The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 23.

Tun hearty reception accorded at Edinburgh to
Sir JOSHUA WALMILEY and Mr. 0101,01 THOMPSON,
in their character of representatives of the National
Parliamentary and Financial Reform lamentation, is
of hadmaula ry for anti-ref.rmere and sham reformers.
Edinburgh was the last stronghold of a whiggery so
very te as to be with diAndty distinguishable
from English Wolof& An immense majority of the
citizens pat themselves is the leading-strings of the
Parliament House, and the learned pundits of that
wart of Therm's jobbed them with impunity. Iv
was at Edinburgh that the late Lord DURHAM (at
the banquet given to Earl 011.1 Y) attacked Lied
BROUGHAM, who, as IS his wont, bad been crowing
most lustily on his own dunghill. The liberals from
the rest of Scot end cheered Lord Duman, but the
Edinburgh whiga outvoiced them as they outnumbered
them. Matters continued much the same till at the last
general election the defeat of Mr. MACAULAY bespoke
Edinburgh whigoery on the wane. The revolt is
now complete. The learned whige of Modern Athens
have done all they could to burke its Financial Re-
form Association, in its infancy, bat in vain. They
spired no insidious efforts to make the meeting called
to receive the delegates of the National Association, a
failure. The result has been that, in spite of bad
weather, the spacious Music-hall, of Edinburgh,
" was crowded to overflowing," by a "mating equal
to any ever held in Edinburgh. and the resolutions
approving of the principles and views of the National
Association were carried onaahnocaly, and with en-
thusiasm." Such having been the reception of Sir
Josnua and Mr. Tuomrsore in Auld Reekie, their
triumph at Paisley and Glasgow cannot fad to be
splendid.
The ground taken up by Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY,
at Edinburgh, is truly national. He and his col-
league threw themselves, withriat hesitation and
reserve, upon the nation, in the widest and most literal
acceptation of the term. They appeal not to party
"faction or any individual," but to "every man in
Britain." Tcey do not seek to pack a jury; they
throw themselves on their country. "Tee Associa-
tion," said Sir 'mums, in his truly eloquent perora-
tion, which elicited math an enthusiastic response
from the meeting, "would provide a fair field for the
battle of opinion on all subjects, and would submit
every question to the verdict of the public voice—
whether free trade or protection, state church or se-
paration, direct or indirect taxation, paper or gold,
war or peace, game laws or no gams laws, education
by the state or voluntary popular initiation. They
believe that all these questions would be best disposed
of by being submitted to the judgment and deeision
of the British people, when their flat can be ascer-
tained by a full, free, and honest representations."
The citizens of Edinburgh have broken the bonds
of I cal cliques and coterie,. They have desisted
themselves " no-party men;" not in the seprivessl
sense of some political adventurers, who have adopted
the phrase to indicate that they are willing to take
wages from either whig or tory ; but is the legitimate
sense, that they act for the benefit of the whole not
of a part—of the people not of a faction.
Now that the men of Edinburgh have passed the
Rubicon, and taken "pure and ae-fauld part" with
the people we anticipate good service from them.
There are long-headed and hard-headed fellows
among them. They had previously started two orga-
nised agitations, which they cannot do better than
follow up promptly and vigorously. Edinburgh was
the birth-place and centre of action of the association
for reform in the Excise. The papers we axe publish-
ing on the paralysing influence exercised by the Ex-
cise upon the manufacture of soap, ought to stimu-
late that body to renew its intermitted exertions.
The Financial Reform Association of Edinburgh
have published comprehensive and philosophical papers
on the subject of finance in general. Let them enter the
field as popular missionaries of the truths they have
proclaimed, and perambulate their country, "free
Maidenkirk to John o' Groats," explaining them in
popular laneuage, and rousing men to struggle for
their practical application.

Tam Act imposing an Excise duty on soap would
have been far more properly styled "An Act to im-
pose pains sad penalties spoa Bosp-boilers." It
is said by the Excise to be "as little burdensome as
an Excise law can be." In their estimation an act,
every clause of which concludes with a penalty of from
M. to 300 L, is a benevolent and in-no-degree-to-be-

complained-of statute.
The exciseman has been served with a regular
notice of the intention of the manufacturer to
"elegise," or clear out his copptrfoll of soap at a cer-
tain hoer of the day. At that hoar the Seer attends
with his bunch of keys to unlock the copper. The
manufacturer must thee proceed. If he is unable, or
omits to do so, the law benevolently gives him two
hours' grace. Yes; for two hours he is absolutely at
liberty to proceed or not, as he plemet. Bat the mo-
ment the exciseman's watch tells him that the two
hours have expired, the act requires him to shut
down and fe-fseten the copper, and to demand of the
manufacturer a fresh notate of 6 or 12 hours of his
intention to clear out.
Bet we will suppose the manafec•urer ready to
proceed. The soap is obliged to be ladled out of the
into pans, and the law provides that there
copper be two such vessels ce pans, and no more. 111,
time the soap maker is allowed for this operation
ladling, is strictly regulated, and he is subject to a
penalty if he does not do his work in time. The
EXO2IIIOIII stands by during the entire operation,
making a note of the moment it commences and the
moment it is eoncluded for the information of his
mastics—the consmbrioners.

The soap is emptied from the pans into the
frames. These frames are sabjeet to the most rigid
re,thlations. Every frame must be registered, cam-
bered, aad marked. They are obliged to be precisely
46 inches long by 16 broad. Their depth is regulated :
their very thickness and the mode of fastening them
together is the subject of a statute. No frame can
be used, oader a penalty of 1001., unless it has been
sarveyd, and sit its dimensions ascertained by the
Racier ; and if any one dares to um a frame not sees-
teem& marked, numbered, surveyed, inspected, end of
the proper length, breadth, depth-sad saes, 2001.,
and the forfeiture of all his map, is the moderate
pea*, imposed upon him.
Meet years have not elapsed shwa all the frames
were made of bars of wood, like what are called the
At tuottlitecap frames" now. Oae day it was die-
mvered that the promos of map making could be
greatly improved end expedited by using metallic
frames. this.. linwea had mow iron frames mad*
of the dimeanione required-by the statute. The excise
otacere objected to them. /dame. HAWES insisted
upon adng them. Their soap wee Noised, and they
were reported to the Board for penalties. A tremen-
dous row eusaed. But Messrs. Haves were Arm,
and thle up*ot yea that the Excise were farad to re-
cognise metallic framer, which have since been farther
recognised by act of parliament, and are now in com-
mon me.

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