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LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 22.

TR e estimate formed by government of the pro-
bable outlay required by the distress in Ireland, and
the mode in which it is purposed to meet that extra-
ordinary outlay, will this evening be explained to
parliament. With regard to the expense, government.
can with certainty of the past, but the taw e
may s=e every calculation. It is highly desire' ,le,
indeed, that the labour rate should cease, that the
labourers should apply their remaining strength
to tillage, and that presentment aossions
should no longer occupy the columns of official
newepapers, as well as the hopes and atten-
tion of landlords and peasantry. But how this
transition is to take place—how the marshalled road-
gang is to be dispersed into the pliers of spade and
plough—how these spade and ploughmen are to be
Ted—and whether these 600,000 able-bodied paupers
will beprevented from crowding with their familia
around the soup-kitchens to the same coat as they have
hitherto crow. ded round the paymasters of the Board of
Works, sae questions which events will answer in
proper time, but which no minister can be sufficiently
powerful and sagacious to command or foretell.
i:ngland is at the some time anxious to learn how
this extraordinary drain is to be provided for. Is it
to be dealt with, as altogether extraordinary, and the
debt, occasioned by it, funded, without dislaniking the
other economical arrangements and progress of our
finance and its reform ? A petition from Liverpool
has loudly demanded this. Or is the doctrine of
direct taxation considered so popular, that the British
public may be asked to bear an increase of the is-
come-tax, not for the alleviation of the birdman of our
poorer classes, but for the make of its i=scis being
flung into the gulf of Irish distress ?
would be the way to cure the country, or srli=
portion of the country, of its sudden predgeethis
direct taxation, of which perhaps the most objection-
able quality is its placing the handle of the pump so
directly in the hands of government, that the act of
plying its arms and exhausting the purses of the
public is a matter too simple and easy not is be prep-
timed and repeated.
We understand, too, that it is not the question of
the expenses of Ireland, which weighs exclusively
upon the minister in the forming of the estimates.
ladependent of the Spanish marriages, the attitude
by M. Ou rzor in his late speech was
To this is added the report that Russia
den ukase for raising 150,000 men. These
aces warrant, it is said, an increase of
and naval expenditure, which has already
alarm in diplomatic circles. Smaller causes
!quarrel; are, indeed, disappearing. There are
vats or Lord NORMANBT'S and M. OVIZOT'S dif-
e being appeased. Count ST. ACLAIRE, the
envoy, who has been for some time absent
court and ministerial circles, has joined, and
cordially welcomed in both. But this suaviter
do does not at all do away with the impression
1 by the fortiter in re, which is expected to
sense the budget of this day.
respect to Ireland, it is asked, if the income-
augmented for the sake of that country
paying its share? 18 Irish property is a
bear at once the double burden of poor-rate and I
? These are all questions difficult to solve,

and requiring for their solution not merely wisdom and
sagacity, but power. Mr. O'CONNELL declares that
these are times which demand a dictatorship, for that
nothing less than absolute power, not to be controlled
or questioned, could overcome or provide for the diffi-
culties of Ireland, and force those, who hive the means,
to come forward, furnish, or apply them. If Mr.O'Con-
gex be right we are very far removed from the remedy.
For these times, which ho declares to require dic-
tatorship, happen to be those in which the direct
contrary of a dictatorship prevails, and in which no
party in the State possesses, or could possess, even the
ordinary force of a constitutional government, much
less the dictatorial power of an absolute one.
Meantime, the conduct of all parties is calculated to
render the task of government more and more difficult
All indeed exclaim that they admit the difficulties of
that task, and will do their best to remove and smooth
them. Yet none refrain from pursuing a selfish or
ambitious vie w, from th warting the minister, and attack-
ing or exposing his supposed remissness or error. The
exclusive Enghsh party is indignant that anything at
all should be granted to Ireland, declaring that the
landlords there should 'office for aIL The Irish land-
lord in turn recriminates, and instead of both coun-
tries putting their shoulders to the one wheel, each is
dragging in different directions. The division between
England and Ireland, which the charity given
and received by the many should heal up and
cause to disappear, is, on the contrary, rendered
more wide and more sore by idle and in-
temperate talkers on either side, and at the very
time when one country is proved to be so completely
and materially dependent on the other, narrow spite
is undoing the natural effect of the great demonstra-
tion. Whilst the greatness, and philanthropy, and
charity of the Fogyish nation is active in sowing peace
and gratitude, the littleness and the rancour of some
English individuals is rousing hatred, and provoking
and offering pretexts for ingratitude. Mr. ROEBUCK is
at this moment a more strenuous repealer than all the
O'CONNELL tribe put together.
The system of the government is the only practica-
ble one. Its temporary measures offer aid to
every Irish locality, but they call upon the in-
habitants and landlords of that locality first to bestir
themselves. Interest prompts them strongly so to do.
The necessary labour of tilling and manuring must be
done instantly. Whilst it is horrible to think that
despair and irritation have so deeply entered the souls
of both peasant, tenant and landlord, that many
would recklessly and purposely neglect the necessary
labour of preparing the ground for production.
Is this a state of mind—this a state of things
froerprcZjililieh members to harrow over with
speeches, or for Irish members to aggra-
vate by retorts or by repeal twaddle ? Ireland, and
oar finances, and the future prospects of food-supply
for the United Kingdom, can only be saved by the
exertions of Irish landlord, and Irish tenant, and Irish
peasant, trusting to the government, aiding the go-
vernment, and aided by it. The pull that helps the
sister country out of the mire must be not only long
sad strong, bat " all together." Otherwise it will
stick feat, and the entire empire will be jeopardised.
It is not yet an inquest over the dead, but a con-
sultation over the dying, that parliament is holding.
It is idle at suck a crisis to stay recriminating as to
who is to blame. The object should be first to relieve,
and to discover how to relieve, instead of scolding,
reprobating, and indisposing the only agents, whose
attention and zeal can give hopes of salvation.

Express of Saturday lut. The occasion was •
dinner of farmers to present a silver bowl to the Rev.
N. Bogo, of Grange, as " a testimonial for his hay-
ing kept down the game on his estate;" and the
statements made by the farmers are remarkable fur
the energy with which game preservation is Is-
noanced. And every article of charge against
game and the game laws then exhibited is borne out
by the evidence received by the recent game-law com-
mittee. One speaker said, " The system of game
preservation had risen to so great a height that the
farmers of the neighbourhood must keep down the
game, or quit their localities." That " game was
gnawing away the vitals of the country," and " that
farmers had no cause of complaint with their land-
lords beyond that bone of contention, the game,'
were statements deliberately made on this occasion,
which should induce landowners to consider whether
they can safely uphold the game-laws any longer. And
the Earl of ELDON was denounced by name as a most
'mischievous game-preserver. Another speaker having
" it was too bad to forbid the killing of rabbits,
ilt was as bad as ohjecting to the destruction of rats,
the meeting responded by cries of "worse, worse."
Lord SALISBURY, then, who retains the rata in his
own hands, is, it seems, no worse than the common
herd of game preservers. The value of the wild ani-
mals fostered was contrasted with the quantity of food
they consume and destroy, with marked effect ; and
the fact that poaching is the nursery of crime in the
rural districts was strongly dwelt upon. The rev.
gentleman in whose honour the meeting was held, in
giving thanks, said, "He had more satisfaction in
looking at a turnip than a hare, and felt more happi-
ness in regarding well-cropped field, than in wagon-
ing a larder overflowing with the fruits of the pre-
toned cover." This is apt and just, and it goes to
the root of the matter; for, evade it how they may in
their own circles, the landowners must soon learn
that the educated classes of this country are now
completely aware that game-preserving is inconsist-
ent with good farming, and is utterly destructive
of the comfort and well-being of tenant-farmers.
If we mistake not, some political landed proprietors
will get a glimpse of this at the next general election.
Yet are there gentlemen, known as game protectors,
and no good besides, who still imagine that they can
enlist on their behalf the sympathiesof tenant-farmers.
Perhaps one of the most striking instances of po-
litical hallucination on record is that of Mr. GRANT-
LEY BERKELEY, the member for West Gloucester-
shire, who seems to imagine that he could, under some
possible combination of circumstances, be again re-
turned to parliament as the representative of an agri-
cultural constituency. At least, such appears to he
the purport of a letter he, not long since, ad-
dressed to the constituency of West Gloucester-
shire, dealing largely in family quarrels, and little
with public principle. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S
conduct in relation to the game-laws has entirely dis-
qualified him from representing an agricultural con-
stituency. His own evidence before the game-law
committee placed in juxtaposition with a few " mo-
dern instances " of the fruits of the game-laws, would
render few constituencies, save those of game-preservers
Of such there be), likely to select such representatives.
And, first, of the sayings of this candidate for the
farmers' political favours. MR. G. BERKELEY dada
he had a " little knowledge of farming," whhhism
further inquiry, turned out to be the experience lend
acquired on fourteen acres rented with a county
house. His experience, however, as a game-preserver
on other men's farms had been considerable ; on
which

Tarim cannot be a more difficult and delicate task
than that which an ambassador has to perform in the
capital of a foreign oountry, in relations necessarily
close, whether of amity or rivalry, with his own, and
in the midst of the various parties and personages
aiming at power and disputing the helm of govern-
ment. To conciliate, to please, yet maintain the
dignity of his position, but above all to acquire a full
information respecting men and things, renders it im-
perative that all eminent leaders in political athirs
thould be known to him, and that his palace should I
be open, at least in countries under a representative
system, to all parties who do not dissent from alle-
giance to the sovereign.
In despotic states, the representative of a foreign
power could not well visit or favour a disgraced
minister. Opposition in such states is akin to rebel-
lion. But in constitutional countries, where parties
alternate in power, and where the Sovereign feels, or
&mold affect, indifference ; to lay down, as a rule, that
ea envoy should close his doors seined the member
of any parliamentary opposition, liberal or illiberal,
is a slavish, a mean, and an an-English doctrine.
The limes, nevertheless, lips down this rule for
English diplomatists. It reemmta, fairly enough, with
what subterfuges M. OUIZOT spoke on the matter of
the Spanish marriages to Lord NORMANDY; bow
right the latter was in not allowing the minister to
withdraw and change his expressions, days after they
were uttered, and how justly indignant the am-
bassador felt when M. Getzerr accused him in the
Chamber of sending over such expressions to his
government, which were not correct, and which
oaten) ban, been brought to him to modify.
Times admits that the conduct and the words
of the French minister were quite unwarranted. But
then, continues the journalist, Lard NORMANBT is also
to blame. His excellency has held intercourse
with the statesmen of the French opposition. And
because he lea been guilty of this crime, M. GUIZOT
cannot and ought not to yield ; the King of the
FRENCH cannot and ought not to do justice to Lord
NORWANIT'S complaints. Both minister and sovereign
&rain their own country, and have therefore a right
to insist on Lord NORMANDY'S withdrawing from
France altogether.
Was ever doctrine so monstrous? Because M.
Orator is at home in France, he may deal with our
English envoy as he pleases ! There is to be no
question of right and wrong, of troth and falsehood,
of prevarication and frankness. We always under-
stood that the person of an ambassador was sacred,
and that his abode was considered a portion of the
soil of his own country, and that he stood as indepen-
dent there as if be were on the cliffs of Dover. The
Times says no. It declares, that a foreign ambassador
must conform his colour and conduct to flatter the
persons and the party which happen to be in pos-
session of the government. He must see no other.
Queen VICTORIA may invite the Duke of WELLING-
von or Sir R. PEEL to Windsor during a Whig admi-
nistration, Lord LANSDOWNE or Lord MELBOURNE
Ender a Tory administration, bat Count Sr. AULAIRE
suit take no such liberty. The King of the French
invites M. Timms and Count MOLE to the Tuileries,
has long interviews with them, is friendly to them,
but Lord NORMANBT must allow neither into his
hotel. His Excellency is paid by the British govern-
ment to flatter the king and court, not to see and
judge of persons and parties with his own eyes. He
should go, like Lord Coemer, to the Tuileries and
the Foreign-office, as his sole sources of information.
This was quite in harmony with Lord ABERDEEN'S
law of never sending a despatch without communicat-
ing it to the French Charge d'Affaires.
We must protest against this entire code of diplo-
matic servility, which the Times would introduce in
imitation of its patron. England never had an envoy
who represented it with more dignity, more effect,
with more complete conciliation of sovereign authority
and of ministers in France, than Lord Gator-mix. He
was the very model of what an English ambassador
in France should be. Yet was he exclusive? Did
be shrink from contact with opposition ? Far from it.
His hotel was open to all parties, and constituted for
ell a neutral ground, on entering which the moot
furious million= left prejudice and passion behind.
We trust that Lord NORMANBT will walk in the
MIMI path ; that he will not, like Lord Colmar,
lila die British embassy to every Frenchmen of
=eminence or influence; that he will not few
M. TRIERS in opposition, more than Lord
Onatrvlue shrunk from visiting him in &gm*
that be will be neither the slave of fashionable nor
of political exclusiveness; but that, true to British
dignity and interests, and fearlessly exposing and re-
sisting all and any who would openly or covertly
encroach upon either, he may conduct himself as the
representative of a free country at the court of
another free country, and this in despite of the
traditional booing of Lord ABERDEEN, or the ukases
of the Times.

—a point he said:
I find it easier to preserve game on lands belonging to my
family, because there you ensure the co-operation of
the tenants to a certain extent. On lands where I
am a renter, I hare found some skilkulty ; because
where the owner of the estate does sot preserve him-
self, the shooting has very often been tacitly given
to the tenant; and then, when a third person comet
between the landlord end tenant, the tenant ia frequently
dissatisfied.
Dissatisfied! and with reason: for what is it the
game renter coolly hires from the landlord? Why
the power of keeping wild animals to trey extent upon
the farm for which the farmer pays a full rent.
Animals, toe, not folded os confined like sheep or
Battle—which, though a wrong, might not be so intole-
rable—but roam at large over the farmer's crops,
biting here and trampling down there, from
eled-time even until harvest ; and destroying,
lin numberless instances, more than half the
produce, or what, but for game, would have
been the yeodace of the soil. Bering these
drier in mind, let the farmers of West Gloucester-
shire learn Mr- BESICELEY'S reply to the question
whither the farmer has not good right to be amide-
lei limier such circumstances
No, I do not think that the tenant has any right to be
dinetiefied, because the game being the property of the
lsmdlord, he has a right to dispose an in any way he pleases,
sad besides these, in ms ("union, Me fact of ale sporting
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iers to askant interferes with
And he mid, that he had very frequently
known awes where a deficiency of crop arming from
bad farming has been charged by the occupying tenant
upon thegame ; and he added, " I have known instances
where burley has never come up at all ; where the seed
has never appeared, and I hare known the kiss of the
barley Aarged upon the game." And being asked
whether farmers did not always attribute to game
the demure to crops done by wood ' and other
creature, ? Mr. BERKELEY answered, " Undoubtedly;
in fact, I have never known any one eagle instance
to the contrary • I never knew, in the whole course I
of my life, a ;shier, called in by a farmer, make
allowance for any such damage upon land, as arising
from insect, atmospheric, or other animal damage ;
but in every single case, every bit of existing damage
has been set down to the game, and the owner of the
game charged with the damage." What will the
farmers and valuers of West Glonoestershire my
to that?

Nor is Mr. BERKELEY singular in his dyslogistic
remarks on farmers, fee the whole tenor of the de-
fence of the game laws, by the game-preserving mem-
bers of the committee, and their witnesses, con-
sisted in imputations on the integrity and
veracity of farmers who complain of injury
from game. Possibly this was the only line of defence
left open to game preservers, for the farmers of
England with one universal voice declare that game
preservation has become a nuisance well nigh into-
lerable. To prove, therefore, that game-preserving is
innocuous, the game preservers must show that the
British farmers are utterly unworthy of credit.
Perhaps the effect of the game laws was nowhere
better described than by Mr. W. GAUNTLET, a sur-
veyor and farmer from Derbyshire. Now Mr. GAUNT-
LET had seen game-preserving under the most

favourable aspectsit is rpossible-r'a practice so repre-
hensible can bear; for he bad for many years been
employed to value game damage on the Duke of RUT-
LAND'S estate, in order to ascertain the amount of
compensation payable by the duke to his tenants. Yet,
whea Mr. GAUNTLET was asked whether!' the diacon-

tinuance of keeping game would be felt as a very
considerable relief to farmers, and a great benefit to
the labouring classes ?" he replied, " I think so ; it is a
demoralising thing as it is ; tt seta one man as a tiger
against another, quarrelling and fighting about it."
The Duke, we see, by the Orford Chronicle, keeps
flftivwatchershe to protect his game at Wotton.
When such means are found necessary for the
preservation of game against the labouring classes,
are not such horrible scenes as those described in the
reports of the recent game affrays in Sussex the neces-
sary results ? We are glad to see, that the farmers
are beginning to nuke their interests and efforts in
this came. On the eve of a general election, they
may convert their will into a law, if their will be
general and firmly acted upon.

The Paris journals continued on Saturday to be
engrossed with the Guizot-Normanby quarrel. The
more avowed organs of the cabinet observing some
self-restraint; but the quasi-official organ, La Preue,
1 pouring out the usual measure of scurrility and abuse
against England the English.
On Friday evening an unusually crowded assemblage
filled the Naomi of M. Guizot. Several of the ministers
were present; the whole diplomatic corps and a grftt
number of foreigners of distinction, among others,
Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Howden, the Baron de
Capellen, former governor of the Dutch Indies, Count
Villa Real, former Portuguese minister, Prince San
Gusz-ko, a noble of Austrian Poland, M. Cieszkowski,
deputy from the states of the noblesse of the
Prussian diet. A great number of the peers were
present, among whom was the Chancellor Pasquier.
Among the deputies present were remarked M. Dnpin
(else), arid almost all the members of the Conserva-
tive, party. The French corps diplomatique) the
council of state, and the Institute, were severtily re-
presented by a great number of their leading members.
The long talked-ot soirie musicale at the British

The farmers in many parts of the country are
tearing up the question of the gams laws in a manner
not to be mistaken ; being rightly oenvinoed that no-
thing but a combined effort on their patio requisite to
pat an end to the most monstrous system of wrong that
ever existed in a cultivated country or • civilised-cum-
=tufty. The reader will not have failed to observe
the very significant meeting of farmers at Wareham,
in Dorsetshire, of which an account appears in the

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