The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

Vie Orpreso.

MAILS,

Tee malls far Mai Math America, and the United Maim,
ill be made up enter mining of the 10th Nov.
The Weft India MYL, esdading Narmada, Neiman, Ravenna,
Banduns, New Bram% awl anise, anl including thaw ler
St- Juan-do.laseragua, New 0rd.11.111.1, Chili, and Peru, will
be mode up an the mernimt a the 17th Nov.
The malls lee Tige, Orate, !Job" Madam, Calls, and Gibraltar
will be made ail on the Maytag at the 17th Nev.
The everand walls lm Othealter, Kate, Greece, the lonian Mande,
gaps, Aden, Ceylon, India, Remg.liang, sad China, via gotithaear
la. will be wade span the wean el the 10th Nor.
The overland eased mails, via attraillea, to the Mediternineen,
fort, Ades. Ceylon, India, llong.lioug, ka, will be amide up en the
evening id the 21th Nov.
Um mails be New Mouth Webs, Tan Dl-m4 Lend, and New
Zealand will he made tip as the evening of the 70th Nov.
ymails lee the Wea Coma tif Lbws sad Madam will be made
W evening et the bah Nev.
The malls Be Ileadea, the area* and Name Ayres, will be
mode up an the mewing of the 41.1 Bee.

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LONDON. FRIDAY, NOV. 10.

IT is really difficult to keep up with the impatient
speed of our frantic contemporaries. The National
Assembly has been just suopressid at Vienna, and
freedom of every kind trodden under the hoof of the
Croats, and already our tory ress,unslaked with
military rule and b oodshed, are impatient for similar
scenes in Berlin. They denource the King es pusil-
lanimous, and arraign him for not at once delueeg
the streets of his capital with blood. When these
gentlemen have been indulged in the burning and
massacre of Berlin, they will be just as wild for that
of Frankfort, and then no doubt for offering. up Peels
in holocaust to Loris NAPOLEON. Our turn is to come
last. For as the avowed principle is to cauteriee
every continental effort to obtain freedom by fire
and sword, these disciples of METTER:vim and woe-
shippers of JELLACIIICH cannot think of leaving such
dreadful people, as retormers, alive in Great Britain.'
Our worthy citizens may think it very conservative
and very proper to put down liberalism and destroy
constitutional governments in all the capitals of
Europe, and substitute military despotism in their
place. But Englishmen may re'y upon it, that fir
from restoring pence, prosperity, or commerce, such
triumphs of the bayonet are even worse
than the triumphs of the mob ; and that
to compress violently the free aspirations of
atick a people as the Germano, is, not to terminate •
struggle, but to commence one between princes and
soldiers on one side, the people and the citizen classes
on the other, which will place Europe in permanent I
convulsions for the neat half century.
We are far, indeed, from considering in the same
light the courts and governments of Berlin and of
Vienna. The house of Austria has been from first to last
the greatest curse that ever was imposed upon an un-
fortunate people. In the 16th century all the provinces
which compose the Austrian empire, were in possession
of freedom, independence, popular and municipal rights.
In wealth, instruction, and enlightenment, they were
the foremost in Europe, and far more than half
the population of Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, and
the other states, had embraced ti. e protestant re-
The house of Austria followed then the
same policy. which it has pursued now. It crushed
the Bohemian by the Austrian, the Austrian by the
Bohemian, and by its employ of mercenary troops
=the constitutions and estates of each
abolished the privileges of the citizen class
by Illemereing and hangin.4 that class itself, and SA
to the protestant faith it actually drowned it in
blood. The populous and reformed Bohemia it con-
verted into an absolute waste, leaving not enough of
serfs to till it, with nothing above them but lords
hire WINDISCHORATZ. and priests to aid them in the
mental and bodily enslavement of the population.
Hisleey tells a very different tale of the royal house
d which was but born in that hour of woe
sad degradation to Germany, and which has ever
deco then with the rise and been developed with the
ritof German intellect and independence. Prue-
eslBls has not been ruled by an imbecile
monarch, whose pastime was the torturing of prison-
en in his state dungeons, nor by a stupid minister,
Ignorant of the first requisites of • people, or the
lest elements of government. Mind was at least
free in Prussia, and the population was allowed that
free exercise of its faculties required to peeper* it for
constitutional government. Municipal rights, pro-
vincial stater', a national and not a mercenary army,
with • representative system however restricted,
were given by the King of PRUSSIA to his subjects.
Whilst beyond his frontier the same monarch laboured
with sagacity and success to unite German interests
and prepare the way fur the future unity of Father.
_ _ _

Such a government and such a dynasty, however
short it may have stopped of the people's expectations,
are still not to be classed with the stupid inquisition
which was installed at Vienna, which called itself a
government, and which was but a curious com-
pound of the nightmare and the vampyre, a dead and
crashing weight upon the intellect of its subjects,
socking the best blood of every province, with no ad-
dition of health to its cadaverous eel?.

With the great loyalty and devotion that existed
in Austria for the reigning house, and with a con-
servative majority in the National Assembly at
Vienna, nothing scald have been more that
revelation an beast ministry than to have conducted that
revelation within constitutional and salutary limits ;
but the stapideourt of the Emperor did not contain
a Waterman. Intrigue and trickery formed the sole
principle et government; and even this they had not
the art to emiseal. An exposure of it produced an
outburst of }spider indignation, and has caused that
destruction of Vienna and the Viennese, now creating
such a national and dangerous ferment in Berlin
and Frankfort. All Germany compares the destruc-
tion of Vienna by WIN DISCHGRATZ, to the sack of
Magdeburg by Tni.Y. The one city held out
for the freedom of religion, the other for poli-
deal rights. The armies and generals of Austria acted
in both cases the part of the executioner, the
destroyer, and the oppressor. The sack of Magde-
burg, however, instead of being the ruin of protestan-
tisen, was the signal and the main cause of Its rescue
by the indignation which it excited. The sack of
Vienna, say the Germane, will have a similar effect
upon German freedom.
The King of PitungrA has unfortunately had not
the same chances and facilities as the Austrian court.
A majority of the Berlin Assembly has all along been
perverse and rancorous towards the King, and there
is no trust, however much forbearanoe, between them.
No doubt the attitude of the King augments this. En-
trenched at Potsdam in the midst of the more faithful
regiments of his army. he seems to defy the people of
Berlin, the Amenably, and the revolution. Nevertheless,