The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-16 00:00:00

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LONDON. SATURDAY. SEPT. 16.
NOBODY can doubt and no man can measure the
extent of our obligations to the last fourteen days of
fin weather. If the wind had kept in the same
quarter—the sun bad persevered in preserving the
same obecurity—and the rain had come down with
the same pertinacity—during the two weeks of Sep-
tember as daring the four weeks of August, we should
have had before us a period almost as dark as the
year of famine which ushered in the century or as
that which produced the expedition to Weiler's.
There would have been before us the ominous outline
of a winter of scarce potatoes and luxuriant
treason in Ireland—of a combination of cause
dissimilar in everything bat the expense; and that
would have been certain, for while we bad quartered
dragoons in Munoter, our pity would have led us to
send Indian corn into Co:naught. Preen the east
there was, and isyekthat steadily advancing shadow of
penances which sooner or later, unless arrested by
name extraordinary intervention, must envelope even
these satiating of the western continent. From the
north, and from the south—from the Rhine, the Elbe,
the Seine, and the Po—there rises up a multitude of
uncertainties; and if to all these we bad been com-
pelled to add the imminence of dearth amidst our
own population; the revival of that amazing projection
of transatlantic superabundance upon our own unpre-
phloem shores, which has rendered I.st year a new as
in the intercourse between the Old smiths New worlds;
and the prospect of another exhibition of the beauties
of the Bank Bill, we should have had in hand a etin-
contrail= of perplexities which it is infinitely mane
to enumerate than to deal with.
Now, from this extreme the main and the
braes have happly delivered us. But we must not
connate the completeness of our escape. At the very
unmet, we can only congratulate ourselves on the re-
moval of the sharp edge from an impending ealaisity.
The misfortune, in some of its severity and- in morels
leas of its extent, is still a feet; and it would be as
Irish, rather than an English jubilee, to mistake an
ionF erfect for an entire deliverance.
The shrewd people in Mark-lane we are almost
sorry to say do not exhibit any symptoms of paais.
They have bought their can at a riming market for
the Let four or fin weeks, and they have yet to be
waving that the tendency of wins will go against
their speculation. In point of fact they know fell
well that the propitious days of September have cooly
elms is time to man the produce of some third or
fourth part of our forty counties, and that the great
rarterii of the potato distemper is still probed-
the greatest suspense. If you thew
a fins from the Bedford Level to Cheeter,
you will have cut off upon its southern elle
pretty nearly the whole of those portions of the Wand
which have suffered most from inclement weether
the spring and summer, and reaping maim
of the pretest year. Oa the northern Nevin
of the lime the farmers have had the advan-
tage of a mare iszespiseent fortune. In Marsh
and April their operations of outdoor husbandry were
carried MI under lees unfavourable ofteemstances, and
sow imp lave been able to garner their sheaves free
fie
damage ofsproatandexpoessewhish
been WSW so vital ma isjartzF the grain of nest
el tom dkleists whisk are as Yee prune sera
ellkikein. Maine doped reports from
theme* MA the imeliMmesi or the wide* bad re-
pletion dee south amide west, whoa is truth is the
emseemt tithe mason yes the peat quseties Odle
amp er the mossverege eemeaster of the :Cg
a spas es sash ea h, ie as
peametme. pestl We Fehr tokp apples& it yet rather by the
general amelogies clothes years theaty any exclusive
reliance upon the partial evidence hitherto applicable
to the present.
" From Midsummer to Michaelmas, 1840," says
Mr. Tom in those admirable volumes which axe at
000 s the most faithful record and the mg=
phical authority upon questions of price, "
the impertsat periods of the blooming, the ripenitig,
and the gathering of the mope, the weather was for
the most part cold, wet, and ungeniaL" We all
know that the harvest of 1840 was defeetive, and or
&holies es to provoke an importation of 1,926,241
=V af wheat and an avenge prim of 635. 6d.
the weather was spin unfavourable daring
the summer. The mop itself was not dallaiest in
breadth and luxuriance, and far some time the mottos
was entertained that the quantity would efieetnally
ocerninniate for the bad condition. The result did not
•e • the opinion. " There is reason to believe," says
Mr. ooze, "that the altimateyeild of the wheat har-
vest of 1841 fell comeiderably short of the estimates
made In the drat instance and as he as the feeeigu
importance can seUle the question, it would apple
that the tiptoed Morn was even less than I. the
previous year ; for with the harvest of 1841 we sea-
soned upwards of 2,900,000 quarters of Melo
wheat, and were "ablated to an average pile of
Me. 4d. It is proba~6le, however, that the eir-
eamehmesis of the present year as regards the whist
to neared to of 1846. Theme wee
raving-oyesgisimilarity between the two years daring
lbw pilleel maths of July and August, which in
Ibis diode astir for 'geed or evil the fate of two-
thirds of oar pita padre, and as far as September
bee yet gone lbws hoe also been many points of
La the twelvaneath subsequent to the
hornet of 1846 we imported 2,732,000 quarters of
whist, sad the average price tithe corn markets was
Me. Si.
New we en not at en diepeeed to set up nay pre-.
Wien to mend eiskt eigultir. The medal at
usalkisglig is met emul thas- ado whisk ems be at.
itealeil-wlei mums Galli eitie of tpt Cleagel Claw
Neil ant eveipso iheit ware elms efinindeas
width mem be he eirseW ender the desidis of
Writilfrio these ere se slay diatvatiarg eons la
dilliNAllf Ms, beings, af whisk se
hair slasllliallesmia Risibly =WHY Mums
that the propensity to hints, la proposals *dr
i.lsed in fewer when psis* it nifilit be vaistes•
peoted-
If, however, looking at all the facts and explode,
the moat sober eonsimelos which they appear to Jas.
dry, we were asked te iodinate the omen at the arm
lends ear opinion wield eartainly point to an import-
miles more or hie estimeive. For as imperteldea at
sees magnitude mess have already hen diegateled.
Nes Is they will be bereassa or hew Its they will
le esuriernanded saverdigend lees yen the seats
of Ile ink harvest this apes the progress of the
ieness;andaka men the suns con
the circtunstanse whether we shall=
° the banks of the Vitale sr the Missouri for
the Midedshonsot of ever vineries If it should
to est taftar di, ear moats are confined to two
or diree el quarters el wheat and rye we
shell lessee suldsely Wand to the marshants of
alldi the skippers of the Baltic, with pro-
babytirrew is
coeditors at Odeina and in the Levant
I 4 on the eller hand, the mews ot ear dearth
spin Mb via to Seib died of anfortanately so
by a need= of hillesestijects the aisle of Ameri-
saa and the obatieity of the American en-
dow will be again dilated. All the spare craft of
dee 'Lakes and the Mexican Gulf, end the adroit-
Swam navigators who 'swum about the Antilles, will
li le upon the Atlantic seaboard in search
or a rich harvest of 1847, which filed
the pasts of Yankee captains with Effir
liek money, and turned the heads of may et
theca with such speculations as a Yankee early as
cosseive. It is this contingency of the potato blight
white has so materially modified all comparisons
tweet the present tiara and the years =tenor te
1848. As we have jest shown in 1842,
we imported
2,732,000 quarters of wheat, and in 1847 we imported

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER

(only about me mach. If this wee the end of the
story, the inference would be that 184/ wee no worm
than 1843. Bat we alt knew hew wide of the mark
a meeluden of that kind would be. And we have
only to bear in mind, that it 1841 the whole importa-
tion of ladies care wee MOOD cps:turn and that in
1847 it leas mom this 8,000,000 quarters, with an
enormous quantity of all the inferior deseriptioes of
grain—oate, barley, and beaus—to perceive that the
argument can no longer be coaileed to wheat, nor the
problem treated upon merely histoeioal data. •

IN tbe Imge number of political privileges there is
era le which the En Hallman considers he hu an un-
hefty of opinion. Late events
=ld= lie is fact to believe that he has a p.-
saline is this right. It has not been certain
ler an hour 101111thet In many, nay in moot of the
esallmental stn when a man had a right to an
=which dilesed from that of the majority. At
leo persons bolding such considered it discreet
to keep it out of sight. Under the old rtaiwe,
that is, eight months a,,o—we reckon political mu
now by months instead of centuries—the mreesion
of on opinion at variance with that marlsof by fig
state stamp, would in most continental govemsamnis
have procured for the unfortunate speaker a
in a public prison. Under the new regime. a
lar inadvertency would deliver the easier to
the tender mercies of a mob, or a
dictatorship. Everything is being neon=
abroad, and the workmen eschew Integer.
aeons materials. The house we live in, however,
in England, with all its faults being catered;
secure, we need not for ever exercise a jealous eon-
tiny about building materials. M. Louis BLANC has
here a right, which no individual from the Premier
downwards will dispute, of promulgating doctrines
which, if carried out, would shut up all the week-
shops in the kingdom. M. PHOODHON might make
a profitable thing of lecturing upon the theme, "AU
property is a robbery," to an audience who, in their
bents believe that where there is no right of property 1
M
there is nothing but robbery. The Abb€ de LA-
ERMAN might tell us that our political salvation de-
pended upon making the state one with the Roman
catholic church, and _Paean LEROVX and GLOILOH
SAND might inculcate the doctrine that ire shall
never be right until there is no church left,
without exciting any feeling beyond that of
surprise, nay, perhaps, pleasure, at hearing such funny
doctrines advocated so very prettily. Englishmen do
not in fact believe that the public advocacy, either by
the press or by lecture, of any doctrine, political or
religious, which cannot be shown to tend immediately
to a breach of the public peace, would meet with the
slightest opposition in this country. will he 'O/c r
consequently surprised to hear that a moat
and influential body of men are virtually of
this right of opinion. This body is the eiszsati
clergyman of the church of England who,ia
to the dictates of his conscience, changes his views ea
religious matters, and wishes, as an honest mu, to
give a mason for his change, commits a political
offence by so doing. The following opinion has bean
jest given by Sir JOHN Rosso:4, in reference to the
case of the Rev. Mr. Slimes.
I. I us of opision that a priest is holy orders of the
illtilli st Is#ered. although styling himself a seceder tram
OM eras* sad wag in feet a voluntary membertheretrom,
wry he sessnolitsd es orison kw contempt of coact la preselt.
a dmaissenting minister, contrary to the lawful milieumilieu
rt.
Is is emir obvious that neither deposition front trig
1110185% dismologlOO, nor ezeoeunenication ma OMAN es a
=cs algal right to officiate or preach as • allisming
3. I gbh that it the bishop were to degrade mil epee
;4=ras hem holy embus. he might be Ilehis te the
by the stater 41 Oeo. 111., e. 63, it be
afirmirrnsita the Commas. RAM of Parliament.
4. am of thateitaaahis eassemeraisselea welt rat dm
drily releases Alm pstmi se
_dreams; as
to give him the of a brains. Mama, Ossems,
Aug. 24, lefill.
There am, therefore, about mien *semi ma ia
England who are debarred has se hand=
loon of their thoughts on the meet i
Times men whom we have been taMiaro t
rawl as
I the aralessisra expounders of their own ble md
sum, are bound down by the hard fetters of the law ,
to a curtain in of that faith, to be attend
.sly in a ' place.lt in heresy in them to
1 his an original opinion on religious subjects—it is
horsy to express It. In the nineteenth century, and
be and, it seems scarcely credible that a man
shod& render himself liable to be cast into prison, to
le obliged to heed with the vilest of the vile, with the
mat daring violators of every branch of the
Mal law, for having formed an independent
on a matter conserning the salvation
wigs
soul, and having the honesty to express it.
The wry essence of Christianity is attacked by this
taw, which makes it a polideal orbits in a men to give
albeanee to his honest earaistleas. The spirit of all
ear iratitations is violated by making it peel far a
sea to wenani Assteiras, polideal se seilgises,
whisk see- est demeesentlly such as teed to a breath
al ibis paw
The amusing Ware in the case is that the truth
se Masa of the Ambiess advocated by a clerical
mein from the dumb hems no portion of his crime.
let him be ever so heretical, the chances are ten
Iheassed to one in favour of his being allowed to
rrand promulgate his heresy, as long ea he
this within the fors walls of a church. Oar
V.= on church matters are mainly influenced
and geographical considerations. It is
beellial in the diocese of Exeter to den] a
passim le regenerated by baptism, and a c man
wail being upon himself the censure of hie op
by peatulgating views in opposition to that pelota's
lbws esatiments. But the said clergyman knows
that he has only to step. into the diocese of Norwich
M alas to preach against baptismal regeneration to
hb heart's content. In the diocese of Landon, spin,
it b tolerably well understood that you may preach
ray Gerais* you like, so that you do it well. There
b seem in the church of England for clergymen of all
dohs ef opinion, from the lowest Arminianism to
fie highest Calvinism i. the only difficulty is, as we
bras mid, a one. The only oondition
lIMINInd from -a clergymangeograpboal is, that if he has a pen-
s/NM for heresy he must confine the promulgation of
It to a church congregation. Dabble in heretical
dostrines if you choose, the law Nye to him, but take
Mr that you do sot preach them out of yew church.
We cannot think that the laity of the church of
trelare very oraidiestely dealt with by this
f operation. Any moat is thoutuzl
=dfor them so losg ea it is provided a duly
clergyman, in a duly messamied • .
lbws ammo to be a latent idea worlds* is the 1,
Wade of imiseiraliral authorities, that the dem*
sesileg *may the balloting and its for hes the
=Mer egeliteg all mat noxioee bid= of
.' pima. An English charshmsa b
=I le leme aspired a trashy with emi=e.
rim. lk, te that penned by
IMAM et ?leans ',Oh wowed to materiel case: he
sea swallow thew wont being beet. All the sue
of the Whop stows Imbibed on soweiwesherm. Yea
shell not infect dime= with brameasz notices, is
the cry of the autbeddas of the sbeeth.
We have ward ameives to the am exhibition'
of the sidbalems features of this case. The really
imentalie_ perara_ of the affair is, that in point of
het a des Me this' of Sir Joule Donlon is
heeded urea geiedpiles which ought to have se vali-
d* Is a poleileat country. The right, of draws
limemed peens are swwhieptsk away by • dictum drama
bee new, dswetals, watemplated a state et
Mk* kW Ibis meshed film the fees of Eng-
land. We love as essioiNdod law of our own,
and we are obliged to dig into the rub-
bish of the old canon law whenever a moot
point in ecclesiastic,' matters arises The max-
um to decide a question affecting the spits of
English clergymen are taken from the ISSele of
discordant canons of OZATIAN eight se aloe erattries
old, and the decrees of a few cooneils end a gnat
many popes. The consequence is, that a good half of
the demons in eccledadied oases me opposed to the
spirit of justice and of the age. There would be se
more absurdity in adopting the plans of the lila*
Prises in the equipment ot our army, or "the divi-
des of a battle," or in regulating our medial
by the nostrums of Psascaceos, than in whin
government of a protestant church in the arasteseth
century to the dicta which passed current at Bologna
in the tenth.

ON Tuesday evening the Glge attacked the
advocates of lammed economy in govenuneet ex-
=are for not wanking the reports of the
committers of last sissies. " Daring the
paA session," it is stated in a leading article of that
I journal, "two or three large blue-books, containing