The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

aoSo Koso.

Mr. MITCHELL gave mows that, on the res• niett of
sup,dy, he would pot certain (Intestinal' to hkr S 1 j stl's
sisters iu reticence to the stets of Hong-XAni.
The house then risme&
COURT OF EXCHEQUER (IRELAND) DILL,
NEN AND MANUFAC 1 CUES 1;11.1.,
AND THE BOROUGH BRIDGES DILL.
Those bills severally passed through committee.
Toe house having resumed. the other orders of the day
were disposed of, and the house adrurned at 20 mmatts
after 12 o'clock.

Ede erase.

.O.IITGOING

The mails for Modena, the Brazil., and Buenos Apo, wi:l
ta made up on the erciting of July 4.
The mails for British Nnrth Amerlea atd the United
States will be made up on the evening of July i.
The mails for Lisbon, Spun, and Gibraltar will be mare
un on July 7.
The mail. rid Marseilles, to the Mediterraxesn, Ezypt,
C ylon, India, Hong-Kong, ifte., will be made up on the
e7cnin„l of July 8.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Harannah,
Nassau, fondues., New Orleans, and Blezica, wd including
this for Madeira, St. Juan-de-Nicaragua, New Granada,
Chili, and Peru, will be made up en the mornirg of July 17.
The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonuus Islands,
ggypt, Ceylon, India, anl Chna, via Southampton, will
le made up on the morning of July 20.

RIOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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Tnunaow—Yuuca,

A it;;;74,. 71 11a.
Lftensoos. *a. 7a.

LONDON, TrESDAY, JULY 2.

WE trust that the lesson of the last momentous
week will not be left upon the Whigs. It any party
in parliament and in the country has cause to
complain of Lord Jour Itt'sser.t. and his cabinet, it
decidedly has been the radicals. Excluded most se-
dulously from power, some portion of their kens stolen
without gratitude, and the rest repudiated, too
often with contumely I use made of them to star pub.
lic opinion, and ktep at bay the exigencies and as-
saults of the fanatic aristocracy, and this without
gain or acknowledgment, we are not sur-
prised at the more eminent men of the thorough
liberal party preferring to brave any coi,tingeney,
rather than by a strained vote in favour of ministers
secure to them the power to continue past unfairness
and old mattruvres.

We think these Lading men to have b:cn wrong;
but we can understand and appreciate the telings as
well as the motives in ob.dience to which they Set.d.
No doubt one of these motives was the belief that
whatever ministry arose on the overthrow of
the present, it could not but make more
popular concessions, than the ministers have
thought it right or prudent to make these
later years. We trust that the whizs wit feel
the necessity of proving by their future c ,r.duot that
this comparative estimate of their power aid inter-
ference, and of those that other middle party, was
incorrect. And ministers may depecd upon i: that if
they go on refusing all extension of the franchise, all
! serious reductions, and i qual repartition of taxation,
—if they continue to rule the country end the colo-
nies exclusively by the Lord Joins and Lord Geoe,lys,
and if their universal principle is still to be
to conciliate the tory tee and spurn the liberal friend,
we promise them that when a week and a crisis like
thosejust past shall have arrived, they w'll not tind
the same unanimity, the samo devotion, the same
forgetfulness of ju-t causes of complaint, which have
characterised the liberal party on this occasion.
Whigs and Peelites have now held power alter-
nately since the year of reform. Sastained as they
have been by popular opinion in all their just mea-
sures, they have, nevertheless, failed to secure either
the people's rights or even their own position.
Recent events show that the people, and the House
of Commons, and free trade, and the liberal cause in,
Europe, are all at the mercy of a rote in the House of
Lords—an avowedly aristocratic, high.priestly, and
landlord assembly—an assembly which &Aloes every
act of progress from catholic emancipation down to
the repeal of the corn law. and which would abrogate
every one of them from first to last to-morrow if they
durst.
There is little fear of their doing so, as long as the
people aro medico and interested. But their
vote, reversing our foreign policy, shows that on any
question, or at any moment, when they may cocsi-
der the public indifferent, they are quite ready to
descend from their Olympus, and to take the guid-
ance of affairs, with the hope of giving them a retro-
grade direction. Having such an example, such
proof, before their eyes, the whigs must be traitors to
themselves, to their supporters and their cause,
they do not direct their efforts towards strengthening
the popular party by a large extension of the au:-
frage.
We have pleaded long and long since for the neces-
sity of this, and urged that free trade itself could
never be considered safe as long as it existed by the
tolerance, not the adherence, of the dominant political
parties. Free trade, though it has benefited the
masses, has deranged the habits and crippled the re-
sources of certain classes. They are more active in
their discontent, than the public iu their general
gratitude and satisfaction. Every one must see
that in the recent attack on the Foreign-
office, it was considered hut the bastion
or the outwork thrnugk which the assai into were
to get at the citadel of free trade. They were
nearer success than is imagined ; and if they ap-
parently have been so far from success, this has been
owing less to the want of power to overthrow, thou t

i brio!: robbed of thee victory by cowling
it, the liberal cause and principle—paid_
thresh ned with reaction ;
• op adhesion of liberals to the
e los roof that all are coercion,
;..11-ihett all oouhl pretest it. But by
•srpoitieg the wbics, they depend on
heceeferth !natal and manfully to
n that muss. Power has not
their horde trod env personal affect-
, i. r tteir but in an
take m: ens. in common with
sre,ing out of their principles and
of their ogee.
oiw looney'? over to leave
roe mots..rer. It has been a poor, a
.err, .nig aeries. On every point
orm7 has been compelled to act on
the to fore,. with audacity
: .re:ewes. has zoomed the off naive
gem ralship, icsuffirient re sources,
,on .hi part of those, put forward as
,he heivel MUM This will not
led ,11 ith more bolder's, treeted
,dose we do rot watt to owe
..a coctiru.d :ruces end tacit ander-
t!:e f.e. T: etc must be a cow levy,
ti rev amont,:st the perdu rusks.
iiiiteptcl in their foreign policy, as
taco Inv trade measurer, not so
ttty rapport, as by the popular
It the Whigs will throw
iiatry, the country will bear them
they pe:s:*• in contineing to put
tary and politicalcliqees, we promise
when they will appeal in van
suppirt which from mere ha-
. and without an interested ta-
te:demi them upon the late OCCS•

I4C::11.

of the conduct ( f the Customs in
Companies uf London is begin-
„ ..! t: w. tad, to elicit from private
n'tl of the grievances they have
:,submit to :n their unavoldablo
tLe board. We have received
Liverpool containing etatemects
tsv: cc urred at different tim •
•,oereaung fearful indications of
%!,:eh the commercial community
... ler customs law. It is stated,
▪ that uo Ices than four
ate sunnily eriz-d in I.iverpool un
r i!fet.CES against the revenue, com-
z.... cr sadlre, but for which the
r or merchant is compelled to pay !
• I !hit when an act uf smuggling
ob;cct of the law would be to
. • ..(7s. Nothing of the sort. The
ct law, u administered by the
. r iuU.y. Poor passengers or
pari.e to pay heavy smercements;
tar ir-s would ocly bar prod:lese
▪ i. Teton-. is to seize the shin and
crr Irr....ent Liu• wealthy owners and
• ..e conver.tly done under &cum-
•,est cruel,y.
• is. ac o'ilscliourr, of 81 tone, named
e.. 0 e, ;patched firm St. John's., New
.(er;>•-•1. timber laden. Her owners
•. ...al J. SALTER, respectable mer-
, wren; of New Brunswick. After the
Tt.og: Metter. SALTER received in-
te raster and crew had carried her
United States, and there bad,
fiv 7. oc turd a quantity of tobacco,
r. tte'r permiled allowance.
Ter, iein; this information lesser.
r.-. steamer to their consignee at
::‘ I le WuLr, apprising him cf the
him to take the necessary mea-
NV. : 1 received the letter in due
geese information at tie Liver-
... VI that the smugglers and the
r..'ght both be seized on their
Li- did everything that the re-
or that possibly could be done to
.• a of the law aid to stable the
. ,:r own.

• • :a% cams by the north-about
:7. . CAE of Ireland a wale 'prong
a: her bulwarks, running
t online was very old and CT37y,
rr. • ''imaged by the gale that her
3 ;• :o run her into the nevrest port,
that of Rutland, in the county
re mat guard boarded her, and
4 the tobacco. They immediately
acd ►rreated her mister cud his crew.

ewe reaching Liverpool, through the
:o yet. M. DE Wour, the consign e,
the Customs for the release of the
►rdiog the particulars of the "informs-
ad lotii,ed prior to her making land. The
nos of the owners—even tteir anxietv to

law—was established. One would have
that in du^ vanes of rid Mr. DE. WOLF
1 noeived a favourable answer. Oa the c
cmourable commissioners replied that they
grant a release of the veseel upon pay-
:ise of three Astwired rwitala, which was
the old Charlitte's vain-.

,s rnee th reopen addressed himself to the
lie sent up a memorial stating the
mpunied with the original Touchers, rerti-
-.4 depositions. The Treasury politely
tied the rsee:pt thereof, and informed Mr.
• that proceedings had been commenced
• owners of the schooner Charlotte in the
r Majesty's Exchequer !"
detai:ing the anxieties and annoyances to
res;cctable consignees were further put, let
- axe the upshot of this cage. The Teasel
were obliged to be sold upon the spot.
t• in charged her reported that "they eeuM
: all with such a cargo in such a remote
~sected place on the coast cf Ireland."
T tt. calve el vessel and cargo were botA
. .I,ners,a&taestely loft !
W.A.) . after these occurrences, sought the
I.l"user ar. and letters as necessary to him
to the Board of Custom,. Whether the
re envier' that the owners of the Charlotte
s obtain redress, we do not know ; but,
etre, ruse, the return of the papers was
" bu," myna friend of Mr. Da WOLF, " if
•cipi; geoutds for redress, the proofs for the
,n the Lands of the defendants. Thu
ed there io LoLhdcntial trust, and the ho-
bos's:l' retain them under circumstance"

wittud is private business, would covers
with d.a.howour had subject him to prose-

a sample of the clans or caws which aro
urring is connexion "kith the /hard of Cue-
Who is set under such a system? By im-
moque:is and ehepropcnionate duties on such 1
as tame*, the eastomn tint corrupt the 1
I our merchant Shirt I,y tempting thorn to
against the law; seendly, by imposing
pees:tits on incocest shipowners and mer-
wildest res: offer ders are permitted to escape,
limit acts of the most isfsmous injustice and
the commission of the very crime which they
`fs are constituted to prevent.
la booty ari.ing from these seizures is paid
Leiner. In this way an enormous premium
to dithoient servants. Instances are well
1, which articles have been illicitly put on
-so.s by or at the instigation of the very par-
Lava ttemselv,e promoted the seizure of the
her arrival in the British port. It is shoo-
vo:e.lele for shipowners and merchants to
t;fe•ust the improper acts of a sailor, sips-
'der
the temptations held out to Dim by the
sod with so little to doter him as is done by
ue authorities. For how the fining of aa
to deter a c4k or a steward from mar
more even than entente' ingenuity could pm-
ebio.
nth in, teat the existence of the customs in
'et form is in ittef the best security that
offer d for the. perpetuation of smuggling
The customs board exists upon meta or
If. Its avocation would be gone—its office
4: over--if smuggling were only effectively
L The "bonour.ble commissioner" derives
este
in a year—the " et:elicitor " gets his foes—the
gets his 34a. a week, eet;r.ly by per-
41X the idea that smuggling is irrepreeeible.
is the means whereby these gentry live
" ' " ettitt,end have their being. They have as
'
taut ,:umire• to put it down effectually sa an ill-
cat tt.el.paLy hos to prevent tho occasional out-

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