The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-01 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
'TM Wed India Mails, incladiag Berman, Havanee,
Nom. Honduras, New Orleans, mills:a" and excluding
them ler Madan, St. 7 eas-de-Nieeregm, New Granada,
Ma, and Pert, will be dispatched tomorrow, Dee. 2.
The sane fee Weirs. the Brazils, sad Samos Ayres,
will be made up on Des 4.
The ant moils for Liabsn, Spain, aad Gibraltar will be
nets up es Dr. 7.
TM mans vie Merseilliw, to the Mediterraneen, Egypt,
Oeglas, Ilesg.Koag, will be made up as
OM &WOWS( a Dee. 7.
The MIN for ',MIA North America and the United
Mates will be made up on the evening of Dia. 14.
Islands,
The nails fee o!Maltar, Malta, Gnome, the lonian
Egypt Ceylon, India, aitil China, via ileatAsiaptea, will
be mile up on the taming a Dee. 20.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1.

Tux directors of the Bank of England have cer-
tainly shown a desire to take a shabby advantage of
Mr. Disiumr. At the very moment when that
great projector's plan for rendering capital cheap was
known to be under querulous consideration, and his
partioslar friends were debiting in a sanewhat irri-
table and uagrateful manner whether it would be
worth the whole nation 'd while to add nine per cant.
to its taxation, in order that the price of money
abould be reduced to 21 per cent.,—out comes the
Court of Directors with the same proposa', mines the
biereseed taxation. If this be not evidence of a deep-
laid scheme to ruin the rung reputation of the
financier for Bteekr,—we know not what is presump-
tive proof. The City interest has long been tainted
with Pietism. Even a RARING found sot favour in
its eyes when allied with the opponents of the great
free trader; and not all the weight deservedly at-
tached to Baron ROTHSCHILD'S name, nor the Sido-
Man adumbrations of a common destiny, and deriva-
tion from a common stock, thrown out by Mr. Dm-
tutu, regarding himself and the Baroe, would have
availed to secure Sir Ltoszes return for the City,
balm not stood on anti-protectionist principles.
The recent conduct of Vie Bank can, theretwe, be
seedbed to no other than a sinister dare to outbid a
tin the market of public favour. 'Ti.
11:c7Ps:Tiece with the • Id system of stage-coach
rivalry, is which when the almost broken-down com-
pany had made a last effort to win customers by
nameeedeated tares," its nescrupulous competitor
announced saddeely that until further notice " par-
ties might be accommodated fur the same distance
without any charge whitever." We do call this
taking a shabby advantage of a rival while capital
and credit are known to be limited. But it only adds
another corroboration to the fact that in the sordid
age in which we live, people in general are carried
away by considerations of direct saving and personal
pat, rather than by regard for the Mare benefits
premised by
.present increase of taus, or supposed
participation in the glories of their native land in the
next century. The unimaginative many wld rather
borrow roomy at two-and-a-half per cent.ou from the
Old Lady in Threadneedle street, than avail them-
selves of a similar facility when proffered by their
younger sad more romantic benefactor at Aylesbury
—the sole differenos in the two sccommodations being
that the former, having a few Mllions to spire, is
only too happy. to turn a penny by lending it, while
the latter, having none to start with, proposes to raise
his lending fund, by taxing the borrowers to the
amount required. And the canning old lady, reckon-
ing, as is her wont, upon the selfishness of the com-
munity, seizes the opportunity of at the same
time serving herself and check-mating her ambitious
nom r.
We really feel for Mr. DISRAELI. His cue is un-
questionably a hard one. He is like the gentleman
in the French farce, whose resources being exhausted
by continued ill-fortune at cards, and having no
means left wherewith to try, whether if he played
on his luck might not torn, complains of this
new instance of the tyranny of capital! Ty-
rannical, indeed, has been the 'weight of metal
brought to bar against him. All the honours
have been held by other hands ; nor has he been able,
after cutting and shuttling again and again to force
Sir Robert's hand or wheedle his own incredulous
partner into playing up to his game of brag.
And now what's to be done? Here's capital plenty
and cheap without extra taxation; what are land-
lords to do or endue ? or whom are they tobelieve
or follow ?
We recollect having recently read in a retired cor-
ner of one of our conbmporaries (we can't say which)
en advertisement to the following effect:—
Wanted a Leader, of docile and submissive habits, mks, is
sot above say work he may be pat to, sad who am be bsi-
plicitly trostsd epos ail occasions. He mast base bees
enstomed to the best handles, sad he pee mewl el sec sags.-
tag appearance. Re will have to lead W usages eltildirea
is
eir stud and . sad, ekes meal er
dthina iesr, to scold oramusements flog them, as he may be ice/ yeked. He mast
never forget, however, his subordinate station in his laser-
mime with any branch of the family, sad towards kin es-
plo use Ws demeanour mutt on all occasions be deferential.
Christisa principles would be preferred.
We felt u we perused this rather remarkable ad-
vertisement that a change in the domestic arrange-
meats of protection must be impending. Subsequent
sweets and rumours have in nowise tended to modify
that persuasion. The young gentlemen are growing
quite unmanageable by their early tutor; and the
dowager., of both vexes, have an accumulation of
grudges, piques, and slights to resent: all which
augurs ill for the present " Leader's" continuance in
place. The unruly and frivolous are weary of cue
who is seldom seen to laugh except at something he has
been secretly thinking of ; and the elderly and effete
an no longer with composure listen to the tows of
overdone homage and respect wherein they MSS de-
lighted. A mortifying suspicion haunts them. dost
could they only hear the mattered sohlaquy et tbdr
obsequious " Leader" on his way down the marble
stair., human nature could not endure that he should
ever ascend them again.
There is a comical story told in the rambling re-
miniecences of Lord CLONCIART of a luckless lured.
whom his patron, the Eirl of BucKummudeaups,
happened to see in an unsuspected mirror mienick-
ing his ascrelleney's peculiarities for the amass-
mint of the rest of the company, and .whose
diprissal the next morning WU the esseequenee.
M.r.. DISRAELI is above the vulgar walla wiled %
and Me has doabilers too keen a ronmiremeas at the
rettealing tendencies by which ha is surreimideLl L.
the cave of DIONTBics no murmur of the oaptiwwss
unheard; and in the more meeting, jealoan sad
trustful camp of Oligarchy, the plebeW wise bee the
genius or ambition that entitles him t. Ind, bad amid
to school each muscle, train east haturer sot
discipline each look of leeity err Inglieesl
list he should inadvertently soak. that envies Mi.
following are by nature due by them to him, ea& net
from him to flume. Vito, that has read "Vivian
Orey," and feels within himself any misgivings of
rewmblailos to the ancient peer whom the young ad-
venturer bamboozled, that must not &nigh. though