The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

.01:7001NO NAILS.

The mails kr Lisbon, Spats, sad Gibraltar will be made
er en the morning of Muth 7.
1 mail* yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Ever.
Ce . n. Ite., will be mad* up on tint
mg. of Merely, 7.
. . . .

The made tor British North Movies and the United
Sun-. will be made up as the evening of March 8.
Tee Meet Inihs Mails. excluding B•reauda, Havasaah,
Nimes, iln dares, New o.lmine, Gad Mexico, and including
them !or Madeira, St. Jaaa.cle-Nitaramia, New Grenade,
Chili, sad Pers.veill be mail's, on the 17th Met.
Tee mails tor Gibraltar, Malta, Orrery, the lonian Wendt
1470, Ceylon, India, wed Chian, is. Southampton, wilt
De o Ade op es thei morning ie. March 90.
Tee lovas for Maderia, the Brasil., sad Guam Aj'm, will
be awl. ay ow the evening es April 4.

MOM WATIIIt AT LONDON MUM&
T.. Dal —Wm.& lA. Oa Moms.. Oa Na
7. 7. OS.

LONDON, TUESDAY, ZdRCII

WE may sot be contented with all the results of
tete aid 849. still less with the part played in the
meats t these years by men and by monarchs; we
.y tlespiL regret that the large and important
port.= of Europe, which some " fortuitous congre-1
Rams of atoms" has collected under the Austri in
sceptre, has not acquired from these events s.me
hope a, least of political and social amelioration; we
ma, deplare that Italy, haring awakened to the
meets:tits the freedom, ar.d the independer ce cf the
19:h ref tury, has been durg back to the rjy:nte of
the 1501.

W. stay somewhat console ourselves, however, by
ntle r.in4, that if the events of these years have not
reerywhere secured liberty, they at leapt guarantee
pe,ce. If a war of any meg:made did not spring oat
o: tb- raturroOte acd danger of 1848 and 1849, such
a mu% we caw safely conclude, will never spring
up. ThLse years have had no one more striking re-
cta tt.n to tame down and eringuish every fiery
i. le in 'he breast of the nation must prone to war-
like impulse, sod wet able to gratify it. We
always apposed that the eld-r BOURBONS and Loris-
Pliturrt- held the war-spirit of Frsoce like a lion
is cage. The revolution destroyed the bars of that
sag be lien waked forth, and ha. proved a surly,
itrituble. eta grit-tormenting animal, but one that
MSS all its rage or, bins. If. To other powers he is
as dude and as little provoking as the tamest of
domestic acmes. Even French rivalry towards

En,rlsnd has disappeared. Secure of continental
alliance. and desirous of spreading the root of Boca-
nor iftluecce, France was seriously developing her
sae:: strength, and co:oniel rivalry with us. But 1848
bas pa: an eringu'sber upon France's ravel ambi-
tion. tips her colonial aspirations, and upon her dy-
na•ti^ r ..I.erirays with absolutism.
I! Fr u:e has thus ceased to be formidable or
qui tc a me, Russia has proved little less so. In
1.17 ate was overflowing with gold and martial
pp BSA -how, her to be poor and mendicant as
ever. whilst the Hungarian campaign, the result of
sore intrigue than tigh.ing, shows her to be anything
bns i iinc.ble. Russia, indeed, may have grown more
formidable to Turkey; but whatever foie* her
deyotic power may have gained by the absorp-
tion of toe Priespalitie.' and by reducing Au.-
trit to be her servitor, has been fully counter- 1
burred by . the creation of an independent,
free. and constitutional kingdom in the north, willing
and shit to counteract Russian influences and ideas, not
so much by war, but by attitude, by freedom, and by
e:.-pie. A good understanding b.tween the three
re,t desees:ve sad constitutional powers cf Europe
—F..gland, Frasoe, and Prussia—must henceforth,
sad withuut any set or written alliance. imperatively
secure and enforce the peace of Europe.
the Er.risses amongst us of high war expenditure
rd parries seem fully convinced that such are
th. et. ,Its of the last two years, and consequently
key admit that we are not threatened with any
rreeao rivalry, any patent or foreseen cause of war.
They sake this up, however, by the theory, that
war is a product of chance, not arlculation ; that it is
Lah e to yricg up from an accident, or collision, and
that alther.ich our prudence may avert any serious,
or open approach to hostility, yet a spark or
a brawl may precipitate the country into a war that
policy would never have provoked or contemplated.
sw, we must deny altogether this view of
quirrels.or their probability. When inch
sen,ments existed as peat national rivalries, kept
aloe by mutual ignorance, in times when there was
vie tad a press to correct, nor commercial nor
atlkot ietercoures to counteract such feelings, it
irss then easy fora kirg, or a minister, or a royal
airrees, either to hied's war of itself, or take ad-
aahtvge of some trifling incident to precipitate hose
IP. Such people were not arrested then by eon-
/aeratins of either humanity, expenditure, or risk.
Now, however, there is a public opinion every where,
as w.li is public control. War is a thousand times
mwr costly, and a thousand times more open to
'P.,' remelts. More crowns are staked thereon, than
martial staffs are won. We defy any Princes or
Peel, to play capriciously at such a game. And yet
plvers are each day abundantly occurring for war,
If %.r was desired. Each week and mouth comas
francht with accident, collision, misunderstanding.
And what do they all end in ?—the smoke, not of
carisms, but diplomacy. A oontemporary tells us that
it 'Le Emperor PAUL reigned in Rgasia at present, we
rnind have bad war. We beg to say the Emperor
F,"l, would not be allowed to reign in Roast'. Des
-
p us sorweientional countries have their re.
'ews, smash perhaps different ones, against insane
monares sad suicidal policy.
Mr. eturtive, therefore, will feel no qualms
Voteesting his measures for reduction of 'mien-
attam If it be admitted that we need no longer
!pm,' eighteen or twenty millions to meet the
three's,, and the designs of war from a cologne'
rival, "ta"i be surained that we ere still to
aIP ad the-, twenty millions in order to protect es
7.40 the clingers arising from accident or collides.
In that state of pliersl politics in which war b by
rfre power and on every side so reluctantly cos-
!e:raip'at. d, there is not the least fear of trifles or it.
▪ accidents producing it.
thus t the diurnal argument of the
for hP, ping up the present high pressure of
loaf let us confirm our refutation of another
t7r;. who his risen in the same care. ability
- INhans. After pleading our increased
oil tax tion, comparewith former times, Mr.
" 'Mt% seeks to show bow much lighter our fiscal
0.1111 Ire than those of the French. This is but
p ..
4.r'-nesul.tion, even if proved. But it is far from
m

Mr. NoItUAN calculates that the French paid about
it Pr head in 1816 and 1817, and that they paid
i:1•• ever; prtyjou to their hitarevolution. Whilst we,
Ifert fie in expenditure of flfty-t wo millions for twenty-
e4f.f millions of people, pay but 11. 17s. a-head.
)11f ,do. e-notafre our expenditure with the French,
!a.,u!d add our poor rate, county rate, with our
al' [ln.,' 41 raining the revenue; nay, wo should add
4100.5 of our church, and universities, and tithes,
%'.fell %it came out of the French budget. We
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'I orn,t these last ; but, adding local taxation,
xio f,“ i‘n collecing revenue—we raise our
millions to seventy. This upon twenty.