The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

HR. COBDEN AND THE FRENCH TREATY.

We (Post) have been favoured with the following
extract from • private letter, dated Augnst 13, addressed
by Kr. Cobden to a friend in this country, and we have re.
ceivedpenrission to publish it:

" I have still no reason to doubt that matters will be
brought to a satisfactory result here. Up to the present
moment I have experienced nothing but candour and
straightforwardness in my dealings with the French govern.
went, while all the misrepresentation, falsehood, and die.
culties which I have had to encounter have conic from
the English side of the Channel. Nothing divests me
more than the cowardice and want of honest principle
iu our own politicians. Anything for a momentary cry
which may give a triumph over a political opponent' seem'
to be the motto of our party men. You will see that in
lees than a couple of years all our politicians will be eager
enough to claim the merit of having always been friendly
to the French treaty. The paragraph you enclosed, giving
• conveention of mine, is one of those rascally acts of eaves.
dropping for which American newspaper writers are so no.
torione. There is a good deal of the paragraph which agrees
with what I have thougfit ; but whether I expressed it in
private cesivereation is more than I could swear tq as no
one expects to be made responsible for private gossip.
Them ought to be the punishment of the pillory or the
stocks revived for those who publish in newspapers the
unguarded remarks which fall from • man in private con-
versation, when he frequently speaks merely to provoke •
reply and keep people from going to sleep over too serious
an interchange of views. No ; I did not help the Emperor
to prepare his pamphlet ►bout the English and French armies
and navies. Take my wont for it, however, that there is •
vast deal of systematic lying in England about the French
arrnamenta. Yon remember that charming old lady,
Madame Wolley'a landlady, whom we rialto], who re-
marked—' Pauvre John 8011, quand on veut enlever son
argent, ou lui fait pour de noes !' I am ashamed of the
childlike simplicity with which Englishmen allow them-
selves to be imposed upon respecting anything French.
You will see • went and sudden reaction in the public mind
soon. Common sense, aided by the publication of the new
French tariff, will put an end to the panic."

IRREMOVABLE POOR.-REPORT OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE

This morning was issued the report of the select
committee appoiuted on the operation of the Act 9 and 10
Vie., c. 66, which enacts that no poor person shall be re.
movable who shall have resided five years in any pariah
and of the Acts 10 and 11 Vie., c. 110, end 11 and 12 Vie.,
cap. 110, which enact that the relief given to such ire.
movable persons shall be charged upon the common fund of
the union. The committee have agreed to report the follow.
lag resolutions to ties house :
" 1. That the operation of the act (9 and 10 Vict. c. 66)
is beneficial to the poor in mitigating the hardehips Deems
eerily incidental to any law of removal. 2. That the period
of residence, in order to acquire • status of irremovability
(tf that status be continued) may, with advantage to the
poor, be reduced from five years to three. 3. That the area
of residence necessary for acquiring &status of irremovability
(if that status be continued) may also, with advantage to
the poor, be extended from the pariah to the whole 'union. 4.
That orphan children, who may on the death of their sue.
viving parent be renitiveble, shall have the status of
movability which their surviving parent may have &Nuked.
5. That the cost of the maintenance of such lunatics in
asylums as are now chargeable to a parish within • ludas
should be charged on the common fund of such union. 6.
That the oontsibutions of parishes in unions to the common
feud should be based upon a consideration of the annual
rateable value, and the amount of the population combined
in one sum, by adding the amount of the popula.
lion, according to the last census, to the amount
of the parochial assessment, soil by taking the
result as the assessment in pounds sterling. The
committee further desire to report that during this
inquiry evidence has bean submitted to them of come pecu-
liar evils which attend the removed of Irish poor when
chargeable in England. These chiefly relate to the mode
and form of conducting removals, and they would, loubtleas„
be lessened by the adoption of the foregoing resolutions, OA
greater facilities of becoming irremovable (by limiting the
period and extending the area of residence) would be
afforded to the poor. The committee, however, in order to
prevent entirely the recurrence of the evils referred to,
would strongly recommend that legislative effect should im
given to the following prec-autions, via.:—' (a.) That no
warrant shall bo boiled for the removal of any poor person
from England to Ireland, except by justices amembled at •
potty session or by • stipendiary magistrate. (b.) That
the said justices or magistrate shall not issue the warrant
without seeing the heed of the faintly to be removed, and
being 'satisfied that each of the parties sought to be removed
is in such a state of health as not to be liable to injury by
removal. (e.) That • statement to this effect shall be
inserted in the warrant, with the name and age of ev
child under the age of 16 years so ordered to be 'emir/
together with the name of the place where the juatieni ft
the pauper to hove been barn or to have resided. (ill That
during the winter months no woman, or child under the age
of le, shall be sent we; the Channel as a deck pameuger.
(e.) That in all inane of removal of trials paupers
the removing pariah shall be bound to defray
the aid of the removal of soy parson ordered to
be removed to the place iu Ireland which, upon evidence
before justices, shall appear to be the place of birth or
residence of such person. (f.) That • copy of the warrant
and the depositions shall be sent, if riajuired, to the board
of guardians in Ireland of the union to which the removal
is to be made.' The committee desire to espiess their
opinion that the laws of settlement awl removal should re.
wive the early attention of the legislat•ire."
The chairman of the committee wai Mr. Villiers. The
witnesses included clerks to guardians and relieving officers
from various large towns of England, aid frutu Belfast,
Dublin, and Cork.