The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12.

Ties German newspapers tell us that the King
of PAMIR called on our QUZIN at Darmstadt, the
other day, and stayed half an hour. The last
time the two Sovereigns met was, if we remember
right, for breakfast and a Mager interview, at a
time when the affairs of Denmark had become
critical. The country then wondered—and no
doubt some other countries wondered—what the
father and mother-in-law of the young Prussian
couple talked about, and whether they found
courage (they bad plenty of time) to discuss more
or lees the case of Denmark, and of the Duke of
AVOCBTINBURO, and of the inhabitants of the
Duchies. Since that day the Krim has gone so much
further in aggression on the plainest rights and
commonest liberties, and he has so flagrantlyl
offended the instincts and feelings of the English
and all other free peoples, that there has arisen a
sort of regretful sympathy with the QUEEN at
having to meet him at all, and a stronger desire
than ever to know a hat terms they can be on, and
what they can find to say to each other so as to
part in peace. This is not from the everlasting
curiosity which the vulgar feel about the inter-
courses of the great—about how Kings eat their
breakfasts, and Queens make remarks on seenev
or mineral waters, and what, in such a case es
this, they say about their grandchildren. There
may be such curiosity now, because there always
is ; but there is also much strong feeling which
is not vulgar or trifling, sad which, from the
circumstances, cannot be very common. There
is a deep and anxious desire spreading through
the English nation to know how much I
influence, if any, the Royal family of England has
over that of Prussia. This anxiety has existed for
a long time ; bat it has only lately become really
painful. Every movement and word of the
CROWN Fences was observed with deep interest
when the Ktini first openly transgressed the limits
of the Constitution, and the sympathy of all Eng-
land was with him when, being compelled to say
something, he placed before the embarrassed KING
the fact that his and his children's destinies bad
been sported with, without any reference to him.
Again, all English hearts beat with his when, as
the aggressions became grosser, he addressed the
KING with the memorable words, " I beseech you,
" Sir, do not touch the laws." It English in-
fluence had nothing to do with these sayings,
there was at least a thorough harmony between
the two. As far as is known, there
have been no more illustrations of such har-
mony. What the CROWN PRINCE has since shown
us of himself has been, first, a flaming
friendship for the Duke of Auousrsirsouo as
against Denmark ; then, an unmodified seal for the
conquest of the Duchies ; and afterwards an osten-
tatious triumph in the success of the Prussian
arms—a triumph apparently unmixed with any
sense of the real smallness of the or of the
disgrace with which it was tainted. Re may have
awakened from a brief intoxication, as so many of
his countrymen have done ; he may have adopted
from them the new popular word for brag
(Dtippel); he may feel how cruel it is to the Duke
of AIIGINITIANBURG tO thrust him aside now, and
may console his friend instead of taking part
against him ; he may blush for the everlasting dis-
grace to his father's house and reign of having
denied the rights of the King of DiNMARI, mull
then acknowledged them after they had become
irrecoverable ; he may, in short, have felt with all
the world rather than with his father and the
minister, and the party of violence ; but, if so,
it is not known, and the interest with which he is
observed will become more and more painful till
some idea can be formed of his probable future
course. The English people may feel excused for
an anxiety which their Royal family must share,
as to whether their Princess Royal is likely to be
doomed to witness another reign as insulting and
disheartening to the Prussian people as the present
and the last, or, worse still, to sink to the level of
Prussian royal ideas, and acquiesce in another such
reign.
In the midst of such speculations, however, all
the world knows that the course of the CROWN
PRINCR will depend very much on that of the
people. It is too much to expect of any Prussian
Prince that he should lead the way to the institu-
tion or full development of constitutional govern-
ment. If he can acquiesce in the national de-
cision and sacrifice outworn hereditary pretensions,
that is as much as can be expected of any one of
that singular order of Princes that Prussia breeds.
The worst of the case, and the dark part of the
prospect, is that the people in Prussia are as odd
as the Princes. If the people take no better mere
of themselves under the present reign than their
fathers did under the last, it is only too reason-I
able to fear that the next generation may behave
no lees unaccountably, and irresistibly invite their
sovereign to make the constitution • dead lather,
trample on their liberties, and sell the honour ef
their country at the bidding of the first bold brag-
gart and traitor who succeeds by mere lack of the
moral faculties which set a bound between right
and wrong.
Whatever may be the interest now hanging
about the Prussian Royal Family in the crisis of
its destiny, the permanent question will be of the
character and destiny of the Prussian people.
Whether, after going the lengths they have gone,,
they will claim practical freedom, or abide in their
condition of mortification and injury, concerns the
welfare of other nations almost as much as them-
selves. Whether they will submit to the present
infamy of their country and Government is the
question on which hangs their position and repute

for ages to oome. Already the srossi
they came by a oonstitution if *tey Neve
pable or so slow to guard, use, and establish it ; and
if they submit to prolonged resistance to their
rights, and sit quiet while their Government out-
rages ths conscienoe of Europe, and plays fast and
loose with its own solemn pledges, they will sink
lower than if they had never quarrelled with their
political slavery. At present, after claiming to be
,loaders in introducing into Germany the liberties of
the nineteenth century, they seem to be falling below
she capacities common in the seventeenth. No
rulers who have brought ruin on themselves in any
modern age have outraged their people more grossly
than the Prussian Sovereign, his Minister, and
the arrogant clique by which both are supported.
Minor incidents often act as testa of popular ohs-
' rester and turning points of popular action. Such
may now be the murder of the Frenchman Orr,
labs servant of our Prince ALFILZD, by a nobleman
in the Prussian army, the nephew of • Minister.
Public opinion has been indulgent with the Prussian
people throughout the great events in Parliament, in
the war, and in the proceedings since the war ; but
if the murderer of Orr is exempted from punish-
ment because be bears the KING'S commission, and
the people fail to demand justice, they are lost.
They will have nothing to hope at home ; and they
will have lost all repute and sympathy abroad. They
have, by their own fault, a bard lot to bear
et best, in the disgrace entailed on them, and the
retribution ensured for them by the policy, or
rather the self-will and fatuity, of the KIND whom
they have allowed to go wild. If to this they add
an insensibility to their national honour, and an
apathy about their personal liberties, in direct
eontrut with their loud-sounding claims in Parlia-
ment, they will be the most despised, as they are
now the moat disliked, nation in Europe. The
'sympathy which was theirs not long ago is now
with the Sleswigers, who are casting • longing,
lingering look into the beloved Denmark from
which they have been out off. If the Prussians
want the sympathy back again they mast win it
lby showing themselves like-minded with nations
who hold that governments are ordained for the
service of peoples, and not peoples for subjection
to self-seeking governments.

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NEW YORK, acct. 1. Emma.

The New York Time/ asserts that General Butler, I '
is conjunction with the Attorney-General, will
take a prominent part in the prosecution of Mr.
Davis.
♦ meeting has been held of the creditors of
Ketchum, when it was voted to accept a dividend
of 60 per oent., 50 per cent. to be paid by the Lt
of November, and the remainder in three months.
The liabilities are said to be 4,000,000 dollafej
and the assets, 3,000,000 dollars.
The firm of Thomas Ketchum will resume busi-
ness ; but no provision will be made out of the
assets for the payment of E. B. Ketchum's forged
cheques.

MEXICO.
GUAYMAS, AUGIAT 20.

(Via Ficaria:on)
The Imperialists occupied Hemminglla on the
12th, throwing open all the roads into the in-
terior of Sonora.
The republican army, commanded by Fermiers,
has joined the Imperialists. Peequiers fled with
200 men.

MEETING OF THE FRENCH AND SPANISH
SOVEREIGNS.
BIARRITZ, flar. 11, SVIGIINCI.
The Queen and King of Spain, accompanied by
the Prince of the Asturias and the Infants Labelle,
arrived here to day on a visit to the imperial
family.
The Emperor and the Prints. Imperial went at
3 p.m. to meet the Queen at the railway station.
The rotate taken by the imperial and royal party
was thronged with people.
Upon arriving at the Villa Eugdnie the Spanish
royal family were received by the Empress at the
bottom of the staircase.
After having rested a short time the French and
Spanish sovereigns went to Bayonne to visit the
cathedral, whet. a Te Deum was sung, after which
a review took place in the Place d'Armea, in the
presence of the sovereigns and a numerous suite
of both nations. The streets were decoratedwith
French and Spanish flags, and much enthusiasm
prevailed. At 6 p.m. the imperial and royal party
returned to Biarritz to dinner, after which there
was a display of fireworks.
The Spanish royal family left by the half-past 10
train, being accompanied to the railway station by
the Emperor and Empress.
Prince Amadeus also paid a visit to the Emperor
' and Empress to-day.

DEATH OF GENERAL LAMORICIERE.
PARIS, SEPT. 12.

The death of General Lamoriciere ie announced
to hare taken place lut night at hie chateau at
Num!. _

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE AMADEUS AT PARIS
PARIS. SIFT. is.

Prince Amadeus arrived here tb•s morning, and
was received at the railway station by the Chevalier
Nigra and the persoanel of the Italian Legation.
The prince alighted at the Grand Hotel, rnd after-
wants ata».cd for Menden.