The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-07 00:00:00

The erpret4o.

MAILS.

The oveiland clown mails, cis Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Yrgypt, Aden, ley too, tiulu, 'twig-Kong, eth., will be made up on the
evening el the 7th June.
The ni.ola for itritith North Amerfra, and the United States,
will be mime up on the evening of the nth June.
The We.t hunt Mails, excluding iternautia, Nassau Ilaranna,
llonituram, New tirlearui, Vera Cruz, Tionples, and Porto lUeat, and
lulling thine fur Madeira, Juctoel, thirthsgen.i, h.anLa Martha,
thagres, Panama, Went Coast of South America, and M. Juan-de.
Nicaragua, will he mutt, up on the awning of the 17 th June.
The mails for Vigo. Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cildie, stud Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 17th June.
'lb/ overland mails tut Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the finnan Islands,
Egypt. Aden, Peyton, India, Ilona-Kong, and China, ria Southamp-
ton, will be made upon the morning of the 'loth Juno.
The mails for New South Wales, Van Ineman'a Lana, and New
te.dand will be made up ou the evening tat the Seth June.
The TIMII4 fur the West C-suit of Africa and Madeira will be mad*
up on the evening ut the 30th June.
The 'unto fur the Brazils, the Inver Plate, 3tonte Vi.leo, remain.
buth, Bahia, Madeira, awl lluenur Ayres, will be male up ten the
evening of the 4th July.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Starnp•otliee, during 1b47, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
•

This, we htlisre, is within eight per tent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Caruniele, an 4
Morning Post, ALL PUT TUOCTURN.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued fur the heeninv Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714

.
Which Wll.l more, we believe, than wtre issued either to
the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers.

RlOll WATER AT LONDON 001000.
Is••—li:ora,, .1.4.11 Allenres. 9 .09. pia 4.
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LONDON.IVEDNESDAY.JUNE7,
We. believe we are not singular in the cordial
esteem, approaching we may say to veneration, with
which we regard the earnest benevolence of Lord
And in every word that he said last night
respecting the ragged schools, as &meritorious and rue-
ccssful effort, to an extent t hat could scarcely have been
anticipated, to bring home the humanising influences
of ,moral end religious knowledge to the veriest out-
eißts of society, we entirely concur. Nor are we with-
out hope that the dark truths revealed by Lord
ASHLEY, may accelerate a national effort to relieve
' the living mass of squalid destitution among us.
Still, we are of opinion that the motion with which
he concluded, for an annual grant of money to pro-
vide prize passages to the colonies for some of the cost
promising pupils of the Metropolitan Ragged Schools
is one of a numerous class that ought to he discou-
raged. Nut a session pa see over our heads but
same half-a-dozen humane members of parliament
approach the Exchequer with similar applica-
tions for public charity, applying a gimlet, as it
were, to the tun, and boring a very small hole
into which a straw may be inserted to draw off a very
small quantity of cash to refresh a very few indict-
dua.s. The house grants the req..est to save itself
the trouble of discussion, because the bum is so Mean-
siderable ; but the aggregate amount of such conces-
sions becomes, in the lapse of years, so great at to be
fe It iu the general expenditure, end to paralyse the na-
tion's power to award money for carrying into effect
schemes of comprehensive utility.
Why should government grant what Lord ASHLEY
asked to fires of the metropolitan ragged schools
alone? Why, of all the deserving fleet maces classes
of the metropolis, arc the attendants on th ragged
scho,ls alone to participate in this donation ? It would
be a bounty upon the neglect of poor parents to make
an effort to educce their children ; for the children of
poor people who have pinched themselves to eductte
them can have no share in it. It would be an effort to
send the colonies young folks born and bred in the
metropolis, the class of all others least able to be of
use to themselves or other people in such an unac-
customed field of exertion.
Lord Asuhee's motion is, moreover, superfluous.
Every month ships are sent off to Australia with free-
passage emigrants of the labouring class. If his lord-
ship's protrWs are really tit to rough it in a new
country, the vouchers that can be produced to their
characters will easily obtain for them a preference ; if
they arc not fit it is cruelty to send them there.
What Lord ASHLEY last night called upon parlia-
ment to do might be a very proper thing for a
few benevolent individuals to do by private sub-
scription. So little has been attempted by parlia-
ment and government to enable the more destitute
classes in this country to take advantage of the un-
measured tracts of masterless lands in the over.sea
British dominions, and that little after such an unin-
telligent and hesitating fashion, that every success-
ful effort to put even one or two robust
and spirited individuals in the way to carve
oat their own fortunes in the colonies is
a real gain for humanity. But to call upon
parliament instead of private individuals to un-
dertake these acts of isolated and exceptional bene-
volence, is to divert its attention from the more com-
prehensive task which it ought to undertake. What
the nation has a right to expect from parliament is
not a grant of a few hundred pounds to enable a
few deserving young men and women to escape to
the colonies, but a system of emigration upon a scale
sufficiently extensive to afford the means of reaching
the unappropriated lands in the colonies to all who, not-
withstanding their sincere desire and their ability to
support themselves by honest industry, find all occu-
pations closed against them in thus over-crowded
land by a dense throng of earlier competitors.
We are no believers in MALTHUS. His doctrine,
that population has a natural tendency to in-
crease
in a geometrical while the means of
subsistence only Increase in an arithmetical ratio, was
at first assumed upon very insufficient data, in order
to serve as an argument against GODWIN'S views of
the perfectibility of human society. It was a piece
of polemical exaggeration, and has not been denuded
of this suspicious character by being stripped (as it is
in its author's later publications) of its controversial
form, and put forward as an abstract proposition. But
there is thus much of truth in the Malthusian
dogma, that in old countries, where all the land has
been appropriated, and where the professions are
' amply filled up, population has a tendency to in-
crease more rapidly than such employment as enables
the industrious to earn not only their daily ;bread
bat wherewithal to support a young family and
provide for old age. Those who with the late
Mr. SADLER, (or rather with the late WILLIAM
Tartott: of Norwich, front wheat he tack the hint)
bold that the prolificness of the human race dimi
Malice in proportion as the density of society increases,