The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID. MAT 23.—The diplomatic rupture be.
tween England and Franco absorbs public am Emmy
The government matinees to tale great undt,ry
precautions. Tne garrison of the Balearic lalandi
to be reinforced. General Lonez Pinto died yt merday.
Don loaquim de More, redacteur of the Heraldo,
is appointed Spanish Consul in London.
M. Isturitz had an audience of the Q seen on the
22nd, and was charged by her Majesty to express
het satisfaction sit the renewal of friendly relations.
M. Isturitz then took leave of Quern Cimino". lie
would set out on the night of the 23rd for London.
M. Mora starts to-morrow (24th.)

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ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

The ease of the Archbishop of Turin came on before
the First Criminal Chamber of the Coert of Appeal en
the 23rd. The hall wee crowded with ladiee,
and deputies, high functionaries, officers, and inernhc re
of the clergy. The tribunal was composed of e.ght
councillors and twelve jurymen. After a speech fro a
the president, M. Mazza, on the importance of the
case, the jury were sworn ; they were compoici of
men of all opinions and ages. An empty arm-chair
occupied the centre of the hall. The president an-
nounced that M. Franznni, at present cut.flotd in the
citadel, had refused to appear, and that conseqnently
he must be trisd by default. The court dead
itself authorised by law to force ti e pr'son rto ap-
pear, or to judge him is his absence. It then decided
that the latter course should be followed, as a pa-
wner who refused to answer could throw to further
light on the case. The secretary then read the
indictment and the sentence of the sret:rn of
criminal inatructicn authorising the trial. The
president explained to the pry the object of
the trial, namely, that M. Franzeni, aged sixty-two,
Archbishop of Turin, according to Art. 21 of the law
on the press, was accused of an offence ageinst the
respect due to the luxe of the state, by pub:i-, ing
and distributing a circular, dated April the I,th.
The Attorney-General coil. d two witnfese*, who
proved that the circular of Monsignor Fret, z. ni was
one morning poet d up in the sanity of the p
church cf Stu. Maria NI ig;ziore, %hire the Lre
admitted. The Attorney•Gsneral then read rev. W.
documents in support of the prosecution. M. VII ini,
advocate, who had been nulled by the court tor 'is
' deft nee, in consequence of Monsi,enor Frar.z mi re-
fusing to name his counsel, then pleaded in rayonr of
the prisoner, after which the president them'''. *i.e
jury, who retired, and after a deliberation of I.la-ao-
hour brought in a verdict of guilty. The Attorney.
General upon this requested the court to cocdemn the
prisoner to six mor.V.s' imprisonment and a tine cf
1" 000 fr The counsel for the defence opposed this de-
mend, observing to the court that a few uays of arrest
! would be a Buff Mot puniehmett. The c .urt, after
some consultation, cmdemned Monsignor Fre: z ni to
a month's imprtenment and a fine of fAtOrr.

TUSCANY.
The Tiaran 11fon'tore of the 21st publiellis
of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, salmi:me:l g
teation of leaving the country fir some time,
rioting that the cou:mil of ministers shall

with the management of affairs, and that the 1,:(
of five ministers shall be Baffle:eat for the

their reellutima.—The Grand Duke and I.:

set out for Vienna on •he 20:h.

The Nqzionale of Florence, of the :
Lord Palmerson had addressed a s, co, d toe to
cabinet of Naples on the suhjsct of the iud.m•'
claimed by British subjects. It aids that h
has consulted the plc nip-tentiaries of the grtr:t p
who have not thought proper to expreEs en LT..
on account of the late events of Greece.

The Municipil Council of Florence has ?ec.c
its sitting of the 15th, that the present politi...
cumstances cf the country arc not of a nvure
of the celehrstion of the usual public feetivit:,
Midsummer-day.
A letter from Art zzo, of the 20th, quoted
Genoa Gazele, states that a 'tone having been t.:
from a window at an Austrian soldier, this ccc

caused a collision between soma town's prod
the military, which became eo serious that the la
made us • of their fire-arms, in consequenze of w..
three persons were wounded.

GERMANY.

CIRCULAR NOTE OF THE PRUSSIAN

GOVERNMENT.
I can say with justice that the result of the
tares is tracquilleilq and satisfactory.
His Majesty, our vicious master, with the !make:is'
which beams so grave and solemn a moment, decared at tae
outset to the assembled princes and repress :tatives of the
tree towns that for his own part he was ready to tulfi! all
the obligations he had takes upon himself, and advance in
the way thty had jointly entered upon: that he, however,
imposed no constraint on the frees will of any of his allies,
bat on the contrary regarded their own freely formed dews
Initiations as alone binding for all of them ; that he wishe.!
them not to conceal from thews lees the earnest aspect of
tint s, the possible cons. quenc A fur themselves of adhe rir.: 1.
the league (Bund) ; but to commit only the interest o: t •.
own territories and the prosperity of their subjects ; a!,-1
that he, therefore, entreated them before pr ocee fur•.!. r
to decide whether they would abide by the fundera•
principle of the union, by wbi h he for his part was pr....r. •si
to stand last, and express their decision; after they hat
it would be the proper time foe corning to an undere:ao '
which would then be a matter of little difficulty as to h a
principle was to have practical effect given i: in real:, t ct'",
constitution of the union, and incorporating it into tf
C3llll. Ration of the Germanic Confederation.

fer-

It ailed his Majesty with lively satisfatti n and gr
for the c3nlilence dill evinced in his, to dud tha:
princes, and also the free towns, declared
their adhesion t 3 the alliance with Prussia.

The next question for consideration b.xe utlu the
in which the realisatima of the objects of the uni
be effected, u well with regard to the relation. of i.s
bees among themselves, as to their Gammon eels:int,
conference in Franlvort, to which the Austrian; v:.
had invited them.

This was the subject of the four ministerial eincu!•
of which the discussions and resolutions are comailic.:
protocols of the four meetings,
Yon will learn from these protocols the position an 1
of each of the governments and the tenor of the d :
rations.

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Prussia had declared from the beginning that
aczept the moditications proposed by the Erfurt piel
and it therefore, but wi'hout waiving its right to c
the parliament to make turther amendments. he4l
revised constitution was valid in law. .

Prussia tound itself supported in this view ht the in
of the allied governments, but as the a•seut of all the
bets of the union was found to be unattainable. i!
possible to carry the constitution of the union into Onto
execution. . .

It was, therefore, necessary to attribute a provisions
racter to the union.

You will learn Iron the protocols the nature of th
sional union, and the steps which are to be talwu
blish it. .

With regard to the position to be assumed by •
princes at the cont. rence in Frankfort, the c
consultations which have been held on then le .tt`
sued there, have shown that in all essentials the trs; t
the allied governments are entirely agreed.
Mecklenburg-Strelite alone took no part in the.. ,'n,t• • ' -
lions; Electoral Hesse, although agreeinz with tl'c eth
in the main, reserved a right of inarpendrnf ae•ion -r.
points; and the envoy of Ducal Hesse was only Ott 'T.' d
to receive and report toe resolutions for the ultimate
of his government.
With regard to the pr.;visionsl arrangements ahi.h
of necessity continue till the a. Unitive settlement .it
Germanic Conte. er 'thin, the Air.' princes Ate ti oily r••
solved that the inte,4% c ntral authority at Frankt,r, ,n
only be organised on the principle of the equal Co emf
of all German government*, in so far as the powers
tacitly delegated to Austria and Prussia 04111 he conlinJc
and the competence of those powers shell be lisite.l ^r"
i convention between Austria and Prussia of the Stl:h r: ,4
tember of last year.
With regard to the general constitufien (Or ilentuseY• •
allied governments, as they have intimated in their c 'l‘.•
nication to Austtia, can consent to no reconstrucnie •
G. manic confederation which does not ensure the $
of the liberty to enter into an union on the huts of et lc
state to all such governments as feel ft necrmary Icr thee;
do so.
ers:. e
If this principle is admitted, there will he no ineur
difficulties in the way of the m see comprehensive rent,. •‘.
tion, and of the accession of the ageregate Austrian Di
to it, which is pt....posed by the imperial cahinet.
The limited authority (coopeteur) of tl a 'ministra
authority of the more eumprehensiv• confeel.rati -r T
then be determined by reference to the extent to whwt.
can possibly be exercised over all the members ; hot
regard to the organisation of this adotinistrstive authority:
it must be regulated hT the principle that t
uirilhere shill
no div:aion or conferring of ezclexclusiveietris us-
,