The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-20 00:00:00

NAPLES.

NAPLES, blur 10.
The special criminal cart has again been the
ace of one of those sad comedies which history
must record under the imposing title of sate trials.
Prince Ssogiacomo, one of the many distinguished
Neapolitans charged with high treason, has been tried
and acquitted pro tempore for want of sufficient evi-
dence. Fortunately for the yriuce, his high position
and favour at court saved him, when the power to
arrest was issued, from an immediate imprisonment ;
had he been a hiss distinguished personage, he would
have shared the fate of hundreds who now tenant the
prisons which lock up constitutional opinion as a
crime. This is one of the few instances of a triumph
over the government paid spy who denounces politi-
cal offenders. The prisoners charged for high treason
.sa belonging to the United Italians, will bring no less
than a thousand witnesses forward when their trials
take place. 'the government still hesitates to ap-
point the day.
, - The French fleet still animates the bay, and from
all I hear it is likely to remain here some time. The
resuli of the late Paris election was received with joy
by the crews, but with very different feelings by the
majority of officers.
Neapolitan Fives, 973.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, MAT 16.
It appears that the latter sittings of the Congress
have been attended with greater conceit(' and
harmony than was apparent in the earlier one..
Tne Elector of Heise is said to Lave so far
moderated his tone ts to demand only further
delay before the union shall be di finitively con-
stituted; in this view of the matter he was sup-
ported by Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Schaumburg.
Strelitz, though from very different motives. The
steps which are to be taken by the members
of the union in other respects were unanimously
agreed to. In the sitting of the 14th, the
important question was discussed whether the
members of the union should depute to the
Frankfort congress ; it was unanimously resolved
to do so, upon the condition, however, that the step
could in no way prejudice the interests of the union.
With regard to the leading principles to be observed
in deputing to the congress, it was resolved that all
the cabinets should simultaneously address a note to
the government of Austria, scmewhat to the following
effect. The states of the union will depute to the
Frankfort congress, in order to prove their sincere
readiness to co-operate in the reorganisation of the
affairs of the Germanic confederation ; they protest,
however, in advance, against the claim put forward
by Austria to exercise the presidial right, which
ceased to exist with the dissolution of the Diet, and
I also against the supposition that the Frankfort con-
, green represents the plenium of the old Diet, as they
can regard it only in the light of a voluntary Baum-
' bly of the thirty-five German governments for
a certain purpose. The terms of this note will
correspond very closely with those of the dispatch
addressed by Schleinitz to the Prussian ambassador
at Vienna on the 3rd inst., and published in the Ex-
press of the 13th, with the addition that the states of
the union cannot permit any reconstruction of the
federal constitution which snail not award to the
anion its proper position in the confederation. The
instructions of the plenipotentiaries were also settled;
they are only to consent to the establishment of an
interim, the competency of which shall not exceed
that of the previous federal commission, so that all
questions connected with the constitution must be de-
cided elsewhere; further, that, in its formation, the
present division of the supremacy between Austria
and Prussia shall be retained. In the yesterday's
sitting the protocol was signed, and the draft of the
general note just mentioned, together with the instruc-
tions of the plenipotentiaries to Frankfort, were
agreed to. The Elentor of Hesse required that them
should be admitted in the protocol a declaration that
the government of Hesse was opposed to the Mtinehen
project, as well as every other constitution for Ger-
many establishing a triple-headed government, and
desired to see the direction of the affairs of Germany
confided to Austria and Prussia.

Yesterday the whole of the assembled sovereigns
and suites proceeded to Potsdam, whore they visited
the usual show places, dined et the platter, and re-
turned in the evening. To-day they are received
by the King at dinner in Charlottenberg, and to-
morrow moat of them will leave Berlin.

Rumour points out General Radowitz u the pleni-
potentiary to be appointed by Prussia to Frankfort.
General Radowitz is, however, suffering from severe
domestic affliction. A week his hardly elapsed since
he buried an only daughter, and he has now been re-
called to Erfurt, to attend his wife, who is dangerously
_ _

Letters from Frankfort state that the congress there
has not yet met. Of course the plenipotentiaries
have born waiting for the result of the congress
here.

The alterations in the tariff of the Zlllverein, pro-
posed by Von der Heydt, the minister of commerce,
have excited the anger of the Schutzziillner or pro-
teetionist party, who complain bitterly of the total
disregard of the agricultural interests, in the prelimi-
nary Prussian congress now sitting on the subject
From such a congress, says ono of the organs of the
party, nothing could be expected but the approval of
measures calculated to advantage the merchant and
the manufacturer to the disadv►ntage of the consumer
and the agriculturist. So far ea the proposals of the
minister had been sanctioned by the congress, they
are described by the Neue Prettssitche as mutual con-