The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

TO THI EDITOR 07 THE =PIUS.

SA- -
King William stood the fire at Koniggratz.
B° is ow in danger of being subdued by a host of
ood and coroneetted Amazons. The Almsmach
okt is in a flutter. Nieces, cousins to the
too free, and, unfortunately, much nearer re-
boots, are urging him by letters, by cajoleries,by
so preserve the nursery, to restore the dis-
„..moed princes. There are soreereases by the
6,7,0 n prophesying the last doom. First they car-
rtd goir complaints and wishes to Paris, to the
on whom they considered, ten years ago, too
seas to gain the hand of the most insignificant
~,,00s of the moat obscure principality. Die-
.,ed at their. cold receptionhe ran to St.
Fetesbarg declaiming to the Czar, "Where are you
,„) get wives for your grand Elsewhere,
Jul Cry, " Where are you to get husbands for your
linoessest" Hanover, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Rum-
oheiza, the whole tribe described by Edmond
sitiout m. that amusing and truth-depicting
;9vel of hus, " Madelon," under the name of
Todejaschwanz, are working night and day, and
.±,y all, like the heroine of that rovel, consider
:se country a farm, the nation a herd. Nor are
ore wanting powerful auxiliaries in the family of
King. Princess Anna of Prussia, daughter of
• ce Charles, niece to the King, daughter-in-law
the Elector of Hesse, said in 1863, "1 am
ed of being a Prussian princess." And
1 Beaune Prussia declined entering that
,atual life assurance company of princelings
Bich Austria proposed at Frankfort under the
omous title of a Reform of the Bund. She is
',making now in the same spirit.
The princesses who are hunting down the chival-
-90 old King are assisted by all the courtly
Ilefsille, the unpronouncable swarm of Lilli-
:aeon majesties of the 2nd and 3rd volumes of
•Ae Gotha Almaliach, by the whole host of media-
;Rd princes, by numberless counts and barons—
, pet of the creation studied, like particular classes
1 vermin, only by amateur zoologists the
:wry of gold sticks, silver sticks, masters of the
xdchamber, the buckhounds, and various stables,
)remost amongst them His Transparency the
prince of Salm Dyck and Count Nesselrode, both
at Berlin, sympathisers with that Count West-
?won who, the other day, in the Herrenhaus
threw off his allegiance to the King, who was
~sly not honest enough to speak out as he did ;
ohy of them outwardly mitholics, intimately Vol-
:Arians, believing in nothing except their privi-
leges, hating Prussia as the progressive state of the
ontinent, and lending their hands to the ultra-
nontane party, who detest Prussia as the heretical
sate levy' ifoxfv.
The moral philosopher finds an opportunity of
making curious observations on that once much
tered question—what ties are the strongest
between eon and father, or daughter and mother,
r sister and sister, or husband and wife, or mother
and son I—all possible combinations are offered to
ebservation ; and that supreme question—how far
elfishness blinds human beings even to their true
interest ? For what will be the consequence if
this petticoated array gains the field ? Disastrous
w Prussia and to Germany, it may be, but still
more disastrous certainly to the Prussian royal
house. Dynasties pass away, but nations endure
and have their will in the end. —1 am, &c.,