The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1852.

But thrs (=lesions in this resolution are more sur-
prising than even its aasertions. To read it, one
might suppose that the new Colonial Secretary had
never heard of such an article as beet root sugar ;
that ho is not aware of its enormous over-production
on the continent under protection, being tho cause
of the present ruinously low prices of sugar ;
and that he did not know the vital question for our
sugar colonies to he whether the manufacturing from
beet can be sustained and extended; or whether, as
LIEBIG think., it would be cheaper for France and
Germany to present their beet-rout producers twenty
millions sterling, and get rid of them.
lf, then, Sir Jolts PakiNuroN be so deplorably
ignorant and prejudiced on the only set of our colocies
to which lie has avowedly paid hts attention, what
must be his competence to preside over the g, °Torn-
ruent of those he has not yet studied? In
Earl Ceilv we had at least a minister of intel-
ligence, and of the proper economical views, if
of very Lid temper; in Sir Jolts I'ALINGION we
have gut conceit and what Ilse time will show. It
is to parliament, then, more than ever, that the
; friends of the colonies must now turn.

signalised by the paucity of the guests, as compared
with the promiscuous usecablage which held their
revels there upon the preceding' occasion.
Nubar-Bey, secretary of the Pasha of Egypt, ham
arrived in Paris on a special mission.
The reports with regard to the mitigation of the
law on the press are quite is untotid as those
which were recently circulated concerning the inten-
tion to forbear tho execution of the confiscation de-
cree. The only point likely to be modified concerns
the scientific and literary portion of the press. It
has been represented to the President that the stamp
ditty on periodicals of this class, both foreign and do-
mestic, will cause great inconvenience to scientific
and literary institutions. Hence a reduction of the
tax is expected with reference to this class of publi-
cations. _ .

The 211iniiteur publishes officially the nomination
of Admiral Jai:guinea us second in command of the
Mediterranean squadron, vice Admiral Dubourdien,
promoted.
The Bulletin des Luis publishes a decree, dated
the 10th of the present month, opening to the Minister
of Finance a credit of 300,000 fr, applicable to the
personal expenses of the Chief of the State. This
credit is opened as an advance on the sum to be here-
after allowed to the President of the Itcpubli.i by a
senates eolisultuin, in conformity with Art. 15 of the
constitution. Another decree opens to the Minister
of Justice, from the budget of 1651, a supplementary
credit of 750,0001 r., applicable to the expenses of en-
mina' justice.
A decree from the President of the Republic directs
that general officers and admirals named senators, and
not provided with any command, are to be considered
as being en clisponibilit,', and may be replaced accord-
ing as the wants of the service may require. They
remain, however, in such a case, liable to be called
to commands on active service, and to form part of
the council of admiralty, the council of works of the
navy, and to the committees of the army. This ar-
rangement is applicable to both the sea and land
service.
A

note in tho Munileur directs that
the general and special inspectors of police are to
take rank, tho former immediately after the bishops,
and the latter immediately after the presidents of
the Tribunals of Premiere Instance.

It will be remembered that it was settled by a
decree, on Jan. 21, that the shares of the great canal
companies should be purchased by the government.
The commission appointed to flx the value of the
shares, consists of nine persons, threeof whom are ap-
pointed by the companies, three by the Minister of
Finance, and three by the presidents of the Court of
Appeal at Paris. The three commissioners appointed
by the companies arc Count Jaubert, Count Daru,
and M. Berryer, who have been specially occupied
with the question of canals, as minister, as reporter,
or as member of parliamentary committees on this
subject.
M. do Gatti:, an engineer in the navy, was an
opposition candidate at Brest, but is now probably
withdrawn, for the Arnwrienn says that a govern-
ment despatch has ordered M. Gasti: to go to 'Loch-
fort on duty, within 48 hours.
At the 'Bourse the Fives rose 10c., closing at
103.80; the Threes rose 5c., and closed at 63.70.
The composition of the English cabinet has been
favourably received by the speculators. Bank of
France shares rose sf. Railway shares were
better. Northern and Central rose 3.73 each, and
most of the other lines from 1.23 to 2.50.

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despatch's by the Austrian minister, sines that
demand was an established fact. It remained to
consider whether Count Arnim was justified in
asserting that M. Manteuffel, in his eagerness to sur-
render the policy of the government, had set out for
Olmiitz before being certain that Prince Sehwarzen-
berg would come so far to meet him. This was
declared to bo an outrage of the dignity of a
minister of state. The court hereupon condemned
the count to pay a fine of 200 thalers, or be impri-
soned four months, and M. Bardeleben to pay 100
thalers, or suffer two months' imprisonment. The
substitution of a fine for the absolute imprisonment
required by the prosecution, turns upon the fact that
the count was found guilty, not of the calumny im-
puted, but merely of offensive reference to the
minister. This is tho first time a minister of state
has ever been arraigned in Prussia. An appeal is
spoken of.
The intention of sending a representative to the
approaching Zollverein Congress in Berlin, ascribed
a few weeks since to Austria, is again spoken of.
l'rinco Schwarzenberg will strain every nerve to pro-
cure the reconstruction of the Zollverein treaty in
such a form as shall make it easy for Austria to
,acquire influence within the body. Bavaria is the
power to whom the mediating—or agitating—rote is
assigned, and the proposition to admit the Austrians
is likely to bo one of the earliest for discussion. It
seems now to be acknowledged, even at Vienna, that
the commercial situation of Germany is to be decided
at Berlin.

The aristocratie section of the rcactienist party
opposes the bureaucratic section's endeavours to strip
the Chambers of all authority; it concurs in every
measure for freeing them from popular influence; but
instead of nullifying, it is intent on making them a
stronghold of aristocratic control over the bureau-
cracy; it asserts, therefore, in opposition to the
ministry, the right of the Chambers to discuss acts of
the executive authorities; it only rejects condemna-
tory resolutions, and proposes, when necessity arises,
an address to the crown as the proper form of pro-
ceeding.
In the First Chamber there has been a continu-
ance of debating on the laws for the organisation of
communities, circles, and provinces. On a motion
being made, that an amended bill embracing all three
points be forthwith brought forward, the Minister of
the Interior declared, that three separate bilis would
be laid before the Chambers in succession. A billfor
organising municipal and rural communitics,withduc
care for preserving and enlivening traditional class dis-
tinctions and interests had nearly passed through the
committee, and would soon be brought to discussion;
if favourably received, and speedily passed, the go-
vernment would have time to found upon it, and bring
in during the present session, a bill for the organisation
of circles, which must form the basis for the constitu-
tion of the provinces. Before, however, this last
can be drawn up the government will assemble again
the provincial states, who have a right to be pre-
viously heard in all matters affecting their own in-
terests.

The Pruaaian government, according to the
Leipalc Journal, has proposed to take tho frigate
Genoa, captured from the Danen, and the steam-
fngate Barbaroaaa, in eatiafaction of a claim amount-
ing to 42,0001.

II ESSE CASSEL.

The publication of the sentence of the District
Court against the members of the Permanent Com-
mittee of the late Chamber was fixed for tho 19th.
Only two of the accused, M. Schwarzenburg and
M. Grab, appeared, M. Henkel having escaped.
They are convicted of attempting to resist the execu-
tion of the decrees of September, 1850, incurr:ng
thereby the penalties of high treason according to an
ordinance of 1795. 'they were sentenced to terms
of two and three years' imprisonment, with depriva-
tion of civil rights. They have both entered an ap-
peal again►t the sentence.

DESTRUCTION OF DA4oB.—ln addition to the pro-
motions already notified in the Ga:cUe of Friday last, for
the destruction of Lagos, the Admiralty have promoted the
engina•n in charge on board the Bloodhound and Teaser—
vie., Mr. William N. Covey and Mr. George S. Thunder,
tint class assistants, to be acting third class chief en-
gineers ; who will be confirmed on passing the necessary
examinations.

ANTIQUITIES FROM NINEVEIT.—The Teasel Ap-
prentice, from Buuorah, has brought, besides the antiqui-
ties for the British Museum, which have been safely depo-
sited in that national establishment, a considerable quantity
of ancient- marbles from the same interesting quarter, for
Sir John Guest, on whose account antiquities of this kind
from Nineveh have before been brought to this country.
POSTAGE STAMPS POE TUE RoitnNa.—Tho Ro-
man government have sanctioned the introduction of post-
age stamps for the pre-payment of postage on letten. Tho
stamp is about the size of the English postage stamp • and
on it is a representation of the tiara and keys, the badge of
papal dignity and power.
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- A - TEARER ASTRAY. YeateTday afternoon, a
large riddle-wheel steamer, the City of Paris, came adrift
from her moorings, and canard much damage in the river.
The vessels in the tier were shifting their bertha, for the
purposed one putting to sea, when, either by =glut or
mistake. the mooring chain of the abase smell lONA wee
let go tram the buoy ; being a lengthy vessel, sod the teed
tide running very strong, with a strong easterly wind. she
swung round athwart hawse of the tier, damaging the Con-
cordia, and staving a boat belonging to a French seltooner.
The tide was so strong that it was an impossibility to run
out another chain and as she did not have her
steam up she could not be brought to. However, she soon
got clear and drifted up the river, coining in contact and
damaging other Teasels as well as herself. On the ebb tide
she drifted down and came athwart hawse of a tier of vessels
off the Custom-house quay, where she remains; bat, it is
intended to get her steam up at sleek water, and take her to
the mooring buoy.
TILE LATE FIRE AND LOU Or LIFE LI WEL-
, IECL-ailleaT.—Yesterday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., resumed
at St. Marylebone workhouse the adjourned inquest on
the body of James Joseph Webster, who, having been put
into possession of the premises occupied by Mr. Werndly,
No. 47, Welbeck-street, perished in the Are which broke
l out in the same house • few hours after he went to bed.
No fresh light was thrown upon the cause of the Ere by
the evidence now adduced, and the jury haring consulted
fur about half-an-hour, found "That the deceased was
burned to death in the aforesaid he, but how that origi-
nated there was not sufficient evidence to enable them to
decide." The coroner said that was just the verdict he
should hare returned had he been a juror. The inquiry oc-
cupied nearly six hours.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT LEEDS.—On Monday even-
ing Mr. Tilney, a retired marble mason and contractor,
residing at York, was killed in Leeds. The deceased hail
for some days been on a visit to hie son, the Leeds borough
surveyor, and on Monday night was rat • with hum
from the country to Leeds in a phaeton. La Really Hill
the horse became unmanageable, and shlremi el, at full
speed down the hill, and on arriving at a turfk the road,
opposite Mabgate, the hone swerved, and was thaws down
by the looking of the gilt wheel. Beth the deemed and
his sea were thrown out :Ina elehme, Mr. Tilney,
Na., being killed on the eget the boon et \is skull,
and the son so seriously sheet the bead, that but
faint hopes of his recovery are entertained.

COUNTY PERMANENT BUILDING BOCIETY.—Last
evening 'public meeting of the fiends and promoters of
this leckty was held at the Bleseip and Blue Boer, Hol-
born. The chair was takes by Kr. B. H. Hire, barrister,whit beiserpoisted at the pesiler advantages of the so-
ds% millavelentst W eluerradene by statements septa.
messy (piths winkles of the inesitntion.—Mr. James Beal,
manager of the annonneed that within the nut
wish the directors bpswoehr in a ridden to make advances
1 he the berrowleg numbers to the amount of several hundred
pm&
Tis WOLMINAMPTON CONSPIRACY Calli.—teat
mein •gabile meeting of the trades of Lodes wee hold
at the ierties' Institution, Boethemplem4eilldings,
Chomp. imes de Ole puree of reeding the Import of
the Lewin OMNI Beleme Oemmteles, et the mesiesdinm
in the eramirmay
_ease of the Welverbewitem tin-plate
warkme. .lllr Mimes took the chair. Re said be was
every to him she merieg that the derison* who had
beet keemeeriled. net be present. es
_had been
ansensmil t they bed boa liberiod. but the desire slime
were in welds, eml Weed them for eats, aniewnim WSW,
which bed bees ineemed in the ems, and es they were un-
able to pey that sem they had been taken to Hons.
masegephine poi, where they would reemin mil such
ems wee psi. He weed these gement le user forward
with eitipepsoor say dui the mesetsmate rose sheid not
remain, away from their homes, their wives, and
their fami ill. The secretary then read a very lengthy
wiper% giving a history of the case from the commencement
to the cad. Oa the motion of Mr. Miller, seconded by Mr.
=l4lthe port was received. Mr. Humphrey moved,
. re.lllhell seconded, a resolution to the effect that the
sighs of e'en to combine and Si the price of their labour
lad been fully recognised by the Court of Queen's
Bench. This resolution was carried unesimensly ;
as was also one moved by Mr. Brown, mid se-
conded by Mr. Cununieg, for raking the alicesery fends.
—The third resolution wee memod by Mr. hes* to the
effect that the resent enemas wad powertel attempts of
the employers of labour to destroy tads& Isaias, made it
incumbent upon the men to have some reeogniaed principle
of central association, in unler to concentrate their power
to enable each other to resist any such aggression al in
future may be attempted by an acknowledged system of
combination.—Mr. Antsworth seconded the resolution,
which was also earned.—A Inds of thanks to the &air-
men coadadid the proceedings.

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

(hoes the 17.41 k Newf.)

TO-DAT a meeting is to take place in St. Martin's
Hall, to aid the repeal of certain taxes. one of which
the new CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUER last year
voted to abolish. Mr. DISRAELI, like a true author
and friend of education and of literature, gave his
support to the demand for the removal of the duty
on paper. He is now in the position to propose
'tie, extinction of the obnoxious impost ; and he will,
let us hope, do so in his first budget. The whigs
leave in his bands a surplus revenue to be counted
in millions. Out of so noble a sum he will surely be
able to spare the small amount extorted from the
people by the mischievous operAtion of two of the
taxes on knowledge—the advertisement duty and
the paper duty.
The effect of the paper duties, in impeding the
increase and circulation of a healthy literature, in
checking the progress of knowledge, and in retard-
ing civilisation, has been made, on various occasions,
and by several able publications, so obvious, that it is
unnecessary to say an additional word on the sub-
ject. The completeness of the information succes-
sively and continuously laid before the public in the
course of the last twenty years, convicts the govern-
ment, indeed, of a charge of criminal neglect for
suffering these duties still to exist. It must be aware
that knowledge gives skill; that skill makes labour
doubly, trebly, tenfold productive; that the increase
of knowledge is proportionably rapid as mind com-
municates with mind, and as the number of
communicating minds increase; and that therefore
it has been false even to its own limited policy of in-
creasing the national wealth and the national reve-
nuo, by not removing every fiscal impediment to the
diffusion and increase of knowledge. What the
corn laws were to material production, stinting it
and making it costly in ever art and every manu-
facture, by enhancing the price of subsistence, that
the paper duties me to the diffusion of knowledge.
They stint and stop it in every direction, and pre-
vent men from obtaining that perfect acquaintance
with nature and her works which is at once wealth,
case, power, and civilisation. Were ministers us
keenly alive to the public good as to party profit,
they would have outvied each other in removing
from our fiscal arrangements such a permanent
obstacle to social improvement. All-important,
however, as is this view of the paper duties, it has
already been so ably treated, that we peas to the
more needful, if less dignified task of pointing out
some of their immediate effects on the production
of wealth.

Paper is an article in universal use, and the raw
material of many other manufactures as well as of
books. It is a great branch of national industry, of
equal importance and almost equal value, take it
altogether, from collecting rags to engraving the
finest print or making the most elaborate ornament
in papier mach.% to the silk or the woollen manufac.
tare. It Las the great advantage too of being very
little dependent on any foreign supply and of
converting, like the beneficent processes of nature,
the worst of refuse into a source of life and strength.
Such a manufacture deserves, at least, as much
deference from the legislature as the manufacture of
cottou or wool, from the raw materials of which it
has wisely removed every tax and it is quite a
mockery for any legislature or ministers to assume
the character of free-traders while they maintain an
excise duty on paper.
For its manufacture England has some singular
advantages. Iler vast mercantile marine, and her
vast cotton and linen manufactures, supply in their
waste and in worn-out rigging, utterly worthless
except to the papertunker, an abundance of material,
i unequalled n other countries, for manufacturing
both coarse and fine paper. To work it up cheaply
we have much admirable machinery, much cheap
because skilful labour seeking employment, we
have clear and gentle streams, and we have
a great abundance of capital. Moreover, we
have at home and in our colonies, and we had
in the United States while they were yet our colonies,
and we might still have there an unexampledly
tango market of opulent reading people desiring
books in the English language, and using paper, as
opulent people do, for an immense variety of pur-
poses. Yet the value of the paper manufactured by
the 381 manufacturers, to whom excise laws and ex-
cise licenses coofiuo it—and their number is de-
creasing—is not supposed to exceed 2,400,0001. a
year; while the value of our cotton manufacture, the
raw material of which we import to the extent of
700,000,000 lbs. annually, is estimated at the
value of 34,000,0001., and the value of the
manufactured cotton exported last year, exclusive
of yarn, was not less than 21,000,000!. Now,
why is it that paper, which is required in every
country for many purposes, is not as extensively
manufactured and exported as cotton ? Why did
not the manufacture of paper, established amongst
us before the manufacture of cotton, improve like the
latter, and become one of the great staples of the
country? We shall supply our new CIIANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQCER with some elements to answer
this important question.
It was not for the want of raw material, which
has increased as the cotton manufacture has increased,
and as population has increased. It was not that
the manufacture was nnsusceptiblo of improvement,
'for it has in latter times partaken largely of the im-
provements introduced into machinery generally ;
and since the tax was reduced in 1836 tho whole
quantity manufactured has more than doubled. It
was not for want of a market, for the demand is
almost unlimited, and increases very rapidly from
year to year.
But paper, like malt, glass, bricks, and soap, has
always been subjected to excise duties and excise re-
gulations more objectionable and onerous than the
duties from which cotton, with one exception, has
always been free; and the manufacture of paper, like
the manufacture of other articles subject to the ex-
cise, till a recent period made comparatively slow
progress. Both cotton cloth and paper are modern
manufactures of equal utility ; both are ex-
clusively the results of industry, skill, and
knowledge.; both, as we know from what has
presentocearred
NnN. tsince ury Messrs.
DIDOI, FOl n h
u it tnnen s ee
E R KiDICKENSON, and
others, directed their attention to the subject, are
equally susceptible of improvement; but the one
subject in all its operations to the minute control
of the excise, was for many years almost stationary;
while the ther, which escaped its clutches, asto-
nished the world by its progress.
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Ono part of the cotton manufacture was subjected
to the excise. Till 1831 printed cottons were liable
to an excise duty of 31d. per yard, which yielded
to the revenue about 600,0001. a-year, and collected
from the ?m.ople about 1,800,0001., the difference
being repaid on drawbacks, Rm. Till 1831 the pro-
gress of the manufacture, according to Mr. PORTER,
was as Mews:

GAM' dellipdslimila Yards.
1711
14110
1614
1830

A wonderful increase of more tban tenfold in 30
years, the consequence mainly. of improvements in
the unexcised branches of spinning and weaving.
In 1836, aocording to Mr. PORTER, double the quan-
tity of cloths were then printed with the same ca-
pital, and employing the same amount of labour, as
were printed previous to the repeal of the duty in
1831, and the removal of the revenue officers from
the premises. Since 1831 no official account has
been kept of the quantity, but the quantity exported
in 1831 was 44.5,288,838 yards, or nearly 40 per
cent, more than the whole quantity manufactured in
1830. If we assume, which is about the proportion,
Ithat the quantity consumed at home is equal to
lone-third of that exported, we shall have 647,051,
784 yards u the probable product of 1851, showing
the further rapid increase of this manufacture since
it was set free from the excise. In like manner
great as has been tho increase in the quantity of
paper manufactured since 1836, though still subject
to the excise, there can bo no question that it would
increase much faster were the excise duties wholly'
abolished. With what show, then, of right or policy
does the government persist in retaining this ruinous
clog on the very ingenious and useful art of making
papers ?
We can show its effects by our exports. Tho value
of cotton manufactures exported, including yarn, is
28,000,000/. ; the value of stationery is 407,341/. ;
and such words as " paper" or " books" do not appear
in the list of exports. We must conclude, there-
fore, that the whole value of this important
article exported is less than half a million, while the
valued the article not subject to excise duties is ISO

times that amount. The value of cotton
ported to the United States in 1849 was 2,011,28e/a
the value of the paper exported, includin4 h arks
everything connected with paper, was 35,114/.,0p
the fifty-third part of the sum. Wo ha, e
therefore, to clothe the bodies of our form•oesiliou,
to a great extent. Though we import float them the
raw material of the cloth we continue also to supply
them with many of the raw materials of
literature, and of art ; but of our p t 0... and our
actually manufactured books they tale a very min
quantity. The wants of the inhabitants of (no States
for the works of Shakspeare, Byron, Sour. I fickens
&c., their wants of Bibles and Pray. iitgart:
almost wholly supplied by New York and Phila-
delphia instead of London and Edinburg',.
At a time within the memory of porwete yet
living, every book in tho country nu y the Gaited
States was imported from England or I. .1, Europe•
the demand there for books in the Engl... Imigua6,ol
is now very great, but it is supplied by .1, e manu-
facturers, who are tempted by the e.,r -s of oar
materials to steal theta rather than par h the
finished article. For continuing and le : muting the
trade in books with the United States att. r they had
ceased to be our colonies, we had every druntage:
but while wo have continued to clothe Ili. ir bodies
with our unexcised cotton, we have whorls lost tho
trade of supplying them with paper ai*t sitlt the
finished manufacture which coustitut. s clothing
for the mind. The excise duty, sarying as
Mr. M'eut.tmeit said in 1832, fi.nn 24 or
30 per cent. to about 200 per cent., and still
continuing enormous, though since thus n duced, as
the cost of making palm- has been in the .near Limo
lowered in a greater proportion, suffic..l to destroy
the book trade with the states. Mr. KNIGII r, in his
pamphlet on the case of the authors, shows that the
tat on paper is 10 per cent. on the book ; it is great
in proportion as the copies are multiplied, and has
always been quite sufficient to make it impossible
for our booksellers to think of supplying the wants
of the American fur cheap books ns our cotton menu.
facturers have supplied them 'with cheap clothing.
Gruoually it might have come to puss that tho
Americans should prepare books for them-Ares, but
the almost sudden, and the almost complete, extinc-
tion of a book trade front England to lay former
colonies is due to the excise duties on paper. They
lost us an important traffic, while the goterionent, by
bounties and other contrivances, was busily employed
in endeavouring to secure for the community otter
branches of trade not half HO valuable MA the one it
destroyed. The value of cotton goods exported from
the United States in 1830 was 4,734.421 dots.; and
the value of books, maps, paper, and stationery, was
219,171 dole., or about a twenty-third part, and it is
an increasing trade; while the cable of our exports
of stationery arc only one fifty-sixth part of our ex-
ports of cotton. For the manufacture of cotton the
Americans have, in the production of the raw mate-
rial, a great advantage : for the manutaeture of
paper the advantages arc all on our side; but on
paper the Americans have no excise duties, and their
exports of stationery are much larger in proportion
than ours. The excise duties arc more than sutlicieut
to counterbalance our natural advantages. 'fro what
extent the whole continent of Americo, north and
south, is supplied by stationery front Ft dice and
Germany, wo cannot say; but we know the
fact that the paper of those countries finds its way
throughout that continent, while the paper of Eng-
land is very little in use. We command the markets
of the world for our cotton ; our paper is almost all
consumed at home. 'the exports of stationery aro
increasing, and it is only necessary to remove the
excise duty to ensure a great extension of the mann-
facture, and a very considerable export trade.
With the manufacture of paper, the best interests
of mankind are closely involved, and a tax which
impedes the progress of wealth and the progress of
knowledge, ought to be immediately abolished. The
people want employment, they want education, they
want information, and the abolition of the excise on
paper is the means of supplying all these w Lifts. To
the government the tax yields about titsi,ioool. per
annum. It is costly in collecting, it gives rise to in-
numerable frauds; and fur a sum so paltry in rela-
tion to the vast resources of our magnificent empire,
it is wholly unworthy of the government to inflict
such complicated evils on society.
Now wo have an author for Chancellor of the
Exchequer let us hope the sin and the lolly of the
advertisement duties and the paper duties will cease.

INLAND Boos Poe'r.—The following notice to tho
pubic has been issued by command of the Postmaster-Cle-
m:eel .—" On and from the let March next, the following
additional facilities will be afforded to the tra emaission of
books, &c., within the United Kingdom. A hook-packet
may thenceforth contain any number of sci.arate books,
maps, or prints, and any quantity of pap. r, vellum, or
parchment (to the exclusion of letters whether sealed or
open) ; and the books, maps, paper, &c., m.y be either
printed, written, or plain, or soy mixture of the three.
Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of
the same or of a portion thereof will be al:owed, wke-
ther such binding, &c., be loose or attached ; as also
rollers, in the case of prints; markers (whether of paper
or otherwise) in the eau of books and in short what-
ever is necessary for the safe tiansmisaion of literary
or artistic matter or usually appertains thereto. The fa-
lowing are the remaining regulations respecting the Inland
Book Post—all previous notices regarding it being can-
celled. The rates of book postage will be as follow:—For
each packet not exceeding 11b. in weight, 6.1. Fur each
packet exceeding llb. and not exceeding 2115., Is. For
each packet exceeding 2lbs. and not exceeding 31b5., 13.6 d.,
and so on, 6d. being charged for every complete pound and
for any additional fraction of a pound. The po.tage must
be pre-paid in full, by affixing the proper stamps outside.
Every packet must be sent either without a cover or in a
cover open at the ends or aides. It must not contain any
letter, open or sealed, nor any sealed enclosure whatever.
No packet must exceed two feet in length. The book poetto
which the foregoing roles relate, is confined to the United
Kingdom, and does not affect the privileges allowed to votes
and proceedings in parliament, or to newspapers. Tho
postmaster who receives a book-packet, whether directly or
from a sub-postmaster or town receiver, must open and
examine it to see that the conditions on which book-packets
are allowed are all complied with. If he find any letter,
whether sealed or open, or sealed enclosure of any kind,
such letter cie endwise must be taken out and dealt with
as an unpaid letter—the address on the picket being
written thereon if there be no other address. And if in any
other respect either of the above conditions be violated, or
if, for any reason, the postmaster does not think that the
packet comes withing the privilege of the book poet, he
must put it into the bag for London, if in England—for
Edinburgh if in Scotland—and for Dublin, it in Ireland—
in order that the case may be dealt with at a metropolitan
office. To prevent obstacles to the regular transmission of
letters, any officer of the Post-office may, when necessary,
delay forwarding a book-packet for a period Out exceeding
twenty-four hours beyond the time at which it would other-
wise be forwarded."

ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR ASTIIMA AND DISEASES
OT THIS CHEST.—Yesterday the annual general meeting
of the governors of this charity was held at the London
Tavern, James Zulon, Esq ,in the chair. The report
stated hat since the foundation of the infirmary in ISIS,
39,000 persons had been relieved by it. With A view
to more tuUy carrying out tho objects of the institution,
several new wards have been opened for the reception of
patients, many of whom have been discharged cured or
greatly relieved. The number of out-patients during the
put year was 1,700, being an increase of 500 on the num-
ber in the previous year, the larger portion of whom were
discharged cured, and of whom about 500 remain on the
books under treatment at the present time, while the appli-
cations for relief daily increase. Tho report was unanimously
adopted, some routine business transacted, when the pro-
ceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.
THE BANBURY lguanza.—An important link
wanting in the chain of evidence against the prisoner
lialabergo, who is charged with the murder of his uncle,
has been supplied. The pistol, with which it is believed
the foul deed was perpetrated, has been discovered, to-
getter with deceased's great coat, near the spot where his
body was found. The weapon has been recognised as the
one sold by a gunmaker at Danbury to the prisoner. The
trial will take place at Oxford on Tuesday or Wednesday
neat. _ _

FIRE IN PlMLlCo.—Yesterday afternoon, between
one and two o'clock, a fire of a most destructise character
broke out in the stores of Mr. Watling, a pork dealer, in
Victoria-road, Pimlico, which ended en the total destruc-
tion of the premises. The premises were situated in Brewer-
street, leading down to Elliott's Brewery, and consisted of
sale shop, meat and flour warehouse, machine room and
bakehouse, used for the manufacture of Vatling's pork
pies," with stabling fur several horses and morns over for
the workmen who lived on the premises. The intimation
lof the . fire was first given by our of the horses
plunging in the stall, when a large body of
smoke was found issuing into the stable from one
of the rooms overhead, and no examination it was found
that the chopping-room, in which is a horse-mill for cutting
the meat, was in flames. Messengers were instant!"
despatched for the engines, right of which were soon en
attendance, and a good supply of water being at hand they
were successful in checking the further progress of the fire,
all attempts to save the premises being useless. Mr. Wat-
ling was only partially insured, and the damage is can-
mated at about 1,6001.
FRENCH EXILES IN JERSEY.—There are seven
French emigrants now residing at Jelly, sictims of the
late coup d'etat of M. Bonaparte. One of them is a notary
clerk by profession, three are commercial men, the other
three are an architect, an advocate, and a surgeon. They
art all from the department of Barth,.