The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1848.

fail ; and to be rendered safe or useful, it
should manifestly have been used most forbearingly
and rarely. The whole vitality of the system de-
pends on the principle of self-taxation. There may
be, and no doubt there are, cases where, from a pecu-
liar combination of circumstances, this principle
could not, with due regard to the pressure of disease
and want, be adhered to ; but any attempt to sub-
stitute generally the paid nominees of the commis-
sioners for the elected boards of guardians, must be
regarded as alike unconstitutional and imprudent,—
as wholly at variance with the intention elf the legis-
lature, and certain toproduce the greatest evils. Y
such is the wild and perilous course which Mr.
TWISLETON seems bent upon.
Between thirty and forty boards of guardians have
already been summarily cashiered. Their sins and
offences are all duly chronicled in the blue books,
relating to distress and relief, of which five have
been during the present session laid before
parliament. In some few instances we frankly
own we cannot condemn the dismissal of the
boards, and substitution of vice-guardians. But in
the majority of eases we think a different line ought
to have been pursued ; and in almost all, the tone of
domineering and flippant command, the offensive
terms of menace, and the supercilious air of absolute
wisslom which the official correspondence betrays,
cannot be regarded by any impartial mind with
approbation.
Mr. TWISLETON has the reputation of being a
clever man, and we are willing to believe that he is
an upright one. But scholarship, quickness, and
integrity are not enough to fit a man for the exercise
of unlimited power over the lives and properties of a
whole people. Common sense is a better thing in the
main than smartness; and a considerate and forbearing
manner is of real importance in times and
circumstances like those in which Ireland is placed.
It is in vain that Lord CLARENDON seeks to disarm
hostility by unexampled patience, and that the other
members of the Irish executive wisely and worthily
imitate his example, if their subordinates, the beads of
each department, are suffered to assume towards rich
and poor alike a demeanour at once injurious and offen-
sive. If the boards of guardians are ill constituted by law,
let the law be altered. If the ex officio element pre-
ponderates too much, let the balance be redressed. If
the unions be too large, IA them be re-distributed.
But if Ireland is to be governed by law, let it be
known and maintained ; and let neither rich nor poor
be compelled to feel that they are subject to the
caprice of any subaltern functionary.

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Tne preserving of game and the sport of
&Wats form certainly an item of that saperfia
st
necessaire which English gentlemen cannot live with-
out, but which most indubitably they must manage
to prepare and enjoy for themselves out of cultivated
and populous districts. Lout; XIV., Louis XV.,
and their generals, thought they could not live with-
out a theatre and a corps dramatique in attendance,
and they were accordingly accompanied by such
into campaigns and actions. A coach full of
actresses in the middle of the defeat of Roebach was
certainly not more preposterous and absurd, than
your " English gentleman," with his pheaaant-cover
and his posse of gamekeepers, in the midst, haps, ,
of a manufacturing and populous district. permire sport, and love the drama ; but if one or the other
is to be preserved, it must be by keeping them in
their proper places.
Nothing could have been more able than Mr.
BRIGHT'S denunciation of the game laws, more
masterly than his exposition of their fatal
consequences. But we mast own, that, for
the good success of the anti-game law agitation,
we should wish to see it taken up by philanthropic
country gentlemen. The squires may with sonic
justice consider Mr. BRIGHT, clothed as he is, an in-
truder into their copses, and as one who condemns a
lordly pleasure because he does not understand, and
therefore cannot sympathise with it. It is like a lady-
author denunciating the use of that noxious weed, to-
bacco, of the delight of which her sex is denied the
dulcet experience. Less puritanism and extrava-
gance in the denunciation of the game laws would
perhaps be more effectual in putting them down. Mr.
PAGE WOOD, for example, made a very able speech;
but then he recommended that coentry gentlemen
should be denied the right of shooting, in order that
they might give the time thus spared to the cultiva-
tion of their intellects. We fear that, however philan-
thropic, Lis recommendation was merely a very im-
pertinent interference with a man's personal liberty.
If the tenant claims at right to kill hares, surely the
squire may plead his inlienable claim to kill time,
and in his own way.
But if the antagonists of the game laws thus go
somewhat beyond the advisable and the rational in
the prosecution of a cause which really demands but
the simplest logic and the plainest statement to en-
force it, the game law sticklers set up the most
monstrous absurdities in defence of their super-
annuated rights and feudal pleasures.
Sir GEORGE.STRICKLAND, for example, said he was
no preserver of game, because he was fond of
husbandry, and he fully admitted that game preserv-
ing and Food farming were inconsistent things ; but
he said if the game laws were repealed there would
be " nothing less than a state of anarchy in the rela-
tions of landlord and tenant." He did not explain
the meaning—perhaps he could not attach a definite
meaning— to that tremendous contingency ; but the
sentiment was loudly cheered by protectionist farmers'
friends on the left of the SPEAKER'S chair. We appre-
hend this "anarchy " to be simply that the tenant
would be free from that feudal superiority on the
part of his landlord which the reservation of
the right "to hawk, hunt, and shoot " over his
farm implies. Now, this is just what farmers
complain of. Game reserved may be a mere
nominal assertion of feudalism, or an utter bar to
profitable cultivation, at the caprice of the landowner.
And this badge of feudal privilege the corn-growing
Sir GEORGE STRICKI.AND would retain with no less
tenacity than the game-preserving Col. SiuTnoßP.
Sir GEORGE GREY covered the squires' code with his
official protection, though the arguments by which he
helped them through this time are not likely to pro-
mote the stability of the system. He said the evils so
forcibly pointed out by Mr. Baton arose, " not so
much from the game laws as from the great accumu-
lation of game. And then he went on to condemn
Wives, in terms as strong as any opponent of the
game system could desire. After admitting to the
full the extent of injury game preservation causes to
agriculture, the Home SECRETARY adopted the un-
worthy plea that the food consumed by game was not
waste, because the creatures themselves were used for
human food! He added: "The real evil was, that
this game, used as food by one man, was maintained
out rf the property of another." Could Mr. BRIGHT
give utterance to a more complete condemnation of the
game system than the HOME SECRETARY'S apology ?
The came law is in fact treated by ministers and
by the squirearchy much in the same manner as the
property tax. The ultra-squirearchy exclaim in both
instances, tax, exclude, and punish the lower and
middle classes : we were bora to be exempted. The
more liberal and official squirearchy admit the grie-
vance, but allege that whatever is proposed would
do more harm than good, and that, let the evil
alone, it will cure itself. Then come ministers,
who also admit the grievance, but who de-
clare their utter incapacity to grapple with
it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not undertake
to prepare an equable income or property tax, not in
a years time ; and Sir GEORGE Gam would not face
the Herculean task of a trespass law that would be
efficient after the repeal of the game laws. Were
there upon the doors of the cabinet about one thou-
sandth part of that pressure from without, which is
giving ouch sudden activity, liberality, and capacity
to foreign sovereigns and ministers, Lord JOHN would
soon improvise an equable income tax—we under-
take that he could do it in ten minutes ; and Sir
GEORGE GREY in half an hour would solve the in-
superable enigma of trespass law and game law. But
it is not ignorance or incapacity that paralyses minis-
ters, but the predominance of the landed interest in
• one house of parliament, and its exclusive possession
j, of the other.

DENMARK.
The Deutsche Allgemeine &dung of the 24th
has the following :—" Altana, March 19.—Schleswig
Holstein has followed the German movement. The
deputies of both duchies met yesterday in the castle
of Rensberg, and agreed to send a deputation to
Copenhagen, and also to appoint a committee of their
own body to treat. One of these conditions is, that
Schleswig be declared to belong to the German con-
federation, and Rensberg to be a German garrison.
Should the King refuse, a republic will be proclaimed.
The military have signed the petition to the King.

town and the citadel. The admiral has recalled the
Rodney and Vanguard from Corfu, to join him at
Palermo. Some excesses were committed in Catania.
Two of the late agents of police were decapitated, and
their heads paraded about the streets on poles. This
led to a remonstrance from all the foreign consuls
there, and backed by a strong letter from Com. Moore,
of her Majesty's brig Harlequin, induced the commit-
tee of üblic safety to issue stringent orders, and take
securep measures, to prevent a repetition of such
shameful acts. The Terrible steamed off to the ad-
miral immediately after theme ust arrived. The
Queen, 110, is daily expecee from Lisbon ;
she will join Admiral Parker immediately. The
Neapolitan steamer which arrived this morning from
Baja, has brought about sixty Jesuits, who have been
banished from Naples."

foes, under the protection of the citizens and inhabi.
tante of Berlin. It also states that the King beg as
dered that the pledges not exceeding 5 thalers in the
pawnbroking establishments should be given up au
the cost of the Treasury. A committee had besq
formed for receiving donations on behalf of those
who were wounded, and of the widows and children
of the slain in the recent events.
At a large public meeting held at Cologne
petition was adopted in favour of the gene.
rat arming of the people, with the liberty et
choosing their own leaders, and of the immediate
declaration that the ftanehise will be based on
numerical representation, and that all persons above
21 years of age, and in possession of their ride rights,
are eligible as members of the diet and the communal
corps.
On

POLAND.

the night of the 20th, the houses of several min
,racturers of Crefeld were attacked by the populace,
and the furniture destroy-ed.
Numerous towns are raising subscriptions for the
families of the persons who tell during the recent
insurrection, or rather revolution, in Berlin.
Heir Camphausen, the in !Nato minister of flme;
left Cologne yesterday (2 trh) fur Berlin.
Letters from Breslau, dated March rah, give
details of the disturbances there. Groups or people
had collected on all sides, and the inhabitants were
to have beer. convoked on the ensuing day fir the
general armament. Several individuals descended
the Schweidnetz-street, because it had been said in
the town that Count Brandenbourg was giving a
soiree in honour of the Princess of Metternich. At
later time, another group, principally composed et
well-dressed persons, went to the house of the deles
gate of the town, Mr. Lockstadt. On a sudden, W-
ebers were perceived, but had not till then end*
voured to impede circulation. On a signal given by
a trumpet, a regiment of curassirrs charged the
crowd. Several persons were injured. However, es
night had come on the mass withdrew. Tranquillity
was restored. Baton the morning of the 17th the in.
dignation was more general. The inhabitants had
resolved upon arming themselves. A deputation s/
the municipality, accompanied by many of the inha-
bitants, waited on General Count Brat.denbourg, and
on M. de Wedel. The count declared that the
charge of the curassiers was the result of a mai
entendu, and that an investigation had been
commenced against Lieut. de M—, and added that
the soldiers should withdraw, unless the inhabitants
required their intervention. lie refused to give
arms. The inhabitants withdrew. Several of them
had arms. A great number of cockades and ribbons,
black, red, and gold are seen. Some armourene shops
have been emptied by the numerous purchases of
arms. At nine o'clock the people demanded that the
political prisoners should be set at liberty, more espe.
Madly the brothers lloffmann, arrested a few months
since. This demand was immediately granted, and
at ten o'clock the town was perfectly tranquil.
AUS'fItIA.—FORMATION OF THE AUSTRIAN Ca.
IHNET.—By a royal rescript of the 17th of this
month, his imperial Majesty has been pleased to ap.
point Franz Cr unt Von Kolowrat, his Majesty's
Minister of State and Conference pro tem., as Prima
Minister •, also Count Von Fiquelmont, Minister d
Foreign Affairs ; Baron Von Pillersdorf, Lord High
Chancellor, Minister of the Interior; Count Val
Taffe, Minister of Justice; Baron Von Kubeek,
Minister of Finance. His Majesty still reserves to
himself the nomination of Minister of War.
Fresh troops were continually arriving at Vienna
from the neighbouring towns. Great retrenchmeam
in the public expenditure are promised by the new
ministry.
The new Hungarian ministry intends to join Tran-
sylvania to Hungary.
From Presburg, under date March 19, we leers
that on the previous day the Diet decreed, by the
unanimous vote of both chambers, the immediate
abolition of all feudal right over the peasantry. Coln
missioners have beer. sent through the country to F.
claim their freedom to the peasantry.
BADYN.—Some anxiety was felt of the peopled
the grand duchy of Baden generally imitating Cos-
stance, and proclaiming a republic. On this 'died
Itztein spoke at the great meeting of Offenburg. Be
said, " they had obtained freedom of the press ; they
should have the abolition of the Carlsbad, Frankfort,
and Vienna decrees, the abolition of feudal rights.
Constance had proclaimed a republic, no had system,
as he had experienced. And all Germany would ens
day be a republic. But the time was not come. If
Baden became a republic, whilst the rest of Germany
remained monarchic, then France would be more to
Baden than Germany. This should not be. Even
if all Germany were a republic, except Austin
and Prussia, it would not do, and would
bend
division and civil war. It were better to await tae
decision of the congress about to open at Frankfort.
It is fully expected in Baden that about' ,000 Ger-
mans will shortly leave Paris, in order to attempt to
establish a republic in that duchy. The meeting,
however, at Offenburg, in which the motion in favour'
of a republic was negatived, will prevent anythingd
this kind. On the other hand, numerous villages re-
fuse in tofu to pay any more excise duties, and have
effectually abolished the game laws.
SAXONY.—The new cabinet in Dresden is BOW
completed by the appointment of Herr Von Wits-
dortf as Minister of the Interior, and of Herr Ober-
hinder as Minister of Public Worship. Coati
Lehrbach, from Darmstadt, Baron Gagern, front Wm-
baden, and Baron Steinfels, from wurtemberg, have
arrived here to negotiate that the German Diet be re-
moved from Frankfort to Dresden.
lIANOVER.—The King of Hanover has declared
an amnesty for political offenders, including the seem
Gottingen professors. Strive is at the head of the
new ministry in Hanover.
GERMAN DI:CHIES.—The Duke of Brunswick
has given in his adhesion to the principles set talk
in the King of Prussia's proclamation. His seems
highness has ordered 5,000 muskets from England.
The sittings of the forthcoming Diet of the duchy will
be public. The motion having in view the inducing
the government of Hesse-Darmstadt to take steps for
liberating Poland has been submitted to the Second
Chamber and referred to committee.

PROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Our Cologne correspondent, writing from that city,
on the 24th, says
Some weeks ago I was informed that something
was preparing in and fyr Poland, and that the pros:a-
genda of Paris and Brussels was actively at work.
Reserve is no longer necessary. Cracow has ;pro-
claimed its independence, and re-established its repub-
lic. Itusahui Poland and Galicia are in open Mim-
i rection, and the state of Prussian Poland (Silesia), will
be ascertained from the following details, gathered
from various German journals.
It was currently reported, and beliered in Posen,
on the:2oth inst., that the King of Prussia had audio•
rued the people of that duchy or province to as-
semble publicly, in order to decide whittling
they would remain connected with Prussia er
resume their own nationality. This report woo
confirmed by the appearance of au extraordinal
supplement of the German paper of Posen. Imme-
diately after the publication of that supplement 111
the Polish inhabitants hastened to the well-known
bazaar, and appointed a deputation to wait on the
burgomaster, in order to represent the necessity et,
establishing a Polish committee for the purpoec.el
preserving order, and also to induce him to recognae
the
.right of the Poles to hold public immune.
Whether, because the report alluded to Nam un-
founded, or because no instructions from head
quarters had yet mired, the military authorities held
firm for some hours. They, at last, yielded, eel'
allowed the deputation to appoint a provisional Polish
committee, and to issue a proclamation drawn
up in a Polish patriotic point of view. The
military received ordeis to act only on the
defensive, and, as if by magic, nearly all 410
male inhabitants appeared in the streets with
white and red coca/Wes in their hats. The forth-
coming independence of Polish nationahtl
was proclaimed by several popular speakers amidst
the enthusiastic shouts of assembled thousands
Polish committee is composed of the following mem"
bers :—Potworowski, Stefataki, Berwinski,
ski, Moraczewski, Andorejski, Kmuthofer, Palaez
bled
ano
Jarochowaki. The commitee immediately assem
and issued the following proclamation :
the hour Ararat
POLISH BP.OTHERB,—Y or tts also
The unity of Germany is proclaimed. The Hind has dederlw
that he incorporates this
,mn with it. Ilium portloll
of the Prussian kirgdons however, which do not bel
of
conong-
t°
the Germanic coederation have the option.
e,
w Mnecting themselves with it or not. Polek
we who mow our own history and a thoroughly lepaSte