The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

NWINTWI STIRANT, Ocr. 13.—Then were Omit 440
mule ihoera its the Geld to.da.r with about 30 C we. It was
rise de. ly • *ethos market. Front 7i. to 9i. le, were ob-
tained foe two-yeareld Gangways; and yet with these rebel,*
ws understaod in Is instances not more thasi hoot 6s. to
10s. was pot ire SINIIMINF grams. There was a peat deal
of
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influenos.
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9.. 91 to 101 91. t Owls Ind Grams, 9s. 3d. to 9e. 9d. par
MSS. Mutton, 711. M 7s. Per lb•
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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. OCT.IB.
CiOVEZNMENT, we understand, has come to the re-
wire, on the recommendation of the Board of Health,
to do away with the idle precaution of six days
quarantine, inflicted on vowels from continental ports,
suspected of cholera. There certainly could be no
more efficient means devised of originating and nurs-
ing malignant disewein ships' crews,than the sending
them tor a week to Stangate Creek, in the midst of
mud banks, and off a low aguish shore.
Fortunately, cholera has taken upon itself to give
us proofs of its non contagiousness. Very malignant
oases of it appeared at Sunderland and at Hull, yet
the disease has spread in neither of these towns. At
Elinburgh it made a hop, step, and jump over Leitb,
to make its appearance first in the wynds and closes
of the Soutch metropolis, before it visited the pert,
where it now rages. Here, in London, we have had
it is the hulks, and then at Uxbridge, Islington, and
Lambeth.
Such capricious and untraceable progress as this,
utterly d. strays the possibility of what we call con-
tagion. And inde. d, admitting the doctrine of con-
tagion to the utmost, how foolish and unfair would it
be to persist in analog to Stangate Creek vessels
from fo•cign ports that are merely suspected, whilst
ships from Leith, where cholera is now malignant,
run up the Thames tad weber ander London-bridge!

POLITICAL lunacy is a greet misfortune, not to the
individual alone who is possessed with the evil spirit,
but to all who come within Hs mischievous range.
As in other forms of mental malady, where the more
active powers the intv beet survive self-controlling
reason, it is not always easy to detect the first moment
of aberration, or to demonstrate to the incredulous
standersby wherein the clang. row incoherency lies,
or in what essentially it differs !tom the casual vio-
lence and inconeistiocy of sane though too excitable
men. It often happens that some fret act
of self-destruction, or destruction of the lives and hap-
Owes of others, is the first overt proof given of abet-
late =dons. More frequently, however, the foolish
fondness or criminal neglect of family and friends
leads them to overlook the prem uitory &monads.
tion which is afforded of progressive alienation.
People "can't think it possible," until they are
startled from the r indolent dream of good-for-nothing
Reedit/Are by a bitter cry of suffering or death. Thus
r every kind co! maniacs tasted, and th. sa where
hensying filed idea is political, among the nat.
We speak in no sense of levity when we say that
we ascribe the miserable term nation of Mr. Bunn
O'BRIEN'S carver to the malign influence of 'amenity.
It is quits tree that upon ciediaary subjects he retained
at all times not merely what vulgarly is called his
self-porseesion but a certain common-place quickness
of perception and readiest' of speech an I action such
as minds of a mediocre stamp frequently dis-
play.
To these qualities, indeed, were joined
more than a fl ting share of self-esteem and
of ambition. Without talents fitted to com-
mend
in'ellectual allegiance, or to win Fe-eminent
popularity . among those to whom, by birth, fortune,
and educadoe, he belonged, his vanity became morbid,
and his disappointment at what he deemed an unjust
refusal of appreciation and respect, embittered. Start-
le!! in political life as a tory, he found himself, after
two yearklittle valued by the followers of Sir ROBERT
PAIL ; and, from the mate of public keling
during. the struggle for reform, it is certain
that, in common with many well-known po-
liticians in both kingdoms, he must either
have relinquished parliamentary life, or made pro-
lamin of whig principles, if not something more. Hs
efts the latter, we do not say dishonestly, but we are
sure ambitiously ; and for ten years he laboured not
within usefulness, though without celebrity or ap-
plause, in the cause of whig radical reform. He voted
right on almost every occasion. He carefully pre-
pared his statements of facts and reasonings. But,
unhappily, the House of Commons seldom found time
to listen to his unexceptionable but unimpressive
sposiber. He seldom made mistakes, save only the sad
eraser ens of supposing that he had something to
en which his owu party would be glad or the oppo-
, site party annoyed to hear. Both sides agreed too
wady in their opinion of him, and were, in fact, too
nearly Oglit in their judgment, that he was a man of
his word, powered some information, and a good deal
of industry, that he was by no means a bad sort of
man, but " rather dull," and frequently a bore.
In Ireland his mortificadons were still greater.
O'ConneLL ruled supreme over the populace
and the press; and ne"er was there a-
eon .ferninmely jealous reign. No man, how-
ever faithful to the popular tame, was safe
from the imputation of wanting to set up far
himself. Individual independence was a contraband
commodity at "the Corn Exchange"—for as yet Cou-
ciliation existed not. One after another, every
man who had in him any spark of moral or intellec-
tual protestantistn—by which we mean the love of
soul liberty, and not any form of creed or dogmatism
—was pilloried at the bidding of that unsparing and
intolerant master of the passim* of the multitude.
Lord CLONCURRT, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. PURCELL,
even Dr.Dolve—each was in tare Immolated without

remorse at the shrine of the popular idolatry. Barra
°Tame himself was on one occasion assailed for
some contumacious breach of discipline, and nearly
bullied out of his seat fur Limerick. For ten years,
however, he continued to hold outagaitua the tyranny
tem
of O'Cos ; and, to do him justice, urged CE44O-
- upon parliament the expediency of those con-
oesstoos of just and equal liberties to Ireland, whose
refusal was the true sours. of O'Consetee dictatorial
and dtrinctive power.
But importunity like his, and a pliant, flexible, and
slave-trading system of threats and ioconsister.t
yielding., such as O'Com4xLes, proved equally vain.
No right or privilege,. worthy of the flame, has been
conceded to Ireland sines 1829. Created of reform in
1833, ber constituencies resemble more those of
Prance under Louis PHILIPPE than those of Great
Britain. Cheated of municipal reform in 1839,
there is not a function of local self-rule which
the corporate bodies of England or Scotland
exeicase, that in the Irish cities and towns is
not still performed b the jobbing officials appointed
by the executive. Cheated the same year of an em-
met poor law, no right to relief was comoded to the
famishing multitude until selfish tenor extorted it
frum the treasury in 1847. Cheated of church reform,
the sristocracy have contrived to =detain that scan-
dalous appanage regardless of every eqatty, of every
decency, and of every rule of sound or
wise polity. After years of futile, though
of faithfol; struggle, the re.inte of nati.nal
injustice seemed to be inveterate and invincible.
&Comeau. exultingly reverted to the old
cry of "the Repeal," and many, in disgust and
despeinjaireed with him In that cry in 1842, who had
never dons so before. - _

Truly bath it been written aforetime, that " ("pees-
lon &troth even the wile man mad." How mesh