The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 3,1, I

ritee thp parties who are now trying to re-
unite the middle class and working class reformers
with a view to obtain a further reform of parliament
have power to carry their plans into effect remains to
be seen. But it is already apparent that they have
e
power to set the great Globepp in commotion.
Monday evening that journal was delivered of a
philippic against them which combines the autho-
Mauve dignity of Mormadeke illayug with the
aristocratic graces of My Lord Duke, in "High Life
Below Stairs."
It is against Mr. GEORGE WILSON, of Manchester.
and his colleagues in Newars-buildings, that this first
effusion of the Globe's conservative zeal, wrath, and
terror is more especially directed. If bitter words
can frighten them from their purpose we shall hear
no more of them ; for it may be said of the writer in
the Globe, as truly as of another scold of pretty much
the same calibre, that there is " gall" enough in his ink
though he write with a goose pen.
First they are told that they are faithless promise-
breakers; and the charge is thus made out. The
council of the Anti-Corn Law League denied that it
I r is too much the habit of our foreign policy to was a political association ; they pledged themselves
assume a proud and bullying attitude at the corn- that the league should be immediately and for ever
mencement of any conjuncture, and then to back out abolished as loon as the corn law was repealed; but
of it with pride humbled and perhaps interests the gentlemen who lately assembled in Manchester to
thwarted, at the time when the natural consequence take counsel as to the expedience of joining in the
of such menaces would be action. Ministerialists, as movement for further parliamentary reform were
well as protectionists, have asserted, and still continue members of the council of the League, and they
to assert, that England is bound by the treaty of 1720 met in Newall'a.builige, where the council held
to maintain the crown of Denmark in posses- their meetings. " Against this proceeding," Mayo!)
sion of the Duchy of Schleswig. We maintain the second valorously declares "we enter our pro-
that no such obligation exists ; that the treaty of test." He accuse s the gentlemen who met last week
1720 merely contemplated the uniting the ducal por- in Newall's-buildinge of " wishiug to use the organi-
tion of Schlesnig to the reet of the province, and that action established by the League' —that organisation
the entire scope and purpose of the triaty of 1720 having been years ago broken up and ecattered to all
ended eighty years ago. the winds of heaven. lie speaks of "money sub-
It is tune, however, for those who maintain the scribed and co-operation given' to that organisation,
obligation of Englatd to aid Denmark, to be stirring. as if that money had not all been spent for the pur-
The duchy of Schleswig is not only threatened, but poses of the League, and fully and fairly accounted for
invaded, by the Prusaians and Hanoverians. long ago. And he is indignant at this misapplication
A battle has been fought in the duchy, and of non-existent money and mis-direction of a non-ex-
the soldiers of the King of DF.NMARK have been intent organisation. Marneehrke would seek to make
driven from Schlesw ig itself, and from all the public believe that the pledge to dissolve the League
the southern portion of the province. If Lord as soon as its aim should be attained bound every
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be consistent, therefore, he will come to member of it for all his future life to abstain from
parliament forthwith to demand a credit of a couple taking
.part in any political movement whatever.
of millions, ins order to despatch eome ten thousand Having established the first charge to him own satie-
British troop to the defence of the Danish faction, the copyist of the great hero of "'rho Wreck
peninsula. We know too well how parliament, or at Ashore" goes on to denounce the step contemplated
least how the country, would receive such a proposal, by the Manchester reformers as illegal. The original
to entertain the least fear of its being made. What League, he tells them, " trenched upon the very verge
we deprecate is, the government of the country of constitutional right—it was barely legal." It was
gratuitously coming forward to declare itself bound tolerated, indeed, by the legislature, because "it sacs
de what it knows full well it durst not and cannot ceeded in avoiding anything like a position hostile to
attempt. the government." The reader is left to infer that the
What Prussia and the Germans contemplate for the new movement must, of necessity, be hostile to the
present if the severance of the southern or German goverr ment—ringlire, the ministry—and that, there-
portion of Schh swig from the northern, and its an- fore, it goes beyond „the verge of constitutional
nexation to Holstein as a province of the German right," and is illegal. It remains to be seen whether
Confederation. In the state of things prevailing in ministers are or are not hostile to a further reform in
Germany it is manifest that the rights of sovereigns parliament. There are many among their friends—
will be more and more limited, and the fealty and and these neither the least honest nor the least intelli-
support of every outlying province demanded impe- gent of that number--who cherish the belief that
noevely, not for their sovereigns, but for the confedera- ministers are sincerely anxious to effect administra-
tion. The annexation, therefore, of Schleswig to five and financial reforms, which the temper predo-
Holstein is a virtual severance of it from Den- minant in the legislature renders it inexpedient for
mark, even under the present royal
thendasty, and them to attempt. Iffrom-beis opinion be correct, the new
this must become a total severance at extinction movement, so far ing hostile to the present
of that dynasty. If, therefore, England is still government, aims, in fact, at bringing about, by con-
bound by ireaty. to keep Schleswig and Denmark to- stitutional means, a constitutional change that would
gether, war is inevitable, sooner or later. And we afford them free scope for realising their good inten-
are as deeply entangled in the petty and internal tions. The parties stirring in this new movement do
politics of Germany, as we were an hundred years not reek to "assume anything like a position hostile to
ago, when England was made the mere cat's-paw of government." Government may assume a position
Hanover. hostile to them ; but even in that case we have yet to
'there must, however, be some secret reasons and learn that the sanction of the government for the
!Secret hopes connected with the assumption of this time being is in this country required to invest a
attitude by the British government, which present political movement with the character of legality.
to it much greater prospect of advantage, and Laying aside the tone of the egregious constable,
much less of risk, than strike the public eye. the Globe next assumes the mincing language of the
It is, no doubt, first of all eupposed that by our fine gentleman below stairs. The " combination of
covering Denmark, Prllseia will desist, and come to merchants and manufacturers" are reminded, with •
moderate terms, and that there will be no war.. This, pretty scorn, that they are venturing beyond their
we think, a mistaken calculation. For, though Prue- depth. " The ledger politicians having succeeded in
sia may not be extreme in her demand's, she must at the battle of facts and figures, should hesitate before
least insist on the annexation to Holstein of the they rush into a contest of sympathy and sentiment."
anthem and German portion of Schleswig, which That is a task fur their betters to which they are by
implies the future separation of this region front the nature incompetent. Be it so : for in truth the
crown of Denmark. And then, however mild Prussia question now mooted is eminently one of facts and
may be to treat with, Germany when united in a figures. The thesis maintained by the men of
compact federation will be by no means so easily the new movement is this : the industrial
managed. And the putting ourselves as antago- classes (both capitalists and operatives) are
aisle to their rising power at its very birth, appears to overtaxed—overtaxed positively to feed a dile
be one of the most impolitic acts that an English mi- honest and wasteful public expenditure ; over-
ulster could commit taxed comparatively, inasmuch as the class which
But the traditionally wise men of the Foreign- composes one branch of the legislature, and elects a
office plead, that we must not abandon Denmark ; majority of the other slip the burden of taxation in
for if we do so, she will call in the aid of Russia. a great measure off their own shoulders, and on theirs.
And the Czar, it is said, will thus obtain possession All attempts to obtain redress for this injustice at the
of the Sound, and be able to exclude our vessels of handed the legislature, as at present constituted, have
war and commerce from the Baltic. failed. L',. o, must try to have the constitution of
After all, what is this great maxim worth, that the legislature improved. In this there is nothing of
the Sound must be kept in the possession of one "sympathy and sentiment"—nothing of " metaphysi-
of the smaller powers, and that this power must cal declamation"—but a plain, downright practical
be kept independent in order to its keeping open to us problem, to be worked out by the common sense and
the Sound ? What a world of precaution, and expendi- stubborn perseverance of the English people.
tare, and policy, for a trifling purpee ! The coin- The gabble of the Globe is silly enough, but not quite
merce of the Baltic must henceforth be carried on so harmless as silly. There is among all classes of Eng-
with two countries—with Russia and with Prussia— lishmen, a sturdy dislike of being dictated to, or led
the latter likely to be incorporated with Germany. by the nose • and there is, among the middle
With anyother, or smaller power, we can trade with- classes in pailicular, a large alloy of unreasoning
out penetrating 'the Sound. The future guardianship timidity and snolibishneu. To the first-mentioned
of the Sound rests not with little Denmark, but most respectable quality the Globe insidiously ad-
with the two great Baltic powers, Russia and Ger- dresses itself, when it seeks to represent the new
many. What Lord PALMERSTON proposes is neither movement as got up by a few unemployed agitators:
more nor less than to keep the Sound open in despite when it talks about " separating from the legitimate
of Germany and Russia, in order to trade with those and spontaneous expression of sentiment,
maysny appear-
very Germans and those very Rusaians. Why, the ance of uniformity of opinion which result from
two empires have but to close their ports by a decree the working of an organiaation formed at a different
in order to render the passage of the Sound by British time, and for another purpose." To the timid it holds
vessels of commerce an idle and useless operation. out the indistinct threat, couched in the implied
But then Germany and Russia never can and never charge against the movement of being illegal ; to the
will commit so foolish an stet as to close their ports anobbith principle it appeals when it sneers at the
against as. We believe nisi. But, if so, they will idealedger politicians," presuming to speak of
not chew the Sound. matters which pertain to " sympathy and sentiment."
There remains the contingency of war, daring Be it remembered that the journal which employs
which it would be very desirable to have ingress for these dirty and disreputable weapons enjoys in some
our fleets in the Baltic. Our fleets, however, are quarters the reputation of being at times a channel for
worth very little, if they cannot in war force this communicating ministerial wishes and intentions to
ingress for themselves. NELSON has shown how it is the public. How much there may be of truth in this
to be done .: and our naval service has for- opinion we have no satisfactory means of judging.
gotten neither the exmple nor the cou- But as far as our own experience goes, we confess to
rage of Nimsev. Surely any conceivable having detected symptoms of an indirect and unavowed
expenditmo for a waxlike forcing of the Sound, on connexion. I%ie Tini.o has of late been more than
the most improbable contingency of its being ever once employed to feel the public pulse ; and
Mummery, would be immeasurabl less thanes war we have more than once had occasion to
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.
IN the HOUSE of COMMONS yesterday 25 members
only being prescnt at 4 o'clock, it stood necessarily
adjourned until this day at 12.

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Glob. studs to the foss. For many months ruit
we liavalessii
_lbe Gies employed to
.ajipropriate,
without.sataowasysaut, intareefing articles of intil-
ligence Ilipat out albums in eider that the Tines,
might nest 414 quote them as ftom the Globe. It is
not Ishpase that the paper thus systomatioally
used as a buesbont to' emery stolen goods to the Mies
may ciocasionally be employed to smuggle into the
public market articles of a nature wLich the Times
would be ashamed to print. In short, it is possible
that if the Times be, as is generally believed, used by
government, the Glob* is an turn used by the Tunes.
Thus in .‘ The Rivals," we find Mr. Fay keeping an
errand-boy upon whom he can bestow the reversion
1 of the kicks he receives in his own person from Cop-
r fajta Absolute. _

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PARIS, Ttissnay, 104 a.m.
Some ten days ago I sonanneed to you that the
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potion would take placeat theerplrstion of two months
in-
demnity to the aliave-owners should be left to
the assembly. I' am not aware that this an-
siouncement has appeared in any other jour-
nals of London or Paris, except the Daily. News
and Ezpress. The decree appears to-day in the
Muniteur, in subatance and details identical with
what I communicated to you.
00frolmoniteohe
roo date
pootofictheley , pu
andb licathtio ote t
the of the
question decree
oinfh eA
few days
_ago a person informed mo that the
government had resolved to decree a particular fashion
of dress for the members of the Assembly, the coat,
the waistcoat, and the unmentionables to have a
particular cut and colour, the waist to be decorated
with a silk sash fringed with gold, and so forth.
I assured my informant that some wag had been
hoaxing him, and declined to incorporate his in-
teresting communication with my despatches. The
following decree, however, which actually appears in
the columns of the Moiliterer :his evening, proves that
the matter was no joke :
" The Provisional Government, considering that the
principle of equality implies uniformity of costume
for the citizens called to the same functions, decrees :
The representatives of the people shall wear a black
coat, a white waistcoat with lappets, and a tricoloured
sash with gold fringe. They shall also wear in the
buttonhole on the left side a red ribbon, in which
shall be worked the fasces of the Republic."
It remains to be seen how the bishops, domiuican
friars, and other ecclesiastics, catholic and protestantth,
who are elected, will look when they put on e
double-breasted white waistcoat, " a la Robespierre."
The apprehensions which I have so often lately de-
scribed to prevail respecting another conflict in the
streets are daily augmented. The alarm becomes
general and not without reason. Yesterday the wall
were placarded with hundreds of thousands e
" Batches," on paper of all the colours of the rainbow
addressed to " The Conquerors of the Hostile," by
society calling itself "'the Society of the Rights t
Man and Citizen," and bearing a number of signa-
tures, among which was that of " Barbes," the Colonel
of the 12th legion of the national guard, and member
of the Assembly fur the department of the Oude.
'Chia document, after invoking the declaration of
rights of man, promulgated by Robespierre in
thus addresses what it cells the privileged classes:
" The ancient social form has disappeared;
reign of privilege has passed away. if the privileges
you claim were legally acquired by you, they will r
avail you now, for the laws which esanfer them ,
you were of your own making. Tho immense majoril
of our fellows had no share in making t,
arey therefore not obliged to respect them.heJoin
thee, for you have rued of pardon from those
have too long sacrificed ; if, however, in spite of i
offer of pardon, you still keep aloof to defend
ancient social system, you will find in the force
rank in the hour of the struggle our organised
Lions, and then there must be no more talk of pal
but of justice."
Such is the proclamation of the communists,
cited by the announcemeut of the result of
elections.
In harmony
.with this, we have a leading r
to-day in the Journal of M. Ledru Rollin, in
the mobs of Rouen, lilbeux, Limoges, tec., are'
misserated as victims, and apostrophised as the
pressed. An armed combat is openly proclaimed.
" lf you wish a republic without republicans, b
so (says La itoformA); let it be made without
But let it be made grand and beautiful, for i
thus that we wish it ; let it be made equal
fraternal, for it is thus that we proclaimed it; I
be made generous but firm, merciful but strong, I
is thus we conceived it; let it be made the
tectress and the mother of those who labour
who suffer, for it is thus we icaugurated it.
if it- be shaped in the aristocratic and bourgeoise
fashion, narrow and suspicious, selfish and ricket7
then 'to anus, citizens, for we are betrayed;
arms,' for it is not names, but principles, whi
in question : • to arms,' fur they are crushing the
which have been your conquest : • to arms,'
the holiest inspirations of humanity are miff
A little patience, however, citizens; a lit
tience: our eternal enemies will have none.
them arrive with their cortege of two Chambers,
!rage in two degrees, and laws favouring prop
and wealth. Behold them exclaiming against
muuism on the occasion of proportional taxes
every other measure favourable to the interests'
people. Behold them'."
Official returns have been obtained in Paris
members of the assembly representing 02
menu, 24 departments still remain to return
representatives.
rhe Bishop of Langres, and several ecclesi
have been elected :n the Nlorbihan.
The exclusion of M. 'fillers from the chaml
excited the comments of several of the journals.
It is understood that the members of the
who will have arrived in Paris will meet to
the formation of the provisional bureau.
Minister of the Interior visited the chand
day, and ordered the arrangements necessai
facility and conveuience of the preliminary
jugs-
'rho journals continue to be filled with
disorders in the provinces. Besides the
theatres of disturbance already announced,
this morning a report of the discover,
which had for its end serous disturbances, .
setting on fire th shipping in the port of Marseilles.
1 This affair eliceited& proclamation from the
eery of the government, and many arrests •
made when the mail left.
The entire aspect of the country indicat
absence of organised government, and where'
prevails it is the result of the voluntary
of the public, and not of force of the govei
P.S.—M. D'Appony has left Paris this i
Vienna. _
MADRID.—The Spanish mails of the
arrived, but their contents are without lot
The Queen as forgiven the arrears t
Treasury to thhe royal -household, amountiu,
a million sterling.
MADRIIN APRIL 97.—Three per Cents., 211 paper ;
own; . Five per Cents., 13i paper ; after 11., IS:, cash
paper .. after 8., 5 cash; Coupon,. 9 paper ; Bank
es. der., 99 cash, WO paper. Es on lesion.
GERMANY-----.—'fhe Cologete Gazette has
ing from Krotoschin, in the Grand Duch:
dated 23rd ult : " Yesterday a sanguine
took place between the Prussian troops
Poles, armed with scythes, off the town of
The battle lasted several hours, and ended
feat of the Poles. The Poles, who were 4,00
had 100 killed and 80 wounded. The Prussian
were only 100 in number."
A rising of the people, excited by the"
has taken place against the Jews at Pt
tails are not given, but it is stated in
Vienna that the houses of the Jews were
We read in the Vienna Gazee of th
"News hits been received from Bucharest
and from Jassy of the 14th. The cot
Jassy have tried to constrain Prince
grant reforms, and to free the country front
torate of Rosie. Sixty conspirators ent
night,States, the
thanedlibedermanty
01
e national guard.
ofdissolutionth etheorganisation Prince
ofint ht; iho
feS t
hta
under the influenceof alarm, grante,'
On the next day, encouraged probably
Russian consul, M. de Kaotzbue, he caused t
spirators to be arrested, and conducted r
escorts into Bulgaria. At Bucharest P
has declaredto the Boyards that 40,000 a..
prepared to enter the pnncipalities, adjuring
to save Wallachia from such
for frightful disaste
movement was thus stopped the present.'
The elections commenced on the
Piedmont. Among the deputies nominated
are the President of the Council, Cesar '
the celebrated Vincent Gioberti,
principal chiefs of the party
to unite Italy. Gioberti set out
from Paris, where he was in exile,
liantly received at Turin. By a decree
20, from his head-quarters at Valeggio, CI
has granted a general amnesty to t
he
the days of the 3rd and 4th of Apri
concerned will be immediately taken '
Intelligence from Egypt, under 6
19th April, states that an army of 50,
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'WE cannot think that *contemporary has discovered
the true solution of the game-law question in the pro-
position to bring the objects of squirearchical preser-
vation and sport under the penalties of the command-
ment " Thou shalt not steal." The creation of
property in that, in which all nature and the traditions
and practice of all nations have proc:aimed no pro-
perty to exist, would be a very hazardous experiment.
Such a statute would carry very little conviction to
the mind of DARBY the poacher. Notwithstanding
its enactments, he would continue to regard the sheep
which farmer Srenutsis can identify and establish
his claim to, as something very different from a hare,
which may be my lord's to-day, the squire's to-mor-
row, and the parson's the day after, and which, in all
probability, lives on turnips and potatoes belonging to
none of the three. Game has, In a live state, none
of the attributes of property : it cannot be identifiedh
;
it cannot be confined; it cannot be posseseed wit
certainty ; it cannot be transferred; it is not an object
over which human volition has power; its birth can-
not be ascertained; for its nurture no human being
is either morally or legally responsible ; on ith mnoove-
ments there is no restraint; and on its body one
has the smallest claim. What absurdity, then, to
on talk
of making it property ! Bythe same isle and the
like principle tomtits and minnows ought to be made
property. The legislati‘a would be just as rational
in their can a as in those of partridges and hares.
The ground on which it is cla med to make game
property is only partially true. It does subsist
that
on
the produce of the land; but not altogether on
produce which: is the result of agricultural cultiva-
tion. Partridges and pheasants live on grubs and in-
sects as well as on grain ; and hares consume wild
roots and leaves as well as turnipo and potatoes.
They only prefer the food of man and cattle because
it is at certain seasons more plentiful and more acces-
sible ; but rats for the same reason live in stacked
corn, and make serious inroads on it too ; but would
any one think of giving the 'squire property in them
because they lived at his tenant s expense ?
But game is food. It is so ; but it is food the pre-
servation and extension of which lessens the amount
of those sorts of food on which the great bulk of a
nation must subsist ; and it is not preserved and in-
tended as food, but as the object of sport. The
Fame
order of men who preserve pheasants preserve Coat a
likewise ; and for the very game reason : that it
makes their country residences attractive, and fur-
nishes them with rural amusements. The pretence
of game being food is therefore more untenable than
the argument that game is maintained by those who
claim the exclusive privilege of killing it.
The truth is that neither is the real reason Mr
wishing to make game property. 'rim pro
the difpoon
arises from a desire to thereby escape from fi-
culties of the game law question, which are undoubt-
\ edly great—all the greater, perhaps, because its main
evils are social rather than legislative. Though the
maintenance of morality amongst the rural popula-
tion is of far more national importance than the main
tenance of field spor us amongst their betters; field sports
I must not be undervalued nationally ; for they affect
the character of a large and influential part of the
community. The problem is how to reconcile the
two. The entire abolition of the game laws to-mor-
row would not get rid substantially of poaching ; fur
so long as game exists there will be the temptation to
kill it; and to allow the squire's land to be overrun
by all the village lads, armed in its search, would be
intolerable to the squire, injurious to society, and de-
moralising to themselves. Abolish the game tow
s,
and a more stringent trespass
law would havb
enacted; and the infringame,wgementould of
substantially
the latter,
when caused by
he poaching. To leseen the temptation to poach, much
may be done by legislation. Mr. Colt is at pre-
sent doing something, and Sir G. Gael; promises to do
something more; and still more is to be done by social
influence. 'rile amount of game fostered and preserved
is far too large—too large in reference to its effects on
agricultural productions—too large for sporting pur-
posts. The first social step in the diminution of
poaching, and consequently in the lowering of poor's
rate, is to reduce the amount of game now preserved.
The landowners ought to do this of themselves, but as
they never will, a law must be introduced for the
purpose, and that law, even if it go the length of in-
terference with property, will be carried, for the
enormity of the abuse requires it. It is nut eough
to allow tenants to kill hares; landlords must give up
preserving pheasants as they now do; they must aban-
don their bad practice of converting their woods into
a sort of hen-house, and their gamekeepers into poul-
try-watchers, and be content again to take the field,
dog and gun afoot. They cannot be permitted to
corrupt their fellow-creatures and to fill our gaols
by enlarging their stock of pheasants. When govern-
ment itself has in parliament censured the practice
and ascribed much of the evils of poaching to it,
how can it survive ? Whilst such a feeling is grow-
ing, it is surely the height of imprudence to urge an
-etment making game property.

IN consegeence of the attempt to throw discredit
upon the statement made by the hon. member for the
West Riding, as to the length of time during which
our large line-of-battle ships lie at anchor at Malta,
he moved for a return from the Admiralty, which has
been laid upon the table of the house, and which
throws additional light upon the matter. it appears
that the vessel, the Caledonia, of 120 guns, which he
saw in Malta harbour in November, 1836, and again,
on his return from Egypt, in March, 1837, was ac-
tually lying moored there from the 11th of October
to the 26th of May. By the same official return we
in
that the Princess Charlotte, 104 guns, was lying
in Malta harbour from the Bth of November, 1838,
to the 20th of May, 1839. The Queen, 110 guns,
was comfortably at anchor in the same place from
the 7th of October, 1842, to the 15th of Sept, 1843,
upwards of 11 months. This vessel had 900 persons
of all descriptions on board. But the moot curious
part of this return refers to Admiral PARKER'zi flag-
ship the Hibernia, 104 guns, which was lying at
anchor in Malta harbour from Aug. 26, 1845, until
March 28, 1816. It will be recollected that Admiral
Du: MS, in replying to Mr. COBDEN in the house,
quoted a communication from Admiral PARKER, who
is at present the Admiral of the Fleet in the Mediter-
ranean, repellieg the accusation of idleness made
against the ships of war at Malta by the hon. member
for the West Riding ; but it turns out by this return
that the gallant admiral's own ship, with 807 persons
on board, was lying for seven months:and two days
in harbour • thus affording proof :that the idleness in
our ships Of war, in 1836, commented upon by Mr.
COBDEN 111 MandleSter, has not been converted into
very active industry to the present time.