The Express. — 1851-03-18 (London, England)

LONDOY, TUESDAY, MARCH 18.  such atbelief, at least on persons upon whom it was not before impressed, was to afford them a civil trial, and give its due importance and terrors to the regular law. Instead of this, the Kundians were shot down by hurried courts-martial. And this summary jurisdiction was made use of as affording facilities for plunder. After such acts being proved, it was really a piece of unwarrantable rashness on the part of Earl GREY to award the officials a vote of thanks from the Colonial-Office. Dismissing them on the ground of personal squabbles, and a want of respect for themselves and others, he still lands the administration of Ceylon ; and then issues a kind of challenge to Mr. BAtt.t.tt;, which in any other circumstance than that of the present cabinet he was bound to take up. Lord GREY in these his sentences, attributes too much blame to thetrivial defects of society, to want of courtesy and conciliation, whilst he bestows unlimited la►rdon and indulgence on acts of tyranny, spoliation, and murder. There is something completely wrong in the moral sense, which commits such blunders. And were Ceylon a solitary instance, one might be snore inclined to account for it and excuse it as a casual error. ' But in the ease of Sir HENRY WARD and of Governor OTERRAL there is precisely the same indulgence towards tyranny—the same indifference towards the treatment and the sufferings of the oppressed—the same determination to uphold criminal' and foolish functionaries per fits of nqits against the plainest evidence, and against the verdict of the country and of parliament. N'e'e regret to have to say thusmuch. For Earl GREY is not a man that the liberal cause can spare. And liberal he is in mane great and vital points, although so unaccountably illiberal in many of his crotchets. We should be sorry for his own benefit and his own future career to see him issue scatheless from this Ceylon inquiry. But we should .equally regret any positive vote of censure upon a minister who suffers for the crimes of others, more front his chivalry and self-will in determining to screen them, than hum his having been personally or administerially an accomplice. Mr. BUMF, at all events, need not have thrust his motion athwart the business of the House of Commons. Lord TonatsGros and Earl GREY sit in  rent. Rut, in the great revolution now going on in agriculture, a bad or an indifferent tenant is not worth retaining at even an increase of his rent. The smaller squirearchy. with lands charged and surcharged with encumbratiees, have much to answer for; but not more than their inferior tenant:T. And it is for and by these two classes that the return to protection is sought—that it may enable the one to provide for their marriage settlements ; that it may enable the other to live on farms on which they arrest the progress and the amount of production.  the Lords; and Lord STANLEY has ample opportunities for bringing the governor and the colonial secretary to the bar at once of the house and of public opinion without jeopardising the fate of the ministry and retarding the important business of the country.  Whenever, then, we ACC a great proprietor like the Duke of Itemoto, re-valuing and re•adjusting him estates to the emergencies of the times and the wants of the age—that man is fairly, and honestly, and earnestly attempting " to do his duty in the state of life into which it has pleased (ion to call him i" and about him and his there is hope, and life, mid prosperity. Though, of course, his sincerity and activity will he called " too had' by those who seek to live on the industry and labour of their fellow creatures.