The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1848.

W by stand we paltering with disaffection, and adding
troop to troop, and battalion to battalion, in the garn-
sons of Ireland, in the midst of international peace ?
Because the condition of the mass of the Irish people is
deplorably and disgracefully wretched—because the
ecclesiastical condition of the country is equally inde-
fensible and intolerable—and because the privileges
and franchisee in common with Great Britain, which
were guaranteed by the union, have to the present
hour been fraudulently and faithlessly withheld.
There is no longer any shadow of excuse in the
attitude of parties in the legislature, for persisting in
this infatuated course of =policy. Of the four dis-
tinct sections into which the lower house is now
divided, two are long pledged to do what every right-
thinking man most feel that Ireland needs, and a
third is, we firmly believe, no way leas disposed
thereto. We allude to the disposition of Sir ROBERT
PEEL and his compact band of able and accomplished
adherents. Their breach with protectionism is irre
mediable. To power, but one road henceforth lies
open for them, and that road is in the opposite
direction. Far from deeming it for their interest as a
party aspiring to office to throw obstacles in the way
of popular measures for Ireland, they would be much
more likely, we are persuaded, to outbid the present
ministers in concession. They tried the contrary
when formerly in opposition, and bitterly repented it
when subsequently in power. They would be mad-
men to make the same mistake again. Even of the
Stanleyites we believe there are some who would
shrink in times like the present from incurring any
portion of the heavy responsibility that must attach
to a further refusal of equal right and freedom to one-
third of the united kingdom. But with or without
their assent, it is palpable that government could carry
any reasonable measures of relief and reconciliation
with Ireland that they might introduce ; and in
truth and soberness we are bound to say if they nalle-
glect or refuse to do so when parliament re-assembles
after the recess, they will commit a cruel injustice to
the feelings of the people of this country, and inflict
a fearful injury on the peace and welfare of Ireland.

NEWS FROM PARIS.

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GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have our usual files of German
papers. Those of Berlin are of the 17th.
The Prussian State Gazette of the 17th contains
several cabinet orders respecting the seminary at
Poppelsdorf, the loan for public works, the pro-
ceedings in political cases and offences com-
mitted by the press, the restoration of the
Rhenish civil law in regard to marriages, the
founding of loan banks, &c. From Stettin, under I
date April 12, we learn that the reactionary party.
there is beginning to take measures to effect the re-
turn of the Prince of Prussia. Although a petition I
containing an invitation to the prince to take up his
residence at Stettin as Statdholder at Pomerania is for
the present kept back, yet an article in the Stettin
Gazette expresses the desire that the Prince of Prussia
should take a part in the approaching diecussions on
the constitution.
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of the 17th April,
says: In consequence of the riots which took place
yesterday, a proclamation has been issued, prohibiting
the assembling of more than five persons, and de-
claring that it the military, the burgher guard, or tbe
police, are attacked or disobeyed, recourse shall be,
had to force of arms. Notwithstanding this pro-
clamation, several conflicts took place in the course of
the day, but no official return has yet been made. At
10 o'clock in the evening the city was quiet.
AUSTRIA.—Our dates from Vienna are of April
14. The Wiener Gazette of the 14th of April contains
an official proclamation of the Emperor, stating that,
on the petition of states of Lower Austria and by the
=met of his ministers, his Majesty had determined
to grant his faithful subjects the protection of the
rights of property, as also the abolition of various
taxes. The Gasette also contains the official report
received by the Minister of War from the head-
quarters at Verona, dated April 9, giving an account
of the entry of Lichtensten's brigade into Verona.
The intelligence from Cracow says that the people
demanded the dismissal of all the German officials.
The fears of a Russian invasion were on the decline,
the Russian General Rudiger having affirmed that
the military preparations on the frontier were directed
to the defence of the kingdom of Poland against any