The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1843.

=be as nett.(mostable tad a sergsmat. Wee not ez.
rpm die Forbes Wird (Mr. O'Hara's), though is
tam Dad net read is as report with Daalesvie. Be
wee errs chest them be was.
Jelin DmiVag, • page misistable, dogwood to the 'abatises
of epseelies delivered by Mr. O'Brisia, Mr. Meagher, sad
Mr. Dam, at the tows of Gravamens, en Sanday,
Bled of July last. The language anew to have bees
mod was UN aim as the lamer deposed to what lest
essalmed.
Constable Rabat ll'Mahot maialaeL—Wes steamed at
Call in, on Mosley, the 23rd of Joy. Idecti6.d rt. pri-
ma as having hes se Callen en Mosday, the 24* July,
with Mr. O'Bries sod Mr. !Mon. Mr. O'Brien said : My
Meads, potitemea, said mikes, —I eagle& is eseetyos bars.
I am pruud to meet mob • reseptioss at so short • notice.
It shows me yes an reedy ; organise younger lento clubs,
Ise the time is et band when pis shell have to prove that
ye pas. **spirit of imam ;I bare boss informed that
lb. flab -is Capes Ast vas bees
do not 1 so my-
self to mode the Int vials. sad do not haw the moment
they will arrest me. I travelled from Dahlia to Weiterd,
Isnleeschy. end Bay, sod pet dogmatics to them, which
I now put as yes so liikase•—" It 1 were arrested would
you let sae go ?" they**. met west the police with 'Mad-
ams, for :bey have mead Waste, and are all [Mauna& ; they
are say dog their duty ands an linellab government,
awl 04 3•1; se they are paid by thms, thee must do ; bat
I am men they would b. bitter under an Irish government
that 1110,4 Sallialt and 84ot:hose • be said nothing
use that I recellrot. Immediately aim Mr. O'Brien, Mr.
eleselmr, sad Mr. Vika left the town ow a oar.
Crervezamined by Mr. Whiteside.-1 AM • saboonatable.
I am coostastly in the habit of reporting speeches to me
calla .. If I hear say language against the government I
root it. I never drew op a sp., far • newspaper. My
inforenitims was made is the sa sob of Septembsr, mad was
drawn up by Mr. DAMP, to Mr. liesamis's dice; 1 stood
am ingot the crowd opposite is -.here Mr. O'Bries was
spealiiek I made no notes at the time.
The (\bat thus (sea o'clock) adjourned till to-morrow (this)
at hall-past nine o'clock.

Durev's Inraaueu lSrctrs.—lt h said maws
those to whom the whole alLir w.s CJAded, and who was
to hare ivied in the escape, wee a policeman. Wreathe
this man, while appearing to a.d is tie arnagementi, was
making the authorities fay aware of them els,. They
knew every step which was beine taken, and came in to pre-
vest the atm:adjust at the m niacin when circumstances
andtinic pro that it would he madv. It is rumoured
that aim. further arrests will take place in connexion with
this strew.

THE FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.
ISSTIS Vast.—PART
The Financial Rehm Asexiatios have drawn up,
Ism path imentary destianteues, doted:swine account of the
=.l the principal OMMeat ram: Treasury :
50,748(.; messenger., 3,5551.; coatingeoeies,
3.3001.; x tired allowances (estimates). 7,8741. ; ditto (Coo-
sa. Fund I, 9,9501. lioustsefiloo Salaries, 21,00:1, eon'
aliewan, 4,4251. ; messengers, 1,8251; ailea•clerk,
Ike., 720 retired ielowances (estimates), 3,3041. Met.,
(Coro!. fund), 1.0001. Foreign.eihee : Salaries, 26,8481 ;
messenger .33,8061.; ; conti.lencter, 7,9931; retired allow.
asses (estimates), 60581. Colonial Ain Ifilerjr, 20.4081, ;
cientinkm le 4,5621. Retired allowsuoes (estimates), 7,6181.;
ditto (C •ssol. Fund). 3,0001 Privy council : Salaries,
30,2101; °antinomies. 6 7671. ; Wired allowances (esei.
mates). 6)51. ; total, 253,95.34. It is not memory to give the
details of each office, bat the freociatian will show the sepa-
rate salari sot the Treasury, as it is the first on the lot,
sad it aid serve as an lain to the saving which might be
efecitsd In the public offices, if, in each ease, the emolument
were faitl_ penal tioned to the work. It Is scarcely needs.
miry to ea; that the salary attached to any ofllw should, of
sourer, b• the beetle nuns at which efficient men can be ob-
tained to perform the duties of that office, Ice no other rule
ass he se.ndtel with justice to the nation.
The is:lowing ars the annual salaries of the Treasury
department First Lord of the Treasury, 50001.; Chancellor
eine Bx leaguer, 3,00.11. ; four inniur lento, at 1,2001. each,
4,8001. ; two secretaries, at 2.3101. 'ash, 60001. ; assistant
aseretars , 2,5001. ; anditw, 1,2001. ; priacipal clerk. 1,2001;
essietant clerk, 1,2001. ; law clerk. 1,0001.; five chief clerks,
1,2001., 1,1501, 1,0091 , 1000/. 5,7001; six senior
eisehti beam 001. to 800!. each, 4,1001 thirteen sonnet
dabs, home 3001. to 530/ each, 8,6101.; Mimeo junior
Auk, k.ini 901. to 2001. each, 1,9301.; seventeen other
alert; fr set 1501. to 7001. each, 4,5051. ; five extra clerks,
720:4 50,7481.
It will be seen that than are seventy-two persons employed
L the kr eighteen of whams receive Wain of between
1,0001. asant 6, . • year each. The nation which is tend
to support • tenor officials so numerous and well paid as
this, may reasonably expect that the duties of the treasury
deparunret am mot neglected, even if a doubt did not arise,
whither theme entice might not be performed at a less cat.
The vise and purpose of the Wawa cs•office is to supervise
and canted the trip...adieu's of the other deputmeuta, and
the present position of our national finances (a deficit
of about two zillion, in spite of a nett income of
fifty two nfifiene—the expenditure, exclusive of
interest on the dint, hale as much again in 1848 as it was la
1035) shore hew Os work at the treasury has beta per-
formed. If the duties of the treasury odic, rs are examined
en mans ad, it will be found that in this, as is most of the
resoluta offices, the work and the wages have been shared
yen d &rent provrtions. The duties of the junior
Inds, for instance, are extremely light. They occasionally
'timid the board, and they sign the treasury warrants. COll.
aiming the latter branch of their labours, the following
evidence -us given by Sir E. Trevilyan before the Con
mien ea Mbeglisnemis Expeaditure
Are three dentures aseeseary tor every warrant ? Yes.
• le it tor the three parties to bit present at the
beard ? No; it ie a separate proceeding altogether.
" One maybe Is Scotland, mother in Ireland, another in
Ed ? Yes, ft is merely • legal form.
" Is it sot necessary that they noun have heard the rea-
gens for the par killer werrert, in order that they &could
alga it ? No ; it is • serene transaction altogether. Three
Octens are remarry to give validity to the document."
MSG wings, whoa speaking of the first division of
tremor" clubs, said—" Then cannot be a doebt that this
panne of the Treeeney establishmest is overpaid as eon-
pared with the sates rf the hence's, don by them. The
icier is prinelpny of • mechanics!, kind, web so espying
the miaow., later, and warrants, which would nom pro-
perly be dna by the elms of tiara clerks who ars trained
is this blade( week, and to whom a much lower rate of rasa-
narstim affords • Nazism motive for exertion. I conceive
k to be a Sweat was. • of public money that gentlemen
Ain Irate 3001. to 1,0001. • year are employed on what could
he done squally well, add, if &indium, better, by persons
news blames it b, an a math lower rate of salary." " With
reward to all the chiof decks, thou gentlemen receiving
1,0001. a year, a greet portion of their time le employed is
sage* mining ? Yes ; it is a great anomaly." Biz C. Tre-
vino, ha aeseism part of his evidence, gives the following
nmesligat defintion of the twice*. of the Trearery. viz :
Te Inn the peennisry interests of the pebbe." The
Um% or the Treasury, however, ar.ar from their ended
to saterwe • very different theory of this defies of their
elks.
It k a. necemary to examine the expenses of the other
slime in hut it testy be mend ,nru that the secooten
of Mate fur the Hems Department, when aucationd Omit
the ditties Ind salaries of the parties employed in his tam,
set's: " With regard to the a:ira agents, I coulees I have
meter bee able to discover the atu of them," nevertheless,
be does not appear to have taken any measures for
Me ab..li.im of the dines whose usclennen be so
egiadirtly aeknowlerteres. In the Foreign-office, the
libraries manes 0001. • year, and the enb-librarian
5401, the dines of the latter tang " to see that
the brine have blue properly bland, registered, and in.
dined ;" and yet there is a proof in the sow °Mee, that the
services of men aigrette learning, an very superior qualifica-
tion.., can ne obtained for a Mich hue sus. The treaslator,
who is rtquired to know almost ell the foreign leusges
of Earops, sad who understate many of the Eastern
beguarea, tee, and is constantly eery hard worked, receives
a calriry of Mt. a year. The system of omapesia.
Yea ►r trees married, in this ttfixt, to • mug Mend I
snot ; the sodomise:curio and clerks obtaising a sow
=Dmammies beseste plumate of diamond snot
a% is lager received upon the ratification' of
treaties.
Is short, the amount of saving opts the charge' of the
public ell.ee, which would accrue to ths nation if the govern-
ment would hsaestly make arduous ollonepte to economise,
bine& I of endesveteriog to defend shags by plausible WA-
WA!, can scare* be over-setimated.

STATE OF TILE WIND AND WEATHER.
(By WNW* iblegmb.)
Paoli ihmor To Nuts o'CLooz /NW WORNIXO, As
rebid asd web' at We wukirmwdawai Jul. ewe gs Wiwi :
Lcs . . .W.N.W. Vine limb' --IL Woe
linabarbaga..N.W...Plee talurprol LI. by B. Vary cold
Inagua „JIM. -lbw lawrwaser ...5.11.11 . away
°wirer We —N.% ..Cairl. lbw Warbaargs..2l.l7 T-Vlas
Cbelaward -N. V &Xl= Nargirra' .5 Mr
Newaastia.....N.R. Uwataled
Oreterlord -Mg. Cuba awl lbas Newmarbst Aassv
Voiriewer .. N.W.. .rian
= .4. N. .-lbra Norwich ....N.N.I Wm
. N.W.....ggsalgy Nowingbisi ...N...- rws
test Dachas it.s....asedi Peterbarsagbß.W Plow
aturtrart .......11....hcat Pools AM. Woo
Wy MA ....Pl.o. gal Portman&►k ... R.L.itaa
04211101& N.N.....tlaweisi Rugby X Post
Olargow W Vary aid gyrtubley ....- N.'......Was
I:3!ftemer ...111.W...Taa boutlumptca.B.W.... Pim
Ourpqrt. .5.1. .. Ilwe Trim ..... -...N.W.... Ma
Nertined N.W. -.Mr
Bolylwed R.N.ll....hair pie Worked N.ll.ll...Qaady
Hal .... ..... N.R. ...lbarmy 11=0....11.1- _Ma*
Ipeurlab. NM -.Plus XL . .oii
Leeds W. Mr WaWarke.. /1 Mr
Lohman 111. W. Mee Yamaha W.V.- Ida
MO A hat Tart. ME....Very faa
Dow, OW. IR LIS am, whirl N.E.; rib,.
Drkari. OR. Ig. g pm. 'dad 11.6; sold, Wrastaabry mow.

SHIPPING.

2 ; Waterford, 1; Dollaaba*

dos, 1.
LONDON, Oet. 19. —Wind this day at noon, N.N.W.,
wilderate breeze, and fine.
LOCHIIADOT. N. UIST. Oct. 13.—T30 Speculator, or
Pictou, from Marie to Dahlia, has put in hen leaky,
sad with keg very mach injured, having struck on a
minim rook, in paeUe through Pentland Frith, but, r the
wrap r Is moderato, oho can proceed on bar
DIAL, On. Ig.—N.N.B. to N. 8., strong.TDrnd from
60 tier and sailed : May, Constantinople.
FkLYOI7T2I, 0.1. Folk, Long-
Need. .

On—• FALMOUTH, Oct. 17.—Actived : blaacitaatar, Callao
mg Cork.
Livaarool., Oct. 16.—N.N.E.—Sailad, lath • Tigris,
; Now Orlaaaa ; lltexprat Harziaatott, sad

Picasso?, Virgisis • Ilakora, New York. The Mary
fa, of Dumfries: for thb part, is apound co Westrarr
evannaktan, Oct. 10.—n. Markt, of Path, from Port-
ray, drove behiod the Boothia"? INS THE 17th insure, Pond
has bseemo a wreak; MEW, raaterlalar and Pin Of TEIP
saved.
Yuan urea. Oct. 18.— TM Ana and Elistbrtb, which go
WINN as Ow Booth &Toby &ad yesterday. drifted off dur.
lag the sight, oa bar _broadside, sad has since bent elan-
dosed; mw saved.
linawics, Oct. 17.—A vessel, painted black, and dis-
gusted, with bewsdrit sad jib-bonnt standing, wu teen as
instant, about 60 auks N.W. of the Tear', by the
Margaret.
LITTLEJOHN, Oct. 18.—The Cottiaglsant, of and from
Shields to Landon, proves to be Os ?awl reported
your' day as hallos berm as shout aa the Shipwash Saud ;
she after wardauf, and sank today ; crew saved.
NIWPOILT, Oct. : Sally,Bierra Noord,
St. Paulo de Lauda. _ _ _ .

Listani4 a, Oct. 17.—Attived John Nanny, New Yotk ;
Limwoln, Data,.
Orr PLY norm', Oct. U.—Arrived : lady Fitahozbat,
Hudson's lay.
Pirmov nit Oat. 18.—E.N.E.—Arrival Kitty iana,
Natindam.
Twos, Oct. 16.-Baiad : Francis, Diagram.

DISCOVERY OF PIKEi.—A few days ago, an soma
weeknim in the employ of Mr. Guest, the brewer, were re-
moving some rabbis., consisting principally of old bricks,
from a croft In Leigh, they found an oh piece of cloth, con-
taining two pike heads and a dagger or stiletto. The latter
instrument is of wean, mask uction, consisting of a handle
about 101 inches long, with a boss blob about inches
in length, of peculiar shape, presenting four sharp edger,
and calculated to inflict a daugerous wound. The blade can
be dropped in its socket, and secured there by means of a
small iron pia or socket, and, who nzeded, the blade can be
dropped down the socket, the little pin being used for the
purpose of enuring it in its place. The other two pike
heads are of the common description, one being ready for
screwing, and the other for riveting into the poles or shafts.
The whole, front their fresh appearance, cannot have long
remained is ntir tiding place.
Tun Bint.tt MONOPOLT.—The extensive establishment in
Blair-street, Mdiaburgb, which, under the firm of " Sir
David Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, printer, to the King's
moat excellent Majesty," enjoyed for such a length of time
the monopoly of printing the bibles sold throughout Scot-
land, as well as the various ficaatiah acts of parliament snd
other public documents, has been finally broken up and dig.
permed. Funivrly, when the concern was most flourishing,
about 100 prisons were employed within the of but for
nearly two PUB there has been no printing done, two or
three persons only being in attendance for the purpose of
executing orders and gradually reducing stock ; and on
Monday and Tuesday last, the mate:isle, stock of bibles,
stenotype plates. &c were brought under the hammer of
Mr. Peter Prow, and " sold without reserve to the highest
bidders."

Wheat, white, old, 1,11. to 161.; sew. 111. to 131. ; old, red,
141. to la ihe ; Dew, red, la to 124 Barley, 36. to 339.
OaU, 18s. to 249. Boom, 329. to 389. Pus, 40s. to 4214

NEWASIC, Oct. 18.—Wo bad a full attendants of buyers
and melbas at this day's minket, and the supply of grain on a
liberal seal*, hat a certain proportion out of condition. Pine
Why at supported last week's prime; seetod and damp qua-
liti le. to 2s. per qr. cheaper. Seed Wheat in demand,
and 60a. was obtauted for whits, and 66. to 67e for red.
Malting Barley, of the Oast quality, no cheaper; second
qualities, out of condition, ls. per qr. lower. Btens and
Pees without variation. Breaking Pc.s inquired after; and
Winter Tana in demand.
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NEWCASTLE, Oct. 17.-The weather still continues broken
and uhseuled, with frequent fella of rain and hail. The
outstanding Corn has now received such injury as no further
weather can remedy, whilst Potatoes are daily becoming
worse. At our market this morniog wa had a large supply
of Wheat from the growers, and, although its condition was
indifferent, sales were steadily effected at fully Saturday's.
rates, and the same remarks will apply to coasting sorts, of
which there is Mee offering ; but foreign being more press.
ingly offend, to make progress it was necessary to submit to
a; reduction of 14. per qr , choke Pomeranian red being
only snleable at 53e. per qr. in quantity, end Danish 625. to
635. weighing 631 be. per bushel. Fur Flour, we experienced
a 11;1 fi2auir74 and the turn, if one, was in favour of the
buyer. We call Norfolk houebolds 395. to 404 , and whites,
41s. to 425. per sock respectively. Rye in little favour, and
the turn cheaper. Chums malting Berle y tally as dear, as
are also the best distilling end grinding descriptions; but
other sorts are offered rather lower, withnut et.eiting atten-
tion. Malt without change. Beans and Peas rather inure
inquired for. Oats are beginning to excite a more general
inquiry, from an impression that good sheet old Corn must
of necessity improve in value as the winter eppioachea, from
the feet of a considerable portion of the new crop thing
much damaged. Hanoverian qualiti.e, weighing 393i4. per
bushel,: are freely tsk, n at 21s. Nock brews, 21s. to 244.,
weighing 421 be. to 4316 e , and select Snitch, weighing
28s. to 295. per qr. respectively.
lloarruitn, Oct. 18.-Our market war well supplied with
Wheat, which sold about the saute as last week ; but little
of any ether kind of grain at market. Wheat, 40a. to 1.6 e.
Barley. 30s. to 3411. ; grinding, 264. to Ds. 0 its, 20s. to
27a. Beans, 28s. to 36v. Pea, 36e. to 40s. Dye, 28i. to
34.15. Tares, lla. to 12s. per bushel.
DUBLIN, Oct. 17.-The supplies to our market th's day
were but moderate. Oats were in demand, and 3d. per
barrel higher. Grinding Barley was neglected, and 61.
per barrel lower. In other things we make no
change. The follawing was the currency for new
train : Wheat, white. new, 26.. to 3014 red, 244. to
Se. fal. per 280Ibe. Oats, 104. Gd. to 124. 3.1. per 19611,.. Bee.
ley, 14s. to 18a. 641. per 2241 he. Beer, 12s. 6d. to Ilc per
2241 be. Rapeseed. 245. to 2"a. per 2411 b. haiku Corn,
31s. to Ms. per 4801111. Oatmeal, 12a. 641. to 13e. 6d. per en t.
Flour, seconds, 17a. to 18s. Der cart.
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•
Ila Least., Oot. 10.—Ws had • moderate supply of ursin
at market this morning; pliers uoehanged sines Fridsy.
Wheat, 9.. to I la. 4d. per 0w,.; Oats, Os. to 61. tl. ; Barley,
Gs. 3.1. to 7s. 6d.; Oatmeal, IGs. 10d. to Ili.

METALS.—OL %snow, Oct. 17.—The market is
very flat; the price of pie Iran declined lad week, and
may now be called 43•. for No. 1, and 425. G.r No. 3. %clime.
Bare are ready, at el. 151 to Gl. ; nail rods, 61. 101., and
hoop, 71. 13e., on usual terms.

HOPS.—WORCESTER, Oct. 17.—Oar market Was
again abundantly supplied with Hope on Saturday, but, the
demand being quits adequ►te to meet it, • brisk trade was
kept up the whole of the day, at an advance, upon the sest
maples, of 2s. to 3.. p•e cwt.. The second clue were also •
shade dearer; but inferior qualities were not easily &posed
even at • reduction of U. to 21. from the prices of the pre-
vious week. There wee • steady though not a brisk demand
for 1816'e, at former ran. Present prices : —Fine new
Hop., 52.. to 63.. per cwt, ; middl ng and low, 30s. to 41.. ;
1846'5, 355. to 455. Duty, 16.0001. The number of pnekrts
of Hops weighed during the week: New, 2,081; old, 19.
Saturday: New, 1,660; old, 29.

7ioudaeck.—Mesirs.Cooper
and Davis report the following quotations:
Prime Ilandow 401,. to 714 I
Kelm,— 41, to 64., atesor.. !M. be 306.
later*/ .6W. to g,. Olmr. to Nir.l

CATTLF, &c.—E'rus. Oct. 18.—The market
bore all the eppeareacs of a well furnished fair, more espe-
cially with Sheep, of which there were many prime lots
business, however, was very dull; indeed in store Cattle al
store Sheep it was difficult to etfeet sales at all. The entire
market had a decidedly downward tendency, and a very
large amount wu turned out unsold. There were a number
of fat Bullocks, and though for a few picked snit, s rather
better prices were obtained than last week, on the whole
rates were decidedly lower, consequently quotations ate re.
duped to from 41,1.6 d. tools. 6 I. per cwt , or U. toll.. per store.
Butehen' Calves sold from 51d. to old. per ih., the quota-
tion being from about bpi to Old. per lb. The quotations
for f►tBbsep mast be stated at from Sd. to Gld. pm. lb.
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Mogrotin, Oct. 18.—We had but a ►hort supply of fat
and lean stock at to day's market, which sold at rather better
prices than last week. Beef, 3a. 6d. to 4s. 41. Mutton,
3.. Bd. to 4s. 9d. Lamb, 4s. to 4s. Sil. Vcal, ls. to 41. 61.
Pork, 3s. Bd. to 41. Bd.
Oct. 18.—Trade cheerful; prices firm. Wel
made from 2s. 2d. to 4s. 21. Mutton, 3.. BJ. to 5.. 2d.
Veal, 3e. 6d. to 4.. Bd. Perk, 31. 4d. to 4s. Bd. per stone of
Bibs., sinking the offal.
For Yesterday's nearkeb see last page.

VW .Woo*

MAUI.

Ito 'Tartan/ melie for Orme* the Inaba lona*
Egypt, Ada, Oinks. Indio. Nassaung, and China, Ma South:map
..itu be mere an the aseening of the 20th net.
mails for lYlr North America, and the United Ender,
will be made up oaths welds* of the 20:h Oct.
Ita overland eloped mita, vie Marseille% to the Mediterrasean,
Copt, Aden, Ceylon, bells, llong-limig, Om, will be nude up on the
of the 24th Oet.
Terrata(he main itVlgin Oporto, Lire" Madera, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be Mode spas the wiernuor of the *lt th Oes.
The malls*, Maw South Wake, Von Diamanb Land, awl New
brewed will he Mob 1p or the wetting of the Met Oct
The mails kr the Weal Mast of After and Kaiak& will be wide
ap an the swelag3lst Oct.
TM Wirt ladle Kalb, including Bermuda, Menu, Meninx,
Rondonia, New Orteaum, and Mexico, and excluding thyme for
Madeira, $l. Juan-de-N lawmen', New Granada, Chili, sod l'cru, will
be made up as the morning of the :hid Nov.
Tb. nails for Madeira, the Brazos, and Buenos Arne, will be
made up on the erelong of the 4th Nov.

WIGS wills Ai LOPDON 111111101.
fiW if Ma.Mn f rnli. east 7,
ibi.ionatiw—limies& WI =is paw

LONDON, TIIURSDAI', OCT. 19.
Merreanicn and his print reckoned without
their host. They already gloated on the prospect
of Vienna crumbling under " the heavy fire of
AVERSPERG'S batteries," and its German population
expiring under the bayonets of the Croats. Aunts-
reato's position, they said, was inexpugnable, and not
a shadow of a Hungarian was marching to menace
JELLACIIICH or succour Vienna.
Things have, however, turned oat the reverse of
these assurances. The gallant Kossurn has lost no
I time. Letters from Path, the substance of which
was published in a second edition of the Er-
press last evening, acquaint us that in the
last engagement 4,500 Croats were taken prisoners,
with 37 Austrian officers, and three generals ; amongst
them General BOLL. Thus victors, the Hungarians
marched in pursuit of JELLACIIICII, who employed
the tone of menace merely to hide the embarrass-
ment of a fugitive.
In fact, after having taken counsel together, JELLA-
CHICH and AUEESPERG to beat a simultaneous
retreat. JELLACHICII tliaarl with precipitate haste
homewards towards Agram, and had already reached
Neustadt. And AUERSPERO, evacuating the palmed
Eugene, from which, in the imagination of
the Times, he was already bombarding Vienna,
withdrew his Sclavonian regiments. Nothing could
be more humble than Ausasezao's communications to
the Assembly in Vienna. He took merit for not join-
ing JELLACHICH, and professed his intention of re-
tiring to Enzendorf, north of the Danube, tacitly
asking permission of the Viennese to allow him to
cross the river. These movements of the imperial
generals abandon to the Viennese, and to the Hunga-
rians, the entire southern bank of the Danube.
A storm is however gathering in Moravia. Thither
the Emperor or those who guide him, have summoned
WINDISCHGEATZ, and there he will collect the regi-
ments of Sclavonian origin for an onslaught upon
Vienna. AIIERSPERG'S removal to the north of the
Danube is for the purpose of joining them. All this
indicates a raising the Sclavonian flag against that of
the German and Hungarian. In short, it is the com-
mencement of a civil war, which does not weer the
appearance of being, as was supposed, prematurely
quenched in the destruction of Vienna.
Disgusted as we felt and feel with the treachery of
the Viennese court, with the Machiavelli° and
cowardly policy which has sought the selfish ends of
the dynasty by setting races at variance and inciting
them to mutual massacre, whild giving smiling promises
of confidence and support to both, we still are
by no means prepared to answer for the
wisdom of the chiefs of the Viennese inns,
Faction. For their character and views we refer to
the luminous letter of our Frankfort correspondent.
This shows how the wildest parties and persona
are endeafouring to turn the successful
in-
surrection to their advantage. But the folly
and the errors of an unfortunate people,
cheated and abandoned by a perfidious and
cowardly court, are to be charged rather to its
treachery than to their wilfulness. Much may be
hoped from the brave efforts of the German liberals

to defend their city and liberties against a bar-
barous horde. German and Magyar represent the
intellect, industry, and civilisation of the country
against Sclavonian bigotry and military rule; and
sincerely do we hope that, notwithstanding the pre-
ponderance of troops, cannon, and geueralship against
them, the former may not succumb.

AN opinion seems to be gaining ground in various
quarters that the government is engaged in concocting,
and is likely to propose to parliament at the earliest
opportunity, sonic scheme of endowment of the Irish
Roman catholic clergy.
We know not whet other ground there may be
for the notion, beyond the singular fact, sufficiently
telling no doubt iu itself, of the conttmporaneous ad-
vocacy of such a measure, u the first step towards the
improvement of lieland, by the two great trimestral
organs of the whig and tory parties, the Quarterly
ar.d Edishn oh Bedews, and the known and long
.4eice avowed opinions ol the leaders of both parties in
favour of the scheme.
Everybody admits, however, that something must
he done for the conciliation of Ireland; and, in the
absence of other dcflnite propositions, this is by. many
people, it seems, expected to bo the next move in that
direction of the wing ministry.
In this antic'palion • stir is naturally making
among those parties whom such a proposal would
most deeply interest. And we are nut surprised, in
consequence, to find the Anti-Church-and-State Asso-
c'ation, the Leeds Mercury, the Pat, lot, and other in-
fluential organs of dissent, beginning to combine and
marshal their means of resistance to a propcsal so na-
turally abhorrent to their principles; while the Rev.
Mr. Me NEIL begs, on the part of Exeter Hall, to re-
fute the nnaccout,table and incredible statement which
had been risked on the Nth of some loose news-room
conversation with him, that he is at all inclined to
compromise or mitigate his fierce and wernal opposi-
tion to an unhallowed "state alliance with Jezebel."

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On the ether side the Channel, the report has in
like manner given occasion to a vtill more important
and formal protest from the entire body of Roman ca-
tholic prelates at their recent annual meeting, in which
thr y deprecate the idea of any such state provision,
and indicate a determination to refuge it, if offered.
For our own parts we cannot but consider these
anticipations and suspicions to be without real founda-
tion. We cannot believe the members of her Ma-
jesty's government, whatever may be their individual
opinions on the abstract policy of a state endowment
of the priesthood of the great majority of the Irish
people, to be so blind to the enormous objections
to its proposal at the present moment.
In the first place, who asks for it ? Not the catho-
lic, themselves. They, on the contrary, repudiate it;
nay, look upon it as an offensive and insulting offer
to buy up those who are now emphatically the priests
of the people, and convert them into government
agents, epics, and tools. This is in fact the only huht
in which the advocates of the proposal themselves put
it forward. They do not condescend even to throw
the flimsiest veil of decency over the object they have
in view. The Quarterly Reviewer, throughout the
entire article on the subject, argue,' openly that the
catholic priests are the great fomenters of mischievous
agitation in Ireland • and, there/ore, there can be no
end to agitation until they are made the stipendiaries
of the state. Lord STANLEY, in the debate mooted
last session be Lord ELLENBOROUGII on this subject,
declared, with his characteristic bluntness, tLat if he
assented to such a proposal it must be accompanied
with rigid conditions, and he should look upon it
simply en the lifeet of a measure of Police. In plain
words, the avowed object is to take the priests into
the pay of the Castle as a " detective force," who are
to be expected to earn their eatery by communicating
all information likely to be %Fetel or desirable at head-
quarters, which they may obtain at the coufessional,or
otherwise.

Now does any sane man &Here that such a mea-
sure, so recommended by its ?my advocates, would,
even if it could be carried to-morrow without difficulty
(and a word upon that presently) answer its intended
purpose? If it were possible for the secular clergy
of Ireland so to sell themselves to the government, toe
only effect would be to transfer all the influence which
they now exorcise over their flocks (and which alone
would make them worth purchasing) to the regulars.
The catholic people, in their present temper, at all
ev4 no, would unanimously spurn and desert the
priesthood who could be found to an ept the bribe so
impudently offered to them as the price of their deeper.
lion of the people; and the lay brethren of all orders
would quietly step into their places in the affections
and reverence of the multitude. We should have
bought a worthless bargain alter all. If the people
are in the hands of bad guides at present (which is
far from being our opinion, but is the assumption
upon which the proposed scheme is based), we should
only throw them into those of worse advisers for the
future.

But, in truth, it would be impossille to carry such
a measure. Look at it first in a tinaccial light.
Where are the funds to come from—the three-
quarters of a million per annum, which it is to
cost, according to the moderate calculation of ore of
its advocates ? We take it for grant, d that no one is
insane enough to suppose that JOHN BULL will allow
this item to be added to the Maynuoth grant from
the consolidated fund. But it has been hinted that it
may be taken from purely Irish sources—an Isiah
property-tax, for example. In the first place, how-
ever, Joux But w;11 have a word to say upon that,
since he is inclined to think that an Irish property-
tax is due in the first instance to tiro consolidated
fund. lint suppose it possible to raise it from purely
local sources of taxation, in addition to toe ordinary

income-tax, the poor-rate, and the county ceases,
which alrendy are found so difficult of collection,
does anybody imagine that the Irish landlords (upon
whom it must fall, land being almost the only source
of income in Ireland) will be contented 1-ng to pay
that and us', tithe too, to support two establishments
at their cost? Those who put Lr ward this proposal
as one for the preservation of the Irish church—
which we perceive is a current argument in its
favour with the tories—are strangely short-sighted
if they do not foresee that when the protestant land-'
lords of Ireland are called oa to keep up a catholic
establishment, as well as the existing protestant one,
they will open their eyes very speedily to the notion
that the endowment already enjoyed by the latter is
really enough for both.
But, in fact, it would not come to this. For,
beyond the small knot of official men of all parties
who now have, or have had, or expect to have, im-
posed on them the difficult task of governing Ireland,
and who look upon this es a mighty astute and
111achiavelian plan for getting through that difficulty
awl keeping matters in other respects as they are,
there is, we firmly believe, no party or body of people
in the country who demands or would approve of it.
On the contrary, we believe that the great bulk of the
people of the there kingdoms would show themselves
decidedly, and a large proportion violently, hostile to
the measure.
We have not touched as yet on the opposition it is
sure to meet with on religious grounds from some of
the most powerful bodies in the state, who, however
opposed upon other matters, would be united on this.
The whole general question of endowments (now
happily at rest for the moment) would have to be
fought out with the dissenters of all denominations.
The anti-popery cry, now equally dormuct, would be
' raised through England and Scotland with no little
effect. The question of the Irish church property,
and its appropriation, will have to be discussed
and debated over again. The country will be agi-
tated from one end to the other by religious and NW
When warfare. AU manures of a practical character
must be postponed. Parties will be broken up still
more hopelessly than at present—the whig pasty
more than all; indeed, we believe no surer preens all
suicide could be hit upon by the leaders of that party
than the announcement of such a proposaL
And all this for what ? For the purpose of insult-
ing the Roman catholic priesthood of Ireland with
the offer of taking them into the pay of the gib SS
political mercenaries, upon the express bargain and
condition that they shall hereafter side with the go-
vernment of the day on all occasions against the
people ; no longer make themselves the medium of
their complaints or remonstrances against grievances'
however in' olerable, or oppression however cruel;
preach passive obedience to the powers that be; and
expose themselves at all events to the suspicion and
the charge of being the hired spies and informers of
a hostile government, instead of the trusted friends
and revered pastors of an unhappy, because misgo-
verned, people.
Why, if it were possible to make sack a bargain,
we ask again, would it prove to be worth the lowest
sum of money at which it could be concluded ?
We trait and believe that the alum which is begin-

ning to be felt on this subject in many quarters is as
groundless as we are sure the suggested scheme would
be unwise, impolitic, and in the present state of af-
fairs destructive to any government that should be
mad enough to propose it.
The only parties who might possibly profit from
the agitation of such a question, and some of whom
we suspect urge it with that view, are those who wish
to distract the attention of the public from the real
eawes of Irish discontent and disloyalty, and from
the real remtdie2 that are required for their removal.
The Irish landlords wonid not objet to a tub being
thrown oat to the whale, of a character likely to em-
ploy his undivided attention for several years to eizne,
and allow them to escape that inquiry into that sys-
tem of management or rather misulantigement of their
riroprietary rights, and that neglect of the correspond-
ing duties, which is at the bottom at once of Irish
murry, Irish disaffection, and Irish agitation of every
kind.

AN important step has been taken towards the
solution of the presidential question, which is now
the all-absorbing topic with American politicians.
Shortly after the party nominations in May and June
last, elements of dissension made themselves apparent
both in the whig acid democratic reukr, and led at
length, in either case, to open disaff.ction and divi-
sion. A respectable minority of the whig party were
extremely dissatisfied at their favourite candidate
being act aside to make room for TAYLOR,
who, whatever proof he might re. ently have
given of his capacities u n soldier, han never mani-
fested any ability as a statesman. A lsrge section of
the democrats were equally averse to the nomination
of Cass, chiefly en the glued of his known predilec-
tion for slavery. Secession took place in both cases,
but that amougst the democrats was most serious, a
strong abolition party declaring that it would
vote for VAN BuREN. This rendered the success of
Cknerat CASs exceedingly daubtful, although,
for a time, his chIIICEB wire improved
by the attitude of his o:yunen., who only
:...ely dofhd that reserve upon party ques-
tions, which, for n time, perplexed his friends, and
compromised his position as a candidate. General
TAYLOR totally misapprehended the feeling which
prompted his nomination. Had it taken place iin-
mcdiately at ter his military saccersees in the Rio Grande,
the prests:qe of his name might have secwed him the
adheni in of the mess of both parties. But as
time wore on, the popular ardour in his favour
had time to cool, whilst the operations of Ge-
neral Scorr on a more important theatre dimmed
to some extent the lustre of his achieve-
ments. The democratic party then learnt to
regard him simply in the light of a whir candidate,
and as such, of course, made up their minds to oppose
him. Since his nomination, theitfcre, lie has been
pertly a party candidate relying for success on
a party vote. It was some time, however, ere he
perceived this, consenting to stand, but professing his
intention, if elected, of being no party president—
profusions which might be patriotic, but which, under
the circumstances, were, to say the least of them, im-
politic. They savoured too much of trimming. and
were so indicative of party defeat that the section of
the whigs who were dissatisfied from the first at his
nomination, openly substituted the name of CLAY for
that of Tavi.on as their candidate.

Both parties bung thus divided, it was speedily
seen that success was most likely to await that
which would first reconcile its differences. To
iffect a reconciliation in the whig ranks it
was necessary that General TAYLOR should make
the first move. The friends of Mr. CLAY would
only support him as an avowedly party candidate.
Ito had, therefore, presented to him the al•ernative of
losing his election or of shifting his ground. He has
prudently chosen the latter, and now appears be-
fore the electoral body in that distinctive party
character, which, had he rightly appreciated his
position, he would have assumed from the very first.
General TAT tox having thus definitively given in
his adhesion to the party, the friends of Mr. CLAY
no longer hold out against him, that eminent man
himself being the chief actor in the reconciliation
which Lamed.

This important step renders his success at the
coming election almost a certainty. In addition to
this. there are other considerations which bear
upon the contest, and which tell favourably on the side
of the whiz candidate. The events of the day
and the perilous nature of the times, induce the more
reflecting portion of the community to consider well
the character of the man to whom they would
entrust, for the next four years, the destinies of their
country. Whatever change the responsibilities of
actual power might effect in his conduct and disposi-
tion, the antecedents of General CAss have been such
as to load them to believe that the tend.mcies of his
policy would be unfavourable to the maintenance of
peace ; and to a great commercial country like
the United States, next in magnitude to the
disasters attendant upon the contemplation of actual
war are the evils which would arise from
the anticipation of being kept constantly on the verge
of it. The moral and political world is, at present,
in too inflammable a state to enable the friends of
peace, on either side of the Atlantic, to regard with
indifference the occupation by a firebrand of the pre•
sidential chair at Washicgton. Aud what gives us a
peculiar interest in the matter is that the morbid an-
tipathies of the democratic candidate are almost ex-
clusively directed against out selves. As the passions
of some animals are inflamed at the sight of any
thing scarlet, so are his animosities excited
at the name of England, or Engnshman. It
is this unfortunate idiosyncracy that renders him
peculiarly obnoxious to the more sober-minded of the
American community, for, whatever turmoils may
wise to disturb the relations and interrupt the com-
merce of the world, it is of the last importance to both
that England and America should keep on terms of
amity with each other. The dangers winch might at-
tend the elevation of General Cass to the presidency
are not obvious to whigs alone, a large pro-
portion of the democratic party being equally sen-
sible of them. This will fortunately operate most un-
favourable upon his chances of success as a candidate,
for not only will a large democratic vote be given for
VAN BUReN, but many democrats, who have no par-
tiality for tho abolition nominee, will abstain from
voting for CASS, that his election may b! defeated.
On the other band, there are many whig abolitionists
who will vote for TAYLOR instead of VAN BUREN, in
order that TAYLOR'S election may be secured. Their
sole object in voting for VAN BeaEN would be to
make an abolition demonstration. Under existing
circumstances, however, they wisely prefer the guaran-
tee of peace to any such demonstration. Their object,
therefore, will be to keep CASS oat, which they
can only secure by putting TAYLOR in. They will
thus go far to atone for the grave error which they
committed in 1814, when, by their ill-timed defection
in New Yotk, the whig abolitionists secured the tri-
umph of Mr. POLK over his more worthy competitor.
We may, therefore, regard the election of General
TAYLOR as virtually a fait accompli, and what con-
cerns us now is to inquire how the event is likely to
affect the interests of this country. It is not to be
denied that, in a commercial point of view,
our sympathies are with the party whose
success would be indicated by, the election
of General CASS. The triumph of General TAYLOR
will, for a time, put in the ascendant those who are
inimical to our commercial and industrial prosperity.
But, taking into account all the circumstances of the
case, this, at least for the present, is likely to lead to
no material change in the commercial relations of the
two countries. The whigs would disturb the tariff, if
they could. Bat they have no longer the great agri-
cultural body either with them as formerly, or indif-
ferent to the subject. The settlement of 18461
was the conjoint work of the south and west,
and the malts of that settlement have so
completely falsified the prognostications of the
whigs, that the west will be in no hurry to counten-
ance its disturbance. Every nerve was strained pre-
viously to its adoption, but in vain, to convince the
farmers that whilst they would reap no advantage
from it, its first result would be a largely deficient re-
venue; and both Mr. IVEnsrxx and NIL
as spokesmen of the protectionists, went into
elaborate calculations to show that tbe me-
naced deficiency would be nearly equal to one-
third of the revenue required to cover the differ-
ent branches of expenditure for the year. Neves
were vaticinations proved to be more utterly
groundless. Not only did the receipts during the
first year of the operation of the new tariff consider-
ably exceed the estimates of its promoters, bat the
agricultural body experienced so palpable an advaa-
go from it that it will require no little cajoliry to
induce them now to abandon it. The timo is past,
then, when a whiff triumph was nxessarily the pre-
lude to a high tanff. On this 'core, therefore, there

would be no apprehension for the present. some
little concession may he made to Pennsylvania, in
connexion with coal and iron; but no change ie
mediately practicable, which would not be shun.
dantly compensated for by a continuance of the
inestimable lidesaings of international amity.
Thin consolatory view of the case supposes the whigs
to ba in the undisputed ascendant. Such is the pre.
sent temper of the public mind in regard to the tariff,
that even had they the three branches of the trip.
lature entirely in tittle own Lando, they would
hesitate ere they attempted any essential mod,fication
of the act of 1846. But the election or Tama
will not give an undisputed ascendlincy to
the whigs. For the first two years at least
of his administration ho win here to can.
front a democratic senate, P e majority in which
will be sufficiently large to bait: any attempt
wt ich might be made at fiscal reaction. The majority
will be almost exclusively composed of the immediate
I followers of Mr. UALIIOUN, who will thus hold in hie
ee.vn hands the balance of power in the uNa. r branch
of the legislature. The cause of peace and that of
free tried:, could have no &Ater guarantee for their
maintenance than this. With the s nate in each
hand., there is but little danger from the inflammable
democracy on the ono hand, or from the
prote.tionuit whigs on the other. We have
nothing then to fear, but everything to
hope, from the election of Gen. Tavhou; and it is
consoling to know Ili it when the e•A sits of a day
may make our hands full nearer home, no disturbance
need be apprehended in our relations, either political
or commercial, with that great nation, which is at
once the greatyst consumer of our fabrics, and the
gr,nary from which, in times of scarcity, we may
always reckon on making good our own deficient
supplies.

Tne amount of property directly influenced by the
panic which has been raging for the last six weeks
in the railway share market is largo Enough to be-
come a matter of public concern. Hitherto our re-
marks on maw- y questions have beets e:.itfly con-
fihed to those points of view in which tkat useful
class of works are related to national interests ; and
if we have often insisted on the jus.ie- due to their
promoters, and have exposed the 'hallow policy of
robbing them of their deservi d prate for the pre-
sumed benefit of the state, it has been because we
have seen that the proce:s would not only be mkt-
riot's to a class of enterprise that has merited
well of tho country, but must also, in the
end, be far more detrimental to the nation
then to the immediate sufferers. Nor need we de.
rift from this ground in our survey of the present
agitated condition of railway affairs. The owners of
a property still possessing a money value of more
than a million sterling are not the only parties
affected by a ellange that has reduced its nominal
worth to the extent of more than hilt- that sum.
The derangement caused by such an immense depre-
ciation, and still more, perhaps, by the nearly un-
mat kemble state of the property, which accompanies
and in part is caused by the decline, spreads over
large circles beyt nd this particular centre, and in
many other ways impedes the movements of busi-
ness; while from the discredit into which railway
speculations have sunk, it rn ty be seen that a blow
has fallen on the rational progress of the system,
which will be apt to lame it for some time to come,
in a manner that no well-wisher to the prosperity of
this country can desire, however welcome it may be
to the Times and its " correspondent.? _

In order to any rational judgment of the actual
state of railway affairs, we must discriminate between
the effects of substantial causes, and those produced
by mere panic. These it is necessary to separate,
whether the objets be to ascertain the real condition
of the property at this moment, or to arrive at any
useful means for its improvement hereafter. We
shall not lay much stress on the operation of the
latter class of agencies, nor on the reinEdii. a most apt
to neutralise them. It is in the nature of such
parox)sms to exhaust theneelves ; while us they are
fed by blind alarms and a certain contagious frenzy
that defies rational control, they are usually intract-
able to argument while the fit lasts. During the past
month a decline in railway. values, which real causes
had been gradually preparing for some time, has been
turned into a galloping consumption by the influence
of mere terror; which some unscrupu:ous and
malicious parties, from various motives, have laboured
to excite to the uttermost; while the Tones, true to
its vocation of sworn foe to railway enterprise and
property, has both:lent its columns to some of the most
exaggerated attempts of this kind, and used them as
a text on which to preach &crusade of its own against
railway management. These attacks, although they
make a good deal of noise for a while, are not very
formidable, inasmuch as they cannot escape sudden
detection and exposure on the first approach of plain
matter of fact. We have already shown, in the
single instance of the London and North Western,
the gross errors visible on the very face of such re-
presentations as the Tintr 8 will patronise and com-
ment upon ; and wc are assured that documents now in
preparation by the mar.agers of that company n ill make
the exposure still more striking and complete. The
propagation of mere error can only serve temporary
aims ; and produce but a passing effect. Tits effect,
indeed, is mischievous enough to thew. who are weak
enough to yield to it, and may bo sufficient for the
ends of speculation of a certain class ; but it will not
fulfil the desires of those who seek the entire destruc-
tion of railway property ; nor will it greatly influence
those who have any solid interest in knowing the
truth concerning it.
We may therefore turn away from the fomenters
and from the operations of mere panic, which already
would seem to have reached its extremcst point, and
may therefore be expected to subside before long into
the nothing from which it arose. This only may be
observed before we proceed to the real causes
which depress railway values. The outcry which
has been heard in various quarters for " more
information," for " authentic accounts," &c., was not
merely got up for sinister purposes, but is little more
than an utterance of the same inconsiderate alarm.
In reality, no such necessity can be said to exist, with
respect to the past transactions of any of our great
companies. All who ore concerned in knowing how
their money has been spent, and what they have yet
to spend, will find no difficulty whatever in ascertain-
ing these particulars from the detailed accounts and
reports already published. Nor is there any one, we
apprehend, at all seriously interested in the matter,
who entertains any doubt of the authentic character
of the balance sheets drawa up on the directors'
responsibility, and examined by auditors whom the
proprietors themselves appoint. It is not here, we
say, that the pith of the matter truly lies. We
shall see where It most presses, after a review of the
real causes which have affected the railway share
market. _

These are traceable to two distinct sources: one
arising amidst shareholders and subscribers them-
selves; the other springing from the acts of oar public
men and of parliament. Tne brilliant success of the
earlier lines, tilling upon a period when money and
credit abounded, produced the excitement of 1813-3,
and threw epen a door not only to rational enterprise
but also to the maddest eagerness for idle schemes in
all directions, and under whatever conditions. It was
taken for granted that all lines would pay, and all
contended for the right of making them. While this
movement was going on—of course not resisted but
highly encouraged by the professional and other
persons to whom it admieiatered employment or
other advantage—there was raised on the other
hand amongst our public men the 'cry of " monopoly."
It was not merely the obscure and extreme politicians
that gave all the aid in their power to "competition,"
as a check to the fancied evil. The notable declara-
tion of Sir ROBERT PEEL himself in favour of " direct
lines"—the favour shown by parliament to every
attempt to rival those already established—fed the
railway fever with its most dangerous fuel, at a time
when sound foresight would have dictated a c-ioler
policy. Thus it happened not only that more railway
plans were started than were actually needed, but
also, that many of those which parliament favoured
were of au unprofitable class. The rage of competi-
tion, thus fermented, set the old companies on
the alert to secure what they could for " pro-
tection" in the general scramble. Thus branches,
extensions, guarantees, &c., were promoted by
them, which, but for this scramble, would
never, perhaps,—certainly not then,—have been
entered upon. To these causes of confusion
and expense was further added the rivalry created by
the gauge dispute—which, as we have previously
shown, has in every way damaged not only the pro-
spects but the profits of the railway system, and has
in one important district produced an amount of
wasteful strife and unnecessary projects, exceeding all
the excess which has elsewhere taken place. This