The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, &rem 13.
Public opinion is beginning to settle on the colo-
nisation scheme, which looks more imposing than
practicaole. With two classes it seems to find parti-
cular favour—the landlords and peasantry. You may
be surprised at the union where the interests are so
diverse ; but there can be little doubt that any scheme
which would give the small farmer or independent
labourer a free passage to the colonies, with the gua-
rantee of the state for the remunerative exercise of his
labour, would be exceedingly popular. The Irish
peasant loves home, but he is romantic and adventu-
rous in his disposition, and would fly anywhere from
the evils which he feels will overtake him in this un-
happy country. The colonising committee, however,
have not the confidence of that class on whose sup-
port the success of the project depends, and whose
hostility is fatal. The Roman Catholic clergy " look
with eyes askew " on the glowing picture of a perfect
society in the depth of the forest, with its curates,
chapels, &c. They do not bite at all, although an
O'Connell be paraded as one of the secretaries. The first
direct attack on the colonisers, including the entire
landlord genus, has been made by the Roman Catho-
lic Bishop of Derry, the Right Rev. Dr. Maguire,
in the Evening Freeman of to-day. He lays the
lash on the landlords without measure or mercy;
and, through the colonisation scheme, inflicts many a
severe wound, charging them with motives the most
selfish and impure. The landlords may be quite as
bad as he represents them, but what are the hundreds
of thousands to do, whose subsistence has been cut
off, and whose labour is not likely to find a market at
home? His grace thinks it good sport that "the
carrion men " should still walk the earth to haunt
their persecutors, or cling to their backs like the old
man to Sinbad ; but the "carrion men" would far
prefer to go where they could put on flesh. The idea
of an income tax which is to go halves with a
property-tax in securing the capitalist, has startled
the mercantile and professional classes. They, too,
are nut favourably disposed to the measure on your
side of the channel. Also, the preponderance of popery
on the confines of the Rocky Mountains has excited
nOMO apprehensions about the permanence of Chris-
tianity itself. So multifarious are the elements of
opposition, which threaten to destroy the project
before it has well seen the Licht.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, APRIL 13.
The revenue customs at Glasgow fur the year end-
ing the Sth inst. amount to 679,3261., being 103,4281.
above the preceding year ; a great increase when the
number of duty repeals is taken into account.
The Edinburgh commissioners of police have agreed
without a division to give access to their books to any
party desirous of bringing out a correct City Direc-
tory. The commissioner who made the motion said
that since he had given notice of it, the compilers of
the Post-office Directory bad in some instances re-
funded their new charges for the insertion of re-
sidences.
file Glasgow Courier of this day disowns a letter
recently inserted in its pages, to the effect that the
editors of Punch had received 211. for a paragraph on
Free Church Sites.