The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22.

teem. administration has its defects ; that must
be saute:lL One of the greatest of them is the ob-
stinacy and perversity with which it occasionally
products its disputes and differences ; rod seaway
anything creates so many petty incore-eniences
and
annoyances in this world as the ',ow qualities of
the human mind. (ti this there at present a no-
table instance in the periods of St. Pancras.
The 11l I.EN, the Royal Emile, and the Court,
we all Loam., have on the teth instant by the
Great Northern pathway for Ilabnoral, where only
in all her dominines, it. would seem, her Majesty
can (thanks to the instinctive stinse o(propricty m the
Highland or Celtic mind and mum rs) enjoy that
perfect privacy which even monartlN delight he
But, to get at the Gnat Northern Station, the QUEEN
will have to go through and to go under a world of
snipe staring and cnrieeity ; to say nothing of the
3toyal part; being obliged to stop at Lincoln that its
avaporution may have a good look at their Sovereign
lend her childien; the wive and hubbub of happy.
Ilene:aster, the joy and delight and festivities ell
which will prehubly keep her MAJESTY and family
awake all night ; the sterner and harder loyalty that
will accompunv the party to Hotrod, or the "little
go" of enthusiasm that will be discharged after the
Court at St have n : all of which displays will at
awe testify our hearts. allegiance and our intense
vulgarity towards the de Lee, ' her Crown and I/ig-
nite as the lawyers have it
Aix!, before proceeding to the object we have in
view, jaw let us further remark, how it is generally
underetood that her MIJEWIY, fully appreciating.
responding to, and reciprocating the regard enter-
tained for her person uud family by all her subjects.
and never avoiding or evading on proper occasions
public intercourse with her people, regardless of
claws, has iseverthelow a very strong, a very natu-
ral, and a eery lady-like distaste of that curious,
UMW, end material loyalty which intrudes on, pokes
its HUM, W. and pursues her on private oceneions. It
partly drove the CIi•EEN from Brighton to the shades
of lisborne: it compelled the (eves: to visit and
atudy the Exhibition at hours when fashionable
Ladies bad owareely. finished their beauty sleep; and
it freqmsitly deprives her Meatei v of opportunities
of indulging her good taste by inspecting public
eights, like, as Mr. Vary` would have noted, "any
private lady."
We don't treat and behave to the 'Jerre well
when she is in public; that is the truth. There is a
touch of the City Aldermen about us all on thew oc-
ctuoins, which we should much better without.
hie graindfathere deported themselves after a much
handsomer feshiom to her grandfather; old Farmer
Greene rode and walked and drove about with his
wife and children without any such molestation us
Queen Vivisect% mud her family are subjected to; at
Welcher and at Weymouth he did just us he chose;
he lived in retirtnent at Kew, or more in public at
the Weise', house in town, without any Court
tUlAir to retold his up-rieings and his down-eittings,
his lomaktests or his dinners; that daily record of
royal life. was a device of his lira-boorn, the Regent,
comeul the scandals of Carlton House; and we
verily believe that to it the QUEEN owes more than
ball the vulgoir plague slue suffer: from.
This, however, by the way to our purples. only.
The Cherie:, as we have said, proceeds to Balmoral
by the Grent Northem. Now its Station is in a die-
taut part of London, some quarter of a mile from
Ring's-ecobs, over the Regent s-canal. To get there,
the Court authorities in such matters have, it mime
been eche • g the best mute, and setting the royal
coachman to learn how to turn wifely the corner of a
temporary star . They proposed to convey royalty
along Baker-street into the New-roil, thence to tine
off at Kimee-truss to the terminus. On looking how-
ever, at the condition of the New-road between Ens-
howeputn. and King's-cross, they found it in a state
actually dangenats to travel on ; it had been
at tome distant date, paved with
mood; that a hich new remains of the wood
le Aimed reduced to a pulp. In wet weather
it is a plunge ; iu dry a series of dusty de-
clivities mod twelivitke : ruts and gnome; the Exhi-
bition Water has, in sheet, cut it up into ribbons.
The proper functionary at the Royal Mews teL 011 Ce
talkil the Ultetltioll of the local authorities to its
plight. and requested that it might lw rendered safe
(or his cattle and carriages on Wednesday next. To
this very proper application, these gentlem en. it rip-
pears, replied. that its present state was owing to a
dispute bete een them and the Wood Pavement (*em-
ptily, that they intended to thew it nhnrediatelr, and
that the (Item:` UlOl6l hot 'NUS along that portent of
the New-raid on Wednesday.
If this malty were their reply there is, we mast
may. a great went of courteosy and of u due of
duty son the pee of dome who made it. 'thee have
allowed the maul to get into an indictable condition :
borees are mime hug, paws:tigers are slipping. and
omit:hews are jetting on it all day long ; and when
the royal attendants point out its danger to their
roe mistress they are told the gee es: mad go
thnough benne oof the stunts that lie to the south of
the road. In other words, liVeillhe hic:ll authorities
here greedy negketed their duty her M UEATV must
make her May ms best Rhyme tut Railway Station :
get out and caulk through the mite veldt leer fancily
harall these IVOrlt• seem to
Well, !be dam alter the application and answer,
the Oninibue Proprietor:, wok that only half the mud
shall dowel at once; so that they nusy con-
tinue to for along it. Their request.
he te are inf , shall have consideration. So
that the Busse% arc better treated than the elt- /AA in
St. Pancras; the road is dowel to her Mei se r V. but will
remain open to the Cads" Now no one desires Butt
they shall be worse, treated than rovalts ; but when
all that is required on the part of her • M %.‘ ry is
that she shall have 'cafe raseage along this pert of
the New-road on Wednesday, it is too bad to find
her Ilkley(' to a scurvy route- through streets that
do jail constitute' an arterial thoroughewe of Louden.
Fur what is it to the Qv LLN or her subjects, that
these district authorities have been engaged in a dis-
pute with other people ? Ting did not relieve, them
from the responsibility of keeping this portion of the
New-rood in a proper state. flay have received the
maths of doing so : they have neglected to do it ;1
they set up a quarrel anti a company as an excuse;
and they tell the elvers to go round about ; but
will thiiik of accommotining their Cabs.
This is not a favourable specimen of local admi-
nietratiou. Whether the board that indulges in it
is one of the many petty weenie:elms into which
the paving administration of this great parish is
divided, ae don't know. We trust, however. that it
is; for. in that ease, the curse will be obvious enough.
le 'weever, it be not, if it be the centrist parochial
authority of the parish, all that we can say is, that
we whit them better manners in their intercourse
with Royal Ladies, and must insist on having better
treatment in their section el the New-rood.

Tim so-called aggregate sleeting of Roman Catho-
lies at Dublin, has turned out to be little snore than
an adjourned session of the synod of `Chivies : or more
prop( Dv of its ult m-mont ane sect ion. fur one-third only
of the •Irish Catholic Bishops were present. The
clerical element was first, last, and everything. The
class of the laity which everywhere, and especially
in Ireland, is contented to officiate as chorus on
such occasions, was present in abundance; but the
lormen of note and name were few, and of that few
the majority remained mute.
This is not to be wondered at. Men of auy spirit
and intelligence—men, who, aspiring to be popular
leaders. require to impress the public with a convic-
tion that they have a will and a way of their own—
could not with safety to themselves take part in a
public exhibition, where they must, of necessity,
appear as the mere puppets of the priesthood. The
honourable metober for Mayo was taught, experimen-
tally, the subordinate ear he was expected to play on
the occasion ; the Primate of all Ireland" snubbed
him to some tune. Mr. Moony, forgetting in the fer- '
voar of his oratory the pretence in which he spoke,

indulged in a figure of speech which immediately
brought down a clerical reprimand. " Public opinion
in England," said Mr. Nlootte, speaking of the recep-
tion the iescript of Pio Nieso met with, " became
one universal bull, and out-t,,iundered the thunders of '
the Vatican." It was evikent the fervid speaker was
about to trespass on dangerous ground, so Arch-
bishop CULLEN interred at once to remind him that
" he was wrong i.: he intended to intimate that the
Port: was inisnical to civil liberty ;' that " wherever
the catholic church prevailed there true liberty fol-
lowed;" and that "the Port:, as well as the bishops,
were the ',rue friends of civil and religious liberty."
Mr. Moon's looked unutterable things; he thought
in. Naples, of Lombardy, of Rome itself; but "it
was not for him to bandy opinions with his
Grace," so he swallowed the retort that was
rising to his lips, and went on. Scarcely
however, had half-a-dozen rounded sentences been
trundled over his tongue when he was again pulled
up. This time there was, perhaps, some shadow of
reason for the interruption. " Belgium," said Mr.
Moons, " rose in insurrection, as I fear Ireland would
if she could, and as I fear Ireland will some day if
England's present policy continues." Dr. Cusi.:s
was right to put a stop to such language ; but hav-
ing done so why did he allow Mr. Revsosos, with-
out rebuke, to say, " If pence were subscribed here
to pay the fine of a bishop he believed the money
would be applied to other and more unpleasant pur-
poses." Mr. Moons might have talked as much
treason, or sedition, or incendiarism as he pleased
but for his irreverent' allusion to the Vati-
can. That unlucky phrase had awakened the ire
of the priest and interruption after interruption
followed, until Mr. %anis was obliged to sit down
professing in one breath implicit submission to the I;
archbishop, and re-asserting his obnoxious statement
in the next. And such treatment must every Roman
Catholic gentleman expect who ventures to co-operate
with the priestly leaders of the "Catholic Defence
Association," yet dreams of being allowed to retain
or utter one free and independent opinion.
The gnat, the sole cud and aim of this new
league is to teach and compel the Roman Catholic
laity that they are only to be allowed to see,
think, and speak as the ultra-moutane party among
their priest', order them. The discipline adminis-
tered to Mr. Moons. was in tern,rtni of all refractory
lay orators. The only definite object of the associa-
tion announced to the meeting was the placing of lay
education in the hands of, and subservient to, the
priesthood. The most prominent grievance put forward
wits, " The sums give at to catholic schools are, with one
exception, given only un condition that the system
of the schools ;which are tilled with catholic children
shall be suited to the education of children of every
sect who du not frequent such schools; and we are
left without a catholic university." The aka of their
labours was declared to be—" Our pour are to be
protected from a heartless proselytism—the faith of
the children, the soldier, and sailor is tube preserved
—the state of our workhouses is to be examined—a
catholic: education is to be obtained for our people."
The Roman catholic Archbishop of AIMMiII is bent
1 urea' organising the education of Ireland on the
muds' of that of Rome, and introducing into Ireland I
the hoirs.-Kri oss nobwins of the capital of the States
of the Church.
The priestly organization to this end, which has
been culled the " Catholic Defence Association" is
nothing new. It existed in the time of O'CONNELL
it was the it-Aroma by which he defeated and
put down every man of his tarty who aspired to
independence or a share in the leadership. But
mink O'Coxssis lived, his form of character, or his
judicious representations, kept this priestly element
of his party in the back ground. Since his death
the pude' prdr, of the Irish Roman Catholics are
bent upon appearing to be, as well as being, the
leaders of his party. We, as opposed to priestly
domination of any sect or in any shape, have no
reason to object to this. An organised priestly party
possesses enormous political power, so lung as it is
contented with secretly influencing lay politicians;
but is stripped of more than half its danger when it
comes forward and openly assumes the lead.
Unless the CULLENS and M.llarss are struck
with judicial blindness, they must already have
begun to see that they have made a gross blunder.
The extent to which the lay Roman Catholics:
and the judicious and intelligent members of their
clergy stood aloof front the aggregate meeting is
ominous. Lord GORMANSTON was th.' sole repre-
sentative of the Roman catholic aristocracy of Ire-
land ; Sir Tyros MosTys of the Roman Catholic
aristneracy of England. The Roman catholic aristo-
cracy or the empire staid away from a presentiment
of the treatment which Mr. MOOUE experienced;
and that treatment will drive away the educated
gentry. Already, too, in tlwexuberance of their fiaward
ascendancy, the extreme piny of Irish priesthood
leave cut true of the links which bound them to the
Irish denewraey. Repeal was tacitly abjured, and
solemnly interred at the aggregate meeting. 'the
Catholic I /donee Association" Is ortentatiuusly ha-

perial.
But though we see clearly the unreal and ephe-
menil character of the power of this clerical associa-
timt, we do not deny its power to do mischief during
the brief day of its existence. (hue after another
the factions which since the beginning of the present
century have been rending and torturing Ireland
have grown old and feeble. There is no vitality,
no power left in any of them. But the fatal taste
for such stimulan ts survives in the Irish mind. The Irish
public have contracted un habitual craving for factious
excitement, and they will put up With the shadow of
a faction rather than abstain from indulging it. The
clerical leaders of the "Catholic I terrace Association"
are ready to pander to this unhealthy craving. They
speak fustian about persecution where persecution
there is none. They tithed the attention of the pea-
sant from that industry—from those struggles for
social and political improvement, which alone can
better his condition anti encourage him to seek for
prosperity and happiness in paths where they arc
not to be found. They Batter his prejudices, in
order to make hint the blind tool of their own
aggrandisement. They perpetuate the aimless dis-
content and factious feuds of Ireland.
The intelligence and patriotism of the nation—of
the Roman Catholics 114 well as the Protestants—must
rouse itself for is struggle against this unholy influ-
ence. The contest need neither be arduous nor pro-
longed. but watchfulness and activity are required at
the outset.

COUNT' lON OF LUNACV.-EXTRAORDINART DE-
LUnIONO.—On Tuesday a contraisNion of lunacy was held at
the Star awl Garter Motel, Woreetter, before Mr. Barlow,

as commissioner, and a respectable jury, to inquire into ihe
state of wind of Miss Martha Walker, of Britaunia.square.
Fir C. Hastings, M.D. Mr. Walsh. Mr. Picrpoint, Sir. E.
Cor as also the medical officer and female keeperof the
Droitw ich lunatic asylum, and other witnesses, gave evidence
uta %err conclusive nature. The patient was housekeeper to
the late. Mr. l'itt, of Britannia-square, who at his death, a
few years ago, hit her sufficient property to support her
comfortably. The sudden acquisition of this income, it is
cte.natn, for she soon
seuitibit..4.l4 s7lll4ptthoem.srTfn of
wthe•rrctir:tner
potato of mamage to several gentlerm is sneer...hely; her
principal delusion was that she had strangled or poisoned
Mr. Pitt, that his body had been exhumed tor the purpose
of ascertaining the fact, and that several actions had taken
place in consequence: then she would illuminate her house
I an the square at night, spring a rattle, and keep the neigh-
, bourhood iu a stab, of alarm. Her conduct before the

commwdoner WAS *ultickent to establish her insanity, and
the jury unanimously brought in a verdict that she had
twin of unsound mind biace October last. —ll-vec. st 4 rsh, re
(1/4 Amid. .

NIANCIIESTER AND SALFORD LICENSED VICTC.\L-
Leaa'
A 1.4011. TION.—The annual dinner in aid of the
benevolent fund of this association took place on Wednes-
day, at Manchester. Thomas Agnew. Liu., mayor of Sal-
ford, occupied the chair. After the usual loyal *toasts, the
Mayor gave The 'Manchester and Salford Licensed Vic-
tuallers Association," which was drunk with loud ap-
plausc. Mr. Ridings, the president of the association, in
responding, said the manner in which the toast had
been responded to made him feel honoured in being a
member of this association. A body which paid such
a vast amount of revenue to government as the licensed
victuallers was not to be set down as insignificant. There
were WO Of them in Manchester and Salford who paid in
rent anal taxes not ]cm than 010400/. per annum—viz.,
45,000 E in rent, 6,000/. for assessment, 4,540/. as income
tax, 10,S00/. for licenses, 9,000/. in poor rates, and 13,200/.
in local rater. Anal it was very satisfactory to know that
the association was not only progressing in wealth and in-
rhienre but in respectability also. The mat day was their
licensing slay, and there was not a single complaint against
any of the members. It was afterwards stated that the
benevolent fund at present amounted to 707/. lis., and that
the number of subscribers was 259. A collection was made
during the evening in behalf of the fund. Among the
•übseribers were Messrs. Bass and Co., the eminent
brewers, who made a donation of 10 guineas, anal also
allowed their names to be set down for a subscription of
10 guineas per annum. The Mayor of Salford also gave a
donation, of 3 guineas.