The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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The overland closed mails, .1. Marseilles, to the Illedbeetvres,
=Ades, Ceylon. toOl., licag King, fore., will be mega up ea the
ft of the 7th July.
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made up oa the morningof 10th July, for tratuadoloa by the steamer
Washington, from Southamean. LeUere sodium, mast be specially
marked, "Per W
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the Ilavannah, will be mode .p an themes/age the 17th Judy.
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States, will be male up au the ier= =Maly.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 6.

In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord BROUGHAM
intimated, as a dissolution of parliament was on the
eve of taking place, that he should bring the subject
of bribery and corruption at elections before their lord-
ships on Thursday next.
In the House of Commons, which met at 12 o'clock,
a discussion took place at the instance of Lord GEORGE
BENTINCE, on the alleged inconvenience resulting
from the sitting of committees during the sitting of
the house, in consequence of the number of members
that were thus prevented from attending to
their higher dunes in parliament. Contem-
poraneous sittings of this description the noble lord
designated as unconstitutional.—Lord J. RUSSELL
defended the practice as consistent with the ancient
usages of parliament, confirmed by modern example,
when a session was approaching to its close.—Mr.
BOUTERIE moved that all committees should have
leave to sit, notwithstanding the sitting of the house,
which proposition was resolved in the affirmative by
a majority of 53.—The Health of Towns Bill was
then further proceeded with in committee, bat only
three additional clauses were gone through, when
the proceedings were adjourned to this day.—Lord
J. RUSSELL, in answer to Mr. BAILLIE, stated that
the expedition against Canton was not under-
taken in consequence of instructions from the
government. As a general principle, if British
subjects were exposed to outrage, the governors of
colonies would act immediately without reference to
a higher authority. A conversation ensued on the
subject of additions' provision being made for pay-
masters and pursers in the navy.—Lord lone Rug-
SELL, for reasons which he stated, withdrew the
Incumbered Estates (Ireland), and the Prisons Bills,
for the present session. Lord PALMERSTON, in
answer to Mr. HOME, replied that he did not appre-
hend any, difficulty would arise in the settlement of
the loan due from the United States to this country,
which was owing by separate states and not by
the aggregate body. Mr. B. OSBORNE brought
forward his promised motion on the subject
of Portugal, calling upon the government to
ensure to the Portuguese nation their constitutional
rights and privileges, and to insist on the immediate
restoration of Count Bomfin, and his fellow prisoners
from the penal settlement of Angola—After an able
reply from Lord PALMERSTON, in the course of which
he stated that information had that day been received
of the junta having accepted the terms offered to them,
and some further discussion, Mr. B. (Neonate with-
drew his motion.—Mr. HOME moved for the appoint-
ment of a select committee to inquire into the charges
against the exiled Rajah of Setters, the debate stand-
ing adjourned to this day. A division took place on
the question of the adjournment of the house, moved
by Lord 0. BEIrrINCE, which was negatived by a
majority of 24 ; when the stages of other bills on the
table were disposed of.

THE revenue accounts for the year and quarter
ended Bth inst., which we publish in another column,
might, in ordinary seasons, be deemed scarcely worthy
of notice, as merely indicating that affairs were sta-
tionary. At present the excess they show over the
returns for 1848, and its corresponding quarter, are a
wonderful illustration of the stability and elasticity
of the national resources.

In the ordinary revenue there is an aggregate in-
crease of 2,615,8711. for the year, and of 440,4271. for
the quarter. For the year there is a positive increase
in every item of the ordinary revenue, and for the
quarter an increase in the excise, stamps, taxes,
property-tax, and pest-office. For the quarter
there is a slight falling-off in the customs
(4,2721.), and in the miscellaneous. In the ex-
traordinary revenue there is a decrease for the
year of 1,611,8451., of which 963,2151. is in the item
of China money alone. In imprest and other monies
there is a decline of 7,3331. for the year, but an in-
crease of 14,6931. for the quarter. In repayments of
advances the decrease for the year is 641,297/., with
an increase for the quarter of 28,337/.
The healthy condition of the national finances in-
dicated by these figures, combined with the state of
the markets in the manufacturing districts, and the
revival of foreign demand, ought to re-assure the
veriest alarmists.

So many strange things have happened in our day,
that men should be (sinful how they commit them-
selves to the assertion of anything being an impossi-
bility. They who can no longer depend upon a
demonstration must have last all faith in the assump-
tions of a mere rhyme ; and
what's trfft .Iblecan't be,

AM very—
has ceased to be a text of authority. The rarity of
the event, it would seem, must be abandoned. The I

"impossible" has become a thing of daily ooeuCrence.
Science has done before our eyes what it has Welt
mathematically proved that she could not do; and we
are stared in the face now, as we write, by a "great
fact" which bas been positively negatived by antici-
pation on the testimony of figures.
It is not very long, as our readers well know, since
one of the oracles of the press (whose views have since
been adopted by others as the basis of a coalition
against ourselves) worked out an elaborate problem
to the effect that no paper could flourish under a price
of fivepence. The Daily Newa was presented to
the world as the inevitable victim of statistics : and
the Great Combined assumed the attitude of journals
which had already made as large sacrifices fir
their readers as were compatible with solvency. That
there was something wrong in the terms out of which
this proposition was wrought it was vain for us, then,
to point oat—so far, at least, as they were concerned.
It was not for a young paper like ours to correct the
arithmetic of journals which had so long com-
manded a monopoly of the figures of the case.
Bat the account began to be looked into in
other quarters. The principle of cheap newspapers
proceeded slowly to spread, and was found to be a
fructifying one—the authority of the " tivepence "
was gradually impaired:—and lo ! yesterday was sig-
nalised by the auspicious announcement, in its own
columns, that on and after the 26tk of July, the
Morning Chronicle will be sold for the " impossible "
sum of FOUBPENCE.

Thus, then, though it has not yet done all
that may be expected from its improved lights,
we have the pleasure to announce the adhesion
of the Chronick to the cause of the reduced tariff
in newspaper literature. If any one of our
readers supposes that an announcement like this
has taken us by surprise,—that reader has not yet
mastered the principles in the strength of which
we entered upon our present undertaking. The fact
now before us is but in the anticipated order
of their working out. It is but one in the
series of results which we contemplated from the
first,—and, if oar readers will remember, announced
to them as certain. We never reckoned on—or de-
sired—a monopoly of the cheep newspaper issue.
It was a positive element in our calculations that
we could not have it. We knew perfectly, in the
outset, that the final maintenance of the fivepence by
any portion of the press in the face of our success
was a thing impossible. One of two events was, we
knew, to happen. Either we were to be crashed by
the power of the high price ere our principle
should have time to take root—and this, had
our resources, or determination, been less than they
were, we should have been—or the high price must
ultimately succumb everywhere to our principle.
This, as we said, we have all along known :—and our
rivals knew it too. It was their cue to conceal that
knowledge so far as professions went ; but they be-
trayed it by the unblushing combination to which
they lent themselves for our ruin. They played their
best stake for the " high-price" game—and lost it.
Their coalition against ourselves has signally failed :
and the first fruits, as well as direct confession, of that
failure are before us. The Chronicle has but led where
the rest must follow. As we prophesied before with
only oar own calculations for our inspiration, we now
prophecy again with our calculations largely confirmed
and our prophecy in rapid course of obvious fulfilment.
One by one, these papers shall all come into the
principle which we have established. In the instance
immediately before us, we have reason to believe that
it has only been a race between the Chronick and
Herald for priority of submission ; and that the " race"
has indeed been " to the swift"—where there could
be no question of " battle"among the "strong." They
who love the Times sufficiently well to wait for it may
wait with the assurance that they shall ultimately
have the Times at a reformed price. Between a re-
duction of price and a reduction of circulation that
paper must finally choose:--as the Chronicle hopes
that for itself it has to-day chosen.

THE bulls of the corn market appear to have been
as busy in Russia as here at home. The Commercial
Journal (Handels-Zeitung) of St. Petersburg has
been obliged to come forward with a semi-official con-
tradiction of the reports industriously disseminated to
keep up fallin6 prices.
It is stated in the number of the journal we have
named, which was published on the 24th of June,
that " a rumour has recently been spread, to the
effect that it will be impossible to deliver the grain
already sold within the limited time, and that it will
be impossible to find in all Russia the quantity
contracted for." This rumour is, sans facon, declared
to be the invention of a few speculators.. The
Journal of Comm•rce undertakes, with a view to
allay the apprehensions of " foreign merchants imper-
fectly acquainted with the corn trade of Rana," to
establish its falsehood by official returns. From these
it appears that, in the beginning of 1847, the tiara-
gate of the stocks of grain of all kinds at St. Peters-
burg, Rybinski,Nischnij-Novgorod,and the staples on
the Upper Volga, amounted to 11,677,420 chetwerts
(about 7,074,194 quarters). Of this, about 7,000,000
chetwerts (4,9oo,ooo4uarters) had St. Petersburg
for their ultimate destination. The annual consump-
tion of that city is about 2,000,000 chetwerts ; conse-
quently there remained 5,000,000 (3,500,000 quarters)
for exportation; and the quantity actually sold for
shipment, on the 24th of June, did not exceed
2,300,000 chetwerts (or 1,610,000 quarters), leaving
1,890,000 quarters still to be disposed of.
This statement of the Commercial Journal does not
materially differ from an estimate we had previously
received from another quarter. According to this
latter document, at the end of May, 1847, no less
than 8,290,456 chetwerts (about 5,803,320 quarters)
of grain of all kinds had been forwarded to the
several river stations to be embarked for St. Peters-
burg. Of this quantity it is said that nearly two-
thirds are intended for exportation. Two-thirds of
5,803,320 quarters is 3,868,880, which comes very
close upon the estimate made by the St. Petersburg
Journal of Commerce of the quantity available for
exportation.

WHILE the mass of Irish politicians are broken
and divided, and while the vast space occupied by
O'CONNELL remains unfilled, it is possible to discern
three different political ideas struggling for notice
and prevalence. There is the idea of protestant
ascendancy, combined with oligarchical hostility to
poor-laws, and sectarian prejudice against the catho-
lies and their priests. There is at the other extreme
the idea of ulterior revolution, of national prejudices
fanned into a flame, of a new force to be formed by
warlike journalists and combative declaimers There
is between those, not partaking of their narrowness,
that idea which will ultimately triumph, if the liberals
of Ireland be tree to their country and themselves.
We allude to the idea of social reform, blended,
perhaps, with a graceful and temperate nationality,
furthering the advance of civilisation. and in states-
man-like fashion adjusting the claims arising from
the Irish extremes—from the property of one and
the numbers of the others.

This idea—that of the whig and liberal party—
has, we are convinced, far more moral power than any
other in Ireland. This party alone in Ireland has a
moral and historical existence. The mind of that
country, as far as it has been developed, has affected
such principles. All the brilliant reputations of Ire-
land in the senate, literature, or at the bar, below
to moderate liberalism. Her most popular viceroy",
her foremost statesman, Grattan ; her best debater,
PLUNKETT ; the brightest spirit of the Irish bar,
CURRAN, were all Whigs. Nor is that all. Her po-
pular statesmen, with powers of public effect, may be
claimed for the same party. FLOOD acted through life
upon their principles. The leading minds of the Irish
catholic church, from ARTHUR O'LEARY down to Arch-
bishops CROLLY and MURRAY, have all been favourable
to toleration and social progression, but averse has
violent convulsion, or menacing schemes of polities.
To most of Dr. DOYLE'S sentiments on Ireland sa
English whig might cry " ditto," as the Ballet
merchant said to BURKE'S speech at the hustings.
The muses in Ireland have strung their lyres to the cams
tune. The " poet of all circles and the idol of his owe"
has through his manly life never written one line tined
with a sectarian or unsocial spirit. The seemileg
on the one side, or the Corn Exchange upon thesis*
supplied him with no inspiration ; but tree is tilt
mind of his country and his own genius, be palm
forth those strains which have been echoed by agar
class, and in every clime.
The parties of the ascendancy, or of the pert
lace, cannot appeal to any long-established Oa
systematic connexion. Their principles are
and transient. But between the Engleit
Irish liberals there has been a strong fear Oar •
nos. In vain does one seek fok similitude lsetesea