The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

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NAILS.
The West India mails, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and
Havana, will be made up on the morningof the 17th October.
The mails for ltriti.d. North Americ I, and the Cnited States, will
be made up on the evening of the 17th October.
overland malls for Gibraltar, Malta. °mese, the lonian Islands,
Aden. Ceylon. India, llong.Kong, and China, r SouGumptoe,
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made up on the morning of the 20. h October.
The overland elese.l motto. via Mlrmilies. to the Mediterranean.
Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, will be made up on the
evening of the 2lih October.
The mails for New South Wale, Van Dieman's Land, will be made
up on the alst October.

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111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE.
MIN DAT. Routing, 3S mita. past 6 ; Afternoon, 5 min. rOnt 7.
Tomonsow.—Nlaning, 38 min. past 7 ; Afternoon, IS nun. past S.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 12.

THE revenue accounts for the year and quarter
ending 10th October, 1846, are highly satisfactory.
Theyindicate a generally prosperous state of the
country; and they bear testimony to the soundness
of the views which prompted the recent extensive
changes in our system of taxation.
There is an increase both for the year and the
quarter, on the corresponding period is 1841 The
increase on the year is stated as no more than
88,2611., but this is owing to the imprest and the re-
payments of advances being taken into account.
Confining our view to the ordinary revenue, the true
barometer of the political atmosphere, we find an
increase on six of its branches to the amount of
955,3741.; from which a decrease of 531,6191. on two
of its branches being deducted, leaves a nett increase
of 424,755/. The increase in the ordinary revenue on
the quarter is 869,1987.; from which deducting a
decrease of 65,359/. on two of its branches, leaves
803,739/.
The principal decrease on the year (30,000/. de-
ficit under the head of Crown Lands scarcely deserves
notice) is in the Customs. In this branch there is a
decrease on the year of 501,6197. But in recompense
there is an increase on the quarter of 462,4721. The
principal deficiency for the year is on the quarter
ending April sth, 1846. But all of the quarters end-
ing respectively sth April, sth July, and 10th
October, 1845, and sth January, sth April, and sth
July, 1846, are below the average. The quarter just
ended is the first in which the larger returns on
diminished rates of duty are beginning to tell. And
the extreme lowness of the Customs returns for the
quarter ending sth April, 1846, indicates the cause
which has prevented them from telling sooner. It
was the despondency which prevailed before the
weakness of the Protectionists was felt.

The Protectionists will doubtless attribute the
increase on the quarter ending on the 10th instant, to
large importations of foreign grain. We believe
that these importations will be found pretty equally
spread over the last six quarters. But fortunately
the state of the Excise returns comes to our aid, to
show the general prosperous condition of the country.
The increase in the Excise for the year is 182,1771.,
and fur the quarter 226,8201. This increase is a
continuation of that shown by the returns of July : it
marks the steady and rapid recovery from the loss sus-
tained by the abolition of the duties on glass, and the
targe reductions on other articles. At all times an
Increase in the Excise returns denotes an improved
condition of the people: increased consumption.
Bach an increase as we now record with diminished
rates of duty is extremely satisfactory.
The only articles upon which there is a decrease in
the last quarter, are " stamps " and " miscellaneous."
The 39,518/. of falling off on the latter, spread over
so many items:is inappreciable. The 5,8111. decrease
on stamps, is attributable to the absence of the mania
for railway speculation which swelled that item last
autumn ; and affords good ground for congratulation.
On the Post-office there is an increase of 111,0001.
on the year, and of 8,0001. on the quarter. This,
again, is an unequivocal symptom of business activity,
and general prosperity. Were the system of Row-
LAND Ilti.L fairly and entirely carried into effect,
this increase would be still more marked.

Altogether, these returns denote a healthy state of
the bock• politic : such a condition as might be wished
to enable it to meet the partial destitution which must
be grappled with during the impending winter.

MR. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY seems destined
to point a moral " in more ways than one. In his
great character of game-law preserving and anti-
poaching advocate, his celebrated " punch-on-the-
head" theory indicates how much love of the old feudal
club-law may survive Revolutions and Reform Bills.
As a " mighty lover of the great deer, " he rivals
Witt.tam the CoNguEnott ; and extends his regard to
the lower varieties of game in a way the Norman
forest lawyer never dreamed of. Then, while assailing
the Press for its intolerable prying into aristocra tic
amusements, he dots not shrink from employing its
aid, at one time, to draw the veil of privacy from the
life of some "dear" friend, and to violate all the sanc-
tions of private correspondence; at another, to hint at
the " predominant shadows " which darken the repu-
tation of a noble and near relative.

In his letter to " the independent electors" of
West Gloucestershire, he developer the thorough
dependence of that independent body; and proves at
the same time that he, their " freely chosen " mem-
ber, has, ever since he took his seat, been tied hand
and foot by the will of Lord FITZIIARDINGE.
The letter, with the transactions it discloses, shows,
very curiously, the working of the nominee system,
still, spite of the Reform Bill, active in our venerable
constitution. This system, the reverse of mercy, is
" twice cursed."