The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-17 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
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States will be made up this evening.
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Birypt, CeptOa, India, end Cbiaa. sin Sontharapsoi,
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evening of Msy 24.
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The malls fm Maderia, the Brasile, and Buenos Ayres, wall
he made up as the evening of June 4.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17.

LORD STARLET has undertaken, it i 9 wid, to iodate
the opine house to throw out the Irish Fracefuse
Bill.

We believe the report, so far as the ill intent ions of
his lordship are concerned. The man who, but a few
days since, could fled no fitter terms in which to atter
his ruthless hostility to the free trade party in Fite4.
land than that of the murderous battle field, is not
likely to be restrained by any sentiment of generointy
or forbearance, where the rights and liberties of the
Irish people are at stake. As eatholios and disserit,rs
the tory chief is ready, doubtless, to thwart every oep
that is proposed to be taken for their elevation to I
just political equality. Without the miserable extaas
of persocal fanaticism, he is bound, as champion of
the bigotry of England, to resist every measure which,
however remotely or indirectly, tends to intrirge the
privileges of sectarian aecentancy. Under the pre.
tence of the Irish church being in danger, all the old
jealousies and fears of the episcopal bench will be
recklessly appealed to ; and every despicable libel on
the faith of the great mass of the people of Ireland
will of course be put forthwith in circulation, is order
that the prelatic mind may be in a fit condition
to relish the coarse sneers, and to re.pond
to the rhetorical intolerance In which the Itol,EN4,
WINCRILREAS, and MOUNTCASUP.LLS may he expected
to indulge. Who can doubt, moreover, that from
EXETER and OxFoRD, not to mention the more-in-
tensely inspired eloquence of the Irish bishops them.
selves, there will be heard an uplifting of aanctiCed
voices against this tardy concession of equal poll led
rights to two classes who constitute nine-tenths of the
Irish nation—the pre ebyterio.ns and the catholies?
What signifies it in rignt reverend intimation that
there should be another decade of religious strife and
hatred, provided the sitar wi.hout votaries, whereat
the Anglican hierarchy in the !miter kingdom min-
ister, be maintained in its invidious inviolability?
The spiritual peers will, of course, rail, to the ca.l of
Lord STANLEY.

Then there are the carnal; what shall these n
do? Hypocrisy itself cannot venture to Ivan wli,sy
on the crozier in such en assembly. A xvorldly cru•ch
is indispensable for a cause that seeks the senatorial
aid of such men as—we need not name. "Pell. ,••y
in danger" will do for them : an excellent cry ;
rousing from its most sordid depths every instil ct of
landlordism, and deadening the dull intellectof here-
ditary power to every suggestion ef policy or ja,tice.
Lord STANLEY well knows how to stimulate the m-r-
-censry cowardice of his order. The trick :a
an old one with him. He will psiot in glow-
ing colours the social enmity that prevails
between the owners and occupiers cf ttc
Celtic RA. He will remind his Orange hearers
that their ancestors were planted in the land as
territorial garrison, and that the traditional policy of
English oligarchy has ever been to rule through their
instrumentality alone. lie will ask—as well he mac
—how can this ancient system of domination be pre-
served if even a moderate and Fruited representation
of the rate-paying classes of the community be con-
ceded ?

Above all, the champion of protection will point
the determined stand made la,t winter by the
Irish tenant farmers against every elfin of the
GLENGALLA and DOWNSIIIRES to lure them
back into the meshes of monopoly. This their
crowning crime will never be forgiven by their
mercenary oppressors. With all the fine task we
have heard of union of interests between the proprie-
tors and tillers of the soil, and the eagerness wt h
which a general election is looked for by the friends
of native agriculture, as they call themselves—we
shall nevertheless, before many days, behold every
zealous protectionist pier voting against the creation
of any agricultural constituency in one-third of the
whole United Kingdom; for that which at present
exists in the Irish counties does not deserve the name
of a constituency. The truth it, that with a h.,dy of
electors such as the government bill proposes to con-
stitute, the last hopes of a return to protection in any
I shape would be extinguished for ever; and, there-
fore, were there no other cogent reason, no expedient
will be left untried to defeat the Franchise Bill.
Neither is the enmity of landlordism abated by the
alternative which the Irish farmers, of every district,
class and creed, concur in pointing out in lieu of a re-
suscitated corn law. Tenant-right, whether in the
form of a comprehensive law of compensation for im-
provements, or as the legalisation of the custom hi-
therto prevailing under the sanction of pubic opinion
lathe northern province of the kingdom—tenant-right
is in the popul►r mind the natural alternative to pro-
tection. Experience has taught men that the latter
secures nothing but impunity to the landlords.
in the imposition of high rents, whereas they beheee,
as we too believe, that the former eeould, if wite:y
framed and impartially administered, practically se-
cure to every industrious tenant the reward of his
labour. It is fast becoming the band of unirersal
hope, fear, and resolution among a million-numbering
people. In any phase and at any time, it would be a
question of the gravest import. Bat arrayed, at by
the folly of a blind and bigoted aristocracy it now
is, against the lunatic scheme of a tax on imported
food in ceder to raise rents—tenant-right assumes en
aspect, the formidable consequences of disreganitag
which cannot be over-estimated. _ . .

If it were possible for Lord STANLEY to betas! the
Houee of Peers into rejecting the present Fran:Mae
Bill, a sign►l for servile war would then and there be
given in Ireland, which the power of no executive
government could countervail. The people would
feel that from the fairness or equity of an imp,rial
legislature they had nothing to expect. 'They have
heard it too often said, that upon their own p.lwer
of social agitation they can alone denend fur redre.s.
They tried theexperiment on more than one measorah:e
occasion, when the removal of aubetantial grievances
was in question, and they were successful.
Parliaments consisting of landlords yieldtd, not to
reason but to necessity in 1829 and IS3$. einanci-
pasien and the Tithe Bill ; and a parliament composed
of landlords will concede tenant-right whenever a.
like unanimity of resolve shall animate the great bey
of the nation.
Friends as we are to tenant-right we should
deplore the need of carrying it by such indigence.
We deprecate all that tends to the humiliation of
parliament. We wish to see the legislature act without
coercion and with dignity. Therefore, would we cam*
estly desire that so wanton ea unwarrantable act *bona
so exasperate a brave though suffering portion of the
people, as to lead them away from constitutional hope.
and tura theca towards the words resource of couesi-
tutional fear. We look forward to the gradual send
sate retirees of social grievances in Ireland, thro ugh
the medium of an improved and extended po•,iuiar
representation. But if the landed aristocracy aill
getter that, then they must abide by the conseek,rene,,..
As for the people being much longer brAlied or
b.tlkd, it is a dotard's dream.

SAVINGS BANKS.

(Flom th poi/y .yeoss.)

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usual interest. We refer to a se: of resolutions
agreed to at a mettle g held at the St. Martin's-plies'
Provident Institution to cocsider the Cuatiesttiot of
the EXCIIEQUItIeeI bill relative to Savings Banks. We
believe that these resolutions represent the opinions
not only of the managers and officers of
the St. Itiartiu'r-place Institution, but of dele-
gates representing the largest Saving. Banks in
the kingdom. Numbers of gentlemen have come to
London specially to consult upsn !hie subject. and
the resolutions they have unanimously adopted. and
which they sent up to the CIIANCHLLOR of the rt.