The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

Moen. Beep these riots in view, and let me bear
what you have to say. ' Toil the colonial minister
might have said with perfeet fairness. and without
any compromise of the rights or dignity of the crown.
Bat instead of @yoking thus, he masts upon shie-
ld, and unconditional submission on the port of the
edenisb. He has got their hand to abond, and, re-
WON of all considerations of equity, he will exact
*is ottemnont farthing. He will side n
our dude ecestitutional rights. His will musttitla:•.
Bomar er biter the e (mercury will have to be
1= by the imyerlal parliament. Indeed, the
legislature Lae already as good u appealed to
that trauma A solemn pretest lies been rounded
by the non4gisial members of the CoartoLoPt7
spinet the emaraption embodied in the g
s
that the QUEZN, with advice of the Privy
Ceemtolac authority to make laws for the oolonv.
their ground on the Act at Capitelstion of
TZlsiteleahoc, 1803, and maintain that the Imperial
national' and the Court of Policy are the only
antbseldse legally entitled to make laws for the
°away. It hiseareey imaginable that, in any circum-
stances, ministers would venture to decide so important
a ooatrovaray by an order in council; and with each
an unequivocal appeal to parliament, to parliam. rat
they. mast go. It is to be hoped that when
the imperial legislature is called upon to decide, it
will remember that this is a question of sate policy
to be settled on principles of equity and sound expe-
diency, not on miserable pettifogging appeals to
formal oompacts; that the dignity of the British
crown is one thing, and the peevish self-will of a
minister another ; that something more than even the
rights and interests of an important colony—the sys-
tem uprn which our colonial empire is to be admin-
istered—depend upon its judgment.

of red Wr e maileT '.But a had datinsheid ia bit
heart tadries 'them eempletely ireianylvangit
He pursued them, even to their defiles, and after law.
log subdued them a third time, obliged them to return
toWallschis. These advantages, however, were
sufficient to satisfy him. He hed sworn not to take
any rest,..notwithstanding his numerous wounds,
whilst there remained an armed enemy in the country.
He, went towards Crocatadr, end entered that city
without striking a blow, the regiment of Russians
which were there in garrison having retreated at the
wand of the arrival of Item. Encouraged by theism-
Bassos whkh theme advantages inspired in his traps,
be prepared them to attack the Austrian army,
oosamended by (lea. Fuchs'', when, to his great
satisfeetioa, he ascertained that the general was ob-
served to be abandoned by nearly all his tr sad
obliged to take refuge, like the Russians, in W
He is to day at Altana with the remains of bioassay.
This distortion of the Austrian troops hue been re-
voked by the indignation produced by the. Russian I
intervention. The example has been given by some
superior aims, who, on leaving the ranks at a
review made by Paehner, declared to him that
they would fight against the Hungarians, but
alone; and that since they were to submit to the
shame of the assistance of the Russians, they preferred
to break their 'words, which they immeoiately did,
in the midst of the almost unaaimons applause of the
army. Puchner, alarmed and beaten by nab a ma-
nifestation, saw no alternative but to fly to Wallachia
with some hundreds of men who bad remined faithful
to him; and the rest of the army is dispersed about
the country, or is gme to augment the forces of the
insurgents. Wbat do the Russians intend to do now P
This is a question which is asked with some anxiety.
"We hear from good authority that an order has
arrived from St. Petenbfrg to evacuate Trarsylvenis
and even the principalities ; but Gen. Laden, com-
mander-in-chief, thought right to defer the execution
of that order in the jo.t anticipation that the Em-
peror, on hearing of the check experienced by hie
troops, would immediately order his generals to
wreak their vengeance on that vagabond Bem, who
has bed the audacity to give a severe lesion to the
of his Majesty. But Bern is a bold and skilful
troops
who is sustained by three other chiefs of
his compatriots, not lens brave and skilful than
himself; and then the desertion of the army of Puchoer,
and the sense of justice on the part of Bens
have given quite another turn to the Hungarian
Jason ellen. At first they were rebellious and
culpable ; to-day they have done an act of patriot.
lan, and the . courage increases in presence of
the increased danger of returning under the
former dominion or of falling ncdcr that of the Czar.
Meanwhile the Russian troops enter Moldavia every
day, and begin to augment the army of
occupation. With the exception of Oillicis,
there are some Russian soldiers is all
the towns, but principally upon the whole of the line
of the frontier of Transylvania and of the Bucovine.
They are labouring actively toopen some accessible
routes in the mountains. Three
thousand poor Mol-
davian peasants are employed at these yolks on an
extensive system of statute labour.
" Yon are doubtless already aware of the check
which Russian diphmacy at Constantinople has re-
ceived, first, from the dismiesal of Riza Puha, who
allowed himself to be tampered with by the impe-
rialists of the Czar, and, secondly, by his being re-
placed by Buleymen Pasha, a man of progress and a
patriot.
" A,new winter bas fallen upon us. After havin
in g
had February three or four weeks of April
weather, it has hailed for six days past ; and snow
falls in abundance. Yesterday it fell all day, and
sleighing has again commenced."

CAPTURE OF THE DANISH
SHIPS AT ECKERNFORDE.

The following letter from en eye-witness of this
affair conveys a lively impression of the sane, and of
the sentiments it awakened in the breasts of the
victors. It would be curious to bear a criticism by
the hero of St. Jean d'Acze on the tactics of the

Danish commanders.
ECKERNFORDS, APRIL 6..
With deep emotion and gloomy forebodings of
the probable fate of my native town I take the pen to
inform you that a Danish squadron, consisting of the
largest yentas of the Danish navy, nppeered last
night in the offing of our harbour, where it an-
chored. These vessels were the ship-of-th, -
line Christian VIII., 84 guns, the frigate Geflon,
46 guns ; the corvette St. Croix, 26 guns ; and two
more corvette', the names of which I do not remem-
ber ; the war steamers Geiser and Skirner, of 12 guns
each, besides some small craft. Oar city is pro-
tected by two strand batteries, of which the
northern, situated near Lenisenberg, his two
84 and two 21-pounders; the southern, two
18 and two 24-pounders. The distances of them
batteries from the city are, the first a quarter
of a mile, the second hardly so much. At Gotten.%
two miles oft Duke Ernest of Saxe Gotha, brother to
Prince Albert, is stationed with infantry and field
artillery, and has, during the night, thrown a battalioe
into the town. The engagement commenced this
morning, at seven o'clock, by the ship-of-the-line, the
frigate, and the two w car-steamers, the latter direct-
ing their fire on the northern battery. They unfor-
tunately succeeded, a'ter a cannonade of about an
hear's time, in silencing it, when they attacked the
southern battery, which is less strong but more fa-
vourably situated. It is commanded by two ser-
geants, and has held out these last six hours
against the superior Danish force numbering
in all 154 gnus of much heavier calibre. From my
window lam a spectator of this dreadful fight. Now
and then I see wounded men carried from the battery
to the hospital; but the firing from their guns goes
ea without cessation. The finest sight, however,
was presented by the northern battery. Its gallant
defenders had the Schleswig-Holstein nag shot away
from their blockhouse. When they saw it fall, the
two commanding officers, Captain Tangmann and
Lieut. Schneider, climbed on the reef, and, regard-
less of the hailstorm of balls, planted it again
firmer than before. The Dines have now begun to
throw bombshells into the town, and have already
killed a sick woman, in the infirmary. Several roofs
lave tumbled in. Duke Ernest of Saxe Gotha is
now in action, and has taken up a very perilous posi-
tion. His horse has been killed under him. The
northern battery being silenced, no hope is left to us
except from the small southern battery, and perhaps
from some field artillery that has been sent for, which,
however,will not be proof against their smallestvessel.
lam told that the Christian VIII. has gone aground,
but its guns still play without cessation, and if God
does not week a miracle, our town is doomed to de-
' straction. The fire of the southern battery slackens,
as they have now got only two available pieces.
Eight o'clock, pm.—An immense excitement pm-
' veiled over the whole town, when, at 1 o'clock, the
Christian VIII. and the Onion hoisted Gags of truce.
An officer was sent on share with a message to the civil
and military authorities of Eckernforde, by which the
Danes offered to cease firing if oar batteries would do
the same : should, on the contrary, the batteries con-
tinue, the whole town would be reduced to a heap of
ruins. la consequence of this communication a coun-
cil of war was held by the commanders of the differ-
ent troops stationed in and near the town, and of the
Schleswig earthen' battery. However, all doubts were
removed by the declaration of the burgomaster of
Eckernforde, Mr. Langheim, that the citizens of the
town would leave it, with God and history to piss
judgment on the wanton destruction of a defence-
less town, and that they were prepared to see
their habitations ruined,
_provided their father-
land could be saved. Duke Ernest fully concurring in
this reply, it was communicated to the Danish com-
mander; finally, however, a truce of two hours was
agreed upon, during which our artillerymen were
engaged in repaving the damage done to their batte-
ries. Their embankments were comple'ely battered
down, and six out of their eight guns dismounted. I
have seen the southern battery, which presents a dread-
ful spectacle; one of the guns is quite shattered
to pieces, and an artilleryman fearfully
mutilated.
Very luckily for us, the Danes seem not to have been
aware of cur weakness. During these two hours of
trace, the two batteries were completely repaired, the
'kisses assisting in throwing up embankments. A
great robot it was for us to see a Haman battery
et six 6-pounders and two howitzers, coming on at
fall speed. The ho-tilitiel recommenced at 5 o'clock.
The Christian VIII. had snexedea in getting afloat,
and mule signals to one of the steamers to come in
and take it in tow. However, a well-directed shot
fired by the NassAu battery shattered her paddle, and
forced her to retreat. The Christ:an VIII. now veered