The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, ii:BRUARY 27, 1849.

C.L. DUNN& viand to know front tie riOt boa. go-
demon, tL ilserstaly for Inland, far how long • paned
be was going to propose the continuous ot doe ►Ass-
guardians.

_
Sir W. SOMIRVILLIS replied that be proposed their
continuance up to the 26th of Mardi 1310.

•
lintaaaw, Mr. n LMUOSIT, lea MAIO, BLACCALL
opposed thief wastiousaeo tar 110 long a period, when the
committee that was sow sada; might make groat altoradass
la the poor law orteat.
Mr. MONBELL proposed that the period should be the
WA of Bopteralwr 1849. The committee divldcd :
For the 25:h of March

For the 29th of September
After • short conversation, the bill pasted Strom& rem
mitten, on the tendentandiarg that the matter would be re-
etemidered.

larsote ye appreciate their sincerity. 71ssy were
the only men of the tory party that have given proofs
of a resolve to repeal the malt tax.

So long a period has elapsed since direct or trust-
worthy intelligence could be received of or from the
Hungarian cause or camp, that we have refrained
from all comment, and merely repeated those mani-
festly false and indeed unintelligible bulletins which
General WELDCN draws up for the edification of his '
staff The proclamation of WINDDICHGRATZ, that he
would hang whosoever would forward a letter from
Debrecksin, speaks for itself. In the midst, how-
ever, of the repeated 7'e Deums and accounts of
victory—including that of Lord BROUGHAM on the
opening of parliament—it was evident that there was
something wrong, and that the Austrians must have
encountered some severe checks and difficulties.
WINDISCHGRATZ entered the capital of Hungary
at the head of his army on the sth of January, and
encountered no resistance, Nomura, the diet, and
the army having retired behind the Theis.. It is
but three or tour days' march from Peath to this
giver, and yet up to the 18th of February the im-
perial troops bad not dared to cross it, or had not
even molested KOSSUTH aid his diet, stationed as
both were in the open town of Debreckzin, situated
not far beyond the Theiss, in the midst of the great
plain of Hungary.
The army, upon which the Austrian bulletin makers
and the caterers to oar tory journals relied for dis-
lodging liosarre, was that of General Scaucx,
which had marched across the mountains of North
Hungary, and, we were repeatedly told, had carried
all before it. It it., however, very extraordinary
that this same General &Hum and his corps
should, even by the admission of the Austrian
bulletins, be, in the middle of February, in pretty much
the same poeitions which they had occupied in the
middle of December. The last Austrian bulletin states
several corps, those of Gorz and JABLOPIOWSKT, to be
in pursuit of the rebel army, whilst the redoubted
" SCHLICIC, with three brigades, had taken up a posi-
tion at Torna, on the flank of this hostile devastating
column."

Now, one letter from Hungary, of the name date,
moires tw that—

The corps of General &Mick exists no more; it was
utterly routed, half destroyed, half dispersed, by the Hun-
garian corps of General Klapda, who succeeded bieuaros.
Bchlick himself made his way with some of his offican to
Pugh, and has been sent back to the Theis. to head a newly-
formed cups,
.thus to make the world believe that his old
corp. still estate and holds together. In fact, Georgey's
conduct of the gut rills war in Upper Hungary has not oaly
struck froth courage into the breasts of the Magyars, bat
excites the avowed admiration of the Austrian °Metre. Hie
last feat has been the re capture of Harahan.

Whilst GEOROET is thus not only maintaining his
around, but destroying his enemies in North Hungary,
Gen. BEd has been equally successful in Transyl-
vania. At first he was sore premed by the hostility
of the Serviaos and WaUachians (as the Transylva-
nian Romeni are called); but Ball has succeeded in
explaining to the people and their chiefs that
Austria merely aims at the enslavement
of all H races, making use of one to
subdue the other. And this conviction seems also to
have been infused into the Croatians, who began to
waver. The native race of Transylvania have since
turned against PUCHNER and the Austrians, and the
result has been the cry for aid which these have sent
to the Russians. Our letter from Pesth, of the 18th,
doubts the entrance of the Russians, which, however,
is circumstantially related by the Vienna paper.
hilt* the war is thee carried on, and can be per-
petuated in the mountains north and south, Deal-
mulct remains at the bead of such a force on
the plain beyond the Thetas, as to have for
six weeks deterred the Austrians from pawing
that river. In whatever attempts they did
make they were defeated. So much so, that
both WINDISCHORATZ and JELLACHICH saw that they
had now better return to Pesth •than remain in face
of an enemy, against whom they could do nothing.
WINDISCHORATZ, therefore, betook himself to the
capital, and to the beloved task of shooting and tor.
tuna, prisoners and extorting money, hoping
that ere long his lieutenants would destroy
tte insurgent armies under GEOZOIT and Bad, and
then march on DEMBINSKI at Ilebreckzin enaVing
I him to crow the Theis'. In these hopes the Austrian
general has been completely disappointed, and be
has now marched to see how he can handle DEM-
BINSKI by himself, and subdue the Magyars in battle.
Whatever be the result, the H a have at least
redeemed their character for military skill or well
as courage. It is now, indeed, known that
DEMBINSKI from the first recommended the retirement
of the Hungarians behi id the Theirs, and that the
defences made at Weimelburg and at Moe, were
mere owing to the impatience of the Hungarians,
who did not like the discredit of a retreat without a
show of resistance. PERCZEL, indeed, displayed a
great want of generalship, since, had his aim been
serious resistance, he oonld have rendered
the pagan of the Bakony Wald impervious, and
attacked the Austrians with much advantage as they
between the wooded line of hills and the
passedrtre
se of Comm There is no doubt, however,
that what the Hungarians mod wanted was generals.
And it is a signal proof of Austrian jealousy, that
whilst they have 40,000 or 50,000 Hungarian soldiers
in their armies, they advanced none of that nation to
the rank or experience of a general.
Meantime the proceedings of WHentecnolare at
Perth mark his fears and his embanassment. Money
and supplies already fail him ; and from severity he
has turned to offers of conciliation. Count Louts
BATIITANI, when brought before a court-martial, re-
fused to plead. As a Hungarian he demanded his
legal judges, and refused to answer any interrogatories
of the Austrian officers. He was remanded to prison,
and'his fate is uncertain.
WINDISCHORATZ is also said to have summoned
DEAK, and proposed to him to form a liberal minis-
try with a constitution for Hungary. Dux refused
to have onithinir to do witliNfutniscnourz, on
which the latter is said to have angrily offered him
the alternative of taking the post of prime minister
or of being consigned to a dungeon. Dux at once
declared he would infinitely prefer the latter at such
bands. WINDISCHORATZ, after this, gave order, for
fortifying Buda, and he has erected blockhouses with
palisades at each end of Tierney Clarke's Suspension
Brike.
Of public opinion at Pesth, the following extract
from one el our letters gives a sample:

Thu awn at the theatre always y out to haw, Gait
wholes moor Kolldr, (the Austrian God save the Hinp),
num I say observe, that they. no 100 play it at
Visalia, where the Indiums reeraved it ins olemn end
luiabritios silence. However the atoms demand it of the
orchestra at Pee* ; but the Hungarians instantly clamour
for their Ratoks_hf starch. It ends by one or both bring
aqui%But Wiadiectqtretc to rester. quiet, has been
to bald both one and the other.

We learn that not one of the magnates who sup-
port the insurgent cause has made his submission
whilst several who had remained quiet till now have
been so disgusted with the projectof oentralisation and
destroying the right' of Hungary, that they have
openly declared their determination to resist it.
Amoopt these who hays meds this declaration is
Count Eerilaser of Dods, a wealthy magr ate who
seldom meddled with politics, but whose influence in
several comitats, even of the west, is enormous. In
consequence of the Count Eartmaszire discontent,
the comilat of Gras has re-risen in a kind of innu-
endo)._

- The Hungarian Lutherans are to a roan for the in-
surrection. Count Commits ZAT and Baron Rant
Zinnia, the superintendents or chiefs of the Lu-
theran church (the office is always held by laymen),
are in Komi:rites camp. And indeed the stet of the
Diet is Debrecksin, the chief city of the Calvinist
Magyars, shows, that all the Hnngar►ans of the re-
formed religion look to the preval nce of Austria to
be a religious, as well as a political, subjugation.
It must not, however, be supposed from this that
the catholic Magyars have any sympathies for Aus-
tria. The crown of ST. Braman placed by Kos-
sure in one of the churches at Debreckain, and
almost adored by them, is symbol enough that they
are determined to defend Hungarian independence.
The MalryS4l are, indeed, all as one man, and no defeat
in the Addy however overwMlming, would quench
their dogged discontent and indomitable nationality.

CnoLZIA.--Yesterday the following fresh omen
Were ferried to, the Board of Health :—Whiteeltapal, 1 ;
Bethnal a, 3; Bethnal-peen Lunatic Asylum, 4 ;
Reap, -road, 1 fatal; Ermalngtoe 1 fatal ; West=
Ritchie Unien, 2, 1 fatal; Carlisle, fatal; Edinburgh,
2 fatal; Glogrour, for 24th, 24, 10 fatal; Do., 25th, 9 fatal ;
Biceersra, 13,2 total ; Old Iflpatrkk, 3, gg fatal ; Galsehiele,
2 fatal ; Greenock, 6, 3 fatal ; Alba,T, fats! ;
8, 1 fatal ; Yilinareook, 9 3 fatal; Skates, from Dea zo.
84, 46 fatal ; auditor', 3, 1 fatal; Paisley, from 18th inst.,
38,16 (std.—Total, 220 new ern ; 108 deaths.