The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1848.

United State. and Canadian. sour. Va. to 295. Indian
Carn,lier 4801 b., ANISTitIN, white ;335.61. to ate. 6,l;yellow,
345. to 365.; Beropean, yellow, 36.. to 365. 64. Indian Mad,
per 1961 h., 17s. M. to 178.64. Arrivals from the 31st Oct. to
the 6th Nov. Wiwi's, into Liverpool sad Remora :-W heat,
6,323 qrs. ; Buis Wien Malt, 616 ; Oats, 16,670; Beau,
499 ; Pees, 104 ; Cora, 11,862 ; iodise Corn Meal,
618 barrels ; Oatmeal, 14,777 seeks; Flour, 1,141 maks and
21,099 barrels.
LYNN, Nev. 7.-A small supply of Wheat, and prices
'brat the was last week. Barley more plentiful, sad
la. pee qr. lower. Wheat, old. red, 545. to 565. ; new, 44a.
Mt 621. ; white, old, 58s. ; new, 545. Barley', best runs, 34e.;
Ems, 355. Beans, flee old, 42e. per qr. to growers.
FLYMOVTII, Nov. 7.-The Wheat trade is better, and at
this
.bowedmorag's market there was a good attendance of millers,
who w a dspositioa to buy, paying in some ingenue
an advance of 10. per Sr. Flour is steady at former prices.
The supply of Wheat from feriae" is very small.
8%1.110E1E. Nev. 7.-A ped supply of Wboat, which I
was generally is dry conditios ; the millers purchased
seleeted umpire at Is. ref. qr. advance upon this day week.
Of Barley, the supply was very heavy, and at • redaction of
Is. 61. to 2.. nee qr. ; the demand was sot adequate to the
supply. Outs and lines were not muck in request, but
peer.remain as before. Malt still in good regent, and
puce fins. The sales of Vetches rather limited, and about
6d. per bushel cheaper. Wheat, white, 59.. to 610.; red,
67e. to 69a; new, 425. to 60.. Barley, old, 301. to 365. ;
new, 29e. to &Ix Oats, 21s. to 2.5.. Beans. 40a. to 41s.
Pas. 401. to 42t. Bye, &is. to 37.. Malt, CO2. to 662.
per qr. Tares, lis. 64. to 12s. pet butte).
Sr. Ives, Noe. 6.-Tke Wheat trade to-day was a little
brisker ; trade Sam Od. to Is. dearer than lest week. The
ameeltents seem to be Yen basy ; the Barley trade today
was tall is. per v. dearer than last week.
Ancona. Oct. 26.-W• have to &Ivies an important des
alias in the valise of Wheat, owing mainly to the scarcity of
money. Very tine parcels, either old or new emir, 621 be. to
Walls., are obtainable at 36.. ti 372. f. o. b. Freights are
owe moderate; the Daring and Lee. re, both A 1, having'
bona chartered to carry 1300 to 1,100 qrs. cub, at 72. 4.1.
per qr., 10 per cent., and 10 guineas, calling for orders at
Cork or Falmouth. Indian Corn : A small cargo has been
purchased at maid to 255. 31. f. o. b. This article is MICE
DANTIEIC, Oct. 31-Yesterday'. market was a little in
Inoue of bolero, and sales of tins Wteet were made at
47, 6.1 ; but today we are again dearer, with an ramose
demand fat week qualities. and Its.. and erns 495., has heels
paid. Lower sorts are rather cheaper, particularly unclean
lots ; Sae mixed, tillue, at 41.., end goal high mixed, 6211.
at 44a, and within then prices a good deal has been cleared.
Total sales these two day., about 500 lasts. Two old ves-
sels hare been chartered, one for Newcastle and one for
81111,13.1. a tirevelass Pintas, Teasel, of 1,460 qrs.
kw Modes, at 6s. 6d.
Oritoa, Oct. 31.-Our Wheat mark. t is rather dull, and
purchases for soft Polish, which continues to be almost the
only sopplp at market, excepting some little Ohirka and
Barletta, might 1w effected ea somewhat cheaper terms than
emu days back, %kelvin with more moderate rates of freight.
We continue without arrivals of ladian Corn.
LEGHORN. Oft. '.-Our present stock of What, fitter
shipment, doe. not exceed 26,000 qn., say 9,000 qrs. Polish,
6111 b. to 'Ulla.. held at 404.84. to 41e. lid.. f.0.b.; 5,000 do.,
6016. to 6011, 37.. 10d. to 39s ; 1,000 soil Odessa, 60th, to
611 b., 375. 24.10 38e. 6d.; 2,000 Tangling Ghirks, Glilb. to
621 b., 40s. ; 6.000 hard T , 6.31 b. to 641 b., 425. 6d. to
461. 44. ; 1,000 hard Odessa, 61 alb. to 6/16., 395. ; 2.000
mixed, hard and soft, 60 alb. to 6111 b., 375. 2.1. to 39a. Then
are, however. considerable supplies knows to be on the way,
of Marian Till, Polish, and (Mirka. List rats of freight
paid was 6.., and 10 guineas gratuity, to Cork.

CATTLE, &e.—Total of Cattle received in London
by the Eurern C patio Railway, for the week ending
Nov. 4:—Boots, 232; Calves, 45; Sheep, 4,676; Pigs, 304
Danny, Nov. 7.—The number of fat Smuts which were
offered for t inuring was about the average, which
WTI not befit in very brisk demand ; on the whole, they
IMO a little biter s dd. The supply of Sheep was large,
and it was with difficulty that sales were efficted. Time
was a good show of (At P ir, both English and Irish. but
they could not Onill'llll last week's pricer. Beef, sd. to
SO. ; Mutton, 511. to 61.; Lamb, 6.1. ; Veal, Gl. to 71. per
lb. ; Pork, 9s. per score.
lavaaroof., Nov. 6.—The supply of Beef and Mutton
was snub lees than 4.t week. The demand dull for each,
without any material ebange for Beef ; Mutton rather lower.
Beef, 414. to sid. Mutton, 451 d. to tild. Cattle, 2,135;
Ship, 6,826.
Neweurt.a, Nov. 7.—The supply of Cdr.'s and Sheep
was abundant, especially the former. 0i the Boasts the
condition of folly one-third was very inferior, and the re-
minder consisted of middling and prime animals. Priers
y were downwards, and for Bouts ranged from N. to
generally
sad some lots brought 65., which was the top price.
Sheep were ear 'dint and abundant, although sprinkled
with • few lots of inferior. Prices from 40. to sd. ; best,
64. per lb.
Sr. Ivan, NOV. 6.—Then we. to-day a fine market of fat
Boots; the market seems unusually bory with butehen ;
Bouts appeared to go off quickly Butchers continue to 4et
good prices for their Beef. the store market was quote
busy ; jobbers mama I to be very active.

Per Yesterday's alarlests as last page.

Vie Orpreini.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8.
No doubt can be entertained that Vienna has
fallen, and that the combined parties of ancient
despotism, represented by the Court, of the old
feudal aristocracy, personated by WINDISCIIGRATZ,
and of a blind military power based on Sclavonian
regiments, which neither speak nor feel German,
have for the present triumphed over the civic
German population which raised the cry of liberty,
decreed representative government, and restored the
provinces of the empire to those original rights and
ancient freedom, of which they were deprived three
centuries ago by the princes of the house of Austria.
It is difficult to form a calm and Tatiana judgment
of contemporary revolution', on which people are
apt to look, not as upon distinct objects, but as
mirrors in which men regard merely what repro-
duces or concerns themselves. The toriee, indeed,
never consider these foreign troubles and revolutions
on their own merits, but merely seek to swell and
exaggerate them into spectres and hobgoblins, to
frighten old ladies and fine gentlemen at home with
the fearful consequences of political progress. The
tories care little for imperial or royal houses. The
things which affright and threaten them aro reform,
retrenchment, a communication to the people of more
right, more influence, more dirnity, or more earnings,
a diminution of standing armies and idle placemen.
All these innocent and desirable improvements would
rain the trade in toryism, and in order to cast a slur
upon its opponents and Produce a stand-still, if not a
retrograde movement, all those natural and legiti-
mate efforts that foreign countries are now making
to extricate themselves from despotism, and which
we mada before them, are represented as symptoms
of the one great and dangerous epidemy. Liberalism
it the Wince] cholera, of which extension of the 'mt.
frege and red republicanism are symptoms differing
merely in degree. The demand of the ballot at home
is as felonious as the cry of nee In Guillotine over the
Channel. The congress of pesos in Exeter-hall is put
in the same category as a war meeting of the Parisian
democrats in the .fardin (Player. And zealous
writers imagine they are castigating the new reform
• twiner the popular - •
Movement when e•• 1••• - • mg
Vienna and Berlin.
Englishmen, however, have sufficiently outgrows
political infancy to be aware that they have far out-
lived the danger and difficulties which beset torah ,
states as Austria and Prussia. We have gone through '
such great ordeals two centuries ago. What we have
to fear, to hope, to do, is as far removed from conti-
nental feelings and events, as JOAN HAMPDEN, is from
Monsieur LEDIN ROLLIN. Putting aside, therefore,
the phantasmagoria horrors of oar tory contempora-
ries, let us throw the Viennese revolution to a suffi-
cient distance to allow us to udge it impartially.
Is there any reader of the History of the French
Revolution at the present day, who does not rejoice
at the defeat of the Duke of Baesevries by Du-
sornme, and who does not think it a good and wise
result, which then baffled the attempt of the deep-
tism and ariitocracy of Europe to crash the newly-
born freedom of France? At that dry the hopes and
sympathies of most men were for the Duke of BRUNS-
WICK. The revolution in Paris presented a spectacle
more revolting than attractive. It was as anarchic,
0: trilwoue, imbecile, and sanguinary, as can be con-
exiveu and yet we, at this distance of time, cannot

but be rejoiced that even this horrid revolution should
have triumphed over a despotism wh
centuries enchained the mind and energies of a gems
people. Anything that can be oonceired in revolu-
tion 1111/ better than falling back under the old, help-
less, pigtail rigime of feudal monarchy and aristo-
cracy. We would, however, try this, in 1814, and
reimpose it upon the French : and hence the perma-
nent revolution that has taken plaoe.
We do, therefore, profoundly regret the triumph of
the old imperialist court and its armies over the sole
spot and population in the Austrian empire, which
generated and preserved the sacred spark of consti-
tutional freedom. A whig journal, the Glo3e, ex-1
presses supreme satisfaction at the overthrew of the
Austrian liberals, because the Austrians bad proved
themselves unripe for freedom. And, pzay, how
were they to ripen ? How are citizens to gain politi-
cal wisdom under a FRANCIS or a FLaDINAND
—how is a public to be moderate in the exercise of
freedom, when it has been kept in a strait-waistcoat
for centuries? People might wait long for freedom
seserdiag to the principle of the whig Globe.
=1 :roold have -but to keep them ignorant and
and the doing so would perpetuate the right,
eves the incapacity which it produced. These pru.r-
eipien, professed by the role organ of srhiggiam
rn
this metropolis, are principles fitter for the slave-driver
than the Englishman.
The great story of German freedom is, however, far
from closed. The resistance and reduction of Vienna
form but are chapter. And we are much mistaken if the
narrative of the heroic resistance made by the citizens,
the students, and the labouring classes of Vienna
against the Sclavonian hurtles of Wltinisenoesw,
will not contribute more to kindle the spirit and
heroism of true liberalism, and of the defence of
popular rights, than the final result can crush them.
The effect on the German mind, for the moment
emancipated, must indeed be great. That liberty can
be trodden out is Germany by any military result, is
what we shall never believe.
The Emperor, having crushed his German subjects,
has now to settle with his Sclavonian friends.
Hitherto his government has always supported itself
on the tried loyalty and devotion of the Austrians
against &Locoman frowardness. This policy must
now be reversed. For never again will a prince of
the house of Lorraine or Hapsburg enjoy popularity
in Vienna. The events of tho last week of October,
1848, in Vienna, will live in the popular mind from
year to year, as similar events live in the memory of
the Parisians. And in an eternal war of hatred between
prince and population, the latter is sure to find a
moment of ven,,,nance and retribution. The Parisians
waited from 1814 to 18 30, and from 1830 to 1848 ;
their vengeance was not less certain, less sweeping,
Ws final.
And now comes the turn of the Sclavonians. The
Bohemians are already full of remorse at having con-
tributed to the annihilation of the Vennese: they cow-
plain that the proclamations of WINDIsCUGRATZ are
unconstitutional. The Moravian, are still more
offended. There hare been riots at Braun, and in
the strong fortress of Olmutz, under the eyes of the
imperial court. Such frowardness is now too late.
The military rtsyinse has recommenced, and resistance
to it will be more difficult and mu A be more circum-
spect. It can henceforth be only provincial; and we
have no doubt that provincial resistance will arise,
end wait for circumstances.
As to the Austrian monarchy it is, and can now be,
I merely a military one. It seers's', Wm insole &yrs,
and JELLACIIICH are its true masters. With a mo-
narch of imbecile mind, they must be uncontrolled
masters. And the only difficulty will be for them to
agree. They have one bond of union, indeed—they
are all Selavorrians. WIN DISCIIGRATZ is a great lord
wbo has suffered much by the emancipation of his
serfs and the discredit of his paper money. One
might therefore suspect him of a tendency to restore
fendalism, tut this would be the signal for a servile
war, and therefore will not be attempted. The
result of the counter revolution will be what it has
been in Spain and elsewhere. It will oppress the citi-
zen, gag, disarm, and tyrannise over the townfolk, the
educated, and the professional climes. But the immu-
nities and emancipation which the larger masses of
the peasantry have gained from the revolution—these
cannot be touched, cannot be torn from them. The
1 aristocracy is stricken in its roots ; though despotism'
may survive.
Thus it is that humanity progresses. Sometimes
the surface rang rapid, foaming and breaking over
obstacles, and creating terror by its noise. Sometimes
it rune even more rapid u an under-current, unseen
and silent, but equally irresistible. And the lower
classes often progress in this way during the intervals
of noisy revolutian. The peasantry and bumbler class
in Spain are doing this at present, and the Austrian
may do so now. Having got the great start, which
the revolution and the abrogation of the feudal tenures
by the Diet of Vienna have given them, the &lave-
man adseripti ykbfr will advance and gather en-
lightenment and liberalism along with property,
despite a government of field officers and guile coun-
cillors.
For the good seed of this, for the great benefit, the
peasant and eves Sclivonisn population of the empire
are indebted to the prowess and perseverance of the
Viennese. They it was who first overthrew the 91d
stupid despotism; who exiled Mrrraamen ; who
drove the troop/ ont of the city ; who forced the who
convoke the Diet; and who enabled the
UZto pus its emancipating decrees.
For having thus freed the empire, bestowed rights
and property on its peasant population, given the
country a foretaste of constitutional rights, freedom
of thought and of the press, the Viennese now fall a
sacrifice. It is the fate of great popular benefactors
to make a revolution, and give up their lives for it •
to originate freedom, political or moral, and to seal
the great idea with their blood. This have done the
Viennese, a people whom we used to contemn as sen-
sualist or torpid, as dead to sentiment, to intellectual or
manly effort, and to all the higher aims of a nation's
striving. Yet this population of pleasure has shown
itself heroic; these dreamers have proved themselves
menet action and purpose; this populace, considered so
debruted, has added another to the greatexamples of in-
domitable resistance and self-sacrifiee which we learned
to admire at Marathon and at Thermopylre. And, how-
ever mistaken or miscalculating, and although their
cause was stained by one signal and regretable atro-
city, it is impossible not to admire their courage, re-
, Terence their cause, and place them on the glorious
A list of those " Who nobly think, and bravely die."
to

Tim wligs have another mitre to give away. The see
of Down and Connor has fallen vacant by the death of
Dr.M NT ,one of those favourites of fortune,who, having
been denied the qualities by nature which fit a man
for eminence among his fellows, altord aristocratic
beneficence the opportunity of doing good to the

serving.
We are far from meaning to insinuate that the de-
ceased prelate was a bad man. In private life we have al-
ways understood that he was amiable and blameless.
But the question remains howcame he,the obscure minis-
ter of a country parish in England, to find his way to
the episcopal throne of Down ? The tale is easily
told. Church patronage in Ireland was undisguisedly
regarded as a perquisite of vice-regal government;
and every viceroy and chief secretary in the good old
times had his right to whatever windfalls came.
Brothers and cousins, or more remote connexions,
were drafted over the Channel by this system, and
stowed away snugly in the Irish establishment—Dr.
MAMT, some eight and twenty years ago, amongst
the rest. If, smoopt the Irish protestant clergy,
there was any learning, any virtue, or any praise, the
of the land did not thilir d these thin"' Th 9
church was the best f.z!d in the costly drawfarm into
which aristocratic cupidity and oppression converted
Ireland ; and it has only been of late years that the
grasp of jobbing has, through shame, been tardily
and sulkily relaxed in this respect.
We confidently expect that the present vacancy
will be filled up in a very different way. We desire
to see a good selection made, not only for the sake of
the whip as a party, and for the sake of the Anglican
church as a sect, but for the sake of the Irish of all
denominations as. a people. For in such appoint-
, ments the whole community are more or less directly
interested, not merely on account of the vote
which in quadrennial rotation the Irish bishops
have in the upper house of parliament,
or because of the less notable functions
they are ex eOcio called upon to perform; butbeeause
by them the temper of their clergy as teachers, as ex-
amples, and as citizens, is in a variety of ways modi-
fied, directed, and impelled. And if this be true at
all times, how much more emphatically row. The
ancit ut spirit of sectarian rancour, which for a season
seemed to slumber, has lately broken out afresh.
The catholic tocsin of exclusive education is ringing

an loudly as ever; and the answering
of Orangeiam has been raised within the Let month
in the very diocese now vacant. Speeches worthy of
Exeter-ba. were delivered at the meeting held in
Belfast a few days ago, by the Rev. Dr. Dam and
other demo-men of the neighbourhood ; and the last
act of Bishop MANT WAS to write a letter
warning them not to omit the special service
appointed to be read on the sth November in memory
of GuT FAWKES. Surely there never was a time
when a more sacred responsibility devolved upon
rulers than the present; or when it more behoves
them to beware how they bestow eeclesiutical

power.
A rumour is current, we understand, in Dublin,
that Dr. SADLEIR, who for BOW years has filled the
office of Provost of Trinity College, is to have the
mitre. In politica Dr. Savona is as unexceptionable
as in manners and in morals. He is a learned and
liberal man and • gentleman. He was one of the
original members of the National Board of Educa-
tion, and through • long life he has been the con-
sistent advocate of every good measure proposed for
his country. There are but two considerations that
make us doubt the wisdom of such a choice. 1)r.
Santana is very far advanced in Tears, and
possibly may lack somewhat the energy ana resolution
requisite for church government in stormy times. The
whigs would do well to take • hint from their riva.s
in this matter. When the tories were last in power
they did not fill the episcopal bench with effete or
valetudinarian friends, but manned the ship with
sturdy and vigorous hands, like Doctors Dam/ and
O'Bittetr. What has been the consequence? That
these meek lords over CHRIST'S heritage have already
peeved themselves to be, as was expected of
them, doughty and able champions of reli-
-160611 bigotry, worthy counterparts of the like
chars of men among the catholic prelates, Doctors
WHALE and NiAGINN. On behalf of peace, freedom,
and charity, therefore, the country has a right to de-
mold that men equally able, equally vigorous, and
equally determined in the defence of enlightenment
and liberality, should be promoted by its professing
friends, as those who are put forward by the
enemies of toleration.
But a more formidable difficulty still remains in the
way of Dr. SADLEItt'S elevation. What, in that case,'
is to be done with the provestehip ? For many years
that most important office has bees filled by a pro-
testant clergyman, and generally by one of
the senior fellows of the university. Be-
fore the Union it was not so. The celebrated HEIN
HUTCHINSON, afterwards created Lorill IoN o ununtonx,
and many other distinguished laymen and persons
I who had not been immured all tucir lives within
collegiate walls, were appointed to preside ores the
establishment in question : and we meet avew our
deep conviction that if in our day am efficient
reform is looked for in the Irish uu.versity
system, it is of the utmost moment that a man
without religious, or political, or professional
prejudices should be placed in the provost's &lair.
Of the senior fellows there is certainly not one whom
we could defiled, to tee selected ; and of the professors
who are laymen there are but few. But wheresoever
he may be sought for, we trust repeat our conviction
that the moral and intellectual hopes of Inland must
of necessity be deeply set upon tho choice of a wise
man, the choice of a free man, and the choice of a lay
AM.

Ma. JosErn SOUL, secretary to the Orphan Work-
ing School, at Ilaverstock-hill, has politely sent us a
ticket of admission to that celebrated institution.
Ho invites us to examine it and judge for ourselves.
" Any Tuesday or Friday, between the hours of ten
and four," as the card expresses it, we may be ad-
mitted. "Please to ring the bell."
Why, does Mr. Som. suppose that we have entered
upon this task without having exammed hie institution
and "judged for ourselves" a score of times ? We know
the Orphan Working School nearly as well as he
does, and that is tiaTing something. We have been
there on the " 1 uesdays and Fridays, between
the home of ten and four," and we have
been there, which is infinitely more to the purpose,on
other days than Tuesdays and Fridays, and at other
times than between two and four. We know the mag-
nificent portico, and the stately board-room, and the
ladies' committee-room—the former all mahogany and
Turkey, and the latter in humble imitation ; and we
know also the underground apartment, in which the
children feed, and the adjacent room in which the
little boys wash, and the big garden in which the cab-
bages ure grown at the back, and even the bedroom
cupboards In which the children keep their pocket
handkerchiefs. Amiable Mr. Soul.! Only think
of his inviting us, of all the world, to take a cab to
I faversteek-hill and judge of the Working School for

ourselves !
The working school! What on earth is the meaning
of that expressive title ? As you walk op the large
gravel walk, by the side of which is now building the
new chapel, from designs of Bristol architects. and at a
cost of nearly 3,0001., you cogitate ever the application
of this expressive designation. The working school!
As your hand grasps the big " visitor's bell," you
fancy in imagination (it is all imagination, indeed)
that you hear the sound of the industrious little
artisans inside busily employed in their various
interesting and laborious avocations.
The Working School ! What a blessing to society
it must be, you inwardly exclaim. Here each little
orphan child is taught a trade—any trade that
he may select, so that when he goes forth from these
big portals into the bigger world beyond, in which be
has still fewer relatives and friends than here, he may
be able, less by the absolute sweat of his brow then
by his accomplished skill, to gain his livelihood in
the business he has chosen. Your hand is in your
pocket for a " guinea" instinctively.
Visitor, it is all a shadow ! There is no more rearm
why this should be called a working school than why
Westminster or Winchester should be so denominated.
All the work the boys do is to clean their own shoes
and make their own beds, as they were wont to do is
those more ancient institutions. The girls, up to 11,
do much the same—that is, they make the beds. As
for cleaning their shoes, those do that who have gob
the blacking. Above 13—" during the last interesting
year of their residence amongst us"—they learn (that
is, they do) household work. They scrub
the floors of the institution, they scour its passages,
they scrape the platters and wash up the saucepans,
and take up the mistress'scoals and porter. No objec-
I
tion *there to this that we know of—not the least in
the world ; only when Mr. Som. talks so magnifi-
cently of the " education " of the Orphan Working
School, it is right we should know what it is.
The education ! Of course, the first inquiry you
make when you go into this institution is as to that all
important point. " What do you teach ?" That
is your first queetiin. We hope some one
else has been more lucky than ourselves,
but for our parts we never got but one answer
to this interrogatory, and never knew any one
else who did. Q. " What:do you teach ?" Ans.
(by matron, master, mistress, usher, ander-mistress,
collector, secretary, or treasurer, it is no matter
which, they all give the same) " Oh, sir, a plain
English education !" What this means we do not
pretend to define. We asked Mr. WILLIAM EWART
GLADSTONE; he at considerable length gave us his
views. We asked Mr. BAINES of Leeds; he
entered into the subject equally elaborately,
but entirely differed from Mr. GLADSTONE. We
asked the secretary to the National Society;
he differed very widely front Mr. BAINES, but did
not entirely agree with the first mentioned. We
asked Mr. DUNNE, of the British and Foreign: he
hold golden mean,
entirely at loggerheads with all the rest. Dr.
KAT SUUTTLEWORTII
and failed in tato. Bo we fall back upoii. the authori-
ties of the Orphan Working School for further expla-
nation.
" What do you mean by a plain English educa-
tion ?" The first answer we received was amising, but
scarcely satisfactory. "Oh, sir, the eh meats." Thisstag-
peed es. We [could go no further in the way of
interrogatory. ',We believe the truth to be that the
boys are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and
some few of them may acquire a smattering of geo-
graphy and grammar. The girls are taught needle.
work in addition. No one will probably have any ob-
jection to this " scheme" of education ; certainly we
raisenone. But when Mr. Son vaunts of thesurpassing
abilities of his boys, we beg to remind him that there
are other schools in which the same amount of in-
struction is afforded without any nonsense or preten-
sion. There is a poor-law inspector who might back
the children in a work/some school against the child-
ren in the working school, and be in no fear as to the
result.
But Mr. SorL's great effort is to throw a halo over
his accounts. He says the new building his com-

mitts have erected, out of charity money, at a coat
nearly 20,0001., is a very cheap building."
Foosany, be says, wu " the committee's watchword."
It was bat extremely cheap. We are sorry for
it, fin: that is bad economy. Mr. Bout, even tries to
depreciate the edifice, in order to gd over the allega-
tion of extravagance. It used to be magnified
in hi descriptions of it as something architec-
tural,' wonderful. Now he tells us "it is only brick
and stuccoed." Most appropriate! That splendid
front, in the true Italian style, is only emblematic of
the iutitution. It is more plaster ! .But the capen-
ditutv, says Mr. Soot, was not upon the building ; it
wu incurred in anticipation of a letting of the land
for dvelling-houses. Now fortunately we have before
us the items of the account :
To weals and foundations £5,100 0
„ Fitness, furniture, and finishing 7,312 19
ttoun,lauy was, a. moo 0
„Sewer wed dmins 9OO 0
„14,3,1 way
„ 14ounderork, Woe% Ironwork, mad planting 1,360 0
„wrllukinktes .nd pumps
„'..nauntaion ut arcultcst, 762 7

/19,210 12 10
WV not all this necessary for a building of this mag-
nitude? What part of it could they have done
without? The drains, the roadway, the fencing, or
the pumps ? It is probably Mr. Soul's experience in
tt focing" that leads him to fence with us; but this
sort of finesse won't do.
Tien, with respect to the expenditure of the
asylum. For the life of us we cannot make out whe-
ther Mr. SOUL would have us fix it at 3,11 W., or
3,7111., or 9,1251. He gives all of these as a total
Uncer an affected attempt at explanation he labo-
rioody endeavours to render his confusion worse cou-
Ifooded. The fact is, that the expenditure of the
committee altogether last year was precisely as we
staled it, 12,7071., as shown by the audited account of
tbireommittee, which we infiniteiy prefer as an autho-
Wrift to anything else Mr. Soul. can give us.
With respect to the number of children in the asy-
lum there is the same elaborate attempt to confuse. 1
We took the number of children sheltered by this
asylum in their new building at 152, not only as al
fair calculation, but as the exact lumbar stated in the
report to have been in the institution on the 26th of
I April last. Mr. Soo, now says, " Our report sup-
plies
you with the names of 180 as in the school in
June." But he also obliges us with a table, by which
it appears that the average number in the new
schools at any period Let year was 139, and during
the present year 160. lake a mean between these
figures and we have 149; so that instead of under-
stating we have actually overstated the average num-
ber of inmates in this asylum by 3.
So ranch for Mr. Soul.. We wish he had applied
himself to more important points. We wish he
had shown that the institution of which he is se-
cretary is conducted upon principles which
enable the poorest and most destitute orphans—
thoeo whose cases plead to true philanthrophy the
most sensibly and keenly—to take advantage of the
benefit it professes to afford. We wish he could have
shown that the most deserving cases were those to
which his asylum afforded the most ready help ; that
those who entered there were the true children of
misery and misfortune, not those for whom the
greatest interest could be exercised, and the most
money equandered in securing votes. Wo wish he
could have shown that even as at prose.. t conducted.
Ibis society assists the few without injuring tho many
—that in securing, as at the last election, sore.; for
FIVE and Twettry candidates, they did not carry die-1
appointment and misery—nay, the bitter anguish,
even, of di spair, to the already wounded hearts of
BIITT-SEVEN!

GERMANY.

OCCUPATION OF VIENNA BY; THE

IMPERIAL TROOPS.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS AT BERLIN.
We published in part of our impression yesterday
intelligence from Vietins of the let inst. NVe have
since received, in due course, intelligence up to the 2nd
inst. The whole of the city has fallen into the pee.

session of Windhchgrate.
The imperial troops took full possession of the inner
city about 11 a.m. on the lit inst., without any fur-
ther resistance. General nem has been taken pri-
soner. Daring the day several hundreds of persons
were arrested, and Windischgratz issued a proclama-
tion, in which he declared that, in consequence of the
breach of the capitulation, the conditions which he
had at that agreed to were null and void ; that the
academic legion is for ever dissolved, and the national
guard disbanded for an unlimited time. All newspa-
pers and political associations are suspended • all as-
semblages of more than ten persons aro forbidden,
and a strict search is ordered for concealed arms.
Windischgratz has refused to recognise the Diet in
Vienna as the legal one. The members, however, as-
sembled on the Ist inst. ; but Prince Felix Schwa-
' senberg ordered all the entrances to be guarded by
military, en that the sittiag.was a secret one. Up to the
2nd inst. all tho gates of the inner city were kept closed,
so that all communication with the suburbs was cut
off. It is stated that the new ministry, will be com-
posed as follows :—Wessenberg, president, without
portefeuille ; J. Schwarzenberg, foreign affairs; Bach,
interior; Buchner, war; Helfert, education; and
Bruck, commerce. The situation of the city is de-
scribed as being frightful, and spies are extremely
active.
The statement that Hem has been taken prisoner is
not confirmed by the Preys:ache Startle Anzevr of the
sth inst. It is asserted in that journal that the fire
in the royal residence did only very little damage ;
that the books in the royal library and the beautiful
monument of Canova in the Augustinian Church have
been saved; and that the cabinet of natural history
has only been slightly. injured. It is stated that the
non-German (Selavontan) troops will be sent after the
Hungarians, the Austro-German troops remaining in
the city.
A deputation of Bohemians left Prague to ob-
tain an audience of the Emperor. In their address
to the Emperor they expressed their conster-
nation at finding that the proclamations of Prince
Windischgratz should contain sentiments utterly
at variance with the benevolent and paternal
nature of the replies which his Majesty made
to former deputations from Prague, respecting the
means to be employed to restore tranquillity in the
Austrian capital. " Ferdinand the Good," it is ob-
served in the address, "can never wish to see a popu-
lation of 400,000 made the victims of unspeakable
misery." The deputation were to have an audience
of the Emperor on the 31st ult. Whilst endeavouring
to obtain it they were treated in a disrespectful man-
ner by Prince Joseph Lobkewitz, chamberlain to the
Emperor. When they. succeeded in obtaining the
audience, the Emperor informed them that be could
not give an immediate answer to their demands,
but that he would take an early opportunity of
doing so.
It is stated in an Olmiitz correspondence of the
Breslouer leafing that his Majesty intends to remove
to Prague, where some of the royal equipages have
already arrived. The desertions from the Hungarian
troops in Austria still continue, the fugitives malting
their way towards the army of Kossuth.
PRUSSIA.—The Berlin journals of the sth inst.
have reached us. The address of the constituent
Assembly to the King was brought to Potsdam by a
deputation ; the Assembly meantime continuing its
sitting, but without any debate. After the deputation
had returned from Potsdam, the beam adjourned at a '
quarter to 1, on the mornieg of the 3rd. During the
entire night, and up to the above time, the parliament
010
mouse was sarroundect by some r arTllilid ..1, .
guards, the majority of whom belonged to the work-
lig classes. Not the slightest attempt was made to
create disturbances, the numerous unarmed citizens
entering into friendly conversation with the national
gguost'd, and all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
deputation from Potsdam.
The result of the interview with the King was
efficial:v communicated on the 3rd to the constituent
Assembly by its President, Herr Unruh. He com-
menced by stating that he had officially announced to
the ministry the decision of the
tomAssebly on the pre-
vious day re
pectin the address the King. 'fhe
deputation arrived at half-past 6in Potsdam, and
applied, in the usual form, for an audience. The
officer in waiting declared that ever since the month
d March, hie Majesty did not receive any deputa-
tions except in presence of his responsible ministers.
Subsequently the officer stated that his Majesty. had
just received a telegraphic despatch from the ministers
-begging of him to receive the deputation. The in-
terview was then granted, and the address read. No
answer was returned. Three members of the depu-
tation found, however, the opportunity to speak to