The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-26 00:00:00

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MAILS.

The mails far British North Anaeriw, and the United States
will he mane up the evening of the let Sept.
The main for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will he mane up on the morrihrr of the 27th Aug.
The mans far New South Wales, Van Dierman's Land, and New
Zealand lOU be made up on the evening of the 3lst August.
The mails for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made
apes the evening of the "Ilan August.
The West India Mads, including Bermuda, Nassau, Havana,
Headway, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
excluding these for Madeira, Jayne!, Cut lasgen a, Santa Martha,
Charm, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juan-de.
Eicaragua, will be made up un the morning of the tad Sept.
The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Fenzel.
Imo, Bahia, Madeira, and &WOOS Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th September.
The overland closed malls, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, G. lain, India, Hong-Kong, ne., will be made up on the
evening of the 7th September.
The overland mils for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, nod China, via Southamps
tall, will be made up on the evening of the 20th Sept.

NOTICE TO ADVEIZTISEES.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Eamp-ofLea, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wee 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
hand to the Morning lierula, Morning Chronicle, and
&raise! Post, AIL PUT TOGETH
In a dition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Hertirsq Paver, there were issued for the Pmensno Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778 714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe fa Z•tortdord. EVellilla Paper.

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LONDON; SATURDAY. AUG. 26.

LORD JonN Russeu, is going to Ireland. We
are glad of it, ar.d hope it is to look abroad and wide
upon the physical ills of the land, and upon that
antagonism of classes produced by tenure. We hope
ltis lordship is not going to Ireland on a
mere fishing excursion, and in order to throw
a long line with a glittering bait before
the eyes of the catholic prelates and clergy.
A clouded sky and heavy etmosphere arc said to be
good for such sport. And the clouds are certainly
menacing enough. Famine, that squeezes the peasant,
annihilates the poor priest, dependent on his volun-
tary donations. And the hunger which sweeps the
cabin of life penetrates at the same time into the
dated house of the priest. The hour is therefore
eetsonable for attempting the great experiment, so
long talked or, and so often shrunk from, and we fear
far too formidable for whiz strength to accomplish.
But we would recommend English statesmen not
to make the mistake of supposing that the catholic
'logy are all powerful. They seem so, because
thoy go with the s'reaus and ride on the top of the
ware ; but we doubt their power to stem a popular
current. The Irish priests may have been very in-
strumental in dissuading the peasantry from following
Bunn O'BRIEN and. his friends. Hut the peasantry
true willing to be persuaded. They had no faith
in the rebellion or its leaders. The Irish are good
Judges of the result of a physical contest. And,
under present circumstances, they had not stomachs
to try.
o doubt now that lay rebellion has been put don n,
lad the n,,w of Young Ireland changed to the Ber-
!audits or Novolk Island, Mr. JonN O'CoNNELL and
Conciliation Hall wiil re-appear on the scene, with
his moral force speeches, his hierarchic officers, and his
tribute of half-pence from the church door. But
/ifr. JOIIN O'CONNELL is not formidable. His is
Just the agitation that a government might go to
deep under. lie and Lis priests and his archbishops
would make a mighty war of words that sound like
allillery to an English car. But in Ireland such fire-
works pass for no more than they are worth.
, The church question ought indeed to be settled ;
IPA it is not the church question that is at the root of
Irish ill. It is the people, their mode and hopes
of ltf' and their hold of the soil, which is to them the
sole means of sustenance. We may refute and de-
ride communism as we will, but starving masses,
with a rich soil heroic them, and that soil held by
Proprietors lnable to employ labour, will breed and

beget communism in one shape or another, with or
without the philosophy. Religion may be useful in
counteracting this, and the Roman catholic religion,
perhaps, is one of the best for the purpose. But the
Irish are to a certainty progressing in intelligence, and
theideasafloat amongst them are far in advance of those
of l79B,although they have taken a more dangerous tarn.
Had the English government enlisted the priesthood
of Ireland on its aide half a century ago the country
would have been spared a world of agitation. But
now it is somewhat too late. There are other teachers
abroad, teachers that cannot bo bought over. And
interests are awakened more difficult to satisfy than
self love, more difficult to conciliate than hurt pride.
Lord J. RUSSELL began his administration by the
conviction that the great questions of land and people
in Ireland were first to be solved, and that the rest
were all corollaries. He and his cabinet marched
to the attack of the main fortnaa of Irish wrong.
The attack was neither determined nor skilful ;
it was beaten off by the landlords; and
hooted down with derision, as much as shot
down by stubborn resistance and argument.
Since then, Lord Jots" RUSSELL has betaken himself
to the outworks duet, to secondary remedies, and to
the removal of great indeed but sentimental griev-
lime&

This will bo all wtll, if the main grievance be at
the cane time treated and remedied. Hut to make the
settlement of the church question an excuse for over-
looking the state of land and population, anti to set
about conciliating the clergy, instead of placi. g food,
property, and security within the attainment of
honest industry : this is merely beginning at the
wrong end, forriking the substance fur the shadow,
and s•raining the utmost powers of party to carry
measures a hich are not the vital ones, and to t fact
relorms which leave the foundations of the social
system as rotten and insecure u ever.

TETE CHANCELLOR OF' THE EXCHEQUER reminded'
the. House of Commons last night that, at different
times during the course of the session, he had made
" various" statements regarding the condition of the
national finances. The re cannot be a doubt of it. The
statements he has made at one timo have "varied"
very materially front those he has seen fit to put forth
at others. Sir CHARLks might have said of this con-
fession, as he did of his financial resume, that it was
"no news." I ,ut to recal the attention of the house
to this awkward tact was rather a curious way to
bespeak a tavoura le hearing.
The body of Sir ClllBLE.s'i statement was a shade
more dexterous. At every turn he paused to remind
the house by drect averment or skilful inuendo, that
the large amount of the estimated expenditure of the
year was owing not to the present government but to
their predecessors in office. The increase in the esti-
mates of the present year over those of last year
he attributed mainly to the operations in the dock-
yards, immediately adding that these works had been
ft to his colleagen a as a legacy by the late govern-
ment, and hintia.: that much unnecessary expense
had been incurred by the slow manner in which they
had been pushed forward. With regard to the
general state of the estimates, he observed : " In the
course of the two or three preceding years no incon-
siderable in rease had been made in the expenditure.
not proposed by the ereeent government, but
by the preceding one." The compassionate feel-
ings of the house were thus skilfully enlisted on
the side of the unhappy cabinet who have
succeeded to the liabilities incurred by extravagant
predecessors. There was indeed some risk that these
predecessors might di,claim " the soft impeachment"
and defend thems,lves. To obviate this risk, Sir
CHARLES proceeded to declare, that inasmuch as the
House of Commons had sanctioned the increase, nei-
ther the past nor the present government could be
held responsible for it. In the same spirit of taking
credit to himself at the expense of the rival party,
and at the same time disarming them of all desire to
retaliate, he declared that during the time of the
panic about the national defences, he was no alarmist
(this we confess is news t, u.), but at the same tirr e
admitted that Mr SIDNEY HERBERT, in taking an
alarmist view of that question, reflected the sense of
the house and the country.
Note itbstandit g this care to make his statement as
generally palatable as possible, it may fairly be
questioned whether Sir CHARLES has succeeded. It
appears to have been coldly received even by his friends.
As far as it is inte:ligible, it is anything but straight-
forward and consolatory. He proposed at the outset
to explain what was the amount of expenditure con-
templated; what the amount of means looked for;
and how he proposed to make the income equal the
expenditure. Ile reverted to the original statement
of Lord JOHN Russets., according to which the ex-
penditure of the year was estimated at 53,101,041/.,
to which had to be added the last year's excess
of naval expenditure and the expenses of the
Kaffir war, making in all 54,596,452/. The
estimated income was 51,250,0001., leaving a
deficiency of 3,246,452/. Sir CIIARLEB then pro-
ceeded to recount the parings on the expenditure
by which he counted upon bringing it down to
22,422,335/., and to explain how, by some increase in
the year's revenue not originally expected, and by ap-
plying the appropriations in aid to the service r f the
present year, he expected to raise the available in-
come to 52,130,000/., leaving only a deficiency of
292,335/. But, after thus raising the hopes of the
house, he immediately proceeded to undo his own
work. Ile admitted that, in the statement he had
just submitted, he had left out of account the excess
of naval expenditure and the expenses of the Kaffir
war, which had to be replaced to the Exchequer, as
also the votes of Wednesday night for Irish relief
and for repaying the expenses incurred in Canada for
suffering Irish emigrants, and that when these items
were added to the expenditure there would
remain a deficiency of 2,031,0001. Te this must
again be added the 1,500,000/. allowed for advances
for drainage in England and Scotland, increasing the
deficiency to 3,500,0001. in round numbers. So after
leading his hearers through au arithmetical dance,
by which Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S estimated deficiency
of 3,196,000/. was gradually brought down to
292,3351., the CHANCELLOR OP TILE EXCHEQUER re-
versed the proceeding, and in the close informed his
auditors that the deficiency actually to be provided
for is 3,300,000!., not less, but more than Lord JOHN
anticipated. What advantage Sir CHARLES proposed
to himself from exciting hopes only to destroy them,
it is:difficult to imagine.
With regard to the third division of his statement,
the means by which he proposes to equalise the year's
income with its expenditure, ho arrived at it by a
route equally circuitous. He entered into an expla-
nation how and wby his plan of raising money by
issuing special Exchequer Bills had proved a failure.
He next descanted on another plan formerly adopted
of borrowirg on quarter-day on deficiency bills—a
plan which he maintained to have been successful, but
nevertheless decline 1 adopting on the present occa-
sion. And, after keeping the house in suspense by dis-
cussing the merits of measures which he did not mean
to adopt, he at last, put them out of pain by
informing them that it was his intention simply to
make up the deficiency by borrowing, and that in the
most simple and direct form, by issuing Exchequer
Bills or creating stock.
The resul's of the lengthy, involved, and ela-
borately arithmetical financial statement of Sir
CHARLES WOOD, might have been told in ten
minutes. After all his devices he has to battle with
a deficiency of 3,500,000/., and he can contrive no
way of making ends meet but by adding to the debt
in the tine of peace. It need not be denied that the
circumstances with which he has had to struggle
have been extremely trying—that a better financier
might have broken down under their pressure. But
it must be remembered that had the estimated ex-
penditure of the year at first put forth by ministers
been adhered to, and had not the appropriations in
aid been laid hands upon, the deficiency would have
considerably exceeded four millions. The 9:IAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has been blundering on
at hap-hazard, and has at last been driven to the
desperate resource of adding to the debt. The na-
tional taxation must, in consequence, be permanently
increased. And even when obliged to confess his
failure, he endeavours to palliate and hide it by all
sorts of subterfuges. The financial statement of last
night is as discreditable a one as ever was made in
the English House of Commons.
At this late period of the session, with the greater
part of the members of parliament already out of
town, and the rest jaded and impatient to follow, the
statement was, of course, acquiesced in, though with
a grumble. But it is obvious that our present CHAN-
CELLOR of the 'EXCHEQUER is not the man for
the present crisis, It is scarcely possible that.
ministers will venture to meet the House of
Commons again with the same CLIANCELLOR of