The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The mails for Lisbon, Spain, end Gibraltar will be inade
me en Nov. 7.
The mails via Ka milla to the Mediterranean, Egypi,
Carlow, loots, Kong-Kong, &a, will be made up on the
rassing of Nov. 7.
The mails ha British North Magpies, Bermuda, and the
United Santee will be made up, per Niagara," oa the
evening of Nov. 8.
The ails for the West bales, V la, New Graeae*
Oreytewo, sad lama, will be fade up on the morning of
Noe. 18.
The nails for Hasnsah, Honduras, Nina, and Jame!,
CIO, end Peru, will be made up on the 'morning el Nov. 18.
The Dials for Gibraltar, Halts, Grease, the Leman laisads
igypt, Ceylon, India, and Chia. via Beatkanipton, will
he made up on the evening of Nov. 20.
The mails toe Malta will be wade tag on the morning of
Dee. 2. wW
The mails kr Madeira.. the Brunt, and Buena Agreg,
be made up ea the evening of Dee. 4.

011111 WA7III AT MIMI 111LIDON.
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LONDON, TUESDAY. NOTEMBER 5.

Tnt German riddle approaches near to at least a
temporary 'dollen, and one which will be far from
satisfying even the mast moderately constitutir nal of
the liberals of that country. The Czar of RUSSIA
had formally and peremptorily signified his prohibi-
tion of anytbinf partaking of the popular represents-
ties prirciple in the federal bond or system of Ger-
many. Whilst Austria was prepared to enforce this pro-
hibition by arms, and Russia was, of course, reedy to
support her, France was loud in menace, nnlen the
Frankfort Diet, that negation of the representative
principle, was allowed to settle the Holstein question
after its fashion. England joined in the chain, not
indeed S 3 far as it is alleged, for Lord Comm' did
not recognise the fail authority of the Frankfort Diet,
as the limes alleged. Bat still in one of the critical
points at issue the English cabinet was against
Prussia, not with her. Thus beset by a
universal, a European league, Prossin has
yielded. How far she has yielded with honour
will be a subject of much diversity of opinion. Before
we undertake to pass judgment on that point, let us
endeavour to see how mach has been yielded, and
how much maintained.
In the first place, Prussia coceents not to abolish,
but to defer any popular representative anembly. for
those states of Germany which have joined its union.
On the other hand, Russia and Austria consent
to desist from their previous demand, that Prussia
and her allies should recognise and re-enter the re-
euscitated Diet at Frankfort. Union and Diet are both
impended for the moment, and the question of the
federation referred to free conferences, to be held by
delegates from the thirty-four German states. This
fries conference Prussia has been long de-
manding, and it was long refused her.
She wished the meeting to take place at
Dresden, but Vienna has been fixed as the place of
meeting. Prussia also demanded that there conferences
should be held under the joint presidenco of Austria
and Prussic Austria refused this, not objecting to
the alternate presidency as the rule of future settle-
meat, bat refusing to give up as apreliminary. what
she might make useof as a concession in negotiation.
The chief question which here suggests itself is,
whether the union of those 'tides which grouped
around Prussia is definitively given up, or intended
to be given up. We believe that it has not been
given up, and that it remains completely open
whether the future confederation is to bind the
princes of this union in the mass or separately.
Another important point is, that whatever may be
the nature or the law of the confederation, Austria
no longer eaters it, as before, with merely her Ger-
man provinces and people, but with her entire em-
pire and population, Italy excepted. We believe
this will make an empire of nearly 70 millions, united
for military, and in all probability for commercial
purperies. How France will like this we do not
know. Most certainly the French cabinet has sup-
potted and pushed it with all its might. And, verily
it has attained what it struggled for—with what ad-
vantage to itself, we leave the idiot statesmen of the
Elysis to discover.
Indeed, one of the first or concomitant acts of this
new grand German confederation has been to show
its contempt tor Frarce and England—for the
menaces of one, and the mediation of the other—on
the Schleswig-Holstein affair. For whilst England
has been signing at Frankfort, and the French
fuming in London about the protocol, the Great Man
at Warsaw has coolly accepted Prussia's proposal of
a mixed commission, and flung France and England
over.
We wish we could give a promising hope of the
settlement of Hesse, but the invasion of the electorate
by the Bavarians, and their advance to Hanau, ac-
companied by a moat absolutist and vindictive pro-
clamation of the Micron, prejudging the whole
question, excite a world of fear and suspi-
cion.
If the decrees of the mock Diet of Frankfort
are thus to be enforced, and are allowed to be en-
forced, at the very moment when the whole questions
of diet, and union, and constitutional rights are re-
ferred to a free conference, then Prussia remains dis-
honoured, and the German people will look to all
that may be said or done at Berlin and Vienna as a
shameful deception. Let us hope that the advance to
Hamm is but a mere coup gle tete of the &Etna, and
that the abandonment of Reese was no part of the
stipulations of Warsaw.
It is impossible, indeed, to cone:ive that the framers
of the new confederation can contemplate, even in
the future, any legislative functions on the part of the
federal power. In the new federation Austria will
form 32 millions out of 64. If it have anything like a
proportionate voice, and If that voice can be effectual
in deciding constitutional questions—if Hesse, and
Saxony. and Baden, and Prussia, are to have no more
constitutional rights, no more liberty of the person
and the press than Austria will sanction in a restored
diet, then, indeed, all liberty, or hopes of liberty, 'will
have been extirpated in Germany. It will be a pure
and unmitigated military deepousm, a complete sub-
itaoption of the German race to the Sclavonian, the
N var, and the Croat.
edo not believe that Pringle would ever consent
to such self-annulment as well as disgrace. Did she
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ever so much consent, the German people will net
ratify it. That people have their rights, their aim%
their convictions;, they have the consciousness et
their intelligence, their number, and their force. AU
have been thrown away on the frantic efforts of 1848.
Fruition' undertook to preserve, to rear up, to aad►
guard a certain portion of German ideas, intestinet,
aspirations, and pride. If Prussia fails or proves
treacherous, the German people will recommenceon the
very morrow the great work of their deliverance, with
more patience, consideration, and astuteness than
before, but with no less determination and no less
certitude of sums&
The Princes of Europe have now the alternative be-
fore them. They may have the Germans as consti-
tutionalists or revolutionists. It is for them to make
the choice.

ANOTIIER speech from another protectionist leader
shows another defection from protectionist principles,
exhibits another attempt to delude the farmers, and
suggests a new mode of cheating the country. The
orator is Mr. W. MILLS; the place of his oratory
Bridgewater; the cminty, Somerset.
There is shout Mr. Mtute a heavy, blundering,
stupid honesty; a sort et top boots and leather
breeches morality that disdains logic while correctly
stating fact.; a species of bawls, earnestness and
sinceray that insists on preserving consistency at the
cost of all the intellectual faculties. Hs is a good,
kind, heavy, obstinate millionaire, this Mr.W.
who really believes dear bread and high rents, and,
we presume, the little shilling, the retest of all
earthly blesdogs, except, perhaps, port wine.
The puzzle is, however, how a man with the
descent and antecedents of Mr. Mass was ever re-
duced to this sad state of squireerehy. It is not usual
to see the descendants et intelligent and successful
sawdust' and bankers, as he is, becoming more
'tepid than the "tenth transmitters of a foolish face;"
ordinarily rise above the intelligence of lea-
k, at lust a generation or two. Whereas,
lbe sweinsereial Mutsu, of Bristol, men who owe
=at wealth to plodding Industry, commercial
, mad 4.0.1111da money dealing, bays no sooner
home rat leeivorms in lionerastshire than all
VMS, eseasirelel ebernetsristics desert them, and they
bps leak to the Wei of the Trems of the legials-
Wm • There moat be somethi very destructive of
MUM case in the soil of . When,

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were years ago, Mr. Cures, the natural phileupher,
steed for the county, they threatened to barn his for
witchcraft Perhaps, then, it is only natural that
Mr. Muss should be an authority at Bridgewater.
Well, at Bridgewater, Mr. Mau propounded hie
scheme of tactics. of course, there wu nothing an-
ginal, or skilful, or very succusfal locales in it; but,
tete Meresdio's wound, it was enough, tt would do,
if parliament could only be seductd into zne aocrpi
Mr. Mines, it seems, once heard a free trader in the
House of Comma= exclaim, apropos, we presume, to
some nonsense uttered by a protectionist, " We don't
object to import duties for the sake of revenue ;"
ever since, this exclamation bus been "lying fallow"
is his undrained mind, until at last he has re.
nivel to found nothing lees than a natiseal policy en
en
Interlocutory remark. Some sea Dose their taw
dui en She immutable laws of morality ; others on
the gneespts of revealed religion; some, again, on the
Wein elf the seenoonsts ; others on the state of their
banime bahrion But Mr. Kau steels an audio
den lon his opponents, and by it proposes to sway
Inginne's destinies, and to regulate its people's din-
ners. He is • great man, MILES, and a sly man, too.
The free traders not then objecting to import duties
for revenue, Mr. MILES thinks they can have no
objection to indulge the protectionists with an im-
port duty of 6e. on foreign wheat. In this sequence
there is the usual bacoic inconsequence. Men don't
always do what they don't abject to. Reasonable people
don't object to take medicine when they require a
little; but, not objecting, they don't take pillulo hy-
drag. every night Sir WALTER Scorr used, indeed,
to tell a story of a border laird, who was so enamoured
of the national alterative, that he cud to insist on
administering " one leetie Anderrus" to his guests,
before they lit their bedroom candles; but, in return,
his guests always thought him a little mad. And
free traders would be equally insane if, because they
didn't object to an import duty for revenue purpmes,
they laid a tax on foreign grain.
Certainly free-traders don't object to import duties
for revenue; that is true; but it is only a bit of the
truth ; whereas Mr. MILLS has seized on and treasured
it apes a great and entire truth. For they object to
all taxes not required to carry on economically the
service of government; and at a time when existing
taxation is yielding a surplus over the current expen-
diture, they are thinking about taking off old, and not
of putting on new taxes. So next session they will
endeavour to get rid of the window duty.
Bat even were there a deficit instead of a surplus,
free traders would not carry their partiality for mode-
rate import duties so far u to raise a revenue from
foreign corn, and that for the very reason for which
Mr. MILES wants a 6s. duty, viz., that it would be pro
Moto& protective duty ; and though it might yield
something to the revenue, it would be at the cost of a
great deal more to the community. The levy of 6e. a
quarter on foreign wheat simply means to raise the
value of English wheat by 6s. ; and that is a piece of
folly Mr. MILES won't easily persuade,
By his brogue, and his blarney, and botherieg ways,
free traders into. Not one penny will he ever induce
them to lay oar foreign grain again.
And a very good reason why, Mr. MILES himself
has given. . Fur," says his colleague, "he believed,
from what Mr. MILES bad stated at Taunton (at the
quarter sessions) that in this county there had been a
great diminution of crime." If, then, under free
trade and cheap bread, crime has diminished in the
agricultural county tf Somerset; if the same be the
case in the manufacturing districts; if concurrently
pauperism be diminishing, and the gains of trade be
iccreaslog, and if all this be admitted and proclaimed
at Bridgewater, how can any man ask us to risk
the consequences of dear bread, even though it might
produce high rents P These were the reeults antici-
pated from free trade; it is not when they have been
realised that we are to listen to a 6e. duty.
But this prosperity does not erend to agriculture.
Perhaps not at proud. The prosperity of agricul-
ture is, however, dependent on the general state of
the country; and as it improves, so will agriculture,
if not impeded by the landlords demanding that for
rent, which on no sound principle is tent.
Such is Mr. Mines's policy ; he wants to trip up
his opponents' heels with their own admission ; and
to tax annec:ssaril the people tf England because
he could not understand a common-place., But there
is a pleasant ingenuousness about Mr. Mines; if he
knows little else, he knows himself well ; and small
is his faith in his own suggestion. " That is my
plan," he told the Bridgewater conservatives, " but I
won't stand by it," he quietly added! Whatever
toed STANLEY prescribes on the mettint of parlia-
ment Mr. Mines means to swallow. Vhat if it
should be free trade?