The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 21.

Iv cannot but be expected that the Irish at the
present moment will make a more than usual display
of their turbulent and unamiable qualities. Their
great leader is no more, he who was also their great
quieter, and the antagonist of all agitation beyond a
certain point. His lieutenants of course pretend to play,
each in his sphere, nothing lees than the liberator's
part. And as they inherit nothing beyond the cant
and extravagance which it pleased O'CONNELL to
invent and employ, we shall have common sense and
plain English outraged in every quarter of Ireland to
a most uncommon degree.
The elections offer a premium to this extravagance.
Hitherto there has been order in the anarchy of Ire-
land—we mean, the anarchy of ideas. The great
MA:MN/ILL concentrated in his capacious head the
duties and the powers of an electoral committee. He
appointed whom he chose. Those who were not
with him were against him; and he allowed no
political tomfoolery, except to gentlemen in his green
livery. „,Repeal, however, which is but a name fee
the popidar Irish party, has lost ib organisation,
discipline, decorum. It is not young Ireland that
has succeeded old, but both that have become dis-
solved into their original elements. Speakers,
henceforth bat individuals, must roar lustily to be
heard, must promise mountains in order to be
welcomed, and must out-Herod Herod in order to
please the present caprices that prevail.
Were Irish agitation, however, but the hubbub of
a school, let loose by the sudden demise of its re-
spected schoolmaster, its freaks and extravagance
might merely amuse. But unfortunately the Irish
peasant ia in the wont possible state for being excited
by such exam le,and for listening to such distinctions.
Hitherto the Irishman, though a serf, at least drew
subsistence from the land to which he was chained.
If he did commit an outrage, it was for that land.
Now, however, the great madority of the Irish pea-
santry must see their fate to be a severance from that
land. The changes in progress, or in contempla-
tion, are the abolition of con-acre, which, indeed,
the potato rot has at once effected, the total
revolution in agriculture effected by this same rat, a
broader sowing of own, as well as of green crops
to replace the potato ; bat which green crops are
=italic, and more profitable to be given to other
animals than man. Pesos and improvement in Ire-
land means, that the ox will oust the man. What is
proposed to do with the man, in order to induce him
to bear patiently his ejection by the ox 1 Are facili-
ties offered for emigration ? Have any measures
been taken for opening the possession of common and
mountain land to the labour of the dispossessed poor ?
Nothing of all this. There are the soup-pots, and
the poor-law. The poor-law may do something for
the peasant, if it prove successful. But it promises
nothing, at least to the poor man's eye.
It is to be borne in mind, that the Irish agitator in

foie,
from famine, by the bounty of providence in'a good
,Harvest, will not be so immediately a restoration of
that peanut to peaceful habits and tranquillity. On
wry, we fear a renewal of outrage, and excite-
ment, and folly. If his position be examined, and
his natural feelings analysed, sufficient canoes
will be found fbr this without recurrence to
the stupid causation of his being a Mile-
aka at a Celt. We may depend that in the in-
tenni:Mrs of classes and races, the inferior is always
that which the superior makes him. Women are
what men make them—the Irish are what the Eng-
lish have made them.
The true way to make them worse is to sow fresh
amp of that international hatred, which implies
ignorance and apathy of each other's wants, feelings,
and peculiarities, and which is too perverse, bigot,
or blind, ever to permit of a fair remedy being tried,
or a real benefit conferred.
There is an influential class in Ireland against
which it mime at present the peculiar care of
English WU* to excite odium. That class is
the Irish. 011telie clergy ; yet the conduct of the
blob paw& okra, almost to a man, daring the
tryhyr gm. it &nine, has been everything that
the Christian r•-the philanthropist could require.
There are to liemeasime prelates amongst them of the
iracund and chunk militant party. But when we con-
sider that these me some of the riper fruits of May-
-1 nooth, when its semisarista slept two in a bed, and read
repeal lectures maw than Faomott,it is not surpria-
Mg. It is less surpnitag when we perceive that
every bench of bishops has its " lien." Lotus-
PIELLTITE, though he appoints his bishops, and the
King of PRUSSIA, though he has a veto on hie Roman
Catholic ones, are each tormented with an episcopal
firebrand. Nor are we without a sample of the species.
But, notwithstanding the madness of individual
politicians and prelates, the tone and spirit of the Irish
Catholic clergy has much improved. The yeunger mem-
bers are much tempted by the young Irelaparty
join in their sentiments, and preach the repeal eammial
but fairness on the part of the government, and an
abatement of rancour and bigotry on the part of my
organs of the press, would do much to put them in
the Christian path of good fellowship and peace. Bat
at the present moment, amid the general break up of
Irish factions, the coming of an election, the distress
of the peasantry, and the menace to property in
Ireland, all classes, even the proprietorial, as well es
the ecclesiastical, have, unfortunately, strong tempta-
tion to embrace the cause of disorder and separation,
instead of that of the unity and progress of the em-
pire. It is a period at which English writers and
speakers should refrain from taunt, should conceal,
if they cannot quench, bigotry, and should, at least,
cease to irritate the Irish with insolent theories,
proving them to be of some outcast and leperoue race.
It is these words that beget murder, and that lead to
the spilling of blood ; it is they that beget the spirit
of rancour and the perversity of which are
neither of them Celtic or Eason, but a product of the
combined bitterness and bigotry of both.

WE stated some days ago that Lord FEILDING was
likely to be brought forward as a fourth candidate
for the University of Cambridge ; but we were un-
willing to discuss his claims, or rather his total ab-
sence of all claim, to the distinction which he seeks,
as long as it was possible that he might be prudent
enough to decline the contest. That an ultra-protest-
ant candidate should be in the field, is not an unsatis-
factory circumstance. The battle will be more fairly
fought, when Mr. GOCLEURN and Mr. LEFEVRE, who
in a three-handed contest would have divided between
them the second votes of Mr. Law's supporters, are
left to rely on their own strength, while W. LAW Will
loos many of the second votes, which might in that
case have been disposed of by the friends of one of the
ether two candidates.
It is, however, much to be regretted that even the
I narrowest, most prejudiced, and most unteachable
section of each a constituency as that of Cambridge,
should select as its champion an unknown and undis-
tinguished young man of twenty-four, for no imagin-
able reason but because he is the son of an Earl.
Even the no-popery zealots of the senate ought to
know that their university has a rank to maintain
which is lowered by offering its highest honour to a
young nobleman as a reward for being a nobleman.
It is enough that Cambridge allows titled students to
wear a peculiar dress, to dine at a peculiar table, to
take precedence of their college superior., and to
resolve after two years of probation, the academia
rank which is bestowed after seven years on the pro-
foundest of scholars, or on the discoverer of a new
planet. After teaching its aristocratic pupils lea,
and flattering them more, than is right or decent,
the university might be contented to rest
from its adoration of rank, when once the
public orator has proclaimed in the fulsome
Latinity of the brazen age, that the scion of an en-
nobled house has finished his short period of educa-
tion. These obsolete ceremonies can only be defended
or excused on the ground that they are superannuated
flctions,lhat drew; in these days influences no one, and
that bad Latin means nothing, however fall of syco-
phantic superlativee. The excuse is not founded
in truth, but excuses are better than justification of
what is wrong.
When, however, the educated electors of Cambridge,
no longer babbling dog Latin, or playing with anti-
quarian servility, are called to perform the swims
and respowible function of electing a
to the parliament of the present day, taa=
on questions of the present day, and to miremett'
the political wishes of a great co et:
'cholera and gentlemen, the choice of such a athlete
as Lord FEILDING shows too plainly that the: gym.
phantic forms of the university have not been without
a debasing effect on the minds of some of its members. It
they must have a representative pledged to permit
politics into a struggle for religious ascendancy, sue
who believes the university to be a mere
app
to the church, and education but the orpnirsitros
dozy, it would unfortunately not have been impend-
ble to find politicians of age and station MIN be-
coming, who would have given a sort of respectability
even to error and bigotry. Mr. Law and Sir ROBERT
INGLIS are men experienced in life and in public af-
fairs ; and those who have the misfortune to share
their opinions need not be ashamed of selecting them
as their advocates. But even the old-womanish
alarms of No-Popery may incur additional contempt
when they combine themselves with the worldly ele-
ment of adulation for rank.
Perhaps some of our readers may be surprised at
our dwelling on these preliminary ob*Msaate the
new candidate, instead of denouncing dm eartravagsnt
terms of the address which he has published; but it
is not against Lord FEILDING that our observations
are directed, but against his proposers and sepprters.
There is nothing astonishing in the exagyratum by
a young and inexperienced writer of even the
exaggerated doctrines which he is put forward
eupport. As a confession of faith, however, to "deli
all those members of the senate who may veto dir
Lord FEIIDING will have declared their
the address may deserve ',erne notice. The slats
academic opinion which it discloses would *stool&
the learned corporations of Germany or Italy; but
we are not prepared to assert that similar doctrines,
masab murandis, may not have been held in the
day! of XIMENES at Salamanca, or in those of
O'HIGGINS at Maynootb.
Adhesion to the church and hatred of popery is, of
course, the burden of Lord FEILDING'S song.. He
can wee nothing important in the university or in the
state but the preservation of orthodoxy ; not merely
of tintiam, bat of the doctrines of the este-
blis ent, and not merely of the expensive and
variously construed established faith, but of the
peculiar view put upon it by the zealous and some-
what unlearned doctors of Exeter-hall. Even dis-
sent, though favoured by. most of his 00-religionists,
he denbunoes as without the pale of his toleration.
He will oppose every, one who believes more or lea
than the truth, which, at an early age, he has
been fortunate enough infallibly to ascertain.
We were hasty m stating that his creed
was eo.exteneive with Exeter-hall ; for, in ,
those too-liberal walls, even dissenting enemies of
popery are at liberty to disport themselves. Lord
FELDING and his follower* are more properly tole
described as those who will resist to the death any
attempt to tamper with the tenets held in room A or

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. hope to truperibant him with repeal? We do, there-
, fore, much fear that the recovery of the Irish peasant