The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1850.

GERMANY.

Our Berlin correspondent writes as follows:
BERLIN. Dec. 13.
It was stated very distinctly yesterday that the
free conferences would be delayed until the _sth inst.
I believe that period was fixed by Prussia, as it was
believed impossible to settle all the peel minary labours
at an earlier period. Prince Schwarzenberg desired
that they should be delayed until the 30th inst.,
but the highest influence in this country was
employed to hasten the labours of the me-
morial writers, &c., and also to procure the
consent of the Austrian foreign minister to
an earlier meeting. This has been obtained.
Communications which have taken place per tele-
graph with Vienna have resulted in the nomination
of the 23rd as the opening day of the conferences.
The fact is annoucced in the Deutsche Reform this
evening, without comment, though its columns yes-
terday contained the apparently official assertion that
the conferences would be opened on the
My explanation will be found to be cwrect. It
would indeed have been very remarkable if the
preparatory labours of the Foreign-office had con-
cluded in time without the intervention of other in-
fluence. Toe new head of the Foreign-office, who, it
must not be forgotten, has never had the slightest
previous experience in conducting the foreign retire
of the country, has sought the councils and advice of
a host of persons, though without committing himself
to any clear communication of his own views.
These parties have all been busied in drawing
up memorials, plans, and propoesls, all of which
are read, commented on, and deposited finally " ad
ado," which in this country occupy more space
within the official buildings than in any other coun-
try in Europe. The labour of reading and ui.der-
standing these documents necessarily consumes an
enormous amount of time, without any advantage
being derived from them. This is more especially
the case in this instance, as I understand :hat Herr
von Manteuffel, tht,ugh he asks and listecs to the ad-
vice of many, acts only upon the councils of one
or two persons who possess no official position. With
these he is intimate and communicative, while hie
subordinates in the Foreign-office are ignorant of his
real plans, and have therefore of late sent lorth much
contradictory information into the world. Persons
who are compelled to transact business with the
Foreign-office assert that it is the scene of confusion
and ignorance.
The commissaries for Hesse Cissel were appointed
several days ago; General Peucker for Prussia, and
General Leiniogen for Austria. The Prussian com-
missary for Schleswig-Holstein is likewise appointed :
it is General L•ndheim. This officer was formerly
one of the sides-de-camp of the late King, and has
held the command in Silesia for some time. He has
been employed in several politic ,1 EllitSiOLIS of late
years. It is remarkable that the parties appointed
by this government to settle the disputed questions
are both generals, and that military officers are men-
tioned for other offices which are nenaliy confided to
sivilians.

The instructions for General Lindheim are pre-
pared, and he can depart immediately his Austrisn
colleague appears. The sanction of the instructions
for the Hessian as well as the Schleswig commissaries
will not be waited fur, since, indeed, it is known that
it will not be given by many of the lesser states.
The appointment of General Liudheim shows that the
slight ditferetice which had arisen respecting the
interpretation to be pat upon the Olmutz " PuLk-
tationen " has been removed.

I mentioned some weeks ago that a plan had been
broached in Botha, and intimated in Vienna, fur di.
Tiding Germany into three great unions, with a joint
executive head at Frankfort. At the time this plan
was listened to with haltapprobation in the then hostile
camp, and the agents employed by both parties were
very active in explaining and altering it to suit the
views of both. Since the interview at Olmutz, how-
ever, Manteuffel has merged from the triple into a
dual policy with respect to the organisation of Ger-
many. He has drawn up, or is still engaged in
drawing up, a plan for reorgani.ing Germany in such
a manner that only two representatives shall sit in
Frankfort to control the general affairs of
Germany,—the representative of Prussia, and
her allies or federates, and the representative
of Austria and her federates. It is probable that this
plan was mentioned at Olmiitz, though I doubt whe-
ther it be directly alluded to in the s. recd protocol of
that interview, which has not yet been published.
So far as I can learn despatches have been received
from Vienna, in which Prince Schwarzenberg speaks
of the plan as a good one, expresses his hopes that it
may prove preamble, and that Prussia may succeed
in convincing the other parties to the question. Prince
Schwarzenberg does not bind himself to support or
promote it with the slightest word. He leaves it
entirely t 2 Prussia to propose it in 1./radon, con-cious
that the small kings, especially the monarch of Bava-
ria, will raise the most serious opposition, and that
from the rivalry which must thus ensue between
Prussia and Bavaria, Austria alone will derive the
advantage. He entices Manteuffel on with semi-
approbation, lures him with hints; and the minister
for foreign affairs appears to enter the trap very
easily. The country, generally speaking, is very
slightly ally-, to the progresa of the negotiations, and
there are hundreds and thousands of persons, many
even in this, the city of modern intelligence, who know
nothing whatever of the Dresden conferences and their
probable consequences. Manteuffel may succeed or
not; be is tolerably secure of a majority in the Cham-
bers when they re-assemble, and yells must elapse ere
the real results of his policy can be apparent to the
country at large.
At Frankfort, in the Bundestag, a united and
general protest has been unanimously drawn Up
against the wilful ignoring of its authority committed
by Schwaizenberg at Olmutz. Count Thum has
made it a personal matter, and has complained bit-
terly in a despatch to hissovernment of the mode in
which he has been treated. The government of Ba-
varia is more indignant than would perhaps be the case
if it were certain to whom to apply fur payment of the
enormous expenses so readily incurred in arming
and marching 10,000 men into Hesse. Tne
slice of the electorate and of B .den which

was to have paid for it hu been snatched from their
greedy paws, and they are left entirely in the lurch.
It is a nice question who shall pay all the expenses—
the Sundesteg, the Elector, or the Honsians. 1 fear
the latter.

The Deutsche Reform says, that from all parts of
the country addreeeee of thank, for the preservation
of peace, are pouring in to the ministry.
The demobilisation in Austria is, as teas announced

on Wednesday, proceeding rapidly and extensively.
Telegraphic advice. in the evening papers state that
30,000 men and 60 pieces of artillery have been with-
drawn from the Bohemian frontiers. In Prussia, the
whole of the second-class Landwehr has already
' received orders to disband, and from the first class 160
to 200 men are to be discharged on leave from every
battalion, with directions to hold themselves in
readiness to return at a day's warning, should their
services be required.
General Grabow is to be sent on a mission to St.
Petersburg to congratulate the Emperor on the 26,k
anniversary of his suremmion to the throne. The old
superstition that no Russian emperor could sit upon
the throne more than twenty-five year., has been dis-
proved in the person of the present emperor. The
twenty-five year 'expired on the Ist inst.
Nothing certain is known yet as to the future
Ministers of the Intericr and Agriculture.
The indictments against Hessen pflug is to be renewed
at Oriefswald. The former case was tried on the
direction of the district court, but the attorney-
general of the district is said now have decided that
the offence then examined into is a criminally punish-
able one, and to have handed in a new indictment
against liarisenpfiug.
VIENNA, Dios&
Field-Marshal Radetsky is to lay down his com-
mand of the Italian army, and to be appointed gem-
ral-in-chief of the entire German army. A prince of
the imperial hoe/reboil, Archduke Albrecht, it is said,
is to succeed him as governor and commander-in-
chief in Italy.
HANOVER, Du. 11.
It is now quite certain that our country will be
represented at Dresden by Baron Munohausen. He
will insist, it is said, chiefly on two points-1. A po-
pular representation, taken from the two Chambers
of each state at the Diet; and 2. The prompt e Aa-
bliahment of an arbitration tribunal, to decide all
questions that may arise between the separate go-
veraments.

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FRANKFORT, Deo. 13.
M. D. Hinder ix, we are informed, to represent at
GUT at the confasmese of Dresden.