The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-10 00:00:00

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be made up en the se of the 17th Jaa.
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will be made up on the arynalagot taw 17th Jen.
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made ay oh the mordag at the 4th Fob.

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10.
THE period is approaching when the various
schools, which have so long been disputing the ma-
nagement of Ireland must come to some common ac-
cord and determination. It is quite evident that the

two principal schools—that of the political economists,
and that of the sentimentalists—have alike proved
their incapacity to work a remedy for Irish pauperism
either each working alone or both conjointly. Each
has either fallen short of the great object for which it
miaow n tocome forward atall, or else gone
beyond it and m e bad worse by failing. Both have
refused to listen one to the other, or consent to a
compromise, but as power has alternated between
them, each has made use of it, rather to prove the
other inhuman or absurd, than to work the peculiar
good which it promised.
First we had the good old principle promulgated,
that the land should support its poor, a proposition
that, in despite of the poor law, Ireland has contrived
to belie ever ainoe. For even its promulgators stop-
ped short and declared they only meant that the law
should enforce the feeding and care of the infirm poor.
These, however, were already cared for in Irela' d by
satire's poor-law—the charity and kindliness of an
aboriginal people.
The only use of a poor-law in 'Mani was to deal
with its unemployed and able working population.
The rconomists advanced to the very brink o. the ne-
amity. but shrank back on perceiving, somewhat late,
that all the working population remains unemployed
lbw many months, and consequently can put them-
selves en the list of the destitute, with scarcely a
Iblesbood or a mental reservation. The economists,
therefore, raised the cry of " no out-door relief." Yet,
what was indoor reliet to a score or two of the desti-
tate and able, when hundreds, having equal claims,
elamour at the poor-house door? The poor law in
England has a pump and • piston, which are equal
to the carrying off the surplus pauperism from a dis-
trict into its own reservoir, throwing it back
as employment can absorb it. Bat what
pump, piston, or machine could suffice to mitigate or
manage the torrents of Irish pauperism ? A penny
w' hale might as well be employed to drain the bogs
of Ireland as apply the first little poor-law of the eco-
nomists as a remedy for high misery.
The potato rot, however, drove the economists
out of the field. Universal Mid with a labour
test was Wed, bat under oironmstances that
rendered the test null. The latter was aban-
doned, and the sentimentalists were allowed