The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 28.

Ting Prussian monarch's speech la no doubt war-
Mks, but we mistake much if it be not the ontrary of
war causing. Defiant as it is to Austria, and con-
tent to the soi-disant Band of Frankfort, it
lly avoids whatever might give offset., to Roa-
ds. Tb• heir to the Electorate of Huse, it is well
known, is a eon-in-law of the Russian Burrion, and
was one of the princes at Warsaw. To have prejudged
In the speech the constitutional question of Huse, 1
Would have been a defiance to Russia as well as
A,Titria, and would not have been ventured unless '
there were no hopes of the court of Berlin remaining
on a good C.l.tntandieg with that of St. Petersburg.
The speech evidently does sot abandon that hope, and
the framers of the rotaspeech must have had some
reason to oonnt upon it.
The fact of the calling out of the landwehr hes
'saved Prussia not only from humiliation, but from
being drugged back into despotism. The chief aim
of the exits was to force back Prussia into the old
absolutist and Holy AUiance of Russia, Austria, and
Frani& After die trial of all kinds of cajolery,
znanceuvres, and delay, it was resolved to apply inti-
midation, and to stretch it to an extreme point. The
weakness of Count BRANDENBURG, and the assurance
which he eve of his power over the Kum, led
the two Emperors to suppose that FREDERICK
WILLIAM mast yield, if duly pressed. Hence the
imperious terms brought back by the Count from
Warsaw, together with the aggressive acts and in-
solent language of Austria. The combined intimida-
tion was completely successful. On the 3rd of No-
vember every demand wu yielded at Berlin, and
RAuowrrs, who recommended the arming of the land-
wehr, dismissed. At the critical moment, the advance
tithe Bavarians into Hesse, and fresh Insolence on the
part of BCIEWAREENBERG, overcame the monarch's
patience or awoke hie pride, and the grand step was
taken. The lacdwehr was called out, and from that
moment the scheme of overcoming Prussia by intimi-

dation failed.
The nation owe summoned to arms, its generals
surrounding the KIN°, and informing him or the
spirit and sentiments of the army, their spirit and
ontionents ►choed by the leading morn of the parlia-
ment, it became evident that Prussia could not yield.
And, before that evidence, the actual intimidators,
Russia and Austria, have shrunk back. In fact this
bullying produced the very contrary result of what
was intended. For inotead of absorbing Prussia ones
wore into the alliance of absolutism, it nearly drove
her into the arms and alliance of the constitutional

powers.
If Ramie and Austria make serious war on Prussia,
the latter must, it is evident, ham recourse to
France and to England. The case was foreseen,
and the trick of the Dindou Protocol got up for the
very purpose of estranging Prussia from those powers.
Bet all three, that is, France, Ragland, and Prussia,
saw through the flimsy trick; and the Russian court
had evidence that it was seen through. People talk
of the Russianism of LOUIS NAPOLZON ; but it is
plain as the noonday, that it is at any time is the
power of Prussia tooffer to Prance that price for her
alliance and support, that no French minister or
monarch could refuse. England, indeed, has no
eel-
Ash or ambitious desire in Germany, bat it
tissle that all constitutional governments in Eel
Me are its natural allies, and all despot's
governments its inevitable foes. In the event,
therefore, of Autria and Russia going to the
extreme of actual military aggression upon Prussia,
the latter may be sure of securing the material sup.
port of France and the moral support of &gland.
Before such • contingency Russia has, if we are
not misinformed, drawn beck in affright, and orders
its bullying serf, Austria, to do the same.
We liberals have to congratulate ourselves that
Pram*, instead of being absorbed into the new Holy
Alliance. Me stood independent, constitutional, and
free. Bet at the same time it has not been
obliged to go the length of throwing itself
in to the alliance and the politics of the
West. It remains a middle term, a half-way house
between the two. The Prussian coati will still show
mistrust of its constitutional party, will still, so
doubt, seek to gratify Russia in any of her not too
exorbitant denude. And on the great German, as
well as on the Hessian and Holstein, goestions, we
shall find the Prussian ministry not yielding more
than will suit its own interests, and will content
the formidable spirit of the army and of parliament.
Such we take to be the state of things in Prussia;
one which, if we rum aright, precludes all idea of
war—one which will be far from giving fall satisfac-
tion to either German or Prussian liberals and con-
stitutionalists—one from which retrograde. and reap-
teals* will derive still some hope, and extract some
concessions. Bat, on the whole, it is one which
we, distant, though interested contemplators of
German struggles have a great many reasons to be
rejoiced at. Prussia remains a great constitutional
and independent country, untarnished in her honour,
nnhumbled in her power. However restricted her prin-
ciple of freedom, and narrow !lir constitution, it is still
an ample and safe cradle for infant liberty to grow
in. A parliament, a public opinion, a press, and an
armed nation taking part in, and ioduerncisg the
decisions of government—th as are immense and
important facts, when we consider that they take
place on the Oder and the Elbe.
The chief honour of this we must confess to con-
sider owing to RADOWITZ. It is his advice that pre-
vailed, an advice that fall from his mouth. when none
other had the courage to give it. The calling forth
of the landwehr has saved Prussia from subjection
and disgrace, and has t laced • barrier against the
mounting tide of absolutism, which it has hien corn.
imjto respect, and against which its fury is and
for a time be still vented in vain and furious im-
precations.

Sacral., by divine providence, bishop of Oxford,
superseding and ignoring, after his peculiar fashion,
the authonty end jurisdiction of his metropolitan
archbishop and the primate of the chunk, just as the
Porn ha superseded and ignored the authority and
jurisdiction of the said SAMUeL, has, in the name and
on behalf of the church, solemnly protested against
that bingos of the papacy which he, the said &mom, ,
sad his brothers, have certainly WOO as much, pro-
' bably more, to invite and encourage as any three men
be the Queen's realm.
Disregarding the wise and moderate and modest
example set him by the two archbishop., treating as
nought the course pursued by his brother prelates,
Mann down with supreme contempt on the laity of
the church, and overlooking altogether the royal
supremacy of his Sovereign, to apartments in
ens of whom palaces he has, it is said, advanced
pretension; dissatisfied, it is to be peseamed,
wirl= expenditure of nearly 8,0001. by the Rolm&
soled Giattaisetonmrs on his own pales at Ceirion-
doe—thia slippery prelate summoned the logy 'fhb
Rowe around him, aa if they were his Ira, his
mess, his goods, his household stuff, and Mused them
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