The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

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AMERICA.

(szursit's rsi.soami.)
(Per tie Pen* via Oreakhavee.)
212111 YORK, ocr. 18, 2 r.u.
Pendell Phillips has made a speech, in
said that President Johnson, in his ad-
the South Carolina delegation, ranged him-
mg the repentant rebel'', making himself
,uarters rebel, in order that the South might
part& Union. Mr. Phillips denounoed the
the
toreement of the President's policy by

tblican Conventions.
North Carolina Convention has tabled a
Al in reference to the assumption of the
ederate State debt, thus declining to take any
. .

the question this session.
itephens has been entertained at a private
Boston, when he announced that he would
President Johnson's reconstruction policy
best of his ability.
ions between the whites and freedmen eon-
long the ooast of South Carolina. The
m are said to be well armed.
to A military
nt
has assembled to take measures preve

. trouble.
serious riot has occurred at Baltimore between
Nud coloured troops, resulting in the death
man. The disturbance has been quelled.
7ernment have determined to withdraw
.oured troops from Kentucky.
Misaiasippi Legislature assembled on Monday.
Fenian Convention assembled at Phila-
.on Monday last. About 800 delegates
present. The Head Centre announced that
-sal envoy from the Irish Republican
,cities would communicate encouraging
oelligenos to the convention. The increase
e society's (I) branches in eight months
declared to be fifty per Dent.; the
in the number of members, fourfold ;
the increase in the weekly receipts, fiftyfold.
Bland," said the speaker, " was satisfied that
vvement was real. The advanced scouts had
but the line of battle was unbroken, and the
.as of the cause unchecked. The present
+ling would form finance and military bureaus,
enlarge the powers of the central council.
were ready, and would be submitted to the
intim), which would promulgate them. The
.scan members of toe society would be or-
deed into a military body, ready to co-operate
the brethren in Ireland."
secret session of the Convention was held on
lay, when armed sentinels were placed at the
Mass meetings are held nightly.
00211ERCUL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW TORE, Ocr. 18, 2 P.M.
iey tight. Gold, 146. Exchange on London,
,on Paris, 356 f. Stocks, dull. New York
itrals, 98g. Illinois, Ira. Erie, 91f. 5-20
Bonds, 1041. Cotton, steady ; middling upland,
Flour, declining. Wheat, dull. Corn, heavy.
fee, very firm. Sugar, good inquiry.
visions, steady. Molasses, very firm. Petroleum,
dull. Crude, 36c. ; refined, 80e. to 61c.
lbalee of government cotton were sold yester-
First quality Sea Island fetched 1 dol. 16}c.;
quality, 57c. ; mid middling fair Savannah,
, all in gold.
'he steamers City of London, City of Manchester,
Nova Scotian have arrived out.

AUSTRIA.

(non ova owe COUDIROIDIDir.)
VIENNA, Oct 24.
All the papers are full of one subject—the do-
wses of Lord Palmerston. The biographical
ketches and leading articles do full justice to the
political qualifications of the man, and acknowledge
with the greatest respect the wonderful powers
which placed him in so commanding a position.
There is no inimical feeling which shows itself, no
endeavour to pull down or to carpet the reputation
lof him who is gone. As Austria has little to thank
him for, it • htnot improbablyhave been other-
wise. might
For it was in this very capital that, during
the Schwaroenberg rule, the news of Lord
Palmerston's resignation caused such joy as to be
found worthy of being announced by placards on the
walls of Vienna. " Happily," says the New Free
Pour, " nobody now-a-days is so idiotic as to rejoice
at his departure ; and this, after all, may be looked
on as a little progress." He had, it is said,
"almost too much cunning for one of the Germanic
race " an--observation which is not without a
degree of truth. The same journal relates an anec-
dote of Prince Felix Schwarzeuburg, who had given
Baron Zedlite the order to annihilate Palmerston
by an article in the Augsburg A //genuine Bribing.
"I must close my letter," the baron writes to a
friend, dated 21st October, 1851, " for to-day I
must go to work on Palmerston, which, as you may
suppose, I do readily, for his insolence passes all
bounds. The prince said to me to-day, ' Sabres-
le and I leave you to judge whether 1 will or not."
" Poor Zedlitx, poor Felix !" continues the writer
who gives the above, " what has become of your
political wisdom, and whither has it led I But the
policy of the dying man at Brockett Hall, even
while in his last agony, spanned the globe, and
its influence was felt from Hudson's Boy to the
Ganges, from Nagasaki to Hobart Town."
I wrote to you some days ago of the scruples
entertained by the commissioners for the regulation
of the national debt. Since then the letter of one
of the members, Count Kinksky, and the unsettled
state of mind of the others, have given rise to all
sorts of reports, and there was a degree of uneasi-
ness felt by the public on the subject ; and the
more so as it was confidently asserted that the
commission intended to resign, and on no account
to resume its functions. What I stated on the 10th
as the mode of action to be followed is correct.
Prince Colloredo, the president of the commission,
went yesterday to the Emperor (nut to-day, as all
the journals state) to present his Majesty with a
paper in which the scruples of his colleagues were
set forth. The Emperor will request them to con-
tinue their functions, and will accede to the wishes
about signatures and counter signatures, and other
details, on which, all difficulties being removed, the
board will continue its duties as before.
The news is spread here that the ministry has
seceded to the Hungarian wish that a separate
ministry shall exist at Pesth. I can assure you, on
the most reliable authority, that there is no truth
in the report. With every inclination to meet the
wishes of the Hungarians, the government is too
well aware of the impossibility of such an arrange-
ment leading to any practical result to think for a
moment of trying it.
You know what a stir is caused in England by
the preparations for a general election. You may
suppose, therefore, the commotion which is now
going on throughout the eastern part of the Aus-
trian monarchy in anticipation of the meeting of
the Diets. Addressee are being delivered, confes-
sions of political faith made known; meetings con-
vened, and plans proposed for the campaign which
is about to begin in the various provinces of the
empire. There is excitement indescribable. Some
are looking forward with burning expectation to a
change which shall give them more than they have
bad hitherto, and put them in possession of powers
long coveted ; while others are watching coming
events with trepidation, fearing that privileges
newly acquired may soon be lost to them, and their
political existence merged in, and subordinated to,
that of another people more boldly exacting and
determined, as well as more favoured than them-
selves.

The different programmes put forth in various
parts of the kingdom make one almost fear that
moderation and wisdom will not be paramount in
the Council-chamber at Pestb. There is with
many the same determination as of old tokeep to the
strict letter of the law—to take nothing but what is in
the bond. Many are the leaders who put themselves
forward, each more or less resolved to claim for
Hungary independence of administration, and as
much as possible a separate existence, at
the same time that those advantages which con-
nexion with a first-rate power naturally brings may
also be enjoyed. The Poles in Galicia have been
invited by the Bolavonic people of the empire to
make common cause with them, and, renouncing
their own especial nationality, to help to form one
great Solavonian nation. But the Poles will not give
up their "historic traditions" or take part in a
common " Sclavonic policy." Were they to do so,
they say, "their national, political, and linguistic
existence, which has lasted for centuries, would be
merged in that of another and lost." " They never
will give up their individuality, or sacrifice their
costly mental treasure' for a mere abstract idea
such as that of a Sclavonic nationality." How
grandiloquent all this sounds ! The "historic tram
ditions," and • " Sclavonic policy ! "
It is worth while to record such matters for the
English reader, that he.may have a fainknotion of
the Babel that there is here, of the separate
strivings and aims, each one thinking that his tribe
is the exalted one, and his barbaric tongue the
language which ought to be preserved, even if by
doing so that is which Luther and Leasing wrote
were placed in a secondary rank.
While all this is going on, the citizens of the town
of Lemberg have been strenuously battling for the
restitution of a cherished right. Was it for freedom
of action or Ai thought that they were struggling ?
you will auk. Was it far some liberty which con-
cerned their social position, and which by being
taken away influenced their moral condition preju-
dicially I Was it a prerogative which insured
their personal freedom, and guarded against
tyranny and despotic power 1 It was none of these,
but simply the privilege of wearing the karalxta,
or national Polish sabre. In former times, the
nobles of Cracow and those who had taken a
degree at a home university were alone entitled to
wear it ; but now the citizens of Lemberg have dis-
entombed some old documents which prove that
they also, though simple burghers, were in old
times put on a ps• with the nobles of Cracow ; and
as the legal proofs exist, the right has been accorded
them.

tut this i$ indicative of these national costume
wearing nations. They are all alike. They cannot
merge the unimportant incident in the general,
vitally important change, but squabble and hold
oak for a trifle that tickles their vanity while
i'labric of their political existences is tottering
awl threatening to tall down. It is ie.* as
14 defog =earthquake that made the Tionemeat