The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-30 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.

A general meeting of the inhabitants of liammtr-
sesi,b sod the noishbourhood took place legit evening at the
Albion Hall, Ilaumeteetith, to petition parliament for the
lincoodituisal repeal at the window tai.
Mr. WM. SIMPSON presided. Us observed that though
It was gemiraily natientood that government imended to do
something is this subjeet, unless the pressure from without
was applied they would be very likay to neglect their
duty. A. • medial mae, he outsider, I the peat argument
@going the window tel was at the mom of its lajarioos
effect on health. Till it was repealed, the full heuetlt
would not be derived from the repeal of the duty angler;
wheal both were dues away, we should see • r.ew era is
architecture. (lieu, hear.) Not only ought the window
too tube repealed, bet the whole system el taxation stood M
seed of restates.

Yr. T. C. 'Laramie, the seemeary, read leans frlia
Lint Dadleg Stuart, M.P., Sir Ds Lug Eras', M.P., Mr.
Heart, M.P , sad Mr. Jona William'', 14 P., all sondes.
astray of the tat, sad espressiag a bops that the public
feeling would be 'measly manifested against it. He had
written to Lord H. Orcemnor and Mr. Oeburne, M P., but
bum the. to smarm bad been rewired.

Mr. T J. BNILLEI said ho was noel aazions for a repeal
of the window daises, and did not object to the subetitutioa
of a house tea. (.. No, no.") The worst feature of the
window tan was the ignorant indiscrinithatioa with which it
was It vied, ►eingg mad* to press taut heavily on the poor
T►e improves's* in architeetare which its repeal would
induce might be judged troth the beautiful bay and oriel
Window. w ich characterised the architecture ul the Tudor
age. He nosed • resolution declering the window tan
obstructive to improventeat, and one that praised aadaly on
the p. or.
Ilinciarow seconded the resolution.
Mr. VLb&UIKB said that, instead of invades a how
tat, It would be better to iocreau the duty on horses,
carriage►, and other articles of luoury. Of the 2,428,000
houses in the country, only 340,000 paid the window duty;
supposing it repealed, all the other houses would have
',Antonia windows put to, and this would create a great
detailed foe leh

Tim resolotioa was unanimously oloptsd.
Adm.ral So C. NAPIER was loudly cheered on rising to
move the second rceelution. He thought tr• window tax
the most Momentous impost now existing. In pressing for
ita entire and intmediat• removal, it was not for them
to imagist a substitute. (Cheers.) T 0.,. would b. thin
year a surplus' 01 two millions : What the Chaocellor of the
Eaeliequer would do with it no one could tell. (Laughter.)
He would 'So have to grapple with the income tax, and
probably he would not be able to carry it in its present
shape, which tax.-it tummies in the same proportion as
realised property. (lieu, kw.) To this be was decidedly
opposed. (Cams.) He was a farmer Wanted, but not •
protectienist bad ha mast say the farmer was taxed most
utjustly by the taboos tax; he paid not as what he re•
cstv,d, but what he inks to remise (lieu, heat) For
his own par:, Is scald say that that bad bean nothing at all
last year. (Laughtirr.) Then the taxes on soap and tea
were summing atteasos; and them was no doubt that a
reductive of them duties would greatly increase the con-
sumption. (Hear, hear.) &ill, he maintained the window
tee was the one on whose total and entire abolition they
ought to insist without soggeating to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer what should hs the substitute. la coocat.
son, he moved • resolution &glaring that the window
tax was a war tax, inipmeil with so implied understandicg
tt,at it odd moo onus the war tenisinattd; that alter •
peso of 36 years, the tax was stLlsontinued, ttiouJi neither
aseaseary fee the porpoises of war nor for the efficient sain-
tlier/0 of the army and navy; and that, eonsequently, there
had hiss • palpable breach of Math with the country.
Make. howl
Mr. Baowx seconded tbe resolution.
Mr. R. U. KENNEDY moved the adoption of a petition
parliament lowsded on the foregoing resolutions. Sir R.
Peel had eepealed or redwood tales to the amount of tweaty
millions, in beta of winch shot Willows had been substituted,
thus girt, g up eleven mWlons, and yet the revenue had not
beta rsdaced, owing to the fructifying principle on whet
the alteratioss bad peoseeded.
Mr. Selina, asosaded the rualatial.
• Vote of Samba to sia 'Mimes dosed the proosedinp.

Than ox Cnatuaola.—Yesterday, • very nu-
wrest seethe of the Cosehmaken of Loadoa took pl.oe
at the Femme's.' Tavern, to aid the movement now going
oa taressolust the ceinedry MG the pupae of inducing the
domsimeat to mammy the paean stair wale of taxstios
to whisk *ware aed trade settlers an liable, so as
to relieve the coaelonmkne tone wkhatt &Laid' ag
ire rousse of the neatly. Mr. L. Leslie, Master
of As Coacheaskre Company, we. unanimously
suited to the Chair. ae eaplatned that the grow
number of curtsy, is tM Gauntry ws• about 180,000, of
which 108,000 pale no duty, shoot 60,000 posy shalom, &a,
lanai • assapte4 trout duty, and atkut 60,000 not being
mused at all. This was seeerdiag to tba roam of 1848.
It wee ealealesmi Mat if all tertrerbeebid earnsges, mid all
fur-wheeled earthen, erseptiag those la trod., wore sub.
Jett, the lettee a VOL, end As finer to 31. doty, it would
prodw • green remake tkan at present by 10,826 f
fisveal goatiessaa shimmed tho atestiae. and a Gommittee
hohowl, bees a subseriptlea was mitered late to
the ia vine.
Enacts op bastarmaxca.— On Sunday, the
neater of a Inn eimmmemr, lades with brandy, from Chr
rine, based to lotob. wee brought ashore is his but Is a
Mplorable NW. The sea who sesompenisd him stated
that tkolt saw*, had hem drinking ezoiesively cf brawl,
darter their hem, and that about eight o'clock Ga
that monde" be W, whilst in a states of extreme 'samba-
boa, salmi a raw* .a/ at he his breast down to the ila•
fremity of the abdomen. He nen of Me moony ere snow
noel by bill pronnimeal dolsorliaor.