The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-06 00:00:00

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... to 325. ; Dantsic,
to 325.; new, 325. to
to 320. 6d. ; Odeon,
30s. to 32e.; United
par 3201 b., Berwick
ors.; foreign, Pomeranian,
11);nish, now, 241. to 275. Oat.,
Scotch, new, 235. to 245. ; pre-
- - 6sret r .Biga, 4
new, 2.15.
pa imperial
foreign, new, 28. to
ns. • Irish, par -Alba, •, -I. to 275. Egyptian,
per 2801ba., old, 225. to 231. Peas, per 280 lbs., white,
rib% 265. to 275. ; Ivey, ,new, 241. to tut. ; Canadian,
now, 255. to 265. Flour, per 280 1b.., English, tutor-
lino ,now 48s. to 60s. ; Irish ditto, new, 475. to 495. ; tine,
now, 440.,t0 461. ; extra choice qualities, new, 60s. to 55a.;
Aissiimi, per barrel, sweet, old, 30s. to 31s. ; Ca•
atillima, nest, ea, Ms. to 31s. ; sour, old, 275. to 284.
Oatmeal. pa 21101bs, Scotch, new, 445. to 480. Irish,
an, mama out, 401. to 425. Indian Corn, per 280th..,
22a. to tba.

HOPS.— BOROUGH MARKET. Two o'C'Tock.—
Yawn Pattandem and Smith, Hnp facton, report that the
market coathmea in a dull state.

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MAILS.
Thc mails for Vies. Oporto, uO,-.1, Madeira, Cadiz, and Citznitar •
will be made ap on morning of the 141 August.
The overland closed walk ria Ilareellles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Cestor, Ind.a, Hong Kong, he., will be mede up en the •
everting oldie 7th Aughst
The West India mails, excluding those for Menke, Wondered, and
the diavannali. wilt be mule up on the morning of the 17th d•igust.
The maths for RtiVA North America, Bermuda, sod the totted
States, will to snide tip no the evening of the loth Awes!.
The over:end sails int Oferaltaz, Malta, Greece, the tome &ands.
I eiric; Agee, cegion, !Dia, 1014-KO3lll, slid China, tioutnampton.
selmade up on the marling of the 20th Auguet.
The mails for New South tit ales, Van Diemen's Land, and Mew
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slat Außuat •
'Me mails for the Brazils, Um Rim Plate, Monte
made
Penums
Imo, Bahia, blatleir. and Buenos Ayres, will be made up oa the
evesgas of the 4th September.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 6.

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ALREADY a considerable number of the county
elections for England have taken place, and in most
cases the old members have been quietly reseated.
Here and there an adverse speech has been made,
and occasionally. as in Oxfordshire, the unopposed
members have been greeted with somewhat noisy
demonstrations of popular disapproval. But gene-
rally the scene and the candidates have been in
' complete harmony ; the elections have been as dull as
tie sleeted are intellectually drowsy. We doubt
whether any but the idlest of boys, or the most
vacant of sight-seers, have attended the solemn
election of knights of the shire. Such apathy is not
wholesome, but it exists. As chroniclers of daily
events we must record the fact: as interpreters of
the signs of the times we may hereafter com-
ment on its sigeiticance. At present it is
sufficient to say that the landocracy reigns
supreme in most of the counties, and that tho
public opinion, which is growing and gathering
i
strength amongst the farmers and other ndustneus
classes of the county constituencies, has not yet be-
some sufficiently matured to produce effective political
action on behalf of industry.
Still, recent events have not been without their effect
upon the laadiord mind. Many county members,
once protectionists, are being
.re-elected as avowed
supporters of the policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and
even the once rampant monopolist members aro
returning to the House of Commons calmer, if not
' wiser, men, and more cautious, if sot sounder, pcli-
ticisns. Such a fall as the landed aristocracy lately
received at the hands of the middle classes by the
agency of the League might be expected to produce
something akin to reftection, even in the minds of pro-
tectionist squires. And such has been the case. In
Dorsetshire, Mr. GEORGE BANKES, instead of wild
and foolish prophecies of universal agricultural ruin
from free trade in corn, tells the farmers in his address
that:
We are on all sides told that the effects of the pea expe-
riment have not yet conunn,ced operation ; with this under-
standing I am content to abate the issue, and if it be your
pleasure *stain to confide in me, I will resume with pleasure
the duty of guarding and promoting your interests to the
best of my power.
Mr. SEYEEER, one of the British lion members
elected for Dorsetshire during the final struggle of
the monopolists, says
All parties seem to be agreed that the free trade measi!res,
having received the sanction of the legislature, are entitled
to a fair trial.
Mr. FLoYER, the third Dorset protectionist mem-
ber, contents himself with a general expression
of " an anxious desire for the well-being of native in-
dustry ;" and the same signs of tameness are exhi-
hibited by the protectionist lions of the adjoining
county of Somerset. Sir ALEXANDER HooD, whose
roar during the anti-corn-law agitation was long and
loud, if not very terrible, now says, "as free trade in
corn has become the law of the land, I am dis-
posed to give that measure a fair trial ;" and contenting
himself with an obscure hint of his adherence to the
navigation laws, which are going the way. of other
defunct monopolies, and records his determination to
uphold " protestantism," which is in no peril whatever.
This is a very safe course. Even Mr. MILES, °cc° a
sort of leader of the protectionists, states that :
Though an active opponent of those (free trade) measures,
before they became the law, I am bound to state that I shall
not be disposed to countenance the disturbance of the decision
of perliament until the policy of free trade shall be pract,cally
proved ; and I fervently trust that the imprehensioss which
I entertain may not in the event be verified.
The political landowners are thus ready to cushion
the corn-laws, and survive the universal wreck they
predicted, but did not anticipate, provided their su-
premacy in the county representation be lea un-
touched. And these may be taken as a fair specimen
of the views with which all the out-and-out protec-
tionist county members return to the new parliament.
This is plainly a far happier frame of mind than that
of 1841.
There are, however, interspersed through these ad-
dresses, sundry avermenta of " protestant principles,"
and antipathy to "Roman catholic priesthood,' which
are to serve as battle cries, should the dominancy of
" the land" be endangered.
That such is the real state of things may be learnt
from what is taking place in the two divisions of
Essex, where liberal candidates are in the field, and
the landed supremacy is contested. There the rasing,
of the protectionist landowners are loud and wild, and
will probably be as impotent as the braying of that
animal to which it was the pleasure of Sir Jens;
TYRELL, with a candour ann self-knowledge for
which he deserves credit, to compare himself. But,
perhaps, South Northamptonshire exhibits in the
strongest light the frantic efforts by which the mono-
polist landocracy seeks to maintain dominion. Sir
CHARLES KNIGEITLEY is the leader in this division of
the county, and his own seat is cot now attacked ;
but even the rational tones have risen in rebellion
against the imposition on the county of each a
nominee as Captain VISE. Ascordingly, Lord Heel EY
has been brought forward, and is supported by tho
Whigs, the conservative free-traders, and the inde-
pendent part of the constituency. If the farmers can
be moved, a lesson will, probably, be read to the
acted oligarchy of the division they did not expect.
But our chief object in noticing this election is to show
the sort of warfare to which "the land" will remit.
The local organ of Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY attacks
Lord HENLEY and his supporters with an abundance
of hard names and a great profusion of typographical
capitals, which, were they not backed by the power
of coercing yearly tenants, would be simply ridiculous.
And Sir CSABLES KNIGHTLRY, in his address to the
"tones of Northamptonshire," thus pleads for his
nominee :
I most earnestly entreat them not to relax in that real
which they have invariably evinced, and that they will sup-
port my friend, Captain Vyse, with the same cordiality
which they have hitherto shown to me.
Now it is impossible not to see that the only section
of the constituency sought to be influenced by such ap-
peals is that which contains the bigoted and ignorant
opponents of all improvement. Not a word is uttered
which can conciliate or attract the industrious of any
class ; not a hint occurs of any concessions on farmers'
questions, game, tenant-right, leases, law of distress,
and so forth ; but the farmers and the humbler voters
are to be compelled to support the dominancy of the
landlords. Bat unless coerced, farmers will pass by
these appeals to " conservatism" unheeded. 'fhoy
know too well that it is a synonyms for " land-
ladies ;" and of that they know somewhat too much
to be very active in its support. On the other head,
Lord HENLEY honestly puts his support of agriculture
ea the right grounds. He said :
That he came forward as the friend of agricu bore ; and
Oat ha mosid =mod all measures calculated to promotes its
Mirrl. Bat he did not think that what was called pro-
itTia" and restrictive laws were favourable to agriculture.
Remembering what he saw last week--remembering the
variety of implements, many of them originating in their
ewe ingenuity, and the splendid show of cattle exhibited by
the farmers of England at the late agricultural show—re-
membering the fields which he everywhere saw teeming
with food, he must say that he did not believe that any
farmer in the world could beat the English ; be did bctevo
that the English farmer could compete successfully with the
whole world.
And three views were received by a large aseemtly
of electors with " great cheering," And he afterwards
added : •
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When he spoke to them about protection, and aid he did
not think it was any use to the farmer, be omitted to add
that he considered that he ought to be relieved, as far oa
poseible,from all restrictions on hit industry and enterprise.
Thee we see that the liberal politicians will be, in
is natural, the men to fight the battle of the farmers
against the landed aristocracy. The hold which tho
corn laws gave upon the fears, and consequently on
the votes, of the farmers, has now ceased, and the real
antagonism of rent-paying and rent-receiving sectkos
of the landed interest will every hour become more
and more apparent.