The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 23.

WO are TO' y much disposed to concur with a tie -
temporary ma to the grounds on which any a'.tompt
at limber enstraliss, ion, as regards the P.m.-law,
ought to be steadily n slated by the repres unitive,
in purlianseut of a frugal and fieedowlosirg people.
There is no practical question, in trut!r, in which
consideratioes of national economy sad populist
libeny are more plainly inv..l%etl. L oral tam**
and heal administration are the very elements eat
of which all oar Named constitutional mghts. WM.
and capabilities have for generatiolm bees fanued.
To these, as to the main rams, are %eseeatia all that
afford. healthful vigour and voter eanssomess to
puh!ic opinion atuongnt UT; and to maim er matilate
tht se coots, however covordy and without sedges
disturbance, must to regarded as an set of the deepest
and most indelible treason to she well-beim d for

state.
(tot Poor-law system, like most other penis= ef
our institutions,may, truss time to time, require repair.
Twenty years ago great abuses had aria, he the
mode of 'administering relief. A mistakes kg ink-
lent philanthropy had gradually led teaspedssetia•
discriminate disbursement of alms in the ism se rat-
door relief to the ordinary labourer. which in 'may
had serially effaced all marked distiaetioa
tatweed pauperism and indepeadeat Wintry, and
which thivateeed to reduce vest dieteiste Glib. .kieg
dem to the same plight et ever-deernbeg demoraliaa-
tion and decay. Str.ngent and bah* messarer of
corrective discipline were felt to be indispassablre; and
without the interposition of sonsemsdrekpewer it was
confessedly impossible to hope fir tbeir Mkt eve apply
ration. It was not without a , however,
that the public mind coin(be to &anent to
the make of the Poor-law which at
first was proposed only ea a temperary contrivance,
and not renewed or eventually pined on its present
permanent footing without many imitations, doubts,
and warnings front the jealous spirit of localism
which the serreillanee of SomemeNiesse inspectors,
and the veto of Somerset•hoose mitherities bed
filled with alarm. Experience bee indeed done
mach to abate this feein4 of hostility. Great cor-
rective good has been undoub:edly accomplished •
and the conciliatory temper in which the
administration of the department has been
of late years conducted has disarmed many
of the most suspicious defenders of parochial!
independency. it ta a mistake, however, to sup-
per that became one peculiar and dangerous malady
has been cured by doses of Centralie Acid, we are
at all disposed to eatcud its use to less urgent cases,
or to consent to its being mingled with our oedinary
food. The deadline pumas are wisely resorted to
on rare occasions, but even then they are employed
with infinite reserve : none but a quack would think
of prescribing their unwomanly use, and none but
fools would submit to be so drenched with them.
And a sorer or more deadly political police than
centralisation society hit never known. Yet this is
one of the ntstruml recklessly recommended by the
great quack doctor now in vogue with the country
radiomen—tie celebrated mesmeriser to whom they
have blindly surrendered themselves.
We do not profess to be in the secrets of the Tory
camp, but we may venture to foretell that, should
the present ministry remain in power, a bill will be
introduced during the coming session, proposing that
what are termed the Establishment Charges of the
Poor-law should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund,
thereby exonerating the localities from 'certain portion
of the rates which they are now by law obliged to
provide for by self-assessment in the olden way.
The poor stupid squires will be made to believe, for
the time being, that their broad acres being re-
lieved to the estenit of three halfpence er twopence
in the pound, they will, at the cod of the year, be just
so many three half-pennies the richer ; and they will
cheer and shout at the notion of getting so meek in the
way of compensation of the industrious classes of the
community, who took from them their regions right
to tax the peoples food, _ quite forgetting that if
500,rieel. additional be added to the list of Civil Con-
tingencies, new taxes in some form must be imposed
on the entire community in order to provide for the
same. Many of the squires no doubt believe that
the Consolidated Fond is a sort of naraculous mil&
cow that never goes dry; and that whenever their
cupidity happens to be thirsty, it is only
to order another il to be tilled for their apt=
separate use. The official dairymen declase that no
supposition can be more utterly groundless, and that
is riot of fact they are frequently in great fear lest
the prods:* should not be snit tomb's them to
supply the demands of those to whom they are already
under comments.
To speak plainly ; if any further portion of heal
burthens be transferred to the general taxation, new
taxes either on property or on industry must be
imposed. We seed hardly pause to ask whether
the former alternative is likely to be resorted to by
the resent advisers of the crown. They have in-
veighed against the property and income tax that
nowexiate for ten long years, and they would abo-
lish it to-morrow, if they dared. Mr. Heuics
actually proposed, in the session before last, to apply
the surplus it the Exchequer to its partial liquidation;
and the whole Protectionist party voted that it ought
to be gradaalli put an end to. What, then, is to be
done? Mr. DINUELI is pledged against each and
every one of the excise duties, and be be.
always maintained that Lord Cleeton BEe-
Ttnelo was the best and soundest theory
of thanes—that, namely, which would eman-
cipate domestic industry from ell restrictions,
and rely oa import duties wholly for the vast revises
we require. The additional half million, therefore,
cannot come out of an increased excise. Thetis re-
ma N but one resource—some novel impost ca reee
foreign trade. Which of the many articles freed
from tke fiscal yoke by Sir Molina/ PeEL is to be
sacrificed once more to propitiate the landlords, time
will soma reveal. We pass to other and, if possible,
some serious eassidermens.
Let the Cita' precedent be use set of COOt
the taxation and expenditexpenditureneceseery fora
local purposes, and what is to prevent the
absorption of the whole into the mead Missals*
of the Empire? Some giddy IN Ignorant Saw
may 'malaise : "The fear kr idlo--no man in his
mem mild be kited to propose it." Is be
quite me of that ? Or dose be not know that the
proposal of a national rote fur the support of
the poor hes anted* berm made—eye, and very ro-
cently tee ia deliberate and weinseeidied hen,
by one df the mit anninet member et the
sent administration ? We abide to the soli SW
who fills amp pat of feerenny at State hr Penis
Main. it sehet eamittee was wahind In tie
mourn dist year by the Hsme of Leeds to 1a
into the edam mg tithed if levying heal wen. i
meets. Itemalent if mei
_thitht iadivihdes
end, amongst others, d Led ONMIIT• The
iridium taken by it was %hi/Ern/dm and =
tent, especially that Ones . C. Lewis.
lags espeneaos end potent of Amerada endied
his to seta as he did most dearly, the Midas
set elf a oretzdieed system ezZ
at the dose et the iguls
r pieezd en weed his isavieden that a
mama rate bar tee smbillmasee d the tintkale.
an& eantralnd islaimielentien for its dishevelment
4Cir beet remedy
aim::
is boasters,
to a great It
inequalities of rating, and that it ought
te sifted by perlieneet.
Ili then is what we ere drifting towards. The
auldir d the Eitablishetaat Clwi is oil the fit*
oamikhilit le a de. whish ones Men will nevita-
blylleillitwed by sash sego goiernment that
ways/ an into power, * alike tittle ever-espandles
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