The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-14 00:00:00

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LOA :.• ~%.IVED.VESIM KJUNE 1 4.
gp t. Vtgue" has &trendy come to nn
undo, h !It 'as horn iu'o this troubled world
on Fratd. I ist, a half-past five o'clotik. Its birth
was pi, uni, it the following and during
the d.v ma tel ciiatOins weoi ten& rid by the more
oi.'eits nd actierents of the uward houses
oTario .• anaal ihirntod le. The youthful off-
gpriug :,• ieir hire shosioll terry sign of health
and vi oid public raj 'icings at its auspicious
advent ~1.1 b gun, when ,u all was pre-
=laurels fluids' into grief and ;:,loom. At precisely I
half-pea tier on Saturday afternisin, the sponsors,
who were jn t retiring after the performance of
the
eieddria ,rt rites of inky hapt-m, wire stunned by the
intelligi • is- et the c td.i of so much promise was no
more ti had fallen the di itiin of an unmanly
bliov , h ible to relate, the devil had been
aro, ed n. tie unnatural puient! We are free to
owu thiat NV air lost in wonder how our Irish con-
tempor.irtiiis iiiin retain their seltiseassion, and keep
up the tor wool show of ettuaniinity under such har-
rowin_r, doh all Ms. :wetly.; circumstances. Trhir
nt.rvet* to rat eiiitsinly be made of very peculiar stuff,

to stand it
Tuc detai's of this most shocking outrage are as
yet but ines rft etly ascertained. All that is known
with e'er Reny is, that one s.f the parents—whom, for
distiue.l. 41'4 ~site, we shall cell the father, he being
the larger and more striking (er stricken) looking of
the two ate' absent in the country, whither he had
gone fer cesolge of air and a little tranquil-
lity, in enter, if 1./risible, to recruit his
heal h, veveh has never been good since a very
severe heeting he received in the month of April
last free' certain reiletioes and friends of his reecntly-
affianced 'teener. The infant " Lague" (not Teague,
as some el nor blundering contemporaries have ab-
surdie IL sprinted it) was born, as we have already
intimated, while Fhyeical Force was out of town,
tandem s, q"nosy a ot left in cliareeot Moral Force,who,
it is Roulet to be obliged to remind the casual reader,
was the we tker pare: t. No danger. how ever, was
applehen, ed the-ref.-um. How should there be?
Moral Flue.- looked as peaceably and harmlessly
disposed es usual; woke In the ordinary unimpas-
sioned se aiti ; and professed the usual devotion to the
cause of country, even unto death. This latter
circumstance is worthy of particular note, because
it should he rememheted that both parents had
"solemnly eugaeed to die, the mom ut their c mitten
offsprin 3 had artived m eturitv. In fact, this
was felt on all hands to be indisp. nsable.
Their ohs fete exitectice in anything like di etiney
would hive been whol y insupportable. Literally,
they would have been IA without support, for the
universal belief and ui.derstanding was that the
whole i.,11P0 and profile e hick Moral and Physical
Force kid hitherto divided between them (and which
COOftMe ly ass hardly sufficient to keep either of
them ale' I -should be applied to the proper main-
tainer', e of the youthful "Lague." Whether, then,
some utihirtunate ins.iiset of self- preservation
some unlu ky reluctance to complete the suicide
covenant d arid agreed npou—led to the lamentable
act in question—or whether, as some will have it, a
mistaken zeal for the honour of religion was the ac-
tuating motive, the set itself admits of no mistake,
and, we are constrained to say, of no palliation.
o It was with a pen she did it!"—without
notice, menace, warning of any kind. ot a
93131 se is hy. The wretched " League" could not
have pveivuked any feeling of jealousy or anger, for it
had net uttered a sound. It might have proved
dumb, or even an idiot, which, considering the alarm,
and fears that preceded its birth, would not have be n
surprieng. What might have been its character or
pretensions to respect, can Lever now be known. A
brief Penitence of just three and twenty hours was
suddenly terminated by one dash of a pen; and weep
ing, wailing, and le ashing of Meth, is the portion
once more of two illustrious Halls!
Turn it as one may, the event is very sad. It was,
humanly speaking, the last chance of sal ea-
tion for Demagogue-dom. It is very unlikely,
we Oleic, that Physical and Moral Force
will ever be brought to live h ippily together again.
In addition to all their former doinsetie quarrels about
income end expenditure, about diffi rence of religion
and about obedience to the law, there is now added
this n w and terrible source of enmity and cause fir
exasperation—the murder of poor little " League "
Its escape from hard tutelage has,indeed,been timely.
In what principles would it have been °might up?
How would it have been filially obedient to opposite
precept,? How would it have both kept
within the law and set it ostensibly and
openly at defiance? We never heard of anybody'
who could do that systematically or sueceesfelly
but the departed Liberator, and we never shall look
upon his like again. Then, as to money—was there
to be jobbing and fobbing, or " mutton-chop" fru-
gality, and regular publication of accounts ? Above
all, was League to say any prayers? And if so,
what prayers? Moral Force, as everybody knows,
goes to ma-a; and Physical Force goes—sometimes
to church, sometimes to meeting, and very often
nowhere.
Better have no "league" at all than an irreligious
or free-thinking " league,"—thought moribund Moral
Force : and hence, according to some the hasty
thought, the furtive step, the deadly deed. On the
other hand, however, it should be borne in mind that
the true friends of religion cannot have witnessed
without sore regret and just disapprulia•ion
the miserable apology for championship
Moral Force has now for a lung while
exhibited. So far as the interests of catho-
licity are concerned, we should have imagined that
nothing could have been regarded as more
.propizious
than a decent excuse for the final extinguianinen. of
a weekly wail, and serious caricature of controversial
reasoning in defence of the tenets of the' ancient
faith. The catholic clergy cannot have for-
gotten how miserably ill their views of edu-
cation were sustained in Conciliation Hall ; how
needlessly they were dragged into its discussions
for pes of strife; and how tamely they wire
dropped when those personal purposes were
answered. It is hardly credible, we think, that any
impediment to the self-extinction of so feeble and un-
safe an ally should have come from the powerful
quarter that has been that; adverted to.
We rather incline to the conjecture that some
curious emotion of irrepressible vanity or envy,
of that feminine intensity which neglected and worn-
out coquettes are said to ft el, at beholding or anti-
cipating the success of even their own progeny. was
at the bottom of it. To be eclipsed and extinguished
is unbearable by small minds; notoriety at any cost
is preferable to that.
Physical Force must henceforth, therefore, es
hitherto, live apart. The brief liaison has concluded
tragically enough. An orange predilection he may
secretly cherish,—a French flirtation if be be discreet,
—or evens Yankee friend in the philoeopaic war.
But Moral Force and he can never mile neon each
ether's well-known Nee again.

IT is truly said we are careful about trifles and i
reckless u to thousands. The appointment of a " door-
keeper " will at times meats a mutation which ths
most reckless extravagance at others hits failed ta
produce. Year after year we submit to the 'most
galling imposts, see our means profligately squan-
dered without a murmur, and yet a thoughtless word
will break up a cabinet or provoke a Reform Bill

movement.
We elect men to represent oar interests in parlia-
ment whose principles and feelings are totally at
variance with our own, and feel surprised when they
do not support our views. We seek our legislators
from amongst a class whose pursuits are pleasure
and amusement, and wonder that our affairs
Are not managed with business-like precision.
In times of distress and privation we are roused to a
sense of our folly, out on the return of prosperity we
relapse into our wonted apathy. To attempt to
remedy the unjust and unequal bearings of our taxa-
tion, by laying bare the profligate and partial distri-
bution of the revenue before men with such instability
of purpose, has hitherto been a thankless task. Apathy
on the ono hand, and self-interest on the other, leave
the issue more than doubtful. and the spoiler, by a
cunningly devised system of indirect taxation, is
enabled at once to absorb the results of the industry of
the country, and to involve the producers in a state of
poverty and helplessness.
One class, and one only, seem alive to their bus
position, but they are utterly unable to remedy the
evil. They are kept like serfs, in a state of hopeless
thraldom, contributing largely to the cost of
the chains by which they aro bound, but without a
voice in the distribution of the means they produce.
How long the middle classes will submit to a gradu-
ally increasing expenditure, and, consequeutiy, in-
creased taxation--how long they will be satisfied to
see the results of their industry absorbed and
squandered for the benefit of a few noble families and
their dependents, it were vain to conjecture; but un-
less they set earnestly aboat the work of reform there
is no other quarter to which we can look for thu
necessary combination of interest and influence re-
quired to inspire men with the wish and power to cor-
rect abusive. And if these classes do not take the lead
without loss of time, and, by placing before the public
practical measures, turn the all but universal discon-
tent into a Rafe and useful channel, it needs no pro-
phetic spirit to announce the advent of a turbulent
and disastrous era.
In every department of the Mate there is a rapid and
continuous increase of expenditure; in none has there
been any real attempt at reduction. With a revenue
of 60 millions per annum we aro deficient some three
millions, whilst half a million per annum has been
added to our expences far the last ten years. What
is to be the end of this stater of things ? •I he poor are
unemployed; th" shopkeeper is in distress; the mer-
chant and manufacturer canrot see their way to em-
ploy their capital—and yet we believe that the re-
sources of the country, if judiciously applied, are
more than equal to the emergency. The same rule
which applies to individuals will apply to nations.
We should adjust our expenses to our means. We
should cut down all useless or superfluous appen-
dages. We should either issue a flat of bankruptcy,
or place our Minim on a sound and permanent founda-
tion. The debt of 28 millions per annum is unalterable,
but we apprehend no valid reason can be assigned for
expending nine millions per annum on a standing
army, and retaining 1.10,000 men in arms whilst we
art at peace with all the world. Equally unwise
does it appear to expired another nine millions to keep
an enormous number of ships of war rotting in our
harbour". Six millions are expended on the collec-
tion of our re venue, whilst it is notorious that the
duty might be more effici, ntly performed fir one half
the sum. Tees I tat item is more than the entire cost
of the government of the United States, including the
mainte mance ot their army and navy.
But no sensible retrenchment can be effected in
these branch, s of expenditure unless we are prepared
to interfere seine n host of sinecures, and places which
are merely in 'eked sinecures—with the "vested
rights" of a privileged class. It is necessare, there-
fore, to inquire whether there is any use for seven
aemmiseione rs of customs, as many of excise, five
commissioners of stumps and taxes, five lords of the
treasury to regist-r the acts of the customs and excise,
when it is well keown that all could be administered
with greater a ffi, i .icy under one head, and at a tithe
of the cost. I iffy out of the sixty millions of our
revenue arc &shored in this thriftless way.
The greater art ion of the remaining ten millions is
squandered in a manner squall unprofitable. The
650,000/., onion is the nmoutit of the nominal, not of
the real, civil hat—for stray item., which pro-
perly ought to be included under that head, will
he found lurking in every " estimate"— admits of being
considerably reduced, without exposing those who
would curtail it to the charge either of undue parsi-
mony or disloyalty. We desire not to reduce the
comforts or eve n the splendour of royalty, if such be
desirable, but e c feel assured that the whole horde or
grand falconers, earl marshals, lords of the b, d-
chamber, grains of the stole, masters of the horse,
masters of Os hoe khounds, gold and silver sticks,
and flambee:le-4 kindred appointments, do not in
any degree ald to the comforts of reyalty,
and rattne import to its state a grotesque air
of obsoleteite e• not sufficiently old to have the grace
of antiquity. In truth, they are only retained
because they serve to provide places for needy
nobles and their oior dependents, or for intriguing
politicians. There is no tone to be lost in tecertaitiing
out of the list f 803 pi:icemen and peesioners receiv-
ing upwardeuf lOW a year, and costing the nation
1,600,0001 per aeo,enn, how many could be advantage-
ously dispensed with.
We will nor a present enter into the wider field
of the praeticebility of remodeling, consolidating, or
dispensing with a hole departments. Enough has
been said to show that without a re-organitsatiou of
the whole m at. eo, without un equalisation of the im-
posts to the m a. ,a ..1 the people., and an adjustment
of the exp tease to the revenue., we have entered
upon the las net of the political drama. Yet
with these fames staring them in the face, ministers
seem resolute to runt to the chapter of accidents.
Their system of tiling over all financial difficulties,
thus allowing th. en to aseumulate year after year,
was the real cams • why, some years ago, they were
obliged to give way to Sir ROBERT PKEI.. The
beronet, when c.. needled by the inembordinat ion of
the protectionist-,to relinquish office, left the &deuce
of the nations, oceounte in some degree re4oreel ; hut
already the %emits hive contrived to bring them cure
more into coshes ~,,, . A sterner e, onomist than S.r
Roesler has er yet shown himself, will he re-
quired to brine throe to a permanently satisfactory
c endition ; and et ,e‘e /1. one would find the 1 gislature,
ate at present asen-iituted, no instrument for his pur-
ples.

IT is really ;i• lo to see that there are even nine
proprietors of India stock to pro posa that the
East India C. in ..oy ...101l this day agree to petition '
parliament in t Your of t sxng the peop'e of England
to the extent et 2.900.0001. a Tear for six years, by
imposing a diffor• t nu duty of 10s. a cwt. on foreign
sugar, as recomitte, tied by Lord GEORGr. Br.NTlNefes
eommi, tee. W •. only suppose teat Ms country
wee lobe tax. 0 at a similar rate to protect the timber
of Canada, the -tr.:. rot Ceylon, the wool of Australia,
the (xenon attic ....me grew iu Demerara, the coffee
of Jennies, sod the pepper of Penang, and our
colonies would h • amongst the greatest hut dens that
could be infl.eted m. an empire; they would gradually
pauperise, and finally ruin us. Yet, why should
not the indigenous products of all our
other posscssi er,s be as eft...ldeally protected as the
sugar of the East Indies? We shall be glad to hear
from the gewlemen who meet to-day to petition for
the 10s. duty egiinst foreign sugar and against the
people of England, what claims India has to be made
an exception ; • in this matter of protection. Lod
O. BKNTINCIes eemmittee have omitted to give any
reasons; perb••• PI they will laweir us with sonic.
Want of • e nr•A be one in a country teeming
with pnpulatio ; .one if want of capiod be assigned
we could find i street in London trades that
would be big ;f the It.gi-lattere would
only pass Itt - eapita! into hem; but al at
parliament a , • --c• it ot:jht net, we submit, .o
do for India.
Mucha ill, . arse, bo said of the danger of de-
priving India ; •,;o:her article of export ; hit e.. 1,
an argument • • den the asrumpthm, that ttfe ,
of 1846 wit: 'II deprive India of the petv••r
exporting ; to teas that is just the thing he it•
'moved, teed t•,:.• ra ace alone can provo it. Let en,
however, aduia o.e monstrous asstro?tion that free
trade will die •do andia from exporting sugar, en'
the influent' 't-es:etible that sugar exportatiat.
from Indiaa; - trade, rnt preservise:
50 Ar •eavisa: sir ocoerare .•