The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1850.

has committed the breach of a astute. What we
seSet
is, Olathe by broken that tacit and long-
pacts* between the great liberal party in Befr-
iend the Roman catholic. throughout the empire.
Wethenghtthem, =dell' hope to and them, English-
men. But he would make them Rums, or Austrians,
er the intellectual reefs of any empire or ambitions
power that may happen to dominate in Central
Italy. It seemed wise and just to our Ministers to
abet and recommend the introdustion of ermstatn-
timid government into the Mates of Italy,
as the beet way of reconciling the interests
of the sovereign with the spirit Of tie piepiia
Not the POEN, indeed, bat the Austrian sad
Neapolitan cardinals, into whose heads he has
fallen, have thought proper to take umbrage at oar
liberal advice. And they have entered in mese-
game* into a system of petty and personal rivalry
and retaliation, as despicable as it is unjust,
and illiberal. As this absolutist party in Rome em-
ployed Archbishop FIANZONI to disturb Piedmont and
create embarrassment to all liberal goverment% so it
ham sent Cardinal WISEMAN hither on the muss errand.
And we forthwith find him at loggerheads and per-
sonalities with our ministers, just as FLANZONI was
with AzeOLTO. Not all the sophistry of Cardinal
WISEMAN can ommeal these political morel, which
we shall not mese to resist and expose, far more as
liberals than m protestant&

Tao of the Barton-on-Trent farmers'
deb, w we reported on Saturday, were remark-
able sad %Meant ; very. There was neither par-
son nor eg , politician nor cultivator, who treated
protection se otherwise than a dead lion, to be kicked
and spit upon. Yet there were no fewer than two
members in parliament, two members out of pulls-
' meet, two parsons, and a brace of farmers amongst
the post-prandial orators; and all complained of and
groaned over the sufferings of agriculture. Every
one, too, had his specifil for its recovery. But no
one press 'bed a course of high rents and dear
bread. All were, pecuniarily speaking, of the ear
earthish ; but none, (not even the conservative mem-
ber for the county who was present, and an
unusually good specimen of the genus he is) dared
to delude tee Derbyshire farmers by insinuating even
that a return to act of parliament prices for the pro-
duce of the British soil was within the regions of pro-
babilities.
It is no little thing, no small matter to catch a
batch of landlords and tenants in this rational frame
of mind ; for wonderful are the truths they set to
work to tell each other; plain their speaking ; prao-
tical their interchange of recommendations and com-
pliments. Oh! it is plemant and instructive and
suggestive to listen to them on such occasions. Then
the parsons exhort to resignation and exertion ; then
the spires preach up high farming and in-
domitable enterprise ; then the farmers retort
with moderate rents and long loam. Apply
capital to the soil, say the landlords; give us
security for our outlay, respond the tenants; the popu-
la'ion is increasing, remarks the moire; so are the
rates, shouts out the farmer ; have faith in the future,
sweets the parson ; have mercy for the present,
Menu the suffering tithe payer; 'until at last a
soda song is snug as the symbol of reconciliation,
sad all go borne satisfied that they have touched up
and tickled their neighbors.
At Burton-on-Trent all this took place; and as
Lord LTND iIIIRST said, "something more," and that
"something more" deserves a remark or two. Thus,
for instance, Mr. OISBORN IS, a sensible man and a good
liberal, though given to joking and hyperbole occa-
eirmally, declared that investigation, since the repeal
of the corn laws, had convinced him that land in
this country was unjustly and unfairly taxed. But
assuming that this be so, what does Mr. °moron
propose to do? Transfer part of the burtheme to the
other classes of the community ? This would be a
I clumsy expedient at a time when those classes de-
imand relief from, not addition to, the praetors which
taxation already places on them. Does.
Mr. Gus-
Mahe think that the country generally would be
saddled if it saw rents increased by transferring
NMI of the local rates from land to industry—from
pagarty to labour ? To compensate landlords for
cut of parliament prices, Lord MALMESBORY would
odd 2 per cent. to the income tax. Surely Mr. Om-
DORN& is too acute not to perceive that snob justice
to the landowner would be injustice to every one
Oise; and would really constitute a corn law under
mother and a somewhat !ens oppressive
Doubtless the local rates on land are a large deduc-
tion from rents, and are teasing and tormenting to
the &mere, who are always short of ready money to
pay. But all taxation is grievous and oppressive.
Were it not for the fifty millions sterling a year raised
for the service of government, we should be the gayest
and the happiest people on the earth ; and the corn
munity generally having that huge annual payment
to make won't listen to any further payments to raise
rents, under the pretence of relieving agriculture. Bat
though we cannot agree with the squires on this
point, there is another on which we can mite, on
which we make the advance to them. Join us first
in overhauling the public expenditure in reducing
the estimates, in getting rid of the African rguadroe,
and in forcing the government into large, not petty,
economy. Join as bath* and when successful therein
we will then set about seeing what can be done for
you. But the general community, the laborious,
the industrious of all classes must take precedence of
oisusingle class however important.
With a !ended interest so predominate in the legie-
loamy we are comparatively helpless to enforce our
views without its aid ; but then we are all powerful
to prevent it cutting a slice of the general taxes for
its own benefit. And in this state of "fix", what
amnion ems dictates is a common agreement
wind the summon enemy—the tax gatherer. But
to that the spires won't descend
.yet ; lento must be
lower iodise their pride will gm way: At last,
ItOWeVer their resentment will yield to their interests;
C however, have to disappoint them
first; for at that straw even so sensible a man as Mr.
Oisnooris is clutching.
At Burton Mr. HOLLAND foresaw "a good time was
coming" from an alteration of tenors; and Mr. AD-
DULLY from the fecundity of his countrymen. The
latter positively gloated over the fact that yearly the
populationof the realm increases by 300,000 souls ;
all of whom must be fed ; and feeding them mast,
he argues, be profitable to domestic agriculture. This
increase, which frightens some people, particularly
Prime Ministers, delights Mr. ADDIRLIT ; he see
high prices in it. Now to us, we cashes, that a popu-
lation increasing at that rate, concurrently with prima
of food rising, is an awful eentemplatice; against such
a fact there is safety only in very low prisms in very
cheap food, in constant employment, and is reasonable
wages. A rising population is, of awns, a breakwater
against a great redoeties in dogmatic prime; bat to
make it the steam paint of high mats, is a sedan
that has some ring qdte shocking about it. There is
starvation in the very thought.
Whether Nob sea be maintained by an alteration
is the awe d lauds is another and very different
Icomileo ;tb to make the alteration for the sake
Id Ugh rents, Is sat indicative of say very high moral
els in the change. The truth is, that at present
farmers in this country have, generally, no tenure at
all. They are planed on the land to farm it according
to their landlords' views, and to pay a sustain anneal
sum out of the produce, if they man—eat el their ea.
pita!, if they can't. And to make them quite at the
meet' of the landowner, be has a power of distraint
that sondes him to rain his Wads, tad to cheat
**alba creditors, besides swabs the ill maim
of his gross&
Now, atßurtme-me-Treatthetsoodlmwswwlesepalts
stank the right sail on the head whoa ho Washed
this neastreas power of distraint. Pomming it. the
landlord le meaty mean of his mat I so sseat. he
aka the bighert Ud _ der he his land; barbs( no sea.
Yeses ia Moat, be bads him down to a podia
be galls of cultivation; the besot, nut
odkteat semitel, has recourse to expensive
to supply his rbildienty ;
tho by taking kilo and
Ma to envy the firm, proprietor pond* Ils
'waft to believe him to be a pm.. is a saes-
do le properly cultivate its and a area worthy
audit; aesorttagly, this tuna who really has
net any sae assns. and Nilesruth,
it a rash *meant epseelater. da credit
`raker rya bbn audit; the atilt=
rhz audit; wherever be ma Wain
meats ad thee a gnat pat et the alibi ea Ida
!ma to peepL who have bon solossi tote
the hisnip d eat be bee abundance of egad. welt ,
Ss um dew net prosper; his tan gele id et
said.
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said. in MsAkefmappraahiag, wbalo the
belhal, With 16 pew et Nana; hie

praimer• sod anetireasees, and, sweeping everything
away, grumbles at bad temente and ill-farmed land.
This is • lam
eNationally going ; and it is
altogether dielbstahl to the power of distraint pee-
leased by bollards. Deprive them of that power,
and they will be compelled to make a proper &lola
of a want, to look to the capital, and knowledge,
and honesty of the man who tenders foe their land
rather than the amount of rent he proffers; haviog
confidence that he is • person of mese% arid character
and skill, they will give him what he ask., security of
tenure and perm imion to cultivate the land as be
gilicks roper and tell eta a tenant the rent will
be punctually paid, not out of the means of the neigh-
honour tradespeople, nor by the aid of the rent mosey
lender, but out of the legitimate profits of the farm.
Toe power of distreiLt is, in point of fact, the turn-
ing point of bad farming ; and we shall never moue
really good farming throughout the country until it
is got rid of.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WIDNIISDLY EVIMING.
The presentation of obit' demanding ten and a half
millions to cover the enplaned the new levy of 40,000
men, will oblige the government to enter into explana-
tions before the Assembly with regard to the object of
this armament. The German question will accordingly
be submitted toe fell and searching debate, and it
will no doubt form the grand feature of the session.
Already the tendencies of the press indicate the spirit
in which this question will be discussed. It will be,
mania midandis, the Roman debate over again. The
new armament is manifestly levelled at the revolu-
tionary spirit which begins to redden under the va-
cillating counsels of Frederic-Williana and M. Moment-
feL Hence the Prussian movement has all the sym-
pathies of French democracy on its side, while it sur-
veyed with umbrage and terror by the conservatives.
A long article, wntten in a spirit most hostile to
Prussia, has appeared In the Constitutionsei of to-
day, of which the following extract may serve as a
sample :
Don Prussia think it would be enough for MR to
ever Austria and crash the seconds/7 Megrims fW
not in that cam the Question cease to MI GeinMil MI %SIM
Europese? The sabring of Baron would met be Masa
with impunity. inane, wham no fewest at this memo
calls over the Rhine, would not allow to be altered to bra
detriment the neighbourhood given to her by the treaties/id
1815. She would not allow to be established along its
frontiers an uninterrupted domination, which would Pubis
her from the Continent; she would not allow to be upset, to
bur pejo/lie', the present proportion of brew. Frames,
whose arms have so often re-eetablished in their stater Os
Electors Palatial sad the Electors of Bwaria, could sat
without dishonour permit any power to destroy or abet*
the secondary states, which are her traditional allies. It
would be the abandonment of all her Interns", the oblivion
of all her past history; It would be to desert the policy
uniformly followed by limit IV., Richelieu,
Louis XIV., Vergennes, end Napoleon. Frans" has mad.
kiags beyond the Rhine, and of these kings no power shall
make subject'.
The policy of the French government towards
Germany is set forth in the Constiaitionnei in colours
which will open the eyes of the Germans to what
they have to expect from Louis Napoleon and his
ministers. It is plainly confessed in the semi-official
organ that the aim of France should be to keep Ger-
many disunited and weak. Such en alteration of the
present territorial settlement es must inevitably
Pillow upon the fleet snecesefnl movement of Prussia
is declared a cans &Ili. Any annexation of Baden,
the Hessen, the Bavarian Palatinate, or Wurtemberg,
by Peoria—ouch as would be the inevitable conse-
quences of a decided superiority in the field over
Austria—will draw down a declaration of war from
France. What remains, thanks to the treaties of
Vienna, of that Gothic cluster of petty sovereignties
which the genius of Napoleon pulled down, it sacred
in the eyes of his nephew, and indispensable to the
well-being of France. Granting it were the interest
of the French to maintain the states quo in Germany,
it behoves the government to reflect whether that can
be done by force, and, if so, at what expenditure of
blood and treasure. If France deliberately assume
the function of an armed incubi's, to obetruot and stop
the growth and development of a great nation she
will be acting towards Germany, in 1850, the part
which, half a century back, she accused Europe of
towards herself, and may chance to discover, in the
German revolution the same irrepressibly vital energy
which enabled herself victoriously to roll back and
sonfound the rash aggressor. There cannot be a
mare fatal mistake in policy than to thwart the issue
towards which a foreign nation struggles as towards
'the completion of its destiny, and to stake the power
and resources of a government upon maintaining
those artificial landmarks and ;formal dykes which
must inevitably disappear at the first overflow of an
emancipated people. If France is prepared to plunge
into war in order to perpetuate disunion, weakness,
and anarchy in Germany, she will richly merit the
infliction of one of those lessons, of which history is
fall, and which teach the peril and fruitlessness of
opposition to the natural and predetermined course of
a national destiny. To eased, as the above article
does, that the honour of France is pledged to the
maintenance of the parcelled sovereigutise, because
her arms once helped to reinstate a fugitive Elector,
is an argument scarcely more worth noticing than the
pompous boast that she has made kings beyond the
Rhine, of whom she will not suffer another power to
make subject&
In yesterday's sitting of the Assembly, MM.
Michel de Bongos, Maigne, and Gambon wished to
address an interpellation to the Minister of the Inte-
rior relative to the treatment to which political
soners are subjected in the prince of Pane, of Mot
Bt. Michel, Bello-Isle, and Algeria. The intsrpalia-1
lien was fixed for Saturday. The president of the
Aseembly then read a requisition of the procurenr•
C% of the court of Bruges, demanding Wheels.
prosecute MM. Miot and Roast, reptinale-
tives, for a pamphlet signed by them, wig which
the souncil-general of the Nidvre had kids essplaintl
fee defamation. The requisition was raked for ex-
amination to the bureaux. After a debat% In which
MM. Richard du Cantab, Liraayrao. and Dow, the
Minister of Commerce, took part, the dreserMy r►
feud to take into consideration a proposal* of M.
'Mord du Cantab relative to the study den amens
=erto destroy insects harmful to
proposition of M. Richard, rttetur:o.
eplesstiss, was, alter a short discussion, withdrawn
=over. Raving refused to take into con-
a proposition, moved by MM. Nadan and
lihrellet, for modifying the law of expropriation for
the public advantage.
At the clots of the sitting emotion was brought for-
ward, which excites considerable interest from the
extended range of works connected with civil en-
gineering. MM. Charms and Latrade had brought
forward a proposition, the main idea of which consists
in throwing open the amps of civil engineers, which
has been hitherto recruited exclusively from the
Pocliwytechnia School, to competition from the embri-
conductors of roads and bridges. This is an
Muni of privilsge ; but, being directed against the
Boole ralyessbnique, few an the bandies of the Right
rise to resist
In the sitting of to-day the proposition of MM.
Charms and Latrade, relative to the recruitment et
civil angiassrs, was opposed by MM. Livonia! and
Benoit CANT, who regarded It as destrusthe of the
amp of engineers, sat teaks; to lower An allow
Ilia at the Polyteshaie Sued, M. Teepee Der
item, the reporter ea the atelke, defended ea Ile
that User espeileat feeilitate the
=ld the sendmisre et bridgesand roads. seems-
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now lankier of Rh& Works, was favourable to
the Owl* el w neetion, reaming disosseion se to
the sea et otreacia.
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fern hie plow, against es amartlon of M. Uremia.,
that say premises whatever had been exerted upon
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Strasbourg sad Bale, 127 60; Orleans and Vienna, ;
Odium and Roraima:, 387 60 ; North, 462 60; Parts sad
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