The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The Ma! fee Gibraltar, Slaw, Grose*, the lonise lolanda,
Egypt, Ceylon India, and China, via Southaraptaa,
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be made up °Wale worming of Nov. 2D.
The wills for Britieb North America and On Mated
elates will be wade up ea Nov. 23.
The mills We Marseilles, to the Maditerraataa, Egypt.
Ceylon India, Hong-Kosg, Ea., will be wade up ea die
evenbag of Nov. 24.
The mat nails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be
wade up na Nov. 27.
The West India Mails, including Bermuda,Havana,
Nassau. Hoidens, New Orleans. and Illezioo, sad swiwiing
thwe tee Madeira, lit. Jran-de-Nicaraguanassis,
Chili, sad Peru, will toe wads up es Dee. 2., New O

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17.

Avrnouon Prussia has lowered the liberal flag,
mad propitiated, as far as the want of its internal
F%rimeat is cocooned, the triamphant and menac-
alliases of aboolatism. kneed between the courts
sus and St. Peterabwg—although it has made
was ea the pep der part, and keeps aloof even from
the fiethou6 it bas redooed ita pre-
tends= Arm aiming at the diefdom of the German
empires to asides priabsivia to set up a
separate thedesbead—eithugh all the crowned
he sea these wham it kept the crown, have
and the leer, opposed to it, never-
theism psiseveres a kis of dodged, calcu-
lating, determined hostility to Austria and to the an-
tiquated regime which weighed upon Germany from
1816 to 1848.
The kind of war between the two great powers
of Central Europe is one of the signal advantages de-
rived from the events of 1848. The rivalry, indeed,
may have existed before, and may have been briskly
carried on behind the screens of court and diplomatic
intrigue. The great improvement and advantage now,
however, is that this mutual hostility is carried be-
fore the public, by discussion, by the pro!, by ap-
peals made to large, popular, and German interest.,
and consequently maU directly to the public, and
not alarm to warts and cabinets.
Pruats and Austria are in fact striving for wipe-
riority and mastery in Germany, not as in the duo
Of FAILDFAICIL the GROAT and MAIM Tageur., by
armies, nor, as in the days of Merriest= and
ILaininssuo,hy merely occult intrigue; each power
courts the Germans to adhere and rally it on
the ground that, politically and commercially, it is
bast calculated to be the chief, the guide, and the
protector of German interests and of the German
race.
To prove this, both powers require the .id of the
prone. Both are under the necessity of keeping up
the show of a constitution and rerwntative govern-
meat. Both, indeed, appeal. also to conservative
interests, keep up large armies, states of siege, and
onetitutional ministers who have given guarantees to
absolutism. But at the same time there is also an
anxious appeal on both sides to public opinion, that
great tribunal, the creation and recognition of which
is after all the most important conquest of liberal
Windlass, and the sure promise of greater and ulterior
coo quests.
The argumentation used by both parties in plead-
ing before this law of public, opinion is remarkable.
It is foe the pretest moment confined, in a great
measure, to considerations upon economical and own-
menial interests. The political, or three Kings'
League, formed and persisted in by Prussia, even
although two of the Keep have fallen off from it,
is evidently destined at first to be a com-
mercial, even more thin a political salon. It
is destined to supersede, it it cannot absorb, the old
Zollverein, and to work is therms way, as that com-
bination did, by the ftift and progress of material
interests, towards the of- Germany and the
. . of Prussia. Tim trot ablest of Pros. in
Mia thea.Y commercial annualise ef the north western
states, hitherto forming_ a essemersial union apart.
Already, indeed, thole new Mew is nearly broken
I "Pt the adhesion of Bamberg sot Necklenberg to the
ion° Siallipnestase. us Pinerian government it,
however, aware tbst it cannot suceeeil
ismaereislly aliesebing the independent states of
the myth west, without a very conaider.ble lower-
. • lag of its tariff, and a great concession to the princi-
•• • POW fess trade. The great data, in which prohi-
Mee interests prevail, such as Bavaria and Wur-
ttemberg, having fallen off from Prussia, the latter
power would break up the old Zollvoreia and substitute
a mew, is which the north-western states would