The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LEEThe ELECTION.—On Tueaday a numerous meeting of
electors in the liberal interest was held in the Music hall,
Albion-street, "to conaidar the steps to be taken in the
prospect of a very early dissolution of parliament, and a con
Sequent general election." Duriug the evening there were
probably from 600 to 700 electors present, oat of a consti-
tuency of about 6,000. Several reso:utions were adopted,
one of them condemnatory of the government plan of edu-
cation ; another referred to the suffrsge, and ran an follows :
.t this meeting, whilst it recognises in the Reform Act a great
and most beneficial improvement in the repreeentative vyalem, would
record its decided approval of and carnet desire fora large extenaion
of the elective franchise regarding au& extension as due to the
rapidly increasing intelogenee crew unrepresented classes.
New CANDIDATH Poe DCRIIAW.—There is a rumour in
circulation that Colonel Thomas Wood does not intend to
offer himself again for the representation of Middlesex, but
means to solicit, on the Londonderry interest, the suffragen
of the constituency of the city of Durham.

•
THE ANTICIPATIONS OF THE POET LAUREATE that
railways would destroy the solitary quietude of the lake dis-
tricts are likely to be realized. Cheap trips are advertised on
the Kendal and Windermere line, in Whitson week. and
the steamers that ply on the lake have positively eogaeed to
convey the "unwashed mere trifle, within a
hair's breadth of Rydal Mount itself.

Biorptottan is onetiitl;:n7a;;towne where petitions
are in course angostura in favour of LordMorpeth's Health
of Towns' Bill.

ATROCIOUS ASTMS? AT ASSASSINATION.—At WOTOOI.
ter, on Tuesday, a most daring attempt to assassinate Dr.
Turley was made by some villain as yet nodi•covered.
Dr. Turley was sitting in the library at the back part of his
house, in St. John's, when he heard the report of a pistol,
and immediately went out, but could see no person. He
called the police, aad search was made. No stranger
' was to be found, but it was discovered that a small hole had
been made in one of the panes of glue, that a corresponding
perforation appeared en the window-blinds, and that the
shot had struck the carved wainscot on the opposite side ef
the room. The bullet (which was found on the floor) had
apparently been shot from a rifle, and must have passed
within a very few inches of Dr. Turley's head, as he sat
writing at his table. The report awoke the servants of the
house. About a quarter of en hour before the discharge of
the pistol. Pr. Turley fancied that be heard footsteps on the
gravel-walk outride the library, and at the same time the
dogs barked violently. The coachman also heard the foot-
steps. The policeman, while on his beat, about the saute
time, met a person near the house, whom he &scrams) as a
I short, slim, well-dressed, middle-aged, gentlemanly-looking
I man. No cause can be assigned fcr the attempt.

TIsoINOTON WELL-FLOWIHINCI.—On Holy Thursday
the ancient custom of decorating with flowers the wells or
fountains in the village of Tissington was duly observed.
The scarcity of flowers, consequent upon the extreme back-
wardness of the season, seemed to have stimulated the in-
genuity of the villagers. It must have puzzled sny but the
grod folk of Tissington to produce such a number of beau-
tiful designs from the very slender stock of materials which
their fields, woods, and gardens afforded. The morning
gave promise of something like a fine day, hit in the after-
noon there were Leavy showers of rain, which to some ex-
tent marred the out-door enjoyments of the wise. 11,w-
ever, the ancient hospitalities of the place were not Cir.
gotten. The religious duties of the day commenced with
service at the parish church, after width a sermon appro-
priate to the occasion wee delivered by the Rev. A. Fits-
herbert. At the close of the service, the clergy and congre-
gation, headed by the band, visited the well reading at
each in succession a portion of the Psalms, Epistle, and
Gospel. Suitable hymns were alto sting.
I.IIIIIICIVAVII RE.

VALVE OF LANIL—We (Cambridge Advertiser) stated in
our last that Mr. Wentworth, of this town, had lately
realised for the owner of rather more than an acre of land
contiguous to Aylesbury, Bucks, the amazing sum of from
1,4001. to 1,6001. We kave now to publish a still more sig-
nificant proof of the rapid depreciation which land is expe-
riencing in this country. At a sale of estates by auction, at
Shclford, last week, the same gentleman realised for one of
the lots—a piece of land in Stapletord parish—a sum equi-
valent to 1,5121. per acre ! This we can vouch far.
REPRESENTATION Of TIIII COVNTT.—Most 0/ our readers
are probably aware that Lord George Manners has complied
with a requisition to place himself forward as a candidate for
the county and isle, at the approaching election. Mr. Yorke
and Mr. Allis will probably be re-elected, and Lord Georg*
Mariam is very likely to be returned in lir. Eaton'. place.
neve is certainly no appearance of a gathering storm of
IZttijoan, from any point of the compass.—Cambridge

KENT.

Tun Dintottanon OP I aViiVisys the Maidstone Gazette
of Tuesday, is riot confined to Liverpool, but u experienced
in this county to some extent. During fourteen days of
last montk, of the number of "casual poor" relieved in
Dartford 180 were Irish, the majority of whom had had 24.6 d.
given to them to pay their passage to this country. From
Dartford they go to Gravesend and Chatham, claiming relief
of the parish officers, and. if refused, threaten to break the
windows. The overseer of Dartford has been obliged, in self-
defence, to have a policeman to keep guard at his house day
and night.
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Too FOOD RIOTING has extended to Torquay. On Monday
eight the bakers' houses in that town were entered by the
mob, and the bread seized. Much damage wrs done to
some of the shops. The Riot Act was read, the coast-guard
turned out, and special constables sworn. Three of the rioters
were taken. Next morning a mob of about 200 men, all
"navvies," armed with bludgeons end spades, entered the
town at 12 o'clock to rescue the prisoners, then under exa-
minations before the magistrates. On their way to the town-
ball they were joined by others. They surrounded the
hall, but before making any attacks, were disturbed by the
arrival of some eout-guard teen, armed with bayonets. "At
the sight of the cold steel," says our correepondoet, "the
fellows fled, pursued by the Preventives and some special
=astable*, who succeeded in making about a d moo of them
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CHANNEL ISLANDS.
A FooD BaOT took place in Jersey on Monday morning.
The disorder originated with the workmen of La Hauls
Road, fbr Wier advantage that extensive improvement
was andiertakea a few months ago. These incited others to
estasea sal, es usual in such scenes, the culpable and the
laseeent ware mingled together in the unruly mob. A few
of the ringleaders having shouted out " To Le Queens's
mills," the whole body, now at least one thousand strong,
in that direction, followed by Mr. Centenier Le
Me;:dearld a flaw of the police. On their arrival at the town
Wile, Mr. 1.0 Reilly ad the multitude, but no
was paid to him, sad the cry " forward" was given.t Viz
inewei them to attack the mills of Mr. Le
pickaxes, and hammers. The dear el the
mew at the bosh of the house melted their
• eitimpis a shalt lima, until a lam war, mad es
a laterniag-rem, Sward It even end they beam ass of those
liereldol sores, whorled deimetelmidereemstam
saveges. Men, women, mil Memel the mill
comminesd strewing Asst. UMW, bat tin
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they weld terh Ile. &ma k ell
spa the wheat maw, sal sentestiai isle ass Sato an the
Prim Om war stay they deseerlea sal spend
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wawa. One et the themeless was eirmweil momma
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two days. News of this tantelteans meeting wee
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whet* pee seam be the dap* of the
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lane, teas be rand one Met .1.1,-, The giaa
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onansai et lawst,ollt °meal Otesseawi ia the abstain
of the Tem Mk °albeit arrival they bleep* the real
near the Zelda Hood, mid went and, assural the Milk tw-
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reassei abed SOO yards wise
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L ITBRef TURN. 1
Bows Dawson's Romanies for a pAilessedropical remedy
oysioseMNISIONISNIS ; or seem fplaianthropy apel.isd
I
'shade: mammy, national education tied alts polalical
life of the poet*. Translated frail the German.
Baron Deeming's work is interesting as a sample of
what questions at present engross public attention in
Hungary, and of the manner in which they are
handled. The benevolence and exemption from class
prejudices which characterise this work of an Hun-
game magnate are of good omen for his country ;
the more so that the author appears to have gained
the assent of some of the better spirits of the diet to
his views. Independently, however,of these accidental
circumstances the work deserves attention for its
own intrinsic merits.
Baron Dereseni has formed a more just estimate of
the real meaning of the term "political economy" than
prevails among most modern English writers. The
phrase appears to have been introduced among us by
Adam Smith, who used it, however, with due limita-
tion. Smith's " Wealth of Nations" is an exposition
of the theory of the production and distribution of
national property, upon which he has based a system
of " political economy." In the first book he treats
of the laws which regulate the production and dis-
tribution of property in general ; in the second,
of the production and influence of. capital or
property reserved to increase production ; the
third contains a historical review of the different forms
assumed by organised productive industry in va-
rious countries. Having thus ascertained the natural
laws which, under all circumstances, determine
the creation and distribution of wealth, and indicated
the variety of concrete forms under which these laws
have been manifested, Smith proceeds in the fourth
and fifth book' to those topics which constitute "
litical eoonomy," in his sense of the term, mad to
which he exclusively confines it—the action of go-
vernment with a view to promote the national opu-
lence, and to collect with the least pressure, and dis-
burse in the most efficient manner, those monies
which are required fur its legitimate expenses.
The distinction between the two parts, of which
Smith's " Wealth of Nations" consists, is essential.
The first three books are an exposition of the opera-
tion of natural laws which man cannot alter, to which
he must conform, by which he must work.
The fourth and fifth are a system of practical maxims,
instructing him how to avail himself of the know-
ledge of these laws, as one means of accomplishing
the great ends of government. By losing sight of
this distinction, almost all later English writers have
narrowed the field of political economy, or rather they
have, in mostiastanees, entirely left political economy
out of the treatises to which they have given the
name. While professing to write about " political
economy," they have given us nothing but theories of
the production and distribution of wealth. Another
oversight has led not a few of them—end more espe-
cially the Sootchmen among their number—to attri- I
bate to the doctrines of material wealth, an unduly
extended field of influence. Smith's " Wealth of

Nations"is only a paTtiitioseprelections which he
was in the habit of delivering annually. from his aca-
demic chair. In the comprehensive view of Smith,
the moral man was be who had learned to know his
own constitution, physical, emotional, and intellectual,
andhie relationsto other existences, and who madethia
knowledge the guide according to which he controlled
his appetites and exerted his faculties. In this sense
Smith's coarse of ethical prelections embraced psycho-
logy, or the laws of mind; the theory of public wealth,
or the laws of matter as possessed by men ; jurispru-
dence, or the natural laws which form and hold so-
ciety together; and natural theology. His " Wealth
of Nations" was only a part of his system ; but our
M'Cullochs would make it a sticcedaneum for all the
rest.
Baron Dereseni has escaped both errors. His
treatise ie upon political economy—it evolves maxims
for turning a knowledge of natural laws to practical
account; the theory of production and distribution
upon which it is based may be right or wrong, but it
really is what it professes to be. Again, the genial
instincts of the author's nature have taught him that
political economy is not all in all; that other natural
laws must be known, and other practical maxims
conformed to, in order to the full development of
man's faculties as an individual or in society, and to
his happiness.
The more immediate object of the work is to trace
those errors in the prevailing political economy of
nations, which by creating a largo extent of social un-
easiness have prepared the minds of so many to
acquiesce is the fallacies of communism. He indi-
cates the extent to which dissatisfaction pervades
large classes in almost every country of the European
civilisation, and he succeeds in tracing the evil in
every cam to the existence of poverty and distress
engendered and perpetuated by injudicious political
institutions. The remedy ho seeks in the substitution
of such institutions se are likely to promote habits of
regular persevering industry, by enabling those who
acquire them to obtain a certain competency—
by reducing to a minimum the precariousness
of their condition. The legislation he recom-
mends Is of a threefold character; lit, Econo-
mical, having in view the removal of existing
institutions which obstruct the full use of the earth and
its productions. 2nd, Educational, with a view to pre-
pare men, by intellectual training, to turn the earth and
its produce thus thrown free to industry to the best
possible account. 3rd. Political, intended to inspire
all classes with self-respect, by conferring upon all the
fall rights of citizenship.
The third and second class of proposed enactments
contain least of novelty ; yet will they be found
worthy of attention in those states which, like Praia,
are entering on the epoch of constitutional eiristsams,
and in those which, like Great Britain, are awarnig
to the importance of nationaledneation—or preliminary
instruction may be a more appropriate phrass,sseing
man's education is the result of all influences brought
to bear upon him throughout life.
The more strictly economical part of the work is
_ that which contains most of novelty. The author's
remarks upon under-peopled and over-peopled lands,
on unrestricted trade, and on provisions for the poor,
are novel and striking. Of all his disquisitions, how-
ever, that which relates to the locking up of lands
under the fetters of entails, has attracted most atten-
tion on the continent. His picture of the evils of the
system is striking, without being exaggerated. His
remedy, however, which has been much landed, ap-
pears to as inadequate. He proposes "that a law
ehonld be framed in accordance with the peculiarities
of Hungary, by which entailed properties would be
converted, in a manner satisfactory to the present
proprietors, into capital, and that this capital should
gradually, i. e., as the conversion proceeds
into the treasury (which should give good
security), pay punctually to the possessors of the en-
tailed properties and their heirs the interest." This
means, in other words, that the lands should be sold
free from the fetters of entail, and that their
price should be entailed in lieu of them. Ws
confess we see little benefit to be derived flee the
emancipation of the land, if the capital required to
cultivate it is to be locked up in its stead. Besides,
if the state is to be the depository of the price to be
held in trust for the heirs of entail, the interest will
become in time a tax levied on the new landholders.
In the third or fourth generation there will certainly
be a revolt against a tax levied to support a few indi-
vides'a in idleness.

lint ins
TEM ROYAL PICTURE/3.—H being the Queen's
intention to held a drawing-room in St antee's Palace, on
Thursday the 27th inatant, to celebrate her Ifejedy's birth-
day, the exhibition of the royal pictures mast dem after
Saturday next, the 22nd inst., and it will be resumed on
Saturday the 29th inst., the interval being necessary to pre-
pare the palace for the drawing room. No tickets to view
the royal pictures will be issued from Saturday next the
22nd inat. to Saturday the 29th inst.

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DANIEL'S PIEDICEION.—This is the titled an
oratorio sompised ley lir. C. E. Horn, and performed swim
his direction led esestag in the Moak Hall, Eitoreediset.
Mr. KOIS. eeme tire=hari was • popular essapsear
for the thrums. sod for2l2:=lttuomoo
of his midodiss. He appease to hare
• loss time nem the ormissl world s animism-
meet et this oratorio, it is wsits"piases Moos we
bare met with an week Mrs Pea. In pre-
ening ".Desiel's " had to eh.
ens* Ills disadvantam ft Wag sem resod which las
heldshush scrupled by two sithipmiest wastes* fee the
wlieMof Isis oratorio is identical Id& that of Randal'
" and Bpcbr's "14/1 et Babylon." His
mule is the. brought iota esayiertoma with the musty.
beemak mid grandeur of the °noosed the gorgeous richness
st taw Mbar. He had al. the Meawstage of a very lame
portarmsoem Barter Hall has starred the London
pet& to hear oratorios got up en • solomal scale, and
prriersaid by • host of talent ; sod • work, even
d • reel merit, will sound feeble end poor, when
dime in a small way, and with inferior performers.

Mr. Horn had en inefficient and incomplete orchestra,
• weak and unsteady chorus, sad (with the ex-
ception of Miss Dolby) raw and inexperienced singers. We
Ann hardly, therefore, consider that we are in a condition
to form a judgment upon the work. Several parts
of it gave us plasmas, eepeoially seine of the airs, in
which we recognised Mr. Horn's happy vein of melody.
Among these wee en air, " For the home of our When,"
and another, with a violoncello obligate, " Belshassar, 0
my son," both of which have great merit, sad
the latter, with Mies Dolby's fine singing, had a
charming effect. A large portion of the libretto
consists of recitative, • species of cemposiins in which Mr.
Horn is not an Idept. Most of them wens recita-
tives only in name, consisting of • kind of measured malady,
with the rhythm eked out (as in airs) by repetitious of
words—a thing never admitted into true recitative. From
their structure, it was impossible to give them the rapid and
declamatory character of musical speech ; haste they
dragged along very heavily. The choruses were se imper-
fectly performed—then was such a want affront's sad pre-
cision in taking up the points of harmony, and the voices :inn
so confused and overpowered by the noise of the tame instru-
ments that we cannot speak of their construction. The best
appeared to be the festive chorus, "Hail mighty King,"
at the beginning of the second act. The instrumentation wee
often very beautiful, and showed the skill and tact acquired
by Mr. Horn in his dramatic experience.—Upon the whole,
though there is no doubt that portion. of this oratorio, well
performed, would have much effect, yet it seems also evident
chat his undies and pursuits have made hint roots conversant
wick secular than with sacred mune.

THE RIGHT TO SING A PUBLISHED SONG.—Sir,—
I beg to call your attention to the very unesviable 'don
in which all persons, in my profeasiou, are placed by the
apparently strange deci-ion of Mr. Justice Brie In the Court
of Queen's Itenth on Thursday last, in the case of Howell
v. Smith." By that &ciao* it appears, that unless I sad
my brother and sister professionals obtain the written con-
sent of the composers of the songs we slog, and whose works
we bring into popularity. we are liable, for every such per-
formance, to a penalty of at least 405., and the proprietor of
the concert room in which we sing, is also liable to the manse
penalty for every such performance. If such is really the
state of the Isw, every vocal and instrumental performer is
at present liable to an amount of penalties most frightful,
and 1 can only say, that without any intention to commit a
breach of any law, or in any way interfere with the just
rights of another man, I find that by this strange decagon,
I am at this moment liable to an amount that it is quite out
of my power to pay, and may, therefore, at the caprice of •
few composersof music (who, but for myself and others,
would have been able to make their names known to
the public) be Mewed from a state of comparative prosperity
Wong of beggary.—A VOCALIST.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
CAMILLITOZ. WIIIIIIIIIIDAT, M. 19.—At a oorsordatkei holden this
day, the tollowing degrees were 031Ifernd :—Doeters la Divinity:
Hon. sad Rev. It J. Edna. M.A., ((Bishop et &dor and
Man) ; Bev. C. Perry, M.A., Trlelty ( if lisltaima, HAW.),
by royal mandate; Iley. W. Tprall, Tim% (Ulm at Now-
a/ale, N.S.W.), by royal wits. Illobaleas r Chbfty Rev. J.
Burdahla, Bev. IL Ciro ; an. W. Baba, Min's (1011.
Heaters of Arts: H. IL Guavas awl Calm; T. E WC-
alat.Trte. Hall; Lamb" C. T. 11L-Cidorlade Hall; A. A.
Morgan, J. B. Smith, St. Johieet T. F. Massive, H.l. Hada" W. N.
Warren. Trinity; C. Badhara, Weil Osliud !warp. ecobotor in
the Civil La.: J. T. Maly, Tria. Heal. Ilasbaisra et Arts : J. Rater,
quern's; S. Eardiey, J. C. Thrall. Mt Mtn's; W. F. LUC& Magdalene
(Grand Comp.); 11. B. Bt John Pell, 0.0. Trinity; lldiloto.
St. Cetleuinres Hall; C. Carus Wilda, Carp= Christi; C. H. Forbes,
Doodad coll.

Tax rooms= Ns, Poces, Dour. —71 to toad
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