The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-21 00:00:00

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Pr.:re—the Bawa,ll=atgirLest and widely-Parbured
English newspaper sa as unposed. to sway so
large a 'hare of opinion, as in a great
dogma to represent and . compromise English
opinion abroad—to see this paper reader itself
the organ of a Rumian cabinet, yriblielt its
• documents, and abet its absolutist and anti-
constitutional efforts in Germany, cannot but draw
down a feeling of obloquy and reprobation upon the
English name abroad, not to be lightly estimated in
either its social or its political effects.
The nines avows that the
_great and principal foe
of the Vermin parliament at Frankfort and of the in-
&pendent rights of Schleswig, is Russia. Russia step.
in as the patron and champion of German and of
Danish absolutism. _ .

When Buena supports a canoe, either in Denmark
or in Germany, we know at once that it is the cause
of absolutism against freedom, and of foreign influence
spinet national independence. Of coarse Rugs
prefers the old Diet in the interim government of
Frankfort to the new power of Erfurt. She Gould not
have a more convenient tool than the one, nor a more
formidable check upon her designs than the other. It
was therefore natural that the Ciao should have sent
Prince GORTEICHAHO77 _to Frankfort.. It may be

also true, that be hoisted cm the King of Dertmiux's
envoy being resolved and acknowledged by the Ger-
man power, with which his muter is at war. But
the fact is, that the envoy wu not received or ac-
knowledged, ant that the 2Ymes is completely de-
ceived in its information when it states so. _ _

The Tames, speaking from its Russian brief, con-
gratulates the country on the speedy settlement of
the Schleswig difference by au arrangement of the
succession. When we tnform our readers that
the Rtunian arrangement is the declaring the
second eon of the Orand Duke of OLDr.reetato
heir to the Danish throne, and king of it and Schles-
wig, by the grace of Rosso, and no right of his own,
they may judge of how far there is room for con-
'mutat:dn. But by settiog aside the two
Winches of the house of AUGUSTENBRRG, who have
prior right to the house of OLDENBURG, and at the
same time denying the chief demands of the
Schleswigers, the Russian scheme goes to put
down the resistance of the duchies by force;
necessitates their occupation by an armed force, and
the certitude of the two duchies annexing themselves
to Germany at the first convulsion. There were two
ways of settling the question, by conciliation or the
sword. The Russians have of course preferred the
latter • but we should grieve to hear that this was
also Lord PALMERSTON'S determination. Of whet

ass or profit can it be to be defiant to Dania in the
Dardanelles and the l'ineus, substrvient to it is the
Sound and the Elm)?

The fate of Schleswig, however, like the fete ot Lom-
bardy and of Hungary, is but a corollary of the fate
of Germany. The protestant, the constitutional, the
popularly iederal, and the locally independent prin-
ciple, is there in fierce antagonism with the ltoman
catholic, the absolutist, and the retrograde. The
Bears and Russia join in abetting the latter. We
strongly deprecate their success. But when we
see all the minor states, almost withou: exception,
adhere to the Prussian project, and none but the
kings oppose it—they, too, from motives of personal
dignity and jealousy—we have but the more reason to
conclude, that the cause of the consistency and the
freedom of the great German nation is on one side, the
cause of absolute princes, courts, priests, and police
organisation on the other.
Nevertheless, let ns neither be too slow nor too
sanguine in the cause we prefer. Whilst absolutism
puts forth all its strength, and the tones and
retrogrades of Europe are united to a man, the
power which should rtaist them is divided. The
Slog of PRUSSIA has not conciliated the great popu-
lar and liberal German party. And although mode-
rates and men of sense give hope and adherence
to him, that great masa ot the German public who
alone give irresistible support, remain lukewarm
or indifferent. Herein lies the danger. With the
arms and the mint:, of the Germans united
against the Raisins and the AuAriane we
should have no fear. But the Prussian king goes
oat alone without his people to do battle against the
CZAR and the Austrian legion which he commands
in addition to his own—that is the advance of DAVID
against GOLIAH, which, if it turn out triumphant,
must be from miracle.

WE cannot but approve highly of the motion of
Mr. LOCKE KING, that the landed property of those
who die intestate shall be treated after the same
rule as personal property, and be similarly distributed
amongst the heirs. This does not interfere with the
wish or the act of any one who thinks that he is beet
providing for the future welfare and grandeur of a
family by heaping his wealth on the one member of
it. Such a calculation was not unreasonable
when electoral, and consequently political, influ-
ence and patronage, depended upon the breadth
of an estate, of which in the equal division and dis •
tribution of the acres and the revenue, the political
capital was lost. Whatever of this may still linger
in existence, there is small chance of its long surviv-
ing, notwithstanding all the efforts of Mr. DISRAELI
to prop up the "territorial constitution" of this
°poetry.
There is reason, moreover, to doubt of the fabrica-
tion of very large fortunes hereafter. Nothing occu-
pies rival interests more keenly than a deterui;L:.-
don not to allow each other to make or to
absorb large profits or accessions of wealth.
The landowners can no longer hope to bolster up
rents and fatten on famine prices paid by the rest of
the community. Nor are the landowners powerless
to revenge, and to curtail the hours of labour and
by consequence of profit to the manufacturer.
Railroads undertaken in their prosperity attracted
towards them each a mass of envy and unpopularity,
that even now, in their hour of adversity, this feeling
continues to press upon them, and loses no opportu-
nity to mulct them. The old sources of
colonial wealth are admitted on all hands to be
dried up, or if to be rendered productive, to be done
not by ephemeral, or mock, or merely trading colonists,
but by real ones. The modes of Cunt and HAST-
INGS for amassing wealth are exploded, and even
head-money, that relic of superior civilisation, ex-
pires. Nor is the sphere of action of the great
capitalists lees narrowed. Foreign loan-monger-
ing has got some severe exposures. And as
the industrial power of the world extends
each day with an increase of intelligence
and competition, the dealings of the knowing with
the ignorant, whloh allowed the one to amass wealth
out of the blindness of the other, become more diffi-
cult and more rare. As the number of houses and
churches augment, whilst the building of a palace is
now rare, and that of a cathedral unheard of, so will
the multiplicity of moderate fortunes be the growing
characteristic of the day.
It is very absurd and pernicious of the law t
ran counter to this natural tendency by tying
up and entailing. land. But, as we before
observed, there used to be good and prudential rea-
sons for this, when political power went with large
estates. Now, however, if either a family or a class
understood its true interests, it would not consult
them by keeping property in one or few hands. The
class of landowners, for an hundred weighty reasons,
selfish am well as patriotic), require to be made more
numerous. The land, for the enhancement of its own
value, requires to be thrown more open to smaller
purchasers. Feudal rights will not much longer be
worth having ; and we have no doubt, that a revolu-
tion in social ideas and interests, and in the general
opinion entertained of private interests, will sour
effect of itself that change, a part of which Mr. LocEE
RING aims to attain by legislation.
But the greatest and most useful of all revolutions
would be in the education of our young men of
the wealthy classes. That which at present exists is
a mere discipline in the art of expenditure, enjoy-
ment, and display. These ware characteristics that
adorned the feudal owner of landed property, the
possessor of an annual revenue that he could not
alienate or destroy, and whose duty was pride and
hospitality. These traditional habits and virtues have
survived to a time wbentheyliterally destroy theolass
inoculated with them. They render it the most
hopeless of things to leave a sum of money to youth
who know not the value of it. And, therefore, the
naufruot of land, strictly entailed, is the only safe
provision for youth, bred as English youth almost
always are.

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EMIGRATION FROM PLYMOUTH IN 1849.—The
number of emigrants from Plymouth during 1849 was as
follows :—To l'ort Adelaide, 127 cabin and 3,663 steerage
passengers; Port Philip, 125 and 4,866; Sydney, 130 and
5,193 ; Port Stephan, 2 and 2 ; Van Vientan's Land, 8 and
124; Canada, 39 and 1,132 ; United States, 0 and 101; Cap*
of good Hope, 6 and 339; Port Natal, 16 and 83; Ben
Francisco 15 and 47 : making a total of 15,886. The num-
ber of ships wao—To the Austrdlian colonies, 109; Canada,
10 ; Cape of Good Hope, 6 ; Port Natal, 3 ; 'Gaited States,
2 ; Sao Freoehoo, 1 : making • total of 130. la 1847, there
were 26 ship and 1,230 passengen ; is 1848, 88 ships and
8,609 putengen.