The Express. — 1849-01-04 (London, England)

GERMANY.  PRUSSIA.—We have the journals from Berlin of the 2ei inst. The following army order has been i.sued by the king : I wish a happy sew year to my glorious war army, the line and the landwehr. At the dose of the eventful year 1849, however, I feel at heart the necessity of addressing a few words to the army, in tecognitio• Of ie incomparable conduct durir.g that period. My army has maintained and even increase I its renown during the pt.t year, one in which Prussia would have succumbed to treason and false persuasions unless God had er me to its assistance. Both the king and the people look proudly upon the sons of frherland. They adhered to their loyalty at a tines when 'edition prevented the peaceful development of the liberal institutions to which I was desirous of leading my people; they adorned their colours with fresh laurels when Germany et* d in need of our weapons in Schleswisk ; they vietesiourly withs ood titian, and &sneer when combating the insurrection in the Grand Duchy of Posts; sad their aid in mainteinirg. wee in South Germany gained fre'h honour for the Prussuin names. And when, finally, cm ‘l, aunt of thr laws being endangered Inoue own tatherlend, It was found rs quisite to call out the armed force. and to eonsok, the landwehr, the brave members of the latter jay fully lett house and home, wise and childrer, and both the line eel the landwehr justified the confidence I had placed in them' and the admirable orgenisarion winch the army had received from the late king. Everywhere has the army done its duty. But even higher than those deeds I Once the conduct which the army has Omni d during the months in which it quietly opposed its excellent soirit and noble st de of discipline to insults, calumnies, and seductions. I knew my army ; and when I c don it. it stood nosey, in the plenitude of its loyalty and its discipline. Marc than this could not be done by the tro•ps in Protein's most g4-rims epoch. In my own same, and that of father'and, I thank the generals, officers, and private soldiers of the standing amp and the landwehr. (Signed) FMENEFLICIL Wriuse. (Couetereigned) VON Bruorus., Potsdam, Jan. 1. It appears by letters from Schleswick-Holstein that the Central Executive of Germany has addressed an ultimatum to the Dai.ish government respecting the a aembling of Danish troops (considerably over the number allowed by one of the articles of the seven months' truce) in the Wands of Alien and Arroe. All the Holstein soldiers who are out on furlough have received orders to repair to their respective quarters. The budget for 1849 was issued on the let inet., signed by the king, and counteraigno d by Kiihne' for the Minister of Finance. The receipts for 1849 are estimated at 88,366,382 fix dollars; extraordinary usenet., 5,609,000; total, 94,174,380. The expenditure is estimated : current expenses, 88,506,061 rixdollars ; extraordinary expenses, 5,668,319 ; total, 94,174,380. The expenditure, in 1848, amounted to 85,623.739 rix-dollars ; consequently, the budget of 1849 is estimated at 8,5543,611 rix-dollars higher than in the preceding year. The royal pawnbruking establiihment of Berlin has instituted a savings bank, wherein parties who have pledged any articles may pay in small sums bearing interest proportionately equal in amount to that demandtd on the pledges. It will be seen that this savings bank answers a double purpose it will aff,rd the poor a better opportunity of redeeming their property, and will considerably lessen, if it will not do away altogether, with the rate of interest upon the money lent to them. Moreover, the expenses for the sale of non-redeemed property Lave tern reduced one-half. An extraordinary act of suicide was committed a few days ago in Erfurt A soldier, who had been degraded from the rank of a noncommissioned officer, placed himself in front of a 12-pounder, and blew himself to pieces. One of his arms was picked up in a public square in the tows. The ball in its progress considerably damaged five houses.