The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

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MAILS.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Calls, and Gibraltar
will be made up en the morning of the 27tb April.
Ilia mails for New South Wales, Van Orman's Land, and New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 20th April.
The mails for the West Cmst of Africa and Madeira will be made
bp ca the evening of the 30th April.
The Weat India Mails, including Bermuda, Nassau, Ilarann
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
exoluding those for Madeira, lacniel, Carthage., Santa Martha,
Claagres, Panama, West Coast of South America, and SL Juanyi
Magenta, will be made up on the evening of the 2nd May.
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overland mails for Gibraltar, blalu, Germs. the lonian Maeda,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hang-Kong, and Chi eta Sou hemp.
toe, will be made up on the morning of the 3rd Mar.
The malls for the Snails, the River Plate, Monte Video, Fermata.
buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the ith May.
The mails for British North America, and tha United Matey
will be made up en the evening of the Silt May.
The overland cluedeM Marseilles, to the Meditemmean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, ac., will be made up on the
evening of the tth May.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within es per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Bernld, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHER.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edit,ol/2
THE EXPRESS 778,714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers.

111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Ton I,4T—Movntag, W. past . Afternoon. 13 Wm. past 7.
TC.BOASCOW—NOtIIIag. 41 ola. peat 7

LONDON,WEDNESDAY APIIIL26
LORD PALMERSTON is a foreign minister, gifted
with a great many valuable qualifications, difficult to
finder to unite Many statesman. Great experience, skill,
ad roitness, talent, are in him joined with a thorough love
of liberty, and of the progress of liberty in foreign
countries. But his character has its defects and draw-
backs. Ile is terribly impatient—he cannot bide his
time—he will net allow freedom to await the
usual and natural term of gestation—he would
anticipate events—ho would run, as a poet
has represented SHAKESPEARE, far before Time,
and leave the old gentleman with his scythe to toil
after him. What pains has not Lord PALMERSTON
taken for Spanish liberty, for Grecian liberty, for
Cracovian liberty, nay, for French liberty, fretting
and insinuating that Louts Pitisires himself was
retrograde, was absolutist. and insidiously striving to
resuscitate the Holy Alliance, and the policy of
ILouts XIV. Surely in all this Lord PALMERSTON has
given himself an immensity of trouble for very
little purpose. Could not his lordship have trusted a
little more to events? These have done ample
justice by all Lord PALMERSTON'S antagonists, by
Louts PHILIPPE, by Prince Mrxrensicu, by King
Onto, and by those Prussian statesmen who hit him
so hard about the navigation laws. Lord PAL-
MERSTON triumphs and reigns; whiggism lords it
paramount ; nor is there a crack in any one
of the multifarious coronets, or wears rs of those
coronets, which form its ministerial Caryatides.
Could not even success mollify Lord PALMERSTON?
NO—LOCIS PHILIk PE in a blouse; METTERNICH
escaping from Vienna, and ensconcing himself at
itotterdam, till ROTHSCUILD could find heart to cash
a bill for him—not all this—not the misfortunes of
French, and Italian, and German despots couid give
Lord PALMERSTON bowels towards the Spanish
Sejani. In the midst of March, that is,
to the sound of tottering thrones and
flitting prime ministers, Lord PALMERSTON
sits down to pen one of his terrible lectures to
Messieurs &Iron/owe, NAttvArz, and Co. These
poor devils are keeping guard upon the Queen of
SPAIN, in hourly dread of insurrection, abhorred by
the people, repudiated by the Cortes, and having for
all stay to keep them from perdition a few
regiments. Sixpence would be a bidding too
high for their lives and fortunes. And yet Lord
PALMERSTON finds it in his heart to be hard
upon these poor wretches. He sends Mr. BULWER a
Downing-street lecture on their unconstitutional con-
duct, and holds out the menace to them, that
should MON ['VIOLIN or any avenger come, he will
not stir a finger to help them.
Really, we think, all this might have been spared.
Revolution advances rapidly and terribly enough
not to need British heralding or aggravation of it.
SOTOMA YOR is apoor reed, a cunning, selfish, empty
diplomatist—without party, without principles, with-
out consistency. NARVAEZ may be iron, but he is an
iron weathercock that has wreaked and twisted to
every wind. What matter to England or an Eng-
lish minister, what policy such miserable statesmen
and such ephemeral powers pursue ? If Spain con-
sents to stoop to such mere unsupported sub-
alterns, why, Spain deserves her fate, and merits
to be spit upon. But, what have we to do with it ?
Why should we interfere ? Had we left Spain alone
since 1820, Spain would be in a far better condi-
tion now to claim, and to keep her liberties. But,
foreign intermeddling, diplomacy, and parties, have
so worn and worried Spain, have given birth to such
premature, ineffectual, and unnatural move-
ments and excitement, that now, when the
real time has come for enthusiasm, and for
vigour, there is none left of either. And
whilst all Europe flings off its chains, Spain crouches
beneath the boot of NARVAEZ. If she wishes to do
eo, we say for GOD'S sake let her. There is no free-
dom in the world worth having but the freedom that
a nation conquers for itself.
The letters which have passed between Mr. BIM-
WER and the Duke of SOTOMATOR, of which we
have before given the purport, and of which we now
give the text, have caused us pain. We feel humi-
liated at England's entering into altercation with
beings so vile, and at England's, after all, not
having the best of the argument. Is it not time for
us to come to the conviction, that Spain had better be
left alone ? In the present state of Europe there is no
fear but that any people which deserve liberty can
acquire it.
Lord PALMERSTON was not able, either by lectures
ar commando to give any impulse or aid to liberalism
lin France, or in Austria ; yet it has advanced and
triumphed without his lordship's assistance. Could
not the Cite of Spain be entrusted safely to the same
providence and the same current of circumstances?
In the present condition of Europe, we should
strongly recommend any and every British
minister to rest on his oars, and abstain
from act or comment, as far as Europe is con-
cerned. It is idle and absurd to preach to a con-
flagration, or to volunteer calm advice to persons
struggling for their lives, fortunes, and positions.
NARTAEZ and SOTOMATOR are drowning men. To
assume the didactic tone towards them, as Lord PAL-
MERSTON has dose, is simply preposterous. Cannot
his lordship let them sink or swim, or at least re-
serve his counsels till after the catastrophe ?—for a
catastrophe must come in Spain, as in every country
where power has oscillated from despotism to license,
and where it has never yet been able to settle in a
fair, free, and constitutional system.
Ye,

IT is rare to meet among the moneyed class—
whether merchants, manufacturers, or retired capi-
talists—a man who regards with tranquillity the
aspect of our financial affairs. One and all of this
elms admit frankly, in private conversation, that much
money is levied in the name of the public service
which is not applied to its ostensible purpose—that
the burden of taxation is unfairly and injudiciously
apportioned, pressing heavily on the poor and leaving
the rich comparatively exempt—and that many of
our taxes have a tendency to drive trade and industry
from their natural channels Into such as are compara-
tively unprofitable. They anticipate from this mis-
management diminution of the national resources,
falling off in the revenue, weakening of national credit,
discontent, and turbulence. And yet these men, who
have so much at stake, will not raise their voices
against perseverance in a system of impolicy which
111 hurrying the nation to the verge of ruin.
Ask them to speak oat, and they reply : " Wait till
a more convenient season offers—till excitement is
over." It is as if the physician, when called to the
bedside of a patient, isho..ld propose to wait till the
fever wee over before he applied his remedies. The
excitement comes of the very abuses of which they
oomplain, and will not be over till they are remocA
er till they have exhausted the national energies be-
yond even the power of complaining. \VII9 Alga ..-f.'' .A
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