The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1850.

station on the line ; as& No mare the thlthfal per-
limumasse el this eltrismitaciviyernalties as in-
crieretMlnadelleark. superistall lout.wrels
of the
way sommaissiemers. Thom teeth far the bessat
of the poorer /artier a/ the public. On the other
bud, buteur it was Mt that am Me sew
in Sampans' ;sight sot be profitable, it wutzsr..l
and lair tbet the state sheath sot interfere to reader
it sageofilehle t so ft was masted thet so pensager
tax &di Zs en the receipts frost the conveyeace of
at nes sot useedieg one puny a stile
granslisap tuine.
The tax el 5 pee oath is paid by railway
te the Island Benue Department
on seitwn unmanning certifying to that board
the sessent d the receipts foss fares wader eme puny
a milsamebsep trains, the anent is exempted
hen
Now Mellenil• trains are, in peist of fact, Bush
cheap train None of the intentlea to run then
fe gives is the newsy ceenniniasers, of the bouts of
their depntse% sad all those other modems which the
law restores of snap trains. But ad 'sly an they
literally math asap trains, bat they nee been toasted
by the esibeay essaissiesers in theintraders to son-
ries as baths within these preens, 47 & 8 Viet., o.
ltin cheep trains. Bemenien trains aro
divided the sane alines se ethos teams ; in all
then cisme the rater el Mee have, without oxen-
time, been seder on. gassy a ale. Being under that
rate aniline, their veseipts were, ft is obvious, it-
waded by the legislature to be exempted from the
px...ick tax. The railway ennateelosers, how-
, otherwise, and have refused to entity to
the Inlaid Itemise Board the receipts of the iret-
°lame carriages for exemption from that tax, though
they entitled the receipts frog the third and sexed
clones ; and thus the breed those who on these
castles travel in the most expensive carriages, and
who are least profitable to the °ampules in Buse-
, dos Treks, are liable to the five per cut tax, whilst
. the fares of the otter and more profitable slaws aro
exem
New,pt. for this absurd and unjust distinction there
really is so warrant in law; for the words of camp-
don are gamorally, and mats no difference between
classes of carriages ; what they exempt is the sues
derived from furs wider au penny in cheap trains.
Hen is the section of the statute

hi It warted, that as tax shall be Wiled urea the
reselpal of any railway aempeity ter the oesveyanee of pas-
maim at tam not mewling awe paw far oath eatle, by
any rash asap tight ea eformeld.
Tree it Is that the " cheep trains aforesaid" seed
only contain third clam but that they do
not him their character of " p trains" by having
superior carriages is proved by the highest evident*,
—that of the railway conimienioners th.lees, for
they have treated excursion trains containing all
three classes as " each cheap trains as aforesaid," have
certified to the Inland Review Department the
receipts from second-class carriages thereon ; and
by the Revenue Board, which has allowed the ex-
emption claimed for each receipts. To stickle
thee, at first-class *wipe is eminently absurd: for
if there be any principle involved it is equally appli-
cable to the mond clue se to the first-class carriages.
But them it is, that in every public improvement we
are met and obstructed kr the government, by re-
venue beside, and by pettifogging fiscal objections.
It is, however, to be hoped that in this case the North
Western sad the Great Western will resist such mis-
chievous and unnecessary interference of the railway
occumissioners with excursion trains.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATE&
Ost.lo.
Tits Piedatastsso envoy, Signor Pistol& IA this
city on the day beim yestirday, without basis, ban
ab! to mottle is any way the (potion wocernicg

Which be came to trait.
So meek has already been said and written about
his reception hero, and so many more rumours will
be spread in conecqmsee of his departure, that I am
unions to pat you forthwith in possessios of such
authentic foots as will tally elucidate the whole affair,
and (treble you to draw your own ocuelosions free
from the bias produced by false intelligence. Signor
Pleat same to Rome furnished by the Piedmontese
govsensant with unlimited power to treat, not only
the
establish of the Binned law (which it was to be
his aim to obtsia from his Holiness), but
also establish upon a firm basis, and with a mutual
good sesesestanding, all future relations between the
two sabinsb. Will it be credited that a plenipoten-
tiary shamed with such an important mission should
actually have been refused an opportunity of present-
ing his eredeutiale P And yet such has been the case
with Signor Plena. It is tree that he had an inter-
view with the Pope, as I stated in a previous letter, in
the preetteceof Monalgoorßsenabo,thelennr ofwhield
mentined at the time, theandience concluded abruptly,
by his Haines establishing the restoration of the
Archbishop Fran:cosi to his diocese as a sine cal goon
for entering into negotiation. Signor Pinelli's next
interview was with Cardinal Antonelli, whom he
found more tractable than his Holiness, since the car-
dinal insinuated that matters might be arranged by
placing the Piadmontess clergy upon the same foot-
irg so the clergy of Belgium ; a proposition which
Pinelli observed was hardly tenable, on account of the
diffsrenoes between the petition of the two govern-
mentor that of Belgium allowing the freedom acd
equality of religions persuasions, whilst that of Pied-
mont allows the superiority of the Roman catholic
farm of worship as the established religion of the
state. Another striking diversity was, he stated,
that in Belgium all the priests are paid by the go-
vernment, whereas, in Piedmont, the clergy live on
their own extensive property, the administration of
which is considered so important a matter by the
government, that it has, and has had for many
years, the right of appointing a comptroller or
econotno to supervise church expenditure. Not-
' withstanding these variations in the prelimi-
naries, some satisfactory arrangement might have
been brought about, bad not the cardinal, towards the
close of the conversation, raised the usual obstacle—
' the necessity of Monsignor Frames liberation be-
fore officially treating upon the subject. The next
step was the nomination of a congregation of cardinals
to study the affair, and lay dow-n the principles of a
new treaty, if possible ; bat it appears that their emi-
nences were content to study by themselves, for,
although I have heard that Cardinal Lembrunbini
went to pay a visit to Signor Pinelli, the envoy was
ono* admitted or invited to disease the ',object
• of his mission with the members of the congregation,
• who were probably well aware of the difference of
his ideas from theirs, and were convinced of the futi
lity of disturbing their harmonies§ meetings by intro-
, ducing,