The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1849.

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swim tits Leila W skint that, In mo= tb statentest.
be big PON*. LIM 'may needs the bane
the mere *meet that kearCtsmtisseao Wadi. tall deno•
wow (Hem, hem)
take shill 2hll Ism
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bog anyehed the Moe. The fleet mama was that be sea
goad be &ea a
lb**a by only dewery small miand,
ad be flOblll ice wok tbei was sawdlier be
embeerles tin geversaisat. (Dinka theme.) By what
aims tbe eight W. gestneasa *add have embarrassed a
.cocesseer, ems seiscSol a goveramest as that sow in
aim, by the smell aatisipated, he (Hr. Disraeli)
assume comprehead ; the bees" well knew the Wee-
k& brasity with whke the Tight hot. gentleman, by
• latervesleg name between the int sad last, had
sewed the meat maufaciag recemsmadatioas of his
shies,lt woe certainly • mat aspiralleled Wag nit
owe aperismes to see them two tight hem. gentlest's, milk
=of is this perm' nearer, the child of his had
('f Hear, bear," sad laughter.) The samilles
ben erenotwi matte remiaded him of that cekbested
asy hi the sad !Mask moieties, the day of
l whoa the unlike and prelates of the
ilral ained will met other la throwing their arose%
"A task mitres, their venerated insignia, to the grand
diet day bad slam bees call. d by some The Day .1
Dire (" Meg, bear" sad laughter) ; he (Mr. Disraeli)
oily hoped that the house and the ciente', whoa they hnra-
sher nesalkd to sled the inter sting events of that eating,
sight sot be reminded also that they had some elms
k the !predation es which be would not beam
deep. Them wee one obseMation which ha switt
to make, la alnico to the new gives by the 'k`"
arse. gentleman opposite for the eiedise he lave
Wade of his original projeet. The light isea„ gsatla
man, with great generosity, had *emigrated Ike chief am-
minion', of the customs from any Mime ea the °cession.
He Mr. D:araeli) felt an interest in the character of Sir
Teems Frame le, that gentleman tens lee of his con-
stituents; end, therefore, while he applauded the right boo.
gentleman opposite, for doing pasties, so far, to flir
Thomas Trimmed., he °mkt sot help *Wring that it
would have bees more magnaelmous in the right hoe. gen-
tleman bad he omitted to introduce Sir Themes Fremantle's
same at all in the debate. Na doubt the right hoe patio-
Ma and his colleagues were nemasittla for the gams in game
pm ir.hear, "hoes the miaistarlat beaches.) Ti., bear,
bear ! they admitted it now, bat why had they at all sought
to esywaylo shield these bloodies ender somebody else's
ape ? (Hear, hear.) The only difference between Met
year's dal sad the peoposition before the hoses ems:sad of
the very clause in which the government had eo it so tui-
tional blaademd. (Hear, hear.) Govern:seat began their
aeseda.. ism with foreign powers in December. Whatever
night have teen the object of these negotiation, the result
war perfectly drat and admitted. (Hear, bear.) What
we" the geaeral effect of this reaarkeble evening ? Oa that
evening the home was to have gone into committee, se
practical sea, aspiring to nothing story than to correct the
details of a great, well considered, and matured measure.
At to the bill itself, for the repeal of the navigation laws, it
was maalisat that it had had a decided paralytic stoke.
("gear," sad laughter.) Betsy's were this matter *fauna*
le Wee who were opposed to the bill, though it might Wiwi
smatter for east for the moment, let him tell the hawse that
what had oceurr, d that night would oat of doors_ give rise to
wry serious and mournful coasideratioa. (Hear, hear.)
There was great distress in the country ; sonny we" there
sa alerts: is the empire which was not suffering. He
would not p into these matters now ; but this he would
say--eme among the most suffering eat of doors there were
the large wawa lee ined till recently—nay, still inclined, to
abdt to the *tondos of that how e without a murmur.
What till complained of most was not so much that their
braises bad been injured by the legislation of late Jean,
bat that the legislaqv itself had been pr c7p;tate, that it had
not bees mature, that they had ban sacrificed, not to nom-
Sties foreseen by great statesmen, and regulated by the pre-
'ace crane! Minna:op, but that their fortunes hail keen de-
stroyed, their happiness in life d.terlorakd, litmus* sud-
denly and without thought, without care, crude, and blun-
dering, and hasty men, bad pasted laws arbitrarily affecting
the great interns of this country. The agriculture' interest
was suffering. He was not then going to denounce the laws
by *Weft this puttering had been brought about, but those
who suffered knew that than who wade those laws, male
them not from conviction, but from bare panic ; were met,
who, bat a short time before, advocated the very system
which they abandoned in the miserable her coos-
mined by a combinatioa of circumstance" with whist
they thought they could not o,pe. (Hair, hear.)
Anther great +tenet was now prostrate, the
eassisl Interest, 'specially the sugar growing Minks.
(Hem.) This Interest also complain( 4of being injured by
prespitata Laws, passed too in the very te:th of the pa
declarstione of leading men, with the continues of them
who wished to keep the government in office. (Hear.) Ha
we. not now °Natio' to Meer change', but to the meaner
in which they had been eilecod. Now, modem
greet interest had bees attached, but the siege
war longer; this was the second year. (Hear.)
The humiliating confeesions made to-night by the right
hon. the preenteut of the board of trade, showed that
the changes now projected were equally
.precipitak. This
was a comes that could sot be proceeded in. (Heir, hear.)
A Wining people would not submit to have their destinies
thus tampered with, with the feeling too that they were not
legislated for by statesmen ; mad each a centres must shake
the institutions of the country to their centre. (Protectioakt
cheers.)

Mr. GLADSTONE, In reference to the charge that he
bad failed to fulfil his pledge to propose a plan of conditional
legislation, and that he had given contradictory memo for
this course, said he had not done so, but had sated the two
alternatives which had deterred him from pursuing the
course he had intended. One alternative was, that hit
scheme might have received only the support of the few who
approved it on its merits; the other, that it might be sup-
ported by a number of gentlemen, who would be glad to use
him as a tool for damaging the government, and would then
be ready to abandon the proposal on the third reading of the
bill (Cheers.) He had never giver a positive ➢ledge to
bring forward the scheme he had proposed—not midair, to
embarrass the government, by procuring the rejection &Mo-
rro'r of a measure for the repeal of the navigation laws,
a measure to which he had always been favoura-
ble. Had not the honourable member for Backs
been satisfied that the course he (Mr. Gladstone) pursued
was unfavourable t 3 his views, he would not have made this
attack. (Hear, hear.) So far from agreeing with the hon.
gentleman in thinking that the free trade inosettree recently
mead wore • hasty and ill-aormiderad tome of legislation,
he wee aortas that thorns swarm had been the means of
alleviating the distress which now partially prevailed,
mad of accelerating the dawn of rationing pap: city.
(Litoera )

Kr. LABOUCEIBRE said that, notwithstanding the
amel eireametemes which the hon. member for Bucks had
dwelt ups, he would venture to my tbst sighing half so
amel had occemed, nothing so esirtely eepresadented as
Se mane which the bee. 'Wham limelf bad taken. At
the dose Ms keg amiss le eammillee ea this bill be had
assa to state that be Isseght the time bad arrived when the
loam maid no isyst pursue the diemmion and had
takes advantage ef the intend that aseurred to We
a match, in Mali he raised all possible
attacked all possible ”ttaea, end refined to • rettia'
which had oc:urred Mwmthe hew went into committee at
ell. (Rear, hear.) The wily pessible interpretative be
meld put upon the ewes of the Mn gentleman was that,
let lading Meelleff Mile Nadi le lehe.lll part in the debase
ea going iota esonmilese, he bed Mingle the intend of •
few boon, to mil& W periods ad M armee his eiremme,
would not be lememelmt. (Hem, bear.) And thwelbee
be had adopted a mein which war patently novel is tIM
home. The has. -_— MOM him (Kr. Labersehme)
with the alterations the WI bed eadappeem sines it bed been
istroduced. Be had eihnitted ths KB bed beta altered la
me modinestion—in Menem MO* emit= Veda Bat if
rfis

the boa. geatlema was ever charged with responsibility,
which, from he high abilities and position, was not at all
ealikely—of %traded!. g sad defending a measure of great
sempletdty aad difilenity, he would not tare very ill if he wee
able to misithia mosale through the hone with no gm..?
Cr mere Maria maildisatioas than this mem had
melergeme. He hardly reimeabered • subject involviag
topics of such great mristy, and each great difficulty, in
which the footrests and prejudiess of great muses of the
community were natandly 'evolved, which had received •
las amount of alteration is peeling through the committee
than this measure. He could Imre the hon. gentleman
that it was is no spirit of levity that this immure was
brought formed; the government well knew the gravity of
he talk they Wine undertaking; but they felt, also, that it
was theft duty le her those Minium, to lay the ease fairly
lishes partimeat and the evestry, and to bring the question
a a tas sad 'mature:my sossission. (Hear, hoer.) In that
leans they should sadebered by any taints
Mash the hoc. gee Walt St to make. He
imagiaiiied that the pin tboyMil mad towards Sir I.
Penesside was not aYr sm. He (Hr. Labovahme) should
bald mgret if be thought be had Me an unfair
toomds as Whiled whom he valued so • private
hied Usti mopselell as a most blamable and
mesktations men. (Hear, hear.) He set only fully
admitted, but claimed, the satire respoasibility, of
IM n of the wasting trade clams.
Bee bed armtioeei the facts exactly as they hap-
~~mssii; led bed bee m with the lull consent of Sir T.
Meer, bor.) It was not at all unusual for
Mean te admit M the senuannications which they had
with, the heath of departments. Of course, the head of a
"Pliant._ int an responsible for anything proposed is that
ziplitietut ...r..dbuity must rest entirely on the ministers
the measure ; but he had thought it right to tell
lhs hems la *isms, that he believed Sir T. Fremantle was
Mend by the sole and sincere desire to facilitate the views
• Silo gmerment in this respect, but whoa he had mmis to
leek me thoroughly amid sompletely into the op=sites
baidhsemesi that thm were more sad greater
Ihes he hall at drat anticipated. If he had szpressed
him-
self at all ebsearely in the diet huts, ia referees* Is
T. Premantle, he was mask dogged ea the
gal_lee .glatimman for Oast IM 3pral=
Sir Thames was Mal
say Mat had bees dean or Bpi Isad be
Ilfr. itilmseboM bed cal, mistimed UM
hi Mimi hem emealtal, le aseouat to the beam Pet the
alModes Mike beam mimed to make %Mehl'. (KiiiJ
The ham ibis ramed, the *Lima Mooned lavßfi.",
futi obigned leave to di again cm Monday.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.

rts CHANCIii:OR of tieIIIECiIIiCILIEB stated that
it aai rounded le prepped oa Made, with the Mutiny
pal; than with the isseigetiaa laws, sad if they did sot
raall:guiteet womb of thee he weld proceed with the

MILROY RELIEF BILL

oe tie satirist Yr. iloTiaire,ll67seleet trismittee oa
tkh bill was assiaated am follows:—![r. Boers* Mr.
Oladetase, Mr. Stafford, Sir Willies Clay Mr. Lary, Mr.
Headles, Mr. Reseda Pabst, Mr. Peel, awl Mr.
Moe

PUBLIC LIBRARIZIL

Ca the Retie;of htr. Bwaat, the selgt semadase ea
puha* libraries was sire aaeslassed:—Viseesset Ebeisatea,
Mr. Disraeli, Sir Hwy Verney, Mr. Chssierk, Mr. Bsabery,
Kr. Deem Akssader Hamllsee, Mr. Brethertaa, Mr.
Mikes, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Cleslbare, ldr. Thickaree,
Mr. Mackienos, Mr. Kershaw, Mr. Cardwell, sad Mr.
Swart.
LARCENY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
This hal passed thrones seesmilese.
RECOVERY OF WAORS (UPLAND) ; PROTEC-
TION OF JUSTICES (IRELAND) ; BILLS.
These bills were read a third time si.d passed.
The home adjourned at cue o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION&
HOME OF COMMONS.
NAVIGATION BILL (Ix COS*wrial.)
DIMMINIO as allaw mama proposed W Mr. lioasesie abe egad
to dean I t--"»r dee amoral naiades' sal prolialthaa to
the alhardi ads sealelsal, so to tam mega to wash dirpteess
Nadia wags^ armada pssievlddi *row
bilk or=llllllagisus es say Bradt
as as to lbe peek ail
pearisse they nosy easy dam asrewles
amens pit et as DIM -Maiden to asq port, salient say
lisitidipsmaisa Way pad sallavedi le sayeastali peer►
sisauser=idrait el Ile ail deldelleiss rills as ire
la la suarese4 or deal by the proper
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wp
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mak sad k dall be Mira bp less Ma.
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they Nap Nepal alo or smart boa sate halo osastra et say
91111 Mall Wig fit may easearise MIN/ pat id mai assign
seantsy: FiliTialla kMbliff, vat rapes& to las residdinerd ato-
l/idler is tha eliesoll ads siatiaaal, or to the psi wto the
trar re=rollo7 ma Yawl We sr gat ams say
Maltila lip bra war la way sans
thettlis valise sr say pest. alma subletkaeird shall
ems to sonsla or be to hal hove as to et say arils
*seamy, although the las madding aa4 sagestady,
as to Os pads whish.,aq MOW dap may Wood lala or tappet
teas, say peseados sisaeh hada seastry, shall aot le ell upsets
hays am saeoes4.—sue, 1.3; Irma 181.

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Oarnolbeir J. 11. =,,T. L. Nogrot, Lord Wolooley,eir J.
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And now for the other great scene of houtilities,
the eastern border of the Austrian empire. Lord
DUDLEY STUART deaOUßCed the aggressive spirit of
the Russians, who have occupied Idlidavia and Wei-
Lehi*. But why have they dorm so? Evidently to
live at fres quar sea ammo Wallachians and Mol-
davian., and make the treasury of these principalities
pay for Russian soldier.. The well-timed and able
pamphle, attributed to Mr. BIRKSECK, fully shows
this.
Then, again, the Russians here entered Transyl-
vania. How many? Ton thousand of them, which
are of no manner of use, foe they have not enabled
the Austrian getters.' to free the open country, or main-
tain his pentad. But why are there no more
Ramis= 130011190 pour mountainous Transylvania
an feed no more. The Magyars are masters of the
rich plain of Hungary, upon the Theism. They are
wellsupplied themselves, and can starve their foes.
Hence the enemas, the numvors, audacity, and
"growing might of their armies. But Russia will soon
Bud pretexts to advance. She hesitates, and holds
back as yet, not quite to damnify Austria
in German estimation, at kast until the die is cast at

Frankfort. But ate; a time we shall no doubt see
the Russians in _Oallicia and Hungary, picqueting
their ettede is those rich pastures, the Czar support-
ing his hordes from the nowly-acquired property of
the &awnings peasents.
One goad, however, cannst fail to arise from these
military movements; and that is, the general knowledge
and conviction that large armies are equally incompa-
tible with freedom and with peace —that they must be
fed; and that when domestic resources have been ex-
hausted by them, these armies will infallibly find or
make pretexts for going to teed on their neighbours.
Food and pay they must have, and food and pay they
will have by means of invasion, occupation, and war.
They may find diplomet'sts to invent and enum.rate
other specious and logical reasons fir war, but the
European public may depend upon it, that the true
motive for war lies less even in the ambition of
princes than in the uexsatty of filling soldiers'
stomachs and purses, of converting the produce
of the hasbandmin into rations, and the economy of
the industrious rots forced contributions, prize money,
and rapine.

INSTEAD of amending the Navigation Bill by at once
throwing open our t ntire coasting trade, and so setting
foreign nations the most liberal and beet example, mi-
nisters have withdrawn the partial privilege of relading
fora second port after breaking bulk. Customs diffi-
culties are the excuse for the change, which, except
that it gives an argument to foreigners, and especially
Ms America, for a 'lke exclusion of our ships, is not
vary important. Foreigners had not much to gain
from the opening of oar coasting trade. Lan-
guage, local connexions, and local dangers secure
a natural monopoly of the commerce along our coasts
to ships built and men trained for it. Whatever we
hid to gain on the coasts of other nations, they had
little else to gain from us than the name of freedom.
Even the filling up for a second port would have
been more a name than a reality. Foreign masters
would but rarely have wasted the time and incurred
the expense of this second voyage. They perfectly
well understand that promptness in discharging,
lading and clearing out are of the first
importance to their owners. Every hour the
ship delays is loss. There would be no
gain in having consiviments on board for two
poets; whole the fresh-packed cargo was being shipped
the whole might hare been discharged, and whilst the
vessel was gaining the second porr, she might have
re-freighted and clears d out again.
Practically, therefore, neither foreigners nor com-
merce lose much by the withdrawal of the proposed
opening in the coastiog trade. Still the change is
in the wrong direction ; there should have been no
narrowing of the bill—itahould have retained no refuge
far the protectionists to rally upon. Everywhere the
navigation laws are a delusion or a mischief, and the
very name of them in the coasting trade will con-
tinue to mislead our own and foreign shipowner'.
As we foresaw, Mr. GLADSTONE did not support
Mr. Sot:value's amendment. He found it easier to
soothe the ears of shipowners with the mention of re
ciprocity than to frame the act upon the principle so
as to work without en flees complexity and contusion.
Ile found, too, that no concession would content the
shipowners. They had declared that the amendment
would not remove their objections to the bill, and had
called upon the friends of the
i shipping interest not to
sanction it. And so be it. Theres a clear field.
Through the remainder of its stages in the Cimmons
and the Lords the battle of the navigation laws is to
be one of Free-trade against undisguised Protection.
The shipowners will relax nothing of their grasp
upon tho commercial Lterest. Tucy will have
their entire monopoly or nothing ; and they look to
the Lords to maintain it for them. They did lay
great stress noon what they called the fact that
foreigners would take all the freedom we chose to
yield them, and would give us nothing in return.
The answers fromforeign powers too, were a strong-
hold, they were not explicit enough. No allowance
was to be made for the unsettled state of many of
their governments. We must not repeal our
law upon an uncertainty. But not one
word of all this did the shipowners intend
to be taken literally. There lay Mr. Bou-
VERDI'S mistake: he listened to them, and thought
they had made out a case, and took it up for them
honestly, and he had but fifteen staunch protectionist
supporters. As matter of talk, the churlishness of
foreigners and the desirableness of securing reciprocal
advantages, did well enough, but, as matter of reality,
the fact is, that if foreigners had even taken the first
step in advance, and had all of them, like Austria and
Bremen, been able to remind us hat we were only
about to follow an example they had long set, and to
yield them a measure of tardy justice, the shipowners
would still have met and protested and petitioned
against the repeal of the navigation laws.
But independently of every objection on the ground
of principle to a mere reciprocity measure, Mr. WIL-
SON showed very clearly that our existing treaties
must make such a law, if passed, a dead letter.
If America responded to our invitation, and re-
ceived and gave open trade, as soon as the United
States were admitted to our colonise, every country
with which we had treaties embodying the moat
favoured nation clause, would demand, and must of
right receive, the same privilege. If France allowed
us to carry the produce of Asia, Africa, or America to
bar ports, so soon as French ships brought us similar
cargoes, we must admit the vessels of Holland,
America, and every ether nation in the list of like
treaties, to the same freedom. It must therefore have I
been short work with the ingenious device of recipro-
city—the first country, great or small, that took us
at our word would have earned all the rest with
it. Mr. Ginsos in a single sentence blew
away the whole mist of reciprocity, put the
question on its merits. "It was not a question about
foreigners at all. The only question was between
the British shipowners on the one hand, and the
British people on the other. He did not seek to give
anything to the foreigner ; his object was to restore
to her Majesty's subjects that right of which they
ought never to have been deprived—the right to send
their goods in whatever ships they. pleased and at the
cheapest Ipossible rate." There is no excuse left to
shipowners for withholding this right of cheapest
transit from merchants and the public. They can
victual their ships as cheaply as foreigners. They may
either build them here or bay them Urea&
They are no longer to be under compulsion
to take apprentices. They are in short to be as free
as any other class of traders. But it is a mistake to
suppose that shipowners are anxious to get rid of
their grievances. They cling to them with all their
might. Giving without getting was a grievance—but
they or their friends vote against reciprocity.
Being obliged to man with three-fourths English
sailors was a grievance, but they vote against
its removal. Their grand point now is, that there
are timber duties, that they have to build their
ships as merchants and manufacturers who work
for, and trade with, foreign markets have their
warehouses and factories—with taxed timber ;

bat if any one were to take up the timber:
case the shipowners' friends would leave him
in the lurch, as Mr. Bowman and Mr. HAsvrc
have been left. The shipowners do not want
new ships to be built cheaper than the present ones.
What they do want is, to keep the people of England
and the colonies of England ft= asserting and gain-
ing their right to liberty in shipping. 'Our colo-
nies,' says Mr. Ginsori, are now precluded from own-
munioation with one clear half of the word, and

yet the London colonial interest takes its stand
with the shipping interest to maintain this gross in-
justice.' It is important that the proviso, stating
that a ship shall be deemed duly navigated if she have

one British seamen to every 20 teas should be struck
out of the bill. The marginal note to the
clause in the original set has given rise to
a belief that on board British ships there must be
five seamen to every hundred tons, and Mr. BEIGHT
stated that whilst American ships came to Liverpool
with three or three and a half men to every
100 tons, the English had actually five to
100 tons. This proviso, therefore, Mr. LABOII•
man has agreed to remade.% We dare say
some shipowners' friends will be at him
about it, and,pith some wondrous pretense of eddy
to ships and lives for keeping up the Orme*. The
answer is, the Americans do with the taneller num-
ber, and the amendment in the bill is sorely to het
rid at surplus words, out of which, however, has
grown the use of surplus men. There remains but
little to be done in committee.
On the third reading the protectionists mean to
stanmen up all their strength. There is need, there-
fore, for the free traders to bestir themselves. Let
them look to the late division, and especially to the
list of absent members.