The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
EVICTED DESTITUTE POOR (IRELAND) BILL.
MINORM of 47 to- 8 'rho voted against the third reading of this bill,
as amended on recommittal.
Lord Chancellor Strafford amirors. Cremoroe

xamolii.. St. Germans Hereford Milford
Lansdowne Granville Durham Coneys
CLanriearde Morley Manchester Portman
Breeden:eine Yarborough as ems. Foley
Wegmiciater Bruce Montfort! Wharncliffe
Anglesey Uxbridge Campbell Byron
ZAMA Shaftesbury Mcetyn Kinneird
Grey Fitzbardiage Dunally EaltE,bury
Minto Leiceater Say and dale Elpbinstone
Auckland Nelson !Mere Lora(
Sutra Yowls Sudeley Keane
Beseborough Colborne Erskine
PAIRS.
Earl of Zealand Marquis of Salisbury
Earl Siemer Earl IL.rdwicke
Duke of Bedford Lord Abinger
lord Foltimore Earl ',my

lord Skltoim

',whop-
-I.arl of Erroll Earl of Munster
I,rd Denman Lord Rosalyn
Earl Porteous Earl Digby
Arehb. of Canterbury Lord Kinnotill
Earl Camperdown Marquis of Londonderry
Lord Beane s Earl of Ellenborough
Lord Suffield Vise. Fterestord
M.irqula of Donegal Earl Wilton
Earl Lovelace Marquis of Do.clierla
Lord Crewe Lord De L'lsie
Earl Settee Earl of Bandon
Earl Cornwallis Lard Templeniors.

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MAILS.

The mails for New South Wales, Van DielMill'S Land, aed New
Zealand will be made op ou the evening of the 30th Jane.
The mails (or the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made
lap on the evening of the 30th June.
The mule for Brit/eh North America, and the United State*,
will be made up an the evening of the 3oth June.
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The Weet India Made, excluding Bermuda Na man, Havanna,
Honduran, New Orleans, Vera Crua, Tampion, and Porto Moo, and
including time for Madeira, Jacmel, C rtb.,geny Yenta Martha,
Chaffee, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juan-le.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 1M July.
The mails for the brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Kahle, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will to mado up on the
evening of the 4th July.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Linbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morningot the 7th July.
The overhind cloned fnaiie, via MareeWee, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden,the Ceylon July India, Hong-Kong, &c., will be made up on the
evening of 7th
The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Men, Ceylon, India, Haag-Kong, and China, rio douthamp.
lon, iruj be made upon then:wringer of the 20th July.

Aionaz • TWERTIBERS.
To aw..— _
-nthoritioe of tha
The number of oi-AfdPS issued by the •••
Stamp-office, during i 847, to the
DAILY NEWS Wu 3.447. C".
s4r
This, we heUeee, is within eight per cent. of the num,
issued to the mowing Herald, Morning Chronicle, end
Morning Pod, ALL VtIT TOOETHIIIt.
In addition to the 'WIT, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there wars: issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EIPAPJ3S 778.714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or standard, Eyesing Papers.

111011 WATER AT ROOM. BRIMS.
0 mi. O. An..., g.d1.000 0.
—ooo.oi.g. 0 Afternoon, % Ws. RAW I.

LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29.
IN the HOUSE of Comwoxs yesterday Sir G.
GREY made a statement exonetiting the officers
of her Majesty's steamer ShearwaL', freft the
'hugs of having paid any undue ati...71"l
gitchel, the Dublin convict, while a ;'!3**

stinger on board that vessel from thence to Spike I
Island, as had been alleged. The right hon. hart. also
in answer to Sir R. H. INGLIS stated that in cones
queues of his attention having been called to the !rub-
ject of racing sweeps, he had thought it consistent
with his ditty to ascertain what the law
was in reference to them, and be found that
by a judgment of the court of Queen's
Bench in 1843, such sweeps had been held and
declared to be illegal. The Board of Stamps and Taxes
bad expressed their intention of submitting certain ad-
vertisements in connexion with such sweeps to the
Home-office, and when they had done so, the subject
should receive that attention which it so imperatively
demanded.—The " no house " of the previous clty
led to a discussion, in which Mr. COBDEN charged,
and Sir G. GREY exonerated, the governmentfrom
having been accessories to that result. The question
of going into committee on the Roman Catholic Re-
' lief Bill originated a discussion and a division, when,
in opposition to Mr. GORING's amendment,
the motion wan carried by a majority of
26, the numbers 102 to 76.-1 n committee,
the chairman having put the ATTORNEY-GENE-
RAL'S amendment, specifying the particular
" bulls" which were to be prohibited from publica-
tion within the United Kingdom, a discussion ensued,
Mr. Harmst moving that the chairman do report
progress, the committee dividing, when the amend-
ment was negatived by a majority of 4—the num-
bers, 100 to 110. A second division took place on
the ATTORNEY•GENERAL'S amendment, when the
numbers being equal, 113 for and against, the chair-
man gave the casting vote in its favour. In conse-1
quence of this result, Sir R. 11. INGLIS moved that
the chairman do report progress, which motion was
negatived by a majority of one—the numbers
110 to 111, Sir It. INGLIS explaining, on the read-
mission of strangers, that he had been absent from
the division on his own motion in consequence of
having gone to consult the highest parliamentary
authority as to the course pursued by the chairman
in giving his vote in favour of an amendment when
the numbers were equal. Mr. BERNA L stated, without
reference to the orders of the house, that he did not
recollect a similar circumstance to have occurred of
equal numbers on a division in committee during the
periods he had occupied the chair. Further progress
with the bill under existing circumstances was con-
sidered undesirable by several hon. members, and at
length, on au amendment being proposed by Sir 11.
WILLOUGUBY, Mr. ANSTEY consented to the eroposi-
lion for the chairman's reporting progress, which was
agreed to, and the house having resumed, the bill was
ordered to be re-committed on Wednesday next, and
the house adjourned.

As FRANCE now otves promise of a settled and a
strong government, in which tho military clement
must have considerable weight, it becomes important
to consider the state of the countries bordering upon
it, and of those struggles, calculated to tempt or pro-
voke French aggression, or to extend the circle of war
and the number of belligerents.
Hitherto the war in Lombardy has been favour-
able to the Italian cause. Not only was a large
Austrian army ejected from the Milanese, bat that
army, after receiving considerable reinforcemente,
was defeated in the open field near Goito by the army
of Piedmont, under the command of its sovereign.
CHARLEs ALBERT, however, did not muke the most of
that advantage. He has rather reposed on his laurels,
than hastened to gather fresh ones. Verona, momenta-
rily undefended by the Austrian army, which had
marched to the reduction of Vicenza, almost invited
attack; bat CHARLEs ALBERT shrank from it, and
has thereby excited the discontent of his soldiers and
the murmurs of all Italy. It is the character of
CHARLES ALBERT to act well and nobly upon im-
pulse, and then to become feeble and pusillanimous
upon reflection. Such a relapse at this critical mo-
ment would be fatal to him, to his nascent power
and empire, and by encouraging the democratic par-
ties opposed to him, may fling North Italy back into
anarchy first, and foreign dependence after, at the
very moment when it seemed in a fair way to attain
the very goal of all political efforts—freedom, unity,
and independence.
The desire of the Austrian government is decidedly
for peace, for peace upon what it considers fair terms,
such terms as would leave Marshal ItauersKt and
his army free to protect the unity of the German
and Sclavonian dominions of Austria.

The statesmen at both Innspruck and Vienna
would consent to abandon all claim to the Milanese,
provided that rich duchy took its fair proportion of the
debt. But they are not prepared to cede the Venetian
territory, of which they are at this moment in full
possession, including the formidable fortresses which
guard it. Marshal RADETSKI is at the head of some
40,000 men, and reinforcements are daily pouring in
to h:m, which will raise his number to 50,000 or 53,000.
On the other side of the Adige CHARLES ALBERT
has 60,000 men ; and Milan and the other towns are
making efforts, which will raise the Italian force to
nearly 80,000. Bat, as it is incumbent on CHARLES
ALBERT to take the offensive, a small disparity of
numbers would be fully compensated to the Austrians
by their strong positions.
In such a state of things, it is feared, that CHARLES
ALBERT might listen to the offer of Austria to cede
the Milanese, on condition that the Venetian terri-
tories be left them. It is reported that England
was applied to, for its mediation on such terms, and
that our cabinet had consented. We believe this not
to be the fact, and understand that a direct negotia-
tion is going on between the belligerents, and that an
Austrian agent has been sent to Milan, and RADETSKI
ordered to conclude an armistice to allow time for
the consideration of the prop_sals. We arc very glad
to learn that the British government has not under-
taken a mediation, so unlikely to lead to any satis-
factory or permanent result. The Italians, it
is plain, can never consent to the amputa-
tion of one of the most glorious and historic
portions of Italy. The Venetian population itself
could never be reconciled to Austrian sway, even
though organized as a separate province, and gifted
with a constitution. And a treaty even when con-
cluded would be nothing more than an armed truce,
which requires the same amount of seen, of precaution,
and expenditure, as at present on both banks of the
Adige. Venice would thus cost Austria more than it
is worth.

At the same time, unless CHARD:B AtIIERT gains
one more striking military advantage, it is not to be
seen how Austria can yield the Venetian territory.
The Germans have a strong national feeling on the
subject, and the Frankfort Diet was mad enough to
propose an incursion of Bavarians into Italy as re-
venge for the blockade of Trieste. We need not say
that a march of Bavarian troops through the 'Tyrol
would assuredly bring the French over the Rhine.
Better far that the quarrel be left between Austria
and Lombardy than swell it to a rivalry, which ought
' not to exist between Italians and Germans.

What is most to be hoped is, that the Provisional
Government of Milan may come to some terms with
the Austrian envoy for Lombardy's retaining Verona,
Vicenza, and the territory south of a certain line,
ceding to Austria Cadore and all that northern por-
tion of the Venetian territory which intervenes be-
tween the Tyrol and Vienna. The conquests of Venice
followed up the course of the rivers which flowed
into the Adriatic, and their success reduced the
whole valley of the Piave to the mountains. There is
no need of abiding by these old demarcations. Nor
need Italy seek to extend beyond the Piave or the
Lile. Were Basun:. and Treviso the frontier towns
et North Italy, the Italians ought to be well con-
tented.

There cannot be a more important element, a more
desirable result in the necessary re-organisation of
Europe, than the establishment of this Lombard or
north Italian kingdom within natural and defensible
frontiers. It would form a wide and wealthy empire,
very "esowerful, yet most prone to peace. Lying be-
tween the two Mediterranean seas, affording a facile
communication between the south-west and south-east
of Europe,. possessing Venice and Genoa, it would be
epunslung in trade and transit as in produc-
tion. prosperous, and pacific, and powerful a state
interposed ostweenFrance and Austria, would preclude
all possibility of war between those states, and thus
offer an immense guarantee to the peace of Europe,
whilst it would at the same time complete the
dreadful of lire
loss
ba-
lance of power. If 2mids:
and property consequent upon the events of 1848,
such a salutary result as an Italian kingdom should
arise, Europe will at least hive compensation for
its throes, not only in increaser: freedom of all
countries, but in the restored nationality of Italy.

Lotto NUOENT was, we believe, if no the inventor,
the first promulgator of the specious excuse for refusing
ti) vote in support of Mr. HumE's motion, that though