The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-14 00:00:00

auspices would be of the worst possible results
to us. We published at length some dais back
the views and proposals of Austria with regard to
the Zollverein and the tariff. To absorb the commer-
cial palmy not only of Prussia, but of the north.
western mates, in the prohibitive policy of Autry
and the south German states, am6uois to little lees
than a renewal of NAPOLEON'S system of blockade.
If the CZAR, in sddition to the adoption or NAN).
Luow's language in his diplomatic Ewes, could join to
this the power of issutog Milan and Berlin decrees,
our Austro-Itussian party here would soon put an ex-
tinituisher upon English trad.', at bast with the
Continent

The Germans, however, cannot fail to see through
the insidious nature of these proposals. Although
absolutism does put on a liberal ckak ; although it
does idopt the name of a Volkalsoua ; although it pro.
mists to adopt the grand-reeht, or fundamental prin-
ciple of the Frankfort constitution, in preference to
the Prussian one; although Austria sielor the crush.
bliehment of a great federal court ; and, although
in the plenum of the federatim the solid*
states are allowed a nominal and appirent inajurrty,
reverthele-s, these concessions to democratic and
liberal feeling are too manifestly rips given ti con-
ciliate, not to strengthen a liberal or Milo pendent
party. Provincial states! or freedom of pr.vincial
states, Austria cannot g vet so that the whole bseis
of national end popular representation, as tar as she
is cot ctrned, is mere deception. And even siege she
sincere, what is it she propane but to merge
German nationality and German interests, in races,
and tongues, and ideas, the mast foreign and inimical
to them ?

Our Vienna correspondent has written to ne from
Muni( h a very full account of thii plan, and of trte
negotiations and intrigues which have scco.nparded
its irth and growth. It 18 now
.compb-te, and has
only been delayed by the shame and reluctiace of say
of the princes to propose such a scheme to Prussia.
Hanover and Saxony durat not, for conaircncr sake,
as well as respect to public opinion. 11.varla
and Wurtemberg will present it, it is now
said, a..d will be supported by Auq-ia. But
' Hanover and Saxony, which approve of its
being presented, yet hesitate as t o how far
they can safely give in their adhesion to so n-
-0, man a plan, and thus join in the Austro-Russian
crusade again.t Prussia. This power is, in the mean-
time, determined to open the German parliament at
Erfurt. The struggle, our rea&ra .ec, is fierce, aril
the moment critical.

IT is an envious world. Every one thinks that his
neighbour gets too much, which is natural, and :ricked
inevitable in a country where nineteen-twentieths of
the population are dependent oee upon the other, and
consequently where the greater part of what goes
into the pocket of one comes out of tl.e pocket of
another. Tradesfolk and the it duw.rions iee
the pence and the pounds abstracted :rout them by
the legerdemain of taxation each hour in one thope
o• another. Trey watch the course of this: ah,te.cid
meneye, and trace some of them to toe pu,..c
creditor, wl.ieh does not mortify thtm, hut t
considerable portion more to su.diers tied ,al,orF.
.

JOIL'S BULL faces soldiers aid Et,

tht re not too many of them ? Mr. C01::)EN.
himself the mouthpiece of this middlt-el,ss
prrtst:s and develops it be!ore patliam.ot

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c ,untry. But the upper classei t•lioto lit lr eyrn
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There are so many of thanu-elres in r.d coats
blue coats, that they have to objection to •.c
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Lradramania pecce under cirnitOualy iLtu a

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tleman's pocket.
But your ccuntry gentlemen, who thir.k
much eatnot be spent upon ikneral ttlic,ts.
that judge i get to) much. Confound thole .aw•

'race j.:stle the 'quirts in parliament and out.
the bcbt berths, nay, in their mode f
extract the very marrow from the Imes of fat
interest, which was all eery well when the

intrust had stamina and mat two, to spare. B

'hat it is attenu :tk d and in sorry to d ti.n, 11'N car
i; gs and law standing, and law exper.die a

gruudged. nese are few estates in .the i
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around which bring in mord than t:.rc-e tho.,rd
year,refi cm Mr. DRUMMOND ;—why shou:: 3

get eight atd ten ?
The remedy lies altogether with fro cowry zir-
tlemen themselves. If they envy the her, a-
it over-powerful and over-wealthy, they •
means to bring it down. Let them amend
rLnder it intelligible, give up their feudal trout.
pee. dente, their barbarisms. Let the world
whin property in land be:onr, how tr..ch
owes, how it has descended, and how it inu4t d ;
and it will not require such very lore. heids, std
-ucn a world of fees, to make ow arld :Acute a titre.

Carry reform so far into the law, th .t a min if r
intellect with two or three year,' study can nals..cr
its intrloscite, and you will not need to 6petil annual.y
ne-sixth of your rentals in legil protection of the
rest.

With the exorbitant profi of bar will come
down the enormous 'tittles of the judges, t..at is to
say if it be mrtely judges that are wantisg. B.t if,
out of lawyers it is required t' carve not merely
judges but peers—if a Ihancello: 's to eresi le over
theetat lords of England, and if a (thief Justice must
necessarily take his seat amongst t' em—why then of
course you must pay not only the jedge hut the p. ir
to keep up his dignity, and to save wherewithal to
transmit his !He hmourably to a sin endowed wit:
ladtp:ndence as well as rank. When we consider
the earnings of the army, and the flirt:legs of the bar
and bench, we mast take into acceuct that peers are
made almost exclusively item these chiss.s ard
that if the founder of the family, accordiuz to out
hereditary institutions, has not the facilitits
ing and leaving a fortune, the smite will be conlia'..d
to suppirt his needy and titled pr-.genes
s .ape or another. Mr. DataisteNti fargn E:i
when he made his oeslaughtOn the j edge rt t. tred
to America. So did Mr. COBDEN the ether '
If any one will here start u? and saT,
see no nec.asitv for making peers of either I
lots or Chief Justices, nor yet of militate- mat
cannot amass considerable fortune a. we ark
to become of the House of Lords? Families the
out like these of other classes. If mea of mere
wealth are not worthy of being promoted to the d:,:-
nity of hereditary senators, lied if merit, whether
military or judicial, be incapacitated by pwny,
where is the ptersge to find recruits?
We must own that Mr. DRUMMON D'S ;I*.ta,
lawyers was the only portion of the debate :ha: Is
intelliAble to us. Free trade was mi!:el up wi:h.
and ik.tricultural distress. Malt and hops were thrown
in according to the usual recipe, ard toltheo was
added. But, altogether, they made a het..lTY,',.
that not even the most credulous gill!,
swallow. Sir ROBERT PEEL made an e.
episode of a speech on the Let‘ssi!y of no:
arming all the c 'lonics to the teeth, or f rota int tt.
southern counties according to the plan t Mr.
Picot:. Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. Ikea: ter :ea the
c 'entry pentlemen with being ready to f.,1.0u Mr.
Malmo:int in a desultory and circuitous hare
after economy, whilst they resolutely reused ts'
follow Mr. CoittieN and the earnest reformers a
resolute straight-a-head fox chase alter the
game. The defence was lame. The motion
was evidwoCy a sham. And yet, sham as it s;••
ministers were not a little pressed and perpli xeil!:‘‘A
toe. c ipe being defeated, humiliated, and trodden dotes
in this sham battle.

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