The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-11 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Yolks-Zeitung was seized on Saturday at
Berlin for an article headed " Fall of the Man-
teuffel Ministry," in which the acts of that Ministry
were criticised.

" According to all probability," says a letter from
Berlin, "a very warm electoral contest may be ex-
pected. The nomination of M. de Patow, as Minis-
ter of Finance, is a direct declaration of war against
the exemption of the properties of the nobles from
taxation. In 1848 a pamphlet of M. de Patow on
the question of the land-tax led to the formation of
the self-styled Parliament of the Nobles, the chief of
which was Count d'Arnim-Boitzembonrg. Now the
minister is in a position to carry out his ideas, which.
are approved of by the Prince Regent, but the party
of the nobles will not yield to him without a
struggle."

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BERLIN, Nov. 8.
The Stoats-Anzeiger hu already give* you the
names of the new ministers, whicli on the whole

confirm my former conintaniosileas. There is now
a talk of making a new department, to be called the
Staatz-Ministerium, or Treasury, eseasthing similar
to that created by the late King Frederick William
HL, when the office was held by Count Lottura. It
is farther added that the Minister von Auerewald
will be placed at the head of this new department.
Meetings of voters for the fifty-four districts of
this metropolis are convened simultaneously for this
evening. The police will have enough to do to send
a sufficient number of officials to each of these meet-
ings, bat the circumstance excites no alarm, and,
indeed, the total absence of police officers would only
be beneficial to the cause of the Liberal government
just installed in office, eontzaating so deeply, as it
would, with the rigid measures of precaution always
taken by the former cabinet.
The elevation of the late premier, Baron von Man-
teuffel, to the dignity of Count, was offered by the
Regent to that nobleman, who, however, has declined
to accept it; but a list o: officials connected with the
foreign department whom he has brought before the
attics of the Regent for promotion, and recom-
mended as candidates tor orders of knighthood, on
amount of their long and meritorious •servioes, has
been approved and acted on immediately by the
&rrat.
Herr von Gruner,Councillor of Legation, has been
appointed Under Secretary of State for the Ministry
si !Foreign Affairs.
With regard to the antecedents of the newly-
appointed ministers, I may observe that Prince
Hohenzollern, as a distant relative of the reigning
dynasty, received the title of Highness by royal
deerse of 20th of March, 1850, on his voluntary me-
diatisation and surrendering the territorial sove-
reignty of his principality of Sigmarinuen to the
crown of Prussia by the treaty of the 7th December,
1849. The prince is lieutenant-general in the
Prussian service, colonel of the 28th Regiment of
Infantry (of which the late Duke of Wellington was
honorary oolosal from the peso° of 1815 down to the
time of his decease), and commander of the 14th
division of the army (headquarters at Dusseldorf).
Rudolph von Anerswald was civil governor of the
province of Trier (Treves) from 1842 till the revolu-
tion in March, 1848, when he was appointed Prime
Minister at the head of the Cabinet which succeeded
the short-lived ministry of Cemphausen. He how-
ever resigned shortly afterwards, and became civil
governor of East Prussia, from whence he was sub-
sequently transferred in a similar capacity to the
Rhenish provinces. Since hie dismissal from office,
on the accession of the cabinet formed by Herr von
Westphalen, he has only taken a part in politics as
member of the House of Representatives.
Baron Alexander von Schleinitz was Prussian
Envoy to the court of Hanover when called to a seat
in the Cabinet on the 29th of July, 1849, as Minister
for Foreign Affairs, from which post he retired on the
accession to office of Herr von Radowita, who un-
dertook himself the conduct of the affairs of that de-
partment, ever sines which he has lived in privacy..
The Minister of War, Baron Edward von Bonin,
has filled this post for a short time once before dur-
ing the late Russian war, but tendered his resigna-
tion in consequence of a dispute he bad with a com-
mission appointed by the members of the Lower
House. He was lent to Schleswig-Holstein during
that war, and commanded their army against the
superior numbers of the Danes with great credit and
MOM.
Baron Erasmus Robert von Patow, a Civilian, and
Councillor of Legation, now Minister of Finances,
was Minister for Trade in the Camphausen Cabinet
of 1848, but retired when that pnme minister re-
signed. He subsequently served as civil governor
of the province of Brandenburg, and ever since
1849 was an active and intelligent member of the
Lower House.

Moritz Augustus TM Bethmann-Hollweg was
formerly Rector of the University of Bonn, and was
appointed in 1848 to be a member of the Council of
State, but of late he has taken no active part in
public affairs.
Count von Puckler (a relative of Prince Fackler-
Alaskan, the well-known author of " Semilasso,"
&c.) has for many years past, and up to his appoint-
ment as Minister for Agriculture and Agrarian
Affairs, been the civil governor of the province of
Oppeln.
Of the two ministers who retain thole metfolice,
August von der Heydt, after being for some time
head of a large manufacturing concern at Elberfeld
and President of the Tribunal of Commerce in that
city, catered the Cabinet u Minister for Commerce
on the Bth of December, 1818; and Ludwig Simons
was salted in April, 1849, to scooted the Minister of
Jude., Kerr von Rintelen, who resigned.
The Prussian frigate Thetis, 42 (exchanged from
the British navy a few years sines for the two de-
spatch boats Recruit and Weser), has received orders
to proceed immediately from Dentate to the Swedish
Naval Arsenal at O'Herron., where she will be
docked, lengthened, and transformed into a powerful
screw-steamer. This is one of the first-fruits of the
new order of things.
As a significant sign of the times, it may be men-
tioned that a highly respectable merchant of Danteic,
Herr W--d, being appointed some time ago agent
of the Berlin Life Assurance Company, petitioned
the local authorities for the usual " concession,"
which was, however, refused, on the grouad of his
having voted at the last election against the govern-
ment emedidate. A few days since that gentleman
sent in a petition to the Minister complaining of the
conduct of the local police in not permitting him to
accept the agency for political reasons, and received
an answer by return of post informing him that
there were now no difficulties whatever in his way.

The marriage of Colonel Charms with Mille.
Kerbs hes jut been celebrated at Zurich. be the hemp
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bag, sad replan at Zurich, ewe of the LM Berea J.
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very wealthy raistaiiiabirer of alesaleel gemination' et
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Coast Joseph Mastal, a relative of the Pops, died
at Porn ea the 2nd inst.

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fetWerhl. Insaription, has beat traninnitted from the U.tkl
Mateo to this American ascent et Bremen :—" The President
of the United States to Captain Ai/Omega, of tba BMWS
bogus Lehr for his humans, sakes, sad sectesetel elide
dt rseneeir owl of the pumpers sag two of the mem of the
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bri jest beta noswed, gabled tido mesoon, it Is amid,
Uri hip nes al 1,040,000 fr.