The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1.

Tilt Lowtrtras have been making t;guals to
their party in the North. The signals 'are, Indeed,
of a somewhat equivocal kind, as is usted with that
astute and knowing family, but still f.ull of signifi-
cauce--done a ith a will, and ex Kenny e of a purpose.
Among the hereditary leaders o the landlords,
none have been at all times more te:tive and unscru•
pulous than these noble ewal-ewne en. When PEEL
proposed Free Trade in fuel, he had no more zealous
supportav than the angacison Lord of Whiteharen.
nem was money to be sonde of "an enlightened
and testy national But when the illus.
triousamvert went a step further, and proposed to
follow ont his irresistibleconviet ions to their logical and
legitimate results regarding food, the chivalry of the
lanvrtnita rose up within them,—the weal of an en-
dangered yeomanry became dearer to them than life,
and " Protection" became a sacred principle, para-
mount to all sordid considerations of trade. No
premises of increased exports of cotton could move
these high-born patriots from their Protectionist
resolves. What had they to do with cotton? Only
with coal and corn. It happened, indeed, that
opal rents would be augmented by freedom
of trade, while corn rents might be diminished :
and it happened that on the coal question
the LowtnEns " feared not the utmost competition of
the foreigner in arts and manufactures," but were
ready to lend him every facility of machinery and
fuel; while on the corn question they trembled for
the safety of the country in time of war, and for its
sanitary condition in time of peace, were liberty of
buying and selling established regarding articles of
food. But who could doubt their singleness of pur-
pose in this apparent inconsistency of conduct ? It
was pretty much the wane interesting inflection of
faith in a great philosophic truth that led the ship-
owners to rote for cheap sugar,while West India pro-
prietors could nut bring themselves to oppose the re-
peal of the navigation laws.
Restrictions on corn, however, like restrictions on
sugar and shipping. followed the fate of restrictions
on COlll. Peilites and Whigs in turn aided the
people to break one by one these bonds of manifold
monopoly wherewith their industry had long been
bound. The emancipated energies of the country
were just beginning to be applied with the habitual
temper and undisturbed intelligence of freedom,
when suddenly the chiefs of the Liberal party let
the reins slip from their hands, and with satcastic
levity suffered the old vanquished cabal of monopo-
lists to assume them. Ever since then the latter have
been chiefly engaged with internal discussions as to
the usothey might venture to make of their marvel-
lous luck in being called to office without the sem-
blance of a desire to see them there on the part of
either Court, Parliament, or people. The keen sense
of the ludicrous early impelled Dtsitatu to try and
let off whatever remained of buoyant hope an the
great Protection balloon, which, having most unex-
pectedly carried him up the heights of office, he only
wished to see hauled in and folded up decently as an
historical heirloom. The small head of the smallest
of Secretaries of State for the Colonies was, on the
contrary, rendered utterly dizzy by its elevation.
Sir Jotts's reputation as principal protector of
the Planters, and foremost advocate of dear sugar,
was. he felt, at stake. So he rushed into
a pledge in the house, crc he was many days in office,
to alter the Sugar Act of lttfB, with the same prag-
matical tone of rashness and presumption as he soon
after plunged in a despatch into the troubled waters
of the Bay of Fundy. Dripping, and well•nigh
drowned, lie has been dragged out of the one; it
remains to be seen whether his colleagues will agree
to his attempting next session to maintain his ground
as respects the other. It is no longer a secret that
there are two factions in the cabinet, between whom
there rages a very pleasant confidential war of remi-
niscences and reproaches. Some two or three are said
to adhere to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who,
strong in the persuasion of his own ind. sabilitv,
jests at the conscientious resolve of his bull. col-
leagues to perform their impossible promises, and to
refrigerate the ice that thawed last year. But the
bull-heads are numerous and undaunted. If the
drought of July and the rain of August don't bring
up the price of wheat to 605., they are determined
that they will raise it, by an Act of Parliament in that
behalf duly made and provided. Round this hopeful
standard are ranged in compact array PARING-
TON, WALPOLE, HLRRIES, HARDWICICE, and
SALISBURY ; with many of less degree of
the CHRISTOPHER, KELLY, and BBILESPORD genus.
And between these and their enterprising antago-
nists it is easy to imagine how a wily and weather-
wisejobber like the noble Pummel- of the COUNCIL,
would find occupation in the exercise of those inde-
scribable hat ineffable arts that are used in what is
called "keying the party together." None can
doubt ittl• way his heart,—or whatever be its
more semeate sass,—incliess Lord LONIDALE is
one of those who has too sere to lass is a slime to
persist is any course that wed& risk OM Bat if a
tax upon sea esometbe MA he wield like to make
its abasement agviemsre to trade vpm t---so that
stole ibe seism phew of a gmedi ermgromise,
Awl solderers& eel equitable efergemst so
sari of taxation amid be tam elf the
shoulders of his elese, to be pined ea theme
of the democracy, as weal& folly sciahhn ler
what he affects to have leg by the of the
corn laws. To the sable earl it little into
which pocket the political primesemy is put.
When any dull, honest bailed sob wilease the
new adjustment w 1 Tele the Amore who still con-
tinue to pay the alined,.peNdes like his lord-
ship answers with as lemist den, as though he
wondered what the hogialrerredlyessent. The wrap
of:the tenant-farmers are dilemma, be worked opiate
parti-coloured fabrics to be of as mead=
may serve ; but to set modes* umenel-
ling the subtle web in the eerie= desire
to know exactly what its materiels are,'
would, in the estimation of a man like Lord Loss-
DALE, be an act of consummate folly. The tree wis-
dom is to " keep the party together" and " keep the
farmers in hand" by telling them they need not
look for any great good to come of egrieultural im-
provements, or that there is likely to be any induce-
ment in future for the growth of grain. To sa all
this in a single speech might be too
pointed; so the squibs are distributed among the dif-
ferent members of the family. The noble earl
himself takes charge of the explosion of the reap-
ing machine and the use of liquid manure,
by both of which he declared at the recent
agricultural dinner at Whitehaven he bad
f been totally gulled; while the hope-
Imemes of future tidage farming. wee mournfully
sanooDeed on the same occasion by Colonel
IaTTIER, M.P., who assured hishearersbe hadcome
lotbe resolution of turning all his lands into sheep-
leeks. The drift and aim of such declarations it as
▪it very hard to diseern. It is deemed expedient
be.tore the meeting of parliament to fan once mare
into the semblance of life the old Protectionist dis-
content, in order to make better terms for the land-
lords. Will the farmers of Cumberland be duped by
such tnmsparent artifices?

Ora reeeilers meet fail to have remarked tho con-
tinual ampsavance in our celumns of a piece of intelli-
fence thatLight be stereotyped. ..The canibridge
University Coomission had a meeting yesterday."
The
portion dour paper which contains this reiter-
ated announcement would be incomplete without it,
and the number of y.aisterdays chronicled and to be
chronicled threatens to be each as to promise to the
Commission an age equal to that of a Chancery suit
under the venerable F.LDON.
Now. with all due respect to the Commissioners,
they are losing their time. TNI evidence they will
have it in their power to being forward will be,
as the French have it, like maenad after
dinner. The Oxford Commission has exhausted the
subject. No one after Mr. STANLEY'S able report
seed be at any loss for materials upon which a judg-
ment may be fenoded on the University questiun.