The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Praide's Pocket Boat; The COIlliC Alesamee; Ti Re-
fonner's AMU. iC The Eesi•trant's diseassos; The
Protestant Dissenter's Atnsnisste, for 1850.
The first almanacs for 1830 which appeased on our
table were Punch's Pocket-Book and the Comic
Almanac. The merry fellows were the first with
their greeting; natural enough, that the light
bodies should rite first. Yet Punch has a deal of
serious matter in the book ho hoe prepared for the
pocket. A judge or a c metier, f.r all their gravity,
might mike nee of it. Some of the headings and
'ketches are admirable Lord Brougham sits
heading the " Home of Peers," as the British lion
does "the state." The House of Commons has no
heading, not even of Peel or Sibthorp. This is a
political reflection on the nullity of the heads of
pectin. The Bank is typified by three Californian
diggers, going venire a terre. The army is repre-
sented by the Duke. Public offices by the most
veracious and epirittll sketch in the volume.
Hackney-coacher, admirable, by Punch paying his
fare. Health of Towus by the grey and juvenile
Morpeth. Public amusements by Habilis en action.
But we can go no farther; the reader may pay and
peep for himself.
The Comic Almanac boasts Cruikshank and
Mayhew, and recalls poor Hood. " Before and alter
Marriage" are worthy of him. But Quilt/thank
ought to cut his pencil and grow young again.
The Reformers Altnanac, so excellent last year,
keeps np its character. It contains, amongst other
things, excellent and separate accounts of all that was
dune in the last parliament or in the country during
the year en the subjects of financial reform, ecclesias-
tical reform, and colonial reform. The pith of Blue-
books will here be found ; and, u a stink l?, we give
the following, entitled :

Tlia TAILS ON INOWLIDON.
It is time that Englishmen tither ceased to bout of their
intelligent)e and glory in their free press, oe abolished the
financial restrictions which check the progress of the one
and practiosily inv.& the freedom of the other. As it is,
they allow that to he done by a tax which they would indig-
nantly denounce were it effected by a law ; and that which
the Attorney-Cieneral may not ctanapt on the plea of " pub.
lie order,' the Chancellor of the Eschequer aecompliehee
without difficulty on the plea of " public us." In the
year 1848 upwards of a =Mien and a quarter of the public
income was derived from imposts acting both directly and
indirectly as metrical, ns on the interchange of thought and
the diffusion of knowledge among the people, viz.—
, Duty on ferries books £7,647 13 7
N on papa
„ on advertisemento 183,016 19 0
Newspaper stamps

£1,266,733 15 6
The duty on foreign books chiefly affects a eomparatively
small slum, and pens only a small sum; but te levy a tax
on the brains of foreigner u at the best but • pitlfel expe-
dient for eking out the resources of • greet nation. The
paper duty necessarily Increases the cost of publications of
every class, and that cost le still farther ineressed by the
duty on the advertisement* required to give them pubfiaty.
A newspaper circulation 10,000 copies a day, pays probably
3,4501. a year for paper duty alone.
The cost of the paper used by the Messrs. Chambers in
their series of cheap tracts was 26,7681. Of this sum 6,4311. DEAR Po6T+oll.—At the Wolverhampton police
wes for paper duty, being nearly tour times as mutt as was wart, on Monday, Mr. John Rims, a respectable farmer,
paid for authorship, end nearly half as much as the cost of living at Upper Ganal, appeared to answer to an informs,
printing. Meows. Chambers state that the government, tion, preferred at the iostance of the Post.office authorities,
which underwent neither toil nor risk, has reaped a greater charging him with refusing to pay the sum of Bd. being
share of profit from the enterprise than they themselves the amount of the perinea of an unpaid letter, posted at
have, and that, but for the paper duties, they should have Landoa, directed to Mr. Bitson, at Gana Mrs. Maria
followed it up by another periodical plan equally beneficial Cartwright, postuistress at Oornal, stated that she received
character. the letter in the usual way on the 26th of August, and rent
The **wasp's' press has to bear the burden of the paper, it by the letter carrier, Mary Evans, to Mr. Aileen. Mary
the advertisement, and the stamp duties combined. The Evans said she tuck the letter to Mr. Ritson's house, and
paper pays • tax of lid, per pound—every newasper has delivered it with another letter to Mr. Riteon's servant
to pay • tax of a penny for the stamp—and every advertise- girl, who took it into the house. She (wham.) waited at
meat which it contains a tax et Is. ad. These exactions the door from five to ten minutes, when Mr. Rayon came
are enforced by rigid restrictions and severe penalties. Any to her and put the letter into her basket, saying she must
publication sold at lees than 61., or occupying lees than two take it back to Mrs. Cartwright, to send to the dead
large sheets, and published at Intervals not exceeding 21 letter office. She (witness) did not know whet was In the
days, and containing any public intelligence, or comments letter. It was in a petite* state when she delivered it ; not
on public events, is deemed to be a newspaper, and mast open as it is now. Ann Haycock, servant to Mr. Ruyan,
pay the triple tax. Any one possessing • single copy of said she took in the letter, which ked very dirty, as if it
ea uneseutoed paper is liable to a penalty of 201. ; and for had been carried. in the pocket, and the corners had been
dletriliwthig espies, t a penalty of 601. A printer, for pos- were • good deal. It was not more than two minutes
ssering aOW may have all his presses seised and units. before the letter was returned. Mr. Ritson felt it in his
Gated, his dun being brokea open for the purpose of hied • he did ant break the seal, nor did be epee it at all.
COLSTON'S DAT IN BRISTOL.—The anniversary of sank. To& limning from the Bench whether Mr. Ram attempted
the piens and benevolent Edward Colston, the founder of so In this instance, es in others, the middle and working to open it, the wham answered more than ones evasively.
many excellent charitable and oduatioaal establishments in classes are more heavily tined than those above them. The Mary Evans said that when Mr. Ritson returned the letter
the city of Bristol, occurred on Tuesday, and wee observed duty on paper, while it minuet the cost of expensive works the end was opened, bat not quite all the way. Mr. Ritson
with the usual respect the bells of St. Mary R aicliff sad All in so slight • degree as to be scarcely appreciable, forms so himself said one of the corners protruded, and he pushed It
Sams' churches ringing muffed peals, and the various so. large a proportion of the cost of thee? publications, that, as In with his thumb. Mr. Fleetwood, who appeered for the
entire formed to commemorate the virtess ead imitate the already shown, it affects their very exuarn&Ve. Anima of a defendant, erns examined Mrs. Cartwright, ter the purpose
'crumple of the deceased, dining together at the lisysl penny on • newspaper published at finpence is a tax of 25 of showing that the letter bad been written at Sedgley or in
Gloucester, White Lion, and Moategue Hotels. The Anchor per neat.' but on one published at twopence would bee tax its n.iehl.ourhood, and sent to London and thence to Gor-
Society (liberal) wag pr skied over by John Mercier, junior, of 60 per cent., or at a penny of 100 per cent., which, with nal, for the purpose of annoying Mr Ritson. She said she
Esq , and the collection amounted to MI. 10s. 6.1. The the paper duty, amounts to an absolute prohibition. thought the direction wes written by the husband of a
right worshipful the Mayor, J. E.. Htherfield, Beg., took The advertisement duty is equally diaprcportionate. All woman she knew, because she had reerived letters sent by
t • chair at the Dolphin (wry), where37ol. war collected advertiser, pay alike, irrespective of their means and their him to his wise. They were now in London, bat she knew
for the general purposes of the charity, and a special fund wants. Five lines pay the same tax as a column—a servant nothing of the letter ; nor had she spoken to the w^man
of 1501. for the relief of inaderen by cholera. At the Grate- girl seeking for • place, as her ladyship offering a reward tor more than two or three times. The Bench were of opinion
fill Society (neutral), presided over by Joseph Leech, Req , the recovery of her jewels—the penny pamphleteer, as the that there had been an appropriation of the letter by Mr.
MI. was raised, making an e snit collected for .huhauthor of the wetly quarto—the struggling trader peeing Rhine, and directed the postage to be paid, and expenses,
asualeat purposes of stu vir dy 1 .his Wen% ere the inillionsint tolling his estate,. The emu *amounting in the whole to 11.45. 2d.
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-BATHS AID WASS

HOVBES.—Tke court of imistaate of the Grocer's Cimino,
have contributed an edditional ass of 1001. [maims WOO
in aid of the funds of the Coussittes for Frosseedag the
netabliehment of Baths and Waahhoases for the Labouring
Clumps, towards the completion of the model establislun at,
fionistos square, Whiternapel. We learn with satisfaction
that the first and seeendulems, is number 94, have been go-
to work 'gain, but trilling dung, having been done to this
put of the establishment daring the meat fire. The repairs
Tethered necessary to the washing department will be pr,-
°elided with as rapidly as possible fa order that this im-
portant branch of the establishment may De re-opened
early in the miming year for the aeomamodation of
the numerous poor who reside is the locality of fipital-
fields and Whitechapel, and by whom the partial closins of
the establishment is greatly deplored. It is the desire of the
committee to complete the whole of the southern ranges of
the washbasin, with the drying, manglios, and ironing
compartments at the suns time the repairs are proceeding,
And so soon as the funds to be collected for this purpose wlil
warrant the °ors:nines incurring the liability.

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CLERICAL.
P.,
L. NICIIIITIMOALT. to Hatremble
Imaremsba, dim Manchester ; value 1501.. with re
1.
p.m's', Rector of Bury. I. dcholeflold, WA.,
Bogle@ Preform of Creek is Ma Usimnity of Cambridge
(sad P. C. at fit. Cambridge), aueemes to tie
esamary la Ely Cathedral (sow aim zed to tog Realm
Omsk). neat by tho Neal the Rev. W.
irePitr bbt- • Table, 0001,
7 iivity, to tko Xatteraiiiii Takao* at Queen's
Ostler, Iltrialaghaat,
B. 0. Prlarri. lIA to the Mathematical Mastership
et St. Petm's &boa, York.
Veracious —Palpates! Caney, Thoeye, coasty sad
ariertio. York rater, 4W., with moidoaco ; paeans,
Demers ; Ray. B. S. Clarks. arommed. Maaterscil hem
Collage, Csmbaldp ; gat., Wang of ; Rat. W. Irremch.
AM denim 1.
arterehip el Royal Naval Salami, Maw mom. 0•1491 -
Grammar sad Second Clinical Maitership ; UAL, with
board and opticians ; teatimes's* Wad.
Rheumy —Madras Wee, se, aid Yeah ; alai
TOIL ,• pat; Lord Chasidim ; Rim. W. Preack, D D ,
tamed.

NAVAL.
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tits coast S': W. SUM.
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molest the Fos* frigate Pout, is numb. lift Poo
ship to Otbeoltor.

SPORTING.