The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

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one another.
significance
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preservation
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religious
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1 -0 OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITLTION.— d ssu-
These built en the firmness o! English support, Eng-
-1 hd ICT PERMISsION.-PROVESSoit NCIIIX`i HMS'S GUS- land probably leaned on their informatsen an a
tv'T eON. Metter front all °that 5Pech.0ett....70702.;.„..t1f behimene,n°,v,,,,_P"b- ranee, and poor DoN Esenose, leaning on both, lost
be,
is
s'iseutreLtt're' with
c4hend'r floral', "---.0 et krn by
"iiedire: his wife, his position, his hopes, and was left the
as- s:,' saahgi&ya.- Theme ;princleeple -of thevemE -LECTRIC TELEGRAPH option of becoming either a penniless pretender to
'hag Views, by Charles endtb, fm.- .
dDimul°9ll."Datrailki" ifiermmee
- -t1
Pratelwr;
the
Phßacalm"64l"effner; •Dillw.imeledoe,WegtmeathlYblanienle. • reho; ai
thlie throne,has =ore:pada mtheuredlattePerninaltecaerrnatiofveF,ranceand.thus
h•l46"' removes one pretender out of the way of the Due de
SON'S scotribit ENTERTAINM ",1 rs, MosereeNsten. Are we to fill this vacuum by setting
• CROSBY ILtLL.-TtIESDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS. up the Conde de Moscremotte ? No minister or
\ It
-.Mr. WIL -ON will give the SECOND of his SERIES of 'ENTER-
TAINMENTS on the SONOS of soolleeiSlS Tlflaterfremlicit
eerie of Fa
at t o'Clock, when be will end • ri.eriorte, Mr. L., 4,,,,n`,'. .
amass, for which see pThe BOURBONS
es may beraCD-rti-lwers Keith, Pro_ wth.
_and. 00.% in
ItBONII of France and Spain are certainly
doing their utmost to lower each
cent:etas ;at wows. smith, weer, sae c 0.% ,weenui, and at Popularity,
statesman, we are confident, thinks of such a thing.
other in character,
and in true and lasting claims to the
ersebe•hell respect an allegiance of both people.. They
AURENT'S ASINO, RU AL ADELA:IDE are shrewdly caring for their selfish interests,
GALLlt,meame="l2l4-Th""" s'f),:„',ld,“„t3l°__= elit- their wealth, their domains, their despotic rights.
Phantom Y
erthfts eseagilese by Lamnt,
at -Gtand Vocal Concert.- In the prosecution of these mean and wiroyal object,
iteiliiieliewaymenileeettee at the moat reduced tariff. Admission, they are making cause apart not merely from their
Is. Gllent Mine% ate at HAI-Pest, and terminate at Pier.M.
.....ht al the Nea ne own subjects, but from the other imperial and roal
Mir ldlebseeen new If -ditan Deem .--e-,. _ Euro .
perhaps, be
said
of
the Germemiso may Tummy, Theraday, sad esturmy, st Mule families of pe, It may not,
l'eci°lll- T. '6l- 64. the Th---I°2------Lemme- France, but it can, at least, be asserted of the BOCK-
reiPlAlsi SERENADERS.—ST. JMES'S goNS, that they have adopted a ;rill/ gee disolation,
THEATRP- -The celebrated Eudopiss
yaw; pna,roo3, as omen. voma amanainments teat both from subjects and equals, which
must work most
i mammon guts st. hinges Theatre were is eminerlty eneseedel. and powerfully towards their dethronement and extinbc-
wh'" recent Perreethenw. th the Preithwth lee" thew ethwi'd with tion. These, however, are but the remarks of an o
uneaampled success, win have the honour of resuming
111 . te at tee owe theme On remota EVENING, December is. server. We would not enter into war, or rivalry, or
and of continuing the same every Tuesday, Thursday, and fletolds; enmity to the BOURBONS. They are their own worst
evenlngh der the Christmas holidays -The Public is
esutiooed that the Smogs and Melodies aa sung by the above to
at enemies ; and we do not want to accelerate their de-
tee st. James's Theatre, are published only at mr.Yitchell's Library, struction, least of all by abetting fine pretender, or
ss, Old Bond-street. None Via*othere authentic.
St. James's Theatre, December HI petting up one royal competitor against another. We
---------- really care too little for all, to take interest in any.
Y I.; FAT----M
TH E A'T it E.—Mr. ALLCROFT'S „--------T
111. PROMENADE CONCERTS.- LAST WEEK BUT 0NF...-
fi EVENING (Friday), Dee. 4. Progrernme : - Overture, IN the United States tea is imported free of duty in
amnia Horse; Polka, Royal Mail ; hehirtioc• rideith, on the Sith'" native vessels, which of course monopolise this article
11 Horns by Mr. Distin end his Four Sons; Polka, VictorthAlbert ;
Vocal Duet, " The Laughing Fairies,* the 311.ses elitism; claw of freight ; in Great Britain a customs duty is paid
drille. the Mtharenor ; ddlad. Mr. t4nelair; YantaSiar !tarp, me- upon tea, ranging from a rate of 650 per cent. on the
chattertpa
' Digie°
maim"
ciulth"le; Part
11.--°Pentli. "te°-
lo kindsof black to 200 per cent. on the average
bon, '' LUCIA de Lammermoor ; Vocal Duet, .' Two Kerry Gipelee," west
the Mimes Williams; Waltz, the Naiades; Quintana, on the Ss,'
of Congou. In the United States the annual average
Horns, by Mr. Distin and Ilia Four Sons; Quadrille, the Neapolitan
carnival; juke. Eign ; Overture, Der prewhinn cwhietar; c..,oneumptip._nofteafor the twelve years, 1821-32, was
Mr. Negri; Leaders, Meters. Thirlwall and Thomas-Pit, Promenade, o,lSoll,tnns ion. ;for the nine years, 1833-41, the average
and Upper Bores in ; Drees Circle, 2s. ed.; Private BOZO% I€l. ed. annual consumption was 6,600,000 lbs. The average
and 2ls Applieettou te''2.__....aLmade the BozArdlee. 10
uantity of tea annually consumed in Great Britain
in 1821 to 1832 (inclusive) was about 27,000,0001b5.
71 he erpresiO. from 1833 to 1841 (also inclusive) it was about
35,000,000. The ratio of increased consumption din
• fere little in the country into which tea is imported
MAILS.
The mails for the Braila, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernsm. duty free from that in which it pays a heavy duty.
WOO, Bahia, Ma leira, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the In 1840 the population of the United States was 17
• serene or the 4th December (this day). millions • in 1841 the population of Great Britain wee
The overland closed mails rim Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India. Hang Kong. Re., will be mass sp op the upwards' of 27 millions. The consumption of un-
evening of the 7th December. taxed tea in the United States for the year 1841 was
The mails for Vigo,
Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, less thaw j lb. per head; the consumption of taxed
"SI be made up on the morning of the 18th December.
The West India malls, excludbm those for Mexico, Honduras, and tea in Great Britain for the sanie year was upward'
the !tannish, will be made up on the morning of the 18th December. of 141 b per head.
Tlrf overland maths for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Perpt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong. Kong, and China, via solemnness; The inferences we draw from these facts are the,
,
• • will be made up on the morning of the 20th December. the ratio in which the consumption of tea has increase(
4The mails for New South Wales, Van Diemen's lAnd, and New
I Zealand will be made up an the evening of the 3lst December. in this country and the United States does not appeal
The mails for British North America, Berm and the United tO have been materially affected by the circumstance o
States, will be made up on the eveniag of the 3d sou .117. its being taxed or untaxed ; and that, judging by the
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, . TO CORRE.SPONDBNTS. past, a very long period must elapse before a duty of le
W. cannot notice, to any way, any communication teat is snit to ur per lb. on tea could yield the same amount of revenue
mossymously ,• but these who choose to address mint:on/Mem/a will 0
i •
And their confidenee r NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE
TO RETURN ANY 1471111rCKIPTS WHATEVER. r anything approachim, to it, as a duty of 2s. 21d
P
per lb. Yet some sanguine advocates of a diminishes
es. Advertisements intended Sir The Express, London evening Weer. duty on tea would have us believe that minister
must be at the Office by Two o'eloek on the day of pablicadon.
• might at once make the reduction mentioned will
HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. little or no perceptible sacrifice of revenue. The pas
TWO DAT. - Horning; 26 min, pave 2 ; Afternoon, ss minces: 2.
To-atomow.-Morning, 8 min. past 3; Afternoon, 27 min. pets. • .
experience of this country tells another story. At th
termination of the East India Company's charter in 183
• the current price paid for black teas by consumers we
1 , LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 4. 6s. to 7s. per lb.; in 1845 the prices of the same tea
i WE were glad to perceive the other day the potent
Tunes come round to the opinion which this journal ranged from 4s. to ss. The consumption for the yea
in 1834 was 35,000,000; in 1845 it was 44,000,001
I held and expressed from the first on the question of The reduction in price was 2s. per lb. ; the increas
the Spanish marriages. When Times, Chronicle, and in consumption was about 25 per cent., out of whic
Globe kept hammering all three with tho same stroke from 10 to 15 per cent. must be ascribed to the it
and time upon the treaty of Utrecht, showing how crease of population. Assuming circumstances to b
,i 1 Louts PHILIPPE had made a tear int,
that venerable exactly the same now as in 1834, within what Lim
wchment, ar,d deserved to be put under the ban of may we look for an increase of 100 in the consumt
Europe, we took the liberty of stating that the treaty tion of tea from a reduction of Is. per lb. in th
of Utrecht had nothing to do with Louts PHILIPPE'S Price ?
present treachery, that it was a bad and dangerous We are told to look at the increased consumptio
ground to go on for remonstrance or retaliation, and of coffee and sugar consequent upon a reduction (
I we added the ominous words, Why invoke the
treaty of Utrecht at a moment when no power save duty. The cases are not parallel. Before the die
was reduced, coffee was consumed exclusively by tl
• ourselves can be got to respect the treaties of Vienna ? upper and middle classes. Tea is already ti
1 The Times now admits that we were right, and cheapest beverage in use (except water), and
• • I " poo-poos" the treaty of Utrecht, as having never within the reach of all ranks. The consumption
a ' forbidden the marriages of French princes and coffee has increased because a new class of consume
Spanish princesses. The fact is, the more especial has been called into play : with tea this is impo
1 organ of Lord PALMERSTON having got astride this sible. Again, sugar, when cheap, is applied to,
Isame treaty of Utrecht, was not only gallopping it off variety a purposes : tea can only be consumed
its legs, but threatening to throw itself and the one way.
i/ f minister into the mire of some very serious and Keeping these considerations in view, we a
inextricable quarrel. strong reason to apprehend that ministers will 1
The Times, therefore, like a prudent groom, has reluctant to meddle with the tea duties during tl
i been told to push forward, and take hold of his ensuing session of parliament. The gross revere
i brother's bridle, and so prevent the Chronicle and the of 1845 was fifty-seven millions ; of this sum with
! ' / treaty of Utrecht from running away with Lord a trifle of five millions,. or about one-eleven
PALMERSTON and the British Cabinet into some far of the whole, was derived from the duty i
1 '
/ and fiery resion, whither certainly the public would
not have followed them. This charitable office was
performed by the Times on Wednesday.
Another objection, which we made very many weeks teL This is a source of income net rash
to be tampered with in the actual state
the public income. 'The returns for 1845 show
surplus revenue of 3,800,0001. •, but of this 1,140,001
,
back, was to any formal protest against the right of was money received from China under the treaty
the MONTPENSIER progeny to the Spanish succession. August, 1812 ; and the tariff of Sir ROBERT PEI
What we wrote on October 21st was as follows : has eaten deeply into the other sources of that so
Such a meathre must be either a bea
r. Minos, an empty menthe, plus. To reduce the duty on tea slightly, woe
or it is the proclamation of a future war. As either one or the other, merel be to throw away revenue, for it could n
we must deprecate it. To suppose that any threat could induce the
4 • i King of the French or the Due de Montpe to disinherit the
contempt and its consequences on a )irince who could be capable of lead toextendedconsumption. Whether a Jar
any
, offspring of Litter is absurd, The French themselves would Sing reduction is likely to have that effect is, taking
• e such an act. If, therefore, our prediction respecting the Spanish roue. things into consideration, extremely problematical.
4 cession prove true, future governments of England would lie bound And we must frankly confess that we do not thi.
1 I either to make war upon Spain and France, or to take up that semi- the tea duties that part of our tariff which calls Dll
hostile attitude towards the Court of Madrid, maintained at preeent by urgently for revision. The great objects to be k(
1 I the Eastern power. What results or 2.dr/unwires are this to es gained,
we,,rlo not see. . The. marriage of the Una de Mordpersier to the in view by ministers in reducing or shifting the in
Inf Infanta wm, we admit, • moat untoward and unwarrantable act, and
dense of taxation are the removal of undue burd(
one far whieti the King of the French merits whatever vengeance we
can take. But the youqg prince and princess are not to blame, still from the poorer classes, and of intentional or ac
, . i.
lass their offspring ; and we ought to shrink from entailing war or dental artificial blesses from commerce. The t
enmity, either upon them or upon ourselves. Tile marriage is like
mane that take place to the estreme annoyance et all the elders In- duties do not appear to press very heavily.upon I
tic:;.etzerl.;. t.:,,i..x.sitsietomm..);,,..it Lets
it,
riiiladrresiag tothavet been prevented poor. 'The allowance made to female menials, tint
Ise taken place, It then only remains despite
erroosr:ftl'arietir union;, a the name of " tea-money," in families of the mid
And herein we think the Treaty of Utrecht somewhat inapplicable. class, is 21. a year. This gives one and one-third c
It evidently provided for a period cf despotic government, when the rnny as the price of the tea daily consumed by the
whole power and authority in France and in spain was concentrated `'(hat othm. beverage. (always excepting water,
in the will of the monarch, rind when the people were like other chattel
property. to be disposed of by will, or carried away by suores-ion. Not aforesaid) is so economical ? Nor does the pressun
SO now. The rering 'overturn in all countries is checked and barred the tea-duty appear to have injured the trader ME
by popular old on ; and as for the right of succession, the people and
the representative assemblies, in all countries hire taken upon them- rially. In the MAIM of a quarter of a century
selves to de .icle. The English people, the French people, the Spanish consumption of the article has increased from li
people, hare all exercised that right ; and in eserciaing have vie- more
tuallv rendered null the old sacro.sanctity of the law of royal succes- than twenty-five millions of pounds per ann
don.' The question, therefore. of who is to ocean, who succeed to, to little less than forty-five millions ; and, what is I
I • the Spanish throne, instead of being. as in tbe dies of the Treaty of
Utrecht, a question for a congress, for diplomatists arid monarchs, more CO- the purpose, underthe existing
las simply trcome a question for the Spanish people. It is tor them there is no smuggling of tea into this country.
t''
to decide. not for us. Acil br appealing from them to the Treaty of
Utrecht, or to the Court of Vienna, or to the Court of the Tuileries, feel confirmed in these views by the language of
we are merely going backward to an tllibend and retrograde state of last circular issued by Messrs. T. and R. NIOFFATI
public and international law. llowever desirable or right it mar be that tileriw reduced,erent mon
Ou Wednesday last the Times repeated these argu- tfieloer;:ewebronliVnireartattee oqfwaViotli:sl"authlthbeepreleat3iime scar:
the
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meats, we do not say, borrowed them, in language eerie an id WWI prior to the altered sugar
r
rats
of
forcible and new. And we trust that its words will
have weight. It would not do for Lord BROUGHAM session, and that a temporary postponement of its COnlidtrati
han It has been for y
, caution, moren
o t i fllie r coin tLextr."ec.,no.,ew, tind..the. re..k.
1 I or any other advocate of the King of the FRENCH, to
et• ''' stand up in Parliament, and show that the Whig e
THERE are no two things so inseparable
Government had imperiously demanded impossible
et and impracticable things of Louts PIIILIPPE, as the certain opposites. Amongst the extremes wl
• 'f ‘ i
rice of peace and of renewing the entente. Lord seem never happy asunder, perhaps the most faro
• • • ALMERSTON has, we believe, expended a great deal are the desperate adherence of some men to t
of logic in his notes to prove to the French King that own religious belief, and the utter intolerance by
his son ought to renounce the Spanish succession. same persons of the like adherence in their oppon(
; But all this, we opine, is counsel, rather gratuitous Bigotries never pull off their hats to one anol
I, I to be sure, not an imperative and serious demand They become the more inveterate as their signific
made by one government of another. The coincidence disappears. When Protestant meant adhereni
I . of one of these notes ending in such a scorpion's ELI 4ABETR or HANOVER, and Roman Catholic
1 ' sting, having been delivered to M. Guizor about porter of MARY or the PRET ENDER when the
the same time as, or a little before, our refusal name involved respect for social order, menden
•Is. 1 t i makes joint protest for Cracow, has led to the of law, adhesion to the status uo, and reservi
tc'
assertion, that the British Government made the re- of pence ; the other, foreign treasons, don,
nuneiation a condition of renewed entente. This, plots, sudden and bloody revolutions, we cat
1 r we are convinced, is as little truth, as it would be melancholy meaning in Test-acts and sta
policy. lof prcrmunire. We can comprehend a go,
We wish we could give as formal a contradiction 1 ment assailing the spirit of disaffection whi
1 1 to the visits, officially announced in fashionable or- presented itself under the guise of a reli
' 1 guns, as having passed between our Foreign Secre- belief. We can excuse a people for secondi.
Lary and the Conde de MONTEMOLIN. We dare say government in such an effort. But as the political
. , cth y were visits of mere courtesy and seremony. withers the theological husk should fallßeli
Lord PALMERSTON has the excellent habit of wishing exclusiveness logically died with the Act of S
to see with his own eyes, and hear with his own ears; meat and the death of Cardinal YORKE. If
t4:1• 111 and he no doubt heard what the son of Don CARLOS were not enough to finish i
tt we are apt to flatta
had to say of his hopes. designs, and pretensions, selves that its last breath us have oozed out 1
with the same profit, and in the same spirit of nen- Catholic emancipation acts, reform bills, p
I I tralitv with which his Lordship heard similar declare- looms, railways, free-trade, and public
tions-from ESPARTERO. In England such visits are Dion. We are loth to acknowledge that
f unimportant, but on the Continent public men are changes, and the peaceful revolutions they is
under the same disadvantage as females—all their and indicate, can have passed over our
steps and looks are subjects of surmise and inference. and left in Great Britain, in the reig
I ' .11 In France those visits will be considered as acts of Queen VICTORIA, individuals and parties fit to
• defiance ; in Spain, as hoisting a standard of civil torahe side of the fifth monarch Reformat of the P
war. or the Anabaptists of the ion. •
Who can doubt the use made by the King of the But so it is. There have lately been many re
FRENCH of the fact of such visits, as an argument and able manifestations of a spirit of earnest and
iiill ll' a means for inducing Don ENRIQUE to forswear his bigotry, as rampant in the nineteenth century
1 liberal faith and friends, and to give in his adhesion would have been in the fifteenth or fouet
to the French marriage, as well as to French untaught by events, blind to reason, addermar
l' \I. policy in Spain. Don ENRIQUE, it is well known groundjess fears, drawing bitterness from t
might have espoused the QUEEN ; but he was spirited' of Christian charity, and finding in the very foe
up to resistance and haughty pretensions by the head of peace and love, a well of gall and hatre
eraltado party, especially its emigrants in London. A case was brought before the Lambeth
tee. a' .
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