The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-13 00:00:00

intentiuss. Instead of this it is at the paint of the
bayonet tit Iva MAJeSTY stretches forth his, after all,
vet obit otionalie and waspreted constitution.
If, however, it was his Prussian MAJESTY'S e••
termittati 1, to enf ros this new constitution, then
should it have Iw. n done with moderation, as
well as firmness. A large number of the Kates of
Germany, for nymph., with their princes, had
acknowledged and proclaimed the Frankfort consti-
tution. How mild the Kirg of Pinesis ask or ex
prct that thew, countri. s and princes should turn
round, like timed', and with the " hey, pretty!" of a
charlatan, m.•l &No: .roe coest•tution and one creed
for another f Differ, news were ineyitsb!c ; even sedi-
tion was nsturd. And popular r sistance, under such
threat:meanest., was however criminal when

entered epos without a ea v.
Take the CAW of the Dreamers. The King of
SAXONY. i. is known, was on the point of accepting
the Frankfurt constitution which his Chambers re-
commended. The people were preparing to fete its
acceptance, tele n a missive arrived from Berlin for-
bidding the King of Saxwor to satisfy the wishes et
his people, but to whit fur the new covstitution to be
octroys.'. The emerequencie, and the natural conse-
quence, was an insurrection. The same !sues
would have tenduced an instant insurrection in any
Ecglishtown. The Prussian sold;ersforthwithmarebed
to put it doe n, and it may have been nen searyto
put it &two. But where was the recessity of extin-
guishing an insurrectirn, for which there was so Ilar
and legitimate a pretext, in blood? The Prussian
troops, however, gave no quarter. Cheat numbers of
the young Ilex as of the best families were telvn,
and instantly shot or thrown into the Elbe. The
atrocities were fearful; and to whale charge are they
laid? To the King of Parana and hie new mint-
tuna. Moderately handled a d coerced, the Saxons
might have ace. pted it. But introduced along
with violence and murder, Englishmen have
Saxon enough in them to fed how it IS
viewed. Leipsie and other Saxon towns were
in fact inclined to accept such a consdtutinn
before the Dres.den manure. Since that, there is in
Leipzic and elsewhere an utter horror of the Rings of
PRUaatt SISA andlty in SAXONYwiping off, which the se
When a monarchs will ave
difficu. Prussian or
Saxon dacer now enters a trop of the German
middle class, every one quits the m, precisely es
the Waves do when an Au trian uniform appears..
Clo, sad found a coestitution and an empire in the
midst of sentiments like these.
Contemplate the terrible events of Iserlohn. This
populous 'own, famed f x its minufictures in metal,
rose in a kind of tumult tor the Frankfort constitu-
tion—the constitution vote d legally by the represen-
tatives of the whole vinery. Surely, if there was
sin or mistake in this it was a venial one. The
sold.eas advanced upon Iserlohn, met with some re-
sistance on entering it—they were find at from one
house; and, to Inver this, they mustered and tor-
tured all that they ens 'entered. We know some of
the incidents of this sack, related by eye-witnesses.
In one hones, the family retreated to the roof, in
order to neap.: the st ots. From the roof they heard
• none at the door; and, en pe ping over the
parapet, the fat) er of the family, a tranquil man of
business, saw it was the soldiers. He had note gun
in the hove., and never dreamed of resistance. He
harried down to open the door, but could not execute
his purpose b fore he was shot. All within, women
and children, were murder. d, except two, the late,t
found, a lady and a gentleman, who were dragged
from over tl.e bleeding bodies of their rhi'dren to the
market place. There they were bound arm in arm,
with several hundreds of the peaceful population, and
placed More the soldiers, to serve as a rampart
against fire, threatened each moment to be shot if the
artisans of Ift rlohn persevered it. resistance. The
house next to th one, the fate of whose inmates we
tell, had been left to a maid servant ; she, too, was
butchered.
To these wanton atrocities it is added that the
Pronen soldiers give no quarter, and that through-
out the wide tract now under martial law every one
under a,ms is certain to be shot. In one ease, where
one hundred w. re shot, the universal belief is that
not thirty had ever joined or intended to join the in-
surrection. Consider these facts as taking place
in educated, religious, gentle-minded Germany,
and it is imp. 'Bible nit to see that kings and their
semis a are, the former, perhaps unconsciously, pre-
paring for themselves future days ef terrible veogeanes
and reaction. We used to exclaim in horror at the
bloodthirstiness of Don CARLOS and CABRERA. W•
treat the ruthlessness of the Turkish sabre as (shelves.
But here is a land, civilised as our own, and we hear
of its being pacified by such m-ans.
Tne King of PRUSSIA most speedily look to it.
He is m xehing hit armies into the Pal equate and into
the south. Those armies wilt very probably prevail
over both those who hoist the red deg, and these who
fight under the banner of the Frankfurt constitution.
We have long wished well to Prussia and its 'seen-
dewy, not from any predilection for its dynasty, but
be cam e that i. is a powt rf 01, a thoroughly German,a free-
thoughted, educated country, with a developed middle
class, timid though they may show themselves, and
&commercial and industrial population. But we will fling
our hopes of Prussia to the winds, if military, despotism
is to be still the sir ing of its policy, sad if even that
military despotism, in lien of being tempered by the
humane and jug feelings of the age, should proceed
to enforce its power by a violence that even St.
Petersburg would disclaim, and by habits of cruelty
and meseacre which even the East no longer exhibits,
and from which a Christian public shticks in execra-
tion and in horror.

YESTERDAY morning the Chronicle took the than-
dal reformers to task. The Chronicle, it is true, is
opposed to the demands of the financial reformer.,
but, grieved to the soul by the'r bungling, the Chro-
nicle will show them how they might wry their
point. Very kind this in the Chronicle to teach the
opponents of its party how they may beat it. Pity
that advice so plausible should come from no more
trustworthy source then the organ of a party
declared by the Spectator of Saturday last to be " a
baulked party," and " defeated in a policy worked
with inadequate skill."
It is nothing new to see men who have failed in a
profession sot themselves up for teachers of it.
Broken-down merchants have, ere now, made tole-
rable instrueon in the art of book-keeping, and the
ranks of our drawing-mutere are continually re-
cruited from that clam of artiste whose works no ex-
hibition will admit, and no purchaser take off their
hands. So it is quite es regle that the "baulked"
and " detested" Lincoloites should offer to teach the
financial reformers to do what they cannot do them-
selves.
The Chronicle vows that the financial reformers
are strong enough in the House of Commons to carry
their point there. It declares that there are no lees
than eighty zealous economies in the houre. It is of
opinion that "halts-dozen earnest, single-minded,
and clear-headed financial reformers there, whose
hearts were really in their busineee,would not take very
long to put financial reform whim free-t.ade stood in
the year 1846." And therefore the Chronicle adjures
the Uncial reformers to " thiok lees of leagues, for
"there are quite enough of them in the House of
Comma's already to coerce the strongest of cabinets,
and shame the oorrepteet."
We fear the Chronicle's plaintive and affecting
remonstrance with the financial reformers is not quite
original. I: sounds very like the remonferance which
M. Jonricsin, in the " Bourgeois Oentilhomme "
addressee to Toilette, wham, instead of humouring
him by thrusting or parrying aa his fencing muter
has taught him bow to do, sae breaks his head with
the foil. The Lincolnitee flatter themselves that if
the laaneW reformers will stick to parliamentary
and tierce they are more than a match for
thsna
p I bat the Linoolnitee do not well know how to
arry the rode Cando and blowsof leagnesandassocia
time. The reminiscence about " whore fres trade stood
in the year 1848" is anal:lucky one for the Chronicle.
Where wield free trade have stood in that year had
it not beat for the Anti-Corn Law Lessee ?
Indeed, the IL lowrdain of the CArodcle (and it
can be no other than Mouses's hero who dilates
igen French politics in that journal : he may well be
redested for never suspecting that it is prose he
MAN) is right in seeking to dingo& the financial
iellemen from having romans to Imps& It that
Work go on as it has begna, they will very soon put
fisaseial reform [and woe other reforms along with
it] where free bade stood in 1846." We may again
behold the great statesman who deserted Cairns%
Weans CANNING was friendly to Catholic
Wt, mid who, a few years later, brought it
Sege Imegeipates Bill, who turned out the whip
becaa Ihweerelde teZ moderate fixed duty ea mg
am awes time relieved corn thera ell imllmfa