The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

Zhe Orpreso.

MAILS.
The mails for New South Wake, Van Land, and New
Zealand will be made upon the evening cif wt's
ugust.
ymails for the Wee curt of Africa and Madre will be made
the evening of the Slot August.
The malls for British North Muerte', end the United States
will be made up the evening of the let Sept.
The Wee India Mad., including Bermuda, Nairn. Havanna,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto itioo, and
ezeluding those for Madeira. June. Gerniagen., Santa Martha,
Chaves, Panama West Coast of South America, and St- Juan-de-
Nicaragua, will he made up on the morning of the lad Sept.
The male for the Breads, the liner Plate, Moats Video, Penna.
Ine=rehia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be mule up on the
of the 4th September.
The nulls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Ceiba, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 7th Sept.
The overland Owed mails. rot Marseille., to the M
madeedite up orranean the
,
Egypt, Aden. (*yin, llong.Kong, to, will be n
evening of the 7tia September.
Tbe and mails to. Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian lolanda,
ESTPt, Adeoverin, Ceylon, India, liong.Kong, and China, eta tiouthamp-
ton, will be made up on the evening ol the 29th Sept.

NOTICE TO ADITEUTISERS.
The number of STAMPS Issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight percent. of the number
suited to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, an 4
Morning J'ost, ►LL PUT TOOETIIII3.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Jlorning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Aistiost,
TILE EXPRESS '77B 714
A Bich was more, we believe, than wets issued either to
Globe or Standard. Evening Papers.

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 28.
Ton intimation given by Mr. HOME on Friday
night that he will divide the house on the second
reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill warrants a
hope that some additional and less ambiguous infor-
mation respecting the finar.cial condition and pros-
pects of the country may be extorted from the CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER than he has yet been
pleased to impart.
Stripped of all the irrelevant details with which it
was overlaid, and disentangled from the involutions
and tortnositics by which it was confused, the account
rendered by the CHANCELLOR 01, THE EXCHEQUER on
Friday evening was as follows :
The estimated income of the year is 52,130,0001.
The estimated expenditure is .52,422,335'. There is,
therefore, a deficiency of means to meet the actual
current expenses of the year of 2,335/ To this
musts be added two suwms, one of 1, 92100,0001., the ex-
peoneof the other of 2,4.5,4111., the
naval exces ths; e Kaffirar ;
in all 1,315,0001., which have to be
made good to the Exchequer. And, in addition to
thew, there is a sum of 262,5431. for Irish distress,
and 130,9631. for providing medical assistance for des-
titute emigrants lauded in Canada. The certain and
ascertained excess of the estimated expenditure of the
year over its income is 2,031,25111. This sum the
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCIIMWER proposes to raise,
either by issuing Exchequer-bills to that amount
from time to time, or by creating stock to that amount
and causing it to be sold from time to time, as suits
his convenience.
But in addition to the certain and ascertained excess
of expenditure over income, there hangs over the
future of our unlucky Chancellor a contingent which
he calls a pot-ethic, and we a probable further excess'
of expenditure over income. Some time ago p
for
the purpose of drainage in England and Scotland,
and for hied improvement in Ireland. Of this sum
about 300,0001. has already neon advanced, and bow
much more may be called for in the course of the year
Sir CHARLES cannot say. He conjectured about
1,000,0004, or one-third of the remainder, but with-
out assigning any reason fur fixing on this proportion.
Then there have been votes for New Zealand, Trini-
dad, Guiana, atlcl Tobago, amounting in all to about
300,000!., which he will most probably be called upon
to pay before the year is out. There is a sum of
3,300,0001. hanging over his head, of which he cannot
say bow much or how little he may have to pay in
the course of the year.
By Sir CHARLES'S own showing, he may have
3,331,2361. is pay in the course of the year more than
the income of the year will arnount to. And to pro-
vide for these liabilities, he asks leave to raise the
sum of 2,000,0004, " either by the issue of exchequer
bills, or by the creation of consolidated 31. per centum
annuitie,, or of reduced 31. per centum annuities."
There can be little doubt that by throwing such an
additional amount of exchequer bills, or of stock, on
.he market—be the operation effected by what
icstalments or at what times it may the
price of these securities will' be affected. The
CHANCELLOR Or THE EXCHEQUER cannot even
conjecture how much he will have to pay
for his two millions. Even when he has got his two
millions he leaves a contingent deficiency unprovided
for. He is making an extravagant bargain to enable
him to settle urgent claims this year, a..d he proposes
to throw the burden of other claims upon next year.
And his grounds for hoping that next year may enable
him to get his head above water are, that perhaps trade
may revive to a greater extent next year than
there is at present any promise of, and perhaps the
harvest may not after all turn out so bad as
there is at present reason to apprehend. how far
his anticipations are unduly flattering may be inferred
from his boast about the improvement of the customs
revenue in 1848. He stated that the customs revenue
from April to August, 1848, was 300,0001. better than
in the corresponding period of 1817 ; but excluding
corn duties, which are on the eve of terminating, the
increase is only 22,0001. Sir CHARLES is too evi-
dently making the moat of every the slightest fa-
vourable symptom to inspire confidence. We are
warranted therefore, in fearing that the income of
1849-50 may experience a positive decline ; that a de-
ficiency of 1848 9 may have to be made good in
1849-50 ; and that the two millions added to
the debt this year may e but the pro-
logue to a much mRe conbsichrable addition
in the next. It appears, from a return lately pre-
sented to parliament, that in 1847-8 ili?re was added
to the debt 2,936,9831., deficiency, and 4,976,2761.,
money spent in Ireland; in all, 7,933,2391. Com-
bir ing the past, the present, and probable future finan-
cial operations of the CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex-
coeotten, they resemble the desperate efforts of a
man labouring under a load of complicated
continually increasing, which he cannot even com-
prehend, much lesa provide for extricating himself
from.
The appreh. nsions which the reckless and aimless
struggles of the CHANCELLOR oe THE EXCIDQUER
necessarily inspirewith respect to the national finances
scarcely admit of wasting upon his boasted econo-
mies the tribute of contemptuous indignation to which
they mi..Th" otherwise be entitled. He brags that
reductions have been made in the estimates to the
amount of 866,2001. This is an exaggeration. A
large ploprtion of this reduction has been effected,
not by retrenchment, but merely by poiaponement of
expenditure —poslionei cent which its Sir CHARLES
himself observed, must lead to an mere iced outlay in
the long run. And the circumstances under which
this elusory reduction has been made are most die-
creaitable to government. When the House
of Commons objected to their original esti-
mates they asked for two committees to inquire h
and
the estimates coldild be permanently reduced ;
before these committees had time to commence their
inquiries they began to reduce this year's estimates.
They stand convicted by their own conduct o
df having
in a season of rarely surpassed distress end
to obtain the sanction of parliament to an expenditure
which they knew to be unnecessarily great. They
asked tor parliamentary committees to inquire
whether reductions in the national expenditure could
be made, when they were well aware that
reductions could be made. The CHANCELLOR
OF THE EXCHEQUER avers that government
sought to have the committees appointed, " not for
the purpose of averting any responsibility from them-
selves, hut to enable the house itself, with a great
wring (,), time, to make reductions with due discrimi-
nation.lttis a most original mode of saving time to
set a couple of committees to inquire whether reduc-
tions were possible which were io be in part effected
before they could report. Tile more probable that the
committees were appointed in the hope that by over-
looking some saving which the departments know
can be made, an 'excuse might be obtained for not
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plunderers.
Yes, if only one-half the evidence given before
Lord DeNeAN's committee be true, it may be unhesi-
tatingly averred that the New Forest has for years
past been used as a private property for the benefit
of a body of timber merchant.• and their associates.
The extracts which were published in the Express
of Tuesday last clearly establish, not an isolated case of
fraud, but a system of plunder and depredation par- I
sued for years past under the very eye of the officials,
ard of which it is really an act of extreme charity to
believe that they were ignorant. It seems that every
tree that is cut in the New Forest ought to
have been first distinctly marked and measured
by the deputy surveyor and the regard ere.
It is then their duty to expose it tor
sale by public auction. The evidence, however, go( s
to show that certain timber merchants have been in
the habit of selecting exactly what timber suited
them—that it has been felled without being marked
—that in many instances they have carried it away,
professing to have purchased it by private contract ;
and by returns which are before parliament it seems
also that the public sales which did take place were
rendered a mere farce—and that all the timber has,
for a considerable (cried, passed into certain hands at
a certain price, without any regard whatever to the
market value of the article.
This has been " the system " of the New Forest, as
regards its timber—its sole and only product. The
period over which these wholesale depredation+ have
extended is supposed to have been some ten years at
the least. The extent to which they have gone on it is
utterly impossible to calculate. All that is known is
that the timber-yards at Beaulieu, and at Fling, and
other places on the Southampton Water, have been for
a long period supplied with timber about which
suspicions were very generally entertained. Since
the committee, presided over by Lord Detects, ob-
tain( d their information, a government inquiry has
been instituted, aside( inures have been made in the-e
yards to an amount nearly equal to a year's revenue
of the New Forest. Cargoes of timber have be( n
taken possession of in the Chaotic' Islands and in tie•
northern ports of England ; and quantities of trees,
lying in the forest ready for removal, and claimed by
the timber dealers in question, have been marked with
the crown mark, and al, guarded as crown property.
Two of the largest timber merchants in Halal,-
shire, and several inferior persons, have been
committed for trial. Tiie deputy warden
of
the forest (an officer who has grown. old
in his country's service, and who is much
to be pitied in the matter) has sent in his resig-
nation. aril numerous minor functionaries are sus-
pended. The lord warden of the forest has felt it
necessary himself to appear upon the scene, and my
Lords Commissioners of Woods and Forests feel that
the matter is rather too serious to be agreeable.
Upon the department presided over by these gentle-
men, as we have emphatically said before, and as most
probably we shall feel it necessary to enforce again,
the weight of pu lie indignation in such a case must
and will deservedly tall. Whatever may have
been the cause of this extraordinary neglect—
whether having their suspicions they have lthought
the matter not worth inque. y, or whether, on
the other heed, they haw; been mule utterly',
blind than it is almost posaiEte to conceive any bat rd
to be—whatever excuse thir commission may plead, i is
evident that the bull 1111.19'. be taken by the horns, and
that we must have a -reform of it altogether, a re-
form of as complete and sweeping a nature as the
circumstances require, and as the public have a right
to demand. The forests must be pat under a new
system; and it may be permitted to express a hope
that that system will be one not merely calculated to
save the crown from depredation, but having for its
object to enhance its revenues, and to improve the
social and moral condition of large masses of the
, population, whom, consistently with its own advan
tage, it is quite in the power of the crown to serve.
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FRANC
FLIGHT OF
MM. CAUSSIDIERE & LOUIS BLANC.

PARIS, SLTURDAY, 6'30 P.M.
Last night was an eventful one, nevertheless
Paris manifested, this morning, extraordinary tran-
quillity. The streets have been unusually deserted, the
aspect of the town being that of night rather than
day. During the night strong patrols were maintained
throughout all parts of the capital. General officers,
with their staff and aides-de-camp, followed by
orderlies, were constantly seen passing and reprising.
075 E a the most striking peculiarities of the New So far, however, as I have yet heard, all these great
Forest is the absence of population. You may travel military preparations hare been taken without
through its entire range, and except in the green encountering any resistance, or probably the precau-
I spots of such villages as Lyndhurst, Brokenhnnt, and ' tions themselves are the cause why no movement hes