The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

SHIPPING.

MAILS ARRIVED.—DubIie, 6; Waterford, 4; Donagha-
dee, 2 ; Guernsey and Jersey, 1 ; French, 2 ; Flanders, 2 ;
Holland, I; Hamburg, 1.
Lotoport, July 3.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.,
light breeze, and cloudy.
PETERHEAD, June Nl—The following report is made by
the Dublin, from Greenland, arrived here: "Left the
ice on the 23rd instant ; saw the greater number
of the vessels, and the following about a fortnight
previously. The ice was impenetrable, with eesttrl
winds the whole of the season. Hob., clean ; Sarah
and Elizabeth, 1 fish; Wm. Ward, 6,000 seals; St. George,
1 fish; all of Hull. Fanny, of Dundee, 1 fish; Commerce,
4,000 seals; Eclipse, 75 to 80 tons • Enterprise, 4,200 seals;
Resolution, 9,000 seals, 110 tons ; thipetior, dean ; North of
Scotland, dean; tinion, and Victor, dean; all for Peters-

burg.
WEEPORD, June 30.—The vessel which got on shore on
the rocks, 8. of Tuakar, y esterday, proves to be the steamer
Finn Mac Conn, front Liverpool to 'Youghal ; at high water
she was covered, and to-day cannot be seen, and is supposed
to have parted; the crew and passengers, all got safe on the
rock, but the state of the weather prevents any commu-
nication.
BitibTOL, June 30.—The Dolphin (sch.), from Swansea to
Gloucester, foundered in a heavy squall on Cievedon Flats
yesterday: crew saved.
RAMSGATE, July 2.—The Providence, from Newhaven,
and the 8p y, from Newcastle to Athens, have put in here :
the former leaky, with low of bowsprit, and part of stern
carried away; and the latter with bows damaged, having
been in contact in the Gulf stream, this morning.
Orr Pt LL,June 30.—Arrived: Independent, St. J ohn's N.B.
Orr MARGATE, July I.—Arrived: Margaret, St,. John's,
Newfoundland
SOUTHAMPTON, July 3.—Arrived: Hermann (a.), New
York, with 300,000 dollars. Sailed, July 2: Severn (a.),
Bermuda.
LYNN, July 2.—The Reaper, of this port, from Sunder-
land to Brencaster, got on shore last night, off Thornham,
and is likely to become a wreck.

TAXES ON KNowLEDGE.—The conaerviitive Liver-
pool paper, the Mail, of Saturday, says "In this boasted
era of free trade, while Manchester men, and Wigan and
Bolton, and Chorley and Chowbent manufacturers, ere all
receiving, free of all customs duties, all sorts of " raw mate-
ries," the products of untaxed foreigners ; and while the
leading and free-trading shopkeerers of London and Liver-
pool are already importing, free of all taxes, Russian
German cloths, Swiss muslin, and French fabrics—we
repeat, for the hundredth time, that various of our
home manufactures which employ directly or in-
directly, tens of thousands of English families, are
all crippled and kept down by an accumulated
load of home or excise taxation, that is a standing reproach
to, and a transparent disproof of, the pretence of free trade.
Paper, the raw material of knowledge, is still subect
to an excise impost of from 25 to 100 per cent., and to galling
and senseless restrictions on its manufacture, and which no-
toriously enhance its price an additional 20 or 25 per cent.
The penny stamp inflicts another 100 per cent- on the jour-
sale; a
thirdly, the exorbitant advertisement duty ranges
forbidding the people of this
irons 33 per cent• upwards—
country from seeking trade or employment through its super-
latively taxed journals I"