The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2.

Au. hopes of a constitution for Germany are, we
regret to hear, likely to be marred. It is no tor ger
the wily suit amen of Aut-t ia. cr the fanatic ropubli
cans el' lladeo, or of the Palatinate, who intcrpesc
thtir prtjudices or their fanaticism. It is the
wonarc`a of Hanover and Saxony, the very SO-
vereigr a who aided in the draw:rg up of
the imt trial constitution at Berlin, and who sant.-
dosed it —it is these princes, who now declare that
they met go tuck of their engagements, for thry
have thought better of the matter, and Lave received
council to delcrt the of hit:sets and his con-
stitution.

Tee court' cf ILreaden end llarover of coulee pro-
pose a substitute. Every one in these day s must
send faith a charter. The scheme of the two
courts is to give back the lead in Ger-
man affairs to Aastria, declaring the Reich-
v.rstamdship to be vested in Austria and Free-
sia. By the side of this nominal headship the real
power is to vest in a council of prince., contriving of
lee veto, Austria, Prussia, and Bavaria, to have each
one vote, Saxony, Hanover, aid Wurtemburg anther
vote, •-..d the smeller princes the fifth. Tile de le-
getrs of the sovereign representing these votes, ate to
be do facto the ministers of the new empire.
Time the cabinet or administration would be
completely independent of any a.tional representation
ore any public opinian. The ..urea of power would lie
with the princes acd their delegutes, which is to form
a goes rawest from above with • vengeance. We
nerd not my, that this re-constitution of the old
Getman dirt, or its concentration into a council of
five, would be received by all Germany with eine
burst of laughter and contempt. And yet a great
many guvenmentshave coetribun d to it their wisdom.
Nut only has Austria instructed the melte of Dresden
and Hanover; but Russia has given hint., and tar,
though not least, the English Foreign office has af-
forded its aid, if not its adhesion.
It is difficult, certainly, to imagine Lord Panama-
stint sad the Czar NICHOLAS hunting together, with
Gelman liberty and unity for their game and their
prey. But so it ie. His lordship having come
to act in per test unison with the court of St.
Pet rebur4 on the Danish question, has ex-
tended the actien of so powerful an alliance
to G. rir.aliy. We cannot well account fur t! le, but
suppose that his lordship hese become convinced of the
imp itidtn•s realisation of NAPOLEON'S prophecy, via.,
that Europe must bscime either Cossack or repub-
lican, and that in fear of any more republics he has
taken the sudden 'volution to help central Europe
to b. come Cusack.
The fact is that whilst Minim armies have made
Austria their camp, English diplomacy has been
aiding Austria to reconquer G "many. It is the
British envoys at Iheadeaandllenover, but especially
at Dresden, who have shown the r selves the moat
active opponocts of all acd eve ry German constitu-
tion. In one case our envoy in Saxony has positively
protested; and it is to English influence that
Is mainly owing the detest of the liberal
scheme of a representative and popular government
for rmaoy. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S name
has been prominently put forward in this affair.
Our Berlin letters assure as that his Glace's advice
for the restoration of the old Austrian abs Autism has
bad great inflames, adopted as that advice implicitly
is said to have been by the Eagli-h Foreign-office.
This change, or we should rather say, this complete
reveled* in the foreign policy of the whig ministry
and minister, will, we have no doubt, be hailed in
tones of the greatesit triumph and satisfaction by t-e
toner. Already indeed our Foreign-offi c receives its
weed of praise from them for its deaerthen of Schles-
wig, and abettal of Denmark. And, no doubt, its
hostility to Gorman liberty and unity, in order to
favour the restoration of Austrian,cr, what is now the
same thing, of Bassi en supremacy, will mollify abso-
lutist hate, and even appease tne inveteracy of Lad
ABERDEEN.
But it is for those few English politicians who
tcoublc their heads ut oar foreign policy to inquire
whither we are going. The me merit is a criti al one.
France has got into sore difficulties with Austria.
Thu g eat increase of the Frerch army
fore Home has awakened the jealousies of Austria,
which demanded no less of Piedmont, as the price of
peace, than an offensive and defensive alliance, with a
proviso that 20,0 .0 Piedmanteee biceps should join
arid support the Austrian armke, in case of a costa
ferd,ris arising out of the treaty. France has f
bidden Picdmcnt to sign any such treaty,
and Piedmont has withdrawn. In this state c f
thing", which should inspire rs with the strongest
determinition to keep aloof and remain totally
strancers to the moves or counter-movea, the pre-
tentiuna or the jealousies of the contending parties',
whet will be thought of our siding with Austrian
and Hessian views in Germany ? We should think
that there, as elsewhere, oAT government should have
observed neutrality and abstained from into--
meddling, or that the moral influences and
support of our diplomacy should at least
have been given to the cause of noti ir.sl
and liberal iniiitutime, instead of being exiirci ml ire
behalf of reaction and absolutism. It is neural that
our conies, who ware Carlists in Spain and legitimists
in France, should be Austrians in Central Europe and
in Italy. Ilut we mast confess we had hoped better
things fron. Lord PALmEnsrmr.

Toner the citizens of Loadan were called upon
to give their decision on the great question of
reFgious lilmity which is mailed to their judg-
ment. Up to Saturday bight there appevcd
to be no prospect bat that the bigot party,
knowing that the better part of valour was discre-
tion, would permit the citizens to Mill the great
duty they are called on to perform withent
die-
turbante or division. There had been tory mettinge
both in the city and at the west end on Friday and
it had been found hopeless to attempt a contest. Not
only was the feeling of the citivms too evident to ad-
mit of seines', bat it was impossible to prevail upon
any candidate to take the field. Mr. TTIONA9 BARING
p'e ded the circumstance of his being already in the
hru-e. Mr. ROBERT BEVAN po i.ted to Baron
Roznecn ILD'S overwhelming majority over him at the
last general election and expressed a disinclination
to try the chances again. Mr. MILDMAT, a pi rtrer
in the house of BARING, Brothers, shook his head

determinedly ; Mr. fin). F. Youso could only stand
if the expellers were guaranteed ; and, despite sun-
dry attempts, no sufficient person could be found to
guarantee them. Sir PETER LAURIE and Alderman
Storrs, who were" mentioned," were not thought
lik4y either to attempt a contest, or to
secure support if they tried. Mr. FBESIIFIELD,
who was beaten by 2,000 at the last elec-
tion, wee evidently a desperate card; so the
tories were obliged to decide that the Baron ROTII9-
MILD should walk over.

Late ma Saturday night, however, a meesenger ap-
peared in the City with tt,e announcement that acer-
&date would present himself; and that canduiate
turned oat to be Lord Jolts MANNERS, the former
representative of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, at Newark.
His Grace, it ;mem, in the fulness of his intolerance,
would make the city of London a close borough for
the benefit of his firmer nominee. Nothing lea will
content the Hoz.e of Lards. They determine not
only that the citzens shall not have the man of their
choice, but that they shall have the cast-off
representative of one of the meet intolerant of
their own order. This is playing a bolder game
than we should have 'opposed even the Lords woo'd
have attempted. We could have understood their
adoption of such a man as Mr. BARING as th-ir de-
fender and champion—a man known to and respected
by the citizens, and commercially and politically con-
nected with them—hut that they shouM elect to fight

their battle by a candidate almost wholly unknown '
to the citizen", by one who has not a sites claim,
that any one is *lrate of, on their suffrages, ant
that they should do th • men ly because this y. ung
man is born of the nobility, belongs to tt eir order, is
not a " miserable trader,' u the Lords woul I :ay,
but one ot those flowers of the field " that toil not,
neither do they spin"—thar. the Peers should set
pnolic opinion so much at di flows as to elect to take
their chance under the biot.er of such a champion as
the, to the exclusion of the BAaINGs, the Bavass,
nod ell the gnat City Valet, indeed surprises us
even, at the amount of !leis presumption.
Teat surprise must be increased when various at-
tendant circumstances airs taken into consideration.
The nomination of Lord Joust MANNERS greatly
complicates the p .sition ot the City tunes. It was
hod enough before. The Marchester warehousemen
and those among the shopkeepers who profess
modertte conservative principles, would not support
a protectionist : the shipbuilders and Navigation
Law party, on tie other band, would not
support a Pulite. These were elements of division
sufficient, surely, for the o:casion. But there was one
source of disci.rd a hicb, prior to this nomination, the
City Oriel' had satisfactorily avoided. They were in
perfect harmony on the religious question. Though
they could not all join in the cry fir protection tor
agriculture, they were all united in asking
fur protection for what they cad their creed.
Bat the nomination of Lord JOHN MAN-
NERS introduces s Little element of religious
dissension. In the eyes of such conscien-
tious men as Mr. It C. L. Bevies, and his supporter',
Lord Junx 31.cxxus is quite as dangerous as the
Boron RoiIIBCHILD. Ile es not a Jew, but, in the
eyes of the Record, he is even worse—he is
a confirmed PUSETITE ! Lord JOHN is an
avowed disciple if the deepest-dyed Pustyism.
He is scarcely a degree removed from
the adoption of the Roman religion ; we belicee he is
one of those who would Laee no objection even to
communicate with pr fissure i f thst faith. 'This is a
candidate wor by it the Bishops of EXETER and
Ozronn ; of Mr. Recorder LAW and the University
ben ipeseets. But how time esti of WINCIIILSEA
and Sir R. H. Ischts, and the National Club, will
brie g themselves to sanction such a candidate we can-
not possibly conceive. We wish so striking an evi-
dence of the dissensions among professors of their own
re lig'on may teach them some degre.: of telerance.even
for the Jew. _

By whom Lord JORN MANIC. RS may be supported
remains to be seen. It i-, we thick, improbable that
he will go to a poll ; bat, at the /SOW time, the
liberals will do well to be prepare I even tr that
event. The opposition offered by the House of Peeve,
through one of their own rder, will have, we appre-
h. ad, a good result upon our friends. It will el'cit
a stronger ezprc.sion of their opinion than could
otherwise have be.% rep e:cd. Their "pull" will b
all the stronger and the more unanimous for this
lordly interruption to their day's proceedings. All
Hewers of liberal ci izeus will join in supporting the
Baron Rovitecuitio to day. Mr. RAISES CURRIE,
the City b other and number for Northampton, a pro-
minent representative of tLe leading City Whigs, will
prop se the b iron on the hustings. He will be tecended
by Mr. 11tu.014, of the great firm of MORRISON
and DttLos, a ooneiettnt and enlightened radical
The chartists are to a man prepared to fight the biole
of lite r y on this ecciseiou : feeling that until the right
of I letting their own members is conceded to consti-
turnee. without the intervention of the House of
Lords, all strugele. for parliamentary ref .rm must be
nugatory. The baron will be attended to the hustioge
by a large acid influential body of leading Lberafs,
and, let toe opposition be whet it may, his success is
beyond a doubt. _

A morning paper of Saturday intimated an ii.ten-
tion en the put of the tones to onject to the Barra
Ito-rnsetittit on the granid of leg•elative disqualifi-
ca ion. Nothing can be more absurd. As we have
pointed out, over and over again, Jews are in no way
disqualified from sitting iu parliament by law,
statute, or euactmen% Tiii y mig‘it re:t to-morrow if
they chow to take any one of the oaths which arc
prescribed to be taken by members of any religious
creed. If they chose to evade the real issue they
might even take their seats under the Boman citholic
or presbyterisn forms of ow,h, in which the words
"on the true faith of a ('hris•ian" do not occur. But
the Baron ROTHSCHILD refuses to resort to t^ese ex-
pedient', and prefers to tea the great principle of
religious tolera•ion which arises out of his eh ethl.
Because ho does; en, however, he is no more disquali-
fied from teing elected than any oth, r man ; and any
attempt to questi,•n his privilege, whilst it would ex-
hibit an unmeaning in•olersne", would have no other
effect than to show the lidicoloas igr.orance of the
objectors.