The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-17 00:00:00

FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Oa Wednesday amnia( a public meeting of the
emishars and kinds of this body was held to the Concert. ,
Mr. Robs:Mon occupying the chair.
illtpet"=l—the chair Mr. Rossano, addressed the
mean at coadderablepitith. He sailed that taxation
eighti to be levied sad • to the purposes tar which it
ems estemdbly knelled, Mier than Wag maandierod is
idle and saprodastin eassaban of misty.
Mill."1"711111XCIS Boor Tommeded at groat length to show
the lempreality of taxation In this country so fee se it rs.
Wei to ankles of general ameamptios, indicting those
with souls taker the heads of Rides sad Customs. I
=nof the quad.= of wide and toey, or ens faction •
or, the reform mart be one of pomade, shillings
and mace ; and when a esadidate came befogs the elector
en Me hustings, end talked about " our glorious emtatitu-
elem Is church sad state, " end this canary tong the " envy
strroandiag natiems,aad the admiration of the world,"
the people of this country should just ask him haw math
he would spot the matey, Gad to what I
theme ho was to veto apes tho viatica of the re- I
Salim of Um nraditun. (Applause.)
Ilk. A. C. EITZWILAT, is reference to our 11011141/111 ATOM
sib these ferose, there are two points which
• pm* irslws most unmistakeably to our minds and
Ada., disk pose aad prosest cod, sad from thaw again
metural qauilloa arisea—is it absolutely necessary
that the messmarias of life should be so taxed sad the
of ladistry s
so orampad and dried up to uphold
these strain *wets ? Are all the world ready to pounce
igen as if we Mum them, or is the Woo reason of their
=ore up to knish combrtabli, gentlemanly, and in-
satiate= foe our deserving aristocracy ? I think
(matisued Mr. Stewart) we shall be coovinord that tbe lam
WY true reason, after we have made a slight lamsetion.
(Ilkeir.) It Is tabulated that sines Charles U. 's time—bakes
Ima there ups little debt, ter the arkteerasy paid the taxis
Mao nuts ef Weir laude—antfightipt
_Mem -have spent in
was three thaemmad mad saddled as with a alit of
▪ milliose. Now this is a ma may preasenesil, but not
mashy , and you ma wily get • glimpse of its
memltaM Say ions denim wok moths lillowing :—Tube Ike
of great Brits& sal Inked at IS all.
Nemo =thailsbt by this namilisr.ormi Is lassos
i anz
or
et ma ineksh, Swink and Iris,lris,mem.
INA ISL &be ens have le P•77lll2lthas
202111,012 kir WY war 1,20 s. for ay human
Wks In there three So much, thence,, for its past
nosh sow kr km repeat The army, &e., estimates are
wilier fir this year, which is 14s. 3d. for every sae—
Ming awl matt cost together 14a. 3d. per head for every
kbableant. Them calcuL3oas give us some idea of the cost
Omar, bat they by no MISSY place the subject in it. strongest
light ; for every one knows that pauper. produce sotet
wealth,
sad that young children can produce none ; and if you deduct
111.101 two large dames of the commusity from the total, the
liabilities of the prim sabjects become enamor indeed.
(Applause.) Bat if we demand from generalidee Is parties-
bus, we do not Gad matters mend. Oar steadies army 1100.
mists 01123,992 rank sad Me officered by 5,734 ganismon,—
met who spurn ft boort trade or the profmaka ofa merchaat,
but who, amorthakm, dabble in the 00111/10SkIS market foe
their cows aggetitlisomeat. Now can this force be wanted for
pratestiaa f We (emphatically my no ; because it la more ex-
padre aid larger, alter 35 years of pesos. than it was in the
scarping Unroof woe ; because the police SWOP have been
roved amply adkisat to put down any attempt of the tea:ba-
lsa' to disturb the pubis. pram. But than they my war
may some ;—ere'll allow that it may, and what is the ion-
daska—that we are paying 14s. 3d. a head to keep met in
eomfortable lodgings, wholesome rations, and gay clothing,
beams then is a pomibility that they may be wanted some
time. (Hear.) woad any master do so with servants—
would my manufacturor do so with men—wou:d any
mmeheat do a ia his ones? Amusedly no; and why
lama a government do so ? Bat we must not reduce ths
may, or what would become of the colitis. and your large
'spats M them? Do mot the taxpayers of this coun__ tse Pay
Or hal regiments In the West Indies. Newfoundland, Ca-
=llatta. the Ca and Crylot, coking about 21/0,0001. ?
It tot pandble to pay more foe a Idles than
it le
youth ? What, lot me ask, do our attacks cod N ?
4,000,0001. a year, and our exports amount to 9,000,0001..
ass mullet sent to Gibraltar to be smuggled
hats ; so that it costa us about 9s. to pretest every
IS.. worth of awls. Do you call this craned= to
immares and maaaketares ? Again take a comparison with
ea sideolsay. la 1844 our exports to the United State. ware
8,003,0001,, a sea equal to our bona fads eolosial export.,
sad the as out us 4,000,0001., the other 16,0001. for diplo.
Made salaries, tn., sad this small rum might be reduced, i
bet
_sy Pay our ualserelor at Wailtiogton mon that the
'memos pay the President of the United Static This
thefts we hold to be fallacious. Let our rulers gin the
toioniis th• prim of seltgovernment, and they will protect
tbereselvm. Bat this would sot suit oar Do .street
Seedthaet, for at admits are political property, and Met-
moth* and sierietuyshlps aro the rewards for sums spent
la cos elections, and In favour of the party la
Pass% It be adtho tam, why have the coloniets
as power over their civil lists ? why is the civil list of
British Gaiaaa, with its 100,000 population, 29,0001.,
eM that of he state of New York, with its 2,000,000,
only between 6,0001. sad 6000/. ? or why do we pay 2.6004
mars massy to oar fwar North American governors than
the thirty emus of the Cake pay to their thirty governors.
La as sew teak a little mire minutely lute the composition
weer Ins?, sad hue we Sad that the fashionableMathew'
wbo hoe a mart lila, sal seldom leave London, cost very
ruilimeethaa them regiments whodo whatlittlo work there
fits pielina, thee thilatiown greatly over-officered, and that
.117 Moll with war aristocracy, while the younger
thee ere sent tithe ether regiments ; that each man Oulu-
wigs he
Ihe Istthsbnitagster Horse Gourds costs 681. 145. 41d.,
the Chard. costs 551. 151. 41. Again, the
eserakir Guards art OIL 4s. 101 d., while the let Itet;
moat of laksky el the the assts 281. 175. Now, why this
ram dawns. ? Hoak. • sanity regiment has usually
Mem 38 ofkko—this kthisnabis corps, headed by F.M. the
ask
Dtbilmo 130; • nutmeat lass generally one liesionant-colo-
- Ise WM-9 Maass and lieutenants, this has 30.
Lk" kosch lmiliers, with Priam Albert at its head, bus 72
"ew. I
_!ad th we&zogit with • whole host of Howard.,sad and other aristocratical name,
Ist PsY they remind from the national pun.
tat 7th, time will not remit, so I will only read you the
as*" nest Wks of your sheers:—The lid of gen- mils
Maths tba MAU of 3 kings, 2 princes, 1 royal duke,

eranan tint. 3 Masan a Mk, 1 AMU% 9 ken.
howashise, and 3 rides hersarables besides a hod of baro.
ass sad rary knights, di et whew nag together as the
mantas Olin
$4 ens , anterieg—in ell,
264 ge OD sends, 131nesis, lidebeing
ra
irste= 141reerah kr reekeset Wehave also Sll
abode in the army, an MG taken 'akin a
toed 41,025, et 7 .--..dies aims to every regimen in
the anise I Takiag se an sewage 133 esienele with their
taegimils,
Id then
re wend olds memia 306 resealed retired. pay
da : , lanes IN ,in
arras with desk regly srands, hem the tin saner se the
away list, there will nuns 424 ; 1011 of whom ars ire-
salving lealf:Eay, at Ile. per day for dokg. sanag. Bat
yea ssy—" Why ere sea mastreas jobs than ?" Sim-
ply this way. Like the Jews, our oligarchy have a law, and
.tey toll " pritnegoeiture," which Adam Smith says means
a clew- rain, in order to senth on beaus all the rest
ef the Widen ; " read this law is swan es preserve the peat
bbeeric names of oar easiest nobility! Wen, the pager
ass ate thut left oat, and, beteg too reed to bar, and era-
Meng it bass& their dirdty to eager in anything modal,
meet have gensesaaly newness gasted them, add
their parsed est bin wines to ree dna, seedy per-
meth us to de Y; soil a we thd then is ter.,
the army, nary, ghee* asiesiga, sad home end fo•
wigs coon But joss say the Henn el Oedema
wee the applies, a ant at allow seek attars,
ase. They ken thee, and have provided "plat it ;
kr, nem mini the Zebra Bill, tin did it t el the
11:461 Willa MOW pewee la th. Home a o:miLass ;
an le ender to show therany bale set =kneaded, !tear
this: Get of the 666 nab= of the Reese of Coesesola we
haw .doped so in then 21111 who are nein or lb*
randisis essanees of diem There are six mar-
rine who are eldest sees of poses; seven earls, who an
nest soos of pate; eistreases laid who are sees of
peers sad Irak leads; ass bashed and thirty-three bre-
this, sons, sad immediees relatives of peers ;
busses related an beiongins to des eristeeney ; tweet,-
de
dint seal an laisiate retraces of barons ;
diktrave haled ereedases, married to lien dash-
des, in, of poses. Tin yea keys three naked an
oldierese pans, or • soandfog rare* is what is
lasi the peoples hoess, for the mantesesse of a war
estehlklement sad othial ensagasee. Rave 1 mid
te prove that it is for dose sad pradea, sad sot
S▪ e
preeteden, that the any is kept apt I thin I have.
Anew me sow to .11 urea yea to ass an yen insoles
to pat as sad to this dines, en rainy expemitars If
pea wide to gee trade does ish—if yea wish to inensee our
yea wide allies% a trade with Chlaa—if
re trt keep ear wills ping—if ye wish to see ea
meth Med with isweltandies; and ear parloassees=l
-win lewd dim inastry from its pretest "dames b
led Ilk axe ethy be done by redacts( oar admit apes&
tare ; awl we Wan our governors to be juste time, kw
then ere sesselso at work, and senemoste eammeneed,
whisk will as.. be relaxed until jostles be dose, or ustil
the Men el Commons be made indeed the Commas
item ef Paelisnesat, and until the middle ad industrious
dame of this sentry have that fir share in the adestais-
Oaks eat aide which their wealth, their *okra their
Irhary, led this wonky donne.
Ni. Inn ening said, the three trued which had already
base Ishilin by the asseation shown the worlds, of the
=la the led treat the nil lie ins gives, and it
Irwin Ilkerale wee clambered, leader all mania
dike /glue., * pare mein se salaried noun In °S-
ae ea wain Then wax • Gran Teleran st 1,2001. a
yew. dn. the Crams bed so hawks for his " Grace " to
heir aide—asa were Gad thin a Wendt an Silver
Ode is Wanes, ead he was ewe if theme rail to be Lord
11/thedik Wader there rani be Enkindled
stisha" pried sneer' an min is to take the nee,
if it yielded • Wary. It bed bees shwa how, with rapist
to the tea dudes on Oboe asthma of Inset leer
dos, not oaly mosey wee imeepadenany tokin dna
the banner thin bee Irak wee— many Modred, Ina
whisk le be mode Wen tan nevi be
requkaimiser 1121Inensi Fithian el the dip were •
of the emesistin he weedd rep le all the Weft
no
=Wa the Lad, " Praised la main wen& I
enn be threw. in nee way sp.es ond
mew la every prellsethe art, sad awry possiW essemer.
dal heinas' • bat when you have made mosey, I shall
relthe • his share et it for goventieg sad protesting yea
wale pernag year en interests- " (Cheers) Mr. Smith
was sue the eery to sea ea ant= wend be a universal
" raison," beam se iegiblussa wished to do otherwise
;has pay handsomely for ray maim he resolved from the
State. (Hers, hear, sad appkas.) At present, however,
trade wee penned, sad theamade of weelth-producers were
idle sad dimmed, though sarthie of amino every eve
fort. By unjust deities they were impoverished; by ena-
mel' hes, as seder the paint laws, their Seventies talent
was dismuraged and dawned, while, is obtaining an act of
parliament lb, impronmeate they were again taxed snot-
measly ke ha whin yielded no revenue. In the
ease of the &ahead Are, for Instate*, unopposed as It
wee, and managed by net respectable solicitor', the
eon to be allowed ade what was right amounted to
1,6001 (" ") In every way the productive
peers were mailed rinsed classes, sod indirect
maks In the shape eldslin ea commodities was resorted
tees the keret mews of saltratiog the many to the sup-
ped nide inseath for. Lard ink, nee aware of this
when en:r lapinad mike= le as[i property tax as
sees a taratunds to aseere et iodi-
nate whim It thaw Den the plena emenmer as
musk es ruse the tithed;
inbeleddes, is ediestiog the
reennest taxes, plates an were moth abundant,
.dism the anew so laved ia 'fish plass was
torpid. An ems it set abseed, even new, when sanitary
law nee meld reikellen, sad unitary measures pat
la hese mike sidelined's, and the people were &derail
to be eery, and to live in good and well ventilated
drallrage, that then aeon be sontinued a tea oa soap,
• tax es Whits, sal a to on light itself ? Trade
nos tat any hindered, sad
elleror overtaxed, bat
bank boll was made too e to be the poi•
ties el dm peers at large. His f d, the Bolton trades-
:ewes a cal.n alluded on a former public occasion, was
plushy wad is his sans of what ought to be the bath
of legislation. He sei4 "It I were a member of parlia-
ment, end • bill was mbmittwi to my opinion, I would in-
quire, Is it forth* rend the rest mass of the people ?-11 not,
is is seesething 'raki, M mat repass. If it be to benefit
the hunk ineariess deer, all is right; let it pees. And
this," said ha, " skald be atpulley ; bean If the work-
.Z4l elm", ! my.du rape° es Alley
ateiastt I dined& hen kaarabletheage ; the farTeursarel
lowlioonior peasta • hater slate of things, and all are bene-
fited; bans the width and upper skims are only sand
sad Ned mestsasseell spa the mikes of working ma
n;
if they temp piesper—lf they suffer, all -
fle nil waser, Inge tended wiedem. (Chen) " Aad
✓ow," said Mr. Smith, addressing the wipaatmes is the
aadeses, " mess* the met subject
that sea be enamel Oyear attestion, I hope it will
leek deeply late year Ow at the beet measures for
Lyour geed, as aad dthe telling Wien would be to
the apiwtw eel eppreesiveldrate taxation of the
sentry se a system of them wades, irapiring from every
elan his proper share of sash taxation, as seenemy sad ja-
des would render hominy sad absolutely neemery. Bat I
am told, and the council of the Aroeistion had been told,
that the workbag dna is made be be beselled by the
sings would sot submit to pep to as seen tax
gatherer, their penes of the geareasset expenditere ; that
thank they would be saving, lady, esuideable moray in
the prise of tea, inn rerw, son beer, nen,
batter, theme, do., and wend ibel a extraordinary relief
by the shags, they would be a impeevidest as to spend
all their Isieems, and se be nprovided let the just de.
! minds of the state. it ides be heeded in truth, all
attempts to improve year essithe will be hailing,
eat rand taxation most be mainen. I for one, beweerse,
will hope lise better tier I see that workbag ma me
save lama for nut el eking Ind person to their
dubs ; they have idly, thenne, to become spasmasis a
lit father, and the diamters they would ets and
be enormeas. There is no nag to than that, knead of
the Neese, now taken hose yes in Lies es ankles of use,
one.balf would be amply snidest (the propertied okras
paying trair doe share, eat reenrimeet big emsbeetra pro-
perly), bat if you save the whaled dee fiestinemse, sad enjoy
ens salt the difference in isensimi cents kr yeaselves
Ind Lollies, in better food, better &thin& better shaker,
sad better edscation, or reserve a pan kr the Mare,
yea mest saapelo,usly lay by the other hilt for the state,
whisk has a perfect right to it. (Applause.) To
this amount you must enter upon a serious financial
skean yourselves, and promote it in every direction.
Dina taus would enforce date economy, and strict atten-
dee to it, on the part of the wealthier and law making
slams, for evea variation in the Geed baronterorouldjle very
henry significant to them ; they would keep the minister
to a rata amount; and is like maser they would, if pro-
perly viewed, induce habits of forethought and calculation in
you, who, In the major:rad of good tins and sheep articles
of food, would be able to lay by what would be due to the
tax gatherer, and you would assure him when be called that
yea wan reedy, and that you had ream to rejoice in a
tinge whisk had rued you in the tree position of &Tin-
a's and freemen, proud and jealous of the bleating, not
saddled with Ina that good chap government, and not
being so annuonable as to require more. (Chan )
The CilAtahlAW intimated that If any person in the meet-
ing wished to express his opinion on those matters which
had been brought forward, he would be Wend to with great
attention and defenses.
As no one cams forward, Mr. lon Vinci, ten., made
some observe :one as to the fin
to of the anoration.
He stated that their 81st object was to lessen the national
expenditure—seeond, to economies the collection of the
tans—and, third, to devise a more equitable satin of
taxation by substituting direct for isdinet taxes. It
wee quite aaneceseary that he should go Into particulars
a the subject ; he would, therefore, state to them what the
association had already dose, sod what was its pre-
sent position. They had been in existence about seven
months, and had at present 5.50 =graben. (Aprenee.)
Alum :est of Se. ensue* entitled any person m be a
and lot 10s. they Writ receive all the 'Milo
dens is:era by the assonation. They were sot, at rain
demitute of fleancet, and had mildest to meet all mars
meats, leaving a mall Winos besides. Dudes the ease
months they had been in existeses they had ./ended 5115
bet • and el/expenditure had new bets enneelei nide
andered it seconery that the fans should be amenen in
ceder that the unfold= of the asseciathe my he Wiens&
—As Franks made lusown—aad t span insemetion a-
kin to the taxation we are now eafferfas to the lerthest
mint of the cowry, so that labile apnea may be knight
ep See is such a way, that no government should be able es
'an it. He tasted that all their kiss& fa Linseed end
ether planes would eon lensed to nada -*lace. If
the And-Curn Lew Lean which hat 'ray in sliest le
view—that of rend es on obesains in, .sin rake
50,0001, then 100,0001 sad afterward" a queen of a
rallies, surely they, hagg a note gram object ia view,