The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-17 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1848.

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le S. per mak IS Plow, OL to is. re lead m Oatmeal, and
f.By Id. per her ea Deem. Badsy was akin sa rather
metre tenes. Ors were held at hums rises. SU fie-
limbo are the rises i-Wkset. white,
old, to Ilk i sew, trees. ed. to
27..; ascoma, Min lissish, white. old, 275. ed. to 28s. ;
kWh gel mail wa., are, BM to 265. ; Denteis, old, 28e.
to MI. ; Passiessien, 275. Os 285.; Danish, We. to 375. ;
Warm, soft, Me. Id. to 265. • Canadian 265. to 26.. ed. ;
Baited Mane, Od to 26n. 6d. Stray, par 3201 b.., Ber-
wick sad iderit, old, 235. to 245. • new, 22.. 6d. to
245. ; kith. mew, 225. to Us. ; foreign, Mee Pomeranian,
old, Us. he WM. Od.; Danish, 21s. to 231. Oats, per
2611ba., Irish, Wedged, its.,
old, 17s. to 17s. sa.; O
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to 17. ed. ; limerkk, Me., old, 17. 6d. to 18.. 3d. ; new,
17c 6d. to 18s. 3d. ; ertn, prepared, old, 18.. 6d. ; foreign,
itaselan, old. 17e. to 17e. M. Danish, old, 16e. dd. to 17e.
Beano, foreign, per 4 imperial Mattis, old, 17s. Od. to
17.. ed.; Irish, re 26016 eld,l6e. ed. to 170.; new, lea. 6d. to
17.; Egyptian, per 2801 M., old, 17e. to 18s. Feas,per 280114.,
white, ild, 19e. to 19e. 6d.; gem, 18e. to 18e. &I ; Cana -
Man, old, 18s. 6d. to 19.. Flour per Melba., *English,
surdas, old, 425. to 43e.; Irish' ditto, 40s. to 41s. ; fine,
oM, 39e. to 40s. ; extra &Mos qualitiM, 435. to 445. ; Arm.
tic n, per barrel, sweet, old, Ws. 6d. to 305.; Canadian,
sweet, 29c to 300. ; sour, 28e. 6d. Oatmeal, per 2801b5.,
Wok. mmuson eat, Ms. strs. Indian Cora, per 2.80165.,
20s. ed. to 21s. ed.

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Reath report that then la a Wady demand to all cleaslotloas of
nor both Oar °presoaks sad arratka.
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HIDES.—UADMINALL, NoT. 17.—Mszket hides, 561 b.
to t+d. to W.; aim, ssiss. to nth. 14d. to dstso
71Ib. to Nib, lid.to ; &MIL WM toSillo., 2d. tend.; ditto, SSW
So ph„ Id. to 14d. ;
to IMO. to 104,115., 4d. to 4d.; eon lidos
11. to Is.; toll. Is. ls. id.; horse tides.
;Ss. 14.—issisouts-
QT. Now.l7.—Polled vim% Os. id. to is. id. Kent sod LIAM
Weds. is. M. to So ; doom is. to to Id.

WOOL—BPAIMORD.—Then is a regular business
doing ia Imelda( Weds, bet it is smell • the consumption
bmeg far sheet of what wee brae* mad, Ind the stock in
the home& heads mask larger then lest year at this period,
for set only hes the wealthy using been diminished, but the
expert is emercely worth reeeedleg. • eontimutnce of this
etele of thimeught le teU ea the stock in the bends of the
pewees, whisk asses from this very slowly, sad at pries►
toe high to meet the went' of seaminess. Nails and broke
me set la way way altered since our last, and, es then is so
et isereesed ',applies been brought to market, prices
amiateleed.

CAMB. bri.-Befl79elaLG, Two o' Oak-The
supply of Beasts today is by me sense large, the time of
Monday's
considered; the trade, however, 1$ very heavy, sad
Monday's prises an barely ;taintained. The weather being
favourable, the Anima qualities still make 4e. 3d., but this
is an extreme quotation ; • great many very good make
so more than 4e., and several ..roved-rate remain unsold.
We are but @madly supplied with Sheep; the deneeni,
however, is exceedingly small. We have not observed so
small aatteademe of leavers fora long time pest. Although
then is • disposition to sake lower prism very little basins.
is deem Trade is also very dull for Calves; they make
fully 4d. veer lb. lees boa an Monday last. Pigs an rather
lower. From HoUsad and Germany we have 222 Beasts,
660 Sheep, and 63 Calves ; and about 120 mak& Cows from
the Home Counties.
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Psi gala liiirdarda . 3MI 4 2 P.O law alit:lda la. 0 0 0 0
INWlliseilwiin .- . 3 II 4 0 DM Lass-wools 4 0 4 4
and weals Isaan. 110 14 Do. Ma lawn OO 0 0
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snob mg unsass. go : limp sad WSW 4.490_ blana. to ;
1480.278.
DONCASTWA, NOVIMIIIa Fain.-The show of stock wee
larger than usual, sad sneoaget these were =ay Ise Mb*
The demand was slow, and • great portion remeinel mesa
Prime Is-calms wars most inquhed after' end met sole •
tolerable sale. Heifers wen better to dimes@ of them sesms,
but for either the tale was tot good ; is feet we Meld NI
16s. per heed lower than a month ago. Fat steak were
mane. and realised about der per stone. For Horne the
inquiry was equal to the show.
BDINBOIOII, Nov. 16.-n. supply of Sheep this stamtai
was Isms than last week.. On 'mount of the bad state of the
London market, Bales were very dull, and prices doers b. •
head ; mad even at that reduction a good number were sr
sold. Top price of the beet Mottos, Old. ; current, 401. to
6d. ; inferior, 3d. to Md. per lb.
ALL HALLOW PAID., NOT. 14.-This market was held in
be usual stance, on the farm of Georgie. The numbers that
appeared on the round wen 0,660, being about 6001 w
boa last market- The show of stock was of a very mixed
description. The number of West Highlanders was rather
extensive, amongst which were a very few superior lots. The
show of cattle from Fortershire and Fileshire wen also nu-
merous, ad of a fair quality. Short-Horns were a good
supply, but the Irish stock was considerably more than has
Ines seen at this market for • number of years; they may be
quoted at from GI to 131. 10s. for two-year -olds ; and 31. to
b. for one-year-olds. Shortly after ten a few sales wen
effected in the fat market, also amongst the good kind' of
Short-Horne, sad the West Islanders of a good deacripfioes.
The cattle in good condition from the counties of Forfar
and Amu and that of Fife, were readily picked up.
Small Witt Highland stock, fetching about 61. 10s.,
brought about the same prices as at Falkirk October eearket,
but rather lem than at the market held there in September,
bat about tea per cent higher than at Donee fair. Two-
ymr.old country Besets ranged from 71. to 91. ; and year-olds
Eros 61. to 61. Two-year-old Auguoshires from 71. lb to
M. 10a ; end One-year Ode, from 91. 10s. to 111. Beasts
up to 101. were rather stiff to sell, and the salsa' that were
effected of this deswiptlon were a shade lower than at Fal-
kirk in October. The FM, Angus. and Forfarshire Cattle
of a good kind brae& 'boat the Falkirk Oeleber prices ,•
but the inferior kinds of this description of stock were sold
at a reduction of shoat five per cent. below Falkirk prices.
In short, the balk of good Beasts of all kinds were
plaited up
_by two o'clock. The demand for Id:-
quarter bilk Mon was great ; and it may be said
generally that Irish Cattle of all kinds brought about five
per nat. higher than at last Falkirk market. upon the
whole, the market was considered dull. The show of real
good fat was a short supply, and the quality was allowed to
be inferior to former years. Prices: Inferior, 6s. 6d.;
middling. 75. to 7s. 6d. ,• superior, Be. ; top, b. 3d. per Ditch
stone. Nov. 16.-The holders of stock today were firm, to
•Aeld the prices of yesterday ; sales were emsequently
mff, and a considerable number will remain mead. In the
Hone market in the events' there was • considerable show,
and prima for draught Hones were from 401. to 601. Saddle
Henn, 201. to 301. There were many Lanier animals,
whole rated front 31. to 101.

ilmancit, Nov. 14.—At the fortnightly cattle market
held here to-ilay, the show of Cattle and Sheep was the
maim we have had foe some time, and the stock in
LeTli
of very inferior quality. The p ices for fat were
erstone. Ewes, 441., end Wadden 6d. per lb. Cows
avenge& from 91. 9s to ISL. and a few were bought for
the Edinburgh markets. Pork, 7e. per stone. Upon the
whole, it was a very dull market, and few sold.
XIIISIIIOAR FAlL—This fair WSI WTIr better supplied
with stock. The prima wen fully 20e. a.ltisad under Sal-
largos, and the Cattle were in fine tradition. Stores were
bought at Si. to Si. 15e., which a month sines would have
brought readily 20s. salad more. Sheep were also miry
disap, at least 4s. a.keed Mortice sines Bahamas. A
great number were left unsold.
Fs, yesterday's morkat as last pita.

or slumber, uatil a feteatt unity may arise
ler a more fierce and same awakening.
We entertained, however, the greatest hopes that
the (beets making In Prussia to found a Gonad-
tutloull goverament, would not prove abortive. We
relied upon the numbers, enlightenment, and influence
of the middle clam, and upon the moderation of the
Mug, who certainly evinced an inclination to pat
himself at the bead of the liberal movement, his
sagacity teaching his that in this path alone he mold
reach the great aim of his dynasty's ambition—that
of taking the place of the old imperial house.
We will not deny that the King has found many
obstacles in the way of his liberal intentions. The
extreme party in the Assembly was most sillily im-
practicable, most perversely pedantic. But after all,
their republicanism lay more in words than acts, and
more in metaphysics than in practice. They would
not allow the monarch to style himself so by the
grace of God," but they evinced no purpose of cur-
tailing his constitutional prerogative or confiscating his
authority. And had the King acted the part of the
Archduke Jonre at Frankfurt, trusted his person to
the guard of the citizens, instead of entrenching
himself in a camp at Potsdam, he would have rallied,
like the Archduke Joni, a m-derstely liberal majority
in the Assemble, which would have commanded the
sympathies of the national guard, and aided or super-
seded the military in the putting down of street riot.
The King, however, has been striving to divide bis
reliance between the army and the Assemblyand thus
would never consent to name any minister or ministry
in whom the Assembly had confidence. Had he
taken his ministers from even the right side of the
Assembly, it would I•avo been something. But no
his Majesty would have no ministers but aides-de-
camp and military nonentities, and thus, instead of
rallying a majority of the Assembly to him, he repelled
it, and really created the constitutional difficulties that
he has been obliged to call a force to overcome.
Even whilst placing himself in unconstitutional an-
tagonism to the Assembly, by upholding military
ministers odious to it, the King might have main-
tained hie right of resistance, and have refused to
sanction those objectionable laws which the Assembly
had passed. By thus remaining on the defensive,
the King would have preserved the respect and adhe-
rence of the middle and civic and rationally liberal
classes; and thus supported, he might, like CAVAI-
ONAC, have awaited the provocation and outbursts of
an anarchic mob, and put it down with the anent of
the better part of the nation.
Instead of such temperate and wise conduct, the
Eby of PRUSBIA, who so long had borne and tem-
peeled with his people and his Assembly, takes
whim resolve to crush them, and not from any fresh
provocation on their part, but simply because the
example of military triumph at Vienna had given him
mirage, and indeed him with the itch to imitate
WINDIscHGRArs. At a moment when there existed
neither disorder nor resistance, the King seeks to
meats both by the Domination of a military puppet,
his illegitimate brother, to be minister, who orders
the Assembly to remove to a small town on the other
side of the military garrison at Potsdam. CHARM
TO /MT might as well have summoned his
Louisa parliament to meet him at Oxford or
Notdpiem, or Louis XVI. convoked the Na-
tional Amenably to quit Versailles and establish itself
near the emigre camp of Coblente. But WINDISCH-
ours having ordered the Viennese Dist to go to
the Village of Kremaier, FREDERICK WILLIAM would
rail& the Bohemian Prince.
The consequence of this has been, that the Berlin
Assembly and its ultra-liberal majority, which was
earthing but popular the week before, has at once
lessee the object of universal interest. And not only
Es the mob applaud it. but the roost respectable citizens
side with it. The rifle club, eonsiding chiefly of the
better chases, offer their hall to the ousted Assembly •
and the municipality of Berlin place the town-house
at their disposal . One might have expected that the
lest result of the military occupation of Berlin would
be the disarming of the workmen. Not so. The
first anxiety of the Prussian government is to disarm
the citizens and the shopkeepers, and to dissolve the
burgher guard. It is the old story of POLIONAC and
GIVIZOT, of CHARLES X. and LOUIS PHILIPPE. They
will make no difference between the industrious
chitin and the homeless mob. They will
put down both without distinction. The re-
sult is, they unite both against them; and
instead of troops and citizens in uniform of the
national guard marching with the same step to put
down riots, cannon and bayonet are employed to
silence citizen murmurs and love of freedom, as well
as socialist riots and love of mischief. In such a
struggle as this, so fatuitoualy provoked and so inso-
lently commenced, kings, courtiers, and armies will
succumb in
i Germany as they did in France. For
even thdlr successes n the first instance, in one or
two points, in which the military can be concentrated,
will prove but the signal of civil war throughout the
rest of the empire.
Already Silesia is in flames and insurrection. East
Preemie will be sere to follow the example. Fear
of their large garrisons alone keeps down the Rhenish
cities ; and although through central and southern
Germany the moderates were daily gaining more
strength and influence, still the events of Vienna and
Berlin, the murder of BLuM, and the ordonnance of
BRANDENBURG, will undo all the good that has been
done, and fling moderates and immoderate', citizens
and peasants, into one molten mass of rage and effer-

Tile want of adaptation to varying wants and dis-
similar conditions is the inherent vice of rash and
ignorant legislation. Modern society is so diverse in
its developments, and so unequal in the strength of
its members, that no law will fit it closely, or will
long hold together, which is not eminently elastic.
What suits one class of persons well, does not suit
another class equally deserving of the law's
regard ; and the inconvenience which it causes
in one locality is trifling, while the repugnance
and resistance it provokes in another is justly and
naturally great. But such is the practical proof of
the difference between statesmanlike measures and
the stataable results of orotehet-mongorin,g. The
calm and cautious mind of the statesman takes in all
the difficulties of detail, and knows that in the elabo-
rate adaptation of a right principle to diversified
circumstances—not the mero rude and hasty
adoption of the principle itself—lies all the
merit of sound and beneficent legislation. The
specifics, on the contrary, of political empiricism
are always uniform and universal in their application,
the manifold degrees of ability or of inability to bear
it being wholly left out of view.
The Irish poor law is a striking illustration of this.
Righteous in principle and salutary in practice
wherever the condition of things with which it has to
deal supply the necessary elements for its well-work-
ing, the act of 1847 is at the present moment in many
districts productive of an amount of evil unparal-
leled, perhaps, in any other country but Ireland.
Under the plea of making the property of the king-
dom liable for the support of the poverty it contains,
a system of amassment has been attempted wantonly
and vexatiously unjust, in many eases ruinous to in-
dustry, in many more absolutely abortive even for the
immediate purposes of relief. Not only is there no
adaptation of wants and liabilities between classes,
and no equipoise of burthens between localities, but
there is not the pretence of common equity in the
arbitrary impositions levied by this blind and random
law, and, what. is still worse, it worse can be, there
is no identity between the interpretation practically
given to the right to relief in rich and in poor dis-
tricts. Those who are able to contribute lead are
asked to pay most; and where property and wages
have long been depreciated by over-popalation,
and comparative remoteness from the gnat markets
of the empire, rates are successively imposed, which
if collected would absorb all the farmer's profit, as
well as the landlord's rent, and the forcible attempt
to collect which has already in numerous instances
led to the abandonment of holdings, the discontinu-
ance of employment, the relinquishment of projects of
permanent improvement, and, in short, to the utter
paralysis of all the healthful and reproductive work-
ings of society, by which alone a fund adequate to
sustain the poor can be created year by year and day
day
by.
We do not stop to dwell upon the mischiefs
engendered by habituating the-whole community to
regard so important an institution with disgust and
aversion. Neither shall we pause to notice the open
efforts at resistance to the levying of rates that
have recently oocurred in several places. Our sym-
pathies are with the desponding loyalist who
would pay if ha could, not with the turbulent runa-
gate whose heart is ready for any mischief, and who
hails a fresh occasion for popular complaint as a god-
send. We wish to see the law made more efficient
for the relief el the par; and therefore we desire to

see it suede less unjust and destructive to the charm

above them.
In the eastern counties of Ireland, for example, the
average amount of rates, even during the last twelve
!writhe, was by no means excessive • while in the
western and some of the midland counties, it has risen
to double and treble the amount. Surely there is no
equity or reason in insisting that property in Kildare
or Loath should pay only two shillings in the pound,
when property in Clare or Donegal is required to pay
from ten to fifteen. But even were it just or fair, the
previous question; still returns—le it practicable
Exorbitant rates are not collectable from an impover-
ished rate-paying class
Whole tracts of land are at this moment lying ab-
solutely waste in Mayo, and where competition woe
was at a maximum, there are now no bidders at all.
No solvent tenant will make himself liable for indefi-
nite and unlimited rates. No Scotch or English capi-
talist will put his neck under such a yoke. As for the
sale of property is moderate sized fee-simp!e lots,
this fear alone would prevent it, even though the un-
called bill to facilitate such transfere as passed by
parliament last session, were not already understood
to be • miserable moccery and make-be-
lieve. As foe the landlords, many of them
have been obliged to forego the advantages
offered by the public loan for drainage, from the ap-
prehension (far from groundless) that they would be
unable to meet the instalments by which it must be
repaid, and naturally preferring their present evils
and privations, to committing themselves irredeem-
ably to the tender mercies of the Treasury, the desire
and design of whose agents and organs to brenk them
down by the poor law has never been concealed. Dis-
tressed landlords in the confiscated counties will thus pre-
fer having receivers in Chancery for a time placed over
portions of their properties, for payment of the rates
to which they are defaulters, than enter upon new
engagements, by which, though the soil may be im-
proved, they will be entangled beyond the power of
extrication, and the inheritance of their children es-
crificed unavailingly and unjustly. Meanwhileim-
provement and employment are effectually stopped;
and most effectually in the localities where they are
most needed. Pauperism is spreading upwards'
rapidly.
In this deplorable condition of things it is not won-
derful that • vast variety of expedients have been
suggested for the modification of what is wrong in
The poor law. Some would have a townlsnd rating;
others a rating by estates; both desiring to make
each proprietor answerable solely for the support of
the poor upon his own estate. But the objections to
either of these plans are in truth wholly insurmount-
able. Clearances by wholesale would thus obtain a
statutable bounty and the towns and villages into
which the extruded population would be dung,
would be crushed at once in helpless ruin. Simnel
of labour rates in every conceivable form have like-
wise been propounded with the sanguine eloquence,
of inexperience and despair ; but we must own
that none of them have appeared to us capable of
avoiding the difficulties and dangers which caused
their final abandonment in this country not many
years sgo. We look with far more confidence to the
moderate but prompt and general contraction of the
area of taxation, first increasing the number of
unions, and secondly by increasing the number of
electoral divisions. Both changes are, in fact, indis-
pensable. Instead of 130 anions, 200 at least ought
to exist, in order that local control and management
should be resuscitated and called into healthy
action. Aud in like manner, with the view
of rendering co-operation among proprietors
and amongst farmers practicable, which at
present it is not—the larger electoral divisions
ought to be divided and re-arranged, so as more equit-
ably to apportion property and population. Even
these alterations, however, cannot be attempted with-
out the introduction of certain new elements in the
system. There would still be found not a few divi-
sions where no improved supervision or economy
would enable the rates to meet the demands of po-
verty, and where the only effect of heaping up =col-
lectable rates must be to throw the land out of culti-
vation, and to render it unsaleable, while the destitute
were left unprovided for.
To guard against extreme cases of this kind, it has
been more than once suggested that a maximum
amount of rates in the year should be fixed by law,—
say one-third of the net annual value of the property
in each electoral division ; and that whenever that
amount bad been actually expended before the ex-
piration of the year, the deficit necessary for the
maintenance of the poor during the remaining period
should be sole up out of a rate !nationally imposed.
We shall eoesidsr this soggestion more in detail on a
future meads&

THE report of Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S committee,
"to inquire into the composition and management of
the ecclesiastical commissions for England and
Wales," has just been issued; and a very bald,
meagre, and inconclusive document it is. Indeed, the
main object of the committee seems to have been an
inquiry into some leases of church lands which be-
came vested in the commission in which Mr. DENISON
is interested, rather than a thorough investigation of
the past conduct or the existing system of manage-
ment of the ecclesiastical commission. Now, doubtless,
an inquiry into the questions, whether the commission
acted properly in coming first to a determination to
run out the leases of church lands at Norwell, and
afterwards proposing severe terms for their en-
franchisement by the lessees who had held
them for centuries, was very interesting to all
concerned in that property, and well deserved the
attention of a committee of the House of Commons.
Still it ought to have been left to itself, instead of
being tagged on to a much larger and comprehensive
subject ; for the consequence is that the smaller ques-
tion has received far more of the committee's conside-
ration than it was entitled to ; and the greater sub-
ject has been very imperfectly examined into, and
insufficiently reported on. In short we have a penny-
worth of bread to a gallon of sack : and all because
Mr. EVELYN DENISON, under the guise of doing one
thing, aimed at another.
Halting and imperfect as the report is, it is never-
theless unfavourable to the commission. It shows
that " it is too large for the convenient transaction of
much of the business in detail that is committed to
it ;" that the system of presidence adopted at its meet-
ings" is prejudicial to the conduct of business t" that
the inattention of the commissioners throws a larger

Power into the hands of th,. officers of the oommissicit.
than is fitting should fall to their share;" and that
there is a want of " direct and undivided responsi-
bility." To remedy these evils the committee
recommend that the business which is ecclesiasti-
cal should be separated from the manage-
ment of property ; that the latter should
be consigned to a small committee; that three paid
commissioners should be appointed, two by the Crown
and one by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY; and that
all offices under the board should be held at pleasure.
Practical recommendations these in their way, but
not one touching the real defect of the commission.
That defect 111 the overwhelming power of the
bishops in the board. In the first commission the
proportion of clerical to lay members was only as IS to
8. Bat in the existing commission, of which every
prelate is, ex•oficio, a member, the proportion of
clerical to lay members is as 30 to 20; and, in ad-
dition, this disproportion is backed by the presence of
the ecclesiastical Judges, who are all of episcopal ap-
pointment. Can anyone be surprised that a com-
mission so constituted should have disappointed the
hopes of church reformers ; that it should have pre-
served the mischievous distinction between the epis-
copal and the common fund; that it should have
squandeted thousands on new palaces, on ornamental
grounds, and on pleasant episcopal estates; that it
should have done the least possible good at the largest
possible cost? Yet not a suggestion have we from
this committee (presided over, be it recollected, by a
bishop's brother) to remedy this defective constitution
of the commission, without which better management
is altogether visionary. Tenderly does the committee
condemn the sums spent on palace building.
Your committee are compelled to an expression of regra
that such large contributions towards the building and re-
pairing of palace', should have been made from this [the
episcopal] fund, cod that more reserve has not bees made in
the disposal of it.
But not a hint does it make that prelates,who could
so abuse for their own advantages the money confided
to their gust dianship, are unfit to remain members of
that commission to which the great cause of church
reform and extension has been confided.
The vice of the commission, it cannot be too fre-
quently repeated, is, that it is over-Ms/topped. The
Iprelates have an absolute majority of ten in it ; but
I practically, they have a much greater majority at its
board.: for nothing can be worse than the selection of
the lay members. First, there are flee members of
' the government ; all of whom have of departmental