The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

TIIE TALL lIE METTERNICH.

The deputations, one and all, demanded the dismissal of
Prince Metternieh, and declared that this .ton was the
only one calculated to calm the irritation of the people.
he noise and coninsion consequent an this demand, re-
called Prince :Metternich to the council chamber, idyl there
he learnt. formally, that the people desired hit dismissal.
With the greatest calmness' he &chiral at once, that it bad
been the aim of his whole life to further the interests of the
monarchy, and it was no unpleasant Rep for him to retire,
if it were really thought that his future presence would pre-
judice the state he then turned to the Archduke Look,
and .aid, that if tine emperor degired it, he would resign his
post of minister, but he would nut do to, in consequence of
the clamour of the people, The archduke made no answer
—und the prir.ce went in to say, that as the people really
desired hit retirement, he would resign his functions. Ile
then addressed the deputations to the following effort--he
'dated, he had already forgsgain it would he' said, on his re-
tii he had carried with him the e of the

.irement, power of th.
state; he protested against such an assertion, for that
neither he, nor our other person, singly, had shoulders
broad enough to support the burthen, mid that, if the state
should he broken up, it could only su happen by its being
untrue to itself.
On this, the prince retired, amid the loudest shouts and
acclamations: a large number of the students mad people,
having obtained admission at the gate, docked in to the
council chamber, and pawd in the vociferations and uproar
and most of them then deforted to spread through the city
the intelligence of the resignation of I'rince Metternieh.
The council continued its sittings, and soon after. :oda
came to the resolution of adopting conciliating measures.
As soon as lb ince Windischgratz returned in uniform, to
receive his final directions, he was coolie informed that'
Prince Metternich had resigned, that the Emperor had con-
sented to take the demands of the people into consideration,
that the deputations had received mstructif ins to make the
resolution of minister. known, and that, therefore, all mili-
tary interference would be useless anti superfluous.
The prince at once retired from the council chamber; it
awl* imagined with what feelings.
The same night the worshipper of despotic power '
fled from Vienna in disguise. On the morrow of his
flight, however, the Austrian capital was not tran li
-
quilliscd. It is a difficult task to quell an outbreak
in which all classes or a population hose taken part.
We quote 31r. Peake's narrative of
THE unlsas OE THE FOERTEENTII OF MARCH.
Early on the following morning, the 14th of March, the
following imperial edict appeared on the walls, and in the
public places of the city:—
" To guarantee the security of the imperial city, his ma-
jesty, the Emperor, hub deigned to order that the sudeuts
of the university should be allowed arms, according to a
regulation to be duly drawn up, but all strangers were to'
excluded from participation in this benefit." And the
edict went on farther to say—" The his majesty expected
that the burghers, on entering the ranks of their guard,
would contribute to reinforce it as much as possible, and '
energetically to re-establish order. That his majesty had
already named a committee, to deliberate on whatever means
were neteasary fur the re-establishment of quiet, and that
it was composed, not only of members of the council, but
also of burghers; and his majesty hoped, that in this deci-
sion would be found a new proof of his paternal solicitude,
and that order would be restored but, if such should not
be the CAW, that then his majesty would be under the
necessity of using force."
On this, the burgher arsenal was thrown open, and the
officials proceeded to deliver out weapons, not only to the
students, but to all other's who el, mantled them.
As soon as a certain number of the studeuts had received
arms, they formed themselves into* company, and marched,
by the side of the burgher guard then assembled, through':
I the principal streets, where they were received with deaf-
ening shouts.
But the effects of this indiscriminate delivery of arms
were very soon apparent. News arrived in the inner city
of thefts, fire*, riots, bandit" and pillage of all kinds
taking place in the suburbs; and, amongst other acts of
I destruction, of the spoliation of the residence of Prince Met-
ternich in one of the suburbs. It is due to the students to
say, that they volunteered immediately to proceed with the
burgher guard and quell these riots ; and they joined them-
ladles to that body, and marched off to re-establish order. I
It thus app, and, that although they had been instrumental
in creating all this tumult and disorder, they did nut intend
that the lower classes should imitate their example.
The military on guard in the city had already ceded
some few posts to the burgher guard and students, and
these latter now stood sentinel, side by side, with the'
soldiers on duty.
And now it was decided that a joyous demonstration
should take place. The corps of the burgher guard, the
students of the university, and those of the polytechnic !
school, and thousands of the inhabitants, joined together in ,
marching order through the city, with drums beating and
white flags flying; women (wilt), the doe before—will it
be credited ?—had dipped their handkerchiefs in the blood I
of the people first slain) distributed white ribbons, cockades,
searfs, wreaths of flowers, and Naas. Who can wonder at
the delirium of the mob, excited as they were by these
acts? Towards twelve o'clock the news spread that " the
liberty of the press" had been accorded by the supreme ,
council. A body of the students rushed immediately to the
Josef-platz, where there is an equestrian statue of the Ems I
peror Joseph 11., and there made an oration to the statue,
crowning the head of the emperor with flowers, and they j
placed in its hand a white flag, whereon was printed,
Liberty of the press." All this had evidently been pre- '
determined on by the students, and the report was raised in
order that this demonstration might be made.
About four o'clock a proclamation, signed by the Emperor, I
wai made public, coveting that in cousequeuce of the resto-
rathm to order and quiet, his majesty had resolved *men the
establishment of a national guard for the maintenance of
order, and for the defence of persons and property, and he I
The Empire of Austria !swirly its Late Reralutionaryl appointed Count Hors commander of this new body, to ,
Crisis. By WILLIAM PHARE, EN. 2 vols. Newby. I whom was confided Its proper organization. His majesty '
A comprehensive and impartial history of the I expected that his subjects would respond to this mark of
Austrian revolution, from its conception to its eon- . confidence by their fidelity and devotion.
summation would undoubtedly be a welcome work in I Mr. Pcake appears to sympathise, not with the
the present state of public opinion, but such a work democratic, but with the moderate party. He sug-
could only be realised by a writer highly favoured gusts, or Walls to suggest, that the democratic party
by the Austrian guardians of documentary treasures. went too far when they demanded an equal distribu-
It avails little to be conversant with the public acts lion of the taxes, a italic statement of the revenues
and manifestoes of the Austriangovernmenta without of the country, and a responsible ntiuistrv. Those
having access to the secret spruir—the dark under parts of the work devoted to the Italian and Hunga-
current—thc tortuous plots of which they torm part. nan outbreaks arc evenly written, and altogether
This necessary knowledge is obviously wanting in Mr. Peake's vidutues may be accepted as a history of I
Mr. Peaks; and, therefore, his work cannot be ae- the surface of the great movement with which it pro-

founded speculations on the subject are those of
Major Naw•linsun. Mr. Vaux thus sets them before
the public :

CHRONoLooY OF Tilt ASSYRIANS.
It app ors that Ileroduties gives' for the duration of the
Assyrian empire, 420 year., reeluning Com the period of
the detection of the Medes. The time of this defection has
been a disputed point in chronology, but whichever may be
the most correct explanation, the point of departure will,
at any rate, almost certainly ball in the o ighth century before
Christ, and the Assyrian empire may, therefore, on the
authority of Ilerodotus, be considered to date from the
csimmencement of the thirteenth century B.C. Now, sup.'
posiug that the records of Nimrod refer to an early period
a the first, if not the only, imperial dynasty (und a fair
examination of all the evident,. doubtless leads to that eon-
! elusion), the building of the N.W. paluee may be assigned
to the rod of the thirteenth or beginning 01 the twelfth I
century, before ihe Christian era; and as such a date would I
coincide with the twiutieth dynasty of Egypt, the wars re-
corded on the obelisk, in which the Assyrian arms were
certainly pushed as far as 'fyre, Sidon, and Byblus, may be
explained by the depretssimi muter Is hieli kgypt sulkred
after the reign of Manures 131., the Test king of the
twentieth dynasty, and duriug the three following centuries.
Such geographical indications as we have are all in favour
of this approximate chronology. Thus, the importance of
the city of .Mesh, the estabuslnneut of the Khetta in
southern Syria the very uomenclature of the l'hteuician
ports, Tyre, Sidon, fi übal or Byblos, Acarri or kre, Iteluta
or Berytus, Aryad or et:institute points A
of evidence
I which suit this period and no other. or Rawlinson,
lindeed, thinks that almost all the Asiatic names which (*noel
in the Egyptian records of the eighteenth and nineteenth
dynasties, and in the wars of Rameses 111., are to be found',
more or less modified in the Assyrian annals, and that the
Indications, therefore, of political geography may be held to
restrict the age of the Nimrod Obelisk to the 12 century'
B.C. Lasts, though it may be unsafe to speculate upon
the causes or duration of the interregnum or unrecorded
interval between the Assyrian periods of Nimrud and Khor-
sabad, there seems no reason to suppose that there was any
• violent disruption of the line of Assyrian royalty, still Ices
such break its the aimals as would be caused by a foreign con-
! quest. There may have been intestine troubles, which for
! a while presented the extension of Assyrian arms to
the westward, and put a stop to the erection of palaces
and the engraving of inscriptions : but the Khursabad king
was certainly of the sante ram, probably of the same family,
as the earlier monarch. of the Nimrod line ; and in all pro-
! bahility nut more than sixty or seventy years intervened
I between tit two periods. If then the six continuous kings
of the Nimrod dynasty reigned front about B.C. 12:al to
B.C. 1.1110, and an interval wen• further allowed of seventy
years after the suspension of that line, the era of the
khorsabad king would tall iu about B.C. 1030, a little prior
' to the age of Solomon, and contemporary with a certain
l'e-hor, of Egypt, the fifth king of the twenty-first dynasty,
and possibly the Marko of the inscriptions, who is stated to
have resided in the city of Itabek.

fc4ses to deal. It has historic value; is worthy of
perusal, nod likely to be valuable for reference.

Supernatural /Unions. By Major P. T. DIGHIE. Tiro
Vols. Newby.
Demonology aid witchcraft are subjects upon
which many popu'ar writers have touched. Nearly
all men of any imaginative power have wan-
dered
through tin extraordinary narratives, the in-
credible
"facts," and the amusing instances, with
which these subjects abound. It has been said that
all men believe 'lore or less in the existence of a 1
supernatural interference with human affairs, and'
pause with doubt over the impenetrable mystery I
in which a Malty of these agencies is in-
volved ; but thi instances which Major Begbic
has translated from 1)r. Jacob Branmer, far
from being unaccountable to human comprehen-
sion, are generally either so obviously fabricated,
or so easily solvaNle, that the reader is only struck
with a vivid sense of the credulity of the people who
were slaves to such hollow superstitions —supersti-
, tions which the priestlosxl of the Homan catholic
church upheld a; bulwarks of their power. The ex-
cuse alleged by the translator for reproducing Wen-
niers' work in English is his belief that the efforts of
the Roman catlolies of the present day threaten to
precipitate socidy into that moral darkness which
prevailed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This belief, happily, has little basis on probability,
since he must read the century with a must forlorn
obliquity who inn gather from the aspect of the pm-
.
sent age a tendency to return to the barbarous days
lichen a priesthood systematically immoral held the
mind of Europe in bondage. Sonic amusing once-
I dotes arc scanned throughout these volumes, which
thav pertinently illustrate the barbarism of the
! periods when the Vatican was the focus of the spiri-
tual rule of the civilised world. The instances in
1, which his Satanic majesty is reported to have
peared to fanners' wives, to young, virtuous, and beau-
teous damsels and to old maids, are chronicled ad-
' nutely, some of them betraying great ingenuity.
Here is a story of

A ,AT tNIC CHANGELING.
A poor farmer's wile there was sleeping at midnight with
her infant at her breast, when an old hag, in risible shape,
entered the room, snatched up the child, and woo about to
whisk out of the dour with it, when the woman's brother,
a priest, happened to be passing the Led-room dour, and
heard the child cry. 'flue woman, finding that she was
discovered, placed the child upon the flour, and appear, to
have vanished, although this is nut stated. The
poor priest, in a terrible fright, took up the
infant, and carried it to his sister in lied. Hut
what was his surprise, when, by the light of the moon,
he beheld u counterpart of the child lying alongside of her,
sucking away with forty-horse power. Ile awoke up his
sister, struck a light, and discovered that the two children
were precisely alike, even to the swaddling clothes; at
which the priest the parents, and attendants greatly mar-
-1 veiled, us well they might ; and kept watching in great
anxiety until the day broke. The parents then begged the
priest to discover which was the child and which was the
changling. lie set to, to blessing and sprinkling them both
with WI water; but the young imp was nut to be neared
either by invocations or holy water, and the priest's tzar-
eisms, fur this bout, at least, tailed in their et eet ; and nu
j further discovery could be made except that the woman de-
; chitx.d that one child drained away so immoderately that not
j a drop 'WWI left for the other, which induced the heief
the part of the taw bystanders that this youngster must
he the changeling. On this they adised her to take it away,
and give it nothing but water, which was accordingly done,
and the young urchin, naturally enough, cried day and
night. .1t last, on the :Alt day, a neighbouring old WOHLIII
came into the room with the avowed intention of consoling
the mother under the heavy affliction, oft ring, at the same
time to watch by her. She reached out her hands to'
take the suppositious child, but was not allowed to
lay a finger on it. The bystanders, observing that
she was very much scratehed, and besides black anti
blue between the eyes, put her gently forth, and two women
of known integrity were engaged to watch beside the sick
bed. As long as the mother and the two children slept
soundly, these women were under no anxiety; but, on the
mother awaking in the middle of the night, one of the
women went to the cradle, in which the suppositious child
had been laid, and was surprised to find therein nothing
but the swaddling clothes, containirg a substance of u must
unsavoury odour, which must not be named to " ears
polite." Consequently no lone could come to any other
conclusion but that the old woman was an emissary of Satan
whom he had so unmercitully mauled, fur the bungling
manner in which Ale had gone about her errand, and that
he himself had come and taken away the changeling, find-
ing that "it was no go this time." Of course, the mother
and the real child, atter this, throve apace, and got through
their six weeks in peace and safety.
_ .

Let um 1111 W take a story from the priestly narra-
th.e of

THE WICKEII" LIFE OF Mt. FAVSIUS.

A German nobleman, who had lived fur a considerable
lte-
riod in the gay city of Naples,beeame deeply enamoured with
a maiden, who.: doors stood open syren-fashion, to
welcome all who called. lie became so int:domed with this
' damsel, hight Portselea, the, instead of following those
pursuits which became his rank, he bent his whole thoughts
as to how he should secure her undivided elections to hint-
self. lie consequently lavished all his means in presents
to her, till he Caine much eases to the end of his purse
than he did to the object which he bad in view by making
ducks and drakes of his ducats. He therefore found that •
it had become highly expedient for hint to quit the city.
His intention became knowu to Bowden, who, had she
known the state of his finances and that that was the impel
• leg cause, would have "whistled hint down the wind."
She, however, was by no means inclined to part with u
pigeon who stood plucking so contentedly, and there) ,re
invited hint to sup with Leer lettuce his departure, 'the' ea-
i talk, same, and all sorts of cakes and densaults wore phowd
• before him, amongst which was a particular lozenge that
she affectionately pressed upon his attention. But it full
heart and empty pockets had taken away the cavalier's ap-
petite, and he could by nu means take it, although he cum•
promisedthe matter by putting the lozenge into his breeches
pocket, arc he took his leave, which he de with many tears,
thinking, poor foul, that he was leaving his affianced bride.
Now us he journeyed, Mill had already got more than halt
way to Canna, down fell his horse, apparently, "never to
rise again." Up sprung the cavalier, and took uhf the saddle
and bridle, but the horse was not a whit the better;
whereon he bethought him of the lozenge that was warming
in his podtet, and which Deficits' had recommended him
as a capital stomachic, possessing (pardon the anachronism)
more virtues than liodfrey's cordial, and forthwith forced
it down the animal's throat. No sooner had this renowned
lozenge played about " the covkles of his heart," than up
sprang the steed, aud, unsaddled and unbridled as he was,
started off buck to Naples with such speed that no man
could attempt to stop him on the road. The cavalier fol-
lowed him as he hest might, und, us he happened to be on
foot, the horse must hate had the advantage of him by some
days. At length he reached Doroclen's door, which hap-
pened Oh this occasion to be shut, and well it was for her
that it was so, for there was the horse raving mad, Hinging
his heels against the door, endeaving to effect an entrance
to Doroclea, with whom, of course, he was desperately iu
love. The cavalier reflected upon what a piteous condition
he would have been in had he consented to Doroelea's
insi-
dious attentions, and quietly, like a wise man, hired allO-
- horse, and rude back to Capon again.
This true and veritable history dots not inform us whe-
ther the panels of the door, which stood such an incessant
hanging, were made of firum rite, or not; why Borolea,
who was so fond of keeping her doors open, should have
I had them fortunately closed at this particular juncture, or
how the horse managed to support life during all the days
that he was travelling, and afterwards clattering away at
the door; but probably the drug was a compound of Parr's
celebrated life pills, and the no less famed lir. Holloway's
elixir, in which case, the horse may perhaps be found alive
and exercising his vocation to this day, that is, if the doors
have held out so long.
Reuter, however, rather judiciously affirms that there is no
inherent virtue either in these philtres :or in incantations to
produce these effects, but that people are very apt to lay
their sins to their door instead of to that of their uncoils
trolled passions.
The book abounds witlt anecdotes of the above
quality ; and those who are seeking illustrative in-
stances of the darkness of ancient superstition will
find no little congenial matter in Major Ltegbie's
translation.