The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

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be itadospot the am* el April 12.
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17.
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pox WEDNESDA r, APRIL 10.

Ti, most uedieching partisans of ministers will
,e venture to call their list might's majority
kw Larti s motio for the repeal of the
ma alt
victory. A majority of so to 77—a
of three in a himse of 161 members—is what
",-;';atent con commend at any time and on any
lb" a moderate whip of the members who are
scrh them. Lord Durcals Was over-
, ts rem cot by arguments; for, with the exeep-
• • o It
.e cii icELLO of the ESCHEWER, not one
• •
ft,
opiesni nte trusted himself to assign reasons for
pser.... That the l'etlites who were peeennt, oe that
q.. I:vox should, on such an mouton, come
j.., n.. ue ,4 ministers, was to be expected ; but it
regret and surprise that we find the
- ▪
of mi. Mit:or...Lt. Mr. W. Baowx, and Mr.
f,e,apiv in the list cf the majority.
It te not easy to find a more indefensible tax than
-.:,w duty. The only excuse for taxing a man
:.:A to his expenditure is that it is the only
L:s fo.-tuue accessible to the fiscal authority.
1,„. • make it available for this purpose a man's
„:. , ,spenditure ought to be taken as the basis of
....,.• :nee : or if any part of it is left out of account
to be that wbi:h is incurred for absolute
Now what a man spends upon windows
▪ dse.iisg is but a part of his aggregate outlay
ad..• i• spin: sot upon laxuries but on a necessary
:c. I.:ght online are pie-requisites of cleanliness
Tue sum expended by wealthy men
:10.:•• •ndows is M a much smaller ratio to their total
• tux thin what the poor man must spend.
LI • a n wisdoms is a 1)<MPI8 upon darkens, dirt,
c. :ens ventilation, especially with the poor,
• .ess 414 than rte rich to know how much
. .ens tadarge.r their health, and also, even
pm/sure of the tax, lees able to be at
recoiled to Moore them.
. as to the anti-aanitary influer. ce of the
is complete and irreinstible. A petition
i:. presoteil t. the limas of Commons, which
rat .mid to express the universal opinion of the
✓ mec•Eione re of the metropolis. It was signed
. • -,.INT short space of time by 86 of our most
„:"7 viewed medical men, and nothing bat
11: . praTtntel the number of signatures
g Le:lied or trebled. In th s petition the
• • et the wiadow tax is tiaphaticslly
:'.• !,.• a !roi..rul sores of disease. A cloud of
• •.1 fro= . I quarters of the country corroborate
• .L• i xpresod by the metropolitan peso
r.. .1 committee of inquiry sent to examine
e• • eonditioaof Sunderland unanimously
".; • : lb,' blocking up o! windows to meat*
tax had otetsioned much sickness and
. Ntxt to bad and defective sewers, the
▪ •sx has timothy meet tlll:ieLt ally of cholera

nfetere to retest in eliaging to toe window
themselves in a manner that no
.c.r did before. They claim credit as pro-
-. .enitary reform, and yet they maintain a
n dooms three-fourths of the population to
. tr...srs. lhey upend hundreds of thou
• .:?,t sanitary comm priors, and they raise
Lcy they Tend for this purpose by imposing a
?,. L.:Al.:test and ventilatioa, by making these
•:e.c_:e conditions of health luxuries too
• e•ained by a majority of the people. His
•• • ..:o conceive a more monstrous humbug than
n.r et r. million ore minim and a half of
• c.,sesing sewers and improving the air of
• ....et the same amount of money ts raised by
th acts :14 a bar to the admission of fresh
• : e::::g-hr
. cl-seiy the window-tax, and the mode in
..•ie caliec:ed, are looked into, the more lode-
op.dessive it will be found to be. It is
•necutlly ard unfairly levied. In the smaller
• f streets .ilea Baker-street it emaciate to 30
:h- rr ate!, while on housea in the fashion-
:•mid equates it does not exceed 21 per
1.. e het or exemptions from the tax is long
ci Irelat.i wipes the window tax alto-
tr.verament offices are exempted ; farm
h•re tte rent of the farm is under 2001. a
are eserapted ; counting-h ruses are exempted ;
tories are exempted; churches are exempted.
r, the list et exemptions is endless; and every
• Am is an additional confession that the non-
., Ire eabject to a galling and jadeites-

• • e Injustice to the noa•exempts does not stop
1..(y are made Wiley for th..e who escape u
•tiPmselves. To make up for the money
t at irg left in the pockets of tLe exempted, the
Len applied most esteilearly to those who
• to p'y. Every hale in a wall that
ingenuity of a tax-surveror be tortured
A scr.dow is charged. ?du-plates perforated
'..e passage of atr have been celled windows;
t./ pavement through which coals an shot
has been celled a window; we verily be-
:.et a ho'e in the wall of a house occasioned by
.).:;:trirtg of a brick would have to be paid for
S ill with all this screwing the tax
been cusidend productive enough, and a
!..rey Las been resorted to, through which, by
:L:Lg very like a breach of faith with the tax
tot tax Lea Len increnaed by nearly one-

34: tees makers salt r in consequence of this teL
'arm in consequence of this tax. Its
en, view it L' what light we will, is partial
ryprtseive to the last degree.
tu way could the CHANCELLOR of the Exam -
• surplus be made more usefully available than
A.rg used as a subre'itule for the revenue derived
'l2,e window tax. Mr. Hums showed that even
.t treuehieg on the surplus, setae might be
for diapensing with the proceeds of the window
it is only necessary t) withdraw the squadron
ae coast cf Africa. And we believe that,
reduction cf expenditure or the surplus alto-
:- cut of the questioe, the improvement of the
Leaith and capacity for productive labour,
.L.• fresh impetus Riven directly to the glass
aetory and the building trade, and indirectly to
rraukrioes, would so increase the national
r ea ere long to supply the ion occasioned by
of the window taws by the inerew i°
r'etrtt and other taxes.
Junk Mr. Hrms for associating the ministerial
"%tre to the repeal of the window tar with the
':••!ial refusal to coansat to the withdrawal of
squadron. For ministers to go oa exact-
-. mad Ivr to: on the strength of such a majority
lsa.. night would be to chow themselves
s •Sade lee madly self-willed than they did
".'y (stored a ortjority on the African qui.-
- " tt•tif Mumbling supporta@ by the threat
--,ttara. If they are wise they well look opoa
r majority as a minority, sad take nes-
t- '':':La to get rid of this most oboe:Mai tax.

pbraaeogy is notqrionaly eon-
" I am free to state," was interpreted by
"" to impiy a mental noervation. "Her
government will lastinge inquiry," has
'44 inderetn.d to ladioate a foregone easels-
.! !Lai noth;ng was intended. A promise "to
esatir possible opportunity of pro:ceding
is now as invariable iodisation of
,i't:i.e;postponement; and as fora government
4., three who heye had dealioge with Down-
" 0" Enri g the last live years too wail know
,e ninth that sow is inscribed.
••••• tot on-ornmon in parliamentary r p^rta
pr 4 Jw-na. Those who have studied
if. Latin std among apothecarier, know that
"6 .14;arigeo are sometimes not very sweetly

construed in the world of physic. In the world of
poiltkiu however, the interpretation I. still less vow
eine. Per instance, pre Armed ia the House of
COlRRienn always mean something ieformal, so that
whenever you we those words in a report you may
conelude withzet goiag farther, that then isdeoidedly
a strew loose—that something has gone wrong is the
govern:ant necklet', and that it is ceeeneasy to set
the state meehaaiso at week in order to pat it into
peesentabie shape.
Shortly before no o'clock on Tuohy imientimup
rase hem hie place ea the beaver, bent& the fight
Has. WlLman HATTER, Seeretery to the TreetterYo
to request permission to reed the New Stamp Duties
Bill a second time, is order that they sight go into
committee pro Arms "to listrodare emendownate."
A. hoe. /amber asked what the amsedneate were
to be : bet Mr. Hams, Nat that hour in the wane
ing," could eat explain them. We should have been
glad to have heard at what pettioular hour in the
margin the right hon. gentleman would have bees
osompetent to that somewhat delicate and difficult
41.1.
Hon. members were rather disposed to ask ques-
tions, and Mr. HATTER apparently Wen not quite in
trim to answer them. One asked "if it was true that
all agraruseads for leases wore to be stamped," and
" Mr. lieu.= was understood to reply in the affirma-
tive." Some ens else wanted to know if " all agree-
ments for team were woe to be stamped," and Mr.
HATTER was aoderstood to reply in the affirmative to
that also. Mr. Home, who was particularly lively
of er seven or eight hours' discussion on the estimates,
made some pertinent observations, to which Mr.
HATTER replied " :hat the geceral principle of the
bill was that it did not sift ct property
not now affected by the Stamp Act "
a statement which, if he applied it to the bill
as it is, proved that Mr. HATTER did COT
know what he was talking about, whiter, if he ap-
plied it to the bill as it is to be, justifies the strongest
comments on the worse pursued by government.
Fur the bill, as it at present stood', does, in the
most injurious way, " strict property not now
affected by the Stamp Act." Upon this fact there is
not the slightest don' t. Seery conveyancer in Lon-
don will tell Mr. HATTER that the words of the new
bill would extend the ad ealurem duty on coo.veyances
to " matters and things" never aintemplated by the
existing 11w. Let us quote on this point a passage
from en article in the Juriat of last Saturday, a paper
which is no small authority on points of practice.
Our legal contemporary writes:

The words imposing it'. ad ra/omie duty on conveyances
would include all arrangements between partners dissolving
partnenhip, by which on. takes a rum of money in lien of
his *hue, compositissu with creditors. arrangements and
compromsses of family eaten, and disputed claims, &e.
And the extension of the duty to conrider.nons by way of
annuity is expressed la terms which prumise to be prolific of
doubt and co➢truwey. A different objection must be made
to the charge of this ad ea/orem d➢ty on considerations con-
sisting of debts. Nothing eau be more absurd and ➢njust
than to treat a had debt as a consideration of the same value
as a good debt of the samiteom.nal Amount. The old stamp
act ns-rs ly eliatpd the dal on debts charred on the pro.
p►rty sold ; and, even /0 limbed, •perated with peat hard
ship in can.. of deficits' security. But the whole of the
alterations under the head " Conveyer co," in this bill,
appear to have been very little or very ill considered.

L the earns way, with regard to the words of the
schedule effecting mortgage stamps. The Jurist
entirely adopts our view that no advances by bankers
on the seventy of deposits can hereafter bo securely
made, eze:pt the writing accompanying the same
bears an ad valorem stamp,

The ! ruiporttry loans ow securities by aeposit of deeds
d.,ek we-ruse, &e., by whirlt the merear.ti's transaction. 0
ISO 01U0,ry OZO •ow 03 math ficilitsted, wilt be entire y
stopped, if the pr loosed exAsisioa of the tax ea atortgar s
suninitted to. Molting/ am hem •rc in. apediect and onjuit
than a tan on esortitapts, w►kh •lmest always either fetters
the ea• as capital, or is • tarthen upon a poor mad or his
creditors.

83 sUo with regard to the new words effecting " all
companies a d corporations ;" hnd so also with re-
geld to the monstrous cleave under which en ad
valorem duty is imposed i n all sums authorised to be
raised tit der maritime settlements in respect of por-
tions for unborn children. If Mr. ll.trrza means
that the bill as it now stands does not in this way
touch property not at present aff tied by the Stamp
Act, why be is either grossly misleading the boost cr
is speaking in complete igmrancs of tree subject. If
be is t. be thus interpr.ted, perhaps he will condo.
scend tj tell as why the language of the Stamp Act
was altered at all ? If no new taxation was in-
tended, why not rely upon the old worts ?
As a correspondent showed y, sterd iy, the slights-4
variation of a phrase under these acts is productive of
an inconceivable amount of litigation, and the public
are saddled with enormous costs to obtain an inter-
pretation of what the legislature contemplated. By
altering the text of the Stamp Acts, the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCURQVER would unsettle the decisions of
al! the courts of law and equity for flve-and-twenty
years part. As one of the legal pipers of last Satur-
day observed, his new Stump Duties Bill was evi-
dently intended as " a real blessing to lawyers."
But, perhaps, Mr. Herren will tell us that be
spoke, not of the bill as it is, but of the bill as it is
intended to be after it has undergone the ordeal of
the cm:emitter pro forma." He wishes, it seems, "to
ask for leave to go ii to committee pro furmd, in
order to introduce some amendments that have been
siggered." "Some amendments ! " What are they
ti be ? To give proper consistency and cha-
racter to the measure, almost every clause and
pat &graph of Schedule B will require altera-
tion. Mr. HATTER evidently knows nothing
of the extent of the mischief this bill would
effect. Why, it has come out that under one of its
clause', as at present drawn, every solicitor in Eng-
land will be personally liable for any infection of the
Stamp Acts. The 6th clause enacts that "if any
person shall have avoided, neglected, or omitted to
pay any stamp duty, or shall write, or make orpre-
pare, or cause to be written, made or prepared, or to be
signed or executed, any deed or instrument not duly
stamped, EVERT BVCU PERSON shall be accountable
for the amount of the duty." The effect of this
clause would be to reader every solicitor cm:merited
in the execution of a deed personally responsible for
the due stamping of it! We should like to proclaim
'in Westminster Hall the name of " the gent" who
dr, w this bill, and to whom the profession are
indebted for his kind consideration.

What are the amendments to be? Are the amend-
ments to be "pro forma'," like the committee, or are
they to be real, substantial, comprehensible amend-
ments? Who are they prepared to satisfy? Are
they to satisfy the bankers, whose interests are to
seriously prejudiced ? Are they to satisfy the com-
mercial and trading community, who will have
to pay a fifty pound duty licre.fter on a bond
which at meant costs them 121. ? Are they to
satisfy the landed interest who are now for the first
Jima to be charged as ad valorem duty on the settle-
ment of lands oat of which any portions are to be
raird for younger children—no matter whether those
children are ever born or not ? Are they to satisfy
the conveyancers, who are now made personally
respassible for all flaws and errors of omission and
orommusion against the Stamp Act? Are they to
satisfy the law stationers, who we are glad to find
alive to the subject, and who ate circulating papers
calling attention to its importance? Or are they
intended to satisfy the public—that public upon
which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would
impose the burden of additional tuition under the
false and fraudulent pretence of saving them 300,0 :0
pounds a year ?
At the conclusion of its article oa this important
subject, the Jurist admirably says :

The amendments effected by this bill, with respect to
small transactions, will .it, we hope, be enespted by ;hi
oesutry as a bribe to permit the isuatinaanes of those rude,
absurd, sad vexatious reenietious on the us and transfer of
=, which ought to be abolished without delay, sad
by an eqalvaleut addition to the impose tax, or
fen OMNI ether Isms objectionable source. But if the stoup
laws are le be endured far a few years longer, the lust that
eaglet to be required its a thorough revision and owstalida
Aloes of Ma urhp4 OokiV of Mom, and o astaissont of the
assay perplexing dories wAith hare arises even tAams.

In every word of that sentence we commr, and we
slncertly trust that members of the House of
Commons will not be blind enough to allow this bill
to go a single stage further (pro forma, or otherwise)
until a satisfactory arrangement is arrived at. If
ei pro formJ" in parliamentary language meats in-
formal, it also means, we have no doubt, a trick and
a seam and it must be rememb red that this is one
d these measares which the House of Commons
awe esa deal with, and with regard to which their
respeseibility to the meetly is roost quietly doubled.

COMMISSION •tONED BT TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT
or 2•SJII. —Hoary Joka t3elwin, E y., to he depul lieu-
tenant.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Ttrnenay, U 141 t.
I have little to add to my report of yesterday with
reps& to the siWng of the Legislative Assembly.
The abate was otwaed to tois day, ape° tlsi
media of M. de lantartiae, who is to speak in favour
of the bill. At the dose of the sitting the President
a that M. Isles de Laster& bad been
Fourth Via-President of the Amsmbly by se
isamemn majority. M. Vatimmenil, the legitimist
candidueolitiketlealy 40 Votes but of Md.
The Puked the Seine his isnot it wiles rela-
tive to the elution et Pah. sederiag
the cm of to le ia sash minfidet steel=
the of 1880, and esespehbe Aare
in ezesutioa of the ellhomilkellif the elletenl law.
This table is to he pamisheel oa thalami By other
deems will be rift kasha the days Ift which the
cards will be dist:listed, the localides fee voting, and
the days and duzatien of the ballot.
The committee milts Mayor's Bill has heard the
Minister of the Interior, who declared that he could
not accept the modifications proposed by the commit-
tee. M. de Lebaulie was appointed reporter.
The Jroi du Peuple was seized yesterday for three
articles in its weekly supplement.
The committee on clubs and electoral meetings has
deferred, in accordance with the ministry, the pre-
sentation of its report until after the Paris election.
A rumour wee yesterday current in the lobbies of
the National Assembly that information had reached
Paris that the Pope bad been poisoned on his journey
to Rome. The rumour, however, was soon own-
dieted by M. Gustave de Beaumont, who had jut
come from the ministry of foreign affair., and declared
that it was absolutely void of foundation.
The aseette de France affirms that this news has
been sent to Paris by members of the Bonaparte
family.
Neither of the letters from oar Roman and Naples
correspondents mention, any such rumour.
The president and vice-president of the central
committee of the Electoral Union had yesterday, at
their own request, an interview with the committee
(1 the moderate press. After a dimension as to the
adoption of M. Fernand Foy as the only candidate of
the union, the moderate press, while regretting the
sapprestion of the preparatory ballot, admitted that
it would be too late to make an appeal to the electors.
The Council-General of Agriculture and Manufac-
tures met yesterday, under the presidency of the
Minister of Commerce, to form its bureau. It decided
that it would divide itself into three committees, one
for manufacture., another for agriculture, and the
th;rd for commerce. M. Dupin, lien. M. Paley, and
M. Tourret were elected vice-presidents. The Con-
gress then adjourned till Wednesday.
The French, Belgian, and Prussian governments in
October, 1818, appointed a commission to draw up
the bases of an arrangement on internationl rail-
way communication between the three coun-
tries. The commission has already had aural
meetings; and it is now about to meet at Paris to
continue its labours. The Northern, Rouen, and
Havre railway compaties are to be permitted to send
delegates to the commission. The questions to be
settled by the corareissiou are relative to the con-
veyance of goods, the fixing of the hours of departure
&Lel arrival of trains, ti :e duration of each journey,
the exp-nee of taking care of goods in the station, &-.
Toe Mundeur contains a degree appointing an in-
spectorship-general of the administrative service of
Algeria, and naming General Itambead to this post.
The great prise of the lottery of artists has been
gained by an Abbe Martel.

Our Paris parcel of yesterday evening did not
arrive until immediately before going to prem. We
extract the following from it.
FARM, TuzsDAY, 7 ♦ X.
To-day the Assembly has thrown the amendment
of Nf. Grevy, on the bill of the Avignon Railway,
prcposing that the construction of the railway should
be ucdertaken by the ll:ate, by a majority of 443
over 20.5.

- - The Voir du Peuple hal an article deducing the
onfltnees of M. Oirardin as the democratic candidate
at the el ction of April 28, from the mutability of
principle exhibited in hie career.

The National makes a strong appeal to the demo.
cratic socialists to earn thenhelves at the election f.r
Paris, which is fixed for the 28th inst. This journal
pretends that there is a design to attempt to put down
the principle of universal suffrage, &IA teat the people
mu•t pretest ugainst tho design by returning a de.
moeratio socialist candidbte.

Aran 9.

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Do. 14 — . Tre.asury Bonds_ 5
Piedmont 3 pee Oats 84 0 Rank shares
Bocasa. Paris and Orleans, 713 ; Paris and Boom 51250;
*liana end Kaadllea, 175 ; Strasbourg and Bale, 108 23 ; Dawns
and Varna, 318 75; Orleans and Bordeaux, 302 30; North, 420 ;
Paris and franshorwrr, 330; Tours and 143ntes, 238 73; Yontereau
and Troyes, 100; Terrains (left bank), 143 73.

Kansas Aran. 4. —Three par Cents., 294 cash. Pour per Cent...
13peps. Fire per Cents., I3j paper. Paean., 4 paper. Coupons, 7j
paps. Bank of St. renlutand al. Exchange on London. 30.23

ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.

In a letter of the let instant your correspondent at
Rome says that splendid preparations were made at
Frosinone. Some of the triumphal arches had been
burned. The Pope is to halt two days at Frosinone,
and to ♦isit Alatri. The preparatior.s for illumination
in Rome, at the Monte atorio and Madams palaces,
excited some distrust.

The Patri• says positively that the Pope is not
going to Rome.
The cause smigned for the Pope's not going to
Rome, is the flight of M. (Mazola from the Castle of
St. Angelo.

The Pope was to spend the first night of his jour-
ney at Saes, and the next at Gaeta. Apartments, as
if for residence, have been fitted up at the latter place.
At Palermo the troops have orders to remain under
arms in barracks.
NAPLES.
Oar Naples correspondent says in hie letter of the
lit, that several important cabinet councils had been
held, at which Filang:eri assisted.
The questions disclaimed were whether it would be
advisable to do away with the constitution de jure at
the present moment; aLd, secondly, what should be
the disposition of the army in case of a collision
between Austria and France. A majority decided
the first question in the negative.
The King of the Belgians has recently authorised
the minister of war to have cut at the government
founderits at Liege, on account of the consul-general
of the Two Shame, 90,000 balls of different calibres,
and 60,000 kilogramme slew shot.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

Intelligence has been received from Berlin, under
date the 7th inst. It was said that Austria and
Prussia were on the point of a reconciliation, and
that some new project is in embryo, the existence of
which has been divulged by M. de Prokesch in cer-
tain diplomatic conversations.
The resolutions adored by the sub-committee of
the Constitution Committee of the Slaatenhusta, at
Erfurt, were carried by the Constitution Committee in
its evening sitting of the oth inst., by 29 votes against
16. Theo resolutions are similar to those proposed
by Cansphausen in the committee of the Volkshaus.
The question on the right of pesos and war has
found a satisfactory solution by the house accepting •
motion which was brought in by Baron Carlowitz.
There was a cabinet council held at Berlin on the
6th instant. It was arranged that Manteuffel should
go down to Erfurt next day. It is said
that MM. von Rsdowitz and Carlowitz have gone
further in the question of right to make peace or war
than they were warranted la doing, and it said that
they will be disavowed.

Siam!, AtIUL Vohunary Loan, la; National Debt, ;
nank Mara; R.

BELGIUM.—The Belgian government ham just
taken a eto.nmeioial mosusure of high importance. A
royal decree permit' the entry of linen thread of
every mime on condition of its being re-exported when
made up into cloth.