The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-17 00:00:00

SHIPPING.

Mane ARll7llD.—DuLlia, 3 ; Waterford, 2; Denagbadea
1 ; French, 1 ; Flanders, 1.
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Wind this day at noon, W.N.W.,
light breeze, and tine clear weather.
Miscarries, Nov. 14.—Arrived : Hercules, Quebec.
OFF MAROATE, Nov. 16.—Chieftain, for Pugwask.
DEAL, Nov. 16.—W. to W.N.W., a.m.; N.N.W.,
Arrived : Arabian, Batavia; Mary Caroline, St. John's;
Loyal Briton, Quebec; Johanne, Amsterdam, and sailed for
Trieste; Merke, Hamburg, and sailed for Rio de Janeiro;
Paul and Marie, Windau, and sailed for Barcelona ; Adelaide,
Stockholm, for New York ; Immacolata, Shields, and sailed
for Naples; Lord Dalhousie, Sunderland, for Calcutta;
Hector, Yarmouth, and sailed for the Mediterranean.
Arrived from the river and sailed : 16th, Indian,
New Zealand ;_ Tam-o'.Sbanter, Sydney ; Abigail,
New Orleans; Toronto, New York • Carolina Amelia,
Trieste; Libra, Oporto; Counter' of Lansdale, Gibraltar.
Sailed, 16th: Curler, Africa; Vere, Jamaica • Alias Wil-
son, New Orleans; Castilian Maid, Azores; Antal,
Trieste ; Egham, Cadiz. The Hope, of Fowey, for London,
with bows on, got on the Goodwin Sands last night, but is
reported to have been got off.
Dustratos, Nov. 14.—The Venus of Portaferry, and the
Margaret, went ashore near Wortbinston, 10th inst.
OFF DUNGENF.BB, Nov. 15.—Arrived: Queen Victoria,
from Hall, for Charleston.
OFF SHOREHAM, Nov. 15—Arrived: Rebecca, from
Shields, for Cadiz.
Cowan, Nov. 16.—W. and W.N.W.—Arrived: Shannon,
Rio Janeiro ; Orestes, Newcastle, for Havannah, leaky ;
Courier, Newcastle, for Leghorn; Isabel, London, for
Bilboa._

OFT PORTLAND, Nov. 16.—Oevalia, for Barcelona.
PwrIELLI, Nov. 15.—The Anne, of Prince Edward's
Inland, which struck on the Whistle Rock yesterday, fell
over on her beam-ends at 6 a.m. this morning, water-logged.
She has since been warped into the harbour, much
Dairruourti, Nov. 16.—The Trusty, Quebec to on,
put in here last night, very leaky, with lose of boats, bul-
warks, and nearly all her sails, and otherwise damaged, hay-
Mg experienced dreadful weather, with heavy seas, which
stove in her stern, and nearly filled the ship with water.
Lvlrtr, Nov. 16.—The Economy, for Hull, from Harwich,
got upon the Long Sand, 13th inst., and filled ; she has mince
been got off and brought in here, much daCoax, Nov. 14.—Lady Kenaaway, for Loudon,
ondon, from
Bombay, was abandoned, 11th inst., about 200 miles west of
Scilly, with 3 feet water in her hold, and loss of rudder ;
' passengers and part of crew taken on board the Meuse, for
Falmouth, and the remainder landed at Cork.
SWANSEA, Nov. 16.—Henry, from Liverpool, ter Cardiff,
ran on the Sherweather this morning, and afterwards broke
up; crew except one, saved.
PORTTALBOT, Nov. 16.—Ann and Sarah, for Bristol, got
ashore on the Bar yesterday morning, and sunk ; but it is
expected she will be got off to-day.
roarsmourn.—Arnved Eweretta, Landon, for Grenada;
Henrietta, Bremen, for New Orleans; Elizabeth, Newcastle,
for Barcelona, with larboard rigging carried away, having
been in contact with a French barque (name unknown) last
night, toff St. Catherine's. Sailed: Emmanuel, Cadiz ; Pack-
field, Lisbon.
FALWOUTH, Nov. 16.—W., thick.—Arrived Angelina,
Ibrail ; Margaretta, Monte Video. Sailed : Cygnet, Mani-
burgh ; Hero, Antwerp.

The mails for British Norio America, Bermuda. and the United
States, will be made up on the evening of the lath November.
I be overland wails kw Gibraliar, AWOL Greece, the lonian Islands,
Brert, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Room and China, tits nouthaniptim,
will -be made up on the morning of the Hith November.
The overland closed male, via Marwillee, to tad Meeliterninesn,
Nrypt, Aden, Ceylon. India, Iles* Bowe, he., will be made up on the
evening of the 24th Nov.
The maibi for Vige, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cala, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the mania" of the 27th November.
The malls for New dnuth Visits, Can Diemen'. Land. and New
Zes..,inri will be made upon the evenng of the 30th November.
The west India Malls, including Bermuda, Marais, Havanna,
lloodursa, New Orleans, Vera Cr., Tampico, end Porto Rico, and
excluding thcee for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagena, Santa Martha,
Panama, West Coast of booth America, and St. .1 non-des
Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 2nd IN comber.
The mails for the Brazils, the Elver rate, Monte Video, t era's.
bowi, Bahia, Nfadedra, and Banos Ayres, will be made up on the
(ironing of the 4th Lev:doer.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, N0V.17.
FEARFUL as is the state of Ireland, and the resus-
citation of murder and vengeance in certain districts,
we must own, this does not surprise us. Such habits,
such a war of castes and interests, are indigenous in
those parts, and evince the breaking forth of an
old malady, not the symptoms of anything strange
or new. Let us consider what has taken place during
the last two years, and see whether the resuscitation
of crime along with distress is not a natural conse-
quence of much that has been done, even with a view
towards the regeneration of the country.
In the first place came the failure of crops, and with
this the inevitable failure of rent on the part of all
the small, and many of the middling, holders. This
has placed these claws completely in the power of
the landlord. Then has come the poor-law, which, with
the experience of the famine and the labour-rate, a- el
the threats of the legislature, has compelled the land-
lord to undertake a complete revolution in the mode
by which the lower classes are to subsist. The later
are to be ousted from small holdings; they are
to be denied con-acre, and thousands ha re
been thus turned out without other refuge than
the poor-house. And yet, in these very districts,
perhaps the poor-law is but in an incipient state of'
execution—guardians recalcitrant, the gentry deter-
mining to manage in some other way than through
the poor. law , the farmer resisting the legal asse, smeut.
Add to this, that in the uncertain state of law, in
the midst of a tenant-tight agitation, landlords refuse
to give any leases at all. heatless and poverty-
stricken, the gentry are equally in dread and mistrust
of their tenants, of their creditors, and of all those go-
vernment authorities, whom they now know but in
the light of tax-gatherers. The country is of coarse
a chaos, and every evil passion and diabolical crime
generate and flourish in such a soil.
There is, in fact, a general panie and mistrust
throughout all classes of Irish society. The disorders
arise more from fear than violence, and measures are
wanting rather to restore confidence than to strike
intimidation. Of course, wherever this hotvid state
of things has come, the government can do nothing
else than what Lord CLARENDON has done—exert all
its power and vigilance to punish and deter the mis-
creants. But we doubt much the advantage of the
legislature taking up the cure of Ireland by the ap-
plication of mere police law. l'arliament must go
deeper.
The sentimentalism of the Tinus upon the subject
of murder in Ireland is not a little amusing.
The journal which, for the last twelvemonth, has
indulged in every variety of vituperation of the Irish
landlord, which has systematically blackened the
character of the gentlemen of Ireland, and has
toiled to hold them up to scorn and contempt,
this very journal, now comes forward to express
its sympathy with the class whom it has been abusing
for a year! We condole with the Irish landlords on
being the objects of the pity of their calumniator.
For ourselves, though we have freely censured the
remissness of many of the Irish proprietors,
we have never joined in the indiscriminate abase
that has been heaped upon them. Even now the Times
cannot express any sympathy with the landlords,
without holding up to odium the whole Irish people.
More than any other organ of the British press, it has
laboured to get up an anti-Irish cry. For one year
the " surpliced ruffians" of the Irish priesthood
was its favourite topic. Then, by way of variety,
"the cormorant Irish landlord" was placed in the pil-
lory. Next, the lazy Irish serf was denounced, and
soon, through all ranks and classes of the Irish people.
Nor hail it been of any use to remonstrate with this
reckless dealer in vituperation. It only laboured in
its vocation. Puffing forth its calumnies with mecha-
nical energy, and unreasoning vehemence, one might
suppose the Times (in the words of a great wit) to
be composed, as well es printed, by a steam-engine.
Bad as the state of Ireland is, and numerous as are
the crimes which disgrace it, we must protest against
this wholesale condemnation of a people. The counties
of Tipperary, Roscommon, and three or four others,
have daring a series of years been notorious for
agrarian crimes and cruel assassinations. It is only
right to add that other parts of Ireland have been
comparatively free from crimes. In no part of that
hapless country was there more misery and destitu-
tion than in the county of Cork, and in some portions
of Kerry, and those counties have preserved their
characters untainted by the murder of a landlord, or
even any attempt upon the life of a landholder. If
the Irish people were the determined assassins
they are depicted, it is scarcely possible but that
murders would have occurred in some of the poorest
and most destitute parts of Ireland. Portions of that
country have, from time immemorial, been fatally con-
spicuous for bloody deeds, but it is false and unjust
to stigmatise the whole Irish people as participating
and sympathising in those enormities. Let such an
opinion be diffused, and no Englishman can blame
the absentee, who flies from the land where life is not
secure. The state of the disturbed districts may
account for the absence of the gentry, but in those
parts of the island, where life and property are secure,
the outrages in distant places must not be allowed as
an excuse for the non-performance of those duties
which residence only can discharge.
The old tory organs in Ireland are already commenc-
ing to cry out for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act. It would seem as if some of the more desperate
landholders actually invited confusion. " The state of
the country" is a sort of cant phrase, used in excuse for
the non-performance of duties annexed to property.
In some cases—that is, in some counties—we are
afraid that the extolls° must be accepted as valid. But
in a great and a preponderating majority of the Irish
counties this "state-of-the-country " excuse is impu-
dent, ridiculous, and must be derided. We know
how prone human nature is to invent pleas for its
vices, and there is no necessity for aiding
the careless and improvident -landholder in
assisting him to manufacture excuses. Where
atrocities like the murders of Messrs. ROE and
Manors are committed, we cannot wonder at the pro-
prietors being scared from the vicinity. But did
Yorkshiremen tremble when " Ssvlste " was in
Kent? or was Liverpool in confusion because Not-
tingham frame-breakers were ready for disturbance ?
Each locality must answer for its own character. A
shire in the north is not to be held answerable for the
incendiarism of a shire in the south. All England is
not to be made responsible for the crimes which from
time to time may exist in certain districts ; and we
hold the same with regard to Ireland.

WHATEVER fate may attend the other branches of
our local sanitary machinery, the present sewerage
'commissions must be looked -upon as doomed.
We lately exhibited the working of the Tower
Hamlets commission, u it appeared on its accounts
from 1831 to 1837. The ten years which have passed
have naturally done much to improve the system.
Expenses, doubtless, have been diminished ; dinners
have, in all probability, become less frequent, and
lobs less flagrant. We never wrote under our pic-
ture of last week " This is the Tower Hamlets com-
mission of 1847." But we maintain that the abuses
which were rampant then are still in existence and
'operation, though
and a vigilant e- "
within hmits
for themselves.
commissions 1,
of their distill,.
one commission
sanitary reforms
of the sewerag
St. Pancras, tha
artery without
commissions
irresponsible
nominated.

ion, though a more intelligent public opinion,
vigilant and accessible press, have kept them
hmite which they would never have rtc ted
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