The Express. — London, England, 1851-09-25 00:00:00

Zile lerpreoo. TV I.l.lisnaorsr.a..... ay. • See Eaten Expreea," eeetiereee •be time matey% " °sante," h published mil Temiley led Fl S 7 elybt, la time kr poet Veatusements Wended " The Thelma,. Lemke levee. payer, nut be at the Mace, 10, 10111.169411161. by Two °Weak ea the RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE. Tins Da*—Veriese. IL 411 i. Atioraces. AL 4.. Twireasw—Maridas. 2k. Mks. Aftwassa, 41E. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. FROM ono day to another, Louts Kossuitt may be expected to touch our shors, the land that he so ardently longed to tread, as the sacred soil of liberty and constitutional government. We trust that pre parations have been made, in the event of his landing, to give him an honourable reception. One of the most pleasing coincidences of modern times is the complete identity . of feeling in the United States of America and in Great Britain on the subject of the Hungarian struggle. The same homage is paid, the same enthusiasm kindled, in those two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race, to the noblest stand made for liberty in modern times against tyrannic powers and overwhelming force. That identity of feeling is a hopeful promise that, if the events of Europe should ever take such a course as to present a formidable absolutist league threatening the freedom of England and of the west, this country may find in the generous breasts and strong arms of its American brethren that dis interested and efficient alliance and support. which for centuries we have vainly sought in Europe. The most striking feature in Kossetti's political life is the smallness of the means employed by him, and his wonderful success. lie had but his pen and tongue in the midst of a country of which by no means the whole population sympathised with his ideas of Magyar independence. Like O'Coseem., be found the oppression of his country heavy, and when none entertained hope but himself, he under took the task, devoted himself with the resolve never to flinch from it. O'CONNELL, however, had a fair field to manmuvrc in. Whilst the Aus trians were able to gag KORAI:TEI . 3 tongue in public, and prohibit the press from spreading the productions of his pen, O'CONNELL had all the aids of publicity, and all the advantages of nano elation. The Irish patriot was emboldened by the degree of freedom, and the rights already granted to his country, to assume the offensive, and to conquer the rest. Kossevii contented himself fur the most part with remaining on the defensive, and could he have upheld the constitutional monarchy, would have decided not to advance or to transgress the bounds of • not very liberal law and constitution. But the Austrian cabinet under MerreeNten was not content with leaving Hungary as it was. Its constant effort was to sap the independence of Hun gary, nullify its representative system, and centralise its administration. SCHWARZENBERG himself has done nothing more audacious than was attempted by the old Austrian government, when it sought to re place the local authority of the Hungarian runtilia by a prefect such as the French Emperor or the Human Czar might appoint. Against this Kossterit struggled with the invete raey and pertinacity of otosse.t.t.. And when Austria insight to manage the esenidetts, or electoral districts, by preventing the debates of the Diet from being published, and at the same time preventing the press from appearing, Kossrvit actually under took to inform each comaal of what was passing by means of his pen, and without the public inter vention of the picas. It has been the aim of Austria, and of the scribes whom it has inspired to represent Kossrrit Ma leader of mere democracy, as a republican of the French toehold. Never was there a more unfounded charge. The struggle in Hungary was for constitutional govern ment against absolutism; for a constitution with a King of the House of Hseseuuo, if possible; bat prepared to reject even the hereditary House of IlsreereG, if it resolved to abolish the liberties and the Diet of Hungary. Constitutionalists are surely free to become republicans in countries where monarchy insists on being absolutism. When the House of HAPSBURG, however, or the ministers who represented it, resolved to have the restoration of the monarchy not with a constitution, as they might have done. and in the support of which they might have made ample use of Kossuru and of Hun gary- .• hen they resolved on a recovery of absolute power by military violetice,then indeed Kossi rut did not shrink from meeting the arms of the Austrian em pire by the levy of the Magyar. What hardihood it required to take that step, what eloquence to pew capitate the national mind into the st skill to orguniso military resistance, as : I Cirtfinan- Mal means of supporting it, passes the bounds of an article to show. Suffice it, that the armies of Aus tria, led by a veteran general, were first baffled and then defeated, and driven buck to the gates of Vienna in a single campaign. The intervention of Itussin,with an army of 180,000 men. in support of the recruited forces of Austria, reversed the chances of war in the second campaign. And yet, even at the head of 180,000 men, the CZAR had recourse to bribery and intrigue, literally buying the general to when kos•rrit had confided thechief army of Hungary into most manifest acts of treachery and . surrender. It is no shame to have succumbed under such fearful odds, and under the united abao lutimn of Europe. Nor can the succumbing be even said to be final, in the face of the grand experiment, so manfully proved, that Hungary was more than a match for Austria, and in single-handed tight had beaten and disgraced the Austrian armies. Never in any country did a champion of freedom display greater talents, greater consistency, greater courage and perseverance, than Louts Kossern. Never did any work greater wonders; never, in sink ing under the meet powerful league that ever was formed of tyranny, did man leave such elements of resistance behind him, ready to rise up for the old cause at the first conjuncture. With their conquest the Austrians have been able to do nothing. They cannot govern Hungary, cannot pacify it. Tho richest province in the Austrian em pire, it does not now pay the expense of keeping it. So stubbornly inimical to Austria remains the population, that they . have even ceased to consume tobacco and other ciciscable ar ticles, lest they should contribute revenue to their oppressors. No wonder that the court of Vienna trembles at the liberation, and at the very name, of Kosourn. Another cause of enhancement to the reputation o KOSIUTII is, that in an age of revolution he stands un rivalled for all the quahties that distinguish man in that trying period. Germany has gone through • political crisis, which stirred its population from their depths. 'let Germany has not produced • statesman, or • soldier, or even a democrat of mark. She is as barren of indtvidu r tl ic ameity or eminence as France. feet, if we the continent of Europe, we cannot descry one single star in its firmament save the solitary one of KOSBL'III. Pocrriciaxs must be practical men, who mix in the world's bustle and trustees', otherwise they soon become mere dreamers. Even men who hare once ' Man an active part in politics, quickly lose the tact Ed aptitude vegetate for public life, if from any am they_ _beer drifted out of the current of public Wan ffbalved senators, liked retired !swears, soon pow meaty, and electors or clients who rely on the gill= of either are very apt to be led astray. A har ups since our columns afforded several striking illeelmatkos of difference between the practical poll thin was trims his hopes and wishes by the test of rod 1114 the tome of the public mind, .a the temper dabs Mused Commons, and the fanc.ful politician was, from a little world of his own, peers forth to take part in the business of public life. We refer to the re ply of Sir Euw %RD BVLWER LYTTON 10 a protectionist requisition to him to become a candidate for the re presentation of Hertfordshire at the general election, and the several speeches of Mr. VERNON }1 tRCOIIa and Mr. HENLIT, two of the members for Oxford county, and Sir .I.inr.4 Oaluny , at the East Camber. laud and Banbury Agricultural meetings. Sir ED WARD. never a very practical man, has for some years past been oat of parliament, and much occupied in the realms of fiction, and now he responds to an in vitation to contest Ilertfordshire on protectionist' principles, in language which has been obsolete fur six or seven years. tie says :—" I never consented tomes that experiment (free-trade in corn), which meshes and rahs all the rimeoureee of an immense THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1851. proportion of my countrymen, as a settlement that an be advantageous to the paramount interest of all the rest, and I have newer for an instant I despaired of its revision rind then he proceeds to I argue the question , in terns that might hive sieved • foe a les&r for the Mora* Posts ken t• the League agitation had made protectionist fallacies patent to the meanit msiMltaadtng, ana et which we have no doubt, oar respected contemporary Would at this moment be heartily ashamed. And amongst the most prominent nt his.argionents is that in whicli Sir EDWARD LsTrox urges that free-trade lia corn must depress the wages of English labourers. Why, if the literary baronet could have passed from the ideal world of his library, and gone not into his own•fields, but into the fields'of tho best farmers of his county, he would have found that the demand toe labour, aye, for agriculture] labour is great and increasing, and that the rural labourers are better paid, and their real measured in food and comforts, higher noWVII4DI they ever were before. With reference to this county candidateship of Sir E DWARD Lenore, we happen to know some of the circumstances of its origin and progress. Since 1934, when Sir EDWARD'S TOW and n were at the service of the whigs, he has succeeded succeeded p to his mother's estate in Hertfordshire, and has become notorious as a high territorial aristocrat, and has earned a cha racter amongst the farmers of the county which renders it highly improbable that he could meet nith any two dozen of them who would give him their spontaneous votes. But the landocracy of the county, knowing him as one of themselves, felt that his quondam and quasi-liberalism might be useful in these times, and that his political somno lency for the last ten years enabled him to be brought ou. as a whig, who had left his party for the sake of protection. they, therefore, adopted him as a can didate. A requisition was sent about amongst the fanners by the regular tory agents, and so luke warm were they, and so reluctant to sign the mini ; olden, that a very short time ago it was doubtful , whether enough signatures could bo obtained to render the document presentable at all. Probably the land agent's whip has been ap plied to the tenant farmers, for the requisition, it seems, has been presented and answered. l But let there be no mistake, Sir EDWARD LYTTON comes before the constituency of Ilertfordshire, not by virtue of his antiquated and untenable notions on protection, but as the cadet and nominee of the tory territorial party of that county, of whom Lord SAWS . BURY is head and animator. . . more and more. Nothing ma be more opportune or adroit than to seise a visawat eiroactermed by a thossandasts of oeursseiaa, •aad bed against the ' • at thsimeif ths Asembly'e morning. repeal of the law d May. Maaavrhile it as tole doubted that the &au* would " t n giro% but for the sonvietioa that it would fallowing wager in the speech- of M. Leon Feadise, at the dialler of Gm amours Agrioole of proililtrikjai"lefiaaid de blvte.ll/1116,-flauchsttenntitoton, disiseird -- henisr bribe le of the esestiteliea te the swakelfelkef Lek Napoleon. expemila meet eammemeed ea ea imprudent is is Males - " • Dermisa MaulsS Oa pima day a vulgar virtue, Nr argoosotatay boo and 'el sm. daily. It is for citizens, puma Wrowassmose. yam row. is for soldiers ta il Ire et the assany. Tea rearestee wan what height m g !isle die Arm at Pohross7_, You know how Ibe bad Louis Napoleon, made use aline to 881188. One last barrier stops us ; but It will net stead Wan *se , disintssested, ad parietal axes of er seism to destroy or to Mow It. I lave milk Ibis devotion in the ClAday was a ease I that, with you, and re p resen talvesAlembe b smssthed, and the way is met. Public spirit in or limporrmat is not only Area and neekellte ; it has to boot the boldness sad re. mom for setting an Prom Chabot QUINN seer 1849, the first cry revision ; that cry which in 1861 was echoed by the signatures of 1,700 1 000 petitioners and the votes of 80 council•gcnerals. You have, gentlemen, clearly indicated the end ; and, emerding to your custom, you have not allowed yourselves to be diverted from your purpose. You have done this, without either agitation or excitement, like men who know that France has attained her ungordy, and no obstacle can sew nor any bond enchain her will. Serious democratic disturbances are alleged to have broken out in the Chcr. A considerable armed force, accompanied by the procureur of the republic, has left Paris to-day by the Boucges railway, for St. Amend. Several arrests have taken place, and some of the prisoners are said to have been concerned in the great fire at MM. Metairie's iron works. The department abounds in secret societies, where oaths are administered. In answer to tho applications which have been made by foreign governments to the British cabinet, on the subject of effectually controlling the opera tions of democratic refugees, I am informed that Lord I'almerston has promised to keep a proper sur veillance over the associations, but not over the per sons of the refugees. From explanations given by the Ordre the pro motion of M. Leon Faucher to the rank of com mander of the Legion of Houour seems to have been the result of a mistake on the part of the President himself, which it will be difficult to rectify. M. Leon Faucher had not solicited the distinction. The President spontaneously determined to confer it upon him, and, without speaking to any one, satisfied himself that the minister was eligible, b ecause; he observed his name in an almanac, followed by the letter 0, which is the designation of officers of the legion. When 31. L. Faucher received the unex pected favour, in the midst of the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new markets, ho did not feel at liberty to remonstrate; but the next day he informed the President that, so far from being an officer, he was not even a chevalier of the legion. Tho 0 in the almanac was a mistake. In this difficulty the President sent for Marshal Excelmans, the grand chancellor of the legion, and begged of him to search for precedents, and to devise moans, if possible, to effectuate the appointment. Tho marshal found one exception only to the rules of the order, iu the case of 31. Dloli, who in the space of one . year had been promoted by Louis Philippe from a simple chevalier Ito the rank of a grand officer. Ile however thought that this precedent was not in point, and, for his own part, declined to register the decree appointing M. Leon Faucher. It was then suggested that M. Faucher had better resign, but the minister replied that, having worn the cross, having seen his appoint ment in all the papers, and been congratulated upon it by his friends, ho could not possibly give it up. Di. 'Weber, the keeper of the seals, was then con sulted, and he was of opinion that it was impossible to frame any decree which a minister could sign to get over the difficulty. As nothing can appear offi cially in the Monifeur without a ministerial counter sign, the President cannot personally procure the nomination to be inserted. Thus stands the affair for the present. It is clear that, for the future, el manacles must be distrusted; but, what is far from clear, is the footing upon which the order of the Legion of Honour will be with respect to the now wearer of a commander's cross. The President is gone to spend some days at St. Cloud. Cabinet-councils will be held alternately there and at the Elys'e. M. Proudhon, who is permitted from time to time to emerge from the confinement of his prison, was present last night with his young wife at the repre sentation of the Theatre Francaiec. A very destructive fire broke out on Sunday night in a manufactory at Angers, belonging to M. Oriolle, who employs 400 work-people. A strong north-cast wind blew large masses of burning wool to tho other side of the river, and greatly endangered the town. Incendiarism, unfortunately now prevalent in some parts of France, is suspected, but no reliable accounts of the origin of the fire have been received. The establishment in Algeria of lines of communi cation by electric telegraph has been seriously set about. One is laying down between Blidah and Medeah. The widow of Lopez is at prnt in Paris. She has been separated from him fo ra long time. She belongs to a wealthy family of Cuba. The Univers publishes the first part of a pamphlet, in reply to that of Mr. Gladstone, respecting the treatment of political prisoners in Naples. This reply is said to be official. The portion already given by the Univers does not go into the details of Mr. Glad stone's accusations, but declares them generally to be false, and reproaches Mr. Gladstone with having sought for and obtained his information from sources unworthy of credit. His Royal Highness Don Enrique of Spain, and his wife, the Duchess of Seville, have arrived in ' Paris, at the Hotel des Princes. They intend to re main until the accoachement of the princess. ' At the Bourse, the Fives rose 43c., and closed at ' 92.20. The Threes rose 25c., and closed at 56.40. Most of the railways rose slightly, but the Rouen line fell sfr. Let us now turn to the speeches of men who have not enjoyed a ten years' political repose. Mr. HAR COURT, after telling his constituents many . whole some truths of the progress of the country since the repeal of the corn laws, dwelling especially on the present " good position" and full employment of the labouring classes said that on such occasions as that on which they were assembled " they would do more to promote the prosperity of agriculture if some persons conversant with the subject would give them their opinions on improved modes of cultivation instead of occupying their time with regrets at a state of things which, except by energy, was, he feared, beyond a remedy." And Mr. HENLEY, of the sin cerity of whose protectionist zeal none can doubt, was even more explicit ; he observed "he should be deceiving the present company . if he said that he saw any chance of au unnatural price being obtained for their produce. However much he, in common with them, regretted what had been done by the adoption of free-trade policy, he could see no symptoms that that policy was lately to be reversed. fie was bound to state that nothing led him to hope to see a change in that policy." And he very fairly and honestly added "it was patent to all that employment had been generally found for the labouring classes ; they could not shut their eyes to that fact irrespective of the official re turns." Sir. .I.istr.s GRAHAM concluded an able and practical dissertation on the best modes of improving the husbandry of the district by saying that agricul turists must meet increased difficulties by increased exertions ; that heaven always favours those who help themselves, and that the agricultural interest would not be the last interest to make the requisite exertion." Here we see the men of tho world, pro- tectionist as well as free-trade politicians, those who deprecated and opposed, equally with one of the most effective actors in the repeal of the corn laws, alike declaring that the reversal of our free-trade po licy is impossible; while fanciful, unstable, and we may almost say, occasional politicians, like Sir Eowatto Lvirros, alone affect to believe in the possibility of a reversal of that policy. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evasixo. An important declaration is put forward to-day by the Orleanists, through the organ of M. Chem butte, on the subject of the electoral law of May. It has been for some time past suspected that it was the policy of the I. lvake to advance the period of the elections, then to sallow the Assembly to be chosen according to the law of May, and finally to get this law repealed, and to procure the election of i the President according to a less restricted system of 1 suffrage. Whatever colour of truth there may be in I this suspicion, one fact is patent to all the world. Of the two leading organs of the government, the Con stitutionnel and the Patric, the former goes dead against the law of May, and the latter supports it; the latter being supposed to represent the opinions 1 of MM. Leon Faucher and Barothe, and the former to express the personal sentiments and tendencies of Louis Napoleon. It is, however, a much simpler and more natural supposition to attribute to the President and his ministers collectively the same designedly am biguous policy, which would indeed be easily accounted for on the above hypothesis of using the present electoral machine to exclude the republicans, and then breaking it up to carry the re-election of Louis Na t:ln the mean time no doubt the President s some advantages from the common supposi tion that he is and always has been hostile to the law of May, and that this re-actionary step was forced upon him by the leaden of the parliamentary majority. It leaves him some dregs of popularity; it allows him room to make what his opponents would call a detm tour as tusufshe and it feeds the hopes of those parties of which Lamartine and Oirardin are the truest exponents, that see of these days the weight of the executive power may be thrown into the liberal scale. Hence, whatever disapprobation of measures of the govern ment may appear in the Prase or the Pays, you may always observe that the personal character of Louis Napoleon is treated with respect and a certain IMMO of favour. Now it appears to be the resolute determination of the Orleamsts to put an end to the ambiguous policy of the government on the law of May, to oust the President from a position wherein he wears a semblance of liberality, which is perhaps only a mask to cajole the liberals, and either to cut him off entirely from the sympathies of the republi cans or to drive him into their camp. Of all issues to the present situation the last appears, I confess, to me, the least possible. Hence the thoroughgoing goposition of the National to the government oirthe President seems to me based upon a more animate estimate of his intentions than the attempt of the Pays and the Presse to dis tinguish between the policy of the President sod that of his ministers. Re this as it may, one cannot but rocogniscthe sagacity of the move now made ley the Orleanist party, which is put forward in the Ordre of to - day. - M. Chambolle says that he and bis Mends, feeling that if the law of May is really sominaned bv the executive power, it has little SIB Joni FRANKLIN.—We understand that the chance of standing, are prepared to abandon all de- remit of the meeting of the Arctic Matters, Sir Edward fence of it. This appears to me a declaration of such . Parry, Si: James Ross, and Ca 2 tain Bee c h e y, at t h e Admi great importance that I shall give you the ip,Ossana ty ' r, rba of M. Chambolle : ral last week, has been the repression of their unanimous conviction that Sir John Franklin has taken the passage to the We repeat that if the President of the Republic, as is hi north-west out of Wellington Ch anne l, an d t h at h e I right and even his duty, according to the reiterated afar mAtions of his intimate and confidential friends, proposes must be sought by taking the same route. But it is the to modify or to abolish the law of the 31st of May, we ' opinion of these authorities—while fully recognising, and bc:ae convinced that it cannot defend itself against the even insisting upon, the advantages of immediately dia aggres-ion with which it is menaced, will not make the patching • steamer to carry on the abandoned search is host effort to maintain it. that direction—that no vessel ma be started with any hope Here then distinctly the great organ of the of reaching an advanced positios in Davis Straits, and get- Orleanist party challenges the President to repeal b•ff_iueo a isle harbour, before the winter.-31orioug ch lv . the law of Ma y, and withdraws all opposition to that ""''' Cz A: from sras H t t l ow s urt ..— . . T A : d ze v i n ces ve ha c v v e 7 bee to n t re he ee 2 i o T t ed h May, rat a e t step. If this challenge is not accepted clearly, Louis Napoleon must consent to assume that responsibility which he has hitherto carefully declined, of btu Lady from : s hip had 7i i n v irCe ut ßl v ae l " he an the chief supporter of the system of restricted - f r om Kingstown. The news of the Bathurst gold dis frage. I have remarked in a previous letter that it cowmen received from Sydrieg bad created a panic in the is the game of the Orleanists to take advantage of the state of trade, and had uotimsned the usual ou t cry to b e reactionary drifting of the present government to ili: v eil liTa ir c h ..ilin ev i e :u n fu gye e_ a r ter. etd:tl in e,rra te s r h .si v ry .. agains beea ose iillece t th il e ed im f importation t &SlT shoot es it were to the windward of them, into the , liberal course, from which they are daily deviating reg ards the excitem e nt prw,:crd by th e go ldl jt° hand, SS (Br Tketsie Ta!monk.) P.S.—The conelueteurs of the Preue and the Erenement have each been condemned to 1,000 francs fine, and six months imprisonment. SPAIN. MADRID, Bare. 19. The government is taking active measures to despatch considerable reinforcements to the Havannah. For this purpose guns and men have already arrived at Cadiz. Great satisfaction is expressed at the atti tude taken by France and England on the Cuba question. Our Paris correspondent sends us the following : SMYRNA, Sart. 12. Kossuth has arrived here by the Mississippi. It seem, dill., Sir Stratford Canning and M. Le veled° went to the Darchnelles is the Growler to see Kossuth, who left on the 7th. GERMANY. VIENNA, EXPT bo. The lottlooked for returfift Prince Metternich to the Austrian capital is enefteed for to-morrow, orders having arrived at the Mai alettsessich in the Itenngsane, to have it preperpiki Sri reception of its lord. Great importance 'is allied by the foreign press to this event, and combinelherl et the most varied kind are printed as the possible tu.ka. The return of an exaninister to the eaplid ken which he fled in ignominious fear three years ago would be most important indeed, if likely to bring with it a change in the character and policy of the government, but what change is likely to take place in Vienna ? Prince Metternich may wish, but he will hardly succeed in ousting Prince Schwarzenbl from the ministerial saddle, and if he does suee there is no ground for supposing that he woul change the policy of the government. Schwarzenberg rules as Metternich ruled,with this difference, that the meant rub is severer and leas consistent. Neverthe less there is every prospect that the return of Prince Metternich will be hailed with joy by a majority of the bourgeois of Vienna ; the class to which 'Metter nich on all occasions showed the atmoet favour and goodwill consistent with his system of government. The smaller tradespeople will take advantage of the opportunity to make a demonstration against the present government, which not only shows them no favour, but oppresses and impoverishes them in every possible manner. Unless the police interfere before hand to prevent any such demonstration, it will very probably be my duty to-morrow to report that the beatings and execrations which accompanied the flight of Metternich, have been changed into demon strations ofjoy and pleasure . Without the above ex planation, the probability of such a scene would ap pear to give the Viennese an undue allowance of fickleness of character. They merely , welcome a bad minister, in the hope of getting rid of a worse. I mentioned in a former letter that the delibera tions on the constitution, or rather institutions, pro mised in the imperial ordinances of the 20th of August, were at a stand still, and that apparently without any other cause than the general difficulty of elaborating institutions suited to the heterogeneous elements of which the Austrian empire is composed, and the general principle on which the whole is to be governed in future. That is, in truth, not the only cause. There is another, which is another illus tration of the headstrong, inconsiderate, heedless character of Prince Sehwarzenberg. The ordinances of the 20th of August were issued, as your readers will remember, at Ischl, at the time the King of Prussia was there, the moment of his presence being purposely selected. Prince Schwarzcnberg and his colleagues anticipated, and not without reason, that the King of Prussia would, as upon other occasions, faithfully follow in the footsteps of his Austrian ally, and by a royal decree from Ischl quash the remnants of the sham constitution which still exist in Prussia. Doubtlessly the matter was debated at Ischl, but it is not known whether any distinct promise was given by the Prussian monarch or his minister. With or without, Prince Schwarzen berg boldly launched the celebrated letters and now finds either that ho has been deceived or that lie has deceived himself; which of the two I cannot say. The motives of the King of Prussia and his man liianteuffel, in not following the suit led by Austria are not easily to be discerned; but from the low cunning, intriguing character of the latter there is some probability for the supposition that he wishes to preserve the appearance of a constitutional govern ment as a drag on the wheel of reaction, and as some kind of counterpoise to the absolute policy of Aus tria. How be can reconcile the maintenance of two utterly distinct systems of government in one coun try is a question which does not concern others ; but if the supposition be correct, Manteuffel has on this occasion puzzled his Austrian friend. Schwarzcn berg is in vulgar language "in a fix," and is now debating with Baron Kiibeck on the propriety of re taining a part at least of the machinery of constitu tional government. His embarrassment is much in creased by the successful result of the negotiation between Prussia on the part of the Zollverein and Hanover. The commercial treaty just ra tified is regarded with unmeasured wrath and indignation. It is held to be the inauguration of a new and independent lino of policy in Prussia. It cannot be denied, that it has that appearance, and that, if the intention exists, the moment chosen is most opportune. The Austrian premier sees and deplores, without the skill and knowledge to put an end to the confusion into which the arrange ment of the Austrian tariff has fallen. He sees, that while he has nothing to offer to the South Ger man States, Prussia is offering them advantages such as he can never hope to entice them with. Ile has been convinced by his commercial advisers that the junction of Hanover and Oldenburg with the Zollverein, must materially increase the large revenues Bavaria and Wfirtemberg already derive from that union, and he is beginning to perceive that his arrogance and presumption have offended the governments of these countries, with whom it might otherwise have been in his power to con clude the most intimate political and commercial alliance. Such complications are enough to puzzle any minister, and more than sufficient utterly to confound so profonnd a political ignoramus as I must now consider Prince Schwarzenberg to be. Ile is at his wits ends ; for this is not a ease in which his half a million bayonets supply the want of ' brains. By the ordinary course of post, information ought to have arrived here of the embarkation of Kossuth and his companions from Kutahia ; but as no inti mation of that event has reached here, it is believed that the government wilfully suppress it. Kossuth was to have left Constantinople on the 13th inst. The Reichs Zeitung publishes this morning the amounts subscribed to the new loan by the several pervinees of the empire. They are as follows : Inhabitants. Florins. Lower Austria 714,177 tipper ditto 1 417,783 308,600 Salzburg Styria 983.724 Carinthia Knia Trieste Tysei 842,768 Babes& 42 - 9,189 Moravia 1 Galicia 4161,216 Ilungmy 9 Croatia 1 288,931 Subscribed at the Bank in Vienna 36,484,700 47,114,500 This is the total amount subscribed up to the evening of Tuesday, the last day on which the addi tional allowance of 2 1 per cent. was granted. Since then, and up to the eveniug of Thursday. a farther sum of 37,900 florins was subscribed. Nothing whatever is known of subscriptions taken in other countries. It has been stated that Rothschild in Frankfort has taken 1,250,000 florins; and it is very natural to surmise that if other large subscriptions had been made they would gladly have been pub lished by the government. No one believes that the foreign bankers have taken a sum worth mentioning; indeed, one of Baron Krauss's immediate advisers has declared to a friend of mine that the loan is a perfect failure. The fact is evident, from the price which silver fetches. At ono time this morning it was at 201 per cent. premium, and government securities of all kinds falling in proportion as it rises. The finance minister must indeed be childish if he imagined that ho could keep concealed the oppressive measures to which he has had recourse to extort subscriptions from the provinces; while the small result which they have produced is glaring evidence of the gradual pauperisation of the empire. The military commandant of Lemberg, in Galicia, a Prince Schwarzenberg, made known to his officers the ordinances of the 20th of August with the fol lowing words:—" Gentlemen, I have to announce to you that the faithful army of his Imperial Majesty has gained another vict o ry. I h o ld i n my hand the imperial decrees by which the constitution and every thing connected with it is abolished. In commum eating this . joyful intelligence to you I must request that you w ill not express your gratification in places of public resort, as such conduct might give rise to demonstrations against the government." The Minister of War has issued a decree to the governors of the military colleges, prohibiting for the future the juvenile pupils in these establishments , from spending their holidays at home, in order to prevent their minds from being contaminated, and to keep them faithful to their emperor and his government. The same decree makes known that 1 . the colleges are to be removed to the neighbourhood , of small towns, where the danger of mental infec tion of a political kind is of ourse much smaller. SIM Emperor has arrived at Brescia. I forbear quoting the newspaper reports of the extravagant roicdamp with which he is described to have been everywhere received. They must be all lies. The saltpetre monopoly has been abolished at the instance of the Minister of War. A fresh &wee has been issued at Prague forbid ding the peeseesion of arms. Every conviction will be punished with ten years' imprisonment and hard labour. The cholera is very bad in Prague. The trade in salt between Lombardy and Austria beg been prohibited, because the Italian traders pur lieus& Si salt with Austrian paper, and then re sold it in Italy for silver. In Venice and Lombardy there is a metallic currency, and very little or no Paper money at all. BERLIN, SIFT. 22. The provisions of the new law of the press before the Frankfort Senate differ principally from other laws on this subject in the following particulars : By the 2nd article it is enacted " that though a judgment may not be pro nounced (eine verurthertung nichter folgt) against any paper containing any punishable contents (stratharen yr halt), it may be, notwithstanding, suppressed and annihi lated (vernichtimg) with its types." Editors of foreign (German, of course) papers may be brought before a tri bunal of the Band. Insult or contempt towards the Diet, or the Diet's authorities, or any German confederate autho rities, or the sovereigns of foreign stater, may be punished by • fourteen days or three months' imprisonment, or • year's condemnation to the workhouse; or, under aggra vated circumstances, to three years' imprisonment. Offences towards ambassadors to the Diet, or diplomatic agents, will incur a penalty of from three months to two years' imprisonment. Any attempt to seduce soldiers from their obedience will subject the offender to a fine of 280 florins, or from thteo months to a year's forced labour is a workhouse. Attacks on religion or morals, or the usages of any religon established in a state, may, under aggravated circumstances, be punished with four years' imprisonment ; and the diffusion of any religious opinions or doctrines which tend to the violation of the law or pod morals, will be punished by a fine of from 10 to 200 florins, or work house labour for 18 months ; and to procure followers to such doctrines subjects the malefactor to a line of hook 116 to 500 florins, or to a workhouse incarceration of from ass to three years. Further, the editor of a paper must hays his constant residence in Frankfort ; two condemnations is a year incur a suspension from his editoral functions of from one to five years ; and two condemnation in half a year en title the police to suppress any publication summarily. The above details show a partielar intention to suppress especially religious liberty, for any doctrine but that of a state church will be accounted of course offensive to religion and good morals, and in violation of law. Still, as long as a tribunal, however constituted, may be really appealed to, think the Germans, in the present temper of the nation, have not much to fear from the most iniquitous laws. What they have to fear is, the putting aside even of the most stringent laws by " authority ;" and you may perceive by the 2nd article of the proposed law, as I have given it above, this resource—this compiteney to act without the sentence of a law tribunal—is alitiady irovided in case of necessity. That laws and juries here will not condemn what are called " press offenders," there is another example fur nished to-day in the acquittal of M. Harked, who has been brought to trial for his book entitled " Letters of City and Country Life." liis work is now released from the restric tion it had been placed under, and tho costs fell upon the prosecution, that is, the government. The protest of Count Farstenberg against the provincial Dicta, has not only received—letters from Cologne say--the approbation of the most distinguished lawyers, but also, In writing, that of Cardinal Archbishop Diepenbrock, of Brea. lau, who distinctly counselled the count to follow the die totes of his own csnscieuce, irrespective of personal or po litical motives. This advice of the archbishop the count has transmitted to the king. The episcopate of Bavaria has published the following oath, which is to be henceforth taken by all priests ou their installation in their priestly functions: " I mean that I do not belong and will not belong to any society or union which has been shut up by the police or other authority, or a par ticipation in which is inconsistent with the present church discipline." The neces,ity of imposing this oath on the Bavarian clergy gives one a better opinion of that body than one might be previously inclined to entertain. The judgments pronounced by the press of the south on the customs convention between Prussia and Hanover ma ssifs:at certainly considerable displeasure at this measure ; nevertheless, the necessity of maintaining the Zollverein is generallyand emphatically admitted. The Augsburg Zei t-wig counsels the south-west provinces to urge on this occa sion the reduction of duties. All idea, says this paper, of a customs union watt Austria must be given up, at least for a generation. MARRIAGE OF DON MIGUEL. A letter from Frankfurt, of the 22nd inst., says : The marriage of Don Miguel of Bragaurn with the Princess of Lowenstein-Rosenberg took place on the 21st, at Klein Heubach, a property belonging to the princes of Liiwenstein, in the neighbourhood of Wertheim. BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 24. By the Brazilian steamer, Imperador, wo have news from Monte Video to the 6th. Oribe had intimated to the government of Monte Video that hostilities would be commenced. ou the 18th. A letter dated Monte Video, July 5, says : " A con ference between the Brazilian admiral Grenfell, the minister Herrera, Urquiza, and General Garzon, took place at Gualiguaichu (Entre Rios), when it was de termined that Urquiza and Garzon should unite their forces, consisting of 8,000 men, with the Brazilian troops; the junction was to take place on the 18th, when operations against Oribe were to be immedi ately commenced. In the meantime the entire Brazilian squadron was to occupy the River Parana, and defend the coast of Entre Rios from any attempt at invasion on the part of Buenos Ayres. The Monte Videan government had notified to Admiral Le Predour that the armistice between their forces and those of General Oribe would be denounced on the 18th, but it said the French Admiral re fused to accept the reasons urged on the part of Monte Video, not having yet received instructions on the subject. In Rio we have nothing new to report. In our coffee market some animation has been shown since the sailing of the Severn, and we notice a rise of 100 reis in price for the better qualities; the supply continues limited, and dealers are very firm at the quotations. Superior, 3.230 dole. to 3.400 dole; and first good, 3.100 dols. to 3.150 dots. The stock is about 50,000 bags. The sugar market is in complete apathy. In ex change, transaction are reported at 29 d., and some few at 291. Stock has continued to rise. The last quotations were : Six per Cents., 91 ; and Provincial, 881. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. BOURSE. roe Ammo- 0 0 0010 8 I 56 33 0 . . PARIS, em. M. I r°F Money. 116 43 56 30 92 30 91 93 Milne i Lowest 26 40 92 20 3 pit *NW ..........., Is 4B 1 mr ANIL 1 MM •pa MR. do. listiLess i si Onla I . . 1 , 6, 13 ce yr° . at . llll 4r. 11 1 . 4 .. 9° "'lei:* 6, 111.2... ... Ronan Los., 1631 ... 741 ... Yoas7 . D D 4 ...... 01 ... Try Do. do. 1630 ... 733 . : „ De. Pladma o. (*sta. 80 6 18 ... Bank /Oran. . nuts. Barr. 24.—Versailles (right book ), - 215 ; do. (left look). 210; Parke sod Orlon., 860 ; Palls and Zona, 370; Rouen and Havre, 231 U; *Arndt.. and Orionis. 204 75 , fitrasboo o r=d . Bala. 130; Oantott, 4213 33 ; Houton. and Amiens. 233 73; awl Beier, in ; Nether; 439 73; Paris and 131rattratrg, 336 ; Wars inil Ilanon, 283 73 ; Borden= and 'Late, 4/ 30, MADRID, SEPT. 19.—Three per Cents., 351 ; after Bolas, 351 1. Four per Cents., —; after Bolsa, Five per Cents., 161; after Bolan, 161. Coupons, 811 after Bobs, 8: 7 . Passives, 6 3-16; after Bohn, 8 3-16. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 100 paper. Ex change on London, 31. [By Eleedrie Teiegraph.) BERLIN, SEPT. 24. Voluntary Loan, 103; Na tional Debt, 881 ; RusaianFour-and- a-Half per Cents., 1011. VIENNA, SEPT. 24.—Five per Cent. Metalligues, 93f. Bank Shares, —; price of Gold, 2i; ditto, Silver, 181. Exchange on London, 11.31; on Paris, 1415. FRANKFORT, SEPT. 24.—Five . per Cent. Metal liques, 781. Three per Cent. Interior, 34 11-16. Ex change on London, 1181. ANTWERP SEPT. 24.—Five per Cent. Meta ll igues, 781 ; ditto Ardoins, 141. Three per Cent. Interior, 35. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 100. Ex change on London, 25.275. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—Belgian Five per Cents., 991 • ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 921; Ex change on London, 23.23. HOLLAND.—The3linister of Finances of Holland made his financial statement in the Second Chamber of the States on the 19th. It is very favourable. The estimates of receipts for 1852 are 71,473,823 florins, and the expenses 09,801,238 florins. UNITED STATES. As announced yesterday by electric telegraph, th e United States mall steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. W. st, arrived at Liverpool from New York, which port -h a left on the 13th inst. at noon, having on board :0) passengers and 300,000 dollars in specie, together with the usual mails. By this arrival we have later dates from Cula, from which it appears that four of the prisoners had been liberated by the Captain• General, Concha, at the entreaty of Captain Platt, of the United States ship Albany. It is reported that the Captain-General stated he would have liberated the remainder, but for the riots at New Orleans. A narrative of the events of the expedition, from Limit. Van Vechten, one of the four liberated prisoners, appears in the New York Herald. (It will be found quoted in an other column.) The miscellaneous news is most important. Amon; the items in the New York files we find the tel. lowing: WASHINGTON, SEPT. 12. The President, to-day, decided that he would accept the invitation to be present at the Boston Railroad celebration, He will leave Washington at 6 o'clock next Monday morn ing, accompanied by all the members of the cabinet at pre sent here. William W. Corcoran, broker, has responded to the ob jects of the delegation now here from the 128 Hungarian exiles, lately arrived at New York from Shumla, about the means for conveying them to Cjhazy's colony in lowa, hy proffering to pay the passages of them all from New York to New Buda, their destined home. Despatches were received, yesterday, at the State De wtment from Savannah, stating that the Tampere hail been chased by a government revenue cutter, and find upon, and had escaped into St. John's River, at Jacktun vine. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 12. Passengers in the cars from York, Pennsylvania, furnish the following details of the attempted arrest of some fugitive slaves. It appears that Edward Gomel', and his son, Dickinson Gorsuch, residents of Baltimore county, accom panied by Nicholas Hutchinson, Joshua Nelson, Doctor I'homas Prince, Joshua Gorsuch, and others, went to Christiana, to recover some fugitive slaves, who tan off a year ago, belonging to Edward Gorsuch. Upon nearing the house where the fugitives were, some negroes, armed with muskets, &c., rushed upon them and prevented them from entering. A large crowd of whites and negroes soon assembled, and were commanded by the marshal to assist in the capture, but they refused .. Mr. Gorsuch and his friends being completely over come' retired, when they were fired upon by the negroes, trom the windows of houses, and were also attacked by the crowd. Edward Gorsuch was shot in the breast, and till dead. His son, Dickinson, was shot in the arm and shoulder, and died. Both the deceased were afterwards beaten with clubs. The other Mr. Gorsuch was also mor tally wounded. Dr. Thomas Prince was shot and badly beaten, and it is feared he cannot survive. Messrs. Hutchin son and Nelson escaped to Philadelphia. Two or three of the negroes were also shot. Such was the violence of the attack that none of the survivors could remain with tha wounded, but escaped as they best could. The crowd of blacks and whites numbered about 200, and none interfered to save the lives of our citizens. The gentlemen from Bal timore county are amongst our most respected citizens. The excitement in Baltimore is most intense. ALEANT, SEPT. 11. One of the evening papers says : We h;ve been fur nished the particulars of another outrage committed by some disguised persons in the county of Rensselaer, upon the person of Leonard Whitbcek, one of the deputies of the sheriff of that county. Mr. Whitbeck has been engaged in serving processes in favour of Mr. Vau Renaud& er, upon some of the tenants in thatcounty. On Wednesday List, about 1 o'clock in the morning a band of persons, numbering about 20, disguised u Indians, went to the residence of Mr. Whit beck. Mr. W. was in bed at the time, but being aroused from his slumbers by the rapping of some person desiring admittance, he arose, and without suspecting any danger, opened his door. lle was iininediately seized ky tho.e who were assembled in disguise, and taken to a waggon near by, and carried about nine miles somewhere Cast of Sandlake. They then stripped his clothes off, and deliberately applied a coat of tar and fea thers, and after detaining him till near morning left him in that condition to wend his way home un foot. Previous to leaving him they attempted to extort a promise from him that he would serve no more processes. lle told them he should do his duty let the consequences be what they may. They threatened him with another visit in case he persisted. Ilia brother, anticipating the intentions of the scoundrels, followed in a horse and waggon, and, not- withstanding the threats of the Indians, carried Sheriff W. back to his residence. Heavy forgeries on mercantile tunas in Cincinnati have been traced to one Benjamin Davenport, who has hitherto borne a good character. The amount raised by him on forged drafts is from 30,000 dots. to 40,000 dole. The fraud was detected by one of the forged notes being lost and ad vertised by the holder and purchaser. Davenport had not been arrested at the last accounts. The testimony in the railroad conspiracy case at Detroit was concluded on the 'led inst., and the argument com menced oa the following day. Silty-seven days were con sumed in receiving evidence. Father Mathew arrived at Rochester on Thursday last, and left soon afterward for the east. . . The Attorney-General of Nlissouri, Mr. Rohards, died of cholera at Jefferson Barracks on the 3rd inst. Our correspondent writes as follows : NEW YORK, SErr. 13. _ . _ The heat of summer continues upon 'us in all its severity. This month of September is wanner by many degrees than any we have passed through for eleven years. Those persons who predict cold wt.a. thcr after solar eclipses and bright auroras, are this time much mistaken. We arc now, however, enjoy ing a profusion of our best fruit; our tables groan under the weight of our beautiful peaches, plums, grapes, and melons. Everybody has enough. A nutmeg melon that would be worth half-a•guinca in London can be had here for about threepence. Grapes are twelvepence a pound, and the finest peaches I ever saw may be singly had for half a penny, or as cheap again by the small measure. We have nothing of importance from Cuba. All is quiet there. We had a rumour yesterday that a General Gonzales was about to head another expe dition of 1,200 men against the island, but this must be unfounded. It is quite impossible that any more volunteers could be found to engage in any such desperate service. Three of the officers of Lopez have returned from Havana, after being pardoned by the Governor-General, and have published an account of the expedition which I now enclose to you. CUBA. RELEASE OF THREE OFFICERS OF TILE CUBAN EXPEDITION. We (New York Herald) are indebted to the kind ness of a gentleman of this city for the following letter from on board of the Albany : United States Ship Albany, Key West, Fla., Sept. S. The Winfield Scott passes here to-day, and by her I send Tau intelligence of the release of Colonel Haynes and Captain Kelly, who were captured in the late Cuban expe dition. They were released by the Captain-General, Concha, upon their promise to proceed to New York and tell the truth in regard to the landing of Lopez, their cap ture and treatment. It was the Captain-Generars inten tion that they should have gone on in the Empire City, on Sept. Ist, but by some accident they did not get on hoard. They were to have sailed on Saturday in the ship Norma, for New York, and I presume did so. A Mr. Van Vcchten, of Albany, was also released, at the request of Capt. Platt, and he was assured by the Captain-General that the lives of the other prisoners were safe. They are in number MO, all that survive of the 430 that landed on the 11th under Lopez. Corn. Parker, in the flag-ship Saranac, went into Havana on the morning of the 4th. We sail for there to morrow at daylight. Annexed is the narrative of Lieut. Van Vechten ; it ii highly interesting : LIE lITATEYENT OP LIEUT. VAN vratrxv• On board steamship Winfield Scott, Sept. it. James G. Bennett, Esq. Dear Sir,—llaving been connected with the late unfor tnnato expedition against Cuba, under the command of General Nardi° Lopez, and allowed to return in safety to my home and friends, I feel it to be a duty which I owe to the friends of my unfortunate comrades, and to the public at large, to publish through the columns of your valuable and widely circulating paper, a true account if the proceed ings of that expedition, correcting, as far as possible, the false reports which, for the last month, have been in circa ' lation throughout the United States, and endeavouring to do justice to all. I becameconnected with the expedition at New Orleans, receiving, on the 30th day of July last, an appointment as First Lieutenant of Company B, of Colonel W. L. Crittea den's regiment (Ist Artillery), commanded by Captain James Sanders. The expedition, as you arc already aware , left New Orleans at day break on the morning of Sunday, the 3rd of August, in the steamer Pampero. We were towed to the mouth of the river, our engine being out of order. We remained in the river until Wednesday, the 6th, and left through the North-east Pass at 5 p.m. of that day, for Key West. The intention at that time was to to Key West, and there take on board a pilot for the n ee , St. Johns, at which place we were to embark a light bat tery of artillery, with caissons, ammunition and harneo complete, together with a number of cavalry saddles, am from thence were to run to the south side of Cuba and ]ant OA near as possible to Puerto Principe. We reached Key West, and anchored some distance fron the city, at about three p.m. of Sunday, the 10th instant While at Key West, a quantity of brandy and ehampagn• was received on board, which was imbibed tolerably free by Lopez and his staff. About dusk of that day, no pito appearing, Lopez called a council, cimposed entirely of th CuUns and Hungarians attached to his staff (no American being called) who decided to give up going to the St