The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUEBDAE, DECEMBER 3.

AT length some light has dawned epos the
benighted field of German polcs. We beer se
longer of menaces, and ultimatums, and advance el
troops, but of mediutioe, and middle terms, and ami-
cable accord. The daily bulletin records no detail el
Bannon shots between General VON OsOEBEN and the
Prince of TAW but a rendesvons of the two Prime
Ministers of the hoetile powers to come to sem
speedy onderstandiog. Why was this net done hug
ego? wily has the Elector of Henn hass=e eta
sudden so mild, as to consent to :stern tie Idscapital,
capital, without an Austrian guard, and accepting
the old constitution instead of it? Why have the
Austrians consented to evacuate Cassel, and refer the
settlement of Schleswig Holstein to commissioners, s
Prussia proposed two rei.ettis ago, instead of conti-
nuing to insist on cotquerieg the Duchies by &federal
army? Why has Austria not only consented to
free oonferenoes, but even to admit Prussia's right to
form any league she pleases? Why so much humility
after so much arrogance ? Why such abject sneak-
ing after such insolent bullying? Why? Because
the Prussian parliament soppwted by the Prussian
nation in arms, assumed that firm and manly posi-
tion, which could only hove been east by war. And
Austria evidently was nut seriously prepared for that
alternative.
The London organ of Austria, the Times, explains
all this by saying, that its patron, Prince Sciiweravi-
BERG, " has, for the last :en days, shown an earnest
desire to avoid war, and if possible, to enable Baron
MANTECITEL to retain office." A bad compliment that
to the BARON I Gres the Times pretend that it was
for love and respect to the person of Baron
Mserreerm, and rot from the wholesome con-
viction that MANTEPPVEL would make more COnceS-
Sion/ than any other Prussian statesman, and conse-
quently that Austria feared the accession to
power of any other minister ? The fact proves
how just was the opinion of Itenowerz that the Aus-
trians, if manfully met, would shrink like snails into
their shells. The Austrian Times covers the abject
retreat of its patrons by an essay on the dolmen.
gram of Hesse, and a magniloquent description,
taken evidently from one of -...seIIWASZENBERG'S own
bulletins, of the mere helming army of the stii.disont
confederation ; whilst the Tines must know that
three-fourths of that army, Saxon and Franconian and
Wurtemberger, would never have crossed bayonets
with their brethren of north Germany, but would
have either fraternioed with them on the first field
they met, or withdrawn from the Austrians, as the
Bavarians did from the French at Henan, when
forced into an abhorred service, by NAPOLEON.
Lot us, however, rot be too hasty in jubilation.
The settlement of the affairs of Heme at Frankfort
through th.. able efforts of Lord COWLEY, may be
highly displeasing to the amour-propre of SCHWAS-
ZENntRO. AU who recollect that diplomatic dandy in
Lon ion, where he so notoriously figured, must know
personal vanity to mike nine-tenths of his character
and motives. That any other than he should settle
such weighty queetioes, and in • way not exactly
conducive to his illustration, as the French say, must
be facts highly displeasing to him. And though
MAPTillritL is the most oily-tongued of politicians,
the very flora Slirh of (Ache' life, his soft solder may
fail to heal the wounds of the Austrian prince's
vanity, gaping as they must be at such a discomfiture
as the present.
It is now said—and what has not been sa•d?—that
Austria reverts to her of I idol ot dividing Germany
into lenguee, either a double one of north and 'oath
Denary, ore triple one of Prussia, Austria, and the
getailer principalities. The latter scheme is what
Prance ao ardently deeirc4, and which was the great
NAPOLsoN idea. 'frit conqueror graciously per-
mitted Austria and Preemie to exist, whilst the rest of
Germany, ne stied under the wings of the French eagle,
swan fealty lathe League of the Confederation of the
Rhine. However the may answer the multiple
policy of M. BennoT and the imperial reminiampaci e of
M. Tn trite, we doubt the possibility of its realisation.
What Germans rea'ly want, and what they will
sot do without, is constitutional government; with the
freedom—political, social, intellectual—that it give..
Brat constitutional government, either in • small iso-
lated state, where the civil lint would swallow up a
whole budget, or in a grouping of these small states
under a more princely union, is impossible. If the
Germans desire witty, it is to secure them-
selves that development and that just legu-
me over the affairs of their common country,
that F.iigtiehmen a. d Frenchmen Imagoes. To in-
Atodate them to Austria, or to subject them to a
federation in which Austrian principles prevailed,
were to preclude every hope of this. They had a
better expectation from • Pi ussian head; bat it is not
far the purpose of either swelling the empire or grati-
fying the ambition of any Prussian family or prince.
It is narrowing the question altogether to con-
sider it a Pl6lllOlll one. The Germano, iadepen.
dent alike of Freesia and of Austria, number
eighteen millions. And it is these eighteen millions
that the despots and diplomatists of Europe are
disputing for as if they. were so many sheep. These
eighteen millions, forming a population as numerous
and as enlightened as our own, have certain wishes—
moderate, rational, natural, and quiet. Are the
opinions and desires of these eighteen millions of no
worth? Consult thew opinions either in the month.
of Germans, or in their press, or in their chambers,
wherever power will allow them to exist, and you
will find the self-same desire universally echoed—the
desire for representative government and national in-
dependence. And yet our eery journals do bat cry out
day. after day, that no account should be taken of the
desires, wants, or opinions of these millions; that
they are not deserving of constitutional freedom; that
their unity in any thing but subjection to a conclave
of princes tea crime
and that Use idea should be emerged out of them with
rods and pricked out of them with bayonets. Austria
is a barbarous country of Croats and Slavons, with a
specien of government such as is to be found amongst
the Tartars. The EMPEROR has not more than six
millions of subjects who speak the German language;
yet ha the lord of these sax millions of enslaved Ger-
mane, the eighteen millous of free and educated Ger-
mans are to be handed over bound.
Tit!, is the monstrous proposition of the Tunes—
we were goicg to say the tory Times, but that would
be an insult to toryi-m. Tories, at least, profess an
attachment to constitutional government. But the
Times is not tory—it is absolutist, and absolutist of
the Tartar breed, such as has never been known in
this country, and such as even • reateentan of MENET
vna EIGHTH'S reign would have been ashamed:to
profess.
Well might Prof nor WORK declare at Birming-
ham that such set time eta, allowed to go forth to the
continent as the opinion of Englishmen, degraded
them in the eyes of Europe to be the tail of civil-
isation, instead of allowing them to hold the honoured
place which history has hitherto assigned them.

ALL the world knows Bishop inumateoaca for a
slippery, Silver-tongued prtlate, who got the eccle-
siastical commission, on ono pretence or other, to
spend several tt.omatids of pounds in his " palace " at
Cod letden, who, accordirg to the evidence taken by a
committee of the 11)US, of Commons on that com-

maligns, has for come time enjoyed a few hundreds
• year more than the Episcopal Reform Act intended
the Bishop of 01,0kD to have, and who, out of his
large episcopal income, contributes yearly to the
Great Church Association about 3s. 6d. per cent.
Alt the world knows further, that Bishop WILB6I-
- has one clerical brother (and a lay one, too, we
believe) who is now enjoying with the Jesuits at
Brumes a holy calm he could never And in the vicar-
age of Fiat Farleigh—that he hes another brother in
the church who holds the present movement against
Boorish audacity to be intolerant and the dams
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