The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1849.

vain, betrayed by both qualities to hope and to
premier what be mold never perform.
These is a paulierity to be remarked in the ties of
moseyed men of late. This- is that the new mode of
asquiriN wealth hes given tbsm fa' mere direct and
eztssevs ;aflame one; and summand ot men that
any ottbe old modes of enrichment by trade in either
merchandise or money. The nabob or the capitalist,
the snooeinful manufacturer or merchant, had in gene-
ral to purchase political influence if he ambitioned it I
bat the lord of a dozen railroads, the sovereign of their
host of employla, and the wielder to some extent of
their capital, snoteeded at once to political influence,
and competed with the old electoral monopoly, which
the land and its owners had hitherto enjoyed,
In each a position one might have expected to see
Mr. HUDSON join the party and assume the policy
most natural to the noel homines, who rise
by their own exertion. Mr. Hutson preferred
inscribing his name, and uniting his influence along
with those, the interests and ideas of whom and
of whose class were most diametrically opposed to
his. Bo unexpected an adhesion won of counts the
gratitude of the Tories. And, from the field-marshal
who bowed in the saloons of Mr. HUDSON and took
his lady by the arm, down to the Mem who patted
Mr. HUDSON on the shoulder and frenetically sup-
ported his first electioneering straggle, no monarch
enjoyed more unquestionably all the honours and loy-
alty of conservative courtiers than the Railway King.
Mr. HUDSON is now in a condition to test the tote-
door of his choice. What journal has been the first
to fling a stone at him ? That one on which he
lavished all confidence, and which adulated him in
turn. What party is the first to exclaim against him,
and exaggerate his peccadilloes into flagrant crimes ?
—But it may be said that the aristocracy, the men of
hereditary delicacy and honour, must naturally thrust
from amongst them, even on the first suspicion, the
man, much more the percents, who has shown want
of delicacy in the handling of money.
L the English aristocracy so very severe to de-
faulters of their own cute? Has the breath not
merely of calumny, but of justly conceived suspicion,
never tarnished characters, which have still succeeded
from mere force ofoonnexion in retaining their polish?
Have noblemen never been black-balled five times at
their own club houses, and been admitted at last,
each stigma not branding the deeper, but acting as a
purgatorial infliction to whitewash, if not to excul-
pate. The worst feature, perhaps, in Mr. HUDSON'S
case is the acknowledgment of wrong-doing, implied in
his offer to refund. Have noble and honourable
gentlemen not been charged in the same way, and
extricated themselves by the same offer? And is there
to be one code of honour, and one tribunal of conscience
for the high-barn and another for the base-born ? And
is the ress to auction this difference, and panda to the
worst of class privileges by screening the noble, whilst
it hoists up Instanter, and without trial, to the
lanthorn pest the merely monied aristocrat, who
makes a mistake in his fingerment of pelf ?
We must own, however, that in the present cue the
game-cocks of birth and breeding may crow over
their dunghill acquaintance for the want of pluck that
he has shown. Bat attacked and affronted on what
he might well consider hie own farm-yard and barn-
door in the north, it is no wonder he should shrink
from appearing in a pit composed of less friendly per-
sons, naturally inclined to turn upon one who had
promised so much in happier days, and who now
came down with the plain statement of a reduced
dividend.

i'reriiiist not, however, judge of railway kings es
we do of feudal monarchs, by their prowess. Let us
simply state the charge, whilst awaiting the explana-
tion. The imputation against Mr. HUDSON is, that
certain moneys having been raised bythe York, New-
castle, and Berwick Company to purchase shares in
another °mama numbtr of such shares were bmght
at a price above the current market value ; and that
of these overpaid spares • considerable quantity be-
longed to Mr. HUDSON, the chairman of the buying
concern and the directs. of the process, who thus
made his company pay for them moro than they
wore worth. To this charge nothing yet has been
publicly offered in the way of denial or expla-
nation. It is impossible to hear such a case
stated, without asking where were the other members
of the board of directors, who might or ought to be
aware of such a transaction, which must have been
done in the expectation that it would have been slurred
over, and tacitly allowed as a kind of premium for
benefits conferred. In all this the laxity of others is
to blame as well as the unsorapolousnees of the chair-
man. It is a painful subject, and °news should try to
consider dispassionately. The work of vengeance and
slaughter we must leave to the Times, ever ready to
enact the part of executioner.

Per magna, Brute, Dap to
Oro, qul regei oonsuorts toiler*, cur non
Hone Regent fugulse l Operam hoe (mlht erode)
tsarina at.

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT.—Letters and journals of the Ist inst.
have come to hand from this city. It would appear by
the Muted*. Zeitung that the French government are
not unwilling to give up to the eentral executive the
teers (now detained at Verdun) who are accused of
' accomplices in the murder of Prince Lich-
no and Herr Auerswald in Frankfort in Sep.
amber last. So soon as the central executive received
notice that the Danish government would not renew
the treaty of Malmo, a courier was sego to London
with despatches, in Ain (as asserted) 11 was stated
that the continuance of the truce was the conduit,
tine qwd mom of the continuance of the negotiations for
a final peace. It may be added here, that the note of
the Danish government was a very courteous one.
On the Ist inst. the National Assembly voted the
13th and 14th notions of the law of elections. These
sections ran as follows :
The mole rialto:Aims is public. The votes are to be
yivem in lemon by means of vote tickets healing no
IVlleiTeden is direst, sad is decided by the absolute softie.
rity Oahe siestas] diarist. It there should be at first so
at:eines majority, then • NOM Vete must be taken. Should
eseitimyysn a emend time, them the names of the two mem-
• lembeg tbe peeled number ef votes must be again put,
the spiselles Se l &died by e the drawing of lots, if there
should le en equal amber of votes on both sides.
The brow section (which was carried by a majo-
rity of 239 to 230) embodies the priceiple of the
ballot, but not of secret ballot ; and the latter section
that of direct, in contradistinction to indinsk election
as now exercised in Prussia by virtue of the new cot:i-
odation The Wowing important qua** was put
to ministers by Herr Fischer :
OemMaimg Wens meek of Raglan troops ids Sieben-
Wpm vemy leers a suet of serious
whisk Gomm amp* se it is, in the wockussmaise itsr=nity,rainsteleash.Onaldiniegtbatthat in ma-
sa with mermbling of ameba troops cm lb meters
treatises, lays 'psalm rableme et Anemia to s deeps* Mete,
wherereby the
apeelngpeople of Germany are filled wilt
ions &sir young Iremises,
ameba felt fa that Owen genemmeet whisk aimed
each • step Is les taken may wily diminish the empathy
entedisel tememis the noble Garman race Is Agee*
whereby Om Moltke in the way of ertablisMgdagewmci
howdy* esededemen mbe ete will doubled ;
the met mania ft bring about coocessious a rupee
of the Danube which ere of much impeetense
for the Mum pospaeL of Germany ; considering all these
points, I ask W era of Foreign Affairs whether he is
premed te tem, in this matter, the steps which are requi-
tals km the melatying et the German legislative assembly
end the Geese. webs P
This question was received with loud cheers and
cries of " Hear, hear." It was understood
general
ritinisters would give an answer in a few days.
PRUSSIA.—Bnium, Fn. 2&—To-day the funeral
of Prince Waldemar was solemnised. The body
having. been brought from Munster, was laid during
the night at the foot of the cathedral altar. The cere-
mony (of which es much as could be seen outside the
church an immense crowd were early assembled in
the Lustgarten to witness) began at nine
o'clock. The tolling of bells and discharges of
cannon end musketry heralded the lamp. It
will be interesting to English reader' to know that
among the insignia laid upon the coffin were the
Order of the Bath and the medal struck for the Seikh
campaign. By theme were laid the prime's sabre,
mash, and gloves, with the chain and ribbon of the
Order of the Black Eagle. At the head of the coffin
was plead the crown. The King and Queen were
chief mourners. It is needless to add that all thia%
dignitaries were present. Among the crowd •
a general feeling of oompammon for the Ted
father, Prince William, the King's uncle.
In the Wiener Zeitung appears • singular docu-
ment published by the Rowan General Jangsihadtil
at Kronatadt, after his return to that city, on the 9th,
from chasing the Tanks over the Alt. In this he
declares the report spread by certain of the citizens
that he had quarrelled with the Austrian General
&harder, and contemplated the withdrawal of his