The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7.
Tue. Timis, or some amiable person connected with
it, is evidently alarmed and concerned, lest the result
of the famine crisis and of the legislation consequent
upon it, should be to effect a permanent reconciliation
between the two great families—England and Ire- I
land. One effect of the late dimster has been to
silence the separatists; and, except now and then
a small Repeal squeak to testify that some of the sala-
ried officers of that movement are alive and anxious
to earn their stieend, there survives scarcely a enp-
tom of that mutual aversion and divorce unfortu-
nately so flagrant between Irish and English.
Although the great organs of Irish repeal in Con-
ciliation-hall be dumb, the great champion of English
repudiation o'.‘ Ireland in Pentieg-house-square is
both loud and live. After having devoted its breadth
of column to the texts of the clergy who preached on
the Fast-day appointed to avert famine from Ireland,
it relapses the very day after Easter from christian
charity and fraternity, to the hatred, malice, and all
uncharitableness of its nature to everything Irish.
If ever there was a moment when the most ruth-
less financier would shrink from totting up accounts
with Ireland, and bringin; it in a debtor, it is surely
the present. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, indeed, does
now and then indulge in certain Irish figures of
arithmetic. Hut surely that gentleman may be
allowed to ride his Repeal hobby without our visit-
ing vengeance rn his country, which cares so little
for arithmetic of any kind.
We deem the sums of Mr. O'CONNELL, and of
the Times, as equally absurd. If we were to
dot up a bill between Middlesex and any county in
England, and make Middlesex responsible for all
that it spent above all that it give, how irredeem-
able would be the debts of the metropolis ! And yet
we know that it must have given back in proportion •
as it received. There is naturally in every country a
circulation of wealth, like that of the blood, from the
circumference to the extremities, and from the extre-
mities to the circumference. And if there be no impe-
diments to the circulation, the extremities will
receive all that quantity of the vivifying fluid,
which they can absorb or profit by. The great object •
should be to leave that circulation free, w hich, unfor-
.tnnately, never has been the case in the national flow
of English capital to Ireland. To go dotting up me-
counts between two provinces or portions of' a king-
dom, charging the weaker one with the money spent
upon its coucion, and the larger one with the rents
spent in it by the magnates of the other,--what
can such idle recrimination lead to, but to the
perpetuation of that contempt and oppression on
the one side, and irrational hatred and re-
sistance on tho other, which render Ireland
cooly. True economy should lead us to conciliate
and cultivate brotherly feelings with the Irish. It is
their dislike of England, which costs millions to the
United Kiagdone Such figures, therefore, as those of
the Trams, with all their wonderful display of eco-
nomy, happen to be one of the most expensive indul-
gencies of malice.
Having, in its religious homily of Easter Mon-
day, demonstrated Ireland to be a debtor and
pauper, and set it in the stocks for that crime,
the Tiny.; p-oceeds to convince the said pauper,
Ireland, that its misery and its sin are incurable.
The irredeemable sin of poor Ireland is its being
Celtic. And Celticisim is pronounced to be such a
moral leprosy, that the Times forbids the government
to think of favouring Irish emigration, for fear it
should pesple the new continent with the disease.
The Times out;ht to follow up the prohibition by
prohib:ting marriage altogether in Ireland, and de-
creeing that the race of Irish should perish, as unclean
and impolitic.
The Time; hes been more generous than this in
many of its lucnbmtions. It represented the depression
of the Irish peasant, his reduction to the lowest grade
of nourishment, and to tho total absence of property, of
right, or self-respect, as owing to the manner in which
the peasant had been treated by the state. The law
proscribed his religion, and of coarse himself, as
criminal. The landlord took, of course, an ana-
logous view, and made hint a helot. How
much of Saxon legislation must boar the guilt of Cel-
tic misery and inaptness ter industrial life! Let the
Times send a commissioner to provinceson the continent
which contain a purely Celtic population—to the
Mervan, for example, in the hills of the Nivernois,
or to the Basques on the Adorer. Can any people be
more industrious, more orderly, more provident, more
govei nable, than these Celtic races ? But the pea-
sants are proprietors of more than half the soil.
There is admitted to be very little of the Frank
or Saxon admixture in the population of France.
It is principally, and, above all, Celtic. And
one hundred years ago the peasant was
nearly as oppressed, famished, and brotified,
as the Irish. The French peasant is now directly the
reverse, and will bear a comparieon with the best
Saxon specimens that the Time; can choose. ''he
persons and the governments which redeemed the
French Celt from wallowing in the lowest mire
of humanity, never indulged in the twaddle of dir-
k., ference of race. On the contrary, they went on the
great principle—that all races and all men are equal;
and on this great, and true, and Christian principle,
• they redeemed and regenerated their country.
Instead of this, the Times, in the middle of the
• nineteenth century, preaches, not the necessity of
educating, or elevating, or redeeming the Irish Celt,
bat of forbidding the propagation, or extension, or
emigration of the race. Man, in the philosoe ay. of
the Times, is a horse or a bull. Seek in the liartng
Calendar, or the Agricultural Gazette, his sire and
1,4 dam, and yen can tell whether he is worth pampering
or shooting—whether he is fit to breed out of, or be
sent to the shambles. Such is the view taken of a
large portion, not merely of humanity, but of our
fellow-subjecta, by the ultra-christian Times.

ON Monday next SD Cant ot Common Council will
discuss the ministerial measure of education, and on
the following day there will be a grand conference of
its opponents assembled from all parts of the county'.
The citizens of London suffer too much from the mir.
education which produces