The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-30 00:00:00

THE EVEEBB,
iIif)NDAT EVEN'

Ilan of Wed'
property hay* teen 'mind ficaa
4.214,61 KL in 1884 to 8,192,087 L in 1848. •
While the emity espneditiffe hem incesseed 190
.present„ the deenty mamma la the vales of porgy
sad is pepulatisa (which have closely kept pees with
sash other) hoe only been 80 per cent. And while
the county expeaditure has been steadily and rapidly
augmenting, county crime (one of its chief cum hiss
been as steadily &Greasier.
The first result of the, aserenalons and swathe
factory state of affairs was a memorial from the gum-
dises of the Charley onion to the Rochdale board of
ffsti oir, which was sent to the magistrates ed
Boon after this step had been Mien a depu-
tation of the Rochdale guardians waited upon the
magistrates to complain of the heavy expenditure of
the county. Having received no satisfaction, they
next resolved to feel the sense of the county; they
invi ed deputations from all the boards et
guardian of poor-law swims in Lancashire to
for the purpose of ',taking into considerations
fully discussing the whole question of county rate
expenditure, and the best means of effecting a more
economical administration.* The meeting was held
at Newton, on the 15th of Jemmy lest, and was
attended by representatives of 20 out of the 28 Lanca-
shire unions.
After a protracted discussion, equally remarkable
for its intelligence and its dispamionate character, the
mestieg resolved :—That a large reduction ia the
county and national expenditure, and some guarantee
for its future more economical administration were
Imperatively called for; that the irresponsible power
of the magistrates to contract debts to any amount,
and charge them on the ratepayers, required
the interference of the legislature ; that the
ratepayers might obtain some control over the
county funds by the establishment of a county finan-
cial and administrative beard composed of magistrates
and sleeted members from each board of guardians;
and that petitions to parliament and. memorials to
goverment for the establishment of such a board
should forthwith be prepared and forwarded from
=intgiownshio in the unions represented at the
. A committee woe appointed with full
powers to carry out these rmolutiens, and, as we have
already remarked, they seem
to have mud se a bags
kr Mr. Ham's bill.
Lancashire is not the only amity in which the
rates have of late years been exorbitantly increased,
sad in which it has bees found imposdhie
to obtain redress or even explanation fees
the irresponsible indices who ur.pose, levy,
and them. At the late meeting of
• in Exeter, Sir Tagus D. ACLAND told his
sonstitusets that the time had come when parliament
•nightbe " take an opportunity to levies the whole
system" of county taxation. The independent county
voters—wherever there are any—cannot do better
then take the hint. They ought to petition parlia-
ment, without ices of time, to pass Mr. Humes bill,
OMin its roost tom or with any amendments
OM their minium may suggest. And it would not
be mine, erffsa tranemitting these politiess to their
respective members far presentation, to memorialise
the hos. gentlemen on the subject. The electors of
Muth Hants, for example, may find in this an apt
opportunity of trying what metal their unfledged re-
presentative, Mr. MELVILLE POZTAL,is really made oL
As for the bill itself, its provisions, with one excep-
tion, seem well adapted to effect a salutary reform in
the administration of county business. The excep-
tion, however, is as important one. The proposed con-
sedation of the county boards will still leave far too
meek power in the bandsof the magiatrates. Each board
is to be composed of one representative (not a juice
of the puce) from every board of guardians in the
county, with the addition of a number of justices,
not lees than that of the elected members
appointed by their brethren of the quorum
at the Easter Quarter Sesame. The conviction
that a the great unpaid" are in their judicial capa-
city little better than a nuisance is now pretty gene-
rally entertained ; and that they are not regarded in
the same light in their financial and administrative
capacity is owing edgy to public attention not
having beeit hitherto directed to their discharge of
administrative functions. Even with regard to the
elective members of the boards, it is worthy of con-
sideration whether direct election by the rate payers
would not be preferable to indirect election by
boards of guardians. We can perfectly appreciate
the motives which have led the framers of
the bill to prefer the constitution of the boards
which it asateninlates. The reeolueou adopted
by the representatives of unless at Newton, were
probably taken by them es a test of what public opi-
nion is ripe to support. Bat these resolutions do not
bind any but the parties who peewit them. It is
free to the independent rateepayers throughout
England to recommend the etablshment of county
boards composed exclusively of elected members,
and these members appointed by the direct votes of
the rate-payers. And we are much mistaken if Mr.
Huns would not prefer board, of this kind, provided
he wee sane. in recommending them, to be supported
by the public voice.

GERMANY.
WELDEN DRIVEN OUT OF GRAN BY THE
HUNGARIANS.
AUSTRIA.—Our Vienna oreremondent, in his
lifter dated the 24th inst., announces that the Hun-
gariass have obtained a decisive victory over Weldon,
and driven him oat of Gran. A letter from the same
ceerespondent of date the 23rd, and from another
dated the 24th, throw considerable light on the con-
dition of the Austrian government at the time they
received this check.
VIENN4.. Aran. 24.
The Hungarians have obtained a decisive victory
over the main Austrian army corps under Weldon,
which has been driven out of Gran, and utterly put
to rout. The utmost want of intelligence prevails :
but this fact is incontestable. Even the semi-
official " Lloyd" admits it in • letter from
Path, dated 21st, which mays : "In the night
of the 19th the Hungarians fell
overpowering force, and drove
them out. And one who arrived here yesterday
from Gran said that the battle was still going on.
Steamer from the Upper Danube come down crowded
with wounded ; and all the remaining troops are
potting over to Oren. Percsel bee entered
Bakovar without encountering the least resistance."
Earlowitz has been bombarded by the Magyars. The
hostility of the Hungarian peasantry adds greatly to
the distress of the Austrians, who ars badly off for
provisions and thinned by diseas•
No doubt any longer exists of the Russian alliance.
The departure ("Lord Ponsonlry is attributed to this.
Sehwermitherg did all he could to support Windisch-
grMs, whose late wife was the Pruictes Eleonora
Schwerzemberg.
Last night this city was thrown into eonsteenation
b the news that the 'beleaguering anny-corpi, under
General Wohlgennith, had been driven from before
Comoro by the-lolungarians,and had cede a precipitate
retreat northwards. This afternoon the new position
of this Austrian corps, about 20,000 men, is said to he
Nentra, 40 miles to the north of Comoro, distant a
pod Cr two from Leopoldstadt and the Tinian and
Pemba; Railway. Other reports represent the
Hungarian outposts within a eio or two of Pres-
burg. Pesth has been evaemo4 by the imperial
= gmwd. of OM ocil
ch niy the fo
both rtiss,essureo mains ir.iecitlitiry
the Magyars, with bombardment. Weldon, :liter re.
cognising the minor importance of Pesth in a strategic
point of view, and setting free the garrison of 15,000
men which was required to keep it, has established
his headquarters at Oran.
Whim it was to be made appear that the operations
aided Comoro were carrying on with great vigour,
Wahlgemiatk's force was stated in the papers at
25,000 ma ; bet now that general has been beaten
siege
dm Magyars, we are lehl that his wrp
to WOO. It has been gives nut that " the
siege 01 Oseesewhisk was mosmatarily yids's), has
bees wowed" Bat sash as seseranor is far from
,oust( es the lead confilmse to the dismayed Vien-
nese, erne ale to be
lbeinilvesW tlime=neallSt I have before
shown that OOSOR WM ast ias to want relief,
although it was of rest imgarbese be the gang-a-
rises to maskahlbh the esaboakaties et their main
army with that brines The ssearntal silence in
the mem shod the operethedi of this
ware i iii,wexple with the giewlimi :Pitosuri,:isft
is to know wring distinetly,
sad eastward, bops& Ilke ablate is
onatirred up is a ibg of leak The poli-
ties al the Austrians is se missed still more
, mikes by the pester boldness with which the Han-

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1849.

gulls peasantry, in proportion to the =comes of the
arms of their oonatrymee, display, and pat into acti-
vity, their sympathies with the Magyar cause. The
Insurgents are catenated etedinnally, and with much
accuracy, of all the moves Of their enemies, while the
Austrians are kept in the dark or misled with
to Hungarian operations. The leaning of therervrrds
also, notwithstanding the boos of emancipation and
civil and religious equality bestowed upon thusly
the new unWttition, is no less decidedly in favorer of
the Magyars, and has been of the greatest service,
from the so widely spread and secret commercial con-
nexions of this community. In fact the Jews are in
Hungary what the Armenians are in Turkey, the
bankers of the country ; and they hang from the for-
tunes of the insurgent nobles their debtors.
Arm 24.
The Magyars have relieved Comm. The impe-1
rial army has abandoned the line of Pesth and Ofen,
and fallen back upon Gran. The object of this moves 1
meat is to place in testy as mach of the artillery
employed in the siege of Cement as possible, and to
re-establish the communication with Vienna which
had been interrupted for two days. The strength of
the Mauer army, and the intense hostile disposition
of the Hungarian peasantry, render it probable that
the imperial army will have to retire within the
Austrian frontier. If the Magyars are able to send
a detachment of their army to Vienna the Germans
will in all likelihood embrace the opportunity to sirs
and assert their nationality. All Poles and Hunga-
rians, of all ages and sexes, have been ordered to quit
Vienna ; but this is a work of supererogation : the
next outbreak will be occasioned by German dis-

content.
On the night of the 22nd orders were received to
despatch all the regular troops stationed in Vienna in
the direction of Presbarg ; but the commandant did
not deem it safe to part with the force which enables
him to keep up the state of siege, and the orders were
disregarded. Government is preening soldiers in-
stead of relying upon the regular conscription. In a
village near Vienna boys of 15 and le years have
been forced to join the ranks. Weldon has offered
every Memr who deserts 5 florins, and 20 if he
bring his horse with him. The Magyar authorities
meet this alluring offer by publicly announcing that
any soldier who felt disposW to accept of it was at
liberty to do so.
What transpires from the bureaux leaves little
doubt that the Rossiaos will now be invited to enter
Austria. Prussia is bound by treaty to allow them
free passage across its territory, and the railway can
bring the large corps stationed on the frontiers of
Russian Poland to Vienna in 24 hones. The Russian
soldiers have beta sedulously impressed with the be-
lief that in the last French war their emperor con-
quered ill the lands between Petersburg and Paris;
and this invasion will be represented to them as a
movement on the part of the Emperor to assist his
tributary princes against their rebellions subjects. In
so far as Germany rs concerned there is a melancholy
approach to truth in this representation.
'fill yesterday our funds continued to rise.
ment effected this by purchasing largely through the
instrumentality of their creature', and paying in the
notes of our insolvent bank, which has at present
notes to the amount of 250 millions in circulation,
and rush in hand to the amount of 30 millions. To-
day. however, this operation of the Under-Secretary
of Finance, M. Stint, a common stock-jobber, has
broke down. The Five per Cents. have fallen from
92 to 88.
FRANKFORT, APRIL 28.—The Bavarian govern-
ment have forwarded a note to the central executive,
declaring that the separation of Austria from Ger-
many, and the election of an hereditary emperor,
wouW. prove deeply injurious for the interests of
Bavaria and the south of Germany. It is added
that the National Amenably has greatly exceeded its
powers; that its decisions are not binding, unless the
respective governments give in their adhesion to them ;
thatcertainprovisloesof the go-called "Concluding Act"
of the Congress of Vienna are still in force; that the
provisional central power still exists; that Bavaria
will uphold that power; and, finally, that it shall
take energetic steps to prevent the dismemberment of
Germany. It is unnecessary to add that Bavaria
positively refuses to acknowledge the constitution
voted at Frankfort, or to accept the King of Prussia
as emperor of the Germans.
On the 28th the National Assembly came to the
following important decisions :—That the acceptance
by ths King of Freesia of the dignity of Emperor of
the Germans, would presuppose recognition of the
constitution ; that those governments who have nut
expressed opinions respecting the constitution, the
choice of a supreme head and the electoral law, be
urpd to do so, and to take no step (such u the dis-
solution or adjournment of the legislative assemblies),
for preventing the minifestation of public opinion ;
that the National Assembly will await until the 3rd
of May the result of the measures taken by the cen-
tral executive, in order to carry out the foregoing de-
clarations; and that the committee of 30 be a per-
manent one with power to :propose further measures
to the National Assembly. The above committee has
'decided that the recall of the Austrian members by the
Austrian government is null and void; and that those
members are to be paid for the future out of the
national
The lieng.ll2o7 Wirtemberg his at last yielded to
the tears and supplications of his queen (after having
long held out against his ministers, his legislature,
and his people in general), and has frilly and without
any reservation acknowledged the validity of the con-
stitution agreed to in Frankfort.
The ministers were sent for, and after their return
from Ludwipburg to Stattiard the Diet was in-
formed that his Majesty and his cabinet had agreed,
and the following royal resolution was read:
His Majesty the Kim of Wartesaburg concurs with his
ministers in sceeptiug the constitution of the German
empire, Winding the chapter of that constitution which
treats of the head of the said empire, and the execution of
the said 1625 aeserdiag to the spirit of the said constitu-
tics. His *ley ample the elsolonl law as laid down in
the said coo anion, provided that the said constitution
shall take prodigal effect in Clemmay. His Majesty the
King will hotrod the Wartembseg plenipotentiary at
King will set the Wastisbeng_plesipotentiesy at
Faskfoet es declare that the eresammat of Wart/ahem
buss eigeoliss lithe Kiss st !nods plesiag himself at
the heed of 01,1114a7 seder misting eimumeimees and for
ilbelsgs=l, am Pie_ Majesty the King of Pnuela should
Rafts omptiag the hereditary crows of the said empiro.
WILLIAM R.
Luderipbarg. 24th Aped, 1849.
Another day's beeltatien, and all would have been
lost. The aged monarch himself was on the point. of
starting for Holland, being alarmed by the menacing
attitude of the civic guard and the coolness of the

myar.
A telegraphic despatch brings the intell4ence that
the Siege( Hanover diseolved the wend chamber
yesterday on account of its resolution to uphold the
decision of the Heins' Movably. It is not unlikely,
however, that his Hanoverian Majesty will be corn-
%Urged. to follow the example of the King of Wirtem-
Berlin correspondent writes as
BERLIN. APRIL 26.
The result of the sitting of the second chamber to-
day has been of the most satisfactory kind. The
ministers have been again beaten upon a leading
question by an lawman majority. The subject of
the debate was Web:lsere motion for calling upon the
government to remove the state of siege. All the
propositions of the right were rejected; while the first
paragraph of Unruh's amendment was passed by a
majority of 184 against 139 ; and the second para-
graph by a majority of 177 against 163. Unruh's
amendment is am follows:
That the chamber resolves : 1. To declare that the
continuation of the state of siege without the consent
of the ehambem Is unlawful, and that the chamber
does not grant its anent to the continuation of the
state of siege.
2. To call upon the ministers to remove imme-
diately the state of siege which has been inflicted
since the 12th of November, 1848, upon Berlin, and
the space within two miles of the city.
There was great cheering from the tribunes at this
result, which, of course, drew forth a remark from
the president that the tribunes should be cleared if
their occupants did not behave themselves better.
The ministerial amendment proposed by Alde n-
Koren, to the effort that the state of siege. should be
raised as soon as assemblies in the open r had been
forbidden by law at Berlin and within two miles'
ttbareoti_ was rejected by a majority of 178 against
159. Ito amendment of the right cents, moved by
Wentsel, and the same in substance as that of
Aldenhoven, butpropa• g that aseembliss in the
open air should forbidden during the sitting
of the charabmoras rejected by a majority of 3 (168
against 166). Mk rote is a proof how remarkably
the spirit of the chamber has changed since the an-
ewer to the King's speech was voted.

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