The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-09 00:00:00

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the malls for British NoitriAineilea, and the United States,
will be made up en the evening of the 11th Aug.
The Wen India Malls, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havana,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
including three for Madeira, Jeemel, Certhagena, Seats Martha,
Myna, Panama, Wee' Coast of South America, and At Jusn-de-
Nicsragua, will be made op on the morning of the 17th August
The made for Vigo, Oporto, lasbon, Madeira, Cod* am Gibraltar
will be made up on the:monung of the 17th Aug.
The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, ohs Southamp-
ton. will be made up on the evening of the 19th August
The overland closed made, via Musette., to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon., India, Hong-Kong, ize., will be made up on the
evening of the 21th Aug.
The mails for New South Wales, Van themaies Land, and New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 31,4 August.
The mails for the West Cow of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on. the evening of the 31st August.
The math for the Bruits, the Inver Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the Ith September.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of thr
temp-office, during 1847, to the

DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
This, we believe, o within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Pose, ALL PUT TOOETHIII,
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
Which wee more, we believe, than were issued either to
he Okbe or Standard. Eyeshot Papers.

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. AUG 9.
WE record with great regret, what is too likely to be
true, even if premature, the entrance of the Austrians
into Milan—not that the vindication of the old mili-
tary glory of one of the German eagles is unwelcome
—but that the cause of peace and Italian inde-
pendence is thereby seriously jeopardised. The fate
of Lombardy is, however, not decided by the present
triumph of RA.DETZRI. His reception of Mr. ABER-
CROMBY is said not to have been a refusal to treat,
but • declaration that he could best treat after Aus-
trian honour was satisfied, by the entrance of his
army into Milan.
Mr. ABERCROMBY could not have been charged
with any special mission or instructions to mediate.
Time and distance do not admit of it. And, indeed,
we learn, that the joint proposals and plan of media-
tion made by England and France, could not have left
Paris before Monday evening. Innspruck, Vienna,
ItspETzel himself, and probably Frankfort, must all
consider and decide. And what they will have to
decide is war or peace. For peace, with the con-
tinued possession or occupation of Lombardy by Aus-
tria is, as we before said, impossible.
A contemporary casts some slight degree of censure
on the government for not having mediated sooner,
and for not interfering, whilst victory was yet unde-
cided between contending armies, and procured for
Austria the line of the Adige and the Venetian terri-
tory. However desirable that may now seem, it was
not to be attempted at the moment when the King
of Piedmont bad repulsed the Austrians a: Goito,
when the Italians were still full of confidence and
frowardness, and when the word " treason" was
in their mouths against CHARLES ALBERT,
as it would have been against us, for con-
senting to the snrrender of Venice. The refusal of
England to mediate upon M. HUMMELAHER'S proposi-
tion, did not prevent the Austrian government making
such proffer directly to CHARLES ALBERT. The govern-
ment of Vienna d.d send Count HARTIG to do so ; but
ItADETZKI would not hear of it, till he had vengeance.
A mediation then would thus have failed in every
way, and would have been opposed both by the
Italians and by the Austrian commander. It is now
undertaken, not indeed under such promising auspices;
but it is at least sure of Italian assent, whilst it
appeals most forcibly t.:l Austrian prudence.
We still retain the opinion, however, that as long
as the Austrians keep Venetia, there will be but a
truce between Germans and Italians, should the latter
retain the spirit and pursue the scheme of regenera-
tion. This we have no doubt they will, if a power-
ful, constitutional, and liberal monarchy be formed in
North Italy. Great blame is cast upon the Lom-
bards for their present inertness. But that they are
not wanting in spirit, the revolt of Milan shows. That
they know not how to direct that spirit, and to
organise numbers and wealth into real force,
proceeds from their having been benumbed or kept
as children by the leaden rule of an Austrian
cabinet. Italy has thrown away a golden opportu-
nity. Instead of achieving its own deliverance, it
has left that to be accomplished by foreign protector-
ship. No prince save CHARLES ALBERT did his duty,
or showed himself an Italian. The POPE acted as
the high priest, and more might not be expected of
him ; but it shows the absurdity of a high priest's
temporal rule. The King of NAPLES showed him
self what he is by birth and nature—Austrian.
The Grand Duke of TUSCANY has played the part
of a lay-pope, willing to slumber on the pillow of
idle popularity, but without energy, or compre-
hensive patriotism. The Italians must do justice
by these rois fitineans. And the example and quiet
working of a great constitutional state in the north
can best do this.
What is most important to us, however, are the
hopes of peace, and the manner in which the proffer
of it will be received at Frankfort, Innepruck,
Vienna, and in RAURTZNI'S quarters. The powers
who preside over the councils of all these
places will have to choose between the re-
tenVon of Lombardy and their plans for restoring Ihe
stability and connexion of the rest of the empire.
Like many a hero, Austria has conquered, whilst
in the very agony of dissolution. Should the deter-
mination to retain Milan compel the French to cress
the Alps, we do not see how South Germany is to be
regenerated, at least under its present princes ;
for the French cannot but appeal to democratic
passions and interests, which are on tiptoe to answer
such an appeal.
Monarchic Europe is, for the present, at least, a
crazy old vessel. These recent shocks have shaken
every timber, and it requires the greatest care even in
patching and caulking, to keep the ocean out and the
old ship afloat. As to monarchic Europe going to war,
the idea is impossible; she would founder under the
first broadside.

MR. FEARCCS O'CONNOR is so hugely delighted
that an official accountant hes reported (what his'
private accounts d ) n.t appear to have shown)
the National Land Company to be upwards of 3,000/.
in his debt as to declare be will never accept pay-
ment of the sum. Unfortunately, however, this
liberal resolution will be of no earthly value to the
32,7970 t its members who have not got allotments on
the land on which the money has been spent; it will
benefit only the 536 who were lucky enough to draw
prizes in the Great O'Connor Lottery; and consider-
ing that it was chiefly from the larger number that
the sum so expended came into Mr O'Cossion's
possession, that gentleman's conscience ought, we
suggest, rather is require payment of the
money from the company, in order that he
may divide it amongst the former instead of making
it a present to the latter ; at least that is what our
sense of justice would dictate; and not merely be-
cause Mr. O'CONNOR originally acquired the cash so
spent from the 32,797 unlucky members of his com-
pany, but because its division amongst them is all
the return they are likely to have for their subscrip-
tions and their membership.
Mr. O'CoreNoa, it is well known, is the proprietor I
of the Northern Star, and it is through that publica-
tion only that members of the National Land Com-
pany can learn its proceedings, or the state of its
affairs. In its columns they are informed of the
weekly increase of its funds, of the estates in
which Mr. O'CONNOR has invested their money
in his name, of the preparation for allot-
ment, of the mode of agriculture by which
a starving weaver may, at five minutes' no-
tice, be converted into a thriving farmer;
and, above all, of the place at which they are
to gamble for the allotments, the cottages, and parti-
cipation in that rural felicity with which Mr. O'CoN-
NOR proposes to do such wonders in the way of social
regeneration. The Northern Star is, therefore, a
paper of the utincat importance to those who have
such faith in Mr. O'CoNNert's specifics as to take
shares in his Land Company. Its members, accord-
ingly, club together their pennies to learn when they
have any chance of admission into their leader's, or as
he calls himself their "father's," happy valley. Just
then as the numbers of the Land Company augmented,
so did the circulation of the Northern Star increaser

until it came to yield its proprietor an income at the
rate of 4,00 W. a year at least, a sum, we believe,
larger than Mr. O'CoNNoR receives from those
paternal acres in Ireland about which he so
frequently talks. Thus deriving so handsome
an inoome, we are entitled to say that the money
so spent by him on the various estates of his Land
Company, originally came in a great measure from the
32,797 persons who have not yet obtained allotments.
And it is therefore we suggest that a division of the
3,00 W. amongst them would be a greater act of li-
berality on his part than making a present of it to
their 630 successful rivals. _ _ _

And justice as well as liberality (now that Mr.
O'CONNOR is in the humour to be generous) requires
this appropriation ; for it is, we repeat, the only return
they are likely to have for the sums they have
subscribed to the company. Large as the funds
subscribed to it have been, they are nearly all in-
vested in land ; and all the land in which they have
been invested has been allotted. So that Mr. O'CoN-
NOR has no more land in hani on which to locate
the

32,797 persons who are still onlocated, but who
have an undoubted claim on him for land. Fresh
subscriptions from other persons would of course
enable Mr. O'CoNNoit to buy other estates, but their
purchase would of course increase his obligations to
furnish allotments, and diminish the chances of his
clients in the ballot box. Or suppose the " repro-
ductive principles," on which Mr. O'CoN:son
has established the company, to be success-
ful, as each allotment costs nearly 2501.,
it will require (so the financial secretary, Mr.
WORATIT, told the committee) a reproduction of
8,000,0001. at least before the 33,333 persons Mr.
O'CONNOR has undertaken to provide land for can
all be located ; and this sum it is admitted by other
witnesses the utmost succe,a could only produce in
more than 100 years from the present time. So that
we are entitled to say that the chances of the 32,797
to anything hut a rateable proportion of the 3,0001.1
Mr. O'CONNOR',3 generosity has given the company is
small, and their chance to that is, we fear, not very
great.
Mr. O'CONNOR, we know, threatens to mortgage
the estates on which he has located his fortunate gam-
blers to buy other estates with the money so raised.
to divide them into similar farms, and to locate other
allottees thereon. And so he says he will go on repeat.
ing this system of buying, mortgaging, and buying,
until he discharges the claims for land under the
weight of which he now staggers. But be forgets
that mortgagees in this country require the regular I
payment of interest on the sums for which they hold
land pledged—that the receipts of rents by mort-
gagors is a condition precedent to the payment of
such interest—that up to this time he has made no pro-
vision for the payment of rent by his allottees
—and that whenever he does fix their rents
and name a rent day he may whistle for the money.
It is exactly this question of rent which will burst the
gay bubble he has blown. Hitherto the fundamental
principle of the allotment system has been that it
shall be in aid of wages only—that the land shall be
allotted in quantities so small as to be cultivable at
the leisure of the allottee—and that the greatest care
shall be taken that the allyttees do not become de-
pendent on it for subsistence. But Mr. O'Cossort's
fine theory reverses all this ; his object is to convert
weavers into small farmers, and to make them
dependent for existence on the land. He gives
to each of his allottees on an average three
acres of land, with a cottage thereon ; and out of
its produce and by their labour he expects them not
only to live comfortably but to pay' a rent equal to 4
per cent. on the cost of their allotments. And this is
Just the impossible part of his scheme; it is what can-
not be done. Mr. REVANS, the poor-law sub-com-
missioner, who is himself an agriculturist of large
experience, states that out of three acres of land a man
cannot, with nis wife and family, subsist, even it he
pay no rent.' This statement is probably an ex-
treme one. But all experience has shown that he
cannot live if he have to pay rent and taxes. And
under such circumstances—under a system the be all and
the end all of which appears to be the extension of
pauperism wherever adopted—who will advance
money on the mortgage of these estates ?
What, then, is to become of the National Land
Company ? We await Mr. O'CoNsoa's reply with
some curiosity. But our own opinion is, that the
sooner he gives the present allottees a title in fee
simple the sooner he will be out of the greatest scrape
into which he ever got, and that then his escape will
be founded on dishonesty and injustice to the 32,797.