The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

sees, and reported the tact to the Alper oa guard.
Armed patrols were immediately despatched to the
quastere is which the young Pules were in the midst
of a circle of soldiers; the guard advanced to arrest
the two strangers. betas their countrymen would not
perm t it, • conflict arose betww n the guard and
am, ()Lime eoldiars, which resulted is the capture
sad isprisonmast of the two ;sang Poles.
Oa this occurrence reaching the ems of the
authorities, they at once decided on visiting the parties
soreersed with the *email punishment; and as it
11111 feared that the example of opposition to the
guard by the soldiers might meet with many imi-
tators, the ministerial journals were endued to an-
nounce to the public that the two hiss had been
arrested is the attempt to licit* the soldier@ to rebel-
lion. A orart-Inertial was sseasoeed in the afternoon,
and the Poles were the WOO day sentenced to death
by powder and ball. Teererday seorning• large eon-
course of persons assembled in the town ditch, to
withers the execution; but, happily, they were dis-
appointed, it having pleased the military governor of
Vienna to commute the sentence to imprisonment for
life, oat of consideration for the you! h of the offecders.
The preceding is an authentic account of the affair.
The assertion of the ministerial journals, that the
young men entered the barrack for the purpose of 1
inciting the soldiery, is an absurd lie, for no person in
his senses would vulture to mike such an attempt in
a city in a eta'e of siege, full of soldiers, and with a
person of 34.000 men.
The news from England, that a body of British
merchants have agreed suddenly to break of all direct
mercantile bill connexion with Austrian house., has
creased an enormous sensation, not only among the
mercantile clates4, but among the general public.
The circular of Sass and !Meth has created still
greater terror, for it contains several very decided
passages, proving convincingly the utterly helpless
condition of the Austrian finances. Several of the
bankers waited apes the Ministry of Tradeand Finance,
in order to obtain ministerial council as to the beet
means of evading the storm which threatens Austrian
commerce from England. The ministry assured the
deputation that the evil was, above all, to be attri-
bated to the malicious instigations of perfidious Pal-
merston, but that the proper measures should at once
he taken for meeting in a decided manner the Plum-
ing position taken up by • portion of the English
mercantile community towards their Austrian business
eassectiocs. The remarkable features in the matter
is, that the views displayed in the circular in question
are not denied by any man of sense in the place. The
British merchants are perfec ly justified in endea-
vouring betimes to pave their property, so greatly en-
dangered by the hopeless condition of the credit of
Austria order the present ministry.
A report was circulated on 'Change to-day that the
ex-minister Count Ficquelmont has been summoned
here to undertake the portfolio of foreign affairs, that
Prince Scheme:eating is to remain president of the
ministry, resigning only the foreign portfolio. Count
Remit, the author of the celebrated reactionary book,
"The Genesis of the Revolution in Austria," is, ac-
cording to the same report, to become minister of the
interior, and Back is to be quieted with an embassy.