The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

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MAILS.
The mails for British North Americo, and the United Nem,
Will be made up an the evening of the 16•11 June.
The Weal Wu Malls, excluding liarmuda, Havanna,
lioadorth, New Orleana, Vera Crux, Tampro, and Porto Kim, and
inluiing those for Madeira, Jaemel, Carthagens, &nth Martini,
Chaim's, Panama, Went Clout ot South America,and ht. Juansde,
Nicaragua, will he made up on the meaning of the I; thin...
The malls for Vigo, Oporus, Lisbon. Madeira, Cadia, and Gibraltar
Wlll be made up the morning of the Nth June. •
The overland mails lot Gibraltar, Malt{ Greece, the !organ Islands,
Egypt, modn, India, Hong-Kong, and China, tia Southamp-
ton, will be up on the morning of the 20th June.
The ore, land elo,d mails, rya Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aibw. Ceylon. India, 'lung-Kong, Marseille
will be made up on the
over..ng of the 71111 June.
Tbe mails for New south Wales, Van Dienian's Land, and
Zealand will be made up WI the evening of the 3tob June. Now
The mails for the Mrs! :mat of Africa and blade's; will be made
op on the evening of the Nth June.
The mails Sir the Sewn% the Ricer Nate, Monte Video, Perballa.
taco. Bahia, Nlndeira, tad Buenos Ayres, will tie made up on the
evening of the Ith July.

NOTICE TO ADVE2TIBERS.
The number cii STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp-oiliee, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3.447.009
This, we N.H.... is within esolit per cent or the number
trued to the Morning Heroics, Morning Chronicle, 601
iforntraq PO XI, &LI. FUT TUOZTIISK.
to addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
ilorning Moir., there were issued tor the Ere,41.4 / Edition,
TDB REPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe. than were issued either to
the 1:108" or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 13.

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Tua aseemblages or demonstrations got up yester-
day in London, and in several parts of the country,
and which assumed the name of chartist, were meld-
festly.not planned either with the view to din mai en
or petitioning, or even to the dieptny of numbere.
These ecaticod Dewier, intended has to command
the reelect and attention of the li gislature, than to
harass recd defeat the police, did not bespeak the
tactics of any great or national party, confident in its
strength. The movements were three° of a
weak and discomfit' d faction, which makes
up for pain hy of numbers, and manliness
of purp tse, by forming guerilla parties to
ravage and annoy, and give to the country an as-
pect erf disquietude and disiurbance. No good end,
or rational cause could possibly he further, rl lor those
means, which arc a mere mimicry of French anarchy
without French courage, and of Irish fanaticism
without the reality of Irish grievance. It is in fact,
playing at revolution without a pretext, and pro-
cueing as a result, the greatest discredit to those 004.
seientions and rational partisans of the extension of
freedom and reform, whose greatest foe is the street
rioter and the club brawler.
Wet must say that the precautions of the govern-
ment were marked by discretion. There was no
pamdeot spesial enlist ables t hrou gh crowded and peace-
ful awe ta, no intrusion of military, no provocation to
a row given by the harsh treatment of idlers. The
conservative portion of the body politic and social
showed preparation, not alarm. And the would-he
rioters cannot b net that they disturbol either the
business or pleosore of this great population by their
th cats Coupling these precautions and the protibi-
tions of hoorless meetings with the assurance of the
IlomeMinieter in parliament, that no let or hindrance
should he given to meetings c insetted for the fair and
legal exp., ssicei of political opiteione, we should say
that the 12 h ordure has passed with much cause of
congratulation and none of complaint
The beat part or it is the less en, which the rioters,
wle ern we will not call chartist!,, have received, or
might draw, from the events of the day. These
people have mere a great mistake, and they ought
now to be growing conscious of it. They arc agitat-
ing, hut no upon a basis of English grievance or
English sentiment. Nr,sterday their avowed purpose
was to emulate Irish turhelenee. But in attempting
this they forgot, or were ignorant, that Irish Meath
lence is not menacing, except it be agrarian.
It is rot the brawling or the drilling of
the Irish . artisan, or of the more ragged
population of Dubin, that need alarm the au-
thorities of the sister island. It is the di ep dis-
affection of the peasant, hie ineeseurity of fod, his
hatred to protestant landlords, his contrast between
his own unpaid pastor, starving like himst If, and the
well fed, but little to do, clergy of the establishment,
and in fine the simpathetic chord of a depressed nd
dethroned religion, a hich runs through and unites the
entire Irish people. Yet the attempts to enact a re- I
peal riot or revolution, in either Dublin or Cork, h eve I
proved a face. Then to get np even a riot, much lege
attempt a rev ilution, with the mere populace
of London is an absurdity. The Londoners,
even the very rabble, have no soul or cure for it. A
seditious orator nits tell them the y want spirit. And
the truth is, they do want spirit for that, although
abounding in courage and durirg for whatever object
strik a them as desirable or commendable.
The attempt to get the English to imitate the
French, is jest as hopeless as to work them up to
Irish freeze. The uneasy spirit of the French
is in their recollection of the last three-
quarters of a century, in the popular tradi-
tions of '92, of the war, of the times when the
lower classes duminated the upper ones, and when
rational glory strangely came of it. But all this was
achieved by war, a war which overran and conquered
Europe. Let the Frenchman try that again if he
pl mice. The Englishman has no fancy fur such a
crusade.
To seize power by the strong hand and place
the multitude of wanters and of earners com-
pletely master over those who have and pos-
sess, the result of which would be to anni-
hilate at once three-fourths of that property
sa tielicately and fa2ilely built up, which forties the
source of the I hourer's employ—this is an act %hie!'
the Englishman is not fool enough to attempt. And
even chartism,f4r;CC it has been hoi-tad as a banner
by the physical fierce men, has so affrighted and
disgusted the operatives, that ne-t ore in twenty enter-
tains the idea, even in those districts where the inte-
rest of the operative's seems to point to some combina-
tion and understanding as a protection against these
above them.
fie the Globe truly observe., the real and original
chartist leaders remain completely strangers to the
present abortive attempts and noisy menaces. They
alach themselves more and more to the middle class
movement for reform, which is best calculeited to
open to them, and to all enlightened and perm able
representatives of popular interest., a political pulpit
from which to divulge their doctrines and proclaim
their rights.
These abortive riots attrihutel to chartism are, in
fact, the grew, st of F:oons to the tories: fur thew
enemiesto all freedom told progress use in them the
permanent disunion of the two classes whose com-
mon understanding would amen shake all *that wits
overweening arid unfair in the influence of the aris-
tocracy, and WOllll establish a cheap, popular, and
honest government. The great obstacles to such a
consuniniation ore certainly those popular ear saes,
rrix trated abroad at.d tiktotteni d at home, retie-
tiate ly in vain, hot unfortunately not without ffiat,
even as threats, in eelartning and disquieting the
peaceful and industrious classes, and se noway inter-
rupting the commercial prosperity of the country.

The Report of the Commons Committee on the
late commetei,l distress, is now in the prioterte hat de.
In substance, the committee have, it is untie rstoud,
cap eased, by a majority of 13 eg daist 11, an opi ion
that the distrt es would have la en mole oVI re than
it was, had it n t b. en for the operation of Sr• Robert
Peel's Currency Acts.
There are curious rumours as to how this majarity
of two—thirteen to eh yen—was procured. The pot lie
will be more mtonisoed to learn that the vote which
decided that In3jot ity —and which, had it remained
firm, would have left the opinion of the committee
equally divided --WdS no other than that of Mr.
THOMAS BAKING.
Now, it will he remembered that the honour .ble
member for Huntingdon made one of the most
cutting speeches uttered in parliament against Sir
Remain. itte.t's Bauk Bill ; and th 0. he even sur-
passed the inveteracy of his uncle, Lord Asnitu tyros.
Ilow then can Mr. 'pmas BARING'S name be lound
on the list of the majority of the. committe,• apps icing
of that bill? Has the koa member for Iluntitigdott
I:s.rtert d to give up his upptesition to PEEL'S bill, as
the portion of a sacrifice new asary to conciltare and
procure the adhesion of the supporters of that bill to
the greater cause or Wesc It ilia prat ction?

A REMARKABLE document wee circulated at a'
recent sitting of the Frankfort diet, the purport of
which appears deserving of serious attention. At the
present moment, when all races are up in arms, and
when political strife seems on the point of merging
in a conflict of nationalitice, it is pleasant to bear a
powerful voice raised on the side of reason and cm.
humanity ; and such, it is to. be hoped, the voice of
the writer of the programme in question will prove.
Ile holds up to view, iu a forcible manner,
the absurdity of sacrificing the liberty of the in-
dividual to particular theories of state organi-
sation. But the folly of inviting millions of Slave-
'llene to remain contented with a state of subjection to
Germans, and of suppoeing that this subjection will
be more palatable with republican than with moilee
chical forme, is still more glaring. There are at least
twenty millions of Slavoniuns seared between the
Upper Elbe and the Aariatic. The Germans do not
outnumber them, although they may be richer and
intellectually more advanced than the Sluvoniane.
Yet the Slavonians are reaching them by rapid
strides, and their progress, al.housh silent, has of late
years been very considerable.
After the thirty years' war, in which the power o.
the llohernans was totally betoken by FERDINAND 11.,
the Slavonic inhabitants of that country were said to
have been reduced to 200,000. The waste lands were
divided amongst the adherents of the court, especially
thosewhudclivered it from the dreaded Ws LLENeTli.loi,
and anionget the church, especially the Jesuits.
Similar opportunities of aggrandising great families
and the church WI re offered in Hungary by the
rebellions of TELEKY and Itaeterev. The houses
thus enriched acknowledged their dependence on
the Austrian court, and not only spent a portion
of their princely revenues in the capital, but I
laboured fervently at home to support a do Anion
to which they owed so much. In process of
time their homage come to be regarded as an
act of duty ; and as they had sanctioned the
transfer of a part of their estates to evade the land
tax) to the peasantry, they gave the court a
hold upon their vassals w Ideh they never cculd
recuver. Gradually, though slowly, a middle class
sprang up, over which the nobles willingly did p dice
service when they showed a disposition to be turbu-
lent, but which, as tax-payers, rendered too good
service to the crown to be left by the monarch without
protection. Manufactures first sprang up in Bohemia,
of all the Austrian provinces. and its manufacturing
districts are chit fly p. opled by Germans. In the capital,
on the other hued, and, strange to say, in the heart
of that university which was delivered up, bound hand
and foot, to the )t suits in 16211, the Slavonic character
asserted its superiority, arid the sparks of into fleet
which JOHN Iles, tunny. of Prague, and the other
reformers, Levue.ia's predecessors, had thrown eir,
kindled a flame that the Austrians vainly en-
deavoured to sino•hee. The permission to study
and use (in 'private) their native tongue, which
Joserit 11. canceled, roused, as by enchantment, the
slumbering spirit of netionulity : and the long reign
of Feescis, and mat of the energies of his minister
were devoted to concealing the struggle which they
maintained in thisvaluable province againsttlie teopu-
lar feeling. It was the case of England and Indeed
reversed. In Bob. mita, an industrious plodding people.
guided and a heated by the secret care of a great
many enlightened catholic p iests, was rising rapidly,
not to rival, but to outstrip, the favoured
metropolitan province. The school of divi-
nity which eat at Prague, communicated even-
tually to G, un any that view of eatholictem,
which ens te ably advocated by Rosn and the new
German reformers For the second time Germany took
its views of religion from the Bohemians, and teeic•
fore the Germans cannot deny mental power to belong
to their rmeate-t Slavonic neighbours. RONGE and
Czeitskt are both from Breslau, a Germanised capital
of a Slavonic province of Pi useia ; and iu Silesia, as
in all other Slavonic c runtries, the example or the
good shepherds of the flack at Prague (they w. le not
amongst the dignitar.es), had awakened emulation
and imitation. In Poland, in Ilungary, in Silesia, iu
lilyria, a proe:l Iteltng of nationality was kindled
with the crnecioustieso that the movement commenced
in Prague, se no one cutr.ucive no less to the glory
of the than to pence and goof will
amongst men. And now the claims of a natio, alit},
revived under such auspices, root MIRA (luridly founded
upon all that strengthens enthusiasm and suetains
courage, are preferred before the representatives of the
laeople of central Europe. They contain an appeal to
the Ge,maios to give up tha thoughts ot asserting their
supremacy by tot ce of Irmo, which they ca ,not hope
to bubitautia e. The Sleavoniens call upon them to
Germ a confederation, it which the two theionalitics
shall subsist upon equal terms, and upon a footing of
friendship. Dish ad of art internecine win., which
would reduce both parties to a state of weakness, and
which would make the m an easy prey to any enemy,
the Slavoniane propose a league of broinet hod,
which must prove invincible against any seta .k.
That they ore sincere, cannot lac doubted ;
for their hoed is, that the only alternative 11.'1 them,
if the Germans refuse to take the high standing which
suits a civilised peopl-., and thus civil war heroines iue
vitahle, is to throw themeeleta Ito the arms of
Russia, and thus realise that Panslavism, of a hich the
Bohemians ale now lalsely accused.
Russian eaten s have indeed been busy in southern
Slavonia, and where are they not Ito ? 11.1 c who
that knows the gulph which separates the Greek from
the Latin c [lurch, can suppose that the agent of that
dormer is willingly listened to by the scholar of the
latter? What popes, and councite, and philosophers,
have failed to recoocile, the Emperor NICHOLAS calm-
not unite with all the art of hie policy, nor wit ii all
the gold of Siberian welds. A vote of the Frnekfort
Diet, refusing the proffered cuetedination, would have
a better chance of serving the CZAR.

IT was curious to observe the eager countenances
with which certain Protectionist members were
flitting in and out of the House of Commons on
%Wednesday in riming; and the phenomenon wrs ex-
plained by the fact that the horse was considering
the report on Mr. Coi.vme's bill be permitting the
occupiers of land, having the right to kill the flares
upon the land they occupy, to rid themselves of such
vermin without the meeseity of paying four guineas
martian) forfora game license :—no large measure of
erne, &don, certa'nly, to the strong and just fueling
entertained by the public atrainst the game laws. So
I tar De it weer, the measure is right enough.
hie nothing more unfair can be imaAnial
than to compel a man to pay heavily for a license
to rid himself of one of the greatest petite
with which cultivated land can be hill Med. Practi-
cally, however, it will have a very limited operation,
fur the resery thin of hares and ether game is almost
universal amstrest English lundoanere, and eons.-
wetly to such via a the bid will not apply. As WM..
with truth remark. dby Mr. G. But ELM', it is ab-
surd to talk of the measure as a boon to the tenantry,
" fur no ban could be given them without the per-
mission of the landlords, who, whatever the law
might enact, would prohibit the shooting of hares
on pain of expulsion from their farms." Now,
ih ugh this remark will suggest "tome import-
ant considerations to farmers with regard
to the &life sneiel position in which they allow thr m-
selves to he plan 11, it is no argument ceainst any
ainge, let it he ever so small, that will relieve rein
a few persins from acme of the oppressive operation
of the game laws.
Yet even this little relaxation of the feudal code
rani id forth the moat diem •1 prophetic apprehensions
ff ore s me Woke members, and excited the utmost
ineemuity on the part of the whole body, aided by
their corulj itor the Home Secretary, to fence and
gilled their genie system from more than thi• m•
infinitesimal int ruction. 'f he agony of poor Mr.
when, regarding the bill as "the fleet step in the atini-
hil ition of the game laws," ho exclaimed, " An in
corn so in game, the landed interest would b• veer-
' thrown by letting in the thin end of the wedge," was
quite touching.
Then came the minute ingenuity exerri-ed to
prevent this small maser(' operating too extensively.
First, Mr. ELLIOT proposed that the leave given by
, landlords to their tenants to kill hares, which should
have the eft% ct. of ex. miffing from eertifiewe duty,
must be in writing. sir. Cotvihe objected that sea
an amendment" was calculated to frustrate the whole
'impose of the bill ;' and justly, fir every one who
lthows anything of the relations of landlord and te-
, rant in Eneland is aware that such a written
leave will scarcely ever be given. Farmers
often complain that though their lanai irds
are sometimra very kind in 'eremisitig, they
are " desprrately apt to forget," and have the
strongest poseible reluctance, in weir busi-
ness relations with their tenants, to el:Omitting