The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1863.

passed by a majority of 259 to 61.
The address is in the main a firm but temperate
indictment of the whole ministerial policy, the
immediate points in dispute being dismissed at
the outset. It recalls the address presented by
the Chamber at the beginning of the year, asking ,
for a speedy return to constitutional usage, and
points out that although several months have
since elapsed, there has been no promise or prospect I
of any such return, the Ministry having continued I
to act in open violation of all constitutional princi-
ples. The disastrousresultaof thiscourse to Prussiain 1
her domestic and foreign relations are then urged
on the Knec's attention :—" By the Ministers'
" foreign policy, by their unconstitutional pro-
" ceedings at home, they have forfeited the confi-
" dance of nations and of Governments. They
" themselves have been fain to declare in the
" House of Deputies that Prussia is surrounded
" by foes and threatened on all sides by warlike
" complications. Prussia stands almost alone in
" Germany, and even in Europe. The House of
" Deputies has repeatedly uplifted its voice to
" hold back your Mantery's Ministers from those
" dangerous paths upon which their foreign policy
" has entered. Its advice has been rejected.
" Ministers have declared that they would, if
" they deemed it necessary, wage war with or
" without the consent of the representatives of
" the country." Finally, the Chamber-declaresthat
since its claim to constitutional treatment is syste-
matically disregarded by the Ministry, it must with-
draw its support from the Government. "It once
" more fulfils its conscientious duty by declaring to
" your Man:err, with the profoundest respect, that
" the House of Deputies has no means left of coming
"to an understanding with this Ministry, and that
" it refuses its co-operation with the present policy
"of the Government. Evety fresh transaction
" does but confirm it in the persuasion that be-
" tween the counsellors of the Crown and the
" country there exists a chasm which cannot be
" filled up otherwise than by a change of
"persona, and still more by a change of system."
The Kato in his reply says the Address of the
Chamber has destroyed all hope of community of
action, and concludes by declaring, with fatal con-
sistency of infatuation, that the Ministers possess
his confidence, and their actions have his orient.
Count Etruneszac, who read this reply to the
Chamber in the morning, stated that the Parlia-
mentary Session would be dosed in the
afternoon. At two o'clock, accordingly, M. Vox
BISMARCK formally dismissed the Chamber,
in a speech from the Throne, closing with
the intimation that "the Government re-
: " serves to itself the power of determining the
" manner in which the unsettled financial meta-
, " sures shall be brought to a conclusion, and hopes
" to come to a future understanding with the re-
" presentative' of the country." Any under-
• standing between the Assembly and the present
Ministry is clearly hopeless, and a reconci-
liation between the nation and the Crqiin can
hardly be brought about by anything shag of a
revolution. We may hope, however, in the inte-
rest both of Prussia and of Europe, that the revo-
lution will be a pacific one.