The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-23 00:00:00

bare attained his 4that of
.d.swisg attention to
do abject, and ot ensuring attention to it early next
ppmotion Was then negatived without a division.
CHARITABLE LEO ACIES DUTY.
RAI'HAEL Issoponctt the second reading of this
bai 11.1,, semi m. (A laugh.)
toiNO MASTER COURT OF CHANCERY
(IRELAND) BILL.
Sir W, SOMERVILLE moved that this bill be read a
pood time
00IY LIII7 RN opposed the motion.
Mr . NATI hit ro.c to 'O&ess the house, when an hon.
posher moved dist the house bo counted, and 40 membtrs
sot ping pref.:Li, the house adjourned at 2 o'clock.

ELECTION COMMITTEES—TeSTERDAV.
DCBIAN.—The committee, after 72 days sitting,
jogai that hfr. K p,operty qualification was mini-
t. The emitnitiee then adjourned to this day, in order
"Tito t me to decide as to whether the cross pe-
pin should p- set uteri.
CBELMSII tit. lt,butting evidence as to the
eacerable zof rnesseng,rs closed, the committee giving
$r their ow, o, that th“se messengers had been hired for
theteßuim lt. eel I' ors of the election. IL:butting evid• nee
as to the trrgt,n.; 7.1t1:
1101011.01. l'etitioners' ease rimed. Counsel
replied for ,t u. t.lern rs. Adjourned to this ilay.

gate erpreoo.

MAILS.

deed mad., ens Marseille% to the Melliterroneati,
g.at. Aden, eeylon, hung-tong. Me., will be male up on the
ot in., 21th Ana.
i7b m,tl. toe tirtt,h North Atomic.% and the Culled State.
gel be main up tl e evening of the 25th Aug.
Athe 'Or VI 0.1,11011, Siali..ll4 Cadiz, and Gila:di:a
Abe mole up. sue 01411111111 or the 27th1
Aug.
TM inn', hie New etotan Withss, Van Diemen'. Land, owl N..w
he mote up the evening. nt the llst August.
The m tor the Went :Jest of Atria% and Madeira wdi nosh
gp oe the evening at the 31e1 August.
rbe ara Malt, including Bermuda, Nassau, llmantm
u.dorss, New Orle.ne, Vera Crux, Tampion, and Porto klea, and
uetudinir oe for Mateira, Jaeincl, Carth.itten ganta Nliirtha,
ores, Pi, n West Gast of South Anierien, and St. Juan-dm
node up on the morning ot the dad Sept.
woo, the tinailit, the River Mae, Monte Video, Pern.on•
bw, bah Buena' Ayres, will be male tio on the
roam the 4th September.
Ib 0.40.1 114.:61,14 tiatiraltar, Malts, Greece, the lonian T-hods,
gaps" Alto, Co) lon, India, llong-Kong, and Chine, via Seuthautp..
ha. gill be male upon the eveitugt al the 20th Sept.

NOTICE: TO ADVERTISERS.
The all
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01 STA `11'45 homed. by the authorit).• • of th.
Btemp-ortre, durl.4l 1)447, to the
DAILY NBAVS vets 3.447.00D
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quad to the Morning trerolo, Morning Claront.!r, 14,
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-In wide Ili to &Met, issued to t!... DAILY NLWS,
mosim twee, there were issued for the Eeertiv Enaion
TIIB EXPRESS 778 714
Which was more, we believe, than were iasuel ,••toer
Evening Papers.

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to. —31,3.42,4 S .asit. past 9. Alum. 4 IS .n 4 1.4'.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, A UG. 23.
TUERE can be no great, presumption in assuring Sir
CHARLES WOOD that he has committed another small
mistake. Mr. IiERRIES asked but !Me, and asked it
with so good a grace and upon so sure a ground that li
the thing to be dote was most assuredly not to MIT
the precious question. Sir CEIARLES N% 00D must not
fancy that because the member for Stamford is not a
briffirnt he is not therefore a formidable antagonist.
The perspicuity, the earnestness, and the strong sense
of Mr. HERRIE, are dangerous qualities when op-
posed to the pertinacious common-place which the
CRANCELIOE, or THE EXCHEQUER has so far
exclusively employed as his defence against all
the perils and pittills of his currency legish.tion.
Upon no occasion has the insufficiency of this defence
been more apparent than eluting lust night's discus-
sion.

Mr. Hentetes advanced to the attack with all the
science cf a practised general. His tone was tempe-
rate, his arrangement lucid, his demands moderate,
his proofs cogent, and, above all, his topic seasonable.
If be complained, he substantiated his accusation by a
reason; and, if he now and then spoke with the confi-
dence of a man who sees the certain end of his con-
demnation to a minorey, we will venture to say that
few political anticipations have ever rested upon a
more plausible foundation. Why, what are tho
facts? Here we are, said Mr. HERRIES, at the end 0:
a session which has once or twice threatened to become
perennial, and before us here are two ponderous folios
the offspring of those bust Mg motions of the finance
minister in the critical days of last November, when
it was determined to delegate the subject of the com-
mercial (:ietret,s to committees up stairs. Now, in
point of f ict, wl at has been the upshot of these minis-
terial icquii ies Why, said Mr. HERMES—and no-
body can deny that he was fairly justified in pro-
nouncing this portion of his speech with additional
emphasis—out of four-and-twenty witnesses examined
before the eo-rmittee of this house there are no less
than eighteen who have, in the moat precise and
positive manner, declared themselves convinced that
the act of lei 4 is a public nuisance and ought
to be abated, and these eighteen witnesses
ere not mere men of straw whose opinions have been
made for the occasion, or who have appeared before
the legislature to give a hasty recital of a hastily as-
sumed sentiment. Quite the contrary. You may
dispose and classify. them as you please, and at the
end of your ingenuity you will still discover that the
representatives of the London bankers, the spokes-
men of the country bankers, the delegates
of the great commercial corporations of Scotland
and of the Irish portion of the united king-
dom, the leading men of your manufacturing and
mercantile communities, the great money dealers
who rue wits a kied of undisputed supremacy
over the financial arcane of this metropolis,
and the profound thinkers who have bestowed
the labour of a life, and have expended all the
resources of philosophy in elucidating these intricate
questiona—twist and modify and adjust as you please,
and you will still find this formidable host of testi-
mony directly opposed to the maintenance of the law
as it at prevent stands. Surely, ran the comment of
last night, this is a prima facie case. Surely here is
good ground to justify a reconsideration. Surely it
is a desperate and a tearful game to venture upon the
troubled surface of such an autumn as we have before
us and in the face of such a warning, without taking
some measures of precaution, and without appearing
to set any greater value upon your recent experience
than upon the fable of the Siege of Troy, or the
expedition of the Golden Fleece.
But Sir CHARLEs NYOOD is a bold man, and so the
common sense of Mr. HERMES did not obtain its re-
ward, and the country are again left to the con-
tingency of an order in council, and the problematical
effect of an actual crisis upon the nerves of her
Majesty's responsible advisers.
Pasaing, however, from this disagreeable con-
demnaticn, let us revert again to the debate.
We have ourselves been courteously accused of
going beyond the mark in attributing various achieve-
ments of sleight of hand to the management
of the Commons' Committee. We gently hinted
that the report might be at the end, without being
either the result or the echo of the evidence, and we
confessed to a shrewd suspicion that as one of the
moat eminent men of the last age used to tell hie con-
stituents at Bristol, this was precisely one of those
cues in which the people who gave the verdict were
very often three hundred miles from those who heard
the evidence. We are happy to say that the facts do
not convict us of a churlish charity. Mr. HERMES
let in some few rays of light upon the secrets of the
committee. Ile complimented the edroit CHAN-
CELLOR upon the "dexterity and the intrepidity"
with which he pushed on his case through
good report and evil report, upon his ac-
curate knowledge of times and seasons, and
upon the general success of the machinery he
put in action. Let us also bear testimony to the con-
venient sagacity of the noble lord at the head of the
Wind. In the early days of the committee, says
Bemires, the noble toed alleged, no doubt with
mason, that the pressure of hie other duties was a
reasonable excuse for his becoming an absentee.
very well. But—continues the narrative—when the
time arrived for making a conclusion, the noble lord
aPPeored to have suddenly received the benefit of an
emancipation act. There he was the first upon the
Desch, and the last out of the door. From 12 o'clock
mu 4 seemed to be no object, and whenever a speech
ora vote could aid the tactics of the assiduous Chan-
cellor, there was always a ready and zealous ally in
the noble lord. In reality, the official duties which
moment(' the absence of the noble lord in the
"13, and deliberative days of the investiga-
tion seemed to procure for him something very
like the -
miraculous services of the telescope through