The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

NEW BILLS.

Lave was ohteitiedViiira7lece7l;e :
By Mr. C. LEIVIS-INi to authorise the 'edgier° of
certain lands, in pursuance of a special wport of the Lido-
sure Commiwioners for Eopland and Wile..

By the SOLICITOR GENERAL—BM to amend an let
to regulate certain offices In the Petty Big in the High Court
of Chancery, the practice of the common law aide of that
evert, and the 'orelntent office of that c tart.
- - - •

By Sir W. CLAY—BiII to amend the law fur the regis.
tration of certain persons commonly known as compound
householders, and to facilitate the exercLe by such persans
of their right to vote in the election of borough members to
serve in parlismc nt.
By Mr. AGLIONBY, on behalf of Mr. HAWES—BiII to
facilitate the execution of conveyances and other instru-
ments by or on behalf of the New Zealand Company in New
Zealand.
JUDGMENTS, Re. (IRELAND.)

On the motion of Mr. BR Gan, the followieg return was
ordered:—Return of every requisition for negative search, in
pursuance of the act 7 and 8 Vic. c. 9, delivered unto or left
with the reglrear of judgments in Ireland, between the lit
day of January, 1848, and the Ist day of January, 1849, show-
ing the date of each such requisition being delivered to the re.
gistrar, the date of the certificate given in pursuance of each
such requisition, the number of days which elapsed between
the delivery of each such requisition to the registrar of juda-
ments, and the giving of the certificate to the person making
each such requisition. and the stamo duty paid on each such
negative search. Return of ev. ry requisition for search and
negative certificate, in pursuance of the act 2 & 3 Will. IV.,
e. 87, delivered unto or lett with the registrar or any of the
assistant registrars of the office fer registering deeds, convey-
ances, and wills in Ireland, between the Ist day of January,
1848, ar.d the lit day of January, 1849, showing the date of
each such et quisition being delivered in the registry-office, the
data of the certificate of search given in pursuance of each
such requisition, the number of days which elapsed between
the delivery of each suck requisition to the registrar or as-
sistant reestrar, and the giving of the certificate to the per-
son making each such requisition, the fees charged in the
registry-office on each such negative search, and the stamp
duty paid thereon.
The House adjourned at half-put 1.

" STATE OF THE NATION."

PAIRS ON MR. DISRAELI'S MOTION.

Afl
AgHanby, 11. A.
Amon. Col.
Booked, W.
Corbin", M.
Clements, C.
Dunoembe, T.B.
Duke, Ni J.
Elliot E.
Fox, it. M.
Fordyce, A.
Drone, 0. D.
Herbert, Hon. S.
lioleard, P. H.
Jackson, W.
Mangles, B. D.
Matheson, J.
Maitland. T.
Milton, Lord
Mulgrave, Fort
O'Brien, T.
Vendor'''. E. W.
Ricardo, 0.
Tbickneo-e, It. A.
Waren, M.

Fos.
Cotton, lion. W.
Wynn, sir W.
Dick, Quintln
Mamma, T. P.
Cale, lion. H.
Need, J
Ilouldsw, T.
Brooke, Sir A.
Prime, R.
Bonbury, W. M.
M.iswell. lion J.
Baring, Iton. Y.
Stanley, E.
14,ephention, R.
Portal, M.
Bruce, Cumming
toz,
sSir J.
Duneombe, Hon. 0.
Baldwin, C. B.
B(e, W.
Trevor, Hon. 0.
Lowther, U.
Gwyn, H.

Gilt eirstreni.

OUTGOING MAILS.

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will be nude up on the 17th ofJuly.
The West Laths Amy ezoluding Rwanda. Berms, Nam%
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te made ap oa the 17th or July.
The ails foe Gibraltar, Naos, Grose, the bliss Lim*
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morning of the 20th of July.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 10.

ALTHOUGH we entertain the most serious and de-
(tided objection to any imitation at the present day of
JAMES the SECOND'S plantation of Ulster, we can
have none to the terms of the motion made in the
Court of Common Council on Thursday last. This
motion was to consider the propriety of purchasing
Irish estates and waste lands, to cultivate and in-
prove the same, :so as to benefit Ireland and employ
its people, and at the same time secure to the cot-
poration a return of the capital invested, with interest,
and so on.
There is in this nothing but what is most praise.
worthy and wise. Any association that will apply
its capital to the purchase, and thin to ths draining.
fencing, and improving of land, to its division into
farms, the erection of homesteads thereon, and finally
to the sale of these to natives of 'he country, who as
landlords and tenants will pe form landlords' and
tenants duties —such an application of British capital
must cer ainly be conducive, as the Lord-
Lieutenant promises, to the prosperity and well-being
of the cnaqtry.
This, however, is very different from a revival of
JAMES the SECOND'S scheme, which, by giving the
City of London a permanent footing in the west or in
the north of Ireland, would terrify, it is slid, the
French or Americans from ever looking in at that
back door of the empire. If a Loudon c rporation is
not merely to purchase Irish lands for improvement
aad for re-vending, but is to settle down and con-

stitute itself the permanent landlord, u is the case in
the north—if the English corporation is to rep'ace
the lord of the soil, such a landlord, b log per-
force, and by nature an eternal absent e, al u•.tieg
up land in mortmain, aid tendering it, like
church property, unclaimable : —then, we do say, that
sot's a system would be most untair to
the Irish people, would excite both in its
commencement and progress their most determined
opposition, would produce the failure of any
such financial scheme, and instead of strength-
ening and uniting Ireland against insidious firs,
would, on the contrary, eatab'ish a point of dissension
and weakness, to excite native disorder and tempt
foreign interference.
Hitherto, no doubt, the duty of a landlord has
been but an admirers of privilege and pastime. A
bruised condescending visit once in three years,
I !Its= acts of generosity mingled with coer-
cion, petitions to government to do what it
cannot do, and dire complaints when government
does what it must do, these duties of landlordism
might certainly be well pf eormed, or replaced by a
idistant corporation. But the times are past when
such performance of dufee sufficed. The facetious of
landlord become the most difficult, delicate, and one-
rous. And any attempt to pereorm these func-
tions and duties by contract is preposternurn An
absentee landlord is bad enough. Bat still
there is such a thing as personal devotion, as
attachment to a family, but a corporation cannot com-
mand them. And any such fureign lady permanently
thawing rent from a country is not of those thirgs
that are t lerable and pose bee mach longer. We have
such things, no doubt, and on a largo scale, both in
the East and in the West Indies. We have the
Hudson's Bay Company. The universal result of
these has been to enrich officials and stockholders—
even that not always—bat also the oppression, impo-
vtrishment, and extirpation of the native races.
Ireland is no county to play such experiments
with. And any politician who regards acd would
deal with Ireland by applying to it the old cauteries
and nostrums would find that the land would
no longer bear the application of the traditional
blisters. One of our c mtemporaries com-
pares Sir ROBERT Pact's Lew plantation
scheme to the erection of a cathedral—a just einele,
for we know nothing more likely to set the Irish by
the ears than to erect a cathedral for them. We
warn the corporation of London sot to follow that
counsel, or to be guided by precedent in their deal-
ings with Ireland. We entreat London not "to go
to plant Connaught in the 19rh century, merely as
they planted Ulster in the lith ;" and to add, u the
Times does, that "the interval is nothing."
We beg to say, that the interval is immense. The
Irish in the nineteenth century have id• a•, liberties,
powers, susceptibilities, all which you must consult
and conciliate. London, in the seventeenth century, sent
over English landlords, protestant labourers, who had
wastes to settle on, wag, a which the mere Irish no
longer disputed. But Connaught has a population
which you cannot get rid of, which must be employed
both as tenants and as farmers, and who will not suf-
fer themselves to be expatriated.
No doubt the m st natural and only mode of re-
claiming remote portions of land is to allow and facili,
tate the circulation of capital from the centre to
them. But, as a general rule, whoever would make
money fructify on land, must conduct the operation
himself. The management of land and of the labour-
er; upon it, is a complicated process of economy and
philanthropy that requires the personal conduct of a
resident landlord. Joint-stock schemes and exploitation
by ledger and by circular, will fail there, or will Inver
do halt what a man can do with his own. Moreover,
there are lands, waste lands, left waste as much from
poverty of soil and incong.miality of position and
clime, as from want of capital. On these land', and
the greater tart of the Connaught lands aimed at by
the London corporation are of the kind, the constant
and minute labour and attention of an occupier in-
terested in the soil as proprietor or long leaseholder,
would do more than capital for Hsieh laud. The
power of reclaiming lies as much in the
tenure as in the outlay. This is no region
for a wealthy corporation to come and squat
in the One of a lord of the evil, wringing by its
agerts its five shillings and its ten shillings an acre.
Small profits would not be worth its care ; and large
ones are not to be expected.
Let ns ba pardoned, therefore, for hinting that the
joint-stock or corporate mode of employing capital,
however apt for a great many purposes, are lees apt
for the cultivation and management of land than
for any other source of profit. Such associa-
tions a-e bad landlords in any country, in a
country like Ireland, they are unpopular ones. But
if the aim of the London corporation be a temporary,
not • permanent investment—if. their purpose be
merely to purchase large tracts cf land, to drain, to
open roads through them, to divide, and direct the
first works of enclosure, in order afterwards t s get r:d
of the lind in its improved stats—th, n inde ed, but
then only, eo we think the scheme likely to be p-ufit-
ab'e, possible, or philaattropie.

Ir any man could have doubted what the main
object of the o.d Bailey prosecution of Price:
GRANATELLI was, the voeirsrations of the absolutist
print. over the verdict of acquittal would have die
tinted it. The prosecution wee one of Kng liomua's
line devices—one of his curningest tricks—to annoy
Lori PALMERSTON. Herein it was malicious—cha-
racteristically malicious. But, as that complied ef
royal cowardice, duplicity, and blood thirstyness also
hoped thereby to consign one of the most illustrious of
his subjects to a dungeoe, the prosemtion was vin-
dictive and revengeful as well as malicious. And
therein it was King BOMBA all over.
Lord PALMERSTON direr! to wish for the rest:ra-
tion of Sicilian freedom ; he dared to have intercourse
with a Sicilian government appointed and obeyed by
the Sicilian natieu ; he direr' to arrest the atrocities
of the Neapolitan government and army in Sicily; he
dart d to re:eive the representations of the
Sicilian government in Downing-street ; he
dared to show them honour and respect
in Carlton Gardens ; he refused to give
King BOMBS the aid cf the British police in hunting
after alleged breaches of a statute which the wheat
of modern English statesmen and the moat profound
of modern English jurisconsalts have denounced ; and
he would not enable that illustrious monarch to
murder his subjects as his predecessor permitted MET-
TERNICH to murder the Btu:dials: and for these great
and manifold offences no means of annoyance have
been left unresorted to. The " excellent ABERDEEN"
has been crammed with all sorts of tales to annoy him
in the House of Lords ; the Times has been glutted
with all manner of lies to annoy him in print ; and
even poor Mr. BANKES has been made use of to
anroy him in the House of Commons. But the last
and greatest engine of annoyance—that which was
to consign Lord PALMERSTON to everlasting disgrace
—that which was to cover his policy with the
adverts verdict of a B itish jury—was the bill
of indictment against Prince GRANATELLI. Oh!
it was a notable scheme : encoureged, fostered, pro-
moted by peers and papers, commoners and diploma-
(stir : aided and abetted by all the runners of the old
tory rump; smiled on and favoured even by the LIN-
COLTS. the SMYTHE% the GODLETS, and the HAT-
wAnns of pseudo Tiber tlity. PriIIeebRANATELLI in
Newgate ! That would V ave been "a dainty dish to set
before the King." What a triumph over Lord PAL-
Merinos! " There, there," pointing at the walls,
" there is the victim of }'our policy," would have
been the cry from Argyle-house to Printing-house-
square. "There, in Near-gate, ia the result of your
interference." _

Happily, for the honour of this country, the con-
spirators have been defeated. Their indictment,
their quibbles, their false testimony, their money, at d
their malice have failed. Their attempt to annoy
Lird PALMERSTON has recliled on themselves. And,
by the verdict of a British jury, after a solemn trial
of thrtm days, King BOMB k, his congenial representa-
tive, sod their allies, stand dishonoured and disgraced.
Only think Of a monarch—who, not content with a
'tint* cisyb' blood-letting in hia continental capitol,
with half destroying his Sicilian capitol, with wholly
destroying the bberees of that island— in the hour of
his triumph, on the mornicg after victory, when
his AsbjEce are at his mercy, when he can gratify to
hie heart's content all his brutal and vicdictive
passions at home, when he is again despotic master of
his ill-ruled state,—think, we say, of a monarch who
at such a time could not terrain from indulging in an
Old Bailey proiseantian alainst hie exiled and de-
feated. subjeAsl Think, too, what mast be the
prospects of hie people who are in his power, wht n
en& is his conduct to those who are happily out of
his reach. Yet this is the sovereign whom the. T men,

delights to honour; whose praises are recorded in the
columns of the Morning Chronicle. Shades of PERRY
and of WALTER, look down and forgive your dege
iterate sore. The spirit cf the ( ourier in its worst
days has found a refuge and an ab ding place in the
very journals that were once its m sst resolute and its
ablest opponents.
Worthy ef the royal prosecutor were his witnesses.
A venal andadiscreditable Britishofficer, who, willing
to sell his sword to any cause, was even more willing
to betray for mom y tho cause to which he had sold
his dishonoured weapon ; and an Italian sailor ready
to swear any thing or nothing for a pot de tie ;
such was the evidence a diplomatist—himself a
soldier, who bad the honour, in former times, to serve
in the British army—condescended to rake up, and to
pay for! We hope he likes his "most filthy bargain!"
Prince GRANATELLI soon found out what sort of a fel-
low E ,sign AUBREY was, and having made the dis-
covery, he properly shrank from all intercourse with
him; whereupon off 'posted that gallant soldier to the
Neapolitan embassy, and there vended the informa-
tion he had obtained under the guise of honour
and integrity. " For a wrefched bribe of 300/.," to
use Sir FITZROY KELLY'S words, "he sacrificed his
fame as a man and a Brifsh soldier." The other fel-
low was a cheaper lot ; be was found in poverty, and
doubt'ess a few dollars, were his pric'.
These, then, are the facts : a r ,yal prosecution,
snworted by treachery, paid for by bribery!
Worthy —most worthy—we repeat, of King BOMBA.
Strange notions, however, must his adviek rs have had,
when they imagined that an English jury would
credit such evidence. And peremptory, most pe-
remptory, must have been their vindictive instruc-
tions when their counsel ventured into court with
' such a tale as AUBREY'S in their briefs.
Thank heaven that in this subornation of testi-
mony King BOMBA failed; and the feelings of those
who &betel him in his dirty attempt, be they am-
bassador, peer, commoner, lawyer, or journalist, are
certainly not to b 2 envied. Lord PALMERSTON might
have stopped the prowcutim at once by (greeting the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL to enter a nulle prosequi. lie
acted rightly in letting it take its course; and in the
. righteous verdict of the jury he will find his best
satisfaction, and King BOMBA and company their
, condign disgrace.

" Le vrai Amphitryon eat rAmphitryon ou I'on
dine." The great thorsl truth first announced by
MOLIERS was never more happily illustrated than at
the Mansion-hone on Saturday last. Mr. CHARLES
DICKENS, in the bland moment of repletion, desig-
nated turtle and ice punch r a graceful recognition of
the claims of literature," and vowed that no " more
gratifying compliment" could be paid to men of
letters than "such 4 tribute from the chit f magistrate
of the City of London." Sven "oar own reporter"
caught the enthusiasm of the hour, and hes lauded
the feast and its founder in a stain of glowing elo-
quence we a' ould in rain attempt to emulate. " Our
owo" is decidedly of Opinion that the meeting of
" the creative mind of the country," to consume dain-
ties in the Egyptian-halLowas even more intereating
than the " festive unions which have made the citi-

zene of Ludgate and Chespeide as familiar with the
embroidered liveries and the emblsz used chariots of
the nobility as the shopkeepers of St. Jamee's-street."
It is an awkward confession, yet truth compels us
to make it, that the exuberant :hospitality of the Man-
sion-house appears to have somewhat interfered with
the wonted accuracy of " our own." Between the
' influence of the " loving cup" and of the intellectual
excitement, the voices and figures of the speakers
appear to have been blended in his apprehension into
one delicious unity of person. At least this is tho
only theory that enables us to explain his omission to
report the distinguished speaker who claimed the
sits ration of the dinner party immediately after the
Bishop of LONDON. The men and their voices, like
the lights, were by that time dancing before his eyes
and murmuring fitfully in his ears, to that he end..
not well distinguish ono from the other. We hasten
to supp'y the omission.
Altet the LORD MAYOR had retorted thanks for
the bishop's compliments, Mr. Punch begged leave to
say a few words. We mean the real bona' fide Mr.
Punch, and none of the ingenious gentlemen who
°omits' ally contribute to his miscellany ; several of
whom, however, were present, and appealed to enjoy
themselves vastly.
fife. Punch cimmeated with a felicitous allusion

to the Bishop of Loxl:toN's touching reminiscences of
the time when, as sua humble chaplain, he Lad said
grace in that hall. Mr. Punch observed that the
graceful and characteristic humility of the venerable
prelate ought to be emulated by lay eclebr:ties. This
was the reason why he reverted to a period in his
own career, when he too had been wont to come in
contact with the civic dignitaries, almo-t es little on a
footing of equality as their chaplain. When their
beadles used to interfere with his peripatetic attempts
to amuse the public at street corners and crossings, lie
as little hoped to sit me day at that b:ard in the ohs-
meter of a guest who reflected honour and lustre upon
it by his presence, as did his right reverend friend
when discharging the functions of chaplain. In the
elevation which Wallin his own peculiar walk) both
of them owed to the exertion of their own abilities,
ingenious youth, struggling against difficulties, might
read a lesson of hope and perseverance.
Mr. Punch proceeded to compliment the Amphi-
tryon of the evening on the del:cate tact w;th which
he had regulated individual claims to literary, scien-
tific, and artistic praeedence. The distinguished offi-
cial whose proud lot it was to preside over a corpora-
tion cf corporations, knew well that corporate dignity
was all in all. Hba'noble and leatned friend, the

president of the Royal Society (here Mr. Punch
bowed grace fully to the Earl of Rosso) knew from
experience that all the separate talents of the gentle-
men over whom he presided were possessed by him-
self in fuller measure in virtue of his occupvine the '
presidential chair, jest as all the tributes paid to the
wit which adorned his (Mr. Punch's) pages were gi-
timately due not to the individuals who con-
tribal ed, but to him who published them.
With a just ROW of official dignity, their
hospitable entertainer had prtferred the claims of the
author of " Don Carlos,"• who might indeed be called
the lord mayor of the empire, to be considered the
representative of English dramatic genius to those of
mere private individuals like TALFOURD, KNOWLES,
or RULWER. The mime discriminating spirit had
induced him to couple with architecture, not the
name of BARRY, who was well ecough in bis way,
but the architect of the corporation, the immortal
TITE. '1 he same instinctive appreciation of corporate
dignity had doubtless prompted the selection of
the gentleman who returned thanks for the Royal
Academy. Erre, it was true, whom some called
the MICHAEL ANGELO of colour, and MCLREADT, the
delicate luxury of whose tints was unsurpassed, were
present among them; but of course the pas was due
to their " Keeper," just as it would have been to Mr.
WOMBWELL, had he and his travelling companions
been partakers of the feast.
Mr. Punch went on to express his admiration of
the skill with which the gues's had been grouped and
catalogued. The list, which doubtless the public
would pause with delight on Monday morning, was
as systematically arranged as the carte which he held
in his hsnd,or the eatelogu- in posse of the British Mu
swum library (he reMe. Phnch cc>dded with affectionate
familiarity to Mr. Emma), which their great grand-
children might hope to prod by. The frivolous aed
illiterate m'trht preposterously look with wire in-
terest to a Hensereembr a liftelteDaY, or a ROGERS,
than to some other literary and scientific gentlemen
whose names it would be invidious to mention • but
transcendental philosophers like himself and his iiiend
Sir JAMES, knew that proper' classification was
the great end and aim .of 'Hulce. It was
not the thing called geaitis-that dis'inguished'a man,
but his being a member of the Royal Siic'ely, or the
corporation of London, or the bench of bishops., or the
body of contributors to Punch.
The orator, who was evidently delighted•with his
own eloquence, and, to nee a familiar prisedbial ei-
pression, "as pleased as Punch," would have c ei-
tinued his remarks, but by' this tima the conversa-
timid criticism of the guests began ti bverpoweeven
his piercing toms. His getruree 'and thrice, it May
be remarked, en paskant,.ettikitkgly resemble the
dscription which Sir Ja`sees STEPHEN has giien of
these of the late Mr. WILBERPORGE in his sketch of
the Clapham sect. Everts; this implaieg essecistion bf
ideas could not, however,restriiiathe mgrs. Sir Pre FR
LAURIE whispered his fews tilt the old g man
was making game of the aldermc't and the o meanies ;
some)) 'dy less charitable hinted that he had partaken
too freely of the " loving cup." The ere Mr of " Vanity
Fair 7 muttered ictones by no iiitetes sotto v.,4e that':
the patriarch was hinting truths morOrrietiah fiat-,
teeing. Mr. Punch at Bart sear• dto became aware

of the rising sough of a coming storm, and raising his
.htill voice above the din, concluded by comparing the
LORD MAYOR, matt d with himself at o• e end of the
dais, sad the illustrious prelate who had recently ad-
dressed them at the other, to the Archduke of Au uA,
in the "Talisman; betwtca jester aed sproch-
sprecher.
Stillness and silence succeeded, amid wh'elt 411;-
1 phetrynn was heard to whisper, with a jolly gA,4I-
- laugh, to his next neighbour, that .11%-.
Punch was an impertinent rascal, but that allowance
must be made far the eezentticitits of men of

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

SCHLESWIG, JeLv 4.

Toe only news from the seat of war comes from
Fridericis. The investment of the fortress was com-

pl,rted on the 30th of June, by the erection of two
batteries on the north side of it. By this means the
communication of the besieged with the sea, which.
before was only interrupted for a short time, has been
complatle cut cff; for now the batteries both on tho
south and on the north cm reach every vess:l that
attempts to enter the harbour with their shel!s. The
uninterrup'ed communication with the ata has
h therto enabled the Danes to strengthen garrison,
to relieve the troops from time totime, and to supply
the fortress whir munitions of war. The besieged,
consequently, made the most strenuous exertions to
prevent the completioa of the two batteries
.just
erected, by a heavy and continuous cannonade from
their shipping and the walls of the fort. As son es
they were completed, the bt ie zed made a sorb. , drove
in the weak otyposta of the Schleswig-Holsteir.e-s, and
entered one of the batteries. But before tt.ey could
destroy it our discomfited troops received a reinforce-
ment, charged the Danes with the bayonet, and drove -
them back into the fortress. The Danes wares to
have had 19 killed and wounded (of whom 3 are
officers) in this affair, our less was 7 killed and
wounded.

The provisional assembly sat on the 3rd inst. with
cloud doors; the object of their deliberations was the
proposal to strengthen the army by cow levies. If 1
■m rightly informed, it was resolved to authorise the
government to form a second reserve brigades.

BELGIUM.—BRussEte, JULY 7.—A traveller who
arrived from Paris at &wads this morning affirms
that Ledru Rollin travelled by the same train. He
put up at the Hotel de Swede, which he quitt_cl
an hour after. The report which has gone tho
rounds of the newspapers, and has caused so much
disquietude, that the cholera is raging wi h great
virulence, is:officially contradicted ; not only is there
no appearance of cholera, but the health of the town
was never better than it is at this summit, and there
novcr were so few patients in the hospital.