The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

to furnish materiel for a stirring home trade. But
whet Bagladd without expert and hapset P Hew
are hoe wishes to aremmolaterr where her revenue to
ootne *em P The .home trade would not pay the
intereat of the rational debt. And it is
no-sines to talk of foreign trade, postponed and
subjected to the home trade. Youmans% bind the one
without the other feeling the ligatured the cramp.
And uto the idea of distinpuslug edpitals em-
ployed in either, and favosnog one more than the
other, it is just as feasible and as wise, as to bank out
the sea at the month of the Theme", in order that the
dwellers on its banks may have more use and enjoy-
ment of scalmsr expense of river water.

At the time of going to press neither the Ostend
w Pubs roads had arrived.

BELGIUM.

The Senate yesterday voted the budget for the
public works, the project of a convention with Franoe,
and the supplementary credit for the foreign depart-
ment. It also appointed six permanent committees
for the examtnat•on of all projects of law submitted to
the Assembly. Each committee will confine ita
labours to the laws emanating from one particular
branch of the administration.
Baron Neumann, formerly Austrian minister in
Loncon, is to succeed Count Woyna.

PRAGUE, law. 6.
One bears a great deal in the paper' about the,
hatred existing between the Czechs and German& I
I am incliued to believe that this hostile feeling is at
present confined to a very small, although the most
important, part of the population. The educated
Czech feels towards the German that aversion with
which a vigorous nature, conscious of its capacity and
right& regards the usurper of those r:ghts. His
mother toilette is not the language of the law, nor of
the provincial diet, nor of the munie'pal assemblies,
nor of the univ. raid= nor of any branch of the
imperial administration. A Catch receives his
sentence from a ttibanal, or has his cause in-
vestigated, in a language foreign to him;
the most enlightened men of kis nation have
to stand up not only in the imperial, but also
in the provincial parliament. and argue the national
cause in a strange tongue against entagnoirn who
are perfect masters of that tongue, pouring their
ardeut Czechism into obstructed moulds, where it be-
comes disfigured with sobeions. The German
burgesses is the communes are armed with the same
tyrannous privi:ege. But what mare ineidims than
that any branch of knowledge should be denied its
Czech interpreter, and that GAfOrll2 should elbow,
like a bullying elder brotner, ticlevotio out of the
gymnasis. Lastly, the selection of nine-tenths of the
empkvef a from the German minority would vex the
patience of tetra far less irriteble than tie St lavouian.
It is true, that after the revolutionary days of March
the imperial government became pledged to mitigate
these grievances. The principl of gleicu-bereehtigung,
or equality of rights between German and Czech as,
admitted,but in terms so general end evasive, teat ail
particular applicatiens of the pv it. ci• -To become subject
to endless dispute. Tne octroyed :Dart-ir or the 4th of
March proclaimed that the previacial co- stitutions
should be organised and put it. opt' mem b tine the
end of 1849 The new year is re me in. Nothing is
heard of the new constitutions; not a word is
breathed about the Landta.ta or the It lehs act ; and
not a syllebie is uttered by the miteete-s in explode-
tion of their illegal delay Mese obi e all le what
they call pr evisenal, which Tn. mesa magnatioo under
state of siege. The question of wletner Cz •chino
or German will be spoken in the Lsootteg dine:mean,
bt fre the more fundamental one o' wnet her there
will be any Landing at all. Speculation ceases te
scan the pletical hofzon, for a dead wall rises on ale
sides shutting out hope. Petacky rise- a eve
ment from his study-chair, and flings hie
federal letter upon the stagnant public: Ore
is a momentary fermentation, cud much 1 issing au.
screaming *mom; German jeuri alio: s. The stud. v.l
disdains answer, and shutting his window conooeeedly
against the uproar, resumes his hiWory of the 11.1- etre
war. " How awkward and ill im d this the evrieg
down the gauntlet of Csechism!" exclaims ore
" Palaeky has shut the don • or effice uu 1411IM It for
ten years to come at least," prophecies another shrug-
ging his shoulders. But the eyes w- ieh read history
are root more bleared than these which pore usCI
gazettes; and the Cz ch statesmen, it may be modest le
believed, knows what he is ab .ut Nothil g, in free
could be more opportune as well as braver then to .4
forth publicly the claims of tie cottetrymen at a me.
meet when the ministers were vele tly plotting the
defeat and withholding the real-at:on of those
claims. Pelacky's scheme, poll pe, is not
faultless ; but if it e• es on tee ade of
ultra-Czeehism, and states the maximum cf
what his putty requires, it meat he remembered that
no man eter drove a good bsrgein, particularly with
a Jew, who began with asking a minimum. In aim-
ing, allowance must be made far the dip: to hit
emancipation, O'Connell levelled at reveal. The
question which the Selavonian party really have most
at heart is, supposing the Landtag met, whether the
language of the debates is to be German or Czechish.
Were this question once decided in their favour, 1
believe the wisest members of the Czech party would
be satisfied. It would be equivalent to a re-ogniti
of their nationality, which has remained ignored from
the day when the Bohemian rebellion wan crushed in
the battle on the Weimenberg yonder, in 1620, until
March, 1848. This vantage-ground once conquered,
the political influence of the Czechs would gradually
biome commensurate with their numbers. On the
other hand, if German is to be the langu tge of the
Landtag, the petty concessions of publishing ordi-
nances in the Prager-Zeitung in Czech u well es Ger-
man, of allowing Czech to be taught in the schools of
primary instruction, of estrAishing Czech professor-
ships in certain branches of science, and even the
were important boon of permitting trials to be con-
ducted in Czechish, will be counted as nothing. The
Deutechen-Hass, the hatred of Germane, will grow
daily wider and mote intense ; it will gain those closes
which at present know no each sentiment ; it will be
bitterer in the party leaders. I have said that hosti-
lity to the Germans is as yet confined to a small class.
The Czech nobles have long ceased to be Czech in
aught but origin. The Schlicks, Kinskys, Cern-
Gallsees, nun', and Lobkowitzes, speak the
language of the court, and enjoy its fa-
vour. Before all such are imperialists ;
with, the national politics they have nothing
te do. On the other hand the Sclavonian peas intry
Imo generally as indifferent to the question of nation-
, silty as the nobles. They have lived in perfect quiet
silt as
with the German peasantry as long as
they can remember. They say " the newspapers
I have invented this German-hate ; for we know it not :
it exists only at Prague among students and
editors." But column after column role on into the
Are : the national rivality, which glows red-hot in
the learned and professional clam, will gradually
warm the torpid and ignorant. The Czech pea-
sant is .now at peace with his German neighbour,
because both have grown up together eqn Illy
oppressed and abrutesed ; and the great emus-
pawn from the robot or feudal service was
bestowed upon both together. But in propor-
tion u he reaps the benefit of his emanci-
pation in the shape of more instruction and an
enlarged sphere of action, acd grows into apprehen-
d= of the privileges enjoyed by the German, and
how these affect his own interests, he will clearly se-
mums an attitude less and less pacific towards his
German neighbour, and find out that there is en=
more genuine cause for his animosity then the insti-
gation of mischievous contributors to the daily prem.
Meanwhile the ardent apostles of Cz chism have a
heavy task on their hands ; the moral population is
polittcelly for :d in the extreme; and to overcome
the Mention of those boorish masses will require the
longaction of a much greater moral steam power
than is at present available. To speak more simply,
I find in Bohemia few materials for a strong opposi-
tion to the government much few' r than the
democratic party at Vienna have any no-
tion of. The bourgeoisie is in general more
anti-revolutionary than any other class; although,
perhaps, they feel more than auy o her the evils of
the present misgovernment. The monetary crisis
greatly abridges their trade ; fur upon all articles
affected by importation they raise the price precisely
ie proportion to the silver &lei& To-day, for instance,
I bought a book. The price, under ordinary eircum-
'dances au one forth and a half, but I was obliged to
pay one florin and forty kreusers; tee kreuzers
were added because the book came from Leipsic, to
balance the lose on the exchange, which is rather