The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

to the pesoeable and faithful citizens; woe to the mug
who will dare attack with a criminal band the pesos of
kepplisen of oar population.--Cotner RADIMILL, Field
Martha (mean preptio).-818e8, Jan. 18, 1848.
An order was issued to publish this proclamation is
all the languages of the various nations composing the
Austrian army.
The Notional observes on this proclamation:
Thai ravage reazdhsto wilt astonish civilised Europe.
tau da is denims of madam sad is not even able to diet-
medate. We must hops that these infamous cut-throats will
net have the last of it. They are blood-thirsty ; they seek
kr, they provocate, murderous engsgementa. Before km&
we firmly hope, they will repent of having defied jig**
with this ferocious arrogance.
On the evening of the 14th the municipality of
Milan published a manifesto, inviting the citizens to
maintain the ordinary habits of their life, end to be-
ware of those who, far from promoting the interests
end desiring the proeperity of the country, endeavour
to propagate rumours of disturbances.
Due respect to the rights of every citizen in the bailie
of social security, and of civil order; conditions, with-
out which the country could not progress in the path
of ameliorations. This manifesto bears the signature
of M. Casati, podestate ; of six assessors, and of M.
Silva, Secretary.
Our despatches from Berne of the 23rd have ar-
rived, but their contents have but little interest.
The Zurich Gazette announces that the new consti-
tution for theValaii, end the degree for the assalaries-
don of the property of the convents, have been
adopted by the popular assembly. The first, by a
majority of 7,910 votes to 6,641 ; the second, by
6,622 to 1,366.
A note from Austria, conceived in the same sense as
that of the French Cabinet, was communicated on the
22nd to the Swiss Diet. It was decided that these two
notes should be referred to the examination of a com-
mittee, which is to report its opinion of them.
Several deputies expressed themselves on this occasion
with a certain warmth on the pretension of the two
Cabinets to intervene in the affairs of Switzerland,
and seized the occasion to protest against the asser-
tions made in the tribune of the Chamber of Peers by
Count de Montalembert. The assembly, with the

exception of Neuchatel, voted unanimouslythe address
to the army. This address, said the deputy of
Friburg, will serve to refute the calumnious state-
ments made in foreign countries. The assembly was
also to have occupied itself with the proposition of
Berne relative to the amnesty ; but, the report not
being ready, the affair was postponed to the next day.

Since the foregoing was in type. we have our Paris
letter of last evening, but it brings so domestic news
of general interest.
Peale, b. 14, 27.--New Lean, 73 30 ; Three per Cents, 74 20;
Fives, 116 20; Pour-and-Half, 104; Pot" 99 N. Belgian Fives,
1940, 99 , Do., 1642, 995; Naples Bastes, 96 50 ; Roman lan, 94.
'L`l7Bonds, Bank Shares, 3170. Ennuis, on London,
,700.
Itarxwarn—Paris and Orleans, 1,177 30; Paris and Bonen, 900;
Strsalicearg and Bale, 156 23 ; Centre (thereon), 305 75; Bordeaux,
476 23; Beath, 333 75.

According to the last letters from Madrid, the
grippe was increasing in intensity, and deaths were
becoming more numerous every day.
El Clamor Pub Jim says that the charge d'affaires
of Holland was assassinated on the 20th. The parti-
culars are not given, but it is said that the assassins
were arrested. _ _ _

MAD-- an
.20.—Three per Centa; 27 7-16 at 30 days; 27 3-16
elan, 271 paper. rive per Ceuta, 17 1-16 at 50 daya ; IQ paper.
Padres, Q paper, 5.1 cash. Hank orat. Ferdinand, 125 orA. Ex-
change on London, 46 each.

We have received files of the Italian journals, and
letters from various parts of Italy, through the Ger-
man mails, but they are all antecedent in date to
the advice. we have already published, and supply
but few additional particulars of interest. The ground
of the report mentioned by our correspondent at
Rome of the expected visit of the King of Naples to
that capital, appears to have been the fact, that the
King had charged the Duke of Serra Capriole with •
mission to Lord Minto at Rome. These letters mention
general reports of disorders and revolt invarions parts
of Sicily and the Neapolitan provinces.
The Italia, a journal of Pisa, of the 20th, mentions
• report that Austria, on the refusal of the Pope to
allow troops to be marched through the states of the
church, made a like demand of the Tuscan government,
which that journal trusts will meet with a like reply.
The Patri a , of Florence, of the 20th, mentions the
reported arrival of two estafettes with the news that
Naples had risen, and that the King had retired from
that city. As we have letters direct from Naples to
the 18th, this report must be at least premature.
The Italia of the 20th says, that the commander of
the British fleet stationed at Palermo had signified to
the commander of the Neapolitan steam flotilla,
which was moored before the town, that, at the first
cannon fired on the town, the British vessels would fire
on the Neapolitan squadron, assigning as his reason
the necessity of protecting British property and /ob-
jects in the city.
A letter from Genoa, published in the Turin papers,
affirms that the insurgents at Palermo were supplied
with muskets from two British vessels which were
anchored in the harbour.

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Tare, graham, an aneetuogisig
in no swathes! guffiselar, I recut is my, the
condition of pear country appear to me to differ
from diet of the treaties of Limed* and Clan. Bath
publicity hes bola given to the that I doubt
not you are sweet of the obsernethma upon similar
umwoons to the peessat were addeessei lip the Lord Chief
Bares and mud' to the 'pond juror of the counties of
Limerick sod Clem I fhomillem shall emus that, se far es
those ohsenatiima ma be instal for your government it
isetnictics, Memw akeadi sabstantially known to you ;
and,thereferea shell nettsenhis we delay you with re
them- I stated mg riameiseisa that the principal orescataJ
the by this country was overran
end dierealstrettle tie el tho right. and ramerilise
of landlord*. I of that opinion ; has been row
firmed by all Ant I have seen. Whether dues
originated wit three whose dishonest perposes°l3=&
to effectuate—or whether, having been originally
their power wee employed to accomplish these distionottint
fraudulent designs, is of very little moment. Bake it to
say, that, in olds to accomplish the design of
the landlord of that Iva right, and frustraasiatta
remedy, there is warmly eny crime that has tot been sem-
mitted in the promotion of it, and the lama frightful
murders have been perpetrated. But what can we may of
the parsons of that clue by whom this sanguinary spirit W
bun fostered, cherished, and matured ? They have found
it ungovernable, and they themselves have been the first to
feel its cruelty and to sink under its oppression. We have
been engaged for nearly throe weeks in administering the
criminal law in the counties of Limerick and Clare, and
dude; that tiou_with very, very few steeptions, the
soma wired ltasmm imam dthe lower
have not been persons of rank, or opulence, or power, t
they have been persona of the very clue sad rank by whom
these arociations, these conspiracies, have been supporti
end they themselves have become the victims of the
power which they created for the destruction of =ken.
say, with deep regret, that the scenes which we have wit-
nessed lumeimpressed upon my mind the melancholy truth
that demoralisation exists to a greater extent end to a much
greater degree than I had anticipated when I opened this
commisaion. It can answer no purpose to go into details—
they can be read by those who wish to be informed upon
the subject in the reports of the trials that have taken place
under this commission ; but I will shortly, and in few words,
say that, however life has in seme places become the subject
of barter and price fixed for it, we have witnessed the attack
upon human life—we have witnessed the preparation for
that attack, the consummation of the outrage, the escape
of the murderer, and the conspiracy—with scarcely an attempt
at secrecy. We have seen a conspiracy to murder plotted
and planned, many persons present, women, children, whale
families privy to it. We have seen the assassin hived and
brought from a distance ; we have seen him and his com-
panions stalk abroad in daylight, in a populous country,
armed, scarcely disguised, and perhaps known to every man
who saw him. We have seen the victim approach to the
place where the assassin lay in ambush—no voice to warn
him—no hand to protect him—the bloody deed itself per-
petrated in the eye of human creatures ; yet, after all that,
the remain has walked off unobserved, undetected—nay,
u if to consummate the foulness and infamy of all this
horrible mans of turpitude, the murderer has been housed,
protected, and preserved for further deeds of destruction. I
scarcely can trust myself with giving you—but I will give
you one ease in the simplest words I can convey it to you.
A man's house was attacked. He prosecieed the assailants
to conviction, and his life being known to be in danger he
was afforded the protection of the police during the night.
The police left his house at eight o'clock =the morning, and
he causually, fortunately, went out, leaving in his house his
wile and daughter, and a child in a putrid fever. Three
amerias walked in the broad day, observed by the whole
world, entered his house—their victim was not there—they
shot the wife—they battered her brains out with a musket—
they threw her on a burning fire. This is bad enough ; but
will you believe that after it occurred they went into the
sick boy's room, raised him from the bed of sickneu in their
arms, put him against the wall, and shot him dead. Gra-
cious heaven ! would that these things were not, or that we
could expunge them from our memory ! Yes, there seems
to be the spirit of demons let loose upon the land. The spirit
of vengeance rages without control and without limit ; and
no wonder, because these crimes are extenuated, and pallia-
ted, and excused—nay more, the saying has gone forth,
"The wild justice of revenge," which has now obtained
credit and currency, as if it were a great moral truth. Now
not to dwell upon the audacious impiety of prompting men
I to arrogate and to exercise that which belongs only to man's
Maker—without stopping to dwell upon the profanation of
the sacred name—the spirit of justice issuing with the idea
of ge--see what that precept means, and is understood
to mean. It means this—that murder is jest—that rapine
is just—that cruelty is just—that crime, every crime is
just—provided only that revenge be the motive, and its
gratification the object. Just think that such a precept
as this should have been issued to our ignorant, tur-
bulent, excitable, fellow-creatures—how do they under-
stand it ? They understand it as it was intended it should
be understood. Every man becomes the judge of his own
wrongs and the avenger of his own wrongs, and truly
the consequences are what have been expected. The inno-
cent falls by the arm of an assassin ; and the assassin,
and the aseasesory, and the conspirators, in their turn, fell
by the arm of the law. Now, gentlemen, why is it that I
have addressed you ? First it is because, although I hope
matters are not AO bed with you, I fear that in many places
they are so ; and, being so, I would impress on your minds,
u preliminary to what lam about to suggest—l would
ask you whether this state of things is not absolutely intole.
Table ?—whether it can be endured ? and I would then ask
you, is there any exertion too great, any sacrifice too great,
any price too high to pay in order to get rid of this dreadful
evil and to subetitute the permanent blessings of tran-
quility and order I know you will answer that no price
h too greet, no sacrifice excessive, provided that import-
ant object can be accomplished. Now, gentlemen, as far
as regards the administration of the eriminal law, and as
far as regards the prevention of crime by the terror which
its punishments inspire, nobody has a stronger degree
arum= and confidence in the administration of the leer
and in thou means than I have. And further, nobody can
doubt the necessity of vindicating the law by the utmost
exertions of his power. The exertion which is now being
made, and which lam happy to say, as far as our experi-
ence goes, has been proved to be attended with encore. But
I am perfectly confident of this—that even if the law by
itself, and the terror of its punishments, were adequate to
the complete superthin of these outrages, you could not
calculate no more than a temporary 061111141011 of them ; and'
the experience of your own country, and this county
in particular, tells you that, no matter how exemplary
may have been the administration of the law, from time
to time, as it a flame but smouldered, crime has broken
out in renewed and increased vigour and violence. There-
fore, in my judgment, the effectual suppression of;
these mischiefs at this moment, and the preven-
tion of these recurrences, require the association and co-
operation of those who are the friends of peace and order.
You re what the power of combination is for evil. Yon
should try what le the power of combination for good. I
would humbly suggest the formation of associations to pre-
serve the peace in parishes or lesser districts, and that to
those aseociatians every man should be admissible who chose
to become a member of them. I enter not into the details
of their operation, the mode by which they may be auxiliary
to the police, and the manner in which they may be
brought to bear on the suppression or prevention of crime;
but of this I am perfectly enured, that there are no mum
immediately within your power, and of those of the friends
of order and pore, that are so immediately capable of being
put in execution, or are so likely to be effective=g
,in execution. I dare say I will be told there are
' and I admit there are difficulties. It may be said *Ma in
some prose, the farmers, and people of that elem, rota
be prevailed on to unite and associate for the
of the peace. At all events, the trial can be maciT,lmranritre
remit of the trial will be this—that it will be known who
an the fronds of place and of order, and who are its
enedies, and who are neutral. And let me tell you that
there Is at this moment a law of peculiar cogency, and cal-
colleted to give peculiar effect to the exertions of the kind
which lam suggesting ; for it should be known that, if the
people of a district will not preserve the peace themselves'
by their own exertions, that it is in the power of the Lord-
Lieutenant to send into such a district any polies force
he thinks proper, and the expense of maintaining that
force must be defrayed by the payers of grand jury ere •
so that, if men will not come forward to preserve the
peace, they must pay to have it preserved, end pay
largely. But there is another matter connected with the
same subject that may now properly be adverted to. It
is perfectly well known in other places, and I dare say it
is the case in this county, that the disturbances of the public
peace acquire a great deal of their influence—and certainly
the means and power of coatinuing their outrages—by the
protection they receive from farmers and people of that
class. Now, let it be known,. that, to give protection
and Ruppert to criminals, is criminal to a high degree.
In the county of Limerick three persons were convicted
of the crime of being accessories after the feet, or, in other
words, harbouring felons, knowing them to be so ; and the
consequence of that conviction has been that one of them,
whose moral turpitude in the transaction exceeded
that of the others, has been transported for life, while the
others have, under the merciful interference of the crown,
been sentenced only to imprisonment for a considerable
period. They submitted to the charge and put in affidavits
in mitigation, end the Attorney-General considered that
they entitled him and warranted the court in mitigating
thew punishment, and they were only sentenced to long
imprisonments. The other, who was tried and convicted„
has been transported for life. Let, therefore, the fate and
name of William Frewen, that transported convict, make,
es
it ought to de, a deep end lasting impression upon
persons of this des. Let It teach them that their duty is
to unite for the support ofjite law, and not to withhold
from the law the persona wrahave violated and made them-
selves' amenable to its punishments ; and I cannot help
thinking that this state of the law, now distinctly ascer-
tained, and the punishments thus publicly recorded, may
have some influence upon the minds of thou who I think
ought to join is the preservation. of peace ; and es they
can no longer continue the Illegal peaches of harbouring
parties amenable to the law, it as high time, I think, for
them to stand span the part of law, order, td &nth=
and their sahty preseribee the ono emu. whir*
duty usher. Gentlemen if the km', what I have deem
out Is thee eboorredels my be soma up k • any

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