The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

Vie Orprefio.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAR. 15,

"BROADBRIM" Sad "Bilitifie"MOSl be almost SS much
obliged to the Times for the emu tesy of its !linguae,
as for the hirness of its logic. Because we of tho
established church make no scruple of paying sums to
Maynooth college, to a Malta Bishop, or an Indian
temple, individuals are mocked because they call it a
grievance to have their industry mulcted to support a
creed which they do not believe, and a worship in
which they do not join. Because the land of
the squires has descended to them charged with
the repair of the oldest building on that land, the
parish church, " Broadbrim" and " Snuffle" ere likewise
told to pay rates to the same church for their houses.
Suppose they built them. Full half of the buildings
and property rated to local taxes have been erected
within half a century by the skill, industry, and eco-
nomy of the " Broadbrime" and the Snuffles"; and
the creation of this half of real property from the im-
mense mend floating and active wealth, has added
the greater part of its present value to land. The land
and its champions ought really to be more modest than

to brill; in the monied and trading industryie •
country as its debtor—to ordeon it to pay tribute eat
merely to the government of this landed interest' bet
to its church ; and surely if they did think it jut
and politic to enforce such orders, these ought at Islet
to be issued 'without unnecessary insolence.
The country and parliament, however, will be speed
the time and excitement likely to be spent in an inqurri
into the comparative liabilities of personal and real gm
party, and of tee chief divisions of real property, then
which no:t wo things mild be more unlike. For in !imam
it is proved that this mighty scheme foe swarapiec
the expenditure of the country with six or Neel
millions more, would in reality not bring the le*
alleviation of the harden to the class for whose benefit
the greet cloud of smoke has been rsierd.
HURE did this in part. But Sir CIIARLEd Won
has aocomplistel the task so completely that the
protte'iooista had really not a word to anew
We certainly did not give the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER credit for the power to conceive, erraew
concentrate, and fling upon the rabid country plarf,i;
complete and crushing a refutation. His speech em
the best spoken from the ministerial benches by lie
present occupants during their last hold of power,
and quite re-establishes a reputation for firemen'
ability, so far as it may have been shaken.
Nothing could be clearer t- an the proof that sela
stitut'ng an income tax for six millions of local nee;
would take cut of the pockets of the landlords them.
selves as much as it would put int) them. The dee'
upon the tenant farmer would bet add the burden ei
405,0001, to the 325,0001. already figuring in schedule
B. Some of the sma'l farmers might, indeed, env.;
which would add immensely to the injustice and the
burdens weighing en the large and respectable
farmers, until such time as they could readjust their
leases. But as to any real goof to accrue to the
farmer from Mr. DisnAm's mystic scheme, it sa.
niahel into thin air before the keen and conelnuivem
posurc of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.
Hid the hon. gentleman calculated the effect of bhp).
poeal, if carried, upon the various classes of income tax
payers ? He (the Chancel' :r of the Bachtquer) had does ea,
upon what he supposed to be the hon. gentleman's priceos,
The amount of tbo income tax, according to the lut :stun;
was 5,600 0001. Now, it the boo. member were to kW
Schedule A. pay its proportion of the additintal tax, nest
addition would amount to no lets a sum than 3,233,000L,be.
Toed the amount which Schedule A already contributed; or,
in other words, Schedule A would have to pay that tam
out of one pocket into the other, a process by which aml.
dule A would scarcely benefit to the erent thared bythe
hon. gentleman. Under Schedule B would time the taut.
farmers, that c'ala in whose welfare such intense intend
was manifested by the hon. gentleman a,,d his frisk.
What amount of income tax would Schedule B, wouldtls
tenant farmers, the occupying tenants, have to pay ? No
leas an amount than 405,000/. per annum, a sum which flit
class would hardly thick him a friend who should impose
upon them be way of relieving their distresses.

The CHANCELLOR OF TIIE Excitegtait did nOt p
into the question of the right of charg ng lied with
peculiar and local burdens. This was pat fonnid
previously and ably by Mr. HUME; but Sir Caaxiii
Wool) felt he t ceded not this argument; that
his awe against the agriculturists w s sufficing
strong without it. Tte Times in taking up this pus
of the questior, admits the liability of land, but aim
that there is a limit, this limit being the possibility ef
payment. It makes tho landlord plead in fond
povperis, as unabl,b to bear the burden of kcal taw
tion. Of pleis and excuses of this kind Sir ennui
WOOD also fully disposed. He showel the harden
of local taxation upon agricultural property is
have rather diminished than increased, wilt
the value of produce, except in reference is
epochs t f famine prices, hal not declined.
He enumerated the long series of burdens taken=
by one from lend, and made oat a case aphides
sturdy Saxon or Norman beggar, of which truly the
Celt might be ashamed.
The Times itself, with all its admiration for 31r.
DISRAELI, is not certain that the alrer..tion whidi he
proposes "would be justice," or whether the elaae
on whom the burden is to be Oxon
would "submit to the change," cr whether
" the remedy. might not be worse than the dime
All it hints 18, that it wi uld be imm•diate,
porary, relief to the labourer and farmer. Heat
could be either one or the other it dots not say. En
it must inevitably have a contrary effect Sir Caduis
WOOD has fully shown.

TnE Knights of the Garter enjoyed, a few dam
since, an unusual prominence. A coot, mporary called
them ove-, reviewed them on their muster-roll, ad
decided on their qualifications. They were nu that
they were a sirgularly strange mixture of heraldry
and honour, of upholstery and virtue, of thin sad
true li‘i.oism. The garter was said to be the shred
rank and wealth—the empty privilege of adding K.O.
t? a.title, of wearing a riband and a stir, and of me
richirg one's arms with a collar. It was said to bee
bit of empty honour which cast in fees a thinned
pounds, and which, consequently, few could Malts
pay for ; and we were told that the order mud le
opened out to a new race of knights, " suited to the
needs and distresses of the country."
Such is the popular idea of what the Order of the
Garter is. But is this what the Order of the
Garter was meant to be? In the days of chink
en order of Military Knights was founded, k
higher purposes than mere outward pomp and ism
Nor was an order of this sort established merely a s
means of extracting fees. No doubt it was well err
dowed with lands and heritages, all to be applied V
some right good purposes. What are its posee•sies?
What its sources of support? Who receive there
venues and pocket the benefits? There never wail
this gilding without a solid bit of gingerbread-0i
what has become of that ?
It will surprise none of the readers of the Daily
News, who know the history of St. Cross and other
kindred institutions, to hear that at the present time,
whilst the Knights of the Garter are muleed heady
on elevation to the honour, the officers cf their chapel
—their " Registrar and Minietere"— who are no
dean and canons of the Chapel of St. George it
Windsor—are sacking all the profits ! We own we
expected to find it so when we began to hen thi
subject over. It has often puzzled us idea*
the riches of that wealthy corporation. d 2
estate of 22,500/. a year, as the Ecelesie
tied Commissioners have testified, together with
patronage as valuable as that of almost nay car
deal establishment in the kingdom ! Only one cargo-
ration aggregate in the church exceeds that Of
Windsor in its wealth—the golden corporation of the
cathedral of Durham. And yet as a merely collegiate
church, it seemed curious how the wealth of Wiadad
could be derived. We now find, upon examiakkot
that the revenue of the chapter is nothing more no
lees than the residue of the vast estate which they
hold in trust for the charitable purposes of the Ordg
of which they arc the priests!
The statutes by which King EDWARD 111. et*
blished, under the immediate protection of Si.
George, an order of Military Knights, to comet
the Sovereign, the Prince of WALES, and 24 comb-
tuent companions, provided also that ace shoaldik
"so many Veteran Knights, reduced to poretYis
equalled the Companions of the order in number,
whose choice should be vested in the sovereign, and who
should be appointed to offer prayers, receiving there
wherewith to live because they had not sufficient
their own." Thue, each Knight Companion had Ilk
Veteran Knight, and each Veteran Knight had hisstsli
in the:chapel under that of his Companion Knight,md
wore the robe of the order, which differed little.frok
that of the companion knights, save in the insign.s
the one bearing upon it the cross of St. George walus
the garter. the other the scatchenn of St. Gegge
without the garter.
The chapel of St. George, which was Set SpAS!
the solemnities of the members of the order, was sok
ficiently endowed by the King, and in all the statute.
of the earlier period the Veteran Knights are referred
to as a part and parcel of the general thundstion, dal/
sharing the revenues with the clerical brethren of then
order. In fact, the institution was a combined dolesl
and military establishment, having a mutual.objks
and a mutual interest. In form it was eloOr
and martial, in object it was religious and seal:
But in progress of time, and under one pretest
or another, efforts were made by the claim+
branch to shake off their military brethrea-
From the time of HENRY IV. to that of HENRY'
.11
there were contests between the two conflicting bus'
in which the church, having possession of
I property, of course prevailed. It became necessary!
however, in the reign of the latter monarch, to set
the the dispute, and it was agreed between the sovere!ffil
and the chapter, upon the appointment by the lokf
of One PETER NARBONNE, that the dean and csn?o'
should give him his maintenance until the NOB
should make the requisite arrangements fur the am
vision of the knights.