The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

GERMANY.
Oar cenvmpredeub at Balk and Vienna write u
follows:

BERLIN, JAIL 11.
ruirre attal...lr ' t!!!!!`t4ey to the reception which'
the Chambers are likely to give to the ministerial
measures. Various rumours are afloat on the subject ;
I hear that seven], portions of the opposition, who
have held prints meetings, have determined on op-
g the proposed alteration,. I learn
a most excellent source that the mode-
este Left in the upper chamber, at the
head of which are Dahlman and Baumetark,
will not support the ministry. I am told that the
Left in VI. second chamber will pursue a similar
course. Beckerath is said to have declared against
every further concession to the government, and to
have remarked at the time, "if we support these pro-
posals we should deserve to be spit upon. In the
upper chamber the Dahlman Baumstark party
approach pretty closely to the oentrom ; but in the
second chamber all must depend on the amount of sup-
port which the Beckerath &rams party can obtain from
the centre with its supporters on the Right. For this
purpose a meeting of the two parties takes place this
evening, at which the liberal party hope to come off
victorious; Ina I know that Simeon has expressed
himself very confident as to the result.
Recollecung the rather astonishing fact that the
ministry the other day publicly voted in the upper
chamber against the creation of a purist and that it
suddenly now makes a proposal itself to that effect, the
Deutsche Reform endeavours to explain the remark-
able inconsequence in the following manner :
We can imagine that the ministry were powerfully in-
fluenced by the following view of the ease previous to the
salt being taken to the constitution. Foe two years Pius-
,is has been preserved from destruction only by retnnete
Malan (aeries deeds), the strict legality of which cannot be
maintained. As soon as the constitution shall have been
sworn ta, such "reflood+, Marine can only be dose by
' breaking the most solemn oaths. The night, then. for.,
appertains to the crown to ask itself, previous to taking the
oath, whether the constitution to be adopted really affords
the confidence of en regular a development that the then
illegal " rett•nefir Mates" shall no longer be nrceassry. If
then that power in the state upon whom, next to the crown,
this confidence must principally devolve in a constihrional
state—if the first chamber—has not been definitively estob.
lashed. must it not be considered the duty of a couseientious
wearer of the crown to peril all in order to obtain this gua-
rantee before swearing to the constitution ?
The ministry has dearly considered the matter in this
light, and it is willing in faithful devotion to the crown, in
whom strength sad authority it sere the principal support of
public prosperity, to peril its existence for that great and
serious consideration.
Let the chamber consider what the country pnm'sses in
a Brandenburg ministry, and what will be the consequences
of its Temptation. The chambers ere tree to give a more or
lam serious consideration to this point of the ewe, and to
permit it to exercise a greater or less it ilium in their de.
c lions. We tat them again, the ministry stand/ or falls
with tAe message of the 7tA January.
In order that proper weight may be given to this
article, I must add that the following sentence
in italics, " the Brandenburg ministry stands or
falls witn the royal message,h is more than a mere
threat. I know from the best soured that if the
proposals of the government are rejected by
the chamber., the ministry less decided before-
hand on resigning, and that the King. has
promis,d to accept their resignation. This is the
I view entertained by the bourse here ; for after the
lands had risen in cons"quence of the royal mesear,
they became very dull, and now threaten a fall,
fears being entertained of a charge of ministry

and its consequences.
The most imp rtant question in the royal meessge
is the influence which it will have upon the German
question. In this respect I think I cannot be mistaken
when I flay that it gives the deathblow to the "Three
Kings' League."
It the Chambers approve of the principal points in
the demands made by the crown, it will hardly be
possible to find a German state which would not be
too ashamed of so dishonourable a government and so
dishonourable a representative of the people to con-
tinue to act in union with it.
If the Chambers reject the propositions, they will
doubtlessly be dissolved, and the new ministry—
Arnim or Gerlach, or whatever it may te called—
will octroy as laws not only the present demands and
so destroy the miserable remiLs of the Prussian con-
stitution, but will hasten also to undo all that has
been done on the German question.
While writing I have received the Constitutional
of this evening. It confirms, in its usual diplomatic
mode, what I have lust said respecting the probable
results of the royal message. It says :
The debates in the several fractions of the chamber were
very excited. Nothing can be predicted with certainty of
the result. (That is to may, the result is, at present, en.
favourable to the opposition, or else the organ of the
Beekerath Samson pa' y would assuredly announce it.) In
both fractions of the left and centre the view seems (?) to
be entertained that in par icular the proposition respecting a
pairie cannot be adopted without an equivalent in money
mitten being granted to the second chamber.

Jaw. 12.
When the constitution of Dee. 5, 1848, was oc-
troyed, the last article reserved to the chamber',
convoked on the dissolution of the National Assembly,
the right of a mature revision. The King declared,
in the patent which accompanied the charter, that if
the two chambers could not agree upon the revision
of any article, the text of the octroyed constitution
was to be accepted definitive y ; and then the King,
the Chambers, and the functionaries of the state
should immediately take the prescribed oath. Tne
Chambers met at the close of February. The opposi-
tion which the government encountered in the Sealed
Chamber against tie ministerial bill on the right of
usembly, introduced as a necessary preliminary to
the removal of the rate of siege, and the frequent
defeats which it sustained upon the most important
divisions, caused the sudden diescheien of the Second
Chamber on. April 27. That night the "oldie's tired
on the people, and several persons were shot in
the square in front of the Chamber. In the
elections which followed for the new chamber the
democratic party took no share. The most illustri-
ous member of that party was shut up during the
whole summer in a prison, upon what grounds we
have lately seen with sulleient clearness. In the new
chambers the King found as instrument apt beyond
his most sanguine hopes. They did his bidding to
the letter, and sounded the basest stringof humili y—
no, not the basest—they have yet to go one rote
lower. The constitutional party, false to all the prin-
ciples they had ever preached, to all the pledges they
had ever given, showed by their votes a determina-
tion to be governmental a tout pees. Their speeches
for the most part were a sophistical recantation
of their lives. They gave up one by one with a
cowardice unexampled in the history of parliaments
all the guarantees of the subject, all the prerogatives
of parliament. They divested the people's house of
its main right, control over the supplies. They granted
ministers full liberty to legislate upon the most im-
portant subjects during the recess. They excused, the
army from taking the oath to the constitution. 1 hey
pissed a law on the right of assembly, which allowed
a acumen policeman, at any moment he saw tit, to
disso.ve a public meeting, and to call in the military
to enforce his command to the members to disperse.
They did, in short, with matchless obsequiousness,
whatever work the government called on them to do.
A common king might have been satisfied : not so
ebe King of Prussia. In proportion as his parliament
yielded, his appetite for power grew more unlimited :
in pmportion to tee facility with which a bridle
was imposed upon his people, the least obliga-
tion grew odious to himself.
The committees of both chambers held yesterday
very animated sittings : in that of the Second Cham-
ber four of the ministers were present. The peerage
proposal of the crown was kept for the last. Tne pro-
jewel to make toe p. inter, &c, respensible for publi-
cations, was carried by a minority of one in halter of
the government. Propositiou 2, 'spiting to the lend-
surm, unanimi.utely carried. Prop sition 3, loafing
to the burgh. rwebr, IDC,,nimously carried. Pi °pow-
tion 4, relating to tie erection of fiefs and eliteiled
estates, passed by a majority of 1. Proposition 5,
removing reeepuneibilit) e f ministers, rejected by a
large majority. Proposition 6, relating to the term
within which the chambers meet bo cue-
yoked seer a dart-ulution, unanimously adopted.
Prop aliens 7en e 8 nit yet discussed. Proposition
9 acceeiteo tumid %-usly with blight moditieutiou.
Proposition 10, relating to the erectio t of a high
court, rejected by 7 evilest b; but admission of a
pp cud jeer) court t- be est.shlished by a law ter the
trial .of high Velum: end other politica effenee 8.
Propositiou 11 unveiniteuely adopted. Pr position 12
rejected by a small majority. Proposition 13 (im-
portant), wheel...big the 1. grey 01 odtuu.ete of the
government, rejected by 11 against 2; but following
amendment passed : V at no online: co is to be dis-
puted by lay authority ae lug as the right to co-