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

T TIE EX PRESS MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1850.

sure of reform, that could have been provord, would
ever have been
Austria, or of
have stopped
And the very fact

being thrown out,
all the old adios, enc..
whereby ropreeantative

reuse the taxes at_
therefore that Prussia rt.-
diet, and insisted on free contort.-
new system of confederation, suitable ...
and capable of admitting improvements.
This important haveobtained,
point M.MANITINFTILL seems to
obtained, as well as the liberty to form more tee
mate and elms league between several stalk
for pumas, wilt& the confederation alone dens I
sot reath. We are well aware that ail these copes*. I
skies, so fair aid promising in word., may be nullidell
by sets. When the members or delegates of thud
German states meet in free conference at Deaden, ish
very well foresee the part that intimidation and sit
'traction may play in rendering the reorganisation of
the German federal bend unpopular, whitest rer
cuffing to the old system. We know that the ell
system Ii thought by Russia indispensable to Ills
absolutist security; whilst France equally favours It,
because it neutralises the power and prevents the
development of Germany. These " lions in the path!
may, however, be overcome by a sense of Gemini
patriotism even in Austria, and a sense 0 whit Gott
many regains in order to be respected, powerful, sal
741" was.
have, indeed, for our own part, small reliance
on an assembly of princes, or princes' delegate
whether in college or in diet. Princes are, unfor-
tunately, most open to intimidation ; and, indeed, the
parts which they are called on to play in these times,
are difficult. It they act liberally, constitutionally, and
in accord with their people, they become the marked
foes of Austria, and the aim of it. vindictiveness.
We the an evtisple in the Duke of Sara Col3tlBo.
If, on the other band, they keep aloof from their
people, they must lean for support and trust for aid
to either Austria or Prussia, and must sell them-
selves to these monster powers. What is required
for Germany, its people, and its princes, are
institutions which shall girirantee them front
such danger, and liberate them from the seces
sity d such meanness. The princes of Germany
can only claim and attain this, by bringing forward
their people, and making each state a constitutional
one, to speak as a people. The great powers may at
any time awe • court or bribe a prince. Which of
them can resist an imperial marriage, or the addition
of • province ? Bat a people represented in parlia-
ment, are not to be intimidated or bribed, and there-
fore however all the mime princes may anxiously
desire snob a development. Prussia and Austria dread
it. And although liberal Prussian ministers would
abet it, ws have to fear the insidious hostility of
illiberal sues.
We have now stated, Si fully as the limits of an
article will permit, the nature of the contest
between contending parties in Germany, as well as
the kind of accord to which they have momentarily
C2lllO. It is • kind of truce which fair dealing,
patriotie aims, and firm resistance to the sug-
;rations of foreign ambition, may ripen not only
into pease, but Into a strong confederation for Ger-
many. We must confess, however, that we still see
many and most serious obstacles to the attainment of
either of these most desirable ends.

Mr. SIDNEY HERDIST has been making a speech
to his coestitnenta, assembled in county conference,
on the all ingrowing subject of the day. With a
oertain coaseloasoess of being what in the Reign of
Terror was ogled " one of the suspect," the estate,
representative of Wiltshire has deemed it safer to vo.;
lusts., his own vsesion of the matter, than to wait kw
interrogation. Accordingly he seems to have mad.
up his egad to go at the question in dashing style,
and tins if possible to escape the wounds, if not to
bear of some of the bononre, of the fray.
"I shall be very frank," said the right hoe. gen.
tleman at the commencement of his curious oration.
That was what the late Sir ROBERT PEEL isma•
riably used to my whenever he meant to be pad-
milady cloudy. Not that the promise was intended
to be Meetly or totally falsified. The illustrious ia 1
ventor of Peelism made it a point to disclose upon such
occasions various matters of more or low importanoe,in
order, no doubt, the more effectually to baulk the intro-
aivecorioaity of blab's:en upon someone point on w hieh
he bad resolved to say nothing. The provoking part
of the business was, that this one point was uniformly
that upon which the world was sexton to hear some-
thing precise; and coarequently the profound sense
of ioquoitive discomfiture which Sir ROBERT so often
caused.
The member for Wilts was one of his favourite dis-
ciples ; and, to do him judos, he seems to be an adept
in his master's ways otpeliticsl speech. His promise
" to be frank" he certainly kept, so far as the things
dons by the Roman church and the things left un-
does by the Anglican church are emeerned. Ile had
no hesitation in abasing the POPE and bantering the
CaIItDINAL. He called the tone of the bull " blas-
phemous," and ridiculed the style of the Pastoral as a
bad imitation of that in use among the Chinese. His
audience obligingly cheered the farmer and laughed
at the latter remark. Furthermore, he confessed that
our bishops had rather too much pay and our work-
ing clergy too little. He openly pronounced in fa-
vour of church extension in its widest sense, and
solemnly declared that when he saw and heard
all that was passing around hint, he thought the as-
sumption that England was about to become reoon-
OW to the Papacy, one of the—but he would not
utter the word that his indignation put upon his lips !
The mingled force of candour and of charity weld no
farther go • and a discriminating audience, fancying
that the speaker; had actually said something, cheered
in the usual manner.
Only unto one in the crowd did the gift of inter-
preting tongues appear to be gives. Ina brief pause
' of the Peelian oration, a rude voice in the multitude
was heard to exclaim-0 What is to be dons with the
traitors in oar own camp P" As if awakened from a
mesmerising process, everybody suddenly seemed to
remember that this after all was the main question at
isles, and the only one to which, as electors of Wilts,
that they were interested in getting from their right
hon. lecturer &categorical reply. Vehement cries of
" Hear," interspersed with yet more pointed exclama-
tions, bespoke the ready sad unanimous salient of all
to the blunt but most pertinent interrogation.
Bat their adroit topesseatative was not to be ought
so easily. It was a °Mira moment for a roams
who had for yews base supposed to be no parsimoni-
ous contributor to the p u iegatioa of that peculiar
form of faith now branded as insidioas heresy.
To Sleek in the bee el his country, from
what he had hitherto praised to patronise, would
have ban ehabby, and unless into the bargain. To
avow it swttally Irma have required what Mr.
Rozsoca calls " civil courage "—a quality whisk
no man of Mr. SIDNEY limein's school was me'
sappeeed to poems. One only alternative .-wised
—to be " freak" in the PULITE and Minn
sears—that let intensely evasive, unintelligible, Mil
elessurs " What is to be done with the trainer
the exabaster "I am glad that goer
le asked, and I shall answer it frankly." Where-
spot the polemical Candi& mat off at a right
angle arse the capacity and dispaition to judge
bhly el the quirrel, and Ikea paean by a
circuits. defter the4=the heathen beide
within the seals el get ime the nose
March *itemise Mem la 11s,
wiled. area
am to a rased medolim. and
este within spealtlag Adams ef tie astable gneiss
with which he wen to have dealt so frankly, sal mak
whets he was in het so delighted to deal! Net s
word was said on the subject. The traitors and tree-
sots remain, and will se canines, as well as the far mere
effloisnt sad sobtle somata of penis& protestandnin
then Italian rceeripte oe bishops appointed by Brae,
for aught that the member for Wilts or the
Bev. Lord el tharOlD will do towards their
If Mr. SIDED 111111BEILS chseishse say entitles
to stand for the county next time (and the main
may be nearer at hand than pm* LEW*,
he smut chows dethdtively whit side he
in *epees in future, and be prepared, at least
ea a bend while, to stick to it. If his
Wad •be so sonstitated that he dads it hard to
held heartily say opinion, or to entertein min*
szi=ent to party in church or .tale, thee b lie
for which he may be with mies nom
=than blamed. A man who feels no esallease
nose; a man who is sousious of no maw
slam can never -besesse-It.wbjeot- Be may be a
etuyesieat, eceveadenal, essamooplaos person et Ilk
Skis used hawses r more he can sever be. But VII

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tlw aatioa~

YARDS, SIMI:WIT ETZIMIO.
News has been received this evening. with
to the tannisatios of the trial for poisradeg
the Court of the Charents-Isferieure, whiskliss made
so much seise daring the last week. The Atka
Goddard hes been condemned to forced labour foe
life. Mdse. da Sables has been acquitted.
The Assembly bee voted the law on admitting the
public to the eat of the electric telegraphs, shish will
come into operatics on the let of Mane. Tke go.
Ivernment in the early part of this year demanded
from the Assembly the funds neoewmary to provide
the railways from Paris to Angers, from Paris to
Tonnene,, and from Rouen to Havre, with lines of
electric telegrtph. They had already existed on the
Rouen, Northern, and Orleans Railways. Tee com-
mittee proposed, and the Chamber ordered, by the
bill of Bth February, that they should be established
on the lines from Paris to Chalons-sur-Marne, from
Orleans to Nevers and to Ceiteauroux. Thus the
towns which are to enjoy the advantages of the sloe-
trio telegraph are 0017 tome which are already plead
in close connexion with Paris by the railways.
According to the present tariffs despatch of twenty
words will cost from Parts to Havre, Sir. 12o.; front
Paris to Lyons the expense would be 9fr. 12c. ; and
from Paris to Marseilles, 13fr. 32c.
It seems that serious disputes have Cm:toned
between thli Make of War and the committee pre-1
aided over by M. Darn, charged to prepare the laws
for the organisation of the government of Algeria.
The committee holds that the moment is come for
introducing civil elements into the government of
Algeria. Elul:oral Schramm maintains the exclusive
sway of the military hierarchy. On which side the
, National Assembly will pronounce itself seems at

present doubtful.
Yesterday evening
.the legitimist representatives
held a meeting at their clob to the Rue de Rivoli to
deliberate on the motion of M. Victor Lefton@ relative
to the electoral law of May. The meeting decided
to wallas their operations for the present to the work
preperiag in the committee lately appointed by them
to draw up anseudtnents to the electoral law.
The motion of M. Victor Lefrano hos bees rejected
by the committee appointed to ermine it.

• BvxnLT Immo.
The most important matter which yesterday occu-
pied the attention of the Assembly or its bureau:ores
the proposition of M. Victor Lignite, as to the elect°.
ral law. Several analogous prorsitioos have been
made, bat as this, which had for its end the appoint-
ment se a committee charged to examine the modifi-
satins necessary to be made in that law, was cone-1
dared the most moderate, its fats was regarded as
invellieg that of the others.
The committee of parliamentary initiative met
yesterday to deliberate. Several of the mseabses.
lacluding M. Jules de Lasteyrie and M. Menet, car
pressed themselves strongly against :it. The latter,
whose observations appeared to have great weight.
with the committee, opposed its being taken into'
consideration, becaase it appeared not only without
en object but inaceeptabte in form, and at least inop-
portune ; without object as to the information de-
manded, because the rainiest had promised to supply
it; inacceptable in form, because, if the author of the
proposition thought that modifications should be intro-
duced into the electoral law, he should have indicate
them ; inopportune, since the real results of the law
mould not be appreciated until after the revision of
the electoral lists. In short, he thought the proposi-
tion should be rejected, because it tended to brand
with suspicion a law presented to the country se a
great political act, whose abrogation without trW
would bring the Assembly into disrepute and excite
the hopes of the revolutionary party. Tito result of
the deliberation was the appointment of X. Jules de
Leeteyrie, by 18 votes, as reporter, which nemmettill
implies a report adverse to the propositisa. The
destiny of the other propositions on the same oalbjeet
is therefore sealed, and no revision of the electoral
law will probably be made, moles', indeed, the legi-
timists should carry the amendment.
The committee has delivered is report authorising'
the prosecution of MM. Mint and Rouet for the
ramptilet defamatory of the council-general of the
Nieves.
The council of ministers was snotipied on Saturday
with the German questioa, and with the Tuition of
a grant to the President
The Monsieur of this morning publishes the law as
to throwing open the telegraphs to the use of the
public, by which all persoos whose identity shall be
established will be allowed to use the electric tele-
graph. The director of the telegraph may refuse
despatches contrary to public order sad morality, or
affecting public security. The private telegraphic cor-
respondence may be suspended by the government.
Telegraphic despatches are to be subject to a tariff of
3 frame for from one to 20 words, with an addition
of 12 centimes per Inyriametre ; above 20 words the
preceding tax is augmented one-fourth for each ten
words or fraction of ten exceeding. Every fraction
of myrianretre is reckoned as a 'ruminates. For de-
spatches transmitted by night the tax is augmented
one-hall
The papal nuncio, Cardinal Fornari will quit Paris
at the end of the month, and will be replaced by
Mgr. Garibaldi, interuuncio at Naples, who is now on
his way to Paris.
Tee Buileiin de Paris says that the minister of the
United States has received advice. from his govern-
ment tint some of the refugee Hungarian eltie6 had
demanded an asylum in the union. The defender of
Comorn and his companions in exile have defini-
tively established themselves ip the musty of lowa,
where they have established a colony.
By decree of the President of the Republic the
Minutes- of Finance is authorised to proceed to the
public sale of 1,1•43,647 f. of Five per Cent. Rentes,
and of 493,217 t. of .Three pee Ceat. Rentals, pro-
ceeding from the savings banks and railway of Lyons,
on the 23rd of December.

GERMANY.
\ j ' - BERLIN, Dec. 6.
The 'risotto of the conferences at Giants are du&
loping, themselvo s. (Ls of the moieties, con* to
between the two ministers at Olmetz was. that 'an
Equal diminution of the enormous armed forces death
should at ones take place. In Prussia (as you may
be aware), orders have already been issued for the
purpose. The whole of the ladwehr of the'
second class is to be dismissed on leave of
rabeence, abd a certain, not • small portion, of
the' Pest dam:be similarly dealt • with.
rI believe, with regard to the latter, leave
Iltheenos will be granted to all those who have notrzet
been clothed. Austria has already rescinded o
which had been given a fortnight ago for the raided'
of 80,000 fresh recruits, and it is understood that
more than 100,000 men will, additionally, be
dismissed. The enormous expense which the
mobilisation entails upon this country is be-
yond belief. In the numbers in which the
forma of Prussia are at present under anus the
daily expense amounts to 260,000 dialers. The Ms-
eery of the country is nearly empty ; the loan ail
eighteen millions greeted in January last We
by this time been expended. Your columns have
faithfully chronicled the Immense enthusiasm
with which the whole Prussian people rushed
to arms when the order for the mobilisation
was leaned, and your readers may, therefore, b 3 pre-
pared for a correspinding reaction. Those who know
the institution thoroughly, and the temper of the
inhabitants of the different provinces who constitute '
it, do not believe that this reaction of feeling will
display itself in mutiny or disobedience. Un-
pleasant military symptoms of anger and indignation'
may be displayed here and there—if there be any
truth in the report, they have already appeared in,
Keratoid, in the Cologne regiment of landwehr—but
the majority of the landwehr will peacefully submit to
be disarmed and sent home. The only unpleasant
consequence feared is this—when summoned again
they will not id *ally answer to the sell ; they
will consider thimelves. hamboorled and ill-treated.
While on this topic .1 may add here that the
much-lauded order eat arrangement of the Prussian
state has not prevented gnat imperfection, great con-
fusion in the prepartitioin necessary to clothing and
arming the landwehr in the short time granted on
each occasions. The whole of the clothing and arms
for the 32080 men, landwehr, were cer-
tainly in stow, according to the returns, but when
the stores wen applied to, the deficiencies were found
to be wohil.• Battalions were marched out of
Berlin in white Winters, because cloth inexpressible.
were-not to be had. Boots were wanting, great coats
were scarce ; regiments have had to put up with old
ones returned into store as worn out. One regiment of
lsodwehr is said to have been sent to Madgeburg, as the
returns from the stores in that fortress showed that
there woe clothing of all kinds inabundance. Theseteeft
proved a deceptics, and the regiment could only be
half clad. I myself have seen in the ranks of regi-
meats marching out, many individuals shouldering
their musketa,and the knapsack on their backs, wiser
iog an old blue frock and leather trousers which bore
the sips of field labour upon them. The whole of
'the bsggege and train system of the army is reputed
to be in a sad state of nopreparafion.
The resignation of the president of the cabinet;
Herr Von Ladenberg, has at last been accepted, and
it is said that Herr Von Plots will succeed him.
There are several other names mentioned of persons
likely to fill the other vacancies in the ministry, but
I believe they all rest on mere report.
The adjournment of the Chambers has met with the
sine apathetic reception in the provinces es in the
metropolis. The country generally ere willing to
Wait until the Dresden cluferences, to see what the
minister Manteaffel can do to save the honour and
ladepencl3nce of Prossis.
The ocly party in the country whose dissatisfaction
with the conferences at Olmu's and their probable re-
salta has to be feared, is the aristocratic and military
portion of the specific Prussian party. They are full
of wrath with the concessions made to Austria.
The settlement in Hesse Cassel agreed to by Man-1
teuffel is considered by them to be a defeat; that in
Schleswig Holstein as a measure by which time has
been gained, but which may lend to a still greater de-
feat of Prussia, sad they fear the free conferences.
The constitutional party apprehends that Manteuffel
made other promisee at Cheats than those which have
yet been made known, and tears for the constitution.
The Deutsche Reforest of this evening has a long and
apparently °Meal article, in which the intentions of
the government is stated to be to maintain the ooe-
stitution unaltered, and in which a plain denial is
givee to the statement that further engagements have
been made with Austria. The free conferences, soya
the ministerial organ, are to bo really free con
terences, and are to decide the long vexed question of
a German constitution. The object of the article is
question is boldly stated to be the removal of the
trust which the statements of a contrary nature have
created. The free conferences are to meet on the 16th.
The CoustitulioneUes Blatt area Bdhmen communi-
cates, in a letter from Vienna, what it calls several
guaranteed fees respecting the Olmuts conferences.
The two statesmen are said to have agreed that the
nest important question was the maintenance of order
in Continental Europe; and, from the communications
which were exchanged, it was resolved that Austria,
Prussia, and Russia were the only powers capable of
,• doing so with effect. This resolution included the
maintenance of all former treaties, and of the Holy
Alliance.
It is again reported that Bavaria has protested
against the arrangements come to at Olmats; and it
is added that Bavaria and Wirtemberg have resolved
to act together. It is plain that Austria can conclude
no new alliance with Prussia, honourable to the let-
ter, without breaking the treaties concluded with
Bavaria and Wirtemberg at Bergen&
The united exertions of Major Boddien, aide-de-
camp to the king ; Niebuhr, secretary to the king ;
and privy-councillor Delbruol, have at last succeeded
in drawing from the Court of Appeal an address to
, the Elector, praying him to return.
Most of the members have already left Berlin.
Many are said to intend resigning their seats.
The Exchange presents a much more favourable
aspect to-day than it has done for many weeks past.
The funds have risen in price considerably.
Telegraphic advice, from Vienna state that an im-
perial council, or upper chamber of legislature, bee
been summoned. Baron Rebook, formerly plenipoten-
tiary.of Austria in Frankfort, during the Interim, is
appointed president.
the ConstitutionneUe styles Manteuffel the "Man
of Olmuts," in Saltation of the title of " Man of Ghent"
given to Guisot before the Restoration.
eichuaelks, one of the Vienne, revolutionary cele-
brities, who arrived here two days ago, was yester-
day
expelled the city. His wife, who is an actress,
remains here to fulfil an engagement at the Fried-
rich-Wilhelmatadtiache theatre.
The following is the address to the throne, drawn
up by the committee of the Finn Chamber, with the
mimeo* of the paragraph congratulating the Ring
on his escape from assassination, and others teaching
generally internal steles and the freadoment the
press :
Msiesun
With • Jan sepassfatiee of the blessings of 'palm, • re-
dacting, aseragssak yd warlike people 'martens the wish
that year liejesre 161E7 relations with ether states say
mow mislanstigaid.
Neveshalse. as mend to the iedundassa, tee hamar,
and the debts of apses* peso is est tie owes' geed.
sememslasitheFer
astsinwirthpa. :111.4.1iiirsistinamerand thttallessseletioliawesswammaikastri"jonorsainatermamialligkismiithe:ressalr:
reedy 1111-fiWridll 1111U.,h1li et trust on Gel, 4111141646' MOW
rsgoses,
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raw.GerniasissmomihnsasempribeadvenNlClSAMlSMUlSlM:
hesethis
ssien la *mirk of node dist, with leghlative rut
isms alamise is whiney the sonstitatissal life of the
defend O. states may be endaagesed, and their
I•t to • sinew free eades, with parilassatazy
Pri-
be nee& fate &alit, or reelmed
opli The house and nasise of Peaselesail her onsenter
theughiet Barmier will ear pewit the. ths ris hsa of
ilshissweyliehnis,askeswiseged by Psvisdanaralla Gu-
mmi &sale is Modem dews by t
sad dish the bead tibiae Ye kkhstertetryed shesdrarCe
rain a nether rase.
Oar gest r2ht and erusta's nation, as the conatitu.
W low a
aal fisensey, /Mama ot net to edits *sigh-
bow ls, Genes non semis la in intense' enameled with
Pru de, to be mashed by an interested illegal taterianue
within most sowed rights, whisk it is IndeSTOUlrina SO no
test by onstitatioul means. With just pain shone we see
scorn
st Prude NU before the et a arrogant
liP bassesetirewiab et year Maisaty. " Webers a geed Opts, sad
we will dished ft," hailed with joy and osaildense, would
give a grantyieg asseraess that the ministry of themes

t 4 elan,* •es a "Metter of 'igneous exertion to de-
d that AAA we feel ourselves compelled to designate as
ihmssia'sundonbllnt righ4.
Bottle explasitiens of your Majest3's cabinet, although
eery incomptete'touctiog events which heve haopetted since
three royal words were spoken, lay us under the obligation,
in the ;Presence of the nation whom we represent, to espy se
our mlst painful convietiost, " Mot your Menesey's govern.
most it Mowing a pais, which endangers the independence,
the rights, awl Mt paws, of ow country,"
Berlin, Dm. 3, 1860
ASWAN. Dec. 7.—Voluetm7 Lose. 1034 ; New Loan,
rout and a-Half per Cents., 98}; Natianal Debt, 81k; Com-
mercial Diaries Society's Premium. 119 ; lisnk Shares. 91
Dec 6.—Five per Cent. Matalliques. 94k ;
Fonreaod-a-Ualf per Cents., ditto, 81k. Bank Shama,
1,142. limkara mi London. 12 38.

FULDA, Dtc

In consequence of a message sent by Prince Taxis
to Count Groben, the former set out early on the 4th,
accompanied by his staff, to Hersfeld, where the two
generals had a to e-a•tete interview, which lasted
from seven till ten o'clock in the morning, and
resulted in a satisfactory understanding between
them. In consequence of this, it is said that the
Prussians, or, perhaps, only some Premiss
regiments, have retired from all the advanced
of Hersfeld, and yesterday the Austrian
Claens, who belong to the vanguard, entered Hers-
fald. The head quarters of the Bavarians is still in
FR&NS.YORT. Dec. 5.
Count Rechberg, the intimate adviser of the Em-
peror of Austria, and at present acting as civil com-
missary to the Frankfort diet, has just issued a
decree ill adapted to conciliate the opinion of mode-
rate men. It is, however, to M. &heifer, formerly a
minister of the Elector's cabinet, that the odium of
the new measures in the first place belongs. That
politician has advised M. Rechberg to publish an'
ordinance, by which the members of all the Hessian
courts of justice are rendered personally responsible
for any damage which the state treasury may sustain
from their refusal to endorse the stamp-tax
warrants, a refusal based solely upon the illegality
of such taxes while unsanctioned by the legislature.
This ordinance, translated into the vernacular, means
that the property of the judges who oppose the illegal
collection of taxes will be confiscated. This is the
Russian regime introduced into the heart of Germany.
Such is the reconciliation which is promised to elec-
toral Hesse; such the independence of the judges
which it is pretended to respect.
A letter from Fulda, of Dec. 4, says : " News front
the Cassel road have arrived, which distinctly amen
that the Bavarians, without opposition from the Prus-
sian troops, were seen in the neighbourhood of Here.
feld advancing towards Cuael. It is not known
whether the Prussians have evacuated Hersteld with-
out leaving a garrison behind them, or whether they
garrison that place alternately with the Bavarians.
According to true information Austrian troops will
to-day cross our frontier (unfere Gransen itherfehres-
, ten) on the Wurtsbarger road."
IitskIBURG, Dao. 5.
The latest news from Copenhagen is of the Ist inst.
Aoeording to a rumour circulating in the capital at
that date—and in which there is reason for believing
the King bad resolved to separate from Madame Ras-
mussen, the mistress whom he lately married and en-
nobled. The motives which may have led to this re-
solution are but vaguely understood. Should it be
realised, Madame Rasmussen will make the third
legitimate wife from whom the King will have sepa-
rated within a few years. The first was daughter of
the late king, his uncle, Frederick VL ; the second a
Mecklenburg princess; the third, as every one known,
was one of the ballet corps at the Copenhagen opera.
As the price of this matrimonial rupture, the Countess
Rasmussen is to receive an annuity of 12,000 dollars
beside apanages.
The new sect of German catholics, of which the '
pastor, John Rouge, was the apostle and founder,
and which has set at nought all the rules of the
hierarchy, and renounced allegiance to the Pope, is
makitg great progress in Germany. After having
been subjected to a thousand restrictions in the exer-
cise of the rites of their worship, they are making nu-
merous pro.elytes, founding schools for both sexes,
and their pastors, for the moat part men of the move-
ment of 1848, are arduously preaching their new
theories to the population.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the
3rd inst., the Count de la Tour pot questions to the
ministry on the eels' ions between Piedmont and
Rome. Public interest was excited to the highest
pitch. M. de la Tear deplored the struggle that had
arisen, which a little prudence would have avoided
from attaining the point at which it had arrived. The
nuncio of the Pope had told him that if the execution
of the law had been suspended, the holy see would
have approved it, with the exception of some modi-
fications in the principal articles. What wee the
object of the m;ssion of M. de Pinelli, if not to obtain
the approbation of the law of the 9th April. This
law has been, it is true, sanctioned, but when a law is
bed, why not modify it in the interest of the country.
Let them ask all the states if they have a right to
violate the laws of ecclesiastical discipline to break the
concordats, and they would be answered by all
in the negative. Let them consult history; they
would see that all the most sanguinary wars have
been those of religion.—M. Sicardi, the keeper of the
seals, said the laws approved by parliament, and
sanctioned by the executive power, were not only an
accomplished fact but a right, and holy see ought
to consider that they were but the practical applica-
tion of a principle formerly claimed by almost the
whole of catholicism. A representative, animated by
the same sentiments as the ministry, had been sent to
Rome to arrive at an arrangement, and ease timid con-
sciences; but to negotiate it is necessary that the cre-
dentials should be received, but they bad not been.
They were met by a refusal. The national dignity,
always a delicate question, then presented itself, their
representative knew that there were limits which
in diplomacy meet not be passed ; he had
respected these limits, and the ministry, the
faithful guardian of the independence of the law,
had approved his conduct. The government could
not throw back into the political arena laws consti-
tutionally sanctioned. They who infringed the laws
could not justify it on grounds of conscience, since
such a pretext would tend to the subversion of the
authority of all laws. The evils of a war of religion
were not to be apprehended under a government
which camas the laws to be executed with so much
moderation as this. The question was disposed of
by the order of the day, "pure et simple."
ROME, Nov. 30.

We are now nearly cute to the conclusion, or
rather the completion, of those measures of reform
put forward, u the utmost to be hoped for from the
papal government, in the Pope's mote proprio of the
12. h September, 1849; and if they are really all that
are to be obtained from Pio Nono's "liberal inteu-
I Um'," backed, SO President Louis Napoleon amuse
us, by the whole influence of the French government,
the papal states will be under bat little obligation to
the enlightened views of their sovereign, and still less
to the protecting influent* of the Illysie cabinet.
A more positive fact is, that the government is
resolved to carry out its new scheme of taxation,
which is to come into operation at the commencement
of 1851. Another notification appeared yesterday,
subjecting professional men to an annual contribution,
aooording to a graduated scale, the tariff of whioh is
expected in a day or two. The principal feature in
the edict is, that professional teachen are excepted
from the payment of the tax.

STRENGTH OF THZ PRUSSIAN• AND

Akuma.—The Prunus army as the war tooting consists of
480,000 MIS ; lardading the lit Landwshr battalions, it has
300 battalions of latsatry, 18 battalions of j gegen and sharp-
shooters, 870 squadrons of cushy, 288 batteries of artillery,
28 soupenies of *nun, 18 amputee of sappers sod
winery The ggegmviest army COMM/ Of 20 battalions
of 'shinty animating ur 20.060 mu. I reffinrat"
eUressien, , of dragoons and 214 Imam of co sus sorb
in a 118,720 cavalry ; 2 tonpani'd or ,Fols of base. 7 OM'
pastes of foot artillery, and 1 compaay of uppers and
seinen ; 1,449 IMO.
SHIPWRICit or All EMT INDTAIXAL—On Saturday
Linfirrnattas we* maned at Lloyd% lot tko total lot of a
Fteseis tediums. Lo Ileum, on the nigh! 01 the fids inst.,
between Withrow" Bay nod eau Cornwall. By the 'net-
tines of the oust guard and polieenen of Whitaand Bay,
who lausehed a number of boats through heavy turf, she
grow and sasseanste were safely take* on shore, with the 6.7-
aargiClD done alibis paneager, who was drowned In attempt-
fag tc. jump into the lusg-boet, and leaped short of his mark.
Soon eitor ins hosts had loft, the ship went to pions, and oho
ouzo, slansisting of silks, raw Cotton, indigo, AMY& teas,
dlpin aid saltpetre, is being washed on shot,. The ship
era* ea the rocks ekes to the boy, nnabipping he* rudder,
when ibis bosons annaaaireable, oad was drives oakum
The sego Is valued at 80,0001.

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