The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVE G, JUNE 5, 1851.
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orgalls snwl the 8111114116 ,• Mgr hear.)
It it If Is Wend edesslien Owdeed, if we
have issiessies2 Oahe enL deolelbJa • au:a-
bet of the Weis podia bee mei the peoeddel system ina-
dequate lis the present went§ a tbe people; red if it be
:=to lave another, and a mere extended system, let
Itsmetea a basis which,however wide It may at one
times hews beat, . has new bebonie narrow, Imams a basis
which erfilL nate the three bodies which best the great
mess of the people of Scotland. (Chan, dill 0 Hear,
km") Oka wren to be the rasa ea ilia this bill
reels. I Mai Netaialy not say lid the alladimery pro-
pels* lay the MI is in a state of pewles, des. I know
Wei windier IS add wall be wwienW ha a committee
of Me lads bins, bat in a said dessittes I think
it mine le very well and very adeemedgermly considered.
Is die weraittire it might ales be eidiresill whether there
sisal met elm Mr seer obligadea w ailepayera to
bfieddisoepsn, base)-aia Writ *wily to spread the
hmaMs loon esteadily tbaa is reposed by this bill.
filiag, se I have often seen, boob inweedlagly well and
wilt what practical views Scotch armabore listen to each
elm in committee and finally epee ea some useful mea-
Seek I can see no reason why they should not in a select
Sedmittee on this bill agree on some principle which the
lewd might sanction. The hon. baronet (Sir It. Inglis)
ids psenteanced a high panegyric on the ancient parochial
ediniof dootlead. I quite agree with him in his panegyric.
ItbbdtMt parochial schools of Scotland have been moot
MOM Isedbillens. I should also, however, have agreed with
dolga baronet if he had pronounced a panegyric on the turn-
plllll see& of England, or on the oil lamps which used to
Midair ear streets. They were both improvements on a
state Stielebeldses and darkness, but I see no reason why
we did& aell woh-a-days mike improvements on the works
of our assodera " Hear, hear.")
Sir G. CLIME, amid* OW " Divide, divide," con-
tended tire hoe wheels woad not teemed in the greater
part 51 deerhaL If they paced free schools in the rural
perishes Is by side by the parochial school., ouch was the
spirit of inaprodesse which characterised the Scottish
peasantry, ddieillior MOM prefer paying for the education
of their chills= i the parochial schools. Ile did not, hew
ever, object 10 the extension of grants tothe mime Middies
denonainatiemsby the committee of privy 03112911, sad la
this way be thought that educatioa might be largely pro
ranted.
Hr. F. SCOTT rose amid loud cries of " Oh, oh," and
" Divide, divide." His remarks were for some time lost
in the noise and confusion. When a comparative lull
ensued he proceeded to say—" Gentlemen," turning at
the same time towards the reporters' gallery. The house
then became convulsed with laughter, the hon. member
retracted the expression, and commenced his observations
with the usual " Mr. Speaker." Ile maintained that not
one of the hon. members who had supported this bill had
given any substantial reasons fur so doing. He denied that
the education which the measure proposed to provide would
satisfy the people of Scotland or improve their moral con-
dition. The bill was identical in principle with the propo-
sition of the lion. member for Oldham, and the same objec-
tions applied in both cases. There was no passage in the report
of any of the inspectors of schools in Scotland which war-
ranted the separation of secular from religious instruc-
tion. On these grounds he should vote against tho second
reading of this bill.
Lord MELGUND, having briefly replied,
The house divided—
For the second reading 124
Against it 137-13
COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
On the motion of Sir G. Gary, a bill for the better ad-
ministration of criminal justice was brought in and read a
first time.
The house adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock.

Mr. Parke has poked of for a fortnight with Mr. Rice.

erantoo.

spelt illumination. The lightnings of the stormy fight
bare ceased. but the day has not come. Bloqiitsice
like that of ORMAN, FLU/MET, or O'Costram., is
no longer heard ; and no hand is ready to re-lame
the torch now fallen from tho grasp of one whose
wit and fancy for so many years charmed the
listening can of senators and assemblages of
the people. The death of RICHARD LALOR Sum
terminates a long and illustrious train, which con-
nected our day and generation with the men of poli-
tical celebrity of the last century. The times and the
necessities of the times are indeed changed,
and mastery of words is no longer the talisman of
power it formerly was. The genius of arithmetic
is in the ascendant now ; and the same men, were
they to live over again, would have to apply them-
selves to other studies than those which occupied the
youth of those we have named. But genius is uni-
versal ; earnestness and passion will for ever lend
wings to sober thought ; and while genius is moved
and eloquence is loved the name of the distinguished
orator whose lips are now for ever muto will be re-
membered with admiration and respect.

ME experience of free imports of corn, so far as
it has gone, tends materially to lessen whatever
credit the prognostics of the opponents of the great
reformation in our commercial system may have
been supposed to enjoy. During the prolonged con-
troversy between the league and the landowners
from 1841 to 1846, no assertions were more dog-
matically made by the defenders of monopoly, than
that France being herself an importing country
was not the quarter whence supplies of food
were to be feared, but, on the other hand,
that North America, with her limitless prairies
and energetic population, was certain to flood
our defenceless land with corn ground and
unground. Indeed, the transcendant superiority of
the latter was said to be so palpable, that no reason-
able or candid man could doubt in the progress that
prolific continent was sure to make, once the ports
of Great Britain were open towards supplying our po-
pulation with bread, to the exclusion of the native
growers, and the disculture of our once wheat-wav-
ing plains. France was too densely peopled, and too
badly tilled, to be a formidable rival in an agricul-
tural point of view; but the valley of the Mississippi,
and the borders of Lakes Erie and Ontario filled
the RICIDIONDS and NEWDEGATES with dismay.
On the memorable occasion of the introduction
of the Canada Flour Bill in 1844, the tocsin
of monopoly began to sound, and at irregular
intervals, though latterly more fitful and more faint,
it has constantly been heard giving forth its melan-
choly tones of warning and of woe.
Of late, peculiar emphasis has been laid upon the
depressed condition of the millers as a distinct class
from the cultivators of the soil. The insatiable rapa-
city of foreigners who, not content with underselling
our farmers in their own markets for wheat iu
the ear, have shown the ingratitude which
all true Britons foresaw they would evince for
the lavish concessions made to them of permission to
send their produce hither,—by grinding it into flour
before they sent it! The surpassing avarice of this
unhandsome proceeding was only to be paralleled by
the impenetrable stupidity of a nation that preferred
buying foreign flour from thankless strangers, to
bribing domestic landholders to grow wheat, and
domestic millers to grind it for our use. In vain
have we remonstrated on behalf of our beloved
stomachs, that milling, being a manufacture, it ought
rather to be served than disserved by the abundance
and cheapness of the raw material. The raw ma-
terial, we were assured, would soon cease to be
imported altogether, and nothing but the manu-
factured article would at length be brought. In
vain we argued, that milling being a trade which
required capital and skill, there was no reason for
supposing that in the neighbourhood of our own
unrivalled entrepota of merchandise and centres of
opulence, the means should not be found for reducing
by machinery, to its useable state, raw corn from
Illinois, as well as cotton from Georgia or wool from
Swan River. Incompatible fallacies and irrecon-
cileablc fears, do as well as any others to swell the
panic of protection. And, accordingly, we arc now
assured that the danger is from au inundation of
French flour, because the channel is so narrow,
while it is also from American flour because the
ocean is so broad.

To make good this wondrous case of terror and
alarm a return has been recently moved for by one
of the followers of Mr. DISRAELI, showing the quan-
tities of wheat and flour imported into the United
Kingdom during the years 1849 and 1830, and
during the first three months of 1830 and 1831. The
results arc curious and instructive.

In the first place it appears that the total amount
of flour imported last year into these islands exceeds,
by a comparatively small amount, that of the preceding
year. In 1849 the amount (reduced to quarters of
wheat) was 937,097, while in 1830 it was 1,091,288. Of
this, two-thirds in 1819 came from the United States
and Canada, and considerably less titan a third came
from France ; while during last year more than
a half was imported from the latter country, and
the difference only was borne across the Atlantic for
our usc. The explanation is easy and obvious. Last
harvest in western Europe proved so plentiful that,
in despair of being able to consume or sell at any
price their surplus corn at home, our French neigh-
bours wisely bethought them of sending a portion of
it here on speculation, less in the hope of obtaining a
remunerative price, than of getting something in the
shape of reimbursal for the toil and capital it had cost.
For this purpose, it was manifestly better to send it
in the manufactured state for sake of the saving in
freight and charges. When persons speculate in the
hope of small profits they need to economise nicely ;
still more so when they only hope to save themselves
from loss. This casual and exceptional condition of
the French corn market, which in spite of a pro-
hibitory duty on corn is actually at the present
Foment as low as our own, explains the augmented
importations during the post year of French flour.
On the other hand, everybody who can and will
understand knows perfectly well that from the day
that it becomes known at hew York that the London
and Liverpool corn averages have fallen below a
certain point, exportations thence to our shores cease
to be made. The outlay for freight and charges
becomes a formidable consideration in proportion to
the price that can be realised; and the same state of
things that renders the French corn merchant more
prompt to ship, and anxious to sell, deters the
American speculator from thinking of either.
This view is singularly illustrated by the compara-
tive statement regarding the first three months of
1830 and 1831. The quantities of lour imported
into the United Kingdom from Jannatyl to March 31
in these two years were—