The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1.

IT is well to be thankful for small mercies, and
such we see was the frame of mind of the
or THE BOARD or TRADE when, at tho meeting in
Oxfordshire, he " thanks GOD that sundry ethic's
made to sow discord between landlords and tenants
had signally failed." And what might be the grounds
of Mr. Ifxrate's pious ejaculations? Simply
that the fanners had voted for the Derbyites at
the late election. This he conceived to prove " that
they held their opinions, knew their friends, and
were determined to stick to them.* It is well for the
Derbyite ministers that they can extract poli-
tical comfort from such sources, for they will
soon have need of all the farmers' support—
and much more besides. And the Right Hon. PRE-
SIDENT having thus assumed to himself and col-
leagues all the votes of the farmers as evidence that
they still trusted the self-styled " farmers friends,"
declined " to enter into any discussion on the past,"
or " to anticipate fur the future," and proceeded to
indicate how little farmers were to expect from

their " friends."
"Change'," said Mr. HENLEY, " were going on that
no ono anticipated; for, instead of being overbur-
dened with people, it was now a question how they
should find people to du their work. They
saw part of the people flocking to America
and Australia at such a rate that it was
hardly possible to speculate what would be
the ultimata result. That had broaght about
a state of affairs which, though not pros-
perous to all, had thrown prosperity over the
country. lie would not say that other causes had
not assisted, and were so mixed up with it, which
male it difficult to assign it to the real one, but all
could not fail to see the great changes that had taken
place, and it was no easy matter to see how such a
state of things could be directed for the common
benefit of the whole country." This is sheer mysti-
fication; and when addressed to the farmers meant
that so many changes have taken place since the
farmers friends have cocas into place—power they
have never attained nor arc they likely to do so—
that the farmers ought not to "turn round" upon
them ; even though they threw all their promises
to the winds, and made no attempt whatever to do
anything for the ever-trusting and ever-deceived
agriculturists. Such in plain Loglish was the pur-
port of .Mr. IlLater'a speech. Let us examine his
claim to the continued confidence of the farmers, and
see whether all that misty talk about too few people
—and prosperity " thrown over the country" *hick
was not prosperity to all—has any bearing on the
relations of the landocratic ministry and the occupiers
of land?
What have the farmers complained of in connexion
with free trade in corn and cattle? Why, that
under promises held out to them by act of
parliament they have been induced to enter
into contracts to pay rents they now find to be too
high, and which with present prices—and with the
ordinary terms of holding—they are unable to pay,
execpt out of their capital. When in opposition
Mr. Homer and his colleagues promised either to
get back Protection that is, artificially high
prices—or to find them sonic, equivalent out of the
pockets of some one class or another. Now, as an
excuse for not performing his promises, he tells
them that labour has become dearer, and that al' the
other classes of the country have becosm prospemos
except the agriesilturists—and this is to absolve the
Protectionist government from their engagements
with the farmers. It is obvious that the high price
of labour, according to Protectionist the' rise, forma
only so much additional loss to the fanners, how
this can justify the Derbyite ministry is sailer the
continued °antidote, of farmers, became tbuweie
Whom thg harliconfl4,l 'tuul ueen pinasa in elem tie
glances in conaluerable difficulty, but they heal Gone
all they could, and would have dose mow. foul they
been able"—poses the eempreheneionot most TA:mon-
able politicians.
But it is not true that the Derbyites have done uli
they could for the farmers, and we will mention a Om
points on which they could, if they would, afford most
essential relief to the occupiers of land. Why do not
they repeal the Game-laws ? Why dothey not pro-
pose some reasonable measure for gidie tenant
a legal right to recover his tine e-
ments ? Why not some alleviation el the of
distress ? Why is not some meows proposed to
enable the owners of entailed Wales to expend
money in improvements, to guise lessee, and
to put their farms into such a AIM OS will enable
the tenant to make a living by his isamtry P None
but the " farmers' friends —this party
row is office—have ever eared way miens appo-
sition to any of these and wasps niseesess --
inessures which all farmers knew to be far more
important to their interests thee legislative protect-
ties, whisk has been are and for ever abandoned.
Net one weld of these really yreelleal questions--
which are being disiessed, with sumer Ins of land&
genet, at every "whin we bear from Mr.
HENLEY and his soadjyteen
Mem must the Derhyltes take the 'sptet they
have rewired from the farmers dories the shadows
at mere than its tens vane. There is a
eferneirwia die Aromas& shaplii
_withst2ekst•
he mem WsWt_ go with their srdis. They_ siky
@mewl disersives, "We mist vote for lAnd
Maul ersiblare, became. whatever they may tell
the ieweabOrielhey tell es that Lead DERBY will
de annething kr fusers, sad peaces_ he may,
and perhsp
_may set ; but if he dirt dengue
thing-, the ienimis mist coins down with ilhoir
rents." the, is the stale of the imam be-
tween the sels and the femme t the ammo
say they hire been deluded into
cannot perhase. ark *el
_leek twee=l.l=
dato get them a *Metre preludes erDzbia,z,
isheir sent& The umbels of Lead
goverment, iedivihrily mid eollestrely, have pre-
mised diem the farmer, andpede they sow tell them
them mambos mad be seed. The alter-
native is obvious. The »lid Or farmers are enti-
tled to—and, pesdedly, the only tad they are
Nit obtain--le ef nuts.
cat by see Mahn& hi Oxford-
shireear =to mind the still mere nidemehoky
display t w mast in Saffolk. Wadiegint dem net
eclipse Frandingliani—lienurr mast give nle
XELLY. To earnest politicians, whatever
opinions—to intelligent agriculturists, whatever mey
have been their views on the great—and now do.
aided—question of Free-trade or Protection—ammo
melancholy exhibition than that made by Lard
Danny's Solicitor-General, Sir Frieene LSLLY, at
Framlingham, can scarcely. be ecussived. Of IS
Pirzaor's former displays is SAM we have been
consp.elled to speak in terms of onneitigated=
for in his eagerness to pander le the P
yearnings of the eclairs! and bruin of the division
he felt justified to asserting ea eiteenipting to
prove that less food has bees preveled for the
community since the repeal el the Corn-laws
than before. The contrary Is se aseerimeiy the
truth,—that the Souciroa-Onsizases mord=
placed him in the dilemma of being dieurdly.
ignorant of the facts, or u
of truth. At all events, he conmiettalbarerhe
proposition that protection in some form or admit was
necessary, to enable the Suffolk hirmems to nfrp ea
their trade. Then probably he spits from a brit
delivered to him by the Suffolk squires. It was no
matter that he had been the Solicitor-General of Sir
&meat. PEEL, when he carried the of the
Corn-law—that he had, at least, sequieee in, if he
did not actively advocate that policy; the squirm pet
him up for the county, and he gave atterseee to
their most stupid and transparent fallacies. No-
body doubted that the leaned knight would the
next day—had those who paimmed the power to pro-
mote his °Vests 4114twest or midden se rebored
him—have with equel glibness est te week to revs ths
absolute impossibility of m, restenikm of predestine.
There was, perhaps, 'wady a aegis fume, in the
room who wee not aware that ffirMrzioT X cues
protectionist statistics were all " ridge "—with the
public they produced ono universal sentiment of ow-

tempt. TM time having sols:ve=
Dun lob it no low
fares of premising to pedals lola
rive preludes for the emotion EMI &factotums,
—to beep up rents, his Soxterroo Geossid. goes
down to Suffolk with fresh instructions. This
time his deist is to tell the farmers, that froUthe
government and the legislature they must expect
nothing, and that bitter news—if news it he—
wu made as palatable as possible by &coos'
extravagant assertion of agricultural depres-
sion. Thus, Sir Fazitoo said—" Never did a
time exist since the country began to flourish
in agricultural pursuits when the interests of the
agriculturists were so severely depressed and stood
so deeply and so largely in needed' the best assistance
which can bo contorted upon them." Whereat, the
farmers, looking for new promises of Protection—
cheered vociferously. After adverting to the rule of
agricultural societies, which excluded politics, and
hinting that "the best energies of some of the beet
intellects in the country are now devoted to the ser-
vice and interests" of these suffering agriculturists,
after praising their energy and power of endurance,
which would enable them, " without the aid of
ministers or the legislature, so to exert themselves"
as to work out their own relief, he finished by•
telling his gaping audience that they must look to
themselves, and place no reliance on others—On "Me
Ministers of the Crown or the legislature of the
cousby."
It is lamentable to see a man who, by his un-
doubted talent, and by the asaiduou practice of an
honourable profession, has raised himself from a
humble, some say from a very lowly, condition of life,
to opulence and station ; thus at one time pandering to
the prejudices of the squires by whom he was offered
a county seat in parliament, by the deliberate asser-
tion of that which he must have known to be un-
true; and then in the same place, a few months
afterwards, when the purposes of his party chief no
longer required Protectionist professions, to virtually
retract and unsay all that ho had so earnestly pressed
upon his constituents. Possibly Sir FITZROY would
laugh at the reproach that he can have no convic-
tions ;—perchance, be deems it enough if on each oc-
casion he says that which will serve his party at the
moment, reckless of the inconsistency of one speech
with another. But the public do not pass these things
unheeded. it is well known that Sir FITZROY KELLY
is a candidate for the Chancellorship; that a few
months ago, relying on the known feeble state of
Lord ST:LEONARDS' health, he announced his own
proximate appointment to that high office. Does
any one imagine that even Lord DERBY, with all
his headlong disregard of public opinion, would
venture, should the opportunity occur, to appoint his
present Solicitor-General to the Woolsack ? As-
suredly not. A low tons of political morality,
and a devotion of what Mr. DISRAELI once termed
" the loose tongue of the hireling lawyer," could not
be tolerated as qualifications for the highest dike
even in a DERBY-DISRAELI High Chancellor. The
chances, however, are, that the coming session will
release both Lord DERRY and his Solicitor-General
from the toils and hopes of office, and remit the one
to his congenial pursuits on the turf, and the other
to his briefs and the adjudication of his prize away.