The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-24 00:00:00

the Orpreo.

MAILS.
The overland closed mode, ria Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, Ste., will be mode up on the
evening of the 24th June.
The wail, for V*, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of th • 2; th June.
The mails foe New South Wales, Van Dietnan's Lund, and New
gcaland will be made up on the evening of the 911th June.
The mails for the Vies! C.inat of Africa and Madeira will be made
op on the evening of the 313th June.
The mall. toe British North America, and the United States,
will be mace up an the evening of the 3 lit June.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havanna,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, 'rumple°, and Porto Rico, and
including those for Nlatlelra, Jaemel, Cartliagen y Santa Martin,
Cheares, Panama, Wect Cunt of South Alllerie3, and St. Juan-0e-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the let July.
The mails for the Brazils, tie River Plate, Monte Vadeo, Pernam-
buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos AyreA, will be made up ou the
evening of the 4th July.
The overland malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian litlands,
Egypt, madeyn, India, Bong-Kong, and aline, rat Suuthanp-
ton, will be upon the mooning of the 20th July.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stemp•otlice, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wu 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent of the number
,eued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, rin4
Slarninq Poet, ♦LL PUT TOOZTHER.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Alorning Paper, there were issued for the Enemata? gdition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
Which wu more, we believe, than were Limed either to
the GipSe or standard, Evesirw Papers.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24.
TILE opposition to reform in 1818 consists of
neither more nor less than the old common-place
and well-known objections which have been made at
all times, and never with final success, to constitu-
tional improvement and change.
The objection which first occurs, and is put
forward by the dominant party and its organs.
is, that reform is ridiculous. No doubt, when the
End of LEICESTER first called the English bur-
gesses to parliament in our earl ie >t parliamentary
reform, the knights of the shire thought the
admission of the townsfolk supremely ridiculous.
To this reform, so ridiculous in 1265, we owe
the fret constitution and greatness of England.
Later still, in the reigns of the first STUARTS, when
I'B'M, HAMPDEN, and even HYDE, demanded re-
form as the sole preventive of revolution, the cour-
tiers scouted sucn demands as ridiculous. Since that,
the old story might be repeated a hundred times of
the people petitioning, and claiming rights and exten-
sion of freedom, the courtiers and tories laughing at
them, until the earnestness of the people showed it-
self and taught the tories to laugh on the wrong side
of their mouths. Now we have just the same argu-
ments. Seven members for the borough of Man-
chester appears to Mr. DISRAELI the very climax
of the absurd. As to Mr. Hume's motion, it is
so very like the monster petition of Kennington-
common, which (righted the government and the
police, that the tories can but laugh outright at a
piece of vulgarity, that is not even formidable. Those
gentlemen, however, who take mirth for argument and
jokes for reason, mistake both their enemy and their ,
weapons. Ridicule may punish a fallen party,
but is reflected back as irrelevant impertinence by a
young, a national,and arising one.
The next objection is, that the old system is perfect
and works well. So the organ of the two aristocratic
sections of parliament declares. The Can Bide of
modern journalism vows that the English is the best of
all possible administrations. Let, however, not the
governing powers answer the question, but the
governed victims. Ask Ireland, ask the West Indies,
ask the Canadians, or the Van Diemeneae, the
settlers of Natal, or Wellington, what their opinion is
of this wisest of all governments? Appeal from Mr.
IMPART.' when speaking of the Reform Bill, to Mr.
DISRAELI speaking on the West India question, on
the Spanish quarrel, or on free trade, and though he
will describe the immense prosperity and success of
oar mode of government in the one case, he
will denouLce to you it; utter incapacity and