The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 20,

- - -
OUR reactiona-ry politicians him e certainly been in-
dulged to the full extent of their desires in the bom-
bardment and sack of Vienna and Viennese liberty.
Their hero, WINDISCRORATZ, hes raised himself to
the absolute military power, declared to be the only
military one far Austria; and in his toe of that power,
the panegyrics and sympathy of whig and tory have
accompanied him. Wherever the popular party, or
those ruffians who cannot be prevented from mingling
with such and sullying it, have committed any ex-
cels, this is instantly trumpeted forth, exaggerated,
and held up to execration, as the natural
act of a people in effervescence and insur-
rection, whilst the far greater atrocities com-
mittee by a disciplined army, under the command of
a princely leader, are set down as the laudable exer-
cise of authority, as a mastery and warrantable vin-
dictiveness.
Nothing can have been more exemplary than the
conduct of the Viennese in their two insurrections,
with the exception of the murder of the war minis-
ter, LATOUR. The first insurrection was conducted
without loss of blood of any kind, and even after the
second the most obnoxious individuals were shielded
from harm, and life and property respected, notwith-
standing the base calumnies of the caterers for our
' tory press, who depicted the students and workpeople
of Vienna as indulging in lust and rapine, whilst the
brave General BEM was said to have run off with a
large amount of treasure.
Eye-witnesses who have compared Vienna in the
power of the Croat soldiery, and whilst in the power
of the insurgents, have depicted in our own columns
the frightful difference. The unorganised reign of the
people was one of peace and mercy compared with
the devastation and wholesale murder; perpetrated
by the Croats and their °outs-martial. The press
can tell of none of these things—there ie no longer a
journal in Vienna. Even correspondents can but
guess at the number of scores sent to execution. Some
of the students, yet spared, are destined for Siberia.
But the crowning atrocity has been the cold-blooded
murder of ROBERT BLUIL.

Mark the circumstances in which this struggle took
place and was carried on. A popular insurrection was
first provoked by the bad faith, the lying assertions, of
the ministry, of *hem the treachery was proved by
the discovery and publication of their own letters.
These revealing the purpose of the government in
sending away the German regiments to Hungary, the
people rose to prevent it. The troops in Vienna,
though composing a large and efficient force, retired
in the MOIL cowardly manner. And the Diet, as
well as the town council, were left under
the influence of a successful mob. The Diet and town
council instantly undertook to calm the people, and
they succeeded. They despatched envoys to the Em-
peror, to the military commanders, announcing their
desire to restore things to order, and submit to the
imperial authority. The generals received these
deputations. The Emperor, after his withdrawal,
sent to Vienna for one of the ministers to come to
him, countersign his ordonoances, and keep up the sem-
blance of his constitutional government. For a great
number of days the Viennese were not treated as rebels
or insurgents by the court or its authorities. And so
far were they from considming themselves so, that
they refused to call the Hungarians to their succour
or to admit them into the suburbs of Vienna, a step
that might have materially altered the future fortunes
of the war. It was only after WINDISCIIGRATZ had
collected an army and invested Vienna with an over-
whelming force, that the court threw off the mask,
and, refusing the Viennese any save utterly impracti-
cable conditions, proceeded to its bombardment tad
military reduction.
In the midst of the struggle between court and
Diet, a struggle that was not as yet a civil war,
ROBERT BLum, a leader of the liberal party in the
German Diet of Frankfort, arrived at Vienna. That
Diet represented Austria as much as any other part
of Germany, and IlLum came to give his counsels to
the liberal and constitutional party in Vienna, as he
had every right to do. The Austrian people,
government, and court had acknowledged it-
self part of Germany, part of the great empire
represented in the Frankfort Diet, so that
BLUM could not be considered an interloper or a
foreigner. He wee on German ground, and in his
right to come and offer liberal counsel. He did not
occasion the insurrection. It was flagrant ere he
arrived. He made liberal speeches, bat it was at a
time that the Emperor and government still treated
with the Viennese. lie was not a captain or a
fighting man; he might have appeared in arms, for no
one was permitted, nor was it safe, to appear without
them. But in no wise has it been shown that BLUM
overstepped the natural conduct and duty of a deputy
of the great German Diet.
Nevertheless, he was tried by court-martial, and
sent to execution. Some insist that this atrocity was
a defiance to Frankfort and its Assembly. Strange
that the court of Austria should defy an Assembly
whose first act was to elect one of its princes to the
head of the empire. The court is said to have been
consulted, and to have ordered the execution. We
believe it. ROBERT BLUM, a man sprang from
the people, and who attained his eminence
by his oratorical powers, had been the second
to ltosoa, the religious reformer, who founded
neo-catholicism, and whose movement struck
the most sensible panic into the breasts of the
Jesuits and ultra. catholics of Austria. HONOR made
these priests and their patrons tremble for the main-
tenance of their tenebrous influence. We have little
doubt, therefore, that the older for BLuat's execution
proceeded from the ultra-catholic faction around the
Emperor, with the Archduchess SOPIIIA at its head ;
and that he was murdered, not so much for being a
German liberal, as an eloquent champion of religions
reform.
Stich was the martyrdom at which our bleed-loving
and freedom-hating tory and whig writers rub their
hands in fiendish, illiberal and intolerant glee. This
is what they call the cause of order, this the salutary
justice and the sacred character of monarchy :
these the merciful results of that military rule, before
which whig and tory press each morning prostrates
itself, like Mussulmen before their own promised
Mecca. NARVAEZ, RADETSKI, WINDISCHGRATZ—
such are the demi-gods, such the admired statesmen
of the English aristocratic press in the year 1848.

THE intelligence by the overland mail is at beet but
negative. It communicates no new fact which
materially modifies the nature or the tendency of the
knowledge we already possess. Between the 14th
September, the day on which General Winsn found
himself compelled to raise the siege of Moultan, to the
Ist October, the latest period to which there is any
authentic news from the camp, the British force
appears to have been able to sustain itself against the
enemy with no great difficulty. This is the important
part of the contents of the mail. For the occuirence
of any farther mischance, which should have driven
the detachment under General Wiliam to under-
take a renewed retreat, or to give way
before the superiority of the combined forces
of SHERE SINGH and the Moultan Dewan would
have been in the highest degree disastrous. How
long the troops upon the Chenaub may be able to
make good their position is at best a doubtful question,
and depends entirely upon the celerity with which
reinforcements are conducted to their relief, and upon
the tactics of the enemy in their front. The onlysnre
reliance would be upon the firs', for we must be ex-
ceedingly careful in giving credence to the reality of
any disunion among the Sikh leaders. It is very pos-
sible that some attempts may have been made by
Major EDWARDES to excite suspicion in the mind of
21100LRAJ as to the good faith of SHEER &snit
towards the cause and person of the Moultan
chief. But stratagems of this kind and their alleged
success are the favourite themes of the gossips of a
camp, and it would be imprudent to set too high a i
value upon any narrative in which they occupy a con-
spicuoue place.
There can be no doubt—whatever may be the
degree of unanimity between MOOLRAJ and Susan
SlNGH—that the garrison of the fort have received
very considerable accessions of strength. The Sikh
tribes who inhabit the borders of the Indus about the
Dheras have furnished the greater part of the new
recruits; and notwithstanding the loyal professions of
some of the Mahommedan inhabitants of those wild
regions, it is manifest that the British general sea
reckon upon no co-operation on their part which he
has not the means to compel.
From the northern provinces of the Punjaub than
is no intelligence which removes the apprehensions
already aroused of a revolt more or less' extensive
upon the upper course of the Indus. Those of our
readers who delight in the marching. and counter-
marching. of guerilla warfare will peruse the narrative
of Captain Annorr's movements with interest. The
general result is precisely that which was foreseen.
The raw levies which followed the standard of the
British, unaided by a detachment from Lahore or the
Jullindur, have been either overcome or dispersed ;
and the footing of Major LAWRENCE in Peshawur has
become extremely critical. He has already detected,
and by vigorous measures fortunately overcome, one
mutiny of very dangerous proportions among the
troops of the Sikh contingent ; and it remains to be
seen whether or not that remote but most important
district of the Lahore territory will not have to be
temporarily abandoned by the British commissioner.
What have been the motives, or whence have bean
derived the considerations which have led to the re-
tention upon the frontier of the brigade destined so
long ago as the early part of September for the suc-
cour of the Hazareh, there are no means of judging.
The military critics of Lord Gotnit's policy will look
with some curiosity for the justification of this per-
plexing countermand. The prosecution of the original
mission of the detachment would, in all probability,
have maintained the peace of the northern provinces,
and prevented the necessity, now imminent, of under-
taking extensive operations in a region of country
always difficult, but at this period of the year almost
impracticable, for eepoy troops, as we discovered, to
our met, in the campaign of 1846, against the Sikh
lima:noon.
In addition to the points already signalised by in-
surrection, there has been an outbreak at Noorpoor—a
place situated at the foot of the range of hills which
between the sources of the Fovea and the Bees begin
to indicate to the traveller his approach to the Hima-
laya. RAM SINGH, the insurgent, has at pre-
sent disappeared, unable to stand against the acti-
vity of the officer in charge of the district, and at
any other moment than the present the disturbance
might be safely reckoned up with the legion of ob-
scure &ieutes which serve to exercise the discipline of
the Indian army. The Noorpoor affair, however, is
only another symptom, in addition to all the rest,
that the spirit of revolt in the Punjaub is not a local
eccentricity, nor held together by the influence of a
single leader. From Scinde to Cashmere, and from