The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-03 00:00:00

COAL MARKET.-TlllB DAY.

Carr'. Hartley, 13a.; Walla End Riddell, 130. 6d.;
Walls End Helton, 16a. 3d.; Walls End Lanibton, 16s. ;
Well. End Stewart'e, 16e. 3d. ; Walls Had Tees, 16e. 3d.
—Ships at market, 149.

• COLONIAL COMMITTEE Or TIM' SOCIETY OP ARTS,
MkNUFACTUILEB, AVID CowEaaeL—A meeting of this
committee for entering into communication with the colo-
nies in order to promote the objects of the society took Place
yesterday at th • society's house, Adelphi, the members pre-
sent were Earl Grey, 1)r. Forbes Royle, Professor Solly,
Mr. Glynn, Lieut. Tyler, R.E., and Mr. Alfred Meade.
CAMERON'S COALEROOK AND LOUOTIOR RAM-
MAY. —Yesterday a numerous meeting of the parties was
held before Muter Richards in this matter, for the pose
of taking his directions as to the course to be pursued by
Mr. Turqusnd, the official manager, and Mr. Galsworthy.
solicitor to the estate, with reference to the action brought
by Major Stone for 3,000 f. money advanced to enable the
company to complete their parliamentary deposit. Mr.
Roxburgh, for the official manager, Mr. Fry, for the se-
ceding shareholders, and Messrs. Taylor, Hendeock, and
Lewis for other interests, took part in the proceedings. Ul-
timately the Master decided he was of opinion that as the
case stood the official manager had not materials to enable
him successfully to defend the action (not being In poem-
don of the books and papers), and, combining this with esr-
tan, other prim facie facts, lie should not direct that officer
to defend It.

Vie earprefS%.

411e,and Miss ;e" it; 'man%
"011•1101,.. is pokilslial rimy Turley sal P SW *Wit. in doe
Vie psi.
'a Ilse lossusisi Ise " lapress," [atlas Issalag pew,
most is NI 111, Ilsiimis.sinosOry Two esissli in tamp
log al paltlismiass.

NIGH WATER AT LONDON BMW!.
Ti,. Dai—lliwalag, Ilk. Or. Afiersisa, Ith. Oa.
Twasliarr—fisnies. ISL la. Om.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3.

LORD DERBY'S friends are anxiously exerting
themselves to induce the country not to believe
them. Treat us, they say emphatically—trust us to
any extent you please, but do not credit anything
we tell you. dive us your confidence to an unli-
mited extent, but do nut regard a single syllable we
gay. Think that we are anxious to do whit is right,
bat not that we are anxious to say what is right.
Believe that we are men of honour, hut, at the same
Moe, utterly unworthy of all credence. In fact,
Lord DERBY would treat Jolts Bubb as a quack
dentist treats a patient—beg! him to open his mouth
and let him iut his forceps in it, at the same time
assuring him that he will not make the slightest
movement that can give him even a momentary
pain.
The efforts of the party to reconcile their lan-
guage with their intentions would be really amusing
if the matter were less serious. The Times treats
the difficulty under which the protectionists labour,
as a mere difficulty of expression. They know what
they mean, but they have no sufficient language in
which to tell you what they mean. Mr. DisLAELl's
salaries the Times acknowledges to be in contradic-
tion to this view of the case, but then, says the
Times, Mr. Dtsaiiebt says nut what he means, but
precisely what he does not mean. This is intended
to be complimentary to Mr. DISRAELI, and, at the
same time, to satisfy and blind the eyes of the free-
traders. The other ministerial organ puts a different
construction on the government addresses. It de-
clares
that they mean that " all will be done for the
agricultural interest that can be done' and nothing
will be done for them that cannot be done." This is
indefinitely precise, and must be highly satisfactory to
the farmers. Those poor people seem to be much in
the same position with the government that we often
see them upon country. race-courses--" Seven and ten
arc twenty-two, and eight are thirty-four, and fifteen
are forty-one, and six are seventy-two. Seventy-two
is a blank, and blank loam the halferown ; if it had
been seventy-three, Sir, you would have had a prize
of 501., and ninety-six is the great prize of 100,0001.,
which you mar win next tune if you go on." So
speaks the woman in the bonnet to her bucolic vic-
tim, and so speak the government from under the
shade of their bonnet to the farmers, whose con-
fidence they seek to keep.
Meanwhile the " intelligence of the country,"
respecting which Lord DERBY is so anxious, is be-
ginning to express itself. Yesterday the intelligence,
aye, and the wealth, also, of the manufacturing
districts assembled at Manchester to consider
and pronounce upon the statement of the Minister.
Such an event carries us back ten years, and awakens
associations which have long slumbered. But the
League is reorganised—that agitation which excited
the nation in 1542 is now renewed, —that power-
ful machine which the men of Manchester took to
Ore m, and laid quietly aside the moment it
bad done its work, is again to be readjusted and set
in active motion—and Lord DERBY may thank the
manifesto in which he called on the protectionists to
agitate, and declared not only that he sympathises
and agrees with them, but that he only wants the
power to comply with their demands.
At the present time Lord Deane confesses that
he does nut possess that power. Do the freetraders
intend to allow him to obtain it ? It is not a power
to be acquired in a day or in a month. "Time," say
'the protectionists, " time is what .ve must struggle
for. Yes, but time for what? Time to corrupt
electorates by the distribution of government patron-
time to plant candidates amongst con-
, dum in
terests;
time to undermine existing
time to divert the attention of the country
i by a variety of specious proposals artfully developed ;
Wine to raise, if possible, "a cry ;" time to set
churchmen and dissenters by the ears; time to con-
iciliate disappointed friends; time to buy the waverer,
and douhtfuls; time to do mischief; time to do evil.
Orr FtweES only wanted time to send the psrlia-
t of England to destruction; and so tbe Minis-
er, with his dark lantern of protection, and the
miler matches of religious discord, only wants time
tee
lay tho train by which he hopes to blow up the
tree-trade majority.
During the " tires" which Lord DERBY desires to
his purpass what will be the state of
PseeAssmeziaatien ara memos it tram end
Mawl: may be cheated
I.sagacious st the emeartaiaty, may be
t timestisee between Lagged end
=emay be bell is sesames; a salad govern-
asy i• ismemible. Ltd he the intasetafthe ma.
otise that we abseil submit to sash mailess he the
trLod DIM isellientsa f If it is est. it bet-
meernater at ease the hissemisems et the
limitable Mk time to await. in swab, Ihebt,
apprebeenea, and vesartaialy. the tall of tie prig-
mut.

The experience of umpire. nod ear present marked
prosperity, speak to amp gins of free-trade
principles, not only thoesododly bet practically.
bilks ration is prepared at once to promeneee upon
them. No w time "is required for the senaidera-
tioa of their verdict. If the protectionist party
have any doubts as to their own segments,
let them say so. Now is the moment for
them to recant if they 'Mod to ',mt.
• umber of the harlots of the party hie pee back
hi their imminent' br ewes we
do not expect dia.& szpisastisse of their pur-
posed palsy from the members the Gobbet who
sit for sue pines se Kidhuret. or as Dreitwich.
There aeotimes limos octagon to it'
ins.to
thew who send them to the Howe et rie
Dot the Comecomos!if the Exessousa *a for
.

Deekleghemaire, sad was elected ler The easiti
by the farmers. Mr. Quunortna site for Lin.
adeshire as a Protedissiet wash., we end
wallslastL So with Mr. Ilearsav in Qzford-
r4end with Major Bannesen he Mem
all the pledges of these members will sot
• be teeredenaed pledges? Aber, all, time is one
meaty mesh, sow Garin himself he re-else-
Mee es a member of the seteument eassernieg whom
there should be no milder. Mr. Olson Rums
wee a party to the proesedhege is Donetshire in
lOW which led to reolpillisa of his two tot-
botittoo. Lard Away esd 16. iiroar,—becauss
these estimable gentlemen dmained to pledge
themesiree tea protestionlet palfrey: Let Mr. BANK'S
acne Mrpllmmi er tae wtfrtsfiee at Mr. FAIL.
010 MARION sad the other ire et the county,
what, as a limalsee et gewsresseat, he
blends to dot This is se expinatisa which be
ewes alike to his tomer selbsomes sad te his osenti-
brats. No ewe wee kiwis, this Mr. Rows in his
, eitmemeietieas el the " treachery" anemic lerlers.
Lt there le as mistake this time. Let there he no
ellegatise at tressisery against another member for
semsty et Dwelt. It is quits
Lime cues add, that reestitesesies s Id pin
their nesaelera their_prisipise.
The arse-trades at liseeksetae wed elsewhere till
the poolsetisait piety phsW they
Eglave their_ gerameset in tiny ere sot
te get beds prelesdee. Tsaimisistra
ad tell the preteedethet party phisly that it
Inhale Is gin them heat pelsolise s and the Awes
aseiwasoa behalf of the gevermest, that it does
set mese to give them &aphis& It therefore, the
really ire* prelestise, about which
ors gears amlio—ff they are not obeli of the
manster they theweelves have conjured
_ip, as in
May yeasts tiny we said I. be--they led better
appear apse the beelloge, or, es the Cauposuoa of
the Illematurms prefers to sty, " the twenty
and es °Van to whet they wait is the
prams, ef those have contributed topless in
power ia the Me they may get it. Far ow
ewn pile we hisnairleiel -trades—ad the mot-
ley we ripest have ne desk as le that in-
teation—ws Weed Is d ma thrash isles
et the insollen with whisk theredienhi wield
sei fate tha assirk es.d which
hope Sort b 7 swaying te deslie.i.g4rnigellettliere it
b est the %tweet of or at the
inseam itself, that there ahwlt be any delay in

amigos i sad ws therehre say to the
I~Mit the
Most !—Resolve !—Deelarel—the copped..
elt. ie rooks, the molt is eaten.
_ _

Ws hare another ma* war on hand, as ear tele-
graphic anticipation of the Indian news has already
explained. To all appearances, we are shoat to
be involved in another Burmese war.

About what ? The sooner this is folly and autho-
ritatively stated the better. For at present—judging
kern the suarernations that hare ponied on the Gab-
e:. 00 lima etimele—See Sherd of Control has
Lord
esp.=l btras lrawia)diclilywasusitah:
= Ch
sountry goareally has bow. And though, of course,
our trade tint be as dhetually protected at Ran-
goon as it will, we hop% asocseary, be at
Theo* it is not fee way Idly Insult or trifling
loss that a war with trtfullsone neighbours like the
Burmese—and in so Me* end postilential a roan-
try as theirs—is to be ebbed by making demands
whisk the well known pride and stimmly unabated
praimption of their goose mist were are to refute
sad reeese. Ileeebeale smiliedigiCiln such a
kiwis. 7711 Ma IMMA run some
risks without ng tot for pro-
tection and indemnification when slimier hurt ; and

the wrong melt bare been serious said tie hush see
est to bs overlooked. beim the Wire ipsennonat
were boned to resort to so extreme a mason se
sending a naval expedition into the River Irawaddy.
Past experience ought to teach our Indian govern-
ment to have as little to do with the Burmese as is
possible. All that we, or it, want of them is their tealt
timber. If they will let us have that in peace and
quietness, so much the better for all parties; if they
will not, our best policy is to try and do without it
for a while—sure that at last commerce will penetrate
even into the Burmese forests. For, valuable as
teak timber may be, it is not worth the cost of another
war with the golden-footed King of AVA.
The former hostilities were unavoidable on oar
part ; for they were
.produced by large and ferocious
invasions of our territories in search of the Burmese
who, in theeresds, had taken refuge there from the
enmities ether own rulers, and by pretensions to
=districts of country that were undoubtedly
property. Into those hostilities we were
literally kneed in self defence, for had we
yielded or retired before Burmese audacity
and pretensions, we might have exposed
Calcutta itself to their attacks. But, though we
were at last triumphant in the war and reduced the
Burmese to humiliating terms of submission and
ale houses which that war ought to have
epee the Inditn government were, we
e, to have as little as possible to do with
use sow allies I and above all things, not to raise
hem dborniens on smell matters with a people
sad ennetapparently as incorrigible as the Chinese,
and fist mew widen.

The conclusion of that war was, no doubt, a deep
humiliation to the Court of Ara ; it lost territory, tt
last population, it lost money ; and, more than all,
it lost the reputation amongst its own people
of invincibility to which it had aspired. It has
every motive, but safety and a repetition of the chas-
tisement it then received, to resent its former heavy
reverses. In the main, however, it has fulfilled the
terms of the peace it was compelled to assent to. It
has respected the territories it then lost, has carried
on, after the fashion of a proud, insolent, semi-bar-
barous people, trade with us; and, if it were suspected
of hostile designs during our Afghan misfortunes,
they never assumed such a shape as justified our
taking notice of them. Whatever, then, may have been
the conduct either of the governor or the people of
Rangoon, in the matters for which Lord DALHOUSIE
has demanded redress in so formidable and hostile a
manner, there is really no evidence, as yet, before
the public, that, at a time when we are at peace in all
other quarters—when we had acquired greater military
fame than ever in the north-west, and had there
conquered the only race from which there was real
danger to our Indian supremacy, the Burmese ido-
-1 !larch had again randy test measure swords with us.
The whole weight of testimony we yet possess
is the other way ; and the practical quern= for
elucidation and explanation is whether it was wise
and prudent in Lord DALHOUSIE, without any such
appearances, and for a minor object only, to send a
squadron to Rangoon, where it was certain to give
offence, and. to make demands, and use threats that
were certain to excite the Court of Ava. We do
not, of course, condemn Lord DALHOUSIE for the
step he took, the fora. he sent, or the tone he as-
sumed; for, as yet, the public, neither in India nor
here at home, have materials whereon to come to a
conclusion and to express an opinion. But a very
strong case must be presented by papers that must
be laid before parliament with the least practicable
delay, to justifv so costly a risk as another Burmese
war. And if Lord DALHOUSIE has in a moment
of indiscretion picked with the Burmese a quarrel
that &little forbearaace,—or even ooneasion,—would
have avoided, his responsibility will be great indeed.
Without having even formed an interlocutory
opinion, and holding our judgment entirely in sus-
pease, we cannot help. saying that the conduct
perseed on the occasion by the Burmese mo-
m& is just what might have been anticipated,--
hr it is only a repetition and counterpart of what
limiserly occurred under similar circumstances, And
it is not a single chastisement that abates, still less
that extinguishes, the vainglorious pride of such a
court as that of Ava. Still, in spite of present ap-
pearances to the contrary, let us hope that a second
Burmese war has not suddenly come upon our hands.