The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 24.

Timax is no dealing that the reply with
widek Mr. Ilithani ask on Thurwsmsa meght, Mr.
Itamet Om ni% demob for away the
cimenarspepoe Mem, and Ed t duties,
t to Nit When a Chassaller of the Ex-
aminer ley% SW• amet Wiled it," he appeals to the
arithmetical coma= ems et the . Through
the dark haze of that a igmoset im taxa-
tion" which we are—mt igzejamtly—ommed
there gleams to enable us
to foresee !het, girt' pens& of an
this tax be withdrawn hem the EZTAdalmer,
some more objectkaable tax is very likely to be
laid en to supply the deficiency. If, therefore, a
minister prove his plea, we are nonsuited.
The practical question, therefore, is, can this plea
besabitantiated P Would a remission of the taxes
on white paper and on newspaper print damage the
revenue P If we can prove, as regards one of the
Wilms complained of, that its remission would
actually bermes the revenue, we shall have convinced
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that his wisest
course lies in its abolition. We allude to the adver-
tisement duty.
The first rudiment in the accidence of political
seonemy is, that the proximate cause of all trading
intercommunion is want and supply; that the larger
the number and variety of wants existing in a com-
munity, and the greater the facilities with which
those wants can be met, the greater and sounder the
commercial prosperity. Now, of all the expedients
that were ever invented to promote trade by making
wants known cu the ono land. and by affording in-
timation of bow they can be gratified on the other,
advertisements in are the most effectual.
Let tho reader turn, 3e crimple, to yesterday's
Deily News. If he wants a razor, a carpet, a quack
pill, or a "patent portable hydro-electric chain,"
--should he require a false tooth, a glass eye,
a bottle of hair oil, or (being required to
" look to his legs"), an elastic stocking ;—be
he impatient for a new book, a new servant, a
new watch, a cornet-i-piston, a new horse, a new
bedstead, a dozen of golden sherry, a "well-secured
income," or a "safe investment;"—is his establish-
ment deficient in grocery, hardware, upholstery, or
glens;—is it necessary for him to go to Blackwell or
to Bombay, to Newmarket or to New Zealand—he
has only to turn to our advertising pages to learn at
once where each of his wants and necessities may be
supplied. A discussion of how and where men's wants
can be met by the intervention of newspaper adver-
tisements throws additional light upon the impetus
which those wants give to trade. Not only can a man
through the advertising medium procure whatever
he needs, but—thanks to modern-postal and railway
btilities—advertisements are omnipotent in enabling
beam to get what he wants when he wants it—a
mast important element in promoting the end and aim
of all commercial science—buying and selling.
An Aberdeen professor, let us suppose, has a week's
leisure, and finds he can pleasantly employ it in
seeding a book he sees advertised in the Daily News.
A penny letter, and a post-office order, procure
the book for him in time to spend part of his
holiday over it. firstly, bad he not seen the
advertisement , and secondly, had he not been
tenured (through its proximate agency) that be
would certainly obtain the boot before his duties
recommenced, the publisher would have lost the
sale of the volume, and the revenue would, under
present circumstance (which we hope soon to
see altered), have been deprived of the excise duty
!mobs on its successor in the bookseller's
shop. This instance is by no means ex-
ceptional, but applies to a general role, and
to a very =up= of customers for every
eaisalxls in a newsmen That
th•C'stancxmox of the Exert EQUEltwould materially
augment the excise returns by the duty,
and so largely promoting the publication and dis-
semination of advertisements, is clear. There
eau be no doubt of such a result " If," said Mr.
MILNER Meson on Thursday night, " I wanted a
mode of lwasnig_ the public revenue I would sug-
gest a mode iisio lessened transactions between
sea and the mem of making their mutual wants
known to sash other; which lessened, in fact, trade,
=llemployment, and revenue; and I would
to say that if they [the government] re-
pealed this advertisement duty, they would never
know it in their next year's revenue."
We contend that they would know
against the 160,0001.
talriiiiliarge ba-
lance of increased revenue
of km which a repeal of the advertisement ty would
ocession. Advertisements are of inealmiable benefit
se a spur to trade. No nation in the world has
learialied so directly by commercial interchange as
that of the United States; and nowhere are there so
many advertisements published ;—beeones they are
published duty free. With a population of twenty
millions, the Americans publish ten edam of adver-
tisements annually ; with a third MIN than that
amber we in the United Kingdom MI Imly died
ee hem two millions of trading andiposoid ansomme-
mats per annum. The duty Espies, the Wilds
0144eges compared with the Amadeu* of
of eight millions of advedieleemik
re=
to the advertisers who have wares at
laborer to sell ' • it happens that the tax in son-
co
!rived as to makb those pay most whoean afford the
least. A servant who asks for a place in three lines
pays as much to government as the public company
whose prospectus °Fogies throe columns. The
Bases of yesterday, In sums remarks on^ he
points to two hundred servants' ad
which appeared in that purr cm Thursday,—
adds, that of the ninety posed for the entire
ner of I,SIIO the marmite 17 per cent. Let
us
mods, the east et this ly, and with refer-
ems to ether short adymthements. Of the 1,200

idvertins mils is Tiursday's Throes 710 were gelieral
advintionassisirsuldor 10 lines in length, which—with
thole lansetsB wants, also under 10 lines esch—
ew& ip 910 i Only 290, therefore, exseeded 10
lines 40111 in With, showing that tires-fourths of
the 1,100, Wag short advertisements, emanated from
the industrious sod trading classes, to whom publicity
is bread. Ws have also asoertained that the 200
want plated' osospy altogether no more than 185
dies Land as 181. anty was pad upon them, the " out al
*sir patrons dour eoatswporary actually paid di-
ps" s line to th Igo • rlPthilo the !endear,.
pilaw with an estate to sell, or the public cowpony
with millions of capital, paid per line for their an-
asnossmonts a proportion of duty which no coin is
us null es to
issidoo
Imps
t, aad injustice et
SO paltry sidstossesany Impost, it ask plasm bar to
tr pablisatio of adeo It do
Demi of Idol lososos is the pa--- of ammo
of west dolt ee abed not be printed un-
taxed t mg es dloostion is by no means the
oberseterisde of that board, thoy
ssesslfines eassan their power with an loa n.
veld& deserves to be called absurd,
g that the publication of the prices of invest.
motein the Ands and in other securities was
amongst the most important functions of a n
per, we deemed it advisable some time ago to
known from time to time what price landed securities
were fetching in the market. This important and
useful information was suppressed by the
officers, who—although they were certain wo
no payment whatever for inserting the informs.
tion—taxed each item. The account we gave of the
proceeds of each sale of landed property by auction,
was, u an advertisement, liable to eighteenpence
duty. This was too scandalous an impost, and we
ceased to offer that class of information to our
readers, and the public were thus deprived of a
useful touchstone applicable to the land market.

- -
Tho more glaring vagaries of the Inland Revenue
Boned were adroitly handled by Mr, °imam :
Then as to ships (he said) they might put into a news-
paper an Recount of ships that had arrived, but they could
not give a list of ships about to
although theintelli-
gence was quite as important. without paying Is. Gd. for
each announcement. He would call their attention to this
Cie. There was Bars Life in Lention at that paper

stagmewessusents which
kin et Ni the advertisement
arthese teteldelt ha l alledad. Poe seeasple, there
*ego lisle graga.mainsishiltobllgg, pedestrian, "canine
nai, that were to cots, of,
neat wooly • imedi—mingellealleen6l by which sam-
bas sd psi* wani hoeuet together at public-houses
sa....tftes est kind. the purpose of betting sad
Mipatientleas map, to the infinite admit-
tegie and giber penes& 00110“12.11
gams asasitaluasaste provided ; yet no attempt
was ample WO the duty to these stable and other
=Mk goglaidy quite as much adertise.
OS • allleggeelleata. (Hear, keen) The
• irhsmelhe let the light between fto-sad-Bo for W.
• at trowe of as spa a *to is such a day paid no
duty; but rale is of as it appeared to him
quite m sesibl, that midi a Ilts was to sail for such a
place ea seek /b a day, seeks to take place, was fined
Is. ed. • parses* la the ember of Delta Lefe be-
fore hint aseeleioed. Ni any* tiat., at Mr. So-and-So's,
in each a street, 100 rede would be killed by such a dog in
so many minutes; thb anassememest would in all probabi-
lity attract a greet siumbee et Sole to the house on the ea-
mice, sad the kodlord sad other people concerned would
reap large prells hem the entertainment so announced ;
r airte saessessemet paid no sdvertlsemeat duty ; but
the puddle that sa sash a day a sermon would be
1:114Ni the milder** sullen by the deatructioa of
lAgase, se ether mia sala= or even that in certain
places swbsegligkws insuld be ied for such a purpose,
that was ea sdewtheamet, and the Board of Inland Re-
Venial MN dawn epee you for Is. 6d.
Having preyed that the CHANCELLOR of tho
EXCHIQUZR OM put an end to these absurdities, and
give a wholesome impetus to domestic commerce,
wail a profit, we trust that what we have
will strengthen his own inclination and that Rees
colleagues to take off a tax which yields so little, and
the repeal of which promises to increase the revenue
so materially.

FRANCE.

THE ORLEANS (X)NFISCATIONS.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
Today the adjourned question of the seizure by
the state of the domains of Ncuilly and Monceaux,
belonging to the house of Orleans, came on again
before the Tribunal of First Instance of the Seine.
Tho Palais do Justice was crowded with persons
curious to hear the pleadings in this case. M.
Becher, administrator of the domains of the house of
Orleans, was present, with M. Dupin and several
old servants of the monarchy of July. MM. Ber-
ryer, Odilon Barret, and Paillet were seated on the
bench of the defence, as the council employed by the
Orleans family. M. Descoutures, substitute of the
procarcur de la republique, laid down the arguments
according to which it was the duty of the tribunal
to declare itself incompetent. You are already aware
that the prefect of the Seine submitted to the court a
requisition calling upon the tribunal to declare itself
incompetent. The gist of this document lies in the
doctrine that the judicial power cannot pronounce
upon the legality of the acts of the executive, or con-
trol an administrative act of the government. M.
Paillet, in a long speech, attempted to prove that the
decree of January 22, confiscating the Orleans' pro-
perty, was not a law; that the President, whatever
powers devolved on him by the vote of December
20, could not have the right of deciding even a simple
question of house rent, much less a question of dona-
tion and property. If the decree were a law, it
could only be a law of confiscation. Now confisca-
tion had been erased from French legislation. If
the court declared itself incompetent, he told the
judges to their face that they were henceforth judges
merely by name. By denting their competency it was
sought to strangle justice in its very sanctuary.
M. Downturn maintained the incompetence of the
tribunal in the name of the government. M. Ber-
ryer replied in a long and warm harangue, which
made a deep sensation, and drew much applause
from the public. The tribunal, after half an hour's
deliberation, declared itself competent, and adjourned
to that day fortnight the pleadings upon the merits
of the question. Thus the government has been dis-
avowed by the organ of justice. This show of inde-
pendence does much honour to the president of tho
court, M. Debelleyme. The applause of the public
was re-echoed in the corridors.

The President of the Republic returned from his
excursion to the Sologno at a late hour yesterday
evening. On descending from a state carriage at the
Orleans railway station near the Jardin des Plantes,
he was received by the prefect of police and several
directors of the railway. But few persons were as-
sembled at the station, which was only guarded by a
body of sergens-de-ville. But few details of this
rapid journey have yet reached Paris, in addition to
those which I sent you yesterday. On leaving Or-
leans, at six o'clock yesterday morning, the prefect
of the Loiret presented to the President M. Leine,
as a commissary who had rendered good service to
the town of Orleans after the events of December.
The cross of the Legion of Honour was at once con-
ferred upon M. Lame. The President dined at La
Ferte, St. Aubin, as had been expected. The excur-
sion was so sudden that the ministers and persons of
Louis Napoleon's suite had only two hours notice to
prepare themselves.
The Corps Legislatif met at two o'clock to-day.
M. Billault, the president, announced that the list of
members who divided upon the Copper Coinage Bill
would be printed and inserted in the Moniteur as a
supplement to the report of the debate. M. Oouin
observed that his nano appeared by mistake in the
list of votes against the measure. He belonged to
the committee, and the committee had voted unani-
mously in the affirmative. He begged that his state-
less& might be inserted in the minutes. M. Mercier
(Orme) would take that opportunity of remarking
that the present system of voting, borrowed from
that of the last Assembly, was a bad one. He pro-
posed to revert to the old system of voting by black
or white balls. The president said that, among the
various modes of voting that had been tried, none
bad been discovered by which the inattention of
members themselves could be remedied. (Several
voices: " True—very true.") M. Gouin's proposal
should be mentioned in the minutes of to-day's pro-
ceedings. The division lists would only be in-
serted in the Moniteur as a supplement to the
report of the debate for this reason that
many of the newspaper. might not always find
lit movesiont to publish the list, which they would
be compelled to do if it were made part of the MR-
ski report, but the divisions would always be in-
serted In the ifoniteur. M. Oranier de Caasagnac,
whose admission had been adjourned for want of
some fonnalities, took his seat for the Gem. The
t then read a decree of the Prisident of the
blip, rehiring to the consideration of the house
bills of local interest, among which were
bills for enabling the departments of the Morbihan,
Gironde, and Lot and Gamine to contract loans and
bills for altering the boundaries of several communes
in the Haute Loire and Aveyron. " And now," con-
tinued M. Billault, " I must acquaint the house with
the state of its business." He then said that the
schedules to the budgets for 1848 and 1849 were in
active 'on, and he hoped they might be dis-
tributed to members to-morrow. It was of impor-
tance that these schedules should be examined in all
their details. He presumed that this might be
promptly doe, and that the discussion in the
bureaus might
_come on by Tuesday or Wednesday.
He had already announced to the house that
the budget ler 1843 would be presented almost
immediately. It was necessary for him to ex-
plain the cause of the delay that had taken place
The budget bad been referred to the council of state,
who had taken it into consideration as a matter of
urgency. The council had been engaged with it
for the last eight days to the exclusion of all other
business, and lie had reason to believe that their
labours had so far progressed that the budget might
be submitted to the house on Wednesday or Thurs-
day next. This exclusive occupation of the council
of state had prevented them from attending to other
measures. Ito, however, felt persuaded that although
the business of the house was in consequence de-
layed for the present, they would have enough, and
more than enough, to fill up the *melon in a manner
useful to the country. (Signs of assent.) M. Paul de
Richemont then read a report in favour of the bill
for enabling the municipality of Bordeaux to borrow
money for the purpose of supplying the town with
water. A member observed that the old practice of
assemblies was to lay a report of this kind on the
table without reading it. If there were much to do,
reading the report would be a waste of time, because
members might make themselves acquainted with the
contents after it was printed. The president said that
when the order of the day should be crowded, reading
a rort might bosdinpeneed with, but at present the
reading was not attended with any inennvenienee.
M. Pungcrard :NIA a report in fewer of loin: th. 1.4

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for the town of St. Omer and the departments of the
Haute Pyrenees and Meuse. The president then
said that the committee cm the Rehabilitation Bill
had proposed several amendments, which were now
before the Council of State, who would probably
make known their opinions upon them at the be-
ginning of next week. It was now necessary to
settle the order of the day for the next sitting. No
doubt they might have a short sitting on Monday
for the discussion of the bill with respect to which
reports had just been presented. But that might
perhaps interfere with the examination of the
sche-
doles to the budgets of 1848 and 1849. Those, he
thooght, might be discussed in the bureanx on Tues-
day and Wednesday. There might then be a public
sitting on Thursday to bear tho report of the commit-
tee upon the Rehabilitation Bill; for the debate.un
the local bins, and for the presentation of the budget
for 1853. The suggestion of the president being as-
sented to the house adjourned to Thursday next, after
having sat tor one hour only.
At the Bourse the Four-ond-a-Rolf per Cents. fell
15c., closing at 100.75; the Threes fell 40, and closed
at 71.60. Bank of France shares tell 10fr. All tho
railway lines closed at lower prices, except the
Northern, which rose 2.50, and Orleans 1.25.

GERMANY.

COUNT BUOL'S DECLARATION ON GERMAN

COMMERCIAL POLICY.

VIENNA, APRIL 21.
Baron von Linden, minister of Wurtemberg, hav-
ing arrived yesterday morning from Munich, at two
o'clock on the same day was held the closing sitting
of the Austro-German Zollverein Congress, at which
was present (besides the minister of commerce and
finances, Baumgartner) the ministcr of foreign
affairs. The final protocol by which the respective
governments bind themselves reciprocally to the
commercial policy traced out in the two treaties pub-
lished by the German papers (the treaty of commerce
and custom-duties A, and the treaty of custom-
duties' union B) has been signed by Austria and
the ministers plenipotentiary and the commis-
sions specially delegated for this purpose by the
kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtemberg,
Electoral Hesse, Grand Ducal Hesse, and the duchy
of Nassau. The following have signed under reser-
vation: Brunswick and Oldenburg, Fraikfort-on-
the-Maine and the Hanseatic Towns. Hanover alone
has refused altogether to sign.
Count Buol Schauecstem, minister of foreign
affairs and of the imperial household, closed tho
sitting in a speech, in which he said that the
signing of the final protocol had terminated
the task for which they had assembled. They
had realised the desirable end marked out in tho
memorable opening speech of the late Prince
Schwarzenberg three months and a half since. They
had drawn up a treaty of commerce between Austria
and the Zollverein, similar to that concluded in
1829 between Prussia, Bavaria, and the two Hews,
of which the Zollverein in Its present form
was the development, and which certainly
gave place to it neither in profound consideration of
reciprocal requirements nor in the conscientious
working out of details, a treaty which fully com-
pleted the aim of preparing for the customs union
by an intimate rallying of industrial and commercial
interests, and which tended towprds the activity of
the federal assembly, by the conclusion of interna-
tional decrees beneficial to the commerce of the whole
of Germany, by at least realising them for such states
as should participate in this treaty of commerce.
" You have thus," said the count," " finished the pro-
ject of a treaty of customs union between Austria and
the states of the Zollverein,which,—without disturbing
the organisation of the latter, and without prejudice
to the positions attained, and having as harbinger
the unity of principles which forms the bases of the
treaty of commerce, the similarity of institu-
tions, and the assimilation of tariffs, founded
itself upon a just and loyal assessment of com-
mon revenues—is destined to be the realisation and .
termination of the treaty of commerce. Our work
will have faults and omissions. Bat it must be
acknowledged that we have held ourselves aloof from
the opinions of extreme parties; that we offer only
what is ticable, and that we have in no respect
ex the limits traced out by circumstances.
We have met the views expressed by Prince Scherer:-
enberg in his opening speech, inasmuch as we have
only traced out projects of treaties without taking
final conclusions. I confidently expect that the course
followed by Austria and the other governments here
represented will not remain without favourable re-
action. For if we hold to the realisation of the pro-
positions of general interest which we make, we must
desire that obligatory conventions will not be made
at the conference now opened at Berlin until the
treaty of commerce and of customs union with Aus-
tria has been negotiated, and is ready to be simul-
taneously signed. You have yourself been con-
vinced, and your labours testify that so close a treaty
of commerce as we all desire is impossible withsll"
numerous changes in the tariff of the Zollverein, and
that these changes are the necessary condition of all •
being able so largely to participate in the custom :
duties." The count further declared that Aosta* •
ceding to the desire of the governments there maw
seated, was ready to adopt in her legislation the
principles and institutions of the Zollverein,
and that it was evident this declaration
could only have reference to the known and tried
stipulations of this union, while it remained with-
out effect if those changes were made by one
of the contracting parties only, and without
previous understanding with Austria. All who
seriously desired an intimate relation between
Austria and the Zollverein would share their con-
viction that the simultaneous (getneinsame) nego-
tiation of those treaties of the Zollverein
and of those relations of commerce, as well
as the conclusion of them both at once, were
the only means of conquering the declared diffi-
culties, and that consequently the realisation of the
union they had in view, ia conceivable only under this
plan of negotiation. The count concluded by
assuring them, in the name of his Emperor, that.
despite the lees of the late minister, " we shall still
march forward with the same perseverance towards
the same end—the future customs union of Germany
and Austria."

After this address the Bavarian plenipotentiary,
Count von Lerehenfeld, briefly replied, fully adopt-
ing the views of Count Bnol, and the meeting was
at an end. _ _

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The following is a resume of the final protocol of
the Vienna congress, signed in the sitting of yes-
terday
The Austrian government declares itself ready to con-
elude a commercial and customs treaty, conformable to the
above-mentionod project. with Prussia, thistatee at present
united with it in the Zollverein, end those who shaU enter
lin 1064. . . .

The governments signing this protocol, en their part, de-
clare that they are realy to accede to a treaty of commerce
and of customs, and a treaty of commercial union between
Prussia, the states now included in the Zollverein, and those
which shall enter it in 1854, on the one part; and Austria,
with the states which shall be in union with her on tho let
of Jan., 1864, on the other.—They promise to hasten the
adhesion of the other states of the Zollverein to these
treatise, as far as possible in conformity with
the project above developed ; but if this cannot be without
modifications of the project, then these governments further
declare their readiness to enter into negociationa for such
modification, always preserving the leading principles of
~the project as the basis of an agreement. The conclusion of
these treaties shall coincide in point of time with the re-
, newal or trassaforoutttois of the Zollverein.