The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
The Wort India Mails, fad atinig Beroada, Emu*
Nassau, Honduras, New Odessa, sad Mexico; sad szedediag
these 'for Madeira, IR. Inca-tie-Nieeragna, New Greasda,
Chili, sad Pere, will be ande ap ea May 2.
The wails tar NAM North Amerise sad die United
*awe will be awls up is the evealai of May I
TN nails for Mast* ths Bras* and Buenas Ayres, will
1.41 au& up 's* the 4th et Mar.
The malls for Liabew, Soaks, int! Gibraltar will be made
up ea the mink; if Hay 7.
TM wags tor Gibraltar, Malts, Greeee, the balsa
Nip" Ceylon, India, and Chia., via lientiowapten,illit
be made up as the aeorelag of May 20.
The made sit Maresalos, to the Meiliterreaota. 21171*
C.lllsa, Kral of led* Hong-Kong, as., will be amide up ea
the m May 7.

MON WAITS AT LONDON =MOIL
TAto fht-Itentat. 4A. No.
f•-•••••*-11Armag. AA. Ma Alksnass. N. N..

LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30.

THE CHANCELLOR of the Excanctuks., It will be
seen, introduced last night his plan for preventing
frauds in savings bank., and rendering these almost na-
tional investments more secure. This he proposed to
effect, first, by making it pensl for any party to receive
or pay deposits but the treasurer or his clerk ; and,
secondly, by placing the appointment of the treasurer
in the ban& of the Commissioners of the National
Debt.

Whilst the treasurer of the savings hank is this
to be a government nominee, the auditor of the ac-
counts of the bank is to be nominated by the trustees,
II government having the power to send an inspector
for the same purpose, when the ught requisite.
We fear that considerable difficielties will be found
in the way of this plan to combine local zeal with
central control. An auditor appoints d by government to
examine the accounts at certain times, would not inter-
fere so mach with the local nature of the saving' banks.
But it is to be feared, that the transference of the chief
management to a government approved treasurer,
will tempt the men of business of the neighbourhood
to wsah their hands of the concern. Government 1.
to elect as treasurer, without a salary, any banker
who will undertake the task gratuitously. We fear
that this will never be the case; and that;governasent,
or the Commissionersof the National Debt, will, is most
instances, have to nominate a treasurer with a salary,
which will considerably interfere with the economy of
the savings banks.
The CttozcEntott of the EXCIIEQUER proposed also
to limit to 1001. the 'mount of deposit on which
interest would be paid ; as well as to reduce the rates
of interest paid by government from 31. 3s. to 31.,
and that paid by tue banks to depositors from
21. 18i. 41. to 21. 15s.
The Times, in discussing the question, asks
since savings back, were of quite recent origin,
having only commenced with this century, what did
the humble dosses do with their savings in preceding
centuries? The answer is, that in past centuries
the land was the great investment—the land that was
then open to small proprietors and holders, but which
have since been closed except to the large capitalist
Of speculator. For small revenues, indeed, the land
' is the only profitable investment, and, we may add,
the natural one. And a country which denies this
to its frugal poor is bound at least that their moneyed
investments be as retire as land, and as fructifying
u ingenuity can make them.

Tun three modes of attacking and overturning a
government are at present in practice in the three
constitutional countries. In England the protection-
ists and Peelites make their attack in parliament. In
Paris, opposition mimes the form of a combat in the
streets. In Madrid the scene of action is the back
stairs and private apartments of the palace. NARVATZ,
indeed, has been compelled to draw his sword, and
skirmish in the three afferent fields. He has had to
struggle with his ices in the Cortes, to fight them in
the streets, and every now and then he has a wrest-
ling_ match with those in the palace.
Had Loris PIIILIPPE taken years to consider what
kind of a gift he could make to Spain, best calculated
to distract its councils, discredit its court, neutralize
its power, and render government impossible, he
could not have hit upon one so calculated to produce
all those effects, as the forcing. her
.present Consort
upon the Clasen. Fur a prime-minister to make
use of this singular iLdividusl, and keep
him in a dignified and quiet course' ought
to be registered as a thirteenth labour of Hee-
euLzs. For the last months this task has been
wonderfully performed. The PRINCE and the Quests
have lived on the most decorous and amiable terms,
approaching the period of that amouthement which
is hoped to give an heir to the throne. Bet the
councillors around the PRINCE perceive that this is the
smith of his power, and that up to the aceouchement
of the QUEEN, It would be dangerous and impossible
to affront him, since be has nothing to do but to run
away, absent himself from the birth, and give the sup-
port of his name to the first malignant story invented,
in order to shake the very mansion and feta» peace of
the kingdom. It is to be feared that there are higher
and more powerful agents at work to produce this
result, than the were personal friends or flatterers of
the Pence*. The same inflames which married
him, in order to render his marriage null, cannot see
their labours lost without an effort.

King Consort was therefore urged to insist
that he should hold the reins of power, and nominate
• ministry of his choice, thus annihilating the influ-
ence of the Queen Mother and of General NaavaEz.
As it was replied by ISABELLA, that the rul:
of NAIVAEZ, however rude and unpalatable,
was still indispensable at such a moment, amidst so
many factions and intrigues, the King declared he
would quit the court. This is his usual threat, which
indeed he has more than once pot in execution. His
doing so now, however, would be of more than usual
danger and significance. The King made his arrange-
ments and gave his orders to depart next morning for
Aranjurx. A cabinet council summoned in the even-
ing decided that there was bat one mode of over-
coming his perverseness, which wee simply to pat
a guard on the door of his apartments, and
place his Royal Highness under arrest. We
doubt, if any person, eau NAIVAEZ, could have bad
*mirage to do these strange things; and we doubt,
if there be any country, save Spain, in which they
are possible. In Ramis, for example, sod ehewhere,
guards might be put on a mad prince, but it would
infallibly end in their strangling or otherwise
dispatching him. In Spain, however, the arrest of
the King for a day has ended by a reconciliation be-
tween their majesties, and the promise of Don
Faancrsco to be a better boy, and a more obedient
husband for the future. If there be any thing
disgraceful or regrettable in all this, we most reoullect
that it is not the kelt of either the Queen, or of NA lI-
VA LE, or of the constitutional system, but chiefly of the
cunning and selfish policy of LOl7lB-PIIILIPPE.
The obvious remedy for such a state of things would
be a truly constitutional ministry, supported by the
Cortes and by public opinion, and represeuted at
court by a chief, at once dexterous, firm, and able.
For it is self-evident that a merely oratorical and
parliamentary chief, even of flrst-rate ability, like
OLOZAGA, Could never be able to astand with the
tricks, the covert and cunning hostility of the
palace and its population. A man of his hands,
and a man to fear, can alone strike terror and com-
mand respect with that incorrigible Servidtinabre.
The reconciliation between the government of Ma-
drid and that of Downing-street, we understood, ap-
proaches a satisfactory solution. Was it in cow-
queue of some order or signification from the British