The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

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The number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS
by the authorities of the Stamp.odiee, during 1817, ;was:
From JAN. 1, to Dec. 31 .• • • 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent, of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Clirossirle, and
Morning Poet, ALL PUT TOOETHEIL
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS, _ _

From JAN. 1, to Mac. 31
Which was more, we believe, t►en were issued tither to
the Globe or Standard, Evening rimers.

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LONDON, .F.RIDAY, MARC!!. 24.
AUSTRIA and Prussia presented the aspect of two
very different kinds of monarchy, each of which,
headed by very eminent statesmen, was proud and
confident of the duration and security of its system
the imperial and royal politicians of 'Germany point-
ing with 'elf-complacent superiority during these
late years to the embarrassments that beset Spanish,
French, and even English constitutional governments.
As to the Austrian empire and nsunne, it was, in
fact, one of the sixteenth century ; not very unlike
what the experience of CHARLES V. might have
founded, a fascirstlns of countries bound together by
the slender cord of having descended by right of in-
heritance to the house of LORRAINE. In those mon-
tries all the institutions of class freedom and
independence, invented by the middle ages,. and
developed in municipal liberty and feudal rights,
had been destroyed, and destroyed as a transition
to that fuller and more equable state of freedom
of which all partake. But Austria stopped
this development in transit's, and, by its
religious bigotry and military power, held back the
pendulum and the hands of time for full three centa-
nes. Prince 'NI ETTERSICII was Cardinal GRAN VEILS
without the red hat. He had no idea of a govern-
ment other than that of a elfspoti: head of a family;
and he governed it like a school, where the fear of
the rad is varied and relieved by the amusement of
the holiday.
Whilst Prince Merreeeten thus upheld intact and
sacred his monster specimen of the " wisdom of an-
cestors;' the great northern rival of Austria
proceeded to develop a despotisnio illestrodo,
an enlightened despotism, gathering to it and enlist-
:ng in its service all the talent that the schools could
develop, and all the force that a great military sys-
tem could combine. In thin system the King of
PRUSSIA had a blind and devoted faith. Other
monarchs have defended what they esteem their dig-
nity and hereditary rights. The King of l'ausqA, on
the contrary, had learned to dread and to contemn the
constitutional system, as worked in England and in
France ; and he deemed himself called upon
to found and to preserve a system far
more solid, and superior, in which, amidst all the
semblance of free institutions, the royal power
should preserve the great initiative and high intellec-
tual influence. These political views of the monarch
were strengthened by his religious ones, which were
devout, and even fanatic. lie took a high priestly
view of the duties of government, and thought him-
self missioned by his kingly office to provide re-
ligious tenets as well as political wisdom for his sub-

jects.
This bran-new cut-iron edifice of FREDERICK
WILLIAM has been blown down by the same popular
hurricane which levelled the old walls of the
burg of Vienna. Antiquity has not preserved the
one, nor prepense sagacity the other. The obscurant-
ism of METTERNICH did not shut out light. Instinct
has suggested what the censor and the anti-education-
jet denied. And, strange to say, the all-education of
Prussia produced the same effect as the no-education
of Austria. The people of both have learned to will
—to will emphatically and irresistibly. And the
Viennese epicurean, as well as the Berlin academician,
have shown themselves not behind the Fr, nch in the
glory and hardihood of heaping paving-s.ones, defy-
ing guns and soldiers, and tearing to shreds the
monarchy or the authority, which supported itself
upon bayonets.
As we said yesterday, the " sovereignly of the
people " is henceforth the common law of Europe,
through whatever forms or functionaries, royal re
elective, that sovereignty may be carried on. Wher-
ever there arc great agglomerations of men, and
wherever there is community of opinion between
classes, there resides power. The old dogmas of
power, consisting in wealth, in knowledge, in heredi-
tary rights, in loyal armies, or in passive obedience, are
swept away, when we see the population of a city,
numbering scarcely 300,000 souls, overcoming an army
like the Prussian, unlimited in numbers, in equiP-
ment, and unflinching in loyalty and devotion. Some
may think such doctrines dangerous; but unfortu-
nately they are not doctrines, but facts. As fatty
they. cannot be concealed or denied. And it is by al-
lowing them, and providing in consequence, that their
can be b netitralused. us does
not exult, if due t wariness and Dan
thoroger withugh liberalise
actuate our rulers.
With respect to Germany, we fear that it is not so
near the haven of settled freedom and established
rights as might be hoped. Had the King of PRCSAA,
a the first day, not only made every full concession,
bat in making these concessions forbade any further
collision between people and soldiers ; had be rushed
in person into the public square, and imposed by his
respected presence both on soldiers and peoAle—sea
this he might have done—FßEDErtics AS
would have been the sovereign of Germany, sad the
house of Austria shut out to form a new and a
Sclavonian empire. But the ambitious prod's*
tion of German unity, and bidding for Ger-
man supremacy, put forward so adroitly in
the royal patent of the 18th, has been almost
washed away in the blood of that very night. It Wag
spilt, perhaps, fortuitously. But still it depopulariss
the Prussian monarch, puts him in a false position
with the patriots of his country, and ion-Germanizes

him. -
It is a singular and fatal coincidence—the simul-
taneous discredit and depopularization of all royal
races and all candidates for empire throughout the duP•
tubed countries of Earope. The three dynasties of
France are alike without presentable claims. In Italy
there is not a sovereign without a despotic
and even liberticide taint. The Bourbons are every
' where contemptible in private character, as in public
capacity. The descendant of the houses of Harburg
and Lorraine', is a Cretin. The Bavarian hing ie
spat upon, and deservedly. The Wurtemberger a
nonentity ; the Duke of BADEN a trembling hypocrite.
I The Hewes are governed by retrograde fools. Ilan-

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