The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-02 00:00:00

►NDAY EVENING. APRIL 2 Ig4 9

THE EXPRESS,

teen we este en advaaee of Si per & Oatmeal sr
((banged in Takao, but is • slow aids. I n Cam irk goo,
derma demand ; 71.25. ad. to 71. as. tor yellowourels. ed.
less for Waite.

Coax, Mar& 30.-We report a Might iseprovemest in the
trade, and the appearance of a hatter eau/deers in the cm.
meniel antes. The falling of in the snivels of foreign
grebe has, we think, imparted'a inner tone to the market,
an that we have even amtilidines that, with deereued im-
posts, we shall have • /en be~intsiness and inhumed
esisse The ammeMplen of ks *b of every descriptioa
at premise, sad is et itself sufficient to superinduce
Mgierninee. Le el bah and in foreign Wheat we
ban Mg lids kMaam, bat Milers are lonic* for higher I
pries* Me& labia We ban little Barley offering. A
tarn Iliednan anthenee to be dew in Indian Corn, but
Wises Mae( demanded as rinses of 2s. 6d. pee ton on
the wads, a slight cheek la weasspenwe has been given to
the trade. India Meal remains as at oar last report.
Limantat, Kant 31.-Our hymen nations busily en.
need in lowing potatoes sad epragerirat a Road deal ,1
of land will be wear those mop. The eappihe of home.
grows produce are mienly nendnal, and anstenently
to report Stereos. Prins remain fins at our (potations. A
large arrival of Indian Cerra during the week; the deemed
is bat languid, the millers dot being iodised to go into
stock, end the retail trade slow and without activity. The
same remark applies to Indian Meal and other Breeden&
Present prices Wheat, rad, 13d. to 14d. ; white, 14d. to 17d.;
Oats, to Bd. Barley, 10d. to Ild. Galata Indian Cent,
71. 10e. per ton ; and Salonica, 71. be. ;yellow Ameri-
can, Ti be. ; white, 71.6. Indian Meal, 71.165. to 81. Ryemeal,
Wholemeal, 12( 10s. Irish Flour, 30s. per beg; American,
27e. per barrel.
WATIII,7OID, Marsh 81.-Our supply of fanners' Wheat
this week kes been again very scanty, and the arrival from
abroad only moderate ; little inelination, however, has been
evinced by gearshift re to add to their Macke, and the amount
of badmen transacted in either foreign or homegrown has
been Vfi ry limited, at a deans, of 3d. to Bd. per barrel on the
currency of Saturday last. In the value of Barley and Oats
no name of any moment has taken place. We have had a
fair trade in Indian Corn, at full prices, but any attempt to
establith an advance on the rates of this day senaight has
immediately checked the demand. Floor has been difficult
to quit, at a farther redaction of 6d,,iser wk. Marled
Wheat, millers', per 20 stone, 21s. del. to 221. • shipping,
19s. to 20s. Od. Bu i lgy, malting, per 16 stone, ts. 6d. to
14s. 9d. ; winding, 11s. to 12e. 6d. Oats, white, per 14
stow, & 6d. to 9s. 6d.. black, Bs. 83. to 9e. Od. Dried and
foreign : Irish Wheat, millers', per 20 at., 245. 03. to 26e. Od. ;
nipping, 21s. Od. to 22e. Od.; Polish Odessa, 24e. to
24e. 6d.; French, red, 245. to 265. Barley, wadies, per 16
some. 12e. to 13s. 6d. Oats, white, per 14 stone, 9s. 6d. to
10..61 ; %lock, 9e. 3d. to 9s. 6d. Pinar, superfine, per seek;
Us. Oil. to 36e. Od ; snow's, 30s. to 31s. ; turds, 26a. so 275. ;
fourths, 20e. to 239. Indian Corn, Danube, per 20 stone,
18e. 3d. to 18e. 9d. ; American, yellow and red, 17e. 6d. to
17a ; Spanish and Portuguese, white, 17e. to 17e. 6d. ;
aniseed for cattle, 10.. to 13e. Indian Corn Meal, per cwt.,
Bs. Od. to Bs, 31 Oatmeal, Ils. to lis. 6d. Bran, per
stone. S.. to 3e. 6d. Imports during this week: Wheat,
3,176 qrs ; Indian Corn. 3,731.

KIRKCALDY, March 31.—At our country markets this
week we have still to report a small quantity of grain offer-
ing by our firemen, which sold readily, at last yr ek's rates.
For foreign Wheat and Barley there is a moderate demand,
the supply et home grain not being sufficient for the local
oonsampUos. Here, to-day, we bad a very small supply of
Wheat, which sold readily at last week's rates. Barley and
Oats were in moderate supply, the former sold slowly, at a
fall le. 'per qr. reducticn, the latter brought readily the
pieta of last market day. Wheat, 40s. to 48s. per qr. Bar-
ley, 20s
01be., . to 26. 61. Oats, 15s. to 20s. Oatmeal, per bag
of 213 265.

HO PB.—Boiovos Id .—Mears. Pattenden and
Smith report that the market continues to Improve kw all doe end
good Hops, which are very scarce; Werke ones mom of slowly.

POTATOES. SOUTHWARK, WATERSIDZ, April
2.—Our market the last week has bren barely supplied, as
the prevailing em'erly winds here 'lnvented any fresh ar-
rivals from the north, which has 'Dahl( d salesmen to clear
up some of the old shipment., at the following gaMatiqrs :
Ynrk Regents, 1201. to 160 s. ; Scotch. 100.. to 1101. ; Cups,
110 e. to 120 s. ; Whites, 70r. to 905. • French Whit*, 90s. to
100 s. ; Belgian, 80s. to 90s. ; Dutch, 90s. to 110 e.

CATTLE, &c. SMITHFIELD, 7100 o'Cioek.
We have again a large supply of very good Brute, sod the
demand is still very small ; in conscquence lower prices are
taken, and many remain unsold. There are a few more
Sheep ; the trade is exceedingly dull, and they cannot all be
s Id ; what are disposed of make left money. Lamb is in
good request, at late rates. Trade is dull for Calves, at a
reduction of about 2d. per Slb From Germany and liolLod,
304 Beasts, 710 Sbevp and (30 Calve.; Node& sad Suffilk,
2,350 Beasts; and 400 from Seodand.
Far dons atlas. a. 4. ad. Pr done at alba a. 4. a 4.
PP gaols. Harofords.. 3 4 3 6 I
to
DPI Dna & Hl:bk. Illa 3 6 3 8
DIP Elborilnana . —.. 3 0 1 4 Bat Long wools 3 8 o
/Woad polity Issilis.. 143 10 Da do. Sham .
Woos 3 8 410' Pop and woad pan* 3 0 3 8
pri ....... .., 3B 4 8 Do. de. Shorn .... .28 3 0
Rea Das. 1 Ilidt-brois 4 0 bop Lands lambs,
_,....._,.......1 8 6
Dimas at market. 3.734: sad um; Wm. 112 ;
lip, 2P.

IiVDDIRSTIILD SPRING FAIR, Much 31.—We have
had a gnat supply of lean Cattle, which may be quoted 10s.
to 20s. per head lower. The supply of good Horses has
been limited, and the demsnd sot brisk. The abundant
supply of poor horses and low breed brought the market
rather low for such Cattle.

NJ/Incisions', March 31.—The supply of Beast we. ex-
ceedingly smell, and the trade was dull at from 9e. to 9.. ed
per score. The number of Sheep, though also short fa sup-
ply, was more than adequate to the demand, at 4. to 41. 6d.
per stove of 81be. There were cnly forty couple of Ewes and
Limbs exhibited for sale, and the supply of Cows and Calves
was also short, with a little doing, and prices about the same
as be 'on.

'would b iog, the most inveterate of our Aeg'o-
Anatrisna cannot be blind to the feet that this can
never prances the pacification of Italy, but that, on
the contrary, It establistes a system of permanent dis-
quiet, of covert conspiracy, in which f reign govern-
ments and parties will be always tempted to inter-
vene, and which would Gil Italy with mints always
charged and ready for explosion.
Tue present is the time, therefore, for England to
give wise counsel—to represent to Austria that by the
restoration of the old Italian despotism they do but
morally ley open Italy to French interference and
influence— to represent to France that by chiming in
with Austrian views they become abhorred in Italy
and contemned at home—andto represent to.the united
Italians that it is only by renderer" conduct and con-
stitutional demands they can make themselves en-
titled to the t'lerance and moral support of those
governments which are founded on the popular
principle.
With regard to Toomey, matters might not be dif-
ficult of adjustment; fur there, amidst the greater
portion of the population, the Grind Doke is beloved;
and though his policy may not bays been either ()con-
sistent or wise, still his restoration would spare the
country the horrors of Austrian intervention, whilst
from a prince so mild and so benign no personal vin-
dictiveness rr political reaction of a bigot or atrocious
kind could be expected. Nothing, indeed, but folly on
both aid s could have separated a prince and a.people,
whose ideas and interests are so little at variance as
thaw of the Tuscans and their Grand Duke.

In Rome, unfortunately, the case is far different
There, a'oordirg to the traditional regime, it is not a
prince that rules, but a corporation—a sacerdotal
corporation or college of priests whirrs sole
principle and idea is the perpetuation and
strengthening of peestly rale, and the confiscation
of all power, principle, and property to the one
idea—sacerdotal dominitiali. There is, we are con-
fident, no one amongst us, who has any adequate con-
ception of the horrors and iniquity of the govern-
ment, which delivers over the lay and industrious
population and their families into the power of the
priesthood. The entire system of the Roman govern-
ment is a net-work of espionage, robbery, corruption,
inquisition, and mord( r. Burg in complete ponies-
eon of the administratio", the police, the courts of
justice (if they deserve the name), of the
confessional, and even of municipal authority,
the Roman priesthood turn all and every influence to
their own personal and ekes aggrandisement. Against'
whomsoever opposes them, or calls in qua ion their
dogmas, there can be nothing more easy than to raise
a prosecution which menaces his property and life. As
judgment is situp given according to orders from
Rome, and never in relation to the justice of the case,
a month suffices foe any man's ruin. All must be ac-
quainted with the law of fiducia by which a dying
man can give his property in trust: to the priest at-
tending his lest moments, the secret words
which the priest declares were uttered by the
dying men being considered his valid testament.
ibis law alone gives the priesthood the power of dia-
-1 inheriting any family, and succeeding to any heritage.
These are small eampl. a of the intolerable tyranny
and corruption of the minty government of Rome.
The population of the Roman states have bat one
desire, which is to escape from the temporal domina-
tion of the Pope, not u Pope, but u head of the
college of cardinals and priests. They have had
abundant proof, that no Pope, however liberal and
well-intentioned, can free either them or himself
from this fearful domination. Pius the NINTH
aid his best. And had he had the power
or will to execute the constitution that he gave,
something might have been done towards Roman
liberation. But it is well known that the constitution
remained a dead letter in the hands of Pius, that he
reformed neither courts,nor administrations,nor muni-
cipalities, and that he left the old sacerdotal func-
tionaries in hill power to nullify the constitution which
struck at their iniquitous privileges and diabolical sys-
tem of tyranny and spoliation.
It is supposed, that the party which insisted on
real reformation, and which showed its discontent of
Pius THE NINTH'S nullity, is merely an ultra-
democratic faction. Nothing can be more untrue.
There is a very large, enlightened, and powerful
body of moderate, educated, and wealthy men in the
Roman public and assembly—men who care not for
a republic, who abhor communism, who desire more
than all things protection to property, and who have
the one strong conviction that no right, no freedom,
and no happiness is possible under the temporal rule
of the priesthcod. If that cannot be procured fur them,
if no guarantee and preteen- n can be found against
that greatest of all curses, men of any wealth or sense
or dignity must quit the Roman stater, whilst thou
forced to remain will bow their heads to the yoke,
eo'ely with Italian determination to avenge them-
selves at the first opportunity. And we should not
be surprised if a Sicilian Irc spore were one day the
result.

We cannot have a stronger proof of the feelings al
the Roman population than their prang again.st
the Pope's decree. Pins fulminated an excomeinni-
cation against those who should vote for derputies to
the Assembly. Almost the entire qn-priiiiion instantly
rose to deposit their votes the urns, thus showing
their contempt of the PnipFs infallibility. That act of
he Romans is Lio decidedly protestant as that of
the Elector of %amiss, when be upheld LtrrnEn.
And wn, now ask, is it not a monstrous pretension
for the rulers of e^untries like France and Spain,
viiis.ll have confiscated church property and thrown
off priestly domination, nay, for the ruler of a country
like Aust. ia, which also ehook off sacerdotal interference
with politics, to combine at the preient day in what
they call a catholic league for the purpose of imposing
the worst and most rapacious and most degrading form
of sacerdotal rule on the unfortunate r.gion of Central
Italy ? If it be disgraceful in even France, Spain, and
Austen, catholic governments and countries, to per-
petrate such an act of tyranny and retrogression, how
infamous and absurd, and how opposed to every prin-
ciple of civil ani religious liberty and enlightenment,
must it be in Englishmen to abet and applaud such
restorations as those of the inquisition and of papal
rale !

SIR ROBERT PEEL has pronounced a second time
against the whig policy of letting Ireland let itself
right. His phlegmatic cm:mimic., has been stirred at
the Economat doctrine of suff, ring the population to
die down to the means of sub-istence. "On the
whole," he is of opinion that it would be wrong, or at
least disreputable, to leave Connaught to its own re-
sources, imprisoned as those resources have long been
and still are by landlord-made law. He is not as yet
prepared indeed to siy how far he would go ; but he
has come to the decided conclusion that we ought not
to stand stock still. He will not undertake any peat
of the responsibility of refusing to government such
temporary help as they say they, expect to gain from
their miserable stap-gap, the Rite in Aid. But he
musters courage to ask aloud what everybody ha. for
some time been asking himself—When you have
accompliehed that—what then?
Lord Joim RUSSELL'S hopes that the potato may
possibly come round once more do not appear to
satisfy Sir ROBERT'S soul. The CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER'Sjaunty talk about im-
possibilities does not go ? or much with the man,
who by experience knows that what is ministerially
impossible is just the thing which popular fai h says
may be, and popular will says must be, done. Every
great change of policy is impossible in a parliamentary
sense, until this faith is awakened and th's will pro-
claimed. No man understands this better than Sir
ROBERT PEEL; and no HMI knows better how to
stimulate the one into vigorous life and to evoke the
irresistible expression of the other. This was the mean-
ing of his farmer remarkable speech on the present state
of Ireland; this is the cbvions drift of his more
recent, and, in some respects, still more remarkable,
one. The whigs may wind up their Westbury or-
gan, and set it a-grinding the old tune of—" I care for
nobody, no not I, for nobody cares for me;" but the
calm and impressive voice of the great statsman will
be listened for, sy, and will be heard by multitudes
throughout the land, whom the hurdy-gurdy rhetoric
of mere mechanical politicians will never reach. A
sense of the shame and folly of permitting such a
region as the west of Ireland to remain year after
year in its present bsrbsrous condition will be thereby
ere long created in spite of the 'keenness of the more
humane, and the levity of the more heartless, of those
who now occupy the seats of power.
In this point of view the effect of such appeals to
' the people, from the selfishness, blindness, and apathy
of parliamentary parties, can hardly be over-esti-
mated. Oa the other band it cannot fail to be ob-
served how wavering is the outline of Sir Ron Ear's
plan, and how mu ellateous, if not heteroge-
neous are its component parts; how vague his pledges

as t matters of principl-, how mystified his fore-
shadow logs of dtta 1. Thew is a little of everything
that nobody objects ti, bat act much very plain of the
kind that is likely to provoke c n rover►y. He would
do something in the way of fisheries—but how he, did
not say. He would like gr?atly to have model estates
d.►tting the country at snitalie inter►als, but who was
to hold oe to manage them with any hope of making
them pay (without which they mast only serve
the uses of agricultural dilettantism) Sr ROBERT
did not deign to explain. Then he would like to see
something attempted towards encouraging the greater
cultivation of flax ; but in what wry even this should
be tried, he did not vouchsafe to expound. All these
and many other coLtr.butive aids to industrial rt sto-
ration must be lift to the discretion of a select com-
mission or plantation court, who, with some of the
functions of equity judges and some of the duties of
gentlemen farmers, were to cross the Shannon
armed with plecary authorisation tn see and
determine al that requited to be done, bw,
marvellous to relate, without apparently any
of the indispensable means whereby all or any
part of the good can be accomplished peaceably.
CaomwaLL's method is no longer possible. What is
PEEL'S P We shall be curious to learn.

Apart from these considerations, however, we must
not refuse our full acknowledgment of the value we
attach to Sir ROBERT'S thorough-going adhesion to
the doctrine we have so long insisted on—the sale of
land for poor-rates over-doe. We are thoroughly per-
suaded that this may with truth be termed the key to
the entire position. This, too„ is a whip impossibility.
Of coarse it is. There are so many things to be con-
sidered, and so many difficulties to be got over. The
fee-simple of a man's estate is, after all, such a sacred
thing; and then the danger of Introducing the prin-
ciple in one kingdom lest it might some day or other
be extended to the other. All landlordism revolts in-
stinctively at the innovation. No doubt it does; but
for all that, the sxoner it makes up its mind to gulp
down the unpalatable dose, the better for itself and
the rest of the community. For there are few things
more certain under the sun than that this salutary
though ill-teliehed draught, it will be forest to drain.
Finally, upon the subject of the insidious sophism
that would, in one form or another, try to eke out an
inadequate policy of public relef by the fatal impolicy
of publics labour, Sir ROBERT laid aside all cir-
cumlocutory caution, and gave the unqualified verdict
of his reprobation spinet labour-rat-0, or labour-'eats
of poverty, in every shape and form. Nothing can
be more timely or more useful than such a sentence
of condemnation, coming from such an authority.
Nothing will tend more to drive men from the delu-
sive shelter of self-sustaining pauperism into the open
field of fearless thought and effort, whereon alone can
be fought and won the great social battle of Ireland's
industrial liberation and redemption.