The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-16 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, ALO. 13.
The Behmtvg. took the AT
at 12 o'clS. ock.
E haiBUSINES
SECOND READlNG.—Wolvsrtwaidon Curler (N 0.2" Bill.
REPORT CONaIDERED.—EarI of slbeffleW• Curacy (No.?`.
THIRD RE.tDINOS.—Duke of Bridgewate'. Mutate
Oreetthw's
(a Woolwich Glebe Lands) Estate; Ramaden's Estate; Bills.
PI:BLIC BUSINESS.
03MMITTEE.—Renewable Lets,hold Conversion (Ireland) Bill.
REPORTS.—Militia Pay; OutsPensioncts ; Parochial Debt arid
Av.& ; Bilk.
7111111) READINGS.—Steam Naeigation; Aamesionable 31anors
Ooninsweinarrs; Ell s.
PETITION.—By Mr. 0. 11AMILTON, from 1,600 Irish clergy of
the established church, against the na.ional system of education.
SUPPLY.—REPOIU S.
On the bringing up of the r?pert on the nave estimates,
Capt. PECHELL again broaght before the house the
merits of the '• marine glue.''
Lord J. HAY stated the reasons why it was not generally
used in the service.
Mr. WARD complained of the great inconvenience
which resulted from discussions like this. The board of ad
sedealty were disposed to treat Mr. Jeffery's claims liberally;
but exaggerated de•criptiot a of the merits of his invention
coul,i only do hint harm. Ida Lad addressed a letter to the
Admiralty, whitg 30,0001. for ha invention, which it was
quite impo sable could ever Is, paid. Unless his expectations
were considerablyolo4Cia:Cd, the use of the glue must be dis-
continmd altogether.
Capt. PECRELL explained, and the subject dropped.
On the vote car retiring alionances being called over,
Cap;. I'ECHELL alluded ta the amount receive 1 by cap-
tains and arkedrals for the conveyance of treasure to this
country, averaging about 3t),0001. a year, and expressed a
hoie that the system would be put an end to. On the subject
of the pensions of obi: era' wet° as, he trusted that the
practice of making them cease on re-marriage would be dis-
continued.
On the vale 'or the mail stem-packet service,
Mr. THORNHILL suggested that, before the contract
with C ...nerd line was renewed, government would ascer-
tain what voila be dono with the American packets.
Mr. HUME recurred to the abject ot the docks and bat-
Whim and hoped that goverta.ent you'd remedy the a nor
into which they had fallen. which contravened the great
principle of divi-ma of labour lot the sake of exciting enmity
against the Fre- rh.
Mr. WARD said this new loci force had been generally
approved of; Va. y dispiaied touch aptitude for their duties;
and it would be very bad et:on ATI to wade the money that
had been expended by pa•ting an end to them in the se? on
year of their service.
The 'root, wee then received.
PAROCHIAL DES I AND AUDIT BILL.
On the report on this bill il&iO4( brought up,
Mr. C. BULLER stated, in answer to Mr. URQVHART,
that the object of the bill to diminish the undue severity
in P nsmets of the prevent law, and to allow some
shoe. • s which COOl4l not formerly be entertained. The pre-
sent sydera sat awsiting mad w oked well, feat had hen the
Ara el pressing the lase with undue stringency. The first
anti second clauu a of 0..11 4i l ametioncil the allonance of
cartait. h gal ch Hirt' • a .nts, qaent clause empowered the
commisdonet, to hear and decide appeals against the deci-
sions of auditors on the merits of the several caws. 'the
remaining clauses related almost entirely to the enforcing
payment by auditoes, anti inutplitled the means for that
Puir. t...II.QUIIART hal •: It warm on .ceing the four bills
of 14:•:h this was one, thrown at once on the table of the
haute. 'the subject was one very difficult to deal with. He
was opposed to Ht. whole of the regulations of which this
forinea a part; but after the amendments which had been
bets wade in the bills, he ah‘aild not press his opirsi-
lion. n.lt was his couni, •ioo that no remedy for pauperism
wool be found VII we raeuraed to them oh! parochial sys
ten ; and the could not be ilone without an alteration of
our r .xation.
PECHELL asked why the bill assumed that doubts
exist,l as to the legality nut-doer relief given in 0 lbert
nein...a, and other place a ,imler tical nets.
Mr. BU LLER. said tn-..re sere two or three ineorporations
and. r local acts, where the r Net was strictly limited to ;ne
worahnuses by the weds sal the ac ; they had nt.v..rthcle
been earn elled to give *ALL-tltma a dief, cat d this bill would
rei del that legal.
I'..e report was then received.
RENEWABLE LEASEHOLD CONVERSION
(IREL 1 ND) BILL.
Oc the motion for going into committee on this hill,
Mr. LAW said he should move an instruction to the
committee to exempt the Irish Society from the operation of
the bill. He quoted from Home's History of Eagland,"
as to the formation of Or society in 1613 ; also from a judg-
ment delivered by the present Lord Chancellor, affirming
that the wmietv's operation, which had been carried on at
the cost of the City of London, were still in progress, and
that its contract with the Crown by charter had not expires!.
Hence, the hon. and tearre.il gentleman contended that the
application ot the provisions of this bill to the estates of the
so. itty would br a violati•tn of the charter, and would in
fact defeat its objects. Lord Lyndhurst, in bit judgment in
the House of Leeds, had taken the same view. The hor.. and
learned gentleman also q..oted at great length from this judg-
ment. had only to edit to ti. se facts, which were far from be-
ing all bearing en the cape, that besides having at heart the
intact of the Irish Society, 4e spoke the constitution,l lan-
eftg of a lawyer in delivering his opinion. He concluded
by idtploring the house not to deprive the Irish Society of
the only character in which they could be useful to Ireland
—the &erecter of a landluni dispensing the whole of lb it
fowls tor charitable 51,1 ',instant purposes.
The hon. and lerrn. d gentle:lll,n did not, however, press
hit notion to a ,iivisionttn.l the house then went into com
mittee on the bill, Mr. BERNAL in the char. The preamble
was postponed.
Clouse I was agreed to, at, r a conversat:on between the
At Cr, ey.General, Mr. Law, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, Sir W.
NornrrTille, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Sheil, Mr. Napier. ant Mr. P.
WOO,l, T. apectinß a verbal amendment proposed, and cubic-
fluently withdrawn, by Mr. Low.
On clause 3 being put,
lite. VESEY moved -.. that where no objection be
made, the coats be ;"sad the party applying to the
sour!, which vatic a convect, was inserted, and the el.mse
so emended agreed to, sa was Pl6O clause 3, when the chair-
nue r. ported prorrep.a the r. named, and the bib
was
tottered to he recommitted tin laursiley next at 1.2 o'clock.

MAILS 7
The West India Male, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Ravenna,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cllll, TianplCO, and Porto Rice, and
including Mom for Madeira, Jeemel, Oartbagena, Santa Martha,
Chaves Pananu, West Coast of South America, and St. Juamde.
Nicaregua, will he made up nu the morning of the 17th
sou G Augus
ibraltar
t.
The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Onlia,
will be made up on the:mortung of the lith Aug.
The made for Beitiah North America, and the United States,
will be mad* up tide evening of the 18th Aug.
The overland mails to Gibraltar, Malta, lirleClD, the lonian islands
EgypS_Aden, Ceylon, loam, lions-flaw, and China, Ma Southamp-
ton. will be made up on the emote of the 18th August.
lbs overland dared mars Ma Marseilles to tne Maliterraneam
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-Kong, Btc., will be made up on the
evening of the 2 ith Aug.
The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemsn's land, and New
Zealand will be made up ou the evening of the 31st August.
The moils for the West Civet of Africa and Madeira will be made
ep on the evening of the 31st August.
The mails for Um Braids, the Mayer Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres will be made up on the
evening of the 4th September.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number 01 STAMPS issued by the authorities of tJa.•
dump-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within right percent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL r IIT TOOETILIA.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
tlerninq Paper, there were tinted tot the Ilvenino Edition,
TEE EXPRESS 778,714
Which was more, we believe'
Papers. than we re issued either to
he Globe or Standard, Evening

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LONDON,WEDNESDAY, AUG.I6.
CONSTITUTIONAL government is a system that emi-
nently requires patience, and severely tries the
temper and forbearance of parties and of persons
who want that great political virtue. The higher the
rank or position of those in constitutional authority,
the greater the demand upon their patience. There
is no one requiring so large and inexhaustible a stock
of it as the sovereign. Let him form what views,
entertain what principles or pre.dilections he wil!,
there occur moments and crises when all must be in
an instant sacrificed—the saloon, and the reception-
room, and the council chamber cleared of all its old
familiar faces, and new ones welcomed not only to
the ceremonies of public, but to the intimacies of
private life.
This terrible restraint and absolute coercion put
upon the sovereign himself by constitutional go-
vernment, is not spared to ministers and governors,
who, if quick-tempered, or impatient of obstacles and
contradiction, must either fret to death in a very short
time, or learn to take power and use it on the only
conditions compatible with representative govern.
ment.
It happens, however, sometimesathat the public at
large, or great and influential portions of it, become
exceedingly excited, and zealously thrust themselves
up to the side, and almost into the place, of the execu-
tive government. This takes place chiefly in times of
commotion, of revolutionary attempts. Then the
zealously loyal and the ultra conservative are very apt I
to usurp in imagination the place of the executive,'
and give councils and direct policy with more zeal I
than judgment.
Nothing can equal the want of patience evinced by I
such parties. New to wield the functions of govern-
ment
even in iinaginatioo, they think it the simplest
thing in the world. They resemble the rash youth,
who should seize the reins and imagine that whipping
and shouting angrily to the steeds, constitute the I
whole science of the charioteer. If obstacles start up in I
the path they would dash over them. Opposition they
would crush, antagonism avenge. They, in fact, re-
semble children when they first apply to the use of
their muscles, and think the world should give way
before them.
Thus is it with Ireland. Since the abortive re-
bellion in that country, your zealot partisans under-
take each to rule it in his fashion. Nothing less
than campaigning and martial law will satisfy them.
The suspension of the lamas corpus, the proscription
of secret societies—eothing seems sufficient. Because
one jury has noggled between a sentence of acquittal
..nd one of guilty, straight the jury system is condemned.
Away with that old institution ! Convictions per fits
ant nips are to be obtained. And in fact and in fine,
military justice, as well as military government, is
proposed.
Within the space of a very few days all the leaders
of this intended rib Ilion have been captured one
after the other. There was no attempt at their
rescue, no possibility of t scope. An attempt at serious
rising has everywhere been proved an act of utter im-
practicability and madness. The people have acqui-
esced in the capture of their leaders; the priests
have recommended submission as the only alternative.
The power of government was never more fully set
forth. A moral as well as a physical triumph has
been achieved.
law can it be turned to the best advantage' We
reply, by magnanimity. By making rigid and legal
use of the powers afforaed by the constitution in
punishing the guilty, but in demanding no
other. A few guilty men may cacape. !letter far that
they should do so, than that the existing le et should
be wrested from its place for the sake of infl cting
vengeance upon individuals. It is right that conspi-
rators and traitors should he severely punished. It
is right that seditious writers, who sow rebellion,
should b: made to sutler tae just consequences of
their crime. But let this be so done, that the mass
of the people may see but the arm of the law—the
existing, usual, established law. For then they may
exclaim against fate, but not against justice.
We are told that the peasantry are everywhere in
a state which wants but the courage to make it
rebellion, that it is merely the presence of the mi-
litary which keeps them down—that with the disap-
pearance of patrols the pikes and their wielders will
recover predominance and sway, and V at, in fact,
England ruts in Ireland solely by Um army. If we
believed this, we would say repeal the union to-
morrow ; tier we utterly doubt the possibility or ex-
pediency of retaining or dominating a country, of
which the numerous population is banded against us, I
and kept down purely by terror.
Bat we deny the truth rif the problem in toto. And
we say, that, wet e it true, the 30,000 British soldiers
could riot keep Ireland. We say, that the insurrection-
ary spirit is confined to certain districts and to certain
classes of the population ; that the immense and in-
fluemial mass of the Irish population is discontented
indeed, but not rebellious—not desirous of appealing
to force—not ready, even if English soldiers were not
übiquitous, to follow O'BRIEN and MEAOIIER.
And we think the Irish have proved this. We deny
utterly that nothing but cowardice kept the Irish
from giving these men a following. We believe
that good sense and good feeling, fair and manly
prudence, operated more than that baser motive, which
our braggarts would impute to every race that has
the misfortune to be humbled by neglect or op-

pression.
Quite the contrary of all this we believe. There is an
immense majority of the Irish who are not to be go-
verned by the police or martial law, or by the abro-
gation of constitutional rights, who feel that they have
been wronged and unfairly treated, but who still
prize the great advantages of English connexion, if it
were on equal terms, and of English institu-
tions, if freely communicated to them. It is
n t Jonas of not rebellious, but rational
and peaceable, however discontented, Irishmen, that
depend the maintenance of the connexion between
the countries, the just prevalence of the government
and the united parliament, and the reign of order
and the law.
The met perilous and pernicious policy is to sup-
pose that this class does not exist, and that Ireland is
tilled exclusively with rebels, on \show it is merely
iequisite to strike terror. For such a belief
as this el,tertained atiO acted upon by a govern-
ment world go far lode. d to produce the
state ui things it supposed, and to unite ail ranks of

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