The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-28 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
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lOW w be mak no *it evening. Da. IL
The west India liaGe, Winding Berswela, Havana. Mama, Haudarao, New Orleans, and Ilifonieetend animate,
Oise fer Madeira, St. Juss-do-ierregvai, New Granada,
OA and Perm, will be owls rap an the wierslas of Jan. 2.
The genii ix Make* the Boil* aid Buenos Apte,will
be node tip en the eveahrg of Jan. 4.
The sada 131 Lisbon, Spain, and Gandhi: will be made
vp ea Joh. 7.
The sands vidYsreell hs, to the Iteditarraneas, Egypt,
fliples, India, Hearliong, du., will be nude up as
goevealag et Jan. 7.
The mans for Gibraltar, Yalta, Grotto, tbe lonian blonde,
Rapt, Ceylon, India, and China, via ilwathemptoa,
br Nada mil on the evening of Jan. 19.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28.
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Avernus landladies is bankrupt. Ireland, der
salsa, and Hit dostan—those chief estates that were
given unto it for an inheritance and a possessioa7
maw longer supply means to pay the interest of its
dish% and enough besides to enable it to live in the
way it has been accustomed to do. Pimple and fine
Ikea, luxurious dwellings and brilliant equipwhimsages,
pismires of all sorts, and the gratification of
of all kinds, are at stake. It is $ state
e things Metal to rentimplate—too bitter to I
oe tfikrtal ,some expedient mast be found, and that
quickly, for restoring tbirip to the blessed
might to
wherein, no matter what the expenditure be,
the supplies of each rest always rose to the demand.
Nothing was necessary but at each new exigency to
turn the screw a little tighter. Agents at a distance
did the business, or when they &lied were changed.
Ityots, negroes, and con-acre men might suffer, might
implore in vain, might perish. What of that? Ab-
sentee landlordism rolled on its easy course, and fared
sumptuously every day. "The poor cried and there
was none to help them!"
But times are altered. The supplies of reek-rent
fail. In Ireland the perverse creatures wall no longer
bid against one another exorbitant prices for the pos-
session of land. In Jamaica the blacks will no longer
work as much for moderate wages as they were
forced to do by the lull. And in India, although
things have not yet come to a similar paw,
the resources begin to run dry, although from
somewhat different causes. The dividends and
interest are still paid in Leadenhalt-street
but it is out of new loans, not out of land
revenue,—a tine name with which thejoint-stoek
proprietary of India dignify the vest sums they exact
from the occupiers of the soil us rent. They have
not yet reached the ultimate stage at which their
fellows in Ireland and Jamaica have arrived,—where
the imperial legislature hes been shamed into
ardy and bungling interposition on behalf of
the victim elites from whom, in each cape,
the exactions of hereditary oppression have been
wrung. But it will come to their turn next. The
existence of a hundred millions of people cannot for
ever be forgotten by parliament. The day is coming
when the renewable lease which the Company
bas so long held of that magnificent land will
have to be inquired into once more, and it
there be honour or coo seence is the legis-
lature, India will roar be again banded over
without check or reservation to its preeent rapacious

landlords.
The question of Indian rule must no lonrer in fact
be mystified. It is in reality no subtle account
between the imperial oligarchy and the particular
branch of the family who have contrived to clutch
the fairest provinces of Asia as their separate por-
tion ; —it is a question whether the industry
of England is to have a new and boundless market
opened to it, and whether, at the Name time, the in-
dustry of India is to be secured in freedom. At the
present hour each native email of the Company buys
of our manufacture on an average but a few shillings'
worth in the year; and, in return, he has to sell but
a few shillings' worth of agricultural produce. Give
him security of tenure in the occupancy of his
bald, and let him have to pay a moderate
rent for it, aed we shall soon find tee difference in
augmented demands for our fabrics and our wares,
while we shall be offered in payment cheap and
pisntiout supplies of cotton end indlgo. But how can
the poor slot buy much from us when he has
little to sell? And how can he have much to
sell, when he holds his land at a rack-rent and
at will ? Neither he nor even a European is
allowed on any terms to acquire a property in the
Company's territory. A standing order of the Court
of Directors fixed the limit of a lease of land to a
European settler at 21 years; and as for the natives,
they hare I arced by emerald* a xperience the vanity
and folly of placing any reliance upon the stipula-
tions or agreements entered into with them. When
money is wanttd for new wars of plunder, or to pay
the cost of former extravagance, a decree to raise
the revenue goes forth. What avail the expostula-
tions or remonstrances of the obscure Hindu peasant?
Nought ; and the practical result is, that capital is
not invested in the cultivation of the soil, and that
large tracts of the mast prolific regions of the earth
are gradually reverting to their primal unproduc-
demos.
Our staple trade is notoriously dependent for
raw material on a single market. The great
fluctuations in the price of cotton wool indicate suffi•
ciently the touted which we yearly run, so long as
we are depeudent solely upon any one quarter for
that supply. We have already had fearful warning
of the precariousness of dependence on a single
crop ; and the daily bread ot millions is, in the case of
cotton as obviously as in that ot the potato,
thus dependent. 'ro relieve us from such firers,
and to furnish the means of a regular and free
competition in quality as in quantity with the United
States—lndia hes ready, only awaiting the open-
ing of her gates, and the striking off her
chains. And are we to hesitate, to doubt, or to suf-
fer ourselvt sto be befouled for another twenty years
by her absentee landlords, who hive in the course of
half a century rifled her of c,untless treasure, tram-
pled in the dust every native dignitt or institution,
and reduced society to one uniform level of mute and
helpless penury ?
It is the case of Ireland on a greater scale.
The same greed of wealth and domination, the
same lawless sense of irresponsibility, the same
habitual neglect of every compensatory duty, and the
same prodigal expenditure ot the aggregate exactions
wrurg from the multitude, are tendin.r there 0 the
shamtful end which they have reached in Ireland.
As the rack rent is raised, the ability to pay
it declines ; and the longer the crisis is postponed
the more tearful must it eventually be. Without the
investment of capital and skill in the soil, neither
India nor Ireland can be tette ved. But neither capital
nor skill will go to work for the benefit of others, or
trust, their Lees to the capricious and merciless
tyranny that has already made away with all el
either that was indigenous in the regions in question.
Capital and skill can only be tempted by security of
possession and fixed and easy terms ot purchase
or take. Without these inducements they will
never migrate either to Ireland or to India.

WARRINGTON, smoky and ungainly as it must
appear to travellers who only see it from the rail Aay
station, is for us full of pleasant emaciation,. The
memories of AIKIN and BARBAULD haunt it still;
of the brother who had the honour to co-operate with
HOWARD in preparing his works for the press, end
of the sister whose simply beautiful hymns charmed
us in early boyhood, and still echo plea,anily in our
ears. Nor is the kin- ly feeling we entrrtein towards
Warrington herened by the rifiaction that in the im-
mediate vicicity of the town STEPHENSON the id e
purruei those experiments which have enabled him
to extend so much that railway system of which his
father was the originator.
One of the most efficient ae< reies by which the
science 'and ll'oraturo of England have been au,-
wanted sad carried home to the domestic heartts of'
Englishmen, has been the numerous accomplished
and intellectual eir.iles which have from live to time
been formed in our provincial town,. We alluileto inch
circles as gathered around the TAILORS at Norwich,
the Corrar.s at Bristol, Miss SEWARD at Lichfield,
PRIESTLEY at Birmingham, and we may add the
AIKINS at Witirdenn. The impetin given by
PRIESTLEY to chemical research is nitorion. ; (rim
Bristol we received a SOUTHEY, and from Lichfield a
CASEY; while to TAILOR of Norwich England is in-