The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-06 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

THIS DAT, QUARTER-PAST ONE.—On account of
the unexampled number of persona entering the Exhibition
today, the doors were closed, above 60,000 persons having
entered. The throng of carriages and visitors continues
unahabsl, but the police in the neighbourhood, in pursuance
of their instructions, inform those who approach that the
building is closed.

TAXF.S ON NEWsPAPERS.—Whatever other altcra-
tions are made in the course of next session, we trust that
the duty on advertisements, if not all the taxes on news-
payers, will be repealed. The advertisement duty is a tax
on publicity the soul of business. Amongst the many ad-
vantages which the merchants, shipowners, landowners, and
tradesmen of the United States enjoy, in comparison with
those of England, one of the greatest is, that they eau
make all their business wants and arrangements known,
from one end of the union to the other fur a mere trifle.
With them the paper on which their newspapers are printed
is free, the papers are free from stamp duty, and the ad-
vertisements are also free. The result is, that they can ad-
vertise cheaply ; and, instead of wasting time and money
on inferior means of communicating their business wants,
they find customers fur all that they want to sell, and
parties to supply them with all that they require to buy,
through the newspapers. In this country the means of
communicating between the seller and the buyer, the
owner and the tenant, the shipowner and the freighter, aro
oppressed with the load of a triple set of taxes. There is,
first, a heavy tax on paper, which compels the manufac-
turers of paper to conduct their business in a costly and
troublesome manner ; then there is the Cost of the stamp
heaped on the back of the paper ; and, to complete the lead,
a heavy advertisement duty is piled on the newspaper
stamp. The result of this triple load is, that London only
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LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. supports one daily paper handsomely, and three or four in-
differently ; and that the advertising interest of Liverpool,
LtvenPoot., OCT. 4.—The share market is much firmer which ought to be equal to that of New York, is not one-
to-day, and prices of stocks higher. There is also a better twentieth part as great. There everybody advertises eve ry-
feeliug. —Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late thing, here thousands of persons, whose businesses would be
Cheshire and Birkenhead), 15—Ditto (221. shares), 3 1 greatly improved by publicity, do not ads crtise atoll;
East Lancashire, 141—Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, whilst those who do so, do it as if they feared to incur the
133—Lancashi,e and Yorkshire, 551 } 16— Ditto (fifth reproach of extravagance, for adopting such a mode of an-
sharee), 8 5-16 5-1 G c. d.—Ditto kG per cent. preference flouncing their wants. With regard to the political argil-
shares), I3—London and North Western, 1161 17— ments which we sec adduced for inflicting heavy burdens on
Ditto (new 3-shares), 21 3 p.—Ditto (fifth shares), 21 p.— the press, in the hope of improving its quality, they aro
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 27I—Ditto (6!. new reallyarguments in favour of a censorship of the press. To
preference), 7-16 p.—Midland, 47 eke; 3—South Eastern impose taxes on newspapers, for the purpose of raising
and Dover, 191 I 1 ll 1 3—York, Newcastle, and Ber- their price, is to extinguish all cheap papers, indiscrimi-
wick, 131—Ditto (extension, unpaid up), 3j I—York and nately, by act of parliament, for the purpose of improving
North Midland, 191 f. the quality of the dear ones, instead of merely separating,
MaNettesven, cr. 4.—There was a firmer market, or attempting to separate, the chaff from the wheat by Is
and the sales included London and North Western, at 117 ; censorship. It is now more than two hundred years since
West Ridims, 6) n. d. ; Dover, 19 9-16 ; Eastern Counties, the most illustrious of Englishmen, Jolts Milton, placed
the question of unlicensed and unrestricted printing on
6 3-IG. There was but a small business.
Butmixonam, Ocr. 4.—The share market generally was a foundation which no sophistry has be.n able to slake ;
firmer Iceday, and prices in advance• and yet how many people du we still find who think it a
LEEDS, OCT. 4.—We have again had a very languid smaller evil to extinguish cheap reading than to incur the
market to-day. The Exhibition traffic having now nearly risk of allowing a portion of bad reading to mix with the
concluded, parties seem anxious to sce a comparison of the good. So long as the periodical press does not supply a
ordinary revenue of the different lines before further ope- cheap literature suitable for the labourieg classes so long
rating. Speculation is therefore almost at a stand. Ihe will much of the money and time expended in teaching them
following are the closing sales . East Lancashire, 141 ; to read be thrown away. The want of a literature suitable
Midland, 471 ; Northern Counties Union, 2/. 18s. dig. ; for people who have little time, little money, and no taste
South Eastern and Dover, 193. for abstruse subjects is the chief Cathie of the enormous masa
DISISTOL, Oev. 4.—The market was not animated. The of ignorance which still exists, after the great efforts which
Great have been made and arc still making to educate the people.
4E7xle;teSno%th79Easie;rns and Even with regard to the middle classes, where you find one
closing prices
831; Midland,
4a6nil,
Dover, 191. 191. man who reads hooks, you find ten who read newspapers
PAWS, Ocr. 4.—Versailles (right bank), 272 30 ; do. (left and if persons of this class, who have ten times as touch
',irk , en as; 1'4,0. ,Ild Oskar, tti ; Pasts sad Rouen. --- —; time and money at their disposal as the labouring classier--
Rouen and Slier.. .12 30; snares ties and Aslgron. 212 :e; Strum- •
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t. 'rug and Rork. 515 73 Centre, 470 25 ; Boulogne and dmirn• :du;
Orleans and Bordeaux. 303 73; Northern 137 50; Tours and Nantes, ...
tre,_.l:.i.r periodical
.nterature to books, who can _vi N....:Z.
e the Mowing classes for doing the same ?17 i 5,..1;, Ila
SA 00; Dieppe sad Feeasp, —; DordeaL sod Tyne, —. Times. - ~A".,,
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