The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, ITIESDAT, OCTOBER 29.

THERE can be little doubt that the congress of abso-
lutist kings acid minister, who met at &spitz, and
who drew up and signed an alliance for driving all
constitutionalism out of Germany, which noble task
they were to begin by the invasion and subjugation
of Hesse, counted for the encores of their
scheme on the active co-operation of the powers
which signed the London protocoL Prussia, menaced
by Russia in Silesis, by France on the Rhine; wbild
England, as a signer of the protocol, could not bat
lend some degree of at least moral cobra —Preosie,
thus menaced by a new Le,,,gue of Cy, could
not, it was thought, dare to offer resistance.
Prussia, however, has dared. On the approach of
the Austrian and Bavarian divisions to the
territories of Cassel, P:ussian troops, marching
from Coblette on one side, and from Erfurt
on the other, have occupied a connected line
across the Electorate of CasseL This line, ruining
by Herzfeld and Marburg, is that secured to the pas-
sage of Prweion Invitee by treaty. In fact, one pm-
titer of the Prussian dominion, being separated from
the other by Camel and Hanover tutereenine, this
military passage is indisoensable to Prussia. To give
it up would be to surrender the military security of the
monarchy.
A Prussian army has, therefore, occupied this line,
with orders to repel by force any Austrian or
Bavarian advance. And as this line is considerably
to the south of the town of Cassel, there is no possibility
of the crack-brained Elector being restored to the
despotic power he claims without a battle, which,
whatever its results, would, it is well known, shake
Germany to its very foundation.
We have before explained, and very fully, how
completely the question of Schleswig-Hoistein is
made subservient to the German question ; and how
Denmark is backed by Russia` us
and France,
not for Denmark's sake, but merely in order to
force Prussia to abandon her retempt at German
constitutionalism, and at an anti-catholic as well as
anti-absolutist union. This is quite plain : when
Prussia begs Denmark to treat, Denmark will
send negotiators only Us Frankfort: when France
threatens an invasion towards the Rhine, she says, it
is only in c leo that the Frankfort Diet shall prove
weak. Hassle, which ettudders at the ides of a Ger-
man parliament, but which has no objection to a diet
of princes, holds the some language. Therefore, tho
whole alliance against Prussia, into which Elg-
land was wheedled and fright( rl, is neither more
nor less than • scheme to drive the princes
of Germany, who would remain emancipated,
back into the old stupid absolutism. It is like the
genius in the "Arabian Nights." The revolution
broke the jar in which the genius of Germany was
pout up and seed. To make the genius re-enter the
jar and be bottled op spin, is what is really sought
by all these protocols and menaces, and negotiatioos
and army Corp..
Our runnels are either the secomplices or the
dupes of this scheme. The Ensperue of Re ante is of
course at the head of it. He pushes it with all his
might. He teaks to enlace Germany, and tie it up
in its old hoods, in order that be may more securely
advance his designs upon natee and western
Europe. The Times praises the Cz sn for this. It
lands his forbearance in not tasking convents, as if
the fettering of a great people like the Germans
and the placing them in the hands of military do-
pots, wbo owe to him their crowns, was not a cot lees:
as oomph to as ambition could require. The 2intes
imps that these machinations of the CZAR are de-
structive of freedom, but it welcomes them, neverthe-
less, as securing peace. I'esce, indeed! u if the
peace of tyranny, or of bigotry—of the gagged tongue
and the fettered limb—were the peace of either the
philanthropist or ti .e Christian.
There ie but one power that can withstand the
impious, the mad designs of Ramie; mad, because they
lead to the two dire extremes of deadly tyranny and
of frantic revolution. Teat power is Germany. 'These
is but one of the old great powers of Europe which
has embraced this idea of a reconstructed Germany ;
that is, Prussia; and against her, in consequence, terve
been combined all the envy, the selfishness, and the
tyranny of Europe. We blush to think that E 'g-
land has lent her name to such a league.
The pretext is, that Germany has sown division in
the provinces of the King of DENMARK. lint, unfor-
tunately, these divisions always existed ; and these
divisions, existing in the laws, the succeesion, the
right, the race, need not have prevented the King of
DENMARK from remaining king of the joint country,
provided he respected its rights, and promised to
govern cocatitutionally and justly. His fault is in
not doing so. And he is infinitely more to blame for
the civil war and its continuance than either Prussia
or Germany.
Prussia withdrew from the contest, in ob-dience to
the desire of the Europe's powers—Englet d amongst
them—which deemed that if the contending
_parties
is Denmark were left to themselves, the 'life/nee
would be soon decidoL Rot the clamour now is, that
German recruits are always joining the Holsteio
army, whilst not a word Is said of any foreign recruits
being made to swell the Danish ranks.
Now, how are composed the two armies? The
Danish force is 40,000; and of these at least 6,000
are Swedes and Norwegians. It is well kr.own that
the junction of the two portions of the Danish army,
previous to the battle of Llstedt, might easily have
been prevented by Gen. WlttisEN, had not the Swe-
dish army delayed its retreat, and thus prohibited
all attacks on the part of the Holsteiners. The army
of the Duchies is 34,000 men ; of these 10,000 are
fichleswigers, 20,000 Holsteiners, and not more than
4,000 Germane. If WittteeN, the commander at
Rendsburg, be a Prussian, HEGRLIII2t, the commander
at Frederichstadt for the Danes, was a Norwegian.
If Holstein has received aid from Germany, have not
the Danish troops been transported by Russian ves-
sels, and the same been employed in the transport of
ammunition and provisions?
The very facts adduced by the Times show bow
intense the feeling of the German is for the Hol-
ateiner and Schleswiger. It is not a feeling that
seeks to tear them from Denmark. It would little
profit them to adjoin them to Hanover. The desire is
merely that they may have their rights and be notop-
pressed. Every one knows what the Prussian army is.
It is but another name for the Prussian population.
Every young man, of every rank of life, serves his
three years ; at the end of which he quits military
life, and receives an old uniform to go home in. These
disbanded soldiers, all educated men, many of them
possessed of means, do not think fit to give up mili-
tary life without serving a campaign with their
brother Holsteiners. They march round through
Hanover, and no power of the Prussian authorities
can prevent them. The King of HANOVER is surely
a good conservative and absolutist, and he prefers
Austria to Prussia. But he cannot prevent his
subjects fitting to Holstein and carrying with them
even batteries
of cannon. The fact is, that in
seeking to restore the despotic and vindictive
power of the Ring of Dareteaun in the Duchies,
without his offering conditions or rmpecting
their old rights and laws, the great Powers
are engaged in • crusade against, not the interests, but
the feelinze, of the North Germans. And in that
crusade all the Powers will fail. They breathe nothing
but violence, coercion, and invasion. Let them try a
little justicJ, a little fairness to one side as well as the
other, and they will soon terminate the strife. Russia
may not deign, and Austria may not find her interests