The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-03 00:00:00

MILLI' CA.
.
We yeatirsidesr gave a summary ii tbd sew; &it
the West bides. The fallowing more ample por-
de:elate hem Jlll6lllob will interest • Many of ear
radars :
FANNY or COLONIAL Dories ON WORTS: CAPTION
TO DISIONANTS SNIPPING TO JAMAICA.
Our dates frees this colony are to the Bth of
October fissiesise), six days later than those last re-
-wind fa New York.
The violent contest of parties has for some tines I
beck made Jamaica very uncomfortable to the lan.
biteats ;it has now exposed all parties elliPLfilid
=to the °obey to a s are in the annoyance. The
law imposing a duty on exports expired on the
>fothet September; no new import law has best
aumetad; and in the preset state of relations between
the Nome of Assembly on the one hand, and the
Offense and Legislative Council on the other, it
is impamible to say when one will be passed. All
:articles may at present be imported into Jamaica duty I
free; but whether this freedom from duties will last a
day, a week, • month, or a year no one canolL
No London or Liverpool merchant shipping g
for Jamaica, eat conjecture whether they will or will
not be subjected to duties on their arrival there.
The state of affairs is briefly as foliows: The last]
HOMO of Assembly was dissolved because it would
not vote the supplies far • whole year until a re-
trenehment bill had passed. When the new house
met, the island law, under which duties were im-
posed an certain imported goods, was about to expire.
A retrenchment bill was introduced; and a law con-
tinuing the existing duties on imports was passed
and sent up to the Council. The Council, on the
27th of September, punted resolutions declaring that
they could not constitutionally pars such a bill. The
Council sought to fortify themselves in this ridden
by referring to • police bill, to continue in force
fifteen months, which had been sent up along with
the import duties bill, which was only to continue in
force three months. On hearing of these reso-
lutions the House of Assembly *minted a com-
mittee to search the journals of the Council : the
committee reported on the 28th that they had then
found the resolutions just described. About the sane
time a message was received from the governor, inti-
mating that the house was prorogued to the 29t0.
This step was necessary, in order to admit of a ns*
import bill being introduced.
When the house met again after the pro forma
prorogation, the retrenchment bill was spin intro-
duced, as also a bill sestantially the same that had
been rejected by the council. to continue the rates of
import duties under the expiring law for three
months. At 12, p.m., on the 30th of September, that
island import duties law expired. Oa Tuesday, the
2nd of October, the Import Duties Bill was
read a second time, and ordered to be C3lll-
- that day se'nnight. But now a
new complication arose. It was known that
the house would not pass an import duty bill till the
retrenchment bill had passed the other branches of
the legielatnro. A 'pile meanwhile took place in the
opposition (or, as it is called, the country) psrty.
Some mix or seven members would not agree to the
compensation awarded to the officials whose salaries
were reduced. The consequence of this was, the re-
jection of the bill, which occurred under the follow-
ing circumstances. The house went into committee
on the bill (which had been introduced by Mr. Mag-
nus). Mr. Girod, the leader of the recusant country
members, proposed his scheme as au amendment,. It
was lost; wily nine members voting for and thirty
against it. The Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr.
Magnus's bill was reported. A motion was then
made, that the bill be engrossed, and read a
third time that day three months. The recusant
country membery left the house, and in consequence
of their defection the motion was carried and the bill
thrown out. A bill for prospective retrenchment, in-
troduced by Mr. Jackson, was then read a second
time and ordered to be committed on Tuesday, the
9th of October, the same day on which the Import
Duties Bill stands for committal.
There are no duties on imports leviable in Ja-
maica at present. There cannot be till an import
duties law is passed. The House of Assembly will
not vote each an import duties bill as the other branches
of the legislature will pan till a retrenchment bill is
passed. But the house cannot itself agree upon a re-
treuohment bill. When import duties are to be re-
ante' ed in Jamaica it is impossible to foresee.
Oa Friday, sth Oct., the House of Assembly, oa
the motion of Mr. Jordan, passed the following reso.
lotions relative to this awkward state of affairs:
Resolved—" That in the present emberreseed financial
circumstances of the colony it is neeeesary that this house
should use every means is its power to prevent the loss of
revenue which may be expected to arise from the expiring of
the act imposing a duty upon imports, and to check or pre-
vent such an increase by importation without paying duty on
the stock of articles open which duty has Flame") been paid,
and will hereafter be leviefi as will Wattle the amount of
such loss, and reader eddit onal direct tasytion unavoidable
in providing for the exlgeneies of the public."
Resolved—" That this house will, in passing the bill now
before it to impose a duty on articles imported into this
island, provide for the recovery and collection of duties upon
all goods liable to duty thereunder which shall have beer
imported from and after the fifth day of the present month
of October."

trbt court. •

WINDSOR, Nov. 2.—The Queen and his Royal
Migbaset Prince Albert took their eseastomed wary walk
this saarsing in tie elopes. The royal foully took walking
sad pony attendee. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went
oat Mullin this neseaing, attended by Lieut. Calomel lion.
A. Gordon. Liont,Colonel Hon. C. R. and Mts. Phipps
will hays the honour of joining the royal dinner party this
:I‘3 nea:ref. LientAltionsi lion. A. Gordon has relieved Lieut.-
F. IL Seymour in his Stay as equerry in waiting to
Prises Albert.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
H TM Priory, Friday, Noe. 2.
"The Queen Dowager was rather restless and
bereaved by her cough in the early per: of the night, but
slept towards the morning.
" Her Majesty is &airmail from slight oppression this
~DAVID Main, M.D."
morning.

The Queen will hold a pri”, council on Tuesday
meat, the (kb lest, at Windsor Cie.
Their Royal Highnemes the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg Birch
visited the British Memos yesterday.
His Sere= Highness Prince Hermann of Saxe
;Weimar left tows yesterday evening few the Continent.
A imitation from the board of directorsof the
Gerard, Woreefter, and Wolverhampton Railway Company,
wansilffing of Mr. F. Raiford, M.P. (chairman), Messrs. G.
S.Tbieseyeroft, Michael Grim:brook, and Wm. Mathews
(direatere), Mr. Charles Bedford (solicitor), and Mr. Noel
?bases Smith (secretary). had an interview with the Com-
miesloners of Railways on Thursday at the office of the Board
of Trade.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian minister, trans-
acted helium yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Despatches for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of
Canada, and foe the Governess of the other North Ameri-
can colonise, were seat off last evening from the Colonial-
°See.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Brunel, Captain
13 o•,ien Mr. Ward, and Mr. Blandtord, fir Trowbridge
Trustee:, had an interview with the Commie.—
ways on Thanday.

of Aril-

SWEARING IN OF TEI LORD MAYOR ELECT.—
Mains= Parnoomb, the Lord Mayor Elec., proceeded,
shortly alter ten o'clock yesterday morning, from the Gadd-
hall to the residence of the Lord Chancellor, to be sworn
in before his lordship. The Lord Mayor El•ct was pre-
ceded by ens of the City Marshals, the City Pleaders, Under.
Sheriffs, City Memerabrancer, the Town Clerk, and other
civic fanctioneries. The Lord Chancellor signified to the
worthy alderman her Majesty's approbation of the choice of
the citizens; and after being sworn in the alderman and
those who sooompanied him withdrew.

(From last night's Casette.)
Foam's-orrice, Nov. I.—lt in hereby notified
that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affair., has received from her Majesty's
Ambassador at Constantinople a despatch inclosing a cir-
cular, dated the 14th of October last, received by his Estee:-
limey from Ash Pasha, the Turkish Minister, announcing
the blockade of the Island of Samos by &Turkish naval fora;
and that such blockade would be effective in fifteen days
from the said 14th of October.
WHIVFJ44I-L,Nov.l.—The Queen has been pleased
to order a corsgi d'aire to pass the Great Seal, empowering
the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Llandaff
to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the
death of Doctor Edward Copleaten, late Bishop thereof ;
and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend the
Reverend Alfred 011ivaat, Doctor in Divinity, to he elected
by the said Dean and Chapter, Bishop of the raid see o:
Llandaff.
WarreffaLL,Nov.l.—The Queen hap been pleased
to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal ap-
pointing the Rev. Henry Hart Milstein, M.A., to be Dean of
the cathedral church of Sr. Paul, in London, the same being
void by the death of Dr. Edward Coplestoo, late Dean
thereof.
Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, Ocr. 16.—The Queen has
been pleased, en the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint
Stapleton Charles Cotton, E.q., to be one of her Majesty's
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Denise, re-
tired.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. I.—The Queen hw
been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint
John Gordon, Esq., to be one of her Majesty's Honourable
Conn of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Gilbertson, retired.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. I—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Benjamin Hammett Norton as
consul, at Pieton, Nova Scotia, for the United States of
America.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 2.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint John Francis Smyth, .Beq., to be Colonial
Secretary for the colony of Sierra Leone. Her Majesty has
sesa been pleased to appoint Perceval Kirton, Etc; , to be
Colon's! Surgeon for her Miejery's settlements in the
Gambia.

PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM

MEETING IN HORSELYDOWN.

A meeting of the But Southwark Parliamentary
and Financial Reform Association was held yesterday even-
ing, at the Temperance Hal', Fair-street, Horselydown,
Francis Nub, Es in the chair.
The CHAU:MANq., , in opening the proceedings, stated
shortly that he entirely concurred in the principles of the
central association, and that therefore he felt great plersure
in presiding on the present occasion. The time had come
when the people should speak out, and not let tax upon tax
be heaped upon them without protest or remonstrance.
(Cheers )
Mr. C. SLEIGH was called on to address the mi eting.
He said that not five months once the first minister
of the crown had stated that the people of this
country wanted no further ex. ension of the franchise,
bat since that hour the whole unrepresented population of
the country had, in numberless meetings, and in almost every
locality, been expressing their impatience and indignation at
their exclaims. (Cheers.) The declaration of the minis
tire could admit of only one of two constructions. Either
he was so ignorant as not to know the real state of the pub-
lic mind, or else he was es politically dishonest as to IiIiSUFS
his high authority in its conceshnent. (Chien.) In either
new of the ease, his conduct was open to the most serious
reprehension. (Hear.) He (Mr. Sleigh) regretted to say that
hitherto the middle clangs had not supported the views of
the association so warmly as the working men, but now they
were beginning to see that their interests were identical. Both
Ott the future would work hand in hand in them:mon cane.
(Chien.) What that muse was, and what they sought was,
a thorough reform in parliament and ia the representative
system, as a mass to an end, and that end was a thorough
revision of ear deal and Anaemia' system. (Hear, hear.)
It was latpnrtle to expect any economy in the expenditure
I of the pespisfs meaty
_so long as its distribution war left to
Me WINO Only object was to get a finger is the pis.
(Chem.) It was time, as Cromwell had said, that the pre-
met parliament should give way to homier men. [The
speaker here gave the statistics of the representation welch
have already been frequently published.] The conclusion
from all this was that fifty-nine millions of property was re-
presented by the minority in the Commons, while
six millions only had for representative the ma-
I levity. (Shame.) They wanted, next, financial re-
arm—they muted direct taxation, eta as that the
poor man with a pound • week should not be taxed
as heavily as the man of • hundred thousand a year. They
wanted such a change as should prevent the poor temptress
being obliged to pay 31. out of every 4d. she gave for tea as
• means of upholding the pension list. (Hear, hear.) The
great complaint against the pension list was the inequali'y
and unfairness of its distribution. They generally found
that immoral services, or at best petty ones, were better pro-
vided for on that list than throes of the enlightened and de-
scry*. The Queen's dancing mister received 1001. a year
pension, while the great artist Hayden had destroyed him-
self from sheer poverty. (Shame.) To return to the duty
on tea, it would hardly be believed that it produced
3,000,0001. a year, all, or nearly all, wrung from the scanty
earnings of the working classes. (Hear, hear.) If it were
removed how much would be added to the luxuries and
comforts of the labourer; but, above all, how much would
bo added to the capitalist's means of giving him employ-
ment ? An intelligent merchant had stated before a com-
mittee of the House of Commons, that he could fix no
bounds to the markets for our productions, which China
would afford, if means were found to increase our consump-
tion of her teas. His (Mr. Sleigh's) opinion was, that if the
duty on ten was repealed or reduced, every factory in the
kingdom would be at once permanently in full work.
(lit ar, hear.) He had only further to say, that the reforms
he had indicated were to be sought by peaceful means only,
and whoever contemplated the use of any other were no
friends of parliamentary sod financial reform.
Mr. EBENEZER CLARKE congratulated the meeting
that they were met in a Temperance Hall, and hoped that
the locality would point out to them a simple means by
which they might repeal many of the obnoxious taxes. He
had long sines repealed the wine and spirit and tobacco
taxes, and he advised the working men he saw around him
to do the same. (Hear, hear.) if theyonly followed his
•d' ice on this pint they could not be long kept from their
proper share in the government of the country. He bad
faith in the virtues of the democracy, and no fear of their
excesses. He had seen their intelligence and honesty
pro ved in temperance and building societies, and he felt that
the governing clung had only to put trust in them and they
would not be disappointed. "As He
would that men should
do unto Lou, do unto them also." He lived in a wild district,
Epping r where there were 10,000 acres of waste land,
enough to the surplus population of Essex, but which
\Miaow, mimmasagement,oaly. a shelterfor vagrancy.
(Hear.) Some thought that the central association did not
go tar enough—(hear, hear)—but why, as all were going
the same direction, could not they keep company
CURIOUS CiLRISTENDit3.—A sheet time ago Mr. as long as possible ? Mr. Clarke proceeded to explain the
Hodgkinson, who is employed at the works in coanerioa objects of the ameriation—household suffrogs, triennial par-
with the Britannia Bridge, had the ceremony of christening Hamm% sad all the other points, of which the public are in
performed on one of his children in the following singular fall possession. Their efforts, he said, if successful, would
manner The child, a finale, was taken to the Mritaunie give them 6,000,000 instead of 1,000,000 voters ; and surely
Rack, in the middle of the straits, where the ceremony was that was an object worth straggling for. (Lind cheers')
performed by the Rev. Mr. Jackson. She was named Bri. Let only Sir Joshua Waleasley be able to any, when he ore-
tam& Ann Stephenson Hodgkinson, in compliment to the seated the bill to parliament, that the people of England de-
great week and the great engineer. At the conclusion of a mended it, and a change would soon come over the spirit of
prayer, delivered on the occasion in behalf of the St. Stephen's. Lord John himself would find concession ex-
hTlerlefelene,lis exclaimed, " May this rock stand as firm as the pedient, and the Speaker would soon say " The ayes have
Word of God."—Chester Chronicle. it." (Laughter and cheers.)

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The only event which can invalidate the above is
another prorogation or disc:Antis°, which may take
place if the Rttrenchment Bill be rejected.
In De Cordora's Circular, of the 6•1 of October,
we are told that this state of affairs may continue till
the House of Assembly has been dissolved, and a new,
one elected, or till the governor is recalled ; or that it
may terminate in a compromise in two or three
weeks. Meanwhile the writer of the Circular sub-
mits the following cotudderations to shippers :-
1. All articles are now admitted island duty free Into
Hinrston, the Import Bill having expired by lapse of time
2. Months may elapse baste mother import bill is iatro-
dated ; but, on the other hand,—.3. A week, a fortnight,
or a month, may not piss over without tariff legislation. 4.
The chasms are that the governor will not risk the danger
and delay of another dissolution, and that, therefore, one of
the two parties must give way to the other before very long
—in which case an import duty bill will be the first con-
sideration. 5. Whether there be er be not an import duty,
shippers must remember that this market cannot sustain
any arrest quantity of perishable article.. The reduction in
pia. must mass an Increase of business; but the mass of
the people are poor, and the increase of consumption will
not therefore be considerable.
Another important question for merchants is " when
did the duties cease to be payable " The Jamaica
Mining Journal of 61 October states that the opinion
of counsel has been taken on this subject, and that the
following is the result:
Previews Is the expiry of the Import Duty Act, and when
es doubt imasisted that It maid expire before another bill
esuld he passid by the legislature, various questions arose as
te the wild at which genie arriving would be liable to
dutp—is IMO petals. period the law ceased to operate—and
rehashes's& In hood would be chargeable with duties, not.
witheinadMi the expiry of the set? In order to resolve
these doubts anuissl's opinion was obtained, and the result
appears to he :
1. That tt.e act expired at twelve o'clock, p.m., on
the 30th of September. 2. That goods imported after
that bear are not subject to duty under that act; and 3,
that the duties attach on the arrival of the vessel in port
According to this opinion all the goods I. load at 12 o'clock
o.m. ea the 30th September, as well es all goods on board
ship in port at that time, are liable to the duties imposed by
the expired act. It Is important, breams on a late occaden
it was contended that the duties did not attach until the
goods were cleared tar consumption. Some parties, it is
true, then maintained that they did at the period of bonding.
The present decision gees further back, and attaches them
on the arrival of die vessel. Sante other polo% were
raised as to the payment of duties under protest,
the mode of recovering monies so paid, and the
course to be pursued in case the Customs' officers
should refuse to deliver goods in bond. The advice is, to
pay the duties under protest, no particular form being wee*
sary for this latter, and to recover by an action whist the
officer who received the amount, for maser had and re-
ceived. In the else of a refusal to deliver the goods, an action
of trover it is said would lie ; but the payment of the duties,
under protest, Is deemed the best course to be punned. It
may be nerremary to remark, in order to prevent mistakes or
misapprehension, that the question of the payment of duties,
under protest was raised in tt *event of the duties being con-
sidered to 'WA* upon the goods when cleared for consump-
tion. The goods aew in bond being liable to duty, such
liability having been incurred on their arrival In port, there
will be no payment of duty under protest, nor, we is,
any attempt to obtain them without payment of duties
to which they are liable.
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