The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

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IIiAILS. ,
The mails for British North Aflleriell, and the United State%
will be male up en** evening of the 13th April.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havanna,
Mondays.% New Orlens, Vera CYRIL, TRITIpe:O, and Porto Rion, and
Including those for Nladeirs, Jaernel, Carthagena, Santa Martha,
(agree, 1.:111.111111, Went Cunt of South America, and St, Jusa-do.
Nicaragua, will be made up on theevening of the I;th Apriland.Gibraltar
The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadir,
will be made up on the morning of the Ittri April.
The overland mails fa Gibraltar, Malta. Gmece, the
elf Solonlaa Glenuthamp-
da,
!tapir. Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-Kong, and China,
ton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th April.
The overland desist main, rid Marseille., to the Mediterranean,
Fpypt, Aden, Ceylon, India. Hong-bong, Mo., will he made up on the
evening of the 24th April.
New
The made for New south Wales, Can Dieman's Land, and
Zealand will be made up an the evening of the 30th April.
The malls for the West 'last of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 30th Amu.
The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Penna.
biro. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the nth May.

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This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
Issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL cur TOOETHBIL
In addition to the ab..ve, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778,714
Which was mnre, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or Standard, Evening Paper+.

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LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 10. I
TUE idea of a succesaful entente in the streets of
London is, whether in the shape of hope or fear,
about as preposterous and impossible as could seize
hold of a weak mind. Such a thing has never been
accomplished anywhere without the union of the
middle and lower classes, and without sympathy
between the occupiers of houses and the people in
the streets. A barricade, for example, is impos-
sible
to make, and utterly untenable when made,
unless every window that overlooks it lends its aid,
and acts as a flanking battery to keep off assailants.
Nor, even, when middle and lower classes unite in
resistance, is that resistance possible without fire-
arms, and without the knowledge and experience of
their use. The republicans of Dublin seem well con-
tented to arm their followers with pikes ; and a
certain number of chartists, who have stricken
horror into the Times, have talked of arming them-
selves with sticks. But sticks and pikes, however
they may facilitate mischief and murder, are utterly
useless for an attack on military, and only expose the
holders to certain slaughter : not only this, but the
greater the numbers of such assailants, the more in-
effectual must be their efforts, and: the more terrible
their destructii.n. The utmost that the most de-
termined London mob could effect, woulii be a riot.
And a riot must prove so disastrous, not only to the
perpetrators, but o the cause whica they put forward,
that we can conceive none mad enough to indulge

in it.
We are, however, not left to conjecture on these
matters, for there have been within the last month
several attempts to get up meetings of the political
mob of London. The ragamuffins bad their Trafalgar-
square demonstration, and Mr. REYNOLDS, the great
man of the =timid convention, has aken the
chair at another meeting on Kennington Common
a short time back. Surely it was not against
such demonstrations as these that the Home-
office has launched a prohibitory proclamation.
What excited the government alarm, was no doubt
the threat of chartist deputations from the country
coming to swell the numbers, determination, and im-
portance of the Londoners of the same way of think-
ing. Now, so far from tearing or imagining that any
auxiliary force of rioters or revolutionists could come
up to London by rail, this mode of travelling would
appear to guarantee a certain degree of means and
prudence on the part of such visitors, quite
=compatible with intentions of riot. Indeed,
so fully are ore convinced of this, that the most
strenuous upholders of the public peace in such a
gathering. would be, in our opinion, these country
visitors.
There is a strong feeling in the manufacturing dis-
tricts of England, as there is throughout Ireland, that
their sufferings, their wants, their wishes, their ideas
and arguments, do not, as provincial, receive sufficient
attention and appreciation in London, either from the
public or the parliament. They certainly do not re-
ceive sufficient attention from the metropolitan press,
which in general only becomes alive to provincial in-
terests and doings, when they rise in agitation and
become menacing to the public peace. We, therefore,
cannot but regart. this demonstration as in a great
measure springing from a desire of the provincial
chartists to come and parade their numbers and im-
portance in the streets of London, and in the square
before Parliament-house.
If the provincial sticklers for universal suffrage,
who were to come by rail this morning, anticipated
any gratification or advantage from the display of
their persons, their flags, and their numbers, before
the eyes of the Londoners, we regret exceedingly that
the government did not find it safe to indulge them.
For we are quite confident that the mutual recon-
naissance between town and country on the occasion
would have been highly serviceable and instructive to
both. The Examiner tins estimates the value of the
lesson which would be given to the chartists :
There is, of course, a differenee of opinion as to the policy
of prohibiting as illegal the meeting appointed for Monday,
after the ample prepirations made for preventing outbreak.
It is thought by some that the comparison which would have
been presented between the r rength of the chartists and the
strength of the special constables and police would have been
far from encouraging to the instigators of violence. The
march of the chartists would be through a hostile city; and
they would see, at every window and every guarded door,
lowering looks of hostility. The great difference might thus
have been suggested to them between the state of things in
Paris, Vii ono, and Berlin, and that of London. The houses
in the former capital. having been garrisons friendly to the
populace, and aiding them against the troops, while in
London all the vantage ground of the houses would be used
against tbe disturbers of the peace. It is the occupation of
the houses that makes the middle class so powerful in con-
flicts in towns, either on the side of the government, or
against it, as the case may happen. Brick and mortar make
the armour of the modern townsman. The chartists, over-
looking this important fact, would, in marching through the
principal thoroughfares of London, in effect parade through
the lion's mouth, wending their way between the double
rows of teeth. Disiiiplined troops, supported by a part of the
population, may tear against the disadvantage of houses
held against them, showering down missiles or saely aimed
shot; but mobs, however numerous, with both troops and
bourgeoisie against them in the street., and exposed to as-
sault from the houses, weuld be quickly crushed sold utterly
routed. The scowl of this gnat capital on its guard might
certainly convey its salutary warning to the chartists.
And we might r.dd that the numbers as well as the
respectable mien and peaceful bearing of the provin-
cial chartists might have corrected the opinions so
generally entertained by London citizens, and accre-
dited by the London press, that operatives are anar-
chists, and that provincial agitation was merely that
of persons without either property or ideas, against
the class possessed of both.
This, however, is not a time to discuss or criticise
the policy of government. Its members have thought
it advisable to forbid the meeting and procession
announced for to-day. And it is the duty of every
honest Englishman, liberal or anti-liberal, to obey
that prohibition. Whatever good might be hoped
from that demonstration, cannot but turn to evil in
the resolve to carry it out, against the injunctions
and resistance of the authorities. Even to prove the go-
vernment wrong would be slight advantage or conso-
lation to the =let determined democrat, when coun-
terbalanced Ly collision, bloodshed, and excesses.
Criticise government and parliament, and the state
of England beneath them as one may, it is impos-
sible to conceive improvement coming from violence.
Whilst either the success or non-success of such at-
tempts must alike prove fatal to the liberties which
we possess, and for the gradual development of which
the constitution affords ample means and scope.
Besides, if there were any good end to be obtained
or great cause to be served by popular agitation, Eng-
land ought to uri4tcate this for itself, and obey at
least its own impulse. It is beneath the character of
Englishmen, aho have always been centuries before
Frenchmen and continentals, to turn vile and sneak-
ing imitators of the rabble of other countries, enacting
the part of second hand revolutionists, not so much
impelled by their own grievances or convictions, as
by mere contagion :,rd imitation. The movement
which springs from the compressed liberties and em-
barrassed state of any one country is a natural effort
to right itself, which is so far legitimate; but a populy