The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

APRIL 5, 1856.

principle, is to make that a bad paying pro
vince which in native hands was a very well
paying one, simply because it locks up capital,
and especially frightens it away from land. It
was the same in France at the end of the last
century ; it was the same to a certain extent
in England in CROMWELL'S time; and if a revo-
lution took place again here, it would be the
same to-morrow. The estates of many of the
French seigneurs brought them in most mag-
nificent incomes, but what did they sell for by
auction at Paris when their owners had been
disposed of by the guillotine? What would
the lands of England sell for if in the same
predicament? What would Grosvenor-square
sell for, and Belgrave-square, and Eaton-hall,
into the bargain, with all their furniture and
contents, if England was unfortunate enough
to be annexed on the Dalhousie principle, and
if the titles of all property that was not confis-
cated, and the nature of all tenures, were with
one stroke of the pen destroyed ? What were
we told over and over again was the principal
cause of the misery in Russia arising from the
war, but simply that, owing to the stoppage of
commerce, the usual advances to the cultiva-
tors and landed proprietors were put an end to
for the time ? And what capitalist makes ad-
vances now in the Punjaub—what in Bur-
? what capitalist will, for the next five
years at any rate, make any in Oude ? Why
here have we been seeing some speech of
Count Dm, or some declaration of Count
NESSELRODE, making our own funds vibrate
daily during the past two years, and can we
suppose that such an enormous revolution as
an annexation on the Dalhousie principle will
have no effect on capital, and on all who exist
through its employment in the kingdom of
Oude? The thing must he plain to the
meanest comprehension, and, if it be not, it
will soon, unless the Legislature interpose,
and come home to our feelings very tangibly in
the shape of an Indian deficit tax. If India
cannot pay its expenses, it is quite clear that
England must pay them for it ; and then,
perhaps, when too late, people will begin to
regret that they neglected to listen to the re-
peated warnings of THE PRESS 011 the subject.

THE SADLEIRITES AND THEIR
PATRONS.
THE way in which the principal Sadleirites
escaped from a Parliamentary investigation of
their extraordinary proceedings is very
curious. Art and accident made a temporary
" coalition" to screen them from political
justice. The subject is far from having lost
its importance, and we shall proceed to its
elucidation.

In the spring of 1851, the Brass Band had
not actually been formed, but there was a
collection of Irish Members, mustering about
a score, who were called "the Irish Brigade."
These Members had been returned at the
election of 184, and most of them had gene
rally voted with the Whigs. Some were Re-
pealers, others were Nationalists, and some
were Liberals. Their status was neither above
nor below the average pretensions of those
Irish M P.s who had been virtually subsidised
since the days of the Lichfield-house com-
pact. But the opposition of many of them to
the Russell Cabinet was of a sincere character.
They dreaded the approach of a general elec-
tion, and they resolved to make themselves
conspicuous by their hatred to the writer of
the Durham Letter and to all his friends.
When they found themselves encouraged by
the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the Earl of ABERDEEN,
and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, their violence knew no
bounds. They constantly occupied the floor
of the House of Commons, and the debates of
1851 were a prolonged series of brawls, in
which not one of that party made a speech
worthy of the land whose genius and eloquence
they so miserably misrepresented and so igno-
miniously caricatured.
The Peelites, however, wanted votes. At
that time their own connection in the Lower
House mustered only about thirty members,
and they took up the notion that another
transaction of the Lichfield-house character
would be vastly to their Parliamentary ad-
vantage. Is a word, they picked up those

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