The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-11 00:00:00

\l-P icprexils•

MAILS
The mails for British North America Bermada, and the Unite]
States. will be made up on the evening of the llth lehruary.
The West India Maila, ezeluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havana,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cr., Tampico, awl Porto Rico, and
including those for Madeira. Jaemel, Carthame, Santa Mort*
tkagrM P.116/11S, Welt Omit of South AOltrid, and St. Jusuithc-
N mangos, will 've made op on the morning of the 17th February.
malls for Vigo, OpOtto, lathon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be rands up on the morning of the 17th February.
Ms overland mails for Gibraltar, Malte,Gri eoe, the lonian !elands
XrtAden, Ceylon, Indio. Hong-Kong, and Chine, via Southampton
made up on the morning of the 20th February.
The male for New South Woles, Vats Diemen's Laud, sad New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 29th February.
Ile overload elosen maths eth Marseilles. to the atednerrancth
Egypt, Aden. Ceylon, ladia. liens Kong, Ike., will be made up on tie
swung of the 24th FebtlATT.
The mils for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be mode
op on the evening of the 29th February.
The mails for the Brasile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th March.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
THE number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS
by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during the >ear 1847,
was
From JAN. 1, t 3 Dn. 31, 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning lierahl, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGATHEL

Ia addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS,
From JAN. 1, to Dcc. 31 778,714
Which was more, wehelieve, than were issued either to the
Glebe or Standard, Ereniog Papers.

•.• aelvemeesteste letes/ei fee • T. Eames." teaks eyelash peen. wee
he at the secs.lo.l.lotweete-etreet. he Two s'elsek es the 04e of pelliesties.

SION WALTZ AT LONDON ■EDOO[.
TAD DAT—MaraimL 24 .1.. put 6; AMINO, 41•10.166. 6.
Teal —llenNeg. saw so 7; Attn... 41 ISM. M. 7.

LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 11.

- -
Tile American general has declared himself " at
home" in Mexico. Ile has issued an ordonnance,
directing the dispersion of the American army, and
the occupation by it of the principal provincial posts,
where the American commanders are to carry on the
government and levy the taxes, until such time as
" the republic of Mexico shall sae for peace." As
General Scores occupation annihilates the republic,
and proscribes the authorities of Mexico, how these
are to sue for peace is not apparent, unless, indeed,
they continue to urry on the war in some province
beyond American reach, by which they will infallibly
draw down upon them the vengeance of Gen. Scorr.
In their fiscal arrangements the Americans have,
however, abrogated two sources of taxation, in which
the Mexicans would do well to imitate them. They
abolish lotteries, as also the dues on transit or internal
commerce. The latter used to amount to nearly one
million sterling, little short of the produce of the
customs itaelf. But however lucrative as a source of
revenue, nothiag could be so destructive of the trade
and prosperity of the country as these taxes. The
Americans 'have decreed that, the customs
duties once paid at the port, the goods
shall be free to circulate everywhere with-
out fresh changes. This is a species of free trade
which ought to -be the first introduced in old coun-
tries, and for which Mexico ought to be grateful to
its invaders.
The conquest of MONTEZI:3I empire has, how-
ever, opened far more fertile sources of quarrel and
contention amongst the Americans themselves than of
gain to the government or community. All, indeed,
admit that Mexico is a costly investment-40 millions
ot dollars already gone, and 60 more very probable to
go, with an immediate loan of 17 millions almost im-
posible to raise ; so much so, that the rumour runs of
Mr. POLK'S competing with the Emperor of AI:STRIA
for some of the gold in the cellars of the CZAR at St.
Petersburg.
But if more absorbent than productive of gold to
the Americans, Mexico, as we observed, is rich in
veins of quarrel. The generals have all fallen to
loggerheads, showing strange specimens of demo-
cratic discipline. General WORTH, we are told, is
popular with the old army, and General PILLOW with
the new : whilst General SCOTT, mistrusting both,
places his chief confidence in General TWIGGS. Hence
WORTEI and PILLOW,
lealous of TWIGGS, show dis-
respect to SCOTT, who c spa them both in arrest, im-
pounds the gallant Colonel DuNcsre with them for
attacking him, the commander-in-chief, in the news-
paper ; whilst President POLK recalls Scorr, sends all
the heroes of Mexico, the three generals, to be tried
by court-martial, and gives the command-in-chief to
an old Kentucky friend. All this makes a sorry tail
to the commentaries of the American CLeAR.
Amongst the political public at home, in the United
States, quarrel is quite as rife. Never were so many
candidates for the presidency, and never were parties
so split, and sub-split with reference to that all-
absorbing point. And never was President in office
more snubbed and grudged and menaced than the
victorious POLK. His demand of ten regiments
is fiercely disputed. And the same anti-military fervour
which is awakened in Great Britain is powerful at
Washington. As the raising of the ten regiments
would give the PRESIDENT the appointment of about
400 officers, and as the government is in the habit of
taking their officers in block from the ranks of civil
life, the protest against such an absurd fabrication of
epanletted heroes, after conquest, is rational as well as
loud. And Mr. PoLx will probably not get his'
regiments. But then, on the other hand,
he may raise as many thousand volunteers as he
pleases. Nay, he can raise them ; for the prospect of
living at free quarters in Mexico, when fighting is
over too, cannot but be most attractive. Indeed, half
the American forces in Mexico at present consist of
volunteers and when we consider that all the gene-