The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1849.

Qom ADELLIDWIS funeral, if properly turned to
mama in this way, may be valaal to society as the
oonumeneenteat of a batter system of funeral arrange-
ment. It was the good taste of the accomplished lady
that led her late Majesty to command its performance
with entire simplicity and privacy. She blew the
rake of the undertaker's display—
Dark, but cot awful—dismal, but yet mean—
With eosins bustle moves the soubrette ease ;
Presents no
shoooects under or ;maenad.
But weeds ld. eezeseelog glees around.

On tore and absolutist contemporaries. the Vines
sad the Morning Chronicle, must be highly delightcd
at the sitcom of their Wren and protegfe, Austria,
which has been enabled to effect in poor weak Italy
that which it merely threatens, and which one con- I
temporaries recommend, in Germany. Austria. as
say be eon by the Italian papers, has extended
Ne MISS/ frontier and its prohibitive toll from
the Pe over Modena, Parma, and Lucca certainly,
probably over Tuscany and Rome. Ibis stride of the
peat prohibitionist ally of the Times and Chronicle
will, if fully aocompliihed, deprive the British nation
of a trade worth well nigh two millions sterling.
And we are really astonished that the nmes bas not
congratulated the ;City of London, where it so lately
proned an Austrian lean ; and that the Chronicle does
not call for the applause of Manchester, on the
triumph of their chosen dynasty and their model
government. The suppression of the Austrian jour-
nals, and the positive adjournment of the promised
constitutions, cannot hut endear the l'nd of METTER-
Inca to his disciples of the English press.
When civil war and blockade drove our vessels and
our manufactures from the Elbe, when France dared
not think of purchasing, and when Southern Ger-
many was cut up by the march of armies, our mer-
chants had always the great resource of Leghorn,
through which, and through the free-trade states of
Florence and of Genoa, British manufactures made
their way not only into all parts of the peninsula, but
over the Alpo.
The Western Mediterranean, however, with all its
ports, is henceforth to be a inure demount. The pro-
hibition tariff of Spain, on the one side, is completed
by the new prohibition tariff of Italy, throughout the
whole length of which the custom-house officers of
Austria and of Naples, soon destined to wear the same
usiform, and obey the same orders, will stand to
warn off English ideas and English trade. That dear
ally of the Times, the King of NAPLES, for
whom its correspor dent perspired so many columns
of gloating admiration, had indeed long since driven
English traders and vessels from Sicily. Austria
now completes the same system for Italy, actually
proclaiming that old continental blockade, which
was the dream and the aim of NAPOLEON'S hatred of
us. And all the while the Times and Chronicle,
who affect to have the interests of Britain,
and of its trade at heart, keep pet-
ting and patronising these execrable despots, ex-
cusing thew tyranny, lauding their bloodthirstiness,
and delicately refraining to bestow censure or even a
frown upon their determined and active hostility
to British interests.
The reader hss nothing to do but to open
NUGREGOR'S Statistics, in', order to observe first, the
old tariff of Lucca and of Tuscany, and then the tariff
which Austria now imposes on them by their assimi-
lation to the fiscal regime of the Lombardo-Veneto

kingdom.
The tariff of Lucca, through which Parma and
Modena were supplied, was ten per cent. ad valorena
on all cotton and linen goods, twelve per cent. on
woollens, cotton twist 3 lire (about ?Id. each) the
hundred pounds. In Tuscany fiscal dues were lit•le
more than nominal. In lies of these, if we turn to
the Austrian tariff henceforward to prevail, we find
cotton manufactures compelled to pay 2s. 4d. a lb.,
twist 1L 10s. the cwt., and so on in proportion.
It may be well remembered, that in the short era
of Italian constitutionalism a union of customs was
planned between Piedmont and Tuscany, which would
have formed a genuine Italian Zolivert in on free trade
principles. This Austria now not only prevents for
Lombardy but for the central states, hitherto free,
which she has reduced completely into her subjec-
tion, whilst, by taking possession of Lucca, she com-
pletely interposes between ,Tuscany and Piedmont,
and shuts the latter country off from Italy. As the
natural effect of this exclusion would bo to fling
Piedmont into the arms of France, this
has been specially cared for by a clause, which
secures to Austria in Piedmont the rights of the
most favoured nations. Thus whatever facilities or
opening Piedmont might offer to the trade of France
or England, must instantly be participated in by
Austria, although that land of prohibition could give
no equivalent. The result of this, whilst France
remains the lubber government that it is,
must be to force Piedmont into the
Austro•ltalien Zollverein, which will thus extend
from the farthest cape of Sicily to the Carpathians
and the borders of Saxony.
Tory policy, that of Lord ABERDEEN, Lord STAN-
LEY, Lord LINCOLN, of the Chronicle and Times,
would have us not only bow to all this, but
fawn upon the power that is actually effect-
ing
it. Austria is, indeed, a great image of
clay, with not one limb joined te, or knitting in, the
rotten carcase. But by our toleration, our worship, I
and our flattery of this despotic and superannuated
=cue, we are aiding to put t.igether the most
immense and prohibitive commercial empire of
Europe, to our own detriment and our own exclusion.
Not content, indeed, with sacrificing Italy as well
as Hungary to the selfish and greedy maw of this
monster, the Tinges and Chronicle would persuade us
to throw north Germany into the same grand
Zoliverein of prohibition,. Nothing will satisfy them
but to exclude the English merchant from Ham-
burg and from Leipsig, as well as from Leghorn and
Vienna.
" Down with free institutions," and "down with
free trade" in Germany and Italy, is the daily cry of
these journals and their correspondents. And tnese
same writers and organs, that are abetting the worst and
most retrograde principles, both in politics and trade,
abroad, affect to be mighty sticklers for freedom of all
kinds at home. Can this be ignorance, or a servile
tendency to worship anything that is predominant
where it is predominant, to flatter the spirit of fret-
dom at home, und the spirit of servility abroad'
We warn not merely the people, but the aliens
interests of England, to beware how they depend on
such amphibious sycophants as thesN who are ever
ready to wear a liberal varnish over what is too palpably
disguetiog of toryiem, but who thus adopt tie: po-
pular side on indifferent matters and questions that
do not compromise them, merely to gain confidence
and acquire the right and the power to mislead, mis-
represent and betray the popular party.

Two funerals and a christening are about to be
celebrated on the same day, and in the same family.
The day has not yet been definitively named, but
intimations have been given to all the influential
friends and immediate retainers of the noble Louse in
question, to hold themselves in readiness to partici-
pate in the solemnities befitting the °modem. An
illustrious offspring is to receive the blessing of the
church, while both its parents are to be consigned to
the tomb. And as the latter are soppos dto hive
lived but unhappily together, it has been determined
that, from the moment their joint progeny shall re-
wive a name, their sins and quarrels are to be con-
signed to everlasting oblivion, and that not another
word is to be said about them.
The Old Bond-street Society for the protection of
industry and agriculture, and the young Association
for the promotiou of agriculture and industry, have
agreed to terminate their protracted fends by putting
an end to their own existence. Confessedly they Lace
lived and striven in vain. The purpose of their be-
ing has in ro respect been accomplished ; and nothing
in their life has so become them as the leaving it.
The Protection Scciety has protected nothing from
the influence of free competition; and the Na-
tional Association has signally failed in all its
addresses to the nation. The nation has, in
fact, been tolerably unanimous in repudiating
it, and rejecting its 'madams of every species. So
there is nothing left for either but immediate diesolu-
, don; and once dissolved their patriotic desire is that
they may be forthwith forgotten—a valedictory re-
quest which it would, ander the circumstances, be
inhuman to disregard.
But the christening—what shall the name of Baby
Bunting be ? or who will perform the initiatory rite ?
Many dignitaries of the church have offered.
Orange deans from Ulster compete for the honour
with Paireyite prelates from the Land's End.
There is not a pluralist whose tithe c-mposit;on is
likely to be plucked to the value of a sheaf, who is