The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19.

The fatal fruits of Irish landlordism seem to be
more abundant this year than usual. Many a harvest
of misery and crime has been gathered from its upas
boughs, but never before did the poison-fruit ripen
so early or unfailingly as during the present season.
The priedial spirit of violence and menace which
es the southern and midland caunties of Ire-
land, truly lamentable. Exceptions numerous and
signal are everywhere to be found; but the prevalent
feeling is one of mutual distrust between the owners
and the occupiers of the soil, and absolute disregard
of those mutual equities of which written law is
hnt the imperfect memorial. The rule of " every man
for himselt may literally be said to be established,
and, in the general scramble, sauce qui peut to be the
order of the day. Landlords see in the prolific yield
of corn only a larger object of distraint, while the
harassed and despairing tenantry look on it only as
beter means, than have recently been within their
grasp, of escaping from a land of oppression and
disaster.

For what should the tenant who has either youth
or energy, or the self-respect of manhood, or the
instinctive wish to see a way to decent competence
open to his children after him—for what should such
a man linger another day in Ireland ? By bitter ex-
perience he has learned that for him there is I
neither social nor political justice to be had, no matter
what his probity, his thrift, his toil. He has been
rack-rented to the highest point when the price of
agricultural produce was high ; and now he is
called upon to pay three years' arrear after three years
of famine. That which morally it isimpossible to expect,
and physically impossible for him to do, is demanded
of him under threat of distress or eviction. Half
as much could hardly be with common humanity
extorted ; or, even if diffused over a series of future
years (as the repayments by the landlords to the state
have been), it would be an arduous task to set about
overtaking the loss caused by the failure of the last
three harvests. But, called for in the " stand and
deliver " style of Irish landlordism, the debt which is
by no effort or sacrifice payable drives the debtor to
despair.
And despair is a bad moralist. It whispers dark
I and dangerous things into the poor man's ear. It
says, and truly, that in the statute law of
landlora against ten,..nt, there is neither hope of
' justice or pity for him; and then it adds, though
falsely, that in such case he is warran*ed in taking
the law into his own hands. It bids him reap by
night ; it bide him steal his own ; it bids him resist at
all lines& those whom his enemies may send to
wrench it from him; it bids him hide, sell it, and
be gone. Such is th revolting counsel upon which
hundreds and thousands of industrious, bard work-
ing, otherwise peaceable orderly men, are acting
at this moment in Ireland; and sad and shocking
as it may appear, it is still more deplorable to think
that much, if not all this demoralisation and violence,
might have been averted kad timely measures been
adopted by the legislature, and confided to other than
aristocratic hands to administer.

Two striking instances of the proximate causes of
agrarian outrage have been within the last few days
brought under public observation. A large quantity
of hay and corn, the property of a landlord
in the clarity of Down, was destroyed by
fire, and there seems but little doubt th 4 the
occarrence was the result of malicious design.
It is stated in the next sen•ence of the same
journal that records this fact, that certain pro-
ceedings for tenant-eviction had recently been taken
by the owner ; that the land had been held by the de-
faulting tenant at three pound. an acre, while similar
fields on the adjoining estate of Lord LONDONDERRY
are let for twenty-five shillings an acre. Of other
particulars in the case we are not informed ; but we
know how justly loved and trusted the noble mar-
quis is by his tenantry : we know that moderate rent
is but one of the many benefits and immunities they
enjoy ; and without any grievous want of charity we
may sat ly infer from the contrast, afforded by his
neighbour's exaction of a sum so exorbitant, that the
minor features of the comparison would not be out of

keeping.
The second instance we allude to is that of which
many of the lamentable details were riven in our
columns yesterday. A tenant long in possession,
hitherto punctual in his payments of rent, and bear-
ing the character of a respectable man in his neigh-
bourhood, proceeds by night to remove his corn from
the place of danger where it grew to one of safety
some miles distant. No distress had ben levied or
seizure made of the crop ; and no concealment in the
removal could have been intended, inasmuch as the
party who accompanied the tenant in his midnight
foray on his own tram, proceeded by the public road
and thereby of necessity passed a cinstabulary sta-
tion. Yet upon the highway at the dead of night,
their progress was intercepted by a body of police,
with carbines loaded and bayonets fixed, without
either the authority of a magistrate, the possession of
a warrant, or any other sanction than that of general
instructions to thwart removals of corn under any cir•
enmstances which to them might seem visuielou s !
The untortunate tenant in vain remonstrated with the
chief constable on this unauthorised interference ; he
gave his name and residenc', and protested that no
distraint had been levied prior to taking away the
grain. The police persisted in their resolution, and
the result was a deadly conflict, in which they were
driven back to their barracks, with the loss of more
than one of their comrades.

What the effect of such a catastrophe may be, we
shudder to contemplate. Its peculiar incidents will
hardly be distinguished by an exasperated peasantry.
By them it is but too likely to be re-
garded as a triumph wcn over a detested and
distrusted law; and the worst disposed will be
the readiest to take courage in the prosecution of
their dishonest ends. By converting the civil and
military power throughout Ireland into so many
corps of drilled drivers, and sending them on the de-
grading mission of bailiffs, at the bidding of every
tyrannical landlord, to extort his rack-rent and exter-
minate his tenantry, authority itself has become
fatally identified in the eyes of the multitude with a
c nel and sordid cause; and thus in every fraudulent
evasion or violent struggle by which the landlords
are baffled, law and order in the estimation of the
many are looked upon as humbled too.

IT is satisfactory to find that the provincial news-
papers are unanimous upon the subject of the Woods
and Forests. The department finds no defenders. Even
the Times, the champion of all continental, and of
many home, abuses, concurs with us in deprecating
the Woods and Forests' management, and in demand-
ing an alteration of the system under which such
abases have occurred. We are glad to find that, at
least on this important subject, no newspaper rival-
, ries influence our contemporary. We rejoice that be
follows our lead upon it u soon u he thinks he de-
corously can: that, whenever we drop the subject,
he, conscious of its great importance, is prepared
to keep alive to it the attention of the
public. And, we have no doubt that the more the
public attention is excited the more the Times will
feel it necessary to apt ak out. At present the sound
it makes is somewhat faltering and faint. You are
in doubt whether it is "thunder" that you hear or
not. But by the time the storm has fully gathered,
the Times no doubt, according to its ancient habit,
will have prepared for an explosion.
Meanwhile we are quite content that the provincial
press mufolly assists us in directing the artillery of
public opinion against this di'graced and degraded
department. We wish upon the present occasion to
1 inquire what is to be done by government to
smiely the public with reference to thin matter ?

We think it is quite time that minieetild
make up their minds definitely as to what shell be
done with the Woods and Forests. The pobte
ate
by no means fully informed of the iniquities of the
system under which the Crown and the public hay,
been plundered and injured ; but we know quits
enough to make us determine that the system omit
undergo a thorough change. After all that has b'ea
proved it would be a disgrace to the Cabin-.
as
insult to Parliament, and an absolute wrong to the
taxpayers of Great Britain, to let this monstrous
iniquity oontinue one single moment longer thaa
is
necessary. A quarter of a million acre a<
land produce, under Woods and Forests' management,
no more than 30,000!. a year, or something lest than
half-a-crown an acre; whilst the Expe4diture upop
the same property is 35,0001. a year, of which, at
least, 15,0001. goes in salaries, allowetces, and el.
penses. The deficiency is made up by the public,
who instead of deriving, as they ought to do, lewd
hundred thousand pounds per annum front their pm
perty, are absolutely taxed for holding this immense
estate !

If there was nothing else in the case, these testi
alone would be sufficient to justify the public in da.
manding an immediate chew. But when we coma
to look at all the details—when we go into the Ina.
tory of the frauds in Hampshire, of the whole:Ls
plurder of the forest of Salcey, of the plinlirg k,k at
Parkhurst, of the legal job concerning Wychaced,~
when we examine how for years past the otii, e Lae beet
managed, the awful state of its accounts, the j
its patronage, the ignorance that prevails tbrougnnat
it concerning every single thing that the de; mut*
ought to know—when these things, and facts far watm.
are brought to light—made known to Parliament IQ
through Parliament to the Crown, the administer
lion and the public—it surely would be the height et
wickedness if the responsible administrators of the
affairs of the nation did not at once ri solve upata
change, which shall be entire and complete.
There is no evading this by the excuse that teethe
investigation is desirable, or by any of those mum .
vres for delay that are the stock in trade of a wesk
and shuffling administratiou. Committees of the
House of Commons have now been engaged two yews
upon this question. We have two volumin,ne re.
ports, with an equally voluminous appendix. A
third report is iu the press. Whatever fu,theris.
quiry is needful must be less, therefore, fur the pa.
pose of enabling the government to decide
upon their measures, than to throw light upm
the confused state of the official regietem
—upon the facts contained in minutes which see
"missing," and upon figures which ought to apple
in unproduceable accounts, Further inquiry is needed
certainly : the abuses of year. cannot be unravelled
in a day, especially when every official record that
could throw light on them is carefully destroyed,
In Mr. KING KENT's case, the secret of hie wholesale
plunder was preserved for fifteen years. Oaten& tits
cffice not a soul suspected it. The facts only were*
vealed by accident at last. How many more sachems
yet remain to be disclosed, Commissioner MUM;
perhaps, alone can tell. 'there are no records
of the fact& The minute-books of the board en
" missing." We can only get at the truth by pro.
bing long and carefully. As in the MANNING murder
cue, every inch of the ground has to be gone over to
discover traces of the buried secret. And time bas
made those traces indistinct ; baffling, too often, the
most searching and scrutinising of all poesible
ia-
qquiriee. But, fortunately, those inquiries, no necessary
for official purposes, so important to the publicas throw
irg a light on the whole system of arininistra-
tion, are not necessary for the purposes of lepielstion.
The minister has quite enough before him to prove
that a change must be mule, and we urge strongly
that there should be no delay in making it.

If we needed confirmation of what we have here
said, we should find it in the admission made
by Lord CARLISLE to the cammitteA of last
session. His lordship, as Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests, had watched attentively the
proceedings of the Committee, had no doubt
weighed the evidence, had blushed, we verily believe,
for the department over which any man of honour
must feel it a misfortune at present to preside.
When all the other evideLce was dowel, Lord
CARLISLE'S attendance before the Committee wee
obtained. His lordship was then asked " wh.ther he
had any suggestion to make to the Committee with
reference to the future management of the royal
forests" What was his reply?

There are, of Convey, points connected with the best mods
of managing the royal forests in future, which have ream
present to my mind, yet I hardly think that, till I have had
an opportunity of maturely considering the whole of the
evidence that bee been taken by this Committee, I should be
warranted in submitting any distinct ettosevion or recom-
mendation of my own to the Committee. I ahould be anion
to Ulce the whole of the evidence that has been taken isle
the best considerat'on that I can give to it as early as pee.
Bible, and to come as soon as I can to such a view of it as it
may suggest.
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Lord CARLISLE, therefore, does not require further
proofs. He is ready, he says, to deal with the case is
it now stands upon the evidence taken before the two
Committees. He promises to make up his mind "as
early as possible." Seven months will have been
afforded to him before the next meting of pulls-
meat : an interval which we hare no doubt he will
consider ample for the purpose of deciding even on
the largest legislative measures.
Assuming that such measures will he brought for-
, ward, we shall not stop here to consider of what they
may probably consist. The public demand a com-
prehensive measure, and nothing less will satisfy
them. We hope, for their own sakes, that ministers
will be prepared to concede it. Nothing would be
more damaging in every way to a so-called liberal
administration, than that, with these great abuses ex-
posed to public view, they should shrink from their
duty in proposing a complete reform.
This is about the period when ministors having en-
joyed their holiday, are beginning to turn their Wen-
tion to the preparation of public measures fur the
ensuing Parliament. It is on that account that we
take this opprtunity of recurring to the Woods
and Forests question ; and, in order that there may
be no excuse, on the score of forgetfulness or want. of
public interest in the subject, we propose, as occasion
may offer, to jog the memories of Lord JOIN
RUSSELL and Lord CARLISLE until we do absolutely
hear that they have "taken the whole of the evi-
dence into their best consideration, and come to such
a view of it as it may suggest."

THE bloody work at Peeth is not yet finithed.
LADISKT OUST'', lately Minister of Public Works
under Kossunt, and Baron JESZENAK were hanged
on the 10th. Cerisiti was the last representative of an
ancient distinguished family, who fought in the
French war against Napoleon, but who, wounded
severely, retired into private life. He was an
intimate friend of Detx, and one of the most re-
spected leaders in the county of Zala. In March, 1848,
he was by chance at Pesth ; the ministry and Archduke
STEPHEN, knowing him an able, energetic man, Best
him as political agent and commissary to the borders
of the brave, where JELLACHIcH began to concentrate
an army. CSANII discovered, in a short time, that
his old schoolfellow, General OTTINGER, who was the
commander-in-chief of the Hungarian troops in the
same quarter, was in treacherous understanding with
JELLACHICII. OTTINGER did not deny it ; the mleis-
try removed, but did not punish him ; but the Autriss
army and JELLACHIMI conceived a hatred of the, brave
COAST!, who baffled the attempt of JEW-
once to seduce the Hungarian army. CsAttil
followed the Hungarian army as commimarY.
from the Drava to Bukvaij, where the army
of the intruder JELLACHICH was beaten; to
Sthwechat, the battle under the walls of Vienna, and
to Presburg, where OaltOET was named generabir
chief. He provided the army with all necessaries;
he was the chief of the commissariat ; but GiißaY
did not like the Mall who had detected the treachery
of OTTINGER. After the victorious campaign of the
Hungarians, CSANTI remained with KOSSUTH at Dr
brecain, and became a member of his cabinet.
MACEY forced KOSSUTH at Arad to invest him with
the dictatorship,and surrendered immediately, Csauttl.
whose health was always weak, and v,ho suffered
from an old wound, preferred joining Goacev, and
surrendering to the Russians, to flying with Kos-
ACTH to Turkey. But GiiRGEY liked, as it WOO, to
betray all his friends and acquaintances. Cmot
was delivered to the Austrians, and, la
nobody is now in Hungary whom it would
be necessary to cheat into confidence, they
hung him breaute Comorn has capitulated. 1:11°
correspondent of the Times, wlio excuees the flogglog
of Madame MADEESPAGII, is shameless enough to
Calumniate CSANYI even after his death; he AP
that he died a coward!

Tb. rims eartorkdeut brings a very singular
amp Taint pose MADEREPACH. He first
aye, he ambled the Magyars to take the ira-
modiste by surprise." He, however, explains this
tte yin next nutmeg by shoving that she merely
'stabled the Hasty and bete to 'soar. This is
whet the Times tails " taking thaAilatrians by sur-
Baron . T P.AZENAK 11112 a protestant,' district
mdor of the protestant churches and schools in the
grew beyond the Danube, • wealthy magnate, of
Bloderate opinions, happy MI his family lite; Bareness
Jassensii, bora Countess Foaoacs, was one of the
mos-. distioguished ladies of the Hungarian aris-
tocracy. He did not serve cinder the old system,
bat he was, after 1818, Lieutenant of the county
'imam but mingled act much with poLtiosi his
crime stoma to have been that he was a rich man, and
the Austrian treasury wants money. Nobilitas, apes,
oguissi, prairie honoree pro crinsage, et ob virgules,
eertississuas evitiung.