The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

which urged the government to expel the individuals
alluded to. Such an expulsion, however, could be
justified, if necessary. The police agents (he added),
and not the ministry, were responsible for the acts
which accompanied the arr. et and expulsion of Dr.
and Madame Marx, and the government could era-
cies no authority over those agents. So that all
foreigners here are at the mercy of a set of men over
whom the Belgian executive has neither control nor
authority !
The Minister of the Interior said he regretted
that an isola•ed case had been twilled to the rank of
a political or national grievance. If there were
foreigners living in Belgium who were dissatisfied
with its institutions, why, the gates were open for
them, and they might go elsewhere in search of the
triumph of their theories. So much for the ministry.
It must be stated, however, that an official investiga-
tion into all the filets connected with this unpleasant
and by no means unimportant affair has been ordered
by the tows council.
The Belgians are beginning to be afraid of their
own liberties when they see such arbitrary conduct
towards two foreigners. Several English familia
have left Belgium.
The great difficulties of the Belgian government
just now are not of a political nature, but refer to the
question of the organisation of work, or rather of
industry in general. It appears that the revenue of
the province of East Flanders will be pledged as
security for the repayment of the sums advanced,
without interest, by government.
The overflowing of the Scone has caused conside-
rable damage in the neighbourhood of this city.
A very influential meeting of the leading merchants
and tradesmen of Brussels was held this afternoon is
the Exchange, in order to draw up a series of sug-
gestions to the government respecting the means of
remedying the financial difficulties of the moment.
The proceedings were too important to admit of a
hasty analysis. To-ir.orrow I shall send a due account
of the business transacted.

DENMARK.—A letter from Copenhagen says,
that it is the intention of the King of Denmark to reunite
himself in marriage with his second wife, horn whom he
was separated some time since. The Queen is not indis-
posed to this reunion : she has been for some days at Berlin,
with her relative the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelita.
The Farirelandet publishes a declaration of the Danes
on the Eider (which forms the boundary between Denmark
and Sleewig Holstein). This declaration is signed by 43 of
the nobility and chief people, among whom are several
members of the states. It may he con,idered both
the answer and the counterpart of the resolutions
of Kiel, proposed by the deputies of Sleswig
Holstein. The ultra-Danes are diEsatisfied that an
equal number of deputies should be returned by
Deamark and the German duchies. It likewise disapproves
of the decision that no changes shall be made in the existing
connexion of the duchies; and, finally, protests against the
constitutional union of the Germanic federal states of Hol-
stein with Sieswig and Denmark, as calculated to promote
the excess of German federal polity, and to Endanger the
Danish nationality of Sleswig.
GALICIA.—The greater part of the town of Bala-
chon, in Styria, has been consumed by fire. Above 160
dwelling-houses, with all the barns and outhouses belonging
to them, were consumed. The damage is incalculable. ha-
-1 mense quantities of corn, the property of the wealthy Jewish
families living in the Circus, were totally destroyed. Only
one life was lost.
THE BRAZILS.—From Rio we learn that the

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accounts from England of December had given some anima-
ness to capitalists, from their unfevourable character in re-
gard to the staple productions of that country. Lord Hew-
den had intimated to the English merchants, through her
Majeay's coni.ul, that his endeavours to oonclude a treaty of
commerce with the Brazilian government had failed. Should
nothing be arranged in this matter throughthe two cabinets,
impors of British produce wi➢l be amenable to one-third
more duties than articles of the growth and manufacture of
,arch nations whose laws are more favourable to Brazilian
interests.