The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1849.

conquest." Such it is and such it must
ever continue to be regarded by all who
remember that the church of England was imposed
upon their country, against its will, by form of arms,
and that it is to this day sustained only by force of
law. It is not the church of the nation, nor of half
the nation, nor of a fourth of the nation—it be probably
rot the church of one-tenth of the nation. It is em-
phatically the church of the oligarchy, by whose in-
strumentality and for whose benefit everything, whe-
ther temporal or ecclesiastical, has unfortunately been
governed in Ireland, and amongst whose extortions
none can bear comparison with this either in character
or in degree.

Of the tenets and the liturgy of the Anglican church
we can never be mirunderstood as speaking with any
other feelings than those of the most profound
respect. Of the learning, piety, and worth of the
vast majority of its clergy we ate equity incapable of
saying one disparaging or incredulous word. But no
individual excellence en atone for the sins of a
system which his been founded on violence, and is
maintained in violation of every acknowledged
principle of right and justice. Upon no con-
ceivable theory of national endowments can the
existence of a mere garrison establishment be de-
fended. It is felt by the great bulk of the commu-
nity to be a permanent trophy of their humiliation ;
and while it remains we fully concur with the Irish
representatives, who declare that neither permanent
peace or prosperity can be reasonably looked for.
But we own that we regard the document to which
we have thus sought to direct attention in another
and perhaps still more important aspect. It may
be fitly deemed an appeal to the justice of
the empire by the elective guardians of
a long oppressed and injured community. It
emanates, we believe, from men who are ready and
willing to co-operate with those who in this country
desire in politics only to do as they would be done by,
and who seek the reformation of much that is evil to
the condition of their own land and people. Disunion
among the popular party has for many years conks-
sadly been its bane. Reformers of every race and
realm need each other's aid and help against the
powers that are everywhere arrayed spinet
them. The interest, the true and abiding in-
terest of the people, is everywhere the same ; and no
solid advantage can be gained for freedom in one
place that does not tend naturally and inevitably to a
like advantage being secured elsewhere. On selfish
as well as generous grounds it is the policy of the
friends of progress to invite alliance and to cement it
with kindred spirits all over the world. how much
more is it a dw y to do so within the precincts of the
same constitutional realm to which men as fellow-
citizens belong?
This sentiment, we have reason to believe, has for
some time animated no inconsiderable number of the
best men among the English and Irish sections of the
liberal party in the Rouse of Commons; and we
rejoice in being enabled to state, upon no vague or
doubtful authority, that efforts which have recently
been made to bring about a more cordial understand-
ing, and to foster the desire of mutual support on
questions of common interest and importance. are at
length likely to .be attended with success. Upon
topics of a minor or local character diversities may
and will of necessity arise; but on the great funda-
mental principles of progress there can be no real
difference between Celt and Saxon. If ever there

was a country that has had ample experience of the
evils of an aristocratic policy in church and state,
that country is Ireland. Her people are only too
anxious to see their way by any means out
of the sectarian and monopolising grasp that
has for generations held them down. The
recognition of full political franchise% is their
daily lope and aspiration as well as ours, and
it; in addition, they demand also the establish-
ment of religions equality, so far from grudging them
that additional guerdon, we cheerfully and cordially
offer them our aid in achieving it.
In this light, therefore, we point to the declaration
of the Irish liberal members of parliament on the
chnrch question as an omen of better days. Faults
there has been on both sides; let them be alike I'm-
given and forgotten. Neither English or Irish are
too straw to despise reciprocal aid. Let them freely
' and fairly and faithfully unite their strength, and
they will soon prevail.

IT is pretty evident Vint not only Transylvania,
bat the Banat, are cleared of both Russian and Croa-
tian invaders, and that the gallant BEM has defeated
the three corps by which he and the south and east of
the land were menaced.

BEM had from fifty to sixty thousand men under his
command, and he seems to have concentrated them
successively on the three different divisions of the
enemy, and to have defeated them. His first victim
was Ltmens, who with some 30,000 crossed the
passes and occupied Kronstadt. BEM allowed him to
do so, concentrating his force at Hermanstadt; and it
was when LUDERS advanced to the latter town,
separated by a mountain range from Kronstadt, that
Beat fell upon him, put him to the route, and com-
pletely cut up his army.
His next achievement was to crush the Ban JEL-
LACHICH. This general, at the head of the Croatians
and of the rallied army of PrcnsEn, was in Syrmis,
laying siege to Peterwardein. Hie first threat was that
he would march north to Segedin, which Kosst..rn
had made his temporary capital. And the Ban even
published a despatch, in which he states himself to
have advanced to Theresianopel. This, however, was
but on paper. His next Taunt was that he would pass
both Danube and Theiss to relieve Arad and Temes-
war. He did advance to the Theis. at 0 Beees,
but was beaten back. Since then, he has
taken courage, and hearing that KossuTH was
in retreat to the Theiss, the Ban passed
the Danube, aad marched north towards Segedin.
He had, however, not long crossed the Francis Canal,
and had but reached Hegeyes, when the Hungarians
took him in flank. He was beaten, all accounts ad-
mit, and to have been beaten in such an advanced
position, implies the utter annihilation of his army.
It is difficult to believe that either BEM or BEM's
army could have crossed the whole breadth of the
Banat from Hermanstadt to the Theirs, and one
would have been inclined to suppose that it was the
army Or PERCZEL, now under the command of Oen.
VErrEit, that defeated the Ban. But the accounts
are positive in naming BEM, and attributing the vic-
tory to him.
On Tuesday last we told the tale of this double
victory, though without the particulars, that have
since become known, and we &tided—

Should Bens torn northwards with the force under his
command he cannot but give a good amount of the Russian
corps which penetrated by Bistntz.

The eonjee tnre here ventured is found t 3 be ful-
filled in the following bulletins that appear in the
Cologne Gazette :
BIBTRITZ, J wiz 26.
We have taken Bistritz to-day. No defence was made.
Tke enemy retreated. I will pursue them to-morrow.
Batt.

BISTRITZ, JUNE 29.
I have beaten the Russians. My outposts are at Rseken-
dart. My maiden army fought seven hours with the Russian
horse and drove them back.

Postscript.—My troops have entered Vallendorf.
BEM.
BISTRITZ, JULY 2.
I have for the fourth time advanced to Bistritz by way of
Gros Us and Verminly. I bold the enemy in the deifies
of B )rgo, without having bad °canon to claim the assistance
of our troops at Harlaburg.

BEM.

And letters from Constantinople add that the Rus-
sian corps has been beaten back into Moldavia.
We wish we could say that matters in North Hun-
gary were equally satisfactory. But the fact is, that
the unmolested advance of PASICEWITSCH from Galli-
cis through the passes to Debreczin and to Perth had
nearly cut the Hungarians in two, and have forced
GORGES' to abandon his line of defence on the Wasg
and round Comorn.
Every one asks what hes become of DEMBINSKI,
and what of his army. Had he fallen back, even
with inconsiderable force towards GORGEY, he might
have checked the advance of Gen. Onsung. With
this advance of GRABBE'S, by Kremnitz and Neasohl,
with PAsxzwrracri's occupation of Pesth, and the
Austrians' much to Ofen, it is a miracle that GOR-
GEY'S retreat to the east of the Theiss was not cut
off. The Russians, however, stern to have been
merely eager to grasp Peath, and to indite therefrom
a bulletin.
. .

While they were thus employed, GORGEY had
punished the Austrians a third time at Ace, causing
them a lose, which has so annoyed the emperor, that
both the generals, HATNAII and WOHLGEXUTII, are
said to have been dismissed. Leaving a large garrison
in Comoro, GORGET marched on Waitzen, met there
the Russian rearguard, drove it in, and eon-

timed his route. The next day, the Russians
hastened back from Pesth, and came up with
Germ Ev's rear guard, with which there was some
embargo of hostditiee. Oat of this the Russians and
Austrians have made a bulletin. They had a great
deal better have remained awake, and disputed the
passege to Goanav's 40,000 men. For that is all
that they allow him.
It remains to be seen whether GORGET will operate
in the mountains, or whether the whole Hungarian
army will be concentrated in that space which Him
hu cleared, and where it is now impossible to take
them in the rear.

TLe dismissal of their two generals by the Aus-
trians is significant enough. Tee Ban JELLACHICH
was not even so efficient. So that the war will rest
exclusively on the shoulders of PAuKEWITSCIL It is
needless to say with what intense interest its progress
will be watched.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.—It was generally
expected that the King of Bavaria would protest
against the conditions of the armistice and treaty con-
cluded between Prussia and Denmark, and it was even
asserted that the government of Bavaria had combined
with the cabinet of Hanover to induce the Reichsver-
wiser to disarm Prussia. The Weser Zei€ung, how.
ever, in an article dated &vie, July 20, says that the
Bavarian government, through its ambassador at the
court of Berlin, Count Lerenenfeld, gave its assent
beforehand to the basis upon which the armistice is
concluded, and is consequt rally bound to it ; that
regret is to be expressed at Munich respecting the
conditions of the armistice; butthat the assent already
given will be referred to as precluding the possibility
of an independent line of action.
Accounts from Schleswig state that the following
persons were proposed to form the provisional armis-
ti.e government of Schleswig :—For Prussia:
Adolph Von Moltke (member of the late general go-
vernment); for Denmark, B ton Karl Plessin; and
fur Englaud, Baron Von Felkenberg. The former
has positively declined, and the second intends doing
so, and in place of the latter, Mr. Howard, secretary
of the British Ambassador at the court of Prussia,
who is thoroughly acquainted with the Schleswig-
Holstein question, will, it is considered probable, be
appointed English commissioner in Schleswig.

HAMBURG, JUIY 24.
The Lubeck steamer, the Lubeck, on her last voyage
from Copenhagen, overran the Wismar iron steamer,
Frederick Francis 11., near Hors, in the night of the
22nd and 23rd July' the Frederick Francis sunk
half an hour later, but all the passengers and the
crew were saved except two persons, Mrs. Groth from
Wismar, and Mr. Hammerborn from here.