The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

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THE DIMES ON
AND NEWSPA PAPER, ADVERTIBR?dENTS,
PERS.
The &Howie speech of Mr. Edward Edwards,
esmoesitor, weed at • muds" of winters. held "
the Landow Meeheake Insomnia, May 22, 1849—1.. J.
Ilesserd. Lg., is the chair:
Mr. RDWAIIDI mid the Oat* bedlam has for essay
yeses screed, in sesames with ether trades. ins a re-
Misted field of latamer, mad es exesseive umber of I*-
hiromm. In 1846 7, theassepositers of the Usited X.imdene
is weak paid to thou oat so less • slam thee 4.00 M Of
about 2,550 journeymen I. Ludes, MO were wholly
without empleyesest. The latter were so ese to
is. Is 184 g, the working of as auxillery fund
thud that hilly as many saes were still ussmployed.
Bad le Ink so far as it has pee, bett little relief has loses
lilt, shimp this pried of the year ought nadoslrealy te
hat a wit maim, the bosses of parliamest beteg messed,
Medi the ether sesame of labour is toanexios therewith befog
k omaeLe. We are arm within three meths of
Mehashie eMeolither ; and, as may sees muthrso M sesk
he week Is eds, sad, for aught I sea sun to the ofeateory,
ere as Moly to obtain it tor emu time M sour, I deem it
theb to J1'401%1)1. but • lesseiles duty as the part of
t MAN to asp for
mei mit lelalb:=;e1 atlas
Like tut dater capital from Maid.
god ewes men to want work. whideastifeot far them mead be
Imo MLA to be obtained. Tab is my
lath
apology
be , for the tempsniten lambi linger : w e
am le de so busses we Mow fall we is waking
fhb busk he eeseelma, that the bus, if granted, will also
Mehl the pubis is renal.
The tax urea paper, or, m ease writers lave very sign&
lastly tensed it, " the tax is keowlelge,'' was lest Mpesed
Ise th. hintliFsaf the Taipei Quota Anse, tykes it we
mirk se a ties kr bleimostmest, that " it wee se-
enemy to Imp sums et maim M cony cm the war."
It is, this, • war tax. Awl slue the sountry has happily
'mimed an seineerupersi /mafler 88 yeses, euely
=t wide\ led to lee balsas. smut be Ungar mais-
losommie as the lell.ll M. hog bees removed ;
lbseekes the Walks mode. ash the esmavaaky at Imp,
*NM Ile La from be mil shots
Teem thalami Psitlisd Memo of the mew, as derived
ken " paper." the NM el 7541881. appenes.
61 This
a
lerwever. Melaka the duty ssmieset-hom Ititidesit
paper Le ad ememes, white creed brews," ad senseF6thisrarn set be reseeded es remattel due tan as
payee esly. It is merles eel hi say hew musk
the sem mestiosed wee paila.araspapar
lielikbees, writers,; bat ism die umber
elamip said, and the boolue daubed la the'
OWN of • year, I am misted that se hest ae-half of the
Oaths emeest, or 375.0001., we paid, is the shape of duty,
em 0 prlneise paper." The umber ot flatlg_trefere"
Mused is 1848 eueseds of empties saline, or 1111111111
of paper. Viewing the Utter is the easeeple as eadi pay-
way a duty of 10s. per ruse, thisMeempapar pp
sting art of
alms paid paper tax to the se west of 82,0001. per
peer, with* is auminth of the whole sum nisei.
To 'huge lid. per pound es paper does sot, et first
ifghtesom say very great imposition. On papers such se
the Throe sad Chronicle the :duty is but ose- krill's per
Mle about Ile. 6d, per roam of 500 sheets; while upon
I
weeks, where the sheet is set so large, the addi-
Q; the prim of easeufeetsee is still less. If thus I
viewed essauseems a; pear bet Yet when the
ameelle of armies of • newspaper is multiplied by •
theemee, and the sheets of pmbllmtbr and works are
lessismod by toss of theassods, dos the effects of the
Iles Meow strikingly smeared. 811pr/slag we take •
= Lemrre ognel,, the sale which is 10,000 per dam-60,000 a
tibiae, • yeas. This dammed will sasses
ISM memo of paper, the duty on which will be (at Ile. 61.
Imr sum) 3,4601 anneatiy. 'rids is r ose daily newspaper.
Now he ms tax be repealed, and to whom would this money
ge ? Competition would oblige one of two Mines, perhaps
both, to fallow. Either the sine of the paper would be in-
terested, which would semosarily give increased employ-
ment, or the pries would be reduced, and a limier sale ef-
fected. These observation. are alike applicable to the weekly
pro.
As far as this duty commies publications, its weight loos
them Is equally serious. Messrs. Chambers, in a late number
cadmic Ediebereh Journal," meted that they were un-
able to cmitinne their halfpenny tract., solely on account of
this its ! To give this remark its proper force, they might
have said, " What we hart been obliged to pay, as paper tax,
would have afforded us the requi.ite profit for continuing cur
publicatioa." There an two weekly misdeals printed,
whose united sale each week is 160,000, or eight millions
yearly, rowansh2g 16,000 reams of paper, the duty upon
which is 3,0001. Mies' the proprietors of those penny
publications from ibis annual tax, sad they 'read certainly
jive the public in rears emu Hussy food. Go thee to
thereligious pabliesti. us, and to works Mat,foe the future
harpists. of mukind, should be pissed in the hand. of
every child. Many of these ',joy a esupsratively large
dreeletion ; but who w:EI say, if their rapider' could psr-
shame peeper from 3a. Gd. to fo. per team las kw they tow
pay, aceordieg to the sine, that the musty saved would re
into their poclots ? Why, the nutty thus mewl would
enable an extra quarter sleet to be giros, or smaller type
to se introduced ; or, by mdecing the sure and price of the
sheet, double the ameba sold ; or Were usidhe be two ma
pease where there is now only one.
• So far I have @sly treated this paper tux in $ practical muse.
If I eall to mind the incalculable advantages which se ditty
would naive from its removal, is having many aspensive
weeks plead wit' la the mesas of all but the very poorest,
which assuredly would he the immediate cossequerme ; and
also in enabling the wow paid labourer , for a trifling eum,
to get that requisite uoderstendWg whisk wield wash list
to respect his privileges, sad be sensible of his re spond.
bitty—it this paper tax be thus considered, thin all other
thoughts must give place to it, all revenue diflieultin must
he surmounted, ineethach as the cry for mental attainments
is irresistible—one which, for the good government of so-
sissy, it is highly politic to satisfy. My chief object, how-
ever, is to satisfy the mettles that, se pertains to employ-
meet, it is deeply conversed he the subject soder discussios.
To the removal °Mae @Mies pristars must look for that
Iserweee bu•inses which would sited them mere emataet
work, and render them far mare happy la their said ease
idles than they sow are.
The advertisement tax realism 163,0001., and it has beaa
said that there never wee a good reason given far its us-
Umlaute. Apologies certainly have been offend. Soma
persons have viewed this tax es they are west to consider
them levied on gold and silver plate—they say, is embusses,
those who can afford to advertise tea afford to pay the duty.
But this is not true. Haedreds of the walling clams bars
recourse to this excellent method of making their wants
known who can ill afford the sum demanded ; sad manbers
are prevented from advertising by want of mew which the
tax itself aggravates. Na, eau the shopkeeper be
inapt from this view. He advertises biome be is de-
sirous of extending his trade, which ha an sly do by
the agency of publicity. The more he ess sell thu batter
will it be for trade is general. Without this invaluable aid
fee bringing under the nodes of the public the wens he has
to dispose of, many of them would fail to be purchased, and
protisetios would num be further arrested. Is it not, then,
seitevident, that U the tradesman could Weird,* in the
public papers for leas money, the amount saved in $ single
wivertioeseest would go towards paying fee a sound notice,
isereming his badmen by the repetition, sad thereby giving
additional employment to the prods@ ire dorm of the com-
munity t
Formerly this to was 3s. 6d. in Great BM& and 28. 6d.
in Ireland on each advertMensest; bet is the reign of the
late Kicg William the duty was reduced he ls. 6d. in Great
Britain and Is. in Ireland, as seek advertisement Observe
what has been the effect of this redectio• of duty on the
number of advertisenteuts, ad the total um realised. In
the year previous to the redestke, thew arlon of news-
p
aperadvertisement", in the United Rio was 921,943.
The they amounted to 172,6701., end been stationary
he several years. In 1848, the umber of newspaper adver-
tisements, in the United Kingdom, was 2,109,179, or an in-
amen of 1,187,236, that is, nose thus double, the moue
realised being 153,0161. 19a., which is but 19,6531. Is. less
than was formerly raised; so that the ferreous is sow
suffering but bale from the reduction of duty, whilst the
public have been greatly beselted by it. It, them, trade
kw been so nub augmested by s mdestMe of dut
mai half, would it not be wbe mil
the that 1.1.9
is so mach unoccupied labwar in counny, to repeal It
altogether, and set the wk. of Industry hem se IL a
they are slimed by the impetus alms to tame, km* a
Mere ready irmerchuge of somemidlthes este with sametae
With the iugulities of the tar Nail nest pewees are
acquainted. The advertleemeal at doe Ike., and the one
of any es dm hundred, en beak dumped elike ; while such
Is the power glees le the Stamp Cerambdissis, that may
=714 ale shamed with this delta lied have beet
alien a public ialermalies. In sash eaten
she es Lau. ilLesekest.r, Olasdow,
sod Dahlia. every wake to be
=aft miedhat sad e=6 aims . asking
Impaossembs ismatiose, and the semmtkiss is
=the Isedlig perabrim. This sea soly be deo by
rAfolthisesis hi; by pemitdey atm to give
maiwwrikki Is his mak, mai at es deep a este, as hie
mean aim. And what would follow ? Ikpileaesste,
gar to the missies of the duty, wire Memel islisown.
Now the name b amber la ed. Oes dellypapar weakly
pahlidiss Mmesepplemsaft • misk-s4 almost semis-
iddi eberthessime. The purr awl Ihe supplement
grebe swam perm, viz of add* an assay* with paid ea-
asamsmesk The pat& mad be Walled with the sews
ttf the day se mks pates* maw seem If Ile abatis-
mist perks bs itiseesed. is ppm mil be Wave& sr
sapplemsele maths Meek ee t eis of the week sr sear
ma...tumbles. PIM this Weems the lobar would be
la moms with
kr madee
se peasrady.
ea, sistadal dimplMe lesedis Sado,
IMO tli admedemmill lea skald he she ispielell it ass
wit • imam Mader key Ike shersea Wad es
pip Ss dig ie.... et kliewer—hew
lad
die bait seigispd,_ is meerraler
pest their Wray. I Wow IMt ff We duty wan
the minimum palm wed/ he le. he a cream's
vaiTrrelesmset; eel that sa assoimemesal of Meeks hada,
keetead et bdst sbauged se sew, 7s. soak MI seethed Sc,
: wean 'east of the atmpsdlisa whila the
semealimes demi lea wadi kris&
lade Ilalled Salsa a inky less that is 1817
:I== wialkelessalidesintema minket
inginanlesiabitin I.4BsizeVethe elothre
=llllles sad thee of Great disk dio
emu at Sewertwe maim Theis bma ems apse aka.
kiasealn la Anowise sal I ene assease is we mem&
dlidss i. umber is es ether wee them by left-
ribrii stersdirtreettat a Naar rag, ss
awaived teobisreemareedie
stariasi between the. sad their rains le prams*, trade by
mid, now,,
Aad, as, akw week Rea Me Pussy kamp ea Nave
lapen—lbe, VMS pony W ai, as a wide bort Me gilled