The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

I he Orpreal.

MAILS.
The overland rimed malls, me Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Pgypt, Aden, Ceylon, LAM, liong-hoot. &a, will be made up on the
evening of the 24th Aug.
The malls foe Ben& North Amer's:2, end the United States
will be made up the evening of the 25th Aug.
The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, end Gibraltar
will be made up on the Morning of the 27th Aug.
The mails for New South Wales, Van Diaman's Land, sad New
Zealand wall be made up on the evening of the 31.1 August.
The mulls for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made
up on the evening of the 31st August.
The West India Malta, including Bermuda, Nome., Havanna,
flonduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, end Porto Rico, and
excluding those for Madeira, JserneL Carthagena, Santa Martha,
Charm, Panama, West Ceest of South America, and St. Juan-de-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the bid Sept.
The mails for the Beadle, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco. Bahia, Madge% and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th Bwi4emter.
The overland afar Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the TOM= Wanda,
!gym, Aden, lndia, Bong-Kong, end China, via Southamp-
ton, -will be made upon the evening of the 20th Sept.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of tunedSTAMPS by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, during47,the
DAILY NEWS was 3.44'7.009
This, we believe is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the If4ning Herald, Morning Chronick, and
Morning Poet, ALL PUT TOOBIR.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Vern* Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edttion,
THE EXPRESS 7781714
Which was mare, we believe, than were issued either to
the Glob.or Standard. Evening Papas.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22.
HOWEVER interesting in an historical point of view
the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on the events
of the French Republic, and the interrogatories ac-
cempanying it, we are still struck with the inexpe-
diency of subjecting the body of the French republic
to this anatomy befor.' death, this ante-mortem
examination, attended as it must be with agony and
convulsion, and productive of no corresponding result
in either utility or the discovery of truth.
Had the proofs been ever so flagrant, of the culpa-
bility of the chief persons accused, as to carry convic-
tion with them, still there were the objections of
there being no impartial tribunal to try them, and of
the entire protedings being a struggle for politi-
cal power in a political assembly, rather than a
trial carried on by judicial gravity for judicial ends.
There cannot be a more honourable man than M.
BARROT, who presided at the committee of inquiry ;
bat it cannot escape being remarked that M.
BARROT was the great political chief of the moderate
movement, who was tripped up, dispossessed, and die-
eomfited by the republicans in February. To set
M. BARROT and his friends to inquire into the guilt
of these republicans was surely not impartial or
decorous. Now will follow the debate in the as-
sembly on the subject; and what will be the object of
that debate ? It will be that the more conservative
shall expel from the assembly certain of its antago-
nists accused of complicity in these movements, and
that, divided as the assembly is, the vote on this
purely judicial subject may have the result of
Mraing and securing the majority.
All this might be said, even if the proofs were
strong, and the evidence irrefragable. What shall
be said if the mass of testimony amounts to nothing
Linos certainty, if it leaves the accusation vague as
ever, and M. Lanitu-Rowc's degree of guilt
an
enigma for parties to 'Mile in contradictory fashion
Our own ideas of that republican's complicity
guidance of the violent movements and ontbre,
aro considerably more favourable to him since
we have perused the interrogatories of the in-
quiry. And, what we could not well do be-
fore—viz. understand M. Laiimatten's countenance,
and Gen. CAVAIONACI shaking hands with him
as be descended from the tribune—all this we Gan
now fully comprehend. From all we have read of the
inquiry UMRII-ROLLIN seems a man MOM weak than
guilty more the 'Tort el eircumdanom than the
guide of them. And the more the veil is drawn from
those events'and theircauses, the more do they seem the
result of national folly and frenzy rather than of indi-
vidual or decygning guilt

There will -two extreme and contradictory
opinions an the subject of them events. One extreme
is that entertained and expressed by M. LAXARTINE.
that there was very little of conspiracy or premedits-