The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

or Ain days in esareldng the town, he describes what
be Wlaotl. for a shillinN, and gets suited. But we
will giye a few specimens, culled from this :six
oolamns of American " Wants."
Wslitsd,-20 mantilla and plain sewer/. Apply, &a.
1,-100 goad cap- mien to work on fins cloth and
osldrsit
au ; also 100 learners. Steady employment. Ap•
S.meted,
in a clothing store, a boy from 13 to 16 good re.
homer required. Apply. ae.
Wanted, at lltri.es-i's bakery, a bly egad 13 or 14.
Wanted,—Two hones, oaa for cart ant one fir road.
Appy,kc.
Wanted,—A protestant woman u
set km.

to wish

Waatrd, by a young lady, a situation to attend a Goofs
doom, on (assay goods stows.
Wasted,—A Mat-rate di►siaker may hear of constant
work. _ . _

Wanted,—A good journeyman barber. Best of wages
iflkApply. afe.
insted,—Two 'spar makers and two stripper boys.
Wanted,--Bia young iviies to learn the paneal.en nuking.
Wortsd,—Window shads painters. Apply, &o.
Asatad,—Fifty labourers at the New York Cemetery.
Welifffn4-41. boy in a shi-ping office.
Wanted.—A lot of second-hand benches suited fee ea EL-
hibitics mow. . •

Wlatorl,--An experienced liabtermao to sail a sloop on
the east river.
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Wattled immediately,-16 or 20 girls to make paper
boxes.
Wasted haniediattly,—A man that undentands joining
gilt frames sad stopping-in looking glasses.
Wanted,—A boy about 14, at a toy factory.
Wargliadr4. saltation, by a young sad smart salesman
from Moses sad Co., taller., London.
Wanted,—A situation u waiter, by an Englishman of
steady habits, rec. ntly strived.
Wanted,—lnformation by John Cleary of his brother,
William Cleary, of Bober Cabin, eo. Tipperary, Inland, who 1
left New York let Sept., 1848. Lost heard of at Pittsfield,
Oisego county._
Waived,—For the United States army, active Toting men,
to whom will be given good pay, clothing, board, and me-
dical attendance.
Now this is a class of advertisements which. u a
rule, are never seen is English newspapers. Why P
First, because the advertisement duty prohibits the
insertion of such advertisements, and second, because

the newspaper stamp and paper duty pre-
vents English newspapers from circulating among
the class to whom they would be useful.
Hence the employer in this country who wants " 20
mantilla-makers," or "100 go d cap-makers," or " a
boy in a clothing store," or " a journeym ,n barber,"
is driven to other, much ruder, and, in the end, infi-
nitely more expens;ve means of obtaining hands. In
this country, the only res mete of the man who wants
"a journeyman barber" is to poet a notice in his win-
dow, and to inquire among his acquaintances and the
trade. It may be a week or a month before he meets
with the man he wants. The " cap-maker" who
wants 100 good hands, instead of making known
his requirement for a shilling, must placard halt
the walls of London twice or three times
over, at an expense of five or ten poucds. It may be
imagined that these American advertisements aro
rendered necessary by labour being more difficult to
procure in New York than in London. That, how-
ever, is not so ; the facility and cheapness of the adver-
tise bent is the real inducement to the advertiser. And
it is absurd to suppose that if the opportunity was open
to us we should omit to take advantage of the same
facilities of finding workpeople and of obtaining em-
ployment to which they are accustomed on the other
side of the Atlantic. Let newspapers be published for
three halfpence or twopence, and every man will have
them. Let advertisements be free of duty, and every
men who wants anything will make use here, as else-
where, of the readiest, the cheapest, and the eaeieet
mode of making known his requirements.
The Advertisement duty is thus, as we have shown,
a monstrous hardship, not only upon the poorer ad-
vertisers, but upon the working classes and others
who are precluged frem availing themselves of the
advantage of advertisements. But there are other
points of view in which the Advertisement duty
operates detrimentally. It virtually establiehes a
monopoly in the press, which we believe to be a bane
to literature, an injury to the press itself, and an in-
justice to society at large. Well may the Times
support the Newspaper Stamp and Advertise-
ment duties: it is by these abominations it exists.
Abolish these duties, and you would break
down the monopoly of the Times—a monopoly
equally detrimental to the press, to the advertising
Icommunity, and to the public. It is well known that
the Times charges the public for its advertisements
half as much again as is charged by any other
paper ; and what do the public get in
return ? Their announc meats are stuffed into a
supplement which nobody ever thinks of looking at,
aid which the waiter of every coffee-room in England
gives the kitchen-maid to Fight her fire with. The
supplement advertisements of the Times are still-born
advertisements, every one of them. They come into
the world seen only by the parent that produced
them, and the printer who assisted at the birth. They
are consigned to oblivion at the moment of their
appearance, and are never spoken of or heard of after-
wards. The folly of the public which consents to
such a form of publication, is only equalled by the
bold impudence of those who pass it off as a mode of
making information known.
Were the duties on Ne wspapers and Advertisements
repealed, the monopoly of the Times would be entirely
destroyed. At present there is small hope of establish-
ing newspapers that can compete with those existing,
because of the capital required to defray the expenses
of the stamp and advertisement duties. And the prices
which those duties oblige newspaper proprietors to
impose are an effectual barrier te extension either of
the circulation of newspapers or of their adver-
tising usefulness. Let such duties be repealed, and
new means and modes of advertising would imme-
diately present themselves. The new description
of advertisements which would come in would be
arrayed in different ways to suit advertisers and to
meet in the best form the eyes of those for whom they
were intended. The extension of the sale of news-
papers would be enormous. Literary men would
be paid in proportion : great additional employ-
ment would be given to compositors and printers, and
the public would be benefited to an extent of which
at present, we believe, there is no general conception.

TIM PLAYA AT THE PALACE.—There are only
two plays to be performed at the palace at Windsor. The
pieces selected are Shatspere's " Julius Cesar" and the
first put of "Henry IV." The charterers of Brsetts,
Cassms, and Mark Antony will be sustained by Mr.
Mscready, Mr. James Wallack, and Mr. Charles Kean.
TOO part of Falstaff will be acted by Mr. George Bartley.
The first performance will take plasm on the Bth of February.
—Morning Post.
ROYAL HUMANE SOClETY.—Yeaterdav, the annual
meeting of this society was held at the office. Trafalgar-
square—Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., presiding. Mr. T. Char-
, her, the secretary, read the report, which stated that during
the last year there had been saved 190 persons, who, from
accidents and attempted suicides, had nearly met with their
deaths in the Serpentine and other waters under the super-
intendence of the society. Sines December 30:h, 1849,
it was supposed there had been above 170,000 skaters in
the several parks, out of which number 64 were immersed.
one came being fatal. The remainder, after being attended
to, went to their several homes. Teo bathers were calculated
tc be about 300,000. There were, among these, 25 casualties,
only one of which proved fatal. The income of the society
amounted to 2,16 A. 14e. 241., which included 2,1431. 4.. 4d.
subscription., donations, charity, sermons, &c. After dis-
charging all necessary claims, there was a balance in band of
82/. 78. The reports were unanimously adopted, and some
formal busing* having been gone through, the meeting
aspirated.
REDUCTION OF TITHES AND RENT. —William
Hopan, Esq., owner of reeteral tithes and parsonage firms
of Minster, in Stumpy, has abated 20 per cent. on the lost
two half-yearly payments. Messrs. Joseph and Thomas
Todd, considerable owners of land in Sheppy, at their lest
audit, abated 16 percent. of their rents. William Masters
South, Esq., of Causer (the high sheriff ), at his rent audit
on the Ist last, returned 10 per cent to his tenantry. Mr.
James Lek.., of Netherlands House, Topsham, near Sitting-
bourse has returned his tenants 16 per mat. from their year's
rent, union. ited.— Maidstone Jowsai.
A enlarge IN FgaNce..—A young Chinese from
Nankin, named Lo, arrived • few days since at Nantes.
.0a
landing he went to the house the bishop, who received
him with the greatest kindness. This young man, who is
22 years of age, belongs to • family who have pestered the
ratnolie religion for the last six generations. One of its mem-
bers is now acting as • missionary in his native country.
This young Lo speaks Latin with the greatest fluency. He
is about to proceed to Naples, to enter the College of the
Propaganda, where eight of his mastrymen are already esta-
Wished.—FroarApoper.