The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

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Russia, who would assume a very differ...Ed tros,Z
that which she occupies when menacing lands. biArcla
it can only be stayed by a rim, lc wig
of the courts of Berlin and Vienna to the poiu: -I..tra
a few weeks back placed the sovereigns of Ypwe--- •
and Austria in the position of rivals as leaders dye
great popular movement in which both professed h
have faith. The conviction must be wroucld la es -
minds of the civil and military servants of the
that the sovereigns intend to deal fairly with iis
people; and the projects for raising the ignorant pea.
Bantry against the nobles and gentry mu-t, by sat
seta, be speedily disavowed, if a scene of cm.ei i
to be averted, whose course and extent flay Week,
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Lion. Those who can now prevent its moo-recce egl .
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have no claim to sympathy if it involve them in the V
general destruction.l.‘
We are sorry to be prophets' of dismal tiding o.
when we look at the resources to which sme con,
tinental statesmen seem inclined to trust for power
to effect a sanguinary re-action, we confess me
blood chills within us, and we turn with a shodder
of disgust from the bravadoes which may momentanis
bring on the impending conflict. For weeks put th..
Grand Duchy of Posen has been ruled by two pry,
sian generals, armed with conflicting instructions.
General WILLISEN was sent from Berlin to make es
arrangement with the people of the Grand Duchy,.
one of those enthusiastic tits of the King to sibi,..
Europe has of late become accustomed, sad t
which he promised to restore Poland eve .
defiance of Russia. General Vos (:otAsq
commanding a large force of German regulan,ts
gardless of the presence of this commissary, I.e,
forced at his pleasure military law where he fond,
suspected armed assemblages. Many conflict ."
much loss of life have been the result of this Et.
dealing, and the exasperation it has produced injh
readily conceived. But that such proceeding's)."
form part of a project for restoring to Prue..ia he
dit in the money market, and be accompanja
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demand for tenders of a loan, give ea •
ludicrous a tinge to the whole, that we ars
reassured by the confession of weakness which,"
act involves on the part of the appellant in 111
extraordinary duel.
The Vienna papers, now uncontrolled by the es
sorship of the press, openly accuse the civil offiendei
Galicia of organising a movement of the pee.
against the landlords, in imitation of the •cent '
1816. As this would make an appeal to arms itsi.
table in Austrian Poland, the financial ptoceed.
commenced at Vienna—by which the minister(
aid to provincial manufacturers without await*
the sanction of the representatives of the people-0
likely to prove as nugatory as the Berlin loan. What.
ever else may be expected to result as gain from cirl
discord and provincial disorganisation, no a i dit cut
acquired by such means, nor will the notes of tt
central banks, although rejoicing in imperial ftd
royal patronage, become one whit more accept.
than the most republican aesignats ever hind, it
peace and order be not their guarantees. It migk
reasonably have been expected that under theme
mortifying changes of system, property and offe
would have retained their charm for those who co►
sewed them. A nobleman might have to pay Lea
like a peasant, or a president of high birth be oblige;
to put up with a rot crier colleague. Still, each hilt
ehips have been endured in many countries yds(
mucn suffering ; and, where there was a chance do
taining the substance of power, we have not eme .
the holders reject it because they ed
not deal with its shadow as they pleased. Thep
sent state of those eastern countries is therefreet
enigma which is fearfully puzzling. We cannot le
lieve that defeated governments can enforce the
despotism anew which the nations of Europe has
thrown off, nor can we believe that cabinets which gm
to be wooing civil war, can match their resomsu
against those of a people in possession of the soiled
its products, and animated by enthusiasm in atem
which they have supported unflinchingly amidatielq
privation. Our presentiment is therefore, for it
present, a gloomy one.

IT must be confessed that Lord Dm.nor,tt Fs
bon exceedingly happy in the choice et his Mingle :-
measures as an Indian statesman. The decree oil
4th March last, which astonished the community d
Calcutta, by annulling at a stroke the operational de
navigation laws in the Indian seas, is prectsely used
those reforms of which the indirect conseqsacesei
more beneficial than even the positive amend
they. introduce. The differential duties agsks
foreign shipping within the limits of the East lava
Company's charter were by no means to le
reckoned among the greatest trail wbid
oppress our Asiatic fellow subjects. The misfothe
of that submissive race have reference mach not
the impediments which prevent and retard tbsp
ductiou than to those which merely conceit II
distribution of the great staples of their country.
yet these differential duties—now happily eh'
away into the same category which includes
odious transit duties, and a dark series of
posts which once iuterposed between the dispels
and the recipients of justice —these lifts
ential duties, we repeat, involved a princilli
of no mean importance, and were the exponents di
practice which did not belie the false exclusivesesd
its origin. Their value to the revenue of the ph
dencies was exceedingly small ; but they were Si
symbols of a system which does not estimate the*
ness of customs duties according to their product*
ness. The selection, therefore, by the Govern!
General of this particular species of grievance"
remarkably felicitous. His short and pithy ad d
abolition does not expose him to the ready censure
recklessness of the public resources in the pi,
suit of a theoretical fancy ; for, in truth,
Indian exchequer has only gracefully removal"'
obstacle which might, or might not be acvantl,
ous, but which was certainly accompanied by a sk
temptible fraction of profit. But in removing*"
obstacle Lord HautousrE has given a most sigh'
cant indication of what may be expected in his WO"
measures. This small beginning bears a very gni
tying resemblance to those early manifestation's!'
free trade policy which distinguished the &est yrad
of the administration of the great political legit
to whom Lord Hammen' is indebted for
introduction into public life. The resembl/
of the facts and the similarity of the eircumstah
under which they have occurred, are full of the Of
assuring consideration,. The "coming man"
India must be a firm and sagacious statesman, ork
will introduce with a considerate but a coufidenthed
into the internal and fiscal policy of the preeidencira
some of the maxims and reforms which have be
already verified by European authority and expel'

meat.
The Indian tariffs, so widely mod' fied by. this le
cent act, were constructed upon a very simple is
very striking basis. Every article was subjs
to at least two rates of duty—one rate weg
imported or exported in a British ship ;
another when conveyed in the shin of a foreig
nation ; and the latter rate of assessuieut was alias!
twice es much as the former. You might carry salsas
bales of calico and tons of twist to Calcutta as yee
funds or your fancy might justify or suggest, itad
custom-house authorities on the Hooghly

charge jou only 5 per cent. so long as you employee
a British vessel ; bat if by any chance yo
struck a bargain for freight with an Amen'
can or a Dutch skipper, yon were infallitil
condemned in a double impost; and the stmt rabid
proportiJn was observed throughout. This awful
a4ainst the facilities of commerce, and this concessiel
of monopoly to the British shipping interest—
interest so terrible fa.: the days of the war and cfMe•
111."-KISS0N—is at an end. "Ave; is now, fortunately,
a chance of sonic variety being introduced into the
origin and aspect of the magnificent line of me
ehantmen which are the peculiar pride of oar Asiatic
metropolis. The great change of 1814 disturbed the
stately exclusiveness of those famous Indiamer. of the
" Company." which in the early days used to curio
the mysterious intercourse between Leadenhall.street
and liindostan. In that primitive period an East Itala
captain, both in his own esteem and in the esteem'
o'her people, was a person of prodigious conseq
The indiscriminate and lees supercilious traders 52
sought, under the relaxation of that year, Igglie
participation in the dazzling success of the ree
political and commercial corporation, soeiewhal 01'
luted the dignity of the ancient dynasty of ca tell
navigators ; and when in 1832 the come/
ceased to import silk, and tea, and leo
sad tQ sod out and recall its b4ll.ernrgoes, OMO