The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

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federated governmests to a unison opinion upon the HARVEST DISASTER. FLOODS le
Under this date our correspitdent us 8:-... I t.
recionstraction of the federal constitution, and by the
made
asoilnemintsdrecirlsrcualtaironnootsf thoef
general political undition of Germany. The protocol BELGIUM.
"AukasterranPeeigoavi government, NAMUR At 1.;
July 19, that the imperial court pledged its word that versed to-day the line
the proposal of recalling the restricted diet was not my
waysa,y a
mot from Lille to this town, elle7n
rchely heaver Peen,, le'
hued upon any desire or intention of bringing Ger- nearly sixty miles all gee
many back to the earlier forms and conditions of its in some spots the water extend,awlaldi
er.'
li°'44l' ill'''t over the railer!
political existence, bat, on the contrary, on a desire to itself to such an extent that were is fear timt tic,
obtain a revision of the federal constitution conformed fires would be put out and the the train be at a stud
to the necessities of the times, which revision it welted Mid. The aspect of the
r.country is very pciaul. et
for its own part honestly and with all its might seek many places the of em to have been literati,
to complete. The Austrian plenipotentiary, Count driven from th, it work the waterer, half a fee of
Than, repeated his declaration in the above-men- wheat being cut and tied wits the water f
honed sitting. half way up the stock as it stand extendire
BAVARIA. the other half of the crop brie stands they 1,,e
We have news from Munich of August 12. M. ears cf the corn just visible alLettlheaaell.' w'bilif nit
von der Pfordten, president of the ministerial council, flood. In other places the cu'whatt antra" --
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left on that morning for Kissingen, where he will re- about. Thourands of acresof
weer now 'lintel re
main for three weeks. In his absence Count Bray each side of the
railway, and might be t e
will conduct the department of foreign affairs, lakes, were it cot for the rows of tree-t taken
r ops t s .at nee
the margins of the submerged &Ids
lIAXONY. Here and thee
the people were at work - '.
op to their waists in ea,
DRESDEN, Ace. 15. sties. to •mg rescue their property ; bat art, they
The following rescript on tie provisional laof
wo get, like that which now lies ',oak'at the"
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November 15, 1848, has just appeared :lee under err r
have very little vela The fl w I"'"
e. eels „en headset
We, Frederick, by the grace of God, King of Saxony, wards Charleroi and the to.
, Sambre as I write '
with
Theeth consent of ear faithful states, do ordain as follow •
!Da into the Meuse with double its most v I 'a: T"A.
1. privisional laws of Nov. 15, UR% with the mil'. its tide as yellow and turbid as a a ea. A •r - ' -11,-
minces foundtd on them, collectively concerning alterations the rest of the country suffers as this porn ,t: -I•;•tr., .'
in the constitutional and electoral laws, are hereby 'bro.
gated. 2. The provisions of the constitution of September 4 does, Belgium must be a buyer
"`r of fortigi con ILL
1831, and the electoral law of September 4, 1331, likewise year, to make u her 1 p ones,
the laws regulating the represintation of trades and ma
nn- We receive
accounts from the Belgian rata.
factures, repealed by the aforesaid provisional law., are •
re- which show that the disasters d • ' ." '4
stored to validity until the defied iv* r<vision of the constitu- (scribed by oar 0
pendent, writing from ,
tion of 1831 and the settlement by agreement of • new are general a.'
electoral law. The ministry of the interior is el:gaged with the conntry.
the execution of this decree —Signed with our hand and At Brussels the water has b
seal at Dresden, August 13, 1850. FXRDERICK t7rit-
ASiVs.— FeniOni anxiety. In -"I so hi ell IS
many cf the sabot' e
(Ceuntereigned) Baron RICHARD vox Farasere was five feet high. The quays otter. e: ;1,. I';
HESSE CASSEL had ho, n carried away by the ton- r t -64.;:
Letters from Cassel of August 12th are to the fol- drowrcd at ono piece. In the Fa•,....g1 a•-
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50 boaters had been thrown d L'
lowing effect :I. • •e•
• ' '
own ,T...,.
number of cattle lee. Busts were' t t
The customs conference opened here in July will
gating tl e streets in masses. Th wile', re •
be protracted through the present month, and the
of Anderlecht was still under water, lee ,I
date of its close is as yet an uncertainty. No inter-
latest aecounte. In the fish market,. lien t,
caption of the sitting has taken place since the day
occupation of Gerard and Co., canters.
of opening. One of the plenipotentiaries once opened
with an immense crash, and fell into tie
the question wbctber, in the present unsettled state of
At St. Jesse Tennoode, outside Bra-sel.
Germany and her aline it were not advisable to ad-
were still very Melt by last accent...
journ the assembly to an indefinite period, in order
the residence of the King, they were on ti
that the governments might in themesnwhile come to
The communications between Brutqlt
an understanding in political affairs, and also take
Hors on the X rthern Railway were a'
measures for intreducing many, if not all, the states
It was not till late on Sanders. eve -'rag
not at present connected with the Zollverein into that
could get forward to Antwerp. The lee:
Union, so as to give a common customs system to all
still thtt e feet under water.
Germany. This preliminary proposition fund favour
From Louvain, letters of the I hsh ,n-
-and support in the representatives of many of the
of rain fell during the I:,'.h and Pitt .'
Zollverein states which do not belong to the Venn of
all
May 26,1819. The majority of members present at
town the basements of
ee tee Leese. wn
the Cassel congress, however, opposed the aster; the roads had keen torn up ani re
meadows arms-.d the town, as w• .-:
lacing of the question on the order of the day.
Hunt, and Werchter were all not d.
fhe great obstacle to a general consolidation of the
structicn cf property being coceiderah.e.
customs systems of Germany is the diversity of ex-
At Nivelle, near Waterloo, grace
istiog tariffs, which is chiefly grcunded upon the gee- At
had taken place. The brie,c
graphical position of the German states, and their re-
bad fallen in.
sulung commercial relations. The g ivernments of the
i A letter from Nacre sate :"i • e !II
Stenerverein, consisting of the kingdom of Hacover
I flowed its hanks, and the who', of • •.:, •
the duchy of Oldenburg, and the principality of Lippe
and communications are en*- 1.
Schaumburg, have signified a strong disinclination ' weer'
great difficulty. A service of b;,-.•
to join the Zollverein so long as its present rates of I
import duties are maintained. Mecklenburg. Hol-1 organised for the purpose of carrying
assistance."
stein, and the Hanes Towns, have shown a similar in-
et Auderghem, on the ISt, a dye,
disposition to unite with the same body. Oa the '
the waters of the Fiords behind a fac.o:
other hand, Austria has expressed a strong desire to
down. The rush e f water destroyed
enter with her whole territory into a customs system
walls, and inundated all the neighb ...A.;
which shall comprehend entire Germany, and for this -
' and entered the bou-es on the rota •
purpose has addressed circular cotes inciting all the Other dikes at Wslowe had als-• hes r
governments to send envoys to a customs congress to:
south et A ude rgh ern, and !hit coun-ry .
meet at Frankfort on the Maine. The Prussian deputy I
vast sea : the waters ware latterly, liciveTtr,
to the Cassel congress, M. Delbrack, has published a '
foe Preoirstur of Attwerp, of tee 1
memorial addressed to his government, iu which the , '
' All our rivers hove ore:flowed. An .7..
Austrian proposals are examined at great length and lof our province is under water. Mal r. •
pronounced impracticable. The congress now met
water, from the Dy le and the Demer. A 1
here is far from unanimous on the several changis i
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polders are also submerged. The nest,
proposed in the tariff of the Zollverein. In order to
vonle are may feet under water."
meet the claims of the south German states of this
Letters frws MOOS, of the 18:1', des rib
Union, Prussia has proposed to increase the rate of
of the suburbs of the town as ieutdan I. 1
duty on English twist, and to connect with this a
Trouille and Hain had in their overtliw
drawback upon cotton fabrics exported. This pro- with them entire stacks of oats and :
posal, however, is by no means unanimously apprcved
whole of the weadows were deep under e
of. Another proposal, front the same quar.er, fo
the cattle in the vicinity of the town
raising the duty to be paid on foreign iron, foun:II I
with difficulty saved. The Trou:::e.
warm support from many quarters, but from others
coarse' caused considerable ravage; e':
great opposition, as a measure calculated to
Merbes le Chateau, Givry, Hanzeere .
be prejudicial to the agricultural and other
nes, and Ilyen, were entirely itur.da• 2..
consumers of the article. During, the discussion
the latter place several houses had base c,
of this proposition allusion was made by many
The Heine river hod been no less delve -ere
deputies to the extent to which the duty on iron had
Ville-inr-Hsine, Havre, and Oboorg w• :e e
aggravated the cost of the railroads laid down with-
subm.rrgerie At Ximv there were five e: •
in the limits of the Union, the duty thus tending to
on the public equate. *Such ens the force o'
impede the commerce, which the Zollverein was to rent through the streets, that 100 cases :l' `e•
tended to promote, and the example of Hanover was
rolled nearly half a league into the plain: I N.
appealed to, which had admitted iron rails from Bel-
St. Denis a large mill was bodily carried a,k .7.
glum and Ergland duty free. Senator Coster, from
The ravages in the vicinity of Mons wee, •
the free city of Frankfurt, declared himself instructed
severe. 'fie thine, rolling as tt did are irnol ..
to protest against all increase of the rates of import
of water, threw dewn a great part of t 1..-!
duty: Several of the gazettes have mentioned the
works on the Mons and Manage Railway : •
appointment cf extraordinary agents by the side of
were torn up and dispersed. On ate rail ...1y
the regular deputies to Cassel, whose duty should be
state three enormous breaches have bee -.
to advise their associates out of the congress. No
and communication with Brussels is, for tes i
such confidential advisers have yet been seen here.
cut off. The fury of the waters was fora t cr:
Only Dr. Togel, well known as the champion
between the canal and road at Ghlin : but. •
of the protective system since the death of
then giving way, the Haire rushed cof
M. List, has been observed, to whom any such urisaion
that direction, and the whole coan!ry.
could be possibly attributed, and there is no special
as Con&., has been submerged,. The inunlo.
reason for supposing that he is sent by any govern- Troui!le ~,.rtelt aa far as Jemmappes. T:e . •
meat. The great aim of the Zollverein has been from
i Manage Railway Company is estimated a: • •
the first of a financial character, namely, the economy
Charleroi, on the 17th. was completely tree
and augmentation of the government revenues. The I
i the railway Love-red, and many bridges on tee
Zollverein treasury generally is supplied front the
,sro. carried away. The bridge of Titmice has b.
I .-
duties levied on the importation of transmarine
P
and other colonial I completely oil. Oa the 19th the Sambre e
' duce particularly sugar, coffee, 'rising. A great number of houses in tne .•
merchandise, which duties can in no way be consi-
-1 Sale:rine, at Charleroi, were covered with wa•
derod as protective of domestic indastry, and if they
the rook There were ten feet of water is
do encourage any particular branch of inland labour,
the streets. Such arc, ins summary ma
that is their incidental, and not directly intended re-
accounts received of the inundations : . I
salt. Such was the principle of the Zollverein laid
Nothing similar had been witnessed for a
down by the customs director K ohne, and %indica-
past. There seems fortunately to have lnen
Gated by him in his recent work on freedom of
lives lost.
trade. The yield of the customs forms for all the
Zollverein states, an indispensable means of covering
the expenses of the budget; the report that many of
the governments were about to withdraw from the
Cation at the expiration of the year 1851, may, there-
fore, be dismissed as groundless. It is, at the same
time true, that Bavaria and Saxony have united to
oppose Prussia in this congress, and have expressed
themselves favourable to an union with Austria. The
Prussian cabinet seeks by every means to prevent this
contingency, it, however, regards the discussions at
Cassel as merely a preliminary deliberation on ques-
tions which must achieve their final solution in Berlin.
lIASTAI)T.
We learn the following details upon the affair of
the garrison of Rastadt, concerning which many
despatches have been exchanged by the Berlin and
Vienna cabinets:—According to the letter of the
federal fortress regulations the garrison of ltastadt
consist., in time of peace, of Mulish troops and about
100 Austrians of the engineer corps; in war, on the
contrary, the force consists of one-third Austrian—
namely, about 2,500 infantry—end two-thirds liadish
soldiers. At present the Prussians in ltutadt do not
exceed the number allowed to Baden in time of peace;
with them 100 Badish dragoons are quartered. Aus-
tria asserts that Baden ought still toe considered as
in a state of war, and demands that the abovenamed
war complement of her own soldiers may be admitted
to the fortress. She further requires that Baden
shall furnish her contingent in the persons of her own
soldiers, and not by Prussian substitutes ; that is, she
requires the withdrawal of the Prussian troops.

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FRENCH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LO
EXHIBItION OF ISM.

The following suggestions have been addre
the producers and manufacturers if France, ss
products it is desirable to send to the Eihiov
Issl, by M. Charles Dupla, President of the 1
General Committee :
Gres. Britain, in the midst of her progress end
peace. challenges all the lately disturSed naticas to a
of industrial skill ; she appoints her meeting at L,ud:
May lit, IF.il. It Fiance had chew's tier time. she
n have selected the peri d between lSTai end I'.
would not kayo selee,ed that era in her lite. when suet
struggles have enfeebled her for the present as.d w.
her confidence in the future. France, nevertheless.
complain of the courtesy of an appeal which tends
nations together in assembling/ the works of tr.ei,
impoverished, or rather less rick IN she ie. by sir..
long continued, she yet retains sufficient strength And
not to decline an honourable and loyal combat An
products valued at ISO million francs (7,200.000: , • .
agriculture and our manufacturers send each )car
land, we shall be able to make a skilful and care:
supported by a sanction the least exceptionable ot
the consumers of Orrat Britain.
Let us throw a glance over the kinds of French I
that we should wish atone particularly to see tot*
Linden. NVe will follow very nearly the meth: d::
indicated by the official ro
teretus of our esportatioc
aa
England does not admit her Exhibitten
animal. We must avail ourselves of the Exhibit:as
to the sumptuous and reeAerehe cables of area( Ilt,
most esteemed butters, and our varieties of clues,
appreciated by connoisseurs. We should try on t
what wools of France and Algeria are worth the
the foreigner ; whereby we shall be ,nabled to att.,:
velopment and the training of cur tlacks, both in tr..
country and on the lenders of the Atlas. The est,
France finds in England an im,alrtant market t.
sorts of raw and spun silks ; we must exhilt.t
sources, And the varied qualities of our goits'
(stlifires), the greater the demand of the
these productions, the !Treater the abundance we s‘,
fur our own manufacturer,. Our dyed sulks, b, tit
tag sail other purposes, are worthy also or brie ii ct
competition.
!MUTABLE litteohom,—Within the last few 1
markets ut England have afloreled us an import.o,'
tar our wheat ar.d other kinds of grain. The 12/tclt
high opinion of our farinaceous preparations, our el
biscuits de Rheims, and those of Paris, and our 1,.
toting so remarkably those of Italy. The o.'ll
cultivators has succeeded in producing crest um pr.'
and many new varieties of our main delicious tru.:
,addto them Show of Corsica and Algeria, we sta.
colleetion of the most
perfect sad beautind produ,
temperate seas. l'eovance, by the skill of its r
prepares the oil of olives in greater perfectien tt.et
other country. At the same time Algeria esti A-
mens of her eheap oils, tit for manufacturing pop,
can also exhibit her cork, likewise her woods,
coloured, and of such varied shades, for cu' onset ""T" ,
madder we have a material for dyeing esteemed a+

Tun Bata Tacna.—By an act of parliament
which was pared last week, a duty of Is. 4J. per cwt. has
been imposed on sugar need in the brewing of beer, to com-
mence from the 6th of July nest. From the 10th of Oc-
tober next brewers are not to sell at any other place than
their licensed brewing premises, or oa premises licensed for
the *sprees purpose. Brewers may take out a license for
the sale of beer at any other place u well u their brewing
premises. Taking orders for the sale of beer is sot to
be doomed selling beer at any other than their licensed
houses.

A FATALITT SEEMS TO ATTEND the statues of the
American sculptor, Hiram Powers. It is only a few months
eines we bad to announce the accident which Wel his
" Rye "—wrecked at Cartilages& in the vessel which was
conveying it to America. A similar fate has now overtaken
►is statue of the late Mr. Calhoun—said by the American
papaya to bays cost the artist years of toil, and which had
been anxiously expeeted in his native country. Oa the 7th
of Apll Mr. rowers wrote from Florence that the statue
►ad boa encased for shipment, sad magystulated himself
that it wee not ready to be put ea board the Swedish ship
Westmoreland, In which his statue of " Hee " was shipped.
Hopes aye exposed that the statue may be recovered.