The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-07 00:00:00

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ALL TRAS at MERCHANT'S' PROFITS.
The TINISIT 1101ICHONO, snaraatsed. 3s. N. per lb.
MOOPI 3101711113 sod Co., 36, Looks-Mark City.

PARISIAN PAPER HANGINGS, at the
reduced duty.—Y. N. CHAFFIN. 111110111114 O.IIOIID.
sram. der So Übe Primroses Teeth.

PARIS FIRST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE
MEDALS.
WATAIRSTON and BROODEN,
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LONDON, TUESDAT, AUGUST 7.

THE great battle of the Paper-makers in the
House last night was a very different affair from
the battle of Hampstead heath which has recently
taken rank in the military annals of Eng-
land. The volunteers on both aides who had
been hastily summoned from far and wide mus•
bred in great force, and were early on the ground,
in cheerful temper and compact array. On the
other hand, in spite of the attractions of the last
sham fight of the season, the public was inconsidera-
ble, and not particularly interested, except in the
front rows, filled with victims ready for the sacrifice.
The strategical movements had been so carefully
rehearsed that not a allot was fired at random. The
CuaNevu.os of the Ext Hrocza rushed to the
front with all his furies k'rantem, and Mr. PULLER
met his assault with an unshaken Saxon solidity
worthy of a better cause. But neither in the
attack nor in the rip,ste was there so much as a
sword•thrust not en down in the pro-
gramme. Mr. Puttita opened one parallel
after another with the regularity of a stu-
dent of VAUSAR. Mr. WRIOLEY'H letters had
supplied him with a manual of evolutions, and not
a feint nor a sortie recommended by that eminent
tactician did he min. The result left something
to be desired in point of novelty ; but, as the
firing was tolerably quick and well sustained, the
general effect was not so bad. Unfortunately,
the paper-makers fought with the old Tower
musker, of Protection ; and what could those rusty
old flints and smooth bores do against Mr. GLAD-
-87. r!C E'S rifle barrels and conical bullets The
lista were too unequal, and the issue of the battle
too well ascertained beforehand, to make the con-
test exciting, but as probably one of the last of its
kind that our generation will witness, it was not
uninstructive, and it closes the Session with
/chit.

Mr. GLAD:woe; always "full of fight," disap-
pointed the gratuitous expectations of his an-
tagonist& at the outset. He did not " withdraw "
the Paper Duties question "altogether from the
" broad ground of Free Trade ;" on the contrary,
he resolutely took up that " broad ground," and
held it to the last. He did not "hang the de-
" cision entirely upon the obligations raised by
" the French Treaty." True, he had divided his
original Resolution into two ; the first relating to
importations under the Treaty with Francs, and
the second establishing one rate of importation for
the whole world. True, be ascribed importance
to our obligations of honour under the Treaty, but
not less to our obligations of policy in regard to
the commercial legislation of the last twenty years.
The text of the Treaty in hand, he showed, article
by article, that it was the general principle and
declared intention of the British Government to
part with every vestige of protected interests. The
Government bound itself to propose to Parliament
to reduce the Customs duties generally on articles
imported from France to a rate as nearly as might
be equal to the Excise duty. Paper was clearly
one of those articles, and the question whether
the French Government succeeded or not in re-
moving the prohibition on the export of rags could
not affect our obligations under the Treaty, or
arrest our commercial progress. It was not pre-
tended that we should recede towards
protection because our neighbours were
tardy in their advances towards free trade.
But the knock-down argument of a desperate
cause was the claptrap cry against "subserviency
"to France." It turns out that, as in coals, so in
paper, the French Government had offered to
waive for the present its strict rights under the
Treaty. In either case, however, Mr. GLADRTONE
had declined to accept a concession to the preju•
dices of a class interest which must be the first
to suffer from the reprieve Mr. Peurn was
DOW demanding in its behalf. As a question of
commercial policy, what were those complaints,
and alarms, and awful prophecies of ruin with
which the organs of the paper-makers were re•
sounding but the " ancient lamentation" of the
aboriginal Protectionists I The paper-makers were,
for the most part, free-traders, except in their own
article ; every protected intermit in turn assumed
that its own caw was a special one, and not to be
determined by the general principle. We are all
miserable sinners, and have no sort of objection to
any so in open church ; but we resent the im-
peachment of any specific sin. This was posi-
tively the last appearance of that "eminent'
" tragedian," Protection, on the floor at
the House, so Mr. GLADerrose resolved
to pay it funeral honours. All the ghostly
fallacies which in its hot youth fought for
corn, and sugar, and ships, wore gently evoked and
dismissed again to Hades. The corn growers with
their " special burdens," the West Indians with
thcir slaves set free, and slave labour sweeping up
their markets--these and other interests thrown
open to the competition of the world for the sake
of the consumer, were called forth by the CHAN-
rEtt..K of the Exerreciusa to attest that, if the
beginnings of commercial freedom were harsh
end difficult, the end was justice and advan-
tilLte tv. ail. With the specific grievances of the
paper n:a:;era, indeed, the CHANCELLOR of the