The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDA 1, 3LIRCH 11.

SPRING is certainly the period of change, of re-
generation, of Gusting off the last remnant of old
leaves, and of putting forth the buds of new shoots.
It is interesting to watch these symptoms of the
season, to observe the ehesnut trees even in March
burst forth with new foliage, and every root and
shrub set vigorously about the great work of renova-
tion.

The political world is in this respect not unlike the
vegetable one. It, too, has its autumn and its spring;
fur its principles are far from evergreen, and its old
year's ideas are shed almost as regularly as the leaves
of Valembrosa.

Let us regard the Times, for example, a very good
sample of the political tree, an oak in age and
gnarled roots : see how busily it is shaking off its
old foliage to the wind, atia putting forth new !
Were we to examine it leaf by leaf we should Nee
how convincingly this is the case. 'Think of what
it said at " the fall " of the Papal aggression, and
compare with that its spring-tide opinions thereof. Re-
member what an especial favourite the CUANCELLOR
of the ExeitYrat:Eit was of the Times last year,
whilst this year his budget stinks in the nostrils of
common sense. Last year the Times worshipped
the GREYS ; now even the Colonial-office has its
sneer. Electoral reform was scouted by it last year,
and of course has become indispensable in this.
'fhe hugest leaf, however, that the Times has de-
tached from its brunches, is that of Austrian wis-
dom and ascendancy. Ilow luxuriant that leaf of
the Times used to be. How it cherished and de-
veloped it. The welfare of Europe depended upon
Austria's recovering its lordship over Italy, and
establishing its supremacy over Germany. If once
that horrid King of Pitessit was put down the
brightest era would dawn for Germany.
Well, all has happened as the Times desired. The
King of Plit'sstA was made to eat dirt. The Bavarians
have trodden down the liberties of Ilesse. The Danes
have reduced the Holsteiners to be their aerfs. And
an Austrian Archduke has marched a regiment
of Vienna guards into the protestant cathedral of the
free town of Lubeck, kicked out its ecclesiastics, and
installed his own, whilst that ex-grand master of the
Irish Orangemen, the King of liasavur, stood look-
ing on.
But the moment that this triumph was complete,
what does the Times say to it? Precisely what
it dues of the Papal Aggression Bill. That
it is a mere humbug. In the very same week that
the Times denounced the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill it
also declared the Dresden conference to 1w a failure
as complete as that of the demagogues of Frankfort
or the University at Erfurt. Having thus dismissed
the Dresden conference and Austria, what does the
Times fall back on? Why, a proposal of the King
of WIRTEMBERG to establish now precisely what
Prussia asked last year, and what the King of Wilt-
realtida; himself took up arms to prevent.
Prussia's first proposal in its amended constitu-
tion of Frankfort, was that there should be a repre-
sentative German lower house of parliament, with
an upper house chosen by the legislature, as in Ame-
rica. This being opposed and overruled, Prussia
proposed to have but the senate. The King of
WIRTEMBERti might then have closed with the
offer, accepted it, objected to Prussia or its King
having the lead, perhaps, but at least accepted the
principle. Instead of doing this, the King of Wirt-
Trauma; went off to Bregentz, and formed a league
with Austria and with Russia for putting Prussia
and its scheme down by the force of armies. In
order to join heartily in this, the King of Witt-
, YEAd BERG was obliged to confiscate his ONCTICORStiiIItiOII
and persecute the party attached to it. And now,
at the eleventh hour, when Austria and is armies
are completely masters of Germany, the King of
11 nrrEsteEnG turns mock liberal, demands, when it
is utterly impracticable, the scheme which he might
have accomplished when it was practicable, and thus
I bids for popularity, nay, obtains it, amongst the
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tynoramuses of England and France, for not one
soul in Germany could be taken in by such profes-
sions.

A German Central Assembly. to be composed
of delegates from its constitutional states! Of
what use or signification can such an assem-
bly be. when every constitution has been de-
stroyed ? When Hesse Cassel, or Bavaria, or Wir-
temberg, were free and enjoyed their constitutions,a
delegate from their several parliaments might have
some character and meaning. But now the delegates
of the states would be mere nominees of the King or
of the Duke. The proposal has been to restore the
Frankfort Diet; but the Frankfort Diet, by that
law of 1t132 which was enforced in Hesse the other
day, has full power over all constitutions and states,
which it does not allow even to control a
budget. Of what use giving such states the
power to elect delegates, when the states
themselves are at the mercy of the assembled
princes at Frankfort, or rather at the mercy of
Austria, which must be all-powerful at Frankfort?
Austria at present is entering, with all her provinces,
into the confederation. She might give a mock
constitution to upwards of a dozen of those provinces
or divisions of provinces. If she is to send a delegate