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LONDON, 841V1D4Y, OCT. 9.

• SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,
sustaining the mats of the day's Rooms, is pub-
Oohed every evening daring the Sporting Sewn, at
al: o'clock.

Tun question of the Prussian Regency ham at
length been settled—not a moment too moan. The
Court party has been compelled to give way before
the rapidly-growing diaooutent and indignation of
the people. The KIN°, whose entire incapacity for
the affairs of government, whose hopeless and pro-
strate imbecility of mind and body, has long been a
notorious fact, has at length been allowed by those
who surround him, to resign that semblance of regal
authority which had for some time only existed as a
mischievous engine for working the designs of the'
reactionary party. The Prince of PRO:11A, who for
the last year had consented to act as a mere mandatory
of the Royal authority, has steadily and honourably
persisted in refusing any further extension of that
humiliating and anomalous delegation of power. A
crisis had accordingly arrived in which the alterna-
tives were, either that some other party should be
Sound willing to &crept the delegation which the
Prince declined, or that the Prince himself, in com-
pliance with the requisition of the Chambers and
the general voice of the ration, should be invested
with the Regency. The embarrassment and clangor
likely to attend on either of these alternatives hays
been happily avoided. The Breuz party has sac_
embed, and a royal decree has appeared, empower.
lag the Prince to carry on the government as
Begat, with independent powers and according to
his ewe views, till the KING be perfectly restaged
to health.

When armee history shall reveal to future
times the innermost movements of the Court
Of FILEDFAICK WILLIIW, it will probably appear
that this ultimate step had not been submitted to
without • Revere and obstinate strngele. Recent
proceedings at Berlin had evinced no disposition on
the part of the reactionary heti= to abet+ one
heir's-breadth of their high-handed pretensions. Oe
the contrary, a degree of repressive rigour had been
exercised to which the capital of Promia had been
for NOW time unaccustomed. Several of the more
liberal among the native journals had been seized,
and the lame honour had been conferred on
a distinguished English newspaper, in whose
column the state of the Regency question had been
elaborately discussed by a well-informed correspon-
dent, end made the subject of able and indignant
editorial comment. !This did not look like yielding ;
it rather bore the aspect ofa determined and despe-
rate attempt to defy the dangers of the crisis and
browbeat the rising spirit of the nation. To what
awe it le to be ascribed that wiser mussels at length
prevailed ; how it came to pain that the former flat-
terers of the £iiso, the creatures of the Queue, and
the melon of the Ireusparty, became convinced that
further resistance was hopelessly useless and immi-
nently perilous, we neither know nor care to
know. It moat have indeed required all Ui#
besotted blindness which so often foreruns the ruin
of arbitrary power, not to have discerned long ago
that the state of things which has for the lot year
meted is Prussia could not possibly be perpetuated
without fatally undermining the very fabric of the
State. It wadi not without difficulty that a hag
and Court, which in the middle of the 19th century
recalled the worst easmeries of the worst of the
Swaim, *sold sustain Itself amid the growing
Ineptness, of the most cultivated people of
modern Europe. Imagine J• 21111 I. with his
grotesque pedantry, his belief in the divine right
of kings, his imbecility, and his irreeolutisa,
called to rule over a people imperious of civil
rights and eager for eonstitutOnal privileges,
In an age of railways and electric telegraph+, of
difhoed intelligence and revolutionary theories.
Suppose the anachronistic Monarch turrouuded by
a party whose every sentiment and whose every act
was en outrage against the predominant tendencies
and wishes of the nation. Suppose this feeble
Musa to be visited by the hand of GOD with otter
and imapasitating debility of body and mind, and
this reactionary party still bent on ruling in his
Ease, determined to keep the nation in dark-
ness under the shadow of a throne whose occupant
had become a mere " metaphor of empire." The
reader who has supposed all this will have succeeded
In representing to himself the actual condition of
Prussia—of Prussia which hes for the last year
been nominally ruled by the Ellso's brother, but
really ruled by the Qusts and the Court faction.
It is over now, and the nation can breathe freely
again. From the miserable nightmare of that igno-
minious servitude it is at all events released. The
Prince of Pecesu is Repeat, " with independent
" Pours," free to rule " according to his own
" views." He his ceased to be in name the manda-
tory of the Huta, in reality the reluctant slave of
the Court party. It remains to be men
whether be will It
to the height of hie
new position. Time who have enjoyed the best
opportunities of forming a judgment on his charades,
represent him ma man of average abilities, moderate
views, and honest in hie purposes. It he be true to
himself and the hopes of the nation, his assumption
of the reins of power must prove fatal to the
ascendancy of those zealots of reaction whose info.

ence wee so unhappily paramount with his brother.
The Kreus party Mast be understood on all
heads to have received its death blow. It does sot
neemeerily follow that the MaarzurreL Ministly
will be immediately displaced. The cautious temper
el thePrinee may very probably indispose him for any
abrupt energise of power which is not rendered abso-
lutely necemary by a regard to his own self-respect
and the pelslie feeling of the nation. Those who
have had the best opportunities of forming a judg-
meet of M. hirorexureat. are probably not far
wrong when they represent him as a laborious and
supple ;man of business, a master of bureaucratic
forms and official routine, incapable of large view',
and unburdened with sincere convictions. A Minister
of this stamp would experience no great difficulty
in adapting himself to the views of the new ruler,
and it is quite possible that the Prince might find
it convenient, at all events for a time, to avail him-
self of the practised dexterity which M. MairrEtrr-
rm. has acquired during his long tenure of office.
Upon these and other kindred points, however,
the progress of events can alone enlighten as. One
thing, at all events, is clear. The destinies of the
Prussian people, se of every other people, rata ulti-
mately with itself. The cessation of the intolerable
state of things which has just come to an end is,
no doubt, as far as it goes, a subject of oongramla-
tion. But the battle of constitutional freedom has
still to be fought out before Prussia can take her
tree place among the nations. It is principally
because we regard the advent of the Prince of
PILUNIA to the Regency as affording a freer oppor-
tunity and a more favourable field for pressing for-
ward the political claims of the Prussian people,
that we in England can be asked to express satiate°.
tion at his accession to power. Until the contrary is
proved we may at least be permitted to trod that he
has not failed to derive some solid lessons of practical
wisdom from the example of that great mother-land
of freedom with whose constitutional Sovereign he
has so recently become connected by the most en-
dearing of family ties.