The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-10 00:00:00

suppovel to be insidious, but he would be e„,
party to such a delusion. In 1821 there entered
the porta of America, of British shipping, 52,000
in 1811, 786,000 tons. If it were a self-evident proponne,
that Great Britain could not compete with America, bow
were they to account for this increase ? He Plum that
Liverporl, where ship; were expensive, competed with
North Britain, where ships were as cheep es in any panel
the world. New York, where ship-building was expermee,
competed with Spain, where ship-building was Cheep
Then it ha 4 been said, never mind the commerciel wee:
ment, but remember your maritime power. He artaim,
with the celebrated expression of Mr. Muldoon, tap
illiea
the maritime power came into collision with the eommereiti
interest, the commercial interest must give way. The lens.
lotion of Queen Elizabeth was liberal as to navietinn, aid
the glory of England was not tarnished in her reign jf he
thought our maritime power rested on the foundation of en
act of parliament, passed by Charles 11., his anticipation'
would be more gloomy than three of the noble lord. These
arguments conclusively proved the Dennehy of change, and
the necessity c f no longer delaying the settle.
meat of this question by delaying it they pi.
vented the application of capital and the emplejtam
of industry. Thu demand for shipping would not be
thereby stopped ; the foreigner would take advantage of the
void they were creating, and a stimulus would be giveam
foreign capital. Oa every ground, therdore, it was eseenu
to come to a settlement of this question. There were me.
malies in the existing iaw which it was impossible to detad.
which the petitions even of those who objected to the bill dill
not attempt to defend, but, on the contrary, expressed a de.
sire to have amended. The law being in that condition it
was the paramount duty of parliament to deal wilis
insm,diately—to deal with it eifecttally, not mealy
or precipitately. The honourable member foe Westbury
had entered into a long argument, into whine, at other
times, he would have been disposed to follow him, but he
thought it the via 'r course, in this proliminvry sage, to
confine himself to the simple question—mould they Ned au
progress in this matter, or should they go into committee to
obtain a fair hearing for all reasonable objections to the bill,
and for every consiJeration which the wisdom of the lime
might tugged, to as eventually to arrive it a satitfetsty
settlement.
Hr. HENLEY, after some introductory observations, is
reply to previous speakers. expressed his wish to know what,
in the event of a war, and this measure having passad,
yerammt intended to do on the subject of impressment; for,
when they were introducing a better class of men Leto the
mercantile marine, some provision must be made in this
respect. He, for one, was not prepared to run the Ink
which he apprehended would be run if the present measure
were carried.

Mr. GLADSTONE moved the adjournment of the debate.
Lord J. RUSSELL raid he had no objection to the ad.
journment, provided it was understood distinctly that the
debate would be resumed on Monday, that the house went'
then tome to a division, and that no further adjournment
on that day would take place. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. KERR was most anxious to say a few-words is ev
planation of the vote he intended to give. (" Os, ob," ad
laughter.) He thought that Irish members had a nett to
speak on navigation subjects, and he was of opiniunfrontdm
manner in which this and other measures had been introduced,
by her Majesty's ministers that much credit mid sot ba
elven to them for deep thinking and judgment (Lod
laughter, in the midst of which the hon. member saddest,
resumed his seat.)
The debate was then adjourned to Monday.
THE AGRICULTURAL DEBATE.
Mr. DISRAELI asked her Majesty's miniaten whether
I !Bey L.,nid list appoMt a morn oontrr,...to: Cay WK.
nesday next for the resumption of the debate on the agrici.
tnral question, which had been adjourned on the prim
n'ght ?_ _ .

lord J. RUSSELL thought that in naming Wcdtusily
he WAS consulting the feelings of hon. menah.le frog the
country. As Wedmsday, however, had been find, the W.
bate could not now be brought on upon an earlier day; bat
perhaps on Monday arrangements might be made for mow
ing it on Thursday.

Mr. DISRAELI believed that Thursday would be amy
convenient day for the house generally to attend.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was impossible for him toll*
positively that it coul 1 come on upon Thurslay, beams
there wen several notices of motion on the pal.er in
that day.
Mr. DISRAELI said, the notices in question had best
given by hon. gentlemen who were greatly interested in tin
agricultural debate, and that most probably they would post.
pone them to enable it to be resumed.
Lord J. RUSSELL observed, that if the hon. member fa
Buekinglismdsire could snake any arrangement of that kind,
Thursday might be fixed.
The home adjourned at 12 o'clock.

Mit Orproni.

MAILS.

The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, IL,7anne, 1l
Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and Including thous In
Madeira, St. Jusarle.blearegus, New Granada, Chili, and Pers. at.
be made up oa the morning of the 17th of March.
The nu& for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, OW:, and Malta
will be made up on the morning of the 17th March.
The malts for Gibraltar, Malta, Graeae, the lonLia Wanda, (gm
Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, end China. rai Southampton, MI
be made upon the morning of the 20th March.
The guile for British North America, and the United antst,
will be made up on the evening of the 23rd March.
The walla 010 Marseilles, to the AlittillerraßOlM, Ellyr, Ado.
Ceylon, India. Hong. Kong, Ste., will be made up on the medal d
the 94th March.
The mails for New South Wales, Van Dianan's Land, sad /fee
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31st March.
The mails for Modelle, the Ilrazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be nab
up on the evening of the 4th of April.

NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tula D•T —Mantina, I Ws. put 3; Attascoa. 19 Wet past 3
To•ltnaow—Yotfloi.lB Paw pail 3; Aftersoce, SJ We. put 3.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAR. 10.

WERE Mr. DISRAELI'S motion nothing more than
Mr. DisnAebt's motion, it would not des-rve to have
two words wasted on it. But the protectionists hue
allowed him to put it forward as their plan for re-
lieving the agriculturists, and the Times has adopted
it. " Mr. DISRAELI," said this consistent and p
triotic journal yesterday, " has had the fortune tad
the courage to bit upon a subject worthy of his
powers." This might be ironical, but what follows
has nothing equivocal about it: "We con tratulate
Mr. DISRAELI on his undertaking a task which a
singular concurrence of circumstances has thrown into
his hands. It is his own by right of discovery, and
unless we overrate his energy, he will make it mere
his own by success." As a project of Mr. DISRAELI,
it would be sufficient to say of his Thursday night's
lecture that, as usual, when be leaves the re-
gion of fantastic sentiment and imagery to deal
with principles and practice, he was shallow and
401. But when his panacea is puffed by the pin whom some agriculturists still have faith, and the
journal which some of the mercantile class st 11 regard
as intelligent, were it only to undeceive their dupes
the trifle deserves to be dissected.
Ia the first place, then, the farmers will observe
that their political leaders by their mouth-piece Mr-
DISRAELI, repudiate protection. Hedeclares for "the
rinc ple of reciprocity as a fundamental principle in the
commercial code : the only legitimate means they
had to fight against hostile tariffs with was by the
adoption of countervailing duties." Mr. Daunt
and his party would use differential duties, not to
protect native industry, but to force other countries
into free trade. Their ultimate aim is the same as
Mr., COBDEN'S, only they think a diffiren• policy
from his more likely to attain it. The farmers who
still cling to belief in protection must look out for
other leaders. "The children of Israel," as the grace-
less wags of the city call Mr. DISRAELI'S followers,
repudiate the doctrine.
Again, the HERRIESES, STAFTORDS, GRA:VDTS, and
Dtsitxxbis will not repeal the malt and hop duties.
The vague and equivocal phraseology of Thursday
night's motion warranted suspicions to this effect.
But, in his speech, Mr. DISRAELI put the matter be-
yond a doubt :
I will, even at the risk of losing the favour the formal
have bestowed on me, counsel them not to press for a moll
of the malt tax. Because lam convinced that the pottiocaf
benefit which they will receive will be very slight compared
with the general inconvenience which it will occasion. It thl
obtain, at this moisten., the repeal of the malt tax, they will
obtain what may prove a fatal obstacle to measures of nix
ouch as I propose to-night, and others which I hope we lief
be able to propose.
This avowal, from the accredited mouth-piety
of the Duke of RICHMOND'S party, so soon alter has
grace's declaration that the malt tax was not worths
twelvemonth's purchase, might astonish nr, Lid not
recent history record a still more glaring instance of
the hollow faith of the farmers' friends in professing
to seek the repeal of this impost. Some years se
the parliamentary protectionist clamourers against tar
malt tax found themselves, by the aid of the radicals, to
a majority on that question. This did not suit their
purpose: they wished to have the tax continued were
it only to serve them as political capitol; so pelt
night the came down and assisted the CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER to reverse their own vote.
The farmers, then, are now aware—they have been
explicitly told by the official mouth-piece of the paT
—that the anti-Peel section of the conservatives will
not re-establish protection, and will not repeal the
malt and hop duties. Let us see what they will do to
relieve the agriculturists.
They will re-adjust the burden of taxation for local
purposes. But even this they will not do in a manner
that can in the slightest degree benefit the tenant
farmer. According to Mr. DISRAELI'S own state-
ment, his object is not to relieve the agriculturists in
general, or to relieve a claes exclusively agricultardi