The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, Nov. 27.

Ifteczazoimw•i.—Tker• was rather • strolls ugarkst
teoday, prim having an upward tandem, with a fair business; bat
some alto pure/too were rather of a JobUud character, betas to
cover Was made hi brokers'

LEEDS, Beg. 27.

Sloci-Exenmeoz.—There has been exceedingly little
ow". ,dhange this slanting. Sellers manikin no &pa&
tke to operate It present peters. Leeds and Ttutak were offered at
81 big ao Notre appeared at MO.: than 4t. lag lancaehiree were
dose at ; and York and North Ifillsnd Prsterenoe at 31 di.

BIRMINGHAM, *IL N.
IllocalticzAwsz.—The altars market was timer Wilay,
and pram
SI. @anima. stwaybet7 sad Birratnitura were class
at Mita. 9d.; 112raoshi 9re Volans at 311 ; and 9441 th lattibtia at
Mani Sa.

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OUTGOING MAILS.
Tho sidle for Britinh North Antrim sad Oho trawl
Statue will be mode up on the sassing of Nov. 30.
The West India Mai., Melodies, Bermuda, Havana,
NOM*. iii•d•flily New Orleans, and Mexico, and excluding
them lar Madeira, fn. Juan-de-Nlearegne, New Groands,
Chili, sad Peru, will be made up as Dee. 2.
The wails ire Madeira, the &selb. sad Bassos Ayres,
will be made up on Dee. 4.
The neat anaill r Lisbon, Spain, and Gibnltar will be
node o 0 on D.w. 7.
The stile via Marseilles, to the Medlterrearau, Egypt,
Ceylon, Jodi*, Hong-Kong, ite., will be suds up on
the maim of Dft. 7.
The wails for Gleralter, Malts, Gmee, the lonian bloods,
Egypt, Coyle°, India, and China, Ma Southampton, will
be made up on the morning of Dee. 20.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Trois is no use object more worth hoping and
struggling for, than the formation of an independent
agricultural class. And perhaps there is no one cha-
racteristic which so completely distinguished Eng-
land in past times from all other countries, than the
existence of this very elms, of which we see scot
glorious trams in the civil wars and since. Within
the last half century, however, the word independence
has disappeared altogether from the agricultural voca.
bolary. Ike labourer is dependent on the farmer for
his bread of tomorrow; the farmer upon the landlord
for his next year's tenure ; the landlord on the minis-
ter for provision and advancement for his younger sous
and relatives. The possessor of land in England is a
kind of governmi nt functionary, giving and taking sup
port ; sometimes malcontent indeed, not obtaining from
bgovernment those • privileges which he deems his due,
ut at the same ume upholding his own principles
of privilege and patronage, by which at least he hopes
to profit in contingency. The only difference between
the protectionist* on one side, the Palk., and
whip on the other, is, that the former reckon pro-
tection amongst the privileges due to the landed lette-
rset in return for its support, which whig and Polite
refuse on the ground of protection being imprudent
and impossible.
On all other questions the three aristocratic parties,
consisting first of the squires and their dependents,
and then of such portions at tae mercantile interests
as have either shared in protection, or been affi-
liated by vanity to the dominant oaste—all these
make common cause agaiest the great party of the
unprivileged community. We call it a great party,
and so it is, in the country, but in parliament
it is vox et pestered to/off, a few able spokes-
men, with a beggarly minority of votes.
Whilst the agricultural population are thus kept in
hereditary dependence, the town population are not
marvelloaaly better off. Of the great man of indus-
trious citizens a few succeed in making a fortune,
which secures their independence. But this requires
fortunate times, qualities, and circumstances. Except
the few who make a lucky hit, the rest have but
frugality to count upon ; and whilst its small levies'
cannot secure a livelihood, the only use that ma be
made ofanch is to risk it in trade or speculation. And
we know how many blanks go to one pima in this lot-
tery of life. The only investment that could secure
the humble economist from want in his ea days is
land, land tilled by himself, a plot of ground, a gar-
den. However undesirable it may be to see thebzuLif
so vegetating, for middle lile it must be a
haven. Were it obtainable, bow many would it keep
from the poor-house. For the most part it is the hope-
lessness of useful investment that pri.oladts and chills
economy; and it is the casting aside of economy and
foresight that in the poor-house and burdens the
land.

We cannot, therefore, but look upon these Freehold
Land Societies, in one of which, that formed for the
metropolis, Mr. COBDEN spoke eo pertinently and
fully the other night, as an element for social as
wells electoral reform. We are not ' to open
the question of peasant proprietor, al h we
think that prudently and rightly there ought
always. to be a certain proportion of the population
belonging to that clam ; and although we think that
the class and description of land, unable to afford
rent, but capable cf cultivation by individual care and
interest, naturally belongs and should be ap-
propriated to this clam. We are strongly
in favour of the existence of this class, and nowise
afraid of the bad results said to flow from it, inas-
much as it is a class not naturally permanent, but
destined always to disappear from land as noon as it
becomes susceptible of rent. This, however, need
not prevent its moving elsewhere, and acting as the
pioneer of cultivation, and effecting by labour and in-
dustry what it is so often desired and proposed to io
with capital.
This, however, is another and a wider question ;
whereas that raised by the Freehold Ina Society
is merely the question of finding a fit investment
for the savings of the labouring population, in hold-
ings, but unaccompanied with either residence or
labour. As a corollary from the extension of the pro-
prietary body, follows the creation of an independent
body of electors, not having electoral or municipal
interests alone, but possessed of that real property
supposed to have more sedative and conservative
effects upon the minds of the possessors. In this
view the scheme has met with the support of several
conservative omens. And emaciation., we know,
have been farmed in several towns, to carry on the new
movement in a cmservative sense. To this we can have
no objection. Increase the prosperity of the country,
link together the two great interests of trade and
agriculture, free both in ever so small a degree from
domination and dictation, and the result cannot be
other than progress and emancipation.
There was no more striking part of Mr. COIDEN'II
speech than that in which be dwelt on the insignifi-
cant number of tenant-farmsic These are but
108,000—this is the number of the middle agricultural
Blass men, who ought to be independent. At least,
they have capital enough to be considered every lead-
iog and indepood ent clan in any other country, although
in England they are treated as the mere parasites
of another class, and are toured hen and there as a
body of no import. The tree rearm el this *that
the farmers, dependent on the landlords. have put
treat in them, instead of uniting their interests and
their numerical weight with that great mercantile
and middle class, to whom they really and intrin-
sically belong. The English &mere have treated
their landlords not only as such, bat as the mono-
pollute of political influence. They would find it
more to their advantage to join the political in-
terests of their class is other walks of hfe, and it is
by establishing the political influence cf *it middle
class that any popular or industrious Interest in Rag-
land can be duly eared for.
One of the most efficient, most legal, most orderly,
yet moat liberal step towards this great achievement
m the establishment of the Freehold Land Associa-
tions, to give Nizin of English right and English zo:

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