The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.

The mails for Clibreitar, Malta, Greece, the LaMar Islands, Egypt,
t den, Ceylon, India. Moog-Kong, and China, via Southampton, wil
mote up on the 30th of loge.
M die toe nratwo ,corto nmertea and the United Ptatm will
made up on the evening &June '4.
The malls, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, Hong-Kong, he., will tentede up on the bhrth June.
The made for Vigo, Oporto, Lldcm, Madeira. Cadiz, and Gib:altar,
will he made up on the morning of the 27th of June.
The West India Mails, Jnoluding tiermucia, tlavanna, Nowt..
do ...tuna, New Orleans, and hlezioo, and colluding those for
wadeira, St. Jaan-dmNiceragua, New Grnnede. (AM. end Pen,
wil-
e made 1112 on the morning of the bad July.
The mails to Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made
up on the evening of the 4th of July.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 18.

PEELISM is in a ettte of decomposition. The
mrgic wherchy its heterogeneous elements were
once held firmly tog« thor, begins perceptihly to fail.
Tnat magic was hope, and as its vitality departs the
:ong suppressed antagonisms rearp-ar, and the de-
ll:airing clique hasten to resolve th.nvelves into .heir
discoreant elements. Mr. DIMIELI used to take
c edit with h;a party for having struck off its topmost
and too haughty bough; with equal reason he may
b mast that now he has shivered that broken branch

in pieces.
The debate and division on the Canadian Losses
Bill supply abundant evidence of the fact. Peeliem
was heretofore looked upon as a mystery—a thing of
incongruities harmuni ad, and incompatibilities made
to comb ne. What quality in common, nature had
c•.nferred on rigid GOULBURN and elastic GRAHAM, or
what kindred sympathy could lie k pragmatic PA-
KINGTON to the non defiant SIDNEY HERBERT,—com-
mon-place observers vainly strove to discern. A cer-
tain unity of act and speech visibly and audibly there
doubtle es seemed to he ; but how such ingredients
ever camo to form what professed to be one soli 1 and
specific mans,—strorg enough for the destinies of an
mpire to rest on,—was a marvel and a puzzle to the
uninitiated crowd of all degrees. And if all be true
that we have lately heard of offers, bargains, and nego-
tiations, it is clear that much of the exaggerated value
which the Peelite party put, as a p rty, on them-
selves, was confessedly founded on their pre-eminent
sick together-ativenese—their pride therein being so
intense that they could treat upon no other bas's than
that of " all or none."
But the rutleess hand that severed them from the
deep-rooted stem of ancient toryism has once more
yeen raised against them. Did be fear their strikieF
new root of their own ? Or was it to punish their
obstinacy in refusing to be re-grafted on the old
stock again? We know not. All we do know is
chat on last Friday night, instead of mystical union
there was open and varied division in the quarter in
question. On the motion of Mr. HERMES, the Peel-
ites split into no leas than three discordant sections.
Sir ROBERT led a faithful few against the invaders of
culonial liberty. Mr. GLADSTONE headed a like dr
tachment in support of that unworthy cause; and
Lord LINCOLN took the emmand of a select contin-
gent, who, after hovering aloof during the engage-
ment, at its conclusion decamped without exchanging
shuts with either side.
Hereafter when one is asked in any doubtful con-
troversy what will the Peelites do ? the reply will
r ecsssarily be—which kind of Peelites do you mean ?
Is it those who say they " are for progress," or those
who avow they are for retrogression, or those who
have no opinion except that it would be particularly
pleasant to know for certain which side was likely to
win. There is the whiggish set and the toryish set,
and the set that are one way three days in the week,
three days the other, and neither on Sunday.
As for Sir ROBERT himself, he seems to be bent on
enjoying unabridged the pleasures of abdication. He
has reigned supreme and is tired of sovereignty.
Had he not held the fealty of political vassals inesti-
mably lighter than the gratification of his own high
sense of right, he never would have thrown away
power. Between his individual case and that of the
ipwcite section who have hitherto home his name,
there is nothing in common. His impulse was the
ambition to achieve a grew act of national justice, the
cost of which was tobe thesurrender of the reins of rule ;
their instinct was merely that of self-preservation
which misled them into adhering to their abdicating
chief; and bid them b. lieve that none but he could for
three montt s govern the country. That was their
mistake. He made none.
And now, as the sad reality of their situation
breaks in upon them, they run about wildly, as
men are apt to do, in different directions, to see how
taey are to get out of their false position. Some, in-
deed, amongst them are all for waiting to let the
whigs fall to pieces, in which event they dream
of being recalled as indispensable., and of quietly
resuming office in a grand and dignified manner. All
which would be very easy and delightful if the whigs
would only do the needful and get out of the way. But
the inconsiderate whigs show little tendency towards
suicide. There they stick just as if they believed in
their hearts that they were as fit to be there as
their rivals; and a stupid country won't rise indig-
nantly and hurl them from power, to make room for
men who are out of breath, trying to prove that in
respect of all essential principles they are undiein-
guishable from their hated substitutes. We are very
much inclined to think that a dull nation does not, in
fact, care three sixpences about the matter, and that it
never will come to the rescue.