The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

portion which the nniiber of adult a~,
paupers bears to the entire number relieved. 'ft;
to a perceptible increase in this proportion of
years; but not more than can be aeeouuted
by the influx of Ineh paupers and th.
spread of vagrant habits, both among HZ
and among oar own population.
as thew vagrants reappear in various dist,ieta,
swell tle returns of all the untms in which ah ve. been relieved, it may be 'inferred that the
latent pauper population is atrifla below the fives
which it necessarily appears in the tables. The
e,*
when with past years is, however, not vitiated
this, as the returns of those years likewise hers be;
swelled, though in a leer degree, by the admiseso
the migratory poor. We trait that for the (sterol"
vagrancy returns will be kept perlectly distinct bee
the rest of the poor-law statistics. The following
a comparative statement of the able-bodied
relieved during six years, ending 1847 :

(noutere
ended
Indy.day.

Adult A

xtled Room adimd.

In-door. 0524 ear.
85,171
99,195
97,753
57,623
83,811
113,524

326,719 ---------"
367,319 411,301
3:53,64 4:1,301
411
,32,473 44
430,0 s
29.4746 Kt?
439,131 . 36' sys
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Nearly one-half the above, it ought t—c7T--)
are case' of "temporary sickness or accident" g.
addition to these, we were enabled, as we hope to :
in future years, to deduct the cues of vagTam,7 th
residue of able-bodied adult paaptre relieved weigh
exceedingly small—smaller perhaps than the
claims of the poor, and a provident humanity istilit
regard, would dictate.

THE King of PRUSSIA is on the eve of an lam
ant resolve—on the po:nt of making one of tho
momentous changes of policy on which the feta d
dynasties and empires hangs. When the last woo
left, Berlin, the monarch was about to break "AN
parliament—with the National Assembly the h
himself summoned. It is more than mill.
thst, if he does so, the fate of the P
dynasty is, like that of the STUARTS and of
BOURBONS, a doomed one : —and this, whether ilea
approaching conflict the monarch and his tempi,
triumphant or defeated. The probability indeed',
that the army will ove.'come opposition in theses*
of Berlin. The examples of Prague, of Paw,*
more recently of Frankfort, show that maw sad
projectiles used unsparingly will prevail over thew
infuriated and determined populace. But M. Onee
himself has said, that none but an obeeure aodsest
mous government durst have recourse to such Gee
mities, which would never be pardoned to a slyngi
or a king.
In the cases of Frankfort and of Pole th
governments were beyond question in the riot
They were supported by the majority of the wad
assemblies, and employed arms and artillery ill*
defence. The middle class were is eager and gni
moos as the military in defence of order. }yy pa
King of PRUSSIA put himself in the same pea._
had he gone along with the moderates of the Ago
bly, and awaited the moment when they ewe
, tacked by the anarchists to b:ing on troops toury
the latter —he might thus have saved the mewed
and achieved reaction in no unconetitutiosalpiw
But to divide the country into two canna, se pm
CHARLES L did, tho court and the army am*
the parliament and the citizens as well as flap*
on the other—this is a blunder we did notrapB
from a monarch of the nineteentheeotury.
The King, however, has been driven awe Ilia
own weakness than by rashness to the resolve. le
luctantly compelled by the triumphant tumefied 5
capital to grant a popular constitution, the higs
treated to Potsdam, where he surrounded his Om
with officers and with military. From this
Majesty has remained a sullen and silent
of the work of democracy going on in ib
sembly. Had the King contrived to lice areselak
people and to trust them, instead of witisdnereib
his soldiery, his people would not have been mud*
nor the Assembly so democratic. But the mated
military thus drawn up, and entrenched -
people and
.parliament, have begotten fury ed
travaganoe m both. This was, at least, thesis*
the officers on one side, the deputies on the din
But the 'oldie:B, who are of all ranks, there Mite
substitutes, and who serve but for three venom
many of them infected with popular ideas.
In this state of things, same excesses having lin
place in provincial towns, were put down by drat
tary with unwarrantable rigour and severitypd
the opportunity was taken of expressing qui
hostile to the Assembly. Motions were eteedh*
made for calling the military to account. Of im
motions, the extreme ones were set aside It ts
Assembly, and a very moderate.and fair one, id I
STEIN, carried. The ministry of AUERSWALD ski
to act upon this vote, and resigned. The Limb
summoned BECKERATH, a fair reprosaldn
of the middle class, and of modenis
raliem. He was of opinion that the nillef
officers should be called on to moped
constitution, and to give a pledge to that effect. 5
councils were not approved of; and General Mx,'
hack functionary and courtier, is appointed Dila
whilst General Wassrdet, the hero of the day, i
named Commander-in-Chief of the army dean

against Berlin.
General WRANGEL Ia a man apparently detarniri
to achieve notoriety and eminence at all husk
In Schleswig-Holstein he slavishly Mut
the central power, and sought popularity id
renown by thwarting the Prussian goveraut
and endangering peace. Recalled to NA
he hu become its Marquis de BOUILLE, and lea eF
ready published an order of the day, and delimits
harangue, threatening to the people, insulting to las
civic guard and the Assembly. General Witaioinis
evidently anxious to provoke a collision sod Psi
upon Berlin, as he rushed upon Jutland. His
si
and acts are those of a foolish and intemperaissi
dier. Yet to him the monarch entrails Ss
care of his army and the subjugation d
people. We most own, that we look for ths
next tidings from Berlin with the greatest sax*