The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-20 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.

M tie for BABA Nueth America and the United State, will be
made up on the eernie.g of June 42.
The muila, via Marralc., to the Mediterranetn, Eitypt, Ct7lret,
India, Moe-Noon, ae., will be made up on the 25th Juno.
The nun!. he Vigo, °pinto, Lisbon, Madeira. Cadiz, and Gib:altar,
will be mole up on the moraine of the 2:th ofJ tine.
TM West India Yob, Judi:ding Bermuda. littanne. Neaate,
don ha" New tirieana„ and Mexico, and ex:Aniline thow for
Madeira, $l. Juan-de-Nieeragua, New Granada, Mill, and Perm w,
be made up on the morning of the 2nd July.
The mile he Madeira, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will he naSe
upon the evening of the 4th of July.

WIWI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.

Ir must be owned that the whigs as a par y have
but a very ins( rurat perception of the great prin-
ciples of political economy. By political economy we
du nut nt present mean the vulgar science of plebzran
industry or cf international commeree. In these corn-
monp lee affairs it may be true, at heat fir argument
rake it may be granted, that it is essential to p.rtna-
nent succor, to buy in the deepest Red to sell in
the dearest market. But in the higher and more
delicate matters of official favour sad parliamen-
tary support, in all that constitutes the prsper
business of mere party, and that lends a
charm to party triumph, or imparts bitterness to
party deleat;—in the traditional secrets of hereditary
wisdom and skill, it mend be confessed that the whigs
, are but intifferent hands.
Consider the capital whish every party, come how
they may into occupation of the premises in polluting-
street, has to start w,th. Army, navy, and ordtance,
lie ti uc, are considered, in a certain sense, trusts t i be
held for the common benefit cf the privilegel ord.'s,
without ref mom to the fluctuations of transient prin-
ciples or minor prejudices. They Bra the great ap-
pointed fund, cut of which noble and gentle idleness is
Ted at all times, and order all administraticns,in quite
an impartial and a kind of srovidentiel manner.
A youngt r brother is not refused his commiesien, or a
lawless seer his regiment, because the family always
be I mgid to the " outs" and not to the " ins." Gene-
rally speaking, the patronage of the Admiralty and
the Horse-Guards is treated as a social rather than a
political monopoly. Still there are ni.e things and
peculiar morsels, which, owing to human fallibility,
must ever be more likely to drop into the !Ivor frierils
than of adversaries: and so even out of these sacred
resources of aristocracy et large, there is always
something which a shrewd discretion can tarn to
party account.
But then there is the church, and there is the law,
and there is the diplomatic service and misgovern-
melt of the cilonies. Here all is free. Personal
fitness, or county position, are not the claims which
any nne dreams of putting forward here. Is he for
us or against us ?—that is the first (petition. Pie-
vinees to be done for—f reign nations to be coaxed
or cozened—civil or criminal suits to be heard—
souls of men to be eared or lost in an episcopal
way—all most be regarded as subordinate consi-
deration to the greater question of contents
versus non-contents in the upper House of Parlia-
ment, and of the numbers who are jammed jots the
new versus the old lobby, in the lower. We do not
wish of course to be supposed to say that in every
case birth and wealth are not regarded as great quail-
' (cations, and that as between him who has them and
him who has not (party. ties and antecedents being
the same) they do not infallibly tell. But what we
do mein is simply this, that no party in power is ex-
pected to throw away, as it is called, the prizes,
whether great or small, which accident places in its
hands ; and an the Ins" and " Outs " periodic illy
change places, there is a certain equity in the
observance of the omnivorous rale. But when a mi-
nistry like that which for now three years has been in
power, relies not upon its own inherent strength, hut
upon that which from day to day it can obtain tram
other parties, the course of its dealings grows more
complicated cod less intelligible. Sometimes it bor-
rows; sometimes it is forced to buy. The radicals