The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 27, 18$O.

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WINDSOR, Wawa Id.
The Quo iusd Prince Albert walked this
is die Moose enrolee Park. The royal teallyeril&
walking sad posy la tbe grand. around As Castle.
Prises Albert rode eat es leaseback Ate bootees, attended
by Wesel likeeneris.
Tee royal Maw part 7 at the Cantle Ms *mass .111 la-
ds& LIT Royal Rieman' the Dashes of Lai, Lay Nosy
lisvardose &MOO 46 Sp*.
nets es es WI. th eiss • royal Maser party es Mos-
daLeessisy.
gno of know of As Sods Punier Guide on duty
,aa As arrival of bar Rapist, at the Great Wa-
tson statist, sae enuamadet by Lieatoaant-Colonel
Me

EQUALISATION OF THN LAND TAX.-PRO-
D=LIZZWINIOS OP TSB COMUSSIONZHB OP HID-
.

Yesterday ea exlreordieary sad very important
eltift et Yesterday
Cemakeleaus Load Tax fee the essay
sf ean vat pine at as desk= ea CAssies•
*IL " ts alasida. sad Milbseats so ahat pavere,
say. messed is the emasheissess by the several ask
of parkins* to the knits of Ills Ind tax, by will*
they asa squalls the sass a fair sad aqui pseud rats
dtringilwat the seasty." This weeds Int wand meet-
ing bas en dace sad shoat 1.0
ces woo pant, away se whoa wars tissaty
sailer**
Mr. WOODWARD (esagletrate), Ike suss*
abase, Ida thaiskket that was to be les saw their
onableeseles Pu OM Wrest kepersess, mitt* eawariai
was 0.5 el a .11,11..egiantibiailalto Ihe Maim 18
wow to bells min* swelled_ by soitte7 el leers
and be wesNllbeietwo seams Sat Ibor ebeeld whet se •
seams wono oemileitoww who wolf sate law Use d..
tails Oda asks* *pedal qualms list had brought
them He amok eibioweee, rat 7. Hamottava
amrsr.Welker. q. , *obsess stew Rabies dikes sessississere,
do take the Aar.
This was seleeded sad carried, sad
Tae CHAIRMAN posed* Is stab lies airsaareleases
ander whisk the seeder heti bees oellod. He said the
Vitals. itself WM MO et ea extrasedimary pipes*,, few
auk se the elowitalesers bed use due 1898 had fay nth
oesdles swop so the esseeka of the elation of We sea-
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bad wisdoms
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vagallwell width= kele“"11911
whoa
under whet he slobs dalgoolo ostoomeheary elreaartaasse.
In the mesa it Ombra lest • }shears ass* Mays,
who Wad Mss sed se tome popsy la Ow milt .1 St.
Andrew, leatera, appals' to tate emodoiemos of the di.
! vie ins is widsi that wilt wee Awes, wweely, dr Holborn
division, spies hie sisserasert to the land tar, hie objeet
being a twofold ode; 'rev, ett prows an &kindle& is the
assessed value of the ; and, secoadly, aa alto/at:km
of the quota •••••••8 spa t • cadre dishiest. Though the
aets of Indies.* were silent upon the poke, the beard, at
Mr. Hay se's rI quiet, readilyeaaseated that be should be beard
by counsel boors them; and is the hearing of the
matter, the learned gentleman whom Mr. Hayes had
retained (Mr. Miller) occupied nearly •• whole day in argas
fag his case and quoting authorities in support of the pos.
titan he seamed, "'bleb was is effect that the quota of land
tax is the Holborn division was not raised by en equal and
fair &comment, as the law directed, the parish of Bt. Mary-
'shone, with a rectal of 1,087,7821., contributing but 6641.,
or at the rate of one-eighth of a penny in the pound, whilst
the parishes of St. Atdreer. Halberts, and At. thorns the
Martyr, with a rental of 183,1911, contributed 9,0181, or at
the rate of one shilling and a penny in the pound, to the
land tax; and the whole sma sontributed by the division,
including the parishes of Marylebone, St. Pancras,
Andrew. and St. Georgie, Hampstead, Pad.
dingtou, and the Liberty of the Rolla, being
113,6291. 13..6d. Some years since, however, Marylebone
and the Liberty of the Rolls ceased to be • portion of the
Holborn division, but Dlr. Mayes'e classed submitted that
those plains were sill comprised in the division, and con-
tended that the commimioeers bad the power, and were
bound to exercise it, of distributing the whole assemment
equally over all parishes by an equal_ pound rats. One por.
lion a the evidence produced by Mr. Mayes appeared to
prove what be wished to disprove, that the quotas originally'
fixed nadir the act on divisions were unalterable, and star
considering the matter, going st length into the acts of paths-
men t, particularly the 38 °mill.. c. 5? and availing themselves
of the great legal ability and experience of Mr. Bluebell,
they came to the conclueion that they had not the power to
peat the relief Mr. Mayes asked for,iand decided sewn.
Jingly. I)watls' d, but not disappointed, a deputation,
headed by the learned counsel, waited upon the Chancellor
of the Exch. quer, when they were informed that they had
not Availed themselves cf all ta. remedies the law provided,
sad the Chancellor released to promise relief from what they
urged as an oppression. Mr. Mann then proceeded with
some warmth to deny the truth of an assertion made to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer by the learned gentleman
above referred to, nastily, that the commissioners had
refused to decide Mr. Mayes's appeal in the .aftlrmative, on
the ground that "a re-assessment would be attended with
great inconvenience." The comatimionen, he said, dis-
charged their duties without regard to inconvenience in their
desire to serve their eosatryezen, and to protect them
from paid commissioners ea the one band, and crown-
appointed eommiseionen ca the other—an instance of
which latter they Uri had in the Commissioners

The Dashes. of Gloucester received their Royal
Highnesses the Desesee of Cambridge and the Primes Kary
aad • seism perry as dinner yesterday litanies, at her red.
deem, Glessemer Kew.
A aspiatiem inelnding Mr. Gurney, Mr. Foster,
eel Mr.-Denes, had an interview with lord John Bated'
yesswiley.
Mr. Ohrieopher, M.P., trasesated business yester-
day at the Railway Board.
The Committee on Machinery of the Commission
for the Exhibition of lafil mat yesterday la the New
Palos of Westallater. Tho aseeallere prwat were—Sir
Joan Rennie, Mr. Posey, M.P., Professor Walker, Pro.
foam Willi, and Mr. Bra ,el. Colonel Reid, R.ll (Chate-
au), and Mr. Mike attended as the port of the Emettive
Committee. Mr. Soots Bissell, Secretary to the annelidan,
wee in attends' s.,

IheComtnitte• on Sculpture of the Commission
for Um Inhibition of 1861 met yesterday in the New
Paler of Westmiaster. The arming or treaded by
Viteouat Canning. Lard Asti. anon, Bu. Ward Watts&
colt. Mr. Baia( Wall, M.P., Mr. William WlO6, old Mr.
D. N. Mar Use. Mr. Cole at•osdad en behalf of the ext astir
eoserittme. Mr. Stallard Norther*, eemetary to tho 101 M.
astarted.

(nom last moat's Gromer.)
BUCKIROILAX-PALACE, MARCH 22.—This day the
Meet /lon. &tabard Marquis of Westminster was, by her
Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Hoe.
Privy Council, and took his plain at the Board aceordlagly.
BOARD OP ORRIN CLOTH, ST. JAKIIII'S-PALACI,
Kama 22. —The Queen has been pleated to appoint the
Right Hon. the Marquis of Westminster Lord Steward of
her Majesty's HoesehoW, vies the Right Hon. Earl For-
tes..., resigned.
ST. JAMllell-PALACE, MARCH 13.—The Queen has
been pleated to appoint James Tiler, Rsq , Liiutenant of her
Majesty's Renewable Corps of Gratioama at Arms, Moo Sir
Matthew Wyatt, retired.
ST. JANZeII-PALACE, MARCH 23.—The Queen has
been plowed, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint
Willies Topham, Req., one of her Majesty's Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vim Little, retired.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 23. The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Charles Attainder John Piesse,
EAussq.,tralia. to be Colonial Secretary for the territory of Western

WHITEHALL, MARCH 25.—The Queen has been
ploto d to present ills Rey William Sutherland to the
church n,l parish of Dingwall, in the presbytery of Ding-
wall, and county of Ron, vacant by the death of the Rev.
Rector Bethune, late minister thereof.
CWOIIBBIOIO SIONED BY THE LORD LLEUTINANT
op Bnausanau.—Henry Coe Coepe, via, to b. Fint
Lieutenant in the litutieetord Troop of Yeernanry Cavalry ;
Coped Coops, gent., to be Cornet in ditto.

of Sewers, the Wit and most zealous of whom bad
',maimed, because they resolutely performed their duty to
the mammas (Applause.)
Mr. COPPOCH then moved the following resolution :
" That the unredeemed portion of the laud tax payable by
that part of the county of Middleux which, by the set or
parliament pared in the 38th year of King George 111.,
c. 5, la charged with the sum of 107,6021. lle. 7d., be re.
easeseed by an equal pound rate upon all property liable to
the tax within every hundred, lathe, wspentake, rape, ward,
or other division within that said part of the county."
Mr. BTALLWOOD seconded the Motion.
A MMITLIBONI Commtestornat said that, by • reso-
lution of the commissioners on the 24th of April, 1801,
Marylebone was made •division of itself, distinct from that
of Holborn.

Mr. COPPOCIE mid this sould not be, as it was returned
as part of Holborn division In 1808.
Mr. W. PAYNE, the city coroner, moved as an amend-
ment the appointment of a committee to inquire into the
subject, with power to obtain the highest legal opinions, as
to the power of the commissioners, and report thereon to an
adkiurnod meeting.
This aineadment was seconded.

Mr. OFFER supported the motion, and hoped it would be
shown that the commissionsn had the power. On one side of
a street, in the parish of Wsppirg, the tax was 6d. in the
pound, en the other side of the acme street. 3e. The Tower
Hamlets division contributed about 30,01301. to the land tax,
whilst Marylebon., with its sristoeratie population, paid but
6641. ; that, he would insist, was a gross injustice
upon the poor population of the -Tower Ham-
lets. The alteration of the quota upon the
county was out of the question; the issue was, had they the
power to alter the divisional assessments and levy an equal
pound rat* upon all. It was to the redemption of land tax,
and to the increase of wealth in one parish and Its diminution
in another, that the inequalities of the present system now
complained of were to be attributed.
A COMMIRSTONIIII submitted that if they proceeded at
once to equalise, no end of legal proceedings would ensue,
those pariahs) favoured by the present system taking the
initiative.
Mr. ELLIOT, magistrate, thought the opinion of the
judges should be obtained before they entail further in the
matter. The question was surrounded by immense diflkulty,
but all, he thought, were convinced of the injustice of the
present system. His opinion was, that they had not the
power to equalise.
Mr. NEATE thought the 118th section of 38 Geo. 111.,
e. 6, quite conclusive that they had not the power to alter
the assessments.

Mr. RAITICHIIN would support the appointment of the
committee as suggested by the amendment, and suggested
that the expenses should be defrayed by the commisionen
generally, tot by the committee.
The CHAIRMAN thought the Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury would not object to the espouses being de-
frayed out of the surplus fund.
A MAIITLIMONI COIMISSIONIZ submitted that the
committee, u appointed, should be empowered to petition
parliament, supported by the whole of the commissioners.
Several of the commission,* then spoke in favour of a
change in the present system, and eulogised Yr. Doppia&
oa the lucid sander its which he had intredneed the subject,
bat thought the better warm would be to asserts* de-
cisively what power they powered, before they altered the
assemments.

POWN ALL, *halm= of the county bomb said
wwy imperiaat quotas ia reference to that part of the sob-
Jest whiehrelated to the power of the commieeloaere was,
. .
--ws by whom the preesat eserreatente

Wen the

woe made, emeset the. views they of the powers
give. dm by the oat If this were their first meeting
underdog mit, wesM they key this tax as it was now levied?
Mat certainly not ,• and if not, he would ask why net?
He seggested that it would be better to petition parhareitat
as • body at ones for • declaratory act. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. COPPOCH replied. H. was quite satisfied at the
manner the quest on had been treated—all admitted the if
Pasties to the people of the present system. H. still exim.
Waded that they already possessed the power, and urged the
good that would be done by the adoption of his motion.
The amendment was then pat—For, 18; against 25 ; aN
it was conseguently lat.
Mr. POWNALL then mewed as amendment to the effete:
That whereas mach dimatilsedsa is expressed by the is.
bah:tants of St. Andrews, Heiken, and ether parishes Is
the county of Middlesex, at the meek Is whisk the lead Inn
assessment is raised, and meek dillweitee d *ldea exhales
in the minds of the commisaleasse as to their pewee
to alter the present made of ammmneat—resolved am the
commissioners do petition palliated for an set be de,
their powers shall be more nenustely defined, sad thee a
oomeatitee be appointed to carry this into effect.
This amendment was oareied by 43 to 9, and coasequipatlarl
the original motion was lost.
The committee was this appointed. The following were
named la additioe to the chairmen of the dieiaions :
Mr. Powsall, Mr. Oopposk, Mr. W. Payne, and Mr.
Elliott

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It wee then prepared that the assereateat should be
forthwith merle an Ike same priasiple ea hitherto, bat this
was aosairaoaali 'sleets&
The meeting then adjourned WA the 4th of April, when
the essessmeate will be made.

TESTIMONIAL TO BRIT= 81•111. X.—Mr. May,
tbe meal general of the Notherieads, hes made • repro-
sestsdis to the Lords ofTrestadY.
hint ddleory ditty free et•• pekoes fevirsided atm bees the
goweamint at the Rego*, eostaialai • oes• sup and two
sans lease, intended as preaint. MOietafn Mik end lon of
*sew of the asitish usual Maws. be unless tendered
to lbs slew of the Dunk
_Osesrais, with was lost, in
A
last, of the Cape sf Reed Reps.
rie Conner Axx Kuirm—Oa Masday night,
• =min was held is Penhary Chapel, fierdasy, to take
slop "it ovismssaiss she misses of
tbethe wassmiwuna dr lot Old
Bag lb* Lod Brea Pollee. 11,:v.
R. ( Messrs. Raley, Goldswell, sad
= 111611111INI sisiets in favour of the abolition of
sad .spiel was suited, praying
dist lb- .Isr emessise of Akan Maned may be fol-
lowed by as smite reprieve, sod she did sash steps
aboald be labne sas nay-lent to the Mho sholition of the
puiddistst o&