The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDA Y, FEB. 19.
Tgs advaatmes of a osnatintiornal sad moments-
tin system of govorameat en toe may, tea
sad too well proved te aisle et big iposemsel ar
&tied ; aad yet ear gestande sad nerd dor that
adds form of government aught not to hhad M me
of its dams, asyseially as that besot is the pheepal
blemish apse the system, and the priacipel asses of
the ombirramamits which beset it ia flaandel extra-
"Mitad popular dissonant.
aprossatativo goveramosts have of mares been
administrations of themwn of property, at that po-
pery
as, for most prevalsat and m Zsgimes
wwas, ages , the gevernmsel dam el Labs }s
Clot etherk: ciVret PraltriPert7' sought
berm
of the star. Thole Ant effort was to throw taxation
imam mauls repot, at upon that funitaro which
was the Olga *fees eithimi forms and accumulation;
than upoa the equal of their own produce,
snob as wool ; thin lath bade, to eTryy branch
of which some moaspokes erasers dusk like bum-
eke to a 'Ws bodge, IE lesson emssaworthy.
Moped° monsrobs Aided math atom almtnally
their sableeds from Wired awed" eel admit what
same they did rain in aviary groat proportisa lam the
bad ; whilst it Ina in mobilise or fres stank like
Selma and Basked, that indirect tamales took
root, the swords; classes lining the mere ber-
ths of the podia 'retributions upon the mem of the
sonsemws.
Bach a system of tandem woe potable t
ry; count
rapidly istroorm in dames and iada ins
country whore the alma he all kinds of labour
skilled sad makillsul was sentinually
and whore sonssimmel the edgmaalt=
adroitly wept la sad ills' with the demob el the
industricar, turbo sefinges Mktg together as a
tree may grow sad lisarbk whale tits tl;Mned
one day to maather less at first bat adorni it and
add to its voodoos Home, during the war, indirect
taxation was 116 ft hat, the very souress of it being
swelled by theass d the taxation spout on the
emosmiag clams And the massienonass that the
astisa was psyng tar both sat of its very vitals
won dthrted till our age, whin the demands for
Mrs ban slashmod,ar bums Ohl ; sad when the
burden of iodine& turbo, be.. by the consumers
a maegroas sad Ming spook, am rush them in
sad doses*
"Nothing therseme sea be mere lsgithnate or imps.
relive than the my kr a return to direct taxation.
This is the spurs d emmoial reform that is aimed at
by the Noticed Osalsantion formed at Liverpool,
whose adieu to the seastitamolos et the maws we
paldbh in ma Inset unbar. And we think it is •
epees cenems that, meld it be realised, would at
case somprim sad ass masts all others.
Then is not as armament pot forth, not a fact as-
meted in their alias, that is not porforly
and completely tras. No me can doubt that indirect
taxation is a milk to abreast from the pockets
of the crowd is that mast wad way, which,
when prastind by indleidnele. emir them to the gaol
sad the dock. No me ma bay that it praise as
dithrost alum with aid= thaptility t so that,
la the words of the trandhattlea.
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Foe dis protsslits stosiesi kolll the Mats, he operative
obsess psi Awl ossielf of hob bosses, tko middle slants
was-issetk of tkoho, sot he 'tubby slams oily
twentieth part.
We dash' that the burdens apoa either middle or
lower cisme are here stated with sealoisnt strength.
Bat the We red results are too patent to need de.
noestratisa. The Weida to trade is no where
Utter shown than in the address :
Te ett alum sologad is trade he lodized system
kosib t with Hill haffur evils. Of the limy hose sr
etuward osossoof *sir betimes a begsportios assisto
de seek Is woe emit deism. end wale. whir
Nat low is 'meshed is i< The menet et
estesl es lest te the hum of fay one
yew is post, mg leads to ousimbe soh et beak.
ropey asi wide it Ohmic) woroklast sow. To
rim se a
mtiiaendtr baffett
ereente asobaisis.seqviesankowers
owe es tea dealer, lobe not sleet with it Gerbil of 1,0001.
Of this sin t e gowswwwit hands 11111. abort of TOOL
be Oda, while As rombh. osia a about SPX is ell the*
the reader los to oany ea kb bush= with. His capital
he trealag Impose Is is hot Mosel to hat amount.

The w;iderr his been why_ lea at so dear,
taking into account the raiss of do id mot,
and even the exorbitant amount of dray. Hon
rarely is meson esdeient.
It would, however, be a wean of word' and argu-
ment to seek to prove the unfairness of indirect
taxation. What is required to be proved is the
fsaaibility of raising oar present amount of taxes by a
direct r ia. From two hundred, or even two
and seventy millions of memos, how are we
to raise sixty tallow annually by direct taxation P
The answer, no doubt, is, we do tone them ;
and oat of this natiteal incense all of it must come
that is not filched from the earner and the operative.
Tres, again—very Ins; bat then are nth things as
di affection and diseoraeat. And the lower class,
whoa we ere rat to look upon as turbulent and den-
proms, an, after all, the mast patient and the least
apt to r:n againstiniestim The poor man will pay
ignorantly and contentedly from 100 to 400
per cent upon his daily beverage; bat the
citizen will not pay ten per emat income tax
without patting his shoulder to the pillars which
the state, and threatening to pail them down
andthe edifies with it.
Then, •ftl, really productive traits', is by no
means ilx It has wimp, its wain have wills; and
if you take one-foorth or craellitk of the capi-
talist's reveane, the capitalist wid porder on the
praibility -of transferring his =say and his es-
gusty to some region when the tax man
is somewhat less mason. Thelfational Confedera-
tion ii, we dor* way, able to meet r sea eldestiens;
and ready to the se its bodg!t sad prognumar. Lit
it do so. TM ellsolty bast ast in. proving in-
direct taxation lapitees and pernicious, bat in
meowing that direst tozattzhes.maried to the fall, is
hasible under our preen!

Tan sun vs amide tho nature sad
the mime wirer _Metes mss maid to
=4 to the legiistars for the ausedmaTh=d;
limns mom deeply we aro Impressed with
the faspday and *Mos el massing the property of
the western hear& hem its stinting liability,
while the niters sremayers are to be taxed to mks
up the defleisasy. We do not object to a aational
rats is aid to preeidsin port far as unexampled eel-
gooey. in the peed for sae year
or two, =upon the whole property of the
Elvin as a Natter of nonal chanty and
modal duty is not, after all, so grievous an upped-
tion. It nay not be Want at least it is not in
the abstract us** . it to be but for the
mad= staled. sad to the musat nuesd, it
on hardly be hit to boa seism depression to hider
Mactiithe one hand, or anon enceuregessont to
on tae other. Nos do we believe that the
People of Untie sad Bator wend my pottier
ateatly obteet to bang subjected to sash a ambits-
lb" roosted they could be soniasod that their
loolikaaere in Oman& had dams their hest and were
boossfitie eadie toils aura Bat nobody as to pay
lit I=o A. sad a
which weak' be wee pe job was serer
Gatmisstate:4s
while aan la sill war wanted haw the 100
which have pill Ode ma way mad minded their
own poor. mull= 2Sbsisalkogivsa in Ohm SS rims
wham popni the hat Moran *sit.
flat bin by unison
-Be, to auk we us kr mintatime the suer
laity of this warivalial mini •It is sot even a
mar llama east mail week or beams three-
of Weed and the amine "nth.
The quail. is between the peg In& oe
the zmopqmo et the Maiden GM a bad.

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fat of bankrupt. or fradulest propastra in I
the western Mess, who, mar than grant lases or I
abate rents, have sawed their lends to go oat et eel-
tin*" and who, be they now are head to be I
so, are to be publicly rewarded by the state for their
affiskuses sad didtmety. Other proprietors in the
ism aim have wither cleared their land by pro-
am of law, air steed by while thane and 'Mime I
cleared it for them. Other proprietors Laid their I
rata, and when hem fell meat on whia arrears i
were dee, seared to pay off the aomesulada as as
indissemeet to new Manta to take than. The same I
Meg has been does is Esgliad i themand times.
It is the wise ad natural area to panne,
and English Lash are merely to wish as rudest i
sad usable men tor adeptiag it. I* what mad be
thought in a Ingle\ parbk if ea feepistor Mimed
his lead to lie idle Maw than lower the astrinoidi
who, while he flag all who proviessly lived its
edam en the atm refuted to pay the mars w
hod seemed en the lad daring its occupation P Or
what woad be aid to a Walter who would coolly
proem that sods a ddadter wee entitled to the spe-
cal favour and oonsideration et the pada
at large, and by way of marking his merits
that be should receive an acquittam of tk • debt
by set of parliament P Can any one shut his, eyes
to the &et that what seek a maa omits to pay ma*
be meth good by somebody ass? Or ma anything
be more bagatelle or unreasonable than that those
who have dons their duty at the saceilla of Maser-
able thane s and annforts ahead be mulcted
directly, openly, and by Twain of a special sot
in that me made and prev in the sacra which the
heartless and worthless spendthrift beide them has
jockeyed the collector oat of levying?
As for the protases that the Lads are in general
not worth the rates, we are convinced that it is entitled
to no regard whatsoever. That hams pomeseed of
any stock or capital were fearful of catering upon
new contracts for land d the_ last two years,
when rates were wholly .utthid, is certain. It
was bums we believed this to be .the ease, that
many months age we urged en pahhe attention the
seeemia d having a maximal of tatiog fixed by
law. Bat now that this solatea prism* seems
likely to commead general soma, sad to be on the
eve of receiving legodatiw adoption, we may hope,te
bar no more of lands running into mite
beam Masts are afraid of making thenuelva
liable to the mama of rates which in the twelve-
month cannot mad 7s. in the pound, and a large
portion of which is to be deducted from half
-
year's rent. As for the arrears, let the landlord clear
theta off, se he has already cleared off the people, and
give the wag occupier a quiet possernoe, with
each tenure as will afford him some security of reap-
's/the fruits et his labour.;
Bat if this be not quickly done, think* an adequate
portion of the estate be sold in liquidation of the
arrears. By what equity is *Mad estate to be
exeseptedfresi the ultimate resort to which every
other species of property is liable in payment of public
burdens ? If in s town a trader coffers his rates to
run in arrear, who thinks of getting op a sentimental
apology for him, or who dams it strange or wrong if
the agents of his warehouse or shop are tateattasi
distraint for the amount? Or who would be
to if he ropoproposed that the other inhabitants of the
town sho mesa to wipe out the charge against
him, and to re-applot the sum upon them-
selves, be having failed in bunnies some
months before, his premises bad ever since
remained nearly useless to him, albeit he
might have let them at a reduced rent to his neigh-
bour next door, if be could have brought himself to
part with 0 the cherished spot" where his father had
dwelt befall him P Veerryy little quarter woad fustian
of this kind receive if addre sed to plain, honest, com-
ma-sense folk; and very little heed ought the repre-
sentatives of the nation to give to similar excuses and
evades when put forward on behalf of the spend-
thrift and absentee nobles and squires of the western
Irish comities.
Unless w+-ay powers of sale of land far rates
that avoids asertain time overdue, be given to the
essaimiooses, we cannot persuade ourselves that the
Hones et Omani will ever be brought to impose a
national rate in aid upon the rest of Ireland. But,
sure we are that if so flagrant a wrong be done, its
will be far wider and more luting than
rtasill2rdviltel di projectors dream of. Feelings of dis-
content and alienation have long been growing up
among the more opulent and intelligent classes
in Ireland. They are weary of seeing their
interests left by socomme administrations to
the ignorant reams sad coma of experimen-
telling empiric, who have soldier stake nor scruple
in the game they play in the name et other men ;
bet who, whatever lose or suffering their blunders
ease, are sure to got ample rewards and decorations
—blue-book praise and departmental pay. Buteabeion
to great men, end to regoosible men, people do not
grudge; bat the quietest sad best fleeted may be
tired out by the interminable quackery and folly of
as interposable (Impala of submilinates