The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

still keep both Austrians and 11111411116 at bay. On
the other hand there is no disguising the danger of
our position, should the Rearms, while the way is
open, march directly upon Pesth. In the essaawhile,
them is nor the slightest appeeuanos of panic either
among the government or among the people. The
Diet is to meet on the 2nd July, and will, I doubt
cot, display as much resolution and dignity in its pro-
medley as if the enemy, instead of being at their
gates, were a thousand miles off.
The accompanying sketch of military operations
in Hungary is of some value, inasmuch as it 'bows
the actual position of affairs at the moment of Rum"
intervention. The Hungarians, on all points victori-
ous, had almost on every side driven the enemy.to
their frontiers. Oat of sixty oomitats, of winch
Hungary is composed, four only remain in the hands
of the Austrians, end from these by a sure and steady
process of military ejectment they were in the Donne
of being speedily expelled. In Transylvania, the
Austrians, with their Russian auxiliaries, had been
also defeated and compelled ignominiously to take
refuge in the Turkish territory, and though this part
of Hungary has again been invaded by an army of
20,000 Russians from Wallachia sad the Baco-
vine, the Hungarians, however indignant at
this unprovoked violation of their territory, have
sot been disheartened; they confidently hope
end believe that these intruders will receive
another signal chastisement at the hands of
the brave Gen. Bem ; neither do they trouble them-
selves mach about some thou.and Russians who may
swell the force of the Austrians, and whom they may
fairly meet in the field before Presburg ; but when,
in addition to these enemies behind and bolero them,
their flack is menaced by more than 70,000 Russians
pouring down upon them in a triple torrent from the
Carpathians—when the position acquired by so much
toil ad the best blood of the nation (and has it not
been poured forth like water ?) is thus unscrupulously
violated ; when these accumulated dangers and vicis-
situdes thus suddenly present themselves—should we
have reason to be surprised if the shock had for a
moment proved too much for them—if their energies
were paralysed by the most deadly of all human
feelings —the conviction which the wise may
come to that there is no help in counsel,
and the brave that there is none in courage and
resolution—a brief interval of despondency would
under such circumstances be natural, and to some
extent, I doubt not, it is experienced by the people
and government of Hungary. But however this may
be, you may be certain that the cause is not yet to
be despaired of: that they will rally—rally under
much better auspices, and with much ampler resources
than they did before. They may east a lingering
look on the glories of their present position,—it may
cost a pang to relinquish the fair city they have only
yesterday so valiantly repined ; yet be assured these
sacrifices and many others will be made. The signal
of retreat e ill be sounded along the Vega and the
Danube ; and with the exception of a solitary oasis
or two, such as Peterwarradin or Comoro, the wh le
country, rendered untenable by the irruption of the
Hessian army, will be abandoned. Then all who
have sabres or muskets, and many unarmed thousands
that only look to the reversion of those treasures,
will retire upon the Theism, on the barks of which
river, or in Transylvania, the scattered corps of the
Hungarian army may be concentrated, and the last
battle of Hungarian freedom be lost or won.
For the execution of measures of such importance
and magnitude a few days only are left, yet in that
brief interval the Diet will once more assemble ; they
will make a last solemn protest against this Russian
intervention—perhaps a lest fruitless appeal to the
western powers. This flagrant violation of every in-
ternational right, this murderous annuli upon the
lives, properties, eni liberties of a whole nation, are
crime', the responsibility of which will not merely
attach to the immediate authors and instruments of
them ; it will weigh equally on the misguided govern-
ments who have the power to prevent them,
and will not, and for whom, as surely
as there is justice in heaven, a heavy day
of retribution and bitter repentance will arrive.
The responsibility which the Diet in the agonies of
national dissolution may endeavour to fix on these
governments may be such, perhaps, as her Britannic
MnjeAty's government may not be disposed to n'ttob
much importance to; but there is another sort of re-
sponsibility which ministers owe t 3 the people, and
which, in grossly neglecting their political and com-
mercial interests, and culpably conniving at the de-
struction of the balance of power in Europe, may infer
very serious consequences to themselves. And have
they not with resnect to the affairs of Hungary been
guilty of a palpable dereliction of duty ? While the
quarrel was between the government and the people
of Hungary, England was by no means called upon to
interfere in it. Individuals in their blind partiality
to absolutism in its most hideous form, might adopt
what construction or profess what admiratim they
pleased for the acts of the Austrian government; they
might admire the policy which excites race ag iinst race
in order to profit by the common confusion and
slaughter for their common subjugation —.they
may extol the dignity and good faith exhibited in
one day, denouncing a man as a traitor to his country
and of appointing him governor of that country the
next; they may consider it fair and justifiable to trifle
with the most solemn obligations, and to ratify or
annul at pleasure the constitutionol liberties of a great
nation—they may uphold the right of the emperor to
dismember a kingdom—the preservation of whose
integrity formed the chief condition upon welch he
held its crown—they may seek to confound the most
rational reforms, by which the last vestiges of
' serfage and feudalism were abolished, and constitu-
tional freedom established, with the vagaries of
socialism or red republicanism in France; all this ex-
travagance the English flatterers of Austrian des
potiset—for there is no accounting for taste—are at
liberty to indulge in if they please ; but it might
have been expected that the British government
would have formed its judgment on very different
grounds—while the struggle, we repeat, was con-
fined to the people and government of Hun-
gary—that judgment it was not called upon
to express ; but the armed intervention of the
Emperor of Russia at once gave us the right, if it
did not impose on us the obligation, of interfering in
the question ourselves—the whole merits of which
should then have been fairly and impartially ex-
amined. But above all, it was incumbent on her
Britannic Majesty's government closely to scrutinise
the grounds upon which the Emperor of Russia jus-
tified his intervention, viz., that the movement had
been begun and developed by his Polish suejects for
revolutionary purposes of their own. Now this is a
statement by which our government ouiht not to
have been misled. The Poles that have taken part in
this movement are neither numerous nor influential
here, and it is monstrous to say the movement ori-
ginated with them. Have they not, moreover, been
Cted, ever since the Emperor's manifesto, from
averng tho Russian territory? The fact is, that
neither the revolution nor the intervention were pro-
voked by the presence of a few Poles in this country.
The Emperor has sacrificed the lives of thousands,
and probably the peace of the world, to the indul-
gence of hie own proud and vindictive passions,
simply becsuse he could not brook the humiliation
occasioned by the defeat of his troops in Transylvania.
Whatever they may affect to believe, our goverument
mast be sensible that this was the real cause of the
intervention.

EMBEZZLEMENT DT • OOLLICEING CLERK.—On
Monday a man of r mamfae, named Williams, was
charged before Mr. SrllU. at Llompool, with bevies, em-
belated different nune dmenep bdooglos to his employers,
Mesas. Garnett and Mare, engineers. North Foundry,
Conalibls Sullivan Misted that he appre-
hended the prisoner at one o'clock ma Ikanday morning.—
Mr. Garnett stated that the prisoner had ben empowered to
coffee the moneys for their firm, and that he had collected
several rums of which he had given no account. Rune of
them sums were obtained by the prisoner after he ceased to
be in their employment, his services having been dispensed
with in April. Mr. Brownbill. of the firm of Murray and
Co., railway.contracton,Greatiloward-street, proved having
paid to the prisoner on the 19th of May, on account of that
satisfied
firm, 341. 10. 6d. He was that the prisoner had
applied for the money in the name of Gamete and Moore,
and he remembered his settling the account. This does-
' meet -as handed to the magistrate, when he remarked that
it was an act of folly in persons to pay money without re-
coiling the legal stamp; the consequence in that case was,
that the document could not be given in evidence. Mr.
Garnett observed that Williams was not in their service at
the time, and Mr. Rushton, on reconsideration, being of
opinion that the evidence could stand, the case resolved
itself into one of obtaining money under false pretences.
Another case, the circumstances of which admitted of no
doubt, wan then gone into lir. Garnett dated farther
that the prisoner had alai noshedfarther,
the sum of 101. on the'
2nd of December loot from Maws. Ashton and Co., and so-
other sum of 61. 18s. 6d. in February from another firm.
Neither of these ram had been accounted for by him. The
rp ' er was committed for trial as two Watments.—
Stasslard.