The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

Tint WAR.

The Times refers to recent incidents in Berlin as proving
the fact that for the present the government and the
people of Prussia are at one, and indeed, as Count
Bismarck iv the only man in all Germany who knows
what he is about, and what be wants, and what everybody
in Germany wants, our contemporary will by no means
be surprised if he is soon a demigod, not only in the eyes
of the Prussians., but of all patriotic Germans. Count
Bismarck is, indeed, a singular and rather forbidding
type of a liberal patriot ; but all the unpopularity of
Charles Albert between 1831 and 1846 did not pre-
vent Piedmont being the focus of Italian aspirations
from 1848 to 1859. What Piedmont was to Italy,
Prussia, and Prussia alone, can be to Germany ;
and in Hanover, in Hesse, in Saxony, the past is blotted
out as thoroughly and rapidly as it was in Tuscany,
Modena, or Parma. From this time there would be no
great rashness in the assertion that the formation of a
kingdom, at least, of NoWiern Germany, has become a
necesvity. _ . .

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The Daily News agrees that it would be a bleating to
all Europe, as well as to the moo and countries imme-
diately interested, to see Germany, north at least of the
Bohemian hills, concentrated into one kingdom. This
alone could enable its government to dispense with
the present system of universal soldiering, and per-
haps might wean even the Prussian court from its
aiguikttea. To see such an empire vested in the hands
of a Bismarck, or lorded over by the squirearchy of the
Kreuz, would seem indeed to be a change from bad to worse.
But a large and self-sufficing empire would take from such
men or their employers that excuse by which they live.
Austria stands up for the old state of things, above all,
for the rights of the many princelings ; yet there prevails
in Germany the conviction that the victory of Austria and
her allies would lead to more illiberal and regretable re-
salts than the triumph of a Bismarck. In the late events
' the Diet has been altogether wanting to its position, and
under such circumstances the ►ubversion of the old state
of things is not to be regretted. If, however, the court of
Berlin has purchased foreign aid by the contingent sac' lice
of ►ny portion of Germany, we should regard Prussia and
its dynasty as doomed. Not even the memory of the great
Frederick would save them from the jolt vengeance of the
German people.
The Herald begs its readers to suspend their judgment

for a while, as it may turn out ere long, though contrary to
the'r expectations, that the success so confidently claimed
may be found to rest with the Austrian General Ilenedek,
and not with Prince Frederick Charles and the Crown
Pi:nce of Pi assia.

The Post th'nks it but reasonable to suppose that Rene-
dek would not have afforded to the army of the Elbe the
opportunity of enteaing Bohemia from Saxony if he o'3
not see a mode of turning to his osta advantage their ap-
parently triumphant invasion. All the movements of his
troops are enveloped in the closest secrecy. We shall
probably have but a short time to wait fur one of those
terrible, but at the same time decisive, engagements
which practically determine the issue of a catupaibr