The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, DIOND.4I; FEBRU.IRI' 17.

THE Citorereerot of the Exetnetrita, we are
told seini-offieially. has no story to tcU, except the
known one of the abolition of the window-tax,
which. he declams, will curry off all his surplus.
Another sixpence he has not. lie has given all to
the and tropolitan demanders, being L 9410,000/. out of
2,000,11001 Therefore soup, and fiats r, and tea, and
the whole list of exe'ised nay 1.,•13
shout their busies. Even the window-tax is not
to be giitin with the right hand, until a renewal
of the ineome-tax is stewed with the left. And that
renewal is to lie, without modification, the same rude
and ill proportioned levy that it ever was.
And, in addition to the income tax, the CHAN-
CELLOR has determined to ask for a tux of three per
cent. upon the rent of houses. We mest own we doubt
any such additional tax tieing mobil by the House of
Commons nut from any radical objection bathe nature
of the tax, although such obj.ctiuusare not wanting;
but simply because Sir truenens Wiiou makes no
case at ull for wanting this trifling, and, therefore,
suapieknoi tax. It is to produce lion,olo. What
for Oh! to pay a- the national (kid. The CHAN-
cri.l.Olt Of the Exteireireet is uuw t.nd then inclined
to he jocular; and truly he will find it difficult to
maw forward with a gram: face and propose
a house tax of three per emit. to pay off the national
debt. The ministerial organ insists that British
honour and enslit require that we should at least
make sonic effiirts to prey the ten millions sterling we
borrowed in INK Let us consider whom we bor-
rowed them fur? It was to give relief to Irish dis-
tress. But Ireland now is flourishing. Its poor-law
returns are quoted as a souse ci of ixultation for the
remised prosperity of that country. Why not, then.
elite nd at uni the income-tux to the sister
7.,land? It fall. On prigs rty and upon earn-
ings. Why should they not pay there as
well as hen.' The Meow-tux, extended to
behind, would furnish the (Item is with the
half-million he requires to pay off, as he says, this
Irish loan. And surely it is more just that he should
look to the Irish for it. than to chip a tax on every
householder in Great Britain for the purpose.
Justice at once would suggest sail an equality of
burdens. But unhirtunntely it is not of justice that
ministers arc at this moment thinking. They see
some twenty Irish menthers flying in their face, and
menacing to turn the majority; and rather than
offend them. Sir CHARLES WOOD has resolved to
saddle• the industrious Englishman. in addition to his
other burdens, with a house-tax.

WITH every lilwral man, who had the freedom. the
wrath. ss. aria regeneration of Gel many at heart, we
have .I%erted attention from the affair,. of that calm.
try. They are in a stute too painlul to contemplate,
too degrading to dwell on, yet too hopeless for com-
plaint or ionimisemtimi to he of the least advantage.
From the day that Prussia wits deterred by the
united menaces of Austria and of Russia from nfam- I
tai • g her own independowe and the constitutional
freislom of the states of western Germany ;
from that moment there ii.t4 nothing left but
to regard Germany as another Poland, or another I
Russia, which had either erased to be, or was not
vet, of those states which belong to the great Euro- I
jinni family. Poland we eousider so frozen up in I
tlw ice of "despotism that no one eares to hear °el
what is done or said at Warsaw, beyond the Em-
peror's circle, until the day. when the laud rises in
wild insurrection. It is Row a cry insirly.the some
with Germany. Subjected to brutal dellottom, eum-
pelted to stifle within its own breast and saentice the
most sacred rights, the most cherished. the must legi-
timate wishes, what is the German now but the
brother bondsman of the Pole? Seeing as we do,
must manifest. that the word, the order, of the CZAR,
ean eiwrve the greatest potentates of Germany,
and make any or all of theai kneeling supplicants
at the throne of Wan.aw, what cam we any longer
for the forms, or the words. or the clauses, m which
it may place the Russian Chants ry to direct that 1
the `rules of the Genital. confederation be
drawn out? Of what importance can it be
whether the valets of Russia, aho meet together at
Frankfort, be limited to eleven, or amount to their
old number of seventeen ? The papers have told us,
and our own correspondents have written, of the
langthened and entangled discussions which took
place in that mock conference at Dresden. just as if
the delegatos of German powers had any voice or
influence in this matter. Was it not long since de-
freed at Warsaw, that Germany either separate or
united. should not be allowed at free constitution?
And did not this imply that the old Diet should ba
immediately reston4 with that authority which
the law of 1832 gave it of putting down
constitutional liberty in any state? Was not this
ailed upon in Hesse, with the sanction and even
amidst the exultation of Baron MANTEUFFEL who
insulted the bravelle;sians. whom he betrayed? And
how could it be hoped, with the Prussian and Aus-
trian cabinets in such full accord with the Russian.
that anything less than the despotism of the old Diet
would be restored?
It is to be motored. The propositions for modify-
ing or restricting it were mere moonshine.
The oily difference is, that formerly it was
a dull beast of prey, that lay upon 'ita victim,
and suffocated without tearing or devouring it.
whereas now it is to be rampant and active. Austria
Mists not only nu the reconstitution of the Diet, but
on the permanent organisation of a federal army of
110,000 men. always prepared to crush an outbreak.
or to punish, as in Hesse, every inkling of consti-
tutional or even passive resistance. And this double
part of be ingat once the victim and the instrument of
oppression, is not confined to Germimy. but is ex-
twaded to Hungary and to Lombardy. so that the
(Vents and the Mdancao may be employed to en-
furor martial law in Hamburg. whilst the'Prussians
and Potneranians are to be employed in the name
and under the banner of the G,rmanic confederation.
to keep down the vindictive nisi' of Brescia and
One good result, however. has followed this serous'
revolution in the political partition and organisation
of Europe. It has awakened France from the
slumber which it was enjoying in the arms of an ab-
solutist alliance. All .through the great straggle be-
tween German powers and principles in 1849 and
IMO. the French government, under the legitimist
and reactionary influence of Messrs. IVIERS
and Lamm, gave its every support, and adhesion to
the muss ci tyranny and of Austria. It applauded
the ci Hungary; the French cabinet went
out oppressors,,,, to tick a quarrel with Prussia ; nay
made itself the cat s-paw of Russia in getting up the
landun protocol, and fiircing Lord Patmlamati to
we it. The same French cabinet showed every eager-
sass towards acknowledging the Diet of Frnnkfort.
Lk short, LOUIS NAPOLLON't) govmument played the