The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

EXTRACT OP THE REPORT.

The report begins by stating that the confidential
agent found the terrain on which he was to operate
• line favourable than he bad expected when
starting for his journey." He arrived first at
Mayenee. He was received there by two collabo-
rators, who stated that they had of late made some
progress, but that the bulk of the Mayence popula-
tiou, in spite of the strung spiad of opposition they
evinced against the government of the Grand Duke,
began to fall off from their former French lean-
ings. " The transmission of French pamphlets
was, however, still to be recommended." (Here
two addresses are specified in police hieroglyphics.)
From Mayenee the writer went to Frankfurt, and
there had occasion to take, as it were, a bird's-eye
view of the situation, especially of south-western
Germany. Frankfort he found decidedly German
and democratic, but with •recent tinge of Prussian
sentiments among a portion of the conservative
' liberal class. There appeared to be many semi-
revolutionary associations, among which that of
the Taunters (sic), i.e., gymnastic societies, the
newly-formed rifle clus, and the numerous politi-
cal riunions which have revived during the last few
years. At Frankfort the agent bad occasion as well
to observe the activity of these who, with Vinquil
(Vineke), Benuingsen, le fameux Docteur Metz,
and others would fain make the liberal power of '
Prussia the basis of a national regeneration, as the
cosmopolitan agencies of the democrats, who with
more or less openness, adopted the watchwords of
Blind and his exiled associates. This latter party,
acting in concert with such European demagogues as
Mazzini, Ledru Rollin, Hanel (who has been dead for
several years), still think of 1848. They combine
a propaganda of violent republican principles with
an equally ardent propaganda for German nation-
ality, carrying on au insidious warfare against
monarchical order. From them also proceed fre-
quent attacks against the policy of the Em-
peror (of France). Their hope centres in the
outbreak of a revolution, which they expect
from a commotion in France, while the mode-
rate party deprecate such a catastrophe as
full of undefined terrors. The agent also found
at Frankfort and in the neighbourhood that the
old leaven of new-catholicism, as preached by
Itonge, was still working in a democratic sense.
Ainoug the lower classes there were not unfrequeut
traces of that demoniacal spirit which, "imitating
the worst examples of our own revolutionary his-
tory," led in 1849 (1848) to the massacre of Lynov-
ski (Lichnowsky),

The report continues by describing the extension
of the democratic influence in a line across Baden,
Wttrtemberg, Northern Bavaria, towards Vienna,
Gratz, and Prague, in which latter town it assumes
en anti-German spirit. In a north western and
north eastern direction the influence of democracy
and republiesuism branches off towards Cologne
and into the smaller Saxon Principali-
ties. The north-east of Germany at large
remains however in a conservative attitude. Ko-
nigsberg and Breslau must be excepted, though in
the former city the political parties are beginning
to undergo a modification iu a sense of moderation.
Much uncertainty prevails in consequence of the
revival of Polish nationality ; and the confidential
agent here enters somewhat minutely into the
doings of Niegolewski and other agitators. Of the
lower classes at Berlin it is difficult to speak with
certainty. Altogether the journey of the agent
lye chiefly been confined to the countries south of
the Maine and west of the Rhine. He paid a rapid
visit to Vienna ; his impression there was, that
the court and the governing classes had no
real desire of seeing the constitutional
principle triumph. Returning from Vienna, he
had been present at the Heidelberg meeting of the
National Verein, and observed much anti-French
feeling. The question is raised, " Whether this
feeling would stand the test of real danger 1" It
is to be apprehended that it would do so in the
majority of cases, but the logic of events will force
the adherents of Prussian leadership into a position
in which it will depend on the prudent action of
France to carry out a great coup.
Speaking on the question of frontiers, the report
asserts that " public spirit in Rhenish Bavaria
hits much deteriorated. Only io a few western
districts traces of "French sentiment were still to