The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1848.

gross mesa= at a peddle aneeSft in that town. A
number do:idlers belonging to dthn regiments were
remit, and a furious mint= ensued between them
and the intruders. Several persons were wounded.
The Danish government bee expressed its readiness
to receive au ambassador from the central executive
of Germany. A Sardinian charge d'ofcires has ar-
rived in Frankfort. The Danish question appears to
be on the eve of a pacific settlement, at least tor the
present.

FRANKFORT Om. 4,'
The state ofdege still luta, and it is said that the
ministry has decided to prolong it till after the publi-
cation of the law proposed for the protection of the
National Assembly. One of the articles of this law
forbids all open air meetings at a distance lees than 5
German miles (30 English), and the ministry says
that it cannot cause the state of siege to stop before a
law has been passed which shall prevent popular as-
semblies in Frankfort or its environs. In the mean-
while we are everywhere moving towards military
government, and the good citizens in the divers na-
tional assemblies of Germany would bo very much
astonished if these projects, which are no longer
secret to any with eyes and ears, should
be carried into effect. itadetaki, Windiechgratz,
ilellachich, Wrangel, and General Nobily, hold Ger-
many as it were in • net. If all these armies could
be directed by one mind and to one object, it would
be difficult for victory to escape them. Everything
tends to indicate that all these movements are
calculated against the representatives whose elec.
Ition was the result of the revolution of March. But
I think there is hope that, in spite of the appearance
l of unity in the military movemelts, the day when it
shall become necessary to act vigorously against the
parliament or against the asruiblies of Berlin or
Vienna, the princes of Vienna will make the same
experiment as Laois Philippe with his hesitates and
80,000 men in Park When the camatilla in Berlin
and Vienna have laid bare their game, they will find
that several of the princes of the second order will not
join them to fightagainst chambers and national assem-
, blies ot Germany. For if they did so join they would be
abendored by their troops. The Kings of Bavaria
and Wurtemberg will know how to profit by the op-
portunity to try and place themselves at the head of
Germany. And in Prussia, as even in Austria, the
reign of the sabre will not last long, for it will cost
too much—in the former kingdom, especially, where
all the people are, or have been, soldiers, it will never
be possible to suppress for any length of time the
natural current of the ideas of liberty and unity by
the use of brute force and army corps.
In the parliament of Frankfort there still exists a
spirit of confidence in the army which has just de-
fended it from the barbarian of our hyper-civmsation.
But this confidence does not show that it will last
longer than is necessary. The day before ycatmday
an inquiry. was ordered on Gen. Wrangel, who left his
command in Schleswig before receiving the permission
of the central power. Wrangel's friends and the sue
porters of the state of siege endeavoured to rsject this
proposal, and proposedr a vote of thanke. This was
voted; but the inquiry was voted also, and the answer
of the Minister of War to the question of why
Wrangel had left his command without the order so
to do, was sent to the commission of the central power.
On another occasion the parliament has stown that
it is nowise determined to allow itself to be dragged
into reaction. The left had somewhat largely used
the privilege of the vote by name. The right, which
opposed this plan from the first, thought it would be
convenient to have that privilege effaced from the re-
gulations of the parliament, and endeavoured to carry
a declaration of urgency on the question. M. Venedey
combated this, pointing to the example of Engles!,
in whose parliament the minority has the right to
seek delays by proposing amendments, and saying
that this was a safety valve most necessary to prevent
the machine from bursting whenever popular pas-
sions agitate parties too violently. The majority de-
clared the question non-urgent, and showed that it
was only reactionary from over-confidence, and when
it does not well know where it is about to be led;
but that when it shall perceive it is being directed to-
wards the camp where Metternich and consorts seem
still to govern, it will turn round and show its back
to those who now seem to count upon it, as the soul
of their intrigues and their only hope.
A battalion of the troops of the l)uke of Nassau re-
fused to march against the insurgents in the duchy of
Baden, and it was found necessary to employ mild
means not to give greater eclat to the affair. AU the
journals are silent on this fact, because the govern-
ment has taken the wise resolve not to mention it.