The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JOLT 23.
Last night, at a meeting of the deputies for Anda-
lusia and La Mancha, held to consider the course to
be pursued on the approaching debates on the rail-
way bills, it was decided to appoint a committee, of
which M. Martinez de is Rosa is to be president, to
watch over the interest of the southern provinces.
There are only 230 deputies at Madrid, and it is
thought doubtful whether, in a week hence, enough
will remain to make a house.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Jrcy 25.

The following very remarkable proclamation, ac-
companying an ordinance dissolving the Anhalt-Dessau and
Anhalt-Kothen Chambers, has just been issued by the Grand
Duke of that state:

" To my People,—Three years have passed since the de-
plorable convulsions that shook all Europe took place. A
power called the will of the people disturbed violently and
precipitately at that period a state of things accompanied by
many blessings, to set up the work of a sick and crazy season
in the place of it. The church, although the strongest
pillar of the state, was to be separated from the state ; re-
ligious confessions were to be banished from the schools,
irreligion to be sanctioned by the law ; and a false freedom,
' in direct opposition to all which has been hitherto held
sacred, was to give prosperity to the people. But the de-
plorable example of foreign countries, and our own expe-
rience, have shown us to what abys•es of ruin these prin-
ciples lead. The German governments have there-
fore pledged themselves to each other energetically
to withstand their further development; they will not
suffer the internal peace and welfare of states, which de-
pend upon the undisturbed cultivation of commerce and
industry, on reverence for lawful authority, on religion
and murals, to be further undermined ; they will not suffer
the German people, who have become great by their fidelity
and love to that princes, to be deprived of their noblest
virtues.

"I have never thought for a moment that the welfare of
my people could be founded on deeds and institutions of
disorder and destruction ; and although, by the pressure of
circumstances, I was obliged to introduce them into the
laws of the land, it was only with the certain hope that
their pernicious influence would soon be universally ac-
knowledged. This hope has not deceived me. The best
part of my people arc anxiously desirous that the novelties
of the revolution, which go beyond real progri,s, should be
abolished. It would have been very pleasing to me if I
could have accomplished that object by means sanctioned
by the constitution, but the obstinate resistance of a few
men, who have not justification but the accident of prema-
ture election, force me to abandon this course.
. .

" The divine ordinance and the rights and dutieiflowing
therefrom, which are not invalidated by the constraint of
au incompetent and illegal force, command me at present
no longer to suffer the continuance of circumstances and
institutions which I—and with me the best of my peo-
ple—regard as unwholesome and pernicious. Willingly
would I take intoaccount the wishes of my people, expressed
by worthy and enlightened representatives. But that I
may learn from parties in whom confidence may be placed
what these wishes are, it is above all things necessary that
means should be adopted to protect the election of deputies
from the influence and aetior. of a reprobate and revolu-
tionary party. I have therefore called upon my council to
prepare a new law of election, and will give publication to
the same as noon as I have come to the necessary under-
'tending thereupon with my cousin, his Royal llighness
the Duke of Anhalt Bcrnburg.
" Fear God, and obey his commands—that is the motto of
my house. This is my highest law, and with this I will
make my people happy; and so I trust that, in opening this
new chapter of my government, the divine blessing will not
be wanting.
Dessau, July 20, 1)151." " Ltorotn FREDERICK.
The ordinance dissolving the Chambers follows this pro-
clamation, in which ordinance the 2nd and the riOth articles
of the constitution, which provide that, on the dissolution
of the Chambers other Chambers shall be immediately con-
voked, are delared to be suspended.
The DI! Ili nide .11yontine Zeitung gives the text of the
joint proposition of Austria and Prussia, which was laid, on
the 19th, before the Dirt, relative to measures to be taken
with reference both to the press and to the police for the
security of Germany. In this document it is pro-
posed that a committee of the Diet should be chosen to draw
up a report promptly un the subject ; and more especially to
determine on what occasion commissioners from the Diet
should be ntrat with sulhunity into particular states, on any
refusal on the part of particular states to obey the injunc-
tions of the Diet; and what the powers of these commit-
sioners should be. Further, it was required that the bund
should, having obtained the unanimous consent of the As-
semble, place a general interdict upon all journals and
periodical publications which may advocate socialist or com-
munist doctrines, or any principles calculated to overthrow
or injure monarchy.
The Krell,: Zeitatig, alluding to the report, subsequently
contradicted, that Russia had sent a note to England,
wherein, in the name of Austria and l'rueda, as well as in
her own name, it was said to be declared, that in case of
any dangerous popular demonstration in Italy, those powers
would interfere to preserve or to restore order, now reiter-
ates the assertion that a note to the effect mentioned has
certainly been sent from the court of St. Peteniburgh to
that of St. James's, and that in that note Russia does not
speak in her own name alone.
Biamark Sehonhausen returned to Frankfort yesterday,
carrying new and comprehensive instructions from his go-
vernrnent.
The Pretusisrhe Zeituny announces that the resolutions
of the 'Loll congress at Wiesbaden are at last ratified. The
principal changes in the tariff consists in making raw ma-
terial* altogether duty free, and lowering the scale of transit
duties.
JeLT 26.
The proclamation I sent you yesterday, from the Duko
of Anhalt-Dessau, is the must thoroughly full-blown of all
the fruits which the re-established Frankfurt Diet has yet
produo.d. It would be absurd to attribute this act to any
spontaneous move on the parkof the Anhalt government or
of its petty:sovereign. The proclamation comes from Franks
fort, and can be regarded only as an announcement of the
principles and purposes of the three great powers, Russia,
Austria, and Prussia, and their confederates—at this pre-
sent crisis.
The Diet's interference in the internal affairs of Here
Cassel came first openly, through the Diet's commissioners ;
then came quickly after the new Austrian press law,
abolishing a free press, and slowing only a servile one to
exitt by suffrance ; he Mecklenburg-Schwerin edict to
the like effect followed; and, lastly, this Anhalt-Desom
proclamation, which throws off the mask completely, and
exhibits, under its broadest aspect, a determination to ex-
punge entirely from the history of Germany—except as an
ugly and fearful episode—all that has happened during tha
last three eventful years.
It is to be remarked that in this proclamation it is for the
first time distinctly acknowledged that the German rove-
vereigns have formally entered into a pact to suppress the
development of the principles of civil liberty in Germany.
'fhe Duke of Anhalt-Dessau also declares, in express un-
equivocal terms, that by virtue of his divine right, he issues
an edict for the express purpose of violating a con-
stitution and laws sanctioned by himself, and which
he has solemnly sworn and pledged himself to
his subjects to uphold ; and a very peculiar and re-
markable feature of this princely deed is, that both in the
preamble and the conclusion of the proclamation, making
it known, and in order, no doubt, to justify it, all religion,
all godliness, all faith, is claimed as a monopoly for princes
and their supporters, whilst all who oppose them are de-
nounced as the reprobate and the ungodly, whom it is the
first duty of governments to crush.

PARIS, MONDAT EVENING.
The event of the day is the eclipse, for observing
which the weather has been favourable. A large
business, has been doing on the Boulevards in the
male of contrivances for tempering the still too daz-
zling revs of the diminished luminary. At half-past
three the sun appeared no bigger than a moon of
about four days old. Bat although Sol's disc was
covered to thi, extent of 10.12ths, his remaining rays
were quite enough to prevent ally of those striking
effects which will have been witnessed in the north
of Europe. A singular gloom prevailed for more
than an hour, and towards the climax the sun was
surrounded by a luminous rainbow-like aureole,
funning a complete circle of about 100 yards in
diameter to the vulgar eye.
The members of the Assembly were chiefly occu-
pied with observing the phenomenon, to do which they
all issued from the Chamber in a body and hastened
down the steps to the quay, armed with
bits of smoked glass., and discs of blue pasteboard
with pinholes. Some snatcked leaves front the Pre-
sident's garden, which they punctured, and applied
to their eyes. Others were accommodated with buc-
kets of water, in which they contemplated the shorn
rays of the dimmed luminary. Engaged all intently
during nearly an hour en thus occupation they looked
more like a detachment of the Scientific Association
than the members of a legislative assembly. At
four, that is about half-an-hour after the crisis of the
eclipse the representatives re-entered the legislative',
hive, and renewed their labours, which consisted in
disposing of a series of motions of no importance
whatever. The only occurrence worth mentioning
was the deposition of M. Manescan's report on the
motions for prorogation on the part of the com-
mittee of leaves of absence. This, as I have pre-
viously stated, recommends the Assembly to prorogue
itself from the 10th August to the 20th October. GREECE.
The portion of the Municipal Bill relating to the
councils of prefecture was read for the first tiro', and By the Levant mail we. have received Constanti-
it was agreed without debate to pose to a second de- nople journals to the 14th, and Athena iloarnels to
liberation. the 18th, both inclusively. They are destitute of
A committee was appointed in the bureaux to ' political news of importance. It appears by • the fol-
examine M. Leon Faucher's bill for authority in lowing article, which we extract from the elaattrier
the city of Paris to contract a loan of 30 millions, t d_ltheoies. that the brigandage in Greece, wh ieh has
Xleven out of the fifteen are favourable to the loan. been so frequently spoken of, remains elm°. It un-
Accounts from the provinces are now very gene- checked :
rally agreed that the wheat harvest, though exceed- A band of brigands recently stepped the mail on the Nod
ingly unequal, will, on the whole, be nearly an from Sparta to Tripolitsa, and took from the bags all let ten
average one in point of quantity. The quality Is de- which enclosed any bank-notes. Two of the robbers had i
year. There is an immense theira faces
ed, sathilackezLialitid the whole of them were very we 11
eided:v better titan last
sad
rebbeety weneatphoens. Eeighty traj,enlltchne* I
stock of Sour in hand at Paris, and prices are low, had been stopped
with a very dull trade. 3rd, Calamata, accompanied by 62 brigands, attacked the
The number of foreigners here, especially English,j village of Cheimerniki, in the commune of Ypate, and
who had last ts war denounced
is every day increasing, to the maters al assistance of ,killed one of the inhabitan
trade at this dull season of the year. Great vas- thelu eagaomript";
village imOdnaßehrerofollitwoginallt thwaiiiitant
to
ts
pointmcnt is, however, felt that the government set tire to and destroyed it. He told the villagers that he
declined to patronise the industrial fetes which had had procured a list of all traitors, sad of all those who per-

A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, of the 23rd
hot., says that the circulation of paper money in
Austria was, in the month of June, half a million of
florins less than in the month of May, and that the
circulation of coin had increased in the same propor-
tion.

The Illdrpt Mit nee Beige says that it was universally
asserted at Hamburgh, on the 25th inst., that all the
great European powers interested in the mainte-
nance of the kingdom of Denmark have, following
the example of Russia, agreed in favour of the young
Prince of Glucksburg.

secuted the brigands, that ho might chastise them at his
leisure. In order to inspire his victims with greater alarm,
he told them," At the village of Kyriveochori you will find
Captain Protopapas, and at Will= Colon(' l'harmakis is
quartered; go and ask them to amist you." Shay brigands
attacked the village of Goustartza, and robbed all the inha-
bitants ; and the village of Merali has met with a similar
fate.

EGYPT.—A letter from Alexandria, of the Gth,
states that an army of 10,000 Turks was expected
there on its march against the Weehabites.
TURIN, JuLT 23. —During the absence of M.
d'Azeglio, Gen. Lamarmora is charged, ad interim,
with the portfolio of foreign affairs.

INDIA.