The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

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482.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 15, 1848. [THREEPENCE.

CARLISLE ELECTION.

CARLISLE, ii;;;ITI1711ile7i;;;;;;;eiTed the fol-
lowing by the Electric Telegraph Company', °wow :
Clops of the poll at 4 o'clock
Hodgson
Howard 414
Dizon 3lB

ARRIVAL OV LORD HA RDINGE.—Lieut.-GeneVAl
Visc•iuut Hordinge, the late Governorg lof India.
arrived at Blackwall•pier this day, at noon, by the 0-nersl
Steam Navigation Company's steamship Sir Edward Bank',
from Ostend.

CREESEMONOERS' BENETOLENT INSTITUTION.—
Last evening the animal meeting of the supporters of the
above institution, established for giving pensions to necessi-
tous numbers of the trade, was held ►t the London Tavern,
llishopsgate-street ; Mr. E. Cordenay in the chair. The re-
port
re►d by Mr. Simpson, the secretary, expressed the re.
Fret of the c ammittee that the affairs of the society were not
in a satisfactory state, the subscriptions of the past year being
leas than those of the previous year by 701. Since the forma-
tion of the society in 183.5 the number of pensioners had
been 67, of whom 30 were now depere'ent on the funds.
Within that period the sum expended in pensions had been
5,1461. The receipts of the past year amounted to 7051., and
the expenditure left a balance of enly 21. 3a. Bd. On the
motion of Mr. Craft, seconded by Mr. James, the report was
received, after which the committee and other officers were
elected, and the meeting separated.
RUGBY SCHOOL.—We are happy to learn that Dr.
Tait, head-master of Rugby School, is much better, and that
he is now in a fair way of recovery.
THE DEATHS REGISTERED IN LONDON during the
week ending March 11 were only 1,070. that number -being
37 below the average. A still better return must have been
made but for the continued prevalence of typhus, smallpox,
and scarlatina, each of which destroyed during the seven
days about twice the ordinary number of persons.
BENEFIT FOR DISTRESSED OPERATIVES..—Under
the satetion of her Majesty a night will be immediately
given at her Majesty's Theatre, for the benefit of the dis-
tressed artisans of the metropolis. The thought of giving
relief to the real sufferers, whilst the refractory are repressed
by the hand of the law, has met with general concurrence in
addition to that of royalty.
A MEETING TO CONGRATULATE THE FRENCH
Femme was held on Monday evening, at Bath. Some ex-
citement was created in the city, by the announcement of
the gathering, and a considerable number of special consta-
bles were sworn in on Monday morning, but the precate ions
taken by the magistracy turned out to be quite unnecessary,
the meeting bring, considering its extent, one of the moat
orderly ever held in the city. The speakers enforced the
necessity of peace and order, and declared their motto to be
" Republic for France ; the Constitution for England."
The address to the French people and a petition to parlia-
ment in favour of the people's charter wore carried unani-
mously.
HAPPY LAND.—There is not a single pauper in or
belonging to the parishes of Trem ace and Tresmer, which
parishes belong to the Launceston Union. The population of
the former is about 120, and the latter about 173. Western
Timer.

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MR. MILNER GIBSON'S ItEPLT TO THE REQUISI-
now calling upon Dim to resign lie seat for Manchester has
been received. The hon. member says :
iri. Firet, I mum capers* my venue of the t and consideration
which omen to be attached by a member ef et to a requisition
signed by a large arsofintleential portimejsf sewstituency, and in the
came of the memorial which has been meshed by Mr. Bright and my-
self, I consider it has talsEtional importance, as coming from
• community which must represent, to a great extent,
the manufacturing and commercial interests of the United
Kingdom. Considering the pressure which has foe eerie erne past
borne upon trade, and the difficulties with which the mercantile world
are still struggling, I cannot wonder that electors should be disposed
to watch reth mare than usual viten.« the PrdcYedimell of the
legislature in reference to the expenditure and taxation of the country.
I em nut, therefore, surprised that at this time I should have received
from Manchester an ileireation of the financial policy which emelt! be
acceptable to my constftuents. The general penciples of legislation
indicated by the memorial have my full concurrence. eildthing can be
more important than to scrutinne narrowly the expenditure
of the country ; nod public attention, when awakened to our
gradually augmented outgoings cannot be directed to a more use-
ful end than to the means or effecting retrenchment. and economy.
The government has proposed the appointment of committees
to inquire into the tnimellaneoue estimates, and also into the army,
navy, and ordnance estimates. I hope benefit may result fi om the.
investigations. *peaking for myself, there Is nothing which I should
hail with greater matisfaction than to find we are erabled so hr tesitice
our expenditure us to obviate the necessity for increasing( the amount
of Megaton. In the prevent state of the finances of the country I
think it is inipructirahie to abanden thi• income tax; and I :MI not
prepared to pay that, if we were in a monism to shmortee with the
amount of revenue which it yields, that there are not other taxes
more prejudicial to the trade and manufactures of the
country which it might bc. tenable to repeal. if I have
eighth) understood the feeling. of the manufacturing dietricui,
I think I may emelt that the euhstitution of the present
income tax for 8,000,000 f. of indirect taxes which have been
repealed since 1812. has been • policy which hos met their
approbation. The question, however, now is, whether the income
tan shall be renewed in Me present shape. There appears to be
an imatinetive feeling that the name rate of duty ehould not
be levied upon il)C0131(41 desire! from trade and profeesioted
°ninon as upon tit se derived from realised property.
The appeale in purport of that view are urged with much
hate. At present I have area no plan for meeting the difficulty which
does Sot create as motel injustice as it professes to remedy. I wall
sincerely that men could agree ou mime scheme which would at least
give the gemend impression thst the harden of the tax
was eqitally distributed. Vile undoubtedly would render, if
not acceptable, at least mote tolerable. an impost which must,
under any eircume.mices, be fresseently oppressive and vest-
times. With recant to the extension of the 'femme tax to
Debind, I cannot bat recognise the justice of the mews
expressed in the immune'. L fi.vl that this impost must ultimately
be made to reach the property of Ireland. Those who support the
present exemption merely contend that the peculiar pressure to
which the income of Insisted Imo lately been subject from the unfor-
tunate circumstances of that country give a claim to some indulgence.
Thar, alas the exemption of Jewell's under 1301. Is derendost ws •
matter of grace mid factor rat:ier than one of justice. The next
point to which cry attention is called to the exemption
which landed property enjoys from the payment of probate
and legacy duties. No doubt the limited application of
these duties to personal property has born considerol by
high authorities as an unequal arrangement. I do not heel..
tote to arose my opii ion, that should the continency to .
which you have air erred arise, any tea on pmetxsion to personal pro-
perty should be made to apply also to the succession to reel state.
The proposal to embody the militia is not now before par:iamene
The objections to thin desieription of military force, and the mode of
its enrolment have great weight. As we are not called on to decide
upon this question, I will not say more than that should such a pro-
, pool be submitted, the strong °lenient to trio 'object emertamed
by the elector. who have signed the memorial, shall receive from
me the meet anxious consisleration. The last resolution of the me-
morial conveys the opinion that "aggressive war is contrary alike to
true policy and the shrine law." Can I scruple for • moment to deebire
my entire agreement with that opinion! lam requested to guard
' against any OICANUIv9 which may involve this country in hostilities
with foreign nations ; to that request I give my hearty consent, and
can with u clear conscience uudernike to strenuously oppose any line
of policy which in my belief Is calculatol to bring the country into the
horrors of war. I have thus touched briefly upon the different topics
i contained in the requisition, and claiming at the hand, of m cen-
t stitnency that fide ullowarste which slay with justice be mole foy r the
parliamentary course of a member hunting entre in any government,
I will conclude by assuring them that It shall be my constant aim to
: carry out honestly into practical legislation thoseprineiplto on
which I have been returned to purlionent.—(Signed) Trios. A Ittnee
' Grissom.
Tile I'RESS AND THE BOARD OF STAMPS AND
TAXES.—The lorkshireman aye:—We beg to direct the
attention of our contemporaries throughout the kingdom to
the following extraordinary, and, in our opinion, unwar-
rantable and illegal resolution touching newspapers, arrived
at by the Board of Stamps and Taxes, Somerset House.
We may as well explain at once that we were some-
what surprised at the character of the account for ad-
vertisement they presented last month by the Stamp-
office against the proprietors of the Yorkshireman news-
paper. In that account we found an overcharge of
no less than eighteen advertisements in the then cur-
rent month. Of course we requested an explanation from
the officials connected with the Stamp-office in this city,
when, to our surprise, we received information that orders
had been given from head-quarters to charge with advertise-
went duty a great portion of our customary !sporting intelli-
gence : that is to Kay, all " entries of horses " for the vari-
ous stakes throughout the country. Perfectly persuaded of
the illegality of this new imposition. we immediately placed
ourselves in communication with Somerset House, repre-
senting the unwarrantable character of the surcharge, and
claiming a remittance of the duties upon the eighteen slyer-
tisements alluded to. The following was the reply we re.
mined,
To .1. Duncan. Esq.—Sir,—The board having had before them your
letter of the 20th ult., in regard to notices relating to' entries of horses
for certain stakes' which appeared in the lorkshirmon haying been
charged with advertisement duty for the month of January lien, lam
directed to state, that the aseenunent to the advertisement duty has
been made on all similar notices relerring to nom to come whenever
observed during the past year ; but in soesideration of the charge
having been made in your eve without previous none—, it will be
remitted on this oceurien' but for the future it will I, insistent on.—
' I sun THOMAS Benno,, ~...t. Seca—Stamps and Taxes, London,
March B, lege.
Now we should like very much to know what clause in the
Stamp Act authorises this new charge. The " entries " in
question are clearly mere matters of ordinary intelligence.
They are not prospective announcements—and such alone
are liable to the advertisement duty—but simply announce-
ments of events or " entries " which are concluded and filled
up before they are published. We contend, therefore, that
this new impost is altogether illegal, and should be re-
sisted by the press generally throughout the country.
This is not the first time we have had to remonstrate
against the new edicts and regulations of Somerset House.
Some few months ago we received a circular intimating
that hereafter ill " reviews of books " were to be charged
with the advertisement duty; and it was only after the
strongest prat. see from ourselves and others that the board
relinquished their illegal intentions. It is singular, too,
that since the year 1832 (when the new Newspaper Stamp
Act was passed ) all such sporting information as we have
alluded to has been passed by the Stamp-office as nut liable
toadvertisement duty. It is now, therefore, very difficult
to discover what has come "over the spirit " of Somerset
House. We request the notice, however, of our contempo-
raries to this m itter; and should the etamp-office persist in
their resolution it would be w.ll to consider the propriety
of appealing to a higher department of the executive.
A LARGE OPEN-AIR MEETING OF CHARTISTS took I
place on Monday evening, behind the Salford Town-
hall, the numbers congregated on the occasion being at least
4,000 or 5,000. The main object of the meeting was to con-
gratulate the people of France " on the grand and victorious
achievement in the cause of democratic principles." There
had been a fear of this meeting leading to a renewal of the
late disturbances, and the authorities had prepared a grand
muster of the civil forces to keep them in cheek, but the re.
cult, as was anticipated in a paragraph of yescei day's E.rpress,
showed that this preparaimi was unnecessary. Mr.
James Hoyle was elected to the chairs and on the motion of
Mr. Flinn and Mr. Rea, an address to the people of France
was unanimously agreed to. A res thition, pledging the
chartists to Jeep a watchful eye on the bearing of our own
government towards the new republic, and further pledging
them to renew and continue the r incitation for the people's
charter, was moved by Mr. Pickering. and seconded by Mr.
Anderson.—Mr. Leach, the principal speaker on the occasion
supported the motion. He referred to the distress which
has existed in Manchester for the last eighteen months,
stating that the weekly average of paupers r,ceiving out-
door relief was something like 17,000, whilst the workhouses
and hospitals were full ; and he told shopkeepers that it
they did not see to the amendment of the present state of
things, the reduction of working men's wages would reduce •
their business and profits, and bring them to bankruptcy.—
The speaker congratulated the meeting on its peaceable de-
meanour, and exhorted every one to depart in order and
peace. lie then again proceeded to talk of despotism, and
the final triumph of the world over it; and, adverting to the
heroes who had died in the late revolution in France, called
n,, every man present to show his reverence for the departed
dead by taking off his hat. The wish was complied with.
The whole meeting uncovered, and gave three cheers for the
I departed heroes—The following is a copy of the address to
the French republic :
Address tithe inhabitants of the townrhip of Salford, a township
of the parish of Manchester, containing nearly 100,000 human beings,
who foe the greater pars are hard worked and ill, and who are come-
quently ill f and chad, nr.d also bully boimed.—To the brave, the
virtuous, the magnanimous people of France. We, the people of Sal-
ford, In public meeting assembled, in the open square belonging tothe
hall of the people of Salton', in the presence of the Great DitTOSer of
Eventa, mat heartily tender you our sincere coegratulatione upon the
event which you have so admirably achieved, and which we doubt
not will be a, admirably worked out in its various details, giving to
the world a model republic, in which the interests of the operative
workmen will occupy, as they ought, the most prominent Neition.
We beg also to thank yOu most fervently for the :eirable
manner in which you have effected this desirable revolution, re-
epecting property, preserving the public peace, maintaining order
where all your enemies predicted nothing but anarchy and the
wildest orohtsion. Above all, we thank you because you have
virtue *and the nobleness of soul which dares to do right to all
causes ;in de you teeth all our clergy, whom especial duty it is
to protect the pcor, who have eo long •abandoned the poor to the op.
prelusion of the neh, that they are ueeless—they do not attend to the
neceisities of the poor. Sour embracing, as the basis of year great
and admirable republic, the whole of those principles which the
chartists of England have long nought to eetablish, is Indeed an art of
such great promise, that we may fairly. hail it as the first realisation In
practice of any nation of the true principles of Christianity, which
affirm that "We should do unto others as we would have them do
unto us." Believing your deeds will be es mach for our good as for
your own, we do most sincerely wish you may be able to maintain
pewee with all the world, thus affording an opportunity of consoli-
dating a sound, wise, :did "sly noel: cosernment, forming a polar
star to the guidance.of eurnalding cations We are yours, bmthms
Of
In the great atm& of right spinet miglat,—THa YEOPLA
SALrOMIa.