The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

.._eseles Una 11 per cent. The bookseller told me that
lib itelmim, however, was diminished in a much
gesallesido. Few would buy a foreign work; they
Weu'udfing till the exchange should fall. The nee
it aim and sugar is abridged in all families, and in
some abolished from the same cause. This is more sen-
sible in Germany than it would be in a country where
habits of economy are leas strictly carried out. A
German housekeeper calculates with microscopic
nicety ; so much so, that an unexpected guest at the
dinner-table would fare bat ill, or cause much em-
barrassment. But the burgess, although galled,
dreads revolution still more than misgovernment, be-
cause he believes the former would maks financial
matters still worse. Then, again, this clam in Bo-
hemia is mostly German, and therefore proportionally
exempt from the revolutionary suggestions of an op-
pressed nationality. As an example of the smell
progress which Czechism has ss yet made, it you ask
a Czech burgeon or peasant of what nation be is, be
will antiwar " Bohemian ;" and then yon must in-
quire "German-Bohemian or Czech-Bohemian f"
before he will specify his Sclavonian origin. Were
you to put the same question to a Czech advocate,
surgeon, scholar, or student, be would answer
directly, " I am Czech," with an air that would let
you know he was not a little proud of that die-
tinction.
The lyrical pieces of the Czech minnesinger,
bring tones out of the 12th century. The mast
famous of these were recently discovered, like Row-
ley's MSS., in a worm-eaten chest in the tower of
an old church at Kfiniginhof ; and one would fancy
that Chntterton had taken the parchment u a model
for his blotted scrolls. While lam on this subject I
mast not forget to say that an English lady figured,
tTo centuries and a half ago, among the most tilos-
bijou contributors to Czech literature. I am not
aware that this interesting fact has been announced
in any English work. I lit on the discovery myself
by mere chalice. On the north side of the cloister of
St. Thomas, in the Kleinseite, a tombstone of red
marble is let into the pavement, which bears the
date of 1612, with the fallowing epitaph :

D. O. Id. B. B. M.-
Elisabstbre institute Westonite
laohilitate patrio titatzlara BAWD."
Stem i nostri Sulpito
Cui nomen dart Wens illibati
Mounts
Buo:e decoris
Mumma delicii
Issminarum sartapli.
Penes gum Dote la nautili maws ir,genii b)na, judicii
dons, prow *exam ad miraeuloo ..1110 Voluit. Joann. a Leo
I.4narrents. Musing. Doe B. M. et Lunnomon Print.
Anhalt. Om:. et Aprn.tis in Aula Cetarea Conjuei
eu ivnAimo, pine. at us inecenparabili piurintia cum laerymis
D Visit wino:. XXX, at 111 Beptimanas, r ptem liberorum
maw tree bum super terr-nt Lgoir. geatu ir fllioa
sub terrain mint at condidi . Chat l'ra.o, 23 Nov. 1612.

I hope the next visitor to Juenna's gravo may
di-cipher the loo'-worn inscription with less difficulty,
an that among the Enid:eh pilgrims to Provo some
" old mortality" maymaybe found who will piously 'afresh
•his tribute to her namely. I set immede tely to,
Lam all I could shoe. this E .gli-h Sulpiti:, the
mother of Joennet Leo's seven et.ildter. who died at
30, when Sitekepeare was actieg at the Globe
Thea-
ire, and Milton, a babe. scarce out of arms. J •snmes
works, chi. fly Latin poems, are to he Sound in the
library at Pr gue. IA plaintive elegiacs, wh'ell re-
miud one of Ovid'e Ttlatia, she mourns h. r baeith-
men', and into, W 4.11114. affictiag iuridents of h -r domes-
tic life. There are three editions of her we ks. The
first was edited by George Martin von lial "over, a
Sit, sian ntbleman, and puh!isbed at Fre kfot on.
(him in 1602 ; the 2ed, by P..ul Stosium, at Progue ;
and the 3rd at Leipsig, in 1609. Dobrowsky, •he
Prague Samuel Perr, appears to have made Wl' IV me-
thing of her biography, from whet gnomes were dr sir-
atee to know. S..e is • has me-tioned in his " Neue
Lemur," Prague, 1772. p. 162: " Hasid- s her na-
tive t nese this leveed English lady cotld speak
Greek, German, Italian, Bohemian, and Latin, wire
• leguce and rendinres; to whian test she c nnp--sed
sevtral judicious piece% both in prole and ye'sf.,
which gained for her grett reputaton, a..d :he iend-
ship aid correspondence doom of the most celnheeed
penotare of bee time. Tue grew Jarrph Scalipr cells
h. r wiraeulnin virtutnni Jai-mines Gernadins,
Deabus sweialero •' tied the Pam French cheva-
lier and poet, Pea Mellon., sent her, ace° ding to
toe Usage of thee times, a laurel crown. It es, tms
probable that she left England • en her }erves d ur-
tog tat mar cution of the ca'holics it: err Qe. en
Elizabeth. After the death of her fate' r she se. M..
to are lived with her mother it circum4a,,ces ..f
great penury, w.til she become t!,a wife a the Aus-
trian ruient,Joha,.nes I.t-e," &e.
A few of the Bohemian Dublis ire sill wealthy ; bar
'fie oldest families ire generally deeply involved in debt.
To ,array already in tho lot stage of di cay, inheritors
of broad domeine, more out at elbows than Irish
squires, the abal.tion of the Wet as eiveu the coup
de grace. Yet this numeure wilt in tee long run
prove as ret.rficrul to the landlord as to the labourer
and farmer. Tee labourer was °Weed to give hie
.ord three days out of the week gratis; and top farmer
to furnish the same lord with horses three days out of
the we rk gratis. The labourer pays for his eman-
cipation from this burthen two kreutzers, less than a
penny per day, by way of ceinpeesation ; immense
relief cheaply purchased. But his work will be
worth three times as much as before, when
the sweat of his brow earned him no bread.
Curiously enough many of the names of the im-
perialist commanders in the Hungarian war figure
among the foremost in Bohemian history, but not
always on the imperial side. An ancestor of Couht
Schlick was the first of the Bohemian magnates to
perish on the scaffold erect d in front of the Town-
hall, at Prusue, on the suppression of the rebellion by
the battle of the Weimenberg in 1620. An ancestor
of General Clam-Gallas was appointed to sum. ed
Wallenstein in his command when the Duke of Fried-
land was murdered at Eger. A collateral branch of
the Wallenatein or %Feldstein family still inhabits
partially the palace built by the Bohemian Lucullus,
in the Kleinseite. The habitable portion of this vast
mansion is reduced to a few rooms over what once
formed the splendid range of stab:es where 300 horses
fed from marble maws. The astrological cabinet
is nailed up. The great hall, of whose decorations
only the ceiling fresco remains, where Wallenstein
appears in full armour with a star above his forehead,
driving the horses of the Sun, is now used for concerts
and flower shows, and hung with little trumpery red
land white flags. Immediately after the murder of
the feunder the whole place was completely gutted
(even the marble stairs were torn away), and turned
into a bare ick. Much of the enormous landed posses-
sions of Wallenatein confiscated to the imperial fire
were bestowed upon Clam-Gallas. With the present
General Clam the male branch of that family (I
believe one of the many Italians whose names figure
in the Thirty Years' War) will become extinct ;
and the little which yet remains of the
Wallenetein estates diverted into this line will
pass ire° the possession of the Countess of Dictate,
General Clam's sister. The Waldateins even to this
day curse their feudal grudge against the Clam-
Gallases ; although Count Weldstein has so little of
the pride of his great relative, that he disdains not to
draw the greater part of his revenues from a sugar
refinery which he has established at Dux, near
TOplitz. I believe that the lawsuit instituted soon
after the death of the Duke of Friedland by his nearest
relatives, to recover the Wallenstein property from
the imperial crown, is going on to this day. The
grandmo•her of Prince Windischgratz was a Wahl-
dein. In 1832 the Prince brought an action against
the crown to recover the manor of Tachau, one of the
Wallenstein estates, which would, it seems, some-
how have come into hie grandmother's possession.
About 5 years ago this suit was decided against him.
The plea put in by their lawyer was that the
treason of Wallenstein had never been proved, and
therefore the confiscation of his property was illegal.
The Emperor Ferdinand had no sooner gained the
cause than he good-naturedly bestowed, of his own
free will, the disputed possession on the litigant. For-
tunately for Windischgratz, the gift was not greatly
imaaired by costs, as the law-fees of Prague axe quite
on another scale from those of Westminster, and a
Chancery suit of 13 years in Austria costs compara-
tively but a trifle. It was to this demesne of Tachau
that Windischgratz betook himself, when he was
hurled from an eminence as lofty as that which lied
been lest by Wallenstein himself.

REFUSAL TO RECEIVE CONVICTS AT MELBOURNE,
POUT PHILIP.—We ('cois man) have, through the kindne.
nr • pren•leatan in town, been put ht possession of a letter
which he hat jot reared from Melbourne, Port Philip,
deed the 17th of Avenge, which says: ° The other thy a
weir' arrived at our port with 300 convicts oa board. They
were not allowed to land, but were ant olto Sydney. There
is to be another 'Teat anti-tranopor tattoo seating held in the
theatre here on Monday nom."