The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

THE DANUBIAN PIUNCIPALITTILL

PIOII 0011 01.11C1AL 001

3UCIIARE:4":, Orr. 6.
The Wal"sehisn 'lettings ham passed off ea quietly
r those of Moldavia. The oily shadow of a dial-
mite seems to have bees at Criticise, for the town
ehirtiow, where it wm that • little legerde-
miii: had been , Profeasor lindereon's
stile, with the hollot-hox—the mid box being
tie to kayo compartments into which the voting
kees rotered pre and came out contra to the views
Otto elletori. An electioneering dodge, worthy a
(*speck. i• ago said to have been ogee ilsed ; nothing
more ue Ism than applying • I.raiid to the houses of
certain electors, and some say erei to that where
the sloes were given, so as to di,tract the atten-
tion of the voten from their ia litical, by thus
rudely recalling it to their more immediate
material interests. Be that as it mar, the fact is
that the head of the police of Wallachia donned: his
sword aid cooked hat, posted furiously off to the
imargent town, mach to the disr.,t of the poet-
boys. whose • h.wkshiah " from these officials is ge-
acridly " mei:keys' allowance." and arrived in time
to discover one of thane interesting hues 'whine
neither described by Crier nor Humboldt, bat well
known to the vulgar under the denomination of a
mare's neat—a nest out of which the Wallachian Sr
Richard Mayne very soon flew. looking as much as
poooblr a &lane &re.
(nioniwe hive been returned everywhere. nay
seem. hoe ever, to have clamed themselves into time
who his, subsuritod the four art.; les of faith of tie
liberal party. • programme formerly published in
year columns, and those who deetetd to do so. Of
the latter .he majority. if not all. psblished their
&pros. sit the articles, or at least of the OWN OW
'• union under • foreign prince." bat aessidesed
it undiguihed to be returned under • pledges shin-
lair sue the right of independence of *Ries en
some of the dowassioas that might be evolved hp the
minor points of the programme. let of Me 111
member. ,graods meantime's) of the loannina Air
trice, la signed their adlimice to the peegneme :
to this party you may add the 1. representatives of
the "petits propeirtaires," 17 deputies of *wee, and
the representatives of the peasants. Electiemearlag
ardour has been naturally more intense in the teems
than in the districts, while the desire to avail them-
selves of their privileges manifested by the perwas
has been more or less influenced by ciremmatalee of
locality and position. In the majority of inMememe
the peasants have fully recognised the strendelp el
npmentative privileges, while in several they Mae
evinced no small degree of tenacity on tlme sauna*.
In one district a prefect, obedient to masa, soder
vowed to entrap the peasants into electing a elms
hardly known in the place, upon which maim the
indignant electors ejected the woeld•be wisaber in
a manner more energetic than delicate. Of male
districts are found where the proprietors' will is kw,
and where the ignorance of the peasant, or hie want
of faith in the utility of any measures t =mating haw
a Dirac. lead him to be caroler as to his rights, or
to pander them for place or protection. Them ewe
are. however, rare, and, even where suspected, are
not certain, inasmuch sa the character of the Wa-
lachian peasants has become so distrustful as
their superion in station that it is very dilli2rt
gather their real opinions from their conversations
with their lords and muter,. All allow that the
selection of the peasant deputies has done credit to
theirclam ; and 1 am moth mistaken if you do not
Sod men among them who will put to shame many
of their colleagues elected for town and country.
Those gentlemen who have lately returned from
exile have largely enlisted the sympathies of the
electors on their Me wherever they have come for-
ward as candidates. Thus you will And the names
of most of the best known among them members of
the Divan, such ma Bratiano, Golesco, Rossetti, See.
It is the fashion with come attached to the old regime,
and who regret the glories of the slew 7,10.1
which they already see departing from them, to at-
tribute the most immoderate views mid opinions to I
the emigre's, hut from all that I can ascertain, with-
out the least foundation in fact : there may no doubt
be found amongst them one or two who have imbibed
the ultrn.rosioe ideas of those whom they ham been
thrown in contact with is other countries; bat, ea a
body, they will, I think and trust, be foetid
firm and moderate in their words and actions.
Every opportunity will be sought to exalt the ideas
of the members of the Divan, and to sow disunion
where there h.s hitherto been union.

Already foreign agents, as well as domestic actors,
are trying to unite the extremes OS the Unionist par-
ties into a party demanding union, but union under
a republic. Others are inciting the more rabidly
rouge to urge the restitution of Bessarabia, entire,
from Ramis, of the Buko ilia from Austria, and
Heaven knows what from the Porte. It is not; thare•
fore, to be wondered at, should you Lind a stray mag-
nate speculating upon becoming Authimmdeur
Moido-lalaque at the Court of St. James's, or a de-
aided patriot revelling in tLe idea of trans-Carpa.
thian prospects and properues. Such views are so
kooks, so ridtrules, that I am doubtful whether it
be not an insult to the country to imagine that even
erne representative can be found likely to entertain,
far more exprese, seek fancies, although I am well
aware that the Auto.Wallachinns are busy props-
put% those views.