The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-04 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
Ito mails for Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made
upon this evening.
The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be made up on the moraine of the 7th of June.
The mails, via Marseilles, to the Meditertanean, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, Hong-Kong, axe., beinade up on the evening of the 7th of
June.
Mills for British North America and the United States will be
made up on the evening of the Bth of June.
the West India Mails, ezoluding Bermuda, Buenas, Nara;
elondures, New (*kens, and Mezko, and 'Wilding those for
Madeira, Et. Juan-deaticersgua, New Grenada, Chill, and Pau,
ris made up on the morning piths 17th June.
The malls toe Gibraltar, Malta, G We lonian Islands, Egypt,
Adria, Ceylon. India. Hone-Kong, and tams, ens Southampton, will
be made up on the 20th of June.

MOE WATER AT LONDON ERIDOE.
Tan DAT iliOralla.l 2 atm.Aftonnoo. gen 1.
ToW.miovf—lloralar, 41 IBM N. 1; MICMAC. 2 sta. pan 2.

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 4.
PARLIAMENT has re-assembled once more, and con-
trary to the expectations of many whom it more or less
concerned, the whip all remain at the right side of
the table, and the conservatives all remain at the
wrong. In spite of various schemes of honourable
inclusion, and of right honourable exclusion, every-
body seems to be just where they were. Numberless
ingenious plans no doubt were tried. Unexception-
able programmes on different bases may be easily
imsgined. Conferences under the name of kind calls
of inquiry after the health of an old friend with whom
no ono was formerly more intimate, may be readily
conceived, with all the characteristic elements of
mutual espionnage of each other's countenance, as
each cautious feeler was thrown out, or pregnant
question casually and as if inadvertently asked. Since
the wonderful events chronicled by &sot., there have
probably been few more amusing scenes than those
which have recently been enacted in private, between
the full-fed tenants of the royal field offering a share
of their pasture, yet keeping the gate fast shut, and
their envious neighbours parleying across the fence,
with half averted heads in the air, as if they hoped
by an attitude of independence to conceal the twitch-
ing, of hunger, and the leanness of their condition.
But the key has only been rattled in the lock, and
not an opportunity has in reality been given for the
slimmest er slipperiest to squeeze through. There is no
coalition after all. For another sessional epoch we
must be content to see things rub on as they have
heretofore done. Easter and Whitsuntide are passed ;
and the third stage of the year's parliamentary jour-
ney is begun, without any change of horses. Slow
will the progress consequently be, we apprehend,
and numerous the small obstructions which will have
to be encountered. Disappointment is a keen critic,
and tantalization a bitter commentator. The very
nature of the case, moreover, forbids all broad or can-
did differences. After what was so near happening
yesterday, there is no saying what may turn up to-
morrow. The negotiation for a junction failed—not
because LINCOLN and RusseeL, GRAHAM and
GREY, differ in opinion on any nameable
point of policy, foreign or domestic but
simply because hardly any one was willing to go
I out, and nearly every one wanted to come in. And
cabinets have one peculiarity in common with quart
bottles—they obstinately refuse to hold at a time
more than the full of them. If by any device more
than two pints could have been coaxed into the
Downing-street decanter, we may be certain it would
have been. They tried it hot, but it would not do.
They tried it cold, but with no better result. Then a
little of each was thrown out, but there still remained
a surplus inappropriable ; then a little more, as
touching proofs of reciprocal generosity (at
the expense of feeble friends), but still tea
much remained. Finally a new and improved
bottle, made, not of brittle and unyielding
glass, but of opaque and elastic Indian rubber,
was tried, in the confident hops that by prorate it
would be made to take in all. But the fates were ad-
verse. This also proved a failure. Short of publicly
spilling an obnoxious viscount, in addition to other
less 'resisting quantities, room there was not, and
could not be made, for a potential Pzeizre infusion.
Nevertheless, as we have said, success so often
seemed at hand, and the hindrances to fusion of all
the really knowing ones of the rival corps having
now been ascertained to be practically so few, it is
but natural that the ostensible renewal of hostilities
will only be resorted to in order to save appear-
ances with that most gullible of creatures, a disoerning
public. The usual flourish of trumpets will be kard
and the customary challenges will be loudly given.
But dangerous or damaging collisions will be avoided.
Buttons have been pat upon the foils in every ease
but one. Against the over-nangaine and too vents-
roue friend of continental liberty the point of enmity
will be left sincerely naked. Bat few like the shock
of personal encounter with that practiced and for-
midable antagonist; and we incline to the belief that
his fell is much more likely to be wrought by unseen
bands than by the onslaught of open and confessed
opponents. We differ widely in principle
from Lord PALMERSTON, and we think
his oalculafons oftentimes mistaken. But let
no man be deceived as to the object of the hostility
of the Peelites towards him. It is not that he is too
ready to intervene and interfere in foreign quarrels,
but that his interposition is so frequently in favour of