The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

Web, written jest before the sews of the issarreedos
arrived. It is so mat orearnent on what has taken
plea and an anticipatory reply to the conaerratare
ruse whisk the sews- will crests

Nivea. perhaps, at any epoch was England so as-
popular with the nations of Europe as at the present
monist Never was it more inspected, mere de-
Domed, more stamped as feeble, enemy milpost,l
and illiberal. Go through Spain, Italy, Gmesq,lhe
esontries of the north, and even France, wit yen wili
bear very similar sentiments expressed dangled' to
those which prevailed in 1815, sacept that, then, sew
sure was blended with veneration and fear, whilst b
now aggravated directly the mem.
Bat It is not doled& government or its pulley
that Ms missed or merited emit a general sediment of
npegnimes. In Spain and Italy oar ovammest
shows liberal Mae Mete and upheld des owe of
hose= and of Imanity, whilst sod= in Germany
or France eau it be sensed et giving ita sup-
port to Migspelsr parties. The English go-
vernment has indeed forsworn all the traditions of pad
Quixotism, when it was ready to arm and to ea
pond one day for the monarchic, and another kr
the constitutional, principle. English miniature
have learned the necessity of feigning, if set of
feeling, indifference, and our lukeweatame end
Keene in nonce may often be misommtrasi by
liberals into ess and desertion. We sweati
mit the justice of them complaint". Popoler=
now no infant, that requires tending and
It is robust, virile, and never so fully glaugare, as
when ahandened to its own growth, effaces, =A ler-
tem &gland has watched sufficientl over the
waft of odditotional liberty : it must nowy Mad up
and light flit
It is ad the passiveness of the English govern
tent whiek bus rendered the name and character of
this esemley so unpopular abroad : it is, we have no
Midden is saying, mainly and almost exclusively
the Wow, of our prem. When the German and
Italian-revelations burst forth, the liberals of those
countries natnally looked abroad for encouragement.
eagerly night and turned over the pages
of those organs of the English prom beet
known to them by name. What wen their
astonishment to find their efforts mocked, their
motives vilified, the name and the cause of freedom
spat upon, and the cam of absolutism and monarchy,
and et the mod retrograde system and chiefs of go-
verment upheld and idolised ! Those who have not
boa on the spot and actually seen the effect of them,
=a have no idea of the contempt and hatred which it
has entailed upon the English name. All the old lies I
of England's having none but aristocratic sympathieu, of
its having aided the Holy Alliance to enslave Europe,
of its being hostile to political freedom abroad lest it
might awaken commercial independence—all these
calumnies, so carefully disseminated by our friends
of
the French dynasties, have been revived and cordially
believed, since our press has been supposed to speak
out English sentiments upon the revolutions of Ger-
many. And yet, we will be bound to say, that there
are few Englishmen, even of conservative sentiments,
who, if made to contemplate the actual state and re-
sults of despotic government in Germany, would not
admit that a revolution was better than the stagnant
&eruption and dissolution of those superannuated
tyrannies.
What is most surprising in the regret of English
Wee for the overthrow of Austrian or Premien
absolutism is the tact that their systems had ceased
to be monarchies in an English sense of the term.
The monarchs themselves bad, in truth, dwindled
to cyphers—to an utter nonentity in Austria. There
was neither King, court, nor aristocracy, in any in-
fluential senor of the term. Power and profit were
altogether moeopolieed by the minister and the boo-
renueratie. And the history of Austria, from
1814 to 1849, is in truth nothing but
the history of Mrrrnaincti and his clerk'.
We have but to look into the eloquent pages of the
writer of Oesterreieh and Seine Zukuntl, to see that
the most unhappy and depressed clam in Austria were
precisely the well-born and the wealthy; that this
class sighed for the revolution as much as the citizen
or the serf; and that the insurrection of March was
nothing else than the demolition of the walls of that
great prison, which kept every class of society fettered
and immured, and which bad become so intolerable,
that, in fed, the revolution required but one victim,
one act—the exile of Nirrienzicu—in order to
allow the four and thirty millions of oppressed
Austria= to breathe.
We have not space to give,. nor, probably, have oar
readers leisure to peruse. a circumstantial deliusation
of the state of the Austrian movements and 'tops-
VON dories
will
three years of peace. Akw flada,
however will give an idea of the nature and sonde
of the sigma of government
Austria in 1815 owed 200 millions of florins in
coin, paying four millions interest. After ow third
of a canonry, passed in peace, the debt of Austria was
upwards of 1,000 millions of florins, paying 40 =l-
ikened mud interest, to which 10 millions more may
be added from the operation of the sinking hind.
The revenue of Austria in 1840 my be calculated
at 180 millions of florins, one third of which ems
from direct land tax. The debt abashed one-third of
this, the army more than eadher did, the Meow
eratilt the rest, leaving the seat, pails week% sal a
host of other expenses to be at by rely ime.
So defective s waken in Amide, tad,
although three-fourths of the negniatisa
engaged in it, there is need at lingo yearly
importations of corn, and though 1111%1 it
thus demanded for the culture of the Irt
hibitive system diverts it to manufacture,
vetf illts
manufacture is burdened by taxes upon is, raw
To the above brief sketch we need scarcely add,
that no tax has been taken off the Austrians since
1815, except the capitation tax, which has been
far more than replaced in amount and vexation by
extending the consumption tax from town to country.
There never, in fact, existed a government so stupid,
so prodigal, so oppressive to all classes, so insulting
to mind, so spoliating of the purse and so unproduc-
tive of any one good or wise effect as the adminis-
tration of Priam Mrrrzarnen. Neither OM and
blood, nor common sense could tolerate it lo
nger.
Ad And yet this is the government, which is therTot
of the respect and regret of so many members the
Englishmen ; this is the riginse, for having superseded
which the German revolution is stigmatised and held
up to scorn ; and this is the system of adminirtration,
which Englishmen are called upon to lend their sym-
pathies and good wishes, if not their efforts, to re-
impose not only upon Austria itself, but upon the
.toils I
hapless lerinbar&.
should

lie yesterday and to-day's papers we have inserted
two very remarkable articles= the slave trade, taken
from two Brazilian journals. They realise in some
degree the hopes that were so confidently expressed
by the free trade leaders in advocating the admission
of foreign sugar, regardless of its mode of cultivation
and manufacture; and they beget expectations that
sight of search treaties will not be se indispensable
to the destruction of this horrid traffic as it has been
the ask= to believe. For in them we have indica-
tion that already there is a party in that empire
AM which es wickedness, which sees
the evils, which fears the consequences, and
white, ' conseinently advocates the extinction
slivery therein and the abolition of the slave trade.
Ibis le exactly what Mr. Cost= and his friends pre-
dialed would be the result el free trade with Brazil.
The fist of oar refining to lapel its produce, because
eir the growth of that pude" ended the whole em-
s la thimppLticantriaLe =t tji:llronruig,nthtleverefourt,
iiszcsweed the INIFf lIIIN/poly to our colonies
or all elms wield the slave trade. But
me wiwarlave we deified that monopoly--scarcely
wee imeesseented Is esisnos Brazilian sugar—than
this emanisit of "Nis &wives ; both odes of the
=NO impulielly • national honour
le esneeil *cereal medb et 'the qarrangement tuestion
phi& buena ace et intend o be
wiled es •Wend or demotic grounds; and a
gusty limed width meek, object to be what we,
no right of interteresee, failed to achieve.
true
This party is ;.rd •it denoesees, in linguae Aron
sesegh to excite Exeter Hall, the crime-the t
dills slave trade ; it argues spinet It.
Pilt te the empire ; it shows how by epsey
the Imbrue safety of Brazil is in constant X=
it points oat how the profit of cultivation is
up by that mortality of labour which has to be ess-
tinually replaced by fresh importations of slaves, sad
thus how the planters, natives of the soil, are bet
tributaries to the slave dealers who are generally
foreigners; it proves how the health, the wealth, the
safety, the very existence, of the empire are interested