The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

• tog at home and abroad. Net aitshligilliffle of desk- eight millionsof population would give 21.10 a a-head.
.isos ail tir the repair and faPooTooto, of doting'?" Butthen again itmast °court° every one,that Ireland
aioodoiahioi the anomie at home sad abroad, under then doe. not
expensesbe, and that eoesrqueatly
lbw bra. Is. to each 'car store 1829, sad stating the attire- the IvP:7O own
10. rip n.e of tech r.taxation moat apportioned out to the
- Ameloormarrox or JrATICI (SCOTLAND); SANITANT. 011eltPCO or twenty millions of Britain, which, if Mr.
ace, commas' or Tomas ro iIeoTLAAD; ruNLIC NORMAN wlI calculate, shows something mart mere
listrto (etymon)._
The LORD ADVOCATE, to brag like 44 a head, as the rate of English taxation, than
is thr.r twist= thew sellects. U. 17s.
E AAAAA WAND CIINICIA, WALL% —Mr J. WILLIAMS,
▪ tar wars hem the genial Welsh &mews et Et. To calculate, moreover, the comparative weight
p„n„,.r, er. Davies. L midair, with an alphabetical 'hat is 'mpoord upon the Englishmen and upon the
get a the several pariah,* sad them diatrieta labials each Frenchman. we should also take into account how it
disease, ,how.ei the suiting' value paid to the ineembest u burn, Of the M millions of which the French
at omit eakh or diatrie, the names of oath iscombests, in 1847, one_ hay'
_was
ofraised by
loomer warms %Olin the pariah or district to winch th • ATlrecmtutlize:or^i'sf"l.
an wood al. or non-resident ; the soma* a IPTOT), Metal amp Mattes on the transfer property.
-
artad.. withis tech pule' or district, the stiprad paid to Therefore the French owner co. property, and elope-
eech estee. and the population of the perish or die- cialty of landed property, does certainly pay more to
orke eremite' to the last ammo, the Mom to be the state that the English lat.dlord or capitalist.
Row tip w the 29 b day of ffernabirt 1849 ; But, on the other hand, the indn.strious and awning
AO, • r. tura, Rinse the lama Of en estates who &lel
mete ••
lain Me Chitral es thapl. the bastes or such churches "litshinsa pays three and Lair timesMgt, eves so-
wea *ls, nia sane ef the pariah is whish oath shlreh or cuingal to his means, than the industrious and earn.
cieepet i s rusted, the aeon of •tte several imesaabeste from incvFreachman.
wire t'e curate receive. my ripped, auralipped, the aural amount of all Mr. NORMAN draw from these premises the
si..“dls" bT each of lanalma"; sack cheese bi be conclusion that our commercial and industrionsclasees
Ile' "'P*"
I; 9' D. NORREYS
Law , returns of the
might to be reconciled by the example of France to
Nor .•at sut -.ies of England and Wales, shown', the area the resent amount and the present system of taxa-
• ealuati roar of get+• and also the 'saber of part-bra tics ?
ramhiard is melt salsa ; Mr. BAINES, bill to make better
pnirialini kir the coi.tribetiese of unions sod pariahts, in
ark ,i 1 distrss, to the commas fiti.da of the reapeetive
ZElte el:ortgifS•

Tuner was a time when the bar was a stage, upon
the personages and character, the talents and pro-
mises o' which the whole country looked with interest
and attention. It was the great and almost the sole
avenue to public life for all men, except the few who
represented acres, or the fewer wh united capacity
and narrow means to birth. Eloquence could be
essayed, and stateemanship learned exclusively in the
forensic school. And not only did the euccession of
great law to ds give their profession the first place in
public interest and respect, but the ranks of the bar
itself were reviewed, its rising talent marked and ap-
preciated, and its names were as familiar to the pub-
lic, aye, as the favourite heroes, or actors, or race-
horses of the ray.
The appointment of a new Lord Chief Justice was
then an imp-rtant affair. The fate of parties hung
on it, and public interest was absorbed thereby. The
court, the ministers, the bar, the public, had each and
all their views, and were each and all to be
consulted. Prominent political partisanship woe
of course a chief element of success, but with
it a portion of sturdy independence wee eon-
' sidered a necessary quality for the bench. It is
l the singular peculiarity of the present veterans of
the legel profession in the House of Lords, that they
all rose by being most liberal and violent on the
popular side. Any barrister who would now Att( mpt
to otter the pleadings and expressions that Cort.er,
and Bnourmeat, and DENMAN did not shriuk from,
would be scouted as a republican, a s.icialist, or by
the newest and coarsest name in to.y Billingsgate.
Yet all these men receive promotion, and neither the
monarchy nor the aristocracy have been undermined by
them.

With their promotion terminated the liberal and
popular tendencies of the bar. Scarcely has a lawyer
111111011 since, who has looked beyrnd the precincts
and the prejudices of his court, or who seemed to have
an idea that there was acy peculiar or traditional
sympathy between the bar and the people. The
country and the bar have, in tact, gone different
ways : the one has grown certainly more demo-
cratic, rationally democratic ; whilst the bar,
eschewing the popular current as vulzar, or as
' leading from honour and promotion, has narrowed
' its sympathies and scope, and produced a generation
of, we have no douly, able men and sound law-
yers, bat not public men cr politicians. The legal 1,
profession begins, in fact, to be ignored in the coon-
try, of which even the intelligent mass know and
care as little for Westminster-hall as they do for
Covent-garden. A chief justice has resigned; and
two names of eminence in ministerial and metropoli-
tan circles were put forward for the succession. Who
eared, or thought, or interested hims if for the suc-
cess of one more than the other? Even the
press had not au opinion on the subject. The
appointment of a Chief Justice has been followed,
or is to be followed, by a large promotion of gentle-
men to be wearers of silk gowue. The newspapers
have published a list of their Darnell, all well known
and esteemed at the bar. Bet whoever heard of them
in the country ?
These are symptoms well worthy of the attention
of those concerned. There is no pert of the great
machinery of our system that Englishmen natu-
rally take so much interest in as in judicial pro-
ceedings. No doubt there is less of dramatic in-
terest in them than there used to be. A struggle
there for life or fortune is not so frequent. Great
and intricate crimes are rare. Whilst political parties
more and more avoid the forensic field, treason and
sedition have disappeared from the calendar, or are
left to miserable pretenders. S 4 that perhaps the
legal profession may want its old facilities for dis-
playir g is aptness for public or political life.
There is a subject connected somewhat with this
dearth of professional eminence which strongly interests
reformers and reform. Tnis is the paucity of fi.ting
candidates for popular constituencies. The Reform
Bill has sent forward into parliamentary life a few
able men ; but, whilst it has, in a degree, dried up
and discouraged that old source of political promotion,
young barristers, for example, coming into paths-
' meat under aristocratic patronage—the aristocracy
now keep this pretty much for themselves—the
popular class and cause have not thrown up candi-
dates and representatives of their own sufficient in
number, or efficient in the requisite qualities.
This argument was not, indeed, brought
forward in debate in the House of Commons,
but it is felt, strongly felt ; and there is no one that
militates more against the proposal for extending the
franchise, and throwing small constituencies into
large. It was to be hoped that a greater extension of
municipal liberties, together with popu ar agitation
on a great many subjects, might have elicited and
preferred from out the ranks of middle life, numbers
capable of representing that class, its ideas, and its
wants in parliament. But unfortunately there is no
medium between embracing politics ass profession, and
the having a fortune ample enough to permit the pursuit
of them as objects of gratuitous duty and honouraboi
ambition. The bar is the only prof- ssiim which
allows the co-ordinate pursuit of private gain and
public honours. And it is for this cause especially
that we the more regret the sterility of toe bar in the
production of political actors and candidate statesmen.
Ws are strongly of opinicn that there is great nerd
of taking steps to supply a too manliest deficiency.
The people want politicians, and the popular cause
wants advocates. There exists at preseut a kind of
:aloe and mistaken feeling in too many of the edu-
cated class. They shrink from addressing the people,
or mingling with them, learning their ideas, and
embracing their cause. They have not only ahr !Toe
of being thought vulgar—a feu which need not to
actuate superior and liberal men—bat they have also
ahorror of bsing thought revolutionist. Fn In this false
shame, false delicacy, and false ca' c ulat ion, the educated
class are abandoning that influence which they ought
to have over the class beneath them. And instead of
community of interest and ideas growing up, there is
perhaps a still wider separation. This is dangerous.
If the educated classes, above all if the middle classes
shrink from the people, the people will shrink from
them, and consequences similar to what have taken
place in France from this very cause may arise. In-
stead of the whip and the educated liberals of the
house turning their backs and setting their
faces against financial and eleztoral reform
emaciation, they ought to join in them
and encourage them. There are no anarchies
or subversive ideas afloat A fair extension of the
franchise, and a fairer repartition of taxation, are the
topics everywhere suggested. There is nothing to
prevent different classes of townsfolk, nay, and of
country folk, from discussing such things together,
not merely foe agitation sake, bat for the sake of
blending and improving the different elements of the
great liberal party, developing its talents and
its leaders. But we repeat it, if the several
classes below the aristocracy, and now some-
what subject to them, will keep apart—if
°as keeps despising the other chartist, the
latter returning contempt by hatred, one of two
lery bad results will ensue. Either the power of the
country will relapse into the hands of the bigoted
terries, or poison and venom, and idea born of igno-
rano., irritation, and presumption, will become gene-
rated in the breasts of the operatives ; and the really
industrious middle class of Eugland will, like the
middle class in other countries, bee ems the victim
and the shuttlecock of the strife and the play of ex-
treme parties.
In the present state of the world, or at least of
England, public affairs are the business of every one ;
and the care and ventilation of them can be no