The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-22 00:00:00

(From the Timer.)

This waa sot simply a bill for laying on • tax, or repeal-
*it ; for obtaining money, or giving it up. It was a bill,
virtually, for shifting the burden of taxation from one part
of the community to another ; for taking another penny a
pound from all incomes in order to relieve knowledge, in a
very wide sad vague some of that word. This wan a principle
which the Boum of Lords had as much right to an opinion
upon as upon say of those minor questions formerly tacked
on to money bills. It cannot be oonaidered that the House
of Lords has refused to repeal the duty on paper; it has
only declined to do so antler existing circumstances, and at
the nest of that income which is already so burdened, and
withal so enduring. The paper duty is a tpssetion that
limy stand on its own merits ; and. if we Inv* pesos at
home and abroad, the time most shortly mm. when those
merit will plead for themselves and carry the day.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
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How the Howie of Commons will regard the attempt we
canoot as yet say, bat preliminary notices are already placed
on the books which will elicit some definite expression of
their opinion on the subject. We do not anticipate any-
thing so serious u a collision between the Houses, or
a Ministerial crisis, or even the secession of any members
of Government, from the result of the vote jest
recorded. But as the Peers have determined to
prolong the existence of a tax which the other hous had
found the means of remitting, the proceeding will inevitably
open up a controversory that is pretty sure to last long,
and take a rather wide range. Nothing of the kiud has
been bearded in the present ehape since the revolution of
1688. The House of Lords during this long period have
retained the privilege of negativing money bills upon the
tacit understanding that it was never to be exercised. Their
present resuscitation of a right, which, if it ever existed, has
been so long dormant, is mot likely to pass unchallenged.
This, we are told, is an " age of revivals," but no revival
eon be more qoutionable, or more certain to culminate in a
keen and prolonged controversy, than one which restores to
the House of Peers a prerogative that for more than 150
years has been allowed to rust in desuetude.
(From the Morning Herald.)

Me time has not yet come for any such struggle as that
au which Mr. Bright has set his heart, and we are convinced
that the resolute determination of Lord Koenigle and Lord
Derby to exercise the important functions which still
belong to the House of Lords will win for them the grati-
tude of the English people. It is fitting that, at such a
11D0,1111111t as this, there should be men bold enough and wine
enough to resist by constitutional means the pressure that
has been attempted to be placed on the upper house. The
question debated lest night was not a question ot party.
la urging the Peers of England to save the Home of tbe.
MOM from the consequences of hasty and improvident We.
Men Lord Derby only did what we to be expected or the
Lear at the great Conservative party, and the splendid
triumph he achieved was the fitting reward of great oxen
tines in a noble aim

We (Siissez Erprus) have anthlrity to state that
the meeting of different corps at Rife Volunteers on
Thursday, the Mb, at Danny Park, is pat ad