The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. SO.

Tim pet tiger, which o irworthy contemporary, the
Timm. contrived to catch in northern wilds, which it

pokes up, and excites, and causes to roar from time to
time, for the edification of the curious public, was
shown on Thursday night for the first time this sea-
son. The public will be gratified to learn that the
ferocity of its roar is undiminished ; the prodigious
length and sharpness of its claws uncut; the uncouth
energy of its gambols, and the elasticity of its aping,
unmatched ; and, that altogether, a finer specimen of
savage nature was never exhibited: on this side of the
Atlantic. _ _

The moment that the word Poor-law is displayed
to this animal, it is seized with the most ungovern-
able fury, so great indeed, that, even when left at
liberty to fly at the obnoxious object, it is so pare-
lysed by the excess of its own rage, that it remains
unable even to tear and to devour its chosen prey.
It still, however, has abundant power and will to
scratch and terrify by-standers, so that a visit to the
menagerie of St. Stephen's is by no means a safe
amusement. It is, nevertheless, astonishing what
crowds such spectacles attract and interest, hew long
and contentedly people will listen and gaze upon the
mere display of animal propensities ; and that whilst
the comedie d'intriyue of the Spanish marriages is
unable to draw an audience, the theatre is crowded in
order to mark the gambols of the King of the Felines.
Of what possible interest is it to the empire to
ascertain whether the Keighley Board of Guardians
did or did not sanction a system of out-door relief—
did or did not gratify the attorneys of that town in
the profits of litigation? Were these facts proved,
what is there so monstrous in the accusation to one
proud of his enmity and opposition to the Poor law ?
What is there so "crushing," or so nefarious in
the charge, as should make a man transform him-
self into a tiger in order to repel it? Is such an
object worthy the conspiring of Secretaries of State
and Poor-law Commissioners ? Is it worth occupying
the time of the house, when famine and national dis-
tress, and international quarrels, claim attention and
discussion ?

" It is a scandalous House of Commons quarrel,"
exclaims Mr. DISRAELI. How scandalous, then, for
the House of Commons to take up the public time
with it, and form itself into committees and debating
clubs to discuss the particular merits of commissioner
and sub-commissioner, as if the great parliament of

the nation was nothing but an inqUest ailed to sit on
the character of official underlings ! The House of
Commons very wisely appointed a committee to
inquire into the abuses of the Andover union.
It sat for weeks, interrogated numbers, and
has published a library comprised in two vo-
lumes. In these two volumes there are a few
grains of information about the Andover poor,
but volumes about the conduct of Mr. PARR Ent the
merits, the tempers, the literary or non-literary habits
of Mr. LEWIS or Mr. CHADWICK. We thought the
age of personal novel-writing was over, and we never
dreamed that it should have been exploded by Mr.
COLBURN, in order to be revived by the House of
Commons. _

Take any administration in any country under the
sun; take your Treasury, your Home-office, your
Colonial-office, your any office, in which differences
have arisen between chiefs and subordinates: let their
quarrel be made public. Appoint a committee to sift
the matter. Encourage the clerks to inform against
their superiors, cross-question the superiors, so that
they may implicate e►ch other, and make use of the
unguarded expressions of one to tantalise and excite
the other. Let their administration not be a compact
one, confined in a great measure to a central spot;
but let it be such a one as must employ confidential
agents, entrusted with the fullest powers and the
utmost latitude in remote districts, far from
cognisance and control. Let these agents have to
operate upon bodies independent of them, jealous of
them. Let them have not merely to apply a
fixed law, but to shape and fashion, straighten
and bend this law. Let these agents not
be tied to the task, but be chosen from any rank of
life, and with any prospects in it. If, with such
materials: and such duties, anomalies and confu-
sion, neglect and overstrictness be not produced in
different places, and at different times, then man is
not man.

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Mr. ACKINNON inquired if the government would Willism‘.l_~._lo4oss,,
object to make a grant of money to ootland, as they had rig.4.7T.'nCr '"Ll"'"'''''"
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wood emmy ... . tbliddle Clardor Books moo of the Poor-law Commissioners that might not be Baltic trades h
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Sir G. GREY said there hind, as yet, been no application Ad. gansabay •Lanaroost Cumberland 2OOO their duties and their power. That which weighs increased. 11
on the subject; but when there should be it would certainly M. Aneroid stzongeEt against them, perhaps, is their dismissal of of our old Ante
be entertained. (Hear, hear.) and Map
assistant commissioners. Yet what a task it must Independence,
Mr. E. ELLICE would be glad to know if the right hon. Anne Corte .. ... telt n- Salop
baronet would object to lay on the table an account of all '' . "Mr e.e!er 12ele have been to choose from the ranks of life many our remaining
monies paid to assist the Scotch? I 1 Dealt Maim, win men capable of performing such delicate functions. illustrates the
Sir O. GREY believed there had only bean three in- ‘„__... „ Wanborough, When selected with ever so much care, how often laws upon e
stances; but he was quite ready to produce such accounts. ''''''' k. ';',,—...—•, sake/crow must they have proved unfit—and unfit, not from any colonies on I
Mr. BOUVERIE hoped that expectations as to a grant of no. D0„.6„--Ta .104201n,,....5011 Beret' 74°2 defect, but from inaptness of character, for their part(- almost a dead
• money for the purehase of seed would sot be raised, only to Rer.Altert Mangles et ' ''''''''''''
be disappointed. (gear, hear,) Guildford ...
Wetheral and cular functions? over-amiability in one case, error strictly enfort
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Sir G. GREY laid that every precaution had been taken, I the-Forest- .... ' who are to be dismissed for such reasons, the true Mr, WSKISK
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