The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Tho Emperor has conferred on the Chevalier
litilsemann, whose name as Charbrit d'Atftins d
Austria at Washington became prientheitt about the
time of Kossuth's arrival in America, the Impetial
Order of the Iron Crown.

The execution of the eumtoms treaty between
Austria, and Modena, and Parma, is ps.tponed horn
Nov. 1 to Dec. 1.

The news of the so-called reduction in the French
army was appreciated immediately on its arrival in
V Vienna at its true value in government circles. The semi.
official Correspondence remarks:—•• We cannot at-
tribute any very great impartanct., trona a military
point of view, to the disbanding of 30,000 men.
By means of the exceediagly efficient organisation
of the French army, an equal force might be
called under colours, from the 'modae of persons
owing military service to the state, in a few days.
The military position of France towards her neigh-
bours has consequently undergone no change.'
With the opening prospect of possible aggressions
on the Germanic territory by kismet., various go-
vernments of the confederation begin once more, as in
1840, to bethink themselves of increasing the eflick ocy
of the federal army, which at present is manifestly
at the lowest possible point. The certainty that,
upon an emergency, the six-and-thirty regents of
Germany would bo able to reckon on the well-
equippsd and valorous armies of Austria and Prussia,
has always tended to confirm the feeling of indif.
ference under which the federal forces have fallen
into their present state of inefficiency; nut the latter
evil has been greatly increased b. the clumsy con-
stitution of tho war administration of the Bond. ill
April, 1818, the military committee of the Frankfort
Diet declared the urgent necessity of rendering the
federal milita y organization more compact and
united than it then was, but nothing has since
been dorm in this direction. Long before that
date, however, Prussia had been using every exer-
tion to introduce into the military affairs of the Ger.
manic body that centralisation of power which would
make it possible to turn the federal forces at once
against an invader, but her efforts were in vain. .111
business relative to the general army must pus
through three stadia, must come bet. re the Federal
Diet, the Military Committee of the Diet, and the
Federal Military Board. Upon the Lice of it this
arrangement is adapted far less for efficient working
upon the occurrence of such crises as alone
than
:he maintenance of a large military force than to
satisfy the jealousies of the powers who furnish federal
contingents. The result is that with a nominal army
of near 300,000 men the states of Germany DA
themselves every time a rumour of invasion is wafted
from beyond the Rhine, where are the troops of
Austria and Prussia? It was to remove, or rather
abate, this evil that Pruapia SOUK: time since entered
into military conventions with Mecklenburg, Brum
wick, Baden, and other states; but these agreements
have uniformly been regarded with suspicion by
Austria, whose remonstrances have more than ones
led to their abandonment. The outbreak, or even
the prospect of the war, with a find-rate power like
Franco would make obvious to Europe that which is
never absent from the perception of Germany—that
the military, like the political organisation of the
confederation, is a gigantic imposture.
The Carlsruhe Gazelle has the following from
Frankfort, 18th:—" General Latnoricikii arrived
here a few days since from Hamburg to dine at an
hotel. Some Frenchmen, who have taken up them
temporary residence in this city and neighbourhoods
dined with lam. The dinner was served an a private
room, and the company afterwards separated. In
the evening the French minister was informed of
what bad taken place. On the following day the
master of the hotel was summoned before the rime,
and asked why he had not announced the arrival of
the general at his house, to which he replied that the
law only applied to atm germ who pawed the night
othfereth,eanddanthahteashtle tinesstliewnione
considered it give
notice to the authorities"