The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE POST HORSE AND

CARRIAGE DUTY.
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A congratulatory demonstration of the postmasters
of England, Wales, and Scotland, to celebrate the success
of the efforts of the London committee, in obtaining the
repeal of the complicated system of duties to which the
trade was liable under the old Assessed Tales Act, and the
substitution for it of an uniform license duty, regulated in
its amount by the number of horses and carriages kept for
hiring, took place yesterday at the London Tavern.

The meeting was intended to be instructive, complimen-
tary, and convivial. Ihe instructive feature was a two
hours' explanation of the effect and bearing of the new
law by Mr. John Chancellor, who from the commencement
of the movement has been one of the most active members
of the London committee—the complimentary consisted in
the presentation of a handsome piece of plate, and a purse
of 600 sovereigns to Mr. Shillibeer, to wham exertions the
change in the law is generally attributed, and of a gold
watch and appendages to Mr. J. Chancellor, whose services
u a sort of amateur legal adviser, personally in-
Wrested in the result, and u the general ex-
ponent of the law past and patient, were con-
sidered deserving of the gift—and the convivial part of the
proceedings was the usual apex of all rummies in ibis conn-
try—a diener, which was served up in the best style of '
the great London dining house to upwards of three hun-
dred guests.
Mr. GRIT, the chairman of the committee, presided at
both the preparatory meeting at which the exposition of
the law was given, and at the subsequent end more agree.
able part of the business.
The cloth having been removed, and the healths of her
Majesty and the royal family having been drunk with all
the honours,
The Cuaftueut proposed " the Army and Navy ;" and
in doing so referred to the existing differences between
Russia and Turkey, and the probability of our being in-
volved in a war in vindicating the rights of the Porto and
upholding the balance of power in Europe. A remark that
however desirous Englishmen were for peace, they would
spend their last shilling in defending Turley from Russian
aggression, wu received with the moot enthusiastic ap-
plause.
The health of Mr. Shfilibeer wu then proposed, and the
chairman, in submitting the toast, said that to the indefati-
gable exertions of that gentleman was owing the repeal of
the most inquisitorial tax that had liver disgraced any civi-
lised country. The day on which they were
sow assembled—the 10th of October—would Do
bailed hereafter by the postmasters of Great Britain as the
most glorious epoch in their history, for from that day
the act which had hitherto pressed upon them with Spanish
rather than Emile severity would cease. (Cheers.) To
him who had been se mainly instrumental is procuring that
result, he begged sow to hand the testintoalal which had
been subsenbed In by those who had benefited by his
exertions.

The chairman then handed to Mr. Malheur the testimo-
nial, which consisted of a candelabrum epergne, coasisting
of a base upon which stand them post-bones with riders, in
frosted silver, forming the supporters to the trunk of a ire*
which, springing from the centre of the base, carries the
bramble for the readies and for the glass. Upon the base
was lennibed Hs Mai, " Presented by the Poidmasien of
Greet Britain to Gimp Miniboom., as a testimonial of their
repeal, end et their mairauon of that lice
by width he assesseed in procuring the repeal et post-
bags dtatith and off
the messed tax ea postmasters oar-
711Stisseet&izras 6:zigst:d and executed by Mr. F.
Is athhisa le_the piece of plate the chairman placed in
Mr. ithiliboses lima a pens et 600 sovereignm, moribund
by the Ueda en mime he the law outs incurred
by that 'madmen in the swim prosecution. insti-
tuted against lies he parades mho the old law.
Mr. Sno.unans. ethumewledgment, said that two
years whoa Stay sit at the London Tama, thus was
a of the aisethaat primmer Imams is time upper
room Vs the 'pumice 'Mil =jut "wades of
the custom duties, while they ht a lower loon were ea-
desvouring to get rid of the ohnoziens uncles sutra, as it
affected their trade, and the :inquisitorial Ile
which characterised it. By unity of settee = bed
effected their great objest—the removal of the
tenses of the sideman, sad by union the great Mramelle
Aran lad bid the first seem towards the abolition et tint
unatises of iaisehomes by with Oak Ink had
bean Thelma& would, no that
peolmeseses had alimbed a WIN bees ;
Mt that was set Omen. What they_dad seldom* was
damply the missies et the guns after teem that
Mese • Gad it the paMie seppessli thellfhey had
ia aay rikeelies la
mturas whist maid lead lee
fameeler sedlostisa
oba:isbeys aid M diespleithed. The et
the -had gives to die postmasters KONA set of
260,111 K was net melt, sad they amid an give
nub to Ilia pain one of it. (A wise—" I doubt that.")
The midis night asp osse this was • gust boas, but it was
not a hem sub as tbe postmasters bed a right to upon.
Take his owa OM: be Weald MU have to pay
801. a year for the privilege of Wing out 30 harem.
The thing was measerens, end mild not last long. (Han)
The redneden to the peetuesler was only 20 per mt.
min She last ask whirs the laving to the lubber's' was
Npsr mat BM the peal :II was
enlentsid of the In-
ImNeGaas the Webs etlieerosd that wee now
asseuglabstL Assailing iho hothaent
by the Bois Oeinmiesiiness Mak deneessing
the emu Moped by that body of empling the payment
et eels in m Mien hi with they woos stnewatal, 5.4 re-
=to pay them in amens la width Mr. Shillibeer pre.
on the gonesi that the sewn sever paid ma re-
esivedesets, be eniegimed tits prams Cheacellar of the Mx-
awn, ft Os onientlea led paid to the pressi
Om at the troth, whist he
be remarked emerare eled me ngtt
ihmsamidy with the wades. of kb immediate 'rodeos.-
Does ; sad eriasiaded by myth., that unaffillog mad id-
,' mhos bias to haler steed.. on bs of thil body of
which M was a member, it would be the linterniag maser
in whisk his past efforts had bola that evening imarded.
A gold wank and appudspu were Shea meson& to
Mr. John Chaner by- the &Musa in aa
speech, which drew bath on ehquent acknow
The Obaneeller of the Inshrquer, Mr. T.
11. P., to when a warn ealeghins was paid, the shairemen;
sad the elembeirman (kr. Ii
-ins) were afterwards
Ineseith owl the company separaWat a Lis boar.
TM alai arrangsaunts ware under the direction of
Mr. sad Mr. Harker acted u the tossemater.
The is the schedais of sharps la the new set,
the old system 0( day tickets being altogether abolished.
When the mom Midas out nab Home dull
at me sad the teas tins to let ter hire
thelsms IV 111111 marriage only £ 7 10 0
And winos ea* person shall keep as aforesaid
an peeler number of horses or carriages :
Not mending 3 hones or 2 earriages 12 10 0
Not enseeding 4 beeves or 3 carriages 2O 0 0
Not enovalsg II buses or 6 carriages 3O '0 0
Net esesolig 12 homes or 9 earriages
Not eneseding 16 boner or 12 carriages
Not 11111111111 ft IN knees or 16 carriages
Emoding Weardeges
Ilisoenthe Muth thou for every addi-
tional amber of 10 hones, sad for say
addlithel somber less than 10 ever sad
above 21, or any other multiple of 10
loath the baba additional duty of lO 0 0

TRE CITY STATUE or 811 ROBERT PEEL.—Yee-
terday Mr. Sebum, the sculptor, by who& the city statue
of Sir Robert Peel has been made, ankliir. Tits, the archi-
tect of the Royal Eschew, went to infpeet the situation on
which It has been decided to place the figure, in order to
be able tojudge of the height to which it might be proper to
raise the pedestal. A board cat out in the shape of *416
statue was placed upon a temporary pedestal of the height
of 12 feet, the statue itself being 11 feet high, in front of
the states of the Duke of Wellington by Chantrey, as a test
of the necessary elevation, and the effect was very grist if
we may judge from the observations of the numbers of per
eons gathersd together between fate and five o'clock to
witness the experiment. It is expected that the statue will
be plaited in a few days. It will be seen from Cheapside,
Denial, King William -street, Prince's-street, and Thread-
needleieltd