The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

gosawreti depriedirms. Mho pyretic still penises
seheMe irivi hie um., hat it le said th.t I- • Asa Ma to
sa • assieber .1 the swell mob. Ivideses is ex-
mod to be &dieted of a strongly aimieetive sad somber.
Wei 'hareem by a brewer of Plymouths sad a milioal
ef Timm, to whom it is aMld the premstli.
treatise to rob the dews mall me dlrisesd la • me-
spas of ta.svinierit, aad aa aa mewls
et ealleremeat •
, to be
&pc W a warms of easi the Menses &flag sa.
woken eon.. r*II way reisteetre." Midi at the= of
sMme, was Mated as We. sod aadessreieg swims r
Tar MALMO, Till RTOWI LIBRARY WOO wary wall M-
£& yesterday. The Islleirlas item wareweethy stsellse
spete reit of easiest playiess camis, war etruzatap Si
lA, VIM" is two velainee. Moe seeds wets sot
lithe collection of Dr. Stake/ey. by whoa they wets pro.
gamed before the Boeisty or Antiquaries Is Novamhse, 1770.
Dry are mow ad to have born of a plat date to INO, aad
It b otwerveble that there are se games sr ales MOOS dIMIII.
ihe plow of ,he lan/ 'Walt by baptise; it said AR
lie icis. Buffos end blostbeillard'e .• klietalea Nyymyenvia
ciweal," con.aaiva 1,008 beau hilly coloured please, lees
me, in 10 vols. ; 811.10..
'guest, YZATLADAT.—SUICIDE IN A WATER
grys.—D4we Mr. W. Cater. at the Dike of Sasser, Park-
ma, New Peckham, ea the body of K. Eldrida, aged 26
Detterrk mat: • that the dm mei was his brother-la-law.
ge bad been ea melbas condam r in the services of Kr.
prise, ths peoprivt.r 01 the Peckham' Rye omnibuses, Ns-
done/ ihs last foulness mouths he had been revery redeem'
shemstaaers, marlins paresis sad acting es coder. Oa
gamey Oita be slept at the Mese of whams, and om Roa-
ds/ wonting Maass tom' him with his feet prejsctieg ever
a Tater kot , which wee &seat are km in height. Re wee
wall wheeled. sad witaess having called for arebessor,
bat was pulled over and be was extricated, quite told
be most hew been there some hears. Set4d whams'•
wits ha had kept soup .ay km five years with • female amid
Zama Cermet& ; thot she had discarded blamed way gale;
to be mined to seethes. This owned to prey epos Monied.
The jury reamed a untie. " That the itreseeed destroyed
hisses!' while in a state of imatol4, arising trim a &up.
potated love affair."

TILE NATIONAL CONFEDERATION.
MEC f TAXATION.
Bir,—TheConfedmation are gratified to find that the
Erpress teco,eniees the soundness of the principle of
direct tuition hut there are remake made, in the publi-
satin of the 3rd instant, in reference to the letter of the
Coafedeisao.. to Dar. Cobden, which they trust will justify
She kilo si g oboreatioas
The Ezprots, while admitting that dined taxation is
the only principle on which the le mar, ought to be taxed,
urges ea ohjicti a aa to the time when it rosy be prudent to
gem the sa o. ass on public atteation. The Esoress tap, not
mew; the Confederation say, the sooner t e baiter. It is
clear that if the esnveuience of O • ruling power and of
parties Later/rated in opposing an equitable adjustment of
fasten ti alsne consulted, they are cuten to ease to-
morrow ea the die of reckoning—not to-day ; but that " to-
wer°. " will never come until the people have shown that
the payment of the debt must no bearer be postponed.
The Express .rAco certain reason why the qualities of direct
taxation would nut be pressed forward, and &meg others,
that were the ex sting burden " now to be ell distributed
in direst IS •si •Il at once, the income of r dived property
would sot canoe." The Err re misapprehends the pricciple
on which the outederation proceed. They do not desire to
plain the burth-a on realised property exclusively, u the
paese elate quoted would indicate the opiuiao to be, but
to theutbest• it over incomes from whatever source derived,
the capitalcation of such incomes being the bas • of aso as-
ment, au that the income from the most precarious source
would nay Baja* proportion according to its real value, In
the WS. way es would incoase from realised property.
Under be pre set Meonte.taz all yearly incomes, whether
derived from certain or uncertain soarers, per:salami or pre.
carious, are treated as of equal value, whiles they are not so
in fact—the capitalisation as each income would get at the
just medium.
The arrameat *a urged, that the necessary revues could
not be rat ed by direct taxation. Why could it not ? Direct
taxation implies the existence of property, aid theccafedera-
tion consider that property is the sole spares treat which
wisdom sesadd be drawn. There is only the alternative of
poverty, if property be not held as thu legitimate basis.
Coder the indirect system poverty pays, end property tejoys
eamparatlia exesnete di. By capitalising the income of each
sea, from wastever source drawn, that income is converted
kite property, and matte amenable is state necessities; hut
thee, by tamale 'rich tun according to the just value of his
income, the meimial burden is distrihuted over the whole
warkes of society ia precis. and just proportions.
Bee the necessary result. The skill and inoustry of the
psple, which are the inetrumesta by which capital is
brought late existence, and from which spring the value of
ail reelissi peo;.erty, arc at once roll. ve el, and allowed to
Csmin the pulurasance of their proper functions; and
oldicion of oil closes is correepoodingly improved.
What can I e said iu favour of • system of tuition which
operates as • drag chain on the industry and enterprise of a
maple f If capital be the additional value conferred on
matter be labour and skill—and as it mast be to the interest
of a natSwe eulkotively, u ss ell as to individuals, that the
ereation of e..yuul should not he impeded, what solid arra-
meat can be used in favour of saddling the creative power
with so large a bur. 'en while it is engages] in the performance
of its labours ? None. And yet the middle and labouring
classes have to wound with these burdens while they ore
employed in prodieciug that which euriclus their country.
The labour is the ire, while the harvest is reaped by others
sad, together with that, the creation of capital is ob4naoted
to • very large extent. The tales on their toe, their sager,
coffee, tobacco, beer, &c.. enhance their cost of living *early
by one half, Wilde they Omit them at a greet cdstdvantage
in foreign aesthete against the more lightly taxed people of
other notions.
II it be just that each man should contribute to the sup-
port st the state, according to bit meas.', the indirytt sys-
tem of taxation cannot by possibility carry out that pried-
*. Ilene is nothing whatever to compel the recipient of
310,0001. a Tsar to spend one penny more its the oecessaries
el his than does the man iambs' 20s • wes k. The latter
pays is indirect taxes little short of 10s. out of his 205.,
while the loner r has it in his power to rasa off ,on the pay-
met of a similar amount of 10s. • week ; and yet the one
Ms wily 20e. • week in the shape of means to be protected
by the state, while the other has his 30,0001, per annum. It
is so reply, that the man of the larger incense may indulge
la luxuries, sad that these arc also taxed; it is quite a mu-
se of his own pleasure whether he does or cot; but the
poorer men cannot so escape; he must hare tea sad sugar,
sad beer and tobeeco, as being to him obsolete asesmaries ;
and spcial care bar been take* to impose such • rate of tax
ea thou art Wes as to throw the Ingest portion of the n•-
Metal heathen on ths coasumere of them.
It is raid by some, that while they would relieve the so-
esseari eat life from taxation, they would tax what they call
luxuries ; and then they are puzzled to amigo a ruin habi-
tation to the article they would consider a luxury. Thus
parties commit two arrive. If it be necessary to raise • 'me-
tals amount of taxation to meet certain enstagemeate, the
idea of Inning on an uncertain source ef supply is sorely
merles. If the use of certain arthles, termed kiwis, is
to be depended on, then faith is plastid ea • broken reed, as
all experience has shown. A man may use such articles, or
be may not, bat the day of payment, sad the amount to be
mid by the state, are certain. As the engagements are
metals, why should sot the meet certain nu Wwe posses'
be fixed ea as the sums of payment ? And as to the die-
entity of fixing what a " la is, it must be said that the
matter is speedily disposed of by holdinq the imam, or the
mesas to buy, as the real commodity entitled to that distils:-
doe. Let that view be adopted, end fur all purviews of tax-
&Boa, the legislature cannot go wrong; so that, if • man
spent or saved his income, it would be the same to the state;
but he could not defraud the stare of his just contribution
for the protection his property received, nor would others be
compelled to pay what he bad withheld by his saving dispo-
sition.
Nor would the admits.* it dissect taxation stop there. It
would disengage the mormstas amemat of capital now ab-
stracted from the labour sued, in the name of customs and
• MAIO duties., and make it avaßable foe purposes of trade.
That capital, with all other capital engaged in business,
would p dorm its legitimate functions, and yield its profit
before a tax became exigible ; on profits alone could • tax
be levied ut der the direct system, as proposed by the con-
federstion,for they bold that*, withdrawal of owl'sl to meet
state purocoes is mist ruinous in its effects, both to the or
tion collectively, and to the people who depend on their
labour for their means of subsistence.
Trade would be fectlitated by the removal of all restric-
tions springing hues the existence of the customs and excise.
All existing taxes would be abolished, and only one tax—that
oa espitalmod income, would be levied. The expense of mi-
kados of the revesue, now amounting to several millions,
would b' reduced to a comparative trifle. Industry would
be larreli stimulated, and the principal necessaries of life
would he reduced to nearly one-half their present value ; so
that, while the 'mount of the tax which would be imposed
would be governed solely by the means of the party paying,
it would be much more than censpensatei by.the reduction
in the cost of living, and the increased value of all reamed

Piredihnuld heir me more of the tel on tea, the tax on
anger, on beer, es Whew,'" timber, on brick., on soap, nor
on any other artists •whialt ear tastes or our usamities sight
indulge us to mansfestare ',import. No more of customs or
extdee, or meet ;ward, or of the obstructions whmk they
masks to trade. Oar trade and our traffic would
be fres m air, and there would be no reMrsiat
es the minim or enterprise of the people. Bat
the nimemeet for direst taxation is not likely to take
pleas whets the Home of Commons or at present magi.
toted, maims urged from without; and therefore the mutt-
tomato who are ignorant must be iostramml, and those who
have knowl,dite met bring their power to brat. It this view
be correct, then eneb individual members of the home or we
the justice of the proposed system and the nesseelty of the
Maim, Imp suttiarally be expeelid.boldlr to repple with
subject, it,