The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1846.

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proveable estate. It will be found to confirm the
preceding remarks :
"There is in &baron) in this county a property of about 10,500
acres, chiefly producing heather or mountain grus, worth Gd. or la.
an acre, but touch of it highly improveable. On the all portion
cultivated reside a number of small tenants, perhaps lioo souls in all.
The proprietor bad made arrangements to employ every person Ca the
property capable of working and who would work, in improving the
lan4 so as to secure them a sufficiency of soxtentutre, while It
should remunerate him and enable hint tr repay the money which
be proposed to mine for the purview. In the meantime a
baronial straion is held. The associated ems-payers and magistrates,
the former being predominant, lay on an amtrament equal to sixteen
years' ordinary athemment, to be borrowed from the public, and re-
paid by the barony, and expended upon making roads. In order to
give a fair share of employment to the tenantry of the above-men-
tioned landlord, a large sum isallotted to he property to be so laid out.
The roads will chiefly be or his land, and perhaps ultimately improve
Its value a little, but will certainly conduce nothing toward, enabling
him out his tenants to pay the ingalments of repayment to be tased
on them, noir to feed his people; and all this L. cast upon him because
the tenantry of other estates are not to be employed on remunerating
productive worth, to be paid for by those whose tstrtes and incomes
would be profited thereby. And the improving landlord is hindered
in bin purpose, and taxed along with his tenantry, to repay a sum to
be advanced for roads which his property does not want, while a due
encoutagement of remunerating works would Lame in Ireland's
improvement, while her peasantry should be fed, and to England's
advantage, in really retracing the repayment of the advance, which it
will tor hand to wring out of a poverty-stricken district, enriched with
as many roads in six months es would otherwise be made in sixteen
years."
We have said a word for the landlords of Ireland
from a sense of justice, which urges itself with in-
creased force at the present time. It is not con-
sidered by those who assail this class how much it
requires to make a good Irish landlord. The virtues
that carry the landowner of England or Scotland
through a lifetime of tenants' dinners to a lamented
decease and testimonial epitaph, are miserably insuffi-
cient across St. George's Channel. There, it is not
enough to put up with moderate rents ; reside three
months at the hall ; have the vicar to dinner once a
week and the curate once a month ; give an
annual dance to the tenantry ; roast an ox and
tap a butt of October on the majority of
the heir ; and go through the other easy steps
in the life of English squirealty. There, are
bitternesses of religion to be sweetened: recollections
of oppression to be effaced ; antipathies of race to be
reconciled; inveterate prejudices to be eradicated; self-
respect to be engendered; recklessness, improvi-
dence, and procrastination to be encountered and over-
come.

This is a long list of duties to add to those of giving
receipts for rent, and seeing that covenants are pre-
served.

The Irish landlord must be a legislator in little,
with a rabble of subjects whose distresses are only
equalled by their patience, and the deep dye of their
crimes by the lustre of their virtues. He who fulfils
these duties deserves the highest praise, but he who
falls short of them has many claims to indulgence.
We regret, as we write, to see additions of some im-
portance made to the latter class, of which the reader
will find an account elsewhere, and which must be
the subject of future comment.

THERE is a striking similitude between two great
military chiefs of the two countries on either side of
the Channel, Sir CHARLES N.lriEr, and Marshal
IlunE.tun. There is a similitude in their for-
tunes, their success, their peremptory habits,
their unpopularity, and their mode of facing it.
Marshal Buce.tuti has always borne the cha-
racter of a brave and good soldier, as well as of an
able commander; yet with such a dash of wild oddity
and Quixotism about him, that even his best admirers
dreaded to see him entrusted with the political con-
duct of states, and the command over masses of men.
He has, however, acquitted himself, somewhat sa-
vagely perhaps, but with all gallantry and skill.
Nevertheless, despite his talent and success, Mar-
shal BUGEAUD is by no means in favour with the go-
vcmment he serves, whilst his unpopularity with the
public has amounted almost to abhorrence. Marshal
III:GE tun has had one peculiar foe, the very appearance
or mention of which raised all his passions, "like
quills upon the fretful porcupine." This enemy was
the press. The hot soldier could not brook the
eye of the penman, coldly turned upon his actions to
criticise, or perhaps misrepresent them. lie ac-
cordingly chafed, swore, vituperated, and perse-
cuted: the pressmen dealing him blow for blow.
In any other country than his own, they would
have killed BUGEAUD with ridicule; and they very
nearly did do so. But military success is so para-
mount in France, that the victory of Isly rendered
11 the Marshal triumphant, not only over the Moors,
but over the scribblers.

In depicting Marshal BUGEtUD'S doings and weak-
nesses, we have at the same time depicted Sir
CHARLES NAPIEIes, who was seized with the same
pressphobia as the French Marshal. The mutual an-
tagonism between Sir CHARLEs and the press in India
is such, that either party foams at the mouth, and goes
stark staring mad, at sight or mention of each other.
Charity and saneness forbid, that we should believe
any thing that one may say of the other. But, on the
whole, NAPIER seems less fortunate than HUGEtED.
Meeance was an effort of a giant : Isly, child's play
compared with it. Yet :Nlecanee has not only been
achieved without Marshal's baton or Dukedom, but
even without winning that popularity which a soldier
may reckon upon in France.
We may pass from a comparison of the generals to
that of the countries which they govern and guard ;
both, it is to be feared, unprofitable conquests,
disastrous to the health of the soldiers whom both
decimate; and both without temptation for colonist or
trader, except such as follow in the wake and delight
in the purlieus of a camp. A conquering race has
been expelled from both, by their present European
masters ; the Ameers of Scinde having been treated, we
are sorry to say, with far more harshness than the Dey
of Algiers and his Turks. The latter were allowed
to get off with ample treasure ; the Ameers were
flung into captivity, and into a shameful state of
destitution, from which Sir HENRY ITARDINGE has in
some degree relieved the survivors.
French and English statesmen arc alike puzzled to
know what to do with their conquests. M. THIElts
declared that the great use of Algiers was the pos-
session of a port and station from which 50,000
French soldiers might be despatched to any point of
the countries on the Mediterra.iean, without any other
power being aware of the movement till its aim was
accomplished. For this grand purpose an army indeed
must be supported in Algeria; but such aim is scarcely
worth the annual expenditure.
The holders of Scinde are allured by golden visions
of trade rather than of military emprise. We station
there our thousands to be decimated by fever and
the Belooch, as the Frenchman is by nostalgia
and the Arab : he looking for the Great War, we for
the Great Trade, neither of which will come. Years
upon years must elapse ere either country can gain a
prize, in return for the yearly stake and loss of thou-
sands. A quarter of a century must elapse ere the
'population of the Punjaub, and the countries with
which its streams connect, can become consumers of
our goods, or industrious furnishers of anything
valuable in repayment. We have placed the Pun-
jaub in native tutelage during that time. Who does
not now regret that we did not the same by Scinde ?
What Frenchman of sense does not wish Algeria at
the bottom of the sea, or at least its occupation
merely littoral.
It may be pleaded for Algeria that its expense is
occasioned by the war, and that, AIID-EL-KADER
reduced, the Algerian budget might also be re-
duced to satisfactory dimensions. But there is
no ABD-EL-KADER amongst the Belooches ; yet the
Scinde budget would seem even more onerous
than Parliamentary returns admit, and they show
it to be sufficiently onerous. The NAPIERS deny this,
indeed; but they should come forward, not with
choler, but with facts and figures, to prove their opi-
nions. There shall not be wanting an organ of the
press to show them every fair play.

Marshal BrGEAUD, however, stands in no need of
proving his African empire economical. He may
fully reckon on the support of public opinion for his
boldest acts. Whether he spend millions in the
wildest enterprises, perpetrate the greatest cruelties in
razzias, or provoke foreign war by an invasion of
Morocco or of Tunis, Marshal BUGEAUD may do all,