The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-29 00:00:00

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;emend will be made up on the evening of the let Notmenber.
The West India mad., Including thole fur Mexico, tinndura., and
he 11,,,grmah, will be made np on the morning of the 2nd November.
lb, overland mail. for Gibraltar, Malta,Greece, the lonian lolanda,
Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-long, and China, ries Southampton,
trilgt made up on the morning of the 3rd November.
The mails for Briti4h North 'interim, Bermuda. and tits United
Stater, will be made up oil the evening of the 3rd November.
The mail. for the Laud* the Rim Plate, Monts Video, Pereira.
auto, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening Dille 4th November.
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Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Bang Kong, lac., will be made up on the
evening of thc lath Nov.
Toe mails for Vigo, °polio, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the ilth November.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 29.

MINISTERS have, it is pretty certain, deter.
mined to call parliament together late in November,
in order to a consideration before Christmas of

the two or three serious questions of the day.
They are not forced to this by the consequences
of the recent relaxation of the bill of 1814. That
necessity was contingent on the circumstance of
large demands being made upon the Bank. No
such demands, however, have wen made, nor does
it seem probable that there will be any breach or
setting aside of the rules of the act of 1811, a
sufficient proof of its phantom influence in frighten-
' ing the commercial world from making use of tho
means which it actually possessed.
The ease, however, which the ministerial measure
has given in London and the outporta, has not, as we
predicted the first day, extended itself so satisfactorily
to the great rearftffircturing districts. 'lle manufac-
turer is more alarmed than comforted at the pros-
pect of a rate of interest fixed at, or even but little
below, eight per cent. The work of production is as
impossible as ever on such terms, the raw material
as unpurehaseable. The crisis, therefore, cannot be
said to have quite passed away, nor is the responsibility
of meeting the general distress, however this may be
shifted from the shoulders of the great capitalist to
the manufacturer sod the operative, at all lessened.
Ministers have, therefore, wisely determined on
having speedy recourse to the intervention of parlia-
ment.

By the end of November it will have become more
apparent how far a mere facilitation of credit, and the
increased convertibility of securities and stock, will
have sufficed to free the country from its distress, and
whether the people ought not to be in a condition to
command a fuller currency on terms less onerous and
more practicable than government has as yet ventured
to allow. It is understood that Sir ItonEur PEEL yields
his full adherence to the relaxation, as it has been
given and worded.
Timm was a rumour last week of Sir ROBERT'S
return to power. The ex-minister's interview
with the CHANCELLOR OF TILE EXCHEQUER and
his visit to Windsor were coupled with the report,
and, perhaps, some complimentary offer of Sir
CHARLES WOOD to the originator of the bill of 1614,
politely asking him to try his hand at maintaining it
intact, may have given truthful colour to the suppo-
sition. The compliment, however, was as empty as
the rumour. Sir ROBERT PEEL is net the man
to get under a burden when it is heaviest, at least
without making it a matter of tremendous sacrifice
and condescension on his part. Sir ROBERT does not
like to come forward for less than to perform a miracle,
and an easy one, whilst the usual miracle of "saving
the country" is not at present such an easy one.
There is no public man nor party, indeed, which
would not gladly cede to its rivals, whoever they may be,
the terrible task of meeting a new parliament, with a corn-
mereial crisis, a deficient revenue, and a second edition
of the Irish famine. If Lord Jour RUSSELL can work
through such difficulties, turn time and resources to
the best advantage, impress the sew parliament with
as good an idea of his ability and firmness to meet great
difficulties, as every one has of his steady principles
and noble zeal, he will really have achieved a greater
triumph than any one of his hard-fought parliamen-
tary life.
Were those to whom he has to look for aid, and
those from whom he expects resistance, fast friends
and open enemies, his task would be a far eaaisr
one, far more intelligible to himself and to the coun-
try. But one's worst political foes in these times
are often the people by our aides, whose friendship is
hollow, whose praise is irony, and even whose opposi-
tion is insidious. It is almost amusing, indeed, to
mark the attitude assumed by certain parties and cer-
tain organs, who affect to patronise the whigs, and
to be remarkably anxious for their reputation
and success. Sir It. PEEL, himself, and the Times,
are each of them officious patrons of this very kind ;
so very benevolent and kind to whig ministers now
and then, that some green ones of the party have
believed the flattery sincere, and show themselves in
turn most servilely and sillily grateful.
The advice of these doubtful and dangerous
friends to ministers was very simple. It is, that they
should do nothing : that they should convert them-
selves into statues, be deaf to the suftrings of Eng-
lish trade or Irish famine, and allow the revenue to
low any number of cyphers. Let the English mer-
chant break, the Irish peasant starve, and indirect
taxation die in the general penury, the lack of pro-
duction and consumption. A trebling of the income
tax would cover all. To worship PEEL, to fol-
low up his acts to their last and worst results,
and bear the odium thereof : to apply whig
consistency and even obstinacy to the principles of
mere expediency, which suit PEEL so admirably
from his knowledge of the mode of rendering them
pliant : in fact, to play Sir ROBERT PEEL'S game, and
to keep the official seat warm for him : such has
been the advice of the Times, for example, to the pre-
sent ministers, and such its backing in most questions
of domestic and of foreign policy.
In currency legislation, at least, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL has had the hardihood to emancipate him-
self from a tutelage that really began to be degrading.
And his measures have been attended with quite suffi-
cient success and effect to encourage and reward him.
At this the Times is in thorough dudgeon. It
has been deceived and slighted, allowedto perorate and
to prophesy in the wrong; and, like Dogberry, "to
write itself down an ass." The consequence of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S thus differing from the
Times on the currency, causes that journal
to discover the next day that Lord PALIIERSTON is a
tire-brand, and that there was a smell of European
war, on the accession of that whig to Downing-
street. The public may find it difficult to discover
the links in this chain of argument. But the conclu-
sion evidently is, that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has been
guilty of treason against Sir ROBERT PEEL and the
Times on the matter of the currency and that
Lord PALMERSTON deserves to be flogged'for it.

Jr is perfectly. natural that the Irish agitators
should triumph in the declaration of the Pope, or
rather of the congregation de Propaganda Fide,
against the scheme of the provincial colleges. Any
embarrassment to the government, any check to the
civilisation and improvement of Ireland, and to the
mitigation of sectarian rancour, is necessarily welcome
to the noisy sedition-mongers, and to the political por-
tion of the priesthood. We hope their gratification
may not be impaired by the recollection that it is
shared by their cordial allies, the ultra-protestanta of
England and Ireland. Exeter Hall spoke out before
the Vatican. Dr. l'ilcllALE was indebted to Sir
ROBERT Ittictts for the phrase of " godless colleges,"
a nickname which has the merit of expressing in a short
compass, an amount of folly and perversity which is on
other occasions expanded into speeches and pamphlets
of immeasurable tediousness. There is no substantial
difference between the objections of the congregation
to the Irish colleges, and those of protestant zealots to
every system of education which is kept apart from sec-
tarian influence The sacred college has, of course, ma- .
turely considered the details of the question, sfocioneatis
et ration ibus pro utraque seneentia rite perpeasie, before
it arrives at the conclusion that " an inshtution of this
kind is detrimental to religion." It is a pit, that the
divines of Rome should have given themselves so
much trouble. Documents and reasons must have
been quite immaterial. Where a proposal Gr a'perely
secular education is laid before a purely ebtlesdastical
tribunal, no great ingenuity is required to Morll e
result. All churches, and the Itomish church
especial degree, ore more bigoted and sectarian in
their formal and official utterances than even in their
ordinary spirit and practice. A bishop or a synod
speaking ex eaehedra, always as all additional
amount of unction and of rigour for the benefit of the