The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-28 00:00:00

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Dec. 23
Many points in the foreign Whirs of a nation are
covered with the impenetrable veil of diplomatic
anus), and remain unknown to the world at large,
though their circulation might, perhaps, remove •
stigma from an oherwisc honoured name, or, per-
haps, add greater brilliancy to h's poltiesel renown.
On all such occasions there generally appears to the
shrewd observer • hitch or a blank in those parts of
foreign negotiations which are made public, but after
puzzling his head for a time in vain conjecture, or
after equally vain attempts to penetrate into the
temple of official weeny he drops the matter in des-
pair and forgets. A point of this kind occurred in the
negotiations on the German question which took place
in Warsaw in the month of October, and has
since been used by the opponents of the then
Minister for Foreign Affairs, in • manner very
little to his credit. Accident has (Tabled me
to lay before the public the true state of the case,
and 1 shall leave all opinion on the point to the good
sense and justice of those who interest themselves for
German polities, and the characters of the stattsmea
who appear on the political stage of Germany.
It will be recollected that towards the latter end ofl
Octob:r • conference took place at Warsaw, under
the auspices of the Emperor of Russia, for the purpose
of seekiug a solution of the German differences in
general, and particularly of the quarrels in Schleswig-
Holstein and Hesse-Cassel. General Itadowitz was
at the time Minister for Foreign Affairs. Count
Brandenburg, the Prime Minister of Prussia, was
despatched to Warsaw as her representative, his in-
structions having been drawn up by the Foreign
Minister himself, and of course sanctioned by the
King. I may remark here that these instructions
were altered slightly by a resolution of the cabinet
ere the count left. Theyy contained in six points the
three concession demfndcd by Austria, and the three
demands made by Prussia. The first, which Count
Brandenburg was instructed to make, were, 1. The
restoration of the 17 votes in the shape of the Ban-
desrath, with the powers invested in the diet by the
Bundesakt ; 2. The temporary abandonment of the
demand for the admission of popular representation
in the Briedeerath ; and, 3. The admission of Austria
and all her provisoes into the Bund. The demands,
or rather concession, which the instructions required
Count Brandenburg to demand from Austria, were,
1. The equslintion or parity of Prussia and Austria
respecting the question of the presidency; 2. The
transfer of the actual executive power to Aus-
tria and Prussia; and, 3. The admission of the
peineiple of union for those states who might
desire to unite, on the cindition that their
union should not be in contradiction with the con-
stitution of the new Band. With regard to Schles-
wig-Holstein and Hesse Camel, Count Brandenburg
was instructed to adhere to the proposition which
had been made a short time previously by Radowits.
That for each a separate mixed commie/2ot should be
appointed to adjudicate between the parties at issue.
It is on these two points that the attacks which had
been subsequently made on General Radowits chiefly
rest. The settlement of the other questions, whioh
Count Brandenburg obtained or agreed to in Warsair,
has remained unknown until now, and the attacks
have been submitted to in silence. It is needed that
General Radovrita hadconoeded the intervention of the
Bund in Sohleswig-Holateia and Hesse Cassel. The

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instructions given to Count Brandenburg oertainly
did nothing of the kind, but the results obtained by
hiss at Warsaw contained ooncessions to the policy of
Austria, far beyond those which he wee instructed
to make. What Count Brandenburg obtained from,
and what he onnceded to, Austria at Warsaw, was as
follows:

1. The constitution of the union is definitively abandoned.
2. The free confevames shall mks place In Vienna under
the presidency of Asetria, and in the ipso mama as tbs
enshrine's of 1819.
3. The Frankfort Assembly shell continuo to exist in tho
latiantiane, ander the name of the Bundestag.