The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

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MAILS.
The mails for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bahia, Madeira, aml Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th July.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 7th July.
The math for BOOM North America, and the United States,
will be made up en the evening of the 7th July.
The overland shed mails, rift Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hoeg-Kong, gm., will be made up un the
evening of the 7th Jul y.
The Weet India Made, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, ILintina,
llondunis, New larleane, Vera Crux, 'fampico, and Porto itioo, and
including those for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagen i, Santa Martha,
Chapel., Panama, Weet Coast of South America, and St. Juan-de.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th July.
The over
Adend mails foe thbraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, lan, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Kong, and China, ria Southamp-
tem, will be made upon the morning of the 20th July.
Toe roads for New South Wales, Yen Diemen's Land, end New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 314 July.
The malts fur the West Clan of Africa and Madietru will be made
op On the evening of the. 31st July.

NOTICE TO ADVEILTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-Mace, during ISO, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. oi the number
Untied to the Morning Herold, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHER.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
'he Globe or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON. MONDAY. JULY 3.
" Tne announcement of the numbers," observed
our reporter, with reference to the division on Sir J.
PARINGTON'S motion, " was received with loud cheers
by the protectionists." Well might they cheer! They
knew that when PEEL, by throwing him.elf into
the scale of ministers, could after all ensure them only
a majority of 15 against such an unconpromisingly
protectionist amendment as that of the hon. baronet, re-
action had commenced in the supposed free-trade House
of Commons. The public have not been left long in
doubt as to the justice of the protectionists' inference.
Mr. Mawr's able speech on Friday evening was
pooh•poohingly left unanswered, and only 38members
(tellers included) were found to support his mo-
tion. Thirty-eight, therefore, would appear to be
the number of tha clear-sighted, high-principled,
uncompromising free traders in the House of
Commons ; the number of the protectionists bor-
ders close upon two hundred ; the remainder of the'
house is composed of men who either have no definite
convictions or principles on questions of commercial i
policy, or who can set them aside without maple to
serve the ends of political leaders. It is a pretty safe
maxim to take for granted that any step for which
you are outrageously complimented by avowed ad-
versaries or half-hearted friends, is a false one on
your part. Great is the laudation that has been ba-
stowed upon the free traders for dissolving the anti-
corn-law league as soon as corn-law repeal was
carried. It is clear, from the divisions of Thursday
and Friday in the House of Commons, that the league
is still needed to keep the so-called representatives of
the people in order.
ith reference to the ministerial sugar measure,
Mr. BRIGHT placed one of the most difficult points in
the controversy about the West India claims to pro-
tection in an entirely new and striking point of new.
It is alleged, on behalf of the West Indians, that
negro emancipation has put the sugar cultivation of
our colonies in an exceptional position ; that the prin-
ciples of free trade, however sound in general, cannot
be applied to the competition of countries compelled
to refrain from the use of slave-labour, with countries
which have slave-labour. In answer to this it has
been urged that the West Indians were paid twenty
millions for dispensing with the use of slave-
labour. The more judicious of the West Indians
advocates deny that this compensation was
adequate, and enter into details of the slave-
owners' power to command continuous labour, as
contrasted with the helplessness of the West
Indians in this respect, to prove their allegation.
Their plea is plausible. There has been great
difficulty in deciding upon it for want of a
standard whereby to test the adequacy of the com-
pensation. Mr. BRIGHT has at last discovered such
a standard, and has tested by it the validity of
the allegations of the West Indians. "The
largest export of Jamaica was in 1833, when it
amounted to 3,148,0001. That amount, allowing 10
per cent., would leave a profit of 314,800/. Now the
share of the compensation money which was received
by Jamaica was 6,150,0001., and that sum, if invested
at 5 per cent., would yield an income of 307,000/.,
being within 7,8001. of 10 per cent. on the whole ex-
port. In Trinidad and Guiana a similar calculation
gave an income of 13 per cent. on the whole ex-
ports of each colony." That the compensation
awarded by the British parliament to the slave-
owners of these colonies has not placed them in a
position of security from any injurious effect of the
change in their social circumstances on their incomes,