The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

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N DON, s.l Tr-RU.lr, .41'111 L S.
Tft: Cusnettivaia of the EX. 11EQUER hat at least
simplified his budget, and although the million and
a quarter which he gives up will bring no very
sensible pecuniary relief in con- quarter, it will still
uili ti e: in 501111: measure the must ,lumoruus of com-
plainants. Whether the owners of old-fashioned
country houses, or of those large editi,es in towns'
whichhappen to contain shops. form that class of
the community which most required alleviation in
11w way of taxes, one inay be inclined to doubt; but
heir l'u.tiu is Wool, by his first budget had thing
the rountry, into such a slough of embarrassment and
despond, that any mode of extrication was likely to
be welcomed and accepted.
If the (liana:Eu.oas budget was somewhat better
digest"-il than his previous taw, 50 was his speech.
It had warmth in it ; and the man, !wing an amiable
person, appeared to advantage, making Obit to
vindicate lair plans, and repair his shattered reputa-
tion. lu this he partially succeeded with the house,
wheel' revived his appeal with indulgence and even
with favour. And yet that speech does wit impre,s
we with ems. higher idea of Sir CIIMME4 WOW'
Curality SA a financier. Ills theories were often
et minims, his eloquence, or what he intended to
be stub, with clap-trap, and his admissions highly
imprudent. And we strongly esiumiel the whips to
take udsiintage of Sir Cfiakeths Wow'', little gleam
11.1. 10511.11,0, to isinose him to mane iess responsilile
ofliee, and find. if they can, amongst them, or beyond
them, a latter Chuneellor if the Exchequer.
Sir Ilium:, prefaced the financial items of his
311'W budged by expatiating on the prosperity of
the country, and upon the greatly increased ability
al the tax-payers to answer his demands. Ile di:-
pieted the Mamie tax us a trifle; and, in the cha-
racter of a gentleman of ri,otsi/. a year. he declared
that POI. income tax was u smull contrihation. We
admit it. But the 30/. boo, tax of a
a:tooling man of busbies*, or earner of 70OL a
year, in addition to some tin/. or 7*n/. of other taxes,
trifle. We deny utterly that the country,taken
Dian by man, i better able to pay these taxes than
it with till years le 40. We deny that capital produces
the 51110 e n ilarn7«, that versional exert' command
the same inmate, that spcsulations in commence or
investments in manufactures produce the same or
anything like the same results. Sir Cievadxs Waal,
ways. if thin. be the C.l ye, then free• trade is a fail's:v.
A foolish admix m' this to make to a foe, Ile.
&honk! ',weeder. not whether free trade has so much
impuivel the position of capitalists and of the indus-
trious CLAW, but in what pusition these classes
would now be but for free trade.
Another of the CitsNeti,tou's theories was, that
am we Wen' quite rich enough to pay- a liras y atuuunt
of taxation, au we should maintain and keep a sur-
plus for plying off the debt. And he actually
twitted Lora Nitisill'ltNE's government with having
almilisheil the sinking land, and ullowea a deficit to
grow. hut why was the sinking fund abolished I'
Wu, it impatienee or unwillingness oa the part of the
legislat um to devote money to the poymet it of the debt
Isio hut lieciusae this surplus or the sinking fund,
voted fur the redemption of the debt, was always
swallowed up by the extravagance of the government
first, and then fresh money borrowed at high prices
to redeem the debt at a loss. Had we had truly
honest, careful, and really accountable glove •nts,
the sinking fund would neser hut,. Leese IdsdiAted.
M hat at Minister ought to do Ns 011 a surplus would
he to turn it to the most profitable account. And
the most pi tantalite is indulatably to apply it to such
reductions of dutiewus will make up by increased con-
uiption the at first dimi ii Wad amount. Five ur
six millions siwnt in bringing down the tea duties to,
a rent. per cent. tax, yet Bringing them to contribute,
tlw sante iiiiii of rerrmir ; then 110' 51101510Urept15.
fitubly spent than in any redemption of debt. And
the same may Be said of malt.
The greatest. however, of sir cimm.r...; wow,

impruicnces last night was his declaration. that
ulthongh the property tax WAS 11910Stit in ISI•2 fur a
special purpose, of purtly meeting a deficit and
pally relieving 11111•1/11WES, in ISIZ/ it was renewed
wt 111tOgliber u ditliTtili basis. In other words. it
was to be immanent. Of all the political capital
that has liven of late thing to the pro-
bet ionists thi.. is the must preeioltw and that of which
the) will make mitt us.'. Has Sir titian., WOOD
yet to leant that much that is good to I.e done is by
mi name. good to he said? PEEL %WOW have burnt

hi tougu,•, cn• 1w allowed it to utter sueli a truth.
And would in hinc eummittill the
egregious blunder of gic log up the %%Milow tax in
the Mi SiN • 41 which he was to usk the
renewal of the income tax. The window tax
be would hare no doubt alrolishill, but
he would hare done SO laflrt•. .tt all
remits, fur the stooitm iu whLh the rk newal of
the inionw tax was to Ile• roted. he would lwwe
taken rare to rollh' NrWaell with what he called all
equisalent souwthing to compensate, and stir up
the people not only to tolerate. but applaud it. Ile
would hive appealed to the• homrwifes teapot, and
cheapened it* emitents, as a rider to the bill that was
to renew the income tux. Instead of this, Sir (*.Wimp
comes llonranl with a remission of direct taxation on

the one band. and the re-impsition of direct taxation ;
on she other. And he experts to hate the country
*nth's,. this *about any inquiry into the merits. ad-
jostment, or tspi-distribution of dirtvt taxation in
g, nerd. We an only my that if parliament and
the public do stittiT this. it can only be in pity fur
Sa l'imiscx. Witt 'lt's helplessness, and in despair of
his 'Amity. nut from uny upproltation of his plans
UV want of consciousness of their faults and utter
incoherent e.
Shariug these sentiments otaselves, we shall not
es-ititise Sir ellAkt.E.4 Woolis house tax. We retain!
ollections we long 'intl. 'stated. and think that all!
parts of dirret taxation should be vomsidered together.
lint it is undeniably an improvement. What '
we rt ;yet that it was not graduated in a slight de-
gree, and that instead o[e:enlisting all houses under
*II.. a small per tentage was nut put upon all houses.'
In the ease of the tenements antler 201. it *ould always
be paid Isy the owners, and we do not sec nhe eapi-
" "14,41 in one species of houses should not I
pay as well as capital tested in another. The
rent plid by the poor for their habitations I
is munition, not because of the high price of mate-
ii
tido. or of building: or the amount of capital invested,'
lout because of the insceurit of such tenants paying,'
and ode tlw kind of capitalists vaut generally supply
Ilia how**. They are generally buil& rs of small
means. who seek a large return for their out-1
:red who can give that personal vigilance!
required for the collection of the rents.:
Thrwpenee in the pound on such houses, 1
say five shillings for a twenty pound house. would'
in no wise raise the rent for the poor occupant. and
would make a large return to the revenue. There'
KW I,iAIN/410 houses in England, and any one eau
calculate. The advantages of indirect taxation are ;
universality. and consequently the greatness of its
result. If the same advantage be not allowed to be
ransomed by direct taxation. the latter will not hate
that sway and use it should hate. And the fairest
and least Isardensane system of taxation will be ren-
dered the mutt burdensome and the most unpopular.

Tur vote for the committee t,i can.itkr the gm%)
Con of admitting Jews to parliament shows the I louse
of Commons tube as decided in its views of toleration as
ii, its rosolee not to allow toleration to be abused. And
this we believe to be wile; for there is no principle.
on sacred, be it toleration, be it free trade, or be it po-
pular liberty itself, that mast nut show itself tobe work-
ablcs, feasible, sat isfiwtory, and su..eawful, in order to its
asaintenanee. 'flioury alumc will tcver do. though tLe

arguments for it be irrefragable, unless it is found to
be practically as well as philosophically just. And •
it is therefore for the sake of strengthening the
great principle of toleration itself that it is so desir-
able that taligions which spread their roots into the
social system, and their brunches into political
influence and life, should tither give those guarantees
or undergo thaw restrictions, requisite for social
steuritv and political freedom.
Of all religious that of the Jew is politically the
least dangerous. None can be more ready to give
unto C.E.5.01 that which is Cs-aatt's. It Is not a
propagandiat sect, its followers being in their own
wishes and opinions monopolists of all the good
things to come in this world and in the next. Neither
is it of that class of society, such as catholicism in
Inland, which has hold upon the soil, and which
multiplies by its very poverty and aptitude to
all mean and laborious work. There is only
one social condition in which the Jew tends to mul-
tiply to any great extent. This is in countries feudally
and tyrannically governed, which allowof no middle
class. nothing between the serf and the lord, and from
which a Christian citizen with any capital and pos-
' sessed of freedom without nobility, would inevitably
fly. Here the enduring sons of ISRAEL have the
field to themselves. Ilene they amass and conceal,
drive the trade of usury with the classes above and
below them, to he squeezed dry of their pelf like
leeches in time of violence. But in our day, when
equity and humanity have penetrated and do influence
even the habits of tyrants, they enjoy a tolerable
immunity. However llaYNar may have fleeced the
Jews of Pesti', be did not play towards them exactly
the part of FRONT DE NEUF.
But in a country whose freedom and development
favours the middle cluss, there the Jew has little
better chance than his neighbour; and what is more,
he infallibly un-Jews himself in the midst of a great
commercial. and civilised community. Pride may
bind him to the creed of his forefathers; but a great
and wealthy development, like that of our great cities,
must un-liidaise the Jews, as well us uu-humanise
the catholic. Tu keep the Jews out of parliament
or out of society, is thus the best and almost the only
• way to strengthen Judaism. It gives the Jews one
more bond than they otherwise would have, and
that bond a strong and imporfant one. To attain
the end,which Sir ROBERT 1N61.15 and Mr. Bum trozE
most desire, being the virtual conversion and secta-
rian insignificance of the Jews, they ought to be
voted free into every political and every social privi-
lege. It is Judaism, one may depend upon it, and
not Christianity, that will lose by the contact.
Waiving. however, such arguments as these, and
admitting that political intolerance is conservative,
it would nut be difficult to prove the vanity of ex-
cluding Jews from Parliament. Sir Romer INGLIS
IMAMS out the recent example of what great power
is wielded in the legislature by a small knot of men
animated by respect uud adherence to a certain re-
ligion. But, after all, on the late comparison of ad-
verse votes, it was far inure those of the pro-
testant amateurs of catholicism than of the catholics
themselves that displayed the power and did the
misehief.

If the political influence of Judaism is to be extin-
guished, exclude it from the hustings and the polling
booth ; fur if allowed to vote for members of parlia-
ment. we mny depend upon it, members they will
have in their interest, and perhaps more zealous than
Jews themselves. The body of Jew voters in the
City of London is important and formidable. Will
this importance be the least augmented by its taking
effect in returning a Jew rather than in returning a
friend of the 'MS? We doubt it. All that it does, is to
throw the Jew influence now into the liberal side
of the great Nattier. Whilst we are much mistaken
if, atter emancipation, the Jew, like the Roman
catholic, will not be often found as the conservative.
(In political and religions grounds, therefore, the
tories ought to join Lout, Jot I v in admitting the
Jews to parliament. We. as liberals, have little to
gain therein, nothing probably, but principles. To
that, however, liberals are always ready to sacrifice
party interests, everything indeed, except the aban-
donment of a greater principle, such us that of
popular freedom, 14 u lesser one, such as that of 1
toleration.

The revenue accounts to be made up this even-
ing—the last of the financial year--will, as might •
have been expected, bear a fitvoumble comparison with
this*• of the pre% ions year. In the quarterly ac-
counts, as compared with those of the curreqmotding
quarter of lust year. there will lie found u conside-
rable increase ni the department of excise.
The income tax, also, will be hound to have
yielded a larger return, but nut to so high an
amount as the excise. In the item of stumps
theta will probably be a slight falling off. The
returns for the year, though, to has been said, show-
ing an increase on the last year's revenue, are not of
so favourable a character us those fur the quarter
now ending.

FRANCE.

PAICIS, FRIDAY EVENINII.

M. Pascal Duprut has brought in a motion making
it a penal offence to support any e:mditaturc for the
pre:ado:cc of the republic 'outran- to the constitu-
tion, and *proposing that all elmtorai tickets inscribed
with the name of such a candidate should be torn up.
The terms of the motion are us follows:

Art. I. Every individual who by his speeches, writings,
OT any act what. ter shall have instigated or supported for
the presidential t lection ./11C of th.• candidatures forbidden
by article 45 attic constitution. shall he punished with a tine
varying from Walt to 5,0001, and imprisonment from one
to die year., with deprivation of civil rights for ten years.
The penalty shall be doubled in the case of a common
fun stionary. On the part of superior functionaries, of the
at' • ten. anal the President of the It. public, the act shall
be considered as a crime ef high tr. anon.
Art S. No ins ount shall hi ha 1.1, after the Tote of
tickets which violist. the :dant -mentioncd provision of the
euuditution. These ticket: shall he torn; nu mention
shall be matdo of such in the 'stunts. and so many units
shall he deducted from the number ..f Totes.

Art. 3. In CAM' or Oar:allot', the membersof the electornl
bureaus shill to punished with a fine, varying from r/iX) to
3,010 francs, and with imprisonment from six months to
three years. They may be &prised of their civil rights '
during tire years.
Art. 4. Toe pre.wnt law. followed by Art. 4.1 of the con-
stitution, shall posted up in all the communes of the
ltirdilie until the nest prvkidential election.
This motion bears that stamp of impotent violence
which eharachrizsv many of the measures of the
Mountain. Multiplying mats rial obstructions in the
way of the stream of public opinion. is nut the way
to got rid of the stream, but to reader it more vehe-
ment and impetuous. An unreasonable article has
been fixed in the constitution ; and M. Pascal Ituprat
'prposes to fence it with a rhentax-th frize of
pemal-
tu•s, am if it was the duty of a legislator to make laws
I stringent in proportion to their absurdity. Such an
attempt is conceived in the veriest spirit of persecu-
tion, and is cow-in-german to the policy of the impel-
' sition, which condemned people to prison and the
stake fur questioning papal astronomy. If a law
cannot stand by its common sense and justice, all
the combination and persecution in the world
will clearly never save it. Still, so hostile
to the President is the Assemble, and so bent ou
spiting him, teat no one can predict that M. Duprey
motion will meet with so derided a Nudge as n de-
nerves. although it is pretty certain of bemFthrown out.
The fear which the press inspires in trance is well
expressed in the tom and result of the debate yes-
terday for libetating printers and booksellers from
their present subjection to the authorities. The go-
vernment can at any moment withdraw a printer's
license. The motion of M. Thin aimed at doing
away with this arbitrary power. The opposers of
the motion rested their &fence of the power lodged
with the govern:mut on the rarity with which it I
was exercised. The government of July withdrew
during its whole career only one printer's licence ;
nine were withdrawn by the republican government,
and thirteen altogether in the course of thirty-six
year.. This argument, however. tells quite as well
for the opposition, for there can be no better reason
kr patting away a dangerous weapon than that
there is hardly ever °erasion to use it.
The Assembly's sitting today began with the
fresh ballot for the appointment of a secretary to re-
place M. Arnaud (de 1 Ariege). Out of 4sst votes M.
Yvan obtained 242 Chamiot, 177; M. Monet,
C 4. None of the candidates having obtained the ab-
solute majority, the house proceeded to a fresh bal-
lot ; and M. ( hamiot having declined to cuter the
lists, the contest lay between M. Yvan, a member of
the Mountain, and M. Monet, a member of the mo-
derate Left. On the next ballot, out of 444 votes,