The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNBSDAY, MAY 12.

TO-DAT, at their early sitting, the House of Com-
mons are again to discuss the question whether the
CHANCELIAA of the Exeitt:guEa should or should
not—mat of the clear 460,0001. of surplus money he
has in hand—give up the small sum obtained !rem
that thick to trade, this tax upon advertisements.
Every liberal member will doubtless be at his post,
and the question is certainly one that should be pushed
to • division. As to the arguments that mug arise, the
whole question of taxes upon knowledge now lies
in a nutshell. Unfortunately, however, the logic
which is to produce an effect on Chancellors of the
Exchequer is not to be learned from ARISTOTLE or
ALDRICH, from WATTS or WHATELT. Neither of
these writers has spoken of the only dialectic
kires which is understood by the Treasury;
the arguntexturn d erumenum, the appeal to the
puree. ItontAcr HALL, wo have heard, being once in
smseammtion with • man whom he suspected to have
'mspreatrid from a certain religious community solely
hest Interested motives, took the following method
titifying his opinion as to the causeof his friend's
region. Receiving no other answer to his
segments than a reiterated "I don't see," " Do you
see this," he asked, writing the name of the Deity on
a piece of paper. " Yes," replied the man. Do
you ace it now?" again asked HALL, covering the
ward with • piece of gold, and leaving the man to
hem his own conclusions as to the meaning of his
tiestion.
Now, the interposition of the golden results of a
tax AIWA the vision of Chancellors of the Exchequer
hi the manner above described. Like VESCASIAN,
they perceive no disagreeable odour in any sums that
are paid by the tax collector. And hem lies the
great danger which threatens the endeavours of those
who arc labouring for the repeal of the obnoxious
tams. The whole amount of them give something so
somithoshis that no Chancellor well give them up
without a desperate struggle. Mr. ()ISRAELI will
doubtless act to perfection the part of his predecessors.
He will be struck with the cogency of the argu-
sleste; ho will smile graciously at the allusions
which may be dexterously made to his own position
in the literary world, and be very much shocked that
circumstances prevent his indulgence in that fellow-
&sling which makes so " wondrous kind." But he
will do nothing, as we know, if the repeal of the taxes
on knowledge in a mass be demanded.
A million and a half of revenue is a sum that
the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will
never sacrifice to any thing of leas importance than
—a militia or a Kaffir war. The thing is Impossible.
What, then, is to be done? Which of tho two elc-
slate of this sum is the moat likely to be
yielded ? The paper duties? Clearly not ; they
constitute the largest share of the whole. They
may pay half the expenses of a Kaffir war
for a year. They cannot be spared. The news-
paper stamp? Equally unlikely. What, then, re-
mains? Nothing but the advertisement duty—a
paltry, miserable tax, that is dragged out of the
scanty purses of distressed widows advertising for
help to feed their children, that is subtracted from
the embeeriptions that go to the relief of sufferers by
Arm and flood; that is levied on the earnings of poor
ushers, goverment*, footmen, cooks, and maids of all-
work) and that stands between buyer and seller in a
throned ways. It is • wretched impost, that pro-
rate starving poverty from appealing for relief—
that keeps down struggling genius, when it would
leap Ikon the mire—that will not let one-half the
world knew what the other half wants. And all
this mishit! is done for the sake of 150,0001. That
le the mount to which the revenue is benefited by
this nest unfair, this most unproductive—in propor-
tion to the evil it ca me—of all taxes.
Weimanot i the CHANCELLOR of the Exam-
OM= Wag still le a firm demand for the repeal
deb tax, when he is sudiciently reminded that he
gets 20 Bide by It. There is scarcely any telling
what this fu would not do far a million and
a half. ben them is every probability et his being
Ithrld. read seewnlesra did eseemnahlo whom the
=lto Emansial thedases is se moo than a
dum Let them the addends et the re-
fold( like
_leweloa knowledge set apes the prima
l* invadedbe itairy wise owe, path as half a
bet is bettor dna no bend."
i Thegroat smug in all
contests for the removal of abuses s to" go for what
we can got." It may be very desirable to
make a clean swoop of may nuinan that
allude the eyesight or the moral sense,
bat if our tones are insadiehat do the foliliment of
slow wishes, we had batter somentrate them, in
War to get at bad an imminent. The new Chan-
Wier may net thiest.--M wail puthed—to pay a
&Mend at two shinier lea the pound, although be
tiwYiail you that lamest in NI is out of the
b another teases which is almost equally
=lllas as the stsaim of this advice, for re-
-I:wrislar seireagly at
_the vote, and to insist
• the erameion ottho Mycelia/rant tax of 150,0001.
aid of the Wit.doOL amiss in hand. The public
will be with them. Timm ore oppning opinions
with raped le the propriety of the repeal of the
paper duties mad the aompaper stamp, but there is
scarcely any rata, alas& up for the duty on ad-
vertisements. Then arm may who think that the
'excise on paper, abbe* posambir a lame mu.
is tolerably impearlisft and Jess not
press with pecalW itenw asp poles st the
public. Many plats geed asalthseitio the amertion
at the Thies newspaper, that the removal of the
duties and the newspaper damp would put
dine in the peaked at =lr lon,
Ea*" Intl
to ;•an
ethers who belt ups!Vol tbe nes stamp as sae at
the Wotan d war faith. eim haplidtky
ia presembie to the ad adabliehed the
damp, wide assorts that fhb tax will ham the
Mkt of d~be elnalledeit elobservadons tend-
tag to WNW baited.llll Nara* of "the govern
meat and mmetitutm, mad to vify oar hely reli-
gion". Wi =net dna at tide segment to atop to
examine again the mine these T:it Dor the
sobtlity of-the grand upon which am bonded.
The fact akin that they end is for our
present purpose. Immesh as they &add they nod
to diminish the sympathy, which maid otherwise
be extended to the aappcpeesse.wts of the taxes on know-
ledge. With reepset,hwmvmr, to the adverthement
duty, there is arately a diseentiont miss. Every one
acloser&di it_ to be an evil, that a linancial
draid ti between those who want to b
Old Mad who want to soll,---betwess than who me
minded by a desire to relieve the mind's of that
blow rattans and thaw who as, pining for dial
want of that relief. Every one who has ventied the
=et this tax must an, and tto confess,
IMMO 101 its //CUM y opposed to
OM spirit at Menses whisk we always claim as a
national chandoristio, that it presses heavily on the
poor, and is namely felt by the rich. As
Mr. Dountas JERROLD well remarked : " The
tax on advertisements b—it pelent—a_ tax

even upon the industry of the very hardest workers.
Why should the Exchequer waylay the errand•boy,
and oppress the maid-of-all-work ? Wherefore should
bLcar-Amn be made to disburse her eighteen-pence
at the Stamp-Ales ere she can show her face in
print, wanting a place,' although to the discomfiture
of these first-ereated Chancellors of the Exchequer—
the *doe There are few who will not echo the
writer's gmedlow—Why ?
Strive them—ire wig to our legielatore—strive for
whitlow: get, eel yea will win. After your
tri hes beim snag by the poor, the miserable,
the who by yens isms will be enabled
to niche relief to their poverty, solace for their
Psad work for their industry, you will find
st will have acquired fresh energy to help you
to olapiete your teak, and fewer obstacles to con-
tied with. The attack on the fortress itself will be
reodmid all the easier if you to-day carry one of the
entworks. Let liberals be early at their post, and
tree in'their 'votes on this matter.