The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

While the bitterness and the indignation which the
King of Hanover feels is sally understood, the Times thinks
that no regard for the interests of a dynasty or the merits
of individual princes should make us forget the inesti-
mable benefits which are:likely to accrue to Europe from
the movement of which the Hanoverian annexation is one
of the find phases. As politicians we have only to ask
whether the result of the struggle will be beneficial to the
people whose lot it has altered and to ourselves, and to
this there can be only one answer returned. King George's
protest therefore will be disregarded by all impartial men
who will look upon what has been done as irreversible,
and this, although the Hanoverians themselves may show
for some time a chivalrous attachment to the" ancient
dynasty. Is is to be hoped that the Prussian wart will
know how to attract to itself, by a conciliatory policy,
the affections which, for the present, have followed King
George into exile. It may be that the rule of Berlin will
never be willingly accepted by all classes in the minor
states until the Prussian King shall have followed the
example of Victor Emmanuel, and merged his hereditary
title into one derived from the whole country. Those
who would object to be annexed by a King of Prussia
might not be unwilling to bear allegiance to an Emperor
of Germany. The supremacy which exists in fact might
well be asserted by him who wields it, and rat' fied by a
German parliament.

According to the Telegruph whoever has seen a respect-
able old gentleman trying to pick up his bat in a crowd—
jostled, hustled, dishevelled, incensed, and utterly in de-
spair—has seen such a spectacle as the unlucky monarch
now presents to his faithful Hanoverian and to Europe.
He decides to do what that elderly sufferer would—he goes
hoses and " writes to the papers."
The Tines notices in the course of an article upon the
causes of the Austrian defeat, en amusing statement by the
Nose Deutsche Zeitung, to the effect that the
Prussian army owed its knowledge of the Austrian
positions to communications made to it by the
Timer, and which that journal had received from its
correspondent in the Austrian camp. Scarcely expecting
that its readers will look for any vindication from so wild
an accusation, our contemporary proceeds to add that it is
never easy under the best circumstances to satisfy a beaten
party as to the real cause of its defeat. The prostration
of Austria in the field was due rat►er to weak Italy than
to strong Prussia, for by a strange infatuation by far the
best German troops were sent to the defence of
that Quadrilateral which could so easily defend
itself, while the mere rabble of Croats and Slave-
nians went to swell the ranks under Benedelt.
The very troops that were on the firsts line at Roniggrats
were Italians, mainly, it would seem, Venetians, and when
the decisive moment came, the Italian regiments, as we
learn by a Spanish officer who has published a narrative of
his observations, passed over for the most part to the
enemy, and threw down their arms to the cry of " Viva
Garibaldi!" Well may the writer add that " this cause,
hitherto little known, had a best influence on the result
of the battle." The consternation thrown upon the waver-
ing Austrian line by the defection of a considerable force
at the critical moment may be too readily imagined ; and
there is little doubt that those Venetian deserters
achieved more at that moment towards the deliverance of
their country than the soldiers and sailors of Victor
Emmanuel can be said to have done either at Castors* or
at Ursa.

M. Lueiw►vna.—lt is *understood that the
Foreign-office have received the petition presented
by M. Lamirande to our Ambassador at Paris,
and Lord Stanley has promised that the case
shall have his immediate and best attention. Lord
Carnarvon has also declared himself fully alive to
the importance of the case, and is taking the neces-
sary measures for instituting a strict inquiry into
the conduct of those who have so grossly outraged
British law.