The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-18 00:00:00

that heartrending misery and distress, which these
elections invariably ins: :t upon hundreds of the
sorrow-stricken victims of misfortune.

GERMANY.

THE FRANKFORT ASSEMBLY TAKES PART
AGAINST THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
The Assembly at Frankfort was occupied on the
14th with two meet important subjects ; the firit
being with regard to the murder of Ro.
beet Blum, and the second with regard to
the state of matters at Berlin. On the latter
subject the Assembly came to a most impor.,
tent decision. A committee having been mined
to report on the state of affairs in Prussia, the majo-
rity proposed the following motion, which wee
adopted by the Assembly :
" The National Assembly agreeing with the met.
sores taken by the ministry of the empire, declares
that it is necessary—first, to engage the Prussian mi.
nistry to revoke the order for transferring the Ne.
tional Assembly to Brandenburg as soon as measure,
shall have been taken to guarantee the dignity end
liberty of its deliberations at Berlin ; secondly, that
the crown of Prussia should surround itself as soon SA
possible with a ministry possessing the confidence of
the country and fit to remove all fear on the subject
of reactionary tendencies and the infringements of
the liberty of the pepple."
This motion was signed by the following majority
of the commission : Jordan of Marhurg, iehar4
'4ergenhahn, Jordan of Berlin, Schwartz, Her

_ oeowariz, Ham,
von Saucken, l'eur of Augsburg, Lontael Falk,
Wiedenmann, and Von Haunter of Dinkelsbohl. sfhe
motion of the minority, which was not adopted, was
in substance the same as the one abovementioned, but
expressed in stronger terms.
On the subject of Robert Blum, M. Simon, of
Trews put a question to the ministry as to whether
they had intelligence of his having been shut. 11.
Mohl, Minister of Justice, declared that he had no
official intelligence of the fact, but he en.
flounced that two members of the Assembly
were about to leave Frankfurt on that day
c
for Vienna to protect their colleagues in thatapital. At the close of the proceedings an urgent
motion was announced by Simon of Treves, viz., e in
consideration that three separate letters had arrived
from Vienna, detailing the fate of Robert Blum; lad
in maideration that, according to the lute enacted
on the 10th oJober, for the protection of the As-
sembly, the execution of Blum bee.,mes murder, the
National Assembly is called upon to deliberate at
once upon measures that shall ensure the pun.
ishment of the murderers." Mehl, the Mi-
nister of Justice, immediately stated that the
envo3s of the ministry had started at 2 p.m., for
Vienna ; that they had instructions to demand the
surrender of all papers and correspondence referring
to Blum's affair; and to send these, together with a
full statement of all relative particulars forthwith to
Frankfort. Till then, he thought, matters must stand
as they were. The urgency of Simen's motion wu
nel,atived, and it was referred to the committee for
Austrian affairs. The house adjourned at 3 p.m.
The execution of Blum was the general topic of
conversation in Frankfort on the 14th. 'file names
of the members sent to Vienna are Bauer, of Aug..
burg, and Pool, of Munich. A large fraction of the
left and left centre had, on the evening of the 14th,
resolved to send a deputation to the imperial Minister
of Justice, requesting the additional despatch of an
Austrian member on the same mission, one who is
altogether of a more resolute character, and better ac-
quainted with the affairs of Vienna.
I'ItUSSIA.—We have accounts from Berlin to the
evening of the 14th. The National Assembly, hay.
lag been expelled from the Schiltzen Haus m. t on the
14th in the Town Hall, Unruh presiding. Proposals
for accusing the government and military authorities
of having violated still farther the rights of the
Chamber, were made and referred to committees. The
time allowed to the burgher guard to surrender their
arms expired at sunset ; but 500 stand had been given
up. A heavy fall of snow on the evening of the 14th,
rendered the sfreets very uncomfortable for the troops.
AUSTRIA.—Our correspondent writes, as follows:
VIENNA, Nov. 12.
The executions during the last few days base been so
numerous, and, above all, so secret, that even the I'resse of
this day, the journal which, on account of its highly mo-
derate, if ern coaservatise, principles, wu the first to r.ceive
from Windischgratz the permission to re-appesr, refers to
twilimehinacacotnpane which,
iit iniootnweiotliistnd
notwithstanding
disapprobation,the Ia
ba
n"erle l rosene
aboured
hen-
sion for the consequences. " The terrible reports a
(gerus
the above journal) respecting numerous executions, maks
the most painful :mpression on the minds of a population
accustomed to a mild domination. We are unable to reduce
those reports to their true proportions " With reference to
the latter part of the foregoing sentence, I may
add, that although I stated the day before yesterday,
on good authority, that Messenhauser was shot, and yentas-
day, on apparently equally good authority, that his sentare
had been commuted into imprisonment for life, 1 an sdl
unable to announce positively which of the two statementals
the correct one. The names of the foreigners only who haw
been executed are given in the IViener Zeituoi. And,
propos of those prisoners, the official journal just quoted
states that out of the number of persons arrested since dm
31st ult. some G2l have been already set at liberty by " the
imperial and royal military central commission of examine-
tion." One may infer from that statement that the number
of arrests has been very great. In fact, these have been
five times of late for the host of spies who had begun to
think that their occupation was for ever gone, and who did
not indulge in the hope that Windischgratz would out-
Metternich Metternich in his system of espiosonsie and in
the surest' of his measures.
According to the Wiener Zeitung, not less than 244 per-
sons were arrested on the 9th inst., shoat ten days alter the
captur, of the city by the imperialists.
The Russian ambassador, Count Modem, has arrived in
Vied, a, and the other members of the diplomatic corps are
shortly. expected. This afternoon the capital was partly
aroused from its stupor by intelligence from Berlin of the
state of things there.
Feohel, one of the three delegates appointed by the left
of the Frankfort Assembly to proceed to the city with an
address of sympathy, had been sentenced to death, but at
the earnest demand of the Swim ambassador (Frobel is an
honorary citizen" of the Helvetic Confederation) he has
received a full pardon, and has left Vienna.
The Craroir Gazette asserts that RUSSiIk has entered into
a treaty of peon,- with the Circassian chief, Schamil. lf
sash be really the CM, it is probable that the Emperor lug
other objects in new.
Baron Welders, the newly-appoiated governor of Vienna,
sensed here yesterday evening.
It is stated in the Vienna papers that the Hungarians had
sttacvel and plundered the town of Fridau, in Styria, bat
that they bad been driven beyond the frontiers with great
'lns by General Nugent.