The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-26 00:00:00

oommircial etabilitandonfidence, that ws have the
greatest reason to thank him. His speech contains
a still more notable and still more pregnant announce-
ment. It rewards, in terms not to be mistaken,
his renunciation of the ill-fated shisnee with Lord
STANLEY, in which, unfortunately for himself and for
his country, the beet years of his political life have
been waited. Previous to the memorable rupture of
regarded 7 party in 1 04, Sir Jamie ChLtimis wat
as one of the most resolute and far-sighted
of those who undertook to carry on the goveromens
on the bails of reform, under the leadership of Lord
Guy. When that haughty head of the aristocratic
I whip withdrew from the cabinet he had formed, none
if its members Immediately followed him. But the
seeds of distrust and dissension had been mown; and
I lei the day when Lords ALTHOEP and HATHEZTON
SINIEISted to recognise the principle that popular de-
sends, whether in Ireland or in England, must be
list is a spirit of concession and not of coercion,
II was evident that a severance of men and of ideas
~.fees begin win the cabinet, and that none could
feel sertain bow long that severance could be con-
gealed. The public' avowal by Lord Joni RUSSELL
of the doctrine of appropriatiog to secular purposes
the surplus temporalities of the Irish church brought
matters to a premature issue. Lord STANLEY and his
fit and faithful associate, the Duke of RICHMOND,
nheaptly declared their determination to resign. Lord
Suva was prevailed upon to follow their example,
and fisalky Sir Jaime GRAHAM was induced to do
likewise. Then cams the interchange of recrimina-
tions and reproaches between the seceders and those
whom they Ind left. Then also cams the soothing
flatteries by exultant toryism of the spirit and self-de-
-1 votion evinced by the seceders. In a few months the
breach had been widened into open boetility. and Sir
Ibises GRAHAM allowed himself to be enrolled es a
I member of the Carlon Club.
Bat experience having
.enabled him to judge fully
et the views and tendencies of both the aristocratic
parties in the state, his final choice between them, at
a memest when both have been equally anxious to
propitiate and win him to their side, is a matter of
Se 001111kil significance and Table. He has en-
joyed the unreserved confidence of both parties. He
bill filled the highest stations short of that
of prime minister, with the amplest acknowledg-
ment of his services from those with whom he
wee associated. In the event of a resumption
of power by the tortes, he might have named his
awn terms in joining them ; and from the whip he
has ver recently received an invitation little less
than public to re-enter their cabinet. Such are thel
circumstances under which Sir JAMES GRAHAM(
makes his election, and in measured bat unwavering
Wm avows it.
' After quoting the intrepid declaration of Lord
STANLEY, on the first night of the session, that he
adhered to protection, and that he would attempt re-
action, Sir 7Anis GRAHAM declared his molution to
be equally fixed, and that its avowal should be equally
frank
The issue had bees fairly joined between the two parties ;
sad the question of tits navigation laws must be considered
ea the banleAloid ea whisk the struggle mast take plies be•
seas remiss sad peeves. Hs was dealing with the poll-
ewer
SW el opestiost, end in his opinion the economical
Mai
parts el the question were light to duet com-
with the political parr. He bad had leisure calmly and
ly to reflect on the changes which be bad tab. n an
husilie share in anteing, and so far from regretting
these cbsiges, he had no hesitation in expressing the cow
victim am the m. and tranquill ty which this country
had eojeled during the year which hulked passed over us,
had been widely owing to thine changes. And Ye wee este-
tied that say attempt to go back from them to protective
duties of import• any attempt to raise by duties the price of
corn and other art Wes of first neesesity, would lead Invitebly
to the most fatal consequences. At all events his part was
taken. His stand was upon this grosuld,—opposittors to re-
action and support of progress, umpired by prudence and
disereike.
These are words not to be forgotten. They seem
like the familiar peal we used to in other &ye.
The ring of the old metal is in them. The unworthy
muffling that for a time dulled the once clear and
summoning tone, has at length fallen away, and the
knell of reaction is soundtd.

MARY ANNE CROSBY lives, or lived before she
was sent to gaol, in the county of Hants, on
the estate of the Earl of NORMANTON, within a
few yards of one of his preserved coppices. Her
husband has been out of employment since last
harvest, and they have tbrea small children. MARY
ANNE CROSBY was buttoo glad to be engaged by one of
Lord NORMANTON'eI under-keepers, who is a bachelor,
to go daily to his house and clean it out, and set it to
, rights for him, and thereby earn a trifle for herself
' and family.
MARY ANNE CROSBY, on Sunday., the 26th day
of January, 1849, had occasion to go into the coppice
that adjoins her hut, for some purpose—no matter
what—and there she saw two traps. She lifted
them, with the intention, as she avers, to carry them
to the house of the under-keeper who employs her.
But another under-keeper of the noble lord had
been in the coppice that Sunday morning before
MARY ANNE CROSBY, and bad also seen the two
traps, and had taken up his stand, like Harry Gill
in WeEnswoarn's ballad, to watch for the delinquent
who placed them there. And, like Harry Gill,
when MARY ANNE CROSBY lifted the traps, he
" started forward with a shout" and seized upon her.
And on the 2nd of February MARY ANNE CROSBY
was carried before a bench of justices, one of whom
hes " reverend " prefixed to his name, at Fording-
bridge; and then and there the under-keeper who
seized her, being " a credible witness," deposed on
oath that on Sunday, in the parish of Ibsley, she did
"unlawfully use two certain engines, to wit, iron-
traps, for the purpose of taking game, contrary to the
[ statute in that case made and provided ;" and MARY
ANNE CROSBY, whose husband has been out of employ-
meet since last harvest, who has three small children
—one at the breast—and whose whole certain in-
keine is the pittance she earns from e under-
loseper--was sentenced to pay a fine of Ithl. 17s. 6d.,
aid 12s. 6d. costa
All that the under-keeper who seized MARY ANNA
CROSBY could tell of his own knowledge was that
be saw her lift the traps. There was no other wit-
'atm Her explanation of her conduct also rests upon
her own unsupported testimony. The justices appear
to have been sensible of the inconclusive nature of the
evident*, for, instead of the statutory maximum pe-
nalty of 61., they only imposed a fine of 11. 17e. 6d.,
with 12e. 6d. costs, and the alternative of a month%
"inaLisenment la the event of non-payment.
T ANNE CROSBY, with her unemployed hus-
band and ber three small children, was unable to pay
21. 10s. out of the allowance she receives from the ba-
chelor under-keeper, whose house she sweeps, and
therefore on Friday ast a commitment was put into
the hands of an officer to carry her to Winchester
gaol, pith the infant at her breast, to undergo a
month's imprisonment, leaving the unemployed hus-
band and the two small children to fare as they may
in the interim. •
" Merry England!" Happy rural districts of Eng-
land, exempt from the contamination of factories and
the callous sway of Manchester mill-owners! What
a lively impression does the simple story of MARY
ANNE CROSBY leave of the idyllic happiness that per-
vades these Arcadian regions!
The husband can find no employment; the wife
east only earn a scanty pittance; on this they, their
What, and two smell children, only do not starve. The
woman is seen lifting two traps in a coppice adjoining
bee house, and acoolintslor her doing se in a natural
manner. She is compelled to appear! before a bench
at magistrates, by a SOMMeate for killing game on a
BrZroaorprinted Clinstates-day," bearing the imprint—
s
: and sQ by—, publisher of the
Imam gf flee Peace, a legal weekly journal, price 6d. ;
•=aloot-free A elerieal amasser acts along
lay magistrates—possibly because an offence
MINNA on Sunday or Christmas day Ms under the
=of the church. And the lay and clerical
deem the mere suspicion of having thus
dead against church and state leniently dealt with
by evading the half-starved pauper and her infant
usom half the county to pine for a month in a of !
• griatocestio moralists who sit as avengers of the
mime of poaching and the prcianatioa of Christmas
day—the sharp speculating London printers who
mats .olwap hems of summonses supply the place of
ohm** vans for their legal weekly journal the
sensties Peace—the starving labourer burdened
with a family and unable to get work—all these
appear to be creature. of differed mould, without one
Sight or sentiment in common, linked by the game-
cede intizetem of which frivolity,
esiloas sect-wall, and • suffering, horribly blended,
ire the distinguishing Wore'.
If there is a spark of manly and generous feel's/
in England, the, story of Matte ANNE CROSBY erni
ring the knell of the game laws, is 'assuredly as the