The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

THE Government of Austria has addressed

remonstrances to the Court of St. Petersburg
en a question personal to the Emperors of both
States—one characteristic, too, in its small way, of
the arrogance of the House of HAP.IICEG and of
the ambition of the Dynasty of How INorr.

L WOO moat documents the Csss described
His Imperial and Royal Majesty :" a
matter, it might appear, of very small importance to
any rational being. " No," says the KAISER to the
CZAR—. I alone, of }haven's Vicegerents oo this
" earth, am entitled to use that duplex designation
"of sovereign authority. I ant both Emperor and
" King—you are an Emperor only. For you to
assume the see of Royal as well as Imperial is to
" usurp sad appropriate my prerogative." To
this Austrian reclamation the OA' is said
to bare replied by pointing significantly to
the possession of the Kingdom of Poland as
his authority for the appellation Royal. And,
certainly, if extinguished regalities can confer
titles, the CZAR is just as well entitled to justify the
use of the word Royal from the once important bat
now dead kingdom of Poland, as the K sisza is from
that fairest portion of his possessions, the annexed
Kingdom of Hungary. It is Dot fot Englishmen to
try to compose such royal strife and imperial trifling.
Nor would we refer to it thus prominently, but as
affording an illustration at once of how theCzAn pushes
his pretensions forward into Central Europe; how
the KAISER tries to repose on the past glories of the
meet ancient of European sovereignties; how each,
in his own very different and antagonistic aphete,
pursues the police. he has inherited, regardless of
passing events or of the spirit of the age which he
illustrates without adorniug.
Here have we two Sovereigns of about equal ages
—of abilities of nearly equal mediocrity—of consi-
derable personal activity—masters of two great Em-
pires, the least advanced States of Christendom—

both affecting in their rule a peculiar though distinct
and opposed connexion with the great Churches to
which they belong—operating largely and ex-
tensively in their civil government through the
influence and co-operation of those two powerful
and hurtful ecelmiastical organisations and hier-
archies—happily fur the rest of the world, and in spite
of their absolutism and despotism, if not actually
quarrelling, at least in discord.

The CZAR has lately been in Germany. There is
scarcely a petty prince in that country who has nut re•
ceived either the happiness clone of those visits or of
one of those recognitions by which Russian power in
Central Europe is from time to time maintained and
consolidated. No sooner is the war over than
ALEXANDER hastens thither to return in person
thanks foe that neutrality of its princes which con-
stitutes so shameful a feature of their present gene-
ration. From Berlin he sweeps through these petty
Coatis to Baden and the Rhine. Attended in his
proper by Baron SEEBACII, who played so im-
portant • part in preparing those concessions to

/tisane which constitute the basis of the Treaty of
Paris, and for which that really Russian agent has
been rewareltd by the baron 'Crime in Paris, he
refuses to cross the mighty stream which separates
Germany from France, and to pay that Com-
pliment to Loris Neroxxos which he had
just bestowed on the Court of Carlsruhe. From
this refusal the Cabinet of the Tuileries may
limn how deeply the Russian Government is ag-
grieved by its ultimate infidelity as to Hotrod—
how hopeless it is to conciliate the CZAR by any-
thing short of complete and absolute suborn ieney.
Nor, indeed, does France at present want other
proof. Besides securing a rich wife and selling his
pictures at Bt. Petersburg, Count DE Mosey had to
all appearance gained another triumph in a Treaty
of Commerce. But when examined, the importance
of that elaborate document evaporates in idle words.
All that France gains by it is equality in Russia
fur its wines as distinguished from those of Greece,
which formerly had a small preference; while Russia
has only secured the empty stipulation that what-
ever France concedes to other Powers she will also
give to Russia, a concession which amounts to
nothing so long as her commercial system shall con-
fines, as it is now likely to do while the Empire
lan, prohibitory and protective, and which under
freedom of trade would be valueless.

The truth is that, despite all fears and apprehensions,
then is and can be no natural affinity, no real point of
attraction, and no permanent connexion between
Russia and France under a Government w►ich pro-
fesses to be based on the great revolutionary principles
of 1789, and which inclines towards England, at once
from community of interests, intelligence, and appre-
hensions. So Count De Moan, has resigned an
embassy in which nothing great was to be accom-
plished far France, and the representation of France
at St. Petersburg bas passed once more, in the per-
sou of Count ult RATNICYAL, into the regions of the
less ambitious but more useful and skilful ordinary
diplomacy of the French Empire.

This abstinence of the CZAR on the very banks of
tie Rhine, and when within eight hours' journey of
Paris, followed, asit haabeen, by the Imperial visit to
Osborne and the better understanding between the
Governments of England and France on the question
of free elections, and, let us hope, free government
also for the Principalities, which was happily
effected there, Is at lent indicaiive that there are
no special relations between Franc• and Russia, and
that Loots NAPOLEON remains faithful to that
policy on which the Anglo-French alliance wee
founded. Remarkable, in this respect, as was the
appearance of the CZUL on the very frontiers
of France, it is, perhaps, even more remark-
able for the omivaion of any personal inter-
view with the Emperor of AUSTRIA. We are no
admirers of Austrian policy, and regard with
dislike, and even more than dislike, the present
predominance of the Court of Vienna in
Germany. But it is impossible not to look with
satisfaction and complacency on the separation of
two Sovereigns and Comte whose anion and concord
would be so mischievous to Europe.

The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev.
IRMA Sereee Commias. M A., curets of St. George the
Merer. Mmem-eguare, Bloomsbury, to the Rectory of St.
Jessas, Coishistur.