The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-14 00:00:00

)NESDAY, MAR. 14, 1849. f THREEPENCE.

masters, &c., but no notable &atmo oniuned in the
1 • discussion.

In the last pitting of the second chamber, Hitch-
' mann the opposer address
.declared
Vinekes motion for an addre.
declared that most members of the left had declared
themselves before their electioos more or lees di-tinctly
as t r the illegality of the constitution of the Bth of
December. This asseitioa seemed to produce some
sensation among the right, as if a feet so probable
were any novelty ; and one of the "semis -re of
the left, Moller, took occasion to say, that he for his
paq bad expressed no such opicion. The fact of
Mellor's example not being tenoned by any other
members on his side of the house seemed to confirms
Airehmann's statement. Meanwhile the organs of
the right persist in asserting that the majority of
members on the opposition side pledged themselves
to their constituents to accept the oetroyed coned:s-
ties as legal.
The committee of the second chamber appointed to
draw up the regulations of the hour, will present
the result of their labours in the coorse of next week.
The left of the committee is is a minority, but the
right do not 081 their majority illiberally. Appa-
rently the law-reforming decrees of the government,
so ill-received in the firm chamber, will not be brought
forward immediately in the mooed, nor have they
been so =favourably judged in the sections of the
latter. Notsithmemeheg this, tie arguments .1 Less
and the supper:ooof Ins motion, to postpone the in-'
troduction of so wide a change until the verdict of
legislators is known, have received no answer. The
mioimer of justice is determined that the now
system must wait; to which the candid Rio-
telen answers that he will not wait, nor does
he see any tea on why he should. The old
system may be as clnmey as the old epicyclic
astronomy, and Rintelen's reform may rival in sim-
plicity sad truth the inventions of Copernicus and
Newton; but the imrsduction of that reform for only
a couple of months might be productive of endless
coansioe.

lime is visible in both the opposite parties a re-
Inetanew to resort to extreme measures. There is,
indeed, a small section of the right who are for push-
ieg to the furthest pos ible extent the prosecutions
against the tax-salving members of the National As-'
sembly, as also on the lift there is a pendant to tsis
small section for impeaching ministers, but neither of
the*, are listened to by the main parties. Meenwhi e
the kftisseid t be divided into three parties, of which
the main consists of about ninety members, among
whom are D'Ester, Kinkel, Waldeck, Jacoby, &e., in
fact those who are understood to represent the extreme
lefr. The moderate left counts about 40 membere,
amongst whom the chief are Rodbertus, Phillips, Von
Berg, Von Unruh, &c. There remains a left centre, of
some 28, ander the conduct of Roach and Parriaitie. Ou
the right, the fraction headed by Herr Kurt holds
sittings apart from the main body, and maintains, it
is said, a does correspondence with Frankfort, look-
ing upon the National Aerembly in that free city as
doomed to speedy dissolution.
They talk here also of the probable dissolution of
the Mecklenburg; Assembly, and of Prussian troops
marching into that state, in ease this stroke on the
part of the governme .t should excite popular discon-
tent.

To-dey Count Brandenburg reeves a great dinner,
at which many deputies will be present. There has
been a begionirg of the projected weeklT meetings in
a social way of the two Assemblies. Ten came off at
Mielentee, the night before lest.
Camphsoico, the Prussian minister to Frankfort,
is at prevent returned to Berlin.
The deputy Schramm tas been cited before the
Criminal Court for his participation in the tax-refuesl
vote.

AUSTRIA.—We have intelFgence from Vienna to
the Bth 'extent.

By notices from Hermanstadt, of the 23rd ult.,
contain. d in Lloyd, we learn that the united corps of
Field-Marshal Lieutenant MIRA and Field-Marehol
Lieutenant Schutz* had, on lhv toth And 12th,
a ~most blocdy encounter with the Magyars, and
had taken Orosewardien. The who'e line of bottle
from Debreezin to Oroaswardien was said to be coveted
with the corpses of the slain.
The Szekier regulars, who got possession of the
town of Reps on the 12• h ult., committed no ex-
cesses, but, after having mulcted the inhabitants to
the amount of 13,000 florins, left the town in the
direction of Uifaler.

BAVARIA.—On the 7th inst., the king prorogued
the Chambers at Munich till the 10th of April, in
consequence of the continuation of the ministerial
crisis. On the Bth, M. Forster assumed the past of
minister of the interior. H rr von Heisler resumes
his seat at Frankfurt. Heintz and Bray have also
definitively resigned.

GENOA, Macs 7.
Among the numerous accusations brought against
those Geneeze who were suspected of Austrianiam
and of having acted as spies to the Austrian autho-
rities in Lombirdy or Venice, a case of a very a xtra-
ordinary nature has just been judged by the Criminal
Chamber of Genoa against one Giovanni Baptista
Paganini, o Roman catholic priest, and a native of
the territory of Go nos, and for many years a
resident in this city. In the month of May
last he had been attacked in the public streets of
Genoa by some notoriously violent republicans, who
accused him of Jesuitism and of being an Austrian
spy, and finally draggei him to the town prisms,
from which be was, however, soon after released, there
being no proofs of any kind to substantiate the aeon-
natio°, which was, moreover, one that was uttered
in many hundred COWS by low and reckless
wretches against the most honourable persons of this
In the beginning of February last the Rev.
B. Paganini was taken up in kis own bones by
the police and incarcerated as being guilty of a clan-
destine and treasonable correspondence with the
Austrian general, Count Montecuculi, then im-
perial commissary plenipotentiary at Milan. This
ease which excited immense interest among the
Genoese, as it was generally known that some of
Paganines letters to Montecuculi had been inter-
cepted and transmitted to the committee of public
security here. FAO,' in the morning of the Ist inst.,
the avenues to the civic palace, where the criminal
court were to sit, were crowded to excess. At ten
o'clock the gates of the council-chamber were thrown
open to the public, who filled the room in an instant,
leaving many thousands behind, whom it was
necessary to oppose by a strong armed force
to prevent them from acts of gross violence.
At 11 o'clock the president and the bench entered,
and were received by a most uproarious c 7 from the
mass of spectators of " Mork ! snorts al? seam gra-
ditore r Quiet and order being re-established at
last, the president said that the court would do jus-
tice to aIL The act of indictment was read ; it ac-
crued the prisoner of having been in correspondence
with the enemies of his country for some trea-
sonable purposes, as appeared from a letter
written by him on the llth lan., and directed
to the Austrian General, Count Montecuculi, at
Milan ; and also from another letter directed to the
governor of Pavia, in which the above letter to Count
Montecuculi had been enclosed. From both letters
it appeared that they were intended by the writer to
open a regular correspondence with the individuals to
whom they were directed. As they were, however,
intercepted before they could reach their destination,
it is to be presumed that the intended treasonable
offer had no further effect. The letter to the Gover-
nor of Pavia was a very inegnificant one, its chief,
or rather only, object being to ask him the favour of
acting as mediator between the writer and Count
Mouteencali. The utter impossibility of working
any harm to his country by the means which he had
employed were taken into consideration by the
bench, who aubseqtrentlr to his own confession of
having written those letters in a sprit of re-
vellers for the insults received by him at an
early period, condemned him to twenty years'
solitary confinement, ten years' naveillasee de police,
and a fine of 1,000 francs. The culprit received his
sentenes with the most lmpertnrbabe countenance,
bat the public burst for& with unanimous hairs,"
Om, is dreadful vociferation* of "It's too little
death—death to the traftorr and it became necessary
to protect his pawn by a idavag body of avabithers,
who sos&tid bin task to his call.

CAPE OF GOOD lIOPE.—i-Ve have Cape pepere
relate;
im porta to the 10th of January, but they contain no
ow. 4 nce.

Posy-011PICE INToTice.—A monthly packet coin.
inualeation hiving hem established between Mauritius and
Cejlos, by the government of the former eoloay, all letters
for limetidne will in future he transmitted from this coon.
try by the milted mail made up at this °Mos on the 24tb
of melt month, unless specially addressed to be otherwise
forwarded. Thepostage on letters to transmitted to Mauri-
tius will tea: Weighing under 4 oz., Is. 10d.; weighing 4 oz.
and not exceeding 4 on , 2e. 3d. ; exceeding 4 oz. and under
If !:lia. b.; weighing 4 oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 41. 6d.
1 if peddle addressed "vie Southampton," may he
1 into to Manritive on the 20th of each month, and will
M thezi as blows: Not exceeding half-ounce, 10. ;1
above noe sod net exceeding one ounce, 25.; and to 1
on, ameeding to the male for charging inland letters. News.
mon mil he forwarded vie Southampton free of pottage, I
bat will he liable to a charge of 3d. each when sent via liar
stiles. The foregoing rates of postage, both on letters and
neripapros, must be paid flo advance.
THE STANFIELD-HALL 111011.DERS.—We learn from
Norwich, that the Nate of Km Jermy is exciting alarm.
Yeeterdey it wee found neeenary to amputate one of her,
arms. She is dabs badly.
RATING THB LIVNII.POOL DOCKB.—At a public
enseg of **parishioners of Liverpool. held yesterday in
81. Nelee's skunk the Bev. Rector Brooks is the chair,
rit was 4o prooeed vigorously I. agitating for a am-
mo ts the doeks and 'separate property to the pay-
msat et and ether keel rates.
MU. LI IN 1847 AND Ile 1849.—1 n Jnly,
1867, when leer. Dimon was "wooing" the electors of
Beekieghanialfire he thus addressed a body of electors at
Theme:—" I admit, thee, that protection is • fundamental
principle in our eonttitution, and to that elision I still ed-
itors. But the settlement of lest year soft he taken to be a
legislative settlement et the guano@ • and nothing but ex-
wiener sharp expenses, will jus.tify oar attempting to
repeal due settlement. I bob forward to the arrival of
that hour with eonfidenco, bat is the meantime it is fur
date to look rated to the means of alleviating our position."
—The bon. member is now acting upon the " bat "
contained in hie address to the elestore of Theme.
IHe is still a potecti9oist in principle, bat not in
pinnies. He held then that " the settlement of last year
meat be taken to be a legislative settlement of the question.
He declares no 4 that " he h not one of these who wished
to recur suddenly to the poet by sppealing to the pees one of
any suffering ciao." No, 'he looks to legitimate means for
obtaining that result which,. s
looks
for the sake of the country, he
still believed inevitable--to public discussion, to private in-
vestigation, to the failure of economical prophecies, and to
the fruits of sharp experience. (Hear, sear.)' Mark the
tens "sharp experience." Bet, says the hon. candi-
date of 1847—" Is the mean tiro it Is our duty to
look round to the means of alleviating our position!"
sad the hen. member for Buckinghamshire submits
hie " means of alleviating the position" of the te- I
mint farmer—his measure ' founded in justice and eon.
ceived in a spirit of mnciliation." He recommends " the
landed interest to come forward in • spirit of compromise."
/le proposes, " in • spirit of compromise and conciliation,
that the present system of local administration remaining,
and the present levy of rates continuing the local districts '
should be responsible for one moiety of ;heir taxation, and
that the other moiety should be contributed by the consoli-
dated fund." (Load cheers.) The present experience isnot
the "sharp experience" which must be telt before any at-
tempt to churn relief should be made. The hoe. member
repudiates dm ids* of repealing the malt tax. No, the
" country party," if in power,_ can no more do without it
than the present ministry. We cannot non language to ex- I
press our detestation of such political duplicity.—Markleure 1
Express. I

,•
THE ROOT Or IRELAND'S ETIL.—The peculiar
midortuee of Ireland is, that its bore and its reliance are
one and the same. Its bane Is the potato, and its reliance is
the potato. Its very curse is its hope. The recovery of the
potato is the thing counted on for the relief of the people ;
and the recovery of the potato would only bring beck the
country ts its former state of misery, and with the perpetual
liability to the vi.itation which is now scourging It. The
cultivation of the potato is now a species of gambling, and
certainly it Is precisely that Irish lottery in which the piste
are ruinous. With the Luaure of the potato, Ireland has
gone from bad Wirers, ; with the reoovery at it she would
do no more than return from worse to bad, from the acute to
the chronic disease of poverty and misery. Yet we have
heard Irish gentlemen of the beet intelligence and intentions
express their opinion that the only hope of the country was
the recovery of the potato. Such • hope seems as tall of
gloom as deepair.—Emachter.