The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

WOE WATTS LT LONDON maroon
r aiziw. 111 M. Anescon.o EEL wit 14
—mega& Mil. poi AftwasoL,l7 ob. pug 4.

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 9.
Tan farmers are positively beginning to awaken.
It is now a lag time sines we hard the sound of
their helmet mime speaking to the purpose, and
taking ears of lb* own interests. For some years
they have given thowelves, body and earl, to the
squaw, as a owed oaths& does to his confessor.
And binged hi the squires made of them. The
ferveme,iestrmief their great meat* oontract
the phi's and with it the heavy taxes,
Wpai imasika expenditure with the love of
pealmlisa.
Promotion! he word ought to have raised suspi-
dea in thole minds. It is something that a man
sneer wean vile relies upon his own maxim, and
that a mama never takes without barteneg her fair
fame for it. However, the squires tricked the fanners
into keeping them company in the chase after this same
protretiou which, baffled alike their speed and their
search, so that not even a meat of it remains. Bat
still the squires will follow up the chase and, seek to
make a dreghtmt after the name and carom of pro-
tection after the object of pursuit has actually ceased
to exist.

The farmers, however,will be bamboosled no longer.
They have lost protester , and want to have their
burdens lightened. Mr. COBDIN promises to help
them. But they very naturally prefer the help of the
u fanned Mends." The farmers' Mends, however,
no Lager speak out; their oratory in parliament is
waver' merely of conundrums. Whilst in
the hole and owner meetings of New Bond-
street, which eschew the light of publicity,
the Central Protection Society merely tries to
memneries the farmer, and fan him into slumber.
Repeal the malt tax! Why, it pays the navy estimates;
sad how ate aristocratic allows to attain rank, unless
the tax on beer and barley keeps up military establish-
ments? Tell the farmers to wait till March, till
after the budget is sown for the harvest that ;law-
men reap.
This " dodge " did not succeed with the farmers.
Mr. CHUMMY spoke out at the anti-Malt-tax meet-
ing in Blackfriars . uncommonly strong" for a
fanner- so did Mr. TAUNTON. And although these
gentlenien, for the sake of unanimity, and of con-
ciliating some tory brethren, were ready to waive all
mention oCtles Li vw• Bfform Association, and to
modify any decided &dent= for retrenchment, the
large body of farmers present would not tolerate
such cpsamishness, but voted " that the members
of the association declare their willingness to co-
ratewith all societies in the kingdom friendly to
total repeal of the malt tax, in promoting
economy in the public expenditure, in order to re-
move this impost.
For our part we look upon beer w bread. It is the
same produce—the great memory of life prepared
in another fashion. And it is even • more gross in-
justice to tax and swell the oat of British corn in its

;metamorphosis into beer, perhaps, than it is to tax the
provisions which the foreigner sends as in return for
ear meadows& Beer is nourishment, not excite-
ment, and would be more so if the malt tax
were taken off, sad the fabrication of beer free. The
staple food, and the stn of a country are
its two The people -have
a right rata in as ohm a pproportim and as
wholesome abundance, as idaboa can make
them. There exists in this country a large
dams of bode peculiarly adapted for the grow-
ing of barley; the malt tax forbids them to be cul-
tivated, or compels them to be sown, with what is more
unsuited to them and lees profitable to the farmer.
This is a tax *eat to the .population at large, and
more unjust to the farmer.
The landlords have galled their tenants for a long
time by telling them that the agriculturists form one
ours and should stand by one another. The farmers
were dupes in this. They are bound to the landlords
merely by the chains of dependence. In reality, what
are they but manufactories and traders P And what
they want is fres trade.
" Since free trade is the cry," mid Mr. Taineron,
"let all join in it. They bad free trade in alabaster
mantel-picess, but they wanted free trade in bricks to
build the chimneys ; they had free trade in hominy,
but that would not make so a bullock se male'
This is the true for the fanners : free
trade la the produce of Wiley, of malt, and of beer,
as well as in silks, woollen. &rpm, and sugar. And
Mr. Talmo& drew the right concision.
" They must accept as theniates," he said, " all
who could help them"
They mast not turn from the idea, who offend
to aid them is lightening the Undies of the land, be-
aus the Minn badelamoured for himself and obtained
cheap bread by mesas of foreign corn. The towns-
manta done right to help himself: he had shown
that he knew hew to do no, by trusting to himself;
and it was for the farmer to follow the example.
We heartily rajah's at this ineurnotion of the
inseam to shake off the fetters which the landlords
have placed not only cm their interests and their
but even on their thee6te. And we are not
to but
hope that the squires &missives may join in
the reaoh my, and that, although they may
still form a tory party, ft will not be a party for pro-
digality and government expenditure, but for the
true and genuine interests of the agriculturists, which
will even by them be admitted to be economy and
free trade.

Tam is in parliament evidently a strong, we
might say an onewhebang, desire to fling Ireland
upon its own renounce, and force it to provide for its
own poor, its own cultivation, and, consequently, for its
own admialdration and 'polio*. When Sir Jane
Cireaux exclaimed that the present 60,0001. should
be the last grant hums England to Ireland, the alba
&a was too general to be mistaken or alighted.
There are political consequencies attendant on this
diqinnetion of the countries, as far as local bur-
dens and boniest an concerned, which ought
not to be overlooked. One b, that if Ireland is to
=rher own poor, the Irish must be allowed to
im themselves the beet means of doing so. If
a strong line of demanetion is to be drawn between
the =satirise, sad a debit and credit side of a
slay aceesat establkissd between them, the Irish
mast be allowed to keep their own books. Perhaps it
is jest that Meals do so. But we beg to warn
all cionownehis is a far greater stride towards
a virtual repeal of the onion than ever O'Coaniu,
proposed, or even Sporn &Bann dreamed oL
It is really a disgrace to the Irish thus taunted that
they do not to a sun demand a national rating, and
that **Lista men of property, who have ea*
whitessert fliMeaky
pgof oven 2s. in the pound to their
de not eW to 24- or 2id- more, w
byhich
woWkould predose the leall-mones in aid required the
destitute &Mists el the wag.
Many and womistaissabis mould be the advantages
of this rate is aid coming Ikea Irish pockets rather
than from imperial charity i the nay poor themselves
would at coos moistened that Use sum was ex-
haunting, and the 'seam temporary, whilst those who
paid this rats, Mktg on the
peadwould devils or
suggest some mane Ilor its a don, whisk would
fetus pauperism, of =gam
all,
n of the west, landlords and all,
into a wept
The libels el pelithisas and volition coonoceine
in and around ram* to devise some means for
remedying the destitution of the met coast are of the
most hareem isspoluess. Hive no out-door relief,
saith one, or you swage as well as Ireland,
by sabring a premium vies Can we let the
people starve, exelabo romomeet. Set them to
ort by labors nibs med loans, proposes Mr.
Powirisrr Boson. It would take half a million
to est thom lr We is the rejoinike, with