The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.

THE treaty between Austria and Sardinia has tot
been sigtod. The Austrians only presented their
last series of demand. on the 18th of last month, and
when the Sardinian government replied by counter-
propositions, these Lad to ba sent to Vienna for sanc-
tion five days after, so that there really has not been
time for the regular and official conclusion of the
treaty.
But nevertheless the treaty may be considered as
concluded. The Piedmontere have yielded, and their
propositions have met with the approbation of M. DE
BRUCK, the Austrian negotiator, and of Marshal
RADETSKI. The Austrian autocrat, SCHWARTZEN-
BERG will, therefore, nut refuse to sanction them.
The suspense is over, the matter virtually terminated.
Merrioning this treaty the other day, we prafessed
our ignorance as to whether Sardinia had yielded the
essential point of the commercial demands of Austria.
We learn that she has conceded what Austria chiefly
sought. She has einsented to stipulate that in all
commercial arrangem-nts Austria shall stand in the
poshion of the most favoured na.ion.
It is well known that Sardinia had long laboured
to form a commercial union of Italian states, based on
a low tat iff arid upon free trade; and thatwith this view
it lowered its own duties. Tuscan' and Rome were
willing to inter the league, but Naples, influenced by
Austria, refused. The effort of Sardinia can never
again be renewed. Toe chats- in the present treaty
stipulating that Austria shell be the moat favoured
naion, quite precludes it, and it must finally force
Sardinia into the new Z averein, which Austria is
forming on the basis of high protective duties. Al-
ready Bavaria his been tempted away from the
German Zollverein to join the Austrian. And the
intention of making use of tte Austrian commercial
union ro constitute an Austro-political empire is
shown by many proofs.
When Lord PALMERSTON and Lord MINTO
lent their countenance to those Italian poteu-
tat!. who were meditating reform, they no
doubt saw thnt commercial reforms and flee
trade principles made part of these reforms,
constituting the reciprocity about which certain of the
tories make such a noise. Rad the conati•utional
party, abetted by Lord MINTO, succeeded in Italy,
we shou'd have had, what a cotemporary so much de-
sires, an Italian constitutional union, founded on a mo-
derate tariff. . .

But instead of this, Austria impose; en Anstro-
I alias union, base,' on a high prohibitive
tariff: end it is this which commands our contempt).
rariei' support and approbation. A high tariff works
with despotism. We find the French the most
favoured nation in Spain. Austria has ensured her-
self a similar position in Italy. Russia will do the
same thing one day with Turkey. So that cur trade
will be fairly driven from the 11/41editertaneua by those
dear allies whom the tories cherish.

THE Hungarian question ecems fated to be as un-
Lrtunate to the Times as the Hungarian soil has
proved to its imperialist invaders. Our contemporary
collet no., probably, if it would, and world not if it
could, draw one straightforward inference on such a
subject from intelligible deal. We ne.rd not, there-
fore, wonder at the lamentable exhibition with which
it favoured us in Tuesday's leader, when endeavouring
to weave the ambiguous Airstr:an bulletics, by the
aid of superficial technicality and its own exuberant
fancy, into a dim:naive narrative, intended no doubt
to appear plausible and ins'ructive, but which it has
only succeeded in rendering " cock and a bull."
From the Bret obscure paragraph to the last
angelica there is hardly a conjecture which is Lot a
blunder,uor an admission or remark utace im;enitd by
falsehood or mistatement. "Little or no reliance can
be placed," rays the Times, "on the German pap.re,
nor on the Hungarian bulletins thug reach this country."
Now if o e quality mare than another distinguishes
the Hungarians from their oppluente, and entitles
them to oar r sper, it is particularly their rigid ad-
hen nc3 to fact, as proven by subsequent result-t. And
of this the Tunes has had equal opportunities of judg-
ing with ourselves. We will defy it to show one
bulletin of Kosaurn's, BEM's, or Grinura's charac-
terised by exaogerationoor which the event has not
boron out. Furthermore, we challenge it to produce
one Austrian bulletin4in which the truth isnottpartly
concealed, rr totally inverted. Which'were truth-:
ful, the Austrian or Hungarian bulletins, both
claiming victory, when the Magyars drove
the imperialists, in ten pitched battles, from
the Theiss to the Neusiedl Lake and Wasg, and
out of Transylvania, and which did the Times believe
or affect to credit? But notwithstanding the men-
dacity of Austrian bulletins, notwithstanding the dis-
astrous character of the victories and the triumphant.;
marches in a retrograde direction which they record
the Timegpersiste in going even further tban.theee
veracionechroniclee, and spitefully qualifies the ad:
missions even they contain by gratuitous assumptions'
of its own. " Georgey driven back," It tells us,
"from the hotly contested lines at. Raab and Aclt
found temporary shelter under the guns of Comorn.”
Now unfortunately the line of•theltaab never was
contested atoll, and as to the bridge-head entrench-
ments of Acs, so little had GOBBET' been driven. from
them,.that.they were still occupiecratithe date of our
last advicee from Vienna by a force o&8,000 men„de-
tached (under KLAPKA) from his army. The Times
can find no better solution of these military move-
ments than to attribute to the coalesced imperialists
the silly notion of surroundieg GoRGEY—e, suopaei-
tious strategy distinctive of the witless peninsular
generals in NAPOLEON'S wars,A i unmercifully ridicule d
by NAPIER. In consequence of the tardiness with
which authentic intelligence reaches'us we have often,
in common with our contemporaries, to modify
our statements, not by swallowing what we
have precedently set forth, but by amplifying
the too cautious opinions we have expressed in
favour of a cause which enlists our lively sympathies '
and thou, of nineteen-twentieths of the British press.
We observed the other day that matters did not seem
progressing as satisfactorily for the Hungarian cause
in the north as in the south ; intelli,enco since re-
ceived from Vienna new leads us to believe that we
shall shortly have to express a widely different
opinion. Geitoar's extended line, which the impe-
rialists
vainly attempted to cut through at its centre
by their attack on Ace, was threatened by PASKlE-
wircu and HAYNAU in front and rear of its left wing,
which, as the reader may remember, had been with-
drawn from the Raab to the Bakonyerweld. Under
these circumstances it gave way withoutininstee.dtiaefftafecrionmegte:elds,t
just as in the north the forces of DEMBINSKI had
done before PASKIRWITCH. Now, cutting through a
widely extended strategical line, thau.th it may read
equally well in a newspaper paragraph or a bulletin,
has a widely different significance from cutting
through that of a more restricted theatre of operations
or the tactical line of a battle-field. The entire armies
conjoined, toemetitute the elongated order in question
are apt to divide like the dissevered pieces of the worn;
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was first beaten, and then out-manoeuvred. Accord-
ing to advice, jest received, PASKIEWITCH, with a
loss of MO killed, wounded, and prisoners, was
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drive of Perth. Reinforcet by the Austrians,
he advance I again to Waitzen, di icing, as he thought,
the main army of GABBY before him, and only
discoveiing too late, according fr his own admission,
that he had only en engaging the rear guard left
to cover the march of the Hungarian general, in a