The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

off one afrer the other in the sight of the father.
General Kish has been shot. All this takes
place simaitaasowdy with the promulgation of hypo-
critical proclamations by this perfidious cabinet, en-
joining moderation and mercy to its generals. Some
hopes had been held out that his life would have
been spared that his immense fortune would have
been allowed to ransom It, but his countrymen are
now the determining cause of this sanguinary act
in a fact with which your readers shculd be made
acquainted. He was a heavy creditor of several
personage s now in power, and in particular of
Hideaki, who owed him 170,000 forms. Your
readers will not find this incident, I dare say, in the
Memo Zeitiotg, ordustrian Lloyd. Suchaninsinnation
could not be for a moment entertained in a western
eountry, but the depravity brought every moment
before one's eyes, when one peeps behind the scenes In
Austria, would go far to remove one's incredulity.
The paper just mentioned mills, for instance, that
the shares of the Navigation Company of the Austrian
Lloyd, chiefly in the possession of tletternicb, were
down to nothing. The riga/Atm =mood the hitherto
untaxed Trieste with a tax, and to arrest this evil the
inhabi•ants mustered the capital to est the company
afloat and buy up at the improved price all the shares
from Metternich.

This notorioueftet is a mere specimen of the scanda-
lous ep'sodes which attach to the lives of three-fourths
of the men who preside over the destinies of the
Austrian empire, from Bohwarzenberg downwards.
What a contrast to the Roman probity of Knewith,
who, after having handled millions of pounds sterling,
sent beck, on a mere constitutional scruple, from
Arad when proceeding into exile, and with extensive
'pecuniary claims tins itisfied on his country, 200.0001.
sterling in gold ingots, and crossed the frontier with
2001. as his sole wealth! By the bye, the news has
just arrived that Austria has been obliged to recognise
his notes, the large at 50 per cent., the intermediate
at 70, and the small at per. This is what it was an-
ticipated at Widdin she would be obliged to do.
The Hunfrarian credit in defeat is exceeding that of
Austria in her victory. General Mogya, we just
learn, too, has been condemned to five yews impri-
sonment—a just retribution on his treachery, but an in-
famous example of Austrian perfidy. The proofs of
Mogva's boasted treason to the Hungarians are indis-
putaLle. Does he owe his c mdemnation to having
injudiciously in his defence accused high peronages
of not having had the common intelligence to secure
the Hungarians when delivered into their hands, or
has he, like several others, been sacrificed on the same
principle on which certain tribes of savages, when
they cannot parade the head cf an enemy, purloin
that of a friend P

Certainintelligence has just been received that
Razz., the fimous proti stant preacher, together
with Generals Veisy, Torok, Pollenberg, Schweidel,
D. Dessewffy, Lazir, and Count Leiningen, related to
our Queen, has been hanged.

UNITED STATES.

Oar New York correspondent writes as follows :

NEW YORK, Ocr 23, 1849.
Some dismsaion has arisen as to the course of our
government in relation to the repeal of the British
Navigation Acts, in declaring the effect of our act of
1817. I have already informed yen chit the public
were first enlightened on that subject by a private
letter of Mr. Meredith, the Secretary of the Treasury,
addre<sed to the respectable house of Barclay
and Livingston, and next, by the offi-ial
circulars to our collectors of the revenue. I
It is said that for a short time the cabinet hesitated
as to the construction of the act of 1817, but finding
the former secretary of the treasury, Mr. Walker, had
been decided in his opinions, and, in fact, had com-
mitted the department by his circular of 1847. Mr.
Meredith took a similar course of action.

After the first of January, then, British vessels
may come from any other country with cargoes,
and land them here, and one can do the
same in England. It is certainly a wondrous
I innovation on antiquity, and will make a
sensible difference in our trade. We suppose
that Yankee shrewdness is a match for
the world, and that we shell be essential
gainers by this new reciprocity. On one side it is
said that ship-building will become a leading occupa-
tion on the lakes, since the St. Lawrence will be
practically open to our vessels, and that this alone
will be of incalculable benefit. Again, that we shall
be able to make up cargoes abroad for the British
ports, which will give us a rued of freights and pro-
fits which we have not before enjoyed. On the other
side it is affirmed that our ports will la!
filled with British ships navigated in the
most economical manner, which will la: the destruc-
tion of our own shipmasters., and that nothing can
prevent the instant establishment of lines of British
steamers between this country and all other Euro-
pean countries whence we draw supplies. Thus
under the British flag we shall have a Hurt and
New York line of steamers. The experiment, how-
ever, is to be fairly tried, and Mr. Iselin has just
returned to Havre from this port after having, as
believed, effected arrangements here to get up a line
of steamers from this port to Havre. Our Drench
trade requires this accommodation without further
delay.
The Poussin affair is almnst forgotten. I met him
at the custom-house the other day, where he was
searching for a box containing some tneobles for his
official residence. It had unfortunately arrived too
late for his advantage. The only new circumstance
connected with his dismissal is this, that a laboured
defence of him recently appeared in one of our city
papers. It had been previously refused by several
contemporaries, although they were told that ten
thousand dollars would be cheerfully paid if the ent -me
cordiale could be restored. We are much gratified
with the view the Daily News has taken of the diffi-
culty. It is characterised by a liberality of opinion
towards the United States, and that practical good
sense which strongly characterises its articles.
Apropos to diplomacy. I am informed on the
highest authority that the discussion of the Nicaragua
question between our secretary and your representive,
at Washington, has thus far been a very friendly one.
And on the same authoril I assure you that our
government intends to make a stand on this Mosquito
question. I inquired in what way was our stand to
be taken; I was told, that force would be resorted to
in case any attempt was made by any British forces
or fleet to obstruct the navigation of the San Juan.
You have in this single sentence the whole of our
policy on this subject, and volumes of diplomatic
notes would only have this as their table of contents.

(From the New York Tribune for Europe.)
A convention of delegates from the different states in the
union assembled at St Louis on the 15th inst., to consider
the project of a railroad to the Pacific. Four hundred and
siaty-four delegates were present, of whom 264 were from
Kentucky, 47 from Illinois, 20 from New York, 13 from
Ohio, and the remainder from Signori, Tennessee, Indiana,
lowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jona,.
Col. Benton made one of his long and elabora e
speeches on the importance and nationality of the road.
This was received with warm approbation by the con-
vention. The Committee of Resolutions, consisting of three
from each stet*, reported a series of resolutions, recommend-
ing congress to provide for the formation of a great Wink
road to the Pacific in California, with a branch to Oregon,
from some point on the Missia-ippi as may be found eligible.
After a protracted and earnest discussion of several plans
and routes that were suggested, the cony, nion adjourned
on the 18th, to re-useable at Philadelphia on the Ist of
April next, to resume the consideration of the subject.
A destructive fire took place at New Orleans on the even-
ing of the 7th lust., by which five steamboats were com-
pletely destroyed—the Falcon, the Aaron Hat, the North
America, the Illinois, and the Marshal Ney. Not a vestige
of the steamers or their cargoes remains. Even the per-
anal effects of the passengers and crew were totally eon-
anted. Several farmers from the west, who had brought
down their produce on these boats, have lost everything, and
an now strangers in New Orleans, destitute of money and
clothes. The total loss of vessels and eargo is about 260,000 dots.

TIIE EARLY DISCOVERY OF TIIE BERMONDSEY
MIIRDIIIL—It will be recollected that on the fint occasion
of any particulars of this affair being brought bet we the
public, it was mentioned that the discovery of the murder
was in the first instanoe mainly if not entirely owing to the
intelligence sad exertions of a subordinate officer of cus-
toms, named Flinn, who, on finding him absent from his
official duties at the docks, made inquiries at his residence,
and also that of the Meanings, and ultimately prom cuted
his ramerches until the affair was brought to light,
11 and the body having been discovered, the fugitives
were tracked and brought to Jul ice. Another im-
portant point in this matter appears to have escaped the
notice of the authorities, which is, that Flinn first gave
intimation of his well-grounded suspicions t ths local police,
and obtained their distinct promise that the house in Min-
vei -place should be watched, and, if this had been dna., the
Manning. would not so easily have effected their esospe,
and the subsequent expense attending their capture, and the
anxiety produced in the public mind during the time which
elapsed, would have been altogether avo.ded.