The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-12 00:00:00

GERMANY.

A letter from Berlin, of bopt. 8, says :
The Frankfort Diet, yon already have learned,
bee nominated a commission to take in hand the
affairs of Schleswig Holstein. Persons who think
theme well informed u to the intentions of the Diet,
state that this committee will name a commissioner to
proceed to Reedsbarg to endeavour to effect a recon-
ciliation. Bat it is stated at the same time that the
onuniseloper will not be well received in Holstein.
This proceeding is throughout calculated to prove a
source of embarrassment to Freesia. Seventeen or
eighteen governments of the union have ratified the
Danish treaty at Berlin.

Sam 10.—Volaatary lown. 1061 ; New Lows.
Foar-aad-a-Half per Coats., 100 1-12 ; Natioaal Debt, 85i;
Cowatl.ercial !fauna. Sociaty's Fiestas, 113; Batik Mures,
99

San. 9.—Fivs per Cut. Meta Must, 94
Fut.aact-a-liall per C.nts., 84. Bulk Shiro, 1168.
Bukaage as Luba, 11.40.

"c•• 1 '" BARONY. • ,f n. A,
We hare tlewafroin Dresden of Sept. b. e'• °'
The following document jest made public eerieside
indicate the probable course which the goverenttlests4
represented at thu Frankfurt Diet will take in ro/M/'
to Holstein. It is I despatch from the Sexes go- •
cerement to the Minister of Foreign Affairs ot the
duchies:

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Th 6 unosreiried hes the tiODOOY to acknowledge there.
ceipt of the deeptten et the Holetein wneerimen., dated Aug.
21, and begs to refer I. reply to the letter. sent by the ge •
verament on the same subject under dates F. h. 20, and July
29 of this present year, merely adding Met the g.mernment
adhere( the more firmly to the princlolee and reolutiors
the *spewed, time on deliberate sad bepattled
meelderatioe of the stale of Wain it Is 00.
visaed that the inter et end honour of 0.-rinany require sot
the renewal and continuance of a war prejudicial to hermit
and lojorioue to the duebiee, but rather the speedy termina-
tion MO* same by en ',just:Dent end guaranteeing of Ike
claims of the two eontendlng partite; and this object tau
goveraavat topes to WO snaked through tt e mutest cos
operation of the German m•eernmeats esmn.bled in a legal
diet, a work which leas already commenced, and one in which
Simony will lest her part.
Donde*, Aug. 20, 18.50.

CiSqlit, Snrr. C.

Nearly all the higher functionaries in the govern-
ment establishments here, particularly of the treasury,
the exchequer, the b anda of excise and tax• s, and the
commissioners of forests, have declared that the recent
edicts commanding the collection of taxes are uncon-
stitutional, and therefore not to be carried into execa-
tion. These officers have made reports to the minis-
teis of their several departments, • xplaining the
grounds on which they mart decline to carry out the
new ordinances. The lower officers will take their
cue from their superiors in all doubtful cases.
Moreover, the aspieme tribunal here has just
decided, in a full meeting, that the question whether
the stamp duties are lawfully eine, is a question not
of discipline, but of judicial law. Tne effect of this
decision is that the processes which may arise out of a
refusal to pay tax. s, will he left to the decision of
the ordinary and simply judicial courts, instead of
being removed into Ono where the judgment might be
influenced by the government. Illusenpflug has
prepared an ordinance which is now probably in the
printer's hands, directed against the press, and in-
tended to deliver this into the minister's
power. What will be the fate of this
edict, which is framed not only without the
concurrence, but in direct opposition to the protests
and remonstrances of the permarent committee of the
Chamber may be guessed from that of the two former
proclamations. The chief directorsof the government
finances in Caesel have just joined in a memorial to
the Elector, which will be immedietey prraented,and
in which they call his attention to tile open and flag-
rant violation of the constitution just attempted by the
ministry, and assure his Majesty that hia crown and
dominions are end. ngered by the unc,natitutiong
proceedings of his resvitiible advisers, concluding
with the petition that his Highness will make an end
of the present ruinous poli:cal condition of the state.
Our correspondent at Frankton, writing on the
9th inst., says:
Great sensation has been created by the news re-
ceived that the Elector of lime, by the a :vice <f Lis
reactionary ministers, has declared the to i;ole of h's
electorate in a state of ei. ge and subject to martial
law. The prcclamation—which was posted on the
walls of the public places and c' recta of streets at
Cassel, last night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by the
gensdarmes, supported by a strong military detach-
ment, to prevent the former from bring interrupted
and molted by the people—is worded as follows :

We, F,ederiek 17 the pr,re of God, eleetor
and Sovereign Lsodir. • of , The breach of
the entatltu,ion con.mit44 by the wham, nt hull, and the

irmffier my of the r • rting hive to j revent • sta. e of anarchy
sad antinomy, make it impetatiye on t", to t extraor-
dinary measures in tii,e emergency, and we b.oretharelor•

thought proper, after hearthg the opinion of our ministers of
rate, to eserci I the prtriga iv voted in us by virtue of !ha
95th psragraph of the cohstitutioo, and theretora ordain as
follows :

1. The whole of the terri•ory of Electoral RUSP:III,
till further notic,. declared :a a wooed. liege, during which.
howrvir, the u.ual private intermorar is not to suffer say
if Prruption, and the rxecuti. II of the provisioi.s c,n•ained
in the followin; arm/rapta will he wadded to a military
. . ' •

tomniendeein:eltief,-un;fer whose orders the etandog may,
as well u burgher-guard of the nifferent connueee, sod the
whole o' the civil authorities (with the ezeeptite of the

cones of justice) are placed.
"Par. 2. The commander-in chief and his substitute in
speciaqy entrusted with the administration of the superior
police of the state.
" Par. 3. All public meetings of the people are prohibited,
and meetings of club. and unions can on'y take place with
the consent of **local military authorities, and to be given
in writing.
Par. 4. No newspapers of a politleel tendency tan be
published without the consent of our Mirister of the Into.
rior. At least one hour beCire the piOlicatinn a copy of
each impression of all political newspar n must be sent to
the local military commandant, or the person be may ap-
point in his stead for that purpose, upon pats of the immediate
suppra wion of the paper, to be effected by the pollee. The
commandants or their substitutes are empowered to seize
and confiscate the waole impression of any puma' contain-
ing abusive expressions against our sacred person, the go-
vernment, or its °reins, or provocations to de :bedience, or
stirring up the people to opposition of the cons imted autho-
rities. Bubject to the sme restrictions are all political pam-
phlets, placards, and pictorial representations.
" Par. 6. How far end in what manner the force of arms

is to be made see of is cue of need, accordirst to the custom

of war, depends entirely on the decision of the commander-
in-chief, or the military local commandant, who, in this
respect, are only responsible to us.
" Par. 6. The commander in-chief—an..!, in urgent cases,
the military commandant of a par icular district, who, how
ever, is bound to make an immediate report to us for the
purpose of obtaining our approbation—is authorised to sus-
pend the existing civir autnotities and functionaries of the
state, and to cause their dut.es to be carried on by special
commissiocers, as well as to dissolve Ike civic guard, if such

imam., • should be required fur the =Mottos'-nee of order is
the districts under his or their authority.
" Par. 7. All offences of armed opposi im to the authorities
and their representatives, and all cases of rebellion and high
treason, will be tried and punished according to the laws of
war.

" Paz. 8. The foregoing provisions will remain in force
till the needful communications can he made to the parlia
meat, which will be convened immediately to sanction the
measure."
la proof of which we have 'ivied this ordonnance with
our own sign manual, and appended to it out great seal of
state.--Given at Cassel, 7th Sqvembor, 1850.
(Signed) FUEL/ERICK WILLIAM.
(Count. reigned)
11/18111NPFLI:O. lIATNAL. BAUMBACII.

DENMARK AND TIIE DUCIIIES.

Oar correspondent writes u follows respecting the
skirmishing at Duvecatedt and Suderstspel:
_ _ _

DUVENSIEDT, Szer. 8.
The troops quartered in the populous village of
Duvenstedt, about five miles from ltend►barg were
roused from their usual inactivity by the sudden
arrival this morning, at nine o'clock, of orders for
them to advance into their respective positions. Great
was the bustle and hurrying to and fro in the open
places, in which previously hardly an inhabitant had
been visible. The Sabbath is, generally speaking,
highly respected, and no kind of field labour is under-
taken. The soldier, however, knows in war no Sab-
bath, and his sudden movements speedily brought
life and motion into the otherwise silent village. In
• very few minutes the artillery had put to, mounted,
and was on the road to its position to the right and
left of the mill at Stendten, which lies on the
Sorge-brook, and has been converted into
a perfect fort since the Danes succeeded in
crossing the brook exactly • mouth ago. The
sole answer received to all inquiries was, that
the Danes were in Great Breckendorf, a village about
four miles and a half to the north of the mill at
Stendten. Patrols were sent out in all directions on
both sides of the Dutten-hills, a low range of down
which run in a dae northerly direction from Duven-
stedt to Breckendorf, and with slight intervals
to the Dannewerk at Schleswig. The patrols ad-
vanced some distance on both sides without
meeting the enemy. Presently, however, Danish
patrols were seen to mount the opposite hillocks, and
were speedily followed by dense bodies of infantry
and cavalry, until whole columns were seen to halt in
several places. Meanwhile, several companies of
riflemen and infantry, together with a detachment of
cavalry and half a battery of three-pounders, had been
thrown across the Sorge, on the western side
of the Duttsn•hili. Similar measures had been
taken on the eastern side. These were ordered
to advance. The staff of the avanelank,
with its gallant commander, Colonel Gerhardt,
also advanced, in order to reconnoitre and endeavour
to discover the designs of the Danes. While doing
so a squadron of cavalry, with four twelve-pout:de!",
was seen to take up its position some fifteen or six-
teen hundred yards in advance. The two three-
pounders were at once ordered up, and commanded
to open a fire on the hostile cavalry and ar-
tillery. Two shots had been fired from them

;•"'"-oossy, for the Mt time, showed
obeli Ile. The twelve-pos.4ms ea kbe
:14 shrapnel* amongst iko Ilteiffer /nth
Mal 'a - • without, however, Indira/
Viol* Pad 14114 berm The—Arrent,a
3.,es than that of me
Othor
Nook battery soon became tooliket=r, 141,
rupported only by treat`hree- ,
boort given to by
alow spin the
orde" at the Stoodtes-milL Thal, rretnalt
ationa..;„, clelMmoedwhen drat grooiob,
were suddenly observed le 'asenhameee
trtor
„ retrograde movement, without rekeilipereme
aye,• s musketry firing on the righ however,
au
woo &iv !led doubts, and o a were theta y
rwpo a'l he advisees wee mad me emimoi t dvance.
heti• g re ched the sad de the' chaiy red n
ofmorn; called the Dutton-hills, it bedtime ',km'
;met the other section of the arc had 14- •
r• B tekendurf, and had amoseded t.
multi
airing the Danes out of it. The two see
p%
which toceber did not amount to MOM thew IMO Of
1,710 men, then progressed steadily forward, driving
;he limes before them, without the latter fqtali sF
imp nig
• • to M eke &stand. In fact, notwithstanding
their 'opener numbers—for they had a form of at
mist four thousand men on the ground—their retreat
As so NA that it was more like a eight then w
ed-
s, elm. The tirailleurs who punned them followed
rtes at tall speed, hu: without bringing them to a
riod. The bring from small-arms„ too, continued at
burials, in this way until three o'clock, when we
were within five milts of the town of &lilt swig, and
we lead the camp on the Danneweek and its foettilea-
mans plainly &tore us. At this moment crams were
even ra ry to retire, but the more advanced of the
ritleuit n were le obstinately bent on pursuit; the
Luc that they could only with great diffiaull be
brought to turn their back. upon him. The forma were
much tr o nisproportionate to bested anythit g further,
and the Umes haviug bean driven out of Great
Breckerd rf, nothing further could be gained by an
'deuce but lom of life. The object of the Dante in
advanerng so fu to the eouthward is not quite clear.
They either intendt el to forage or to reconnoitre. If
the la ter, they failed completely, and if the former,
WV were too won repulsed to enable them to
exist with effect. Four or flee Danish 'soldiers
were taken in the coons of the day, toge-
ther w itie a drummer, whum office it wilt hence-
forth b. to drum the staff of the orant-garde to
diarer ith • Danish mute& Bo far as I could learn
on th, s‘ not a single man on this ride was lost or
woutilid durieg the whole affair, though the first
End 1,3 Lie Danish artiaery killed one born on the
6;0. Ihe lose to the Danes is unknown, but cannot
be mac', irtere they were go clever upon their lege la
retirieg.
Tut Danieh arms entitled a severe defeat in the
MOO of the da) an the wasters extremity of the two
snot.. Early this otornirg they silvan, red out of
dt with a whole battalion arid four 12-
peados, with which they attecked the two comps-
mesl3 mg at Suderstapel. The ;megrim occupied by
the Sehlessig-ilulateiners at Sitderstapel is a most
temuraule sue. The groaad shelves gradually
down towards the ch•osseio to Frieorichstadt,
which, *ith good cannon, can be bombarded
from tio.:rretspel. Unluckily, however, no at-
thirty ell in the immediate neighbourhood when
the I /am s advanced to the attack, and the troops in
that po-ition were exposed to a grilling fire of grape,
without being able to answer it. Neither grope,
aletapeele, *or round shot succeeded in drawing them
ear, and the Danes therefore ordered a bayeret attack.
This wee at once attempted, but without swam, the
Direr being driven back with great lose. A
stc d attack meeting with a similar result'
the Irate* marched off in high dudgeon.
At aotterst.pel six wounded and fits usher*,
Irene* were taken; about eighteen or twenty
of the Schtererig-Holeteiliers were wounded. There
does tot freest to have been the alight. et connection
tetwe.n this movement in the west and that in the
north, but they both serve to keep the per.plo awake
and in good spirits.