The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-24 00:00:00

Excestive rent is a fearful evil is a country where
commerce does not compete with agricaltere for the
employment of capital and labour. How can it be
abated? Manifestly 'not by act of parliament. No
act that lawyer craft could trains would be worth a
farthing u a manatee to exorbitant rent; fee no
set amid be devised which a swarm of special cove-
nants would not easily and triumphantly break
through. This le in truth so obvious that we oonli-
der.tly hope to see the tenant league applying their
intimates, to the roes ample and effectual means by
which this portion of their task may be accomplished.
Let the people of the north and eolith only be mode
to understand thoroughly that this portion of the re-
medy is in their own bands and rack rent is at an
end. Combination in any spa:oleo form for such a
purpose might be misoonstrood into an illegal act ;
and everything bard.ring on illegality cannot be too
saupulonsly avoided. But no bond or compact is
needed where the want and the resolve is that of a whole
people. To promise more rent than a man is able to
pay is • lolly, a falsehood, and a fraud. Let every
man once feel that this is so, and when will landlords
get any more rack rents P

Inn HorWng Herald, a journal enjojing the omit-
mime' confidences of the low church party, yesterday
arnounced that the Crown bed nominated the Earl of
CHICHESTER as the Brat commissioner of the Eeclesi-

astical Commission under the set of last session; that
the Archbishop of CANTIERBURY had nominated Mr.
UOULBURN ; and that the third commissioner, also
nominated by the Crown, is Mr. J. 0. Lucy=
This announcement, it is very much to be hoped,
is incorrect: for in such an arrangement there is
much to repel public coufidecce. The Earl of Cm-
CHESTER is a sincere, consc!entimui, painstaking,
good man ; and Lord Junti RUSSELL has long been
desirous of inducing him to take some such nos-poli-
tical office as that to which the anncuncement refers.
Who at d what Mr. Gort.nonts is, every one knows.
Suffice it to say that he enjoys scarcely the respect,
certainly not the confidence of any party in the House
of Commons. And Mr. J. 0. Leeevar is a gentle-
mu whose rare capacity to serve the public is at pre-
sent lcst to the country by his failure to procure a
mat in parliament.
Thus, although there is nothing to be said against
the character of such men as Lord Cnicrtmeras and
Mr. LIiPkVILE, they both want the prime requisite,
that of representing the commission in the House of
Commons. As to Mr. oouLutnts, his appointment
is a mere defisnos of the beech of bishops to church
retiree, and even to thievery commission, the appoint-
ment of whicii Mr. 61013LBURN opposed, whilst he
stood up for every malversation, neglect, and blunder
of the old commission, of which he was a prominent
member. In his conduct and his arguments be was not
merely obstinate but offensive to church reformers.
That these men should now have to meet Mr. 00CL-
3aul as the representative of the new commission in
the House of Commons is painful and badly managed.
Lord Qualm= would have made a good ordi-
nary commissioner; u such he would have opposed