The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

of the house, for reduction in these emoluments; and
ministers, an well as judges and exaelleacies, must
how to it.
It wsa obeerred the other day, that there 'most
mold be no plane lit for w lord, to will* the apt!
' rejoinder was, that in that bass mare lolik would hi
found fit ter places. -As de am *kid* is iii
owned, these is no !now a Nitta or b core
when great display or munificence is needed.
Frame is a republic, Runde Mai Matti*
are maltary monarelties, when in truth the
only coreast is the epaulette. Even in oar own
proud capital we have seen the upstart mildew of
an ephemeral republic obis to
_poi together an
intrigue for overturning a powered ninisior, which
would have required at least a duke read a mealier to
accomplish in former periods. The man of bombess
ham is fact mirror* the maa el plume I and it is
fair that appointments and la=Mn lob aid undergo
an analogous ohmage.
It mud, however, be talon Into assount that the
diplomatic eervies is rest mehmshee, the grest dims
are few I and that so wenisefal @moot cleaving can
be effected by elessmy, however just, beiag applied
to them whilst sessemy itself, if serried to an
extreme, would islet hy not only lower-
ing the standard of ties mr~, bat by Unlike the
cluou for lit pets to that class of men, pos-
sessed of Wormiest, sad in all probability of here-
ditary foetus%
Large is to be sought in allowing the
colonise to for their own defence, or by
al them to share in the honours and
of a great empire. Towards these
groat rams we have, -however, not made
a stsp. Gilts the contrary, indeed; for giving, in
ewe now asestitutions, a paramount inflame to oar
fesettemmies in the colonies, we create antagonism,
nimbler, aid opposite interests, which must ever
stand in the way of that good and complete under-
standing between mother-country and colonies, requi-
site to their sharing in and agreeing upon commas on-:
penile& We are, however, but in the very infamy of
colonial reforms.
We have said enough to show that never weal
moment less promising for parliamentary economy
and vigilance in fiscal matters, without the public it-
self takes a direct and open interest in the matter.
Financial associations are no longer so much in vogue.
The reason is because they seem to have effected
nothing. But in truth they have effected much. And
without their, or some efforts akin to theirs, we shall,
especially in these years of promised surplus, relapse
to the old prodigality, rather than be kept to rational
and imperative retrenchment.

TIM investigation into die Istenveniences of the
suppression of letter and newspaper delivery and col-
lection on Sundays, has terminated, u all reasonable
men anticipated it would terminate, in a recommen-
dation by the commissioners appointed
ivin by the Crown
to return to the former practice; gg, however,
permission to those who like Lord AsULET and his
confederates think that man wu made for the Sab-
bath, and not the Sabbath for man, to have their
ist,ers and papers retained at the post-oMoes they
have reached on that day; and suggesting such ar-
rangements as will give to country postmasters and
postmen still further relaxation on Sundays than the
very large relief Mr. ROWLAND HILL'S measures bad
already given them on that day.
This will,:of course, satisfy all persona except those
who, not oontent with a bitter observance of Sundays
themselves, desire to render it an equally bitter day to
those who nun find no religious or moral objection to
take rational amusement, to perform works of mercy
or necessity, or to transact pressing and, humanly
speaking, unavoidable business on that day. This
class it will not satisfy ; and :it is quite hopeless to
attempt to satisfy them; for their views of Sabbath
observance are not only anti-social, but from their in-
adequacy to, and inconsistency with, the end they
themselves profess to aim at, are in reality a satire on

religion.
It is not, howevever, without its uses that this party
has been temporarily successful on such a question ;
hr their success has effectually taught the country the
issevenienoss,u well maths absurdity of pushing, in an
IV et improving morals and of extendiog religious
Wbeaese, the austerities of puritanism to their legi-
timate conclusion. The danger of allowing any
ems of the religious parties into which the
sentry is split, a triumph in social arrangements
bee now been practically experienced ; and it will be
long before parliament, either in a At of cowardice or
of indifference, will repeat the experience. What a
world it would be, ruled by Lord ASHLEY and his
clique! Worse far than the puritanism of CROM-
WELL'S time : for then a deep feeling of earnestness
and sincerity ran through the roundheads, and an
anxious regard for civil liberty. Whilst in our modern
puritans there is little but religions intolerance or
political ambition, unrelieved by the delusions of a
fifth monarchy, or by any regard for constitutional
freedom or political progress. It is bigotry in its
worst, because in its most senseless, form.
Nor ought their fleeting success to be without its
value to the Post-office department itself. It is
notorious that the movement which Lord ARMLET
lead had its origin in the deep dissatisfaction
of nearly all classes of the Post-office ern-
lasais with the inadequate remuneration they receive.
Tin dissatisfaction bad I,roduced a cabal in the de-
mised ready to take advantage of any internal
atrangsmaats which they could misrepresent to
da-
mage their authors with the public ; and accordingly
when the late Sunday regulations for really lessening
the amount of Sunday work both in London and the
provinces appeared, this cabal supplied Lord Asian'
and his friends with that pile of silo-statements on
which the excitement of the "religious world" was
based. Conduct such as this can, or course, meet with
no sympathy ; insubordination such as was displayed
on that occasion must be suppressed; and intrigue
and breach of coLfidence such u were then exhibited
ought to be severely punished. But when all this
has been done, the cause of this dissatisfaction
ought to be remedied. It is not creditable to
a department of the state so intimately con-
nected with the comfort, the welfare, and the Fos-
perity of the country, as the Poet-office must be, to
have a thoroughly dissatisfied service, ready on any
emerge ncy to 'Nero it in public opinion, and pre-
pared is its anxiety to do damage, and to reriously in-
europium the country.
The truth is, that the sooner the government can
make up its mind to resign the conveyance and deli-
', vary of the correspondence of the country as a pee-
-1 mend soiree of revenue, the better will it be. On
no mend principle ought the Post-office to be ex-
-1 rebel to contribute a large and permanent and de-
pendable sum to the Imperial Treasury; for all
evidence shows that such a contribution Is mainly
Credby limiting and confining those INITSII-
ind facilities which it ought to be
the chief end of a Post-office to furnish.
Whereas the Post-office, as new conducted, instead of
'simier at giving the public the greatest possible ad-
Indigos in the conveyance of correspondence, is
obliged by the Treasury to narrow and confine them
advantages to its Anal wants, to underpay ita emc-
ee,* to ingot on railways carrying the mails on in-
signias; terse, and in every imaginable manner
etnesidng out a aortae surplus revenue. No man
1011111111 this better than Mr. ROWLAND ; and
until the Treasary allow him some further margin in
the expected samba from hie department, the further
development of his useful plans is, we fear, hopeless.

Ova renders will bear in mind that the respite of
WILLIAM Roes. miteeced to death on a charge of
rysilhis wife, only extends to Saturday. On that
l
,Dinalecg o government have previously made up their
=Ms that he is innocent, or that there is 'salient
uncertainty shout his came to warrant the further
postponement of the execution, the mu must die.
the establishment of Ross's innocence news.
eerily and unavoidably imply the transference of the
imputation of guilt from him to MAIITITA BUCILLEY,
we confess that we should feel reluctant to give
utterance to the strong impression on oar minds that
he is not guilty. Bat it does not seem neatesary to
his maceration that she should be usamed to have
committed a murder.
The ease, viewed by the additional light that has
now been thrown upon it, seems to stand thus :—That
MART Roes died in consequence of having taken
arsenic is established beyond a doubt. Who admin-
istered the Om, That the woman took it of her
own mooed is bgond the limits of credibility. Two
her husband and her sister, are proved to
Cryirtininistered drink to her before her death.
The smipiction lies between them. Can arsenic be
traced to the possession of either ?
WiLuAlt Moss is proved to have purchased