The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

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SHIPPING.
BUM Allllllll..—Dnblia, 3; Waterford, 2; Donaghadse,
1; French, 1; Flanders, 1.
LONDON, Aug. 24.—Winn this day at noon, N.N.E.,
strong breeze, and fine.
Dial., Aug. 23.—N.N.W. to N.N.E., strong and squally.
—Arrived: Ostrich, Modem; Clipper, Gambia; Burn
Log, St. Lucia ; Georgetown, Hannah ; Radioed, St.
Stephens, N.B. Sailed : The outwardtbennd. Arrived
from the river and sailed: Winderramv, Hobart Town;
Europe, Quebec.
Pourenona, Avg. 23.—N. to N.N.R.—Arrived : H.M.S.
Carona, Itio Janeiro.
BIDIronD, Aug. 23.—Arrind : Wellington, Oran,
Bailed: Isabella, Quebec.
Fatuous, Aug. 23.—N., nowt end squally.—Arrived,
221 d : Caroline, Norfolk, V. OE Falmouth : )Bolivar, Nor-
folk, V. 23rd . Cecilia, Hannah, end riled for Antwerp.
Cowes, Aug. 23.—N. by W.—Arrived: Sessizenuar Jar .
vanish.
BOUTZAMPTON, Aug. 23.—E.—Fin Biters, Fein* end
Inkanh Quebec.
On HASTINGS, Avg. 23.—Seel of Durham, Quebec.
On SWANAIBB, Aug. 22—Wriingeon, New York.
NATouaraasrbs &Arrivoa: SIM, Urgent, Quebec. Sailed :
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thennin, Aug. 21. —N. N. : Chapman,
ItTPORT, Aug. 21.—The John, from Belfast, is on
shone, throe masa N.B. from the harbour.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 24.
THAT the principles of free-trade are extending
upon the Continent, we have daily proofs. They are
rapidly making way inNorth Germany. In Belgium we
hero. wit seen manifest proofs of their advent" in the se-
I cession to power of a liberal minist7, with M. ROG IRE
et its head. The very first step o this new minister
is to declare, in the words of Sir ROBERT PEEL, that
the old corn law of 1836, with its sliding scale, can
no longer be restored. And M. ROGIEH say" this at
a moment when providence has sent to Belgium one
of the most abundant harvests in every product of the
earth, and when the abundance and excellence of this
harvest is no longer a matter of speculation, for it is
I already gathered and garnered.
Agriculture, says M. Rome.", is the first of all
things, and must be cared for beyond all things ; but
it must be eared for in some other way than by high
duties. The feet is, that a great proportion of the
tielpelledes vs radioed to the manse of
Nona a manner so very ioselegoes with
of Ireland, that it is usehl to manes the hots
sad causes.

A contemporary expatiated, some months back, very
largely and learnedly on the necessity of creating a
class of peasant proprietors, and of dividing the
Irish land in a much greater measure amongst the
Irish pageantry. This was recommended as the great
guarantee against famine, destitution, and distress.
Now this very nostrum has been put in full prac-
tice in East Flanders. There the peasant has become
proprietor, and a very industrious proprietor too.
lie tills the soil with his spade, or, with the means
and implements of the petite culture: he has rendered
the land very productive, although at a very great
cost of labour. What has been the result? It has
been, that the population of East Flanders is reduced
to a state of destitution, almost equalling that of Ire-
land. Daring the late famine the poor crowded into
the towns, and to the capital, just as the Irish have
done, but in far greater numbers, and with far greater
turbulence; and the police have driven them back
from the gates of towns and city with a rudeness
n no doubt, bat which, if attempted in Eng-
land or would not have been tolerated.

Even the new and abundant harvest has not re-
stored prosperity to these over-peopled and sub
divided districts. In the midst of the immense pro-
duction of wealth, the poor, nay, the poor proprietors
and their families, are starving. They are just in the
condition of the Irish cattier, except that there is no
landlord to complain of. The peasant has it all to
himself; but that all he has split, subdivided, and
over-peopled, till them is neither room nor food.
With this striking example of East Flanders before
our eyes, let us not throw all the blame of Irish
destitution upon the Irish landlords, nor rush, in search
of remedies, to systems of cure calculated to aggra-
vate the great, popular malady.
M. ROOllll, the new minister of Belgium, declares
that the state of the Flemish population first calls for
the attention of the legislature and the government.
What his opinion may be, he doss not apemfy—he only
says that prohibition and corn lowa air se remedy.
Mast of our remedies are inapplisaMe; There are no
wade lands or fisheries, and manufasemeao Dedham has
developed beyond what she can find psaehasers or
markets for : Ind colonise she has saw, so that emi-
gration is with her a giving away, and a complete
exile, of her population.
One plan, however, has been proposed, which, in-
deed, seems in progress of adoption in West Flanders,
and which is considered the truest remedy for the
distress of the Flemings. Let the present laws of
trade be abolished er reversed. Instead of Belgium
allying with French tariffs to exclude one branch of
manufacture, and with German tariffs to exclude
another, let her enact a fair measure of free trade.
Let the Be an delver of his garden earth produce
for the English market, and let him in time consume
these articles of manufacture in which no Belgian
can compete with the Englishman. Let the ports of
Belgium be fiusg open, and Antwerp become what it
' was destined to be—the great free port of a oommer-
daily free country. •
Such are the proposals which will occupy the next
Belgian legislation, and which already occupy the
meditation of M. ROGIER and his colleagues. It is
pretty evident that Belgium, no more than England,
can go on with, or go back to, prohibition. M.
Roost declares u much: and it is also pretty evi-
dent, that if Belgium be a convert to free trade, she
is the key-stone of the arch of the renewed con-
tinental blockade, and that this key-stone crumbling,
all the rest must in time follow. The progress of
such things will not be a little curious and interesting
to watch.

THE mail received yesterday from India is one of
those which, in the conventional language of news-
mongers, is said to bring " no news of general in-
terest." This means that it brings no accounts of
insurrections, battles, or other convulsive, momentary,
and destructive displays of human energy. It only
brings intenigenee respecting the regular permanent
on-goings of society in our colossal dependency of
British India. Such news may not interest the people
of this country; but it ought to interest theca. Having
taken upon us to be sovereigns of Hindostan, we
(night to be mindful of the responsibilities which
power entafis, and examine our periodical deepen/ies
from it not in search of exciting tales, but in search of
those perhaps common-place incidents which show
whether a country is w or ill governed.
There is mush in the news of this uninteresting
mail to emits suspicion that the Anglo-Indian govern-
ist is p at a system et policy by no
means en in its annale, but pregnant with
t Minot* numerous redrew in the
of its administration, all blasheisi and praise-
worthy in themselves, but the advantype of which
may, ere long, be more than neutralised by
the aoosequenoes of one gigantie administrative
blunder, w 'eh is being perpetrated at the same
time. The system of oar Indian government is better
fitted for training able heads of departments than
great statesmen. CLIVE and WAHNEN HASTINGS so
thoroughly inspired the directors with a horror
of irregular greatness, that the traditionary maxims
of government in Leadenhall-street consist of little
else than precepts for most efficaciously banishing
great men from their employment, or taming them
down when that is impossibk. Their routine ma-
chinery of administration is admirably but it
is so perfect in its way, that it make. meWass even
of those who work it. While they ere maturing
plans of book-keeping, or beleasieer ressipt
_and
expenditure, or devising cheeks on eerveatu elands of
revolution or invasion, invited by their own inatten-
tion, may be darkening over the. unheeded.
Brempli gratia : It is pleasing to road a number
of minor governmental rehears eseorded in the news-
papers just come to hand. Foressuly the native trea-
surers in the revenueoollectorabre were allowed salaries
of, it might be, SO or 40 rupees monthly, and obliged
to furnish security, if in funded paper, of 20,000
rupees, if in landed property, of about as much
again. This was neither mow new lees than
an invitation to peculate. The amount of
security &mow has bets diminiehed, sad the
Pau* AIWA *ad Wives may new swept
tea ellem with a vine to their honed emelemanta.
ft may lemiable retina bee bees dialed the
I. doff Bores to bond ode In petteb mwehmeeby s,
whew the oolheter of the oedema apmeremsnat,
of the security at the A third is en the
five of die. legislasive Goma at
ationtta having e• ehdt sot die
oorormel juries therw •iltaayethtr
tae Mau of geftemarilashirs hllllol.ow_
rated; greater regelmity is ma hoe-
wading marl., eed the Ow BM the seem
government which mimes se mach minium
in subordinate matters is deliberately cluvaial a
. line of policy which may ciespreadse the peace of

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