The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-12 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.

An agitation for the repeal of this obnoxious impost
Is beginning in good earnest in the metropolitan pariahs,.'
At a meet of the vestry of St. James's, Westminster,
this tetoraios, Mr. Charchwarden Cleetin in the chair, the
question was mooted by Mr. Joneph Brown of Herentutrort,
sad on his motion, Kneaded by Mr. Henry Jecksoa of Pne
eadilly, a resolutioa was passed for the drawing up of a
petition to the limps of Comatose for the total,nocanditioasi,
sad immediate rep-al of the window-tan ; and a deputation
of some of the mast inflate:vial parishioners was appointed
to center and en-operate with the deputations from other
mstropolitaa pariahs assembled is the Court-bonne, Mazy-
Mhos*. A strong and determined &alien pervaded the
speeettes of the vestrymen; and it was urn. d that,
to like government bad evaded this question on
the ground of the quietude is the public mind
la relation to it, the only cane left was to take
Nth* and united

Maiohave...l6ly over Om metro
'mistake

POW to seavinee the goventatrat of their
that me\ quieted* wee he be attributed to
et the feet that, so tar from peyfer thh tat with their' ful-
ness and amielaction, it was regarded by the public at lame
m most unjuwifhble and extortionate, and was submitted
to with cbowntanted endurance.

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A Vg/IT IAIOII NUMBSR or LSTTSPLS are collected
all over the klegdom by the country postown on their
ruu•re from villette.necelving heusee, with letter bags to the
chief prat-elbow is town,. These bitten are collected from
houses, and small hamlets, and villages, situeted at • distance
Irons any letter reeeiving•office ; and by a late regulation all
such collected letters welsh, be pre-paid by stamps. This re-
gulation has been found so inconvenient to the public who
lire at a distance from where stamp, are sold, that the post
master-general has just issued instructions thet the country
postmen shall, if requited, take the postage of such letters Is
money.
CHEAP Elm/mote Theme ran on the South
WI stern line yesterday. for the convenience of those pawns
who were desirous of viewing the limithfi.l,l C title Shoe.
The one which left Dorchester consist. d of 45 carriages when
it rrached Ssuthamoton. The one which left Southampton
consisted of nearly 30 carriages when it started from that
town.

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FREEHOLD LAND MELTING IN WOOLWICH..
Yesterday evening • meeting was held in the Town-hell,
William street, Woolwich, for the purpoeo of explaining
the ohjeets and principles of the Westeninstu Freehold
Land Satiety. Mr. G. IL ”ennas, Mr. G. Huggett,
secretary, and Mr. IL P. Day, attended as a depute
Sion. Mr. Mather presided, and having opened the
proceedings with a few brief obaervatieno, Mr. Hag-
gett, secretary to the Westmir stir Freehold Land Society,
proceeded to address the meeting. He said that the
fundamental principles of the society were that it should
be wholly mtnaged by, and be for the sole &dean.
tags of working men, without any aristocraie or I
other influence or interference whatever. The political I
advantsgee of such societies were ea obvious es to require
little comment. Of course the working man, in getting his •
freehold, would also get his franchise ; but the political ad-
vantages were the smallest results expected. There was r o
Investment for the poor man like a piece of hind ; end such '
societies as the present made the scoairement a matter of
easy schievement. The movemint -rid originated with the
Ann Corn.law League, who, by the purchase of rent- '
charges, setually carried the eltctioes for several counties.
The rutabaga money, however (601 ), rendered the matter
',eyelid the reach of the poor man, and to Mr.
Tea lor, of Birmingham, was due the honour of
lobvlaing the difficulty by establishing the co-operative
principle. (Hear, hear.) The great foundation of that
ptioeipls was to buy land by wholesale, and to sell it by
retail at wholesale prices. In oeuclusicta Mr. Hardin
asked whether there would be any objection to
the appointment of loos' Omuta/es. It was a general
objection that the affairs of all toe branch societies should be
snagged by one central committee in London.—Mr. Huggett
feared that the appointment of local committees would be in
contravention of the set of parliament. It would, however,
be competent te the branches to egad • representative to the
central e nominee, whir i besides was always ready to receive
suggestions from localities.—Mr. Hardin asked whether the
feelings of persons at the breaches would be consulted in
the purchase of land, or would sites be Chniiin merely
with reference to their meroantllli- Ofivantages ? He should
not with to see land bought at Bosbetter, for hostesses,
with Woolwich money.—Mr. Haggett said that the feelings
of the subeeribers in the various localities would ne always
attended to. The estate at Moulin had been bought in
deference to the wishes of the Ham Oen Court subscribers.
( Hear, Aar.)—Mr. Hardin expressed himself fully gadded
with Mr. Roggen'. ezplanationa—Mr. B. P. Day moved the
first resolution, commendatory of the principle of freehold
land societies. The speaker explained that the 40s. fran-
chise was rattly rather • limited fraschiss according to the
ancient spirit of the Britieheonyitatioe. Originally everyman
had a vats in the election of knights of the shire, but la the
reign of Henry VI. an act was pawed limiting the
right of voting is the holders of 40.. freeholds. It wee ne-
cessary sow that we should go back to that standard, because
from aorruptisa, from oppression, end tram various other
ease% the number of voters wee gradually diminishing in
England, Sine* 1857 the diminution in the number bad
been no lees than 13.000. Mr. Day having dilated at some
'eolith, and Ili' h considerable effect, on the moral and social
advantages of freehold land societies, concluded by moving
the resolution —Mr. M'Dotiald seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.—Tbsisks were then voted
to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated.
HIGHWAY ROBII6ItY AT MANCIIIVITEIL—On Mon-
day morning three meet, of emplane physiognomy, named
Thomas Fletcher, John. Barry, and °wee Pepper, wee.
plse.d in the dock, at the Borough Court, Menehester, on a
charge of making a felonious attack epos sad robbing Mr.
Thomas Nash, tea-dealer, John Dolton-street, but whose
widest, is in Park-plooe, Cheatham-bilL—Toe prosecutor
elated that he left his 'bop a few minutes after tee o'clock
onpaterday night, end about 26 minute, past tin arrived
nearly at the gate of his house is Park plea, Chestiest:s-
kill, when be saw three men, whom ho d, 'tending
near the rolling; one of them this said which he 114111*
ase
thought w meant as a signal to the Olken. "Itis no ass
me coming heve to-atorrow • sad he was immediately mind
by two of them, one hoidens him firmly from behind, while
another took a roll of notes from hie "'Mona Pocket, con-
sisting of DOUG of an frith bank. gegae lingloh country
notes and eleopee, to the reign of TOL. They nearly choked
him, and he balsam quite insensible.—ln answer to a qeie-
lion from Mr. Roberts. who npßeseed log Barry, Mr. Sleek
said heater one of the =ea take the setae from him, bid
could ant reeogabe tie eetentenares of soy of them, It wag
very foggy at the time, end jut Were he barns inseaslble,
he saw • fourth man coming up. When the attack woe
made he was within throe se four yard. of Ini own gate.••et
Several liftmen' pee negroberative evidences, and the bomb:
remanded the prineen to Saturday next.