The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 25.

THE mond letter from " A Solicitor," which this
day appian in oar commas, moot fail to awaken
Feign attention to the tree nature and scope of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S FisogO•Od ohms-
ties in the Stamp Laws. We will do it CHARLIE
WOOD the justice to believe that the immediate
obstructions which the bill would throw in the
way of daily commercial transactions, and the im-
merse increase of harden that it would fling upon
every holder of and dealer in property, with compere-
tivery few and slight alleviations to counterbalanee
them. are the results, not of malice prepense, or keen
finality, but simply of insufficient acquaintance
with the vest subject, and the almost universal in-
terests dealt with.
The budget of 1850, as introduced by Sir CHARLES
WOOD, might eminently be styled the Budget of
False Pretence,. It pretends to facilitate the transfer of
landed property. Where is the landed property that
can 1.3 trans'erred for any appreciable advantage
which would not cost 5001. ? On such a transfer the
minister bestows a diminution of ten shillings! If
the transfer of landed property be to be encouraged,
It is in the way of the (agleam of large masses that
facilities should be thrown. At &value of 1,2001., how-
ever, the two schedules, that of the present law and of
the CHANCELLOR of the Fanny: wen the duty becomes
equal, rising after that amount according to the pro-
pond scheme in increased proportion. So that,
potting town plots and garden ground out of the
question, there is in truth no diminution of the tax
levied upon such apportionments of land as would
constitute a yeoman, or give an industrious family
wherewith to live.
On the credit, however, of this wonderfully bene-
ficial adjustment the CHANCELLOR quietly demands
permission to levy not only duties upon property
hitherto exempt, but also upon every commercial
pledge or security of every kind of property, " matter
or thing," even although the accommodation should
be 'ignited only for a day or for an hour. There
Rn transactions of this nature taking place in London
and throughout the whole country daily to an incal-
culable amount, and in requiring that they should all
be sanctioned by his stamp, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER invites evasion, hinders the flow of
capital, and hampers the operations of men of busi-
ness, while professing to benefit trade. As it is the
interest of the lender to take care that the stamp is
duly paid, it is probable that the evasion will be
slight, and in such case what does the Cw•ricamon
mean by a pretended deficit of 300,0001. ?
Besides this sweeping addition to the pro-
perty and the transactions liable to duty, an ad
valorem stamp is to be imposed upon the transfer or
lease of property, fur considerations which, as our
correspondent shows, have not hitherto been subject
to duty.
There may not be grounds for their exemption. Bat
if the nation is to pay all this, let it do al with its
eyes open. And, if so heavy a burden is to be laid
upon new shoulders, let at least some old ones be
exempt.
The fact of it is, that this partial and ignorant
tampering with the stamp duties in the recesses
of Downing.nrest affords no alleviation of any mo-
ment to the Glasses or the portions of property which
require it, whilst, as we have shown in a former
article, there is a great increase of burden thrown
upon classes and transactions hitherto exempt from
them, and which in all cases are not the best able to
bear them.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pleads,
that being unable to digest or to carry &large plan of
financial reform, he can only proceed bit by bit.
But in truth what be attempts is no reform; it is
merely building an additional story on a house that
is rotten in its very foundation, and which will but
the sooner crumble for this uncouth superatraction.
What is wanting is a general revision of the stamp
lawe, which are capable of being re-adjusted in a way
at once to increase the revenue and lighten ita bur-
den, but without rendering these stamp duties, as the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposes to do,
&fiscal nuisance, as odious and as übiquitous se the

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=cies.
If land was free, like any other property and oom-
alodity, if it wee unendowed with political privileges,
there is no meson why land should be °maimed
apart in any system of taxation. Unfortunately land
is parked off from the common laws of value, sale and
transfer ; and hence arises a difference and a counter-
poise of interests, fall of envy, strife, and injustice.
In our present state, one of the worst of taxes is that
ea the transfer of land, and perhaps it is even
worse upon large than upon smell transfers.
Upon settlements and mortgagee, however,
the law is entitled to levy a heavier duty,
seeing that it gives security to a kind of artificial
; whilst on the transfer of land, all that
CiPl'aretryought to do would be to give a clear and
cheap title. Did it do this, it would do more for the
belie transfer of land than any diminution or grada-
tion of duty.
The main point, however, is bow to deal at
preempt with the budget. For this we really
see no mode save that of returning it politely
to the Cnancr.u.oit of the EXCHEWEEI m
order that he may re-examine and amend it.
It is quite intolerable that a minister should come
forward and, under pretence of taking off 300,0001.
worth of stamp duties, lay the harden of them right
and left on whole hosts of people, whose calculations
and interests will he thereby completely deranged.
If the CHANCELLOR can levy what he claims and pre-
tends, instead of coming forward with a pretended
deficit of 300,0001. from stamps, he ought
to calculate several millions increased revenue.
And then he ought to promise frankly
the repeal of the window tax or of the malt tax, or of
the small and °dins items of the stamps and the
excise. But his grave proposal to extend the con-
veyance duty univermlly, whilst pretending that
he could not spare 130,0001. to poor advertisers, is
one of the most unblushing and preposterous pieces
of humbug that ever a Chancellor of the Exchequer
was guilty of.

A PUBLICATION by Bishop PHILPOTTB on the
6011/IAII can was a calamity not to be avoided by any
propitiatory sacrifios. Like an out wind in March
it was sere to come at last ; and to bring with it a
moral and social influenza. Disappointed in a legal
investigation needlessly provoked by himself, so in-
veterate a poleraic meld not remain silent after defeat.
A pamphlet from this pamphleteer of thirty years'
lauding was, therefore, certain. The utmost, in
point of time, that could be hoped was that a prelate
of each high ireckehistial pretensions would not die.
turb the solemn festival of Faster by his wrangling,
that he would allow the church to perform in peace
her appintad services of Passion Week. For this
respite we should have been content to have paid a
somewhat high price as to style and matter. As the
Ethiopian cannot change his odour, nor the Isepud
his spots, so cannot Puttrorro tomb the moot
mend subjects, ezmpt after the fashion of lie vs-
' charitable and intolerant nature. From bin remorse.

leas pen a pamphlet, we knew, mat be full of wrath
and gall. Bat, for a piers of episcopal discoed at
this season, and for such a Letter se Bishop Pm&
tuns his addressed to the Archbishop of CANTLII-
- even those who knew him beet—or rather
knew him woret—could hardly he spite prepared. It
trot eds any thing his presumption, hue virulence,
and his bitterness ever before perpetrated.
The solemnity of the subject—the almost inncrit-
table mystery of the theme to be treated—the danger
of the crisis to which the church is placed—the ex-

of portimae sere to lit.
eassesegemest—the see
es the Meet Keened Primate —the
tam with which e• been hi." apit •
aothing of the " due been
obedienlm tam
proviscial bishops owe Aim :climes. it Wilt have
hoped, would for • season have toothed a eves
as sonititutionally wrathful and have Waled deem
iato ispgusge habtnalty vehement as even Bishop
PIIILPOta. Vain 'and idle Impel A half-clad vine
Iran the top of an Mishnah wynd doss not shriek
.seems-hostialrAL.her_drunkan oseePtaionas a Isa'
=odd wolf doss not bowl more kangrily after ea-
travellers, a values does net serum same
wise it descends oa its desert prey. than des
Bithop Paulson* at mad over the Arebbishep of
lio danses amend the namable tad
lagleasive Primate with all the fineness of a savage
Mohawk ; sad eyes him with all the cannibalism et
am unreelainsed New Zealander.
Contrast the two men. Of about the same age, of
the like morel professions, of almost equal dignity In
the choral bow opposite in mental conformed's% is
usefulness of life, in Christian bearing mad
c 4
Mildness, gentleness, the manners of a court
and subdued by a career of humble piety,
tics for the tenderest feelings of those most op=
him—characterise the Primate. He has no
foal robustness or high moral courage, sad apt Rua
personal activity ; but he is a prelate of reurpamed
sweetness of disposition, and of liberality in what be
deems nos-em entials most compreheasive. His very
virtue extort applause seem from his ragtime sad
instead assaits. "Ia year geese," says Bishop
Piturorn, after one of his bitterest invectives," we
admire courtesy, modesty, sad charity." Yet neither
them high qualities, nor his elevated peal" have
saved Dr. SUMNER from one stinging as
vindictive accusation, or one uncharitable in
All that the archbishop is, the bishop ie ast.
holy scripture, Dr. SWUM bee feud a Mend
sebum of human redemption. De. PartrOMl as
of polemical strafe. In the dies se the
sarneemar. Buxton reverestly beheld a Doh of
011MIMOn Prayer, Dr. Pan.rorre kit loader
smassisame In the ritual sad prastfiss shims are
Dr. 80111411.1 sees room and verge enough ler all
orthodox christians, Dr. Pathrorre saly mess and
bounds for sectarian exclusion. The writings of the
Primate, .though ocessionally of doubtful merit, are
all on subjects of the highest and holiest interest; the
pamphlets of Bishop are all questions of mole-
east's:al persecution or of political disquiet. Permed
piety has elevated the one to the primacy ; by party
lie other has scrambled to a mitre. Age,
_.
, and experience, have somewhat qualified
the opinions originally propounded by the Primate ;
whereas MIME than seventy years' knowledge of
human vanities, and of the nothingnees of earthly
wisdom, has only exasperated the temper and ren-
dered lder the manners of the bishop. Life is
closing on Dr. Summit with regret: the tomb is
opening for Dr. PitiLrorre with reproaches.
Not content with originating rashly a discussion
which at one time threatened to rend the Church of
England in twain ; unpacilled by a judgment which
arrested a rupture /dame yielding a doctrinal tri-
umph to either party in the church ; and only excited
leztter violence by- the example set him by the
ip
through the press, to unite the more mode
rate and sanest of the clergy ; Dr. PniLrorre, the
commosibarrator of the church, rushes savagely at
the archbiabop, assails him with abase, reproaches
him with heresy and schism, and charges
him with falsehood sad treachery. With libel-
lous prayers and slanderous griefs, he first
fears that Dr. SUMNER is "unconscious " of the mean-
ing and tendency of what he deliberately wrote, care-
hilly revised and then authoritatively published;
next he censures him fur using " uncertain and per-
plexing language ;" then upbraids him for " shrinking
from the expression of thegreat property of baptism."
and at last charges him with propagating views as es
the necessity of faith making that sacrament effica-
cious, " little short, if indeed short, of heresy." Nay,
rising in passion and in fury, Bishop Pultrorrs thus
audaciously addresses the primate, to whom he has
plighted " clue reverence and obedience :"
" Your grace flings to the winds these declarations of Scrip-
ture, 'ad of the church interpretimerrifinre. ' • • • My
lord, there is one observation rhidti hosed, ea my mina
by this your teaching. It is rank pepeey, sod worse the&
popery. • • • My lord, I s aghast wiles I hear
such Machias from such • place. _ _ _

Not mach " due reverence and obedience" in
language such as this; but abominable as even it is,
he follows it up by an sensation far more serious.
He accuses the Primate of supporting biz peculiar
heresies by wilful perversions of the text of Scripture :
My lard, I hope I shall not be deemed to write with need-
less disourtesy, if I call upon your race to produce any text
of &risen which justifies this statement. The text which
you have produced in the passage I am coosicierios, has been,
I grieve to be obliged to say, perverted by you, and " added
to " most awfully.
Than this there could hardly, it might be thought,
be any grosser insult offered to, or more serious accu-
sation made against the Primate of the Church of
England. But even this insult Bishop Puti.rov-rs
mods, even this accusation he exceeds. He pictures
the inoffensive and guileless old man whose whole
life has been devoted to the practices of Christian
virtues, and almost spent in the House of GOD, as
spreading infidelity. Dr. SUMNER has, it seems, re-
ferred to GIBBON in sup of his statement that
some of the early abused the sacrament
of baptism ; GIBBON being on matters of fact an
authority which all subsequent investigations has
proved to be most depeadabie. The opportunity for
moan& was too tempting to be disregarded ; and the
vulture of Exeter thus screams over the authoritative
reference :
why do you send your readers to the Care of an infidel
historian, and to the very portion of Ma work of which
almost every sentient is a sneer Nokias our holy faith?
Why, indeed, but to promote the infidelity, and to
participate in the sneers, and not to learn the truth to
be found in °Noon ?
Having thus detected the Primate in propagating
heresy, in perverting the text of Scripture, in pro-
mulgating something " worm than popery.," and in
giving encouragement to the most seductive infidelity,
Bishop Pimrarrs enlarges the field of his dis-
coveries. Turning to the proceedings before, and to
the private deliberations of the judicial committee, of
which he can know nothing, the right reverend
libeller, notwithstanding this ignorance, thus describes
the part which the Primate " must" have taken
therein :

Instead of leading, yea most haws misled the men, you
were then to instruct!, sot only by misstating the matter on
which yon advised, but also by =imitating all the authors
cited by you in conformity with your etotement.
And, so acting, the Primate hap, he declares, done ,
all that is hint lies to separate the Church of Eng- ,
land from the Church of CHRIST.
Into the stream of wrath which he pours on the
judicial committee we will not at present enter.
What we want to draw attention to is the vindictive
uncharitableness of this bad man towards the Pri-
mate. Not one generous thought, not one liberal in-
terpretation, not one charitable construction, not one
kind word, not a civil sentence has he for the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY. For each a torrent of in-
vective there is but one excuse: too much wrath
bath driven hiss mad.
But will he resist the sentence ? Will he
the judgment ? Will be risk deprivation ? 41117,
leave the church ? Not he j his duty is to remain—
in receipt of the revenues of the diocese of Exeter and
of the canonry of Darham.
Hers is the blasphemous bathos of all his raving :
Meanwhile, I have owe most painful duty to perform. I
bare to protest not only against the judgment pronounced
is the recent cam, but also spinet the regular consequences
of thatjudgmeat. I have tormt against roar grey dohs'
what you will be Mliss to do, either in rrson or by
1101110 miss yeas sathirity. I have to protect,
and g ham* before the Chinch of
Eagtemil, Wore Mee lily Bo Church, before Him who
is tU Divine Head, pima your giving minima to exerchn
curs sue mukosilbla INC 1.181111110 to lain who proclaims himself
%obsidian beeedeumbleit Kr. Galas hold'. I protest that
say ems whir gives athiss to hiss till he retracts lea favourer
and supporter of them bressies. I protest, in amelasion
that I sent without 11111—sad by God's gra°. I will not-1
hold esememnion with him, be Its who he may, who shall to
abyss the high semmirsion which he bears.
" Well, Mk," as Lord FALLENBOROUGTI said to poor
Holtz when he indulged in a similar exclamation,
" now that you have protested, go &bait your
• business!"
• Amidst the contempt and indignation which this
°straw on the Primate must prodisoe, let it not, how-
ever, ise overlooked that this is the spirit, Ibis the
temper, there the objects for which it is sought to
retire eeavoesties I and that the straggle which it is
• attempted to prey*, is Air lees one for the settlement
of doctrinal differences than to regain supremacy for
• prinked% aver the right of priiite judgment. The