The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DONLIN, MAIICII 24.
Complimentary addresses continue to pour in on
Lord Eglinton. In many of them the public bodies
from which they emanate have had the good feeling to
refer in a grateful spirit to the benefits which they
had received from his Excellency's predecessor; and
there arc few public bodies in Ireland which have not a
long list of such favours to acknowledge. The Royal
Irish Academy, in their addrese presented yesterday,
made thankful mention of the splendid building
which they have obtained for their institution from
government through the intervention of Lord Cla-
rendon. The address of the College of Physicians
was eloquent on the subject of knightly escutcheons
and heraldic mottoes, as if the learned gentleman
who prepared it supposed that these came best
within the scope of his Excellency's uaderstandiug ;
and they also refer to the question of centralisation,
"joyfully recognising in his Excellency's appoint-
ment a pledge of the abandonment of that system
whose blighting influence has already fallen so
heavily upon this land." They failed, however, to
draw his Excellency out on this point, as ho makes
no allusion whatever to it in his reply.
Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., arrived in Youghall yester-
day, for the purpose of canvaming the electors.
Sautukris News Letter says : "We understand
that the Blue Ribbon, vacant by the death of the late
Duke of Cambridge, was given to the Marquis of
Donegal by the late government before their retire-
ment from o±ce."

'ARY REFORM.

(Preis the Deity News.)

Mr. Hume brings forward this evening his annual
motion for reform. It is probably the last appeal
that will be made to the expiring parliament on be-
half of the unrepresented millions who loyally obey
the laws whereby this great empire is governed, and
who contribute to the vast amount of taxation which
fills its exchequer. Mat response will this appeal
evoke ? How many on the eve of dissolution will
deliberately record their votes against the great prin-
ciple of Mr. HUSE% motion, that all who are rate-
able householders ought, in justice and sound policy
to have a voice in the nomination of men to sit and
act on their behalf in the legislature?
This parliament is upon its death-bed. If any rag
of conscience still remains, it must feel that during
the five years that have elapsed since it was
called into existence it has done but little for the
people. Truly may it collectively exclaim, " We
have left undone those things which we ought to
have done, and we have done those things which we
ought not to have done." some partial and frag-
mentary measures of economy have, indeed, bees
effected, and some obnoxious taxes have, it is true.
been abrogated since 1847. But no guarantee for
the permanence of these or any
.other benefits has
been secured. An accidental division in a thin house
has thrown the reins of rule into the bands of the
most unpopular and selfish of the oligarchic parties
in the state. Already a reversal of all that has been
gained during the last 10 years, whether under the
administration of Sir ROBERT Peal. or of Lord Joint
Iteastu., is openly threatened ; and should bribery
and intimidation be sufficiently successful at the
ensuing election, there is no assignable limit to
the extent or the rapidity of tory reaction
which may legislatively ensue. And what would
constitute the requisite guarantee against the
possibility of public affairs in this country oscillating
continually between die two extremes of indolent
security and passionate change—between political
stagnation and violent agitation? What but the
coniltitutional concession of the undoubted right of
all the tax-paying heads of families in the realm to
expire their wishes in the choice of members to
serve in parliament? With such a right established
it were coaffiaeselly impossible for any cabal of lan I-
=larrairsar *antis et nmerous, to contemp
a mass fler taxing the people's food or
be the jpropsteatin of say ether enti-matiO late
sal
deign wham _ It is this rallied beariag sod
seep of 'label Debra that we have always relied on,
me the mess wired( its Mem* ma be, and
amnredly will esease or later be aeeeepiWsed The
airman sad theoretical segment toe raisin we do
not dire to discredit by any mum Far ban it.
We think it of infinite re that the hilosophy of
history sad_ the philegopitg ed pryer s»sinerrhe as
tiny fay our of the widget -penible bees for free
in a civilised sosegamity, girl& be eon-
otaatly appealed to, to cheer the wavering, to elevate
the narrow-minded, and to brags dignity and sem-
nehensivenese into the dimension of popular Mho.
But in the mein, we repeat it, we rely upon the com-
ma nage bet whisk mw be put by ob*ters in the
phone ems &doe 1 and viii may be substantially
end reginotly answered is the words equal jeers—
=:and abundance--live and let live, We
11 and fair remain tation of the people
r a more to an rd. What end ? The as-
✓isme et rats, the upilithg al the bulk ef the
lacamitro mai in erestselanat :
entablielmentel rah seviiion
he pepsine , ag k is market a berengh-
HSI= of Cremem w% never make--
ra =E b the lightish( of Mer's load mad
the aleapenin y g farther el Ili that ministers to
the maisienern and enbouhhmost of life—ed eon-
= =l:abga thoLdomm:ise of distreet end
ere at the premst memos& Med.
toilingmaltitaiss
Far the sake of the Wears gad opulent chaos
themselves, It were well Mat the seesegity of repro-
menielive reform should be admetriedged in time.
The dqs et mimes are met interminable, and
afterimage seeded wag to recur.
alert:rift greed& and warm geseados
may par way,
other esentrige are fill of each exampiek god air
hresligot ezelneine would do well to raise es
the bag= theme anode lemelk ere it be tee late.
Let meths of the arks]
estreaty to takaimiz Islkilheard on its own
behalf IR the legitimise be added to-night to the
vibrated gets with what that entreaty has here-
tease bees met, mad is what temper will the
anntry receive the tidings a few weeks hence that
• mew parliament is about to be convened? Will'
the sea-electing many hear with indifference the
vain et authority calling lapin them to " stand
acids,' while the select and too often sale-
alio few are invited to enact the miser
aigeltny of electing representatives of the
It was bad enough to trite thus with pepsin
when the many could neither read as versad
when journalism, in its modern sense, did not exist'
it was dangerous enough to do so when in all Eng-
land there were but some half score cities containing
a great mass of inhabitants living by their daily
labour ; bat what was questionable then as smatter
of conservative policy, has now become unquestion-
ably perilous, and little lam than insane.
We trust, at all events, that the faithful band who
through evil report and good report have sustained
against overwhelming odds the people's cause in the
present parliament, will to-night testify once more
their unswerving fidelity to right and bath,

by recording their votes in favour of Mr. Hurin's
motion for a rate-paying franchise, triennial parlia-
ments, and the ballot.

MINES.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The market for English mines remains without
much alteration in prices. There is a strong demand
for West Alfreds at 14/ to 15 per share, with no
sellers. Tremaynes are in request at 241. Alfred
I Consols, sellers at 18! ; Cuberts, buyers at 2f, with
few shares offering; Gaffer are flat at 225.; West
Providence are on the market at 55, without buyers.
Some large purchases have been made in Pembroke
and East Crinois at 3 and 3{ per share. We also
hear of transactions having taken place in South
Caradon at 110; Wheal Penton, at 6, 61 ; West Ding
Dons, at 6,6{; Wheal Arthur, at 11, 114; Wheel
Harriett, at 1 la; Wheal Crebon, at 13; North Ro-
bert, at 3 to 3i*; East Russell, at 3/ to 4; Cobre, at
301: Copiapo, at 5; and Anglo-Mezican Mint shares
at 23: to 4.
The tone of the market is steady, but with less
business doing.
In the Stock Exchange there was little busineis in
the gold mining shares, and prices were quiet. This
was settling day in Australasian shares. The fol-
lowing are the latest non-official quotations :—Colo-
nial gold, 5-16 to 7-16 prem.; Melbourne, par to /
prem.; Port Phillip, par to prem. ; Lake Bathurst,
1-16 to 3-16 prem. ; Victoria, par to / prem. ; Quarts
Rock, dia. to 4 preen. ; New Granada, 1-16 to 3-16
prem.
The advice, received by the last steamer are very
favourable to the Lake Superior copper mines.
Nearly all these adventures are described as looking
well, and promise in a year or two to afford an
ample return for the labour and capital expended
upon them. Extensive explorations continue in pro-
gress, and, though in some cases unsuccessful "loca-
tions" have been fixed upon, the general results have
fully met the expectations of the miners. Of the
score of mining companies now in various stages of
development, one-third of the stock is held by Beaton
and New England shareholders, Pittsburg also having
a large interest in this business,which is daily attaining
increased importance. At the Cliff Mine the miners
arc now ,toping a large main of copper, which ex-
tends to • distance of 80 feet, and in the south part
of the mine masses are to be seen everywhere. This
company is expected to send to market during the
present year no less than from 1,000 to 1,200 tons of
copper. It is stated that the mass of copper above
referred to will yield 60 per cent. of metal. This
company now employs 226 men. At the Minnesota
Mine are produced from 40 to 50 tons of copper per
month. Shares in this company, with 30 dole. paid,
are now worth 150 dots. The Ridge Lead Mining
Company are also in operation hero, and produce
about 2 tons of lead per day, all the necessary works
for raising and smelting the ore having been erected.
A caleulatson has been made, on the basis of the pre-
sent yield, that there is over 6,000,000 dole. worth
of lead between the two shafts, but this estimate is
of course conjectural.