The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-07 00:00:00

Int elrypnoo.

MAILS.
The mails, yes Mane Um, to the Mediterranean. Egypt, Addy
Ceylon, India, Hozotatoos, M., will be made up this even*.
the 7th Feb.
The mauls for British North America, and the United Mat%
wi be marts up on the evening of the 9th Feb.
The made for the West Omen of Africa and Madeira will be mai
up on the evening of the 12th Feb.
[he West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Ramon
Honduran, New Orleans, end Mexloo, and including those he
Madeira, St. Jearrele.Niearegua, New Oraanda, Chill, and Peru, ttH
be made up on the morning of the 17th Feb.
The mails for Vigo, Uporto Whoa. Madeira. Cadiz, and Oftrahlf
'will be made up on the mamfug of the 17th Feb.
The nails for Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands,
Aden, Ceykin, India, Hoeg-Hong, end Me Bouthampto4lllYA
be made up on the mooning of the 20th Feb.
The was for New South Wales, Van Diessan's Land, and MI
Zeeland will be made up cc the evening of the 28th Feb.
The mails for Madan, the Bruns, and Buenos Ayres, will le
made of on Ike maim of the 4th March.

1170 If WATF. AT LONDON BRIDGE
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1.2.22 —1112,21211, 40 I, Afternoon, If =IA peat 2;
To-Xossow —loaning WA psi pot 1; Alterman, Ile ELL pun 2.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7.

A MORE melancholy document, or a keener satire
upon the English government of Ireland, than the
letter of the LORD LIEUTENANT to the HOME Be-
CRETARY, referred to in last night's debate,
could scarcely be produced. It records the failure of
an attempt at rebellion, so feeble, so inconsiderate, so
puerile, and so ludicrous, that its universal effect up=
every unprejudiced mind was to excite a feeling d
mingled ridicule and compassion. And yet the*
miserable fools, more worthy of the pillory
than of the scaffold, have been able to
assume the character of heroes and martyrs. Ths
actual administration of Ireland did all that was
proper. It repressed with vigour, prosecuted with
firmness, and indulged in none of that vindictiveness
and choleric spite which we see, for example, in
French reaction. But nothing of this has told with
the Irish people :
On the part of those engaged in the late treasonable move-
ment no indication whatever of sorrow or repeetanos fon
their misdeeds has been observed. Their regret is coaled
to their failure, and their hopes are directed to • more favour-
obi., issue on the first opportunity ; nor does the orderly con-
duct of the people proceed from any improved feeling as
regards the law or the exeeutive government.
We hold Ireland, in fact, by physical force, by null.
tary ascendancy. Nor, under the administration of
one of our ablest statesmen, have we made one step
towards the establishment of a moral ascendancy, or
towards the conducting a government of Ireland bz
other means than that of terror. " This country,
continues the LORD LIEUTENANT, speaking of Ireland,
" has been too long trained to a system d
agitation to be at once weaned from such a course
The Irish have, in fact, never obtained anything bet
by agitation. And that agitation has taught then
their own strength, a strength not sufficient to throw
off the yoke of England, but quite sufficient to render
Ireland a sore and a burden, and a subtraction from
the force of the empire, as long as ample justice sad
equal rights are denied to its Impoverished and d*
inherited musses. Sir Grottaz GREY made a long
speech to prove that the rebellion vim a serious eor•
herious it was, like every thing Irish, but very little
more serious than the state of Ireland has been for a
long time, and is likely to remain. For nothing that
Sir GEORGE GREY proposes is in the least calculated
to neutralise disaffection, or allay danger.
The entire ingenuity, philanthropy, efforts, and
skill of English statesmen towards Ireland have
been concentrated in, and confined to, the poor
law. The regeneration of Ireland ie expected
from this, and from this alone and unaided. Tr
sole anxiety of the government is, how to make it
work, they being seemingly satisfied that if it dote
work it must effect that change which we all look to
for the salvation of Ireland.
The poor law has, however, had one undeniable
effect: it has spread universal disaffection and die
content through every class. And were it not that
it created conflicting interests, and made landlords,
citizens, and :vaunts, beasts of prey with to
one another se the same time that it infuriated them
against! Ent-lend as the source of legislation, there
would have been a rebellion of a very different land
indeed from the Airmails of Ballingarry.
What is to be censured and lamented is, not the

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