The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-26 00:00:00

gilt Orproso.

OUTGOING MAILS.
The mils for Vigo, Opotto, Lisboa, Makin. Cadiz, and Gib:altar,
wG be made op ea the minting of the 27th of May.
Mans for MOM north Aminof es ane the netted Maim will In
=Mt up__oe the miming of the lst Jan&
Us WON latla MWe, issieding oersteds. Maranea. Nelms,
New Orisons. sad Maim, sad secluding thole tog
=l/0. Alo64o.oionegila. New Grand% Chili, and Penh wit
sleds ap on the morsing of the Ted lone.
The malls foe Madeira, the Ensile, and BMWS Ayres, wine made
op ea the 111110116 of theft\ of June
The mails, rid Marseilles, to the Metnterniesem, Egypt, Ceylon,
lad* liong-haeg, Ma, will hash up on tbs am* of the lUt of
Jer.
The mils he OftesSar, Slats. 01‘06s, the lodes IP tabas. Bart
hatir. Ceylon, ladle, Hoar-Knelt, sad Chins. Ms noMhemyree,
he math sp on the 20th of June.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 26,

Asetheo Pistol eating his leek beneath the @bedew
of Fluellen's cudgel was bet a type of the protectionist
party swallowing their defeat on the Navigation Bill.
When Lord STANLEY, by the terms of his emend-
ates, virtually aeknowledged the expediency and
Inestioe of:repealing the Navigation Law, the Standard,
a mutinous mood, declared" the amendments upon
which Lard STANLEY took too long to delibarate to be
hasty and ill considered." But now that Lord STAN
LEV, by withdrawing his opposition to the Navigation
Bill, must of Secs ashy in the estimation of his party
underlie the imputation of having " sold the pais'',
the Stoadard vows that the noble lord " has
_-
fully
done his part." With all this assumption of
stoic il Tellignation, however, the Standard is suffi-
ciently
abusive of all who have contributed to the
palming of the measure. Pistol " eat/ his leek is
gannet of revenge."
The crest-fallen appearance of our anti-liberals, in
coneequence of the judicious decision of the peers, is
richly ludicrous. Three times have they invoked the
House of Lords within the last twenty yours to save
them from the seven-league strides of liberalism, and
three times has their champion (I, clinol the combat.
The tory peers, at the suggesties of WILLIAM IV.,
absented themselves from the third reading of the
Reim Bill. The protectionist peers gave their
proxies to the Duke of WELLINGTON to carry corn
law repeal. The protectionist peers have withdraws
their opposition to the Navigation Bill. Will the
tory faction ever take heart of grace again to " thank
Clod that there is a House of Lords ?"
We write in no spirit of triumph over or dis-
respect for the lords. We believe in their English
o pluck," bad they been confident in the goodness of
their muse, to have brand, on inch of the three occa-
sions we have awned, the entsequences of resistance.
Web. lieve that on each ef them s dim misgiving of their
caste prejudices being at the bottom more selfish than
prudent, dulled theirnativecourage. Wewouldcherish ,
the hope that this thrice-r.peated experience may lead '
them to take more just views of their position. The
sentiment of respect for Inc steal wealth and rank is
still strong in the breasts of Englishmen. The people
never can be roused to resist the power these attri-
butes confer, un!cor by clear conviction that it is exer-
cised in opposition to the general good. Upon the
etedition that they exercise their influence in a high-
hearted spirit of patriotism, the peers of England may
still enjoy a long lease of it. If ther power has been
shaken in concequenee of the three detente alluded to
it has bean by their preliminary resistance to equit-
able measures, not by their ultimate acquiescence in
them. Englishmen are sot of so cowardly a strain
es
to presume on the weakness of the se who cry for
carter; bat Eogiishmen have an instinctive love of
tonth* that begets aversion to those who rrpeatedly
tray a deposition to be just only on compulsion.
The true—the only way for the Lords to perpetuate
their privileges is frankly and cordially to identify
themselves with the general interests of the com-
munity.
The only real enemies of the Lords in England are
the greedy monopolists of their own order—men who,
like the Earl of lALMICEIBURT, do not blush to enume-
rate " the enormously productive harvest of
1836 " among their grounds for agricultural
complaints—and the mean parasites of inferior
rank who seek to ocierliate their protection for
monopolies by fulsome and unmanly flattery. These
nether and selfish men appe3l to the courage and
pugnacity of the lords as a cowardly school-boy does
to some fiery companion whom he would "egg on "
to thrash or be thrashed by a third schoolfellow,
whose fisticuffs:he is himself afraid to enc3unter. The
sugar monopoliste'and corn monopolists, and shipping
monopolists, and dealers in parliamentary corruption,
who have one after another exhorted the Lords to
assert their dignity, have never had anything in view
bat the saving of their own pocke's. They have
with cool and wi:y selfishness laboured to engage the
peers in an unequal contest with the people of Eng-
land, merely to perpetuate their own ill-gotten gem
Would the conservative peers know the real charms-
ters of the men who would at any time petil the
existence of the order, by staking it rescreen for their
own iniquitous, exclusive privileges, let them only
cast a glance over the exposure made in this day's
paper by a Sunderland correspondent, who shows
how, under the shadow of the navigation laws, a sys-
tem of gambling has grown up, as bed as any of the
railway mal-practices at present to loudly com-
plained of.
Lord STANLEY is, beyond dispute, the worst spec:-
men of these mischievous make-bates. He is one of
thaw hasty and overweening spirits who provoke
contests which they lack cmrage to fight out. He is
all valour and defiance so lung as the preliminary in•
triples are in play—none so resolute, none so animated
in mustering forcer, urging on the hesitating, per-
suading the doubtful. But it is a common trick of
his lordship, when he hes brought kis forces to face
the enemy, to march off, as he did on Thursday night,
without striking a blow. Lord STANLEY has a first-
rate genius for getting friends and followers intel
serapes, but he hes not even enough of self-possession, '
in the hour of pe-ii, to get them creditably out of
them again. With all his lusty crowing, he is a
craven at heart. To borrow a figure of speech from
his favourite pursuit, " That cock won't fight.' How
much longer will the conservative lends allow him to
• lead them into ridiculous positions?

Tae differential duties imposed by the Brazilian
legislature on the shippivg of all countries with whom
Brazil has not exchanged the most favoured nation
stipulations, as our readers are aware, have to come
into operation on the Ist of January, 1830; and as
this country is in the catalogue of those nations
which have not exchanged that stipulation with Bra-
zil, British shipping will, they also know, become
subject in Brazilian Isorts to those heavy chargoa
after that date. The latest advice. tram Rto enable
on ts state that Mr. HUDSON, the British charge
d'affante at the imperial court, had laid a formal pro-
position before the government of Dole PEDRO 11. to
c3nclads such a commercial convention, or
to enter into such commercial arrangements with
Brazil as would exclude British shipping
from the effect of three heavy countervailing and re-
taliatory duties. This proposition, we regret to add,
was not deemed satisfactory by the Brazilian govern-
ment ; and at present there is little prospect of
British shipping being exempted from the operation
of the impending decree.
Whilst regretting the determination of the Rio
cabinet, with such an invasion on the rights of an in-
dependent state as Lord ABERDEEN'S Act con.titutes,
there can be little surprises at its rejection of Mr.
Hunan:ea proposition. And it is only just to that
cabinet that it should be understood that, in coming to
this resolution, it was not at all i,flueneed by either
the doe.rinta or the practices of a narrow and

jealous commercial system. Brazil is emphatically a
free trade country ; it seeks for no advantage for its
produce in the markets of foreign states ; it has no-
thing to protect it in our mastermind it is anxious
to avoid giving any nation a preference in its ports.
But, when attacked in its tenderest point, Bruit
naturally turns upon th se who have wounded its
dignity and outraged its nationality; and it refuses
to conclude with England commercial relations such
as ought to exist between two countries 8) mutually
advantagecus to each other.

We have not seen for years in the oolumns of the
press a specimen of such vulgar, low, personal, and
drivelling abase, as was indulged in last night by the
of the courtly and exclusive whig aristocracy.
7rslin have no objection to roughness, and hard words
are excusable and telling at times. We understand
sporting phrases in a sportsman's mouth, and even a
military oath may not be without grace. But for
the scribes who frequent Downinrstree, and whs
have the privilege of treading even the back stairs of
official haunts, to indulge in such language, is really
disgraceful even to the livery of snob masters.
The Globs undertakes, on the part of the whigs, to
shadow forth what kind of a liberal apposition it
would choose to have to deal with, and what kind of
members of that opposition it would gladly dispense
with. Nothing can equal the modesty with which
the relation is made.
First of all, the Globe objects to any man, that ever
I pretended to gaiety and fashion, or ever donned
a gay uniform, enacting the part of champion of
ertiooomy or of popular liberties. Waxes was a rake
who lived with lords upon a time. This experience,
which certainly fitttd him for knowing and expelling
the sires of the aristocracy, ought, in the Globes
eyes, to have sealed up his feelings and his tongue.
The elder Pert was a oornet of horse ; the Globe
would never have allowed him to quit the re-
giment or to rise in the ranks of the
rpular oppositions to be Earl of ent...—arnam.
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE was, it SUMS, SA aid-de-camp
of Lord NORMAKBY,SLd according to the Globe ought
to have remained so. It would certainly have been
much more convenient to Lord NORMANBY'S party
and organ, had Mr. OSBORNE remained amongst the
Tom Noddies, and had Mr. THOMAS DMICOMBE
n e tepped beyond that calculated line of opposition,
followed by his friend, Sit JAMES GRAHAM. But as
the sapient discerners of talent and wielders
of pationa4e, who inspire the Globe and its
style, made no effort to secure the Rood
will of the °sacra:sea and DUNCOMBES, whilst
in the juvenile enjoyment of the aide-de camp's and
the man of fashion's life, why should they grudge
the people the advantage f their talents?
Having thus promulgated its prohibition against
the radicals ever enlist ng a man cf fashion, the
whig organ proceeds to extend its ban. This liberal
journalist " is no admirer of manufacturing mem-
bers." Bless the mark! The worshipful scribe
would sit down with no less than a landed elide*.
Religious dissent, too, is vulgar in his errs. The
" twang of the meeting-house" disgusts so courtly and
elegant a writer, the chosen representative in the press
of the opinions of Lord Jon!' Ilussr.m.!
Haring thus eliminated with the most refined deli-
cacy of taste all men of fashion, all officers and aide-
de-camps, all manufacturing members, all who have
the twang of the meetinghouse from the radical p-rty,
whom does the Globs, in its generosity, permit to
form her Majesty's liberal opposition ? It can (ply
find two gent'. men to wham it would pent such
a ticket of leave. These are Mr. Itnenvcx and
Sir WILLIAM MOLESIVORTH. Theme gentlemen have
the Globe's license to practise in opposition. Mr.
HOME is objectionable, Mr. COBDEN was a manufac-
turer, Mr. BRIGHT wears an unorthodox oat,
Mr. OSBORNE WU SD aid-de-camp. Bat Mr. Bon-
et:ex and Sir W. Motesworrit are " educatel" men
in the sole sense that the Globe admits edu-ation.
And of the some eighty members of the popular party,
the whig organ iutilessly but politely strikes off
neventy-eight as men of no 'donation.
We are sure that Mr. ROEBUCK and Sir W.
MOLESWORTH would be the first to repudiate the
compliment of being professors of that kind of radi-
calism which most suits the government and its
organs. Mr. ROEBUCK, indeed, in attacking his
political foes, is very apt to give a slash or two of his
sword to his friends out of mere ;milli de mar. But
he is not the less a formidable and most efficient
member of the popular party. As to Sir WILLIAM
MOLESWORTH, his vigorous exposure of a rotten sys-
tem is tco crnahirg to entitle him to forbearance from
the champions of the status quo in foreign or domestic
politic.
The Globe makes a mistake altogeth'r. It is not
the ROEBUCKS or MoheswoeTas that should form
part of its radical opposition. The radicals,
to please the Globe, should be such as those who voted
for the ballot in 1942, and a list of whose names Mr.
GRANTLEY BERKELEY give on Thursday night.
Those were Colonel ANSON, Admiral DUNDAS, Sir G.
GREY, Lord MARCUS HILL, Mr. Fox MAULE, Mr.
REDINGTON, Mr. SHIM, Sir W. SOMERVILLE, Mr.
TUFNELL, Mr. WARD, and Mr. GIBSON CRAIG. This
is the radical opposition, that the Globe was dream-
of.

THE COURT.

OSBORNE, MAY 28.—Him Bathfi Highness Prince
Ernest of Leininten arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit
to the Queen and Prince.
The royal dinner potty yesterday included Mr. Birch,
' preceptor to his Royal Hiehnes. the Prince of Wales.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cardwell, M.P.,
Sir Thomas B. Birth, Bart., M.P., Mears. Bennett, Langs-
dsle, Harbor], J. L. Hodson, and the Town Clerk of Liver-
pool, and Mr. Rowlands, the Borough Engineer, had an
interview yesterday with the Comesiesicaers of the Board of
Health at Gwydyr-house, the Earl of Carlisle in the chair,
and stated that the water 'theme foe 'Avert,lot, for which
an act bad been obtained, would not be carried out.
Mr. Highest, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the emaseimonen for the reduction of the national debt,
and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Eschequer yesterday, at hie official residence in
Downing-street.
A cabinet council was held yesterday at the
Foreign office. It was attended by all the ministers except
the Lad Chancellor. The council sat two hours.
A deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. Edward
Strati, the RUA% Hen. Sir Edward Ryan, the Hon. Richard
Housman. Mr. Warburton, Mr. John Wood, Dr. Boolt, and
Mr. E. Mid, had an interview with Lord John Russell,
yesterday, at his offload residence in Downing-sweet.
Colonel Jones had en interview with Earl Grey,
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the senate of the University of
Laudon, omelettes of the Chancellor, the Earl of Burling-
ton ; the Vice Chancellor, Mr. J. G. Shaw Lefler' ; Dr.
Billies, Dr. Hodgkin, Mr. Kiernan, Mr. Ridont, and Mr.
Warburton, had en interview with Sir George Grey, yes.
terday, at the Rome-oetes.
The Belgian Minister had an interview, yesterday,
with Lord John Russell.
Despatehe s were sent off, yesterday evening' from
the Colonial-office, for the Governor of Canada, and also fee
the governors of the other North American provisoes.
A deputation from the Midland Great Western
Railway Company of Ireland, 'assisting of Massey. John
Innis, 'Joseph Boyce, James Parry, sal James Stirling, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yester-
day. The deputation was introduced by Mr. George
Moffatt, M.P.
Despatches from the Governer of the Gold Coast
were TIOSiVed yesemday, at the Cskrisi-edlee.

Taz Tarr DRAWING-100N will be held by her
majesty ea Thaseday zest, the 31st kat.

COLONEL CAULFIELD, ME. LAWLESS, AND MIL
Airusesow were accidentally shut oat from voting is favour
of 111!. 11. Berkeley's motion on the ballot on Thursday

(From last slight's Gautte.)
WHITEHALL, May 2s.—The Queen has been
pleased to nominate and appoint James Ivory, E.q., one of
the Oran Lord. of &pion, to be one of the Lords of
Jestleirerjst , in the room of John Hey Forbeg,
Esq.,

TER WAS IN TEI PCNJAUB.—The Gazette of last
events, contains the despatches which have been received
at the East India House from the °meeker-General of
India" the most important of which we have already pub•

RE APPEARANCE OP TIM POTATO DISEASE.—We
have been iwirrated that Mr. Burrell of Worksop Mill, on
tethering some Holberry potato plants, grown to a frame,
discovered comilderable appearance of this extraordinary sad
incurable disease, which appeared to be wide nixed's/
amen, them. We are happy to state that we have received
ieformatirm from several other quarters where this valuable
esculent hie bees dug up, that there has not bees the slight-
es:ampeorn of this destructive pestilence.—Nottingham
J
ACCIDENTAL POISONING AT lartsPonL. Five
children have been poisoned at the Old Swan near Liverpool,
by iseastionsly eating
hemlock.heo One died in the greatest
agony, and the others el.