The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16.

A CAPITAL dodge, certainly, that of Russia, at the
present time of day, coming into the London Ex-
change to beg for five millions sterling to complete a
railroad. Tae Russian goverment has been hoirrow-
log and adding to its debt year alter year, with the
exception of 1839 and 1840; the pause of augmenta-
tion in these years being fully made up by increased
progress since. In 1842, however, it presented a
more decent excuse for raising money, and
demanded some fifty millions of rottees to
commence the railroad between Moscow and Bt.
Petersburg. The cost was estimated at about 20
millions sterling. It is, however, a goverameat
affair altogtther. And that the millions raised
from time to time by the house of STITCLITZ to com-
plete this railroad m
are devoted to the end pro-
poied is surely not believed by any JUD.SCS
APZLLA amongst us. It is curious indea to perceive
how directly the wants of the railroad correspond
with the political necessities of the state, and how
inevitable it is, teat alter the exhaustion of a cam-
p ago, the financial pump is applied on the Dutch
and English markets to supply the emptiness of what
tae oallel the tairoal cJffers, but what are really
nothing else than that proverbial sieve, the Russian
military chest.
Nothing can demonstrate more strongly the utter
disproportion of Russian efforts and ambition to
Russian means than the poverty and the collapse that
betels that government after every, even the least
effort. Notwiths ending the sedulous puffing of its
agents as to its chests of bullion in imperial cellars,
its productive lII,IIV, its loans to France, and prof-
fered loan to Austria, nevertheless we find that it is
totally unable to put ore of its huge limbs or armies
in motion, wi tout straight falling down exheustid,
and recurring to Western Europe for some of those
pecuniary sin-we, which alone can move 'espies,
even of Cossacks, in these days. Powerful for defence,
Russia is evidently powerless for offence, unless the
exchanges or governments of the west supply her with
the mean,. And certainly the readiness of the
western capitalists to do this exists amongst the most
preposterous acts of suicide, of which a civilised aid
wealthy community could be guilty.
If there be one thing more certain than another, it
is that the advance of the Russians to the Bosphorus
would be the signal for an European war; and yet
the pacific capitalist is called to facilitate this move-
ment, and to pay for every warlike step that Russian
ambition and intermeddliog chucse to make beyond
tilt Carpathians sod the Danube. Under the pre-
tence of crushing democracy, Russia has pattly sub-
dued, partly attached to her, the agricultural popula-
lation of -Hungary, proectibing its independent
aristocracy. Tee success, porch:tsei by gold, required
to feel Russian soldiers in their march, and an Hun-
garian renegade in his treachery, is now to be paid for.
Hungary cannot pay—Austria will not. Its generals
are cramming into their own greedy maws the fruits
of wholesale confiscation. but what no people in
Europe are fools enoneh, or vie enough, to do, is now
oemanded of the English capitalist. The hard-earned
airings of the industrious and liberal Englishman
are now to go to pay the oppressors of Hungary, and
t he butchers others ins, the worse time batchers.For the
Russian officers in Hungary acted as decoys to entice
by false promises the generals of KOSOCTII to surren-
der; after which all who were aot participators of Gare-
n ev's treason, were banded over to the Austrian exe-
cutioner. In our paper of Monday was published a I
heir( but graphic le ter, describing how the children
bad mother of Kossves were treated, placed purposely
in a pestiferous larepital, in order that cheese
mi tht do whet state asmerins shrink from.
The same pen pourtrajed the public sale of the last
sends of clothing, snatched from the bodies of thee*
wleows, woo survived their husbands executions at
Arad. Ruch intamous, and minute, and sanguinary
barbarians—these slaughters of the brave, followed
up by the persecatioes, the flogging, the str p-
ui g, and tee tonal flog of helpless women teed chil-
dren—these barbarism., far beyond the imagination
of the novelist to invent, were the result prepense of
the late Russian military invasion. It cost money
it seems, which the property of the nation has no'.
sufficed to pay. And Englishmen are called to supply
the deficit.
At any otter time the Czar and his agents would
not have dared to affront English disgust. Bat thee
is at present such a pletbory of money, so discredited
and uncertain seem. every mcde of investment and
proposal of speculation, that it is hoped that even
Esgli-bmen will not object to make from 41 to 6 per
cent. on funds advanced for blood-money.
We do not pretend that we have any right to do
more than to diaauace to the utmost of our power the
outlay of English money in such were. Such loans
as these, however, made by individuals, are national
acts, bespeak a tational recklessness, and may bring
down a national curse. The time is at hand. if it
be not already piewent, when it is of great import-
ance that wealth and its uoeseesors should show them-
selves to be influenced by high and moral motives,
as well as interested ones. Ttere are dan-
gerous theorists in all parts of Europe who
exclaim against wealth as monopoly end injustice.
But the foulest diatribes against the capitalist acquire
weight, when they can add with truth that it is
immoral, that it is indifferent to public or to private
worth, and that it is more ready to seek per centsge
from the blood money of the eles?ot than in the
charitable employment of the citizen.
We are by no means bitten by any antagonism
or hatted to Russia or the Russian,. What would
contribute to their material progress and civilisa-
tion, each as • bona fiels railroad, we would
willingly abet. But to throw money into the
gulph of her military expenditure, is to retard, not
advance, her civilisation. What English interests, and
the interests of the world demand, is the civilisation
of Russia, the emancipation of her setts, the applica-
tion of what wealth she can scrape together to her
soil sad to its population, so as to convert military and
naval rivalry into commercial interchange. But
to feed, or help to feed, her half million
of oldies., employed in crushing Hungary, in
eating up the produce and the remaining
independence of the Danubian provinces—to aid
Russia in the absorption of the whole Belavo-
nian race, and the necessary subjection of Tin key—
that is merely asking English capitalists, for pewee .t
gain, to sell, and barter away, every principle and
every hope, morel or material, that Euglishmen should
observe and cherish.

Trig opposition_ given to the mimeo of eccielast;cal
reform, propounded, at a peblic meeting on the 10th,
for the adoption or rejection of the city of Men •h. li-
ter by its churchwardens, we, very chars. tensile. For.
once again, a handful of discredited chartists and of
disappainted tones unit. dto disturb p.pular unaw-
mity. The days, however, when any such unnatural
combination can do eny serious mischief, have, hap.
pas, long gone by. So the malicious and insiceere
hostility of these worthies only served to rill for.
they r otblic eupport in favour of the C'dirch-
wardess' Bill.
But, though the opposition of the chart'sts and the
tones on that oecasion is unworthy of any notice,
two statements were 'hen made by the ehurchwer•
dens thsmaelvea which call for remark. The find it,
that, to conciliate the support of the B.ehop of NIAN-
OIL:4ER, they have consented there ul.ult be two ca-
nons of what is now called the c.thedrel, but what is
truthfully only the parish church of their city, with-
out any cure of sins. The second is, that thy forms
of parliament prevent the introenetiou of clauses into
the bill to vest the property of the rectory of Man-
chester in local trustees. Both these statements, in
our opinion, involve clauses in the scutino much lor