The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1850.

FRANKFORT.

The plenipotentiaries of Austria, Bavaria, and
Saxony, arrived at Frankfort on the 9th ins.. On
the 10th, after the commissioners of the Bond had
held a sitting, the plenipotentiaries, contrary to all
expectations, met in the same hall, and the chairs of
the commissioners were scarce empty before the
plenary assembly of the Band was seated. It con-
sulted of Count Thun,the president:in right of Austria;
Von Itheinard, of Wurtemberg ; Von Teschan, of
Saxony ; Detmold, of Hanover ; Von Scherff, repre-
senting Luxembourg ; and Von Holzendorff, for
Hesse Homburg. -Von Baumbach has also ar.
rived from Electoral Hesse, and there are thus
present 6 and a fraction of the 17 votes of
the restricted assembly, and 24 of the 70 votes
exercised in the full convocation. The sitting was
spent in the legitimation of the plenipotentiaries ; and
it is said that no business of greater importance will
be undertaken before the arrival of a larger number
of ministers. It is expected that the states of the
Erfurt Union, with Prussia at their head, will at a
later period present themselves, and take part in the
deliberations. It is also believed that the Elector of
Hesse will protest against any further proceedings in
the formation of the Erfurt union until the issue of
the Frankfort congress shall have transpired. The
city of Frankfort, always neutral, hu not appointed
a minister to the congress; a constancy the more to
be admired.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Mar 8.
Popular indignation has again been aroused by the
repetition at Milan of p • similar to those
which occurred in August hug, w en several persons
were publicly flogged with sticks and rods on the
Piazza di Castello. A similar punishment was in-
flicted on the 27th ult., by order of the military autho-
rities, on an Italian woman, with this difference, that
the bench on which the unhappy creature was fas-
tened was placed in the courtyard and not in the open
street. Notwithstanding, however, a number of per-
sons assembled desirous of witnessing this exhibition
of modern brutality ; to the credit of the inhabitants
of the city, it must be said that the spectators were
principally soldiers and persons of the lowest clsasee•l
The ministry, as I mentioned in • former letter,
had resolved on rewarding Harlan, Windiscbgritz,
and Jellachich, for their services in suppressing the
Hungarian revolution, with a grant of several confis-
cated estates in Hungary. The announcement of this
determination produced so violent an opposition from
the majority of the Hungarian nobles, that the ministry
have been unwillingly compelled to change the nature
of their reward. Each of the three generals has re-
ceived, instead of the estate, 400,000 florins in state
obliteations. It is just that the Austrian government
should reward its servants, bat 1,200,000 florins is
rather a large sum to part with, at a moment when
the Treasury is nearly bare, and the Minister of
Finance compelled to resort toe forced loan of • most
hateful character. The equal amount of the rewards
is matter of remark. _

A supplementary trenty of commerce concluded
between Austria and the United States for extending
'certain regulations fixed by the treaty of tie
27th August, 1829, was *nod Washington

in May, 1848, aad ratified there in the month
of February hat. On* of U. most important
artists of ads twenty gives to the emu* vios-cos-
mils, and eanuneesid spats of both °Gantries, the
privileges accorded to the most favoured nations, per-
mits them to decide disputes between the captains
and crews of their motional vessels, and secures to
them the assistance of the authorities in the prosecu-
tion of their interests. The treaty is fora period of
two years, but twelve months' notice mast be gives
before it eau be renounced by either party.
An imperial ordinance was pabirshed to-de
_y or-
daining the introduction of the income tax into Hun-
gary, Transylvania, the Waiwodina,and the Banat.