The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 17.

TUE crisis of the war in Hungary is fast approach-
ing. The Russo-Austrian commanders feel it to be
PO ; and the orders of the EMPEROR at Warsaw press
them to abandon all delay and wary tactics in order
to crush the Hungarians at once. In a week or two
more, provision, ammunition, funds would fail,
whilst the half-dried marshes would then send forth
that annual pestilence capable of destroying a whole
army as one man. The Russian and Austrian ge-
nerals have therefore abandoned all care of kseping
up communications and s2curirg their rear. The di-
vision before Comorn was abandoned to its fate,
and has been routed and cut up by KLAPKA. The
provisions and stores destined for Buda Pesth have
been allowed to fall into the hands of the Hungarians.
Once before the communication of Pastel sweren with
Gallicia was crossed and cut off by GiiRGEY, and now
it appears that be has experienced a positive defeat at
the heads of that general. The Austro-Russians mast,
in this state of thirgi, crush the Hungarians in the
very centre of their vitality, aad that without loss of
time, otherwise they have loot the campaign, and with
it more than half their armies.
It mutt, however, at the same time be admitted,
that the Rusero-Austrians have gained some signal
advantages by the great concentration of their troops
on the Theis.% and that by their numbers, nearly two
to one, they place the Hungarians in a situation where
nothing but the extremes of skill and courage can
save them. The large force under HAYNAU and
PAN ICTIN combired, which has been moved with
such ci lerity, nay precipitation, from before Comorn
to Keekezet and Szegedin, has met with no Hun-
garian force capable of fighting them. The Theis
has thus ceased, as in the last campaign, to be a
barrier. It is true that Neu-Szegedin, at the date
of the latest advice., was still occupied by the Hun-
garians, and that HAYNAU had only thrown a small
force of cavalry across the river, as if to feel his way.
But PASKIEWITCH has pea-ed and repassed the Thetas,
and I LAYNAU, unh ss a concentrated Hungarian force is
brought to bear upon him, may separate the army of
Demeresxt, which covers Groswaradeia, the new seat
of the Hungarian government, and the centre of its
stores and suppiee, from that of GUYON, which
operates upon the Ban. BEM has apparently been
summoned to aid in the repelling of this threat-
ened invasion, which must account for his abandoning
Hermanstadt without a struegle.
We are still left without dis.inet detailed information
respecting the movements of GiiRG EY. We know of his
having creased the Theist; at Tokay, and of his
having marched up its stream in the direction of
Munkaes, a place where the Russians had collected
large stores, and to get possession of which
was probably the original object of GeinGxv.
He was admitted by his enemies to have 30,000
men with abundance of artillery, but he was follirwr d
by a Itussian army of 50,000 men, consisting of
GRAMM'S division and that of SACKEN, under the
command of the latter. And PASKIEWITCII was at
the same time on the right of the Hungarian general
with 25,000 men in or near Debrc-czin. The anxiety
then is to learn the actual condition of G. iRG EY. It
is certain that he has beaten Paseiewercee. The pro-
bability is that the Russians intercepted him in an
attempt to march south to join Beet and 14.miliesee,
forced him to risk a general action, and have been
beaten for their pains. But beyond the gratifying fact
that the Russians have been beaten we know nothing.
All is yet c mjecture asto the actual position of Gi 4ter EY,
and the likelihood of his being able to turn his ad-
vantage to immediate gaol account. We are, how-
ever, warranted to hope that such a concentration of
the Hungarian forces had become possible as would
er ab'e them to beat HAYNAU. And we should think
it far more likely that BEM is thus employed, than
that he should have, as reported, headed the expedi-
tion into Moldavia.
Whilst thus fairly recounting the advantages of
the Russians and Austrians, it should be added that
they are all purchased by a waste of human life,
unequalled since the days of NeeoLtoe. The
account of the passage of the Theiss by the Russian
officer who commended it, is itself a striking proof.
The loss of life from fever and privation is much
greater than that occasioned by war. The
want of provision is so great that the Rus-
silver, who at first stipulated to make the cam-
paign at the expense of their own government,
now demand rations and supplies which the Austrians
have not to give. The dissensions which have con-
sequently arisen have led to the sudden journey of
SCHWARTZ EN BERG to Warsaw. Hence the hurry,
the haste, and precipitation of every Austro-Russian
corps, and the general hope entertained everywhere—
in Vienna, Berlin, and every capital of Europe—that
the invaders under the banners of despotism will be
baffled by the champions of freedom.

THE First Report of the Commissioners for the
subdivision of parishes is of so preliminary and sub-
ordinate a character as to require very little
remark. It reverses the natural order of pro-
, cedure, and would have been much more acceptable
a. their lest instead of their first report, for it treats
of almost everything, except that for which the com-
a ission was is.o dby the Crown. Pews, church
rates, parochial charities, and ecclesiastical patronage,
are all dealt with in a mild inoffensive spirit; such as
is very suggestive of the admixture of unwork-
able and inefficient personages of whom the com-
mission is composed. But all that is said of the great
and important question committed to their considers-
thn, is the expression of a" hope" that hereafter they
may be able to present her MAJESTY with a
" general view" of the parochial necessities of Eng-
lat.d. Now, considering that this commission has al-
ready been six months in existence, and that, in all pro-
liability it will not re-assemble for thenext six months,
its members appear resolved to do its work leisurely
enough. In some three years time, at this rate, they
may probably have agreed on some " general view ;"
and then the ministers of the day will, as usual,
require further time to give the report "their most
serious consideration." So unless Mr. KINGSCOTE,
the able secretary of the commission, can spur the
commissioners on a little faster than they seem in-
clined to go, five or six years may elapse before the
country will receive any practical benefit from Lord
AsfitEv's motion.
Nor is this the only instance of the slow rate at
which commissions on ecclesiastical subjects proceed.
Sol..ng ago as February, 1847, a commission was
issued by the crown to certain bishops and lay per-
sons to report on the state of the episcopal aces in
England. But to this day that commission has not
made any rep'trt, though Mr. C. K. MURRAY, its
secretary, has at intervals drawn on the Treasury for
its petty expenses. When, then, we find members
' of, and persons connected with, that commission, on
the subdivision of parishes commission,—when we
know that, with a single exception, there is not an indi-
vidual of reilly liberal political opinions on the latter,
—and when it is apparent that the ecclesiastical mem-
bers of the commission have a large majority therein,
—our expectations of its results are not great ; and,
to speak plainly, the only hope of the commission
being useful is in its secretary, Mr. KINGSCOTE.
Le iving, however, the em.sideration of the first
report of this commission for the present, we wish
to draw theattention of its secretary, of the government
and the public, to two cases of paroehial abuse, fur-
nished us by correspondents. One is
.04 now
=toting at the Ross which POPE has immortalised ;
the other is established at Ashton-under-Lynn : both,
however, alma of immediate redress, it wir U 4.1
onlyimpress on the incumbents conserved a due
nse of their own position. We will, in this hot
weather, give the more rural case precedence.