The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1848.

Tux intelligence conveyed by the loan..
patches contained in our impression of yesterday,
Ulla considerably short of what was very reasonably
expected. The war is not over in Moultan—it
say beginning. The rebellion is not quenched in
Hasareh—it has grown fiercer •; and so far from the
'tranquillity of our new territory across the Sutlej
having been reestablished on a firm footing by a de-
cisive victory over one rebel, and the vigorous snip-
peados of soother, there is every prospect of the
sse a wee harassing 'Woof disquietude.
orsereilmetrtsouswehome,and so extremely at variance
with the anticipations formed in 1846, and fostered
by all the friends of Lord HARI/MOE, we have almost
entirely to thank the policy pursued by the British
authorities at Lahore. This is a judgment which is
no longer exposed to the imputation of being prema-
ture, and no longer dependent for its justification
apes the results of former experience but upon
the particular facts of the present conjuncture. The
marsh elan army of reinforcement has been accom-
plished without that decimation of the ranks through
the inflame, of climate, hitherto urged as the
principal rear.n for the disastrous delay from
April to July. The procrastination which for
the third part of a year permitted the southern
angle of the Punjaub, and one of its most
important military stations, to be held by an insurrec-
tionary chieftain, has produced the results which all
prudent men have never ceased to foresee. A general
spirit of revolt has been excited throughout the
country—intrigues and alliances, directed against the
power of the[*here government, have been revived
and suggested—and in point of actual fact, at the
moment of the departure of the mail jut received,
the perplexities of Sir FREDERICK CURRIE arose
much mere from the new rebel who has arisen in the
vicinity of Attock than from the antagonist with
whom we already familiar as the DEWAN MOOL-
RAJ of Moulton.
The facts of this new episode in our Punjanb ex-
perience appear to be shortly these :
The Ifazareh country, situated at the north-
western corner of the Five Rivers, is a wild and in a
great measure lawless district of country, garrisoned
principally by Sikh troops, under SIRDAR CHOTTUR
SINGH. This man is the father of the RAJAS SHIRR
Sa4oo, whose presence before Moulton, with a body
of 10,000 native levies, ostensibly in the ser-
vice of the British, bet in reality accomplices
with the people jit the fort, has given so much
trouble to the handful of brave fellows encamped with
Major Enratoss. SIRDAR CHUTITR SINGH and his
battalions fell into a belief which can surprise nobody
acquainted with Asiatic exaggeration and dAsiatic cre-
ulity. The casual dawks and theitinemat pedlars who
pass between Lahore and the lissareh brought great
news. 'lke hated feringhses (that is, the British),
they mid, had happily encountered peat reverse,—
an army of fillths had been raised in Moulton, and
the whole of the troops and artillery collected at
Libra had been suddenly called away, to assist
mastoids' the tottering influence of the foreigner assist_
the most imminent danger of complete extinction.
The Sere, soldiers of this fanatical nation have not
f_tr. the defeats of the Satlej, and they have not
those salutary and benevolent measures of
gln"-A;itoncs which have dune so much to deliver
the native inhabitants of the country from a species
of military Tama*, to the men of their class, which,
=most resembles in grinding degradation the
of the French peasantry previous to the
wan of the Jacquerie. The tidings, therefore, of the
respited punishment of the Dewan, were the
!f uel for the rising in Hasarels. A plan
tions was concerted, a descent on Lahore was
re= upon, and the adhesion of most of the prin-
cipal chieftains of the Sikh force appears to have bees
obtained with no difficulty, with the exception of
Colonel CANAL., commanding the artillery; sad this
eager, as we were apprised by the last mail, bad lost
lie lib for his fidelity to the throne of the
Thome eau be little deeM that the people Icalhaat
wad bare bola buseeted with the proms of a
sebeilleal party, if Captain Assam,
indlithiliwthiesseralle Of EDWARDES, had not found
iniraa, appealing to the native inhabitants of
seantry—the Iflahmedan antagonists of the Sikh
and thisiqese: who, in truth, have gained
ibe neelesplitatbe of dynasty—to rase a fora
se as to the march of the Birder
senthward. In another direction the promptitude at
Iker LAWRENCE inn t
very opportunely
saved the important position of Attack from falling,
partly by the aid of their own forces, and partly by the
treachery of the garrison, into the hands of the rebels.
This was the posture of affairs at the close of
July, and it would appear that during the greater part
of August CaptAnotrr had been fully able to maintain
his advantage, and to keep the spread of the insurrec-
tion effectually in check. But this state of things has
been most materially modified. On the 7th Septem-

bar, ths vely,lhosolut: tbs Man lessilag an
reachid that eiq, unfthqr thee
=stirs Tkat a sadden attack had Mw mai upon
Capt. Mans by a Moog body of the eif, well
provided with anus ; that this officer
and wee 4
that be had
sat
or wholly naprovided with that arm;
been compolled to tall back upon his dir-
assr varier', and was in great danger
into
of
haying to retreat with precipitation
the the of Attack. A movement of this charac-
ter has entirely changed the aspect of the war, and it
was facto be so Important at Lahore that a maid-
thin had been immediately made to the bead-goer
tens at Singel for permission to move a strong rein-
fereementtowards the pcsitionof Capt. ABROT,II,IIdOpon
the day following the departure or the messenger the
answer appears to haws been anticipated by the inns
of orders to a regiment of European infantry (H.M.'s
61st), two regiments of sepoys (63rd aa 3rd Ben-
gal), and a corps of irregular cavalry (the 2nd), to
march at a moment's warning.
So far, then, the course of events his entirely ape
responded with even the worst apprehensions of thou
who have beheld in the policy of Sir Faxnaucx
Cumin fines April, a very close approach to those
qualities which are fatal to an Indian administration.
The British power has become, and is supreme in
India, chiefly, if not solely, because an immense mill-
tary strength has always been wielded by men with
whom decision, and promptitude, have been the habi-
tual and predominant qualities. It is fur this very
reason that an exhibition of vacillation is the infallible
recipe for creating a host of difficulties, and we
shall be exceedingly mistaken in the temper of the
East India Company if they permit the peace of
their dominions, the integrity of their chatter, and
the influtnce of the English name in the East, to be
placed in jeopardy, as they are at present, without
signalising the occasion by some great and salutary
act of censure and interference.

IT is satisfactory to observe that attention is very
generally fixed on the ecclesiastical position of the
borough of Sunderland, now that the great living of
Bishepwearmouth is vacant, and that the per
benefice of Sunderland Proper is still going a beg-
ging. This attention will not, it is to be hoped.
lost on the Bishop of Demme; for the responsibility
of the occasion, we understand, lies entirely on his
lordship; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners having, we
are told, no power to do whs.' the spiritual nectuitiee
of the town of Sunderland so imperatively demand.
And though we place small value on the ma-
jority of the past acts of this commission, still
we regret that the commission, or some better
Immetituted body, is powerless to control the course of
the bishops on such emergencies. The more so in this
sage, as the conduct of the Bishop of DURHAM in
@intik: cases has been very injudicious, and there are
set wanting rumours that his lordellip means to
adhere in Bishopwearmouth to the views he adopted
when the monster living of Houghton-le-Spring be-
came vacant, and its better administration was Jobbed
for the benefit of a GREY.
It is intended, these rumours assert, to create in the
rectory of Bishopwearmouth four now parishes, and
so advanced does this scheme appear to be, that the
names of patron saints have already been appropriated
to these parishes in embryo. Aoy such plan will be
a halting and very insufficient distribution-remedy
for the existing ecclesiastical state of Sunder-
land ; beneficial, indeed, so far as it goes,
to the pariah of Bishopwearmouth, but con-
ferring no good en the neighbouring parishes
of Suudeiland and Mcmkwearmouth i and they, kern
tt.eir put and present ecclesiastical poverty, have
much greater need of an extension of the parochial
system than the favoured rectory. Let this scheme
be adopted, and in one half of the town of Sunderland
there will be five parishes well served and highly ea-
' dewed ; whilst the other half of the town will be left
to two cures most inadequately provided for. Such •
contrast ought to be intolerable to any conscientious
prelate ; sad now that the Bishop of Duaume has the
opportunity of fully providing for the ecclesiastical
wants of the whole borough, we entreat his lordship
not to repeat there the step he took at Houghton-le-
Spring; lint rather to follow the better examples of
Dr. Noon at Leeds, of Lord STANLEY at Wiawick,
and of the Bishop of LONDON in this metropolis.
Let him treat the borough of Sunderland,
with its 60,008 people, as an entirety; and
now that two living. in it, nLit.h aro in his gift,
are recent, let him propound a scheme for the pa-
rochial redivision of the whole borough; and our
word for it, he will thereby beat promote the interests
of that church whose bishop he (so advantageously to
himself) is ; he %ill thereby best secure the gratitude
of the inhabitants ; and will therein meet with no
opposition from Sir HEDWORTII WILLIAMSON, the
patron of the other living which makes up the bo-
rough.
We know that in this large and comprehensive
scheme there are difficulties; but difficulties, to
use Lord Lirennuaer's encouraging language,are
things to be overcome. First, there is the ab-
sence of any power in the bishop of himself to carry
out such a plan of division ; the authority of parlia-
ment must be sought for ; but the legislature in the
three examples we have recommended to the bishop's
notice, has shown how readily such assistance in
the sacred cause of church extension is
granted; and we can hardly doubt that, under the
circumstances of this case, involvitg as it does public
interests only, parliament would consent to treat a
bill for a new parochial division of Sunderland as a
opublicons callus, and so avoid the imposition on the
of the heavy cost of a private bill.
We are also aware that doubts are entertained
whether the present great income of the rectory of
Bishopwearmouth will be permanently maintained.
One-third of it only is derived from tithes ; the other
two-thirds arise from way-leave, rents over the glebe,
and from wharfage dues foe shipping coals from the
glebe lands which fringe the river Wear. Now,
this latter loam of income may, it is argued,
be seriously diminished by the superior attrac-
tions and accommodations which Mr. HODSON'S
new docks, ormstructing lower down the river,
will afford to the Hutton and other collieries
which now run their coals across and ship them from
the glebe lands. This, no doubt, is an important con-
sideration; but it is sot one which ought to prevent
a new parochial subdivision of the borough, and a dis-
tribution pro rata, of its whole ecclesiastical emolu-
ments amongst the new parishes; for, at the worst,
even supposing that the income of Bishopwearmouth
will in course of time be somewhat reduced, the mea-
sure we advocate will even then place the whole
town in a mach better position than it now is; and
who can calculate the response the laity there may
give to such an effort on the part of the church to
extend its sphere of usefulneas ?
The former of these difficulties, however, exposes
one great defect in the existing machinery of church
reform; it is the want of power to remedy the unequal
pecuniary and territorial distribution of benefices.
And there cannot well be a stronger instance of the
necessity which exists of extending the existing ma-
thiw'y of ecclesiastical improvement, so as to enable
some better constituted body than the Ecclesiastical
Commission to bleak up large parishes where nii-
cesury into smaller ones, and to apply the serylee as
livings too largely endowed in aid of those whisk are
Wadi quately provided for. The principle d ihie
most necessary reform has been already hied wpm
by the legislature in the regulation of the isemeet
the various bishopelse ; thee* in that insigne it les
been most extmeipatly ash iawisely appii4 &tie
the ores of parishes le wired be el sealer appease I he
there it would in prestige bosh. no akeradses ef
or interlines* is the memageming of se-
tPirtesPertil. ut were these greakr illaselties in the any
of its adoption, if the egeet of an established church
be the moral and religises instruction of the people,
all such obstacles as pekoes., as alleged tights at'
, must be swept away to
=thatas Yeast
great o eat are sot times for the
indolent neglect of sties; esti sable is the church.
as in the state, gradual reforms gaited to the altered
circumstances of the country and the growth of popu-
lation and society be propounded by those favourable
to the establishments, ruder bands must interpose ;
and those to whom the Church of England has re-
fused the means of instruction will assert their rights
to endowments which have been perverted from their
critinal design.
At present this question of parochial redistribution
has been taken up by LOed ASHLEY, who has placed
a notice of motion oa the books of the House of Com-
mons for the forthcoming session ; and it behoves all
desirous of promoting the welfare of the people to
give him their 'appal. Happy will it be 'if the
poverty of Sunderland Proper and Monk-
wearmoutb, and the wealth of B;shopwearmouth
standing in such proximity u those parishes do, and

of in

brines' out the evil
Vat,ibill give en
asetsestotui subject.

FRANCE.

snob broad 7- 1
opinion on this

YAIIII2, FRIDAY, 11.30 A.Y.
The ponds this waning occupy themselves In
speculations to explain the curious political phew-
menon of the utterly unexpected vote an the Assembly
last night. The most probable solution appears to be
that which ascribes ii to the effect of the declarations
of Gen. Canape°, who affirmed twice in the tribune
that the safety of the state absolutely required that the
President should be immediately elected, but entered
into no derails of the ground on which this affirma-
tion rested.
The point, however, is now decided. The die is
cast ; and, probably, within six weeks from the pre-
sent time Prices Louis Napoleon Bonaparte will be
declared President of the French Republic, " one and
indivisible," by three or four millions of votes.
STATE OT THE BANE Or I,IIANCII Up 20 Oct. 26, with
ths eornspeading hems of the preceding week :
Meek ending We tuft,
Oct. 10. oei. 26.
Lsalturora r. es I. C.
C•Pital .......... 67,100,•06 67,90,000 0
04phalet sew tail teaks. 23,330,060 23,330,010 0
NOM 10,000,000 10,000,000 0
Seeeree et are lend beaks 2,900,750 1 2,960,730 14
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VIA NISI ID
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Uirres isimbs surnat 76,634,027 73,1140,674 28
Aereares sweat la the brumes
Vemelple Maple 111 *at
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Ilealla et teak payable by branch
bolo 2,0,4.602 0 2,105.622 0
Utilieade payable
larobl. at berma Issra rt Ayr.
Lilesid elms Weida. an' U
1,591,950 42 1,913,533 28
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630,504,928 90 64183,474 17
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Cosh la 0)9 banks. 102,238,488 0 102,007,493 0
61114 over 4.5 ...
Bills an& rempreter In Paris 67,875,464 75 65,1342,249 81
Uo. do. lalmareliarn 100,434,303 30 109,056,344 44
Advaanis as bake
Aduanisia Yen& publis fun& 14,670,0911 65 33,711,746 65
Manses an Tomb public hinds by
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Athaas444 is 044 state on Tremor,
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011114440 23,000,000 6 23,000,040 9
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760414111•444610484 kiiOn 33,901413 62 13,902,413 62
Innetasat d new toted 01010 in
2400 MOB 12,808,741 91 12,806,741 30
Bank balbissand fundtvra 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0
14.1 ~AI al Bruck redo 2.541,313 0 2,524,430 0
Loaned 40 Wawa 10 Ural, of Parks 3,300,3100 0 3,300,000 0
leterant Is limiderd Illininit lark 200,000 0 700,000 0
Wood el limit the
Normal Moser bars
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predrill twin 230,000 0 230,000 0
PRAMS' Mb 14.793,710 49 14,272,139 132
Praluind 61110 in kr& beam 1449,432 0 1,316,494 o
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Orem el arsopment al briar
107,313 0 292,737 0
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6.10,3011,925 b4l C. 72,582.174 17

ITALY.

Our Vienna oorrespoodent writes :—"Affairs in Italy
wear a more satisfactory appearanse, Radetsky hav-
ing concluded peace, andeent the articles of the treaty
to the Emperor of Austria for his approval."
We have advices from Naples to the 17th, and
from Florence to the 19th. The mediation of France
and England in the Sicilian qun.tion appears to be
on the eve of a satisfactory solution. Ruggierio Set-
tino, the chief of the Provisional Government at Pa-
lermo, on the one hand, and the Kin of Naples on
the other, showed more moderation than was
expected, and there was every reason to suppose that
both parties would be brought to consent to the re-
establishment of the constitution of 1812. The King
of Naples, or his son, to be sovereign of Sicily with
an independent legislature and the establishment to
be guaranteed by France and England.
The ministerial crisis at Pluseuta was not termi-
nated. The leaders of the moderate party, MM.
Mogi* Upponi, Bm., declined taking office consider-
ing it necessary that the ministry of Guerazzi and the
ultra party should have a trial. It was said that if this
resolution was persevered in the Grand Duke would
leave for Elba, an event which would be followed by
a violent re-action.
The Concordia of Turin of the 23rd publishes a
letter from Milan of the 20th, which says that the
French consul of that city has assured the writer that
the Austrian ambassador at Paris is authorised to
ratify all that the mediating powers shall decide on
the subject of Italy.
The population of Como Lecco and Bergamo have,
'according to notices posted in those towns, almost
unanimously refused to pay the taxes. Yesterday a
battery left in all haste for Como.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—We published yesterday the threaten-
ing manifesto which on the 16th inst. the Emperor
fulminated against the Viennese from Oilman. On
the 19th he issued one of a more conciliatory_ cha-
racter, in which he pledges himself to uphold the
constitutional immunities and privileges already con-
ceded. This appendix of promises to a volume of
threats runs as follows :
To my people,—We, Ferdinand I , Constitutional Em-
perm et Austria, Sing of Hungary, An, send our paternal
greeting to our faithful people. Hy the bloody ex-
egeses which fines the Bth of this month hav
er trans-
formed our capital and reddentiary city of
into the theatre of anarchical confusion, which deeply
grieved and profoundly effected w, we are compelled for a
while to transfer ear residence to our etiyai. capital city of
011milis. Our heart is equally filled with grief at the neces-
sity imposed upon us to adopt military measures for the
restoration of legal order, and for the protection of those
burghers who have not ban implicated in the hereon of the
late excesses. It is, however, our intention that in the adop-
tion of these extreme measures which see forced upon us,
the shall be only so far carried out as is imperatively ailed
forty the restoration of peace and security, by the rotor
tson of our Labial burghers, as well es the maintenance of
the dignity of our imperial throne. It is our firm,
unalterable resolve that the rights and privileges
grouted to per People, even though they may have
been abused by individual miscreants or misguided
men, shall remain unlimited in their full extent, and
hereunto we again pledge our imperial word. And we
further resolve that the resolutions already adopted by the
Diet and sanctioned by us—vie., those respecting the aboli-
tion of the federal bond, the immunity and equalisation of
landed property for the moderns compsneation already re-
cognised in principle by the Diet, shell be maintained, and,
cenforumly with our bran deem. be brought into opera.
ties. Alsos it our firm resoles that the wMc of the admi-
nistration for the equalisation of the rights of all our living
subjects already
.sesamened by the constituatory Diet shall
be continued ferthwith, without intersdadon to the end,
that it maybe submitted to us far our imperial sanction, end
be brought to a happy termination. The accomplishment of
this will be the object dour smiths and incessant cure end
we hereby reckon en the good sense, gratitude, and ayalty
of our faithful people.
This document was presented to the Reiela-Tag on
the morning sitting of the 21st.
The Wiener Zeiler'', of that date contains addresses
to the Emperor from the common council and the
Vienna national guard ; to the Archduke Francis
Charles, from the common council ; and to the Aus-
trian people from the Reich-Tag. The address to
the Archduke requests his mediation with the Elia-
perm. The address of the common council to the
Emperor entreats him to nominate a popular ministry,
to withdraw his troops, and to restore peace to the
empire. The address of the national guard proposes
that Auersperg shall enter Vienna with only 10,000
men, who shatl have taken the oath to the Imperial
patents of 15th March and 15th May ; that Jells-
chich and Windiseh-Orates, and the three regi-
ments whom presence is offensive to the citizens,
be withdrawn ; that the armed citizens be newly
organieed ; that a constitutional ministry be appointed,
an that the Emperor return to Vienna. The addresi
of the Re 'elee-Tag to the Austrian people represents
that Vienna, the capital el the empire, is the only
possible seat of the Diet; that the canes of Vienna
and national freedom are one. It states that the
duty of the Reiche-Tag is to oppose anarchy and re-
action with equal energy. It reminds the people of
the heir fits already conferred upon them by the
Bricks-Tag (the abolition of feudal burdens, &c.),
and calla upon them to support this body of benefac-
tors by their moral power, and thus oblige the Empe-
ror to withdraw his troops, nominate a constitutional
ministry, and restore peace to Vienna and the empire.