The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1849.

committee, and did not listen to his tale--for at Inv-
ent he is in a petition of some advantage. He is
like a freebootiog chief who has fitted out a corsair,
and enticed his blends and comrades to enlist in his
future expeditions, whieh he promised should be •
most lucrative scheme of Vander, whilst he took care
to keep secret in his own breast the exact
coasts. vessels, and prcperty, which he intended to
rush forth upon and plunder. Such a scheme is el
promise of gain, whilst difficulties and disc:editor.
are keptout of view. Mr. Disahru, in his corsair
scheme, has summoned all the ferment to enlist be-
neath his boomer, he promising them that they should
cut the throats and rifle the pockets of the" Broad.
brims" and the" Sauffits " but keeping out of view not
only the hard knocks mid the punishment which my
await the aggressor, but also the chancel that in the
final division of the booty the clew may come off
penniless.
We do not think that the farmers are each fools
as to be taken in. They may gather, from the plain
statement of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,
what they might to expect. And Mr. DIBRATLI him-
self completed, with regard to the tenants, his own
expeoure. He did not in the hot, be could not,
deny that the local taxation come out of the rent,
and fell eventually upon the landlord; but this
rest did not iise " immediately " on the coat
of production being lessened. It would require
new tenants and new proprietors, be said, to effect
the change and raise the scalemproportion, and 'nee
meantime the present race of farmers would be tempo-
wily benefited. It is for this temporary benefit, this
met e relief from to-day till to-roorrow,teld out to the
tenant farmers of England, that Mr. Humana would
disturb the whole local taxation of the country, and
take from the farmer his present control over the ex-
peaditure for the poor in his district. The protec-
tionist orator showed that the farmers of an unfortu-
nate parish, paying eight shillings in the pound,
would be benefited as long as their leases ran, by the
transfer of tour shillings in the pound to the general
taxation of the country. The landlord alone, how-
ever, would profit in the end : whilst the tendency
to expense, and the lax administration of the poor
law, consequent upon the burden being dislocalised,
would soon double the expenditure, and the general
average of agricultural districts paying two shillings
in the pound would be relieved of one shilling in
peer rate, to have merely the same shilling added to
Heir income tax—whilst in the case of those better
managed districts where the poor rate bad been re-
awed or kept down to a ea* on these the addi-
tional shilling in the pound would fall as a heavy
end nefarious infliction, chilling the industry and
esenomy and making the most hugs', active, and
worthy subjects of her Majesty curse the rule and
the eoeseincr who so selfishly and iniquitously distri-
buted the final burdens of the country.
It in respect to its prom's?. to the farming in-
terest, the meanie of Mr. Dentant is most illusive
and false, it is reckless, factious, and criminal, con-
oblate' in connexion with the general policy of
the Country. Mr. COBDEN and Mr. Unita, who
believe, with justice, England to be remote from
times causes of strife, disturbance, and war that
threaten Europe, and who see in them fresh cause
for security, and fresh openings for economy,
rather than pretexts for military expenditures,
consistently demand the repeal of a burdensome
tax, and plainly state how they would curtail the
expenditure to meet the deficiency. But how can
those parties 'who insist on keeping up military ex-
penditure, a ho deem that the present state of Europe
warrants such an attitude of pr.perationand defiance,
mod who consequently look upon war es a contingency
to be seriously expected and yearly provided f -r—how
can they come forward with the proposal to
take six millions from local taxation, end from pro-
perty which has borne it from time immemorial, to
menet r them to the already embarrassed general tax-
lion of the country? An income tax has been called
a war tax, wrongfully enough ; but still it is the only
war resource at present. Those statesmen who look
to each a contingency ought first and most carefully
et
all things to cherish and keep sacred their
war fund. They insist on our military establishment.
meting eighteen millions sterling. Of what use can
!twee establishments be without ready fonds in case
of need,—without a financial provision behind them,
tar more necessary than full dockyards or numerous
fleets? Were foreign nations meditating to attack or
offend us, it is not Portsmouth they would first
regard, but our Chancellor's budget; and if they
saw Lord STANLEY and Mr. DISRAELI, Se ministers,
throwing six or seven millions of local taxation
the income tax, they would instantly
say, these
twin are very warlike, as far as soldiers and ships go,
but they have emptied their military chest. They
keep up the army evidently not for fighting, or even
frightening enemies, bat to pay the well-born and
give them rank. Let us proceed as we please, and
not mind the empty threats of these week statemnen.l
who think they can gull foreign powers because they
live by galling their own foolish fanners.
But the fact is, that the landlords of this country,
under the miserably mean guidance of STANLEY
and Co., have ceased to identify themselves with
national interests. They think of nothing be-
yond their own caste, its interests, in influent*,
and i's pockets. They may have been brought
down a peg. Who has not ? Is there an
owner or an employer of capital in any way that has
not been disappeinted and mulcted, shorn of his ex-
pectations, and diminished ofhis rental? And because
the landlords were not allowed to remain exceptions,
they now make war on all the other classes of their
fellow citizens, and seek to enlist the farmer in their
merely personal quarrels, and disturb the natural
progress and the commercial and ;within' deve-
lopment of the common weal by their lamentation
over lost monopoly, by their factious struggles after
power for their incapable selves, by their persistence
in occupying the country and parliament with
schemes, irritating, and impracticable, and illusory,
and, in feet, nullifying and defeating every end
for which parliament was instituted or free untitu-
tions kept up.
Take care, mid Lord 3011,1 RuseELL our Thursday
night, addressing the protectionists in a curious
apostrophe. Carry such a proposal as this for a
one-Tided and fractional interest of the country, and
you will give birth to a struggle in which you will
be deprived not only of dams unfair immunities you
stek, but of that undue portion of political power and
electoral influence which bad enabled you to
press it. In other words, make your fiscal
absurdities and Wastes prevail pass them
into laws and we will get rid of both
yam and them together, by • sweettatlyst
just measure of great and true par
reform. It was the old Lord Jong that spoke then,
the Lard Jour Itusszu. of 1832. Let the prates-
tionhts beware : although that voice be 008 *OM the
grave, it is still a puissant and a prophetic ewe.

We rainy and inclement weather which pre-
veiled throughout last summer excited a considerable
amount of anxious anticipation as the harvest ap-
proached. With a view to contribute as ouch as lay
in our power to disperse or allay the fears of the
general public, and at the same time to supply agri-
culturiats with important practical information, we
made arrangements for receiving and publishing
daily, during the weeks when harvest operations were
in progress, reports of observations on the state of
the weather at a number of stations distributed over
great part of England, made each at the same hoar,
and transmitted by electric telegraph._ eager-
nese with which these to, con-
firmed us in the opinionregrttlwewheraed hereby rendered
a welcome service to the public. Though their im-
portance ceased with the completion of the harvest,
their utility for the instruction and guidance of agri-
culturists in conducting field operations remained
almoet entirely undiminished. It was, therefore, our
ppnto have continued them, but difficulties were
foundrP" taco in in tta way of ensuring that the ob-
servations made should be exactly simultaneous, and
performed with the same scrupulous accuracy, and
also in the way of their due transmission, which com-
pelled us to desist from the attempt.
Some time after the termination of these reports, we
received, in addition to various other representations,
a communication from the Astronomer Royal, requit-
ing us to acquaint him (for his private information)
whatr their publication was finally discontinued. He
assigned as the reason for inquiring, his conviction
that such a continuous statement of simultaneous
observations of the wind in particular was likely to
lead to results of great scientific value; and added
that he had made preparations (large in reference to
the nature of the subject) for lanai; them down
graphically, and had been on the point of writing to
as to suggest an extension of the list of places, so as
to include some on the southern and western railways.