The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24.

Tits state of affairs in Hungary continues 'still ob-
scure and uncertain. Eneagh, however, is known to
justify miens alarm and considerable despondency
in the friends of hbcrty and internal independence.
There appears to he, unfortunately, no reason to
doubt that the Russians have obtained a aerie* of
miner victories around liermannstadt, and in the
valley of the Upper Mine., and that BEM, after ex-
periencing a succesaion of reverses, had been driven
from the eastern frontier of Transylvania to the
ineighbourhood of Arai and Temesvar. Equally in-
I disputable appear to be tf e facts that DEMBINSKI
and the generals acting along with him had been
driven, after an obstinate resistance, from the vici-
nity of Szegedie, and, after being joined
by Bret, had been defeated by ILAYNAU un-
der the walls of Temesvar. The surrender of
°CAGEY to PASKIEWITCII, though nothing reliable
has yet been publiehed as to the circumstances in
which it took place, or even the time when and
the place where it occurred, seems but too certain.
Our only grounds of doubt are the character and Fr--
vie:is career of the man, which certainly ought to be
allowed to tell for something.
These are heavy news, and warrant the most
alarming apprehensions. The Hungarian diet was
at Enc4cdin • the defeat of DEMBINSKI and his
associated leaders between the forces of PASKIE-
WITCH and HAYNAO towards the Theirs, and the
victerious Russians on the upper Mar. a, appears to
leave no resting-place for this centre and rally ing
point of Hungarian nationality. And the surrender
of GoRORY would place all Hungary east of the
Theis., in so far as military resistance is concerned,
at the disposal of the Austro-Russians.
Even this gloomy intelligence, however, does not
appear to us so conclusive as to the final prostration
of the Hungarian cause as it does to many. Ilan-'
garian armies still keep the field in the Bakooyer
Wald to 'he south, and on the Waag and Mum to
the north of the Danube. And the threatening, the II
revs/log and inhuman language held by lIATNAU in
his proclamations to the inhabitants of the districts cell
the 'fheias and Maros, proves beyond dispute that hi
feels himself among an inveterately hostile popula-
tion.
There is something, too, very remarkable in the
excessive anxiety evinced by the Russian gorene
meat to expedite and accreeit the news of Geer:mai
surrender, to say nothing of the extraneous and often
contradictory incidents with which its alien's have in
many instances coupled that event. TheEtaperor's owe
adjutant was despatched express from Warsaw to
convey the intelligence to the King of PRUSSIA. At
Paris and London the caterers of intelligence fur
rho newspaeer press were hastily and eagerly cram-
med with exaggerate I versions of the story from the
Russian embiuseies. All this hot haste seas to indi-
cate a tre muloua misgiving on the part el the Russian
government as to the real extent and probab.e per-
manence cf its vaunted sera as. It is like the anxiety
of a coward to have his fears dispelled by hearing
many voices repeat his own evocation that he has no
need to be alarmed.
And to all who look not merely to the parsing
events of the day or hour, but to the resent
in combination with the past, it is evident
that, even if we are to take all that ese hear teem
Vienna and Warsaw for granted, the Anstro-Russian
' allies have little meson to f. el confident in the security
.1 their position. Even a HAYNAC does not threaten
a whole nation and its agwegate priesthood with fire
and sword and the gallows without cause. The pro-1
elsmations of that general are a confession that the
Auetro-liumians have no hopes of bein: able to keep'
Hungary in subjection, except by intense terrorism.
There are limits beyond which fear ceases to affect
the minds of men, except as a spur to resistance.
Thole limits HATNAI7 appears already to have passed.
Add to this the insults which the victors are offering
to all the races resident in Magary, and above all to
their clergy. Add further the bankruptcy which the
destruction of Kos-teen's paper meray is entailing
upon all into whose bands it has come, many of them
hitherto fritnely to the Austrian dynasty.
It would require almost inexhaustible maxims, to
keep permanently on fo.,t ouches military forte as will
be necessary to keep down a people goaded to meek
by the circumstances we have enumerated. But the
Au 'cream einsuces are known to be tottering on the
verge of bankruptcy ; and there is discnntoat with
the government teetering and extendirg in Croatia,
in Behrmin' in Vienna Pule ; while Italy is only held
by the sword, and Gallicie is garrisoned by the Rus-
sians. Austria is incompetent to a protracted struggle
tiniest popular deaffection • and though the Emperer
of Russel, as an individual, is enormously rich, the
empire of Russia is far from wealthy. The accumu-
lated plunder of a CHIENGIs KHAN, or a NADIR SUAII,
c aid re co do much in Asia, but the most
overflowing treasures of an individual monarch
are a &kiddie when a European struggle
is in question. It was the oggregate wealth of the
French, German, and English nations, not the private
purse of any monarch, that supplied the means of
carry:or en the colossal and protracted war from
1790 to 1816.
And the present strife, like that to which we have
alluded, is a European struggle. The intervention of
Russia in the affairs of Hungary has not been
motived solely by a desire to re-establish in that
country the tottering poxer of the house cf Haps-
burgh. The object of Russia is to drive back from
borders tee spirit of political freedom which is
weeking. its way eastward. Wise is its generation,
the Hessian cabinet has resolved not to wait for an at-
tack on its own territories, but to assume the agerea-
r ire, and strike a blow at its dreaded enemy, outside
of its borders. An effort will undoubtteliy be
made to advance the frontier of the eastern despot-
isms as far into the west of Europe as possible.
Already the oriental diplomacy is gravely deliberat-
ing on new partitions and groupings of European
territories, ana a new holy alliance. A spirit is still
alive in Europe that will net tamely submit to the
carrying out of these plans. It is the spirit
which carried NAPOLEON m triumph over the necks
of the combined sovereigns of the continent ; and
which, when disabused as to his intentions' carried
the same sovereigns to the gates of Paris. It is the
spirit which has baffled and broken all the fine
arrangements of the Congress.. of Vienna and Verona,
and has within the bat two years challenged Russia
to its new crusade. Under innumerable reverses, and
apparent prostration., this spirit has been steadily
;crowing in stature and in strength ever sine. 1789.
Men will no Langer submit to be transferred from the
ownership of one prince to another like droves of cattle.
If the aggressive movement of Russia and Austria
against constitutional Europe is persisted in—and it
is not easy to see how these powers can draw back—
s greeeral European straggle is inevitable.
It will readily be imagined that the resuscitated
Holy Alliance is animated by anything but amicable
fe cling. towards England. Even its presumption, how-
ever, does not go the length of threatening this country
with warlike aggression. Their dreams are of a Eu-
ropean league for the purpose of carrying into effect
NAPOLEON'S idea of excluding English commerce from
the continent of Europe. A scheme which utterly failed
i in the hands of one powerful despot, is little likely to
sneered in the hands of a congress of little despots.
After the issuing of the Milan decrees all the English
ein all the stoles of Frankfort were seized and
s Earned in a pablic lame: within a week the stores of
Frankfort were as full of English manufactures, sold
at as low prices, as ever. Even though a new "con-
tinental system " could be decreed, it would be with as
little avail now as then. The Spanish eontrabandistas
could tell the Austrian and Russian cabinets what
chance they have of excluding English ma-