The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-12 00:00:00

PRIJEIBIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 11, EVZSDIO.
The semi-official Provincial Correspondent* of
this evening publishes an article upon the budget
and general financial position of Prussia. It con-
cludes as follows :—" The statement emanating
from malicious individuals to the effect that the
peace policy pursued by Proseics arises from the
necessitous condition of her finances refutes itself,
as evidently no such condition exists as could ob-
struct the government in the freedom of its re-
solves. The guiding principle of Prussian policy
is simply the wish that Germany may be able to
devote herself in peace to the prosperous deve-
lopment of her political and economical position,
and that no sort of disturbance of her friendly
relations with neighbouring powers may occur."
The postal treaty between North Germany and
Italy was signed yesterday.

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY BILL.
VIENNA, Nov. 11, Evawra._

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Reichsrath, the debate upon the Army Bill com-
menced. Baron Beust delivered a speech, in
which he combatted the arguments of the oppo-
nents of the gover: ment, and refuted the accu-
sation that he had spoken in disquieting
terms at the sitting of the committee on
the bill, declaring that he had hitherto done
not which could create anxiety. He ex-
regret that any discontent should still
fcited aeinst the conclusion of the
couie with Hungary, an act which all Eu-
rope regarded as having strengthened the mo-
narchy. Referring to the bill under discussion, ho
said, " The ministry must make the of this
bill a cabinet question as decisively as it id with
regard to the fundamental and religious laws when
they were before the house. If a complete un-
dertaking prevail between the Ministry and the
Chamber, the people will not find the military
reorganisation fixed on too large a scale." Mi-
nister Burger also made a speech, de-
monstrating that the Military Bill would
not, as stated by some opposition members,
prove to be the ruin of Austria from
a lolitieal, politico-economical, and finan-
cial point of cecw. The policy of the govern-
ment was the maintenance of peace, and the only
retaliation it aimed at would be attained by the
creation of a free Austria. Herr Giskra, Minister
of the Interior, declared that the government had
maturely considered every circumstance, and was
only doing its duty. Count von Tante, who
spoke on behalf of the President of the Ministry,
stated that motives of political honour compelled
the government to make the bill a cabinet ques-
tion. The debate on the paragraphs of the bill
will take place at a sitting to be held this
evening.

RUSSIA.

T. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11.

The sulacription for shares in the Tambov-
Paratoff Railway was opened yesterday ; 358,000
~bares were subscribed for, and the applications
to-day are again large.

EXPLOSIVE MISSILES IN WAR.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11.
At the eonference held hero on the non-employ-
ment of explosive missiles in war, it has been
decided that no explosive projectiles weighing less
than 400 grammes shall be used. The sitting at
which this decision was come to was held on
Monday lmt, at 2 p.m., and lasted two hours;
the Russian Minister of War presiding. The
conference has adjourned until the 13th inst., the
drawing up of the protocol being in the meantime
entrusted to Baron Jomini.

ROME.
ROME, Nov. 11.
The Pope has placed the services of his physi-
chin at the disposal of Fund Pucka, whose state
of health has become worse.
An ordinance of Cardinal Autonelli announce;
that his Holiness has ordered a modification of
the export duty upon 200 articles of manufac-
ture, in order to encourage the development of
trade.

The Pope has also instructed tho papal chargi.
Waffaires at Lucerne, to afford all possible suc-
cour to the sufferers from the rooont Inundations.

AMERICA.

NEW TORN, Nov. 11.
Tho Cunard atecunship Java arrived here to-day
at 11 a.m.
Closing pities : Cold cloaca at 1341; the highest
quotation during the day was 1314; the lowest,
133 a. Sterling exchange on London, lon ; 5-20
United States Bonds, 1882, 1082 ; ditto, 1885,
107 ; ditt0,1465, 1001; 10-40 United States Bonds,
107. Illinois, 142; Erie, 371. Cotton, middling
upland, 241; petroleum, standard white427l ; flour,
extra State, 6 dole. 45e. to 7 dole. :ie.; corn, old
mixed. 1 dol. 16c.

(Per the City of Ilot,ton, via Queenstown.)‘

NEW YORK. Ocr. 31 Noon.
Mr. Seymour has been enthusiastically received at
Harrisburg, Reading, and other cities of Pennsylvania.
He made a speech at Philadelphia declaring that the
depreciation of the national securities was dise to the
partisan course of the rrseppahbtSosa party. He said the
radicals claim the risca policy to have been a
success, and yet, adminfatering for three ram, ey
now assert thatafter the South is Med with violence wand
lawlessness, and that life and property are immure.
At a deonomatio seldises' Assist at Tammany-hall,
New York, last night, Clensisal Blair spoke. He said the
democrats did more than their share in suppressing the
rebellion, but the radical senate had invariably refused
to confirm appointments of democratic soldiers to govern-
ment poets, on party grounds.

A bare end nateinneetisc==g was also held
in Pew ark led night and Mr. Gris-
wold, the melodeon amalgam Far genensar, were among
the
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PRIIEVEA.
•
• BERLIN, Nov. S.
The Premien Chambers have been opened with
RePeech from the throne, which was not expected,
and probably not intended, to form a political
event, and the expectation has been realised.
With the exception of a little cavilling from a part
of the Vienna press, which was determined not to
be pleased, it has satisfied everybody and alarmed
nobody, and that is all that can be desired. For-
tunately, moreover, that unhappy word, an address,
has not yet been spoken in the Chambers, nor is it
likely to bemind much time is thus saved for more
valuable work. Of the latter there is no lack. If
any persons have supposed that the' Prussian
Chambers were likely to lose much dignity or im-
ce from the co-existence of such a legis-
Ctritntve body as the North German Parliament, the
present 'onion must certainly allay their anxiety,
for, according to the semi-official l'roviaziat Cur-
reepondenz the government has prepared more
than fifty bills in it. different departments, which,
as far as time will permit, will be brought under
the consideration of the Prussian Chambers during
the present session. One of the first communica-
tions of the government does not meet with uni-
versal approbation from the members, as it ()en-
emas their pockets. The falling off in the Post-
office revenues has induced the government to
restrict the privilege of franking which the mem-
bers have hitherto enjoyed to those letters which
have some official reference to public business,
and therefore contain a real ground for the
exemption. Count Renard has brought in a mo-
tion against this order, but I think it is neither to
be expected nor to be wished that he will succeed
in carrying his point. A more important motion
is that of Herr Guerard for altering article 84 of
the constitution, and thus placing the much-
vexed question of the perfect liberty of speech of
the members beyond all further cavil. In a
former session the liberal party wished to compass
the same end by a declaration of the sense of the
article as it stands, but as that would be equiva-
lent to a contradiction of the opinion of the go-
vernment, as also of the judgment of the Supreme
Court, the government objected, and the liberal re-
solution was not carried. But the more weighty
business of the session commenced on Friday,
when Baron Von der Heydt, Minister of Finance,
and acting during Count Bismarck's absence as
Minister Pieddent, gave his general statement
respecting the budget for 1889. The sum total
for outlay and revenue is 187,697,469tha1ers (equal
to about 25,000,0001. ), or 7,840,406 thalers more than
last year. These numbers show that, notwith-
standing her immense military establishment,
budding marine, and a whole army of civil em-
ployii, Prussia with her 24,000,000 of population
still keeps her national bills down to about one-
third of theamount of those of England ; but then
it must be remembered that she has hardly
any national debt. The details of the
minister's statement would hardly interest
your readers, and I therefore pass on at
once to the result. Stagnation of trade, cheap
postage, and a bad harvest on the one hand, and
the increased expenses occasioned by the annexed
provinces, as also some increase of the national
debt, on the other, have produced a deficit, and
the balance in the accounts could only be attained
by having recourse to some extraordinary re-
sources. The very natnre'of the causes of the
deficit, connected as they are with a temporary
interruption in the development of the national
prosperity, made any increase of the burdens of
the people appear undesirable. The Minister
stated that this was the King's feeling, and his
problem accordingly was to tied sonic other
means for raising the required sum, amounting
to 6,200,000 thalers. For this purpose he proposes
to take 2,100,000 of the 33,300,000 tluders found in
the treasuries of the annexed provinces, which by
laws of July 3, 11h17, and March 0, 1808, had
passed under the administration of the State
Treasury, and to raise the remaining 3,100,000
thalers by the sale of Cologne-Minden Railway
shares. The scheme will, of course, have to
undergo a more or loss fiery ordeal in the comiug
debate, and I do not know what points may be
raised, but I doubt if any very plausible ob-
javtions can be made to it. Trade has sull'ered so
severely during the last three years, first through
war, and then through rumours of war, that the
Prussian paterfamiline would have looked very
glum indeed if lie had been called upon to
hay an increased income-tax, or to open
is purse in any other form. Betides this, when
the government of the annexed provinces passel
into the bands of Pruesia, their state resources
naturally passed with it, and there appeers nothing
unreasonable or unjust in making them available
for the benefit of the whole oonnuuuity. As bear-
ing ou this subject, I may also mention that
600,000 Gliders are assigned annually to the Ha-
noverian provincial fund, for purely local pur-
poses. Several items which have increased the
estimates are hlely to meet with general appro-
bation—l allude more particularly to the increase
in the salaries of the ill-paid employic, and of the
teachers in the people's schools. Many of the
latter class have hardly been able to ke:‘p their
own bodies and souls together, to say nothing of
their fiunilies.

The great microscopic observer, Professor Ehren-
berg, celebrated his 50th anniversary as doctor
of medicine on the sth instant. Deputations from
the Academy, as also the University of Berlin, of
berth of which ts.slies be has been one of the most
highly respected prophets, waited on him in
the morning with congratulatory addresses,
and many other learned ecnrorations availed them-
selves of the opportunity of expressing their
respect. Neither was the now world behiudhand
on the occasion. Mr. Bancroft, the Ammeriea►n
minister at this court, presented. four " tri-
butes from the United States," consisting
of an elegant address from the American
Assotiation for the Advancement of Sekmee,
signed by seven well-known names, among others
those of Barnard, Agassiz, and Dana, a poctu by
0. W. Holmes, and addresses from the American
Medical and American Pharmaceutical Associa-
tions. Ehrenberg's microscope has, unhappily,
lain idle for the last two years. His vision
has been so impaired by the nature of his
investigations, carried on with unremitting in-
dustry through a long life, that he must now leave
the field to others. The old professor was so much
overcome by his feelings on the recent occasion,
that he was hardly able to finish any of the
speeches in which ho endeavoured to thank his
well-wishers.

The spring loaves of the tea plant abound in
airmails ; lb* late pagan ays weak sad Iluagnees
trey being whaled only treat the erringwAheelag. le yeetiaisa
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THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.

A supplement to the London Gazette was issued
•
last evening, containing the following
tion for dissolving the present parliamenraenirs-
de-
daring the calling of another : •
" Vieroras R.—Whores" we have thought fit,
by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to •
dissolve this t parliament, which stands pro-
rogued to Thursday, the 26th day of November
instant, we do for that end publish this our royal
proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said par-
liament accordingly; and the beds spiritual and •
temporal, and the !might', Mums, and burgesses,
• and the commissioners for shins and burghs
of the HOMO of Commons are discharged from
their meeting and attendance on the ;
said Thursday, the 20th day of November
instant ; and we, being desirous sad resolved ai I
soon as may be to meet our people, and to have
their advicii in parliament, do hereby make IMAM" -
to all merlesioas Nubia; en47al teat
sure NI mill • mem an
further declare thatr th advice of our 77r;
Council, we have given order that our Chancellor
of that part of our United called Great
Britain, and our Chancellor of nd, do respec-
tively, upon notice thereof, forthwith issue out
writs in due form, and according to law,
for calling a new parliament ; and we
do hereby also, by this our royal proclama-
tion under our Great Beal of our United
Kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued
accordingly by our said chancellors respectively,
for causing the lords spiritual and temporal and
commons who are to serve in the said parliament,
to be duly returned to, and give their attendance
in, our said parliament ; which writs are to be re-
turnable on Thursday, the 10th day of December
next. Given at our court at Windsor, this 11th
day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and in
the thirty-second year of our reign. God save the
Queen."

Another proclamation orders the sumniolof
sixteen representative peers of Scotland. The
election is to take place at Holyrood-house, Edin-
burgh, on the 3rd of December.