The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-11 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

ACCOUNT OF TEE AMOUNT OF BALANCES of sums issued
for the payment of dividends due and not demanded, and for
the payment of lottery prizes or benefits not claimed.—On
April 5,1846, 1,108,1181, 19s. 6d.; July 5,1,093,5561.05. bd. ;
Oct. 10, 1,017,9801. 13s. Bd. ; Jan. 5,1847, 1.068,8191. es 6d.
In compliance with the acts of parliament, 3,802,6131. 55.10 d.
out of the above amounts was advanced to government.
The papers are dated Jan. 25, 1847.
DRAINAGE OP LAND.—A sessional paper with this title
has been issued with the votes. It contains a return of all
the applications for the advance of public money under the
Act 9 & 10 Vic., c. 101, as regards England and Scotland.
In England from Sept. 28, 1846, to Feb. 1, 1847 (inchunve), 49
applications had been made, and thenagreLtedof the sums
se
EpleBl43f°, tor wFieb2.lll,B,4zi o(Tne.
31,;iveI), 168° applicatiomns had
been made, and the aggregate of the sums applied for was
803,8041. 13s. 4d. In some of the applications from Scot-
land, the expenses of fencing and trenching the land pro-
posed to he drained are included in the amount applied for.
On the Ist of February, the sanction of the Commissioners
of the Treasury had not been applied for in any case.

How TO READ THE DEBATES.—As it is really a
day's labour to read the debates—and it is a luxury which
only gentlemen possessing 1,0001. a year can afford—we ad-
vise persons who wish to acquire some knowle * of the
legislature of their country, and yet have their business or
pleasure to attend to, merely to glance over the " bears"
and the " cheers," which are interspersed, like so many
glow-worms, along the dark, interminable lanes of type.
The " laughs" also are worth stopping in one's dreary journey
to listen to ; and an "order from the Speaker" may also justify
a momentary stoppage ; but when there is nothing but a
gloomy expanse of level.= broken , barren-looking pri ut before
the reader, we recommend him to run over it as fast as he
can, not to make a single stop but to jump over each mem-
ber's style in the most expeditious manner. The spots we
have marked are the only placed worth halting at—the few
oases in the grand parliamentary desert—all the rest is dust,
dust, dust, nothing but dust, which would blind in time the
strongest pair of eyes, and lay up the most indefatigable
reader. By pursuing this line of march the bold traveller
who intends running through the Arabia Petrsra of debates,
will get to the end of his day's journey in the early part of
the morning, and will herein the afternoon for resting him-
self. With a feeling of the truest benevolence we wish him
a happy journey.— A.
A BEACON TO VOTE By.—Lord Sidineatli used
occasionally to amuse his friends with stories of a well-
known humorist, Mr. Ferguson of Pitfour, who held a seat
lin the house when his lordship was Speaker. That gentle-
man used to insist tha, the government ought always to
select a tall man to fill the office of Lord Advocate. ' We
Scotch members," he said, " always vote with the Lord Ad-
vocate, and we require therefore to see him in a division.
Now, I can see Mr. Pitt, and I can see Mr. Addington; but
I cannot see the Lord Advocate.—Life of Lord Sidrnoldh.
THE GERMAN FLEET.—BERLIN, FEBRUARY 2.
The maim of a German fleet, which was lately
discussed with such great interest by the whole of Germany,
is by no means abandoned, but is again brought forward
since the reveaues of the Zollvereia have increased to nearly
double what they were before. Now, though no person will
fancy that Germany ran in any way compete with the marl.
time powers,. yet it is for the interest of the Zollverein to
protect by suitable measures the commerce of Germany in
the distant regions of America and the South Sea, and
therefore a million„pr even half a million, which m ght be
annually taken from the revenue of the Zollverein, and
applied to the building of the fleet, might be very well
spent, as appears from the wishes of our conies in Mexico,
Brasil, &v. —Hamburg Paper.

WAGHORN'S SECOND PAMPHLET on
STEAM to AUSTRALIA, 'Stressed to the Right Mom FArl
Grey, f'
Seat= Price One Shilling.
IL Elder, end Company.

TEE ADVERTISING OFFICES of the " DAILY
NEWS" bare been REMOVED from 90, FLEET-STREET, to
No. 10. IBOUVERIE-STREET, FLEET-STREET, contiguous to the
Printing cud Publishing Mau

hit 't%%•

MAILS.

The maila for Vigo, 0=1:631011, Madeira, Cadis, and Gibraltar,
will be made up on the of the Ilth February.
The West India mails, tat those for Medea, Honduras, and
the flavannah, will be made op on the morning of the I;th February.
The omrlan4 for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-Kong, and China, via Southampton,
wiD be made up on the morning of the ion of Fehroary.
The Demisted closed mai* Ma Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Fgypt, Ades, Ceylon, India, Moog Kong, Be., will be made up on the
evening of the 4th Februare.
The math for New South Wake, Van Diesnen's Land, and New
Zeeland will be made up oe the evening of the let March.
The malls for Brithit North America, Bermuda, and the United
Mates, will be made up on the evening of the 3rd March.
The math for the Brasile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Ferment.
Q.lrflabia, Madeira, and Swum Ayres, will be made op on the
dile 4th 31 arch.