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The Act gave the Com missioner authority to quash the order, supposing he should think such a step just and meet, and this Court had laid it down as a rule never to interfere with the exercise of a discretionary power which the Legislature might confer on a lower tribunal. In this case it was quite clear the Insolvent Commissioner had refused to annul the order in the exercise of his discretionary Power, and this Court could not interfere without viola ting this wholesome rule. This was, however, a pecu liar case, and it would, perhaps, be as well to menti on it to the f u ll C ourt, who might, under all the circumstances, be induced to relax the rule. Mr. JamEs said he would act upon his Lordship's suggestion, and The case was still left open as if no decision had been pronounced upon the application. BANKRUPTCY. —(THIS DAY.) This IN RE BREWSTER. bankrupt was described as of Hand -court, Thames -street, painter, and to-day came up to pass his last examination. The balance sheet, prepared by Mr. Delvitte, Basing. hall -street, shows debtor to creditors, 4,3391. 4s. 11d; ditto, holding security, 3191. Creditors, good debts, 1444; property, 3481.95.; ditto, in hands of creditors, 2704 The bankrupt was allowed to pass his examination. IN RE FORD. This b an k rupt was described as of High Holborn, tallow-chandler, and to-day was appointed for the certi ficate meeting, which, however, was adjourned by con "at, to afford an opportunity to effect an arrangement, that the creditors might receive a larger dividend than t heY would under th e ba n kruptcy, which would b e an nulled.-- - Adjourned accordingly. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) Tar MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION V. SUMMERLEY. This wa s an action brought by the Mutual Loan Fund Association, carrying on business in Beaufort-buildings, Strand, against the defendant, who is a builder, a t E r itb, to recover the sum of 91. 6s. Bd., balance due on a bill of exchange, of which the defendant was a co-acceptor. Defendant pleaded that be did not accept the bill. 7Slr. Thomas Hutchinson was called, and proved that Ise was present when defendant signed the bill. He was at the time official referee. He was a co-surety, and de fendant signed the bill first, but appeared to b e f ear f u l that he (witness) would not, and tore off his name, and subsequently re-signed it. The money was lent to a Person named Davie, who had paid some money on ac count. Mr. Pexost, defendant's attorney, submitted that the Plaintiffs must be nonsuited, as no action could be sus , fled by any company or association not duly regis tered or coming under the provisions of some Act of Parliament. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that it was a most Important question, but it ought to have been pleaded. T he only 'pea t ion here was whether the defendant glued the bill. The defendant, however, could apply to judge at chambers at once. Th e jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. This was the only case in the list in which the parties Were prepared. Last week the whole list was gone th rough, and th e part i es were not rea d y i n any case, and it, as was only by consent of the jury that a delay took pzace, the Under-Sheriff said that, although he would put up with some inconvenience, he could not ask the jury to waste their time, and strictly the cases ought to be struck out. GUILDHALL —(THIS DAY.) Henry Arnold Green, but who rejoices in several aliases, was again brought up and placed at the bar Charged with obtaining goods under false and fraudulent IPretences. The prisoner had been tried and convicted 11 e the y ear 1848, at the Central Criminal Court for a ik offence, upon which occasion he was sentenced to 1 8 months' imprisonment and hard labour. Upon the Present occasion there were no less than three distinct charges against him, the particulars of which have al !eady appeared in The Sun. The depositions having been formally completed, the prisoner, who had nothing Particular to say, was committed for trial. A ScyrcH CLERICAL POACHEi.—The Rev. An drew /11`Ewan, pastor of the Levern church or chapel at Barrhead, has been convicted o f p oac hi ng d ur i ng Sunday, the sth inst. The case was formally brought into court be fore Provost Phillips, of Paisley, on Tuesday, but as the of fence was frankly pleaded guilty to by the aged and reverend defendant, no evidence was adduced i n court g i v i ng the par ticulars .of the case, but these we have obtained from Other sources :—The gamekeepers of the Earl of Glasgow bad long been suspicious of a breach of the law being carried on near the premises of the Reverend Mr. APEwan. They had set a strict watch on the church grounds at Levern, and on the Sunday morning in question, having found a snare regularly set, they put it In disorder after the reverend gentleman had commenced his public devotions. They again saw it regularly ,IMt to rights by him, which confirmed their suspicion, and ' l aving a second time put it in disorder in the course of the day, t h ey finaly pounced on the r e v. p reac h er , w h en was supposed he was putting it in proper trim for the evening. Before the close of the legal proceedings in court, Isfr• that Henderson, the public prosecutor, humanely s ugges t e d , under all the circumstance , , and from the severe re buke which had been read from the bench to the rev. cul prit by Provost Phillips, that the penalty should be miff. gated from the sum of 2(1. to 101. The Provost, however, Was inexorable for inflicting the highest fine which the law Would admit of. Had the defendant been an ignorant une ducated person, a clodpole from the neighbourhood (said hie Provost), w h o did no t k now th e l aw, t h e fi ne m i g h t fe been mitigated; but as no such excuse could be made in this case, he was resolved to exact the highest penalty.— Glasgow Saturday Post. LONDON PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. Yesterday e "g a meeti ng o f t h e comm i t t ee , an d ot h er f r i en d s o f t h e aboflive praiseworthy institution, was held at the offices, hioira Chambers, ironmonger -lane, Ctteapside, to take into cunsideration the presant position of the society, and to ar- I L a nge for the ensuing anniversary festival. The report stated that it was founded in 1841 for providing the deserving poor with coals and bread during the winter months, in all parts ;f the metr o p o li s and i ts subur b s, f or w hi c h contractors are sPpointed; and apeculiar feature is, that the subscriber . sare tli o e almoners of their own bounty, with an addition a rising fr .._ lll funds supplied by benevolent donors. Many interesting 11' 13 es were cited which appealed to the best sympathies of 12 heart, and fully evidenced the usefulness of the society. b i ti Vng the winter season of last year there were upwards of "w O. O tickets distributed, and since the Ist of December last more than 7,600 for 41b. loaves of bread, and the same n umber for 561bs. of coals. Owing to the funds being ex - bol d t hena ,austed the committee are reluctantly compelled to wit h 4 uld relief in many distressi n g cases which daily present DEATH or M. J. S. HERON.—We regret to re rd the sudden demise of this gentleman, late secretary to lue L ancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and subse "entlY a Partner in the h ouse o f G ra f ton an d H eron , com tliss_icn ‘agents, Spring-gardens and Brown-street. Mr. iisroo was on a vi s i t to telr. Charles Potter, of Earnadale a ° Use, Darwen, and retired to bed, apparently in good health I , nd spi r i ts, about eleven o'clock on Friday night. Being ~al O led Oil Saturday m orn i ng, an d no answer g i ven, M r . tter entered his room, and found him quite dead ; and a medical gentleman who was called in stated that he must :ave been so tor some time. There is every probability laat his decease was instantaneous, and without suffering, andt hat it wa s th e result of an affection of the heart. tt'. Her on resided at Bowden, and has left a widow and infourchildren. He was a son of the late Mr. J. K. Heron, a brother of the town clerk of Manchester.—Manchester Tovr. EITT AMLETS PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.— _ T uesday e ven i ng the third annual supper of this institu- W t ook plac e at the H orns - tavern, Hackney-road, on Zsu;cll occasion a large party of subscribers and friends par rer',K of an excellent entertainment, served up in Mr. Spel csiPsual good style, and gave great satisfaction. W. D. After Esq., was chairman, and Mr. Meadows deputy. D q v ' r the cloth was withdrawn, and the usual loyal toasts and well responded to, the chairman, in a few appro :,e words, gave " Prosperity to the Tower Hamlets' Phi gen:T°Pie Society for affording bread and coals to the indi toast P u °r, during the inclement season of the year." This t wan received with great applause. " The Health of the ,rsesident " followed, accompanied by some complimentary ;1 who se health from Mr. R. T. Tubbs, the late hon. secretary, sent e health, in conjunction with Mr. Richardson, the pre toast:gertarY, was received amid much cheering. Other c eea including" The Worthy " The Press," &c. suc ist"Buoind the harmony of the evening was prolonged untila on'ticalour, when the company separated, highly entertained blishoccasion. Thi s soc i ety, which has only been esta the d three years, has given a large amount of assistance to . th at njghbouring poor, whose condition in many cases is ~.r ty ' complete destitution. roi ls Es ON CARRlAGER. — Yesterday a very nume the i:esting of the coachmakers of London took place at on lT, e eniasons' Tavern, to aid the movement now going Gov'rcughout the country, for the purpose of inducing the lion Governer to re-arrange the present unfair scale of taxa to "r which pleasure and trade carriages are liable, so as r e e ueve tha coachmaking trade without diminishing the taak uno of the country ; Mr. L. Leslie, Master of the Coach ,ssl?,elr.a' Company, was unanimously called to the chair. He laained that the gross number of carriages in the country s Q 44 (x) bout 150,000, of which 100,000 paid no duty, about ab'e uts Xony chaises, &c., being exempted from duty, and tu th 'GOO not being returned at all. This was according wh _ e return of 1848. It was calculated that if all two th_eeled carriages, and all four-wheeled carriages, excepting - ne in trade, were subject, the former to 305., and the lat ese 3 4 duty, it would produce a greater revenue than at a g e by 10,6251. S evera l gent l emen addressed the meet- Zy And a committee havi ng b een appo i nted, a subscription "43 entered into to advance the objects in view. Th ose who have resources within themselves, who ft ea i_ n _dare to liv e a l one, want friends the least, but at the same ouernbeaist know how to p r i ze th em t h e most.—Eliza Cook's UNIT ED MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.—At a ...meting of the shareholders held yesterday, a statement of the aff • wszalr3 of the company was submitted, from which it iLatrs that the receipts for the year have been 26,942/., for the?le expenditure, including the payment of 15,000/. 20,0 001 ar dividend of 7s. 6d. per share, has been about E ta. ..1 eaving a bal ance o f about 7,0001. of undivided pro- Waivest.fter a the dealarat long ion of discus a sion dividend on tit was considhe occasion, ered advisable to s resent wi,7!iter to enable th e works at the mines p to be carried on l u t making a further call on the shareholders. spe c i al MBBE Or COMMERCE AT SOUTHAMPTON.—A ampton was held the town c ounc il and inhabitants of South s held at the Audit -house on Tuesday last, the unkaaaYirtn(Bir. R. Andrews) in the chair, at which it was owl. R. to establish a Chamber of Commerce Committeef.ortheprotection of the commerce and interests of the port. was formed for carrying into effect this resole ,‘'Lla The nezeasity for '" lt rAtter hag long b een f e l t au merc thfitoanWn.til association of this e TRE MADLLE. RACHEL AND HER SISTER. The lndependance of Brussels has the following in a letter from Paris :—" It is known that Madlle. Rachel has several sisters ,a ho are, like her, ac tregses. The one who is laost likely to e3tablish a solid reputation is Madlle. Rebecca, who was recently received as a societaire by the Come - lie Francaise. For this young and charming sister, Madlle. Rachel has a lively and almost maternal affection. Madlle. Rebecca has lately been performing with success the part of Catarini Bragadini, in Victor Hugo's Angelo, in which her sister has personated the principal cha racter. The last time the two sisters performed to gether, Madlle. Rachel said, as t hey were leaving the stage after an enthusiastic recall—" My dear child, you have played like an angel ; I will recompense you—let us go and sup at your house." "At my house!" exclaimed the young actress, greatly sur prised, " you mean at my father's !" " No, no ! at your residence, I say 1" answered Madlle. Rachel. " What ! are you embarrassed ? well, here's the key !" Shortly after the two sisters arrived in Madlle. Rachel's carriage in a pretty house in the Rue iVlogador, close to the charming hotel which the great tragedian occupies in the Rue Trudon. Madlle. Rebecca fan cied that she was in a dream, or playing a part in some fantastic comedy. They ascended to the se cond floor, and Madlle. Rachel then said, " Now open !" At the same moment the door was opened, and a venerable-looking female servant appeared with a light. " What, is that you, Marguerite ?" said the young actress, glad to see an old friend. " Now enter !" cried Madlle. Rachel, " and all is yours !" Madlle. Rebecca, almost stupified, entered, and found ante-rooom, dining• room, drawing, bed, and dressing rooms, furnished in the most elegant style, and de corated with exquisite taste. On returning to the dining-room a nice supper was seen smoking on the table, and Madlle. Rachel said, "The drawers are full of household linen—in the dressing-room you will find every article of linen and dress you can possibly require —one cellar is stocked with wood, another with wine, and the rent is paid a year in advance! Now let us sup, and do the honours!" FESTIVITIES AT BEL VOIR CASTLE. The Duke of Rutland has been entertaining a large party of friends at Belvoir Castle during the past month. The guests have included the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Wilton and Lady Elizabeth Grey Eger ton, the Earl Jermyn and Lady Elizabeth Hervey, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lady Frederick Bentinck, Lord Edw. Fitzalan Howard, the Marquis of Granby, Lord Forester, Ad miral Sir Thomas Cochrane and Miss Cochrane, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, Sir Henry HalfOrd, M.P., Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P., Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., and Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Sir R. Inglis, M.P., Mrs. Lady Em me li ue W ort l ey and Miss Wortley, the Right Hon. Henry Pierrepont, Lord Charles Manners, M.P., Lord John Manners., M.P., Mr. and Lady Adeliza Norman, Mr. Victor Drummond, Mr. Schetky and Miss Schetky, Mr. Cecil Turner, Mr. Gregory Gregory, and the Rev. P. Mules, chaplain to the Duke. We rejoice to learn that the noble host is enjoying strong health, and that his Grace has fol lowed his famous pack of hounds three days a week with all the vigour of his earlier years. On the off days the Noble Duke has enjoyed the diversion of shooting on the Belvoir preserves, and a large number of pheasants have fallen to his unerringaim. On the 20th inst. a grand banquet took place, at which covers were laid for nearly 40 guests. The entertainment was dis tinguished by all that splendid hospitality for which the ducal seat is proverbial. Upon one of the sideboards in the banquetting room was exhibited, on this occa sion, a very beautiful silver statuette of the Duke of Wellington, which was universally admired. In the evening, the first of a series of amateur dramatic representations took place in the principal saloon of the castle, where a temporary theatre had been fitted up and arranged under the judicious direction of Mr. Augustus Stafford. The laughable farce of Box and Cox was exceedingly well performed by Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Miss Cochrane, and the stage manager, Mr. Stafford. Previously to the farce, the following pro logue, written by Mr. Baillie Cochrane, was delivered by the author with good effect : When energetic objects men pursue, 'Tis well to know what they propose to do; Whether a play, or lecture, on Dissent, Or the Colonial Church Establishment; Whether at Belvoir Castle or Colchester We give our bills before we ask a tester. When the old world went forth to meet the new, Columbus' ship stowed tonnage thirty-two. He thought the smallest ships were best to brave The furious conflict of the Atlantic wave, That fore and aft his little barks might tack Where one of Cunard's ships would break its back. And just so we—small dingy and small crew, We fear no danger while we are steered by you Though light our barks, we gaily leave the strand, Sure of success if you but lend a hand. You only clap (on sail) whone'er we pause, And be, your murmurs murmurs of applause, No longer doubtful, on our course wo steer, For our America is seated here. You'll understand why I am so nautical When you perceive our own Vice-Admiral America, appears in every line Because she has given us back our Emmeline. Oh, happy land I oh, country warmly blest I For soon her sympathies shall be hot-pressed, When Bentley's impressions aptly shall convey Her own impressions of Pennsylvania. But other themes than these should fill my mind. Beneath a cloudy sky and soft south wind— How, in the chase, the foremost Granby press'd, And Forester among the first, the best; Or the kind qualities of Mr. Clarke, The social Crichton of our Crorton-park; Or choose your name, whoever you may hit on, No one has finer qualities than Wilton; Or now, since Popish names we have learnt to prize, How great another Gregory doth arise— So great—yet, unlike Pio Nono, he Hath built a convent styled a monastery. I say a convent, for I've heard the presses Contain full space for ninety ladies' dresses. But there aro other nobler themes than these — How Melton glows with various charms to please, How every Lodge contains some mystic grace That beams a rival influence to the chase, Such she who sits before me, who can blend All sweetest charms most valued in a friend. Fit spot for her! Here generous qualities May always claim the kindliest sympathies. Fit spoil—ln noblest Stanley we can find How proudest gifts combine with sweetest mind. But tell me, can or rank or power explain ' How all hearts here ar e li n k e d i n one kind chain? There is some secret cause, some generous spell, That secret cause let princely Rutland tell. Ah, do not blame me if perchance my mood Involves a strain far deeper than it should; But now, I pray, forgive me by the token Of the illustrious name I last have spoken. I have taken out a licence—no one knows The value of a licorice more than Shelley does. So free from licence will our parts be played, Even Sir Robert Harry might have stayed. Now for the scene, hard task is ours 'tis true, But harder still the task that's given you— 'Tis yours to seize ideas when half expressed, Explain the faltering wit and limping jest, 'Tis ours to awkward stalk or foolish stand, 'Tis yours to laugh, to clap, to understand. A Day after the Wedding was included in the programme, and in this piece Mrs. Baillie Cochrane declighted the audience by her truthful and spirituel performance of the heroine. Miss Emme line Wortley's performance of an elderly lady, in the same piece, was also greatly admired, and Mr. Victor Drummond, as Lord Rivers, gave promising proofs of an imitative talent of high order. The performances were to be repeated last night, ie honour of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, who were to join the party already as sembled. The Noble Duke's private band, under the direc tion of Mr. Nicholson, is in attendance at the Castle, and plays daily in the guard-chamber during dinner. The hospitalities of Belvoir will be continued until the meeting of Parliament, when the Noble Duke cornea to town for the season. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ANALYSIS OF THE DERBY. The Analysis of the Derby, by the " Spirit of the Turf," announced to appear this evening, is unavoidably postponed until to-morrow. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. — We can state, from official authority, that the shares are thus allotted in this superb animal, to the partnership proprietary :—The Lords Eglinton and Strathmore, 1,000 soya. each; Lord Airlie, 500 son.; Sir G. Army tage, 500 sous.; Sir H. Campbell, 500 soya.; Captain Archdall, 500 sous.; Messrs. Thompson and Hamilton, 500 soya. each; making the total 5,000 sous. Mr. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at their house, in Park-lane, for the season, from Burghley. LIGHTHOUSES IN FRANCE.—According tO an official report, there are on the sea -coast of France, at pre sent, 57 lighthouses of the first class. Besides those destined to mark at a long distance the points of the coast, 107 lights of less reach indicate the entrance of the ports and bays of France. Of the 57 large lights, 17 are in the Channel, 25 on the Atlantic, and 15 en the Mediterranean.—Builder. Irswlcit —A steam-machine fur discharging coals from the colliers direct to the waggons upon the branch from the Eastern Union Railway has been erect e d upon the Griffin-wharf, and was brought into operation for the first time on Monday. In addition to the celerity of the opera tions, the machine screens the coals during their transit, the small being used at the coke ovens near by. NUREM BURGe--lIARBIONY BETWEEN MASTER AND MAN.—On the 31st December, the workmen of the engine manufactory of Mess's. Cranes and Kiette honoured their employers with a festival procession by torchlight. More than 400 such fl ambeau -bearers gave to the assemblage a very imposing aspect. Messrs. C. and K. had, at much personal sacrifice, retained all their men during the calamitous year 1518; and on this occasion they have promised to estab lish, by their own means, a pension fund ior their workmen, which is, however, to be managed by a committee of the Men theillAelYee.--BUilder. LITERATURE. I THE DUCHESS. A Novel. 3 Vols. Bentley. • The " Duchess ; or, Woman's Love and Woman's lla'e," is an histor'cal romance of the days of Francis the First of France. Tie theme is the passionate, ' unrequited, and selfish love of the Duchess of Angou leme, the King's mother, for the heroic, unfortunate, and traitorous Constable of Bourbon. The character and the passion of the impetuous Italian are effectively described and carefully developed. All her efforts to move the imperturbable Bourbon are ineffectual ; now rendered desperate by her anxiety, she conde scends to entreaties, and then stung to madness by disappointment, she devotes herself to vengeance, vainly imagining that by effecting the ruin of the haughty Constable she may compel him to seek for the restoration of his fortune by consenting to a union with the King's mother. At the last, when she finds that her revenge has defeated her dearest objects—when the King's neglect and his threatened ruin, instead of bringing the Constable to her feet, have driven him into the toils of the Em peror—when the object of her idolatrous love, struck down while in arms against his Sovereign, has lost, through her instrumentality, not only his fortune but his honour and his life—then, indeed, the wretched Duchess experiences all the bitter agony and remorse of those who having sowed the wind must reap the whirl wind. Other subjects of interest and other attrac tions there are in these volumes, but all are, as they should be, subordinate in interest to the principal sub ject of the work—the development of the selfish pas sion of the impetuous Italian. Many fair readers will perhaps complain of the comprehensive nature of the second title of the work, and refuse to recognise the fierce passion of the Duchess, so calamitous to its object, as a sample of " woman's love." Nevertheless, as an evidence of the fearful results of an unrestrained selfishness usurping the name of love, the story of the Duchess is an interest ing and not unprofirable contemplation. The Con stable of Bourbon and some of the principal charac ters are well portrayed, and the sketches of Paris ! and Parisian life, in the time of Francis, are full of spirit, although perhaps a little overdrawn. 1 THE QUEENS OF SPAIN. By Anita George. Edited by Miss Pardoe. Vols. I. and 11. Bentley. The popularity obtained by Miss Strickland's " Queens of England" has very naturally, and for the public very fortunately, suggested the composi tion of works of a similar character. At the present moment, when in Spain, as in England, the Sove reign happens to be a queen, that country has been happily selected as the subject of another chapter in the history of female sovereigns. The history of Spain is, moreover, fraught with so much chivalrous and romantic interest, that the biographies of its sovereigns must necessarily be invested with a great attraction, and afford occasion for the introduction of many marvellous incidents and in teresting episodes. Spain, also, has possessed one of the greatest women who ever swayed the sceptre of Queen regnant—not only great as a sovereign, but eminently virtuous and right womanly in her cha racter and conduct. Isabella of Castile has long been known and admired beyond the limits of her own country. Her history is the subject of the second volume of Miss George's " Queens of Spain." The authoress, alluding in terms of deserved admiration to the great work of the American historian, observes that her opinion of the character of Isabella differs somewhat from that of Prescott. While setting forth the virtues of her admirable heroine, Miss George cannot overlook her faults. Her aim is to be not the eulogist of the individual, but the impartial biographer of the Queens of Spain. As such she merits commendation. FLOWERS; THEIR MORAL LANGUAGE AND POETRY. By H. C. Adams. Slater. This little volume will be right welcome to all who appreciate poetry and to all who love flowers—and who does not? Divided into several chapters, en titled " The Moral of Flowers ;" " The Language of Flowers ;" " Children and Flowers ;" "Fairies and Flowers ;" "Floral Similitudes ;" " Floral Ceremo nies ;" "Funeral Flowers ;" and " Wild Flowers," we find a choice collection from the works of poets, ancient and modern, English and American. Among these are Mary Howitt's beautiful illustration of the " Use of Flowers ;" Mrs. Hemans' "Flower of the Desert ;" Horace Smith's " Hymn to the Flowers ;" Barry Cornwall's "Lines to a Flower ;" "Leigh Hunt's " Albanian Love-letter ;" L. E. L.'s exquisite floral acrostic on " Victoria ;"" The Posie" of Robert Burns ; Shelley's "Floral Similitudes ;" Longfellow's "Reaper and the Flowers," and many others. But even more attractive than these entire poems are the chapters on the above:subjects, scattered over, as they are, with a profusion of quotations from almost all the poets (for what poets have failed to celebrate flowers ?) The manner in which these flowers of poetry have been selected and classified reflects cred)t on Mr. Adams, and will prove delightful to all who turn over the pages of his very attractive little volume. This work forms part of Slater'a " Select scuts. DEANE'S ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC for 1851. In addition to the usual contents of an almanac, this little work gives us a series of illustrations of the genius of progress, comparing the state of affairs 100 years ago with that existing at the present time; thus we have woodcuts, of the waggon and the rail, of the canal boat and of the ocean steamer, of the hand-loom and the power-loom, of the printing-press and the newspaper printing-machine, of the estafette and the electric telegraph, of the old method of ex cavating and the galvanic battery, of the horn lant horn and gas, of the process of the steel pen manufac ture, and of a variety of other subjects. The work is very nicely got up. THE LONDON MEDICAL AND PROVIN- CIAL DIRECTORY, 1851. Tbis is the sixth annual impression of this most useful work, and it is much more complete than any of its predecessors ; we have tested its accuracy by referring to various names both of provincial and metropolitan professors of the art of healing, and we have in every instance found the information which the directory gave both accurate and complete. It likewise gives every possible information concerning hospitals, dispensaries, &c., both metropolitan and provincial, and, in fact, on every other subject con nected with the medical profession. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Orders were received this morning for the 'Tecate steam-sloop, Commander G. S. Hand, to proceed forthwith to Newcastle, for which port she sailed at 3 P.M. The Samarang freight-ship embarked three officers and 155 men, 7 women, and 12 children, of the 59th Regiment at Cowea yesterday for Hong-Kong. The Government steam-tug Echo towed her back to Spithead in the evening to await sailing orders. The Amphitrite, 24, Captain Frederick, went out of harbour to Spithead yesterday. She will sail about Sa turday for the Pacific. APPOINTMENTS. Woo',wren, JAN. .29.—Clerk—Harry T. Nettleton (1845), borne on the books of the Ftsguard flag-ship at Woolwicb, for service in the Woodlark, to the Indefati gable, 50, at Devonport. Clerk's Assistant—Julius Ibettson to the Cumberland, 70, at Sheerness, making ready to proceed as flag-ship on the Pacific station. Mate Mark B. Peden, of the Cumberland, opened a rendczvous yesterday, at the Ship Hotel, Woolwich, fur the entry of able and ordinary seamen for service in that fine vessel; and men producing certificates of good cha racter will be engaged and obtain one month's leave of absence . before being called upon to join at Sheerness. EXTENSION OF THE EPISCOPATE.—The Channel Islands contain a large population—quite large enough to tax all the energies of an active prelate. Why might they not form a diocese separate and distinct from that of Winchester? Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor and Man, has about fifty thousand persons within the range of his bishopric; surely Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, which greatly outnumber that population, might have the advan tage of an accessible bishop, instead of being placed as now, under the control of a prelate whose diocese extends from the boundaries of the islands to the foot of London-bridge. The question of the extension of the episcopate must, ere long, come before Parliament. We hope the Channel Islands will not be forgotten when the arrangements are under considera tion.— The Protector. STAPLEHURST. HONESTY AND LIBERALITY.— One day last week, just after the arrival of the four o'clock train, a 101. note of the London and Westminster Bank was found outside the station-door. A name was on it, which WAS thought to be that of ➢ir. Punnett, of Chart Sutton place, who had come down by the train, and to whom the finder, accompanied by another man, immediately took the note. That gentleman would not own it, but he most hand somely presented each of the men with five shillings, and treated them with the most liberal hospitality, as a reward of their honesty.—Maidstone Journal. A MAN BURNT TO DEATH.—One of the most hor rible catastrophes that has occurred in this neighbourhood for along time took place on the morning of Sunday last. AR old pensioner, named Joseph Healey, residing at Castle hill-side, near Almondbury Poorhouse, in a low miserable hovel, without anybody to take care of him, went to Al mondbury on Saturday night, where he remained till early the next morning. He returned to his home in a state of intoxication, and, there being very little fire in th e gra t e , h e sat down in front of the fireplace, resting his elbow on one of his knees, and his head upon his hand, stretching his other leg straight out close to the fire-grate, in which posi tion he tell asleep. Some time during the night his clothes got on fire, but how it is impossible to conjecture; but, they being woollen, would not blaze, but gradually smouldered away. Not making his appearance at the usual time in the morning (9 o'clock), one of the neighbours broke a pane in the window and put aside a thick packsheet which was hung up for a blind, and discovered the man all in a glow of tire. The door was instantly broken open, and the poor fellow was found quite dead and still; with a portion of his clothes still burning; the flesh being completely burnt off his legs, so as to exhibit the bare bones. He was in the same posture as when he fell asleep. An inquest was held on the body on the following day (Monday), before Mr. George Dyson and a respectable jury, at the Woolpack Inn, when, after a p a ti en t i nvest i gat i on, t h e j ur y returned a ver die t of "Death from suffocation and burning."--Halifax Guardian. EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1851. chosen a different course of action. The agitation there, however, he was glad to observe, was extensive and almost unanimous. —(Cheers.) Mr. JOHN CassEn wished to observe, that the agi tation for the abolition of the pe per duties, was not one merely of paper makers, but it was taken up as a national question, and a very important meeting, the Lord Mayor in the chair, had been held in Dublin. Mr. CHAMBERS (Edinburgh) rose to move the first resolution, to the effect that the duty acted as a grievous tax upon knowledge, by preventing the cir culation of cheap literature of a wholesome character. He said that the question, as it affected cheap publi cations, had been much misrepresented in the House of Commons and elsewhere by the opponents of repeal. The course was to take up a large book, and say, .` the tax upon this is about threepence, and is it worth while to kick up a row ?" But that was a very one-sided argument. On a volume of a fashion able novel the duty might not probably exceed 11 per cent., because in suoh a cue the expenses of author ship and composition bore a large proportion to the value of the paper; but the case was quite different in cheap publications, where authorship and composi tion were small figures, and, psper formed the princi pal expense. In a work, a sit gle sheet, the money paid for authorship was from 15 to 20 guineas, but that bore no proportion to the value of the paper, the circulation being perhaps 50,000. He used in his establishment in Edinburgh 18,000 reams of paper annually, or 8,640,000 sheets, and on that he paid to Government 3,0001. in duty.—(Hear.) What a deduction was that from the funds applicable for the reward of literary labour ! He might further state that last year he had been obliged to discontinue a publication, which had reached a circulation of 80,000, because on making up his accounts he found that all his profit, 6,2001., went to the Government in duty. Thus was a work destroyed by the tax which was circulating 18,0001. annually among trades men and workmen of various kinds.—(Hear.) Some persons would say that they might have raised the price, but that would have reduced the circulation to 20,000, and then the questions of authorship and composition would become prominent. They had subsequently started another at one halfpenny more, which had attained a circulation of from 30,000 to 40,000, just half, and out of that Government took 8001. a-year, exactly the sum paid to authors. They found that it just paid, but were about to discontinue it, one reason being that their American customers had discontinued their orders, and were about to print pirated copies themselves. Those copies would be sold all through our American colonies, and no law could prevent it. What law could guard a fron tier of 3,000 miles ?—(Hear, hear.) It might be urged in favour of the tax that remission would en courage immoral cheap literature, but his belief was that the people naturally preferred reading of a healthy character, and that if the latter could be pro vided for them cheap and abundant, the former would soon be driven from the field.--(Cheers.) Mr. C. KNIGHT, in seconding the resolution, said, that if the first paper manufacturer in the world—the wasp in the garden of Eden --had been so harassed in the use of of his mandibles, as were his successors in the use of their machinery, he would most certainly have stung the exciseman. —(Laughter.) They had heard one representative of cheap literature—the other was Charles Dickens (Cheers) and he (Mr. Knight) had received from him a distinct authority to express his complete concurrence with the objects of the meeting. He thought it important to mention Mr. Dickens's name at the outset, because it had been too much the fashion for persons of a certain quality and rank in life to turn up their noses at cheap litera ture, and say that it must surely be bad. But when he mentioned, in connexion with their cause, the name of the most popular author of the day, of him who had given delight to thousands in his admirable fic tions—(Hear, hear)—and announced that he had dis tinctly, and as a matter of business, identified himself with cheap literature, and in his " House hold Words" promulgated great questions, that argument could hardly be repeated. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Knight here went through some statistics, whi c h h ave already been published, showing that th e c h eap publications exceeded in number the whole of the newspapers in the United Kingdom. To show how the paper duty acted as a tax upon authorship, he instanced the case of a copy right which cost 1,0001. if the sale were 1,000 the price of authorship would amount to 11. a volume ; but if it reached to 40,000 the price would be only 6d. a volume.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Macaulay —or rather Messrs. Longman—(A laugh)—for him, had sold 35,000 copies of his history at 325. the volume, but they could not catch Macaulays every day, but sales of 40,000 might be effected, upon which 1,0001. for copyright would fall very lightly, and that extent of sale could only be obtained by the cheapness which would result from a remission of the duty. Having gone into some other details which have already ap peared in his pamphlet, and been amply discussed in the papers, he said in conclusion :—lt was alleged that cheapness would encourage bad literature, as well as good, so did the sun w hich shone equally on the tares and the wheat, but they knew that the careful farmer would eradicate the weeds and cultivate the corn, and so he believed that if they had the sun of light taxa tion they would soon root up the weeds of literature and give the people a rich harvest of intellectual en tertainment and improvement.—(Cheering.) Tee resolution was put and carried unanimously. Mr. CASSEL moved the next resolution, which stated that the duty having been introduced as a war tax, violated all fiscal principles, and fell directly on the employment of labour. The manufacturer of paper beautifully illustrated that passage of Scripture which said, " Gather up the fragments that nothing may be lost," as from rags and refuse the paper maker created an article worth four millions a year—(Hear, hear) —and of this Government pounced down and took away 800,0001.—(Hear.) The Government was a free-trade Government ; it was a Government which professed to patronise labour, and he could tell them that if they were sincere in their professions, there was no better way of encouraging labour than by taking the tax off paper.—(Hear.) It was said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a surplus of three or four millions, but even if he had no surplus he (Mr. Cassel) considered that Government were bound to remove the tax. Having dilated on the powerful agent paper was in the progress of every re formatory movement, Mr. Cassel proceeded to observe that, even if they did not get their grievance men tioned in the budget, it should not be cushi o n e din the House of Commons. It should be unceasingly agi tated, and petitions should pour in, as they said in Lancashire, thick, hot, and heavy. He believed that if the subject were properly agitated half a million of signatures might be obtained in three weeks. Mr. S. C. liana seconded the motiod. Much had been :aid of the pressure of the tax on cheap litera ture ; but he could assure them that it was equally oppressive on more costly publications. The Art Journal was now a profitable p u bli ca ti o n, circulating 20,000 copies monthly, and paying 1,2001. a year to Government. But it had only been a profitable work for two years, and for the preceding ten it had been published at a loss; and yet during that period it had paid 6,0001. or 7,0001 to Government. That alone would be a handsome profit ; and so far acted against many useful publications which were now struggling with difficulties. He cordially supported the reso lution. Mr. TOWLE, of Oxfoni, supported the resolution. He said that some time since a machine had been in vented by which very nice paper could be made from straw. He bad bought a machine, and commenced making the paper; but the Government stepped in with the duty and obliged him to relinquish the trade, for the straw for which he paid 303. a ton to the farmers was charged in duty at 14 guineas the ton.—(Hear, hear.) Now this paper was very well calculated to make a thing now getting very much into fashion— he meant those little ornamented fruit boxes. French men had come over to make them here, but were stopped by the duty, and were now successfully car rying on their trade at Boulogne, and sending in their work here at an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. In the mean time his yard was full of straw, and the far mers, his neighbours, were sad and disappointed at the loss of a market which would have consumed 150 tons of straw in the year. He was, in fact, " the last rose of summer"—the only paper maker left in Ox fordshire.—(Hear.) He remembered every river studded with paper mills, and now all but his were silent and the owners bankrupt or expatriated. What was the cause of this ? He said neither more nor less than the paper duty.—(Hear, hear.) They had heard much of the various grievances connected with its col lection, but there was something worse than all they had heard behind.—(Hear, hear.) He would not tell them then, but reserve it for a future day.—(Loud laughter, and cries of " Tell.") The speaker, however, remained i❑ obdurate pos session of his secret. The CHAIRMAN wished, before putting the resolution, to say one word to the agriculturists. If the paper duty were repealed he would undertake that four times as much straw as was used at present would be consumed by the paper makers. The resolution was put and carried. Mr. HOLDEN (Manchester) moved the third reso tion, to the effect that the manufacturing of paper se cured a large amount of innocent and healthy ern' ployment for women and children. He contended that this was a question of great; importance to toe I farmers, as their clear streams and pure atmosphere would soon tempt paper makers from t he smok y north, and thus pro v ide innocent and remunerativesy employment for their poor, if it were not for the pre sent oppressive and fiscal regulations. Mr. COLLINS (Glasgow) seconded the motion, which was carried u nanimously. Mr. BA= nwiN moved the fourth resolution, a ffi rm „ ing that paper, from the various uses to which it was applied, was an article of the first necessity to a civi lized people. He said that, coming as he did from Birmingham, he was witness of many peculiar evils connected with this duty. He as a maker of coarse paper, and had sold last year paper of that description to the amount of 24,0001. Of that sum upwards of 9,0001. went to the Government for duty.—(Hear, hear.) The speaker here produced some spe cimens of the pasteboard used in making Florentine buttons, and showed how the waste after the buttons were cut out of the sheet paid the most of the duty. He also produced specimens of papier niliche, and showed the hardship the duty ins flicted on the manufacturer of that elegant article. In steel pens, also, he showed that the ornamental card cost snore than the pens, and that half of that cost was duty. Steel pens were made in Birmingham and exported to France, where they were fastened on duty-free cards, and afterwards undersold the work of their own maker in America.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Baldwin also mentioned the fact that the steel pens which originally cost 71. a gross were now manufac tured at 7d., an d th a t t h e i r use m i g ht be enormously increased were it not for the expense of the card, which in reality cost more than the pens. He had, under all these circumstances, great pleasure in se conding the resolution. Mr. BORTLIWICK seconded the resolution. He said that the hour a t w hi c h h e rose, as well as t h e f u l ness with which the question had already been discussed, admonished him that his observations should be brief ; and, therefore, brief they should be. But he could not refrain from observing that it became him to con gratulate the chairman and the meeting on the fact, that while opposing the most gigantic and discredit able evil that rested on the statute-book in connexion with finance, they abstained from any of those charac teristics which had disgraced other agitations.— (Hear, hear.) No threats had been held out. A case bad been clearly stated, emphatically enforced, fully made out, and that case was to be carried before the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the morrow (this day). They would tell him, that they appealed to him as the Minister of a just Sovereign—as the re presentative of a great people, and that, like English men, they were willing to rely on the justice of an English Government.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Borth wick) was glad that, referring to what Mr. Cassel had stated as to the means of obtaining the abolition of the tax, not only a positive course had been sketched, but an abstinence from injudicious agita tion had been recommended, as most important in seeking the great object they had in view; and a great object it was.—(Loud cheers.) They had heard from the leaders of modern instruction the mischievous effects of the tax on the progress of general knowledge, and they had heard from their chairman that a customer of his who had paid 1,0001. per annum for coarse paper, did not know that more than 5 per cent, on it was paid to the Government—the Government, in fact, receiving from 40 to 50 per cent. He probably reflected no more on the subject than the chairman's customer. Now he would ask them to consider the case of a man who was anxious for instruction in that which was the most sacred of all knowledge, religion. That man would go to a bookseller's shop and would buy a New Testament for a shilling or sixpence. But in the his tory of our religion it had occurred that a copy of the Testament could not be purchased for as much as would build that magnificent Cathedral of Westmin ster which could be seen from a window where they were then assembled. The King of Arragon had paid half his kingdom for a Testament.—(Cheers.) To what and to whom did the poor man owe the blessing that he could obtain a copy of that sacred book for ls. or 6d. ? He owed it to the skill, the industry, and the enterprise which had been applied to the manufacture of paper. Yet the Government would say, though the national industry had pro duced these beneficial effects on human education, " we will interpose between your industry and enter prise, and their great effects, this abominable paper tax, varying from 300 per cent. to 20 or 30 per cent. at least."—(Hear.) The resolution just proposed called attention to what had been done by paper, and to what might yet be done by paper. They were told that the uses to which it was applied were so many and various, as to render its cheapness of first value in commerce and civilization. They had already heard how important the paper-tax was with respect to commerce and civilization ; but little had been said about its effect on decorative art,—how easily, for example, the tradesmen's residence could be made to rival in gorgeous splendour the baronial palace—what was formerly wrought by the chisel of the cunning artist in the obdurate heart of oak, could now be done with more exquisite effect on the plastic material of papier macho.—(Cheers.) Yet the Go vernment could say to taste and genius, we prohibit you by the penalty of a duty of 300 per cent. from advancing towards these achievements. A witty allusion had been made to the first paper maker, the wasp. But as he could only pay in time, if this tax of 300 per cent. had been put upon him, the consequence would have been that winter would have overtaken him before his nest had been built, and thus his prudence and his industry would have been useless.—(A laugh.) For what purpose had this tax been laid on originally ? Because the bayonets of foreign forces were drawn against the people of Eng land, its Crown, and its greatness; and the Crown, in that strait, said to the people—" I appeal to your loyalty ! for the dignity of the Crown and country, and for your own protection ; pay me taxes on every thing, aye, even on paper, the medium of your ad vancement to knowledge and the arts." And the people, with their wonted loyalty, answered—" Take it—take it for a temporary purpose; until you succeed in repelling this invasion, you are welcome to it." But the Government had forgotten the reciprocal duty that devolved on them from this contract. Thirty years of peace now had run on—with many intervals before the last great war had broken out— and still the Government had forgotten to return to the people that which the people had lent them.— (Cheers.) At length the Committee appointed to in quire what were the duties that ought first to be re pealed—the Committee over which Sir Henry Par nell presided—recommended that leather, paper, and glass were the first things from which the duties should be removed. The report of that Committee was just. since that time, other taxes had been named for removal by other Committees. But the Government pledged itself by the first Committee ; and they should be now required to fulfil their pledge —the first promise—the first in order. Leather was free, glass was free, and that meeting called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his honour as a Mi nister, and on his solemn duty to the Crown, to fulfil the whole promise, and to wipe away the paper duties, as a foul blot on the Legislature of England.— (Cheers.) Mr. Towle had called the attention of the meeting to an important subject. Up to that time they had spoken as more or less directly in• terested in the repeal of these duties, and they were quite right in so doing. There would be hypocrisy in the very pretence of denying that they were interested in the repeal. But there were other classes of the community, the agricultural population of this country, who, all admitted, were, at this moment, undergoing great suffering, likewise interested.—(Hear, hear.) The labouring classes had undoubtedly benefited by free trade. He (Mr. 13orthwick), as an old-fashioned Tory and Protec tionist, admitted it; indeed it would be madness for any Protectionist to pretend to deny it. But while the labouring classes were well off, it could not be de nied that the farmers were suffering for that which had benefited the rest of the country. What had Mr. Towle said to the meeting ? He had reminded them that paper-making did not seek a habitation in the smoky and dense atmosphere of cities ; but that its haunts were in the rural valleys, that it courted limpid streams and pure air ; that it would go to the barnyard to purchaee straw from the farmer; that it would go to the hedge-rows and make use of the bramble, that now idly wastes its foliage in the sun , that it would pick up the waste refuse of farms, and employ the surplus labour of the agri cultural districts—labour that every English man's heart cannot but ache to see crossing the wide ocean, and seeking in foreign lands that reward denied it in England.—(Cheers.) He trusted, it should not be said with truth, that the cause of this emigration was, that the honest heart of English labour was driven from its English home by an act of the English Legislature.—(Cheers.) They were told that by the repeal of the paper-tax they would increase the labour given in this country to the extent of 500,000 additional hands. Should these 500,0 . 9 . 0 s hands be employed by paper makers—should mil l s now closed be re-opened—should new mills be e rected —should an impetus be given to enterprise and b poor tal—should employment be afforded this hs ta who would find labourers, it would not only be the manufacturers, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Exchequer a out that the most odious character.nto was that it prevents from it.—(Hear.) The istic t of greater revenue than it brings into be caused by going into increase of employment that increase the goody, that ion of taxable oonsump aid to the revenue than abolition of the paper duties would so - the sum would be p the 800,000.1., which •they now asked the Ch anc ellor of the Exchequer to remit out of the three m illions of surplus at present in hi s h an d s . Nothing could be more ludicrous than what had b een pointed out by the chairman relati ve t o th e s h eat hi ng of ships , and the coars e paper used for the binding of books. The Excise -office was not able to say what was paper and what was not. Two materials were placed before the Board of Excise, and when asked which was paper and which was not, they could not tell, but they thought both were paper.—(A laugh.) What was the difference? Ingenuity had discovered a mode of p ro d uc i ng paper w i t h out mak i ng the ma terial wet. The paper was made from the same material, only it was not wet. He (Mr. Borthwicls) had read in the chairman's speech at Manchester that he had shown an officer high in the Excise some of this materiel, and had told him where it was lying in great qumtities in London. But the officer dare not go and seize it, because the maker could say there was not a drop of water used in its manufacture. This was nothing less than the Government making The malignant operation of the tax upon the manu facturer was eloquently described by Mr. Crompton. He showed that from the time when the paper-maker begins to construct his mill, until he has delivered his goods to the merchant or consumer, a series of inquisi torial and vexatious interferences, scarcely less injurious than the enormous pecuniary sacrifice of 300 per cent. powerful agenFte.ris.;enrlitn the value of the material, encounter him at every step. perniah very step. We might here quote the graphic description of Mr. Crompton, but we prefer referring our readers to the speech itself, which will amply repay Mr. William Chambers and Mr. Charles Knight, in moving and seconding a resolution, referring to the in jurious effects of the paper-duty upon literature of every class, proved by incontestible facts, and most for cible reasoning, that genius even of the highest order is either unemployed or stinted in its fair rewards by this K tho s e i of w°lhreceierhnattii:o:unosi dreary incubus upon general knowledge and wholesome popular instruction. armies. But Bopuitnitohne, effect e li c a t s of been t h et impostr u h iy said, p usi publishers e stronger resonos if ci t se h ur a e : tion upon this most Knight--clualin a d ll : 6- . g l r h e e e , manyto poison a are o its either the aenpd guida nce a-wily Herald, must and immoral publications — works as Chambers' periodicals,ressof lir. entertaining p which are barely surmounted by at ' still, as w e have otten had occasion to remark, the most odious feature of this most odious tax is its I papermaker ensiv in Oxfordshire who , creel o peration us , not by profits, but by the ai e ci n o , this point, the speech of has been able to keep his mills open, and independent he tells lif j3c saleseri pro ceedg dencounter t .from oi s o liie u, almost difficulties, instructiveohi t n e nh c e r P e l d ° o 1.. ) 8 l u b l du),ye only .e t 0 n pro perty, is most striking and instructive. W hat was said also upon the benefits which must ac crue to agriculture by the abolition of this duty is,:espu chilly at this moment, deserving of the most careful attention. The surplus labour of the rural districts may find employment. Straw, the produce of the fcirm, may be mixed with the refuse of cotton, and grow, under the application of industry—at present languishing in un willing idleness, or exchanging useful occupation for the workhouse—into a fabric in universal demand, and of almost infinite utility. We cannot to-day enter more fully into the considdera tin our o r o e f a t d h e i r s s groat a q t u t e e n s t t i i v o e n . y ur r perusal a c l o cordially 1 0 l proceedings at the King's Arms Hotel. reecpoonirtineoi; thet THE SHIPPING Or HOLLAND. --The merchant conlasmeonfce2m2e4n6t66of tons,th shippingpresent being a n year,ioincrease c Tr il tei c ia,e o o esd m l ei l ai a c p rd n i .t o u d ji jr,enaidiw:°: fdes the a.nn 2 r a gt 3 i t n 9 e p t t 5! madehht . en e ed e p of past year of 13 es 6 se ; s lost, o year 3 c l ousisted of 6,959 departures 7,017 vessels, vessels and " ale ; former ~ 0 Were Dutch vessels, o f the latter, 4,743 Dutch, of 771,856 4 19 ,1 ,5 6 9 3 8 t0 t u 0 5 u . 5, 3 "3 vessels, oofi ii 369 ,d o 9s f sG i l t , to o on 9 ns 9 l ,.7 a s n l od t i tons. 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Yesterday a meeting of delegates from various parts of the kingdom was held at the King's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard, for the purpose of making ar rangements to wait upon the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and represent to him the various hardships inflicted by the present excise regulations on the paper trade, and the ne - xssity there exists for the total remission of the dutir. The room was filled with paper manufacturers, publishers, and others connected with the trade. mong those present were Mr. Crompton, who was subseluently called to the chair, Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. Chambers (Edinburgh), Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr. Woolmer (Exeter), Mr. Cassel, Mr. Baldwin (Birmingham), Mr. Borthwick, Mr. Holden (Manchester), Mr. Collins (Glasgow), Mr. Towle (Oxford), &c. Mr. Huggett acted as secretary. Letters from Mr. Hume regret ting his inability to attend, but promising his support in Parliament—from Mr. Charles Dickens, promising to attend the deputation— from W. J. Fox with a similar promise —and also a memorial from the Financial Reform Associa tion of Liverpool —were read. Mr. CROMPTON, on taking the chair, said that he bad had experience of the working of the paper duties for the last forty years ; that, during that period, it had been open to all sorts of frauds, and his firm conviction was that the only remedy would be a total repeal of the duties, He had with great diffi culty obtained a return of the number of convictions during the year 1848 for various breaches of the ex cise laws committed by paper makers, and would state to the meeti ng its results. It appeared that there were in the three kingdoms about 600 mills at work, and that in England there had been 43 convictions, in Scotland 9, and in Ireland 30. This alone gave 15 per cent. on the whole number of traders.—(Hear, bear.) How was trade to be carried on by honest men in the face of such proceedings, the more espe cially as even 20 convictions did not prevent the frau dulent trader still continuing his trade ?—(Hear, hear.) Again, the excise was in the habit of com pounding the penalties, in one case having com pounded 3701. for 1001. The whole amount of penalties inflicted had been 10,7611. 4s. ld., of which there had been recovered in England 3,5231. 14s. 3d. ; in Scotland, 161/. ; and in Ireland, 1,3841. 4s. 2d. From these figures he felt himself justified in contending that if it was for nothing else than the morals of the country, Government ought to get rid of the tax.— (Hear, hear.) On the coarser descriptions of paper the tax pressed so heavily, that the temptation to fraud was almost irresistible, being about 120 per cent. on the cost price.—(Hear, hear.) On the raw material the duty was about 600 per cent., and this while the raw material of every other manufacturing trade had been emancipated from duty.--(Hear, hear.) Some time since the duty had been taken off cotton, at the instance of the manufac turers, but it had been left on them, who were only the scavengers of the cotton mills. They took the refuse of the cotton, which was about one-fifth of the whole, and one-third of that they were able to con vert into their own raw material. It would hardly be believed that the tax on this raw material was about 300 per cent. on the value of the article.— (Hear, hear.) Was it right that paper makers should submit to this, while cotton manufacturers had found 8 per cent. on their raw material unbearable ? They were compelled to pay 50 per cent. on wrapping paper, and that paper was now being imitated in a non excisable article with such success that it was impos sible to know the paper from the imitation, the only dif ference being that in one case t h e mater i a l was first maceratedinto pulp, and thus came under the deno mination of paper, while in the other it was first worked up dry, and was called felt. Thus, while another manufacturer was making his felt duty free he (Mr. Crompton) was paying 120 per cent. duty on a precisely similar article.—(Hear, hear.) In fact, to such an extent were frauds of this description going on, that it would be more to the interest of a gentle man entering the paper trade to study how the law might be evaded than to pay any attention to the provisions of the Act of Parliament, He had for some time turned his attention in that direction, and was now able to make felt on one side of the table while he was making paper on the other.—(Laughter.) He would defy the Board of Excise to charge this article see any impropriety in sending it into the . as paper, and under existing circumstances h m e ar d h id et n_ot (Hear, hear.) He would now enter a little into the various difficulties which beset the manufacturer of paper. When he had erected his premises he must send for a Government officer to make a schedule and number every room, and every article, presses, vats, &c., in those rooms. Then he bad to get a licence. Then, when the paper wus made, it must be packed in parcels of a prescribed form, a condition which was open to all manner of evasion. Next the num ber of sheets, and weight of each ream, must be stated, and a label provided by the Govern ment affixed. If one of these labels was missing a penalty of 10/. was the consequence, and yet he was constantly obliged to entrust them to his workmen. It might now be supposed that the article was ready for the market. But no, the goods must remain 24 hours for the inspection of the supervisor, lest there should have been collusion with the officer, and this delay was under some circumstances extended to 84 hours before the finished goods were allowed to be sent off the premises. All men of business would appreciate what a loss this was to the manufacturer.— (Hear, hear.) Before leaving its destination it must ue entered in an open book for the officer, so that at any time be might take your whole connexion off to another mill if he should be so inclined.—(Hear.) If you happen to give a wrong direction an officer might seize and condemn the parcel without mercy. The public were hardly aware of how much they were interested in this question. A gentleman, a friend of his, who spent about 1,0001. a year in coarser papers, had been much s urpr i sed to learn from h i m that 5001. of that sum went to the Government for duty— (Hear)—and be a man, too, who had to compete with manufacturers in other countries who wrapped up their goods in duty-free paper.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Crompton) had received orders from the continent for wrappers identical with those used by English houses, in order that the goods contained might be sold as English goods. Thus the goods were sold as English goods, and the foreigner got his drawback on his English wrappers.—(Hear, h e ar.) Another fact h e might mention w as , t h at American agents now came to this country, and purchased the refuse material, which they manufactured duty free at home, and sent into our colonies to compete with English manufac tures.—(Hear, hear.) His fear was that if the duty were not repealed they would soon have to give up work altogether, while, if it were abolished, in accord ance with the principles of free trade, which this Go vernment professed, he was not afraid of competition with any country in the world.—(Cheers.) The SECRETARY announced that memorials, signed by 8,422 gentlemen had been received from the fol lowing places during the last few days, and would be presented to the ChancellOr of the Exchequer this day (Thursday) : Lymington, Hants. St. Austell, Cornwall. Merthyr Tydvil (town) ... (Mechanics Institution.) Grantham. Kendal. Stafford. Ripon. Portsmouth. Lancaster. Haslingdon. Heywood. Accrington. Rochdale. Middleton. Darwen. Garstang. Blackburn. Manchester. Liverpool. Ch orley. Glossop. Lyme Regis. Dover. Lancaster. Bangor. Exeter. .. (Newspaper proprietors.) Grimsby. Piccadilly, &c. Bishopsgate Ward. Oxford-street. Strand. Old and New Bond-street. Berwick-on-Tweed. Gainaborough. Bolton (gentry.) ... (trades.) ... (shopkeepers.) ... (engineers, bleachers,&c.) . (cotton spinners.) Pontefract. Devizes. Warrington. Wigan (gentry.) (trades), and Huxley (merchants). 'Canterbu r y. Preston. Elalshaw Moor and Kit Peterborough. Barton-on-Humber. Glamorgan. Lincoln. Saddleworth. Barnstaple. Devonport. Plymouth. Liverpool Financial Reform Assooiation. Reading. !Durham (Mechanics' Insti tution.) ••• Kersley (inhabitants.) Chichester. The CHAIRMAN explained that these memorials had been obtained within the last twenty-one days, being the time that had elapsed since the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made an appointment to meet the de putation. Each name was accompanied with the ad dress of the individual, and he had taken pains that no signature should be appended by any lower in so ciety than very respectable shopkeepers. When he had waited upon the merchants of Liverpool they said he had come at a late hour, and that they were somewhat pledged to the abolition of other taxes; but when he explained the important nature of the duties on paper, the cause bad been taken up so warmly that in three days an array of names had been obtained in the towns of Liverpool anl Manchester, more influ ential and wealthy than had ever before been pro cured, unless when the lists had been far more nu merous.—(Loud cheers.) He also explained that many of the instutions, such as the Chamber of Commerce, could not move without a certain length of notice, and their memorials consequently had yet to be forwarded. tlftirheoetbisecolterxadvfreliodldri,yd bthat262.--(Cheers.) ( should heer have by the morrow memorials from every other town of importance throughout the kingdom. The SECRETARY wis he d to Wmaesntsioignnetdhabtyot3hleor memorials from the metropolita s n tre d e i t s , tr b i y cts 3 ex pected.lw7ehreouse.hh oout house holders; h ouseholders; d T t e h r hat as from t fromh a t In answer to a question, The CHAIRMAN said that there Were no delegates f rom Ireland, as the paper manufacture:s there bad ----- themselves temptera - to evil, inviting ingenuity to Com. ' mit fraud. The e: xtent of this disgraceful fraud was great in 'relate I, in Scotland little, and in Eng land something mor4 !. He (Mr. Borthwick) had heard ' manufacturers sae-, and urge it on the Government, that they desired era get rid of the paper tax, if for no other rea lon because they wi s h e d, w h en they shouldretire from Le trade, to leave it to their children and heirs which u m n s a t d a e iln i e t d a , l m a a )s a t t a ra d d i e sg , r b a y c e t h t o a t b e e ic t h i o o u u s gh ch t a a ra p c ap te e r r , i maker. The inequality of the tax was another consi deration. Paper trade from the finest materials, from linen and cambric, and that made from the rags which poverty itself had discarded, and from the produce of the farm-yard, bad to pay the same rate of duty. This was a monstrous injustice—a-leer, hear)—but the broad characteristi c of the tax of which they bad lis—twaxhei:laincottnhe all to complain, was the great fact that labour, in the action of transferring the rags of poverty into the most elegant materials used byldtnehnenieorduicB i t n o gl l e a bionusrt instance municated the burning thoughts of Byron, of Scott, of Dickens, to the world at large— pmearneuefnatc.tuorfeittso natural n tu ex ra te l n v t alu th e a . t could they appeal to the Government to repeal a tax whose repeal would so largely benefit the whole publi c as this tax on paper. Th e r e p ea l o f t h e window tax, of the soap duties, would be ne fit many ; the remo ve .1 of the malt tax would be of advantage to light lands, the taking off other taxes would be advocated on ma my plausible grounds; but there was not any other tax against which so many arguments and so pow erful reasons could be brought as against this tax upon paper.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Borthwick) most bear tily seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. SMITH, of Bingley, in moving the fifth res o l e . tion, said he thought one of the speakers had stated that this tax had been laid on to maintain inviolate the shores of our country. Mr. BORTHWICK—Yes, in the reign of Queen Anne. Mr. SMITH—Then they were coming to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to demand the settlement of an outstanding debt, instead of a boon.—(Hear.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer would, doubtless, talk of the sum produced by this tax as 800,0001. That certainly was the gross sum brought into the Exchequer ; but when that went into the right hand pocket, what went out of the left ? — (Hear.) First, there was the expense of collection, which he believed must be 5 per cent., but he would say 3 per cent. The Ctietnimear—Th e Government acknowledged it to be 7i. Mr. SMITH remarked that all his experience made him believe that that was the real amount. Then there was the drawback in exported goods, on the paper used in printing Bibles and Testaments. Then there was the Government stationery, and, indeed, many other payments out of the left-hand pocket, which very materially reduced the 800,0001. received by the right hand.—(Cheers.) Paper making was a trade, too, which afforded a respectable and regular support to its workmen, and was less liable than othe't manufactures to fluctuations, which threw workma n and their families on the public purse for their main. tenance.—(Cheers.) It was therefore a trade which ought to be encouraged on public grounds. Mr. E. Wooaatrai seconded the motion, and, as re presenting in some degree the newspaper press of the West of England, assured the meeting that in Wane part of the realm they were determined to use every legitimate and honourable means to get rid of so ob noxious a tax.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. The sixth and last resolution was moved by Mr. S, DUNCAN, and seconded by Mr. P. G. BAR/QM It provided that copies of the resolutions and memorials be respectfully presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. Bouruwici it was resolved that the resolutions be advertised in all the daily and weekly papers. Mr. BALDWIN, in seconding the above resolution, announced that although no memorial had that day been presented from Birmingham, the town council and the merchants of that town were preparing peti tions to Parliament. A vote of thanks, proposed in most complimentary terms by Mr. Charles Knight, and seconded by Mr. Petter, was given enthusiastically to the chairman. ' The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the compliment. He had for twenty years been devoted to the object for which the present agitation had been organized. His strongest incentive for taking that course had been a principle of hostility to fraudulent traders, and the consummation of one of his most ardent wishes woulii be achieved when it was entirely out of the power of any man to take an unfair advantage of another in the way of trade.—(Cheers.) He had pursued his object steadily and with energy, and before he bad asked the public for a single shilling he had expended 1,0001. He would pay deference to no man in point of energy, and now that he was supported by so general a feeling, and so much of the talent and enter prise of the country were enlisted in the cause, he would, if it cost him a thousand a year, agitate until their efforts were crowned with success. Subscriptions to the amount of nearly 1,0001. were announced, and thanks having been voted to the Chair. man, the proceedings terminated. THE PAPER. DUTY. (From the Morning Post.) The expression oF public opinion in favour of the repeal of the oppressive tax upon paper becom es d a il y louder and more explicit. Dublin, and Edinburgh, and Manchester, and Leeds have already spoken emphati cally upon the subject. While we write, meetings are, we perceive, being held in various other parts of the United Kingdom, and the proceedings of a conference, which took place yeiterday at the King's Arms Hotel, in Palace-yard, are reported in our paper of this day. To this significant and most important demonstration we invite the special attention of our readers. The meeting was attended by gentlemen who, it ap pears, are to present to the Chancellor of the Exchequer this day memorials from almost all parts of the country. To these documents are appended n ea rly nine thousand names of great weight and respectability. To such an appeal as this no Government can lend an inattentive ear. But were the agitation less energetic, and its results less palpable, the arguments advanced by Mr. Cromp ton, Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Cassel, Mr. Towle, send other speakers, are so cogent and irre sistible, that it seems impossible for financial or poli tical ingenuity to meet them with even a plausible an swer. The tax, it was shown, was imposed in the reign of Queen Ann, when foreign war and domestic turbu lence united to present an emergency, under which alone so monstrous a demand on the part of the Crown could have been even listened to. 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