The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

rn, court.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the
court the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen,
and delivered to her Mejesty the riband and badge of the
Order of the Bath, worn by his brother the late Sir Itobert
Gerd n. The Privy Council was attended by Prince
Albert, the Lord Pre.ident, the Lord Chancellor, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Depirtments, the Ch medlar of the
Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of L mcaster, the President of the Board of
Control fur the Affain of India, the President of the Board
of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Master of the !lease, and the Oroom of the Stole to Prince
Albert. The Queen, in council, made an alteration in the
sheriffs for Radnorshire and Nottinghamshire. The lion.
W. Bathurst we' the clerk of the council in waiting. Her
Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord
J. Russell, and Visct. Palmerston.

The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg visited the
Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence House, St.
James's, yesterday, and alao visited the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge at Cambridge House.
Sir William C. dyad, ILA., took the last sitting for
the miaiatere of the Duchess of Saxe Cobourg, painted by
command of the Queen.
A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. H. Brandt,
Mr. A. Brandt, Rev. George Evcrard, and Mr. F. J. Field,
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, to pre-
sent to his lordship a petition to the House of Commons lie
the rep.al of legacy duty on charitable bequests.
A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway
had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, on
Wednesday, at the office of the Commissioner; of Railways,
on the presentation of the memorial to the Railway Comma
stoners on the part of the local interests of the Buckingham-
shire Railway Company and the canary of Buckingham.
against the proposed alteration of the Birmingham and Oro-
ird Railway from a single gauge to a double gauge
railway.
The Earl of Oxford had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday. General Bell had also an interview with
the right hon. baronet at the Home-office.
Lord Rendlesham had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Strutt on Wednesday at tire office of the COIOJIWIF
sioners of Railway- in the Board of Trade.
The Earl St. Germans had an interview with Earl
Grey on Wednesday. Mr. Wilson, M.P., had also an inter-
view with the noble earl on Wednesday at the Colonial•offiee.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had ,
a general meeting yesterday.
Lord Kinnaird had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Hindley, M.P., had
also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet at
his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Earl
Grey, yestenlay.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening, from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and
Hong-Kong.
Despatches were sent off on Wednesday evening
. - - --e for the Governors of the West India

Despatches were received on Wednesday at the
Coloninl-oelce from the Governors of the Cape of Gond Hope,
New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and
South Australia.

.PRINTERS' PENSION SoolErv.—The Marquis of
Northampton, we are assured, hos kindly consented to
preside at the ensuing anniversary dinner of the Printers'
Pension Society.
ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.—The
annual fe,•tival in aid of the funds of this institution, which
was established for " maintaining, clothing, and educating
the chil ;yen of those once in prosperity," was held last even-
ing at the London Tavern. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., pre-
sided; and after the usual routine toasts proposed the me-
mory of the late president of the institution, the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The toast was drunk in silence. It was
followed by " Prosperity to the Royal Asylum of the St.
Ann's Society," in proposing which the chairman alluded
particularly to the fact that there were only two societies in
the metropolis—of which the St. Ann's Society was one—that
did not confiae their sphere of benevolence to one locality,
but extended it to all the w.rld. The taut was drunk with
due honours, and was followed by the health of the Count
de Montemolin, who sat at the right hand of the chair-
man ; to which his royal highness replied in brief terms.
In the course of the evening Mr. Leeks, the secretary, read
a long list of subscriptions, araountiag to 9271.; they in-
cluded a legacy of 5001. from the late Mr. Addeley, of
Upper Clapton, 201. from the Chairman, and 10/. from the
Count de Montemolin. The report of the managers of the
society for the past year showed that the receipts amounted
to 5,9181. 14s. Id. ; out of which 5001. had been invested in
the purchase of consolidated and reduced annuities, while
73!. 1 Is. 6d. remained in the hands of the treasurer.
THE SOCIETY FOR ASSISTING FOREIGNERS IN DIS-
TREsS.—The annual general meeting of the members of this
society was held yesterday at the Loudon Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street. John Lthouchere, Esq., presided.—The chair-
man having addressed the meeting, Mr. J. Horneman (the
secretary) read the report, which commenced by deploring
the loss which the society had sustained during the last year
by the death of two of its viceinesidents—namely, his
Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of
Northumberland. Notwithstanding the commercial em-
barrassment which had prevailed amongst the mercantile
community, the same set as heretofore had been evinced
in carrying out the society's benevolent objects. At tie last
anniversary dinner 2,4171. were collected, in addition to
2;0!. granted by the Bank of England. His Royal High-
ness Prince Oscar of Norway and Sweden, and his Royal
Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar,
were smolt* the liberal donors of last year; and the King
of Hanover had signified his desire of subscribing 501. an-
nually. During the last year 88 persons received weekly
portions of 6s. each, and to nearly 100 allowances were
granted varying ;rom ts. to 2s. 6d. per week, making the
total amount distributed 1,421/. So 9d. Them had also been
2,711 cases of casual relief, entailing on the society an ex-
penditure of 1,1631. 14s. Bcl.—The report having been
adopted,l2 pensioners were elected, and a vote of thanks to
the chairman closed the proceedings.
ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
The Liverpool train, which usually comes in at 11 o'clock
p.m., did not reach the Easton terminus this morning till
past one, in consequeace of a luggage train having blocked
up the rails, not far from Trine. It appears, from the im-
perfect account brought to us, that the engine of the luggage
train ran off into a canal, in consequence, it is said, of the
neglect of a pointeman. We have not heard whether any
lives were lost.
REVISION OF TAXATlON.—Sir,—Althongh your
columns mud be much occupied at this peculiar crisis, yet
I venture to solicit the insertion of the following paper on
taxation, as it is a subject of the utmost importance, and
I am most anxious to have it brought before the public
in some tangible shape, which hitherto has not been the
cue, though so often alluded to in parliament, and also
in many of your valuable remarks. 'The object of taxa
Lion is, first, to support public credit; and, secondly, the
protection of the person and property. The public credit
must be sustained. The person pays well fur the protec-
tion afforded, by indirect taxation ; but property is neither
duly nor fairly taxed. Many of our direct taxes bear hard
on some species of property, whilst others are compara-
tively free ; many are troublesome and expensive in the
collection—are inquisitorial and vexatious: amongst the
first are the window and assessed taxes—amongst the latter
the income-tax and many parts of the excise. I would pro-
pose to remedy this by repealing the present property and
income tax ; by getting rid of all the expensive machinery
of the excise—repealing all the duties collected under this
head but those on spirits (which should be transferred to
the customs), and those on nearly all the licences, which
should be granted, as the ale-house licences are now, by
the magistrates in petty sessions; and by the repeal of the
window, assessed, and land taxes, except game licences and
certificates. To meet this reduction, I propose to substitute
a direct tax on all property, landed, funded, and in houses.
The funded property is easily collected at &certain sum in the
pound, and the others in the same way as the present peor-rate
is collected in England and Wales. The machinery for this
is all ready; it is cheap in collection, plain and straight-
forward in its bearings. It is true that objections might
be made to the mode of rating adopted in one part of the
country as compared with another; but the valuation of
property under the New Poor law Amendment Act has left
very little to require change, and that is mere matter of
detail ; but as to its fairness, simplicity, and easy mode of
collection, no one I think can make an objection. Some
kind of direct taxation we must have resort to; for though
it is just possible that our expenses may be reduced, yet at
the present extraordinary period, when no one can tell
what the morrow may produce, we must not talk of re-
ducing our means of self defence. I have not mentioned
hieetiessil envie, buetige i am 591 *olo=4 wash pc,

Tainted with thearentry to judge whether there le at present
a machinery suariently similar to that of 'lnland to act
sport, bat I am well enured it weld be *wily arranged.
Ireland I would not tax yet, more than she is taxed at
present (for it is a fallacy to ay ehe pays eo MUM"
tan), by continuing the payments ender schedule D I
must occupy your spans yet a little farther by a few
gram, to bear oat my plan, bated upm the parliamentary
returns of 1846, the only oars complete enough for my
pumas within my reach :
I the redaction it the window, monmed. Sad la"
tan" rust pine cortillnatos, most' So .84,S
bof 1104
Income and 'sooty
Venous seise duties (prom) 8,060,234
Total to be repealed
1.'633'355
Preen this may rawly be deducted, as 'laving In the
expenic of aftlectas

16,132,332
Then deduct say, trout the fanda. £2,000,000
And to be paid by Irish praprietccsou at
present

£13,130,335
leaving to be collected in Great &MN, on land and houses,
the sum ef, say in round numbers, 13i millions. The poor.
rate for England and Wales, as raiai d at present, amounts
to near eight million*. I know not what the rate in the
pound may be throughout the country, but in this district
it is Is. Cl.i in the pound If, therefore, we had to raise this
sum in England and Wales only, it would probably not
amount to more than 12 per cent. ; and if Scotland is added,
and hereafter Ireland, the per centage would of course be
considerably lees. And when we consider that the taxes I
propose to repeal are, for the greater part, taxes on property,
it will I hope be conceded that this plan is only exchang•
ing a dear, vexatious, and complex mode of ramii g a re-
venue for one that is cheap, simple, and straightforward,
and gives a finance minister an easy mode of calling fur
an increase or making a reduction, by demanding so much
in the pound, according to the p smeh rate-book. I am
well aware that many details must be Deemery be-
fore eve* this simp'c plan ten be arranged, but I will
not take up your valuable space at this in anent further
than to mention two Tenants under a lease should pay
half the property-tax of the land they hold; this is but
fair, as the repeal of so many taxes directly affecting the
farmer would otherwise be a direct gain to him,—with
tenants-st.will the landlords could make their own terms;
and the landlord should pay the property-tax on all land
rand houses rated at 51. and under. I have is ier placid this
sketch before you, and that it may meet with your atten
than and that of a discerning public, is the sincere hope of
your obedient servant, JOHN MAXWELL TYLDEN.—MiI-
, seed, Sittingbourn, Kent, February 28.
11 A LONG SMUT FROM THE GALLERY.—If, sir, the
practice of alluding to the contents of newspapers, or the
reading of them by members in the House of Commons, be
no longer a breach of privilege (as was the ease in the good
old times), I desire to ask why you have not—fir your exclu.
sive intelligence on the subject of news from France would
i have fully justified you in et, doing—sent a copy of one of
your late editions direct to the Speaker, with a reques , in or-
der to allay anxiety, that he would communicate your, the
latest fitelligence for the general information of the house ?
I am induced to ask this question in consequence of the fol-
lowing paragraph, which appears in the parliamentary re-
port of the Morning CLrontcle of this day : " Immediately
upon the conclusion of the noble lord's speech, within a very 1
few minutes of six o'clock, a late edition of the Morning
Chronicle was handed to him, over which he was observed
to met • hasty but anxious glance." Now, looking to the 1
pantomimic change which has transmogrified the " old I
house of theChronicie" into a " Lincoln green coeservatory,"
it is not at all unlikely that Lord Palmerston took a
"hasty,' but to say an "anxious" glance is going rather
too far. The Times parliamentary report also contains a
similar puff direct for that once great thunderer, in lauda-
tion
of its own " fourth " edition (filched probably from the
Daily News), though the characters are changed—Mr. Ta-
na being the exhibitor of the placard, and Lord J. Russell the
astonished reader. No doubt the parliamentary reporters
are generally blessed with a large development of the organs
of " hearing," and it may be of " sight;" but, inasmuch as
the use of " telescopes" was contrary to the orders of the
house, in the house, that rule also must have become obso-
lete, for, without such aid, it is impossible that the must
microscopic member of that body could have detailed the
circumstances referred to as having transpired within his
own view and notation. Inasmuch as these extraordinary
facts are not adverted to in the parliamentary summary of
either the Times or Chronicle, it is to be presumed that they
escaped the lynx-eyed vigilance of thoto whose duty it is
always to be " WIDE AWAKE."
A PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT, lying in the
underwriters' rooms, Liverpool, praying that a protective
force be stationed at or near Canton, in order to prevent a re-
currence of another such murder as has lately been com-
mitted there, has received a great many signatures.

IRELAND.

.DCBLIN, MARCH 1.

There was a levee at the Castle, which was not co
numerously attended as the last. This is easily ac-
counted for by the absence of the bar and the attend-
ance of the gentry, at the assizes.
Sir 11. Barron has been victorious in Waterford
over both his opponents. It will be a heavy blow to
the aspiring Young Ireland party, when they find
that Mr. Meagher did not poll one-fifth of the con-
stituency.
The splendid ruins situated upon the Great
Rock of Cashel have fallen. In connexion
with this ancient monument exists one of those pro-
phecies which trbound so much in the traditional his-
tory of Ireland—namely, that the year which wit-
nessed the fall of the rock would also see a great
revolution in England. It is easy to trace out the
motives which animated the prophet. But though
such Monmouth and Macedon parallels have little
weight with the educated, they move the ignorant
with great force. Net a peasant in Munster who
does not regard the English revolution as certain as
the fall of the rock. A funeral procession reached
the spot a few minutes after the fall. Had it reached
sooner, the loss of life might have been fearful.
The provinces do not appear particularly excited
by the French intelligence. We have no demonstra-
tions, or notifications for public meetings. Dublin
has refrained as yet from any great display of enthu-
siasm. Cork, es usual, will be first in the field with
civic oration and address. . _

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Under the Land Improvement Act the five unions
of Kerry have applied for 267,258 L, of which the
Treasury sanctioned 87,950/. The applications and
grants for Kerry exceed those of the county of Cork.
There are 534 prisoners confined in Clonmel gaol, of
whom 168 are for trial at the ensuing assizes. Of
these 16 stand charged with murder, 11 robbery, 13
shooting with intent, 12 burglary, and 103 larceny.

ALTAR DIINVECIATIONS.—A letter from the Catholic
Bishop of Killaloe ha• been published in reference to the
case of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, recently suspended for denuncia-
tions against the police. The bishop says :
It has been a role of this diocese for the last seven or eight years,
that no priest, curate, or pastor should attempt, under any pretext
whatsoever, to indulpe in invective against, or denounce from the
altar or the pulpit, any person, without my permission or that of the
vicar of his dietriet. This rule was made by me; and here, in Justice
to the respectable clergy of this diocese, I feel bound to state,
that in the establishment of it I was influenced chiefly
by a desire the more effecteally to restrain this very reverend
gentleman frore the indlligellee ER an Inveterate, and, as It
would seem, an incorrigible propensity. I will not now my hew
often, since the promulgation of this min the rev. gentleman Ma
been called to account by me for his Melanoma of it ; but this I may
not omit, that about twelve months does, more or lees, I felt It to be
my duty to compel him to make a swat homiriating apology, from
the same altar from which be bad assailed him, to a Mr. O'Keefe, a
miller, and one of his parishioners, who complained to me that his
life was placed in imminent peril by his unprovoked attacks upon
him from the altar, and In other places. On this occasion I declared
to the Rev. Mr. Nolan that, should I ever again mein proof of
such on offence against him, I was determined forthwith to deprive
him of the administration of his perishes for ever. • • On the 10th
I arrived at Nenagb, accompanied by the Very Be.. Mr. Kenny,
whom I took with me, for the double purpose, as I told him, of being
a respectable witness of my conduct In the transaction, and of depu-
ting him to Mr. Nolan with the following communication from me,
MR, That if he was innocent of the charge preferred against
him, he should undoubtedly vindicate himself, and repel it, but, if
guilty, that I advised him, that hi. only prudent and proper course
was at once to submit, promising him that, in that case, I would not
put in execution the threat of depriving him for ever of the adminis-
tration of hi. parishes." To this eannowneation the Very Rev. Mr.
Kenny brought me the following reply That Mr. Nolan would
at once submit, if I would give him an assurance that I would not
suspend him," and this assurance I most emphatically refused to give
him. Mr. Nolan then came to me with Mr. Kenny to confess his
offence, and perceiving that he was somewhat disposed to shuffle, I
desired that he would give me a distinct answer—yes or no—did be
use the language charged against him In the police report, which I
reed far him, or anf language of similar import' Ills answer was,
that be did use language of similar import,. and this was in the
preeenoe of the Very Rev. Mr. Kenny and Mr. O'Dell, sub-inspector.
REPRODUCTIVE EMPLOYE ENT.—I have already noticed
the gratifying stimulus applied by the poor-law to the
easier classes of society, to find out modes and means of pro-
fitable employment for the labourers. In Tipperary an
esociation of this nature has been formed for the North
Riding, and this has set them about making profitable the
labours of the paupers now employed in the workhouse, as
well as to detach from stone-breaking the vast numbers now
in the receipt of out-door relief in Nenagh Union, a number
consuming 17,000 in a week. In the gaol of that town,
where there were on an average, during the past year, 326
prisoners confined, of whom 272 were employed, the profits
on their labour amounted to 2971. Bs. Id. in the year, or one-
sixth the whole expense of maintenance of the prisoners.
" The gaol, at present," says the local paper, " is the work-
house, and the workhouse a gaol." The cost of outdoor
relief, at the present quantity afforded in Nensgh Union,
would be 23.0001. per annum.
THE POPE'S REscliwr.—Dr. Walsh, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Owory, has directed his clergy to abstain
from polluting their altars with political topics, or any others
but thole connected with the observances of religion. He
has likewise forbade them to c•ntinue as rent collectors for
Conciliation Hall; and has ordered them in every other way
to obey the spirit of the recent rescript from Rome.
Loss OP THE CALTPSO.—The Calypso, iron steamer,
of Dublin, and bound for Rio Janeiro, has been lost on
Arklow Bank. This vessel left Dublin on Monday, having,
after leaving Liverpool on her voyage, touched the land at
our harbour's mouth, in censequence of the derangement of
her compasses. The compasses were sent back to Liverpool
to be set to rights, were again shipped, and she sailed for
her destination. Probably her loss may have arisen from a
Lew deritagement. A; aik gnaw slit g g Wlal witch.

SCOTLAND.

EDINSITROH, MaRCH 1.
Although the telegraph and the third edition of the
Myren brought the intelligence of the abandonment,
on the part of government, of an augmented income
tax, neither the town council nor the citizens have
given up their meetings. The incidence of the im-
post is me odious as ever, and the general feeling is,
that an ahmirakeable demonstration of public opinion

should be made on the subject. The council meeting
took place yesterday, when resolutions of the usual
kind were palmed unanimously. The public meeting
took place at one o'clock to-day, the Lord Provost
presiding. Mr. A. Dunlop was the only representa-
tive of the parliament house on the platform, the
complement of speakers being made up of mercantile
men. A knot of chartists raised some disturbance—
one of the chief speakers upsetting the gravity of
the assemblage by remarking that a good budget
might be looked for from the moon as soon as from
the whips. The amendment of the party was that
the Queen be petitioned to dismiss Lord John Russell
and empower Mr. Cobden to form a cabinet.

The Glasgow chartists have held a large meeting
in connexion with the French movement. The first
resolution was

That the citizens of Glasgow, in public meeting assembled, do most
cordially congratulate the French people on the triumphant achieve-
ment of their rev,iluti m, rejoice in the overthrow of a despotic and
unconstitutional government, and hail with feeli•igs of sympathy,
hope, and admiration the advent of tue m•aoluhment of social, poli-
tical, and religious liberty on the broad basis of a new and popular
constitution.

This resolution was supported by Dr. M'Dowall, of
London, in a long speech, in which he maintained the
right of the people to self-government, and inveighed
against the present rulers of the country fur their
entire ignorance of the principles of social and poli-
tical economy.
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THE UNIVERSITY RIOTER/I.—There ie a talk of the pro•
fc•sore abrogating or mitigating the sentences passed on the
riotous students. The professors are afraid that these brawls
may injure the university in distant places : but it is more
likely that parents ad! be displeased to find their sons rus-
ticated two years for accidentally happening to be in-
volved in an unpremeditated disturbance, or even on the
spur of the moment taking part in the same, than they will
he afraid of lite and limb being endangered in frays once
ery five years between students and policemen.