The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-13 00:00:00

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The &evils mane will be made op Rio de Janeiro• to be con-
veyed by. Hid. schooner Silkier. The poetage on letter. ea for-
warded wit: be at the rate of 2w id. the half.ounee from the port of
despatch, and 2s. 94. the tulf ounce from anyother part of the United
Kingdom ; and newspapers will be liable to a cbarge of 2d. each. AU
lettere intended to be sent by this vowel must be epecially addrerned
By H.N.A. Spider." The Spider is expected to 801 l on the morning
of the 12th inst.

The Meat India tool,, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras. and
the Ilantsnah, will be motto up on the morningof the 18th October.
The malls for Vigo. Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up en the morning of the 18th October.
The mane for Britiith North America, Beomodo, and the United
Matra, will be reads up on the evening of the 18th October.
The overland mail, for Gibraltar. Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
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The overland rioted malls, Me Marseilles, to the Meditemneen.
gent, Aden, Gellert, fedi., Hang Kong, Mt., will be made up en the
evening of the 2 th October.
malla for New !Muth Halm, Van Diamen'a lend, and New
remand will be made up on the evening of the let November.
The mails for the Kurile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Penmen-
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13.

MINISTERS have again re-assembled after their
enjoyment of sumrger leisure and distraction. Cabinet
councils have comMenced, and, it is understood, will
be held frequently for some time : the questions
which press for attention and solution being such as
will not wait, however hazardous to decide. Still the
prorogation to so early a day as the 11th of Nov. is
considered to indicate a desire to call parliament
together, and provoke its opinions on the demands
of trade, instead of ministers boldly cutting the knot
of 1844, or even untying a portion of it by an order
in council.

There are also other weighty considerations, apart
from the currency, though not unconnected with it.
It is time to mark out in what direction ministers
arc to progress next session, and how they are to
had a new parliament, which it will be necessary to
captivate and command by baldness, in order to lead
it at all.

The first session of the new parliament will, neces-
sarily, be occupied, whether for good or for evil, in
legislating upon those questions of finance which so
pre-eminently affect the well or ill-being of the
people of England and of Scotland, as well as upon
the seemingly eternal perplexities of Irelacd. Nor can
the financial affairs of the latter be,u hitherto, slurred
over.

The duration of the present income tax will legally
expire before the next session ends. The whole sub.
ject, therefore, of taxing the inhabitants of the British
isles, in order to pay the ordinary and extraordinary
expenses of the empire, and the interest of that bur-
' den' which we most denominate the hereditary mort-
gage on the whole property and productive industry
of the nation, will be irresistibly forced upon the
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. And, if we are not
greatly deceived in our appreciation of several of the
senators who sat in the lest, and of many of those who
have become members of the new, parliament, the
country may expect that the renewal of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'A income tax will not be voted as a mere formal
act, without a fearless and intelligent exposition of
the equitable difference—as between subjects of state
revenues and profits of all realised property, and the
incomes derived from temporary sources.
The country will also compel its representatives to
bring under legislative consideration the monster
drievances of the whole excise system. The excise
uties on bricks and hops are partial taxes, for why
not tax other crops on the field as well as hops ; and
why not tax stone as equitably as bricks? The only
argument for taxing the latter is, that bricks are
made, ard the tax can be easily levied, whereas stones.
are found in most places in a natural state, and it
would require the whole British army and navy too,
so long as there are rocks, to levy taxes on stones.
Paper and soap are also obnoxious taxes ; and all
the excise burdens are especially.odious, inquisitorial,
oppressive, and tyrannical. For it must not be
forgotten that the execution of the laws and regula-
tions of this branch of the revenue, is entrusted to
subordinate officers with miserable salaries, who,