The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-08 00:00:00

THE MALT TAX DIVISION.

(Freon the Horsing Peg.)
Unfortunately, however, for those who ors inter-
ested is the repeal al the emit tax, the gaieties mat be
eseeidered from the Witlessly Unshed past of view from
which they would have us regard It. Porter lad beer are
set the only liquors whirls are made from malt, sad the
rollsf demseded by the conearaers of beer could sot with
*the be withheld how the drinkers of whisky. If themah
tax is to be repealed is Engles& it should equally be swept
away hem the list of imposia is 800tland ad Ireland. But
the meet swims °blades to the resolution of Sir Fit-
roy Kelly was. se poised out by Mr. Miner Gibson,
the impolicy of the government Oakum itself to afford
so relief whatever to say ohms of the community ustil the
malt to bad bees repaid. To give seek a *dee weal&
be, is fact, to admit that those who bare, op to the per
seat, paid that tax had been 'alai:ly dealt with is sot
hay* bad a portion of their burden remitted before now.
Whatever may be the cashes of the agriculturists, it is
apparent that they hen not bees of that modes 'attire
which would have justified their friends in asking for
their recognition in pretense, to those of the
corinmere of tea, or any of those other commodi-
ties the Wailes of which ha Imes remitted dudes
the poet few years. The debate vas throughout ows-oldid,
sod, with the empties of Mr. Gibson, no ems ea the
Tressury besets thought it nessmery to reply to the man.
meets edvseced as the opposite side of the boom. Mr.
Gledslisee, with peat diereetica, mhos& to be &wiped
late the debate, mid thus &waisted say who may lave
expected that he would mike a premature assoneeemest
of his Amadei clewlges. The begs majority by whisk Sir
Mercy Kelly% modem was rejected will, at all snots, we
hone, hove the effect of putting as end is the welt tax
repeal &ghettos for this year M last, if sot for a Ismer
perk&

(From the Alarmism Herald.)
We do not insist so mac► en the toiled°, dome to the
•(ricaltanl hawed, • oleos whisk, tired' to modern
effort" at so-called reform, is so ln•dequetely repremeted
is the legislature in properdon to its ambers and just n-
eutron la the comatry that wbeeevar a goodies came for
weed in which its well-being in involved. It is outvoted and
cried down by the tnansioal npreseetativem of the tower.
A large number of femme have ceased to vow barley on
sceoaat d this Impel tax. sad have thereby sot only
ceased the pries of malt, but deprived their lead
el she besedt of the doe rotation of mope. We
will not follow Mr. Neste into the loxes by
which he somewhat lamely endeavoured to prove
th►t the incidence of public burdens is in (avow of the
landed interest. Whatever revision may be made of am
system of taxation this much is clear--that the fusers, no
lees than the manufacturer', are entitled to the lama of,
free trade. Whet weighs moot with as is the bartiea
is laid en the lower eine of the people. Beer is • part of
the luxuries of the higher class ; it is not one of their neces-
sities. To the lower elms it is not simply a part, it is an
emaothi of their daily rite. It Is food as well as drink,
being the only alcoholic beverage which hi remarkable for
its nutritious even more than for its stimulating qualities.
Everyone knows that the quantity of beer consumed by the
labouring me in lionised is something enormous, being
cane reamed by gallons rather than by quarts, end that,
adulterate( and made up as it is, it enables him to do big
work in snob a way that he puta his foreign competitor
fairly out of the field. The classes who drink beer en
mulcted of twenty millirem a year by the ge.
vernmeet. A labourer is full work pays, on •
niederate computation, about • shilling • west fa
order that the revenue may derive five or six millions
annually from the malt tax. This is a payment which
throws into the shade the contributions to the
home tax of which the upper chases so complain. We
do not pay in one single tax one-tenth part of oar whole
income to the date, or one-twentieth, as the case may be.
The malt tax lea grievous infliction ce the lower dance of
the people. Those who promise diem votes, but refuse to
diminish their burdens, are in the position of the father
who, when his sea asked for bread, gave him a stone.
Though the divides of last eight postponed the godistke
for the moment. we may predict that it will go bard with
the presset or any future Chancellor of the Boolisquer
who, in a proposal to remit hastier, shall gams by the
malt tax.

THE PHOTOS= VISIT OT THE PRINCE Or WALES
TO isrlaND. —The assosommeat that his Royal Ifighemes
the Prices of Wales will ogles the lasersatiosel ZOOM=
with all the pomp and ciresmateace of a royal isaugaratiete
bee gives • sew implies to the nationals& sod excited the
Bveliseterpeetatiese sameget our atlases. We believe
that it tread stall tha Priagese of Wee dame groats-
tics It eireemelseese rendered it expedieet that else eiteald
seeceepeay kis Royal Rigimem, bat her medieal advisers do
sot deem it rudest that is her meted &liege
stile of health her Royal Bighorn abseil' ..coaster
the Wiese of the voyage. Although the mammy will
be deprived of the groom sad charm which it would
receive from the promos of the Primula, so effort will be
spored to reader it imposing sad spleadid The romplitm
of the Priem ed Wee will, we cosedeetly satioipals, be
worthy of a loyal people, ad of • melees and peptise
Prime. He Weiremly gives prod. of the islenst whisk
he feels Is tisk easstry, and Ism endeared Meta to Ma-
mie of all dames by the vicious sad klsdly whit which
=this latertooree with them &winkle @sneers is Ire-
ie conies hack upon would missies of micodallost
to give the maritime and lustre of royalty 10 1111111/k whisk
it is hoped, will be owe of poetical mad penumbral
advantage. The lishibitios which be to to ores will
add to the ettreetiese d the Irish mpitaL It will make
thecesatry hesomrod be foreign =Maw. It will famish
to our people as isemitive to Washy sad estarprise, sad
mark, vs a sow sad happy epoch is oar bietery.
With sad) as o esl is view, sad upon such em asepicioes
esomica, eves hie Royal Efighaese were see peregeolly
I.o=l favomite es he Jody is, he would be we to be
with ecolial lacartage. Ric prepense will, we Meek
Awl tha dark easpiehaai aleaffeethe which mete apes
some leealitlea. It will 1110OVIIII the spirit of Fallinabille
NMI seam is rimmed eireagth sad sc• the fq of
loyal ettechreast to the threat which lime is the ed
were latelligeat gad iadeporeleat Irigussa.—Disblistiii
Rtrprem.