The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

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MAILS
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will be mode op so the morning or the 17th Dsornber.
The West India moll; excluding those to Mexico. Hoodorm, and
the Her semekwill be mode up on the ma:donor the 17th December.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 8.
THERE are a few favoured districts in Ireland
which have long acquired the privilege of having all
their movements, meetings, disturbances, talks, and
agrarian outrages regularly chronicled in the news-
papers, and presented as a fair sample of the entire
country. Excitement is indigenous in these regions,
and seems tolireak out periodically, no matter what the
state of food supply, or of the: lements, or of the
labour market. There is alwayeither starvation, or
riot, or clearings, or Rockism, or repeal meetings, and
what is almost as amusing and anormal, Presentment
Sessions, going on in the district.
Such a state of things, being most stirring and in-
teresting, obtains, of course, most publicity, came-
fluently most attention ; and the current of relief and
notoriety is directed in consequence to the noisiest
district. We greatly fear, that this very notoriety
and its consequences act as a premium on the perma-
nent agitation of the district, and that the premium is
at the present moment acting as an
theminduceent, not
to the poor pemant, but to certain of landlords
themselves to be tarbulent.
When we look to the distribution of the relief fund,
and to the money raised and employed under the 9th
and 10th VICTORIA we fear that these very counties
lave the largest share,: although they are neither the
moat populous, nor, we believe, the most destitute. It
is here that the peasantry are arming, and out.rages
recommencing, whilst the landlords, or no insignifi-
cant portion of them, meet to denounce the Board of
Works.
We do not think that the deeds and movements of
the peasantry in these regions ought to be taken as
examples of the conduct of the whole population;
neither do we think that all landlords are to be
judged from those of Clare, as exemplified in the last
Irish papers. The rising demands of this class' have
indeed been almost incredible. Independent of the
facilities for drainage long since offered, neglected as
' not advantageous enough or as too troublesome but
now discovered to be the most advantageous after all,
there were first the loans offered for public works;
these were denounced as not reproductive, and works
of mingled private and public advantage were sub-
stituted. But on the nature of these, it seems, the
gentlemen of a barony cannot agree. Each gentle-
man is now anxious to borrow
_government money to
on kis own townland, and CORNELIUSO'BRIEN,
P., fills up the climax by declaring that he wants the
money to plough, and sow, and carry on the common
cultivation of his estate. The next demand will be,
that the state should find a joint of roast beef for each
landlord's family, and, moreover, pay a butler to carve
it. We have heard of paternal governments ; but this
is calling on government for the exercise of paternal
functions in a manner calculated to throw ridicule
and absurdity upon any government's interference or

aid.
Mr. Lusoucntle's answer to such demands was
the only conceivable one, and yet we dare say
it will be the object of as much abuse in the
high-pressure octonties of Ireland, as Sir RAN-
nom."( Dorm's economical counsels. Still we do
think that the Irish government might go farther
than the mere warning to the landlords, that the
-public money, could not be devoted exclusively to
schemes of private advantage. Irish proprietors not
having by themselves been able to discover works of a
mingled Oldie sad private nature, and at the same
/tints repretbactivet the Government might point out
mato theca. Mr. Extra V.Bairae, in a letter, of which
we published the principal parts yesterday, unfolds a
plan for the cultivation of waste lands on the same
singedn by the assne means, as those offered by the
Art. Mr. Joint Lavouens, in any able
letter, seconds the denisind by saying,
A for greater facility than ampesen exists must be given,
not only to the tended prop, but also to the tenant, to
improve by draining sad cultivation the great extent of
tram land in Ireland, ia order to increase, as far as possible,
the quantity of food necessary (by the loss of the potato
tropi to supply the wants sof our countrymen.
The first step in the reclaiming of waste lands is,
to a cassiderahls extent, drainage, so that the two
*Weds ore naturally connected. After such a strong
recommendation of the measure as appeared in the
resolutions of the assembled gentry of the county of
Waterford some time back, we do not see how
Government can hesitate to ooasider draining and
aselaiming as in the same
It is. suggested, however, that
a great difficulty
cams in Imam as tothe terms on which the peasantry
are to be employed and located on the waste landt•
Some insist on giving them the fee-simple of the 1
lands at once ; others on making them tenants, and
securing to the landlord the eventual profit of all the
wild land brought under cultivation. 'The project
cannot be achieved without strongly interesting both
dames, and without making landlord and peasant
go-operate in the task. For the government to step
forward and take the Irish peasant by the hand,setting
the landlord aside, and giving him a just cause of
complaint, or just fear of future insecurity, would be
a very dangerous and impolitic step.
The Irish proprietary must indeed be
The ominous foreclosing of mortgages, tame=
geral, is a pressure and a calamity that ought b
lead to it. There ought at the same time tobe ever'
beaky held oat for the formation of yeomen, or smell