The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

MARCH 11, 1868.

. OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

TIOPOILUJII 701 /11111 AND.

The late hour at which Bari Mayo concluded his
spew* sad the fee that he mere& asitil the slaw the
state mat of the gotterazose propeesis, peewee ace if
our ocattemporades from dieseling them. The Thowebiedy
matinee itself to criticising the speech of Mr. Megeire, sad
the opposing arguments which were advanced by the
Chief Secretary for Ireland relative to the prosperity sad
contentment of the country. Pulling aside the fervid
eloquence of the cos Wrests, and the reaction it exalted
is the ether, the There ceadden that the truth one be
recognised that there dee miss entooget the lowest dames
of Irish life s sluggish dietatbithetien with the government
under which they live ; and administration after admiais
tration has entailed the nesseity of some isterveatka
hetireo landlords sod beasats. Lastly, the Assn would
reel that daudar sad abeeluteiy aawmalowe iaeWatiea
which has bees deceased by every statues& of
miseries from the days of Mr. Burke sad kr.
Pitt to the preset, but which still exists in all its
wiseatiel features, biding suffered no peeler adage than
same ereadments in the calleetion and the distributes of
itsreesues. tlemeare the pee' to which it lehens
parliament le whims tteslf. hanstbal. AD be es Powillia,
of Mr. Maguire's harangue. The goesauseat, according to
Lord Mayo's explanation of their plans let night, have no
policy to recommend with reference to them. They would
hare peas/nest wait, and in the interests of liberal go-
retained it leperhaps desirable that their wish should
be grilled. But the wiessie he its appropriate us.. U
nothing is to 'pries directly free the demeans of this
week, they should reveal to the «wintry the ides and the
courage of the Beeman prepared to meet • new parlia-
ment.

The Daily Peeve regrets that the plans of the ministers
did not meet with a more able and concise expositor than
Lord Mayo, who, apparently inspired by an ambition to
make a great speech, succeeded only in making a long one.
So tedious as harangue was probably never delivered in
any imam* without interruption, or suffered to
reach its natural close. And yet the state-
ment of the intentions of government might
have been made in a quarter of an hour. Until the ma-
chinery by which hie tenant right propositions are to
work is explained, no one can my whether the bill will
be, or is intended to be, really operative or a mere paper
conosseion, a payment in depreciated or worthless
mummery, or in solid gold. The result of . the royal
commission which is to be named would prove, he
sanguinely believes, that the farmers of Ireland do
not dada the revolutionary changes that are
advocated in their name. It will be appointed, if not
under inalmotions to refute, yet in the hope that it
will is fast refute, curtain disteeteful theories. If, how-
ever, precautions be taken for the protection of the tenant,
to that he can say what be really believes and desires, in-
stead of what be merely thinks will pleue his landlord,
and if the inquiry be impartially cooduoted, it may supply
the reformed parliament with valuable results and mate-
rials. On other @abject, than the volatilise of landlord and
tenant ministers present themselves in the attitude of
free, perhaps we ought rather to say of 11117.101.111, inquirers,
bat it la to be feared that them commissions a►e simply to
many aids and instruments in Mr. Disraeli's grand policy
of procrastination. The other definite proposal of the
ministers Is to conciliate Cardinal Cullen and his brethren
by the establishment of a University which shall be to
the Roman catholic population et Ireland what Trinity
College, Dublin, is to protestaata. On the church question
Lord Mayobints at an increase of the Regius' Donau for the
presbyterians, and uses language which implies a readiness
in case of pressure to secure equality in religious ensure.
ments, not by levelling down, to use his own phrase, bat
by levelling upwards. The insufleimey al the programme
from beginning to end is clear, and the positively cider
tionablo character of many parts is apparent even in the
bah] sketch cot forth Mg night. It affards little Amor
of a settlement, but it may be the first step of an ads
vane..

The Herald gems up the government policy in • few
words :—The government will introduce an Improvements
Bill, similar in many of its features to those of the bill of
last year, but containing MOW clauses intended to facilitate
and encourage the grant of leases, and to give additional
security to the tenant making bona .gde improvements. It
will farther take exeunt of the With!' of the Roman
catholic.' for a superior system of education after their
own manner, and it will give to Inland from the public
revenue all that the public interest may require. As for
the Irish church, the government will decline to legislate
upon that subject until the royal commission has reported,
because it will only legislate for the better distribution of
the revenues of the church U need should be, and not for
its despoilment. The Herald thinks Lord Mayo's state-
ment will be heartily welcomed both in England as well as
la Inlaid.

Tat !APT MIIIIMATAIL

The Times believes it possible. without any incresee in
naval eskimake—nay, alter tiny have been coudderably
redneed—to make the British navy more formidable than at
presort, sad to exert more real, thoogh • lass estentabons,
authority co the sea. The Admiralty has net yet recognised
the great truth that the wooden navies of the world have
ceased to exist so effective instruments of war. When the
pub) to as its attention resolutely to practical reforms
of administration it will be asked for what purpose this
country keeps fleets and squadrons going to and fro on
every see, and oessistieg almost entirely of vends which
in tines of war mutt fly to the nearest poet in order
to avoid destruction. Who ma believe that the
West Indian or North American squadron would
keep the sees in • war with the United States?
The British navy should consist only of soak vessels are se
capable of meeting the best of the roomy* and, except for
epode' and minor services, the others should Doe be seat
to sr at all. Rotaries to the gradeal boom in the ob.
mates which has takes plain daring late years, the Deily
Nero observes that that inereass must go es so long as
the present system of naval administration is tolerated,
and so long as the priselpies whisk have Miele
regelated naval slabs are maims& The germs-
mast knows well essogh the dillisalties of any reel
reform which, to be effesteal, would disturb the very
foundation on whir& the navy rests ; and it he. theeefore
easteated Hoff hitherto with intredeahm little reforms
of • otiorlidal shareeter, which only attested isolated
isterests. The seam now embed for IN an emsrasoss
sass ; bat it is simply Wettable until sees better system
b devised, and BOOM WI expeesivir prbelple b had down
then them whisk already exist

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act at the met el the rib& welfare. Ihmegelle milks
will be demanded tram army meat mike tame to be mild
"a lama' at the mut aleetios, aid " • sepperiee et M.
, Gladstone.*

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