The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-01 00:00:00

NOTICE TO ADVE aTLSERS.

The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during 1847, to the
DAILY N EWS was 3.447.009

This, we believe, is within eipott per tear o: the number
usued to the dornirso Berates, Morning C4ronirk, and
Mornsno Poet, ALL PUT TOOPTIIIK.
In addition to to,, above, issue.( to the DAILY NKWS,
i/orrimo Paper, there were issued for the teens; Edshots,
TIIK EXPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe, :than were issued either to
be Globs or Standard, Braising Papers.

111011 WATS" AT LUX DOM 'MIDDX.
Tele U..-144.Y.4. 14 gam pen I. Afternosa. 3; WI I
T. lleratem 4 ma. p 444 1 I 1111.44., 111.. pa" I.

LONDON. THURSDAY. JUNE 1.

IT is certainly fortunate for the governing powers
of England and Ireland that, a• a moment like the
press nt, with • conflagration burning on the con-
tinent and inevitably flinging not • few sparks over
the channel, those parties avowedly based on the
sympathies and discontent of the lower classes
should have been so managed by their leaders as
to have fallen to the uttermost degree of in-
significant* and contempt.. As a rational movement,
as a self-controlled and temperate body, chartism
might, in the present state of England and of Europe,
have held its head high, and maintained an influence
impossible to either crush or to deride. The imbe-
cility, the bragged mio, the transparent seitiahnosa,
cowardice, and treachery of those allowed to represent
the nitre-popular party, have made it the laughing-
stock of England and of Europe. It is now brought
so low, that its utmost effort is to rival the swell mob
in a street row, which dire not even face the daylight..
As to the orators or chiefs, they are merely good for
taking tory pay and doing work, by going about
to interrupt, discredit, and destroy, every rational
effort at liberal movement.
The last degradation of this ill-conditioned English
rabble is their fraternisation with the worse-conditioned
Irish rabble, who are inclined to make use of their
numbers to disturb the peace of the English cities and
of that industrious population, which employs and
feeds them. Whatever excuser the Irish peasant may
have for entertaining discontent,and showing it in the
sister island against the Saxons, whom he
deems to oppress him, decidedly he can have
no such excuse here. There is no difference, political
or social, between him and the native of England
here. An industrious Irishman, who succeeds in
gaining employ in this country, has the fullest
chance of fortune, comfort, and independence that
can be offered to a working man—a chance, too, that
the Irishman is more able to grasp, from the privations
and the frugality to which he has been accustomed.
It is a chance which the union expressly offers to
shmen, and of which the Irish profit largely and

successfully.
The Irish labourer or operative,therefore,who in Eng-
land gets up a riot for the repeal of the union, is an un-
grateful and criminal fool, fur whom the best punish-
ment would be to take him at his wore, and seed hits
home to misery and starvation. And as to the Eng-
lish chartist, who condescends to play second fiddle
to the Irish madman, he is even a guiltier fool; for
he shows that it is not redress of political grievances
Of social wrong that he aims at, bat merely mischief
for mischief sake.
Wu wish that any of the discontented English
operatives, or their 'coders, who are for betaking
themselves to physical force, and who are buy-
ing pikes and drilling, in order to better their
condition, according to Irish ideas of improve-
, ment —we wish they could behold the state of
things produced by physical revolution in so many
countries of Europe. There the noble has lost his
position, the manufacturer and tradesman his profits
and his hopes, but it is the working class that has de-
cidedly suffered most. They have destroyed the
spruces of labour. And after overthrowing the go-
vernment, they are obliged to have recourse to weekly
and daily insurrections to get bread. The middle'
classes, overpowered and surprised at first, have since
rallied. The army has joined them. And in every
insurrection the people come off worse and worse,
notwithstanding the desperate bravery of the French
artisan, and his perfect knowledge of arms.
Englishmen should take as a maxim, that in order
to their doing anything great, just, or improving, they
must do it as Englishmen. There is no use or dignity
in their running like dogs after every four-horse or
steam vehicle of revolution that hurries by, to bark
after it, or try to imitate or catch it. All English
el loses have advanced their cosuliiion, changed and
mended their political and social frame, from time to
time, so as to bo tar in advance of the rest of the
world ; and they have done this by exposing their own
wants, and seeking their own remedies fur them, for
which the free institutions of the country afford
ample means. We
want reform, and especially re-
form by which the industrious classes may profit.
put riot is no. the way to it, nor Chartism that
brawls in the highways, or goes drilling by night