The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-23 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1849.

selves to be frightened by momintanems emunutione, per.
hips nothing bat the shocks necessary for greet blithe. Let
ne not he unjust to the times in which we live. Let us not
loch on our epoch in any tithe/ than its real light. Atter all
it is a prodigious end Mai:able epoch, and the nineteenth
mbar, will constitute the most important pegs of history.
mmtaisd you just now, alibied& of progress reveal and
memileet themselves at ones,—the one brings on the other ;
the fell el aiMonal animosities, the obliteration of frontiers
from the map, and of prejudicial' from the heart,
a blades, to unity, the elevation of the level of education,
and the t of the level of penaltim, the predominance
of the most literary languages, all move at the same time po-
litical scummy, science, industry, philosophy, I.gislation,
and converge to the Lame end, the creation of well•being
and liod•will, the extinction of misery within and the ea-
' fraction of um without.

Yes, the era of revolutions is drawing to a dose; the era of
improvements is beginning. The improvement of nations
leaves the violent form and takes a peaceable form; the
time is come when Providence will substitute for the disor-
derly action of agitators the religious and calm action of
pellell.M alit TS.
Henceforward this will be the object of true politics ; the
recognition of all nationalities, the restoration of the histori-
cal unity of the people, the connection of this unity with
civilisation by means of peace, the incessant enlargement of
the civilized world, the giving of a good example to nations
that are still barbarians, the substitution of arbitration fir
battles, and, to crown the whole, the utterance by justice of
the last word which the ancient world uttered by force.
Gentlemen, I say, in conclusion—and let this thought en-
courage us—it is to-day that the human race is traversing
this providential road. In our old Europe, E,glsnd has
taken the first step, and has said to the people "You are
rilies." ire has taken the ascend step, and said to the
people, ou are efiverefgn."' Now let as take the third
step, and let France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy,
Europe, America, ail unite in saying to the people, " You
are brethren."
The following rules were then react successively in French
and in Engli•ls, and unanimously adopted :
" 1. The committee shall be composed of the president,
vice-presidents, and secretaries of the Congress, with power
to add to their number. _ _

"2. The secretaries to propose the lupines, for each day,
to receive communications rotative to the business of the
Congress, to keep full minutes of its proceedings in French
and English, and to have the care of all documents properly
belonging to it.
" 3. Er. ry proposition which either one or me re members
of the Congress wish to bring before it, must, in the first
instance, be submitted in writing to the committee, who are
empowered to decide upon its rilesancy, and to fix the time
when it it may be brought on.
" 4. The members of the Congress who wish to speak on
any proposition before the chair, must send up their names
to the president, to be inscribt d on his list, and u ill be
heard in the order in which they tend on such list.
" 5. No speaker will be allowed more than fifteen minutes,
except by rpecial leave of the Congress ; when that period is
passed, the president will io'imate the same to the speaker.
' 6. No speaker will be allowed to speak more than ones
on any proposition, unless in the way of explanation. The
opener of the discussion will, however, have the right
ot reply.
" 7. The object of the Congress being one of general and
permanent interest, no ep.,sksr can be allowed to make any
direct allusion to the ty•litical events of ibis day, or to discuss
any questionsof local interest. In cue of any infraction of
this rule, the speaker will be called to order, and, should he
parent, the president will withdraw from him the right to
speak.
"8. At the close of each session the committee will meet
fur consultation on all matte re that may require their at-
tentiom__

" 9 The resolutions proposed for the adoption of the Con-
gress shall be decided by a majority of votes.
"10. The resolutions adopted shall be signed by the pre-
sident and secretaries of the Cungrets.
"11. The several resolutions adopted shall form the basis
of an address or 'Atheists that may be agreed to by the Con-
geese; suc► address or addressee to be signed, on behalf of
the Congress, by the president, vice-presidents, and slue-
A letter in French was next read from the Archbishop of
Paris, giving in Lis adhesion to the society.
There was a general cry from the English present that the
letters should be read in English.
Mr. STURGE laid that the letter should be translated,
and circulated in English next morning; hut it bad been
considered essential fur the due progress of business not to
make translations of each address or letter made or written
in French.

Mr. HINDLEY threw out a suggestion that the letter
of the archbishop should, at ail events, form an exception,
and should be read in Eonlish at on:e. (Cheers.)
Mr. COBDEN accordingly cam. forward, amid loud ap-
plause, and said he would read in Es!bah the letter which
the excellent Archbishop of Canterbury—gland laughter)—
he meant of Paris—(cheers, and renewed laughter)—had
addressed to them. The letter ran thus: " I have been pro,
(mustily touched and gratified by the letter which I have j ust re-
reeeived from you, and it is impossible for me to express my
cense of the honour you do me in proposing that I should
act as president of the Union about to cows( nee. I fully
agile with you that war is a remnant of ancient barbarism
—(clutem)—and that it is eminently continent! with the
spirit of Christianity to endeavour to sweep this formidable
scourge from the face of the earth—to make the most
strenuous effort to obtain this noble and generous end.
(Cheers.) Perhaps, alas, the time is not yet come when it
is possible for the nations to enter wholly on this path ; war
may continue. for many years to come, to be a cruel neces-
sity ; but it is proper, it is praiseworthy, it is an excellent
labour, to make people understand that they ought, without
the least possible delay, to terminate their differences, like
individuals, by proper measures—(cheers)—that humanity
and the progress of civilisation alike demand that a ter-
mination should be put to the frantic-idsl contests which have
so disgraced the nations of the earth. (Cheers.) I beg you will
do me the honour to inscribe m.y name among your members.
I only regret very deeply that I cannot, on account of my ill
health, be present among you, my physician having ordered
me to seek a remedy for a neuralgic malady in a change of
air. I remain, Sir, ett."
M. WISSCHERS next addressed the assembly, and M.
LOUIS BARA of Mena, then received from the kends of
the Chairman the prize which he had obtained of 500 francs
for the best easy on the subject.
The Rev. Mr. Burnett followed in an able address, and
was succeeded by several speakers, whose observations, the
necessity of committing my despatch to the Post-office obliges
me to reserve till to-morrow.
On the subject of the meeting, and the object it is
intended to advocate, the Presse makes lengthy and
interesting remark,. It commences as follows:
The Peace Congress, we are aware, is not regarded as
serious attempt of men who feel that they are serious. Your
" serious men " are those who regard the future only as the
image of the present. To astir eyes any innovation is a
chimera ; all reform is a perturbation. To suppress an abuse
'inseam to them at least as culpable as to kill a man. It is •
social murder. Your "serious men " do not object to the
state making away with the fourth, the third, even
the half • of their revenue to the support of en
army maintained upon the chance of a war, of which thirty-
three years of peace, and many decisive proofs, have shown
the improbability. Your " serious men " look with calm-
ness on the fact that ;Francs from 101 to 1849 should have
been put t s an expense of six thousand eight hundred and
fifty millions in order to arrive at a position which does not
permit her to raise her voice with authority on any one ques-
tion, should it ha that of merely the treaties of 1815, as in
the annexation of Cracow. Your " serious men" pretend
that this money would not have been as well spent if half
of them seven thousand millions had been employed in
completing daring th,: last five or six years our net work of
railways; in finishing our canals; in perfecting all our
means of transport and communication ; in improving our
river navigation and perts ; in encouraging our agriculture;
in reducing the taxes which deter the progress of general im-
provement and popular well-being ; in rendering taxes more
equable and lea burdensome; in extending credit and
lowering interest; in a word, in destroying revolutions in
their pretexts by combating them in their causes. Your
" serious men" deny the evidence which shows that an aimed
peace tends to render civil war universal. Your " serious men"
do not admit that Europe is is yet sufficiently enlightened to
say and debits in a compels, a question so simple as that
which consists in admitting this basis t The army of each
state shall b in proportion to its population, and shossid not
exceed the 200th part of that vopukstion. Can there be a
question more simple in its lava and in its application ? Has
not the military contingent of the states which centring the
German confederation been fixed by common agreement?
Where is the state whose interest it is not to adopt this
equitable basis, since it leaves to each nation its specific
weight in the balances of the world, conveys no attempt
against European equilibrium, and allows of the abolition
of recruiting, that faze/ blood during war, and of time du-
ring piece, that violation of individual liberty at all times !
It is said that we are Utopians ? In what ?
The writer then quotes Montesquieu, Raynal,
Voltaire, Robespierre, Lamartine's Girondine, the
Emperor Napoleon, the present President of the
Republic, and Odillon Barrot.
The Press th?n adds :
Is a commotion of society wished for? or the evils of
bankruptcy ? or the suppression of liberty In that case, aB
that is to be done is to persist in the faults which have raised,
Franco and Europe for thirty years ; to continue to put down
under indifference and disdain the laudable initiative takes
by these 'potties of peace who have come from Americo,
Hoglund, and Belgium, for the purpose of getting up an agi-
tation in favour of the development of the ideas of universal
union and of the well-being of nations. They may be
laughed at, but this journal will not do so. In honounng
them it conceives that it does itself honour. Mockery or
persecution have always been the cradle whence have issued
all gnat reforms. Did not the reform conceived by Cobden,
and carried out by Peel, commence six years ago by being the
object of disdain, incredulity, sod derision) They who,
wanting to see peace confirmed, do not at the same time de-

sire to sea armies reduced, are not serious men. They are
revolatkeists without knowing it; are soeislists without
knowing it. At prompt it is nations wNiclt ere conservative,
sad governments which are revolutionary. The pf potations
aspire after riehea, the governments march to poverty. The
popalatioes are mirky, the governments are not. rho go-
vernments are still at the age "when toys and playthings
please," at the age when it is an amusement to bt at a drum,
to drag along a sword, and stand a sentry. Do you know,
serious mu, what that pleasure costs Europe ? Each year
the third of her revenue ! It is that which prevents her from
giving work to all. Armed peace is inveterate misery. War
on misery ! That war which enriches the poor and menaces
the rich n the way one which Europe would henceforward
admit if the statesmen who govern her were not a third of •
century bekiailhand. In the place of these words, " armed
peace," let us buten to place these, "organised peace." It
is nut merely liberty in danger which calls tut it, but civilisa-
tion in peril.
The Moniteur this morning contains, in a volumin-
ous report from the Conseil d'Etat, to which tribunal
the conduct of M. de Leeseps had been referred. The
report cercludes by two resohitims, that M. de Les-
elm had acted diametrically opposite to his instruc-
tions, and that he had signed a treaty which was
contrary to the interests of France.

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Borasa.—Paris and Orleans, 760: Tub sag Rouen, 523 73 ; Rouen
and ilavre, 243; Avignon and Marveilles, 327 50; Strasburg and
Bale, 102 30; Centre Vier:on, 303; Bordeaux, ..98 73 ; North,
423 73; Paris and Strasbourg, —; Tours and Nantes, —; Monte-
reau and Troyes, —.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—Latest news from Vienna to Aug. 18.
The ehoDra was increasing frightfully. The here-
ditary Grand Duke of Russia, Alexander Nikolaje-
witch, arrived here in the morning, at the Russian
embassy.
The Austrian Emperor's birthday was celebrated
with the usual solemnities and festivities.

Nothing po:iitive in detail was yet known respect-
ing the submission of Goergey.
Kossuth, Bern, and the membereof the parliament
still with him, are said to have fled into Wallachia ;
at all events, to have crossed the Turkish frontier.
Kosinth had either taken witt him or secreted the
crown of St. Stephen. It was rumoured that the
Emperor of Russia had set a price of 60,000 roubles
' on Kossuth's head, dead or alive.
Klapka is the intimate friend of Giirgey, and would
it was supposed, surrender Comoro.
The "plow where Giirgey is said to have been
bought by the Russians and come to term., where he
allowed his troops to be taken, was at Vilagos, four
German miles to the north-east of And ; if so, a sad
proof of his conduct, similar to that of the Swedish
general in the war that added Finnland to Russia,
Haynan's report, after the battle at Szoreg (not far
from Szegedin), says that the enemy were closely
pursued; that the Austrians made, in the pursuit,
3,000 prisoners; that the enemy had fled to Logos;
and that, not only a panic prevailed, but the enemy's
ranks were breaking up entirely. He speaks of tne
council of war held by Dembinski, Guyon, Knieti,
Vtessj, and Bern, at nine in the evening, in a forest,
which ended by convincing them of the impossibility
of further resistance. _ _

The following wu yesterday received by the French

ernment :

Berlin, Aug. 19.
The Minister of France to the Minister of Fort gn

The Count de Betkendorf, aide de-eatup of the Emperor
of Russia, arrived from Wanew lut night, charged to
announce to the King of Prussia the end of the war in
Hungry. Gorgey, who had become dictator after the
departure of K..sauth, submitted, with all his forces, at
Arad, on the 13th, to Marshal Paskiewitch. The corps of
General Bea ham been d-•stroftd by General Laden.
- - - -

The Kuryer Wars:au-ad of Aug. 18, publishes a
new bulletin from General Paskit witch to the Emperor
of Russia:

Hungary is at the feet of your Imperial Majesty. Th.
government of the insurgents has renounced its powers, and,
Gorgey has assumed them. Gorgey lay' down his arms
without conditions, with the principal army of the insurgents,
and doubtless the other insurgent corps will follow his, sample.
The cfli srs sent by him to negotiate the capitulation have
shown themselves disposed to repair to the other corps with our
commissioners and the Austrian ones for inducing them to lay
down arms. I have the honour to announce to your Imperial
Majesty that the sole condition stipulated by Gorgey is that
he may be enabled to lay down arms before the army of
your Imperial Majesty. I have taken the nece amity mea-
sores that these troops be surrounded on all sides by the corps
of General Rudiger, whom I shalllikawiseorder to proceed to
the disarming. In what concerns the ulterior disposal of the
prisoners, and the measures to be taken with respect to the
other insurgent corps, I shall act in concert with the com-
mander-in chid of the Austrian army. I have caused
Gorgey to be brought to my head•quarten, where he will
remain until the orders of your Imperial Majesty shall
arrive respecting him.

It is officially stated that Rub is again in the
hands of the impitrialists.
A Vitus letter of tht 17th, in the Kutner Zeitung,
states that Kossuth intends to hold out to the last.
He has published a proclamation announcing the
translocation of his government from Arad to
Orshova, where he is now protected by the Hunga-
rian army from the Betake. The troops of Baron
Jellachich are marching to the Banat. The Ban's
head-quarters were on the 14th at Perlass, whence
they were being removed to Panczora.
WARSAW, Aug. 18.—General Lamoriciere as-
sisted on the 16th in the plains of Powonek, near
Warsaw, at the grand review of the troops by the
Emperor Nicholas, in honour of the victory obtained
by the Russians over the Hungarians and the cause
of liberty near Debreczin.