The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1850.
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GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.
Our corespondent writes:
BERLIN, Dec 16.
The • invitations to the free conferences, issued by
Prussia to her aka, bear date the 12th of Decem-
ber. The deponent is not drawn up in the usual curt
and canons form of an invitation to a meeting, but is
spread over four or flee folio sheets of paper, and
enters at length into the history of the various fruit-
less efforts of Prussian procure extensive alterations
in the oonstitettoo of the federation. It begins by
stating that for several decennia the necessity and
wish for a thorough reform of the onstitution of
the Germanic confederation had been manifested in
the clearest and most unmistakeable manner through-
out the whole of Germany. It was generally acknow-
ledged in extensive circles, and most painfully felt by
all true and well-meaning friends of their country,
that the supreme administrative authority created by
the constitution of the confederation, established in
the year 1815, had answered the purpose for which
it was declined only in a very small degree ; that its
efficiency, both at home and abroad, was small ;
that it did not sufficiently closely units the
states of Germany ; that it failed to pro-
mote noble and generally useful measures in
any part of Germany ; and, finally, that it did
not represent the corporate body abroad with that
activity and determination which the mass of the
spiritual and material powers united in Germany, and
the recollections of the past with justice demanded.
The other complaints of the inefficieicy of the Bund-
estag having been referred to, the invitation proceeds
with a reference to the events of 1848. In that year
the constitution of the confederation had proved
to be utterly incapable and unsuited to with-
stand the approaching tempest, and to afford
protection to the individual states mostly
threatened by it. The constitution virtually Dot
its power, the foundation of the confederation was
shaken. This is an important admission by
Austria. The invitations are, it must be added here,
drawn up by mutual consent, and are understood to
be despatched by Austria to her allies in the same
I terms as by Prussia to her allies. The government
of Austria has always maintained that the constitu-
tion had never caned to exist, and that its full
powers remained untouched and ulemened by
the dissolution of the organ of the confede-
ration in 1848. This admission is, indeed, most
important, for it proves that Austria really de-
sires alterations in the constitution of Germany,
which every friend to the strength and unity of Ger-
many must admit to be necessary, whether they In
of a liberal or a reactionary nature. The faults of the
constitution, and the events which followed 1848'
having thus been discussed, it is announced that
the governments of Austria and Prussia have
determined to summon their respective allies
to send representatives to Dresden to attend a eon-
(cranes for the purpose of deliberating on the nece
alterations in the constitution. The name giventios=
Assembly is no longer" free," but." ministerial "ear
ferences. In the copy of the invitation which has
been shown to me, the date on which they are to
assemble was wanting, but I am assurer that the
'statement which has before been made with respect
to the 23rd is perfectly correct. Toe invitation being
given, the letter announces that the two powers have
agreed that the results of the deliberations shall re-
ceive by consent the solemn sanction of all the mem-
bers of the confederation which appertains to them in
their corporate capacity by the development of the
federal constitution; and shall be published by the
supreme federal authority, which is to be freak
mated, an the fundamental laws of the confab's-
tin. This is en equally important concession on the
part of Austria, but only a necessary consequence of
the former. The ignoring of the Bundestag, and the
confession of its virtual incapacity and semi-exist-
ence, naturally requires that what may be decided
on at Dresden shall not need its sanction,
which Austria formerly imperatively demanded.
The knowledge of this fact by the members of the
Bundestag explains their ire and the wrathful pro-
test which they. are known to have drawn up. It
was, however, imperatively required that Austria
should make this concession in order to avoid a war.
The ministerial conferences in Dresden will show
whether the results expected by Manteuffel from it
were really oontemp'ned by Austria. The invitation
concludes with the enunciation of a firm hope that all
the members of the confederation will assemble and
assist with equally federally-friendly opinions.
I find in several journals full confirmation of the
statement made some days ago that Mantsuffers plan
is to divide Germany into two great political bodies,
presided over by Austria and Prussia, and with a
joint organ in Frankfort. Austria apparently is
not disinclined to this plan, but it will moat assuredly
meet with energetic opposition at the hands of Ba-
varia, Wirtemburg, and Saxony. Hanover will be
not less active in its opposition to the plus of Prus-
sia, but will possibly require the return to the
old constitution of 1815, without the slightest
alteration. In either case the conferences, the title of
which has been well changed from free to ministerial
conferences, will prove anything but amicable and
friendly discussions. It is to be expected that threats
will be necessary front the great powers to procure
adhesion from the refractory. If Austria and Prussia
un prepared to take such a decided step, which does
sot seem probable in the former, the conferences will
hot bat a short period •, but should the plans of Prus-
sia be regarded by Austria as mere proposals for
dimension, they will prove next to interminable,
and Austria will finally carry out her own
plans by dint of sheer patience and perseverance. It
has been stated that Hanover, Brunswick, Olden-
berg, and the Huse Towns, with Holstein, perhaps,
we about to form a North German ion, and
would act together in Dresden. This is an error.
Brunswick is estranged from Hanover during the life
of the present duke, whose matrimonial wooing. in
Stuttgart, were some years ago crossed in the most
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ant and insulting manner by the bold and
occupant of the throne of Hanover. Olden-
burg and the Huse Towne have, it is true, signified
their conviction that all bonds created by the treaty
of the 26th of May have been dissolved, and that
they are free to act on all German matters as they.
please, but they are not unwilling to aot with Proms
in Dresden on all questions of importance ; the same
is the can with the duchy of Nassau. Prussia will
not be without support at Dresden.
Puttkammer, the temporary Minister of the Interior,
is again mentioned as likely to fill that office perms-
neatly. Mantenffel,who is unwell, from the hard work,
migrates to the Foreign-office on Wednesday. Von
der Heydt, who has been leR in peone.by the papers
during the last few important weeks, is spin fallen
foul of today and asked to resign. Reports of his
resignation are spread about, in order to be contra-
dicted, with the remark that the news is too good to
be true, or, that "it will not be believed until the
Gasetho brings a confirmation," or some other equally
characteristic allusion to the tenacious map of the
minister on his portfolio.

A letter from Vienna states definitively that a
cabinet courier had started far St. Petersburg, to n-
call Count Bnol, preparatory to his departure to the
Dresden conference.

Some of the papers received this morning announce
(without reffrnng to the previous statements of a
contrary nature) that Lieut.-Gen. Peucker had started
for Hesse Camel, in the capacity of Prussian aim-
missions; and that he and Count Leiningg n have
paid their respects to the Elector at V('
and have proceeded to Camel. -

Binunt,Dno. 17.—Voluntar1 Loan, 1031 ; New Loan,
Poaroad+Half pee Coate., 981 ; National Debt, 84 ;
Commercial Marine Society's Premium,: 120; Bask

Obaree,93l. _. .. .--
Vramire, Die. 18.— Five per Coat. Metalliques, 941;
Frerr-ead-e-Halt per Coats., 821. Beak Btu% 1148.
illsebasse as Leatioa. 12.15.

FINDING OP ONE OP THE BODIES OP THE BELNIN
DIOVIIIID OPP WORTILING .-01 Tuesday afternoon, as
ems of the Medea dierma wire pinion the cliff in the
brief Weevils si hlr weather, they obsorted a dark object
&aides la the vary. This proved to be the body of a
fishermen, sal so doubt was entertained of its being the
raraaiss it sae of the wifortnabl =ea drowned a fortnight
Saes si Worthing. Wkiek of them it was, it was difficult
irag, al the fase sad hands were =Only eaten away, and
there remised /sly • sautilated Sauk. It had oa a
gaermy, • pair of drawers sad seeks The body was
taken to the TOWS Hall, where it awaits ea hums. Two
sere beams an resoled to have washed ashore between
Lawing mad Worthing. The finding of these bodies is act
easaimeted, hr the Inagua being rough and the wind
W. 8.17. that, is, blowing directly is the direction when
the
boasugliest hammed, it was, considered probable that the
wild Ages lip.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TENSELY EVENING.
In the National Assembly to-day the debate on the
hill for the reform of the law of mortgage was re-
amed by M. Valetta, a professor of Civil law, who
made a speech of two hours in answer the speeches
el MM. Michel de Bourges Dopont (de
Beesac). The assembly listeaed to M. Valette with
great attention, but the subject is not of any interest
oat of France. The debate still continues, and is not
likely to close to-day. M. de Vatimesvil, the reporter
of the committee, is replying to M. Valetta.
At the commencement of the sitting, M. Duche
complained that no report had yet been made by the
committee of parliamentary initiative on a propo-
sition brought forward by him lest year relative to
industrial and agricultural associations. M. Gasc said
that the question had been dropped at the commence-
ment of the vacation and not resumed, but that, as he
had been appointed to draw up the report, he would
do so with the least possible delay.
For the last few days the legitimists have been is
great spirits, in consequence of a step taken by the
Comte de Chambord to counteract the effect of the
rather too famous Barthelemy circular. It will be
remembered that the circular in question nominated
the Duke de Levis, General de Bt. Priest, M. Berryer,
the Marquis de Pastoret, and the Duke des Cars, as a
comfits in France to represent Henry V. in his absence.
this committee has been broken up, and the following
gentlemen have been appointed as a committee in its
steed, namely—M. Berryer; the Duke de Nosing",
oz-peer of France; the Viscount de Fallon:, cap
minister; M. Benoist d'Asy ; M. de Vatimesvil,
minister ; General de St. Priest and M. &invite
Barthelemy, representatives of the people; together
with the Duke de Clermont-Tonverre, ex-minister;
the Duke de Valmy ; M. de Raineville' ex-deputy;
the Marquis de Pastoret; and the Duke des Cara.
The Comte de Chambord has written a letter to
IL Berryer, in which he directs him to call on all the
GI \meats of the house of Bourbon in the Legislative
Amiably tooppoes the renewal of the dotation of three
millions of francs to the President of the Republic.
A duplicate of this letter was sent to General de St.
Priest, and M. Berryer complains that the Comte de
Chambord, by doing so, not only shows a want of
confidence in him, but precludes him from using any
discretion as to the publication of the letter. It is
parable that the affair may produce a fresh split in
the ranks of the legitimists.
P.S. 7 o'Clock.—The debate on the clause of the
mortgage reform bill, under discussion for the last two
days, has terminated by the adoption of the amend-
ment proposed by M. Rouher. The following was
the result:
Number of voters

For the amendment
M. Pascal Deprat hue given notice of his intention
to put some interpeUatioos to the Minister of the
Interior respecting lotteries in general, and especially
respecting the Loterie des Llnyots d'Or. The inter-
pallations have been fixed for Saturday.
WZDNIMIDAT EvININO.
In the Legislative Assembly to-day the adjourned
discussion on the bill for the reform of the mortgage
system has been resumed. M. Riche and M. (ire-
mien: have occupied the whole of the sitting till the
hour of post. The proceedings are not of the slightest
interest.
The Erenlment has been seized foe giving pre-
miums to its subscribers, and an action has been
raised against the editor of the paper by the procureur
of the republic, is which a claim of fines is made
which amounts to 21,000 fr.
It is said that the arrears due to the employ's and
tradesmen of the Epee amount to upwards of
1,200,000 fr., besides 700,0001 e. borrowed from a great
Paris banker, on bills payable within the first three
months of 1851. In consequence of the financial
embarrassments of the President, it is supposed that
the ministry will be forced to bring forward the
question of the dotation in the course of the month of
January, notwithstanding the formidable opposition
threatened by the legitimists and republicans.
The President of the Republic has sent his bast to
the workmen of Dijon who subscribed for the flag
which was presented to him on his visit to that town.
The present was accompanied by a sum of money,
destined to be placed in the savings bank, for the re-
lief of the most necessitous of the workmen, and by a
letter from the President, assuring them that he takes
great interest in the labouring classes.
The Chambre du Conseil of the Tribunal of the
Seine yesterday decreed that Allele, the police agent
of the Assembly, shall be tried by the 'Tribunal of
Correctional Police, for having made what the law
calls a calumnious denunciation in convection with
the alleged Bonapartist plot for the sessaivation of
General Changarnier and the president of the Assem-
bly. The trial will probably commenos on the 24th.
BOURSE.

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41111abset. Lowest. Clcsang.
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II per Cents. 67 33 97 60 37 50 57 60
I per Cenu 93 20 93 40 93 10 93 33
6 do. New Loan ,. • , •
it i per Cents. • et • •
4 per
Cubango on ..---A t i,t de% t, 34 90;"90 dess734 775. "
Ur,, 1840
!, 11142
Da R — ... Do. 1830
Tesssury Bonds_
!NMI 3 p.Ct.1849 94 30 . Bank Shares
Doviss.—St. Germain, 410 ; Versailles (right bank), 170;
Ditto (left bank), 172 60; Paris and Orleans, 842 50 ; Para
and Rouen, 655; Mown and Havre, 261 25 ; Kamilla@ and
Avignon, 193 75; Strasbourg and Pole 135 ; Centre, 415 ;
Orleans and Hardman:, 391 25; North, 478 75; Paris sad
Strasbourg, 357 50 ; Tenn and Hanks, 248 75 ; Montanan
and Troyes, 90 ; Dieppe and ',camp, 180.

UNITED STATES.
TWO DAYS LATER.
By the arrival at Southampton of the Franklin
steamer, we are in possenion of two days' later intel-
iligence from New York, the dates being of the 6th
Want. A telegraphic summary of the intelligence
in yesterday's Express. 7:have received our New York correspondent's
litter, from which we make the following summary :
The ravages of the cholera at Jamaica are really
dreadful. The citizens of New York propose to send
some relief to the suffering inhabitants.
The news received from this island by the Merlin
is of the most frightful and distressing character.
Up to November 14, six days later than our advicee
by the Crescent City, the epidemic, which had been
raging with increasing virulence for more than a
month, was carrying off its victims at the rate of
from 150 to 200 per day. Coffins could not be pre-
pared fast enough for the dead, and many bodies were
left upon the surface of the ground, to poison the air,
for the want of necessary help to dig pits to receive
them. We shudder when we reflect that this scourge
has been raging for some twenty days since any tid-
ings of its ravages have been received. A month has
already elapsed since we were advised, by a private
letter, that the physicians were all broken down with
fat'gue, and unable to attend half the cases to which
they were called : that the stock of medicines was
exhausted, and unless a supply was received from
abroad, the island was threatened with depopulation.
What adds to the horror of their condition is, their
isolation, aggravated by the pestilence, which has
prevented the New York steamers from landing there
with supplies, and from carrying away those who can
afford to leave.
The Evening Poet says :
Do aot these facts call upin us In this city to make some
effort to alleviate the distress, before which the people of
Jamaica are utterly powerless? Ought we not to take steps
to send them medicines, physicians, and such aasistance u
are now most necesany. Unless something of this kind is
done, the probability is, that all the white population who
eau afford it, and whom the pestilence spares, will leave the
' Island, beggars, sad those who remain will be liable to
I become early victims of the cholera and of their growing
poverty.
By the arrival of the brig Nszitiski, Capt. Nelson,
this morning, 11 days from Turk's Island, we learn
I that she left Ponce, (Porto Rico) on the 16th Nov.,
and that at the time of her departure the Governor of
Ponce had ordered oat all the troops, and mustered
the citizens, who were patroliog the streets and
I wharves, in anticipation of an attack from General
Lopez. It was reported there, that the hero of Car-
-1 dense was in the vicinity of Ponce, with an expedi-
tion designed for the capture of the island, and the
people were in • state of general consternation.
I The money market is abundantly supplied, and a
steamer from Chagres with the halt-monthly remit-
tances of gold is daily expected.
The cotton crop is undoubtedly short, but we think
your spinners are sharp enough to keep the market
down to the rates they wish. We are so completely
influenced here by your quotations, real or false, that
prices rule accordingly. A home market for cotton is
the only corrective we have.
We learn from South Carolina that the legislature
had resolutions ander discussion declaring their de-
termination not to elect United States' senators to
811 vacancies, and instructing Senator Butler and the
representatives of the state not to take their seats in
Congress; also, a resolution instructing a committee
to report a bill of non-intercourse with all states that
throw obstacles in the way of the enforcement of the
Fugitive Slave-law; and another, with • long pre-
amble of grievances, declaring that, in the judgment
of the legislature,secession was the proper remedy,
and that South reline, sooner than submit to the
aggressions of the Federal Congress, will interpose
her own sovereignty to shield her citizens from future
outrages and wrongs at every hazard.
The Governor of Virginia in his message to the
legislature says :
Virginia, and, I think, all the slave-holding states, can
and ought calmly, but explicitly, declare that the repeal of
the Fugitive Slave Law, or any essential modification of it,
le • mutual repeal of the Union. The faithful execution of
this law is, in my judgment, the only means now left by
which the Union can be preserved with honour to ourselves
and peeps to the country.
Advioes from St. Domingo City to Nov. 2 state
that, through the intervention of the English and
Americans, a treaty of peace has been concluded
between the Dominicans and Haytiens. There had
been some brink fighting between the contending
parties previous to the arrangements, but no serious
losses on either side. Au English man-of-war was
in the port during the negotiation of the treaty.
The remaining prisoners connected with the Cuban
expedition had been released.
By the enterprise of the Cunard Company we shall
for the future be placed in regular communication
with the West Indies tel New York. The steam-ship
Merlin, first of the new line, arrived at New York
previously to the sailing of the Niagara.