The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-04 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The mails for Maderia, the Braans, and Buenos Ayree,will
be wide up this evening.
The mails for Lisboa, Spada, and Gibraltar will be made
up on Feb. 7.
The made aid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Ceylon, ladle, Hoeg-Kong, &c., will be made up on the
evening of Feb. 7.
The mile for British North America and the United
States will he made up on the evening el Feb. 8.
The West India Mails, eacladiag Bermuda, Havannah,
Semen, Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and including
thew kw Madeira, St. Juaa-de-Niceragua, New Granada,
Chili, sad Pera,wiil be roads op an Feb. 17.
The milk for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Sept, Ogles, India, and China, via Southampton, er.?
be suds up ea tko moraing of Feb. 20.

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4.

PoUrte.AL ague has two fits—the hot and the cold.
During the former there is, according to the best
physicians, much irritability of the nervous system,
frequent obscurity of vision, and oftentimes delirium.
The appetite becomes voracious, and a certain spas-
' medic energy gives to the diseased a semblance and a
temporary sense of strength. But the more violent
the feverish symptoms have ben, the more pitiable is
the prostration when the shivering fit comes. All ap-
pearance of strength then vanishes. The sight is indeed
restored, but the look is languid, and there seems to be
"so speculation in those eyes " that lately flashed
forth fire. The sufferer is diffident and dull. You
cannot wing him into action by a taunt, or rouse him
by a laugh. He owns without reserve that he is
good for nought, thst he is unable to perform what
he recently promised, and that he cannot bring him-
self to budge in any direction.
Protectionism seems to be just now suffering all the
miseries of a chilly fit. It sees clearly enough what
is parsing around it, but it feels within itself no ability
for action. Its teeth chatter, its Ip3 move, and it utters
a low moaning sound of sad complaint, bat articulate
expression of what it wants, there is none. All is
confused, hysteric, and unintelligible. When re-
minded of the stung h it still retains, it shakes its
head despondingly, and intimate. its profound belief
that "there is no health in it." Does a friend venture
to predict encouragingly that this lamentable depres-
sion will soon pass away, the only response is one
declarative of disbelief that one who feels so miser-
able ever can grow better. And when re-
minded of having formerly had many similar
visitations, which • little courage, rather than
any patent or quack nostrums had thrown off,
shollow sigh is heaved, and mutterings are heard
which seem to intimate a hope rather than an expec-
tation that Heaven will forgive such mockery of
superhuman woe !
And truly we must say that there see something
savouriog of inhumanity in the speech wherewith
Mr. COBDEN wound up the debate of Friday night.
With total disregard to the sensibilities of country
gentlemen, who for many months have been in an
inflammatory state of expectancy that as soon
as parliament should meet sqrnethiny would
be done, or, at least, attempted, for their
peculiar gratification—with total disregard, we say, to
the highly excited maiden of this credulous clam,
Mr. Coeur."' told them in the most painfully plain
terms that they
_had been regularly and thoroughly
doss. He laughed outright at the fumbling after rea-
sons, and jumbling of pretexts for not coming to the
point, which their wily leader had manifested. He
earnestly recommended them, for tbeir own poor
sakes, not to lie trembling and shivering any longer ;
but if they knew or could tell what they
imagined would set them right, to say, or
hmist ea their great karts saying for them, what they
view et, and what they waisted. He bid them
vemember how ringing end :dear their great tongue
mold be on occassons,—what a peal it could send
forth whoa unmufßed, what piercing tones they had
beard from it formerly. But the Cation bell is
cracked; an open split severe it in twain ; and for
liar the dismal fact of dissonance should be too
widely proclaimed, the great tongue has been tied up,
so that it can only utter a soothing and benumbing
sound.

Ina wad, it ham Inmate plain from the debate oa
the eddies', that a return to protection bee been alma-