The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-20 00:00:00

LONDON. SATURDAY.

Tag voice of the military circles in Berlin " is
still for war." It is positively alkali that snore
than two corps dames will be saarshed tato Switser.
land: the inetrnetioss for the °Sows -iho ars to
hold commands are said to be lying ready in tbe
elks of the Minister of War; nay, we are told that
the eomm■nderio-chief bee ban and upon. All

this monde very alarming, sad yet we mad bring
oarselves to believe is the immediate advent of hosti-
lities, notwithstanding the templatioa which the
prospect of having to fight with a weaker antegseist
necessarily offers to a prison of the King of Pansies
temperament. He has two preliminary forms to go
through before be draws his sword. In the first
place, he has declared that it is his intention to
being his case before the Congress at Paris; sad it
is just possible that his brother llosarelis may per
suave the dingier of bostiaies which may 'ventilate
ia a European war. Bat more thaw that, his
MAIESTT has applied to those States of the Germanic
Confederation which intervene between him sad
Switzerland for permission to march his troops
through their territorin; the affair mast, therefore,
be talked over by the Diet at Frankfurt, and that
illestrioss body, it is notorious, never eau make lip its
mind upon any point. The King of P2IIIOIA will
bays phooey of time allowed him to cool sad come to
his mom.

Nevertheless, it is unlucky that the Mare
husband of the English Paiscus ROYAL should
have been a visitor at the Tuileries at this
critical time. The manifesto in the !fawner on the
Neufchatel affair is palpably a bid for die good graces
of the King of Pottests ; audits publication has been
associated by curt sycophants with the warm recep-
tion which tt • Prince of PRUSSIA has experiescod at
the Court of the Kurnool. The probability is that the
Pima has sever been consulted on the matter ' bat
Joan BULL is not always very discriminating whoa
his honest auger is reseed, and the ill•timed visit may
prompt him to draw strange conelssiou regarding
the selection of a husband for the PRI/ICUS ROYAL.
It will, therefore, be advisable for Lord PALIIZR-
irroN to embrace the earliest opportunity that p
seats itself to proclaim, in the mast unequivocal
language, the determination of the English Court
sad Cabinet to resist such a gross violation of the
international law of Europe as is threatssed by the
King of PRUSSIA, with the promised connivance of
the Emperor of the FRENCH.
The case for Switzer's= is stated in the most
clear and convincing manner in the memorial pro-
midgets(' by the Federal Cloven:meat. Neufchatel
woe detached from the French territory by the Treaty
of Paris, concluded on the 30th of May, 1814. The
23rd Article of the Sul Act of the Coogrese of
Vienna declares that the King of Purim has re-
united possession of several provinces and territories
which he had ceded by the Treaty of Tilsit The
Principality of Neufchatel is enumerated among
these provinces and territories; but this is a mistake,
for it had been freely ceded by the Kiag of Pavane
to the Emperor NAPOLLON, in exchange foe other
territories, as early as the 16th of February, 1808.
That the mention of Neufchatel smug the provisoes
wrested from Prussia at the peace of Tilsit was merely
the result of an oversight on the part of the diploma-
tists assembled at Vienna, is obvious frost the different
meaner in which it wee dealt with. The provinces
lost at the peace of Tilsit were re-annexed to Prussia;
the principality of Neufchatel wee not. It wee recog-
nised as a sovereign state, separate from and Jade-
pedant of the Pries= monsreby, sad incorporated
as II 01164101 late the Helve= Coofederstion. On the
20th of March, 1816, the Powers celled upon to take
part in the arrangement of the affairs of Switzerland
declared :—"The inteirity of the 19 cantons, is the
manner in which they existed as a political
body prior to the Convention of the 26th December,
1813, is recognised ma the beds of the Helvetia
system. Tie Valais, the territory of Clews, and the
principality of Neufehatel are re-united be Schur-
laud. sod will farm three new cantene." A federal
compact was ooaolnded on the 7th of August, 1816,
by the twenty-two Sovereign States of the Helve&
Confidential. It was signed sad sworn to by the
State of Neufchatel among the rest, The King of
PRUSSIA, SS Primo of NIUTCUATIL, had previously
given full powers to the Council of State to negotiate
for the admission of the Principality into the Confe-
deration, on the same tense as the other santoos, with-
oat any reservation as to his own personal righte.l