The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1850.

Quarterly Review, the Bishop of LONDON) IS the
great authority. But in faveur of the former the
more practical opinion of Dr. HATE, the Bishop of
ir.ay be quoted. It was given to the com-
mittee of Isl4B on the subject of the ecclesiastical
commission:

It km Wan gives is evidence by cis of your lordships'
bench that an addition ot bishops it the tkieg beyond say
Off g else that is required for the advantage of the church.
might I ask whether that is your lordship's opinion?—I
I think an increase of bialsa is very desirable in some in-
steam; bet if I were *Asti whether I think it mere de-
than an Gums* of parochial clefs) mss, /moat *ay /
no not think it more tfrairablo.
Then, with the few entertained by your lordship, erta
the poorer ages which at present eitst shall bars been pro-
vided for, there would be no objection to the union of the
eofecepal and common fuel t—l do nut say that it is not de
&treble that sherd should be an increase of bishops ;bit if I
am asked to compare the loaves of bishops with that of
p.rortisl ministers. en the supposithn that I rau4 forego
one or the other, I shontri say hat I tookid Prep the (Tea-
‘loll of additionil bishoprws.
This is a common sense view of the matter, worth
all Dr. BLOMPIELD'S fine theory, that more bishops
will beget more clergy, or Mr. LiIADSTO:1101 tribtle-
tics ; and in so practical an assembly as the Hunt,
of Commons there can hardly be a doubt that this
opinion will prevail.
These were the main amendments to the bill of
which notice had bees given, until Mr. SIDNEY Ilea
near ea Friday evening suddenly placed on the
notice book a aeries of no fewer than nineteen clauses
having for their object to infuse life, vitality, and
utility into that cathedral system which now lingers
on in what he has expressly tamed " sulky indepen-
deuce." Mr. litnextrrfirst propm es to enforce annu-
ally eight months residence, and next endeavours to
provide cathedral functionaries some real ec-
eks'astical work to do during their residence :
ly.rth ezoellert designs. For the latter pur-
pose he pro! oats to give the visitors of our
cathedrals, with the consent of their chapters,
powtr to alter their statutes with a view to the mem-
bers of the chapter taking an active part in the relief
of ill endowed parishes, in the management of t! sir
gratumarschools, and training schools, in the instruc-
tion of candidates for holy cadent, and in the better
education of youth in the diocese. This, it must be
admitted, is a great design; but its very greatnead
demands for its details time for considertiiim, which
Mr. Heanzatr has denied bath parliament and the
country. Consideration, ton, all the morn necessiary
and indispensable, because it is obvious that Mr.
scheme invulvee the conversion of our
present sleeping and inactive cathedral system into
an active ecclesiastical power, and because it tends
to bestow immense t additional influence on the epis-
oopal or ter and the most devoted of t.reir clergy.
Such a scheme, though long entertained, and for
the last twelve months privately circulated in his
letter to the late D.an of SALISBURY by Mr. IIEA-
BEET, requires far more than three days gatral con-
sideratiln. So it Mr. Si DN EY HERBERT be too great
a man in his own estimation to condescend to take
the public into his eonfilecce, he is much tco little a
person in public opinion to be allowed to la% o the
Muse of Commons by surprise. Therefore do we
urge the liberal party to treat these nineteen clauses
as Mr. HERBERT has, by his notice of them, treated
:he house—with indifferance and uuncha:ance, for this
session at least.

No one proporition is more evident from the de-
bates and rates of this session, than the utter inuti ity
of c .nsidering or discus:rig isolated points rf taxa-
tion. What possible advantage cin etcrue, for exam-
ple, from discussing the malt tax in the month of
July, in order to give the farmers to supp ire that
pathament is alive to their interest', thrueh the
farmers must know that the gnat item of receipt
and expenti:ure being fixed, nothing can came from
even the most profound disquisition upon either beer
or barley ?
Indeed, even at the most early pericd of the ses-
sion, a debate on a particular tax is discussed more
in an 0,1 0/paw/am style to pleas" parties
and constituents, than with any real intention of
parhementary or ministerial deeisitae.
This very session, for example, mcir.hers incdu ged in
the most rigid vein of economy, un'il they were told
that this econnmy was likely to go farther than wo:ds,
and literally upset the rnie.istry end the budget. And
on being toad Ibis, the House of C mmone ran into
the other extreme ard voted right and left whatever
ministers told them was necessary. Nothing was so
capricious as the feelings of the house, whether
generous or frugal. Hui: day it could not tolerate the
hardship of en attorney paying fur his certificate.
The next it stoma the proposal cf relieving the
mote neztesitous and industrious portion of the public
of a tax so severe to those who paid, 3et so unpro-
ductive to the state, as the advertisement
duty. The thermometer within the last
month has net varied more widely or more
unaccountebly, than the House of C,iumons during
the last enema upon fiscal questions. And, indeed,
rot only in this yea-, but in general, parliament cum-
Teems financial basiness with tte meanness of a
pedlar, and ends it with the pr.fueeness of a nabob.
This yt ar there was, of course, 'scuttle exeitement
on the subject by the occurring anomaly of a sus plus,
with which the ministerial paper' :rid us at tio com-
mencement of the session wo were to support tie
credit of the country, and pay off the national debt.
The problem which the CHANCELLoR of the Ex.
CHEQUER has solved, however, is, hoe little could
possibly be dens with the surplus, and how c.tu-
pletely it could be frittered away.
There is one palpable aim to which a per-
manent financial surplus ought, in the first
place, to be epplied. This is, to the diminution
of such taxes as will by the reduction of the rate
give necessarily such an impulse to consumption, as
within two or three years to leave the revenue un-
affected, whilst the comfort and economy of the mass
'of consumers have been profitably consulted. The
great objec ion to such experiments in tr,xation is the
lung time which it takes the revenue to recover.
Surely surplus could not be applied in any way so
beneficial u in aiding or carrying out such an experi-
ment. Teen are two articles of great consumption,
productive of great revenue, which loudly call fur
this kind of experiment, malt and tea. Sir CHAILLES
WOOD, however, seems not to have bestowed a
thought upon either the one or the other.
The one widely affte's the commercial as the
other does the agricultural class, although in both
cases the interests of the consumer are vastly greater
than those engaged in either transport or production.
We mast confess that the hardship of de..r beer
strikes us as even greater than that of dear tea. A
family can apply fractional economy to tea, and
drink it weak or strong ; but a fiscal treatment of malt
liquor actually compels the labouring cluster du without
it on working days, when it would be really of use,
is order to indulge in excess with respect to it at
times of holiday or festivity, when i,, really wants
It not.

The national beverage, with all the circa..._
regulating and affecting it, is one of the most im.
portant questions that can b 3 considered. We hare
not yet arrived at the recognition even of its elements.
All we have hitherto done has been to maks it a
source of rapacity and oppression, which the govern-
ment of Tehraun might bluila to own and might tied
it dangerous to preevere in.
In the first place is committed a galling wrong to
the agriculturist, who is forbidden to grew the mos:
natant produce of the soil, the use of it being limitcd
or denied, this prohibition being felt by the labourer
as well as the farmer in his every hour of thirst and
toil, embittered by the recollection or tradition that
his fathers enjoyed the simple and refreshing luxury
denied to him.
The town populations, better instructed, f. el the
grievance even more deeply. Sums five millions a
year support the great navy of England. That num-
ber of minions is raised by a tax which doubles the price
of the poor man's beer. The poor man loves the
"wooden walls" in which his brethren have shed
their blood; bat, after all, it is not to protect his pro-
perty that the wooden walls are kept up and manned.
Then, by the side of fiscal prohibition, has grown
class monopoly. The law declares, that for the sake
of morality the number of public-houses must be
limited, that licensee can only be granted to such IPA
the magistrates permit. The consequence is, that
crowds flock to each of this limited number of houses
the police are required to keep the crowd in onkr ;
beer drinking is stigmatised as immoral, and this
serves as an excess for taxation. Thus the public is
first driven from home by the malt tax. Then the
public is driven in a crowd to one or other of the
publie-houses licensed. The licensed houses are all
bought and leased out by brewers. And the public
is thus driven from how, cooped up, crowded, p,i.

maned, and mulcted, utder pretest* that all thew'
regulations are for the sake of morality and the
revenue.
Of the indtility of a committee of parliament to
inquire into such a mass of absurdity and abuse, the
blue book issued by the Lords is a flagrant proof.
Here is a goodly volume of question and answer.
The question'', all leading ones in the sense of lords
and magistrates; the answers, all made in the same
sense by the witnesses, who were policemen, or
beersellers anxious to preserve their licenses. A com-
mittee of intelligent workmen, artisan'', and shop-
keepers in each of our principal towns, which would
come together to give their testimony and advice on
the subject of the fabrication and sale of beer, would
prove of more. use than all the information that
Lads or Commons care to elicit. But the farmer
always commits this mistake. He wants the
malt tax taken off and the beer trade thrown
open. Well, if with this purpose the farmer
would apply for aid to his brother, the liberal towns-
man of the middle class like himself. we will be
bound to say that the two heads put together would
so enlighten public and parliament, that there would
be no resising them.
But, ios,ead of doing any su:h thing, the farmer
trartv his whole case to the squire, who represeots him
in parliam, nt. The squire gets up a debate once in
the session, to satisfy his consc!enoe, and gull his
farming constituents. The Lord*, at the same time,
appoint a committee in which they collod the evi-
dence of publicans. And with all this noise and pre-
tence, this empty parade of sympathy and figurer,
there is as little chance of removing the malt tax, as
there is or ever was of stirring one et those pyramids
of Egypt, which, like the malt tax, was built up of
the sweat and privations of the peasantry.

FRANCE.

PARIF. SATURDAY.

The covernment hes the itecniion of establishing
a camp in the neighbourhood of Paris, the command
of which is to b.? given to Gen. Ilaraguay
An ripprehensioo b ing entertained that the Assembly
will nut vote the credits necessary for this, the go-
vernmint will wait fur the prorogation and then
publish n decree in the Mnsteeter.
More than six thoweind letters have been ailltt sled
t) representatives to prccure tickets of admission to
the debt" on the press. And the q :esters are over-
'shamed with applications. An tut Less series of
amendments hu been presented by various
memht rs.

Thu dele„Rates of the communities of Irwlaellere,
printers, lit.d Pip a sellers, were examined yesterday
by the committee on the press lsw particuM• ly with
reference to works rot ptricdical. deiei,...as
proved from documents, that the works under feu
Ante, wi.ich are to be visited with a stamp duly,
form three-fcurtt s of the works produced by the
trade : that the tax woul I even strike books contain-
ing KO pales; that the sacrifices made during th" last
twenty years by the trip.:e to resist Belgi4n piracy
would be hencetorth impossible; finally, that tale tax
would not only impede the sale of bad beok., hot
t wally depress the circulation cf gotl, and swamp
the classic cf Frerch literature. new relives:ma-
tions produced a marked arta upon the minds of the
committee.

The government has received from the Prcfret of
the Haut-Rbin a telegraphic dispatch anLoanctug the
redden rise of the Rhine. Thar ks to the mcceures
adopted by the prefect, no damage hu tsken place.
At five o'clock in the evening oc Thum(' *y there was
every reason to hope that the waters would speedily
subside.

SUNDAT bdo

A young fellow of anenteen was arrested on Fri-
day afte rii‘mn, who avowed the design of assiesina-
ring the President. lie was prowling about the
Elysim at the time, and his wild look and pacing. to
and fro had already drawn the attention of the
guards. Abant two o'clock a tarriage, containing
Cannel Vardrs z and same other persons, issuing from
the gate, the yJutti w s observed to wake a sudden
dart towards the vehicle, while he thrust his baud
into his breast u it in iearch of f 'ham arms; bat
hawing appArently satitlied himself that the person
he sought was not there he reared, and allowed the
artiige to pass. A policeman, who had observed
this suspicious act, now approacied the youth to quer-
tion him and secure his person. No resistcnce erns
made: Vlore he was colared the fellow confessed
that be came there for the nurse of kiiliag the
President of the Republic. Having made this avowal
with perfect calms rare, and without the slightest
hesitation, he suffered himself to be quietly token to
the effice of the cmnmirsiry of pclice, where he was
searched, and a loaded pistol wu felted in
his posse.ision.. lii. tame, he said, wcs

George Ahead Walker, aged 17, a compositor at the
printing establistment of -NI. Brine, and living with
his parents, Hoe Uherubini, No. 3. Ile 6.1 l.cl that
ho had long twditated the assorasiestion of the l'resi-
dent, and hal with this intantion taken the p'hiel of
a c)mpanion, without the latter', kno leege, and
loaded it on Thursday evening at the ship of M.
Lefaucheux, armourer, Ilate de la Bourse. 1k hid no
accomplice, ncr ht.d ever ieveiiied to any en, his cri-
minal design. On being questioned as to the mo-
tives of his attempt, he said that dissipation and in's-
forte, e had impelled him to it. The idea haunted
him in his sleep, but destiny seemed to protect the
President; having failed in discovering his intendid
victim in either of the two carriage. which he h:d
seen comin,c out of the Elysee, he Lad made op /lilt
mind that Providence would not permit him to suc-
ceed, and 1c determined to make a clear breast of the
thoughts which pursued him. Walker added that he
frequented political clubs of extrema opinions.
Ills lodging was searched with:me result. His
parents, who have three younger children, enjoy an
excellent c'saracter. Walker's habi•s were, notwith-
standing, w:11 And debriched. He !:ad been hapri-
Boned for two months for having on the 31st 'amity
last, pursued quit t hisser gers through the passage
Jouffroy, Boulevard Moctro -atm, with a loaded double-
barrelle4 pstol. On Saturday morning he was
examined, but his answer were each as t!trow doubts
up)n Lis soundness cf mind.
Yesterday the final statement of the budget of 1818
was distributed at the Assembly. Nitwitlistsnihng
the dirastreus events of that year, the ree:ipts from
the taxes exceeded the amount expected. There only
remained a sum of about millions to receive, of
which about one minion was part of the extraordi-
nary impost of 13 centimes. The swear of the indi-
rect taxes was mire considerable, amounting to up-
wards cf eleven trillions. The excess of expenditure
above income in PAS was upwards of 101 millions,
which has been met by the extraordinary re-ourcea
destined by the law of 1842 to public works, and
three millions h-ave been charged to the It ating
debt. The whole amount of the expecsas is
1,781,030,331 francs.

The filimitenr of this morning states that the Pro-
cnreur de la Republique seized yesterday, at the post
and in the offices of the journal, the new paper LePrus-
crit, on account of an article entitled "Au People," and
sig.:ed Ledru•lt di n. Pioceedings have been taken
against the Editors and L.dru-Rollin for attacks on
tile respect duo to the laws and the inviolability of
the rights that have consecrated them, against
the rights and authority of the National Assembly, of
exciting to hatred and contempt of the government,
and provocation, not carried out in act, to an attempt
to excite civil war in arming or recommending the
citizens to sem one against another.
In allusion to the design of forming • camp in the
neighbourhood of Paris, the Patric says that, so far
from being intended as a check to Changarnier, the
plan was proposed by this general, and the 1'2,000
men, who are to occupy the camp by rotation, will
consist of troops under his command.
Tho President went over yesterday to Versailles to
examine the spot proposed for the location of the
(amp. Versailles is within the sway of the com-
mander-in-chief of the Ist military district.
Zee Bermudez, the old Spanish minister, died here
on Friday night.
Yesterday in the sitting of the Legislative Assem-
bly the oo:urrenee of chief importance was the rejec-
tion of a proposition by Franensque Bouvet and others,
for removing the state of siege from the oth military
district, embracing Lyons, and extending over three
departments.

Immediately before going to press 116 re-
oeived our Paris parcel of yesterday evening, from
which we make the following entreat:

PARIS, SUNDAY ATTIIIINOOK.
•
There was a council of ministers held yesterday at
the Elyse*. It was determined not to withdraw
the law on the prem. The debate hi expected to last
three or fair dais.

It was reported today that tho delivery of the
Q.icen of Spain had been announced by a telegraphic
despatch.
lAA night there was a grand reception at the Ru.-
sian embassy, in honour of the Cases birthday.

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