The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-28 00:00:00

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thereof: ttss" guardians are to administer relief, gulled to
these rules and regulations. 5. The guardians are to ap-
point as many relieving officers as the poor-law commis-
sioners shall deem necessary. 6. The guardians, if it shall
appear necessary to the poor-law commissioners, are to ap-
point medical officers to afford medical relief out of the
workhouse. 7. In casts of sudden and urgent necessity,
relieving officers may give provisional relief till next meet-
iog of the guardians. 8. Relief given under this ant to a
wife or child, shall be considered as given to the person
liable to maintain them under the Irish Poor-law Act. 9.
All out-door relief under this act is to be charged to the
union, and relit f is not to be given out of the union on
which it it charged. 10. The vor-law commissioners are
to have the same power and authority as to qualifications,
duties, appointments, removal, and salaries of officers, under
this net, so in the ease of officers appointed under the act
now in force. 11. The administration of relief under this
act is to be subject to the control of the poor-law c ;amis.
*ion( rs. 12. The guardians are to keep accounts of their
expeaiture under this act in such form as the poor-law
commissioners shall prescribe; and the accounts art to be
audited accoi-ling to t: e t envisions of the acts now in force
for the relief of the dem.!tute in Ireland. 13. The acts
now in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland,
and this act, are to he construed as one act, except so far as
the provisions of any one act may alter those of any pre-
vious act. 14, This act may be amended or repealed• in the
present SeS6Oll.

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MAILS.

The mail. for New South Wale., Van Piemea's Land, and New
Zealand will be made op on the evening of the lot February.
'the Went India mob, including thaw for Mex.co, Honduran, and
the I lavannah, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd February.
The maiLt for Britidi North America, Bermuda, and the United
awes, will be nude up on the evening of the 3rd February.
Tbs overland mauls for Gibraltar, Malin, Greece, the lomon Islands,
l'tAden, Ceylon, India, Hong. Kong, and China, via Southampton,
bewweillll made up on the morning of the :rd of February.
'the utak fur the Brazils, the lire, Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Madera. and Buenos Ayr ea, will be dispatched on the
g of the 4th February.
The maile for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be made up on the morning of the Bth February.
The overland closed mails, via Marwrilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, 0e AO6, India, Hang Nang, Mc., will be made up 011 the
evening of the IleX February.

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Two *Week att the day of pheLoatiee.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGF-

rat* DAT. —MOM/DC 0 min. pent 0; Afternoon, 12 rain. pat 0.
To4lortaew —Morning, 40 nun. pot 0; Afternoon, 7 ILI. I,As 1.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 28.

GOVERNMENT has proposed a series of measures for
Ireland, some described u permanent, others as tem-
porary. Accounts from that country do, we think,
peremptorily call on the government to adopt a mea-
sure that should pass before either, and be styled
Instnediale.

In great catastrophes, it has been the habit of all
commercial communities to suspend the stringent

laws, which compel the defaulting debtor, not —able
to meet his engagements, to surrender his pro-
perty and consider himself bankrupt. After the Paris
Revolution of July, after the great fire of Hamburg,
these fundamental laws of commercial intercourse
were suspended by decree of the government, it being
considered that such terrible visitations of Providehee
released man, for the time, from his current obliga-
tions. The creditor's band was stayed, the law dis-
armed, and a higher charity than alms-giving was
decreed by the sovereign power.
Something of the kind is called for in Ireland,
where accounts from a variety of quarters represent
persons as taking advantage of the universal insol-
vency and misery, to bring and enforce ejectments, and
punieh the unfortunate tenant for the sterility with
which Providence has this year stricken the soil, by
depriving him of all prospect of subsistence for the
future. It is scarcely possible to imagine that men
could be found, of hearts so black and frigid, as
to take such advantage of the atarvihg. It is difficult
to conceive a community which would tolerate such
proceedings; and the fact that they do take place
Hipp a dreadful light upon those vindictive retalia-
tions of dispossessed tenants against their landlords
which have so fearfully illustrated the history of Irish
crime.

We have generally little respect for grievances
brought forward in Conciliation Hall. But the facts
alleged by Mr. WILLIAM KELLY on Monday,—facta
supported by every addition of names and circum-
stances,—are too monstrous, too glaring, not to com-
mand attention. The part of Ireland, in which famine
has most severely exerted its ravages, is Mayo. It is
also, perhaps, the part of Ireland in which the soil is
most sterile, the population most in the condition of
squatters, and in which, consequently, the labour of
the pear has been the sole capital expended on the
land.

Instead of the usual number of civil bills, about
1,200, preferred at the sessions of Itallina, in that
county,there have been during this F.cs,ion 6,ooo,mostly
at the instance of landlords, and a majority for the
recovery of the November rent. The peasant has ex-
pended his labour and his stock of manure upon the
ground. The crop has failed, and he is now turned
out because he cannot pay his rent.
We publish in another column, under our usual
heading of Irish news, the statements of Mr. KELLY
and Mr. O'CONNELL. And most cordially do we
echo the desire of the latter gentleman who said that
r-omething must be done to discriminate the good land-
lord from the bad one ; and to take core that the people
be cot made the victims of one or of the other, Cr of the di-
visions that may arise in England because of the conduct of
these landlords.

The general feeling throughout the metropolis, and
its now overflowing political circles, is, that the land-
lord interest of Ireland has been too much consulted
in the measures of government lately propounded, that
the Irish landlords have been let off too easily ; and
that they owe no small share of their impunity to
their having imitated their brethren of Conciliation hall
—met, leagued,and menaced. We acquit the members
of the present government of being capable of stoop-
ing to such intimidation. No doubt good and pruden-
tial reasons, such as may not all meet the public eye,
weighed with them in the determination they came to.
We are willing to r-cept that determination, and
admit the validity of ' 'ie reasons which motived it.
But it is incumbent on the English public, and the
English members of parliament, to support the go-
vernment, at least up to the line which it has marked,
and not permit it to be driven behind that line by
the selfish intrigues and conspiracies of the Irish
landlords, or, as they please to call themselves, the
Irish party. If the Irish landlords will walk in the
same path as the Irish professional men, who seek
the repeal of the union, perhaps it might
be wise to gratify them, and give these land-
lords up to the Irish people. But, stopping short
of this extreme measure, it is imperative to protect
the Irish people from these landlords, or from such
of them, as would make use of the present calamity
to oppress the starving.
We do think that a bill ought to pass, suspend-
ing the operation of the law of ejectment, and all other
laws which enforce violently and immediately the pay-
ment of the November rent from small holdings—that
rent which could onlybe made up from the potato crop,
that has failed. The proceedings in the sessions
house of Ballina fully warrant this.

THERE is an immensity to be done in the way in
elevating the lower classes of our population both in
England and in Ireland. The cry, the want, the
impulse of the educated classes not to tolerate any
longer the degradation of the lower ones, without at
least struggling against it, has become one of those
" trade-winds," in the teeth of which there is no
sailing. The utmost a public man can do is to sail
obliquely with the breeze, and to steer so as not to
be altogether driven out of his course, and perhaps
ashore.
The difficulty is, indeed, to prevent this " trade-
wind" of philanthropy from sweepin g away and destroy-
ing all that it wafts and impels. The artisan and his
family are the great object of Mr. FteLDri.,'sand Lord
Asiilik:VN care. They would have the children educated,
the women kept at home totheir domestic tasks, the men
sufficiently remunerated, and all provided with leisure
for education, religious instruction, and healthful
exercise. Very proper ; very just. But out of what
fund, and by what means? Out of the profits of
the manufacturers, by the state coercing these manu-
facturers, ordering their mills to stop, their wheels to
remain idle, and their furnaces to go out ? It is all a
matter of Calculation. If the manufacturer cannot
afford these in carrying on histrade, then the artisan will
have little heart to look to either education, or religious
instruction, or healthful exercise. He may starve:
and in that case, will be proved the folly of seeking
to provide for the moral welfare of a people, without
first ensuring them physical existence.
Perhaps, however, the economic calculations of Mr.
---..... FIELDEN are right. Perhaps the price of many_.. r
factored goods may be raised without injurir:eilikete ;• q IS
sale. But this is a bad time for makin:Ajapeit.. -'-mil,, .04
uieut, Manufacturers
were Prem'isei cheap breed iii 7
order to low wages. The yeek nos brought the eese:
ttary of abundance. The yeur, too, has brough(more aid ... sil