The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-12 00:00:00

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MAILS.
The mails for British North America, and the United flat..,
will be mae up en the evening of the 15th April.
The West ImHa Made, excluding Bermuda, Namau, Havana,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porta Rico, and
including thane for Madeira, Jacmel, Carthage's, tient& Martha,
Cbagres, Panama, Went Coast of South America, and St. Jain-de.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th April.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lislise, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
wll be made up nn the morning of the 17th April.
The overlaid mails fen Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long-Kong, and Chine, via Southamp-
ton, will be made up on the morning of the 44th April.
The overland closed mails, rut Mareeillee, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-hong, he., will be made up on the
evening of the 24th April.
The mails for New South Wales, VIZI Diemen's Land, mid New
Zealand will be made up ou the evening of the 34th April.
The malls for the West aast of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 50th April.
The mails for the Brazils, the Inver Plate, Mosta Video, remain-
bum. Bahia, Madeira, and Enema Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the May.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning rhronick, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHIR.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the keening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778,714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the GloOr or ,Stufulard, EvemiLg Papers.

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LONDONWEDNESDAY,APRILI2 I
IT is invariably the lot of foolish or knavish brag-
garts, who are, or profess to be, on the popular side,
to afford pretexts for encroachments on civil
liberty. The speeches in which some members of the
convention, in John-street, Fitzroy-square, indulged,
on their first coming together, warranted, not fear of
their power to effect, but suspicion of their intention
to attempt, a revolutionary movement. The con-
servatives in parliament and the press contrived out
of these materials to work up a panic, to which some
of our old-world aristocracy, still haunted by
dreams of the first French revolutionary era,
were well predisposed. The events of Monday
have shown to reasonable men how groundless and
exaggerated were the fears entertained of any imme-
diate dangerous outbreak. But unfortunately the very
circumstance which has restored equanimity to the
right-thinking, has encouraged the old tory school to
resume its visionary hopes of suppressing the real,
and in too many cases legitimate, discontent which
rankles throughout the land, by coercive policy and
coercive laws. Three eminent organs of conservatism
—the Duke of WELLINUTON, Lord BROCGEIAM, and
the Vines—are striving, as for a wager, to outdo each
other in demonstrations of zeal for " the good old
cause" of tory principles.
There is something ludicrous enough to those whose
memories can carry them back some E ighteen years,
in the entire accordance of the Commander-in-Chief
and the ex-Chancellor as to the law regarding public

meetings.
On the Bth of December, 1830, the united trades of
London marched in procession to St. James's Palace to
present an address to the King expressive of the very
severe disappointment experienced from the putting
ott of his Majesty's visit to the Lord Mayor, and their
loyalty to the King and constitution. That same day,
in the House of Lords, the Duke of WELLINGTON
asked Lord MELIIOI RICE what steps had been taken
with regard to the procession. Lord MELBOURNE
replied that having consulted the magistrates and
heads of the police departments—and having
learned it to be their opinion that the pro-
cession had better be allowed to proceed, he
bad refrained from any attempt to atop it. Ilia lortl-