The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

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MAILS.

The malls for British North America, and the t.atbit,k
will be made up en the evening of the I I th Aug,
The West India Mails, excluding linnhta,
Hcmdurea, New Chleans% Vent Crux, I..tnipto,, tofic.",:e,
Including thoee for Madeira, Jacmel, Carthage', ,
Charms, Panama, West Coast of South America, exd
Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of lb. ITth
The math for Vigo, ?porn% Lisbn, blade" Lei., _VW.
will be made upon memento., of the NM Aug. (Atr4
Tie overhaul mails It Citbr.ltar, M. I, Ore, 'he
Egypt Aden, tX‘plon, India, Hung-Kong, and aek ry
ton, will be made upon the evennelf of the lUM Au v.t.4Tta4
The overland tired eta Marseille., to bk xed,
Egypt, Aden, Ceyloa, India, Hoag-lions, am, la
Will be .
evening of the 24th Aug.
The mails for New South Wales, Tan DieUlllll'S Unad_
Zealand will be matte up on the evening of me t-t A °Asa-Z..4
Tine mails roe the Urea :vat of Atrial and 31 Alm. et
tap on theiivening of the 71st August ri
Therm:Ala for Use LU.114, the hirer Plate, 3loate eise;
boo, m.xim. and MA.oa
evening of the 4th September.

NOTICE TO ADVE:ITISau
The camber of STAMPS Mimed by b.: at.q,..,,t4.
Stamp-office, donut 1847, to the
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DAILY NEWB was 3.447.00.
This, we believe, is with* eight per cent p 'ha._
truedto the Morning Herald, Somme C4,...,471
tiorrono Pat, ALL MUT TUOlrtgLis. --"' ill
In addition to PI- above, issued to t! e DAILY SIB
Morning Paper, there were issued for tile Leo...7u'
THE EXPRESS 773,714
Which we more, we believe, then were watt
he °kJ& or StaredOrvi. E•eFirit Paper.

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LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST;
Tue red republics of France and of
have been fairly drowned, the fist io
the last in ridicule. And the difficulty is
Cases is, how to deal with the vanquished. •
the question was merely how to chastise sod ge„'
of the leaders, it were more simple; bat the
is, that the parties really arraigned and tee* •
that remain to be gu rded against, are large .
of the lower and working orders, infected with
of those possessed of influence, authority, see
perty, that hatred strengthened by certain
and creeds, which give the appearance of right .
the support of conscience, to efforts fur overeat;
the social condition as well as the political
work of society.
But in the time in which we live, it is imptesie,,i,
either government or the upper classes to go fee eel
armed with mistrust and deadly weapons &Oar
disaffection of the lower. Our gentry cannot Only
the barons of old- —behind battlement+ at home, W
coats of mail when they walk forth. We cause.
peud all the revenues and resources of a cost i '
keeping peace by force. No country con be ired ,
preserving that requires a standing tinny seat,
Employ force and intimidation as we will, weer* .
always look forward to a peried when intisileis
must cease, when force must be withdrawn,indeis
the governing must lie down and walk abort*
the governed, protected by a certain degree afefle.
tion and respect. And let martial law prevail
any number of weeks or months in the set •
Ireland or the regions of the. French capital, e 4
time must come when it will cease, sod it ir
effect produced on the popular mind by Ist
restraint, that must be looked to. It' feelings ohs
eentment are exaerrbated, and the demonise epee
social revolt merely kept down for a timo, but neth
removed nor softened, then has labour been lortr:
rigour expended in vain.
Let us look especially to the case of France. Tin
the moderate party in the National Assembly hares
dered an inquiry into the causes of the late intone -
tima the result of which inquiry has been s reps
throwing very little light on the causes, led peremg
accusing the three fon moat chiefs of the nitrides
cratic party of complicity in those terrible days.
must confess that we doubt altogether the Iroise
either the inquiry or of the report and we Tisk
still mote the wiadomof the mode of procedure.
This is precisely the moment when the FreechNe
t:onel Assembly required the utmost unanimity, n '
the closest understanding between all modem
and sensible men, for the founding of a constitmix
the election of a president, and the meeting
serious alternatives of counter revolutions ic
capitals of Germany, joined with the military*
ceases and advance of the German General in by
Yet this is the moment chosen to convert the Asir
bly into a field of combat, and into a el iminal core
justice, where scenes of the fiercest strife ::nd snag.
must ensue, and where no one good result, ens:
justice, is likely to be obtained.
It was apparent from the recent division and en
that the parties in the Assembly well nigh bike
each other; and it was also apparent tie
this balance is only preserved by the aloes
publicans aiding the moderate republicans an
their support. At such a rnomeq
conservative or monarchic side ope ns this imam
prosecution, which goes to annihilate the ultra-repel
!jeans, and it calls upon the ministerialists, or modes
republicans, to help them. Is it not probabk tk
such an attempt will fail, especially when we we a
reading the report that the criminality of the some
members is by no means satisfactorily or irrefra.sk
proved? We have ourselves little doubt of the os
plicity of LEDUC ItOLLIN, LOUTS Bt sac, id
CAUSSIDIERE, in the a .veral movements. But sea
really less convinced of this since the reading of ti
very lame, ut.connected, and inconclusive :reran. l
a trial, it it proceeds before the assembly, milli
from the first a political struggle, not a jades
inquiry, and its consequences will be the atedi
estrous divieiene, followed by trifling roiliest
to the guilty, and, at the same time, the sting
up of all those bad passions and resentrseteeieds
mob, which one had hoped to see quenched ander*
ruin of the barricades. Should war become tree
table, the foremost instruments of it will be theist
republicans. If France needs soldiers, she awl
refuse arms to her bravest sons. And the trieli
Levity itot.LIN will be a bad aceomponiteent toile
march of the communist legion from che ratcmata d
Itomaireville to the camp of the army of Italy.
One of our English contemporaries, cotiunk#l
upon this accusation, asserts that the nesse
parties who in the French convention lost their ISO
did so, because they had not previously eat off the
opponents' heads when this was in their pew;
According to this doctrine, mercilessness is the s
security, and the only mode of preserving rear*'
from the rancour of enemies is to exterminate then
whatever their numbers. This may constitute!
moral and p.litical principle of tne barbarian aid b!
Asiatic, but it is neither tenable nor possible nen
climate. The French, we may he sure,will Ow!
erect political eeaffoLls ; the very idea is renugoid:,
them. The blood spilt in the great revolution.
not proceed so much from the rancour of the
tion or of its members as from the iinfortanster
that the people thirsted for blood, and memben!
bid each other in popularity by indulging themes
bed propensity of the peopl... No such tair,
tendency exists now; and most accursed ROW ;
the person or the party that would
awaken it.
tioTnhferolmristheg
and
who are too contemptible to sm
trait perinw
ovvreernacmh.entparearliamm.
eanvtewryilldigiffverell4itlc
blanche to deal with the insurrection Le,„,
thies. The great question is, how is the gont
to make use of its victory, and how is it to !en:,
vanquished, so that the large mass of the Irianclnri
may be recovered from their hallucinatioa,
their rancour, their reetlessnen quieted
ell !,17.i
the power of the crown, as well ai by neeel,7o
its beneficence? We do not consider th agents
use of rigour and the hearkering to theas
of vengeance the best way to these resatsspa
no use or possibility in our day, of the sown
the statesman.

FROM the very beginning of the morete";,a
sanitary reform the conduct of the Wax 01 ""'"i
has presented a contrast to that of the itc°Be,
Commons most honourable to the fort:curl:ol3:d'. 0
fore the Commons took up the question nt 'LA it.
Lords twice passed a sanitary measure inUeMis
Lord NORMANII4. The Commons rejected the,'?
introduced by government last e.ssion, and unl ao
the measure of the present year after theY aino
their best to strip it of every provision r. 4„ ibe
give it power and efficiency list n'g". i
unabated hostility awed Lord 3lotarta 13:1,,
temporising opposition to some of the getll.,e2,
by which the Lords had re,tored to the nv-7,0
portion of ita original vita:ity, ea a bribe V% the sl'