The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2.
17 we have not contributed towards delivering the
Protectionists of their great financial scheme, we may
at least claim the merit of having divined it. A new
manipulation of our local taxes, a committee, sad
some dealing with the malt tax--such were the
traits we hazarded on supposition l and true they tent
out to be.
Bat seriously, who could have imagined that •
numerous and weighty party could have come few
ward with a proposal so null, so hypocritical, se
merely wordy, so utterly devoid of bone and mom*
so completely miscalculated to afford to fanners one
grain of relief, being a mere mouthful of moonshine
to thrust down their throats, filling their imaginations
not their bellies ?
Here is the mighty scheme
TIM the whole of the local taxation of the country for
molioal puma ilk mainly, if not exelasively, ea real
laysad bens with undue severity ea the moupien of
a nonage injurious to the sarsealcaral Mumma of
tie may, end otherwise highly impolitic sad unjust.
Vat the leathip of this apportsonment is greatly er
tagengid by the hot, that nom thus ere-third et the whole
swam derived ken the Iseise is levied apes agricultural
by the recent changes ia law, to direct
mia the untaxed produce of gonna °pantries,
11.7=p_odusr being thus sahjected to • harness of
teasties. earn. by penny enhancing the price, the
Mead ter Baia produce; and to emu:same which Win-
sisedy imeises with the seaduct of his trade and industry.
That thk Imes will mire itself into a committee of
the whets been, to take late its wins consideration such
IMMIIIIINO es may MINNS OM grievances of which the owners
eel eserapkre of reel peeperty thus justly complain, end
whisk may establish s men equitable apportionment of the
make berthens.
The ilksedard claiming this • calm and dispassion-
ate eseeidsration.” The Dietwierd need not be
ahead. It will destroy no calm, save that of
the Aide muscles, and awake no puska, unless the
farmer's sense of being humbegged should produce
any thing worthy of the name. The hornet agricul-
turists went to Old Bond-street for egret in ob-
taining the repeal of the malt tax. They were
bidden to wait, and what have they waited
for P A motion of the protectionist leader, delicately
alluding to the malt tax, blushing even to name it,
and bringing. it forward as a mere secondary masker, a
trifle, not weighty in itself, but aggravating another
evil—viz., local taxation.l
One would think the farmers themselves knew
beat where the shoe pinched. It is not of poor's
rata they ask to be delivered. They took
their farms, well knowing what poor's rates were
and were likely to be. But the malt tax certainly
never entered into their eakuletious, nor could they
subtract it from rent. The malt tax weighs upon the
knees enterprise and the labourer's comfort, and
troubles not the landlord in the least. But the pw's
rate comes to him. And now the landlord itaaWor-
ward to preserve the malt tax, or to use it merely as
a standing and irremovable grievance, whilst be pro-
poses that the burden of local taxation should be re-
moved from off himself, as owner of the land. It is
difficult to conceive more unblushing selfishness, or
more transparent trickery.
The question of local taxation is one which we have
no objection to see reconsidered. We have no objec-
tion that each clam should bear ite proper burdens, and