The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7.

A Lana batch of letters has reached us from Con-
stantinople, from Widdin, and from Belgrade the
last of the date of the 21st. The intelligence they
brim is far from satisfactory, and far from honour-
able to the Turks. The Pacha of Widdin still guards
his primers with a jailer's care, betokening that
Rama has not lost all hold of them, and
that Turkey, although committed so far as not
to be able to give them actually up to slaughter,
is still anxious to propitiate the Czar, by doing
with them whatever else he may please to
dictate.
The trick to bring dishonour upon as many as
possible by forcing them to embrace Islamism, was,
It is to be feared, suggested by Austria and Russia.
The moms audit' results are graphically depicted in
oar letting, and will be read with supreme disgust.
The fate reserved for Kossuin, 131mm:earl and
the other chiefs—too proud to listen to such ours as
those with which Bait dosed—is still uncertain. But
Russia, we have reason to believe, demands their im-
prisonment. Her envoys point out to the Porte, as
an example to be followed, the captivity into which
lesetrirrt was thrown by Russia. Ana tte feeble
Divan is this moment mooting in what eastern
forties' she may immure the gallant relics of
Hungarian independence, in or'er that their
captivity may sompeneate to the disappointed des-
pots of Austria and Russia the mordfication they
have felt in not being able to hand them over to the
executioner.
Bat we will not believe the possibility of anything
an infamous bring perpetrated. We may, we think,
fairly rely upoa the generous energies or the British
government Wag exerted, and upon Lard PALMER-
noir being not wanting to his known sym-
pathy and provetbi.l spirit on an occasion such as
this, in which he is supported by the unmistakeable
and unswerving support of the British public.
As to Turkey, the brave conduct of the Sultan
in Si MOB refusing the demand of the Csar has
won for him and for his country the respect and
admiration of Englishmen. And that respect and
admiration are no empty and no fruitless sentiments.
Tbay form for the independence of the Turkish
empire a more solid guarantee, than any amount of
obsequiousness could wring from Russia.
Should the alleluia, however, afier having shown
himself a prince of courage and generosity, so far
exchange these noble influences for the base
saggestaoas of fear ; should his Highness, to please
Russia, doom Kosstrrx and his companions to a
dungeon, and merely commute their insane-
diets and honourOW death to a lingering
and insulting one, such as indeed the treacherous
Pacha of Widdia has given them a foretaste of, then
indeed the Sultan and RISCUID PACHA, and the
Turkish ministers, may for ever bid farewell to either
the respect, the sympathy, or the support of English-
mos. The very character and honour of the Mammalian
race, and of its chief, are now hanging in the balance,
as far as the opinion of Europe is concerned. If
liberal Europe has reason to despise them, liberal
Europe will abandon them for ever.
It is the honour of the English public and the
English mind that, apathetic to interests, to changes
of territory or frontier, and even to threatened en-
croachments and restrictions upon commerce, it has
been touched and aroused solely by feelings of hums,-
nity. Some foreigners foolishly imagine that our
sympathies foe Hungary arose in greediness to
enjoy its try**, in a deep laid scheme for opening the
Danube, and erecting an empire favourable to us and
to liberal principles in the east of Europe. Alas!
they little know the simple nature o! the Englishman,
moved far more by admiration for the courageous
essence of freedom, and by pity for his misfortunes,
than by all or any of the calculations 'opposed to be
inhereat in our mercantile land. The Englishman
loves trade, and he loves money, fairly got, honestly
pursued. But neither that gain nor that pursuit
obliterate or obscure the finer and nobler appreciation
of the good and great.
No spcetes of tidings, no battle won, or glory
achieved, ever communicated half so much pleasure
to the English public, as to learn that KOSSUTH and
his companions had been saved from ignominious
death partly by British intervention. To have that
feeling of joy and =gratulation turned to bitter-
ness, and to learn that the Hungarian chiefs are to
pay the penalty of being patriotic and brave in being
consigned to a dungeon, would at once excite the
public indignation and contempt against our own
Foreign-office, and against the Turkish race.

THE best service that can be done to men or Denims
in difficult emergencies is to tell them the truth—the
plain truth, and the whole truth. But in cease like
that of the protest troubles in Canada the truth is
not very easily got at. Distance makes us depend-
ent for information on local informant; and men on
the spot, however anxious to speak nothing but the
thing that is, find it difficult to escape the biases
of passion and partisanship—ere apt to see with the
eyes of than with whom they habitually associate.
It is u desirable sa it is difficult to ascertain the
real state of feeling among the majority of the Cana-
dians respecting annexation. It is perhaps too soon
yet to expect sufficient data whereon to form an opi-
nion. Our latest advises from Montreal end* that
the annexation address had received 997 signatures
on the 17th of lut month, and that it was expected at
least 1,500 would sign it before the end of the week. On
the other hand,the counter-declaration, though later in
the field, had already been &pied by 500, and was
expected to receive 2,000 eigneturee in the coarse of
the week. These numbers are portentously close:
they seem to indicate a remarkable approach to
equality in point of numbers in the opponog parties.
Bat this is merely the expression of local—of Montreal
feeling. If we may. take the local newspapers as an
index of popular opinion—and journaliste are apt to
write with a view at lead not to shock the preposses-
sions of their subscribers—the annexation party would
appear to be almost exclusively confined to Montreal.
All the papers in Quebec have, without onec=
doe, come out against annexation. In Upper
only one paper (the Kingston Chronicle) indicates a
leaning to annexation, and its language is very an-
decided All the rest are violent against it; the tory
Handl" Spectator and Toronto Colonist quite as
vehemently ns the ministerial Toronto Maw.
The question dose not appear to be taken up as a
French and English question. Thus are name, of
Cbosadives attached to the annexation manifesto,
though the British appear to preponderate on that
list. In Upper Canada, which emu to be so decid-
edly anti-annexationist, the population has scarcely
any French admixture. The first 150 signatures to
the anti-annexation declaration
.at Montreal are

French Canadians. They are said to belong to a
section of their countrymen which may be called
" Young Canada." Thirteen members of the legisla-
tors rending in Montreal have published a separate
declaration against annexation : of these, eight are
French; sad one is the celebrated Dr. WOLYBED
NILSON, whose syropathin have always leant most
to the French party.
So far as we are able to judge at this distance,
insreantile considerations have had more to do in
rallying a party round the banner of annexation than