The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
Malls foe British North *merles and the United Maisie
made up this evening.
Noe Wass India Malls, excluding Bermuda, Hamm, Ihnik
Her:Auras, Orlo‘ns, sod /Armco im incluotril Mai
lladeirs, at. Joan-de- %tour:cu., New Granada, Cliii, si4 run,
tv made up on the morning of the l-th June.
The mails for Vigo. OPott9. Carlii, and Gkilts
will be made up on the morning 01 the 17th of June.
Has tr..xls tut lilbtAllag, Muds, um..., lilt Unita Wand& ferk
Ade,. Ceylon, India, isons.linag, and China, yea Southamrtre, m
be made up on the 20th of June.

—The made, via Manaillea, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, (kilt
India, llong-Kong, ko., hill be made up on toe 23tb June.
The mails for Miatelvt, the Bruzits and Buenos Ayres, willbe oat
up on the evening of the ttb of July.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 8.

WitEN impstint c lisituents remonstrate with
member of the House of Commons fer not bringing
on some promised moion, the reply is easy, ea an
A, B, C, book. Net a week passes but we have sane
half-a-dtzen of oor representatives ansiuus'y and
elaborately exphining to electoral duce how the
limited number of days on which motions take we
cedence of orders of the day puts it o.t of their
power to fulfil hwtinds pledges. Yet these gentle
men do not appear to give themselves the teat
trouble to prevel t the few available days being as&
still fewer. Ye•tcrday, ;or the we know rot hot.
many-t th time this re.sion, there were not member
enough present to muke a house, when the t,PEAKII
took the chair.

When the house na, ets again we shall of cruse
have an exchange of *has between official a d non•
uffidial members. The latter will it quire, with sign.
ficant innuendo, why toe official wh.ppers•in did not
permit a house to be made. The puttee dens assailed
will reply that they di it nothing to previ-nt it ; but not
being a government night it was no bentinetos of their
to take care that a Louse wgs made. This execs
will acutely hold waver. These gentlemen are re
presentatives of oor s'ituencies as well as subutdinate
cfficials cf the goe eminent, and owe a du'y to the
fruitier set of matters as well es the letter. They
have means and opportunities of making a hue,
which mere private members have nor. It would be
well if their constituents should read them a leoton
this score.

It is needless to speculate on the motives whid
last night paralysed their zeal for house-making.
There were two re bees of motion on the books, either
of which were likely to be grating to official can
There was Lord DUDLEY STUART'S motion fir a select
committee to inquire into the general management of
the metropolitan police, and there were Mr. MOILS
resolutions for adjusting the scale of public salaries to
the reduced prices of articles of general consumption,
and inquiring whether the number of persons em-
ployed in the departments of state may not be re-
duced without detriment to the public service.
We need seek no further ; but instead of suineing
the motives of the legislature's indulgence in the
dulee far niente, ava I ourselves of the blank day in
its annals to work up same arrears of commentary on
its recent doings.
On Tuesday evening last the House cf Cnemonsi
by .a majority of tao to one, voted itoelf immaculate
—in no need of further reform. On Wednesday the
Houseof Commons, by aid of a powerful moralnecros-
cope, discovered two trifling specks on the white robes
of its innocence, aid set itself with all the ei orgy ofs
professional washerwoman to rub them out. The
Bankrupt and Ii solvent Members Bill was Ind a
second time, and tie Bribery at Elections Bell was
passed through committee. The House of Cummoes
is a rigid puritan cn minor matters though it goes
jellify on to sin on a larger scale. In this it resembles
the Scribes and Pharisecs of old, straining at gnats
and swallowing camels withequal promp•.itude.lt was
said of ROBIN HOOD and his merry men, that any
travellers who encountered them immediately after
the performance of any of their cccaaioual acts of
compunctious benevolence, might look to be flayed
relentlessly. Any motion for real and searching re-
form submitted to the House of Commons, while its
members are elate with the recent consciousnees of
heroic self-sacrifice in furthering the measures webers
named, will be unmercifully mauled.
Yet does the hot haste with which the house hu set
itself to urge on thou driblets of reform immediately
atter its rejection of a more comprehensive and
searching measure, indicate an awkward misgiving ss
to the light in which the public views its anti-reform-
ing tendencies. It it clear that the house feels some-
thing must be done to save appearances. It cannot
bring itself to pay its whole debt to the public, but
offers a farthing in the pound.
Equally significant is the language used yester-
day morning by the Downing-street organ. The
Times declares that "if it reads aright" the minis•
terial speeches of Tuesday , some measure of "practical
and gradual reform" is contemplated by them. So
convinced is our contempo ary of the ministerial wish
to be obliged to set about the teak of ref trulo
that he assumes the tone of an independent
monitor, and declares ex cathedra that " unless some
gradual reform is early initiated by government, it
may possibly find itself deserted by moderate mess