The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-06 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Aram 2.
At the cabinet council which met on Saturday last,
and at which Radowitz was present, it was decided
not to proceed with the indictment or complaint
spinet Hanover and Saxony. This decision was, I
have no doubt, influenced by the fresh proposals
which I menti rood the other day as having ben,
made by the Austrian government. The tenor of
these proposals is that Austria will recognise the
Prussian scheme and the Erfurt parliament, provided
Prussia will do the same with the Munchen project.
The cabinet at St. Petersburg has also addressed a
very friendly note to the Prussian and Austrian
governments, recommending a more conciliatory
policy on both sides, and at the rime time making
no objections whatever to the more intimate eo. fe-
deration which the Prussian government has at
heart.

The celebrated and prolific novelist, Countess Hahn-
Hthn, his become a convert to the Roman Catholic
faith. She publicly renounced proteatsntism a few
days ago in the church of St. Hedwig, in the presence
of a larva oone3urse of friends and admirers.
The ministry in Mecklenburg Schwerin have re-
signed; the cause is not yet known here, but it is
supposed to be connected either with the proceedings
before t` e central federal government in Frankfort or
the approaching onion of the two duchies, Mecklen-
burg-Szhwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
ERFURT, APRIL I.—Yesterday evening M. Von
Gegern, and this morning M. von Radowitz arrived
here.

The f.llowirg additional letters are by no
means encouragit.g as to the intent of Prussia
in this work which the Erfurt parliament has on
hand. We preface it by submitting tho following
telegrapich despatch, publis*.ed in the second tdition
of the Cologne Gazette, and dated the 4th inst.
" Yesterday evening the closing deliberation of the
constitution committee of the Volkshaus took place.
Herr von Bodelschwing separates himself from the
court party, and abandons his programme of
March 22, so that neither the acceptance en bl,r,
nor the question of revision before adoption of the
constitution, has obtained a majority of votes, and
the committee thereto-c has only talon minority
deisions (Mbritata Antraye)."
1 Our correspondent writes:

ERFURT, Arkin 2.
The remit of the visit of Ridowitz to Berlin, and
of the ministerial c luncils held there during his st-y,
is most unsatisfactory. He has returned with pro-
posals which, if accepted by the parlia'ent, mu-t
restrict the independent confederation to a mere crea-
ture of the old Rund. Some all-powerful influence
must be at work to induce the Prussian government
so throughty to change the character of tte indepen-
dent federal state which it has sought to create by
means of the German parliament ;but the support and
countenance given by It sdowitz to thischauge metal less
intelligible. In hisrecentspeech hecommitted bin:self
63 entirely to the more intimate confederation, ad-
vozatiag its necessity, expediency, and legality in
such brilliant terms, acid attacking its enemies and
deriders with all the sarcasm and pungency for which
he is celebrated; having so committed himself, the
committee of the P",,/kshisirs were not a little CAM-
founded, last night, in a late sitting, to bear him re
quire that the power of the Union (as it is now called)
to declare war and peace should be limited, even
beyond the limitations prescribed by the additional
act (par. 5), which permits it to exercise that right
towards all states which do not belong to the old con-
federation ; in fact, that the power should be placed
entirely in the hands of that body. The adoption
of this proposal would of course destroy the import-
ance of the more intimate confederation as a Euro-
pean power, and render it the mediatised creature art
the old Band. Your readers wiil easily imagine the
consternation which was depicted in the faces of the
committee at this proposal; when they bad
recovered from its first effects, a long and
interesting discussion ensued, at the close of
which the proposal was unanimously rejected.
All shades of opinion approve of this decision,
with the exception of the immed:ate supporters
of Gerlach ; all agree that to give up the right to
declare war and peace, is to give up the matter
altogether.

BERLIN, APRIL 3.
The Specter Zeitung of this morning states that the
privy council which met on Saturday last on the
German question had decided on requiring
the revision of the constitution previous to
its adoption. The paragraph in question
addP, it is expected that three weeks will be
sufficient for the purpose. This statement is
another proof that there is something going on behind
the scenes, which the public have yet to learn, but
which, if what I stated yesterday with regard to fresh
Austrian proposals prove true, taken in conjunction
with the information which has arrived to-day from
Erfurt (see our Erfurt correspondent's letter], most
assuredly will not prove advantageous to the mote
intricate confederation.