The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1848.

Zfte enrols.

MILLS.
The mails for British North America, end the United State.
will be made up en the evening of the 14th July.
The West India Made, excluding Bermuda, Naman, Ilarenna.
Madura., New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, aod
including those for Madeira, Jacracl, Carthagen 1, Banta Martha,
Charms, Panama, Wept Cosa of South America, end St- Juan'tte-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th July.
The uniilP for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cad* and Gibraltar
wilt be made up on the inornine of the 17th July.
The overland mail. lot Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the tee= Wands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, long-Kong, arid China, via bouthampt
ton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th July.
The overland eloped mails, eta alamilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, CRikle. India, liong-kong, tee., will he made up on the
evening of the 24th July.
$ tTne malls for New South Wales, Van Diemen'a Land, and New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Stet July.
The mails tor the West Gait of Africa and Madeira will he made
cap en the evening of the a let July.
The mails for the Brasile, tie it?ver Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Madeira, and Burma Ayres, will be made up on the
, evening of we 4th August.

NOTICE TO ADVE .ons Ens.
The number of STAMPS issuel by the authorities of the
•Aamo-othee, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wen 3.447.009
This, we biliaTO, is within ei7At per cent. of the number
hinted to the Morning, Heroin, Morning Chronicle, ant
Itorni” Pali, ALL ?LT TUOtT11‘:11.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Yoder, there were issued for the Event's', Edition.
TILE EXPRESS 773.714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or Sdand4rd, Eveuire Papers.

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curtail the length and improve the quality of their
speeches. Such was the answer that the representa-
tive of the PEEL party gave to the glaring and damn-
ing facts that Mr. CoBDEN exposed.
Truly, the aristocratic parties of parliament aro
leagued. Lord JOUR RUSSELL and Sir ROBERT
PEEL sat together for an hour in amicable converse.
The reformers, however, had still an imposing
minority of 84 votes against 331. It is a capital
comme,cement of the snow-ball, which shall roll,
please God, till it has attained a volume large enough
to overcome resistance in the one house, and in the
other.

THE Chartist demorstrations were very amusing
and exci ing in their day, and gave great cause of
glorification to tho prominent personages on both
sides—to Mr. FEARGUS O'Coerunt and Mr. Fessett,
to the special coustablce, and the Horne-office. The
time has now come round for pay ing the bill incurred
by those festive days, and the wry laces and disagree-
abilities caused thereby are very serious and very
paiufuL It colt Mr. O'CoNNOR over 701. in hard
Lash to pay the expenses incurred by the National
Convention ; and, per contra,the parish of Msr3 lebone
is mulcted to the tune of some six thousand pounds,
to order a new set of police waiters to attend at the
next insurrection fete.
'rho special constables of Marylebone gathered
round Sir GEORGE GREY, much in the humour that
his hounds force took to smelling Acisos. Sir
GEORGE called the special constables to hetp him in
his extremity, and he afterwards thanked most fer-
vently the special constables for so doing. There
was even a tale of paying them, either with a monu-
ment or a breakfast, but the 'oenevolent and patriotic
not being able to agree as to which would be most
fit, the special constables were left to the grati-
tude of Sir GEORGE GRAN. The minheer has
rewarded them, not by thanking tho constables, but
by taxing them—not by a demand for a repetitien of
their valuable services, but for money to dispense
with them, in order to swell the already large army
of metropolitan police.
We must protest against these tendencies and their
policy altogether. Tne English government has gone
on gradually in Ireland from a mall and a locally-
paid police force to a regular and immense
police army, paid out of the public trea-
sury. Let there be more troubles in Europe,
more distress in trade, more insolent refusal
of rerurm, and whilst the English mob grows
to i nit ate the French in boldness and disaffection, tho
English government will follow in the steps of the
Freuch and continental regime of keeping peace by
means of a gensilarmerie. We must protest against
this. We have quite enou.th of policemen. We
meet them at every turn. And although they de much
useful duty, they also do much that is supererogatory
and tyrannical, much to create a feeling ca rancour
betweee them and the lower clas.es of the population.
The tranquillity of no country has been preserved
exclusively by police. Could it hue been so the
governments of Vienna and Berlin would have been
immortal, If disaffected ma-ses really collect in our
cities they must be put down by other forces than the
police. Five thousand or ten thousand police will not
suffice, without the cit i zens and the military aiding the rrt.
We see, therefore, no justice or reason in augmenting
the standing army ; for once enrolled, the policemen
cannot, and, indeed, oui;ht not to be turned oil. It is
quite useless reducing military estimates if the
parishes arc to be crushed with police estimates ; and,
above all, if a minister is to come down and make
one pariah pay for twenty, because, forsooth, he has
no law or pee er to make the other nineteen pay for
the augmentation of force which ho thinks tit to

LONDON. FRIDAY. JULY '7.
In the HOUSE OF COMMONS last night the ques-
tion for resuming the debate on parliamentary
reform, Mr. lluatE expressed his hope that the house
would divide that night, and that hon. gentlemen
would regulate their speeches accordingly. Mr. B.
OSBORNE was the first speaker iu favour of the
motion, and was followed on the lame side by Mr.
COBDEN, Mr. LUCKE KING, Mr. F. O'CONNOR, LORD
D. STUART, Mr. MUNTZ, and Mr. VILLIERS.—Th..!
speakers in opposition to the motion were Mr. Ser-
jeant TALIOURD, Mr. URQUHART, who moved the
following amendment, seconded by M.
ANSTEY, that
the expel ience they had already acquired had shown
that the agitation for reforming their institutions had
not obtained for them the ends for which those re-
forms were desirable, namely, non-interference with
the affairs of other nations, and a reduction of the
exrendituro at home.—Mr. M. MILNEs, Mr. S. HER-
BERT, and Mr. NEWDEGATE. Mr. URQUHART having
withdrawn his amendment, Mr. HUME replied, and
the house divided, when the motion was negatived by
a majority of 267, the numbers 331 to 83, and the
house adjourned.

BrivG net much given to write panegyrics upon
those Kith whom we agree, and knowing it idle to
repeat, or dila'e on, arguments fully and ably ex-
pres,cil by the speakers themselvts, we generally
prefer, in treating of a debate, to grapple with, and
commt tat upon, the reasonings of antagonists. It
world be difficult, hems-et', to follow such rule with
respect to the debate of last night ; for, although two
of the most powerful and persuasive speeches we
ever heard were uttered by the members for Middle-
sex and the West Hiding, we could find nothing
opposed to them but the most vaporous, the most
wordy, the most nonsensical attempts at eloquence
that t v.'. baulked an attentive house, and an anxious

public. AP
Never was a night's &bate more brilliantly opened.
Mr. OSBORNE has made good speeches ; but we
own we did not think him capable of
such an achievement as answering Mr. DISRAELI with
a force of argument and a keenni ss of wit fully equal
to that of the member for Buckinghamshire. It `lr.
DISRAELI speaks like a man of the world who is a
thinker anti scholar as well as politician, Mr. Osnort S E
spoke as a man of the world who has been a soldier,
and with fullness of information; but his sallies
against the whigs, and his comic illustrations of the
Family Compact, were an example of what cruel blows
may be dealt wit!teut passing the limits of eith:r good
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create.
Whilst we thus think the complaints of Maryle-
bone i xtremely well founded, we must say that one
of the: remedies they propose 'alike's us as an aggia-
ration of the ill. Some of these say to the govern-
ment, augment the metropolitan polico as niit,:h as
you wish, provided you make tho nation at
large, not the metropolis, pay for it. We
must protest against this plan of centralisation,
this assimilation of London to the state of
Ireland. where Join BULL pays for all the police,
wrere eu keeps sr-.e 40,000 men besides, and where
'lnas w . some weeks back
lot :••- --mteressing an
T!•ti jPeal tar ion '7IW:
x:ready. :e tr.e tro mu-h of a mi.itary instead of
ne in a .3Clt to' cc ; t the .i2-,-.et.,-.ltarc as
vi.eu:nt ee scrio.
ir• we
may make up an account for a police bulget to rival
those or the army and navy. insurrections and popu-
lar di monstrations are certainly Chary Intses, which
swallow up property and prosperity; but tet us take
care in avoiding them not to break upon the Scylla of
the police, by keeping too closely and too exclusively
to a course by which the freest European monarchies
of our time hare perished.
'We may ask, before we conclude, whether Sir
GEORGE GREY has not outstepped the limits assigned
him by law, for the extension of the police force. Ac-
cording to the statute, the rate for this purpose cannot
exceed Sd. in the pound. If poor's rates and polico
rates are to be levied according to governm nt ideas
of the necessity. a year of trouble and distress will
prove to England what M. LOUIS BLANC'S system
threatened to prove to France—a complete confiscation
of the property of the middle class.

humorx or politeness.
Ares. Mr, next came the ecnius of
peciiv, wzc in tarn Wif• taken to te.fe. *a? the zeniiis
e ile4-Mt%l io zerjeast 'OW
11 a • ',":84. %Sae
. .
Moisten% and Mr. STONEY HERBERT, he p-eferred
the political emancipation of the very lows at and po ti-
cal class to that of the more industrious artisan. The
learned aerjeant'a sympathy for bachelors, too, was
intense; but for the daily earner, who was immoral
enough to get married and have children, the mem-
ber for Itcadirg expressed as much abhorrence as

Miss MARTINEAU.
Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, in his speech, re-
proactled the leaguers with having worked
the iro.ellectual portion of the artisan class
against the ignorant or chartist class. We
must own we should never have hit upon these
distinctions. Mr. O'Cosson lamented the victory of
the intellectuals, and so apparently did Mr. SYDNEY
II esteF.liT, with whom the greatest evil of the Reform
Bill was the destruction of the class of potwallopers,
whom he loved to FCC indulging in CARLYLE'S theory
of . hero-worship r
Such were some of the reasonings brought forward
in the House of Commons against reform, the ur-
gency, and justice, and fairness of which were put
forward by Mr. COBDEN with statements so simple, PA.HIS, THAMSDAY, 11 AM.
yet so forcible, and were made to flow from facts so After I closed my despatches last evening one of
, plain and so home to every one's knowledge and ex- those exhaordinary scenes of uproar and tumult so
perience, that, as be well said, the present distribu- frequent in the assembly took place, the occasion of
Lion of electoral rights was utterly impossible to be which was the proposition of the reduction of the
&fended or maintained for any length of time. nominal amount in a grant demanded fur schoolinas-
The truth of the comparison between Manchester and term M. Carrot seized this occasion to de fend his
Buckinghamshire was acknowledged by the solemn system of administration so violently attacked. He
silence of the protectionists. The far superior endeavoured to explain those circulars to the electors
w.ight in the constitution of the Wilt-hireman over which excited swat general indignation. He dis-
the Yorkahireman was equally felt ; whilst the suprc- avowed being an advocate for returning ignorant le-
macy in both cases was exercised, not by the farmer gislatore, but confessed that he desired to have eeen in
of either Wiltshire or Buckinghamshire, but by half-a- the assembly a greater proportion of the rural pope-
, dozen of the aristocracy in the one case, and by three lation of France and a far less number of the ieha-
members of that privileged class in the other county. bitants of cities. A debate, or rather violent alterca-
If Serjeant TALFOURD was a vaporous advocate of tiun, took plsc4 before the division, of which it is
the aristocracy, Messrs. URQUHART and ANSTEY, who totally impossible to give any adequate description.
took up nearly two hours of the debate, were utterly Tae screaming of M. Clement Thomas and the bellow-
unintelligible. The veriest Bedlamite that ever ing of M. Flocon, attempting to make themselves
raved would have talked more to the purpose. heard above the roar of the chamber; the dinging of
And Mr. FEARGUS O'Cossost was equally recondite; the president's bell ; the outrageous gesticulations of
the member for Nottingham, however, slid with fore- some members; the rushing of others round the tri-
sight, that as Lord Juns Russets, had spoken for bune, and the supplication of others to the president
the tory side of the house on this question, he felt to put on his hat, presented a most extraordinary
convinced that Sir Homier PEEL, or one of his scene. The issue of the whole was that the measure
friends, would favour them with a speech on the of reduction was carried by a majority of 311 against
whig side. 303.
And so it happened. For Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT In the bureaux yesterday the question of the ex-
did rise to pooh-pooh reform, yet patronise it, with propriatien of the railways was again brought for-
the most contemptuous and kindly air imaginable. ward, and the Minister of Finance was strongly urged
We expected that Mr. Hemmer, when he congra- to declare explicitly whether or not the proposed ex-
tulated Lord JOHN upon giving up finality, would propriation was definitively abandoned or only post-
go on to expound a little reform of PEEL invention. pored. The answer of the minister implied that the
BA no-10s sole reform was confined to regrets tor, state maintained the right of expropriation, but only
and possible resuscitation of, the potwallopers, who intended to exercise it with the acepiescence of the
might be allowed, here and there, to send specimens of companies ; in fact, it is intend .d to expropriate the
the heroes whom the working classes worship to parlia- railways, or such of them as may be surrendered by
ment, butevidently not for influence, but fur show. lie the companies to the state on terms mutually an-
would have a COBBETT or anO'Cossioa in parliament, ceded to.
as rare birds, to vary the menagerie, of which the The committee of war have agreel to recommend
majority should still be the legitimate collection of that an army of 50,000 men shall be assembled and
peacocks and lions, birds of vanity, and beasts of maintained around Paris.
prey. Tee funeral cortege of the victims fallen in defence
And then Mr. HERBERT took it for granted that of public order in the late insurrection takes place
reform meant nothing but the actual revolution this morning. According to the programme officially
which it is intended to prevent, and that the state of published it was to follow the line of the Boulevards
London, after the passing of Mr. Humes motion,would from the Madeleine to the Bastille, where the remains
be no other than that of Paris after the barricades. were to be deposited in the vaults beneath the column.
He typified what personal liberty would be in Eng. A change in these. arrangements was, however, mid-
land after reform by a story of bow the Provisional denly and unexpectedly announced yesterday. The
Government of Paris had served M. DEGIRARDIN and President of the Assembly stated that the vaults
M. THOMAS ; and he attempted to turn away the under the column not being prepared for
acens.tion of whig nepotism, by representing the the reception of the bodies, the cortege would
friends of M. MARRAST Ahe Yedarieter of the National, terminate at the Madeleine, which was equi-
as monopolising places to the amount of 40,0001. a valent t 3 saying there would be no cortege at all,
year. NI. MARRAST and his collateorateurs are men of inasmuch as the funeral service is celebrated on the
talent, who have done the greatest service to the cause Place de la Concorde imur.diately in front of the
of order, and rendered value to the comm nwealth not church of the Madeleine.
to be measured in money. Can Mr. SYDNEY HER- Some of the journals this morning say that the real
BERT say the same of the TOMNODDIES that Mr. cause of the change has
been the unwillingness of the
OSBORNE pointed at ? government to introduce the processi3u in the midst
Lord JOHN'S substitute for reform in guilds and of the population over who. ..I._ , ictory has been
savings banks depositors was lame enough, but it gained. But this is not the co. t 1 lil yesterday this
was not quite so lame as that of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S funeral ceremony was 'Mende/ te -rm one of the most
aide-de-camp, who merely begged the present mem- ' striking demonstrations of public opinion in favour of
bars of the House of Commons to be better boys, to order and of the vast military force by which that
MN Sir JOHN HANMER'S bill and prove opinion is supported that ever was witnessed in this
their horror of bribery, to leave off quarrelling with Or any other capital ; great expense was incurred for
end bespattering each other, and, at the same time, to this purpose, and vast preparations made along the

FRANCE.

line of the Boulevards, erections were made and are'
now standing complete at the Bastille for the suitable
reception of the hearse, &c. The real cause of
the sadden abandonment of the sivelciele is
this—the government received in the course
of yesterday, through the agency of the police,
information that the late insurgent elements were
still at work, and that traces had been discovered of a
design to assassinate (kn. Cavaignac on his way to
the Bastille. The managing committee, under the
circumstances, declined the responsibility of the pro-
cession, and it we s at once resolved to put an end
to it.
!'Symptoms of gangrene have manifested themselves
in the wound of General Duvivier, and the amputation
of the leg has been declared necessary.

We have received the Madrid mails of the 30th of
June and the let of July.
The deputations of the Barque provinces have
assured the government of their vigorous co-operation
to put down the nascent rebellion, and have given a
substantial token of their adherence to the throne of
Isabslla by a fe‘c gift of 10,000!. to the treasury-.
The cammeleial world was, on the 30th ult., thrown
into great alarm by reports that Fogooga, dire for of
the Bank of San Fernando, had 11. d, or concealed
himself. lie had resigned his post of director, and
Cerrajeria was appointed pro tem. in his
place. The acting functionary declared that
the bauk is fully able to meet its engagements with
the government, and that the mud payments to the
various ministers, the dividends of the debt, &c., will
be furnished punctually as heretofore, while uo fresh
impediments will be placed in the way of changing I
not :s. Cerrojeriabears a high charaater. The bank notes
Tcsterday morning were at 9 per cent. discount, that
as they had fallen 4 per cent.. but the alarm in ques-
tion caused them to rise again to the old mark.
Mxintro, Jerr 1. --Three per Cilltk, cash without coupon; aCer
Los.., ..02 cash, 201 paper. nee per cent.., 171 IS sash; after
121 cab. Panne., 41 mall; utter go:a I, 42 melt. Coupons, hi C. 141.
Bank of St. Ferdinand, 75 cash, 80 paper. Exchange au Londin,
at 00 days, 41 Al.