The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17.

PsorLa have for some time sought to create alarm
by rumours of war, for which there was indeed some
warrant in the tricks and blisteriogs, though by no
means in the intentions, of absolutist governments.
Even our own correspondents in remote capitals are
naturally carried away by the current opinions of the
locality and society in which they reside and thus we
are told from Constantinople that Russia is preparing
for war, and only waiting a fine and a fit day
to begin. And from Vienna we learn that the fire-
eatin Austrians are about to do nothirg less tban
march to capture Berlin, and put to rout the parlia-
ment of Erfurt.
The public, however, has come to entertain a very
just idea of the value of such braggadocio. The fact
is, that the refusal of the Porte to comply with the
demands of Russia, and the proxpt coming of both
Fr nch and English fleets to the Dardaneles, in
order to support Turkey, in case its determination
bad drawn down vengeance or retaliation from St.
Petersburg—these events have so humiliated the
Cur, and brought his Imperial Mightiness so many
pegs down in the public estimation of the Orientals,
that the Rubella court and agents are working and
striving by all possible chicanery and small mumm-
er's to recover a little of the prestige they have lest,
to show ill temper when they have wanted courage,
and to carry on a brisk guerilla camteign of diplo-
macy, in default of more eerie= efforts.
Austria, too, has unfortunately caught this bluster-
ing habit of its nothern backer and ally, and it has
bad the imbecility to play at Berlin the same absurd
part, that Rases has done at Constantinople. We
know how the Cz.ta sent Prince ..__lteozivih to bay
the SULTAN by instant threat of war, mikes Brat and
liii,surti were delivered up. BEM and KOSSUTH
were nut delivered up, and RADMIL went away with
his tail between his lege to be disavowed by his
master.
't here was, however, some possibility of success in
the blaster of Iteriztvth. But what is to be thought
of Austria's trying the some dodge at Berlin ? We
have heard of Austria's celebrated note of menace, and
we hare subsequently read the said note, and found
It as tedious as it was wiry. But it is not so well
known, that M. PROKESCII, the Audi= envoy
in Berlin, actually went to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and threatened Lim with
scar, nothing if I'rossia p. rsiated in calling to-
gether the German parliament. Now, Master Pau-
xesce is one of the most accomplished bullies that
Austria possesses. He is the very lisTssu of diplo-
macy, aid his modes of proceeding are perfectly well
known to all who resided er. Athens during his stay
there. FROKESCII told the Prussian minister,
plainly and loudly, that the calling the Erfurt
parliament was a eases bell, and if not aban-
doned, Prussia might take the consequences. In fact,
the behaviour of YROKISCH at Berlin was completely
a copy of RADZIVIL'S at. the Porte. The Prussian
minister replied even more coolly than the Turkish,
and observed that it was rather late for Austria to make
a cases bell of what had been long since announced to
her, nay, what bad sprung out of a common act of the
German powers, to which Austria was a party.
Prussia, however, knew what to do if attacked, but
in the meantime would most certaisly and determi-
nutty pirsovere and proceed with assembling the
German parliament at Erfurt.
It was out of this interview and conversation,
which was made no secret, for M. De SCOLEINITT
recounted it to the court circle at Berlin, that
metre the rumours of impending war between
Austria and Prussia, which found their way into
our columns, and those of our contemporaries, as
well as into the different exchanges of Europe.
The fate of Itanztvit, however, swelled Paoxeself,
for no sooner was reference made to Vienne than
Prince SettWARZENBERCI completely backed out of the
whole business, and disavowed poor PROX6SCH, who
was set down as a mad blusterer, and, like Raortrrh,
sacrificed.
We heard this very characteristic anecdote at the
time, but thought it better kept from publication,
thinking that Austria would be wiser than, with ter
bankrupt treasury and disaffected population, to pro-
voke Prussia and the smaller German powers. Austria,
however, can no more take a rebuff than Ituisia.
Both are fidgetty under humiliation. And u Russia
keeps pelting the Porte with protocols, Austria has
found a way of annoying Prussia. This is to march
into Saxony, and occupy Dresden, under the pretext
that the King is threatened by an ineurrectiou.
Now thete can be no doubt that the King of
SAXONY is most cordially detested and despised by
his subjects, and that if he and his dynasty refuse to
join the movement fur German unity end liberty, he
will be compelled, like the Pow to reign by the
presence acid support of toreign 'bayonet& Wrtat
effect the calling on the troops of HAINAU to act as
his guards will have on the Saxon population, is
pretty clear. It will destroy the last chance which
the Saxon dynasty had of continuing to reign.
Thetis must ensue, moreover, not an insurrection in
the streets, but a civil war in the country, and that
a geaeral war between Austria and Prussia may
sprang out of it is not improbable. The consequences
in fieuth Germany of even the approach to such a
contest are too manifest to need being pointed out.
Austria may guard herself from inch a contingency
by the final adjournment of her charter and consti-
tution, by a maintenance of martial law throughout
the empire, and a total suppression of the liberty
of the pre= But such measures will neither
fill her coffers with money nor back her efforts
with the sincere and zealous adhesion of any one
province. The Bohemians and the Cream, we know,
are now as disaffected as the Viennese, the Magyars,
or the Lombards.
In such a state of things, for Austria to menace
war, much less try it, must make the heart of every
liberal in Europe, Hungarian aid Italian, leap with
joy. And, deeply as we detest war, yet, considering
the immense results that must ensue, we are almost
tempted to indulge in the wish that Austrian councils
may be sufficiently demented to provoke the
catastrophe.

Mn. MUM cannot but figure in the Exhibition of
the Industry of all Nations; not, we hope, as a ma-
nager or a judge, for be would scout Li. ge and de-
nounce Berlin for daring to compete with Birming-
ham, bat as constituting in himself a wondrous
specimen of how all opinions, however diverse, on
indugrial and economic matters, can he amalgamated,
er at least be kept together, in the one small head.
The department of manufacture" in which the ;
Prussians have decidedly beaten us has been in
the orramental combination and enamelling of
iron and she' with the precious metals. The
swarthiest iron and the brightest silver are there
made to contrast prettily in the same bracelet—gold
and steel, ebony and platens, act each other off to ad-
vantage. Bat nothing certainly in the teistlated or
tho mosaic ever came up to Mr. NluNnz's speech, re-
ported in oar columns of Saturday.
Mr. NIUNTZ, in that speech, contrived to ho a'. once
a radical free-trader and an exaggerated preteeior.ist.
He had always, he said, end would always oppose
protection, but he held that the whole country could
not do without protection. His objection to proteo-
tion was that it was isolated, but when all were pro-
tecord hr should like it vastly. When the some
200,000 landed proprietors of England were protected
by a tax levied on some two millions of quarters of
foreign wheat, in order that seven shillings a quarter,
on eighteen millions, might be psid by the consumer
In tEe ndlord; when, in return fir this, the landlord
should buy his tea-tray and his coal-scuttle at Bir-
mingham and to where-eke; when the cotton mills of
Manchester, and the woollen factories of Leeds