The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

plootecref reestiren We arlt liji neuale MO that
aaWber to
then, la the Aspect if teethes
or of Inmea, weir tight—it is plain
that be the semkg , hessices t* a day ought to
be lost in rain ke tbe 'Bram entrenehies-
meet of the people. If ministers that have been, or
ministers that ale, shin peeve themselves as or
alive to the origami's of Ste crib as they ought to
be, we shall win with ease a guarantee for all that
has been hitherto achieved, and pommel°a of the
means whereby all else that is desirable may be won.
Bat whether Whip or Peelites are yet awake, is not
the question. The people are, and will no longer
wait. Freedom of industry must be put beyond all
question, and freedom of representation must be
secured at any cost.

I hive penieuely adduced prove insufficient, lam sure
deter/AM you to insert this letter.
Madame Hossath is (or was until recently) con-
misled in Hungary. She bad refund to follow her
buebsnd is the hope of rejoining her children. All
the efforts of the Austrian police have hitherto been
unavailing to discover her retreat—has this Agadir
been devised to draw her from her hiding plea P
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE AUTHOR OF REVELATIONS
OF RUSSIA.

London, Deo. 27, 1849.
COPT OP POSTSCRIPT TO LEITER TO TEI "TIMES."
P.S. I have Just seen in your paper a letter from
Count Edmmd Zichy, in which he says, " Kossuth,
on entering Turkey, positively refused to allow his
baggye to be searched," and " the spur. (a pair of
emerald spurs) were offered by Kossuth himself at
Widdin, on the feast of the Bauam, to the Pacha, who
refused the gift."
I cannot believe that any attempt was made to
search the baggage of Kossuth, but I know that that
baggage consisted of one small portmanteau and a
pair of saddle-biga never locked, and the whole con-
tents of which were often untidily displayed to the in-
spection of all visitors. On the oormaion of Kossuth's
only visit to the Paths of Widdin during the feast of
the Bairam, I also visited the Pacha, and was present
during the whole interview. M. Kossuth was ac-
companied by Count Casimir Batthyani, and by five
or six officers; and I can vouch for the fact, that he
never offered to the Pacha any thing beyond the
compliments of the season.
Count Zichy could hardly be expected to explain
that his unfortunate brother (besides other treason-
able papers) had in his carriage for distribution several
thousind proclamations of Jellachich, at that time de-
clared a traitor and a rebel both by the Emperor and
the Diet, and occupied in ravaging Hungary with
fire and sword.
The jewels and all other property. of Count Zichy
were legally confiscated by the Diet, and Komuta
prosecuted and punished the attempted appropriation
of it by the police. During the war in Transylvania,
Bem made application for secret service money to
counter-bribe a neighbouring authority. Some of
Count Zichy's jewels, as the most portable articles of
value, were sent from the treasury on due receipt,
through the intermedium of a Wallachian agent, but
I defy Count Zichy to show that Kossuth ever re-
tained, received, or handled, any portion of this or
any other national property.
The Zichys are unfortunate, one having been shot
by the Austrian", the other banged by his countrymen
' as a traitor ; but this is no reason why Count Edmond
should calumniate Kossuth, who never sanctioned that
nor any other political execution.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SVMDAT. 630 rx
General Ls Hitte, in the name of the government,
exposed to the Legislative Assembly the policy of the
government in the La Plata question. Government
will not send an expedition against Roses, nor will it
ratify Lepredour's treaty, but it will negtoiate. Such
is, in a few words, the substance of M. de La Hitte's
statement. It seems Coat it was after considerable
difficulty that the cabinet came to this decision. Yet
it appeared at first that in the council four ministers
had declared for an armed intervention, and three
against. However, it is to be presumed that the re-
solution of the committee had some influence on the
decision of the cabinet, for I find that the Constitu-
tionnel attacks the committee with great vehemence
this morning, saying that, oat of three courses,
the committee had the choice. It might have
advised the re-opening of negotiations, or the
abandonment of the affair altogether, or it might
have recommended war; bat it did none of these
things, and government, afraid of assuming a respon-
sibility which the committee had rejected, thought it
best to take a middle course. This is a sign of weak-
ness in the executive—the more glaring, as it has
hitherto sought to deprive the chamber of initiative,
by proposing vigorous measures itself, and now it
hesitates.
M. de Larochejaquelin was the second speaker in
the debate on this quest:on yesterday. M. de L<,-
rochejacquelin is in favour of an armed force; he said
that he thought a force cf 4,000 men and some volun-
teers suffic ent to bring to reason both Roses and
Dribs. He recalled to the chambers the fact that a
French force, under Captain Goulette de Venancourt,
had in a very short time obtained a solution to an
affair in the La Eats, by the employment of those
means which Admiral Leine proposed. To recoil be-
fore Roses would be a dishonour to France; not, in-
,:eed, that he considered the enemy to be weak,
but be counted open the bravery of France.
M. de la Hitte said he was sorry, as a soldier, to be
forced to more peaceable advice than that of the
honourable member who had spoken before him. I
have given you, in a few words, the state ment which
he made. It Is only necessary to add that General
de la Hitte expressed himself further to the effect that
it en armed intervention were resolved on, no less a
force than 10,000 men would suffice, and it would be
impossible to fix beforehand the time of the occu-
pation.
U. Darn, reporter of the committee, made a most
brilliant and energetic reply to M. de la Hitte. He
said that the conclusion to which the committee had
'me was this—to denounce the convention of June

22, not ratify the treaty, not negotiate. Such was
the conclusion it had come to, and which it main-
tained. He would endeavour to show that out of
these three the Assembly could not sanction a single
course. Bat these three solutions being put aside a
fourth and a fifth course remain. Either direct action
or abandonment of the whole affair. The committee

had net thought fit to judge between these two most
important alternatives, but its opinion was given in
favour of action. The situation given to Rome by
the convention of June 22 was too favourable to him
and too unfavourable to France, whilst it was hard
and cruel upon Monte Video. M. Lepredour himself
had said that it was impossible to treat on favourable
ground with Roses, whose situation had been made
an excellent one by the convention of June 22. On
the one hand, his arms was fed and clothed at the
expense of the republic of Uruguay. On the ether,
the Rio de la Plata is no longer blockaded : trade
goes on freely with Buenos Ayres, whilst Monte
Video is blockaded. This state of things was good
for Roses, bad for France, and hard upon Monte
Video. M. Darn then pulverised the Lepredour
treaty, whilst he excused its author. He chat acter-
ised it as giving all to France's enemy and nothing
to France. It gave Roses the empire of South
America : it was dishonour to France, and ruin to
Monte Video. Further than this, to abandon Monte
Video would be a breach of France's word. M.
Darn then showed what would become of South
America were it given up to Roses: French trade
ruined, French influence gone, and France hu-
miliated.
The debate was again adjourned at the request of
M. Ronher, the Minister of Finance.
At the commencement of the sitting M. Fould
presented a bill regulating anew the savings' banks
of the country. In future no depositor can pay in
more than 100 fr. per weak. Benefit societies can
pay no more than 300 per week, and the interest is
reduced to 44 per cent.
The Dix Decernbre speaks of a prorogation of the
assembly on the Ist of February, and other journals
mention as possible another message from the presi-
dent on the 2nd of January. The Moniteur of this
morning contains a law proroguing the dissolution of
the mobile guard till the 30th of January, and a
decree authorizing the calling out of 80,000 men.
P.S.—I learn that in consequence of the effect
made on the assembly by the speech of M. Darn, the
assembly and the president have determined to join
in proposing an expedition of 8,000 men to act against
Rosen
The President of the Republic sent through his
secretary to invite the assembly to come and visit him
oaths occasion of New Year's-day, but M. Dupin
said that the assembly would only laugh at him if
he read the letter to it. He put it in hr pocket, but
nevertheless the chamber will go, and pocket its dig-
nity, which is said to have been inert since the little
affair of the inauguration of the Palmist de Justice.
IIIONDLY 11 A. 16
On Saturday the President of the Republic received
a numerous deputation of gentlemen from the depart-1
meats •of the Nord, Pas-de-Calsis, Aisne, Oise, and!
Somme, who came to solicit the speedy introducticm
of n bill for the relief of the landed property by a sys-
tem of loans on real property, calculated to place capi-
tal at the command of agnoultariate on easier condi-
tions than hitherto under the old. mortgage system.