The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-25 00:00:00

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crumble before five minutes' Cannonade. ra
OUDINOT confines his operations to the only partiz
of Rome that has the semblance cf fortificet,on foe
the sake of enacting before the eyes of theParisiansthe
comedy of a regular siege. Stich formidable open.
tions were no doubt intended to weary out and ter.
rify the ltomans. Perhaps the delay is now calm.
lated to allow of the Austrians, Neapolitans, sat
Spaniards coming to the aid of the French. Gm.
BALDI, to be sure, hed also interposed and caused
delay by a sortie, in which he got possession of se.
venal of the French batteries, and in which, even by
French acoonnts, he spiked three of their guts.
A fortnight's siege of the old wall, erected by the
Popes, many years ago, to prefect the Vgi.
can from the p;ratic incursions of the Turks, is alone
a diefgraceful thing. A proof of the straits to *hick
the }reach are put, and of how little they are mute,
of even the country behind them, is the fact of their
placing their wounded in one of the villas fee ny the
Roman batteries, as if they could not have removed
them to the tear, or to the Monte Maio. Initeadd
this they have placed them in a compienoas
within musket shot of the Ituaan batteries.
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OUTGOING MAILS.

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bee toed. foe
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at
juse.Cadiz, and HlV:altar,
Math for Mum Soma *turns. and tar UMW Btatm will be
made up on the maim of the 29th of June.
The West India Mails, 'including nermoda, Havanna. Minas,
Honduras, NOVI Helaine, and Mexico, and excluding those for
Madeira, lit. Jaamele-Nlearagua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, will
be made up an the morning of the 2nd July.
The mails lor Madeira, the Brazils, and Banos Ares, will be made
up on the evening of the 4th of July.
The mails ter thbraltar, Malts, lima, the balsa Islands, Fgypt.
Osylon, India, and China. via Southemptcm, wilt be made up ea the
morning of the 20th of July.

MON WATTS' AT LONDON MIDGE.
Tray. n..—Meralar.ll W. past 6. APIATIOM. 44 "Oa pit S.
Tu Nasuor—llandAA, II dn. pot 6 ; aftemos.lll Ma. put 4

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 25.

A public meeting, as will be observed by our ad-
vertising columns, is to be held on the evening of
Wednisiday next at the London Tavern, to hear the
statements which are to be made by a deputation
from the ceatral relief committee in Dublin, regard-
ing the condition of the western counties of Ireland.
Pestilet ce and famine are ravaging these devoted
portions of the land. To stay their proves or resist
their power, the ordinary means Established by law
are found wholly inadr quite; and unless some exc p-
tional aid can be obtained to meet the pressing wants
1 of the ensuing six weeks, multitudes must inevitably
of
perivk by slow t. S a for such a mass
fellow-beings uorture nder anyuch circumstances it would be
sufficiently revolting and shameful to contemplate
with indifference or unconcern. But whenthe period
of immediate peril to these unhappy beings is limited,
and its duration may be reasonably estimated as mea-
sureable almost by daye,—the comparative smallness
of tt e assistance that is required renders any doubt of
its being afforded all the less excusable. Were it a
great help, or fur the whole province, or for a
lengthened space of time, that was needed, the
magnitude of the evil would paralyse hope and
benumb the energy of benevolence ; but the region
where extreme suffering at the present moment pre-
vails is fortunately defintable within known and ac-
knowledged boundaries; the ripening harvest already
waves within sight of the famishing; all that is ne-
cereaey is to tide them over the mean season, and thst
by • moderate effort may be done.
We have reason to believe, however, that the object
of those who constitute the deputation alluded to,
is no so much to ask for pre sent aid as to en-
deavour to direct public attention to the practical
causes of popular suffering in Ireland with a view to
their permanent removal. To save life is always a
moral duty ; but merely to postpone the annihilation
of the poor by temporary gifts is no acquittance of
social and political obligation. We boast of our pre-
eminent opulence and freed..m. Our imptrial great-
ness is less an object of pride than our national civi-
lisation ; yet here at our very door—in daily presence
of our splendour—thousands whom we mock with the
legal appellation of fellow-citizens, stand without
being able to find work till they sink from want,
and having sunk, are in danger of being there left to
die of inanition.
Something there must be—many thirga there
must be—fearfully wrong in the system under which
'scenes like these occur. It is no use trying to evade
the question, or to shuffle the reeponsioility off the
national conscience by abusing the landlords, or ab-
using the agitators, or abusing the peasantry. These
may have each their sins to answer for; but a sys-
tem of rule which his for years permitted them all
to take their various ways is not to be exonerated
from blame because the net result of all has been hi-
thert.) un paralleled suffering and disaster. And whether
exonerated or not •s regards the past, that system
of rule, if continued unchanged, cannot be held guilt-
Isis as respects the future. All the world now knows
what hes come of allowing a few hundred families to
hold the soil of Connaught in entailed monopoly ; all
the world is now aware of what comes of leaving the
tillers of the soil without legal guarantee or assurance
that the huh. of their labour will not be arbitrarily
taken from them ; all the world is now convinced
that, however good and just in itself, a poor law can
never form a substitute for spontaneous employ-
ment or afford a safe or effectual stimulus
to productive industry. We are all for keep-
ing up the poor law in its fullest and
most vigorous operation ; but we are all against
relying upon it for popular redemption or national
prosperity. Amend it, improve it, strengthen it, if
you will ; only when all that is done do not trust to
its agency for rescuing the west of Ireland front its
present normal state; tat that is beyond the power of
any poor law to accomplish.
The deputation who have asked for a hearing on
Wednesday consists, as we are informed, of clergy-
men and laymen of different political opinions and re-
ligious denominations. But they are united in a
mission of benevolence and justice, and their aim ap-
pears to be to engage rather the thinking and
reasoning attention of the public, than the more tran-
sitory and excitable sure, p ibility which has so fre-
quently been moved by eloquent appeals and startling
narratives, in vain. As might have been expected,
the first to give them heed and help apparently have
been the members of the Society of Friends—those
untiring advocates of everything that promises to
contribute towards the amelioration of mankind, and
who, in the practical walks of social and national
improvement, are never weary of well-doing. It is
to be hoped, however, that the assemblage at
the London Tavern will embrace many of all
classes and sentiments. It will be a proof of good
sense, as well as good feeling, if business men are
found to take up the matter as one of business. Phi-
lanthropy is an excellent motive when no better can
be had ; but for the sake of the down-trodden, suffer-
ing, and help-needing poor, we had infinitely rather
see those who offer to take counsel together about
their c mdition, begin by the frank and far-sighted
avowal that they telt convinced it was for the in-
terest of every clans and portion of the community
that every other class and portion should be well
used and well off. This is the true philosophy of
Christian civilisation, as opposed to that which in
days gone by made the culture and happiness of
the ruling few to depend upon the obedient
endurance of the toiling multitude : a system
which, not only in heathen realms but in
our own, under the desecrated name of
Christianity, too long prevailed, but which in many
instances (our West India colonies for example) has
already been overthrown, and which in a region
nearer home cannot much longer be permitted to
1 subsist. Ireland has for generations been governed,
byall parties in the legislature in turn, for the benefit
the few, and through their instrumentality. The
interests of England, as well as her feelings of justice
and mercy, require tint henceforth this destructive
and demoralising policy should cease. "Justice,"
says BURKE, "is the standing policy of every state;
and any departure from it stands under the suspicion
of being no policy at all." The fruits of injustice to
Ireland are unhappily no subject of suspicion : they
are palpable, shameful, and no longer tolerable.

The aim of OUDINOT, it he have an aim, mute
however, be to get possession of that part of Rome
which contains the Vatican. It forms a complete
projection from the regular line of Metes,
and its base, from the castle of St. Angelo
to the angle of the old wall beyond St. Peter's is but
a short distance. To attack this pot of Rome openly
and directly, however, would be to destroy St. Ps.
ter's, and to burn the Vatican ; an act of Vandalise
from which even OUDINOT must shrink. Although
even in the manner in which he proceeds, tl c
can runs very great risk of being burned. But were
the French masters of the gate of St. Pancrazio azig
that portion of the wall, thy might en
drive the Romans from around S. Pct.r's, easel
take possession of a portion of the city, which the
capture of the castle of St. Angelo would complete.
But the Romans, it is well known, have made prori.
sion even for this ; they would blow up the bibigee.
and stilt hold out in their streets.

Notwithstanding all this, it canna be hoped
that the Roman citizens can hold out cow
against so many enemies, far. t Aucrism
by advancing, and with Neap Lita s and
Spaniards occupying the roads mall and eat
of Rome, would soon establish a blwkalc, cat off all
supply of provisions, and thus in epare for acccmplish.
ing uy famine what could not be done by bombard.
meet or assault. Tee only circumstance that could
prevent this—a very dubious one—we:rid be tbe risiag
of the Romagnese and the Tusears, and the successful
repulse of the Auitt hoe. 'this is :.•est c,:ly to be hopsd;
but this alone could enable the Runiacs to make an
effectual, as well as a prolonged and brave mildew*.
The French, however, haNe b. gun to !Mule heavy
price which they arc paying from their pu,kets se
well as from their honour in their retrious (sped-
tlon. A million sterling has dread, b:eu eap.nded
upon it, being about 401. a man. Anotb,f million
is demanded from the hard at,d dua:y tads of the
French peasant for the purpose of crushing his
Roman brother end delivering Lim up as a runaway
slave to the POPE. Tee blot on their natioaal
honour the French ministry may gild over. But the
hl It in the financial accounts is meta befinto: no
gilding can cover a deficit, nor any am' ant of laurels
shade it.

Mhatever be the result, the disgrace and the cost
will be to the charge of the oppressor,, the glory and
the sacred reminbeence to the Bateman We were
congratulating ourselves that England at lent was
no accomplice in this grave and infamous
act of delivering up Italy to its tyrants,
an act that can only be etonpuesl to the
infamous robberies and partition of Poland. But
when we see our envoy, S'r GEORGE HAMILTON,
giving a grand Jute to welcome tte Austrian generals
and officers into Florence, we can only cons•der it
an act of adherence on the part of the representative
of Great Britain to that great military and despotic
reaction which now overwhelms the Peninsula.
Under such circumstances as those of Italy, r.
think our representative ought to haveobserveda
decorous abstinence, above all, from galas and jab&
flans. What.ver justice may be on eiri‘r aide, et
all events the present state of Italy is not congenial
to festivity and rejoicing, mach less t, funivi-
ties at British expense, far Austrian exulta-
tion. Our tax-payers at home pay out of
their income and other taxes wherewithal
to fete General Amen and his Austrian afic rs, fresh
from the sack of Bologna, and greedy for that of An-
cona and of Rome. The expenditure of British money
in such rejoicings as these is an expeniiture also of
• British honour and consiateacy. It is a subject for
our patriots and economists to inquire into, and, at
lc est, not to let it go without affixing a pa:hams:ivy
stigma.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SA i't"iti)AY, 5 39 r.st.
The new representatives seem determined to do as
ttle as possible for their money. They held no sit.
ting at all yesterday, and to-day they gave up busi-
ness at half-pas, 2. Eeveral projects were brought
forward. Count Mole pr iposed a vole of thanks to
the army for their conduct at Lyons, whicti was
carried; and then M. Blanchard read tl.e following
list of names of candidates for the office of Conseillers
d'Etat : MM. Baude, Baumes, Belie, Bethmont,
Riven d'Puzy, Cousin de Perceval, de Fusee, Ducts,
Freston, G. de Itumilly, Guizard, Zi ly (Miura, Zed-
mann, Jubelin, Laferrrere, I.asnye, Macavel,Maillard,
Masson, Nouton, O'Donnell, Gen. I'reval, de Renne'
erne, S'. Aignan, Simeon, Gen. Tar;(., Lourangin,
Tournoner, Vivier, Ventlefroy.
You will probably be surprised to find such a docu.
meat as the following emanating horn M. Odillon
Barrot. You are aware that he combines the offices
of Minister of Justice with that of Pres'dent of the
Council. In his former capacity he addresses this
cimular to the procureurs-genemix
Paris, June 22. —Monsieur le Procureur General,—The
anarchical party, for some time past, was giving the mat
insolent challenge to the government, to our institutions, to
all society. Deceived by some unhoped for vaults of the
last general election, it thought that it found accomplices
where in reality, there were only opponents. Its audacity
increased from its illusions, and it gave the signal of ea
arm( d insurrection. This was the third time, since the
foundation of the republic, that a factious minority appealed
to brute force against the powers which emanated
front universal suffrage: it is also the third tint
that right has triumphed, thanks to the loyal and
energetic co-operation of the national guard and the army.
But you will be the first to perceive that society cannot long
exist in this state of continual anxiety, and in the midst d
these sanguinary and almost periodical cor theta ; it would,
in the end, die away in misery, or would react violently
against a government powerless to give it security, that first
want of nations living by their labour. It is absolutely ne-
cessary to put a term to such a state of things. We me-
net do so, except by restoring to the law, and to the
respect for right, these eternal foundations of every Ins
government, and consequently of the Republic, such $
strength as that every idea of violence sba'l be hencefoe
ward kept down amongst even the most ardent and mat
resolute anarchists by the sentiment of their complete inst.•
lity to effec! anything. It is to the magistrate. of the judicial
order—to you, in particular, who are the depository of 11
public action—that it belongs to co-operate powerfull! ix
leading to this result. The occasion is good and decisive.
Experience has now been given to everyone. No one can
THE gallant and simultaneous resistance of Rome, deceive himself as to the evils which the victory of anarchy,
Ancona, and Venice, with the previous feats of Milan, were it only fre a day, would call down on soc.cy. The no.
Brescia, and Messina, prove at least that neither vernment is consequently henceforward assure dof the wave
courage nor constancy are wanting to the Italians, co-operation of all good citizens, who will not consent to be.
and that if they still succumb and are again enslaved, hatioreovuer Great and
, cillio,bsoillsvedrfrtte societyd
become degrag4
mi_e. of the convulsion
this is not owing to any deg, nem ion of the race, but of a social perhapsu.On the other side, at no period of our biStel
to untoward fate, which has put so many elements of has the sewed between the legislative power an.: the woe
division and oppression amongst them. In the pre. tive power been more complete in the sentiment of common
sent rat uggle, however, the Italians will have acquired danger, and in the energetic resolution to pr. serve thecouuldf
at least confidence in their power of resistance ; they fromh it. Cernnisiyatuhte
y :rubeutinalasgoistitramteasy:Zrarls'rem'irrtit
must know henceforth, that as soldiers, they are ca- the
evierr wineleohave been Defter assured than at present of the
pable of encountering either French or Austrians. support of the great powers of the state, and of that, not In
All they want is union and organisation, with time firmly pronounced, of public opinion. Let there he no hei
to accomplish both. And, indeed, from what we see tation in the accomplishment of the duties of your ministry;
taking place at Rome and Ancona, it is clear that had e tiiteseeotfi
satisfied
awl surely
universalrelyan and Lroffmrepetel yefialdl
tohnethog
letenthew roe
CHARLES ALBERT adopted the views of the Italian men,
inited right of discussion and criticism, want again to
ultra-liberals, refused battle, and fallen back upon have recourse to violence. What scruple should arrest yen?
Genoa, calling on central Italy to rise behind him, he Are they not still more culpable against lib.rty, which they
only Piedmont, bat Italy. compromise so gravely, than towards order, which, in the
wou
Ald have saved not s
e can but follow and record the I end, will always triumph ? I have been several time' con-
it is, however, w , stilted on the qu s'ion as to whether the -cry of " Vine Is
fortunes of the unequal struggle. That before Rome ROublique Sociaie !" and the exhibition of a red flag were
continues undiminished. M. Dm Concridxs and M. to be considered as constituting misdemeanours; I used to
LATOUR D'AU'VERGNE had arrived on the 12th in the reply, before the late events, that a prosecution ought to be
French camp with fresh instructions. And we regret to made subordinate to circumstances. At present my reply
that General OCIDINOT had then the sanction of M. I will be much more absolute: a cry and colours whichb have
Pang I become the signal and symbol of civil war cannot en
DUPAURE and M. DE TOCCIUSILLE for exposing , forward remain unpunished. The law on the clubs
Rome, its monuments and its population, to the and dangerous reunions will give you means 01 putting an
horrors and ruin of an incessant cannonade. end to these hotbeds, where passions went t t obtain aliment
From the 4th to the 17th the French have been and excitement. But it must not be allow d that
ethreW
_vto-ue.
engaged in their nonsensical and idle works of siege. lenee driven from the club', shall find perhaps
lj
genius organs in daily publications or evi n the end "
We say nonsensical, because with their troops masters pamphlets hawked about in our towns and country &strew:
of the left bank of the Tiber, the old walla of Rome I cannot too much call your attention to this system._!!
on that side are open to their attacks, and would hawking, and the emissaries of secret societies, who alia