The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

Elie erpreoo.

OUTGOING NAILS.
no irk vis te the Medheenneee. Nor,
antes, India„ Neariaag, will be Enda up borserew
areelas.
Tbe sane fa Nelda Nee* Amara, Darstle, sad the
Vetted Steps MUM made up per "Area," ea the warp
a/ o.s.eber
Th• has tltrlabel. Orin, end Giteeltur wgl b. soda
we es Oec 27.
The mai he Madre, has Nieelas, sad St. Thant
(Cape de Verde), Ohne Leese, Assiesi" will be made
up es the emang et Geseber
Tbe mil he Nara all be rede up ea Nev.
TM Sib /11 the WWI WM, Veranda, New Granada,
ad Worms. wine Node op es Keel.
The nab fa Idade Nook rd Beam Ayres, will
be are op as the wedeb d in. 4.
TM semi der Hamanek lieruna, Neter, and hard,
tan. MN be rob up at Nev. 17.
TM wale fw 4311millee. /WM. Green, the balm
Irma, DO" Irk, eel ia
Cara, era Beatbanplos
rA
to made apes the main el Nev. 20.

nem warm AT lORDOIII ISOM
Tar Day —lllmlm. Alarems.
Treranr AlieSlll6. N.Ya &Sao" Y. an.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23.

IT is a keg time faded skin the Baglieh public
wee really alarmed by the frequency and the near-
ness of crime. From time to time thus ham occurred
an atrocious cue, exciting MOM general interest than
fear. Each atrocity looked the semblance of an ex-
ception, rather than of a system, and
nose
thought of either tipb • the polioe, or having
recourse to more than usual precautions.
Bet within this month or two matters have been
seriously shoed. The genius of crime has stalked
abroad, and signalised its prunes in the strangest
sad east unexpected quarters. For the last few days
people have been clamming wise the ineSciency
of the rural police; and the general 'resent has
been that the polio, of the metropolis is se effective
that it flings the depredators on the country, which
b ill provided with similar defenders, and therefore,
at the mercy of those dislodged criminals.
These clanionm had not died away tre the Trains
of the day bag taken it into his heed to give the lie
direct to the suppositioo, and to show that in despite
of the boasted vigilance of the metropolitan police a
hies, anbe robbed within a stone's thrtw of one of
its diet stations, and in the most frequented and best
ighthoroughfire of the City. It really seems as
tir plan for the committal of this robbery was
diem as • bravado, and as a slap in the face to that
boosted security which we enjoy under the protection
a that force.' _

The freqaency of such events, and the panic which
they naturally create, set fertile minds a-thinking
upon new modes of obviating them. One has just been
broached by the learned Recorder for Birmingham,
who proposes that power should to given to arrest and
punish persons who shall not be able to give a
satisfactory account of their means of livelihood. We i
certainly are not prepared to go any such length as .
this in extending the arbitrary powers of the polioe.
One of the great complaints of this country is, the dif-
Scalds, which the law of settlement throws in the
way of the free movement of labour ; and philanthro-
pis are trying to do away with the law of ashram, 1
in order to allowing fuller scope to the removal 1
snd transit of agricultural labour. Such a law as that I
proposed by Mr. ltecorder HILL would create a for-
midable obstruction.
Auotber consideration with respect to it is, should 1
It be ccn6oed to the poor, that is, to the apparently
poor ? Is it fair that it should be so? bhall rags
al=oe be suspected P Or are the weames of ms the
rnsaa dangerous of those who can give no satisfactory
account of their sumo( livelihood? If the police are
to stop and question the beggars on thin bead,
why Mould they not have power to stop the shabby
get teel, nay, the man with a good cost, whose
sore means of subsisteoce is picking a pocket ? We
fear, truly, that the precious time of the police would
be too much taken up by such functions. As it ie'
their chief employment is in gendarming the frail
female population of the streets; and we on that
their absorption in this task has made them overlook
the security of silversmiths' windows. If their func-
tions be extended to the right of perquisition into
men's pockets, we must have additional rata, addi-
tional tyranny, and additional annoyance.
Better, is fact, establish the pervert sista& at
mice, and make Frenchmen of us—that ie, give every
policeman tba ;twee to stop any gentleman whose
physiognomy displeases him, in order to ask him for
his papers. and iu use the gent]y man, or common man,
as be may be, has not his passport duly signed and en
regle, off they are marched to polimoffice. It is a
good scheme for tilling the jilts, but whether that
tends to the increase of morality is another matter.
'the suggestion, however, of the learned REcoarivit
with respect to persons once convicted, is worthy of
attention. He would put them under an exceptional
riyirne. The French, in this respect, hare a good
nil'. They never allow a perms ooce condemme for
any misdemeanor to inhabit tho metropolis. They
may choose their residence, but the residence they
choose they mast keep; and that residence is always
at a certain distance from the metropolis. But this
is ecerosly po.sible, except with the French system
ol.paesporte and police. the tuinneintesare
this country is such that few Miniister;44i;ld attempt
ito introduction.

We know nothing in history, pew or present, so
calculated to command the respect and sympathy of
et good and liberal men as the conduct of the people
of Ileac CurseL United to • men on behalf of their
rights, full of respect for their constitution, religiously
careful of any offence to their unworthy sovizaln—
if ever there was au example of constitut • re-
eistanos on constitutional grounds, it weathers. Had
such events occurred, such en example of unanimity
been shown, ea the resignation cf the entire
cape of officers of an army in past years,
the old Dirt of Frankfort itself. absolutist es
it wee, would have sanctioned the resistance and
d: cared the ELECTOR dathroned for having broken
the constitution, as was dow In the caw of Duke
CHARLIE of BRUNSWICK and of the old fugitive
Hector of ERROR CAeSEL.

1 he tolerance, however, which was shown some ten
or twenty years ago is no longer to be permitted now.
Tbr respect for popular opiniaas and rights that even
filyrrnaricu displayed, cannot be admitted by
Scuwarannuao. The constitutions' resistance of
the people of Hesse Cases. mast be put down ;
and not only of Hems Cassel, but the wishes
of the satire German people are to be en
at nought. Thera is in truth but one de-
sire throughout all Germany and all reeks of
Germans, that of not being again thrust back into
the power of a Dist of Primes. For this the Bava-
rians and the Wortembergers are as oaltdrosoo
Prague. or Saxons. But the princes aro gotoomlosilto
establish their autocratic league, wind 'obi& not
merely the people in the streets but the maim at
the different states in chambers, unanimously declare.
The consequence is, this. etwolbots Wog universally
dissolved sod martial law sod =Mary authority
substituted be the legal retiinw. The line of demar-
cation in Germany is thee between the princes and
their court parties on one side, and the entire wed
the population es the other. The princes, to be sere,
have the mined of Russian bayonet., as well met the
Croatian and Slavonic regiments of Austria. Then
a.e prim" Indeed, those of Prussia for example,
together with all the minor and ducal ones, who
would lis Old to fall in with the viable of the Ger-
man peep They en menaced, however, with no
leas than war and destruction. and a Ressies invasion,
for daring to entertain or persist in such a thought.
In this open quarrel between absolatiam red consti-
tutionaliem now raging, fears are entertained that
Pru-sia will give way, that Austria will be allowed to
subdue the Hessians, and deliver them, bound, to
their despicable Elector. It is hared that a general
holocaust will be made of the constitutional rights of
the Gera people, and that the Croat and the Coe.
sack, whom the civilisation and progress of the
country had driven to their wilds, will gain be
masters of Europe to the Rhine in the middle of the
nineteenth century.
We cannot, indeed. bring ourselves to believe in
any such courammation. We cannot believe the
primes of Germany saoh fools as to write in such
palpable letters of tyranny, injustice, and blood, their
own final and irrevocable modmanatien. If the
as that have yet stood in the breach should
it, and deliver the mostitutionsl party aid
hold to be crashed sod ezMmleag4 the
of vindicating Oponsea freedom, unity,

rights, will them lapse once mesa to the dr
nomads party. The most anima of the °pa-
ssivist dams., sad the most millghtmed of eves
the well born, will theneskeweal, owls' to put
trust is themeless. look terwsed to titers opporta-
aides of imarrestion and rimektier ter the ressemy
of the imam rights at moolesed.
In meek a dogged, deadly, nib* fiLt
is d-
dada of the oppressed seabed their we
have no fear whatever es to midst will sedgy
the final triumph. We MI Ole se malikat if the
Wegrlinks et Ewer k la ISA
i:.se far fa the peeps se Ornmy. who
ens bide tisk lies Ilae se die km he these pdmiss
whe hes mambo= Isar 41, Masi have
dem emient the lest horse, either wind or
belayed the righte a met pople.
There are else either Wiwi sad pressinte
whims ember and when is the shied tins
foe the liberation or enelavemat of OmmoitLrol
be Doted sad remembered. The palsy of e,
and of all its miniature, has been, we eggeseitez
marked front first to last of the Oasis s
with the narrowest eberesbie of seas *hay sad
asifish littleness. Is Garamoy, as is Italy, the
miserable rearms' sad imbeat parties in France
have made ikeseedvuo the mos entsrpows of Austria,
and the shatters d wwy est sad rims of tyranny
sad nestles. What Prawn allele to Geraway is the
rwarshtirhasst et the di Dist sod timid eeneoralp,
sharpened by new viper, and &seed by martial
law. For every social ill or palled sampleint France
bee bet me remedy—bayeaslo—bat one principle of
gemmed—fear. The Pinch, that is their poli-
ticises, hate the Germans us a nation that desires to
be bee, sad dread it as • patios that aspires
to be great. The only aim of the French is to as
the Germans disunited, and weak, powerless, sod
enslaved, in order that themay sot became formid-
able rivals to It nation which, although shorn alike of
greatness ad boredom, still is ma of preserving
the semblance and the name of both.
England in its conduct towards Germany is not
quite so mesa or so selfish as France. The great
mass of our peeM feel themselves of the Teutonic
stock, look in trmans se their brethren in race,
religioe, and in character, and are ardent to
give national sympathy and aid in say practical
shape. Our rulers, however, have been driven to and
fro, and have wavered is their conduct towards Ger-
many. During its freedom and development, English
statesmen looked upon its hour of promos with
none of the jealous reserve of the French. Eng-
lish statesmen, es well as the English people,
would have beta delighted at the establishment
of Gem= unity, and to me freedom as well
as free trade predominate. Bat English minis-
ters have neither the °Gump nor the power to
swim long whist the Arcata. Beset by toy bee, they
cannot persist in upholding a falling cam. They
cannot embrace a party in central Europe which dis-
plays no power of subsisting by itself, nor be. their
policy on the will of a prince, whose purposes ars
wafering as the wind. Lord Plaraarrow resisted
the despotism of Austria in Italy, and the dictation of
Ramie in Turkey and in Greece. With difficulty
defending himeWsgainst the absolutist league, which
in the hour of triumph and reaction beset him in con-
sequence, it vould not be expected that Lord PALMEZ-
BTON should act the Quixote for either the unity or
constitreionalimn of Germany. These principles mad
learn to help themselves, ere they can get others
to help these.
The backwardness or coldness of our government
we can therefore understand, and we trod that the
liberals of Germany will have the perspicacity to com-
prehend its reason too, and hence cease to nourish
resentment. But though the German might make
allowance for the weakness of our government, we
fear that they will put a very bad construction upon
the virulent hostility of cur press. That prominent
jawed amongst us, which has all along mocked
German efforts at either unity or freedom, which
scouts every German sentiment, and denounces every
German interest, and which at this moment is halloo-
ing the Cossack and the Croat upon North Germany,
as it previously did upon Hungary—that journal is the
one most eridsly parchseed, patronised, and circulated
amongst the English people. There is no getting over
the disgrace and the consequence of this. England
thereby declares itself the enemy of the national unity
and constitutional freedom of Germany. Socha wilful
belying by Frisked of the principle on which its own
prosperity and greatness are founded, and such malig-
nant treachery towards a kindred race, cannot bat
one day provoke from Germany the merited hellos,
of contempt, aversion, and retribution.

A coiner= of the Rouse of Gam= bet
masks, to use a sporting phrase, "unearthed," N ad
u ancient job, at all events a century of ulna.
ement, carried on at the exmnse of 'hippies. 1
We refer to the administration of Ramsgate Harboat,
ia which seem congregated all the vices that oft
=Clic trusts, except personal corroptiou a
It is sew upwards of a century since this he.
hour was oomassiced ; it is not yet finished; sad
when it will be no one knows. For though the
works in bud an finite, those in cantle.
plation seem infinite. In that period very
I nearly two millions stall!: have hem; vest pre ygsi
`.arbour; sad though undeniably it is a safe put
for small yowls, and, by their taking refuge then, it
relieves the Downs of their presence during " arty
weather," sad thereby giver more room
and Ism danger, ay Harbour is
anything but what might have bees expected ices se
dime ao enormous. It is dangerous to saw hi
orFit= the south and south-west ; it is beseassibio
large ships, except at the top of dm diet
the water in it is decreasing; and amek when they
gain it, hare been frequently demigod a Visa %suds s
they are all very serums defects; though, of aurae,
they are gaits unobservable by its directors, maser,
secretary, harbour-mister, and other servants.
Down to the year 1822 Ramsgate Harbour hod
cost one million and a half sterling. In that pier
Sir Jour; MINNIE was appointed its engineer; and,
though Sir Joss mast then have been only a youth.
he promptly decided that " the harbour was in a very
/steerage, and certainly in a very dangerous, stab;
and it was extremely difficult and almost impossible
to my to what extent it would be asomsery
to carry the mare So to work, in this state of
knowledge se to past and of ignorance as to &tare
operations, Sir lons set, and ever since ho sad hie
employers have been spending cot less than 20,0001.
aria on the harbour. But even after this lugs ex-
peaditare, Sir loam is of opinion that " there is still
a defective portion of the east and west pins which
require to be rebuilt; that is toz.,Lethe foundations
en defective, aid the exterioras masons,
which an sometimes alma* at low water, an
teemssaten end dowsed. and bean keg somettrias
seal be dew.' AEI a is It" so in ISOM
ad= "If *ellipse* le mob ea meow** Mims*h kW
Is Ask soiss ma laterhnsioe lase the
weds a Ressaislis Bohm will, is ths' ant
=Alitse andies they have la die past ;
is then 11410,0001. Yet, says Sir Joss
/MIMI Mined', "if Remote Harbour was to be
bat sow. a sum of 700,000 r. would complete it per-
maressft to_ het la ma a fay that no °slimy •••
adds Amid at oft kitsch's with ft." Past lease-
sass, ineepasibility, and raismaaegeonfet bays, our
siapesitly.la Ille•
allarbour operated as an un-
necessary tort es , to the extent of one mil-
lion these Mabel pounds. It a then to
prevent so imassemay • berthas being asthma
that " something ought to be done
By wham this enormous rem be. been spat, sad
by whom it has been astributsd. are tatoresting in-
quiries. The system under which it has been spent
is ingeniously pervene. The ostensible maaagenisit
of Ramegate harbour is vested In no less than WO
commimioners, of whom all that their secretary can
s, that that they ere more or leas cosseeted with
; do truth probably being, that he
seemly bows their names, id that
tho eajority thmassives badly know did they
ass ea the Teat; though they have as ansela-
say and are self-elated. The groat body Isisever,
Ides no real part in the mauspment. Odd it is
'shows a committee of twelve; chiefly the notable I
litiss of the aty of London; via., the Putt, I.b
CEAPIIANStbe Batas, the Mairrisauirs, the OM-
'tone. the H=llll, mad sash other roweled, old
IQty teriso,Bask Direct" Dock Dtreetam, ma Bro-
th= of the Trinity House ; men ohms
all.amentica a die& own perms; bat ds use
mad
their own vast elan to stied peep*
liWelhise and assessment et a babas Nei
90A.=Tles aka of theme dieletaa est Is
I them their mastery is IS SIIIMINIb