The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Ocr. 11.
The reception of Kossuth in England forms ac-
tually the chief subject of all the papers here. The
two tacts, the reception of Kossuth and the reception
of Ilaynau, give the German people—indeed, all the
nations of the Continent in general—a very true
idea of the real national feeling of England, with
respect to the conduct of the great powers in setting
themselves up as enemies to all popular advancement.
It has been said, it is true, that the insurrection in

Hungary had no aim towards liberty and progress;
but the same may be said of all the efforts of Poland
to throw off the yoke of her oppressors. The cause
of national independence was, at least, at stake in
both cases, which demands sympathy. Besides,
there are generous antipathies as well as generous
sympathies; and antipathies against Russia and
Anstria are emphatically of this class. The recep-
tion Kossuth meets with in England is owing to the
disgust Austria inspires as much as to the admire-
lion precedent career, as chief of the
Hungarian insurrection, may itself command. The
German ministerial papers crc out against the
English government suffering this demonstration of
favour towards a rebellious subject of an allied
power. They would fain break out into vitupera-
tion, both against the government and the people,
where such blasphemous acts against the sacredness
of despotism can be committed ; hut their mouths arc
stopped, and their pens halt before the fact of this
atrocity being committed by the most obedient
people under the strongest government, because a
popular one, iu the world. A stupid malignant ad-
miration makes them gulp back the venom they are
on the point of expectorating. They console them-
selves, however, by despising, and praising France
for repuLsiug the rebel from her shores. It is most
gratifying to them to see a nation that has made
such immense sacrifices for freedom forever relapsing
into despotism ; as it at once proves, they think, the
impossibility of establishing civil liberty on the Euro-
pean continent, and the absolute necessity all conti-
nental governments are under of ruling on arbitrary
and repressive prineiples. But both in the case of
Haynau and of Kossuth the English people have
proclaimed another lesson, and the practi•
cal, shopkeeping, prudent, calculating people,
have shown the most enthusiasm for gene-
rous causes, the most disinterested abhorrence
of oppression and cruelty ; and this not from a spirit
of rebellion and revolt, but from a sense of justice—
to outrage which is to outrage them. The German
people will be greatly edified by the honoum Kossuth
meets with among us; and German governments
much more reason to be alarmed thereby, than by all
the pretended conspiracies hatching, they say, in
London, by the wretched fugitives they have driven
from their own homes.

The withdrawal of the two Prussian provinces
from the Build greatly adds to the difficulty of ad-
mitting the non-German provinces of Austria into it.
Not onl)• is the precedent on which Austria might
rest with some confidence by this measure annulled,
but the means by which Posen and the province of
Prussia were annexed as was deemed to the
confederation, are declared to have been ille-
gal, and cannot therefore bo again resorted to. By
a vote of the I.'nuere Rath, this supposed annexa-
tion took place; and if such a vote for the purpose
had been held to be valid, it is evident it

would have been much easier to obtain it for
the incorporation of the crown lands of Aus-
tria, than it can be to obtain a vote of the Piettum.
The design of Austria, therefore, to bring her eastern
possessions into the Bund seems to be hopeless; yet
she shows, if one may judge by her organs of the
press, no disposition to relinquish it. Ifer only re-
maining hope must arise from the answer the
Frankfort Ihet has given to the protests of England
and France on the subject, and also from the evident
willingness Prussia has, till lately at least, mani-
fested to concur in the project, for an equivalent;
that is for the alternate presidency.
I told you some titno ago of an intention on the
part. of the Prussian government to change the or-
ganisation of the Prussian army. An initiative step
towards this end may be detected in the Militar
Wuchen Itittlt of this evening. The Ist regiment of
Landwehr Reserved Infantry is not, when its term
of service has expired, to be disbanded, but is to be
kept up (dropping the name of Landwehr),_ under
the denomination of " Regiment of Reserved Foot
Guards;" and both the Chian also to

-..cards;" anu t.ntan regiments are
belong no longer to the Landnehr, but to be conti-
nued permanently on the footing of disposable

troops.-
The position which the northern powers will
assume towards France in the anticipation of the
possible events of 1852, on the election of a new
resident for the Republic, begins to be much
talked of in political circles. On this subject the
most perfect understanding, I learn, subsists between
the three great courts and all the minor courts.
There is no purpose of any direct interference in the
internal affairs of France, as long as her affairs do
not assume a military or a propagandist aspect. The
determination of ltussia, Austria, and Prussia is fixt d
only so far; viz., to uphold what they call order in
Europe, and to proceed to no overt nets till they re-
ceive overt provocation: that is, till order may be
threatened or endangered.
BERLIN, Ocr. 12.
The mission of M. Duvergier from Paris to Berlin
is thought to have a deeper meaning than its osten-
sible one. lie is commissioned to make a report to
his government on the financial and commercial sys-
tem of Prussia; but the renewal of morn intimate
political relations between the Elysee Boutbon and
the court of Berlin is, it is intimated in political
circles, his principal object. lie had a few days ago
a long audience of M. -Manteutfel, when he received
full explanations of the Prussian policy in entering
into the new customs convention with Hanover.
Hitherto there has been very little mutual commu-
nication between the French republic and the Prus-
sian cabinet ; the utmost reserve towards France
has been maintained naturally by Prussia. France
has many times attempted to remove this reserve,
and especially to detach Prussia in some measure
from Austria, by insisting on the common interests
that should unite her more closely with France and
England. The answer of the Diet to the protests of
England and France against the incorporation of the
whole Austrian monarchy into the Bund, in which
Russia concurred, prove, however, how obstinately
Prussia adhered to Austria. But, as the French
and English policy are becoming daily more
and more anti-Austrian, it would seem that
Prussia is beginning to see that to follow in the
train of Austria would compromise altogether her
independent position, and that therefore she at last
determined, chiefly to ward Austria off, to withdraw
her new provinces from the Bund, which she accom-
plished by the decree of the I)iet of the 3rd inst. It
is now known that the Prussian ambassador at
Frankfort, M. Bismark Schonhausen, had instructions
to declare, in case the Diet should not have excluded
these provinces from the confederation, that they
were already in fact withdrawn from it. Prussia a
by this measure is doubtless to strengthen
purpose by
position, fur her possessions out of the
Bund give her her full weight as a separate European
great power, and in this character, should the
government of France settle into strength, she will
be drawn towards France and towards England by
much stronger interests than she can be towards
Austria and Russia.
The city council (Burgerachaft) of Bremen, after a
long debate on the 9th inst. with respect to the altera-
tion of the law of election, in accordance with the
decree of the Bund of the 23rd August, came to the
following resolution :
As, according to the communication of the Senate of the
27th Sept., the city council learns that the efforts of the
German people to convert the confederation of states into
one confederate state have failed, they are of opinion that
a return to their old federal relations and laws forms the
only sufficient means to Settle German prosperity on a firm
bass. The city council recognises the fact of the present
existence of the o'd Diet. In consequence of the communi-
cation by the Senate to the city council of the resolution of
the Bond of the '23rd Aug., the senate has required of the
city council a careful revision of those parts of our constitu-
tion and of those laws which in their opinion may not be
in harmony with the laws of the Build, without having res-
pect in this revision to the 95th article of the constitution,
which prescribes the mode in which such alterations as are
required should be effected. The city council cannot, from
the resolution of the Build, infer any such command or re-
quirement as is here imposed ou them, but maintain that
the legal mole of proc.q.,iing in this matter is prescribed by
the Blind. Acting according to law, the city council, on the
17th September, appointed a committee to examine the law
of election of members to the city council, with a view to a
revision of the same. They beseech the Senate again to no-
minate members for this_ purpose, and hope for a speedy