The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

snob an army as this—an army eight timt
as that which routed the myriads of tiartis •
Dowlah at Plassy—ten times as greet as cost
snatched the sceptre frosa the race of Beindiaate„:•
—and six times as great as that brave
followers, by whose aid and his own ittrepect;
CHARLES NAPIER vanquished the most warlike
of western India at Meeanee, it would be a libel
vs.--
the English nation to suppose that the faoaticid2
diem of the Mahe can offer any effectual re""'
Nevertheless, it would be a gross *A
partiality to overlook the lapses of jieb4
the perpetual occurrence of vacillating 0,47,
confusion of details, and the imperfect pfta.
anoe of many of those minor duties which
tribute to the energetic and expeditions eite-;
melds of an army —which have already tu„,
fared with the advance of the army 0/7.
Panjaub. It is no secret that the curs/nu:l
arrangements at Ferozepore are exceedingly 41--""4
and that by an oversight excessively usfervux43l
the present state of the company's exchenie., thi
provisions which might have been obtained et`
proper time at a reasonable or even a chiepa:.
will now have to be procured from a limited
influenced by the inexorable necessities of s• bc,,;4
20,000 men and 100,000 camp followers.
same way there is a general outcry against the dik.
tivo preparations for the transit of artillery al
troops. Next to food in India, the mans of iscuw
lion are the most urgent necessity, and an army**.
out oxen, and destitute of camels, might u
almost be composed of Chelsea pensioners tett
wooden legs and defective eyesight.
All these are topics upon which, we appubta
the returns from the financial secretary will et";
the Court of Directors to require some very explicit
information. In the meantime, there is one rum
which will excite surprise. It is now asserted the
the unfortunate delay which retarded the appeuut,
of an efficient force before Moultan, was exprusiy
contravention of the emphatic advice of tait
Gouurn. The precise cortrary of this his um
hitherto the general impression. It wu bt,
lieved that the proc-astination which whiled awry
the summer had its staunchest defender in the Cam,
mander-in-Chief. If it shall in the end turn out that
the highest military authority upon a diem*
frontier, was decidedly in favour of a strong and bb,
mediate display of force, and found himself oven*
by other, and what would appear to be inferior, 030.
Clll4 it assuredly will be not only a new phenotoetu
in our Indian history, but a phenomenon shish
cannot safely permit to pass nticnquired into.
Tardy, however, as may be the steps whirl IN
conducting us to a second military rectipeiu al
the Five Rivers, every fresh mail seems to Odd PM
strength to the apprehension that the materielish
bond fine native government are not to be loood—o
are only to be collected at an expenditure of time ui
means utterly beyond the value of the object. If nth
a government could be rallied up in this impatig
territory—a government able ard willing to respect
our own ancient boundary of the Sutlej, and to defend
its own natural line of demarcation, the Indio—thee
can be no doubt whatever that the recaguition mate
I support of such a power would be the wisest poheycr
the British. But in the absence of such a resource ire
must cast ourselves again upon that propitious fatal
which gave us Moran to settle and concilinte the
ceded districts, and which raised up %tem to
found our rule in Central India upon the hearts of de
people.

FRANKFORT, Du. If.
The canvass for the imperial crown goes on teigiy.
After the some of the Archduke John came the Uri;
of M. Kamphausen, the King of Prussia's envoy to
the Central Authority. Rumours of all kinds are ia
culation,end it is impossible to detect wheretrath era
and falsehood begins. It has been reported for tom
days that Bavaria is strongly opposed to the =Ss
the King of Prussia Emperor. M. Voo Elena, tbs
Bavarian envoy to the central power, wrote a cam.
phlet some time ago to prove that Austria with all
its provinces Sclavonian, Magyar, ad Italia—
ought to be annexed to Germany. This diplomatil
is now at Olmutz, where he has been joined (from
Berlin) by Prince Charles of Bavaria. It is generally
known here that Bavaria is attemping to Agents
the minor courts of the south of Germany to exert
themselves in favour of an Austrian prince, and against
the King of Prussia.
While these intrigues were in progress, we in Frank-
fort were in all the excitement of a ministerial mirk
M. Schmerling, the repreeentalve of what hula-
therto been the policy of Austria, was at odds vriththo
other ministers, who begin to discover that they haw
been deceived. The Prussian party did their be
to thrust him out of the cabinet, and introduce in hi
stead M. von Gagern, tv ho is generally beloved, a&
withstanding the impression which prevailed at hit
return from Berne, that he was bent upon placing the
King of Prussia at the head of Germany. And, to
you see, they have succeeded. M. Schmerling wu to
have asked the parliament's leave to negotiate with
the Austrian government, in order to cone to
an agreement as to the conditions on which it will
either remain in the Germanic union or maintain M.
mate relations with it. The party which monists ups
the unity of Germany ought to be adverse to this p
pond ; tor the ground upon which this party talee
its stand ut, that the German state embracestel
all the territory of the former Germanic confe
of which Austria formed a part. But the Prude
party would gladly get rid of Austria in order dal
Prussia may be the leading power in Germany ; Rai
Gagern is in the main predisposed in favour d
Schmerling's plan. In the division on the pus's*
of the draft of the constitution which went to recegeo
Austria, as connected with Germany, but not a put
of it, they voted for that proposal. Gegern, thm.
would have supported Schmerling's motion, bat tho
Prussian party cannot. One must be a diplomatirt to
escape losing the thread which is to guide one through
this tortuous labyrinth of intrigue. Affa'reat Frank.
fort are intentionally disturbed in order that desighthi
men may fish in the troubled waters.
With the exception of a few intriguers, who will
have a Prussian Emperor at any price, members Iv
frain from committing themselves, and no one am
guess what is to be the upshot. Some begin to kig
that the German princes may agree to get rid of the
Frankfort Assembly, as the Aesemblies at Bedm and
Vienna have been got rid of ; and, by granting the
empire a constitution octroyle, after the Puma
fashion. The Frankfort Post-Anita Zeitung hall
actually threatened the parliament with such a eat
d'ltat. But this seems to me a sufficient reason ht
believing that nothing of the kind will be attetaptel.
There was no threat uttered beforehand at Berlin, ant
would there be at Frankfort if it were in.
tended. It would be the height of folly Is
dissolve such an assembly as ours. It is docile to!i
degree that trenches on the ridiculous, and were
it
dissolved all Germany would say, " We must begin
from the beginning again." Neither its own strength
or energy, nor the public confidence, could save ths
Frankfort parliamentuat now; but its feebleness end
want
not easily find t willofcharacterndso manageable save it The
an iutrum
eGetman prey
could t
is
its stead.
theyß will Best I w
ninot attempt positiveeinpt to abort
parliament- When absolutism has taken the tiedstep, it is not easy to say where it will /top. Itsprobable,
probable, however, that an effort will be made tops'
serve appearances with regard to the parliament; fort
do nwotihthinogut;
tnhoet
i even,ritanan that
by treating it as the Berlin Assembly has belt
treated, the second revolution would be aceelemM
whereas quasi-concessions may retard it.

ROHS, Dec./.
" On the mixed deputation of peers and commons%
with Prinoe Corsini at ita had, which left Rome kr
an interview with the Pope, much expectation rests&
as I said in my last These envoys of the Rarest
people returnel yesterday, not having been permipeP
by the Neapolitan government to cross the frontier;
but they were allowed to communicate thence hi
letter with the prisoner of Gaeta, and received a rePI/
signed by Cardinal Antonelli, referring them to the
' paper of the 27th Nov., by which a governmenbll
oommission had been created for the interim &dun*
tration of the Papal States. What became of that
paper and of the members appointed you have learnt
from me—the document fell still-born, and the junta
itself scattered in every direction. To insist on sorb
an arrangement as a sober reality was an incredible
instance of hallucination on the part of the Comas;
and when the deputation came back to announce the
Pope's reply to their demand for an audience, the
astalis' hed Romans shrugged their shoulders and cut
up their eyes to Heaven. Indignation, however, gale
way to pity, and a strong recolleciion of
aremed the many
personal virtues and good deeds of Pwi IX. to