The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

NOTICE.

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THIS number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS
by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, was :
From JAN. 1, ta Dec. 31, 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and
Morning Post, ALL PCT TOGETHER.
In addition to the above,issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Montilla Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPEESS,
From Jan. 1, to Dec. 31 778,714
Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to
the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, MAR.IS.
IN the first movements of the campaign the taxa-
tion reformers have been worsted : it would be affec-
tation to deny it. The question of the income tax is
to all effects and purposes settled for this session ;
and when the advocates of a mom equitable assess-
ment of that tax renew their efforts—as renew them
they assuredly will—next session, the vote for three
years will undoubtedly be thrown in their teeth.
they may, therefore, commence without delay their
preparations for exposing that fallacy. In the mean-
time, however, there is work enough on hand ; and
that it may be set about with any prospect of success,
partial or complete, a review of their actaal position,
and of the tasks immediately before them is in-
cumbent on the beaten but we trust not disheartened

party.
W ith respect to the minority who have struggled
with more or less steadfastness and consistency
against the iniquity of a uniform income tax, we
confess our dislike to the practice of gibbeting, sans
facon, every member of parliament who gives one bad
vote. Constituencies are right to keep a sharp look-
out upon their representatives, and to insist upon their
explaining everything that may be equivocal in their
conduct. But to pounce upon a man sal soon as he
gives an inconsistent vote, and denounce, him to the
public therefore, is as likely to confirm him in his
error as to reform him. If his weakness
and tergiversation have been caused by mean
motives, the blazon of his disgrace diminishes his care
of character : if by confusion of ideas or excess of
good nature, the attempt to intimidate kindles a mis-
taken generosity of feeling into obstinacy and defiance.
For this reason we abstain from parading names on
the present occasion. But this does not preclude a
general analysis of the divisions on the motions of
Mr. HUME and "Mr. HORSMAN with a view to esta-
blish generalised facts and principles.
Looking then to the lists of division on these occa-
sions, we find with Mr. Holism/0 a minority of 143
, (tellers included), and with Mr. HUME a minority of
140 (tellers likewise included). We find, moreover,
that 80 members voted both with Mr. IlonsmaN and
Mr. HUME ; 42 voted with Mr. HOESMAN and against
Mr. HUMS; 33 with Mr. liostE and against Mr.
HORSMAN ; 19 voted with Mr. HORSMAN who did
not vote on Mr. HtME's motion; and 20 with Mr.
HUME who did not vote on Mr. HORSMAN'S motion.
I The nucleus of both minorities is composed of the
eighty members who voted on both. Their position
is unequivocal : they have declared by the first vote
their conviction that the income tax ought to be
assessed upon a more equitable principle ; by the
second, that the conviction is so strong as to compel
them to the exceptional step of proposing to vote
for one year only a tax which, from its nature, ought
to be granted for a longer, though still a limited,
period. Among these eighty members we find sixty-
two liberals of various shades of opinion, bat all free-
traders; seven conservatives of the PEEL section;
eleven conservatives of the protectionist section; and
two nondescripts.
Among the forty-two members who by voting
with Mr. HonsluN showed their conviction that the