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

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jisat the fifth (in Siebenbergen), 20,000, with
twenty-four nieces of cannon ; the sixth (in
the upper Hungar mallets, in the direc-
tion or Galicia sadian Moravia), 10,000, with 12
mom of artillery, an 4 the seventh or Arad one,
10,000 strong, with 12 canapes. The Magyars, more-
eel& have three steamers on the Danube, as well as
weed pontoon& It appears by some soments that
the commandant of the fortress of Canons refused to
allow the Magyar troops to enter it, and threatened to
fire on them if they made the attempt. It is stated
that the Austrian Ormeral &Mick has advanced as
far as Miskolc.
According to the Colfigne (lassos, of Der. 30, the
committee of the Diet of Carinthia has declared
molest the merging of Austria into Germany, and
indirectly, in favour of the oetroi of a constitution by
the Emperor.
BAVARIA.—According to amount& from Munich,
up to the 27th, the ministerial crisis continues. The
Baron von Sehrenk having declined to take any post
Professor Edel, of Wareham, has been summooed to
the royal presence. Like his friend, Von Abel, the
professor is a conservati,e in politica, and an ultra-
montanist in religion, consequently just the man for
the king, Worst for the nation or the legislature.

FHANKFORT.—Dates from this city, to Dec. 28,
state that one of the anti-ministerial fractions of the
National Assembly has proposed that the head of
Germany be a so-called " German Vicar of the Em-
pire," to be elected every foneth year by the reigning
pram s and the four free cities. This proposition most
be added to the ten or eleven others enumerated in a
recent number of this journaL
Herr von Sehtnerling has been nominated Austrian
plenipotentiary in Frankfurt.

HOME, Dec. 20.
YesterdaT, after post hour, the gathering of the
guards, which had begun when I closed, continued
throughout the city, and at 5 o'clock there mustered
in the square of Piazza Catania& 2,000 negotiate, in
the Piazza Venezia 1,000, with 600 dragoons ; in
Piazza Santi Apostoli, 4,000, while the avenues of
the Quirinal showed 1,600 troops of the line, making
a disposable force of over 9,000 mcn to overawe any
attempt as disturbance, and support the regular
search of the government. The Irish sculptor,
Hogan, showed me in his eartostche-box 24 rounds of
ball cartridge, and assured me every civic firelock
could show the same. While under army, the
Romans having Feld counsel and agreed on an ad-
dress to the executive, that body was called on to re-
move instantly from the city the few hundred vaga-
bonds what were known to be mixed op with every
public demonstration, and &rine the night numbers
of them were arrested and sent off ; among the rest,
Oaribakh and Gavazzi were expelled the city.
In the course of the evening it was generally
known that the new triumvirs had accepted office,
and at 9 o'clock the Corso was simultaneously lit up,
and the whole b..* of 9,000 armed men marched
through the sine, and quietly dispersed to their seve-
ral quarters. The triemsitate onnsists of its two
original members, the Keaton of Rome and Ancona
(Prince Coreini and Cements), with the addition of
O.lletti in room of the senator of Bologna. 6alletti is

a Bolognese.
Their first proclamation in that capacity is this
morning all over Rome, and despatched through the
state generally. There is no doubt of the new govern-
ment being universally accept, d a d maintained by
the population, who are now called on to elect a
constituent assembly for its formal acceptance and
ratification.

Toe oeogenaruin Corsini has dons ranch to pre-
serve social order in this country, by coming forward
at his age (N 2) in the time of peril; and, an he can
boast n 4 only of popes but a canonised saint (Andrea
Cipriani) is hts 'ovally annals, no one am call the tri-
lunvi-ate a mere offshoot of &moans,.
Tbe Circuit Pupa 'are has closed its ions by com-
mon consent.

FRANFFORT,Dzu. 26.

No : you are mistaken if you believe thit our poor
Germany exis.• no longer, and must be left out of
account in political cantle ions. He who should do
so would soon be obliged to begin his reckoning
anew. The first Fraakfort parliament has stopped
after finishing only a quarter of the work it had on
hand, but the German nation will not give up the
ghost fur all that. On the contrary, it will soon raise
Its Iliad again, to }, • who has left it out of his cal-
culations will I. 4 • ,a/sts to regret the omisshn. After
all is said and you may rest amain d that in its
parliament the German nation has found a centre of
action, of which it will not let go its hold. All the I
peopirs belonging to the old Germanic confederation
still continue to be represented in this centre of German
popalar opinion! and I am much mistaken if all of
them, Austrians as well as Prussians, do not cling
to it, whatevir the dynasties of either may do with a
view to withdraw them. The great misfortune of the
Frankfort parliami tit is, that it represented too faith-
fully the national mood at the moment when the re-
volution of M ireh was completed. At that time two
elements of public opinion had a powerful influence
and could not fail to make themselves felt in the par-
liament—the professors of our universities and the
copyists of France. Tie imitators of the French
revolution mode a great noise at the
.opening of par-
Fament and frightened our gcod citizen; and this
enabled the professors, of whom there are 80 in that
assemble to take the lead in it, and manage
affairs a.^Cording to their thrones. These two coteries
are now " used up," and Nat alone is *material gain
for G 4 rmany. Our little Robespierre, and Dantons
of the extreme left are no longer listened to, and our
great doctors hang their heads and begin to dis-
cover that they are of no practical on in political dis-
casein.

The Austrian guevtion more than anything else has
cared the self-conceit of this latter party. It was our
professors who, on theoretical grounds, assured the
public that Austria was sure to resolve into its ele-
ments—that its various nationalities could not keep
together—and that then the Gelman part of its popu-
lation would be glad to creep back into the German
system on the arrangement of a federal state. All
Germany now sees the bad coruieguenoes of acting
upon this assumption, and is exerting itself to repair
them.
lire committee appointed by parliament to report
on Gagern's programme—that corollary to the theorem
of oar wiseprofeseors—oonsists of tune of the left and
sir of the right, and they are almost without ramp-
tion partisans of the political incorporation of Austria
irto C.rroany. This committee will propose to vote
the c.,;:er of the day on Gagern's programme, and
then to lay down as the bass of a negotiation with
Maria—let. That imperial commissioners shall be
appointed to arrange an indissoluble, incorporating
anion between German Austria and the rest of Ger-
many ; 2nd, that ambassach,rs shall be appointed to
negotiate a permanent and c:ose alliance between
Germany and non-German Austria. There is
Rood reason to hope that this proposal will
be supported by a majority in parliament. On
the ore hand Austria does not wish to be separated
from Germany ; the German Austrians begin to see
what kind of a future awaits them in the event of
their being separated from their countrymen and de-
livered over to the tender mercies of the Sclavorians.
The risk we have run of being subjected to a parti-
tion has also opened the eyes of not a few to the evils
which dynastic and diplomatic policy were about to
telOie upon us. Fur assuredly it is not the German
F
who wish for a partition in order that the King
of tugs may become emperor of the west and the
twang Friona, Joseph of the east d Germany.
-people of Germany desire the unity of
Germany ; none bat the drawl's entertain
bars of; not finding
.places is a united Ger-
nay. The prepossession against a republic with
which the follies of republicans have inspired public
"idea, has been materially weakened by the anti-
Rational spirit which the princes have displayed in
their recent intrigues. The Kings of Hanover and
Bavaria have refused within these few days to receive
and pehlish the fundamental laws of the :empire :
these laws are very likral, and parliament will not
lose is public opinion by the hostility which the
iltevince to its enactments.
sliort and the long of all this is that Germany
Weed dangerously ill, but she is not yet dead.
llcearquieu somewhere remarks that Germany has
sever Lien nearer a victory than when she appeared
en the eve of being annihilated. History records
various incident,' corroborative of this opinion, and
believe me that those who reckon on the death of poor
%many will find the same thing happen again.

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Iroommt.-.A lady who had a steamboat full of
IVate, Issas es muse Er it hy ,aying, " She was ping ts
11"1°. I'4 wealds't fee the wor4 withott the Tuirty-
alas
wt. Astiths."—Pviech's Alniaitack.

WIND6OI, SaTuiroaY.--Horida jetty, th. Priam
and ladies and gentleman of the royal bowed& attended
divine terries I. tbe private eltapel. Than was no addition
to tk. royal Mauer party this day.
Earl sad Constar Choy loft tows on Saturday, for
Hoed* Hall, Northumberland.
Lord J. Hassell returned to his roaidesoto is Rich-
mosd•pak ou Saturday from Windsor Castle.

ELBCTIOX Vol Ht u,.-.4a ea ddr to his con-
stants. s loaf issued by Mr. Bakes, hi annecaess his=
am as President cf the Poor-kw Beard, sad often
a eandidate for re-e eMiea_

THE CONSOLIDATED BOARD OF EXCISE, STAMPS,
AXD Taxis. it to consist of the following members:—Chair.
num, Jolla Wood, Bet ; Deputy Chairman. Joke Thanatos
Req. ; Commissiesets, Hart Darin, Req., Thomas Harrison,
Req., Henry T. Stembeason, Rag, Charles Jolts Hattie.'
t laCharke P. Rashworth, Req., Charles Primly, E.g.
Mositgornery. 114.—Obsereer.
THE HEY. Dz. DALE her (says a ooneepoadent) re-
signed one of his appointments, known as the " Golden Lec-
tureship," a post, the emoluments of which are about 6001 a
year, and the duties one sermon • week, delivered en Tin a.
days at one of the thatches near the Royal Exchange.
There 'are already the.. candidates for the appointment—
Arm, the Rev. Mr. Molyneux, of Woolwich; seeded, the
Rev. Mr. Gurney, who will, of goatee, have the influence of
his relatives, the Mears. Hawes, they being swab. re of the
court of the Haberdashers' Company, in whom gift the lee
tureship is ; mad third, the Rev. Mr. Melville—a gentle-
man who is already chaplain of the Tower, and principal of
the Rost India College, with a ealarLof 2,0001. a year.
THE HEALTH OP THE EARL TALBOT is reported in
the StalfordsAire Advertiser to he extremely precarious.
His lord.hip has recently had a Maple of a disease under
which he has been for some time suffetieg.
DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL CROMPTON, BART.—This
baronet expired on Wednesday last at Wood Red, the family
seat in Yorkshire. The deceased was born in July 1785,
aid married Nov. 3, 1829, Isabella (Sophia, daughter of the
Hon. end Rev. Archibald H. Cathcart, by whom he leaves
issue some& daughters, bat se son. The late baronet was a
great patron of agriculture, aid had expended large suns in
the improvement of his estates and tenantry. He repre-
sented East Redford in the House of Commons Item 1818
till 1828, the year before that borough was dieted chised,
and then was elected member for Derby, which be sat for up
to 1830. In 1634 he was the successful candidate for Think,
which be continued to sit for up to 1841, when he retired
from parliament. Failing male issue, the baronetcy
(created in 1838) becomes extinct.
DEATH OF ALDERMAN JOHNSON. Early on
Saturday morning Mr. Alderman John Johnson expired at
his residence, !Milbank, after an illness of same months'
duration. The deceased, at the last general election, was •
candidate for the representation of the City of London in
parliament, in the conservative interest, but was defeated.
lie, in conjunction with his brother, who still survives, was
in early life extensively engaged as a parlour, and both in-
herited a large f• dues from- heir father, who made .11 most
fortunate spedilation is a stone quarry in Devon-
shire, since known es the " Heyter Granite," and
who undertook the contract for the celebrated breakwater
at Plymouth; this and other fortunate speculations
tended to plasm the deceased alderman at the bead of the
stone trade, and in the year 1830 he was called upon to till
the alflca of Sheriff of London. In 1839 he succeeded to the
&Wert:mile gown of Downed* ward. In 1343 he was elected,
after a poll, to Ail the civic chair, and among the many
tuests whom he entertained at the civic table was Ibrahim
Pasha. During that period he presid. d at meetings of a
rut number of the Ear ropolitan charities, to each of which
ha was • liberal contributor. Several candidates for the
al dermanie gown are already in the A Id, amongst whom
may be named Jeremiah Filcher and John Laurie, Eve.
(late elteril6). Mr. Modem. IL.P.hr, and alderman of, York,
has also been mentioned. _

REVENUE UT TIIE rit6BllT QUMITER.—There is
still • week to run before the tabular manna the quarter's
revenue eats b. puhlished. A who.. week's receipts have yet
to be added to the valeta quarter—to be pwbl.shel on Satur-
day next—before • etrictly accurate estimate tan be made of
the computes* of the protest quarter and year with the cor-
responding periods ceding the sth January, 1818. Thera is
enough known. however, to allow us to make a close approx
filiation to the probable result, and to institute • comparison,
which, we are happy to ray, will be a favourable one. It is
satisfectory in the highest degree to find that the falling off
in the revenue rf the country, which was observable at the
close of 1847 and the commencement of 1848, has at length
receivt d • wholesome check, and that our ordinary resources
hi gin again to chow a buoyant and upward tendency. The
Customs us is expected to exhibit an increase over the
correspondieg quarter of last year little short of half-a-mil-
lion. We are sorry to edit that the othrr most important
I ndlcation of the rate of trade and of employment, the
excise, will not owlet r so favourably to the wish. s of the
public. In this important item the receipts will vary little
from tams of the last January quarter. The only other
item from which en increase is expected is that elamcii under
the head of " Miscellaneous," which is expected to yield'
more than 200,001 id this quartet' 80,0001. of which, hew-
ever, is the lest payment en account of the Chinese ransom,
which was referred to in the Chancellor of the Eachequer's
estimate last cession. The other item', stamp*, teem, pro-
perty-tar, Ike., will be scarcely as good as last year. The mint
considerable falling off aptirehentlrd in the stamp:, which
is expected to be about 200,0001., a great part of which is ac
counted for by the transfer of the carriage duties from the
stamps to the excise. In noticing the excise ue as one
of the great teats of the condition of the people, we may re-
mark that the dotes on malt—the largest in amount as well
as the most important in marking the ability to purchase on
the part of the labouring population—are in • much more
favourable rate than they were at this time last year. The
Postiiifice shows little difference. The amount of falling
off in the property tax in the quarter is not much of a crite-
ria', since that impost is collected with more or lees un-
certainty in the different quarters of the year, by much the
larger portions being received in the April and October
quarters. The gross revenue for the year will also show
favourabl in comparison with the corresponding period,
ending sth Jaauuy, 1848. But a still more correct criterion
of returning prosperity is to be found in the fact that the
nine mood s, oouatir.g from the 6th of April, 1818, to the
present time, exhibit a considerable advance over the stereo-
vondiog nine months, counted from sth April, 1847, to sth
January, 1848. From this, and from the activity of trade,
still so happily observable, It is fairly assumed that the con-
clusion of the financial year on the sth April next will find
us in • much in re satisfactory and prosperous condition than
we were on the sth April last, and will fully bear out the an-
ticipations of the Chaucellor of the Exchequer at the close of
the anion, on which, with the knowledge he then had, he
was justified in the calcalatiens which he made for the year
that was to ante. These calculations, it is now found, will
be completely borne out, sad upon a review of our entire
financial sad commercial prospects, we are able to congra-
tulate the country upon a steady and progressive improve-
ment —Observer.

TRI:110 ELECTION.—The canvass of Mr. Hnmphry
Willysina has progressed well daring the week. The har-
mony saisting among the liberals of Truro has surpassed
expectation, and the apathy which for many years appeared
to have overtaken them has been completely dispelled. In
scarcely a single instance in which Mr. Vf illyams had ground
to expect support has he met with a refusal, and according
Ito all present appearances his return may be regarded as
'certain —Devonport Telegraph.
CHOLERA.—On Saturday, the Board of Health re-
ceived reports of the following fresh cases. It will be seen
that sot one occurred I. the metropolis or its vicinity.
Berwick-upon-Tweed. 1 fatal; New Monklsnd (from Dec.
9), 44, 26 fatal ; Edinburgh 7, 2 fatal ; Strum: 1
ffirmaciek, 1 fatal ; Old Monkland 13. 10 fatal ; Batbgate, 1
fatal ; Head on 4 ; Olugow 162, 70 fatal ; Cumbernauld
by Glasgow, 1 fatal ; Maxwelitown, 1 fatal ; Dumfries 3.
Total new mem, 238; 113 deaths.
THE AEXT.—According to the last official returns
the army le eempesed of 7,093 regimental officers on full pay,
vie ,06 anienals, 266 lieutenant colonels, 260 majors, 1,827
captains, 2,663 lieutenants, 1,227 second lieutenants, ensigns,
sad essmete, 490 regimental staff officers, 185 surgeons. 249
assisientspargeons, and 30 veterinary surgiros, and 162,148
non minsmetiosed officers and rank and Ale. This number
incited*, 12,663 cavalry, 6,042 guards, 19,867 artillery and
yippee@ sad =bun, 163,033 infantry of the line, 11,621
royal marines and marine artillery,and 8,582 to be the strength
of the sehmial regiments, with the exemption of the Cops
Mounted Rifles, which is iacladed in the cavalry retain.
Tan PALACE Couiy.—Sir,—l have no doubt
that the correspondent who recently addressed you on thie
subject is correct in his observations that the validity of a
plea to the jurisdiction of the Palace Court entertaining
actions between parties, other than the kiss's domestics,
has never yet been determined ; nevertheless a far more
im-
portent point hes been decided, vie., Out the court is alto-
gether an usurpation of power, and contrary to the laws of
the country. The case was "Firer v. Wagstaff," upon a
judgment given in the court of the Marshals's, by virtue of
the new patent. The matter is very carious, as the king
wrote to the judges en the subject, anti they returned an
answer; hat must not trouble you upon this point. The
ease was aroused in Trinity Term, 1633, the error assigned
being that in the style of the court it was stated " that the
mart is holden by virtue oldie king's letters patent, before
de., to hold plea of all personal actions whatsoever within
' twelve miles of the pelages, itc." It was held that
a patent for the termination of all causes could not be, but it
ought to be only of criminal matters, and for that Yuma the
judgment was reversed. It this decision has not been im-
pugned, the means are at hand to settle the question of juris-
diction. Bat why should this court be allowed to exist, if its
erection is unconstitutional ? Its practice is certainly most
oppressive, and hoe at length become intolerable; and I trust
that whatever glows, or false interpretations, the ingenuity
of interested persona may put upon the charters, Sr the ease
before cited, that the court will shortly be declared to be
and the people Our by relieved from its ruinous pro-
andiage.—A Lawvita's Cisco:.—Sujeante-inn.
INCREASED VALUE OF GROUND IN THE METROPOLIS.
—There ars many estates In the metropolis which fifty
years back were worth 31. an sere, as cow pasture and dairy
ground, sow realising from 1,f)001. to 2,0001. per acre per
annum! Many within thirty years, which were brickfield
roughs,sow returnhalf that rental, and in another generation
these same setae's on which the property of thousands has
been outlaid, wi 1 in some inahuuses yield tithe colonel pro-
prietors from 100,0001. to 600,00 W. per annum !—The
Builder.
"LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSETTRB."—A little ro-
mance of real life is reported in the Journal des Dibais of
Thursday. A physician, who was passiog or. Sunday
the Rue d'l.llm, it.w the body of P young female stretched on
the pavement. 13 li.vtne, at first, that she had been ama•si-
nated, he conveyed her in a coach to the Hospice Cochin,