The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

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11•1442, 3, lien
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33 33; 90 4a s, 43 43.
Napa .% &Wee- - 93 Koury
Roman Lou, 1949 79 „
Ditto, da.— 1830 79
Treasury Benda ... 3
Bank Shares 2093 „

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Berme. Pans and Orleans, 635 ; Paris and Rotten. 505 ;
Mignon and Marseilles, 1;2 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 103 75 ;
Orleans and Vierzen, 31& • Orleans and Bordeaux, 385; Northern,
; Paris and StrealsOurg, 222 50; Tours sad Nantes, 222 50 ;
Nlentereau and Troyes, 100 ; St. Germain, —; (left banish
1 0 ; Ditto (right bank), 135 ; Dieppe and Feeamp, 170; Boyer and
Dane, 210.

Muslim; Aran. 10.—Three per Cents., 29 7.16 sect. ; after 8010,
291. Your per Cents, 131 paper. Fire per Cat,., 131 ; after 11011,1,
131 oath. Padres, 4 1-16 paper ; titer 8010, 4 cash. Coupons, r 4
taper; after Bola., 71 man. Melange on London, 20.23 paper.
Treasury tills, 94 piper.

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam packet Montrose,
Captain John Bowen, arrived at Southampton yes-
terday, and landed her mails under the charge of
Lieut. Peter Rainier, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are :—Oibrabar, April 7 ; Cadiz, 8 ; Lisbon,
10; Vigo, 12. Her cargo consists of 3 packages
specie, 110 boxes oranges, 2 casks of wine, 2 orange
trees, 5 package" barns, and 14 do. sundries.
A summary of the news received by electric tele-
graph appemcd in yesterday's Express.
Our correspondent writes :
LISBON, APRIL 10.
The Chambers have been prolonged till the tad of
June. The ministers have laid on the table the re-
ports of their respective department., but they have
not been printed ; thus the ways and means may b 3
deterred to the last of the session. Commerce and
agriculture have been neglected, while the situation
of the wine district, so much required to be relieved,
bas not been even brought forward. The colonies are
abandoned to their fate. All consideration of finance
and economy are equally left to themselves, while
there is no thought of betterieg the revenue. Oo the
contrary, they have not stopped at creating expense.
The King, as commander-in-chief, has a staff of 63
officers, with extra allowances ; 11 officers have also
been added to the war department, with extra allow-
ances; monthly payment has been ordered in some
departments, when others are from nine to eleven
months in arrear ; the army is in arrear from two
months to six, besides three months of back
pay for 1846 and 1817 ; and some half-
pay officers and pensioner' are eighteen months in
arrear. The electoral law has not b:-en brought for-
ward. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, instead of
trying to settle the American qu. stions, and iostead
of pressing Lord Palmerston on the subject of Capt.
Keppel, is content with evasion from the latter, and
neglects the former, which has caused a report that
an American squadron may be expected to enforce
them. The expenses of the marine are increased,
while they owe the Liters from 24 to 30 months pay.
The law for the press has been carried to the upper
Chamber, and has been read. Carts to judge com-
mercial cases have been established by decree in
every chief district town. The army has been voted
at 24,000 men. 'fee government has canted a pro-
posal to build a custom-house at Oporto. Roads are pro-
gressing everywhere, the government giving every
encouragement to those who propose anything re-
garding them. On the 3rd, 50,400,000 reis in Lis-
bon bank notes were destroyed.
The following is the account of the Bank of Porta-
gal to the 31st of 51arch:—Notes in circulation,
666,160,000 reis; deposits' metal, 583,696,971 reis;
cash, metal, 1,288,8811,453 reis; bullion, 6,667,250
reis.

DUBLIN SHARE,.—(From the blveman's Alums,
of April 16.1—Shares bare been miserably dull, and exceed
ingly few sales:—Grest Southern and Western, 265; Prefer-
ence Shares 11; Midlend Great Weshrn, 225; Dublin
and Kingstown, Quarters, 61 ; Waterfort and Limerick,
75 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 101 ; City of Dublin
Steam, hell @bares, 365; Hibernian Bank, 251; Royal B ink,
111 ; Wicklow Copper Mine, 13: ; Patriotic Insurance Com-
pany, 71 ; Alliance and Consumers' Cu, SI ; Ballast
Office Drbentutt, 931, Dublin and Kiniptowc Diben.ur,s,
Par.

ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.
Oar correspeedent at Rome states, in his letter
of the 7th, that the Pops is expected on the
12th. An amnesty is to be granted, from
which only 70 peraohs will be excluded. The
CudinalVicar bas distributed 23,000 dole. in the name
of his holiness to the poor of the capital. The employis
are to be reinstated where serious misconduct is not
proved. Three very important plans are said to have
been prepared at Naples, one for an organic settle-
ment of the constitution, a second for a criminal, and
a third for a civil code, of which the details will be
shortly known. Meantime precantons for the per-
motel safety of the Pontiff, in his approach, are not
neglected. No sportsmen are allowed to take their
I guns beyond the walls. Passports are required of all
going the smallest distance from Rome. Shooting
along the line of approach is not allowed.
The British flag had been hauled down from the
consulate, a more settled state of things being now
expected. On the Pope's wry the cry of " Viva
Pio Nene" is interdicted. People are instructed to
beg the paternal blessing, " Santo Padre la benecli-
clone !" Cardinals Lambruechini and Orioli, preced-
kg the Pope, arrived on the evening of the sth.
The Giornale di lAmw states that on the sth Mon-
signor Bavelli, Mioister of the Interior, Advocate
Giansanti, Minister of Grace aed Justice, M. Camillo
Jacobini, Minister of Agriculture, ar.d Chev.
' pro-minister of Finance, set out for Terrecina to meet
the holy father. Two squadrons of Neapolitan ca-
valry were to accompany the Pope from Terracina to
Genzano.

TUSCANY.
The Stalls& of the Bth inet. announce,' the arrival
in Florence of the Prince of Trapani.

GERMANY.

(By Electric Tdegraph.)

THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNNIENIT IN A

MINORITY AT ERFUItT.

BERLIN, APRIL 14.
La the Erfurt parliament, on the 13:b, Radowits
made a public declaration to the effect that the addi-
tional clauses proposed by the party of the Left
would, if passed, be highly danger/ u. to the union.
The proposals of the party of the Right for the re-
charm of the constitution were all rejected by a large
m ijority.
The proposals of the Left, for adopting the consti-
tution en 7, toe, were carried by 125 against 89.
The other proposals of the Left were adopted with-
out division.

The Pruesian mildetry and Von Radowitz have thin
been left in a great minority.
The above is an extended report of the revilts of
the sitting in which Von Patow's propositi ns were
adopted.

ERFURT, .tenet 11.
The Volkshaus meet to-morrow, when tho discus-
sion of the en bloc adoption will be commenced, the
first order of the day being the report of the Volkshaus
committee on the constitution. True report has just
been published, and as it is of considerable greater
interest than such documents usuai4 are, I send a
translation.

F. is drawn up by Camphaasen and G ltdammer,
and commences, after a low words of introduction,
with the following question :
Shall we recommend to the house the adoption of the
proposals of the government in their present form unaltered,
without conditions or reservations?
The objections to this course are numerous. The draft of
the constitution has many important defects; drawn UP for
• federal state of great magnitude, it contains much that is
inapplicable to a smaller union, and much that is inadequate
and even dangerous. The difference between the funda-
mental rights as proposed in the drag, and those of the
Prussian cementation, must prove a great difficulty for the
Prussian government and the Prussian deputies. in nearly
all the otter states of the union, the fundamental rights
published by Archduke John, the Reichsv‘rwescr in the
imperial collection of statutes hive become val.d, and as they
are more ample than those proposed in the psnent draft, it
nirows that the adoption of the latter woul I only justify,
and not compel, the states in question to alter their legisla-
tion, while Prussia would be compelled to alter the pion-
time of a constitution drawn up hut a short time ago in
accsrdance with the expressed wahes of the l-gitilativie
powen, and determined atter long and difficult negotiations.
This obligation would at the present moment appear the
more unbearable, as the allies ot the confederation cot only
do not equal in numbers the Prussian population, but are, in
tact, much less. The institution and nationally legal
position of a government from which two important
membets are for the time exclu led (Hanover
and Sammy) forms another great difficulty. To
attempt a division of the executive and legislative
functions of the head of the empire, and to confine the
ormer to the Reichiveretand, anu the latter to the College of
Princes, would be very dangerous and hardly compatible
with the conditions of a parliamentary gov.rnmeit. But it
is quite inadmissible that the R.rehivorssaci should be
compelled by a majority in the College of Pri,,orr, either to
make use of his veto or to renounce it spinet bas will. If
this limitation was untenable in a union in which the states
would have composed about half of the Reichsvorstaud, it
is still lees to be supported, now that the c.ecumference of
the federal state is so coneider.bly narrowed, and the
relations of its members to each other so changed. Should for
ex maple the interest of Prussia and the other allied states,
require a measure unfavourable to the independence and
competency of the governments of individual states, the
latter would not only possess the power of re'ining their con-
s rat to a parliamentary decision unfavourable to them
but also of forcing upon the Prussian government the adop-
tion of measures against its own intereer. Anse: fro n the
difficulty of governing the empire by a college of princes, the
constitution is extravagant in granting rights, but 'try
sparing in affording the means of giving them impotence, or
facnitating and securing their execution. The right
of the chief authorities to provide sources of inzome is
omitted, for the sums afforded by the registra-
tion fees experience has proved to be insufficient
and not fit to fens the basis of a Loan in case such a measure
should be necessary. Tree constitution, moreover, provides
no machinery for collecting them in tsetse( delayer refusal.
The power granted to each of the two houses of refusing
every three years their consent not only to the extraordinary,
but to the ordinary budget, is also considered dangerous.
It is a great demand to make, in the presence of such de-
fects and dangers, that regulations should at once be adopted
which are considered unsuitable, and that we should
content ourselves with the hope that after the
adoption the necessary alterations can be made
by future decisions, without any guarantee h, ing
afforded for the actual execution ot the decisions
for their legality and for their operation. The immediate
adoption of the draft of the constitution in its unaltered form
is not recommended by the commissioners of the Vsrer.d.
[urge-nth, but is, on the contrary, strenuously opposed. The
proposals of the governments are, however, so fra-ut d :hat,
. under the existing circumstances, it would be useless trouble
to oppose to them grave objections, doubts, or fears. The
Volkahaus is bound to do nothing which can in any way
prejudice the termination of the result of the legal [lnas ion
which has been raised by the Verwaitunvrath with lian,ver
and Saxony, the information of which was o :Ivey sd to the
knowledge of the parlament in the opening message, or
which can in any way lessen the obligation of the govern-
ments of those two states to remain in the confederation.
And as every alteration requires the eonsitut of Ilanorir and
Saxony, it Is the opinion of the committee that tie
hum can effect the legal duration of the obligations
entered into only by adopting preliminarily the draft of the
constitution unaltered. 'float inch • motive for the adoption
, of the constitution by the parliament, so foreign to its con-
`tents, may expose us to the reproach of employing improper
or indelicate means, is an objection which ought not to be ee-
-1
peed after the proceedings which the governments of
Hanover and Saxony have thought tit to adopt since May,
. 1849. Though it is not intended to give effect to the formal
question ot right by material constraint, nonetheless the day
may *OM come when that right will require to be asserted
with success. The committee, therefore, discovers in the
relations to Hanover and Saxony a not unifilvrtant pentad
for advising the adoption of the draft of the constitution un-
altered. lc would be a melancholy task to count the distil-
seuges arising from the delay in appo in ttng the central p serer
as originally intended, or to prove Oa great advantages
afforded to the external enemies of the cant, n in their
many sided attempts to prevent its establishment, by the
absence of established co-operation with a dirtetin; power
at its head. The unaltered adoption of the constitution
alone atlords the possibility of a speedy creation and iota ala-
tion of a cant' power, authorized and capable ot deciding
and acing. Thu would be postponed to an lade thine period
it eh- parliament decide on preceding the adorio t by a
revision; fur the proposal of alterations at once rem yes the
obligation to install the College of Princes. The proposal of
such a step is justified by the legal view taken in tn• 0311-
vention of the 26th May, In the circular &spatial' of
the 28.1% May, and in the memorial of the 11th Jun*.
1519, via that the consent of the parliament to the are: of
the 26th May raises it at ones to a law binding upon all the
states which signed the convention. le °consequence parlua-
mein has been placed in the position of having exclusively in
its hands the power or establishing the legal existence ot the
It icral state. Toe federal state has within it, In cons. comae
of its natural condition, two diverging edentate, one ot which
times greater eqitation, and the other greater fuel a; the
former has its suit in the particular independence of the
governments of the individual members, and the other in the
Voieshaus. it is necessary in order prop-ily to understand
the full importance of the position of parliament not to leave
unconsideretithe historical course ot the Ci,rmaii qua st:on.
One ot the most important Gauen which led to the are
of the week attempted in Frankfurt-on-the Moi,
that the governments could not agree

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mastitutias which afterwards faded, undertook the norms
irk of lounicaisieg the demands of the roreramenes for
the anion sad the desires of the people for • Gerson eon-
oinstioe. By the publication of tie peeled mend epos
;sag i ea liar muds, Prussia gained a poweefel ally ia
quieting the sonmeat throughout °enemy. This move-
ment had bat!, subsided who' esprit's". pond how in-
.l▪ eatil• was the masers of • nthisally biadin treaty.
iiibepessable inked that esterithemdiag its Miriam
deputise hem two of the allied governments ere absent hams
Bean Parlisment has this acqeind the power of
'Meg validity to the constitution by • •thilik
idfirmative while die adoption of say
fee alterathot will sembleraNy lower tbe AV=
of the treats. With this poem is naked the responstleity
_this impossibility it Mimed by the abome, in the
*Mann of the committee, of any path betimes the
preamation and &sten:Aim et the Wadies r.a's. of
the dead of the coamtstion. The deputies of SO Tea*
lane km is decide in the name is well as In 1=8•16
of the people mien they represent ; a decides
is
hem rats thus : Whether the drat; of the mediation
shall be adopted without or with alteration," but whisk
Is reality means, " whether they will Prisms or =
the right of lie reool to the establishment of •
Mate in mordance with the proposed draft." It is IMO
that the misname. or determination Ma formal right Mei
. I.de nine to a pre/died poky, to the fonaatiend s
federal mate and the completion of es constitution.
Bat while the united gnomon, s do not give up their legal
desa.ede aesia4 HaiLVlrf and 5•110111, though they may
peek ps decide tto compel their acknowledgment, there
le a very great difference to the whole population of the
federal states is p raiding their right to slumber for •
while or its complete burial by their representative, at
Ertart. It must b. acknowledged that the path adopts! by
the oneentios, doss sot of neeeseity lead to that
alternative; it might have led to. totally different:2
the commotion tot been regarded is as theellest mason
whoa griat dangers were threatening, but throws aside the
assist that it had sasweerd its purpose. If the
IWos had been on all sides faithfully maintained, the
draft night have been laid before parliament with
very consideraWe itamovermuts, and the eonatins•
tins might have bees definitely settled by en-
planation* and counter-explan dioth, proposals sad
counter-proposals, adoption and rtjection. So purr, se
clear, and so honoured" a positin, was unhappily not
assigned to the Radon,. The peculiar position of the
repres• ntatives of the people towards the treaties emended
by to. united governments is regarded by the committee as
es important ground for the unaltered adoptics of the draft
the consiintion. If the parliament COVIIIIIIOIIII to make
alteratiors, it, in fut, Manna the eziding treaty, and when
the revisim is concluded Hinny be fen-eon that the following
will be the result :—Prussia wall accept the constitution im
midlevel, ea the conclusion of the revision, and will call upon
the other states to give their consent to it, of course, supposing
that a 'efficient number will follow her example. It, how-
ever, all the united governments do not accede to the pro.
pails of the parliament. the work of union meet be re-
emmenced anew. It nay be remembered that on concludiag
the treaty of the 26th May, the Bavarian government was
am indisposed to send deputies to the Erfurt parliament, if
it were decided that the draft of the constitution should he
legally binding upon Bavaria only in me it ghoul I rodeo
the assent of the parliament. Of course neither Bavaria ass
Hanover, nor Saxony oould have any reasonable ground bet
&ornamenting evil sonsegmaces from deputing members ke
the 'Erten parliament, if the parliament was to Nt .
mence its labours by &straying the binding power sr the
drift of the 26th May. If the latter is dote, the milks
labours el the parliament can only acquire the import's's* st
se opinion which cannot prove of any use. If pediment
were bellied to renounce the right, placed in its base. It
might well leave to v.. governments alone the provisional
anion to he obtained, and need not lose strength, time, sad
money in fruitless deliberations on the best coestitution for
as unknown federal territory. If parliament does not finally
establish the federal constitution, the governments of the
individual Motes will not presses the same authority towards
their ehamben as at present; as for example, the Prussian
chamber' empower the King by pa agrapb 118 of the Prue
siaa secs dation to make any alterations in it which may
become necessary from the establishment of the federal date.
Bat the imporcance to Germany of the representative form
of constitution will be very much leaned should the
Brfurt parliament return the right coiled to it into
We bands of the governments. If the dangers of the
unaltered adoption ere considered se great as to require from
the parliament the resolution not to adopt the constitution
units altered, the alteration which are held to be desirable
should be collated, and it should be let to the govtrnments
to take, among themselves exclusively, the steps necessary to
those alterations. The vatltored adoption of the draft of the
stattitsuon, accompanied by so offer of the parliament to
mneent to several modification, will and mutt lead to a
moody decision. It gives to Prussia the right to distal the
Reinnoestatd, an. to call upon the allied go‘eroments to
se-opera.e is the establistuweat of the government of the
min, sad the gradual eirying oat of the constitution.

Raointim and &imams will is Ibis way most undoubtedly
lead to the attainnieLt of the desired object. Should, Itow•
aver, la its pursuit, circumstances emu, to overcome which
the bast istentionod do not poems suflizient power,
Presets will be able publicly to show to the
German nation the course which it has pursued, and should
hereafter, the slumbering right reawaken, it will seek in
Pra•da its first and truest ally. The committee advise,
therefore, that the Volksham should take op exactly the
same position toward, the governments which the gavels.
meats new occupy towards the par:isment ; and as the
gouraments bound themselves beforehand with the reser-
valise et the moment of the parliament, let the house now
bind itself with or • reservation of the tensest of the govern-
ments. The offer can then he nude to the governments to
saapt W proposed modifications, both in the whole and in
petiaaW punts.

The report then proceeds to narrate the proposals
made for this purpose, and their rejection by the com-
mittee; it also mentions some of the alterations pro-
posed in the oonstitution, and concludes by
alvising further the adoption of the electoral law
and the additional act in their present shape.
Cul. Houle, the Oldenburg plenipotentiary to the
Verwaltungsrath, has returned, bnoging with him
the most satisfactory explanations respecting the
Oldenburg government. Oldenburg remains true to
the confederation. Herr Lepel, the plenipotentiary
et Hasse Darmstadt, has made similar declarations to
the Vervraltungsrath.
Radowit: gave a second wires to the deputies of
both houses last night.