The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

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The overland closed mailit;;;;[liirseilles, to the Mediterranean.
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, fond Kong, fro., will be made up on the
evening of the 24th January.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadis, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 97th January.
The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the Gaited
States, will be made up on the evening of the 29t1 January.
The mails for New South Wale., Van Diemen's Land, and Yew
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31to January.
The mails for the Weot Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 31st :net.
The Went India Mails, [Deluding Bermuda, Nassau, Ravenna,
Ilonduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Moo, end
excluding thine for Madeira, JszmeL Carthagena, Dante Martha,
Chagres, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juals-de.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the Ind February.
The overload mole Am Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Wanda,
=Aden, Ceylon, Lod* Ilong.Kong, and China, via Southampton,
made up on the morning of the 3rd February.
The roadie for the Brasile, the Elver Plate, Monte Video, remora.
bow, Bads, Madeira, and Buenos Area, will Oa made op on the
evening (Atha lth February.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 20.

Ire oar recent observations on agrarian crime in
certain parts of Ireland, oar object was twofold.
We desired to call attention to some of the exciting
causes, which are commonly underrated, if mot
wholly overlooked; and to expose particular errors
into which well-meaning but ill-informed persons are
apt to fall regarding the nature of the evil in ques-
tion. In doing so we appealed to the evidence of
admitted facts, and sought from them to show what
prmdial outrage does arise from, and what it
does not. Believing, as we do, that its origin
lies mainly in the distrust engendered by the
maladministration of property, and the abuse of
the legal power it confers—we endeavoured to
point out the connexion between indiscriminate evic-
tion and wide-spread conspiracy; between the inhu-
manity of the few, and the barbarity of the many ;
between the blind sweep of ejectment, and the blind
fury of its recoil. We showed that where many
murders were committed, very many struggles in the
courts of law bad previously occurred for the pomme-
-1 Ilion of land ; and that, where such proceedings were
comparatively rare, their sanguinary fruit was, in
proportion, rarer still.
In pursuing this argument we are not seeking to
deny the right of the landlord to eject those tenants
who wilfully refuse to pay rent; nor do we dispute
the justice of exercising that right. We merely com-
bat the system of clearances, recommended as a
theory by politicians, and practised as improvement
by landlords, without a due regard to the consequences,
not merely to the land, but to the morals and content
of the mass of the population.
For the purpose of illustrating our argument we