The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1851.

England is made by turn@ the rhorse and
the dupe.
The course of England is plain. It is to any de-
terminedly that an obstruction to the road will not
be brooked. But the Porte is no doubt afraid that the
PAULA'S making the road will so ingratiate him with
the English, as a nation and a government, that they
will be ready to support Egypt in all its pretensions
to form an independent power. It cannot surely be
difficult to reassure the Porte upon this head.
The great cause of jealousy is, lest the
PAcnA should become the especial pct et
England, as .11EllEMET Au was of Franco.
The fact is that the rulers of the two countries,
Turkey and Egypt, are a pair of big children, quar-
relling for idle jealousies and stupid etiquette, stirred
by &signing menon both sides, runaway Egyptians at
Constantinople, family rivals at Alexandria ; and
the result is an embroglio through which our Fo-
reign Secretary does not seem yet to see his way.
But, as we said at starting, we cannot believe that
the Porte will or can persist in the outrageous de-
mands said to have been sent to Alexandria. The
pretension of applying the letter and the rigour of
the Tanzimaut to Egypt, to call now for the first
time on the PAen t to " send in his accounts," to
force him to admit Turkish agents of the Porte into his
council, all important decisions of that council, even
to the cutting off of a man's head (so trivial a thing
in the East), being suspended till reference shall be
be made to Constantinople, and consent given by the
°rand Vizier--such demands as these cannot be
serious. Fur they would completely contradict the
firman and the correspondence connected with it
and explaining it, as might easily be shown.
The offer of ABBAS PACHA we cannot but think
extremely fair. lie consents to go through the
formality of asking permission of the Seur.ts to pro-
ceed with this road. He shows, in a very intelligible
statement, that the road can be executed without a
loan, and without exhausting the country or embar-
rassing its finances. As to employing the knells
on forced work, Mr. STEPHENSON himself would nut
consent to conduct an enterprise of the kind on such
terms. And as to the power of life and death, what
have they to do with the business?
But admitting all these pleas on behalf of Egypt,
the Sutras is not a prince whose conduct
should bo precipitately, condemned, or in
whose face defiance should be flung. The
bold act of liberating KOSaUTH and his fellow-
prisoners, whilst braving Austrian choler, shows an
independent spirit, a liberal mind, and a generous
heart. And however disapproving and opposing his
last haughty and unjust demands upon Egypt, we still
think there is room to convince the Turkish govern-
ment in the language of courtesy and friendship,
that its jealousies and suspicions have led it much
further than its own interests required, and at the
same time placed it in decided and unwarranted hos-
'''*v to ours.

were condemned without a trial, have escaped from
the Algiers prison.
The litoniteur contains the details of the disturb-
ances, which were reported last evening to have
brakes out in the Cher. The magistrates of Sancerre
-having arrested and committed to prison the Mayor
d Pricy, M. Desmoineaux, and two other inhabitants
east commune, an attempt was made to rescue them.
On the morning of the 12th inst. 500 men, armed
with guns and scythes, marched on Sancerre. Having
halted at Mcnetreol, a few miles off, and being
informed that Sancerre was defended by the national
guard and several brigades of gendarmes, they com-
menced a retreat; and soon disconcerted by military
combinations dispersed in the woods. Twenty-six
of the rioters were arrested and conducted to Bourgea,
where they will be tried. A battalion of the
line
has been despatched from Paris by the railway to
the same town.
The Motional de l.illier, which arrived yesterday,
cousin very long details of the disturbances in that
department, but they differ in no material reaped
hoes those which I have already sent. Some at die
workmen arrested are foremen, whose wages were
from 12fr. to 15fr. a day. The Prefect of the Allies
has asked the government to place the department
in a state of siege.
The judgment rendered by the first court-martial
of the 6th military division in the affair of the ee-
-1 met society of Bourg, known by the name of the
11 'hums, Libra, having been quashed by the council
of revision, the case came on again two days back
before the second court-martial. The judgment of
the court condemns Prevel, Chadal, and Lescuyer to
two years' imprisonment, 500 fr. fine, and five years'
deprivation of civil rights; and Chamonox to six
months' imprisonment, 100 fr. fine, and two years'
deprivation of civil rights.
The commissary of police of Louhans (Saone-et-
Loire), who had failed in respecting the inviolability
of the representative in the person of Pd. Dain, has
just been dismissed from his functions. This is only
a personal reparation; it will not be sufficient, par-
ticularly after what has taken place at Commentry.
M. Martin, :deputy-mayor of tho commune of
Cressat, who had been suspended from his functions
by the Prefect of the Crease, for using disrespectful
remarks towards the President of the Republic at a
sitting of the municipal council, has been defini-
tively dismissed.
A letter from Grenoble of the 10th states that the
day before a person named Moulin, the manager of
the Alimentary Association, was arrested, in virtue of
a warrant issued by the procureur-general. Ho is
accused of having long been an agent of the secret
societies of Lyons' and their most active correspondent
at Grenoble. Three copies, addressed to him, of the
proclamation of the revolutionary committee of the
South, were seized at the post-office ; and a search,
instituted at his residence, led to the seizure of a
quantity of socialist writings, and a number of
letters tending to compromise other persons. M.
Garavel, a half-pay captain, was also arrested at the
same time, but has since been set at liberty. Captain
Brun, who was arrested some time back on a poli-
tical charge, had been removed on the 10th instant,
under escort for Lyons, where ho is to be tried.
One of the most distinguished members of the
Academy of Medicine has just gone to Tiflis, to study
an epidemic which is at present causing great ra-
vages in the Russian army in the Caucasus, and
which is not known in Western Europe.
The sale of the remarkable collection of arms of
the late Marshal Oudinot, at the chateau de Jean-
dheurs, in the commune of Isle-en-ltigault, depart-
ment of the Meuse, has just taken place. With the
exception of the National Museum of Artillery, there
was no collection in all France to be compared to it.
In addition to a number of other rare and valuable
things, the late marshal had formed a collection of
pipes for smoking, of all sorts and all countries,
from the humblest of clay to those splendidly orna-
mented as works of art. In it was the pipe which
John Sobieski, King of l'oland, smoked on the
morning of the day on which he rescued Vienna
from the attack of the Turks. This pipe Sobieski
eve to the municipality of Vienna, and the muni-
cipality presented it to the marshal when he was
governor of that city on its being captured by Na-
poleon.
The opening of the Italian theatre takes place this
evening, with Ilonizetti's opera of "Luerezia Borgia."
Mme. Barbieri-Nini, the celebrated prima donna will
appear, for the first time in Paris, in the character
I of Lucre: is ; the tenor Graziaui and the basso For-
tini will make their Winds as Gennaro and Don
Alfonso. Millie. Ida Bertrand will appear as Maps
Orsini.
Although the Bourse to-day, was necessarily much
occupied with the political situation, there
was a rise in the funds, owing probably to
the realisation of profits after the fall of the
last two days. The Five per Cents. rose 15 centimes,
closing at 90.73 and the 'three per Cents. rose 13
centimes, and closed at 53.63. Most of the railways
arc without change. Versailles (left bank), however,
fell 3fr., and the right bank and Bordeaux, lfr. 23e. ;
Marseilles rose lfr. 23e.

GER MANY.

AUSTRIA

Telegraphic despatches, received at Vienna, an-
nounce the arrival of the Emperor at Cracow. His
reception by the population is, of course, described in
the official despatch as enthusiastic.

VIENNA, Ocr.
The Emperor left last night for Lemberg, with a
numerous suite, headed as usual by Count Grunne.
A decree published in the Gazette this morning
informs the public that the Minister of Finance has
received 87,176,300 florins on behalf of the new loan
of 85 millions. According to this document the
sum of 85,569,800 florins was subscribed before the
23rd of September, the period for which an addi-
tional allowance of discount was allowed; the re-
maining 1,606,300 florins were subscribed between
the 23rd and 27th of the same month. It is hardly
worth while to question the truth of this statement,
Ili the le•riod when the whole was subscribed, and
even the whole loan itself is a matter of little im-
portance when compared with the vast financial
swamp into which the empire is sinking; yet it can-
not be true, as the very large subscriptions of the
bank, made by order of the minister, to cover the
sum deficient, were not made until within the very
last days of the month. I reported at the time tba
the bank had been compelled to sign for 10 or 12
millions. The 1,606,300 florins subscribed, accord-
ing to the decree between the 23rd and 27th of
September are to be applied to repaying a part of
the subscriptions made by the treasury for the
reduction of the national debt on behalf
of the owners of Styrian and Upper and Lower
Austrian domestic-invasion obligations. This said
reduction of the national debt treasury figures in the
subscription-list to the amount of about nine mil-
lions, out of gratitude for which the said holders of
Styrian, tec., invasion obligations are compelled to
subscribe another nine millions. Here are twenty.
eight or thirty millions of the loan, which do not
deserve the name, and nine millions of which are
valueless old paper. Of the remaining fifty-five
millions, full twenty have been exacted by compul-
sion, employed in the most dishonourable and op-
pressive manner, from the pockets of small trades-
men, communal councils, mechanics benevolent in-
stitutions, schools, and colleges. Another portion
has been signed for abroad by the agents of the
Finance Minister himself, in order that foreign coun-
tries might not appear totally devoid of confidence
in the Austrian finances.
Under any circumstances, a loan obtained by such
means must be pronounced valueless; but, in the
total disruption of the financial organisation of the
Austrian empire, with an annual deficit of
about a hundred millions, and really a pros-
pect of diminishing it—with neither law nor
justice in any single province—with the whole
empire, in fact, in a state of disorganisation, held to-
gether only by military force, a loan of eighty-five
millions, exacted partly by force and partly unreal,
cannot be of more service than a drop of water in the
ocean, and can only add to the general embarrass-
ment. Obtained for the purpose of regulating the
difference between the value of coin and paper
money, by calling in and destroying two-thirds of
its amount of the paper money in circulation, its use-
lessness is already displayed by the fact that silver
and gold not only do not fall, but continue to rise in
price. That the Mctalliques and other puldic funds
I do not fall in proportion as bullion rises, must not be
accepted as a proof of increasing value. Baron Krauss
possesses an inexhaustible mine of paper money, and

tan keep tho price of the Metalliques op to whatever
figure he pleases. English and other non-Austrian
capitalists have testified their views of the Austrian
finances by refraining from subscribing to the loan.
The whole of the ministry took the nest oaths of
office yesterday morning, swearing, in the presence
and in the hand of the Emperor, to remain faithful
to him and his heirs.
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permitted to land. The statement is not believed,
but the fact that the Earl of Westmoreland has de-
layed his departure from Berlin, coupled with the
conviction that this government, mad enough at all
times, but now immeasurably incensed at the pre-
parations making to receive Kossuth, is capable of
taking the strongest and most unreasonable steps,
have induced some persons to credit it. Others, too,
who thoroughly understand the ignorance of the
Austrian government and their incapacity to under-
stand the relations of a ministry in England and
the power of a member of the cabinet, arc inclined
to believe that the Austrian minister may on this
occasion, as he did in the affair of Haynau v. Bar-
clay and Perkins's draymen, have demanded the in-
terference of the government where it has no power
whatever. It matters little at the present moment,
whether the diplomatic relations between Austria
and Great Britain are to be interrupted from such a
cause, for the cabinet of Vienna is not willing to allow
Lord Palmerston to exercise the slightest influence,
direct or indirect, over its decisions. The presence of
an Austrian ambassador in England and of an Eng-
lish minister in Vienna, would not avert a war with
Teekey, if the Emperor and Prince Schwarzenburg
were determined upon such a step. In any case, the
English government is not to blame, while the Eng-
lish people can afford to laugh at the absurd ire and
futile rage of a disappointed despotic government.
What the real feelings of the government arc is
shown in the articles of the governmfistal press. Poor
Lord Palmerston is overwhelmed with abuse. He is
at the bottom of everything ; he has instigated the
common councils of Loudon and Southampton ; ho
has done so much, indeed, that to simple minds he
must appear all-powerful as well as übiquitous. I
sometimes fancy that the noble lord must laugh most
heartily at the various schemes attributed to him and
his agents, and be inclined to wish for a portion only
of that power which foreign cabinets and foreign
journals ascribe to him. English journals may preach
as much as they please on the real extent of
Lord Palmerston a authority, or of any other
minister, foreign statesmen of the highest rank
will insist on believing their position to be the same
as that of a continental minister. In no country.is
the perversity of this belief greater than in Austria,
and in no country does there exist a deadlier hatred
towards Lord Palmerston and his friends. I)ay alter
day his conduct is the subject of the most malicious
comment ; and now that hospitable England gives a
national welcome to a man in whom the people re-
cognise a noble, a kindred spirit, tho spontaneous
outpourings of a people's generous feelings is ascribed
to the noble lord a intrigues and schemes, and the
malice of his self-created opponents increased a hun-
dred fold. As a specimen of the tone of the Vienna
press on the subject, I add a translation of an article
from this morning's Lloyd :
The ovations preparing in England for an Austrian sub-
ject, who betrayed his sovereign and lit the flame of revolu-
tion in his country, do not excite in us very great indigna-
tion. We only feel great pity, coupled with much contempt,
for the promoters of these ovations and their tools, the stupid,
well-fed aldermen of Southampton and London. In the
year 1811 the greatest efforts were made by the Foreign
-
office in London to destroy the Austrian monarchy. The
" noble" loin at the head of that ministry tried everything
that cabal, double-tonguedness, cuaning, and treachery
could effect in order to carry out his noble object. While a
minister clothed in the highest diplomatic rank was re-
presenting the person of his Queen at the Austrian court,
thereby announcing to the world—and in an ostensible man-
ner—the powerful and friendly relations subsisting between
Great Britain and this monarchy, secret agents in the ser-
vice of the English cabinet, together with its public ser-
vants, men like Lord Minto and Mr. Ahereronthy, were
spinning those intrigues which were soon to receive histori-
cal importance. Ihe mines were dug, the powder was
laid, and the explosion followed the signal given
from the hotel in Downing street. Parts of South
and Central Europe were in a flame. Lord Pon-
sonby remained in Vienna, a guarantee for the good
faith, the Punic faith, which England entertained for
" its old ally." During this period that monarch, whose
misfortunes ought to preserve him from too severe a judg-
meat, was hunted to destruction and death by British
intrigues; and, as Kossuth could boast of the friend-
' ship of Lord Palmerston, so did, with the same right
doubtlessly, the rebel leaders in other parts of Europe.
That many of these were, at a later period, neglected
theirin want and misery by their friends, proves
nothing to the contrary. Even English papers have
complained that Lord Palmerston mercilessly abandoned
those whom he had misled the moment success left them.
Each victory gained by the Austrian arms in Hungary and
Italy, the close alliance between Russia and Austria, the
successful struggle with revolution wherever it showed its
bead, the shipwreck of the Prussian project fur kicking
Austria out of Germany, and finally, the strengthening
and consolidation of the power of tho empire,—these
were all defeats, deep and bitter, for the English
policy. Never before has a cabinet been compelled
to make so many disgraceful retreats, received
so many painful defeats, and lost so much influence,
honour, and respect as England during that period. Its in-
fluence in the Mediterranean, upon which England laid so
much stress, disappeared; the courts of Madrid, of Napha,
and of Athens rightly regatded that power as their enemy.
The infamy enacted in Greece awakened the slumbering
sense of right and honour of the British parliament, and
thrcatoned the ministry with a disgraceful end. The rage
excited by unsuccessful plans and the defeat of Sardinia,
the disgrace of dishonourable conduct, has long gnawed the
heart, of the leading men in England. The impotence
which has not the power to injure Austria, now contents it-
self with making a wry face at her. The noble revenge
expresses itself in a grimace. Because a man has been con-
victed of treason in Austria, he is, therefore, to be over-
whelmed with honour. It is not BO much done out of love
to him as out of malice to all loyal Austrians. We cannot
conceive that this demonstration will gain any purpose.
The loyal Austrian has cause to be thankful that the great
and hostile efforts, the most sly and most cunningly
contrived plans of one of the mightiest cabinets
of Europe could not prevent the regeneration of
his country, and that England can find no other means of
displaying its annoyance at all these defeats, than by ho-
nouring and fking a man who has fled this country for po-
litical crimes. The English people can, however, rest na-
ives' that retaliation will never be exercised for this affair.
lbw* any English criminal whose name has been appended
*Os gallows by the sentence of a competent English court
eflaw, flying from justice, take refuge on the Continent, the
eineausal councils of no single town in Europe will present
ailletwas or prepare any other token of respect for him.
/elfpenaat, respect for the law, even for that of foreign
sumuldss, the most ordinary considerations which members
of est civilised nation must have for another, should
sammrdly prevent such obnoxious, challenging, and, to their
innermost core, revolutionary ovations.
FRANKFORT. _ _ _

The Fr•anklurter Journal states that Russia has
replied to I,ord PalmerBton's note, enclosing Mr.
Gladstone's letters, in a strain exactly similar to that
put forth by the Germanic Diet.
HANOVER.

The honorer leiteiTti, under tho date of the 11th,
contains the following bulletin of the King of Han-
over's health The king was obliged to keep his
bed for some days towards the end of last month, in
consequence of a severe cold; but for some days he
has been so convalescent that the doctors entertain
good hopes of his recovery. Yesterday his majesty
rose from his bed for a part of the day, has passed a
good night, and his strength is evidently increased."