The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY aMibUITFY.S.

RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING 011DIRS.—The
salmi committee ham &added that is the cases ef the Cale-
donian Railway for the repeal of the Glasgow, Barrhead,
and Nriloon, and Glargow Southern Tersefeel Railway,
and in the Caledeabin mad Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock
end Caledealaa, and Wishaw and Coins'se Railways, the
'lauding orders ought set to be dispensed with.
OZEAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.—
The studio. orders alumina* ham declared the Mardis(
orders to be complied wi la by the promoters of this sem-
patsy's bill No. 2, who, owing to the omission of the words la
the clause of the original L&IC to the elect that it " should be
held to Meade the City if Load.. and its liberties," bad to
briag In an amended bill, notwithataading that the womb
were melted is dm preamble.

CAUTION TO Corriti-Thalis KEEPERS —ln the
Coart of Island Revenue Mary LIMO Mosher. of Qa•aa.
street, Bharard-street, St. James's, colfes-bouss keeper, was
Marc d with rending giantess liftmen without a licence.
Mr. 8. Kiaphrd, as 'Meer et maw, proved the selling of
the liquor, whisk was Meelased OS the pre:alas, and no
gamey asked ter before it was served. Mr. Bayliss, the
supervisor, esraborated the evidence, and said the defendant
lad so limas for the oak of nettits. The court pre judg-
ment against the defendant in the penalty of 101.
THE FARMERS AND FINANCIAL ECONOMV.—Bir,
The rennin of the West et Ragland, of Devon and Corn-
wall more partieuhrly, an beginning to expreis themselves
in favour of the reduction of the expenses of governmeat,
las lel amongst themselves at their market dinners and
when int etlog toroth's at Boards of Guardians: "the
government has got the cheep loaf out et se, and we most
now set to get cheep government out of them," and " we
can't said low prior and Dish salaries." They 11111TIOVIT
eseniplify the shanty of their views by begin-
ning when they ma with the aeries of anima
officers, choke of salons. matters of workkessa,
relieving alarm, he. In as en t miens, both In
Devon and Carswell, neelatione la fanner of reductions
of 10 per eat. and some men more, have been adopted by
Urge majorities of the gosudisas; and, now finding that
they cannel =cooed, the vete oldie Pooe.law Cosuonenosen
being egoist them, their isterminaties is incremed.
Restive under the nth eit the comminimen at Botanist
Rouse, they say, Ay!, aye, we see how it h; you, the
commissioners, are a pert of the goverment, and you mimeo
to admit the wind* that Mows the price of
food is low the esielise of oar onions ought
to be proportionably ellashislad, became Ices llatrik it may
be extended to vosiseleis sad ether government place-
hoiden. but we will Mt mush to this—we will join
in the cry for finasehl and we are smelt mistakes
it, when we join the sad tradrev•°pie in
this, if yen and the die sot siceineb beton the
giant power of the of smatry." Let the iseselal
',Airmen only get UN mmrrp Is the eptimiaual
district', first esmeidog am a the mesa ailliaa
and 'Dirge* splite negligee the Canon themselves,
and the mottoes se thk MIMS Will WON be seeds le ap-
pear is the semigeSis amkgesse whisk their .*es will m-
otive from a ohm wile have IMMO* Masa spas k with
ouspides, if ash ilsmilidemileg hismeat
Stloo6lll la paillasses. the IMMIIe MS ma yet brought to
plea mask reams ea Dlwell, aid Wesel it will be a
bo WAN** Mega* esehienee will be gained ems
wine the most edema 'Maims of being the " Farialer's
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LONDON, MONDAY, PBBItiIARY 25.

Tun mask bas beet M length thrown off. The
part of political demise is De beget found to be sap-
LVble. Tim medley garb awl equivocal tons so
essamsd by Mr. GLADOTONI sal his troop,
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toosttraet attention or mord. bays been Really
; mei these gentlemen avow themselves
ones more in their real shamble se partisans el

made&
For foot low yews they waited sad wavelet& Who
Gould tell what might kappa p Twos hardly
possible, they fancied, that Lord Jowl mould go on as
he had begua.--the heed of a cabinet com-
posed of whige, sad nothing mom And,
spa the other head, as soliloquising, they ,
were often heard to say, it was inconceivable
that the ociantry gentlemen of England would for
ever follow sash a oaricatare of what the leader Ge
Top-boots and Consocks should be—as the adventurer
whom is former days they used to spurn from the
doors of their Red-tape paradise. Bat month after
month rolled by, and the Treasury bench continued
Is be filled with whip and nothing mere; and day by
be milmaissioa of the country party to their self-
sleeted Raster seemed to grow more dumb
sad deferential. All the friendly hints and
teeing sighs of the Indescribable' were throws
away. Every now and then they were wen to wee
a law paces towards her Majesty's governmeat; mad
then to pause with an air and attitude as if to say;
▪W. thought you called us!" And then a hale
reenter-move was made in the opposite direction, to-
wards bar Majesty's opposition, accompanied with
Wader matterngs of "unchanged regard," and
y▪ ours ea much as ever." But the Premier only
looked amused at the mar reser.; and " the Pro-
teader," as they on os were used to call the protes-
desist chief, east on them only a triumphant leak,
which said : I am not yet avenged.
This state of things became at length intolerable.
Dignity and banterer°e are delightful to those who
truly feel them. Bat the affectation of either is an
irksome task, and the louden of both together is
unendurable. Mr. GLAMORS wanted to be some-
body, and found himself gradually becoming nobody.
He dreamt of being able to hold the balance of par-
ties; and he simply found himself thrown out of both
make, as a weight that had lost its mark and whose
value no two men were agreed about. Adding minor
items of the like sort only served to confound the con-
fusion. When this bad occurred several times, all
men who were truly in earnest began to show im-
patience of the pompous egotism' wherewith the In-
describable, offered their interposition, without con-
tributing in any appreciable degree towards the
result. And after the memorable scene which
took place on the Canadian Lasses Bill,
Mr. Dtsrieett is mid to have given the
Dominoes to understand that he would tolerate their
trifling no longer; they must either declare for or
opinet the principles they had once professed, and
which he was willing to hope they had not yet
wholly forgotten—or go over to the enemy ; bat for
neutral flap they must take notice that there would
thenceforth be no quarter.
Thursday nights discussion and division suf-
ficiently proclaim the result. One-half of
those who have hitherto professed the faith
of industrial liberty as it is in Pant,
openly abjured that creed, and were publicly recon-
oiled to toryisen One of the chief proselyte., who,
according to arrangement, was to have borne a con-
spiouous part in the ceremony, was prevented by
physical infirmity from attending on the °cation.
As soon as he is 'efficiently recovered, however, Mr.
BIOME! HERBERT will, no doubt, read his recanta-
tion in an edifying Manner ; and as there yet remain
pearly a score of doubtfols, the spiritual crimps of the
ancient way of thinking are sanguine enough to aver
that by Easter Sir ROBERT will be left without a
m
's guard. itieesits the good old principles of the party, the
arts of intimidation are duly mingled with those of
esjolery. The names of eighteen gentlemen who
adhered to their illustrious leader, and the still
nobler banner of the rights of labour, which he un-
falteringly holds—the names of those gentlemen are
vulgarly placarded in the organs of the faction, as
deserving of reproach, because (through over-delicacy
*atlas trollop and prejudiots of those with whom
they formerly acted) they have not withdrawn from
the Carlton Club. One distinguished name is not, in-
deed amongst them. Sir James GRAHAM, with more
flrmasseand foresight than others, lost no time, after
raisin silos is 1846, in taking his name out
of the lid of that ill-omened assoeiation. He
User that the part he had played in the
deemed= of aristocratic monopoly would never be
fergivsa. He bad counted the cost when he took that
tr,tryand preferred anticipating the spite of befil-d
and disarmed rapist', to awaitieg the resusci-
tation of its malignant power, and the day when its
shorn locks should have grown again. That day,
however brief and baleful it may prove, seems to have
ooze; and the fur-sighted member for Ripon has now
the laugh at those who in the turbulence of imaginary
triumph—because for the first time daring four long
years they have not been ignominiously rooted—
would fain drive the most distinguished individuals
out of a society which in oath was never worthy of
their presence.
For ourselves, we can only may that while we sym-
pathise with the indignatioa and disgust that
broke forth from the House of Commons when
a miserable attempt was made to annoy
and insult Sir Boater Pact.,—we csonot regret the
Idiesipation of all lingering delusion as to the real aims
and motives of Mr. Cluorrotta and his friends. We
were amass the first to mark the character and ten-
dency o the coarse they have for some time pursued.
believedWe them to be mere prisoners on parole,
waiting for a good opportunity to escape back to the
main body from which tl.ey bad never, of their own
will, been si=ted. We warned the liberal party
to place ao on their occasional assumption of
whig uniform. and occasional master at whig drill.
We believed and averred that they would prove to be
thorough and michanged wise, however appearances
might seem to indicate thee:out:try; and we have now
to express our very sincere thanks to them for having
at length cast away disguise and saved us all further
trouble regarding them. The glee of the protectionists
is, of course, unbounded. To an aspiring party. desti-
tute of metal bearing" the hall mark "ofc4ee. the
acquisition of a brace of ax-cabinet ministers, to say
nothing of a dosen-anda-half of small rpoons,—ki
deemed no ordinary god-send. A pious ejaculation
of gratitude burst from the lips of Mr. Mariam as
he welcomed the truants home. " Fortune " (the
flash name for Providence), " had sent them a
champion whom they had not hitherto counted
upon!" Grateful and graceful words! And
yet as they fell upon Mr. GLADSTONE'S ear, we
can imagine the strange memories that must
hive been celled up thereby, of days, when
the notion of being thus patted on the head by the
despised adventurer, would have wrung from even
the calculating representative of Oxford a scoff or
sneer. But times are changed; and the once super-
cilious scorner, of the uncertified and unlioersa pre-
tender to political station, are only too happy to
think that at last they have found in him a master
who appreciates them.

Tuts is not the moment that a considerate states-
man would choose foe abases's, the question of La
Plata. In th►t question we have found it necessary
to purses a different policy from France. Unfortu-
nately we are now engaged in coercion at Athens,
which is net only apart from the French, but dis-
tasteful to then. Of all men in parliament Lord
Amara= should be the lest to aggravate the die-

imassiammio.....,
whims we need not point mt. Saks it to remark,
that M. Tames, in order to increase French power,
wadi**, Mance at mime with all the penin-
sular uses of South America as well as with the
United States, which sooner or later would ba-
kes» and crush sash meddling. Basked,
therefore, bad nothing to do but to leave
mob • scheme to its own impracticability. To
have abetted it was against onr own interests ; to
have opposed it were not worth while. For who
would quarrel with Franco for the mks of Monte-
video P To have held aloof, like the leanirhiaSs, was
our only rational policy.
That it was the policy of all ifeimpose samnimasets
to abstain from interference, was the @Maim it Lours
Primirra, of M. 0111ZOT, end of ell Eagle siatim
mon. bores;m howevir, had made tisioisi;titiun
hobby he forced t down Louis
throat at one time by a threat of resignotions
And ho brood it on M. donor at curse
time by the fear his (M. Mums's) parliarnmittry
agitation on the subject. hi 0111ZOT preferred meet-
ing Roma in the field to fighting M. Taints in the
chamber. And when M. donor had so resolved,
Lord ABERDEEN preferred to embark with France in
the enterprise, rather than let Francs go alone. This
is the first and universal principle of Lord Ansa-
pOliey, to sneak into the good graces of great
Powers by affecting willed sympathy with them,
and adopting or feigning to adopt and join in their
alliance and their policies merely for the sake of
keeping up influence and of having • finger in
every pie. Lord ABERDEEN joined in the crusade
Mrainstßosas, not because he tirae the enemy of B sacs
Ayres, but because he feared the result of Frame
taking up exclusively the patronage of Montevideo.
It is impossible to emotive anything more false, mare
cringing, more lick-spittle or tin-Eoglish, than the
policy with which Lord ABERDEEN so dodged Louis
PHILIPPE, fawning with one hand, and threatening
with the other—one side of his countenance smiling
medially and alliance, the other betraying rivalry and
K. Guise?, in a recent publication, lays it down
that all enterprises. the French revolution to wit,
fail for want of
.faith. How could he hope
the expedition sgainst Roam to snooped ; for
sorely neither he nor Lord ABERDEEN had faith
either in Montevideo or in each other ? Still, how-
ever, we went on. Lord PALMERSTON could not break
through the diplomatic knots and ravelled threads with
which France and England were tied together in the
question. Not a single English commander or diplo.
moist went out, however, without instantly seeing
that we had really no quarrel with Buenos Ayres,
and that Franco was keeping up her quarrel purely
for the realisation of the Tams scheme. This con-
viction broke forth from Lord HOWDEN, in the HMI,
of Lords on Friday night, as it did from him on board
a ship before Montevideo. Neither he nor any intel-
ligent man could stand this humbug any longer ; and
Mr. SOUTHERN his the honour of having frankly and
finally put an end to it.
Bat now Lord ABERDEEN comes forth in parlia-
ment wringing his hands and lamenting that the
sagacious, honourable, and profitable offensive
alliance with France in La Plats, which has been in
operation with such results far several years, is not
to be coutinued. " You have given France liberty
of action," exclaims Lord ABERDEEN, " and she
is accordingly about to garrison Montevideo with s
little army, and if Gen. Roses submits in coniequonce,
Frame will have the honour." Much good may that
hussar do her, say* we. We care little how it is
brought about, provided peace be restored, and pro.
vided in the Uruguay the just influence of the native
and Spanish race recover its just ascendancy over the
selfishness of foreign intrigue.
Can Lord ABERDEEN suppose that be can make
such speeches without foreigners seeing through
them ? Does be imagine that any French mates-
man could listen to him without perceiving, that his
vaunted friendship and alliance with France is
nothing more than a jealousy and a fear of France ?
And his whole reproach to Lord PALMERsTox is, why
do you not stick more closely to France, in order the
more efficiently to counteract her designs ?
Another exemplification of Lord ABERDEEN'S bare-
faced humbug was his declaring that he had rather
see the French in possession of Montevideo than
Roses, as Roma would stop our trade. Now Lord
ABERDEEN nas not sincere in any one word of this.
He knows right well that the French alone would
totally stop and exclude our trade in the Plats,
as they. have done at Algiers. His lordship
knows right well that the Jealousy will which
ROOMS guards its rivers is with a view to keep all his
advantages against that great rival, Montevideo
that Europeans have set up. Remove the rivalry and
enmity from the two sides of the Plata, and you re-
move all cause for the jealousy, and prohibition., and
exclusiveness of the tyrant. For the export of raw
produce, the staple of the country, Buenos Ayres is
the port and the position, a natural advantage
that the character or ',alley of its ministry or
ruler cannot change or do away with. There
is no knowing what Montevideo may become. But
in the present and in the natural state of the rela-
tions of the Plata with the world, Buenos Ayres
ought to be its capital ; and it is but a mass of vain
ambition and selfish intrigue for Europeans, at least,
to try to erect another at the cost of more treasure
and blood than its trade for many years can be worth.

the agates that the Elyse@
are UM% Issims, and
Psbadr tllll Itentis of
departments ; hat sameaget
Tinto be remarked. _
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in by beautiful Weather.;
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to be quiet, andi,sat thin
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that .de Okapis*, in the Arm leader of Ls
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ti-dai, fa the $ the deciding at
last conclave, angle proclaim the names yeti*
they had chosen.
The democratic journals publish a mantas Mr. ,
lag that they will bay* so Nast dardimikai
The immigrate ruse tient :
Aweiviessav or Iris. 24.—We shell aid sit &wait.
seirow to our trammel feast. We shalt set edam OW
' bosses with primula sad lentos. No heaßaets, no Ohm&
satiate. We shall twateat ourselves with Uter se wean
en the banes that seven ear desseeed buiehres. We show
imwrste in order to give se retest Sr yeeteeistise. Is
AN, sells 1849, the asaivereary el the
tree
is set a
day ef joy bet el mania& The mend. liana of to
leg to liberty, helmet to despotism. Use's terns veleta
ast rise ;try,
they de set bear te heaves the hymn ef isde-
peadesee, of glary, awl happiest@ I They ore but the Wee-
taking of planners, wldek ere curried away by the mini
towards the lead ideas ; they are the canes of adlto
whoa stupid absolutism has gives the part
doors e aro the of
of aim sad pow
news. when die to taelussey sad =bevy. The
dead w ll patios m fir set &hales the eop to the gratitude
we ewe them. Oar hearts ma sly fad is.. fee the regrets
which their lees isepires. Asa then, what toast ermid we
drink ? Not a toast to Überty, for it is dead ; sot at equa-
lity, which so see will hews; sad sot to (marshy. We
leave our joy sea legacy to fentageseestlera.
To the cinema who died for liberty on the 24th of Feb-
nary, 1848, the grateful future 1 Vire la Republique)
Yesterday the education bill debate wee set livessd
by the preientatios of M. Rourat's amendment,
which proposes to prohibit religions 1
not recognised by the state, from te217e.:1.
Barest is a well-known member of the Mountain.
M. de Patten on this occasion took the part of the
committee, and afore long and estimated debt% into
which, as usual, many extraneous subjects were
brought, the chamber rejected M. Bounties amend-
ment by 450 votes against 148.
The Napoleon of this morning says that, Prussia
having thought arecomary to plea its army on a war
footin,r, the Fns* government has resolved to rein-
force its eastern gambols. These messures, however,
must not ernes alarm, as it only goes to prove that
the government is resolved to have the name of
France respected abroad as well as at home.

BIISDAT, 1 PAL
The Napoleonian committee of the Union du Dix
Decembre are forming a separate list, which may
cause defection. Their candidates are Abbe Coque-
reau and Generals Piet and Bonjean.
The corps of officers and men of the several legions
of the national guard have gone to celebrate the
funeral services prescribed by the law. The day is
►eautiful, a great many. people out, and amongst
them many soldiers—a sign that no fears are enter-
tained by the executive, or else the soldiers would be
confined to barracks.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Pas. 18.
The Cortes were prorogued this afternoon. The
dissolution of the Chamber cf Deputies is no longer
talked of. Indeed it would be superfluous, as its
natural term of life will expire in less than 6 mouths,
so that it is possible it may be convoked once more
if the Queen should have issue.
Yesterday the diplomatic corps was received by
the Queen. The nuncio of the Pope delivered a con-
gratulatory address, in which he spoke of the affec-
tion of the Pope for this eminently catholic country.
The Queen made a suitable reply. The Gazette is
full of letters of thanks sent by the different kcal
authorities of the districts where the Spanish army
staved during the late expedition to Italy.
The Clamor Publics) mays that its provincial oor-
respondence is full of complaints of the misery of the
rural populations, and above all of the vexations
of the tax-gatherers: thus in Malaga houses have
been soli by auction for a sum equal to the tax at
which they were rated. In Arrsgon, the iron railings
of a cottage were taken away for the same purpose,
and a letter from Caspe says the taxgatherors re-
quired of a poor woman a part of her body clothing.
The state of siege still continues in Barcelona. Tne
military authorities have sent the editor of s liberal
journal out of the country, and suspended the publi-
cation of the paper, for having inserted one of the
numerous incendiary publications with which the
country is inundated.
The famous Salamanca gave a grand dinner the
other day in celebration of th.e. Railroad Bill having
received the royal sanction. In fact, the bill is highly
favourable to his interests se principal shareholder in
the Aranjnez Railroad ; and as the works are now in
progress there are some hopes that the inhabitants of
Madrid may see a railroad at last.
The want of road communication of every kind is
severely felt in this country, and a glance at the state-
ments of the many different prices of corn, prices that
differ in every province, will prove this. In Segovia
wheat is 21 reale a [step, while at Tarragona it is
51 reale, an augmentation of 143 percent. At Gua-
dalajara wheat is paid at 23 reeks fanega. The same
fact obtains in markets still nearer to each other. In
Ciudad Real it is 26 realm, and in Barcelona at 50.
What is still more astonishing, while at Saragossa
wheat costs 34 realm, at Lerida, which is only 25
leagues off, it costs 60 reels, the carriage from one
place to the other being 76 per cent. This can only
be explained by the want of concert in commercial,
undertakings, and, above all, the state of public
roads, the difficulty of exchange, the excessive duties
on the coast trade, the monopoly of credit, the want
of public spirit and the spirit of association, and the
obstacles to raising money on mortgage through the
bad organisation of legal tribunals.
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