The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-15 00:00:00

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Mails for British North America and the United &atm will bts
made up this evening.
rue Wed India Mena, excluding Bermuda, Savanna, Nona%
itondures, New Orleans, and Menke, end !winding those for
Yiseleira, bt Juande-Nicaragna, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, will
is made up on the ramming of the 17th June.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar.
will be made up on the morning of the 17th of June.
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Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Koas, and onMs gouthamptste
be made up on the 20th of June.
The mails, cia Marseille% to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon.
India, Hong-Kong, Su., will be made up on the 25th mime.
The mails toe Madeira, the Brands, and Buenos Ayres, will be made
upon the erasing of the 4th of July.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13.

TnE merriment of the parliamentary squirearchy
was hugely excited on Wednesday by their
success in parrying an attempt to apply the repre-
sentative principle to the management of comity
rates. With a view to check the increasing evil
of a profligately profuse expenditure of county
rates, Mr. Hume introduced a bill to vest the
power of assessiog, levying, and disbursing these
rates in county financial boards, composed two-thirds
of members elected by the guardians of the poor and
one-third of justices of the peace nominated by their
brethren of the quorum in sessions assembled. Sir Imre
Pam:scam as mouthpiece of" the great unpaid" had
given notice of his intention to move, by way of
amendment, that the bill be read a second time that
day aix months; but when the time came his heart failed
him, and instead of directly opposing the measure he
sought to shuffle it aside—by proposing that instead
of reading it a second time, the house should appoint
a committee to inquire into the expenditure of county
rates, with a view to ascertain whether a more effec-
tive and economical system than the present could not
be adopted. Hereupon the SECRETARY of STATE for
the Home DEPARTMENT took occasion to declare that
had Sir Joum directly opposed Mr. Humes bill, he
(Sir GEORGE GREY) would have been under the dis-
agreeable necessity of voting for the measure, seeing
that he approved of its principle ; bat that, insomuch
as Sir Joum was civil enough to be satisfied with get-
ting rid of the bill by a shuffle, he should have hie
(Sir GEORGE °Bev's) support. This piece of minis-
terial ratting sealed the fate of Mr. Humes bill : the
combined ministerialista and protectionists voted that
it should not then be read a second time.
The bill having been thus got rid of for the present,
the house set itself to deliberate whether it would ap-
point the committee recommended by Sir JOH?1
PAKINOTON. Mr. MILNER GIBSON proposed to add
to the subjects of investigation contemplated by Sir
Joint an inquiry as to " the best mode of arranging
an effective control on the part of the ratepayers over
the county expenditure." This amendment put Sir
JOHN and his friends into a perfect flutter of conster-
nation. It went, in fact, to affirm, by a deliberate
vote of the house, the very principle which they flat-
tered themselves they had got rid of by shelving Mr.
Homes bill. And to their sore dismay, they saw
that the ministerial trimmers were so decidedly
committed to the principle that they could
not with common decency vote against the
amendment. And, worse still, some of the more
liberal and intelligent of their own number now
declared their approbation of the principle. It was
clear as day that Mr. GIBSON'S amendment, if put,
would be carried. There was nothing for it but by
moving repeated adjournments, and making sham
speeches, to put off time till the clock should strike
six. when the SPEAKER must of necessity leave the
chair. The shabhy trick was successful, and the ju-
bilant chuckle of toe cunning squires, when the house
broke up, expressed triumph in the little victory
they had wen.
The tenant farmers, the agricultural rate-payers,
the county voters, have heard that gleesome laugh :
it was at their expense. They are the dupes who
provoked the broad grins of the parliamentary squire-
archy. To a man they complain of the:enormous
in-
crease of local rates of late years. It is a standing