The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-18 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The male for Gibraltar, Melia, Gimes. the lonian mush,
Zaps. Cryles, ladle, sad Class, taw llosthseeptea, will
be aide up to-morrow evening, Jas. 19.
Tre male rid Ilaeseilee, to the Mediterranean,
C..lles, Ids, BoarYeag, It., will be as& apt art
',meg el Jut. 24.
The smile fee Britieb Nettle America sad the trailed
States will be made up es the evosiag of Jaw. 26.
The malls be Lisboa, Spilt., sad Gibraltar will be leads
tip as Jas. 27.
The West leas laeladiss Bermuda. nasawasa.
Hs^derse, New Otiesse. sad Yeaiee, sad maladies
lustredues lee Madeirs, Bt. isea.de-Nlearaptia, New Graaada,
• and Peru, will be asadeap es Feb. 2.
Tae sails fee Iliederia. the &sails. sad Buenos llyree,will
be made up ea the eveolag el Feb. 4.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18.

OUR dejected contasponary. the Morning Post,
does not affect to disgaiseita thagrin at the selection
of Mr. CHARLES VILLIERS to move the Address, in
reply to htr Majesty's speech. The inference
from such a choice, at such atone, is too palpable to
admit of doubt or mystification. It wu plainly in-
tended, and has been promptly taken on all hands
to signify that upon the great principle of free
trade in food there is and can be no wavering
among those who occupy the seats of
.power. Nulla
whom retrorsum, is adopted u the ministerial motto
--and the banner of free trade, which had been laid
by as a trophy, if it m ast be once more unfurled, will
be committed to the hands that carried it bravely
in mar y a forlorn hope, and bore it eventually to vie-

tory.
The name of Mr. Vietecas is enough to show what
battle it is that must be fought, if, indeed, the falter-
ing he irts of the protectionists do not fail them when
the long tniked-or day arrives. There seems to be
already a emsciou,ness in certain quarters that, after
the innumerable defeats their detached parties have
encountered recently, it may not be easy to bring
them all op by the 31st instan. The alarm bell is
ringing violently. With gasping emphasis the solemn
notification is sent forth that there will he an amend-
ment to the address. It is an unusual course our con-
tmaporary.owns, in accents bland and deprecating ;
but the exigencies of the party admit not of further
indecision or delay. Necessity has no choice ;
bear ye, therefore, all manner of landowning
men ; en amendment will bemoved on the
Address. Est i' possible?" his then, is
ali the length we have got as yet. Within a few
days of the long fore-known occasion, the utmost
stretch of Tory darit g is to publish an anonymous
utdertakirg that the party in general will not font
or rut: away!
But there are yet thirteen disheartening days
until t threatened time of meeting. Many. are the
slips that may happen during that fearful Interval.
The ministerial chief has issued his ordinary sum-
mons to his supporters in the usual terms. Has Mr.
Destutel ventured "respectfully to request the
presence," in their pin.' behind him, of the country
gentlemen whom hr has hitherto led ? On his showing
reactlon is the sentiment of England; end be, its author
and spade, ought therefore to be Prime Minister.
He who affected to consider it conclusive that free
trade was not the conviction of the nation because
Mr. Connex was not, ere this, at the head of the ad-
Mniettetion, cannot flinch from the contingent
honours that belong, awarding to his own theory, to
the antagonist position. Nay, in all sincerity, we
say that whenever a cabinet shall be formed upon
protectionist principles, we think Mr. DISRAELI
will certainly be premier, but we should thick not
till then.
Meanwhile let us hope that, for their own sakes, if
zee for that of the country, the whirs will learn the
Let value of pluck. Had they vacillated in their ad-
herence to liberty of commerce—had they even
maned to do so; had they hesitated about saying, in
so Ditty words, that by this guerdon of industry
and peeves's they were resolved to stand or fall ;
bad they, even in a matter of such comparatively
small importance, invited a waverer or a trimmer to
take the initiative in the arsenal discussion with
which the *anion is to open ;—then is little doubt
but they would have strewn fit themselves a bed of
thorns, where now they will, in all prohability, find
little to d:scocipoee their official rest. Were there a
hope of winning. were there a chink in the wall of
reastanee, were there a symptom of schism among
free traders of all victims, there would bs no need of
solemn asseverations in any quarter that a stand-up
Sigst of et least one round there would at Westmin-
ster positively be. Where the carcase la, there will the
tories be gathered together. Bat where there is no
sight or scent of power, the fleck are not so readily
beckoned back to their cage. Each has some little
by-tit of plunder to look after, some morsel of pri-
vate prey to secure. The charmer; may call, bat they
will -only come when they severally ere in the
humour. Since the Pau. chain broke three years
ago, they have been rather wild, anti at the beginning
of each recurring newel of their truly wonderful per-
formance, the unrivalled showman, who can do what
be likes with then when once all ranged on their
peect.ts, has found mach difficulty in collecting them
togt thee.
Nevertheless, they will at length all drop in,
and a numerous array they make; formidable,
indeed, they would be, had they the gilt of
speech. That faculty has been denied them,
happily for the conduct of public business in a
house which already_ boasts of an unprecedented
st .ck e,f garrulity. The protectionists rely upon their
numbere • and them cannot be a doubt that where
one-third of an amenably are deliberately on mischief
bent, they are seldom long in finding something nes-
chievous to do. The coat of bureaucracy has too
many bole* for ell of them to escape the hungry eye
of opposition, and ministers mast make up their
minds to be worried and hammed daring the en-
suing session more than usual, mikes they will adopt,
on colonial and on Irish questions, the sane policy as
that of which the good fruits are already apparent
repecting free trade.
Let them anticipate attack, and instead of hiding
behind the broken and crumbling &hums of past
misrule, abandon them wholly and far ever, and
taking their stand in the open field of competition,
progre as, and public opinion, declare that they will
nu longer feign a belief in the worth of oppression,—
that their faith is in freedom and in freelom alone,—
and that if any dependency has strength and courage
sufficient to take upon it the liabilities and liberties of
internal self-rule, England has neither the disposition
nor any selfish motive to prevent her. Let the whip
only summon up courage to mean what is just, and
to say whet they mean, and they may laugh at the
inarticulate turbulence of the tory opposition.
Toe selection of the most recently-elected represen-
tative of the City of London as the most suitable per-
son to second the Address, suggests cooLderattons
equally obvious. Sir JAMES DUKE sits in the House of
Commons as the last deliberate expression of the sense
of the first con‘titneney in the empire, that
freedom of commerce is, and must be, held
to be finally established. Seven years ago
protectiotis n did not despair of being able to
dispute succ:ssfully the representation of the metro-
polis of the worlds trade, with those who see k to
maks that trade in every clime and in every region
free. But the faith of protectionism in itself is dead ;
and when the ex-Lord Mayor offered himself a few
months since as a candidate, not a man of any weight
or character could be found to oppose him on such
principles. No argument will probably be adduced
in the coming debates more significant or emphatic
than this which the name of the worthy boronet as
seconder of the address is calculated to suggest.

IT is not one of the least of the objections to the I
advertisement duty that it is impossible to sasses it
fairly or equitably. On no class, perhspe, is it more
burdensome than on publishers, whose only means of
m tking their works known is through some advertis.
it eshanocl. But see how the duty falls upon this clam.
Os.e has a single work to advertise; unother has a
catalogue of fifty or a hundred books to make known
to the public. The duty to government is precisely
the same whether the publisher advertises one book
or a thousand. So long as it is "one concern"
as regards the publisher, the Excise or the &amp-
office make but one charge, though it is obvious that
the circumstances of nearly every other book so ad-
vertised will differ as regards its copyright and profit.
Again, it has been a common practice with Loudon
publishers to club together for the publication of an