The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 3.

Tams is weeping and wailing the Calton and
Aar high plums- of conservative idolatry. There is
panic and tribulation throughout the brood realm of
landlordism. The. de'eat of the Sikhs. that timely
anodyne to rick national pride--the abdication of
CUARLES ALJIEIIT. and triumph of RADETSKI—are
unheeded by theaquirearchy. The game priservirs
bare other things to think of—there is insubordina-
tion in their own borders. The tenant-formers of
North Hants an in full revolt—a catastrophe com-
pared with which the flight ,of •PIitIONAND from
Vienna. or Louis Puitirrz from• Paris, shriek into

ibeignAlcanoe.
B.r JOHN POLLEN, Sir WILLIAM HRATIFICOTE, Mr.
COMPION, and a few other magnates, had arranged
everything comfortably for filling up the vacancy in
North Hampshire. Mr. MELVILLE PORTAL was to
walk the coarse: The constitumoy were not con-
sulted: as Mr. W. L. SCLATER told them when he
seconded the nomination of Mr. PORTAL atWirchester.
" In days of old it was customary to bamboosle the
elector*, but since the Reform Bill that humbug has
been laid as:de." Marvellous frankness! Mr. SCLATER
I oedemas that he and his friends have been in the
habit of humbugging the electore, but that they are
new reformed characters and intend henceforth to
exercise an honest and avowed despotism.
The tenant farmers of North Hants appear to have
had some inkling cf this before Mr. RCLATER told
dam for they came to the nomination prepared to
=against this singu'ar reform whim has con-
plausible humbugs (the word is Mr. SeLersit's
net oars) into bare-faced dictators. They came pre-
pared
with en experienced and tried candidate to
oppose a young gentleman barely of age, who could
not muster ideas enough to stuff out a plausible
address, and was reduced to the necessity of saying
ditto to his rival—as an ever-memorable candidate for
parliamentary honours oree did to Mr. BURKS.
"The only difference," said Mr. MELVILLE POR-
TAL, alluding to his competitor, " between his address
and mine, is that he ham entered more into detail."
And thereupon Mr. MELVILLE PORTAL proceeded to
quote the various declarations made by Mr. SHAW,
addng to each, "thin is precisely my view of the
matter." If Mr. SHAW had been first in the field,
Mr. PORTAL might have gained credit for lowing a
polit'cal idea or two in his head, by pirating that gen-
tlensan's address ; but as he had unluckily to write
first, his own is utterly barren. If there bs any sense
among the North Hants electors, surely thee will
prefer the teacher to the pupil ; at least till such tame
u the pupil has had leisure to engrave the lessons on
his memory.
And there are some grounds for hoping that this is
the view taken of the matter by the electors of North
Hants. Saturday being market day at Wiuchesler,
there was a strong gathering of tenant farmers at the
nomination : few towns folks were present, the meet-
ing consisted principally of voters. Nothing could
exceed the enthusiasm with which Mr. Snow was
received, and the show of bands wee in his favour.
The same sentiment animated all who attended the
market dinner. A stern determination to return lair.
Straw is manifested. The landlords are angry; Sir
JOHN POLLEN, for once, threw cff his wonted suavity
of demeanour, and meeting on the street one of the
gentlemen who spoke at the nomination, accused
him in no measured terms of causing a split
among the conservatives, which will not be
healed for years. And what is still more ominous
for the reformed humbugs of North Hants, many
intelligent long-headed conservative/ not involved
in the vortex of the contest, shake their heads,
and confess that " SHAW'S return is on the cards."
Who can wonder at all this ? The farmers are
distressed, and begin to see that young gentlsmen
like Mr. PORTAL are not exacay the men to relieve
them. The tergiversation of the " farmers' friends"
on the malt tax question—the barefaced jugglery of
Mr. Dlsatues motion—have con'r.bute t to shake
them out of the acquiescent slumber of years. And
in their uncomfortable awakening many grievances
rush to memory : fields of grain devoured by locust
preserves of game, the dangers of precarious tenures
of farms unguarded by a lease, and many more.
Nor have they needed to go far in search of a can-
didate. Mr. STIAW war at hand, known to most of
them as an able and popular writer on agricultural
sabjeces for le years; one who founded the Agricul-
tural Society in conjunction with Lord SPENCER and
the Duke of RICHMOND, and who has ever since
been one of its most efficient and indefatigable
members.
We should be doing Mr. SHAW but an equivocal
sluice in Hampshire were we to pretend that we
concur in all his views. Even as it is, grave sages of
Noodledom will strive to look wise, end warn the
independent electors and tenant farmers of North
Hants against the man who has our support. De-
pend upon it, they will say, the candidate favoured
by the Express cannot be sound on tie
qacrition of protection. We regret that Mr. Snow
is not a tree-trader, but he is the tepee.
putative and trustworthy champion of prin-
ciples not secondary in our estimation even to the
great principle of, lice trade. Ile advocates tenant
rights, and the abolition of game lam abuses. He
advocates a recision not only of local taxation, but of
that confused and vexatious system of local govern-
ment, itt which excessive local rata atilt wantooly
'profuse expenditure have their origin. Above all, be
is the champion of the important practical truth, that
it is the duty. of the egricu.tural electors to think for
themselves in ehoousg a representative, and their
right to choose a real man to represent them—a man
with ideas in his head, and energy, and cramp to act
upon them. Mr. Straw's return will be a solemn
pledge given by the electors of North Hants, that
henceforth they will take nothing upon trait
in politics, because their landlords bid them ;
that they will inquire, and act independently
upon the convictions that are the result of inquiry.
We are, cf course, attached to our own opinions; but
far more deeply are we devoted to the cause of fear-
less, independent investigation. If the agricultural
public will but begin to think for themselves, to in-
quire and reason, and unfettered byanthority, the and
the real liberal; will soon come to ande each
other thoroughly.
And therefore it is that we bid Mr. Strew and his
gallant supporters ().4 speed. The cause of parlia-
mentary purity and electoral independence is at stake
in the North Hampshire election. The tenant farmers
can return Mr. SHAW if they are resolved to do so;
and from all that we can learn they have made up
their minds to perform the feat.