The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 14.
TSB Lemeastor elation has attracted its full Aare
el notice from sW contemporaries. Although our
wishes would have bees with the most liberal candi-
date, we shall not Imitate the example some of them
have set in virulently abusing, or affecting malevolent
contempt for, his antaggonists. Sir &BE LWEit LWOW
le a distingeshed writer and a liberal politicians
Mr. Peet is, we believe, a very studious, amiabe,lmi
intelligent young man. But we cannot congratulate
himOn the sense or learning of his supporters. The
electioneering article written in the Chronicle, the
grim of tle PEEL pariy, was composed in a strain of
Inicrous cavil towards one,
and of useataning brute-
UV towards another, of hs competition that send
only provoke disgust. Mr. PUILLIMOSII is celled
journal not. friendly to his claims " a uses et
pushed abilities." His works have been mash ink
and highly praised by very competent ritics. His
on law reform and hie " History of the It
lpamphlats
eas Law" show that he is a When,
of no cosonima
attainments and capacity. When, therefore. the
Times, the fanatical advocate of the ohn
eso e&
and, as far as it dares to be. the
vile worshipper of rank, and the Chrunick, the
flippant slanderer of CAVAIONAC, think to get rid
of each a man's opinions by saying that they
an of no value, or by appending to tho name of a
polished and leaned writer the epithet" shal low," and
ethers still coarser and more inapplicable, they rely
.a
geed deal on the implicit faith and bad taste of their
readers. Aftc- all, as SlotrAtiis e amused himself
with the stupid malevolence of critics who attacked
opinions which they supposed were his, but which
were in reality those of Pt. tit) and CICERO, Mr. PHU,
Lams may wile when he sees the opinions of
HAYJDLM, of Ltlllll3, and of MILTON, de-cubed in
a paroxysm of rage as the effusion of a " beer-house
chartist." A church that appeals to that repel which
in its letter as well as in its spirit inculcates disregard
of wealth, and insists upon giving to its ministers
pompons titles, and to several of them incomes ex-
ceeding ten thousand a year, may well be said to in-
sal t the reason of mankind in the 19th century,
as MILTON thought it insulted that reason in the
17th.
Bet Mr. PUIr.LIMORE has withdrawn; and as Mr.
PEEL is the adverstry of the liberal candidate, we
proceed to consider his address. If we were disposed
to imitate the funny writer in the Chnoniefr we might
find in it abundant scope for verbal criticism. The
third paragraph is altogether ungrammatical
Ism deeply Impressed with the serenity of a searching
logniry into every branch of oar expenditure. and of every
letrewehmect which may be compatible with the public
misty—with the adequate protection o: our widely extended
ivemeaarlitl intereste—end with the firm maiiitenaoce of the
notiosal credit.
But the dextrous ambiguity with which both that
and the next paragraph are expressed is open to far
more grave objections:
The necerity of a wits economy is the more urgent in my
emisioo, b,awe I feel it incumbent elm me to resist any
attempt (if such be made) to reimpose taxation upon those
articles of foreign import which con.utute the materials
eu
which our manufacturing industry is employed, m which
WWI jets the sesistence, or administer to the meat, of
the greet WSW Of lite community ; %taloa it should be deemed
prudes*, ex mon extensive exp. r;ence of the effecle of free
was
measures, to adopt • different hue of policy—a result,
however, which I do not anticipate.
Nothing can be lees like the frankness which sits so
strangers, whose confidence the writer is soliciting.
lithe electors of Leominster did not know Mr. Pages
opinions before, what do they know about them
now ?
bind the writer
These passages mean nothing—they
to nothing. 'they fill up a certain quantity of paper,
and that is all ; and yet in no other part of his address
has Mr. PEEL even alluded to any question. Waal,
there ever a candidate who could not tell hisconstitu.
its that he was the advocate " for any retrenchment
compatible with the national safety "? Might not
DODDINGTON, Of BOOBY, Or Mr. WILLIAM HOl.Milk,
or Mr. CROKLR, have said the same thing ?
Not a syllable does Mr. PEEL say about the Irish
Endowmeut, or about Ballot—about the Francium—
about Education—queetions with which every shop,
and many cottages, in the empire are now ringing.
Truly, if the electors of Leominster are
with so vague and meagre a statement, Mr. PEEL
slight have saved himself the trouble of addressing them
altogether. We regret to see a young man so an-
nounce himself to public life. But we do not impute
to him the composition of this addreaL There is a
jesuitical ambiguity, a labousd mysticism about it,
which long practice alone can give, which CARDWELL
might envy, and in which dinntrromE would delight:
--" Nihil apertum, nihil simplex." As WI te DRAM said Of
PETE, "that he verily believed he could speak a king's
off hand," Mr. PEEL, if he was the entitle of
rehaddrees, might rival the most famous adepts in
the grand art of the PEEL school—that of " with many
weeds making nothing understood ; " and, in a short
time. might hope to repeat off hand a state paper like
GM famous despatch to Sir YARDLEY WILMOT.
We trust, however, that the electors of Leominster
will show, in spite of Mr. AettertunnT, that this is
not the way in which their favour is to be won—that
they will rise as one man to vindicate the character
al their borough—to prove that they are not the vas.
sale of their opulent netghbonr, and secure at least
cos member by whom, in the ensuing parliament,
they may be manfully sad faithfully represented.

Ws wonder meth that the streaming lights, expe-
rimentally projected from the summit of metropolitan
ealamns, and exhibited at the tail of railway trains,
be,. sot set the gas companies pondering upon the
seeemity of meeting the multiplied complaints which
seise on every side, against the price io the Bre: in-
dium, bat latterly against even the quality of the
dement which they distribute and vend. The
CRANCELLOB or TUE EXCHZQUIR, bard hearted ais
be is, has been lenient apoa shop lights. The gee
people are Mee inexorabk ; and in this time of the
year, whoa London, or any commodity in London. is
visible far a very Om hours by daylight, it ia
important. that the citreous should be allowed to see
cheaply.
The facts adduced at elate meeting in iltshopegate ;
them stated in the able report of the City Solicitor,
read at a recent meeting of the commissioners of
sewers, u reported in the E.epress of the 15th of
November, together with the speeches delivered at
the meeting of Tuesday, in Anderton's Hotel ;
have placed the public in full premien of the
grievances of which all have to complain. The
annual rental for gas from the City of London
amounts to 150,0001., for a length of main of only 60
milts, being beyond 2,0001. for each mile of main. A
return, we believe, unexampled in amount, °Guider-
ing the limits from which it is derivable.
In Liverpool, where the charge for gas—twenty-
five per cent. superior in illuminating power to the
London gas—is 43 dd. per 1,000 feet, it appeei s,
from an inquiry before the parliamentary commis-
sioners, that, with a length of main of 150 miles, the
net rental of the Liverpool Gas-light Company was
39,614/. oe. sd. And yet this company was paying
ten ver cent. to its shareholders. What then must be
the profit* of the City companies at 6e. per 1,000
feet —and receiving, as they are, nearly four times
the annul amount of the rental of the Liverpool can-
Ry, with less than half the extent of mains extend-
over their districts.
t may, perhaps, be urged that the difference be-
tween the pries of coal as charged in London and
Liverpool, te a meson for the higher prices charged
for gas in the former. This argument, however, in
without effeet,fur the higher price of coal in London is
more than compensated to the gas manufacturer
here by the higher prima he receives for his residual
produce—foe mattress, the price paid by the City