The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

advice. The 19th semeso mem awwito it, and if it mod-
said its smarm it *veld raise .taWe eventualities. It
placed the reesmineat is the eaeristy.
The imembli Was at this tints in a state of great agitation.
K. VlatOß Hums moldered that he had a right, when
a bill was presented mita he regarded askitebite danger,
to closely examine it—(renewed interruption;—and his in-
tentions ought not to be suspected. last year de-
fended order when it was is peril, as he sow defended liberty
when it was threatened. Was this the kind of bills that
were to be produced ? Was Fromm to be attested in her
onward course ? The intention was to petrify human thought.
(Laughter.) "in this age of diseoveries," said the hon.
samater is ematiusioa, "yam proclaim immovability;
you pause on the road like men fatigued—fatigued with
glory, genius, seienee, and knowledge ! Do you not see that
everything is inlenevenest around you, and advances—you
want to stop short (" No !so !") I declare to you, that
if you repel propos you will hays fresh revolutions ; and to
such men as deny the truth of that assertion, I reply by the
declaration that the earth turns round. I shall vote against
the bill. (Tab speeds, delivered with great violence of ges-
ture, was loudly applauded on the Left.)
The sittiug washeenekt to a ekes at • goatee to soma.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, JAN. 13.

One of not the least important sides of the new
improvements proposed by the King of Prussia in
the octruyed and revised constitution of December 5,
is, that the hold of Prussia upon the German states
she has embraced in the league of May 26, will
thereby be greatly loosened, and a material advan-
tage be given to Austria. at a moment when Prussian
policy demanded that the cabinet of Vienna should
be by all possible macs debarred from regaining its
lost influence in Germany. The ascendancy of Prus-
sia in Germany is so visibly the natural tendency of
events tact nothing but the most fatal series of blun-
ders on the part of the court can keep the country
back and weigh down its buoyancy. One of those
blunders has just hien commit,ed. On the
eve of the meeting of the Erfurt Reichstag
a sigeal instance of faithlessness and muta-
bility of purpose is exhibited by the monarch
with whom the grand contract for the constitution of
the lesser confederation is to be made, and into whose
hands the supreme power is to be confided. An ex-
cellent excuse has been thus furnished for allowing
such states as were with difficulty restrained from
imitating the defection of Saxony and Hanover from
the League, to detach themselves. In the meantime,
the Federal Commission at Frankfort, are, I under-
stand, preparing measures for restraining the parlia-
mentary activity of Saxony, Hanover, Wurtemberg,
and Bavaria.
The tr;a' of the members of the National Assembly
who attempted to carry out the decree refusing taxes,
will come on before the jury court here on the 4th of
February. Forty persons are accused of instigating
rebellion, among whom are many of the most noted
speakers in the Assembly, such as Bucher, Boding,
on Berg, lichul/ze-liehtsch, Schulze-Wanaleben,
Pilet, Hildenhagen, Babzer, Wollheim, Krackrugge,
Bauer•Kr,to.chin, Schramm-Striegau, Zorn, and

Siebert. The indictment is divided into general and
specific charges. The first part describes the common
offences of all, and the last the single offences of indi-
viduals. Fur tee rest, the facts are already suflici-
•:itly well known, and the repetition of them here
would be wear,snme.
Yesterday the students turned out in a score of
sledges, with no end of plumes and ornamental trap-
pings, scouring up and down the streets. and looking
like a Ituasian invasion. After they had sufficiently
satisfied the curi'sity of the citizens by displaying
their costumes and equipages in the main streets,
they drove to a tavern in tke Thiergarteo, where
they breathed their steeds, whetted their whistles,
and roared their glees; end then they flared up
afresh, thretving the city at a furious rate until
nightfall. The little caps and open throats, braided
jackets, and gay borsecbths, lifted with the wind,
flew up and down and about, scattering the snow in
grout glory, until extinguished by envious night,
when the frozen charioteers descended into their
wonted kririps (beer cellars) to drink and sing again.
It is u-uel ou these occasions to sport fancy coetumes:
but yesterday nore appeared. Such vanities are
going out of vogue here as elsewhere.