The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Oar correspondents write as follows :
BERLIN, Dan. 27.
The affairs of Germany have again reached a deci-
sive point. The federal commission at Frankfort
attracts all eyes. It is said that the federal commis-
sion intends to take up the same position towards the
representatives of the respective German States as
the former Diet occupied, and that it means to
disregard the constitutions of all the German States
until the general constitution for Germany shall have
been definitively decided on; fears of this kind have
for some time been entertained, and they seem now
to have become more general, fur some cf the news-
papers here have ventured to express their fears that
the German Empire, and, above all, the more intimate
confederation originated by Prussia, will perish.
A proof of this is furnished to-day by the Consti-
tutional, the organ of the German liberal party in
the chambers here, which finds it necessary to pro-
test against the supposition even of the Federal
Commission assuming to itself the authority
of interfere in the internal affairs of any
particular country. The Constitutional remarks
that a Prussian note was written concerning the
well-known question of the Mecklenberg constitution,
in which note the question was described as one pro-
per to the federal commission to investigate and de-
cide, and at the same time anoolmoed the reception of
a note from the Austrian cabinet containing a similar
opinion, but that a very calm and energetic reply was
received from the government of Mecklenburg, in
which that government declared itself ready
and willing to submit the question to the
decision of the Arbitration Cuurt at Erfurt,
and reminded Prussia of the protection which it pro-
mised to the states which should join the confedera-
tion, and finally concluded with the natural question
whether two authorities, the federal arbitration courts
in Erfurt on the one hand, expressly established for
the purpose of settling all disputes between memb re
of the confederation ; and, on the other hand, the
federal commission in Frankfur, which, prnperly
speaking, has nothing to do with the matter, e'dild, at
one and the same time, sit in judgment on the same
question.
The case seems authentic. for both notes have ap-
peared on authority in the Mecklenburg journals, and
one sees at once bow far matters have gone; it re-
mains to be seen bow the confederation instituted by
Prussia can be maintained under such circumstances.
Should the question not be submitted to the deci-ion
of the proper federal arbitration courts, composed of
members from all the German states, bat, on the
contrary, to the arbitrary decision of the two great
powers, Prussia sad Austria, it will he a very severe
blow to the very existence of the more intimate con-
federation.
In my letter yesterday I mentioned the death of
a Lieut.-Col. von ner Tann, who, I was Old, was the
celebrated Schleswig-Holstein hero. I now find that
that gentleman is still living, and that the deceased
was a relative. . . _ .

me law of amnesty has been published in Bavaria.
The National has received a telegraphic mi-s.a4e
from Hamburg, stating that the king of Denn.ai k has
sanctioned the appointment of the three Vertr,v4ei.,-
manner from the two duchies.