The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-25 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. SEPT. 25.

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Teo news of Lord Owens Banxixcx's death aims
upon the public like a rods electric shock. He had,
of late, been a prominent and busy actor on the poli-
tical stage. flees. was a reckless energy, an no-
wearying pertinasime activity about him, that to the
many who mew him anfy from a distance appeared to
bespeak an kw emititation ; and his Atroarits pumas
have been eta niece to streagthen that prepossession.
In the primed moshood, vigorous, and
he seemed ballad to a long weer. 1.11:=
neon sztbudea if so robust and restless a spirit
appalled Silk WNW. The intelligence was received
with ineredellty esbish gave place to that awe always
inspired by ridden balk in which enmity vanishes.
and attachment pews &ably strong.
Thera was mark in the character of Lord
Glows Oat eimmmeded lore and respect; though
it wall be and to attribute to him those
gal esminefremive, or elevating qualities which
eoestitstelbe istausan in the true sense of the word.
While yet a man, his capacity for labour, quick-
ness o( , and reliability,were discovered
and appeadeled by Mr. CANNING. Lord GEORGE'S
brief segesalleaship to public business under that
statesuma was unesseded by an interval during which
he could emu* belseked upon as a public character.
His robust Ma 111111dIalit mind found ample occupa-
tion in eta Wean et the turf. The qui tun actions
wan the first west that restored him to notoriety.
He threw his whole soul into them as entirely as he
threw it afterwards into the !toggle to uphold pro-
tection. The motives which animated him, the powers
he displa ed, were in both instances the name. A sin-
cere and ble detestation of what was (or ap-
peared to him) mean, indirect, diahooest, was a powerful
stimulant, but it would scarcely have roused him
to such vigorous and persevering efforts, had not he
felt his own interests, and the interests of his relatioes.
his habitual associates, his caste, endangered. In the
qui tam actions he laboured to crush swindlers, like
attacked the parses of himself and friends; as pete-
tectionist leader he fought for the pockets and polW-
cal ascendancy of the aristocracy to which he be-
longed. Incapable of that extended sympathy end
comprehensive intelligence, which can adjust the
claims of all classes, he was true to his order, and be
asserted what he believed to be its rights sturdily,
frankly, uncompromisingly.
Lad GEORGE Bzwritecx was a kind of guerilla
chief in politics. Ile was for the landed aristocracy
and the system of protection, what the Litionsars,
PAOLIS, and LISWILLTNS have been for weaker
nations, straggling on the verge of subjugation or
extinction against more powerful races. Endowed
with strength, activity, and indomitable resolu-
tion, his cause never could be put down while
he emained is the field. Bat his cause, like the
causes of his prototypes, was doomed, and even had
this not been the case, he was the man to protract its
downfal, bat not to re-establish it. The virtues and de-
fects of his character alike rendered him incapable of
securing empire for his party. He was too honest to
affect sympathy with the bigots and old wawa who
were willing to fight under the banners of protection;
and he wee too ealf-willed to sacrifice even crotchets
for the sake of preserving concord and unanimity is
the ranks. He could keep a minority together, and
render it infinitely harassing to his antagonists, bat
he could not convert that minority into a
Dangerous in opposition, he was incapable of
The kW sad 'nooses of Lord Dwane, brief poli-
tical career read an important lowa to his sermon
in the political nee. They were not tabbed by
OZWEIWTO knowledge or power of lutenist, for the
information he brought to bear on debates was frag-
mentary, incoherent, frequently inward% bearing
traces of recent acquisition and impeded digeon.
They were not attained by practical lodgment, for his
movemsede were operally such as to expose him to
defeat, They were not owing to the charm of a chi-
valrous generesity, for though there was a blunt
opener= end honesty about him, there was an invete-
ucy in his animosity that repelled, and its source was
nto mly personal to himself or his clam. His only
attempt to import the appearance of sentiment to
his riedvassee was most unlucky, for while his
alleged undying enmity to the enemies of his 4. illus-
trious relative" vented itself on Sir Roaaar
whose oppesitkm to Mr. CANNING never
into preeesulies, it did not prevent him froin.77l
the a and champion of that aristocratic ultra-tory
faction wide is reality hunted that great man to
death. The went of Lord GEORGE Bzwrincee
pewees kg is this, that he was a man, and he was in
earnest. masculine energy, combined with a sincere
desire to emeniplish what he undertook, enabled one
so nooderatsfy gifted intellectually, so imperfectly in-
formed, to melte seek a vigaem rally fora slanly
declining whet 10W not men of liberal princi-
ples and Weasiwfatwnetlsesooomplish for the cause
of truth and pease, if roamed of the same manly
Zit_ _ _
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Ms death of Lord Gimes Biariscx may poe-
ably that disnqition sad reecostrudion of
ens*, poetise whisk least have of its bass wishing
for, sod mere aspesting. The essriliso of old prin-
ciples and prelbesisms by which wash an arrange-
ment Mad 111 asesatty be etended, will require less
seams now, than it would when it was sore to incur
his lime and vindictive exposure. The Hecroa of
the Ilium of protection being gone, the citadel totters
to its falL They who deem the instalment of a
" strong government" all-sufficient, may see their ob-
ject more speedily attained in consequence of his re-
moval—they who think that the value of a "strong
government" depends Finch upon the extent to which
its policy is clear, precisely defined, and in harmony
with the actual balance of opinion in society, may
have reason to wish that Lord GIORGI had been
spared a little longer, in order to prevent the consum-
mation of a political alliance by the compromise of
important principles.

IN a discontented country each dame has its own
grievances, and when it joins in the general murmur
or contributes to the general stock of restlessness and
agitation, it thinks of its own vexations and sympa-
this's@ actively in proportion to its own keen sense of
wrong. Late events have proved for the hundredth
time that the open disaffection of even the most name-
' rous class of the community is powerless when un-
aided by others. Had any important number of the
middle ciao either in town or country, or of
the clergy of any denomination, coalesced
heartily and thoroughly with the Young Ireland
party, the leaden of that sertrately powerless section
might not have been dnven to despair. Great
combinations are not lightly or rashly moved ; and
the levity and weakness of the clabbists never were
so elearlT manifested as in the unresisting facility
with which they fell from a position of ostensible im-
portance Incurs of comparative legality, and
professing sympathy with the rest of the com-
munity, into open isolation and avowed die-
lorlty. The event demonstrated to all the world
what those whe andsestood the real condition of Ire-
land always averred, namely, that there was much
discontent, but little dieaffection ; and that the former
was a subject worthy of grave concern because it
sprang from just sad real causes, while the latter was
undeserving of mitres regard because it was founded
in idle matimsntiliam and vain ambition. Fur a
mountain tumult of the peasantry—whether it'
'is led by three or four educated men of
dogmata fortune. oe fanatical egotism, or
whether it be headed only by the soontaneous
Web of Rookite warfar•—provokes oar mingled pity
and diftme. It an tend to nothing but suffering
and guilt and shame. Its peremptory and rigorous
suppreinion is the obvious duty of government;

THE EXPRESS, NONDAY

the 'when the illessigefanit.
elemsronautg bee its sus
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Jury, vide se leghliteee raseirsXlre Ipaip and
ihli representstien date people would openly Woad.
and no leghisture that felt itself in Naga
'possible 6 ths
exo=roald
The vesture to
with
lIKAI
and poll strength of a essemeishg sale
infinitely maw 'rem the 'UNA and imam sea.
melon of soh hangs than by the terbium esi
bodes. or tie shaming of sordid and sOsseharg
seen. Indifibrease and dieted gradually e the
plies of public "kit sad simisrfal devotion Is die
public good.. Hsi of same will not to do a.
Crl_ seen of property will not mix themselves up
wild projects of change; bat, finding their
honest delis to consideration ed, and their
remamsbie remonstranses , such men will i
=L
one withdraw from participating in tar
and onerous duties of citizenship, and leave'
the heal direction of affairs to the less worthy, the
imee sampetsnt, and the lass discreet.
And it is jut because this fatal course is fat be-
ginning in Ireland with respect to the local adminis-
tration of the poor law, that we cease not to expos
the official folly and pedantry that obstinately per-
severes in the system from which a ccainailliass des se
deplorable has naturally sprung. m
=musize of the unions sissies'
ne almost every man of every elm and
et every interest, who hes had any
asgesintance with the working of the law, Cdprdill.
thud and protested. It has been shown again mei
aids that where a union is either too wide in meaty l
Ise dues in population the accurate lumnrie4gs at
gemessesed things which is plainly indispsmaide
sessendsal and prudent management by bowie of
geardiesse is wholly impossible. It has been need
and urged again and again that no efficient the* ea
Imposition can thus be exercised ; and that the iessel
fill right to relief to destitution is thus continually
liable to be defeated precisely in those cases white the
friendlessness of the claimant renders the wrong pe-
culiarly cruel and perilous to human life. But all
arguments, entrestissikand protestations, have alike
proved unavailing. . Tivisisrox does not choose
to change the system. The system hes all the to
and tokens of licmerest House upon it, and that is
enough. England and the Boslisb, after a ten yeses'
siege, have upset the dogmatic despotism that tried
to lord it over them ; and "Charles the Bland" reigns
in their stead. But for Ireland and the Irish there is
no remission of cpackery.
But some one may ask, what in point of fact are
the exorbitant dimensions complained of ? Are they
sitar all something similar to our own ?
We shall answer this question very plainly, and
leave our readers to draw their own inferences. And
to avoid all pretence of cavil, or the imputation of our
having adapted.and assorted cur proofs to our charge,
we shall quote in extenso the passage from the well-
known work of Mr. Pm, in which, in common with
every other independent and intelligent man in Ire-
land, he denounces this wanton and pestilent injustice.
Mr. Pm takes his figures, as ho tel us, from palls-
msntary documents. His reasoning is deduced from
practical observation.
It appears that the average area of 533 unions in England
is 64,018 acres ; the average area of 130 unions in Irelan4,is
155,460 acres. Out of 633 unions in England and Wales,
there are ally ,42 whose area enemas 100,000 sores ; while
of the 130 unions in Ireland there ste 107 exceeding this
extent.
And he then proceeds to notice the extreme case of
one particular union, that of Balling, whose absurd
extent transoended all the rest, but which we do not
think it fair to quote, inasmuch as &tardy promise has
been, it is said, extorted from the chief commissioner
that it shall be divided. Each half will still, how-
ever, fall under the categories above given. So much
for ths area; now for the population. Our respected
author says:
Ths average population of Ee7 unions in England is
13,445 Timone; the average population of 139 unions in
Ireland is 131,11/9. The average area of 14,490 willies in
England is 1,620 sires ; the average area of 1,049 electoral
divisions in 'Mead is 9,803. The avenge population of
14,490 parishes in England is 1,007 peons; the average piis
palatine' of 2,019 electoral divisions in Ireland is 3,9159.
Thus we have the poorer and more needy land die.
tributed in portions of treble the extent and more
than treble the inhabitants; and then when any
blunder, neglect, or mismanagement is detected, it is
trumpeted forth by the Treasury organs, to the ever-
lasting ditty of " Unfit for self-rule," or the old
catch tune of " Irish jobbing."

Oxs of the great mad prized peculiarities of Eng-
lish life is its privacy. However humble the station
or narrow the means of a family, the first effort of its
chief is to wall it round, and conceal alike its enjoy-
ments and its privations, its virtues and its vices, trom
neighbouring eyes. Law, as well as custom, respects
this domestic susceptibility. " Bach marls house is his
castle," is a well-known proverb; nor, except for some
purposes of (locality, or in consequence of grave and
attested suspicion, can an Englishman's doors be en-
tered by the police.
This sacrosanctity of EngPsh life, amounting in
general to unsocially, and often marked by churlish-
was, is still connected with many and peculiar vir-
tues. But at the same time, when a spirit of reli-
gion and morality does not preside over this
closed up family circle, it facilitates the
commission and concealment of loathsome habits
and of heinous crimes. In all other countries
there are more abundant means and facilities for
keeping watch upon the domestic doings of each in-
dividual. The rustic mansion and the farm-house
must everywhere have their doors open. In towns
many families dwell under the same roof, and are
obliged to ascend and descend the same staircase.
Religion in many countries has a powerful police. In
those lands where confessionals exist, and a catholic
priest enjoys that moral and religious control which
enables him to penetrate every secret, domestic
crimes become less practicable. The confessional, in-
deed, may produce crimes, as well as prevent
them; and we are far from recommending it.
We would merely premise, that the facility of shaking
off all religions community and authority, nr, what
is the same thing, the prevalence of a religion which
does not coins home to the poor, with its authority as
well as its consolation, removes a great many salutary
obstructions to crime.

In England tiiiiri;iigions polies is perhaps not ac-
cordant with our free habits and social development.
Where such is the came, the law should supply the
want of it, first and principally, as we have shady
urged, by education, and b 7 the intervention at certain
times of the administrative police, to see that the
great acts of life be authenticated by duo forms and
Wended with due precaution..
We have certainly made much progress and im-
provement in these respects of late years. But more
evidently is wanting. The registry of births has
been somewhat cared for. But deaths are not veri-
fied with the solemnity and precision that are required.
In France, when &death takes place, interment cannot
follow without a visit on the part of the medical
officer of the district, or the written report of a known
and accredited medical practitioner. The penalties
for eluding these forms are extremely severe. And,
although domestic poisonings are not unknown in
France, yet the knowledge that a medical person
must see and examine the body before interment,
must have deterred and prevented many • crime,
whilst at the same time it must be admitted that this
scrutiny has given birth to a series of mysterious and
immutable poisoning, of which we have had traces
here.

""The interesting volumes lately published by Serjeant
TALFOCTRD, and entitled " Memorials of Charles
Lamb," have, perhaps, not attracted the attention of
other than literary readers. Yet they contain an so-
count of one of the most fearful tragedies. They
several the guilt of Warcoraisarr, and display one of
the most atrocious criminals and poiemen of modern or
of intimate, mingling gaily, to thereemabracoe ofevery
one, in the frequented places and moieties of London.
The murders which he perpetrated were of the same
kind win those which sow attract atteatiaa, his aim
being to wisest thousands from lasoroaso miss %
the of poorer criminals being to eaquire some
chilling, is the Maps of burial fees for the murder of
infants, too Obit their own. Could not the humbler
burial society, u well as the wealthier insurance
dike, be endowed with the right of medical Imes-

[ING, SEPTEMBER 25,

Wu lid thirdeassed, as a neceselps pipliellOwy to •
rztafterwards° died on to pay mix OM of motley,
se midi? Or not t benefits of &general
usepsetion of the ' oak as oxide 'bread, wet-
weigh in ite benefits an nettLlbe inconvenience
and expellee to which
.04 institittion would, at
lent is the first insteAse, be As to bsibg so-
cieties, they might be abolished oe superseded altoge-
ther, by
actions
mithoeities undertaking to perform
the last f toe-She poor in *mannerless marked
with the degradiag Amp of pauperism than is the
system at present.
But whatever prevention be applied to these crimes
and poisonings which of late have so often raised a
blaeh for the country, with some resentment against
both physical providers for the poor and the moral and
religious teachers of the fivilty regions, it must be still
borne in mind that misery and destitution are in
general at the root of such crimes. When any
number of families have been brought to that state of
heart and mind that they can speculate on the slow
destruction of their own offspring, then indeed
poverty and despair have been at work to a degree
in which it behoves the wealthy to intervene, despite
of all the prohibition of political economists, to avert
the terrible curse of fiendish guilt and bestial degrada-
tion from the land.

while its puaishment may to some extent be ha-
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origla3* meat et _ power to rowdy
practical bjeettop. and whisk day by day. oonsnme
the patine, of the beet diaist sad the faith of the
'sea dtoffabo two,," eaa knows: say.