The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

THE . EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1849,

Lead end the industrious arm, which is obliged to
work not only for itself, but for its unprodu2tive
fellows.

application for the improvement of the vital arts of
agri.cultate and horticulture, and, we may add, of
navigat on.

A VERY singular and very tragical drama is at
this moment proceeding, of which all Europe are
spectators or, indeed, actors. The scene lies at Rome,
and it is astonishing the complicated interests that all
have in what is to take place in that city. The catho-
lic powers, we are told, are interested in their Pon-
tiff being restored to his uncontrolled authority.
They look evidently on the Roman territory as
the private property of his holism's, and the
Romans as serfs attached to that property. Be-
sides this general iutert at of all catholic powers,
each catholic power hes, moreover, i:s individual
interest. Austria objects to the Romans having a
free press or free municipal institutions, which would
be a bad and troublons example for Lombardy.
Naples objects to Rome forming any disagreeable
contrast with her. Tee Two Sictiies are under mili-

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT.---The following is the not* ad-
dressed by the plenipotentiaries of several German
states re-ident in Frankfort, to the minister, of the

empire, and the ae ewer of the latter :
Recent events determine the undersigned plenipotentiaries
•0 demand frank explanations on the part of the ministry of
the Central Poser on interest questions of the greatest im-
portance. The tied. shined had hoped that two conferences,
which they fully expected to have had with the ministry of
the Empire, would furnish them with an opportunity of
c ming ti an understanding with it. This hope having been
deceived, because the ennterencrs were countermanded, they
have no other way left but that of making known by writing
their desire of conversing tact: rocs with the ministry, and
of indicating, at the same time, all the subjects to be discussed
daring this interview.
It is known that by the departure of the National Assem-
bly, the Central Power is deprived of the moral support
which was lent to it, and which is not soffleiently winded
by the great German states. Moretver, Prussia, the king
dom of Saxony, and H snorer have just condu led a spinal
alliance, the commis affein of which will be directed by
Prussia; it is known, lastly, that there have been negotia-
tions of a diverse nature relative to the changes shout to be
introduced into the Coital Power. In the actual eritical

tary despotism, and the maintenance of this requires
that Rome should be under the same regime.
Whilst the policy of Austria and Naples is thus
based on sympathies, that of France is governed by
antipathies. The French President, who rules a re-
public on the Seine, the French ministers who pxket
their salaries in its name, have a decided objection to
such a thing or such a name on the Tiber. They
have a republioo-phobia. They would rather die,
or loss office, or go to war, than shake hands with
or recognise it. These republicans and m mbers of
the (ashcan Church in France Le monarchist., and
sacerdotal monarchists, in Rums, and so interceed
in the Pope's restoration, that they will allow
no other hands to execute the teak. Even England,
we are sorry to say, joins in this tom-foolery. Lord
LANSDOWNE tells us that in a political point of
view we are most inttre ted in the Pole's resto-
ration! Ili' lordship moreover said, that we
were interested that his Holiness should be restored
on such conditions as would be likely to render his
hold of power permanent. That is to say, if we re-
commend liberal institutions for the Roman people, it
is by no means for the sake of this pe.iple
—who, it seems, are worth nobody's cue—
but for the sake of the permanence of the Porn's
rule. If despotism be the system most likely to im-
mortalise the papal rule on earth, then we, or the
English government, are for despotism. To erect
the papal chair on an adamantine foundation is, it
seems, the grand desideratum of a British statesman.
Now, for our part, we sincerely desire that the
Porn, instead of being bishop and tiller of Rome, to
the earn the oppression and degradation of theßomans,
as well as to the political annihilation of Italy,—we
overtly wish that his Holiness was Bishop of
Cagliari, with Sardinia for his patrimony. That
pastoral, insular, and backward ceuitry weed just
suit him. He could not well spoil it; and the PI13:-ES or
GREGORISS might be as independent as the church
could desire, and far more apestolical than is their
present capacity of muleteers of theirpe mle, and of
firebrands in the midst of Europe.
We should not interfere, however, for this or for
any other purpese. The Romans have as good a
right to choose their own government as France has,
or Spain, or E-igland. Atid France appears to us to
have just as much right to dictate to the Romene as
a Russian army will have by and bye to tell the
Parisians to tall down be fore Hersey V. And aju,t re-
tribution it would be on MM. BARROT and BONAPARTE
if PASKEWITCH and NICHOLAS were to treat them
as they have treated the Itomens, and dictate to
them by the roar of cannon a Restoratior.
We consider, iceleed, the name of ODILLON B
Ror as for ever dishonoured—as degraded, indeed,
not merely to the category of the GuIZOTS and the
METTERNICHs, who were consistent, or to that of
Ithe POLIGNACS, who miget plead fanaticism in miti-
gation of their folly, but to a far deeper
pit in the political Inferno, that pit to which will be
coreegned the memory of all those statesme a who
made use of the power which they had reached in
the &eerie?, and by th-' profess on of libormism, for
the betrayal and situ; ction of that cause. At home,
M. BARROT might plead fear as an excuse fur re-ac-
tion—Lie dread of socialism as a reason for his taking
refuse in absolutism. But to crush b.nesth the
weight of cannon, and to drown in their own blood,
'the off its of a people struggling for thi it rights in
the closest imitation of French example ; and to do
this in the acme of no principle at all, but merely to
save the military or diplomatic pride of a govern-
meet or its agents—this is a combination of imbe-
cility and atrocity, of which no history affords an
example. RODESpIERRE cAild plead a purpcee for
his dimes, and NAPOLEON an aim for his
holocausts of human liberty and life. SYLLA'S
prescriptions were confined to his own case.
TIBERIUs and DOMITIAN decimated but the senate.
But Louts NAPOLEON BCoNAPARTE and M. ODILLON
BARROT determining, on the strength of their 430,000
s tidier?, that they would, per fa ei nefiss, play
first fiddle at Rome, and then setting to do this, in
Nsso's fashion, by the light of the immortal
city's conflagration—this is a more hideous
act of folly and of crime than ever was
imagined, much less perpetrated, by the uu-
Christian emperors, at a time when the world was
delivered up to their caprices.
We never yet r' ad a worse concentration of un-
truth, hSpeeeioy,religi( us intolerance, civil despotism,
than M ODILLON BARRoT's speech. It states the
object of the French exp. ditiore at :d its military ix-
ploits in Rome to be—what ? Honour ! We have
Mated of honour sought at the cinema's mouth,
hot it was reserved for M. BARROT to seek it in the
blood of a brave and a free, and a floridly pc •ple.
Then he evokes the story of Roesi's murder and of
Roman exul.ation in it,both of which sh imeful thing.
are to be traced to that eacerd- tap party which M.
BARROT is expending bl eel and treasure to restore.
The first march if Gen. OUDINOT upon R ene is de-
scribed as a reconnoissance. Why, the very name
implies hostility. The reconnoissance was carried
so far as an incursion of the French • eldiers
within the very gates of the city. Of course they
mot with resistance. Yet M. Bennor has •he face to
say that a light company e f French sold ere were
ordered to advance into the streets, " to open commu-
nications with the Reman government." Wt en these
men are fired on, M. BARROT styles it an ambuscade!
Worthily indeed did the French minister conclude
such atone of falsehood, sophism, and shuffling, by
disavowing his own negotiator, and de elating les
pr. ference for the butcher OCDINOT C.V.I" the mediator
Lessees.
When such is the vile conduct and such the viler
arguments of a man acting as the head and minister
of what called itself the rroierate party, no wonder
that moderation is stigmatised as treachery, for most
justly is it accused of having betrayed the came both
o!hberty and cf humanity.
Could M. LEDIU ROLLIN have maintained a calm
attitude, and instead of his nonsensical appeal to arms,
have trusted to the sense of justice and the right feel-
ing of his countrymen, he would have risen by all the
bright that M. ODILLON BARROT has, wo fear, ir-
e revxably sunk.
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iituation of Gummy, It I. but nattiest to ask if the Central
Power pas ws the ri quisite means for suitably discharging its
functions; the undenizned plenipotentiaries are bound to
give to this question an attention by so much the more sari.
out, that no official advise reaches them contenting the affairs
of their common country, w hie& are really of such great im-
portance, and that the ministry of the empire does not confer
with them, as the law of the 28th of June, 1848, pet scribes.
Tree special governments, there is no need for proving it,
have not only the right, but are even bound to procure posi-
tive information relative to the actual situation of the Central
Power. They must desire to learn what attitude the said
power intends to assume towards the medal alliance eon-
'need between Prussia, Sammy, and Hanover ; what it has
the power and the intention to do to conjure away the storms
which menace the country from within and from wiihout ;
whether it possesses the means, and what they are, for of l-
cac:ously discharging its functions; and how, finally, it re-
gards its posi.ion relative to the National Assembly, after
the decree which Winston to Stuttgardt the seat of this latter

body.
In consequence, the undersigned appeal to the President
of the Council to give them, ou the p date indicated, frank
explanatiens in a ecnterenee, which the Ministry of the
Empire will have the goodness to fix as soon as possible.
STERNENPELS DCSCR, JORDAN, EIGENBRODT, LIEBE,
FRANCES, KARSTEN, MOM,* VW the Grand Duchies of
Sme-Weimer and Oldenbeura 1; Crummiest, the Berea
of HOLERANSIIN (for the two principalities of Schware•
bouts); Vii 4THALEZ ((or the priecloallties of Anhalc
Dense and (.:6-then); ELDER, SICIDT, Kutettunteoes.
Frankfort, June 3, 1849.
ANSWER OP THR MINISTRY OP TRII EMPIRIL The
plenipotentiaries of those German States who have recog-
nised the Constitution of the Empire as voted by the
National Assembly have expressed in the note addressed to
the undersigned on the 3rd inst., a desire to confer, he mew
moo with the Ministry of the Emeiee, upon irmudisme
referred to in the said note.
Psracipeting, as it does, in this desire, the Ministry
of the Empire the more regrets to find in the note an
allusion by which the writers thereof at ptar to reproach
the ministry, as regards those querioas, with hawing
delayed coming to an understanding with the govern-
ments of the German static, conformably with the
law of the empire of the 26th June last. The un• ,
dersigned takes the libsrty of oh...tying that the Ministry of
the Empire will infallit•ly submit to a common discussion
with the German govarnm nt on every measure wbith, in
virtue of the said law, ought to be submitted to such discus-
sion, and which shall be suffieirntly prepared, being firmly
convinced that an eager enneurrenee between the individual
governments and the Cent ra Power e en alone insure and ad-
vance the well-being of the community. In this c •nsiction it
will always be a pleasure to the Ministry of tee Empire to
mommunicate its vices, and to peeve this the undersigned
hastens to announce to you the demands referred to in the
note of June 3.
The firm relates to the attitude which the Central Power
proposes to take with el to the measure lately adopted by
the crowns et Prusva, Sax nay, and Hanover. It will not be
difficult to answer this according to the principles of public
right. The three governments in question have, in c 41se-
quenco of the present state of stars, concluded a defensive
elliance, and, further, submitted to the German governments
a project of c.mstitution, with a view to come to au under-
standing as to its acceptance.
The right to conclude such an alliance is derived from Art.
11 of the Federal Act, and cannot be contested by the pro-
visiocal Central Power, which has taken the place of the
Germanic Diet, any more than it could be by that Diet, see-
ing that it is oily on the e :ideation of the Ce n sal P.iwer
that the new O. rman public law enters into force, and that
till then the old puldie law must necessarily remain in
vigour, unless all legal tie between the German states is to
be destroyed.
As to the project of a new constitution, it suffices to ob-
serve that, in virtue of the law of the 28 b June last, the
Central Power has nothing to do with it, and is only in-
terested therein so far es the said project stall tend to some-
thing definiive, and consequently to the cessation of its
functions.
The manner in which this project shall he received by the
ether German governments will prove whether or not it
will come to this pint; the undersigned, therefore, begs also
the gentlemen who siened the use of the 3rd inst. to have
the kindness to take ins tuctious from their governments in
this reepeot, and to communicate them to him.
A second question contained • in the said note concerns the
line of conduct ed 4th the Central Power will adopt in con-
sequence of the Netien.l Assembly having transferred its
seat to Stuttgard. The undersigned do net hesitate to de-
clare that the imperial usin istry cannot recognise the Na-
tional Assembly's right of taking such a measure. seeing that
in the decrees of the dirt of March 30 and April? of Net year
Frankfort Is expressly indicated as the seat of the N itional
Assembly, end th so it. le.:al attributes are derived from
these decrees, these cannot In epos beyond the limit" of
their origin, end take au .:tension of a nature to change
this last. While making this declaration, the undersigned
desires to know also in this respect the views of the govern.
co'n's remesented by the undersigned of June 3, by so
much the m ire as up to the pees, fit there are only the go-
vernments which have not reengnio d the constitution of
March 28 that have decla•ed the pesition they would take
relative to the Nati, nal Assembly.
Finally, it is desired to knoe if the Central power has the
intention and the mans to eternise those functions which
have btencenferred upon it. The ministers of the empire
beli•ee that the centr•l power has never given any erosive for
giving rise to any presumption that it lies not the firm will to
discharge its duties. It has hitherto possessed the mane,
and th re is no ground for suppositg that it will not
hare them similarly for vie fu's-e. The states
which have reelmased the to- sti ution voted by the
N ienal Assembly cannot, without being guilty of
grossly emtradicting their past eels :net, refuse th' a • means,
and as for the other states, Austria and Bavaria have pro-
mised quite recently to place at the disposal of the central
rower a coneideratile force; as far as re_ ards Prus•ia, which
hoe raised a colossal army, see ha• never withdrawn from
her federal duti e, and it would he consequently unjust to
suspect that her government e uhf refuse her co operation to
a power, on which, little's, ndo ntly of the law of the 29th of
June last, Pros,— no less then the other German states, con-
f• reed the attributes of the German diet.
WITTGENSTEIN.

Ar last we are able to redeem the.promise we made
on the 17th of Meech, of presenting our re niers with '
dai'y indications of the state of the weather in various
widely separated parts of the country ; and although,
even now, cur arrangements are not quite complete, '
we proceed at once to Rive, in a anteceding gage,
such returns as can be obtained. Additions will be
made to them day by day until these observations--
made simultaneously at the different it alone extend-
ing from the Sussex coast to the Frith of Tay, and
from Devonshire to the North Sea, and also to Ire-
land—will be collected and presented in one frees.
We have little to add to the remarks with which
wo originally announce the progress of this under-
taking. The value of these reports—sug ,ested and
encouraged by the astronomer roya.--to the scien ific
naturalist, and to the practical sgricul unit and hor-
ticulturist, is too oSvious to require repeatei expoii- I
tin: s. The facilities afforded by the adoption of Lon-
don
time at all the stations of all the railways for
making the observations accurately and literally
simultaneously and by the railways and electric tele-
graph for transmittin4 the reports from the remote-t
1 testifies embraced in our scheme, have alreidy been
explained.
As we have spared no pairs to mature the arrange-
ments for procuring and puh ishing this valuable
it.formition, so we will spare no paina to ensure its
accuracy, at d the punctual regularity of its trans-
mission, and to widen the range of stations whence re-
ports are received, or otherwise to improve oursyetcm.
And with this brief preface we invite public attention
to this joint offering of the railways, the electric tek-
' graph, and the dilly press to promote the extension
of meteorological science, with a view to its practical

Frankfort-on-the Maine, June 5, 1949
p.s. With re.pect to the signature to the note of the 3rd
of June last, the mivastry of the empire takes the liberty of
putting a goes ion Between the come of M. Stern-Mel., the
plenipotendsry of the Wurtemherg government, and that of
M. Jordan, plenipotentiary for Electoral fir mi., there is the
nstne of Busch. I; es the ministers of the empire suppose,
this name represents the Baden government, the under.
signed thinks it his duty to remark that, up to the present
moment, full rawers for this gentleman base not been (Trans-
mitted to the temporary central power.
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