The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

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The We'd India Melly excluding Bermuda, Nawau, Havanna, 1
Rondonia, New Orlema, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
includlng three for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthage., Santa Martha,
Magma, Panama, Weld Coast of South America, and St. Juitn.de-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the RIM rung of the l7th May.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Liatim, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 17th May.
The mail. mr Britlrh North America, and the United States, '
will be mane up en the evening of the 19th May.
The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greve., the lonian Wanda,
ERVIS, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-Kung, and China, no Southamp-
ton, will be made up on the morning of the loth May.
The overland elc-ed mails, rid Marmillta, to the Mediterranean,
NUS. Aden, Ceylon, Idia, Hong-Kong, &c., will be made up un the
evening of the Itch May.
The mails for New South Wales, Van !Orman's Land, and New
' Zealand will be made up ott the evening of toe 31st 31. y.
The mads for the Bit& Wad of Afnca and Madeira will be made
tap oz the cicalae of the 31 et May.
The mails for the Brasile., the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Buena, Ayres, will be mode up on the
evantng of the 3rd Jane.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-otlice, during 1817, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOCIETHILIL
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778,714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 16.
We. hive perused, with due attention and respect,
several essays or articles on the subject of Ireland, re-
cently published by Mr. THOMAS CARLYLE in the
Examiner and Spectator. Thu first of these commu-
nications seems to assume that the repeal of the union
was the great panacea for Ireland, and that the main-
tenance of the British empire was the cause which
prevented the Claddagh fishermen from sailing forth
to cast their nets, and the other branches of Irish in-
dustry from being equally active and productive.
This, we fear, is a mistake. There are but three
things possible In Ireland—the still upheld ascendancy
of its upper classes ; or the acquired ascendancy of its
lower classes; or British ascendancy acting as umpire
between them, preserving the peace, and gradually
producing a compromise. The Irish gentlemen who
form the Protestant Repeal Association may fancy
they could ensure the first state of things—a vain hal-
lucination. A repeal of the union could lead to Lo
state but the second—a predominance of the great
Irish popular mass, led chiefly by its priesthood,
or by men who dare not contradict that priest-
hood. That ascendancy would sweep from the
Irish soil every Saxon element, including capital,
political and commercial experience. Ireland, in 011116
no foreign power took possession of it, would relapse
into that state which monkery prepared for Paraguay
—that is, would perpetuate its present idleness and
poverty, and leave the lower class not one whit bet-
tered by the massacre, moral or material, of the claw
now superposed upon it.
In his later essays Mr. CARLYLE sets aside theques-
tion of repeal, and treats of remedial measures, but
censures remedial measures, such as the extension of
the franchise and electoral right as idle, as an attempt
"to mend the rent in the masonry of an edifice with
two Whitechapel needles." Instead of this Mr.
CARLYLE recommends an organisation of labour, and
an enregimentiog of Irish spademen.
Now, we fully admit that the remedial measures of
the Premier are inefficient and feeble. But we can
scarcely blame him for • not doing more. For
why ? Lord J. ResseLL is no unconditional minis-
ter of this empire. lie bath parliament to consult,
two houses of parliament, one of which is totally mo-
nopolised by landlords, whilst, in the lower house, as
Mr. MACKAY shows, the said landlords possess 491
out of 638 votes. Go—and tell a minister to organise
labour in the face of such a majority as that. Go-
vernment did try to organise labour by a law for the
reclamation of waste lands in Ireland. What was the
result? The landlords were partly indignant, /
partly contemptuous. Pen scmiti d it. The Irish
repeaters themselves, anxious for landlord alliance, and
dreading a good measure fur ridding and contenting
the peasantry, pooh-poohed it. And the poor whigs
pocketed their measure, just as they have done the
sanitary one. Precisely the wane story might be
told of the 11.11 for the Sale of Ineumbered Estates—
a mere nullity as at present brought forward.
It is quite idle and most unjust to accuse
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, of doing what neither he
no PEEL can do in parliaments coustituted as i
they are—however adroit PEEL may be in trick-
ing landlordism out of its monopolies. But
such tricks eennot be repeated ad in./indult:. The
only path now to secure work fur the Irish peasant,
scope far Irish indnstry, justice and consideration to
English labour, is to change the spirit of parlia-
ment, to liberate it from the monopoly of the land-
lords, and to let other classes he heard and be felt.
The only way to effect this, short of rep-
lution, is by extension of the franchise,
by augmentation of the constituencies. Mr.
CARLYLE bemocks the extension of the Irish franchise
and the adoption of 111. rating as a qual fication, and
rays, what is this to a population that want potatoes.?l
e beg to say that to feed the hungry and the &ell- I
lute is one duty, but it should not preclude the other
duty of placing the la w-mekieg and toe providing
for the hungry and destitute more and more in the
hands of the citizens at large, instead of leaving
R as it in, the monopoly of the reckless