The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-11 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11.

IT is now pretty evident, and, indeed, beyond the
seseeity of demonetratioa, from which of the contend-
ing parliev in Germany hes proceeded the provccation
to war, if not the precipita,ion of Europe into that
dire calamity. The cindut of the Prussian govern-
ment hu been, up to the lull, so cocciliatory, so
humble, so abargatory of even the necessary pride
of a military nation, that however it may be charged
with weaktues, it ea:tinily cannot be accused of

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rroganceor obstinacy.
Still it would be unjust aed untrue to consider the
Prussian government uat one moment resigned to
yield everything, and the next inspired by an amens
of enthusiasm and despair to dare resistance. It is
not true that in the cabinet councils, where them im-
portant questions were mooted, the King and his
brother, and General Rnnowtxx, wen alone for
armament and warlike demonstration, the pru-
dence and conservative resistance of Count BILANDEN-
BERG and his colleagues dissuading them from such a
course. COW BRANDKNBERG, indeed, returned from
Warsaw with the belief that he had arrived at an
naders:aeding with Austria, and that the conflicting
perennials of Diet and of Ution being est aside, and
re.erred for settlement in the future Conference, the
temporary and subordinate questions of Hues and
Schleswig might have been brought to an amicable

conclusion.
Even when tidings were brought to Berlin that the
Bavarian troops had entered these and occupied
Macau, Count BIPANDEMBEICI wee not unwilling to
allow them tranquilly to do so, the Prussian troops at
the same time occupying the depot strave in the
north of the electorate, this joint occupation lasting
till the Cmference had fixed suns mod* of pacifying
and doing justice to the country. But when Count
BILANDENBRIO learned that the invasion had taken
place is the name of the Confederation,
and under the authority of that Frankfort Dist
which he had been led at Warsaw to believe was sus-
pended ; when three invading Bavarians summoned
the PrIIPAilliS to aithdrawaltogether and allow them
to re-install the Elector without condition or consi-
&Wien, or accord, then Count 131,AN1 ENBLILO de-
clared himself as warmly fa resistance and fix arming
as the Ktno or (fermi RILDOWITZ himself. Count
Biunnanner.o died is the declaration and conviction
that the invasion of Heise in the same of the Dist
was a breach of the iqc eementa of Warsaw, and that
it was a coarse enforcement of ocaditione to which he

had sever consented.
It was in fact but a question of time. There was
DO disputed point or rebellious province that could
have outlasted or withstood the united opinions of
every German power in a free Conference. To have
awaited its decision would have secured order and
psce, if out liberty. Bat Austria would not wait.
Whether impelled by the warlike temper of its young
Emperor, or by more insidious designs, it has pushed
hit) Hesse, ordering the Prussians out of it,
as r. commander-in chief might a corporal's guard,
threatening, nay levying war, unless these in-
solent demands were complied with. Prussia could
not yield to such mandates; if she did, her very
soldiers would not obey her.
And if the news be true, conveyed in the latest
telegraphic moor(' of the Cologne Gaz,tte, that the
Anteater had entered Coburg, this is of itself a de-
rivation of war. It is the invasion of a state belong-
ing to the Prussian union, the call of whose prince for
defence and succour Prussia is bound to obey. Austria
could only march into Coburg with the intention of
directly provoking and cf making war, the road
through Coburg leading directly to Cassel, and
menacing the rear of the Pre mien force. The en-
trance of the Austrians into Coburg is war, and will
be considered such.
By the unanimous vote of the cabinet, and with
the unanimous adhesion of the country, the Prussian
innihrehr his been called out, and the cham-
bers convoked. 'Mess measures combined place
the war, and the questions out of which it has
arisen, before the Prussian, we may say, indeed, the
(lemon public. The spirit of the parliament cannot
be doubted. And in truth, the Prussian histilafehr is
another parliament, the moat formidable and powerful
represeetation of a country that was ever invented.
Henceforth, whatever be done mug be national; war
will be carried on with national spirit, and peace
meet be concluded to national satisfaction.
If at this crisis of affairs we ars seriously asked, or
should ask curse Ire., whether war be inevitable,
we can only answer, that war or peace depends
upon the acts and upon the motives of Austria, and
above allot Russia. If the purpose of the.o countries
be peace. Prussia will no doubt keep it. Prussia can
have no motive for war but self-preservation. Over-
matched and awed by the formidable coalition of the
two emperors, into which France and England were
partially drawn, Prairie prudently bowed before
such a combination—has yielded, and would yield,
all that would not r.bsolutely sacrifice the honour,
and with it the duration, of the monarchy.
If, however, the secret purpose of Russia is to
place the two German powers in hostile conflict, no
doubt she can succeed; and England and France have
taken no step to prevent her. It is well known and
agreed upon, that in t"e event of Aultria's going to
war, Russia is to occupy Galicia, and Hungary, and
even Vienna. once more with her troops. If the result
of that war shou'd be a defeat of the Austrians, and •
destruction of their military power, Russia would
thereby inherit and retain the poseessiou of Hungary
and Cron:cis. For who could then fix a term for
Russia's ev.icuating them? If Prussia wee beaten,
Austria might be allowed to keep Silesia, and cede;
Oillira to Russia. Or, perhaps, further carving or
partition might take place. War in central Europe,
spht up as that country is into empites without rights,
institutions, frontiers, or popular attachment, is
in feet ccnvertiog the a hole region into a great poli-
tical gambling table, on which kingdoms, provinces,
and populating may be won or lint. Such a game
at present would in all probability tend to the ad-
vantage of Russia, and to the total disappearance of
any check or counterbalance to her in the East.
Heaven knows that this is sufficiently the case
already, since the total destruction of Hungary and
Poland as nitiona. To see Germany threatened by
the same fate, her princes appearing as supplicants
at the gates of the Czar's palace in 'Wormer, is
more slarmiog than anything that has happened in
Rue lie for centuries. For if Germany prove unable
to widistaad the Colossus, it will fall with its full
weight upon France and upon us, annihilating the
attire liberties and independence of Europe.
In this critical state of things we do think that
the IltritiA government ought to come forward with a
frank opinion on this cew system of destroying all con-
stitutional government. That Austria should once
more call is Russian troops to occupy her provinces
and cities, and resort to this extreme merely for the
purpose of crushing and punishing the most legal and
constitutional resisance that was ever offered to an
arbitrary and extravagant prince—this is so contrary
to the Treaty of Vienna, which promised constitutions
to the states of Genoese'', and to the entire spirit and
stipulations of tb t gr. at accord, that England is pecu-
liarly called on to raise at heat its voles in behalf of
Europese independence and legal right.

MIL DISRAELI appear to think that the business
'in life of a *Weil leader is somewhat like that of a
'jockey. He is readT to meant and away at the
shortest feasible =nee—willing to ride any horse
that anybody will back—end determined to spare
slime whip nor try, in order to head the Bold. Yet

there are some races he cannot rids; and a srtraiiie-
chase is evidently one of them. The idle po of
the people of England are just now bent upon enjoy-
ing that somewhat desperate species of aseimerat.
Every parson is out, and even bishops are. ridog in
their stirrups, contrary to the' easy melt into
which they had Wen of late years.' As • for
the whole mob of squires and lads who
take part in " this truly national pastim4:
the dust they sufficiently indicates
number. Lord Lioate, with his mead courage, leeks
as if he had said, "I think I'll show you the way to-
clear these new fences and walls thrown up to puzzle
us." Whereupon Mr. Dim= pulls up at the pant
of starting, and cries, " Nay, bat you can't go at
them, inasmuch as you built them yourself! "
The tory leader perceives the gain in personal po-
pularity which will accrue to Lord JOHN Roseau
from his recent declaration against papal encroach-
ments ; and eagerly strives to stop the current of na-
tional feeling by raising a different question. He
does not attempt to defend the novel assumptions of
ecclesiastical power by Rome. Quite the reverse.
He even disputes the fact of the twelve new catholic
bishops being bishops at aIL Lord Jinn( objects to a
twelfth part of the realm being specifically given to
each of them for an episcopal possession, which is the
real point in dispute. By way of being clever, Mr.
Dane= overlooks this—the territorial and political
question—and endeavours to raise a totally different
controversy about titles conceded by courtesy in en
adjacent kingdom, and to certain marks of royal
desire to show consideration for the prevalent creed
of the Irish people. But the electors of Backs,
for whose edification their representative's letter
has been professedly written, must be doll indeed if
they are bewildered by this rather clumsy attempt at
distraction. The question is not by what titles
catholic bishops in a catholic country ought to be
called, but whether the protestant bishops. of a pro-
testant country are to be pushed from their places at
the word of a foreign prince whose temporal weak-
ness notoriously render' him the passive instrument of
our absolutist malice?
Mr. Datum wholly misunderstands what the
people of England are angry about. The conces-
sion of their appropriate titles of honour to catho-
lic bishops, when they are, to all intents and
porpoise, the spiritual chiefs of the clergy of the
great bulk of the nation, neither offended nor startled
us. We felt that substantially it was no affair of ours.
Ireland is not England, and can no more be governed
by the tame laws or images in this and other essential
matters than Canada and Ceylon. All are, indeed,
=piens of the same empire; but an empire is a
on for mutual benefit of many communities,
▪ ibe subjugation to one intolerant hierarchy of
miry religions. The indignation with which we re-
pel fanatical intruders and outlandish pretensions,
ler from being inconsistent with a scrupulous
ears not to offend the conscientious feelings of
ear fellow subjects beyond the sea, is in
reality the fitting and natural counterpart of our
atatiamal jeeluney in all that concerns our religious
beedens. We value our spiritual liberty so highly
that we desire all other people to enjoy it likewise.
Whatever form of ohristianity a people adopt, it
is the policy and ditty of the imperial government
respect. And whoa, as in Ireland and Ca-
nada, sects divide the community, impartial justice
mdse. the observance of impartial cearteey
pamible yet more imperative. Bat as the
QUEEN, when holding her court at Dublin.
wisely refused to ignore the fact that the catholic his-
/mashy of Ireland are and have always been the beads
of the clergy of the large majority of the Irish people,
—so bar MAJESTY will wisely and consistently refine
ea sanction the preposterous affectation of the Court of
Reese, in pretending to overlook the existence of the
Church of England, and to map out the kingdom into
new dioceses. as though it had been a heathin land.
It le the rank intolerance implied in this assumption
that revolts the generous and just feelings of the
people of England. It is the political and social con-
sequences which public acquiescence in it might en-
gender, that we resent, and are determined to
avert.
Mr. Dement does not appear to comprehend the
difference between recognising a reality in one
country and acknowledging a sham in another. He
seems equally unconscious of the tone meaning of
these ceremonial concessions recently made in 'relied.
111 is a mistake to suppose that tne Quays received
' • the catholic prelates of that kingdom as nobl.s " be-
ams sho appointed them a certain precedence, and
addressed them as "my lords." Titles and prece-
dence as every tyro in heraldic coning' knows are the
accidents of nobility, not its essential marks o its
external proofs. "My lord " is invariably used, for
example, when addressing certain legal officials, and
peers sons, who are in point of fact no more nobles,
thin England is a fief of the l'opedom. And, as for
precedence, it is equally notorious that the representa-
tives of foreign powers, whether despotic or repub-
lican, " take the wall," u Mr. DISRAELI terms it, of
notables and worthies of every degree. Had Cardinal
Weseuett had the rinse to have worn his honours
with a little more of apostolic meekness, the people of
England never would have been at the pains to inquire
in what courtly style he was received. It is not his
cardinalate, which is a real office in an Italian state,
but his pretended Archbishopric of Westminster, and
his usurped right " to rule" over certain counties as
bishop, and over the entire kingdom as metropolitan,
appointed thereunto by a foreign prince, without the
consent or knowledge of either the government or
people of the realm, that both government and people
refuse to suffer.
Lord ions, as principal adviser of the sovereign,
and as representative of the first constituency in the
empire, was in an especial manner called upon to give
expression to the national sense of insult and of
wrong. If popular feeling is not likely to diacrimi-
sate nicely between the minister and the man, and if
the result be to rally back to the whig administration,
of which he is the hied, somewhat of the confidence
they had lost, it is natural we admit that Mr. DIS-
RAELI and his friends should feel chagrin. But are
they not blockheads to betray it so openly ? And is
it not pitiful to see a man of Mr. DISRAELI'S genius
and position special pleading about a case on the
broad =I unmistakeable merits of which the verdict
of the nation will assuredly be given ?