The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 3.

" le," said Mr. DISRAELI, in the course of his
llWendel statement, " measures of direct taxation aro
to form, not temporary, but permanent features of
ear system of finance, we cannot rest on a sys.tem of
imemptions." This opinion applied to the income
tax—to which ithad reference—requires an argument,
lint if we apply it to the too direct, too partial, and
erippling duties upon advertisements, we shall
had the dogma perfectly mooniest. If also, in ex-
emplifyieg the evils of direct taxation, the present
CHANCELLOR of the ESCHEWER finds it a grave
injustice that out of 3,500,0iin houses in this
etnutry, 3,100,000 of them aro exempt from
the house tax. is it not an equally ear-
beg injuetice that out of all the means and
appliances resorted to in the furious struggles of
competition fur publishing advertisements the hest and
surest means—those presented b newspapers, and
magazines or pamphlets—should alone be contracted,
garrotted, excised by a vexatious duty ?
The exemptions from the advertisement duty are
not six to one, as they are from the house-tax, but a
hundred to one. To the two media for commercial
publicity which are subject to tax, there are hun-
dreds of others left unscathed by the commissioners
of inland revenues. Bill-stickers have free warren
over all the waste walls in the three kiagdoms ; they
carry on the paper-hanging business swayed by any
hint to " beware' of Somerset-house. The lest new
play, the latest quack pill, the heelled mueder, or
the forthcoming charity dinner. may pemielen itself
from ex-mural emblazonments of tremendmm dime.
ions, gratis; but let any of these imieutly mm-
rem itself into the columns of a newspaper, and me
Milling and sixpence is ruthlessly grasped from lie
proprietors of the journal in Irk* it appemei tea a
contribution towards the exposes of the si.
Literature suffers in like maser: wbotkor a tw►
penny periodical or an orarlopolia, prim ISL.
by advertised in a newspaper sr is a pamphlet
exactly the same sum (eightegarees) is levied gra
each ; but, plastered upon decayed gsble-ends, or
biasing upon variegated walls, or forcing attention
from men's shoulders, literature is exempt. Under
such circumstances, wisdom crieth out in the streets
ead no (tax-) man regarde th it. Those wooden houses
upon wheels, which stop up thoroughfares and pub-
lish the glories of bats manias, the wonders of cheap
tailoring, or the marvellous deceptions achieved by
artificial teeth and ventilating wigs, are not taxed
carts ; the surgical instrument maker, who stencils the
pavements with his shop card, brings down upon the
paving commissioners no pecuniary demand from their
brother commissioners of stamps and taxes ; although
them lest send in their little bill with menacing
promptitude to the proprietors of any newspaper
who may presume to ink their paper with precisely
the same Words. The dividends of the Waterloo-
bridge proprietary are not diminished by the vigi-
lance of the inland Revenue Office because of the
gigantic entreaties posted under their arches, enjoin-
ing the public, in immense capitals, to go to Cre-
morne-gardens, to visit VauxhalLor to buy. their win-
ter clothing in Battle-bridge. Advertisements in
the various forms of hand-bills, show-bills, shop-
bills; advertisements thrown into omnibuses, or
showered oat of air-balloons, or delivered through
the post, or insidiously inserted in patent medicines,
or packed up with groceries, or pasted upon pickle
bottles, or nailed up in cabs and railway carriages, or
punched neon halfpence, or embossed upon stationery,
or printed inside envelopes, are, with a thousand
other ways sad maw of advertising, exempted from
tax or impost, A !main, artfully insinuated be-
tween the leaves of any sort of periodical, is another
memption; but if it be stitched in with the leaves=
printed on tin m, it is charged. An ad
meat publish."fa s book of one sheet, or of less
than eight Ames (by set of parliament, a pamphlet)
pays duel but if in a work co=
these tint t sheet/. it is not
The eesdl te, therein. of a smell book,
an maned smeller, whibt &sprats of "great book
me at banded with.
The Mme of the Emma law cm the grateeet of
eiverlimmegb were men esesbleat. althea. more
them ger own bedews: they esed
; Illety ors ma met of adverdemsm4 whe-
ther appeared en the vas of an empty gession
me is the crowded aims ef is idly newspaper.
Theraasered • velem el GlMlllthes as much as
Mr.ammus Esse.ami Wad all sorb and condi-
tion of Ohs emesensements is dolor tsdL
The sumement Miligtek gra English newspapers
bensmalemobsurd,andleillebegella As we explained
Ms hi !hide, it chokes the flew of revenue into
lib PIE I for, to apply le the advertisement
bps& rather sesames Eels Mr. Manassas slo-
west wheels big headed It is midge war
epn gelid whim\ titimetely mot employ that
warrietir
isatenza wbh to promote Nor does
fee ea these; it genies on an
higmedee war with OM, end paper duties.
TM three taxes to width siemegm subject eat
ens emethm. The stamp. the eked.-
iba Oneleopmers, rements the and muse-
:=liseitieseriera. @draftsman; whfie the
duty, seetrieting the number of Meer-
Ohm the sake( sewergma smigemegenently
diminiose the Teems imbed km peer and
skew lholt ass oikorilmost dinly were tipalled,
.taMbhed amaireme Todd hem te print
and
meaty egbjennale wield beaded
sWir—wisteese.
Itoolkly taut great. cambia mil emerebsn-
dee iambi emissers edible b. It wee
alesdie in thelemin diet am Med le" "
be " B." and le N'ered; abs ;,/
tense ern severest advertisemeeb end mes-
a: advertisers- is beide& But gee impa-
ct the dad "system of exempdons"
wider whieliailizalabour, mins us, we must
sonless, t to wait. Ours, we are bold
=tato in net at " igeerget impatience of
an berherme pedneed by knowing
all about it—by hew tier a tax which restricts
free ammanisatien beeves& maims who want ser-
ails gall asnemte who want s, between the
wart mad esstemer, between the sucker and emb-
alms therr and obipowror,biallw am& auctioneer,
bear sad ndsrp sad the themend ether deism sad
gestic= of oar great come tinily at home and abroad,
lebresa whom easy sand peso t istmemmuniem
time is the sole swam of ty—is a tee whisk
go
gephltry can justify, wri;ll%; met of es rheumy
eta warrant. It is a tax which oremnits the
dime of which finance takes migeimmee ; Foos it
does what Falaof only longed to do—lt robs the
Imberer.
Mabee* therefore our prsesat CHANCELLOR of
the atCalltttlia, peafoteil_enlaced of the pro-
vilemel madams sled et the revenue
menngemseb el his predess=era. 'hes adopted their
&distm ea frauds ; lag le het web their budget—
of use of hie sem remise) —his bedget ;
although he hes will for 'Darkling mystification of
a jaggier amble ridge balls, kept the headset of
them set el tight and hidden kra time the
2,700.0001. et surplus ; yet it camel mask bag
egnesaled alder the sharp mentby of a detective
committee ef ways sad means. How he
Mends to dispose of that partially concealed
eismenre he will, perhaps, be geed enough to explain
whim Gelled upon to do se. We hope that the
homed& member whose media for the abolition
of the varies' fiscal berthing upon newspapers will
NM OS out week. will ram that motion to a
divides. with eared Firma to the half veiled
▪ Vaglar, altneggs me bee te the revenue can, it
ie take dew yak ingenand as pro Ansa'
lees mime be estieseed be, maenad that he will prem
1.011" a 60 Effleis Wag. at lomt, applied to
the repeal of the tax ea advertisements.

l'nz Militia Bill is to come again before the House
of Commons this evening, when several " rock"
algid" will present thmeslves. Mr. COBDEN, Col.
81118011 P, Mr. CHA2TEIII7, Mr. BUNINTET, Sir
HUM WILLOUGHBY, Mr. HODOra, and Mr. W. J.

'Fox have na11116111•11; to move. The first of these
will arise me the Mild for going into committee,
when Mr. 010•11111 is to move for certain returns re-
lative to MR MS tome, and farthel.tnlmPon• the
adjosrmesut et tits Militia Bill rata these retail*,
are obtained. LeolDwasy and his coffespies her
hitherto gene Ira the ;principle of " the
sense of up= their *less plane:
Upon proleslism they would take the sense of the
nation ; yea Asir owe pone chime is the reten-
tion of Mies Imp ester to the same ultimate autho-
rity ; whilst lbek itself is declared to be only
s provisional me. illgty not, upon this question of
militia, let the electors tell their own story? if
we really want defences, let us have them. Only let
them be real defences —which militia cannot be.
Let us have realities, not shame. Let the
country decide whether or not a conscrip-
tion will suit them better than any other
means of maintaining s defensive tone. The delay
that has been applied to other things may, then, be well
tried upon this, and by the motion of the hoe. member
foe the West Riding a greet difficulty may be over-
come if his usual antagonists know hen best to make
use of the opportunity. All men—whip as well as
tories—may be sure that the militia test will be a
weighty one at the coming hustings.
Lord JOHN RusseLL's bill was rejected because
his militia plan was not considered likely to add
sufficiently to the defence of the country, and Mr.
WALPOLE'S bill, by his own acknowledgment, lies
under the same disadvantage. "We would have
proposed an increase to the regular army," says the
hors. gentleman, " but we knew you would have
raised an outcry." But surely this is not statesman-
ship? If we really want forces, we must have them,
and the nation has never objected to pay the piper for
all that was really needed. The nation has never
objected to a proper maintenance of land forces,
to the armament of our numerous con-
tract mail steamers, to recalling our fleet from
the Mediterranean; but what they have and do
object to is the misapplication of funds voted for cer-
tain particular purposes. The executive may
.say,
and with justice, that we have numerous possessions,
and that these possessions must be maintained, and
that to do this we must have troops in them. True •
Unable, Main, and Montreal, the keys of our North
Amman gemmeions, must be garrisoned ; Gibraltar,
Malta, tad &eh, by which the Mediterranean and
the Adridis we held, must be maintained ; Ceylon,
Mauritius, sad lierbaden can scarcely be left unde-
fended ; holl—thew facts being admitted—we ask
in the NM oramm. tense what is the use of the
beaked sad ese pity, useless, sickly detachments
from thew heniperters ? Are our troops raised
and paid to set as salimmen, and to be oat sop by favor
in all quarters of tie glebe? Of whet wee are de-
taehments et Adige%
_Trinidad, gt LlskA, and is
dray other mat kind in the Wed Indies ? Of
wild soil ass are sigiddb in Nova Sadie and New
Illmaretisk P Ot what vie the scattered outposts in
New lien* Wald Tea Di ma's Land, and in the
bin Male At any ewe ei these latter places
ear Weep, writ far too nuasroas for time of peace,
seed' be totally unable to make even a fair show of
resianaes in time of war. Weald, in cam of hosti-
lities, the possession of any one of these petty
stations be decided by one flag or another flying
there for a few days? or would their ownership be
settled by the battles fought in the sees and conti-
nent of Europe? Look at the Bermudas. A num-
ber of islands surrounded by a dangerous reef,
in which there is but one practicable en-
trance for large vessels. A fort in a small island
commands the entrance, which is used by vessels
desirous of reaching the dockyard, situated on
another island at the northern extremity of the
group. Beyond this first battery is a large fort com-
manding also the entrance, as well as the channel to
the dockyard, which is itself fortified. The de-
fence of these islands consists solely in their forts—in
opposition to the fire of which no vessel could reach
the dockyard. Yet a line regiment is stationed
there--perhaps to protect the semmisearist chest,
which the Midi= goversar bra removed to the
aeighboorised 'this own lam an an unfortified
island tamed the swim kW. The huts are sufficient
te are necessary
Feted Or end millosesee
to MB ANL AINI Wok,the Is eli—Os if by any chance
a Beet abseil lora& dienwgh Nis herder, of what use
would bo a solitary leo seemed
anent
surren-
der ? Why, thsreihreb walls there P
It we meat men at he.., why net call home
the rases body from Doesedes; sad, in like
manner, the men weds& is sass lime Would
ant the recalling Cl Sue imams weak de-
barments give us pest drifting strength of
swim troops at bee—a strength wan which we
mould rely lasted Cl *kin to be s• me safety upon
• militia rewsisa by • bounty—thin dry mode for
preventing Yam ,isee from emindeering ?
It has boss them= of this erothy that men in
power will not 141115 some thrsol. EA state their
real feelings on pffilleira Osatbriald wen lave
been raised for pretestin the MOM aley have
ben drilled at great expense hi nab area to man
as batteries in case Cl ~gamey. Dockyard
wedisna have also been incorporated that in event
its nibs snack they may oppose a sadden land.
isdramba if you take your coast-guard-tan hem his
or the workman from his dock-
:4 who will look after your revenue, or
your shipping at the time it is most
wanted? The government now want to raise a
militia. It was first stated that this militia was to
do wonders, that it was to rise like one man and
drive the invaders into the sea; bet somehow or an-
other the value of this horse marine body has grads-
alsolzporsted; and the reason now put forward for
it is, that it would be suitable for garrisoning
=th, Plymouth, and other important points,
el melees vs possess might be enabled to take
Or SW DO town our army got repulsed—and
whsi oismid crE- lm bond to take the command of
INg sow without taking precautions for providing
fl/R scab a essisky—wiese Si he to obtain realer's"-
iiiiiWiftma abode= Walk made up of madm-
an atilfwegit and hey matey downs? If Mr.Wsi.-
PMMlimald take the trouble to 'Let any of our depots
see we whet a recruit is after three weeks' drill,
beadeht perhaps be prevailed upon to give up this
shod militia hobby, that has alread.y got him into
an absurd serape, and will lead him into man more
yet. Let him visit any of our drill and
see how often old soldiers make m and he
will not then be surprised that soldiers,—we mean
men who have seen some service,--ehould have
strong doubts as to the efficiency of militia. A good
deal has been said about what a militia has dons, and
the success of the American revolution has been
quoted more than once. But let us see to what
extent this success extended. When the disturb-
ances fleet broke out in that country, a se-
lect militia was enrolled, bound to appear in arms
at a minute's warning, whence they were called
Minute-Men. These were exhorted to perfect them-
selves as speedily as possible in military exercises.
Few men could have shown more courage and good-
will; yet at the very first engagement at Bunker's-
hill they were forced to give way, and defeat after
defeat followed in spite of all the dilatoriness and
incapacity of a HONE and the genius of a WASHING-
TON. ETHAN ALLAN was defeated before Montreal
Colonel Amour in his attempt upon Quebec; and
Woosees, who succeeded him, at the Cedars, the
Three Riven and Lake Champlain t Gamma GRKEN
at Brooklyn; and WeentioroN—who witnessed the
latter engagement—wrote to Congress, saying : " The
militia, instead of calling forth their utmost
efforts, are dismayed, intractable, and impa-
tient to return. Great numbers of them have gone
▪ some instances almost by whole regiments,
by half ones, and by companies at a time . . . . and
with the deceit concern I am obliged to confess my.
wistat sess in the generality d these
▪ 1161111111116 WASHINGTON himself remodel=
Challmeton Hill and fell back to the Ponneylvenia
side d Ile Delaware, whilst Fort Washiness was
Maid ley imeault. Now all those Ashes, si
sees exeselleeted by trooped &slime fighis thee I=t
their own fellow-subjects whilet their
following out a temporising psBcy—tbs Americans
had time to get their men into milks% ceder. But
ca
what would be our me were some thendad
nitro% Frenchmen to drive our militias Swam
into Yorkshire P Would a CAVAIONAC or a LAMONT.
Clear. respect our national institutions, protect our
fictorie., and save our villages from conflagration, se,
the English commanders did in America? Would
they give our generals some six months to form their
raw militias into good soldiers, and inane's/ea Ile
warfare? No, no Militiamen are to be eitsedisi
for opposing as invader; but if we rely os sada the
national defence—Heaven help ns—for the pemier
meet of our folly will be indeed severe.

The natural means for greater defence, if that be
wanted, is, se we have often said, to bring the fleet
into the ChanneL Man the ships which are lying
useless by the dozen in the Hamm:e and in Ports-
meth doiLerds. Aso the :infantry with thostgrenk
maw ' sitar ingesieme gumshoes lave pop
the artillery its dation' instead It
irrop7Og it ea, a show tin Woolwich Common it
tip admiration. of nursegy-maids and the ridicule
°couch bailed as Sir Mayas Nuts. Accept the
services of those who, having a real bosefirls stake
in the country, did—at the first outbreak of the late
inossiettalartn—oirer their services gratuitously and I
generously. If the mere word militia is wanted, call
these volunteer rifle-men "militia corps"; glee them an
adjutant and drill sergeants. Take inch steps with
our enormous mercantile navy as shall render it an
impossibility for an enemy to get possession of the
Channel. Above all, let us, at least, be sure we aro
in the right road before we waste hope, time, and
money in an useless and demoralised force like the
proposed militia.
AVABUINGTON, at the outset of those hostilities
which ho carried on so gloriously for his country
against British forces, felt strongly the want of dis-
cipline among the raw levies he commanded,
although those levies were endowed with ever),
feeling of patriotism, and with great hatred of their
opponents. "It takes," says the patriot general,
" two or three months to bring now men acquainted
with their duty; but it take* a longer time to bring
a people of the temper and genius of these into such
• subordinate way of thinking as is necessary for a
soldier." But that discipline and spirit of subordi-
nation which WASMNOTON, in the midst of a ;patri-
otic war, was unable to diffuse into his fellow-
countrymen in several months, Mr. Secretary Wm.-
POLE thinks he can accomplish in twenty-one days
in times of profound peace.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1852.