The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1860.

MUSIC.

THE MUSICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

This great society, which, we understaad, numbers
Mess fifteen hundred members and sesseistes, gave their
first concert last evening at St. Jones's-hail. The hilovetag
Was the programme ; and we cannot help tastes thee, from
a body which began its career with such megaikeet pro-
fessione, and which contains such a host of wawa* maddens,
we should have expected a selection of a lees commea-plans
character

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°MUM (Gowan) Robert &busman.
ire& " Akaadro le ealtaso." Plendr bet Nowt
Asia. " Nco so donde sane." Miser Ballsta llama.
Ocaesrams. la D. Visas. Kr. IL 0. llogrsie
Oft& " Mos buu mourn mot" Omani
Kalil*. ..... . Liksr.
fterUg• (lirMidi ..... ••. • • -. W. SWIMS MORAL
nay Ti.
Symphony, " Dls Walls der Tune," I. UM-.
llegro. CZ= 3, ILS,CIII—
4. eat:
of Sassal,. ID makes otirr=ser, L. agar.
Duo. '' Jerk ad sarsalsit dal • "Cam
miss' Mika& Pang* sad Ogre DE111144
Ms Owns ladral
Olotary rre. eitooelfd.... .
-ilia'.

TM. wee the programme whisk was leened, but the In-
aigeoeilion of algeer WWI mimed man ramie in the
vocal pieces. which were of little emegnmeme. the wreal por-
tion of the magi (es will be mem et a gime) being ix-
ceediegly week. It °mislaid but one remarkable feature,
Wee Primped met beilliant execution of the mom born
Amber's Orrame, which wee vehemently sad deenvedly
applauded.

SPORTING.

LINCOLN RkCEB.-WEDNEADAY.

Tsui Suers of 5 OM'IL sob, 25 added. Weight for
ego ; Timm wire, ttc.; the woad eared lita stake. One
Wk.

Mr. W. IL s The Gratis, by Teddingtos, 3 yrs. 64 13Ib
'Swift) I
Mr. W. Avesta °reword, 3 yrs. 4M hilb (Chshonari
Mr. Itionedi Ibi Raw, 4 us. 4R elb_Ope lelb an) ..(Mendell) 3
Batting: 6es4 on the Haver. Wan by twenty kesigths.
Baccunenw MILIMS of 6 sore. each, nub 40 added,
for 2-yr-elde ; cols., Est 71b; fillies and geldings, Bet 41b ;
whiners extra; the mooed savod his stake. The straight ran
ha oboes balls man

ML Mart. by Dotard°, SW 71b .. . IPlusob) 1
Lord re VW 410 . . Frahabi
Mr. Owe*. OK 710 . 2. ....... tgrLird
Mr. 11, Asesedble-MW7. .... Bran 4
-.
11arehernl Mr. Medea% Duplicity, 1/44 40
Mr. Itelibeesh Clemblaer. 41b .(L raordud
Begin 9to 4 apt Cantab, 7to 2 each apt Duplicag
and Lays, 6 to 1 apt the Mary Ally, 10 to 1 eget any other.
Rapert nuns through and won by two lengths, the same
between second end third, very bad fourth.
Tito ALL AGED BILLING STAL 3of 6 lore. each, with
26 add-d ; the mooed and his stake. Ove mile.
Mr. Blida now/. b 7 &hank 4we 1134. 74131 b 00se) 1
Mr. Bleetbewa's Prawn. yrs (1331. 7.1131 b lltlWhardi I
Mr. 0. were UMW bawl% 45.11,01. 754 31b. ....11Areker)
Montag : 6 and 7 to 4 oo , who w .by ten lengths.
CITY ElLunneAr of 3 son, with 30 added ; the es-
sad saved his stake. One sib sod a quarter.
Mr. & Jacobi towns dole Qom of the douth). bY Mentor,
Mb_ 2 .. . (A. Zdaread)
Trawls_ lawn. yes. Tit 710 .......... ...... 4ll4witharro

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Mt. 141331% Maim" 744 (8.315) 3
Mr. J. Osbousel Trrum.tor. 3 v.% 64t 213 (H. Orimahnwi 4
Betting te 4 apt Patella, 4to 1 apt Tamer tor, 9to
2 apt Lovett. Batelle made nearly ell the ruardng, and won
by two lengths, a bad third. Corona wee fifth, Julie and
Elliman Beauty walked in nest.
GRAND BTRIPLEIDASE HANDICAP cd 10 soya. each, 3 It,
with 80 added; winners extra, &o. ; the second saved his
stake. About 4 aides.

11r. 8. J. !NUM*, The Emperor (Isis Itaattl( Hero). by
Game 'boy 2/48. a.t t4b tut. tat 111 W ........(mt wt.:l=o 1
Mr. 0. Haar' Athlete. re. Matto 2
Mr. MOW limb at Tak ms. 122.1 b (Gaterati4) 3
Banat . 2 to 1 apt Iliad. or Tails, 6to 1 era sod
Omar Paths sad Little Charley, 10 to 1 apt (Mauna. Woo
by tour lengths, a pack bearer second sad third, Glands'
was a good torah.
Claymeds was struck oat abort 9 o'clock this (Weds's-
day) mortag.

SHREWSBURY SPRING MEETING.

MA=lt 8 MID 9.

ACCEPTANCES FOR TER CLITRLAXD HANDICAP. About
two mhos and 20U yards. The blithest weight accepting
Brag 6st 71s, it has bast raised to gat, and the others in pro-
vrbs&
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lb
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ACCEPTANCIII 701 k THE . $111.046111112 SIRIPSTAISII.
111ropahus Conn*, .boats mils and • quarter. The highest
inept accepting beteg 7st elb, it hes best raised to 9st, and
the (glum ki properties.
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level& sheho. Abuse ewe mile. The highest weight ea:opting
mrMk k big boa rind to 9st, and the ethers In pro-
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ACCIPTANCIS ?Olt TBI filtING STIZPLICZYI. About
Gas aft mad • queeter.
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NAVAL AND AM114.17.

WOOLWICH, Fr.. 2D.

•
DOCKYARD PROMOTIONS. The whole of the
oinks at the neural deprteeents et We decityard ((with
exception) have Aped a menalel, whisk his sews
to Coouodon-Beeertelmaest the Hon. J. R. Drummond,
for preeeotattoa te the Aileeireily, ceeeplandag of the injue-
doe inflicted by the wok to whisk several secant promo-
tions have beau AIM up.

PORTSMOUTH, Fos. 29.
The Indiana, screw steamer, his arrived at this
port front London, to embark • wing of the 9th Regiment of
Foot, for conveyance to Corfu.
The Flytag Fish, screw .teem-vessel, Commander C. W.
Hope, stramed out of harbour this shornin, and arehortd at
Spithead to await orders.
Th. Sag of Admen' William Bowles, C. 8., will be struck
on board the Victory at sunset to-morrow evesisg, and that
of VICO Admiral Henry W. Brom, the newly-appointed
Commander-in-Chief, hoisted cm Friday morning.
The Bacchante, 61, screw bigots, is ehuge of Captain G.
F. Ootdon, of the ste.m ream% p,oasdd out of -harbour
thin afternoon to mobs • limlsary trial of beer engine,.
• count-mertial aa,smhlsd on bard the Victory Sag-.hip
fe-day to try Wis. Unarm; Wm. Bowen, James li'Lean,
end Georgs Williamson, swam belessing to her Majesty's
trap Mars, on a charged having deemed hom that ship on
or shoat the 20th of Asprism hunt. Cagoule &nags, of
the MAN, promeateL The mart Mad the charge proved
ageing% the prietnows, and ninteneed Mina he twelve months'
sM=tta Wiesisater Gaol. The mart was composed
e Hem J. Dursaa (president), O. H. Seymour,
0.8.. O. T. Medea, B. Harris, A. Farquhar, T. Wilooo,
and R. W. Vasslttart, together with Om &SILLY iudit•-•d"-
ais el the Oast, W. J. Hidlyer, Bati.

BTAI7 COLLIA3II EXAIIIIINATIONS.—ReguIations
Imivo boos bowl Irmo Ibo Bono Chords ptirwfte the exited-
make of axon who nay bo ossalidatoo forid uNioS to tin
Stiff CAN% la Fakery, 1881, Ox mond fttlorotatios.
Thar ell la kneals lag 15 alum tr. aluthat rag
i tikes am *Wow !kik Alain aid Wel Iseasia.

CHUBCB 114T18.

REPORT OF TEE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE

ROUSE OF LORDS.
We have this morning received a copy of the
report by the select oommittee of the Howe of
Lords appointed to inquire into the present opera-
tion of the law and practice respecting the assess-
ment and levying of church rates. The report,
which is dated Tuesday last, is as follows:

That the eassedites have test, and aoseldered the oaldeet-
matter reined to them, and have 1114MbiIIII several winnow
in relation sharsich

1. That it appears from the evidence that " by the com-
mon law, that is to say, by immemorial name in this conn.
try, the milliners are bound to repair the Chart* sad to
provide everything that is necessary for the decent perform-
enoe of divine service," and that for the attainment of Wee
objects recourse has from very ancient dines been had to a
system of parochial saessereent, which saseameent is still
maintained he the great majority of perishes throughout the
country.

2. fiat by the judgment of the Home of Lords, in the
Braintree ass, the law lee been declared to be, that the
chtwoh-sate is rely memeable ow the ratepayers by the vote
of the shy oldie vestry, and it ►ppears in evidence, that
for the lassies' to vote a rate there is no penalty at common
law.

3. That, therefore, in some places no rate is made, and fn
some, though made, it is not enforced against those 'Who rr

fuse Mpp
4. ThatViers a church rats has been refused, or bee net
ham assessed, it has generally been attributable to one or
other of the following causes—vie. :
" I. The abuse of the rate, in its asessement for, and appli-
cation to, improper objects, or in exceneive charger.
The assessment a new parishes and distracts having
churches of their own to the rate of the mother church.

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"111. The unwillisgness of churchwudeue to propose a
rate, the collection of which might be rendered difficult be
Impossible, by the uncertainty and Inefficiency of the law.
" IV. Local causes of Irritation unconnected with the
rate,.

" V. Tha opinion retertained against church rates by
certain them of dissenters on religious or politleal grounds."
6. That a great obstacle to the enforcement of a rats when
made is, that a ratepayer summoned before the petty seasione
for nonpayment may then proceed to dispute the validity of
the rate or hie own liability (63 Goo. 111., a. in, e. 7) that
thereupon the junior might forbear to give judgment, and
the churchwardens can only proceed in the iscciesnatioal
court.

6. That the entire abolition et the church rate is opposed
to the general feeling of niembere of the church, is not ant-
venally called for by dissenters of various denominations,
and especially not by that larp and influential body the
Wesleyan Methodists, and would, in the case of a great
number of parishes, be attended with serious and prejudicial
consignation, by restricting the existing means for the re-
pair and maintenance of the parish church, by vastlyln-
creasing the labour and responsibility of the clergyman, and
otherwise materially impeding the ministrations of the church
In those parishes.
7. Tint, viewing the grounds of objection to the payment
of church rates as well as the impedimenta which exist to
their collsogoe, it Is expedient to alter the law in the follow-
ing respects :
" I. That for the future, persons desirous of being exempted
from contributing to the church rate, in any perish, may
give roily notice to that afloat to the churchwardens prior
to the meeting of say vestry for the purpose of making a
church rate; and that such persons shall not be entitled to
attend any such vestry, or to vote upon the making or appli-
cation of such rate, or to act as churchwardens in any matter
relating to the church, or to retain any seat appropriated to
them in the church during the term of such exemption.
" 11. That the rate, when voted by the vestry, shall be
levied upon all persons liable to it who bare not given such
notice.

"111. That the item for whke a rata may be made shall
be definitively declared by law.
" IV. That the ratepayers in any new parish or district
shall be reteatAs for the purposes of their own church end
for DO other.

" V. That there shall be the same powers for the recovery
of church rates as exist for the recovery of poor rates, and in
sue of okdostion to the validity of the r►te, an appeal than lie
to the general quarter millions, and that the jurisdiction of
the acebeisstical courts in such matters shall cease."

8. That the principle of areasing the owner instead of the
occupier to the church-rate is well deserving the serious cow-
@Mention of parliament in any fanny logislation on this
subject.

And the committee have directed the minutes of evidence
taksn before them, together with an appendix, to be laid
before your lordships.

WUT SvouT ELEction..—The election to all
the vseliney .to the representation of the waters division,
acceetemed by theft's* of lb. Hammond, has keen Ind by
the Sheriff to take plus an Saturday, the 10th inst. At pre-
fect the only candidate in the Add le Mr. Cnbitt, who cense
forward as aossarvadve principles. Applisations, it is un-
derstood, lave been made to auseel gentlemen of the oppo-
site party to soonest the election, but all of them have
Where, declined to do sty principally upon the ground that
a buena election will probably eke place very shortly,
under the new Reform Bat, and they do not consider it ad-
visable to distarb the county at the present moment.
ASSOCIATION OF VOLCSTARY TEACHERS Or
ORRAT BILITAIN.—A meeting at this association took place
on Saturday, Sikh alt., in the seheol•room of St. Thomas.-
Kum Chapel, Hsckney, whet • lulus on " entoultannas
Heeding" wee delivered by Mr. G. Whit., of Abbey es
meatob. The Manua wail preceded by a practical emup
of the umbel with a clue d Wye under Hr. White's urn
dluothis. After tea, in the ennimodious voiMy, the plans
pregeneded were freely dissered in their epplicebility to the
requimmeele end iroprovenesee la molar instraction. The
somoseced the mow d several new cumbers, and
sl~mM five seseeleidee, whisk ha bet recently been formed,
leis le en enesodeskag dies of program The meeting wee
prodded over by the Re". W. Kitting, LL 8., and proved
en interesting and ?abut& scrums of intercourse. The m-
oiety will hold its nut gelirring to

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LONDON UxiviisrrY Couzau.—The annual
general meeting WY held yesterday, at the theatre of the
university. Mr. R. Martineau prodded, end amoaget those
present were—Members of the Connell: Mears. Prevost,
ldnfteW, Gibson, and Ooldemid ; Proprietors: Messrs. J. R.
Farnham, Needham, Beak, Marotta, J. A. Yates, J. Yates,
S. Freeman, Martin, kr. Mr. 0. 0. Atkinson, the were-
tary, read a voluminous report, Mom which it appeared that
the total receipts for the erosion 1858-9 bad been (including
oath in hand, Sept. 30 1868, of 1681.25. 9d.) 20,3861.19 e. 8d
Rapeediture accounted for in various Items te same amount.
By a auppleraeatery Inssolal stentenat it appeared that the
legacies sad donate= butterfat Ord. 1, 1868, and Sept. 30,
1869, sanownted to 10,7411. 10e., the whole of which had
been UM eat fa Consols. The number of students in the
college during the woks 1868.9 had formed a total of 821,
the fees from whom sweented to 12,4101. 18e. fld. The
cloaks of °Seem vents of shanks, &c., closed the pro-
ceedings.

THE UNITEEML ILITANOEPHOeIe.—If a sheet of
paper, on which a key kr bola laid, be exposed for some
minutes to the annelfser sod them instantaneenely viewed is
the dark, the key being removed, a fading spectre of the key
will be visible. Let this ppw be pet aside for many months
when nothing or dfkark N, sod than in darkness be laid
ea • plate of hot metal, re errs of the key will again ap-
pear. In the case of bodies men highly phosphorescent
than paper, the spires dreamy differest objecta which may
have been laid ea in svocession will, en warming, emerge la
their prow order. This is equally ter of our bodies and
our minds. We are involved in the universal metamorphosis.
Nothing tears as wholly es It found no. Every roan lama;
every book we read, every picture or landscape we DSO, every
word or tor we hear, mingles with oar being and modifies it.
There meows oat record of Ignorant women, in states of in-
sanity, uttering Greek and Hebrew phrases, which in past
years they had heard their masters utter, without of course
comprehending them, These tones had long been forgotten :
the traces woes so filet that under ordinary conditions they
were invisible ; bat the roes were there, and is the intros
light of embed exaltsment they started into mutineer,
Just as the realm' ire of the key started into sight ors the
application of heat. It is thus with all the indorses to
which we are intbjetted.—Onwhill Iferteilte, for Ideroh.

. •
REMARICABLI FLIT 1/1 AICIIIRY.—At the Leeds
Archrry Oroaad, ea Ilattuday leo, a fist worthy d a Tail
was act:dood by ta pdaelgal cAter of tho dab. Dube
the practios at 100 yards a yarrow ono observed spa. tin
toga. Two psalm= task also at tbe Intruder, and the
arrow of thoroapbds (Kr. Wameop) puma through the
blurs body. Tb• bat io, vs WWI% ow tb• mot rmark-
able on mord Is tommas tolit outbrary.—lordo Maywy.
Cantu. PaLeom--Otrz Sitatuto Dey.—Wase.
wow" Pia. 10..ulgooloma ea
Iv% 984 ENO
ly ewes Wide.llll.

(Stamped id. Additional.)

TEN LADIAS' SANITARY ASSOCIATION.

A singularly interesting lectors was given yester-
day by Xr. &Maid Pleb, the mansion of Mr. Bartell
Gurney, at Kensington, bang placed at the diamal of the
ladies' Sauitary Association for the oemeion. The subject
of Dr. Pith's added'. had no special relation to the expend
*Ms of the satiety, whist', in extending its tees to him,
rreto have followed a course beneficial to either party.
so as the /mama cultivation of human intelligence
with a pardonM atria op the acquirement of an apt
entry, may be considered as affecting the advancement of
gasbag
we have knowledg
named go e among
hand in hand. ladies, Dr. Pick and the
madation
We have attended previous exposition of the "art" of
memory, as it by been called, and have found them to be
mere displays of clever empiricism, utterly deettnie of
theory or rule. At lead, the exhibitors of a surpriang re-
tentiveness of mind have remained saddled with the mead-
filiation of their power without attempting to mould
for it, This me not the free in the instance we have
new to mooed. Dr. Pick's reputation is based on grounds
thick educated men are quick to respect. Near the dose of
last year he lectured at Oxford, with the exprem approval
sad co-operation of the Pdmolpal of Magdahm-ball. Indeed
the facilities of acquiring knowledge, squashy technical
knowledge, afforded by Dr. Pick's system, are so evident on
a brief explanation, that no unprejudiced puma mold °haat
to a theory woich is, moreover, capable at being prank:ell,
exemplified at every step of its development.
The lecturer, dm a few bimodal:dory observations on the
existence of memory In man the lowest forms of animal life,
proceeded to give an experimental illustration of his acquired
proficiency in remesoberlag numerals. A large black board
was divided into thirty compatassate, each cumbered. The
company wen then desired to supply figurer, three to each
divides, specifying the number of the division in which
these time ad, were a be pleted Thus

who eat in • position wlita-krnot allow him te're It. flag
Mg heard the amebae tolled out, he pat a few questing
wavelet, with • view of etrengtrelag his impressions La
some particulars ; sad Shea repeated all the figures from be-
ginning to sad. He submitted to a long examination In de-
tail, anewering seaddy all the questions pat to kiln, either r
to what comparrent retained such and such numerical
triad, es vies nowt. He red the figures backwards, and, in ,!
short, proved that they wen se clearly and inteltigitdy writ,
tea in hie mind as pa el he visible surface before which he wee
&Meg. While the board wee bore filled with the figures to
be afterwards recited by Dr. Pick, it was curious
to watch the strain on the mental energies. The
lecturer's face indicated, at every fresh merest
of his task, the accumulation of study, till the
sight grew almost painful. After the Met which
trued, and which we have described, Dr. Pick entered into
a philosophical exposition of his method. He remarked that
the reproduction of Ideas was not, in troth, mean ; that,
to use a parades, it was not memory which made us remem-
ber. No ides wee retained which did not enter the mind ea-
oompaniest by ame other Impression. °therein a person
would remember or not everything told him preemie as he
might have a good or a bed memory. This wee not the case,
or anything like It. Persons were remembered by localities;
localities by peters. Comparison, he observed, use the
bast means of enforcing the recollection of an idea. He then
gave • moat convincing itineration, the effect of which was
to make he audience astonish themselves, by an experi-
ment performed among them. Starting with the two
words science, education—easily coupled and re-
tained in conjunction, he carried the second idea
to • third, which he proceeded to connect with •
fourth; ex. gr. : education—children; children—playground.
In the same way he introduced a sequence of words to the
number of about forty, thus : playground ; garden ; fruit ;
market; trade; navigates; Australia; gold; mines; moan-
Mins; Switzerland; Italy; fine arts; National Gallery;
Trafalgar-square; Hera; was; gunpowder; explosion;
Sebastopol, &c., taking can to connect the ideas in chain-
coupler after the laser we have indicated. The result
wee that the whole list was fluently repeated by several of
the hearers, and was without a doubt neared by all. In a
second list he afforded a direct proof of the immediate utility
of this plan. The many exceptions to the rule by which
Latin nouns of the declension ending in is are femi-
nine is • circumstance productive of no alight ea-
bairamment to • pupil learning Latin by the ordinary
method. Dr. Pick, by coupling aale with plough-
share, ploughshare with sword, sword with nail,
nail with blood, blood with snake, and so Cu, fixed indelibly
in the ruder his hearers, and in the space of a few minutes,
that which very few, if any, of them could have recollected
from the laboriously acquired lore of the school-room. We
say "indelibly," for this is in truth the chief recoil:mandates
of Dr. Pick's method, diathiguishing it from • mere parrot-
like system of teaching write. The effort to fix fa the
memory neknown things by help of the known—new ideas
by mane of familiar ones—te • keyrone in his constructive
theory. That no mere evaneeosat else was produced by
the trial he showed at the conclasion of his lecture by agar
'repeating the numbers on the board, backward and forward,
and in =annex of ways, as at first. A log natural desire
was expressed on the part of some ladles pretest to
bear • foil explanation of the mart in which
figures se well as words could be connected
the mind. Dr. Pick's rawer was thoroughly logical and
satisfactory. The simplicity with which he could set forth
the mode of coupling ideas expressed by words was not cha-
racteristic of the whole of his system. Nevertheless, the in-
tegrity of that myrtle was not affeoted in the leer by the
fact stated. More time than the limits of a eagle lecture
allowed would be necessary to apply the rules intelligibly to
numbers; but he made nu secret of hie method; on the con-
trary, he bad elaborated it in a muse of Is tares, and was
about to continue that plan of retraction is London.
We need scarcely add that the compsay, so pheratly and
profitably *Decreer by Dr. Pick, expressed in the Imartieet
and most unmistakeable way their rare to him, on the
conclusion of hie lecture.

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BBPSAL OP THB PAPAS DUTY.

A meeting of gentlemen connected with the Lon-
don end provincial peens. and others interested in the repeal
of the paper duty, was held yesterday at Peak's Coffee-hones,
Fleet-street, the object being to dimes' the !notice of which
Sir William Miles has gives notice in the BOON of Com-
mons. Among those present were Mr. D. N. Chambers, Mr.
Lucas, Mr. Franck, Mr. Levy, Mr. Algae, Mr. Lloyd, Mr.
Potter, Rev. P. H. Waddell, Mr Ireland (Manchester), Mr.
Robertson, M.P. (Berwickshire), Mr. Nor* M.P.,
and Mr. Collett. The chair was occupied by Mr. We
EWAN; M.P.
Mr. FnAtiote, the tramcar of the Association for Obtain.
hag the Repeal of the Paper Duty, gave a resume of the pro.
meditate during the last eleven years in furtherance of their
object. When it was first proposed by Mr. Collett to re-
move the advertisement duty, the word " impcsaible" wee
used against them. The word wee not acknowledged in
that committee-room. (Hear, hear.) Look at what the
press had accomplished—the repeal of the Test Acts, the
of the Reform Bill, and the repeal of the tax upon
passingl the to: upon light. No wonder that the press,
which had eroancipated so many thing., should
resolve at length to emancipate itself. Their design was
progressing. A hundred and ten members of parliament were
acting is direct association with them, among whom were
Baron Rothschild, Sir Ja.nss Duke, Lord John Russell, Mr.
Bright, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Ashley, and others. Bat why
mention names when the whole Home of Commons had
declared that revenue ought not to be raised upon paper ?
They had in the ministry Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Gladstone,
who was so thoroughly well acquainted with the desirability
of removing tare. on knowledge, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis,
who had repealed the idvacclapqms&AlccuAnd criorthwf
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purpose of his defeat would be isoconefol. Could it be sup-
posed that the boon would be snatched from them et the
eleventh hour by Sir W. ma. ? Evan if the motion suc-
ceeded, could the repeal be delayed for long ? H. hoped
they would take sash steps es would induce the Hone al
Commons to abolish the tax, and not cern work till
the Speaker declared that the "Ayes" had it. (Hear, hen.)
Mr. Lt; cue moved the that resolution—" That the meeting
reiterates its ones expressed onvictin that the each. ditty
on paper preens most severely on newspapers emd Wanton
generally, and particularly on elementary educational works
thereby checking the spread of political and general knowledge.
That it places a most disestroas limit on numerous branches'
of commerce, end restrains to a highly is:Orion extent the
invention, enterprin, and the welfare of a lane part of the
community ; and learning with surprise an opposition is
likely to be made in the House of Commons to the
wise and beneficial repeal of the paper duty included
in Mr. Gladstone's budget, and adopted by her
Majesty's ministers, it expresses in determination to
use the moat itrenusne efforts for the accomplish-
ment of the object for which the amofiation was formed."
He would briefly detail thepresent state of the question in
the House of Common's. Two notion had been put on the
book, one by Mr. Puller and the other by Sir W. Miles.
Ti4exaeot of Mr. Puller wee to have en import duty of 24d.
on Mar. and an excise duty of lid. Sir W. Maas
wished to have a 9d. income tax and the paper duty retained.
Then. was no reason to mimes that Mr. Puller'. amend-
ment would be carried ; bat then was some run= to fear
the other would be *neonatal, at least that was the damsons
one. Sir William Miles bad always been an
obstructor. He had °bet:noted every useful measure, and
had he lived in England I. the time of the Sams the people
would still have been pulling about their rivers in wattles sad
they would have been clothed in hides, or painted their skins.
(Laughter.) Commerce or literature there would have been
none. His whole course had been consistent; he had sever
supported a single good mesas, nor had any of WI party.
He was sot therefore rurprised that they should oppose the
bat he was to find that some members of the liberal
party lead also intimated their lunation to do so. Why, this
was contrary to all the principles of their party which
had bees' enunciated. (Cheers.) He (fir. Lucas) wee sure
therein would support member. in their efforts to carry toe
measure. The newspaper press all over the country would.
(riser, bear.)
Mr. Lavr seconded, and Mr. IRELAND, of the Manchester
Mranoiner, spoke briefly is favour of the resolution.
Bev. P. H. Wi.DMILL and Mr. FIELD also supported
the resolution.

—Mr. Mtas.is, M.P., ash* be had felt great pleasure in
listening to the prooeedinge, from being interested la the
manufacture of paw. Its wished to explain that Mr.
Pallet's amendment wee not intended to affect the repeal of
the paper duty, or to =dace, their attempts in anyizzli.
On the contrary, he was anxious that the paper duty
he taken off.

Mr. ELT (connected with the Society for the Repeal of the
Taxes on Knowledg) said he believed that many liberal
members inteadnd voting against the repeal. A friend of hie
in the Reform Club bad so informed him, and had particu-
larly mentioned the member for Stead ea one of the sob.
'tractors.

Mr. ROBERTSON' M.P., denied this statement. He wee
mire that 99 members oat of WO would vote for the repeal of
the duty. For his own part he believed that a free prose was of
mare value than all the acts of parliament. He considered
that Mr. Gladetone's budget was the ablest and beet which
bad been brought forward for many years ; and as to lilt W.
Miles, he wee a good-natured man, and had sot, he (Mr.
Robertson) wee sure, the last idea of carrying his amend-
ment.

Mr. CottArrt briefly addressed the meeting, after w►ieh a
slight dieotwaion took plses on the desirsbility of aid. stamp
for nevrepipers. It was suggested that the subject should
not thee be diecaased, and the proceedings terminated with •
rote of thanks to the chairman.