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

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MAILS.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
will be made up on the morning of the 17th Decernber.
The West India mails, excluding those for Meek°, Ifonduras, and
the 'lsmaili:Wl, will be made up on the morning of the 17th December.
nig overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Fent, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton,
will be made up on the evening of the lath December.
The overland closed mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, &c., will be made up on the
evening of the 24th December.
The mails for New houth Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New
Zealand willbe made up on the evening of the 31st December.
The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United
States, will be made up on the evenLig of the 4th Bomar,.
The,
mails for the Brazils, the Kiva' Plate, Monte Video, Penton-
,' buco, Bahia, Makin, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on Its
evening of the 4th January.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Paorwrort Liss.orrirs.—Eanarris.—A Correspondent points out an
error in our report of the annual mettirut of this sociation, which
appeared yeeterday. Instead of the deaths of insurers during the
pest year having been 1 per cent " greater" than tint provided for
in the eociety's tables, it should have been " less."
" J. it. 13."—Very trite.
We cannot notice, in any way, any communication that is sent to us
anonymously ; but those whochoose to address tie in confidence will
flnd their
confidence reepected. NEITITER CAN WE UNDERTAKE
TO RETURN ANY MANCHCRIPTA WiIATEVER.
•,,s ArDertieements intended for The Rrpres., London evening paper,
must be at the (Am by Two o'clock on the day of publication.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BIUDGE.
Tau Dar.— Morning, 4 min. pint 8; Afternoon, 37 min. part 8.
To-Yossoir —Morning, 13 min. past 9; Afternoon, 46 nun. poet 9.

LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 12.
IT is au egregious error to suppose that Ireland is at
this moment in an exceptional position in Europe.
The condition of England forms almost the sole ex-
ception to the generally prevailing distress caused by
real or apprehended scarcity. The sufferings of the
poor in the continental states are suppressed or pro-
claimed according to the degree of freedom allowed
to the press. But the measures generally taken by
the respective governments reveal sufficiently what
the efforts of the police are directed to conceal. The
Rhine is at this moment crowded with vessels carry-
ing corn into the heart of Germany. Their
cart, like
are not voluntary importations of merchants,
the grain and meal sent to Ireland, these supplies
have been brought from a distance at the cost of the
governments of Wurtemberg, Baden, and Hesse, at
the risk of deterring future speculators from embark-
ing in a trade that henceforward defies calculation.
Prussia has proclaimed a drawback of the Sound dais ,
on grain sent from the Baltic to her Rhenish pro- '
vinces. The same letters tell us, that the pressure of
poor applicants for relief to the house of refuge at
Nlagdeburg is so great as to make it necessary to
guard the doors with the police force. Austria and
Russia have both put heavy export duties on grain
sent abroad from various provinces of the two emptres.
The distress that prevails in Belgium, Holland, and
parts of France, is notorious.
It is sad that knowledge must at the
be purchated
cost of so much suffering ; and carefully ought the
lessons of such sorrowful experience to be treasured up.
That now taught is, however, of inestimable value.
It tends to open the eves
themost blinded by the preju-
dices of tration to real position of the land-
owner in Europe. The economical sophism, that has
for centuries tyrannised rather than governed in this
quarter of the globe, is radically extirpated in all
thinking minds who contemplate the state into which
it has forced so many civilised countries. We never
expect to hear it again stated that the agriculturist in