The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

851.

IMO wut DOE.

An association baying this object in view WU
, established in birruingham some eighteen months ego by a
number of canp.iutora employed on the Leal newspapers.
Since that time a number of more itiluential pent ne hsve
become members of it, and the efforts of the association have
been abetted tc thrr dissemination of internist:on by means
of triers bluets afire of the injurious manner in which the
paper, st..mp, and advertisement duty operates. The annual
meeting was held on Monday evening, et the Public Office;
Mr. SCHOLePIELD, M P., in the chair.
A repart was read by the steretary, setting forth the
means which had been employed during the pas; year to
further the purpose,' the assecuvion have in view ; there-
' atter the Ch-3:anan add:erica the meeting at WIT.O kerb.
Granting (he sold) that taxes were necessary evil%
the next consideration was how they stiould b 3 im-
paled, so as t make them a burteen on the general
body n: the community. L. was not to be won-
dered at th it, in a time of war, tares should
have been loot on rather incongruously; but the
time had now arrived (in fact it had aerivid long duce) when
it was the duty of the government to see that the tax's were
laid on the right shoulders. It was not s , much the weght
of the tax-s tie complained of, as that the burthea Old nut tall
where it ought :u fall, now, ly, on toe pr,pt•rty instead of tas
indestry 01 Its country. Tits tax on property was souse:Nog
like $ per ant; whereas upon tea, sugar, a e.,,mr,
and other art.cles of large coneumption, it was as
high es 30, 50, and seen 200 per ocr.t. Take
the paper tax A:sett, which was found to be most injuriens
in its apersti3o, for whilst it scarcely coat+ be said to a: all
discourage tea riblieation of the mast expensiee cleat of
books, It pressed most injurieue!y and Is.r.vily on works
mimeo in a cheep toren, and WAS consequently slams! pro-
nibitory iiiia,u,t the issue of publications that would
by their general circulation gr atly tend to the
diffuhon of s mod and useful ihturreation amsnget
! the people. But it was not only here that the
grievous ettar,c.er of the payer duty sew most sensibly
telt ; he epe k. from experience when he said that the manu-
facturers telt it dstply. especially as regards I its drawback
on their power to export goods to Its United States—in fact,
(or teme desiniptions of Wolverhampton goods the cost of the
paper was such, becau:o of the high rate of the duty, that it
almost let d ininutactueers of the rower to send eat their
goods. Tee roveriisemt nt and iiewaaper ramp duties he
regarded as equally o4jectienalde, and the time had come
for their roped.

Kr. Aldermen BALDWIN also spoke strongly in favour
of • repeal of th, se duties; it they were rem.ved rte beleved
thatthey would have a goal daily paper for 2d., or at most
31. ; besides that, by the repeal of the paper may, emtloy-
meat would be Mend for thousands who could not at present
obtain it. Buse of the beet parernrikers bad emigeced to
America; era of his own men who had gone out
bad written vi say that he was able to take be tares
newspamrs daily,so cheap were they in cons. queues
of the absence en probils:'ory duties. lie did nest doubt
hut that 'ha gtvcrament would prefer taking off the win-
dow tax, because, u with all *spert.ive governments, they
dreaded the spread of political inlormatiou amongst the
mi lee. Us telt certain, Lowi err. that if the government
' was ufflcietvly premed on tLe euLj. c*. they would get some
of these taxes, which were only made to keep
'the people ignorant, repealed doting the next ses-
sion. the generality of people had no idea of the
amount of the paper duty, and with the view to make them
fully acqoain;eil wilts it, he . uggi erect that on the outside of
every ream of paper there should be pasted the amount of
the tax epOn it.

Mr. JO9BPIi BTUROB said that he was not only
opposed to these particular saes, but to every indirect tax.
It he could have Ilia way he would have a property tan to-
, morrow; at the some time he to ,kert upon the newspaper
' and paper duties aa the wont amongst all the texts, the re-
hire be was wait stroogly .opposed to them. Ile sour sted
that twenty inemliers of parliament should immediately
wait upon the Caanoellor of the Each. quer, and urge the
repeal of all the taxes upon knowledge.
Mr. Allem= BAWX.P.S, Mr. CutilleillOr ALLDAY, and
other gentlemen h.vina sp,keu warmly in favour of the
abolition of trete digits, the report was adopted; Mr.
&bonnet& M.P., was re-appointed president, end a com-
mittee elect. d to carry out the ohjecta of the auociation
during the meting year.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.-THE
Divitiattn.— It if the intention of the directors cf this com-
pany, at the gmeral meeting to be he:d on the 18th proximo,
to recommend a dividend f.r the half year ending 31,t of
December, 1850, at the rate of tour per cent. per annum on
the capital stack.

CONFLAGRATION AT TOE VILLAGE OF GOMA N-
CHISTRY., HUNTIKODOMISHIRS.—Tee train Uriving at
King's ero.s by the Great Northern Railway at 3 o'clock
this morning, brings iutelligence of a fire which broke out in
the village ot Godatanchester at 9 o'clock last night, and
which w.s still raging at a quarter to two o'clock this morn-
ing. No part:colors can at lomat be gleaned.

THE WRECK OF, THE FLAMER, it Monravia, on
the tweet of Africa, which we reported in yesterday'', impres-
sion OS this paper, rill, it is 'bid, require a somewhat more
starching inquiry than courts martial usually produce. it
L stated that the commander, no doubt more from st al than
any other feeling, thought proper to take the navigation, of
the vessel out of the bands of the master, and do tat duty
himself; having the immediate direction of her course in
his own hands at the moment the Flamer took the ground.
DEPORTATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN TO BERMUDA.
- • Yesterday, at the meeting of the St. Panora Board of
Guardians, a communication from the POW-1M Commis-
sioners was read, in which the guardians were requested
to state whether a statement roads by Corkin Bar-
rows at the Marylebone board wee correct or not.
The captain had informed the eubrilians of that union
that he had noticed 60 children from the St. Pancras
board to convey to &viands, and provide for them
there. The chairman now eaiu that the children had been
'liken out, and he had letters from Mr. Stewart, a relsCve of
the Judge Aiivocate of 11•701W111, stating that the viildren
were happy, and well provided In under kind employers.
The numbs,' sent out was forty one, and not sixty. Mr.
Gordon said he had examined the arrangements of the
verse), and found the ship such as he would be glad
to send his own children out in. The hips and
girls were 'spurted and mirky good superintendence.
Tile children had, each, six pairs of stockings, two pairs of
shoes, two suits of Food clo:Les, and while on board stood
food, bed and bedding. Messrs. D., B:ockton, Divan-
ham, Haley, Clerk., Billets, and other guardiabe, gave
similar testimony respecting the children sent to B.rnaude,
adding that they were not soot without their oonseiit and the
cosiest of their parents, and that KM' of the children cried
became their parents would not allow them to ge to Bet.
muds. The chairman said that he had instructed a surto,•
friend of his, who went to Bermuda, to itiquire int
condition tattle children, and to report it to him, and
to reward all those wLo were well conducted with 2a. ,
each, and that he (its chairman) would reimburse hie.
Mr. Churchwarten Fuser moved that the vestry cli-4 in,
atchoriscd to rtp4 to the Poor Low Board, represouti be
m real firma the case, and that he should forward to the apt
Law Board copies of the letters sent by the children lop&
Bermuda. Dr. Hickman seconded the motion, whion.onk
ended CON , aced Oda concluded the discusaion. •—•