The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1851.

nated negotiation. We fear much that the English ;
cabinet, in reckoning upon the pliability and better
sense of that court, will find MONTALEMBY.RI'S
opinion but too true. Consider who the cardinals
are—Frenchmen, Italians. Austrians. The choice of .
the conclave appoints the POPE. And the POPE falls
into the hands of the leading spirits amongst the car-
dinals. What c.,nsideration can protestant England,
with catholic Ireland by its aide, ever expect from
such men? The l'ore can never look to England for
support. We have no armies ready to act police fur
him. or aid him in keeping down public rid liberal
opinion. The last spot in Europe that will * libe-
ralised or rendered independent, is the c, tut of Rome.
And mar it will all our efforts at conciliating, or
pacifying. or educating Ireland, unlew we can act
with more firmness and effect than merely twowrib-
ing titles, and insisting on plain names in trust
I deeds.
Whatever, too, was to be done should have been'
done at once, not to vex or intimidate any court or
priesth4od in Italy, but to deal forth justice and pro-
tection to persons and interests at home. What our
enemies most desire, is to sec our sects at variance,
the country itself engaged in religious dissension.
England weakened by the defection and hostility of
Ireland, the will and the sagacity of the population
distracted from liberal views and sympathies. and the
time and the energies of parliament wasted in pole-
mics and party stile. What we should have heed.
therefore, would have been to sec papal and ultra-
montane pretensions crushed at once, and at the cost
of one session's rancour and effervescence. But to
cater upon. a campaign against Rome, as the PREMIER
proposes, m which the Irish and English eotholics
are forthwith, and while it lasts. to take up arms as
a perpetual guerilla, this will make a more melan-
choly and nitenainghle series of skirmishes than ever
, Carpi-t and Citai,rixo fought. And instead of see-
ing the cad of it in 1451. we may make up our mind
r to base it endure the remainder of the century.

Comparing the extraordinary expenditure with the
i
extraordinary receipta, we have a deficiency of I
18,036,72 Mi. The total deficiency in this quarter ia
thus, 18,936,767 d.

FE/1. 6.—Voluntary Loan, 10611 ; New Lou,a
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 100 C; National Lkibt, RI/ ; Cons
martial Marine Society's Premium, 129 ; Bank Sham, 96/.
Via,;:ea, Tan. 6.—Fivs. per Cent. Metalliques, ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, Bit Bank Shares,
1185. Exchange on London. 12.39.

The lodge gates were forced, the mob rushed to the ducal
mansion, broke the windows, entered, ransacked the rooms,
tore the ancient tapestry from the walls, so also the pictures,
and piling them in the rooms, furniture shore, set them on
fire; they blared; the fire spread from room to room, from
Boor to floor, men, women, and children shouting in the lurid
light like beings not of earth : men and women, drunken in
the plunder, escaping from the burning mass by windows,
with broken limbs, scorched bodies, curses in their mouths,
their brains maddened to fn nzy. Ahd as they raved and
shouted, the Castle of Nottingham shone over the amazed town
and the surroumling counties of England a rest pile of &Mc.
_ .

lly midnight it was a dull Fmnkittg min. Next day the
rioters renewed their devastation, but the arm of legal
power was more vigorous ; a number were taken prisoners
and the rest intimidated. The damage in furniture was
said to he 4.000/. at the Castle: for that and the building
the Duke of Newcastle obtained 41,000 f. from a rate upon
the hundred. Other owners of property destroyed, the ,
most extensive of which was the Ilet,ton silk mill, I
got 26,0001.
The duke did not rebuild Nottingham Castle. It was in
a defective state of repair, with little furniture of value in
it. MO that it is supposed he was no lnwr in a pecuniary
sense. But doubtless this violence to his property con-
firmed him in the opinion, AO resolutely asserted in opposing
the Reform Bill, that all nfirm would sooner or later lead
to resolution. When the bill was before the Lords, and
the opposition of the majority was overcome by their fearsl
or other sentiment, the Duke of Newcastle reproached
them with pusillanimity, and declared they had degraded
Parliament more by their timidity than those had who were
the authors of the bill. For himself (said he) he would
take part with them no more ; and so he left the hott,,
If he returned at all he did so but seldom, though he scut
his vote by proxy in d2fence of corn-law protection and
some other measure- in which he had an interest. _

If one could belies,• some of the local journals since his
death there never wa, a landlord more esteemed, a noble-
man more worthy 01' esteem. But I have failed to find a
farmer who speaks in like manner ; most of them arc sig-
nificantly silent. On the subject of his polities many are
loud in hie praise ; all believe that he wan thoroughly
honest in his motives ; but, speak of him as a landlord,
they 'tan a new subject, or ask you what haro you to say
against hint. To those who differed with him in polities,
over whom he had power, no plea of justice or humanity
would mitigate his stern hostility.
The committee of the House of Commons which took I
evidence on the game laws in 1846 had a gentleman beCore
them as a witness who had occupied a farm of 740 acres
under the duke near Woeksop, hut at that time occupied
700 acres near Louth under another landlord. His answers
referring to the Duke of Newcastle's farm were :
I think I paid more for it than its value, though no
game had been kept on it. I found the game increase, all
aorta of it; the hares and rabbits were must injurious. I
' can give particular instances of injury. I had a field of
wheat, 23 acres, in 1843. The damage was so great that I
had it estimated by a respectable valuer, Mr. White, of
Retford, in Nottinghamshire. Ikfore that I took some
people over it. There was one part not so much injured by
game as it lay near the house. Looking at that part they
said I ought to have had 33 bushels per acre in the field
round. Mr. White said he thought the game had left me
16 bushels per acre. The loss arose from no other cause ; it
was entirely from the game.
o The amount of taxation upon my farm was about 1001.
altogether; that was about the average. The poor and
county rate was from 6411. w TOL The highway-rate varied
ton, but one year 1 paid 231. I have paid less than that.
The church-rate would average 71. My income tax was 111.
to 101. That was from 1001. to 1041. for taxes. I can my
confidently that the amount of injury done to my farm ex-
' sec led consider.ably the whole amount of my direct taxa-
thin. The damage might he taken at :is. per acre over the
whole farm. I had about 740 acres, which would make a
loss of 1851. My direct taxation in 1813 was about 100?.
My loot by game 1811. The land was rented at its full
I value• rather more. without game. On an avenge of four
years my loss by game was IrslM."
' Mr. Morris was eross-exaraiued by Lord George Bentinek.
The Duke of Newcastle does not intentionally preserve
Inatibita any where, does he ? No, he does not.
Is it not the fact, that the Duke of Newcastle and the Duke
of Portland, and all your great neighbour., do their utmost
to kill the rabbits ? I know the Duke of Portland does.
Do not you know also that the Duke of Newcastle intends
to have the rabbits killed ? I believe it is his wish to have
the rabbits destroyed, but they cannot do it whilst they keep
preserves for the game, because they will not go into those
preserves to destroy the rabbits at certain seasons of the
year.
Was there anything in your lease to prevent your trapping
the rabbits ? I had no lease. Ido not knots whether there
was anything in the agreement. Mr. Wilmot showed me
an agreement to sign to preserve hares and rabbits ; hut
I do not think it was meant to preserve the rabbits, and I
said I certainly should not do that, and never did sign an
agreement at ail.
It was nut n hile he was on the Chandler estate that this
tenant gave his evidence. If I am to believe the opinion
of some with whom 1 have talked, no tenant dared have
given such evidence, but at the peril of dismissal from the
estate with a bad character, which would have prevented
them obtaining farms elsewhere. Notwithstanding all the
pressure of low prices and high rents the competition for
farms is still great.
I propose to quote Arthur Young's account of the tillage,
rental, wage., and prices, in this district, us he found them
in 1767-8, and compare them and the term expenses with
the tillage, rental, wages, and prices, as 1 found them in
-11 January,
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