The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

BUSINESS OF THE WEEK.
ROME OF LORDS.—No busier. Siid.

BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE COMMONS.

THURSDAY.—Foi. 3.
ORDER OF THE DAY.SIBOOND RIADINO
goners' Nemo JAL
NOTICES OF MOTION.—Tine Arroasier-Goragtr, MD to heal.
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dememilleg mode of Oaths now levied on agar shell he trimpmded
end hidM asps" ami time the amount of duties wow lend en
sugar dells levied men yardmen. shall hare considered the Eggert
of Weeded omminttise Frgedt be appolated.—Mr. Hun=
sbowkie doe seer of mob wawa, ter which sets hare been
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rap, end haw mesh et therm is sow ; the amemetof
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aele et bemperatiss; the amount deo& etmade by every amp
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ad the ewes remaining to to paid; the dale wed mimed cf gem
farrowed order the several sem, end wldah remain owing. Meld
ides in separate columns for each year, Mgether with balance °templed
Imealled for, and of
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which ash magemy have still authority
le borrow ; and the for which v railway company may hew
definitively post making further calla with the totals of each.—
Mr. Bates. that the petition of the lion. Edward Richard Littleton,
ha relation to the petition of Michael Coate, touching the return of the
mid Edward Richard Littleton, as member for the borough of Walsall,
beWnted with the votes.—Colmel Drs.., that the petition of John
ear, EN., member for the borough of Carlow (presented Dec. 21)),
be printed with the votes.
FRIDAY, Fee. 4.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.—New Zealand Government Bill, com-
mittee; Supply, committee.
NOTICE OF MOTION.—Mr. Wilmer, to nominate the select com-
mittee on medical registration mad medical laws.

Tax Commis-

ghe enarto.

MAILS

The Malls for the Braille, the River Plate, Monte Video, reruns.
bum, Bahla. Madeira, and Buenas Ayres, will be made up on the
eriniag of the 4th February.
The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cella, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 7th February.
The overhead aimed mane, Ma Marseilles, to the Mediterraneea.
Egypt, Aden. Geylos, India, Rang Kong, Bs, will be mods up on the
evening of the lth February.
The mails for British North America, Bermuda, end the IMAM
Btates. will be made up on the evening of the I I February.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Naeoau,
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
including thote for Madeira, Jazmel, Carthagemi, Santa Martha,
amerce, PL111111214 West Coast of south America, and St. Juan-de-
Pilau-ague, will be made up on the mornine of the 17th February.
The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, times, the lonian Leland&
Rupt,Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong.lioaci, and China, Me Southampton,
will be made up on the morning of the 20th February.
The mails for New South Wales, Van themen's laud, and New
Zealand will be made up un the evening of the 29th February.
The roadster the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 29th February.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Tne number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEI%
by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during the year 1847
was :

From JAN. 1, t 3 Dec. 31, 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHEIL

In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued (or the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS,

From JAN. 1, 10 DEC. 31 778,714
Which wu more, we believe, than were issued either to the
Glose or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 3.

PALERMO has added its name to the list of cities
which, in gloriously resisting the military force of
tyrannical monarchs, have freed their country, and
achieved a revolution by a few hours of stubbern
valour. It is astonishing how, in the three great
cases of civic resistance—in Paris, Bru.ssels, and

Palermo—the military commanders seem to have e
similarly lost self-possession, and wasted their strength I
in ill-directed and ineffectual efforts. But the
people of Palermo, as of Paris, deserve int-
mense credit, and have reaped immortal honour
by their courage and resolution. In Paris the
boldness and the risk were chiefly confined to the I
people. In Palermo, the greatest names and the I
greatest fortunes shrunk not from presenting them- I
selves in the front array of insurrection. Honour to
the Sicilians of every class!
The events of Palermo have de-:ided, and at the I
critical moment, one of the most important and doubt- I
ful questions, with respect to Italian liberty. I
It is evident that Austria, however reluctantly, ]
had still consented to tolerate without open hostility
a certain development of freedom in the Italian states. 1
Ent one obvious restriction was, that this freedom '
should not amount to representative government.
Although the intimate alliance and accord between I
111. GUIZOT and Prince METTERNICH date from the e
Spanish marriages, still upon the theory of govern- i
went there had always existed similarity of sentiment i
between the French and the Austrian statesman. For
instance, when the form of government for Greece
was under discussion, METTERNICII and GUIZOT both
agreed that a foundation of municipal councils in the
provinces, with the superstructure of a senate in the i
capital, was far preferable to any constitution of two
chambers, with popular election and freedom of the
press. Lord PALMERSTON, who joined actively in the
controversy, always stood out for the more liberal
ineti-
tutions at Athens, as at Madrid. But M. GUIZOT 1
stickled for his senate, or, where a repre- '
sentative government did exist, as in Madrid, I
for rendering it as motionless, and as courtly, and in
every way as like to a senate as possible. This idea
of senatorial government, or of an assembly com-
peaed of the notabilities of a country, these notabi-
lities chosen by the government rather than by the
people, has been for some time the prevailing idea of
that liberal party which has been formed in abso-
lutist courts. It exists at Vienna ; and the King of
Pitussts has made it the guide of his constitution.
mongering at Berlin.
When the Italian population began to move,
and Italian sovereigns to feel the necessity of
moving with their people, France was at hand with
her counsels. And these have invariably been to
establish senatorial institutions, or in the language of
the country, consolers. fhe Pope and other powers,
Naples included, had adopted these consuita, and it is
quite evident from M. Guizol's fine speeches that
these were to be the be-all and the end-all for Italy.
The Pslermitans have, however, by one blow struck
to pieces the fine fabric of M. GUIZOT'S doctrinaire
system. The four decrees sent them by the
King of Naples were the very acme of
the consuled system, the last concessions in
the GUIZOT and METTERNICII spirit. The Sicilians
have at once and frankly rejected it, and fortunately
they have not rejected it for any wild or democratic
scheme of government, like the constitution of Cadiz,
proclaimed by the Neapolitans in 1820. They sim-
ply demand the English constitution granted to them
in 1812, and which very much resembles our own con-
stitution from the epoch of reform. That simple and
fair demand the King of NAPLES seems to have no
power of refusing. Nor, in granting thief to Sicily,
can he give less to Naples.
It is also evident from the tone of the French press
and Chambers, and even from that of M. GUIZOT, in
his reply to the most noble and eloquent speech of
M. TIMES upon Italy, that the French govern-
ment cannot shrink from supporting the southern
Italians in their constitutional demands, and
durst not consent to an Austrian intervention.
M. THIERS said that an union of France and England
could alone save the peninsula. Bat that union of
sentiment and of force between England and France
does exist, and despite of the French government or,
as one may say, over the heads of the French govern-
ment. For English ideas prevail, in a great measure
owing to the frank and liberal attitude which the
English cabinet has taken ; and the French minister
finds himself, whether he will or no, yoked to the car
of Italian liberty and forced to drag it onward.
The triumph, for we can anticipate no less, is glo-
rious for the Italians, and glorious for England,
which is bailed not only in Palermo, but in the
French Chamber of Deputies, as having alone pursued
the frank and liberal course, and alone served the
Italian cause. Nothing could be more complete than
M. TITTERS' vindication of England from the charge
of M. GUIZOT, that this country had guaranteed the
inviolability of the Austrian dominion in Italy. The

English despatch insisted on the inviolability of
littn states, great and small, the respect of the
latter being the condition of any respect for the
former.
There is great cause for congratulation in the tone
and turn of the debates in the French Chamber. It
is evident that *reconciliation, blued on their common
love of freedom and their common interest in it, is
taking place against the detritus and wishes of court
and minister; and that M. Guinn himself is more
likely to fall than to prevail, in any attempt to
defeat it.

So, Dr. M'Hatz's poor rates have at length been
paid ! What no other influence could extort, public
expoeure, has accomplished. Hardly ten days have
elapsed since his grace's dereliction was exposed ; and
already we have a tender of the reluctant monies,
wrapped indeed in several shabby folds of clerical
equivocation, but still entitling the defaulter to an
acquittance of the lawful debt.
It is of course boldly asserted now that the whole
affair wu a mistake, and that there was in reality no
default at all. Credit, indeed, was not gives in the
books of the union for either the current rate or the
previous one ; but an unhappy curate of St.
Jarlath's comes forward to take all the
blame upon himself, to aver that the im-
pugned prelate had left the payment to him—and
that he forgot to pay. Credat Jutkeus Apella ! A
scape-goat MI thus offered to save the lion ; and the
guardians of the fold thereupon resolve, nemine eon-
tradieente, that the explanation was as satisfactory
as could be given, in which we are disposed entirely
to concur. As for the previous rate, overdue some
twelve famine months or more, that is still more in-
controvertibly disposed of A rate-collector died some
time ago of fever. The amount bad been paid to this
poor man, who had omitted to enter it in his books as
paid. Very likely !
It is certainly not strange that men should ask,
Are all the Irish Catholic bishops like Doctors
O'HIooINs and APH&LE ? The question is anything
but an idle one. Not enly those whose days are
destined to be spent in Ireland, but those to whom
the lot has fallen on the pleasanter side of the
Channel, are in a certain sense concerned to know
what manner of men are they who wield the chief
ecclesiastical authority over several millions of their
fellow-sabjects. Are all these men, or the majority
of them, mitred demagogues, like my lord of ARDAGR
or his grace of TUAM • or are they but conspicuous
exceptions to a loyal and devoted order?
The peace of Ireland and her progreea—the reno-
vation of her moral and industrial health—the acqui-
sition of soul-liberty, and the generation of an abid-
ing and vigilant spirit, capable of appreciating fully
and using wisely, that inestimable treasure—these are
objects dear to every right-thinking man in England;
for in these lie at once the realisation of his most
generous wishes for Ireland, and the attainment of
the beet guarantees that can be desired for thckper-
petuation of like blessings in England. The misery
of the one realm is the weakness of the other
its confusion, the perplexity its darkness,
the continual cause of misgiving and of gloom. On
the other band, no greater source of new and lasting
strength could be given to the empire than the esta-
blishment of tranquillity and the promotion of in-
dustry, enterprise, and contentment, in a realm so cir-
cumstanced with regard to Britain. Every obstacle
in the way of each a consummation is naturally re-
garded with antipathy or regret ; and few greater
obstacles which are bounded by individual power, or
circumscribed within the limits of one mischievous
will, can be imagined than that which a
hierarchy would present, if, banded together for
common purposes, they were to be regarded as truly
represented by such a man as Dr. WHeLte. For if
it be the province of a priesthood to minister to the
moral wants of man, to mediate between conflicting
passions, and to hold faithfully a light to the ignorant
and wandering—how grievously may such wantebe ag-
gravated by badexample—how fatally may evil passions
be exasperated by evil counsel—and in such a land
" if the light that is in it be darkness, how deep is
that darkness !"
Happily for Ireland, however, her catholic bishops
ere no more represented by the two or three talka-
tive arid turbulent ones of whom we have lately beard
semuch, than the honesty of the English church is re-
presented by SAMUEL OXFORD, or its charity biz
HENRY EXETER. The great majority of the Irish
prelates are obedient to the sacred mandate, and,
" seeking peace, ensue it." The simple, candid, and
truly pastoral spirit in which Dr. BROWNS, the
Bishop of Elphin, recently replied to Lord SHREWS-
BURY'S questions, instructively contrasts with the
swaggering rhedomontade of his metropolitan.
Of the venerable archbishops of Dent's and
ARMAGH it is unnecessary to speak. No breath of
party rancour or sectarian bigotry has ever sullied
their reputation for wisdom, benevolence, and devo-
tion. Nor is a less tribute of honour due to Dr.
DENVIR, the Bishop of Down ; Dr. KENNEDY, Bishop
of Rillaloe ; and the fearless and faithful monitor of a
misguided populace, Dr. RYAN, Bishop of Limerick.
These and many others have long undeviatingly sus-
tained against the factious and the fanatical minority
the cause of national edacation ; and as this truly
sacred cause has recently been anew assailed, we
gladly call attention to certain public proceedings in
its vindication, in which another eminent catholic
prelate bore a conspicuous part.
A numerous and influential meeting was held
some days ago at Newry, a town of considerable
wealth and population situated on the confines of the
eastern and northern provinces, to celebrate the lay-
ing the foundation stone of the fleet District Model
School, intended to be built under the National
Board of Education. Lord GOSFORD, who is Lord-
Lieutenant of Armagh, one of the counties for whose
benefit the institution is designed, expressed his con-
viction that he could do nothing more strictly within
the scope of his public duty than to preside on the
occasion.
Mr. FORTESCUE, whose property in Louth is equally
extensive, and who habitually discharges the duties
of his station equally well, cordially tendered his suf-
frage of approval and contributive aid. Both are
members of the established church ; yet both in con-
cert with the Very Rev. Dr. BACOT, a dignitary of the
same communion, were cordially welcomed by the
assemblage as they successively came forward to
express their deliberate and unreserved opinion, that
un-exclusive education was a thing much to be
desired and diligently to be promoted in Ireland
by all who love her enlightenment and peace.
Of a truth it was time for Mr. FREDERICK SHAW to
retire from parliament. As a representative of into-
lerant protestantism he had long a function and a
mission. But intolerance is dying the death of the
law—the law of equal rights and franchises ; and the
right hon. gentleman's "occupation's gone."
But what part did the catholics take in the recent
assemblage? One in every way creditable to them-
selves, and fall of good omen for the country. Num-
bers of the laity were present, several of the priest-
hood •, and by much the best of many good
speeches delivered on the occasion was that of the
Catholic Bishop of DROMORE. Like others of his
order in Ireland, Dr. BLAKE was warmly attached to
the late Mr. O'CONNELL, whose pre-eminent claims to
gratitude and respect for the great services he had
rendered to the followers of the ancient faith no
change of time or circumstance could cancel or
destroy. Like many of his brethren also, the Bishop
of Deoatoee has ever manifested strong feelings
of sympathy with popular suffering and wrong; and
knowing what we do of the social and political con-
dition of the mass of the inhabitants of Ireland, we
frankly own we can hardly conceive how a good and
intelligent man in a similar position could be exempt
from such emotions. But unlike the denunciatory
prelates of Ardagh and Tuam, Dr. BLAKE prefers
showing a good example to his own flock, to
wounding that of his neighbour. Dr. Bum, we will
venture to say, never abused a viceroy, or refused
payment of a lawful tax, in the course
of his life. He is a man of disciplined
intellect and consistent devotion. He believes what
he preaches ; and his practices consequently coincide
with his precept& If Dr. WHALE and Dr. 0'1110w:es
are equally consistent, the hapless communities of
their respective episcopates will be trained to disre-
spect of rulers and violation of the laws.
No wonder their lawless lordships should love dark
nese rather than light, and that they prefer abusing
provincial colleges to supporting national schools
Dr. BLAKE is a very different man. Prompt in every
ease to show obedience to the laws, and to rebuke
those who infringe them, he is found ready to co-
operate with those of other religions persuasions on
all fitting opportunities for the promotion of charity
and the dissemination of knowledge. The resolution
which was moved by him at the late meeting at