The Express. — 1855-02-17 (London, England)

GERMANY.  PRUSSIA. PONDEXT 07 TEI DAILY Nlllll. BERLIN, Fin. 13. A Vienna paper (the Wanderer) trumpets forth to die world, with the would-be appearance of semiidol authority, that Prussia has concluded a separate convention with England and France; that the treaty was signed at Paris on the Bth inst.; and that the arrangement had met with the sanction of Austria. The Wanderer must have been wandering again, and, in the coarse of his peregrinations, caught another canard d /a Tartars, for the story is totally denied by the official organ, the Prussian Correspoluksz. I admit that this is only a negative proof after all that the Wanderer is wrong, for we have seen on more than one occasion that the Prussian Correspondens has denied things that subsequently turned out to have been correct, so that the inference to be drawn from the above is one of three things--either the whole statement is a myetiflcation of the Vienna paper (which, by the bye, is a distinguished fabricator of spurious intelligence from the seat of war), or else the news is true, but it does not suit Prussia at this moment to have it made public, and least of all through the Vienna press ; or, thirdly, that the intelligence is premature. A very short time will show which of these three positions is the right one. A new arrangement has been made with the French government for facilitating the transit of goods and passengers' luggage from and to the Zollverein in the ports of Havre, Nantes, Dieppe, Boulogne, and Dunkirk, where they will no longer be liable to be searched, but may be sent direct from the ship to the railway station, or vice versa'. Some officials belonging to the Royal Telegraphoffice here were some time ago convicted of an abuse of confidence, in communicating to certain persons with whom they were in league such information as to permit them to operate with great success on the Stock Exchange. In consequence of something which has since transpired, two more bankers (by name Meyer and Goldberg, according to Voss' Journal) were yesterday arrested as implicated in the nefarious transaction, and their account-books and  (MOW NZ  papers seized. Several new lines of telegraphs are ordered to be completed, and the government bas just purchased 3,000 cwt. of iron wire, which is to be tinned over, this processbeing said to preserve the wire from the influence of the atmosphere. The Minister of State, von Ladenberg, is so dangerously ill that great fears are entertained for his life.  The following mysterious h is going the round of the papers. It is ated the Hag Feb. 5: _ _  - - - . " The report of a murder said to have been cam. mitted here by a person of very high rank, already begins to leak out beyond the walls of our city, and finds its way into the foreign press. Our papers here have not dared to say a word on the subject, but the fact has become undisputed, although the doer of the deed is never spoken of by name without the greatest caution. The unhappy act resulted in the death of one of the aides-de-camp of General B—t, and those who are initiated into the secrets of the court here will not be surprised to hear that a lady is the cause of it. A similar case happened about six years ago, in the year 1849, and spread the greatest consternation throughout all Holland. The victim then was not an aide-de-eamp, but an official of the highest rank, whose only fault in the matter was his wish to interpose as mediator in a quarrel which appears greatl7 to resemble the present one, and in which he lost his life. The most strict silence was preserved, par ordre du mufti, and it is likely that in this case, as in the former one, silence will spread her veil over the affair, once more to screen the illustrious Don Juan from publicity." It is asserted here, on good authority, that the mission of Privy Councillor Niebuhr to the Hague is connected with the above mysterious affair.