The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

REGISTRATION AND TAXATION.

Sir,—l perceive, by s babe @Elisio is your paper
of the 17th, that a Ire in sold* be mood the
lot of any +Sr legal =
Sissemels, hie sat nursed
without your ad of the sioadss to adman a
meanwhich the salsas beestesissee mad
loss that mut Noise beta sash as sodden; end Whin sod-
den be the swami of ersvisabeg the pubis el the peepriety
of such a moan»de as the repistedits of desk it will not be
without* pu pod, however adoisyle'
its brissilab esuelossies. * le bend la
It nay sent Imp Is then ego lo hen of Woad beim
Is say Trent Wine Bagfemd, bit se it seems to be in this
matter. Want has a rills gaging of desk and she of
Ittileibests, the oval set baby eassiahoey • bat, giving
pierity to the lastrusesst NOWA eirte subsequently
aid, it is, m yes may sapper, very general:, takes
vantage of. This missy is net ipshep so well managed
as it might be, but, &diciest as it is la mess for facilisatiss
searches and references, it at beat Web sot that b • plat
gained which it may yet_ esquire year posevering dummy
bdsre it ba carded is It wadi set soeyelso
if the pant idiotism of Bated, goblet' an mesh oes.
anted with the waged@ of the Isms of Imid imi the smuts
of asking tide to it, should aseessitate baprevemornes and
legal refer= whisk is the mare manual steel of England
I en net le obelendy needed.
Should lilds at
to be the ease, ft is to be hoped that
1114=111•1111 St do Alia& prude: not allow our
to suit, as noesly for I issesares equally
Weddell. theagb perhaps seta urgent, Orem Britain.
la year einem of registasties of desk Ike., sad YU WIT
=Tratv=Aiith".../1t0.4 I thiaeinrn!stuablie
the
Jostles) that it will rely be salt as a hardship by thecamanue
do would wish to groosrve a hiss wait sad status; and
thee, beemsdi as the bet of pomades real property gives
a stela mad semis& eyed% it is lit& Inn then juries to
*stalk that It &paid bay the reality of that standard.
vir, being your views, ft seem to as that To
Owens the registrarea of deeds bsiag nada general, as
OM es the twos belay elerded by samlassit ; and my
gamut abbot Is Is ant that welt a whom a likely to
waveriest, if set abseinely intsyddle, Sr a as-
maw yievek--I sees fie tandem
This b *lry a eon salieet, sad the Widest* of text-
iles hes bees dna likewise that of the lash upon the cal-
peit's back, shish, who*a a little higher up or lower down,
is Mid Solt to be by se MOW desbabis. But the people
aeon le be k tbs. dip sada the bran id their dislike of
the gabled Mit de-
ems% sad the &mese an lashed ion, whilst the present
been of Issnisa are discussed sad sew mode' proposed.
Anis. thin bet we have the pisyssides of the extension
of the wheat ant legacy statists pal settle, and this seams
sew to bob sash dinar that tae aeon doubt that it will,
ban very bog, be adapted mad earrisd, in spite of any in-
Isineled orreMes. ilepeaskag, the., sack a mann en-
ded. bow want the rime be raised ? At present the pro.
bate duty is sewed by the prohibitive' put apes the eeelasi-
NNW cents twang the probate of • will without the
=7 stamp ; sad the tipsy duties arecharged sad
spas data famished by those worts, who are
'IMO to give sepia of wigs, sec , to the revenue de-
These arrangements would doubtless equally
redios. so
trreel lento, far as it pearl under testamentary
But low when it poems ander deed ? It is to
be Ihmerved that the mend tax upon persona! property
called legacy duty is payable apes that nature of. property
wily when it passes ander testamentary dispoutioa or is
dnived by intents socession, but sot where it paws under
deed ; sad a enemies of that tax to real estate, without
shape in It. principle, would still leave exempt the bulk
of the landed property of the esoatry, as at present con-
iihealits per sal property amps duty by being left by
beds, whin, marring life-use, de set 'yenta in the way
eatesition until death, sad wwhenymmerty is as fairly
l
as that }sensor sada will. I essenve, then, that
spa eay extesdoa of this tax to Nei souse, it should,
smi IDudy will be, made coseprelasesbe essush to embrace
se WA ell property derived apes desk whether derived
by died se trOl• and If so, how omit es& a tax be nil-
lobed whitesation derived Owls* then deeds (as
sew through wills)and bow mold such bfermation be
obtained without satheatie espies of these ialallients, now
tying in private book satenhe strong boxes, or Mahan'
safes.
It wield sena slesit babble, to the oppressed sod
be hear that a people were to be
MiltentisalbV4Teoll think) as to point out to their
legislation the shoglin Nob siMisew tax, bat not so
strings does it seen to the ; and I doubt not
that when it appease Os ea system of registra-
tion would be, if sot abostenty sesemary, at least
roe
security for the MI sea Jess omillesin of this proposed .
wok tkat fast will be rather aargument ( Gogh a
seeradary en) in favour of din menet such a systek fal
the Mare is the fed aollosties of • duty is itself an inks**,
as sasslisifibege ng
iErternearyllim and neceseitating, to that
se
extest. tissal the e,
se who are too honest or not
never assugh Unties.
Bat I nut dens Skis letter, which is of greater length
dies Ihed intsailed. ghoul& yea deem it worthy a space in
year names I shell be glad to sae it there, and as
ss, eir,
A 111101111111111, ADVOCIATZ or DILICT TAXATION.

REFORM OF THE TAXES.
A minnow meeting of the members and friends
of the National Confederation (the object of which is to re.
dace and equalise general and local taxation) took place on
Monday night I. Liverpool.
W. (ACKSON, Esq., M.P., was called to the chair and
said, he saw men step forward to proclaim that they, the
saktle classes, were determined they would no longer sub.
mb to the vile system now carried on in raising the taxes of
Hie osentry ; and inetnid of having the present unequal end
sear eystem, they would adopt the old golden rule of doing
te Oben es they would wish to be dote to, and take care
Met every we should pay his fair share and Innen. (Ap-
Oemer.) When he entered the limn of Commons, what
did he find? Why, that there was a system in exietence
a robbing the pones men for the purpose or supporting PROVINCIAL.
a lot of bey drones. (Chen) He quietly made an
mobile et the composition of the house ; but in making WRECKERS ON THE ENGLISH COAST.—ne Canter-
seatementa be was about to do, he heisted it to be under- burl Journal of Saturday says ; " The unfortunate East
Mood that he did nee mean to take any political view of mat- Indianan, the Tigress, winch went on shore on Sunday
we. He was quite awn* that the National Confederatinn night to the westward of Shakopee,* Cliff, Dever, has be.
led edereeised to sink all polideal sad teligiene differences ; come a total wreck, and portions of her cargo have strewn
esd shorekre, if it boom sissmy for him se dimity from the beech as far as the South Foreland. The consequence
111. Memo marked out, be ad ant de so the the puepose of has been, that hundreds oldie lower orden, ma, women,
ewes" sr party and eserkimeies the ether, bet far the and children, have lined the shore all day long, eager to
weasel__
the Indism ci e spasm dto esurcomi poems themselves of floating pieces of the wrecked ship,
triCt I,Amsms if the meggicy„ Well having time upon spices, comer, or anything else that came in their way, to
lb bands, whet did he hdrill la the Leon of Common ? make lawful prise; and, uutortunetely, in one or two in-
it• counted we bombed led Ihrty-three amsaben mho were atom, Medial the vigilance o
ft the officers of customs
=eying pay teem the govemment either la aoresioa with and mast-guard boatmen ks or puncheons of
the army, envy, se esdnemea. (Hear.) He found 150 more nun have been washed shore,i the heads of which
who were measeled abberbublead or marriage with the 143, have been knocked hi, and the content carried
thus making see Millet MeeMeme of Commons directly in. off in the crowns of hats, in boots, oe say available
rested is thermal) time grim cl taxation, and if it article at bend ; and such a scene of drunkenness and bes-
wen eniessi they meet as. to be mat there. tiality ensued as to beggar description—men, women, and
What we to be doe lids ? Why to agree children lying on the beach, huddled together in the worst
apse a greet pele_sliple and that was era the principle of state of intonation, so that many of them have steed a
doing le disk ealgthisbeerau eaMmeald wish their neighbour chance of being drownedi by the rising et the tide, whine
to do tale Mom—(appiseee of era the principle that others have been rendered se ineadble through the &kik
every mat sheik to the ealgemise of the state that it has been toned necessary to remove their bodies ea
seseream M Oh, Men Vida ft los_pisesed the Almighty to shutters to the workhouse end other please. It is doubtful
Mies bk see& (Hear.) yew, rat did the poor whether some of them will recover. It is riverbed that see
=la
gizzae:dhe al die Wert soar ? Instead se paying or two pawns are aiming, sad it is feared Mat they male
ea* eat et every tee, le re esmeeded to pay—nay, not removed high enough up the beach te_reveas
lisfe
he , of three Diem and sispeese. -The same bodies being caught by the flow of the sea. TIM ere we
Me middle domes, bat to go on to likely to have bees repeated yesterday, by sander pains
riliwee=saiddassee, woad did that arty the whole of is. ceasing ashore; but the motet-geed, emir(
burden el loation re throws apse the kivotre of the in time after it had been breeched, suceeeded is over-
=ot hop. Themist be altered, milt meld only be brim it into the ma— a charitable :come to
the eyes of the esmiliy at large, and many." The Ipswich Esprit of yesterday sane
that speditilege done by disseminating heritage as they that on Tamed& last a somewhat serious disturbance lea
preemie& ow was the trade and cosmos of the plum at Brigbtl ngesa, sizlalas oat at a search for wrecked
aelppied by our mere sad mks taws ? Not lees property, Impend to have beim warded by the finders in-
.=
re soma millions a-yese was wasted in the main- stead of beteg delivered up to the eastemheass authorities.
tome dikes kwa. Dori the ket rise, Dr. Boring It *al be reediestol that la December last, a large vessel
bad samodel k obtaisbus, by a of owe, a return we discovered a mock on the deadest Bead, all the wow
limb, the emeant of revenue wbfsa did atet_ge directly beniag_ beset armed. She wee booed teem Hanka; le
kite the =or • bat now he hail gems te Hong Zone, limerintiry valuable genial cup, samisdeg
end they bar so more as the saldest. ears mem toys, winos, cutlery, gam sad park
ether meoder bed yolk spirit elm! Mich up the bread delh, sad Bork wool. Besides tae Omar quantity
tiem Lea rat member did se, he Or km. ) of rob leaded by the revenue cutters sad reeks at Her-
WMassif te de se. (Anion.) Bat leek at the wi* Brightlingere, and Wivenke, the or it several
it these keel ratioas sal ear trade sad eammosee. Wks was strewed with the lighter description et
Virg{ of am, they more kr* to perm that they_owe helmet Mirka. a large propcetiaa of which were Odd sad
men, Ask a paper smoulbstuser, sad he woul tall them oppeoplated ley the hairs. To recover are of this
that it oset his 10 pee maa ere the rake:tared article, pearelly as well as ether that ins oersted to have het
in order to show that be hid mot boa a ore. Take the sesteledieriltpessme of the ormisames, the eossererd taken
mereimat. He to sahket ell the &sal laws which at obtained a writ of assistoom mad ea
dribs" eiriamee, and premated its isperea. But the aro day Mr. Stephen. the thief ofilear, sad two el
mews these laws, sei what would be the dfset ? his mooted Orem 'babies, proceeded to search the
lelliZnwield makt
be sad that these as free
haet:ing whalat L' they IdManess led a Mie sewgi =tadPilele.eveselaths
imam
of dpagewhiob
a.
email be eke to eseasolkh. He meld eater into drib hematite Odor of a moo Om it was supposed ked
ID slew Ile adorers of this, bat it was sot neemeary. II gives hesemadia to the Misrr and hid be-
rme dual skerstisa were roamed, they would ismer is.. Ards= M the •••411sta it periodos ef
Mm
be width nose than ere, sad every re would oily have we emeeesead by upwards et id tea eel boa, who dreg
to pop lb Yr share of tostiem Bot the esileedea of the off gene awl Ark, aceompaid by berm yols, and
owe MINN eon the eseatiry he did ash how bow ray 'dm dieseskat slime limiest the slat ',the tamale
Aa aide sekdoter bed leekool the root ; sad the agenglii Itezee with the TOKITOMI property ; ode
Vim olleperelthaeodd alas the issamod mad permission Omsk the Sim Is Sim was an hire'
It ley be New what they Ito! te do was lb as, k meat mead has boo Made art
Wok the They did act Merl tor to the geyser sr of their amber soled le the hoods of dm mele a Orli
✓ot to pores so dere hadmet. or mil them this eye which he imagined to be pert el the veseage .fa rear,
be reieeei, hat they mid, whether sad whisk he farady allimpled M use. This ems re-
itthat mesatirthairemblerre et odd order se to meted the sided by the heir of the me era sod several el Ns or-
al thereby, we are reedy te payees litshare," pokes, mere et mhos melt the seem ilk mho the ether
=artier let every ins, whoa hero Into the Ikea ot Com older eademeemel to mkt their essapanism Toe smile
seem. karertholle k patties higher left hisewa port es soon ere to biery sad athe ere dr the dire, belag
wed es Ye atighbeees, sod we shall be ride& (Mem) the weaker party, were esmealled to beat a retreat.
This real rho ma rigid womswitha. Them there yosauffres.
wadi whew be ems et rem appoird le this or that COL. THOMPIION AT BaeloroaD.—Col. Thompem,
=bee tide lode would have to week like the net of the or of the representatives of the borough of BradkK met
They might depend upon ft 511 their efforts would his ocestiterts lad Mosby evsalag, it a crowded aerial

at the Temperwase-kall, be the et sidandag W
eaninetin the bat esselen, and hiss
espies le le dimmed in the auselagsae ~lisesiaa
B. woe Issenfrersig ea led to the abnir.—CeL Meow-
ses cesimmiced by agleinkig that the eljent ha had In view
fa
kip
his esnatiene ate was to less their Secs the
kaki lON Mile day, so that be might ha melde upon dln
Sea wllb ties In the pressetien elf thrg
game la rebid' they were all naberted. Ark
asie-
valid te the sena of the past year, whisk, he said, had
bosh St* isilltitsto hod" at hose id abroad--uson
la-
pslsaß GSM@ than se hems. The pee* of Frans, bed
disk cumin for a spatial': He did nee wish
to %to exam* lellessi fa Kazidti he was do-
nnas el bring semilliena Sod ea the me-
srellY YHo/bia. Ravin defended UFeench people
from the leiletis east apes them by the elections a
Bonaparte to Its poseideney—whkdo, he observed, was est
Shred by ammo Mad el victorious lesteeadon of=l
which had imea driven from their throne by foreign
—he amid that the people of Franco, with Ira seeplinello
were as peacefully disposed as the people this s
and he augured that the pees Naiads would lad
though they might not realise the whale demand they had
written down, they would yet gaia 16a. la eke pound. He
alluded te the deputation whisk had waited apes him is
reference to the very importaat local quotient ad
Fritsch serisos. They repreasoted to him that the
French were giving a bounty upon all merinos
:ported, and the consequence was, that the Brad.
ford market was stashed with than, to the exclusion of
the Beglish vatriace—ea article that constitutes almost the
staple trade of Bradford. They, therefore, desired him to
attend the deputation is ea interview with the sinister,
praying his to Ultimate that, where a bounty was given by
a foreign anti,., there would be a eorreepoadieg import duty
laid in this country. He did not attend the deputation, but
he went to some of ths ministers is the House of Commons
sad by 'km was informed that there was no bounty given
on French merinos, though • drawback was allowed. This
settled the queation, beaus they could not interefere is a
drawback upon • duty which ha been previously laid. He
was happy to Siena his constituent' that he hod
not bes absent from a single divines daring the session.
Adverting to the committee appelated last elision to incisive
into the operations and effect on the slave trade of the Afri-
can squadron, he said that he feared the pntgtgeneation
were sot equal to their fathers in their zal in the great end
glorious work of abolition. He feared that there was • great
chases of the return of the slave trade apes the coast of
Atria.; a dead set was being made in same parts of the
esuntry for that end upon the plea that the Afrkatt squa-
dron added to the 'offerings of the slam without putting a
stop to the traffic. Now Ist them bring their strong York-
shire tense to bear upon that argument. Time had been
when the A:gonna were notorious prates, and seized both
ships and men, applying the former to their own use, or
moonlit( them,and selling the latter into slavery. Now the
government this country deemed it their duty to put •1
stop to this, and employed their navy for the purpose. Whig
would they have thought of a ship's crow, taken by the Al- '
perinea, sad being conveyed into slavery, crying cut to a
British man of-war, "Oh, don't put a stop to these pirates;
don't interfere with them ; let them do ea they like with us,
lest they be made smogs be your thralls,' of them, and a
treat us all the worse if they nape ? Why, they would
say, " These men talk like idiots ; it le our duty as a nation
to do all in our power to repress these horrid procesdisge."
(Applause.) But it was said that the course panned
was calculated to Were our trade with slave emu-
tries. Their fathers were better men: and those
who returned • Wilber'orce and a Clarkson to per-
Bement acted from tiALer motives that mere pounds,
shillings and pear. To the ma of the West Riding,
he would say, 'Go ye, and do likewise." The gallant li
colonel, after some observations anent the presentatiou a
the chartist petition, said that he had attempted, when the
motion of Mr. Hume for the extension of the franchise was I
framed, to obtain the Insertion of an universal suffrage cleats
and he was successful to the extent of drawing from them a
declaration in faveur of all householders. That motion re
inbred the suffrages at 84 members, and in the next MOWS
it might have 184. Whoever expected, he inquired, the
last sissies to carry a measure in favour of the ballet; yet
that was dope upon the motion of a member of the aristo-
cracy, too, seconded by himself. The hon. member con.
eluded by requesting that questions might be tut
to him, as he was anxious to lean the opinions of his
oonstituents ; and he at down amidst loud applause.
Having replied to several questions he then adverted to the
probable topics of the coming session, foremost amongst
which, he said, would be the financial reform question.
Althoush he did not prognosticate the literal fulfilment of
every thing which had been set down upon paper on that
haul, yet they might make themselves gate satisfied that
financial reform must be carried to a very great extent ; and
if the party now in power would not do it there were others
ready to take their places, end perform the people's will.
They might cheerfully look forward to the future, so tar as
that wee oncerned ; for England would not agam submit
to the • tornious and extravement expenditure hitherb exist-
ing. To the people he would say, "For haven's sake carry
the principle as for as you possibly an, and never be afraid
of any one carrying retrenchment too far." The last news
hem Francs was that they intended to n dues their army
110,000 men; that would spike the French government the
aced popular in the world, and as it wee 'simple rule.c f three
questiou the English government would bi forced to make a
corresponding reduction in the army of this country. But the
government must be pushed upon that son all other questions,
and if they were pushed they would most certainly yield.
There was a kind of perpetual combat between the people
and the government; and if the former insisted upon dery-
leg, the latter must work for their pleasure. Then came
the question of freedom of religion, to which the disoontent-
ed or dissenters with the present system and the misconduct
Ken chinch were fast feeding. One half of the church of
England wee half way over to papacy, and they were going
over to it as fast as they could drive. So long a+ ministers of
the establishment, as a holy, were found supporting liberal
protections's', they might have maintained their position;
but they had now rendered • straggle inevitab:e, and it be-
hoved all liberal men to take the right side.
—Mr. Bowen (town councillor) asked whether the
colonel would support the separation of church sod state ?
CA. Thompson replied that he should, two years ego, have
answered in the negative ; but now he thought he could
show good reasons for goring yes. In answer to a question
from a working man, " o.eld he give up his pension as a
national pauper, in order to h-lp forward the work of re-
trenchment?"—the hen. member end that he possessed
nothing for which he had not worked and paid three times
over ; but irony man would prove that haltpay was unjust
he would vole any
its abolition. He thought there were too
many officers in the army ; int he did not make it so ; and
if they would help him he would strive to reduce the num-
ber. lie replied to a question whether he would support an
arbitration clause in all tresoies, that he would vote for the
tweed, n of • clause to the effect that if there should
any dispute arias as to the interpretation of any
Part of that treaty, it should be referred to a third
party ; but he was of opinion that it would be
possible to get any two nations to bay that in all disputes,
of whatever sort or kind, they would submit to the
arbitra-
tion of another party. As far as he could sose a practicable
mode of curying it out, he was disposed to vote for the inser-
tion of arbitration clauses in treaties between nations. With
regard to the Ten Hours Factory BM, he said he would not
pledge himself, but if an attempt were made by the mill-
owners to repeal it, he would hear the argument en their
side as well as on the part of the workpeople, and decide
according to the best of his judgment. The fellowiag rens
lotion was adopted :
That this inesWel Yet spanks that Colonel Thompeon's attention
and votes In the Hemet Gomm. the hat samba deserve
the thanks ("this spent aad of his timilegensally.
SCODISHIRR.
GAME LAWS AND POOR RATES.—Tbstel if mach
reason to fear the winter will prove a severe one to the
rate-payers as well as to the poor in the district comprising
the Stamford Union. The recent applications for relief
have been (says the Stamford Mercury) fearful in their
numbers. Several of those now in receipt of parochial re-
lief have become paupers in consequence of their husbands
or fathers being Bent to prison for poaching.
NEWPORT ARCEI.—On the night of the 10th inst.,
part of this interesting old Roman arch fell to the ground.
It is the south portion which has given way. Hopes are
entertained that a subscription will be sot on root, so that the
arch may be repaired, and further prevented.

ATTEMPT AT SE ii-15ESTTtIICTION BY A LADY.—
Oa the 20th inst., the lady of Sir John Pole, of Shute House,
precipitated herself from her bedroom window, on the third
floor, and sustained eoutudons et sash a character that
anions apprehensions were entertained for her life. Al-
thcrn4h pronounced out of dare her ladyship's rash
attempt will render her a ripple f ger,or life. Various rumours
are in circulation as to the cause which could precept a lady
in her statism, surrounded with every apparent comfort, to
mennalt emit an act.