The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1849.

mid be oohing males they could swims sou that they
wore spendieglhelr own mosey as ma ne Mir nelgtherses.
Tram wage, hessever some who *Nested to ea imam tax
Memos it wee b.geiaitorW, and bemuse sem% Was mike
i
of showing a mall teem*, would oatleaseam semeetl
falsely. Ifs man these teigemye himself belles his Gerister,
ell be emild say was God ve him ! Butt limy did not
=moray sash saki that may am iwY
what briailliajmelL was, that his inseam should blit'
up
that, and Medi be taxed to • *Main per
Imes that aortal. (Chesere.) He would bask wtrt
kariawvar, say ow with as bosom of WOl, a year. Hs
would say to lum, Tour property is worth testy yeses'
pembese—that is. 8,0001.- Now, there was &boa eht
disenemd millions' worth of pommy_ in the eettatry, end
one (Loaner per mut. open that would mien ahem Mr•
dye millions a-yesr, as mipb mambo he the Remo
sides of the country, it ell mesas' has sushi laws
were abolished It, thectibry the beedoweer with 8001. a
year was taxed at 451., be weld set eseeptaia, home he
would have everything she duty free. Nest, he would take
the protessioasl man led he asked whether at was fair to tax
him at the same ma as the sea who would leave his
paeg_behismikka. Take see with UM alear, he
hoped his Mod the dealer made. end whet was the prow•
as be ought he pay ? It was sat worth above two yewt
prime, sad tberaor• he anikt not to be called apes 6r
mw them 761. Then he weal take the shopkeeper, maw
heriesse. sad farmer, end they meld arrive at • pretty ale.
menes estimate et that, aid tut them f per cent. open
their rest. Them take the labouring mu, f.r nano shield
Ibe exempt He held that it was as for the labour-
ing maa to have his /absureretested as e debut sebe
' country—(hear)—end as fair play was their motto, they
mast not let him escape. The average time that a work'sg
maa worked was tweaty years, but take half that, aad ray
it was worth ten years purchase, sad estimating that at Ida.
per week, it was worth 44, which. at 1 pet tent , would be
31. per year. How far would his 371. seamier these sirens.
steams t (Bar.) Why, as fax as OW. now, for they mast
bear is mind mat the diff•rence b tween the rich and the
poor was this—that the dill could please himself whether he
perelreed cacheable articles or not ; whines the Far Ewa
taus sempailed to speed anent 10., per week en them. He
mold p es illustrating the system; but it wee met mess=
as they were so fully laid down in the trans already
R&M by the society. There was honesty is it—then was
somdme. la it ; sod if they could only make others this&
se, a allegro would be brought about in this country sash as
would vies it from the depredation it was now almost souk
bed he happens= end prespaity. (Coodenal elosers.) Wheal
every man paid his fair share of taxation, whoa co=mmas
end trade were unshackled, they would go oa increasing to
ea
extent it was impossible to calculate. It this were the
ease, what country in the world could compete with this ? if
the timber duties were abolished, what nation weld compete
with it in the building of ships? We should then have no
need of treaties of reciprocity. They would then sot be
what Napoleon called as—a nation of shopkeepers, bat the
peat storehouse of the world. We Amid supply all the
sentiment of Europe, because the peeral depot of the world,
ad have the rehabs of the cerrytog trade in our own ships.
Mere would sot he a meek in the whole world where the
Ass of a Liverpool skip would sot be sow and instead of
w malaise emigrating by thousmds, diem would be
mem reed warn ensragh for terry one. The hoe. member
then hammed epos his hearers the neceseity of enforcing
them principles upon others. He nest combated the notion
that the time bai not yet arrived for their development, ob-
eaning that it was never out of tints to do r'wht. He pro-
rammed it to In hit opinion that no office- either of the Ex-
cise or Cu-tosis. should lose his office without compensation,
and observed that it would not surprise him if the
Pealing, is bidding for office, did not adopt the
principle. He relied, however, mainly on the
middle domes for the success of the measure, and if
taken up in earnestness by them, that softie.' could not long
be delayed. The hon. member concluded by remarking,
that as seeking to obtain justice to all, so should they gave
it; and he trotted none present would refuse to grant to all,
who paid th it just and Mr share of tale., full po'i,ical pri-
vileges. Let him who could prodece the tax collector's
receipt claim a right tv be registered as • voter, which would
put an end to hosueho'd, fie,hold, and a:1 Other suffrage.
(Loud and repeated cheers.)
The report of the council :dated that at the period of the
formation of the confederation, in December, 1847, the pub-
lic mind bad not been directed to the subject, sad that she
confederation were conic:mu, from long experience, that in-
direct taxidion was at the ro 4 of the rational poverty and
d stress. The opposition °tiered by the confederation to the
attempt of the present government to increase the incline
tax, gave the first impetus to he demand for a chinge in th.
qstem of tmaticrn, and f.r economy and retrenchment, and
from that time to this the move caimans made rapid pewees,.
The Council urge strongly on the members to be firm in
tteir determination to promote the principle of direct tax-
ation, until realised property .ball bear its just share of the
national obligation, -and. industry the same, and no more.
The prises offered by the endederatim have elicited oommu.
Wawa. from eminent statesmen and others approving of
the society's objects.
Mr. Coundllor FERGUSON moved the reeeption of the
report. The way to oda sitcom was to stand firmly and
unitedly by the principles which they had adopted. They
had but to go on sad prosper.
Mr. Councillor iIARBORD seconded the adoption of the
report. The committee had arranged to apes cesusunicir
tioas with distant towns, with the view to mutual co-opera-
dos in the Canso is which they (the confederation) were so
deeply interested. Now they hoped to show the different
towns what had been effected in the way of improvement in
local grievances by their efforts in Liverpool ; sad further.
that by a comprehensive combination, similar Esselte wool/
morn with respect to national grievances.
The report was adopted.

IRELAND.

Dostaw, JAN. 30.

The question of a discriminating rate is ►eginning
to make progress amongst the popular party here.
The Freeman's Journal has been hammering at the
principle for a long time, and its views on the subject
are becoming adopted in many quarters. People,
who once recoiled from the proposition, are now be-
ginning to talk of giving the peasantry an interest in
the land. I heard a conservative M.P. say that the
peasantry could not be employed in Connaught un-
less something of the kind was done, as the ma-
jority of the present holders have no means of
giving ers*.s. A landholder in Mayo has let his
farms to English tenants, on a lease of twenty-one
years, at twenty-flee shillings an acre, and undertakes
to pay all the poor-rates for them.
The importation into Dublin this week of fresh
American pork has startled some of our Irish graziers.
Mr. Smith, a Dublin provision merchant, has been
the importer of fifty pigs packed in ice, and they were
perfectly sweet and fresh.