The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

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interested =e
Da always mod up " wan and
tusseir of gni" Daft that peri°, the year
thajmirnalide of adieststie and spoliator., parties
Mum to ciaggpaso one way or the ether. They
VII then la Irma either "bulls" or " bean" in
psalm, Ilaneee, and other =stem They will
elat a barytone or keep an even tenor. Their
=be will be is extreme some. At ea* time oar
perthriee will be empty, our capital exhausted, and
se:4z* of peace in Europe. At another time
rig will be the contrary. One thing alone
is certain, which is, that it suits these people to
be in extreme. Last year the bugbear was Louts
PHILIPPS. This year the bugbear le the republic.
And however diametrically 'posed both may be,
and however intrinsically pad& both have been, still
lons BULL will be told to pat me the same expen-
sive military oakum in 1849, which Lord JOHN fnr-
bithed up for him in 1848.
We entreat worthy and enlightened Englishmen
not to barn one word of this humbug, whether pre-
sented by Mr. DasmoN in Yorkshire, or by the Times
is Lode The Neilsen the continent do not affect
inure bestimilem kb* to ensure us against being mo-
used wenn pointed at for years to come. Let who
be uppermost abroad, that person will have quite
bi do toteep himself oppernicat without die-
taehfig difficult-bake°, by reaching towards us.
Let December and January Wes net be listened to.
And what we would now especially recommend is,
that JOHN BULL, instead of listening to such stories
and such panics, should sit down at home, and quietly
coast his mosey, see what be has, what he owes, what
he requires for his uses, what he can wive from his
tellies and extravagencies, and then remit to the poorer
sad more harassed members of his large family. In
other words, let JOHN BULL sit down and make him-
self a budget.
He meet begin by allotting some eight and
twenty millions and shelf to pay for the interest of his
debts, and homey indulge in the reflection that he owes
this burden to war, to meddling, and to military ex-
penditure. He must add very nearly three millions
for the psnaoae and other matters paid out of the
Consolidated Fund: and more than twenty-one
millions sterling estimates. Of these, eighteen
millions are for military expenditure. On
looking back to former years the reflecting
personage
.will perceive that the services which
now cost eighteen millions, were thirteen years ago
formed for eleven millions. And his conclusion
ininfallibly will be that seven millions may be saved b
reducing a war budget to a peace one. The milicel-
loneous estimates which in the same period have
started up from two millious to nearly double that
sum will also strike his attention. lie may weigh
the cost with the profit of diplomacy, and the acme-
sity of official expenses. The civil colonial section
will probably strike him as one large divi-
sion of the estimates, which he would transfer
hem hie pocket to these We particularly
interested. If Jolts BULL be in a mood more just
than generous, he can scarcely resist the conviction
that expenditure to the amount of from nine to ten
millions might, without any peril to the state, or any
peril of it' engagements, be reduced.
What a discovery. far Joss ! provided he have
to
courage and equanimity allow himself neither to he
frightened nor laughed cut of it—every effort and
every argument would infaillay be used for that end.
lie would be assailed by banter one day, and by inti-
midation the next; the bugbears of the natioaal bank-
ruptcy and the Fres& iseseion would net fail to
be duly paraded. But massy, to succeed. most be
a stubborn virtue, sad it may be upheld by the eas-
sameness of all the good that it might do.
Let it only be. contemplated steadily, that the
farmers might ha relieved of the malt tax, the con-
sumers and trr.dess of half the tea duty, that the
citizen might it s eased of the aboard window tax,..and
that by the iraposition of no new contribution, no-
thing beyo ad the extension and equalisation of those
that exist, —rhasb, for example, as the probate and
*ray do ty to real property—such a great allevia-
tioa of t,' an burdens on all classes, and at the same
time cool an impulse to trade should be eal, simply
by our having less gene and fewer fighting men
Maid ,eggat reviews—the visioaary n ingoess of
the er nifics being seen' &sacrifice of empty fears, while
the If aid sum of the profit is each that we wonder
• us iversal cry does not arise from one end of the
vow airy to the other to demand, insist, and carry
sa.

Is is the saver-falling mark of aristocratic reform
that Ilesenessokes come too late. Even despotism,
wham thmenghly awakened to a sense of the peril
aliendent upon the perpetuation of wrong, sometimes
Oak gsmisfully and promptly, %visaing fer a seams
gratitude, and stilling foe a time popular die-
But oligarchic power may be truly said
to be Devoe frank, never confiding, never untainted
with mistrust either of Owes it seas to benefit or of
the pried*a of liberality to which it affects to have
ineeme a convert. And thus, by its own
eswerdies and insincerity, is it ever cheated of
that fir reward attendant on good deeds. Bit dot gui
Die dot, reads in its ears like the caned of fools. In
its Mae philosophy nothing is to be yielded until it
seano linger be withheld. A generous or fore-
thoughtful reason for doing right is with it next to no
mesa at all. It persists in waiting for some bad or
obillft excuse to extenuate its aberration in the direc-
tion ofjestice. Popular rights, aooording to its logic,
see woe to be fully or promptly conceded ; but
allislitieg is always to be reserved or held back, lest
dr whirr* devouring ZONAII should return for
seroller redir.
Sixteen year have now elapsed sine the first
grant was made by parliament for the purpose of es-
tablishing primary schools in Ireland for the instruc-
tion of all daises, but man especially the poor, with-
out distinction of religion. It is needle's to recall thel
bitter hostility which the sydem was doomed to en-
counter. To a great extent that enmity has died
away. Churchmen, catholic., and presblterieashave
gradually given in their adhesion to its
and sought to participate in the advantage;T:=
Yet are its fruits small in comparison with
what they ought to have been: and why ? Booms
it was starved from its birth, and stunted in the first
years of its growth, by a niggardly and short-sighted
parimopy t and because, until the minion of 1847. no se-
=whig or tory, had the sorer or
to tell the lioaroleersewoo thotittbritoold
afford 1,000,00 W. per annum for the 'anima of Ire-
land, they must not refuse the teeth part of that sum
for schools. And, in point of fact, it is only now
that the system at
be said to be beginning to
work eficiantly. It is wily henceforward that
it will have a fair trial. Lord STANLRY and
his motley list of successors may have filched
the party praise of founding and fighting for the
NatiOnalßoard of Edacatioa but the merit of having
first placed the means at its disposal of making even
a tolerable attempt to diffuse the blessings of primary
Milanctioe throughout the kingdom, is due to Mr.

In no way inferior in importance, either socially or
politically. is the more advanced instruction of the
youth of the middle clams. ; yet cabinet succeeded
cabinet, and parliament alter parliament were occu-
pied with discolor:ors on the sad and troublous state of
Ireland, without a single effort being made to supply
avant eo plain andinduipensable. In vain attention was
called repemedly to the subject by Mr.Wvsn and others.
Until 1845 no minister found time to bestow a
thought upon so proatlese a subject; nor was there
the slightest indication given of political conscious-
MIN in the matter previous to Sir :min OILAILIVS
proposition in that year for the establishment of pro-
vincial colleges.
But here, as in every other step that has been
taken, a miserable and half-hearted spirit was
suffered to predominate. Instead of frankly and
wisely consulting the wants of
ofpeog:ir and
seeking to disarm the distrust re-
pressatativer, whether lay or clerical, the pro-
ject was launched in a tone of arrogant dictation,
and encumbered with conditions so rffensive to cer-
tain religious prejudices, as to provoke a perfect storm