The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

On all occasions Mr. HRYWORTR was a good steady
intelligent Radical; Sir EDWARD CoLzsitoo;a was a
member whose real merits wen often obesure4)
modify and want of forest Oet Tiloll.
was en old familiar face thit alt will ruiaa.'M
regret; though the seats Iltgrairely eesitiad by
Mr. IrEvhcouter and Mr. 0. TIIO/IPROL ire `still
filled by Liberals, we landklait *ith did Meads
without thanking them for hid and assistanco-lh
times when Liberal opinions were far less popular
than—Heaveu be praised—they are now.
Still, even with these losses, our ranks are
crowded; and we shall give Lord DERBY battle with
no fear as to whose will be the victory.

THOUGH we have nearly got through the
of a General Election, no one has yet the slightest
notion of what is the policy of the government—if it
has one—whilst as to its principles, everybody sees
pretty clearly that it is not encumbered by. any.
If the public could have been cajoled into acqui-
escence, it seems that Lord Devair in his own good
time, and in the manner most conducive to his party
interests, would have re-arranged our financial
system so ea to shift the landlords' taxes to other
shoulders; would have undone all that has been
done of late years to unshackle commerce, and
imposed en import duty on all commodities. Per-
haps all this may yet be attempted, and for what P
Simply that, under pretence of a general re-arrange-
ment of taxation, a protective duty on,fi dm
CCoraor some equivalent burden may be re-imposed on
industrious consumers of the nation. An the pleats
this mischievous jugglery is that the cultivelene
land in this country cannot compete with
growers of corn. Never was pretence for clam •
Wien more baseless or more false. We pass the
that the labouring classes—not excepting the work-
men employed in husbandry—have benefited by the
repeal of the corn laws to a greater extent than
even the most sanguine Frsetre lere ventured to anti-
cipate. That is universally admitted. Everywhere
the labouring classes in town and country have
demanded of candidates " the big loaf." Pauperism
has been gradually diminishing—wages have risen—
and employment for labour has been constantly pro-
gressive. These things are nudenied. Yet the
policy which has produced such happy results is to
be reversed, modified, or evaded. The bread of the
toiling millions is to be taxed; and to give a colour
for retaxing their bread, all the other prime neces-
saries of the people are to be relaxed also, in order
that tenant-farmers may obtain an artificial, •
monopoly price for their corn. Some time ago
the Protectionists affected to care for the interests
of the agricultural labourers; they had then a single.
minded effrobsosion that, if food became cheap,
wages midi OH; and this was the alleged roma
why landewnme struggled against free train corn.
So at least they solemnly and vehemently asserted
on all semis= Rent never entered for a moment
into thek esedieration. Well, the oorn laws have
been iambi, mil the subusquent time his been a
period at unperalleied preemity for the agricul-
tural bison= We hays- actually heard some
fanners, taing the leg theme pea 'implant that
in conampenes el the ammo ithog their labourers
are lesswing tee isdoperaleal The Protectionists,
under the atinse et their taller apprehensions on
behalf at the laboemme. tried be keep up the price of
bread; but they Mod, ad their fears, if genuine
have now been meet allestadly allayed by the
result. Now, heweventhe Peeteetionist taut Butters
on the farmers' behalf. But theist= bar, be it real or
simulated, is as vain sale ham Let us mat in
meting these later appeehmiene by bemiring what
fa been doing iu -dss spiedtand &inlets since
ISM, whoa the owe laws were pemsetively re-
We have been eels sad win told that
MleciLn Bosimsi tresid go est et eallb=maliesa itim the
piss min wee bft to the natural of
supplyet end demeed, by the withdrawal of protective
duties em beelgs gam; that Free-trade woad stay
the head et the improver at land; that Gaping em-
=tithe husbandry in this kimplem, unable to
the rough Mesta et eamplitlera would be
neatest Mar Whir beds es te suss more
feseassil _acct and As Ike. And, bile NW who
well este* ray mow of theemepuesipkit net
hope Ties it wee that all our tended
Ike dim way I for as the price sea bed Eke a
pedal et thirty years been gradually anillietiwn
is lower rates, so the enitivadea of the mil b boa
=Wily improving, and inereand psalm led Ewe
Ikea test - for reamed pan them was
a earn law ; there was the inlet Prewar
alled it " the ender—en whisk ihneen
Wises= issesi, sad whisk, as dory seiremd.
sektsi Sot ass do bill et ilsg
Thee. Peddles Si set, es its muses premiss&
keeper ,deer, it soy have kept up the *rite et the
owners ea otarpters alai It mg have
as a kind ItTaatalus aura table nassuaged=t.tO
realise b their own maims Ike mit ibmasoteetive
y
law itself Melte emeastliss. All the mod shrewd
observers, howneerigii IMO fix diet was the other
way ; that postsulks dissitelf-relisace and
=Woo, though it could set n ether suppress the
=a or prevent the other.
At all events sat
hiNlimmties be the bet Ave
years ham vanished; that mist the teals in
agroadtural poise bee entirely inseam
at
lls ear
oars pewees have lam yea to the
the kat opine et Ike weed. and what been
the Ns= t Has lead pa eat et cultivation P Have
cur pesters reverted is miss, hoe our tillage land
been thrown back into pea= P Just the contrary ;
never debt the rams period of time has there been
so muck earn exhibited in the reclamation and im-
provement of land; sever has so mush draining
hem dew; never has smelt age breadths at
domes end geese land be= labs up. Nor has
the =ideation et old tillage land steed WM. At no
former
Leto seek a &mead ter di aphid-
turd misted; the borseeed esumpnon
et pave and other mares has bees =sampled;
and, beam dna all, a spirit et inquiry, eseres.
and &nominal' ban beam generated end b s
anassaget our meting termers whisk had never
bees the eberesteaties et the bra Mr.
Pew, In hie crepe the apieratural department
e die Cheat Bs aWra, says: "It mom I. be
that the Abets d mrisaltmid asehealets
reedbeen so far eneemeK es in all the
main branches of famizzadlaboar, taken to-
gether, to effect aea ea outgoinp of
little less than one-halt." improved modern
agricultural machinery has_ given to farming what
it most wanted—certainty. mr. POSIT says,' Them
has been a further Ant et .see
_upon
tura which baa hitherto bee.td- The main
difficulty of braise ralways lain in its 'nose-
tainty ;" and he said, "Idechinery has certainly
samitbatiateil Ole ad." And it hoe bean &-
thvingatisesupseatively Se "net of the means which pro-
bes the sa beignincent," W
mamma with lbs Iheasenk ot pounds which axe
=in the bugs Sweeties and the costly ma-
libaregalesi is all memdacturing improvements.
A lbw imps and &nab tools are all that the
farmer made= and the "new agricultural mesidass
have, with edbremes Mthe mount of Navies pednced
by them, the merit ri very peat obeepara" Here,
bra, we awl that whilst the essurako it
_taming,
be " aria diSculty," has been siesi by the
=et that law, whisk mpavabed the Boo-
pries which mem des Wend camas,
dm eel at sasseleisty from thane newel canoes
Isee ban sindlemeonsly lessened by the applica-
tion et *pita', skill, and enterprise to agricultural
amideisey. And if the use of such improved ma-
has not progressed so rapidly as might beds-
&We, "still," say. the report we have mention&
mit bee advanced greatly, asisebown by the increase,
set Oft Of implements, bat et eminent iimpleessell.
silmes,aad alio has imam lam ea oteoOMAN,
•"—thin during the pee GM boat pies
d lie primal seatary. To lbs rum dig im die
at Mr. CURD, Wift writing in Destembes
beim tbe previous two yams vi-
= mid
of agricultu improvement beenconcur
pilaf If
at present. On every side Menem'
exertions are being made by both landlord and
tenant. How otherwise is it possible to account for
Os entire absorption of that mass of labourers who
were three years ago employed in the construction
et railways, and the prospect of whose dismissal was
leaked bread to with dismay ?" And this occurs
thsureficiat Free-trade, and when the farmers
Um hied to contend with some dill.
wdbambleg; a fall of prices so much below