The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-04 00:00:00

to carp at what Mr. DISRAELI 'emetically
termed "the revelations" of the superior mind tf the
experienced statesman. The snake biting at the file
never made greater efforts or had leas seems. With
imperturbable persistency, during two hours and
more, be gnawed away. But all to no purpose. The
plan looked just as large, as solid, and as immovable
when he had done es when he bsgan. And fro n the
memorable day on which Mr. DISRAELI performed
his first celebrated failure on the floor of the House of
Commons, he has certainly never made a feebler, a
duller, or a more conceited speech than that which
he delivered on last Monday night. It was an ela-
borate attempt at a reply, but it was confessedly no
answer.
Next in weakness came Lord JOHN'S. Is the
Premier jealous of the illustrious chief.of opposition ?
Can he never afford to be candid or generous where
his rival is concerned? There was hardly one of Sir
Roezar's manifold suggestions that could not be
shown to be identical in principle with what Lord
JOHN himself has dons or tried to do. Wherefore
then the tone of evident vexation in which the FIRST
LORD OF THE TREASURY commented upon each and
all of them ? Still worse is it when accompanied by the
lamentable confession that remedial policy of his own
Lord JOHN has none. All he mild sugost was an
amended poor law :and a well drilled police—more
workhouses, and more prisons.
We turn with pride and pleasure to the contrast
offered to all this by the masterly speech of the hon.
member for Manchester. The stand-still policy of
the minister he denounced in energetic lan-
guage. The resumption of the outworn sys-
tem of landlordism which Mr. DISRAELI recom-
mends he desienated as the great social root
of all the social miseries under which Ireland groans.
The plan propounded by the ex-Premier he discrimi-
natingly analysed, adopting fearlessly and frankly
what was of most value therein, and: respectfully but
resolutely rejecting other portions of it. This is the
true spirit of political criticism ; this the true temper
of imperial debate —neither disparaging the measure
when intrinsically good because it comes from an
opponent, nor forgetting the reverence due to age, at-
tainments, talents, and high personal worth, even when
quarrelling with the propositions that emanate there-
from. The leading idea in the speech of Mr. BRIGHT,
was—what sooner or later is certain to predominate
in every scheme of Irish policy—the making land
marketable. Till this be done, nothing else can be
effectually done. When this shall have been accom-
plished, all other more material changes will become
comparatively practicable, safe and profitable. The
great bankrupt properties of the western counties
must be broken up before any real reformation can
be wrought in the condition of the hapless peasantry
there. Sir ROBERT FEEL and Mr. BRIGHT are
thoroughly agreed upon this point. They only differ
as to the readiest and best means of securing an objret
so desirable. Sir ROBERT would interpose the agency
of a commission between the seller and the buyer ; he
would ratter tempt the former to sell, and possibly
help the latter to buy. The uncompromising cham-
pion of individual effort in all things prefers the
notion of compelling the ruined landowners to dispose
of their properties, and allowing their pri..* to be de-
termined by the ordinary rules of fair competition in
the market. All he insists upon is a clear title, to be
given by some inexpensive and summery tribunal,
and a perfect, cheap, and universal registry of deeds
and incumbranses of every description.