The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-16 00:00:00

THE SESSION OF 1850.

The session of 1850 has terminated, after having
continued, with short intervals, from the 31st January
to the 15th of August. During this period the
Donee of Commons has met 153 times, has sat in the
aggregate 1,052 hours, and has read exactly 200
public bills a first time. A few other bills, among which
we may mention the Bishop of London's bill for the
suppression of heresy, and Lord Brougham's for a
new court of appeal in Cnancery, have
been introduced into the acute of Lards,
but have never emerged beyond its hallowed
precincts. Of these 200 bills 109 were introduced
in the House of Commons by goTernment, 60 by pri-
nts individuls, and the remaining 31 were brought
from the House of Lore* 8 related to Scodtiod, and
soros ;ban 56 exclusively to Ireland, and 111 ilive
received ti.' royal assent.
The sbegmo.' 11 upon which the government are
really intent are generally supposed to be shadowed
forth in the apart from the throne with which the
session commences; if we turn to th's, we find the
attention of parliament pariloolarly drawn to a
measure foe the better government of the Austra-
lian Colonies, to the condition of Ireland, io respect
to the evils of party processions, the defects in
the laws regulating the relations of landlord andl
tenant, the imperfect state of the Grand Jury Acts,
and the diminished number of parliameotary
.electors ;
and to the further measures required for the improve-
ment of the public health in the metropolis and other
parts of the United Kingdom. This programme did
not seem exorbitant ; but when we turn from it to
the performance, we think that the most devoted ad-
mirers of the government mast admit a sad short-
oolnisg. It is tree that among the bills passed we
find an Australian Colonies bill, a bill to restrain
party precarious in Ireland, a metropolitan inter-
ments bill, and a mangled Irish franchise bill, and
them are all the measures which can properly be
acid to form part of the original promise.
With respect to the grand jury laws, we do not find
any bill in any way relating to the subject, unless
it be an act introduced on the 25th of July, for ren-
dering more stringent the means of colketieg the
grand jury ewe, by extending the power of distress to
all chattels found upon the premises chargeable
therewith, which can hardly be the measure alluded
to. And with respect to the public health, though
true it is that bills have been introduced by govern-
ment both for Scotland and Ireland sissilu in their

nature to that pawed for England last year,.
vet, after repeated postponements, they have
bath been withdrawn without ever coating to r
second reeding. Scotland, it is trot, has Awed better
than Ireland ; for by an set called The Police and
Impeetsmsat (Scotland) Act," power is given to r
majority of the rate•payers, in any populose place, te
determine to pat that act in force ; and, when it
force, the authorities thereby conatttuted may exer-
cies very *onside:Table 'waiter, power, for the abate-
ment of naleasess, the regulation of grave-yards, and,
lodging-bosses, the proper attention• to infections-
diseases, the ssmoval of elesghterhotoses mad offen-
sive trades, the making snit maintaining proper
sewers, and the providing a duo supply of water-
for the ass of the ishabotasts. Eider this re

erprefis.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18.

Tmt pageant of a "prorogation in person" termi-
nated fitly the third session of the present parliament
—emulsion ushered in with many preluding* of loud
and sonorous warning, characterised throughout by
all the pomp and circumstance of great to do, and in
reality profiting as little as the gold lace of the
liveries which c.natituted the most striking feature of
yesterday's prooession.
As was the pageant so was the speech. Royalty
was led passively through the forms of both. The
Sovereign in her individual character is more thought
of in either. A graceful compliance with prescribed
usage is all that we expect from Hor MAJESTY on
such oocasins; and this we are now so accustomed
to, that wo never dream of the possibility of its beteg
wanting. The closing address read by the tiniest
to both home it, recognised as the dictum of the
cabinet, and received as the expression of their satis-
faction at ending themselves safe through another
year of pargementary existence. The shoals and
quick:ands all escaped, the sailors of the state exult
flood; the ship may carry a poor cargo, bat the
crew are happy no 1111 next high tide.
We are not about to measure the result of the ses-
sion by any rigid rel., of broken promisee, or official
inconsistencies. For ens.!yeis of that kind there is a
fitting time and place. H,'re and now we are coo-
eerued with graver rattan', and we desire to deal
with them is • spirit very differezt from that of
party. Have the wants sad wishes of the people
been faithfully and fully recce„miscd in the protracted
emferencee held from day to di et Westminster?
And has the constitutional palaver kept up with more
than usual pertinacity and mutat cy fur more than
the ordinary period, ended in the soli ttion of the main
difficulties wherewith three confederst • nations found
themselves at the opening of the yes- boat? These
are serious questions, and deserve a emit ins answer.
Everywhere throughout thew re alms men's
thought@ were in January last disturbed 17 the noisy
menaces of reaction in our commercial policy. Wager,
we were told, were failing—pauperise was increas-
ing—and the soil was fast going out of cult:vation.
Low pnem would not pay tor high farming. .Either
rents or wages must come down if the pram of" corn
was not made to go up. That both might very well
adjust themseivee to the standard of a cheap loaf was
an obvious hypothesis, but on that act:emit all The
mere inadmissible by the terrorists of de.
medic industry. How was it, in fact, to
be expected that • rent-eating parliament,
would ever contentedly submit to the permanent,
adoption of a rem-lowering system? Bat we have
nevertheless seen this like other wondrous phenomena
tale place.. and daring the present session, not only
Imam attempt lima made to remise the policy of
free- trade. but a series of acknowledgments have
been waietly adopted of its irreversibility. Instead
of se-enacting the Navigation Laws, we hive seen a
Mercantile Mario, Bill passed avowedly upon the
ground that its provisions were • suitable supple-
' mast to those which last year smeared to the nation •
free trails in shipping. And daring the pistracted
discussions to which it gave rise, we do not remember
that even Mr. NEwDaGaT it suggested the hypotheti-
cal contingency of a return to the old system of
monopoly in freights. In a word, protection has been
-indisgoisedly shirked by its pretended apostles.
land is nowhere going out of cultivation; but, on the
sontrary, improvement is widely spreading over the
;hoe of the land. Wages have hardly fallea in the
most sparkles@ districts as mush as the cost of living
has bees reduced, while in every energetic and
healthful portion of the community wages have, in
moneys numbered, as well as money's worth, consi-
derably advanced. Rents are slowly and sorrowfully
ainkiag, as in common right and justice they ought
to do, conformably with the altered prim of living in
every particular. Of a return to protection we shall
hensetorth hear no more.

ample peeress are given: bat the difference-between
it and the sanitary measure* foe England is.
it cannot be put in force unless half Cae
houshelders agree to it, and when in force it is
wanting in all the requisites od central conteoL Ire-
land, however, has not gained. even this favour, end
notwithetuding the enormous number of acts relating
reshisively to that country, suit's; reform is not
Icomereheaded in any of those. The metropolie has
got its interssent W. which will no dnabt be a ;goat
boon to many locaheies, though bought at the ex9enee
of an egregious jolli is the sleeps of compensation to
incumbents ; but probably there ass few who didnot
expect that the removal of Smithfield market wan
among the measure alluded to, tat it it wen sue
contemplated it has been abandoned for the
present,. and put off till that parliamentary
millonnium—“another ameion." In the meanwhile,
the City of London have not only sounded the note el
determined opposition to any. scheme of removal, bat
have announced their intentioa of enlarging the pre-
sent site, ao that, what with Smithfield and Roths-
child we are likely is see a very pretty quarrel between I
Lind John Russell and his constituents.
Turning from these measures to the relations be-
lieves landlord and tenant in Ireland, that vexed
=sa which seems to dispute with religion the
of beingthe root of all the evils which distract
that unhappy country, we find that. absolutely nothing
has been done, hat the number of attempts at legisla-
tion which have been made prove that the subject is
really considered by all parties to be of vital imper-
tame, and incresse the responsibility which govern-
ment is incurring by thus neglecting the ques-
tion. There have been no less than six measures
before the house of Commons, professing to deal with
the whole or parts of this subject. One, introduced
by the government, who ought to be considered as
'twain fairly between the parties. One by Mr.
Sharman Crawford, who must be considered u re-
presenting an extreme tenant interest. And one by
Mr. Frewen and Lord Bernard, and three originat-
ing in the House of Lords. which may be considered
as representing the landlord party.
The government measure proposed that tenants
above 101. annual value should be allowed, upon
giving due notice to their landlords, to make certain
specified improvements, under the superintendence of
a government inspector ; and at the expiration of
their tenancy, provided that that occurred within 21
year", to claim compensation from their landlord;
and that tenants under 101. annual value, upon being
dispossessed, should have a right to claim limited com-
pensation for any improvements made within 10 years
previous. Having given this advantage to the tenant, it
to gi increased powers of distress to lana-
i:et:l;4"V limited theirtheir power of recovering to one
year's rent ; and proposed that cutting and carrying
away crops on Sunday, or by night, for the rupees
of defeating a distress, should be a iniadassenotir.
Mr. Sharman Crawford proposed to give a stetntable
validity to the custom known as the "Ulster tenant-
right, and to give great powers to tenants of claim-
ing compematWs and reduction of rent in unse-
Milm al the loss of protedive duties. The other
merely proposed in venous ways to increase the
hilisod's powers of eviction and distress. One, and
Me @sly, the bills ever molted a second
=Wog —that was one of the latter lot,
ft weed the mooed reading amidst great opposition.
It was then cut down to three clause, relating merely
to cutting and carrying away crops to defeat a dia-
tom In this shape it again encountered still greater
esfealMen4 sad thus this last sad remnant of the at-
te kOdate between the owners and occupiers
II of is al we withdrawn, leaving them at the end
d thm iambi is the mama state d =tarsi= aa the
semintmesswleat found them, but with less hope fee
thm Was, for not only has nothing been done, but
Led Imarlowse has disclaimed, on the part of the
galiammat, any intention of reviewing the whole
I dab d des law next session. We admit the difficulty
d 1Y adoissti we know how bitter would be the
Mid amid= to anything like a fair settlement
d AmgaidMr, Mill we cannot help thinking that
dune was NM bath is Mr. Stafford's remark, that
the conduit of grreralisut in respect to this, among
ether Irish asisirap, has aide the Crime and Out-
rage Bill am saaaaary than ever.

three
WEel

In this respect the session has not been an unin-
structive one. It has tested and exposed the hollow-
nese of the sheet which the STANLETB and DOWN-
nails weald fain have played upon the deluded
farmers. To escalade the heights of office these noble
worthies were ready to make use of agricultural pro-
tection as a ladder; but, after the ladder was planted,
they bad not the pluck to climb. There stood the
ladder snattempted, almost unnoticed; a feeble hurrah
being given out if doors for it, but not one parlia-
mentary foot placed manfully on one of its rounds.
Fit for firewood it has been practically pronounced to
be; " and there an end."
We look in vain to the royal speech, however, for
any enumeration of positive work dons by the legisla-
ture which deserves the name. The Australian Colo-
nies Bill—the Metropolitan Interments Bill—and the
Irish Coanty Franchise Bill, are the only items of
any pretension to importance named. We him so
often and so folly spoken of all three, that it were
superfluous now to reiterate our sentiments regarding
them. It is enough for the present to enumerate
them, and to ask—and are these all? To regulate
the graveyards of a great city is excellent vestry
work on a large scale; bat the parliament is
the legislature of the greatest empire in the
world ; and vestry work, even when done
by wholesale, is not exactly business to brag
of. The steps made respectively in the direc-
tion of constitutional government in Ireland and New
South Wales are far from mks,. On the contrary,
they are both, as preliminary steps, good and wise in
their way. Only let us not be told that they are in
any sense of the term oompleto or conclusive—fault-
less or final. Far otherwise; they do bat, in fact,
suggest to the people of Ireland and the colonies the
ground whereon they may and must take their stand
in the assertion of their claims to substantial con-
cessions. We are much mistaken if next onion
does not develop expectations and demands which
neither evasive words nor deprecatory recitals of
these emollients will appease. The principle has
been formally proclaimed that the inhabitants of Ire-
land and of the colonies ought in all things to be treated
as Englishmen are in England. Can any one sup-
pose that such a principle will be allowed to sleep ?
Great admissions require, in times like those, to be
followed by great reforms, or they Inevitably propor-
tionate disappointment and disaster.

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as aansaally loge amber of Imps were eisharked at
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seems Fowler, Martin. sad Cl. ciesl4r—seldag a total of
14 odes sad 179 sea. The detatimealle mere minutely
laipeeterdby the sommadoM ponims Mask miszkation.

LORD PALMERSTON his to defend himself, not so
much by the pen of his champions, u by his own tan-
page end acts, against the accusation of bis sem-
piternal foe. The Times congratulates his lordship
up= having abandoned the liberal cause in central
Europe, and on having gone over to the alliance and
the opinions of the despotic courts. And the Tunes
Ipoints this out u the "beneficial result of the late
violent struggle against the foreign policy of the
government.
The majority of 310, whose stead), votes enabled Lord
PALMERSTON to triumph over the Tory reutionists
and the scribes of the Holy Alliance on that occasion,
cannot fail to be stricken by this half-compliment,
half-taunt, flung in his lordship's face by the organ of
&immunises° and NESSRLRODE. And we must
add with pain, that tho sudden recantation and right-
about-face disavowal of the canoe which it upheld a
short week ago, by the Glob*, considered to be the
evening organ of the Foreign-ofiloe, gives speciousness
and force to these damning congratulation, of the
But for our part we Gannet admit that the fact of
the Globe imitating the nom, by veering like a politi-
cal piroustie, is a proof that the. Foroijn-offioe is an
ainoseolioe in inch tergiversation. Lad PaLmsa-
now his boa all along far too much inclined to
Danish interests I and nothing on earth could
be mon absolutist and anti-German than his

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1850.

res. Colonel HODGES, Lord
Rug Mr. WESEL When

Lard !madam sou the bit to
divide the and the Danish paid
their ,be did so, t log these were
the lungs far Denmark that could be obtained
hem flessey. But the supporters of the German
cause having fallen off, oar Foreign-office gave up
without reluctance Schleswig to be conquered by the
DIM. We think his lordship wrong in all this, bat
still an Eoglish minister, be he ever so liberal and
attached to Germany, may have strong meson for
rendering Denmark compact and strong, as well as
for keeping such countries as Holstein out of the pro-
hibitory union of the Prussian Zollverein.
We differ altogether from these views and
policy of Lord PALMERSTON. We think that justice,
not expediency, ought to have governed his conduct
as a mediator; and that the best principle for Eng-
land to have followed on this Danish question was
non-intervention. Instead of disentangling oureelvesl
from old treaties, we have entangled the country is
new engagements. We have promised to aid is
tearing Holstein from Germany, and have x
an approval of a forcible change of the law
r
succession to the royal and ducal thrones of Denmark
and Holstein. These are questions from which we
might have kept free, and which will almost inevitse
bly involve us in war some of these days, and a war
too with a nation so formidable as Germany. The
Chevalier BUNSEN is right in every one of his sus.
dons. We had no mere claim to sign a protocol
for these objects, than the King of PRUSSIA had to
sign a treaty forbidding us to abolish the Lord.
Lieutenancy of Ireland, or to give a constitution to
the Australian colonies. Then as to strength's.
Mg Denmark, Lord PALmaurox making Hal-1
stein over to it will but weaken that crown ;
and, far from preventing the extension of the Zollve-
rein, will but add the political impulse to the commie-
eisl one, that prompts its advance to German compre-
hension. But, differing from Lord PALMEISTON on
the Danish policy, we can still comprehend it, and
admit, that even the putout of July might have
been signed by Cheat Britain in no real hostility to
Germany, and in no envy of, or treachery towards,
the liberal and constitutional cause in Germany.
The Time; however, is not satisfied with what
Lord PALMERSTON has does in Denmark. His lord-
ship'. assertion and adhesion to the Russian law, that
Holstein shall be irrevocably Danish, and bat nomi-
nally German, don not satisfy the Itemise organ.
English intervention in Denmark and Holstein does
not satisfy it. It wants English intervention in Ger-
many. Lord PALMERSTON and Great Britain
are told to intetfere, not merely to in-
duce Prussia to abandon the cause of Holstein,
but to abandon ago the cause of German unity, and
of a representative billy in Germany. Nothing will
satisfy the Times, but Lord PAtmeturrort using his
powers as an English minister to compel protestant
and constitutional Prussia to bow the neck before ca-
tholic and despotic Austria.
The METRICS and the annihilation of civil and reli-
gious liberty, and of all hopes of civil and religious
liberty in Germany, is what the Times clamours and
thunders for. That is the base cause to which
a great English journal prostitutes itself in the middle
of the nineteenth century. And it declares that the
foreign minister of this country can only earn the, as
yet, but half-bestowed pardon of English and foreign
absolutists, by prostituting English power with his
own character and influence, to so base and un-En-
glish a purpos..
Now, although Lord PALMERSTON does employ
men so utterly estranged to every liberal idea as Lord
WESTMoRLLAND, we do not think him capable of
conduct like this. We believe it to be foreign to his
principles and his nature; nor de we believe that any
amouat of parliamentary worrying by the tories, or
any amount of temporary digress shown towards him
by the ultra-liberals, could induce. him deliberately
to plase England in satagenism with the great con-
stitutional and liberal came and party in North
Gerinsoy. The Times is fierce in its dee unciation of
this party. Lanai; Roemer, es GARIBALDI, or
*reeve, were never assailed by moss ribald animosity
than are BUNS'S, and GAGEZN, and GERTLNUS, and
tnowzrz, and MADIEVIPFBL. these men are,
God knows, conservatives. 'the only drop of liber-
alism, with which they would temper tie cuilit.);
arbitrary power, is a representative system.
want, in fact, a parliament, be it on as narrow an elee-
Weal hues, as the timid can suggest.
And Lard PALMERSTON, the minister cf England,
Ls tad by a leading journal of this country, that he
aunt put himself in opposition to such a
party as this; and that, after Lord ABERDEEN
naving counselled King Onto to give the Greeks a
acestitution, a whig minister is to order a Prussian
king to demand no constitution for the Germans.
The Times insists on treating Germany as the fisher-
man in the " Arabian Nights" treated one of the
genii lie persuaded the monster to shrink back
again into the old stone jar, in which he had
been for years confined. The Times would
shut up Germany in its old Diet again. Now
we can safely say, that Lord PALMERSTON
Will undertake no such table. And, moreover,
it may be added, that were he or any British minister
to so forget himself as to enact so mean, so servile,
and impolitic a part, the same liberal parliamentary
majority which gained for Lord PALMERSTON and his
Mediterranean policy a triumph last month, would
inflict on the contrary a stigma, were the policy which
prevailed at Constantinople found to have been re-
versed in Berlin.

OUR readers will learn without surprise, but not
without a certain flutter of expectation and excite-
ment, that there is every reason to believe the corpo-
ration of London intends to promote to the office of
Recorder, now vacant, Lord BROUGHAM. In the case of
any other than the noble and learned lord ,the announce-
ment might be received with incredulity; but os his
part, the filling of two such seemingly irreeoncileable
characters at once, as a peer of the realm, and an
officer of the London municipality, is not a whit more
startling than his grave propose' to become a French-
man and continue to be an Englishman nevertheless.
The compliment paid to the city by his acceptance
of the post, will be undoubtedly great. Since the
days of Alderman SHAFTESIMItY, the city has not
been honoured by numbering a peer among its
office-bearers. The honour, however, as is the
case with many honours, may be greater than the
comfort. The frisky movements of Lord STANLEY'S
" volatile" friend may sadly discompose the prover-
bial staidness of aldermen, especially during the
hours of digestion which succeed their mammoth
civic banquets.
The office is nevertheless one pre-eminently suited to
the übiquitous genius of Lord Ramie 11AM. It is one
which will enable him to be in the nit y "all in all,
and all in every part:" The Recorder of London is a
judge exorcising criminal and civil jurisdiction—
jurisdiction in equity and at common law. The Re-
corder of London acts ministerially in the Court of
Mayor and Aldermen, in the Court of Common Coun-
cil, and in the Court of Common Hall. He is a judge
in the Commission of Oyer and Terminer eight times
in the year at Justice Hall. He reports to the
Quitet, at the close of every session, on every
felon capitally convicted in the metropolitan dis-
trict; he issues warrants for the reprieve or
execution of criminals reported. Moreover, be is a
justice of peace, and acts as chairman at amaze is the
City and to Southwark. He is entitled, says oar
authority, " to continue his private practice"—what-
ever Lord BROUGHAM'S private practice may be.
And, finally, the Recorder is a power in the state on
a footing of oftualii with Lords and Commons; for,
unlike repartee j , he is not liable to dismissal by
irress
the crown on an from both Houses of Parlia-
ment.

The place is obviously made for Lord Bnotirmatt,
and Lord BROUGHAM is made for the place. He can
fill all its multiform phases and &notions, and no
ether mere mortal could possibly fill them. How he
will revel in his incessant and diversified occupations!
He will be everywhere doing everything—issuing
death warrants, adjudging on the oases of naughty
little boys caught pilfering apples, gracing and en-
livening the Mayor's swan-hopping expeditions on
the Thames, setting an example to all courts of law
how they should hear and judge, doinfortelinhonoure
of the Mansion House to illustrious ere and
the slite of English literati, championing Smithfield
till its beasts and dunghills aunt recognise them-
selves beneath the wreaths of oratorical flowers with
which he will bedizen them, and teaching ticket
porters, coal-meters, the man-in-armour, and the
common hunt, their several trades.
Lord BROUOHAM, the judge, legislator, and politi-
cian, has always found time foe the vocations et Lord
BROUGHAM the author. lie has sketched and ohro-

gicled ever beadle( politislan who has had the mi. I
fortune to come in contact with him ; he has Blume
with equal lustre as • bistoriaa and philosopher.
Now that his lot I. to be cast in the city, its
worthies will doubtless reeshe the honour, his pen
an bestow. New light will be thrown on the history
of WHITTINGTON aad his at. and WALWORTii and
BZCKEOILD will at bat have Justin) done to their
memorise.

Bat there is one function of the Recorder above all
others which Led Baouotizit will discharge. as it
has never been discharged before. WILL. SILtKSPEARE
told us long ago that "the citizens were not need to be
spoken to except by the Recorder." Lord BILOUGUAII
will do all the talking for all his colleagues, and a
little more by way of "private practice." Ye Gods,
how he will talk ! The mysterious policy of the
Thames conservancy be will unloose as easily as his
garter. 000 and Mono° will be deafened with the
incessant clack. Bow bells will be ost.olamos red by
the 'imam of his eloquence. He will be remem-
bered In civic history as the talking Recorder.