The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-28 00:00:00

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MAILS

The malls for New South Wales, Van Hienwnsi Taut, and New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 25th February.
The mails for the West ('oast of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 25th Febenary.
The West India Malta, Including Bermuda, NUMMI, Havanna.
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampiio, and l'orto Rico, and
excluding those for Madeira, Juemel, Carthigena, Santa Martha,
Chagres, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juau.de-
, Nicaragua, tetli I.e made up on the morning of the 2nd March.
' lbo overlent roads for Gibraltar, Melts, Greece, the locum islands
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bugs, Rabin Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening ul the 4th WO eh.
trot overland closed mails, ere Martelike, to the Mediterranean.
r:cypt, Mop, lediu, Hong Kong, Ac., will be made up on the
evening of the 7th March.
The mails for Unlade North America, Berme,* and the United
states. will be made up on the evening of the 10tb March.

NOTICE.
TEE number of S VAMPS lamed to the DAILY NEWS
by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during the year ISO,

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This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, end
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOOLTHEIL
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Mornina Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS,

From JAN. 1, to Deo. 31 778,714
Which was more we believe, than were issued either to
the Glob; or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 28.

Tits French will now be put to a very sore and
severe trial. The system, as Louis Put iret was
wont to term his mode of government, must have
everywhere fallen in, throughout the province a as in
the capital. And some time must, it is to be feared,
elapse ere a solid and popular form of government
can be organised to take its place. Had the late
king's domestic policy been a wise and just one, he
would have allowed the municipal and civic institu.
Lions, founded in July, MO, to develop themselves
liberally and fairly ;'and had he done so, there would
have been no lack of authority and of civic force to
maintain that authority in every town. But, unfur-
-1 tunately, one of the prejudices of Louts l'ilittere
and the party by which he governed, was a dislike to
municipal institutions. And he accordingly crushed
them in Spain, and corrupted them in France. so as
to make town councils the mere nominees of the
Home Office. The Mayors were the same, whilst the
institution of the National Guard was diseounten.
mired. And instead of the municipality and the civic
guard, the Prefect and the crown lawyer, and the
military commandant and the commissary of police,
formed the quadruple authority on which admini-
stration in the provinces rested. The first effect of
the revolution will be to put these authorities to
flight; and between the hoar of their disappearance
and such time as a genuine municipal and national
guard can be got together, there will be an interval
of license which ruffians may take advantage of. Had
the national guard and the civic authorities been
freely elected and less established, we repeat that
there would now be no difficulty and no anarchy, arid
that the friends of the government, now probably in
peril, would have needed neither concealment nor
protection.
In many towns and cities, no doubt, the national
guard will at once assemble, and this assemblage of
the best citizens will impose upon the anarchists.
But what is to be the result at Lyons, for example,
where there never has been a national guard allowed?
Lyons was dominated by forts and strongholds in the
possession of the soldiery. If it be known that the
soldiery will not act, and it is very probable that they
will thus far imitate their comrades in Paris, the popu-
lace will rush to the demolition of the forts, and in the
hour of frantic triumph all order and moderation will
be forgotten. The blame of these deplorable excesses,
should they take place, will be laid at the door of the
republic and the revolution, whilst in reality the true
blame lies with a monarch and a dietatorialministry,
who forgot their promisee and neglected their duty.
What may happen from these causes in the pro-
vinces fills us a ith even more anxiety than we feel for
the fate of Paris. Of Lyons we have the worst appre-
hensions, and of Marseilles ; for iu the latter city, as
well as Toulouse and throughout the south, Carlist
agents will be immediately at work, and they will be
aided by the religious party. At Toulouse both sects
and factions are in the highest state of mutual exaspe-
ration in consequence of the trial of Friar Lcolade for
rape and murder. Bordeaux, once so Bourboeite, has
ceased to be so. It is, however, the reverse of repub-
lican. Strasburg is decidedly democratic. The towns
of the north and east will all second the republican
movement; whilst those of the west, Bonen, Havre,
Bordeaux, will be amongst the most monarchic.
Nantes, an exception to its latitude, will be democratic
Amidst these conflicting elements, must be taken into
account the appearance and rise of energetic charac-
ters, either in command of the military, or possessing
influence over their fellow-citizens. One of the first
acts of the provisional government will be, no doubt,
to dispatch commissioners to the chief provincial
towns. On the reception of these and the respect
shown them, much will depend. The conflict in
some cases will he keener, as it will be a struggle
for the treasury chest and the deposits. The Re-
ceiver-General will be in an awfully responsible
position.
And the army, what of it? Its conduct in the
streets of Paris has been unaccountable. Not dis-
affected, nor yet loyal, but simply indifferent—the
soldiers seem to have acted the part of philosophers,
professing utter indifference to the current of events.
Ilene was the mistake of Louis PHILIPPE: he thought
the quiet and murmuring state of the army sufficient.
lie did not see, that the spiffier requires to be filled
and fraught with enthusiasm of some kind, and that
without such spirit he is a dangerous instrument,
The old armies were inspired by loyalty in face of
sedition, as by. national pride in presence of an enemy.
Loyalty is extinct in France : the peasant knows it not.
He may get attached to a person as a general, but •
mere king is no longer the idol that he can worship.
A monarch that is not a hero cannot, therefore, reign
in France by the grace of the soldiery. Louts PHI-
LIPPE ought to have known this, and to have reigned,
in consequence, by the love and favour of Lis citizen

subjects.
The great fear is, that the impossibility of governing
but by the army, and of governing by the army
without precipitating it to war, will strike those now
in possession of power ; and they will go to war, not
from love of foreign ronquest, but literally as a means
of domestic government. This is an idea likely to
occur to and be acted upon by such men as LAIIO-
- and 'limits, as well as by mere republicans
like UMW ROLLIN and CAW:OT. England, how-
ever, could hot be the object of such warlike designs.
There is nothing to be had from us 'nut Nows, and we
shall give no provocation for thei.i. In short England
is the hardest file that the French serpent, if serpent