The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

THE PAPAL STATES.

A letter from Rimini, in the Corriero dell' Emilia,
says that the Bishop of Rimini paid a visit to
General Rowlli, to thank him for the respect and
reverence manifested by the soldiers, not only
towards him but also towards all the priests, and for
the good conduct of the troops in the town.

FRANCE.

Our usual Paris letter had not arrived when we
went to press.

HUNGARY.

(THOM Otill COPAIISPONDENT.)

PEST, Nov. 4.

Every attentive observer of the state of Hungary
must avow that a new spirit has come upon the
country, especially since the outbreak of the Italian
war. The sullen countenances have been succeeded
by more hopeful looks, and though the population
is ground down by the heaviest taxation and a com-
plete stagnation of trade, by the financial difficulties
of the Austrian government and by the awkward
and irritating machinery of the system of raising
the taxes and excise dues, we cannot fail to see that
everybody trusts in a speedy and complete change
of affairs. At Vienna, on the other aide, people look
hopeless and dejected, despairing even of the pos-
sibility of a change for the better. The reason of this
difference is obvious: both the Hungarians and the
Viennese see clearly that Austria is falling to pieces' •
the former rejoice over this great event, even be-
fore it happens; the latter bewail the inevit-
able downfall of the Empire which threatens
likewise the capital. Since 1849 the Hungarians
have never been treated like subjects, but like
enemies; government never relied upon their
good feelings, never attempted to conciliate their
good will, but ruled exclusively by the sword.
Accordingly the Hungarians, who do not feel them-
selves defeated by the Austrians, but only by Rus-
sian intervention in the apathy of Europe, have never
regarded the present government as a legitimate one,
or as a government at all. They felt no regard for the
bands of foreign hungry officials let loose upon them,
nor any respect for the new.fangled institutions and
clumsy administration introduced by Baron Bach.
Now when the prestige of the army has been broken
by the battles of Magenta and Solferino, when even
Austrian officers begin to be civil, when Baron
Bruck's gigantic swindle through the frau-
dulent and secret emission of loan certificates
to the amount of twelve millions sterling cannot
relieve the financial embarrassment, whilst Napoleon
insists upon the national administration and repre-
sentation of Venetia, the Hungarians fully believe
that the time of their bondage is drawing to a close.
Several incidents of the list week show the spirit of
the nation. Count Thun, the Minister of Publics
Worship and Instruction, published lately a decree
for the organisation of the protestant churches in
Hungary, destroying the old territorial divisions
according to his own pleasure, excluding the pub•
licity of the discussions in the meetings of the con-
gregations and districts, and nullifying the
elections by insisting upon a ratification of
every election by the government. Two Lutheran
and one Calvinist district held their meetings
during September and the first weeks of October,
and sines they unanimously rejected the legislation
of Count Than, the enraged minister forbade the
other five districts to meet, unless they submitted to
his decree and accepted the new territorial divisions.
He wished to impress Germany with the belief that
only a portion of the protestant church was direatis-
fie& However, a few days after the ministerial
order, the Hungarian Stadtholder, by some excel-
lent red tape arrangements, gave the Calvinist trans-
Danubian district the permission to meet, ignoring
altogether the new order. Of course, as soon as he
perceived the mistake, he cancelled his permission
in a letter to the district, which in the meantime
had assembled, and, according to the standing
order., gave precedence to the Imperial decree about
the organisation of the church. After a short die.
cnsaion it was unanimously rejected, the protest and
petition against it duly signed, and forwarded to
Vienna; then only the letter of the Stadtholder was
read, and the meeting dissolved. All Hungary, in-
cluding the Roman catholic priesthood, supports
the protesting protestants, since it is a good fight
against Austrian centralisation.
The centenary anniversary of the birth of Francis
Kszinczy afforded an excellent opportunity for a
grand demonstration against all the Germanising
tendencies of the government aid thelmperial house.
Rszinczy was in the last century the great pathfinder
of Hungarian literature. He purified the language,
and taught his countrymen to write with ease and
taste, discarding the foreign elements introduced in the
beginning of the eighteenth century, and returning
to the undefiled well of pure Hungarian in the
earlier authors. It is with him that the new era of
Hungarian literature and philosophy begins; and
he certainly, above all other authors, deserved a
commemoration for his literary labours. But he was
likewise a political character, and accordingly a
prisoner in the Austrian dungeons from 1794 to 1801.
Though the festival in his honour on the 27th of
October ignored Ksziuczy's politics—his son,Colonel
Kezinczy, was too a martyr; of liberty, having been
shot, by order of Haynau, in 1849—and made
scarcely any allusion to those facts which lived in
the mind of the meeting, the speeches were all as
pointed as those of the French Academy, the sword
hidden under the wreath of myrtles could not escape
the attention of the authorities at Vienna.

TIM INDIAN MUTINY.—The Ga:ette of yesterday
publithea onion' paper. in reteronre to the Indian mutiny;
among others a report from Lieutenant Room., the 10th
Bombay Native Infantry, oommanding the tlelthitarbraeuts
. .

at BaZda, of a spirited and aucceouriul action against the
rebJl torero. under Adil Dfahomed Khan, near Goonapoora,
on the 23rd Joao last. -

A HERICIT.—A correspondent of the Wolter.
hampton Chronicle writes:—" A few mile, from Stevnagn,
and not more than thirty from the metropolia, there Is a liwP
leg hermit. Vieiting • friend in the above locality, not many
days ago I was invited to see this extraordinary character.
Indeed hermits are no common mortals in the nineteenth
century. I am familiar with hermits, as most people are,
only by tame. I have doubted if ever each beings existed,
but to be told that such a one was existing at a short die-
lance acted like electricity upm toy nerves. As I walked
through some delightful scenery of various tints and hugs,
amid the falling leaves of autumn, I came at last within
sight of the ep d which bad I :sited niy curiosity. I had pic-
tured to my mind • venerable old man, with a beard as white
as snow, a massive girdle, sad a profusion of books, and
hour-glass, in • cell of picturesque beauty and neatness. Alia
how soon was I to experience that imegmation is one thing
I and reality another. I Mallard venture in future to vandals
upon objorts en unearthly. At the terminative of the road a
111.111401/ of no ordinary ame met my- view, but better and hap-
pier limes bad reigned within ; without all was desolation and
ruin ; time, that destroyer of all thing', had done its work hero;
every inlet woo barricaded by the rude axe and hammer; M
!sonata no living mortal has Inc eleven knit years; the
interior, which woe Ima rich In design and comfort, Is now
mouldering to decay; no cheering voile is heard within its
well* only that of into and vermin. In tracing my steps to the
so ne of the heroin's cell, which Is situated at the beck of the
and looking through the wooden bars of a window
devoid of gime, I perceived a dismal, black, and dirty cellars
with an earth door, not one violins of turniture, except •
wooden bench and • few bottles. with the remnants of a &So
It was with difficulty, by ilia feint rays of Itght adintlted into
this loatimours den, that I maid trace a human form, clothed
only M • home rug, leaving his acme, legs, and feet varietal
bare ; his hair woe prodigiously knit., with • bead tangled and
matted. On my addressing hint be canoe fora ard with readtrallas
1 found him s gentleman by education and birth, and 10011 i
courteous in his manner. He anxiously inquired after eerie-
tat arietuastio fattaillep in Stadoedalare and adjoining comet
ties. It is evident he had at ono period mixed in the fleet
circles, bet the secret of hie depolete retirement io, and proba-
bly ever will romaim, a mystery to his neighbours and
tenantry, by whom be is supplies% with food (chiefly breed
and milk). Already eleven weary winters ha. he posed in
this dreary &Node hie only b d bring two abeepeikins, and
his role companions the rata, which may be seen parsing to
sod fro with all the ram of perfect safety. During the whole
of Lie seclusion ha has strictly &bemired from *gallon, con-
stquentry hi. mann/nem* ie perfectly bitch. How much it
is to be regretted that a man with meth high intellectual
powers, in the prime of manhood, and posseseed with such
ample meow should eyelid his days in Blur and reclusion, in
waste of time end in mi•ery."
SUPPOsEO SVS34dRINE FOREST AT ST. BETS..—
It is elated that there era indications of the mistreat of •
submarine forest neer to the beach at St. Bees, wham the
l'oe beck empties itrelf into the sea.

,W INTELLIGENCE.
(THU DAT.)

COURT OF PAPIRRUPTCT.
(wan Mr. Commilsomr rases...)
is as allatJAMllf 14/4/1111.___

The boakrupt, downbeat r a tart 0111111.41, &cried
far kis COMM:ate. TOG tar v n.l, ismorkable ram dm
samba: of air...WA Ib basknpt bad b... beim she
mart, r a.td aa a loner mar.

Mt.. C. Z. l.ttri. supported: titers was b. opposition.
It ppm* Met Ike benkrupt bad undergoes' Mots
meth: imprisons.; kis Houser granted a wooed-clew

IN
_l9l /ETtll.-AMt DICAtION.

Adjudinatioe of brakrupt,y was mid..inst John
seedsruan. of Norlhaamywa. The liabilities are
so be bags, and tires art. b.tarea 2,0001. sad 3,0001. of
sereta. Ibe bankrupt surrendered, aDd übtakaed pro-
tean...

IN ■L TRANICUI
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Tido rar - aid ass% which Er frequeady Met beton the
min. TM bankrupts were ale sad wise lambaste of Great
Bt. Hem's. TM cam bad but adjourned for additional
moat..

the elleial assignee, Mated, in answer to
'Da court, that tbe accounts were sot satisfactory, and never
could be, however protracted the adjournment.
An adjournment for s mouth wait ordered this warm*
to furnish apart& objected' tote atannta.
The scrountr. prepuel by Mr. Cbattericebow
upwards of 20,01.001., with easets end property held asseterity
18,500/.
Mr. Linkister, for the &mignon., irked for a further aa-
purareent, the accounts b.iag still unsatisfactory.
Mr. Lawry es, en behalf of the bankrupts, urged that ep
better accounts etiold be rendered, end asked that they aboald
Diu seder dm the nierim of the case might be dank with
ourtilleale seatieg.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

WESTMINSTER.
GOING TO 513 TO I COOS.
7 AGniu &,u, was cheated with tieing found in the batik•
kitchen of 91, Stiarretreet, Pimlico, supposed to be foe *a
uslewfial parches&
_ _

Mr. Htitebitson, solicitor, 91, Ebury-etreet, mid that
about rue o'clock this morning he saw some blankets on
the stein:se, sad thinking eocriething was wrong west to
look over the house, and after looking about Le found the
presswiu the pantry. He shed him what be wanted there,
so which he mods no answer, and being unable to
get anything from him he told him he bad
Letter come with him to the station, and if be
could give a setisfactory account of himself to the
inspector, he would nut press the charge. When
be got to Klie•besSuireint prosecitior asked hl
again whether be could give any account of himself, es he
was very near Cottage-tow station. when the prisoner set
off tasking em bard as be could go. Prowess pseud
sad caught him in Seagrove-square, and then gave him luso
custody. He had sow no maim to suppose that the prisoner
seam to esamit a felony. Thie morning he shed the ser-
vant (whom he Sued up and not far ofl the primmer lest
night) for a chtelten for bas breakfiat, when she informed
him that the sensed had had it for his supper; m fact a
greed wiper" bed b .en laid out fur both of them.
bed only hems fn the house ten days, and of cause ha mew
to distorts bee immediesly.
lir. PSySlar—Whal bare you to my ?
Frisoner (coolly)--I had an Invitation from the cook lest
sight to cocas and sap with her, and I had my hat on, sad
was jam going, when, hearing tome one come downstairs,
I strasted Into the pastry.
The polka iatieneird that the accused, who was an unmar-
ried ern, was • commercial traveller, sad had glees a ow-
ns addise.

Mr. Payable tboeght hi. cnoduot ver7 di•dritcdtat. He
Was bile. to It eve Woe there aseptag st Yr. Botch-
loota's azimet. but trona mot convict la web a owe, and
tab primate a itimbarged.