The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-30 00:00:00

the hon. gentleman moved for a par iculat mode of irqiiiry
which the noble lord at tkc head at the giiverurn.ut objected
to, sod it was only reasonable that the government shcu'd
require the queetinn to be tier/mired.
Mr. DISRAELI called upon the noble lord to state dis-
tinctly whit courie was to be pursued, and
Lad J. RUSSELL merely repeated what he had altcsily
stated, that it was for the committee to point out what evi-
dence they required, and that the Sicretary of State would
procure it as far as it was risible.
The house thi n divide 4, when there appeared—
For the motion
Myrna it
Mr. HUME then proceeded to move that the evidence of
the select committee be laid before the house ; but being
eppealed to by Mr. Law and others, be consented to postpone
it till Tuesday next, upon which
The house, at halt-past six, adjourned to Tuesday next.

Vie erprefoi.

OUTGOING MAILS.

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The Wert India Mills, including Bermuda, Havana, Numb,
amazes, New Orleans, and Menlo), and en-lodine those tor
Madeira, St. Jusnale-Wieeragua, New Granada, Chili, and Fens, will
he made up on the ind of August.
ICU. for !NINA North America and the United State, will be
made up on the evening of the 3rd of August.
The male for Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made
•,pnn the 4th of August.
The mails for VIM; tinotto, Llrbou, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be made up or. the 7th of August.
The mails, via Marmilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon.
India, Bong-bang, ha., will be made up on the evening of the 7th
August.
toe malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the UM an la'nnds.
sitar,. India, and ("nine. .'4 ro,tlgararten, wilt be made up on
thr reorr'ng of the 20th of August.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 30.

Tn E cession about to b= closed is not one of which
parliament, or at .y patty in it, need be vastly proud.
There has been vest progress, indeed, since 'January
last, but that progrws is out of doors—it is the
advance of public opinion in financial matters, in eco-
nomic questions, in views of foreign struggles for
liberty and independence. In all these the public has
ovule notab!e slriees. But if wiliament has helped
it, it has been rash. r by the signal Ware of the re-
trograde party to put the clock back, than by say re-
markable di' ts ut tt:etr opp Heats to put it forward.
The rig 1, erhi nil is pretty au, nr, but the motive

power is wanting to any.
Of the four sections into which the House of Com-
mons is divided note t aye made advanc s in the
hou-e. And each is the stereetypege of septennial
parliaments that, probable, wine will make progress.
The whigs are c intent to hold office, the radicals to
advance Kith the country, slowly and quietly, as be.
comes a time at once reactionary and rev lutionary.
The " unease classes" are to be found exclusively on
the tory side of the horse.
Heeling. however, can be more impati nt than
the efforts made ...urine the s scion on the left of
-he SPEAKER'S ;Mir. Mr. DISRIELI has utterly
failed to keep warm in his party even that galvanised
life which the inexhaustible bellows of Lord Gs:Tws:
BENTINCK breathed into it. The member for Bucks
has been able, indeed, to give two or tine e
gigantic p,ffe, which lit up the red sparks
in the smouldering embers far a moment, bat
these were but cinders and collapse the moment
efter as the moment be fore. And yet the protec-
tionist leader ha. scarcely mote mere signal failures
than the great Sir Rotten's. Prete him-elf with the
huge plantation nenacea. The efforts of subordinate.*
were more personal, but even then their javelma
fell mar vellously blunt and short. And the Efforts of
POW Mr. BANKER, to enact Achilles and clay the
IleCLOtinZ PALMERSTON, were as great n failure as
the thrusts of GLADSTONE and Lord LINCOLN to
immolate Lord GREY. The failures in single combat
were even more flagrant than in getTeral attack.
The result of such failures on the part of both
sections of toryism cannot fail to be their decompo•i-
tion. It is plain that to snatch the executive power
demands some greeter claim than Facing sat at the
feet of PEEL, or than chancing to be promoted to the
lead of the hard, which threw off allegiance to
him. Whatever confidence the country had is
Sir ROBERT PEEL was personal, and given
only through him to his clerks and follower .
Their right to command sunh confidence of themselves
has been peremptorily and plainly denied. At the
same time, it has been shown that those who failed to
defend protection when in its vigour are not caeable
of restorirg it when in its &eine. And the hope
of either seeing a STANLEY cabinet, or one in which
the I.incolnit s would predominate, is evidently ef
the same kind of a dream with poor SMITH O'BRIEN'S
kingship of Ireland.
The shrewder Peelitte are thus looking to the right
and het, to serve with or under the whigs till they
eau oust them. or to picquet their steeds with the
protectionists and wait for their lead there till such
time as the last shred of the flag of protection has I
dropped from the idle staff.
Others cf the l'ecl:teP, and perhaps the most tide
of them, look towards the whip camp. But of all
these moves and changes, the mote important perhaps
is the apparent determination of certain of the yonag
and untried men of the gr.at toly party to
throw off at once what they cot eider the humbug
of protecii n. They complain, and with reason,
that the hands and the thoughts of tori s and
country gentlemen h•tre been kept of late years
too closely confined to their breeches' pockets,
playing a selfish game, with na philo ophy beyond
rents and purees, and no argunients saw•• those ad cre-
me/ram. Although in opp sitien they eel that the
tories have reelected the secrel duties of opposition,
which by defending popular rights gave en
oprosition the best eleim to raver. They
read in their chronicles and histories that
the country party was never so strong as when it
steed distinct teem the (-mart party, and when it stood
out for rights, for economy, and for impravement.
To resuscitate this spirit were to create a genuine
party of" Young England," not the bastard dilettanti
p:inciple adopted by certain youths, no two of whim,
as m re continue to act or threk to ether, but a Young
England that would show the rising generation of the
squirearehy, and of the educated class, to be prepared
to embark in progress, not reaction. These men
think that a perseverance in the old humdrum
policy of whigs and terries will not succeed in pre-
serving either to the higher classes their influence,
to the middle ci rates their prosperity, or to the lower
o; ea ease or content. They thick that without a
new, k quite new colonial pel cy, the c:loeies
will be lose, and England thereby shorn of
half her naval and commercial strength. They are
of opinion that the Cir secs:teem OF THE EXCHEQUER
cannot much longer go c n with this financial goose-
step, alternating between a mock surplus and a real
deficit, the balance of revenue and expendeure
depending on every turn of the season, on each
cloud in the sky, and upon every commotion that
impedes the trane of Eat ope. The strong conviction of
the necessity of something new, and radically new, is
not confined to the radical party in which such ideas
eerm. The seed' has fallen ueon other ground, and
there are some spccimers iwn on tory soils, very
likely to startle these curious in political vegetation.
Our own opinion, however, i•, that little can be
done in the pros-nt 'parliament, and that which must
be done will he done too slowly in any parliament
chosen in the present narrow basis of representation.
Financially and colonially the country is in a tut,
and the parties who have brought the waggon to
stick there are not the parties to extricate it. Mieis-
ters of any party at present could do nothing without
the strong backiogof public opinion; and nnfertuna ly
any ministry likely to be fund would set abut mes-
merieing public opinion rather than exciting it to sup•
port them. Moat of all would this be the ca-e
if the whige and Peelitea came to caalesae in
order to firm a cabinet. For teen their joint e Tn.
cities would deem themselves independent of the
world without, and would carry on the government
more in the spirit of a family party than ever.
The fact is, that *eat things and great men are
wanting for the present eroch, whilst there are but
small things and small men upon the Lapis.

DEETRITTIVE FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.—Abont four'
o'clock, on Friday afternoon, a fire broke out in one of the
o .tton sheds known as Ludlow's Sheds, belonging to Mews.
Heywood sad *Vicars. In ahnu' half en hour after the
fire was first olrerved, •he roof of th, building fell in. Sere-
rat engines way, however, en the spot, and In a short time
the flames were extinguished. The damage done may be
rstinsated roughly at 100001. Mews. Heywood and
M.Viosn were insured in the Liverpool Fire-of les for
110,0001., and for 60,0001. in other r.fllces. The fir^ is said
to have originated in consrquence of some plumbers havinr
tsken a grate of fire upon the roof for the purpose of melting
metal.—Liverpool pape►.