The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-09 00:00:00

OUTGOING MAILS.

The mails for BMWs North £aeries, B Mande, and
the Calton States will be made up this evening.
The West India Maine, ezeludieg Honduras, Nusati, Ha-
vannah fusel (Sc. Domingo), sad including Vane
gala, New Granada, and Grey Tows (St..lean de Nicaragua)
will be made up on August 17.
The mails for H►vansab, Honduras, Nassau, Jacmel,
Chili and Peru, will be made up as August 17.
Tte mails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made
up on August 17
The mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Grease, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, vies Southampton, will
be mute up on the morning of August 20.
The ensile yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
C,slon, India, Hoag-Kong, Mc., will be made up oa the
seising of August 24.
The mails for Musics will be made up en September 2.
The malls for Modena, the Broils, sad Buenos Ayres, will
H made ay on the evening of Sept. 4.

NIOR WATIII3I AT LONDON MUG&
Tat. 04,—Wloolas.
To-zonsaw—lllorstag. 3t Altar Tom. 3.. Vs.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9.

Sta CHARLES WOOD'S friends and colleagues may
congratulate him. At length he has carried a Stamp
Bill ! That difficulty is surmounted, and Sir CHARLE4
rejoices that at least he has carried one measure
through the House of Commons. It will be a con-
solatory reflection to him,through the dull and dreary
perio3 of the recess which is approaching, when he
has leisure to look hick and to reflect upon other de-
feats and difficulties of the session.

Upon one point of the bill itself the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER may also be congratulated. It is
as unlike as possible to the bill originally proposed.
Now u that bill, the immortal No. 1, was as bad as
any bill could be, it follows as a matter of necessity
that the bill, No. 2, must be in some sort au im-
provement. This will be another source of consola-
tion to the right hon. gentleman, and an enecurage-
ment to him in preparing his financial measures for
the important session fur which he must speedily
make arrangements.
The Stamp Duties Bill, as it has passed the Com-
mons, is undoubtedly a measure of concession. Sir
CHARLES WOOD would have especial reason
com-
plain of the Daily News if it did not so receive it.
Certainly we can have no right whatever to object
that the bill does not concede enough. It concedes
all we ever asked, and something more. As a ma-
nn of remission of taxation it mast also be acknow-
ledged to go as far as could be wished. The original
bill imposed new and additional taxes, under the
pretence of relieving the tax-payers of old ones. Bat
weform a wrong salmon if the amount of taxation re-
mitted under this measure will not exceed the amount
proposed to be conceded to the tax-payers. Whether
a remission of taxes in this form will be appreciated
is another question. A man who is called upon to
pay 31. a-year to the tax-payer, attaches fall value
to the caution of that demand upon his
purse. But a man engaged in a negotiation
about a " matter or thing" of the value of
SOU is very little concerned whether he pays 31.
more or 31. less to the solicitor who conducts the nego-
tiation. With the amount now intended to be sacri-
ficed, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER might
have relieved trade from infinite burdens, might have
endowed the people with the means of increasing
their moral and social advantages, might have pro.
posed a Mud improvement at ones popular, greuful,
and important. The present measure will make
sacrifice of a large amount of revenue collected with
facility and without expense, and will affect classes
who are by no means the most deserving benefit from
the remission of taxation.

In another point of view this bill assumes a more
satisfactory aspect. The CHANCELLOR of the Excite-
guns, with much difficulty, has been brought to
adopt the just aid equitable principle of an equal
adsoloron duty upon transactions of every amount.
This is a step in the right direction. Once adopted,
this principle must be applied to ether portions of oar
financial system. Why should wins pay a duty of
ss. 9d. a gallon, whether the value of that pilot is
Is. or U.? Why should a man who keeps ens car-
riage for private we be charged a duty of 61., whilst
another men who keeps nine carriages only pays 11.
a piece for them, although the innkeeper who keeps
for public use is mulcted in an equal duty
of 31. ee every such vehicle P
These are anomalies which cannot be reconciled,
and for the speedy change of which Sir CHARLIE
WOOD has now bud down a principle and preoedent.
It could have been wished certainly, that that prin-
ciple and precedent had been more fully carried out.
It must be understood that this change in the stamp
duties, considerable as it is, is only an instalment of
the alteration requisite. Stamps upon bonds, =d-
ives, lawn, conveyance., and settlement', are put
by this measure on an improved footing; bat the
duties upon bill, of exchange, indentures, limaries,
policies of insurance, receipts, and wills, remain en-
tirely untouched. Every man engaged in com-
mercial transactions has recently experienced