The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

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MAILS.
111111 overland rails for Ottealtar, Malta, Orme', the Reim Wasik
Zap, Adm. Ceylon, lade, Houn.Kone, and (Inne. eia ea•LIIIMp.
toe. will be rade op on the moraine of the Sink Dee.
The overleed dared mails, re Mareeillas, to the Mediterranean,
ass. Griot. India. licesArren, ea., will be eau of se tie
=ir of the Wed Gee.
web far elm o=aliebee, Wedeln, Cadiz, se Gibraltar
will he aide up as the of the 77th Dee.
Tee side for Briirsh N America. end the United Watts,
id II be rade up on the males el the 2lth Dee.
/be salts he New loath Weise lea Deprees lend, and New
Zeeland will be made ap on the teeming at the lot Jan.
The mils far the Wee Cent of deka met Madeira will be made
up on wane, of the le Jen.
The India Mane inceides Derstude, Noma Gewews,
&Wens, New Otis.., and Mexico, and endedinir thaw far
Madeira. U. Jeeseie.fliearague, New Grenade, end Nee, will
be sale op an the morning of the 2nd Jon.
lite nee Ihe Madeira. the &aria, sad Boom Aal rray ' be
sok up ea the waft et Ur eth Jan.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 19.
IT has been already stated in the Daily News that,
previously to their accession to power, Lord JOHN
HUSSEI L and Sir GEORGE 0 RET stood deeply pledged
to their political friends to improve, when the
opportunity which service under the Crown gives
to statesmen was afforded them, the machinery
by which the halting and insufficient measure
of existing church reform is put in motion, and
to extend the principles on which that system of
ecclesiastical improvement is based. It is, moreover,
understood that the Premier and Home Secretary,
shortly after they became Ministers, withdrew a plan
which they had prepared in conformity with this
pledge, and which they had submitted to some of the
heads of the church, in consequence of the unwilling-
ness of the late Dr. HOWLEY to have the arrange-
ments he had sanctioned disturbed during the re-
mainder of his Primacy.
It now appears that the performance of the pledge
thus given by the two leading ministers of the Crown
to their own political friends has been pressed upon
Lord JOHN Meseta. by three of his political op-
ponents ; and that since March lest his lordship has
been in possession of suggestions for further church
reform, prepared by Lord HARROWBY, Lord ASHLEY,
Mr. Coto:tenons, and Lord R Ottosveson, the
leading points of which we quoted on Friday
frem the Record. Though the plan thus J 1
au
ggslai is certainly a large step for sash
men es the three first named to take, it is, never-
than, a movement insufficient to meet the exigencies
afthe ease. Their propositions have the radiva vices
Id Inquiring MOM -Whops and of omitting all pre-
the bresking up of master parishes they
meth wither kr the reboil= of existing epie-
...keseass ere for the aognentation of per
; above all, they si at befeeping a hierarchy
=y too powerful and gobs anieleatly numerous.
We cannot, therefore, NMI thaw sonlegkilag
the foundation of the mom wide UM A=
Russell. has promieed Mr. HOMINAN beleg btu
ward next seamen; and so rams the emeiderstions
provoked by Mr. EVELYN DEMON'S essmittee,
undisturbed by Mr. COLOOHOUN'S disdeseses—die-
clomires which have somewhat the appal:sum ei an
anxiety on hie part, now that the harvest is ripen-
:Ll:zap reputation where others have mown and
Not, indeed, that a high estimate im to be enter-
tained of the labours of that committee ; even though
it has recorded a condemnation of the Ecclesiastical
Compassion. Little was, however, to be exwted
from a body censtitated as it was. First, welsad it
moved foe and presided over by the brother of a lead-
ing ecclesiastical commissioner—by a gentleman who
had a personal object to gain by its investigations.
Then, we had five lay ecclesiastical menmiesioners
placed on it to defend, excuse, and palliate episcopal
mismanagement. Next, we had the high church
party more than fully represented. And lastly, we
had the entire composition of the committee made
subject to the approbation of the Archbishop of CAN.