The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 8.

TrIE loyal welcome which the visit of the Qua'
has evoked from every part of 1'114,4 realises eely
what has ever her n cur confident anticipation. Bader
all circumstances, and at the serrate( times, we eat*.
Mined the firm p a suasion that her Majety nerd bit
show herself among her Irish subjects in order to
disprove the grader delusion tied there prevailed
amongst them as a nation any insane or absurd feel-
ing of enmity beards her person or her clown. It
has suited the purposes, first of one set
of politicians and then of another,
to prer
tend the contrary, to feign apprehension for ths
Wire of the sovereign, and to ineumute, to know
not what, wherever the common-sense goyim sal
asked—why should she not visit. In Lhi ? Every
ebullition of wielder ipleen cr paroxysm of agrariaa
agony has eyeti m Weeny been =grafi d into syrup-
toms of conspiracs and beginnings of retell on. Com
,ion bills were drawn, reneaed, aid drawn agile
upon the credit of this unworthy speculation ; and
how much longer it might have profitably lasted it
were hard to guess, had it not been for the wise and
geterons impatierae with which the QUEEN herself
is said to have regarded the indefinite vetpe.nement
of her natural and just desire to see for herself the
cities and the plains of "that her ancient realm .°
The QUEEN is known to be will read in binary;
and she is nut therefore likely to forget that, next to
England. the oldest inheritance cf the crown is that
whose shores she has n ,vg for the first time trod,
Four hundred years before the crest sof &viand end
of England came to be united, Ireland had through
her chiefs and clergy sworn allegiance tone house of
PLANTAGENET. And through all the Tidal-
tildes of misrule and guttering which the
people of that devoted land have intermit,
it is not a little remarkable how Odell tha
upbr sidings of popular discontent have been directed
against the occupant of the throne. The viceroy or
his subordinates, the territorial tyrants or their
agents, the acti-rational hierarchy and priesthood,
have in turn been the objects of Celtic bar d sad
reven,e. But against the monarchy it would need
some re.earch to discover htlf a dozen dunces in as
many centuries of del berate disloyalty. The tittles
and the septa fought for leave to keep ardstnetti
the broad lands of' which tie fraudulent favountiee
of successive lord deputies endeavoured to divest
them. The catholic Fords and people of the 17th
leerignttuory fought
thefait lohor
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right
eirfat toher
s.worshipThe
pa Godparliament,
ccoamsentirdd-
the 18th century struggled for freedom of trade,e
soil
the right of local taxation ar.d local jurisdiction. To
say that infinite violence, cruelty, and mischef of all
kinds was not perietuated in too course of all these
conflicts would be absurd. But to *my that is the
main the Irish were not "far more meld
against than sinning," would we believe be
godsviutraluuurlihdtutyheazieedeaorapa sfrpp
postponement
appreciate.
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lfe can hesitate feedsii:lnataaouyfti
vtiEeowotoegelinoadli?e.wir.fuedumn:itissetha
and
'soh oddcrntracwholiti
pl-de amend. shall be made to Ireland fur the wrongs
that have been done her. _

Amongst those wrongs, and not the least penikat
amongst them, is that of treating the people of Ire-
land as tributaries, not as equals. It is easy
to call this a sentimental grievance. Be it so.
We care not to argue about definitions. All we coo-
tend for is, that it unreal, the sooner it is &mitred
the better, and the easier will be the process. But by
all means let there be an end to it. We can't afford
to keep one-third of the house in a state of dilspidr
tion and darkness, because it. is a mere superr Woe to
suppose that it is haunted by certain political ghosts.
If they be but dreamy shadows, they will be the more
readily made to vanish away ; but in the
name of all that is merciful and wise, let
them be banished forthwith for ever. No
voice can do this so queickly and gracefully as
that whose feminine aceenta the people of Ireland are
now for the first time permitted to hear. Wear, no sy
cophants of royalty ; but so long as royalty exists, we
wish to see it regarded by all classes and by ail races
in the empire, as the centre and symbol or centitn-
tient' order and law. We are quite as iniisposed to
depreciate its significance, as to exaggerate its pre-
eminence. We believe that, as freemen, we have a deep
interest in the stability of our institutions; and s men of
common setse, we know that no institution, whether it
be royalty or any other, can be secure unless it be re-
Tooted. Englishmen f every rat k and close honour
and respect the Queen. We have ever believed that
Irishmen as unanimously participated in the same
feeling. Hitherto they have not had any direct
opportunity of evincing it ; but now that the oppor-
tunity has been afforded them, there is no lack of
heartiness in the national expression.
Nor let us hear any peevish or dyspeptic civil
about exceptional phrases on the one hand
or exuberant manifestations on the other. In
every community, and at all times, there will be
some who cannot share in the general joy ; and some
who carried away by mere excitability of tempers-
ment, forget the dignity that befits the citizen in the
homage proffered by the subject. Our Celtic kinr
men like our Gallic neighbours are habitually less
reserved in all their demonstrations whether of aver-
sion or affection than suits the Anglo-Saxon mode.
What then ? Shall we quarrel or
at the grandiose paragraph in a provinecai2
address, or scold the perversity of some
half-score of municipal functionaries who cannot he
made to understand that this is not a suitable occasion
for presenting political petitions? Not so. We are
heartily glad that the Queen has bed the good sense
to go this year to Ireland. We only regret that she
did not insist upon visiting that fair land ten years
ago. But we venture to foretel that the reception she
now receives will awaken in the breast of the woman rind
the queen the desire of repeating her visit frequently,
and thus, as far as is her lies, of hastening the perma-
nent reconciliation of the two countries, by the esta-
blishment between their inhabitants of relations,
,liberties, and privileges, of perfect and entire
equality.

ALL the world hes, we suppose, heard of the defal-
cation of Sir THOMAS TURTON, late Registrar of the
Supreme Court of Calcutta. ; how in that capacity, he
robbed the widow and the orphan, plundered the
creditors of insolvent estates, and made away with
sums paid into court by its suitors; how he turned
enactments intended by the legislature for the protec-
, tion of intestate estates into the means of defrauding
them ; how he indulged in the most recklt as specula-
tions with the funds of a court of justice; how, not
content with the princely revenues of his ofcei
he treated the money cielided to his safe keeping
as if it had been his private fortune! how, in short,
he criminally abused the trust reposed in him by the
highest court of law in India. By this man's own
admission, his defalcations exceed six lees of rupees;
whilst, from the report of the commission appointed
to inquire into them, it appears that eight lace of ru-
pees will not satisfy the demands upon him. An&
foe the criminal who has oominitted this robbery
there is, it seems, no punishment—for the sufferers
by his crime there is no redress. This conclusion
of so vile a transaction. of such an outrage on the
administration of justice is not, we submit, at all
calculated to elevate the character of the British
government in the estimation of the people i f
Tre papers connected with the affair have jot
been delivered. They consist of some corresponeence
between the Chief Justice of Calcutta and the su-
preme government ; the opinions of the law officers
of the home and the Indian government on the
offence; the report of the commission appointed to in-
quire into the amount of the defalcations; and the
minutes of the various members of the supreme
government on the subject. A perusal of these deem.