Darmstadt Gazette
gives a lamentable account of the first iatroduction of
trial by jury into that city ; it had been long and
ardently desired by the inhabitants; but its com-
menctment was attended by a disgraceful scene. The
first case to be tried was a misdemeanor of the press.
The judge and jury were assembled, when a band of
republicans, the party to which the accused belonged,
forced their way into the hall, and committed every
species of excess, and drove judge, jury, and counsel
out of the court. The attorney-general was hooted in
the streets, and pelted with atones, and was obliged to
take re age in one of the courts of justice. The police
and national guard were so taken by surprise that
they did not interfere.

FRANCE.—FLoons ox TnE UPPER RUIN?.
—The halo,/ of the waters of the Upper Rhine, from the
late heavy rains, has awed great damage. The embank-
enent in the valleys of Relate Marie and Ville. mule by the
city of Schlestadt, at the expense of 60,00 Ir., is, for the
major part, broken away. Great destruction has been done
in the eroviroes of Bile. The Weiss has inundated the whole
f the country between Little Huningen and Otterbaek, ren-
dering all communication between the inhabitants impos-
sible without boats. The bridge at Great Huningen is in
(regiments only from the force of the Rhine, which has car-
ried away live other bridge,. The Thar has also broken its
banks. The dyes which protected the railroad between
Strasbourg and Bile has been breached, tad, bet for the
great exertions made by the directors, the causeway would
have been destroyed, and the tragic stopped, at least for •
time.

NEW ZEALAND.—By her Meje.ty's ship Dido,
20 pans, Captain Maguell, arrived at Portessoath, we have
news from Auckland to the 4th of November.—The colony
was in a thriving condition, and civilisation was widay
spread in" into the ulterior, which is evidenced by many of
the m lets wishing to live by trading, instead of predatory
mammon; Yvan.. I 14.• metiers and each other. The coed Sr
and movement. of the ootorious Melu, tne Trams...a SU..
Zealand, Bye graphical detailed in the following arucle
from the Southern Oroas(Anckland paper), of o.r. the 28th:
.• The Nasty, Isms the Bay of Islands, on Mundy evening,
brines us let en hem several mrrespoodents, ell of which
allude in pointed terms to the bearing and conduct of the
redoutable Held, as indicative of his restlassnels and deter-
mination to set law and order again at defiance. It is the
almost itaanimous opinion of those who have known this
chief fee many years, that he never will he quiet for any
length of time together. Ambition is his railing passion,
and being very
.little under the influence, if not wholly
destitute of, upright principles, he does not scruple to
iris- on the most frivoloas and unwarrantable pretexts
for supporting his exactions. Some of his old adherents
disapprove of his pc sent behaviour, and declare that
he gamd have a rood cause for assuming a hostile position
before they will yield their sanction and support, but the
majority stria in awe of him, and feel that their own
safety in a ramoure depends upon their union with him,
as be has declared that he will regard the neutrals ea
his f. sad in one instance has already wreaked his "en-
nuis" by stripping a neutral chief of all that he pcoseased.
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