The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-11 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN HUMANITY AND GALLANTRY.

The Austrians are a gallant and a most polite
people. Everybody, who has read Mrs. Trollope,
knows that they have " cream of the cream;" and
everybody, who is "anybody," knows that to have
"cream of the cream," is to have every cocceivablo
social virtue. They have in every court swarms of
handsome diplomatists, male and female : the skill
of the latter rivalling that of the Orsini. and equal
celebrities of old. They are amougat the best dancers in
Europe, and no one doubts for an instant that Strauss,
as a composer of waltzer, is without a oimpeer iu the
world. They are vigorous bombarders of cities, as
Prague, Vienne, Bologna, and Venice can testify:
not by any means forgetting Pthth, which was the
more flattered by the Austrian attentions, inasmuch
as it neither proveked nor returned the fire by which
its houses were laid in ruins. It is only the clumsi-
Less of their engineers that deprived the Austrians,
too, of the honour of having blown up and ruice4 one
of the most beautiful structures of the kind in exiet-
ence,—the chain bridge between Peeth and Ofen.
Austria does not, perhaps, give birth to works of any
very profound or valuable character in aoy branch of
learning or science ; but then she is unrivalled in the
licentious productions of her minor theatres, and some
of her caricatures would raise a laugh even in juxta-
position with an H. B. She fuels, or used to feed,
well, gambles deep, and drinks a great deal of cham-
pagne. To these unmistakeable evidences of civiliza-
tion she has jtht added another and a
clowning one ; she flogs women. The unsophisti-
cated spectator of life, untainted by subversive ideas
of liberali,m, end uncontaminated by revolutionary
maths, will appreciate the docility with which she
adopts the civilising customs and laudable example of
her new masters, the Russians. The knout was want-
ing in our benighted Europe, and Austria has stepped
forward to lead the way to its introduction. The
Czar, it seems, is expected in Vienra. It is a pity
that the over-zealous haste of the Presburg court,
martial should have executed the sentence on Madame
Oudvarnsky there: she should have been reserved to
delight the eyes of the imperial great with a congenial
spectacle. Bat though this cannot new be the case,
he may be satisfied by hearing that the
inhuman deed was really and efficiently
'performed. The Vienna newspapers are, it seems,
still behind hand, and halt 'Liter 114 Anglian
military functionaries, whose minion is to al-tip:rate
with the Russians in subjugating Hungary, and in-
troducing the civilisation of Muscovy into Europe.
The Vienna Freese (June Ist) thus comments upon
the fact to which we have called a•tention. Fie de-
serves to have his month shat (and he very likely
may) for setting up his fallible judgment against the
imperial will of the Padischa of eastern Europe, and
his pacha, the Emperor of Olithits.
" Vienna.—Our correspondence from Preaburg
states that a married lady has been brought before a
court-martial on a charge of corresponding with
the insurgents, coavicted, and sentenced to be
Bogged ; and that the sentence has been executed
aceordiogly. Oar correspondent informs us that
deep indignation, at so barbarous an act, has been
manifested even by those who are well disposed to
the government. We ourselves deplore the very pos-
sibility of such punishments being inflicted. We
scarcely credit that the penal laws, by whish milipery
commissions are regulated in pronouncing their ipn-
tenoes, leave no discretion to the judges, to substitute
some other penalty for one which outrages every one
of our moral feelings. We really ought not to gave
the Magyars and the other foes of Austria, the advan-
tage of proving that such barbarous law. can st.ll be
pat in force among us." It is true that in Austria there
generally a "Jean qui pleure," and a "Jean
qm rat;" and sometimes both chancres are
sustained at once by the same personage.
Bo that after all the " lean" wbo laughed
at Preaburg when Madame Oudvarnaky was smit-
ten with the stick turd on these occasions, may be
the same "Jean" who cries at Vienna in recording
the transaction. " Jean " may have grinned at the
Russians, and then turned hie deprecatory glances
and shed his tears in the face of the rest of Europe.
Time will show. Meanwhile we wish the Austrian
lady in England, and the rest whom they honour
with their ' confidence, will explain to the
next Buil* " Cream of cream " they meet the exact
details of the mode of flogging a lady in Austria.
Perhaps, too, they will suggest, if the Emperor of
Austria can find silver enough to establish a plate at
Ascot, or a "Kaissir stake" at Newmarket, that Store
and Mortimer may make a handsome group out of
Madame Oadvarnsky writhing ander the slow and
measured stroke of the Austrian supplejask

A TAX OM TEE WELomont.—At the board of
griudiaaa (Cardiff) as Ssiweday. Mr. 'Ake, tba relieving
o&cor, stand. is wtallifto a Tenths hen Mr. Booker, that
at all themes of daskra that ease wider Ms anise, and
were relined or belied at the public azpeame, dire waa sot
is. Wel& They were early ail Iriek.—Priseeepalsiy.