The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-25 00:00:00

REPEAL OP TRH EXCISE Di =T ON PAPER.

A within of paper-maker% whalebone, anthore,
piston, mil ethos tatermilsd I. the repeal ef the Henn
(duty ups pew, was Mid a ifeditaday, la Potheare
Boom, Beyal lizahaege, Ithibargb, be the esaideratisa
sad adepsion inseeens he aseemplith that eldest.
C. COWAN, In., wee slid le the abbr. and Ind that
M led ia hf. peemesise • Maar whisk be bed lately resenel
hem Hr. Miner Gibes., seater of parliemsat hr Ma-
ebethee, to whom ha bed wrthen same time sge, 'alas him
to ineednes thseirttaletiell ef the keen dative, and the other
taus epee ken iste the Henn M Ommioas ; sad he
was vary gled tlith the kith gethismaa wee quite
ready to p. hi most nimble ad peeferhil aid aa fair
etatemath oldie oppreseloa eat Wary whisk they, as maaa-
wholefastarese. palatable*, maws.
to atidiiiie n
*bet, the
leallMlSi, wenpr esent
memeetr tynalatiens. had she ha
MN spears= of paper whith bed meshed Ittle
daps ego but Frame—sot with Mmes. to that meet-
in, Mum his Mend had se ma ides—with\ had bees
memalethreal hem straw. This material could be pet-
itioned le the idiabergh market at Me. we M. per to., is
trou Ised. te b per mt. New, whim he wee Lathy in
Frame, he Weed in mintiunimisa with the menu-
Mayers of that ankle; and he Jest wished tbe mittztift.s
bear ia as the remit .1 his obierratias awl
that the of whisk the raw material ..4,2
test, or Ism theca. WO* pre lb., wee witlPsta
illatyri4=pair lb (Hese. both) The sa Jr Loom
wasa lbw yeses age, although it immeted tO
• tolticasg per lb., amass` st amp with it my
relliblith epos the thress, being betels taillipevrt.
of impethelisa, 140 they bed t. matead with the mar
Meth Wow aril May arising hall the prime ash, re-
Vbike wild gel their geode to market.
d7slity was hewn; although is dad we
GSM the prise the eoliths or ahem msaa-
lhothes la ay poseeptible dense; wham, if the duty
urea pane was Jowled, he believed that, hem the
enemas damn= is the raw menelel, which was az-
wasinly peSda.sd to SW own mmery, rho home& meld be
immense sad nalmeeelly Mt. The eqmemeth the mein of
• sellsetisa eras duty was 61 lb, per mat ; and hem
Win being the eel, seaufestan la the senatry whisk was
eembrine= othfsesilebtleges , tiastee., the 7erg
hit le be
Mr. W.MAIMU mid that, Ise a umber of yam
hd~back, he ad his beelair had be La the preemies of path
Melee padiament the_ ef tbe paper lades, whisk
they MI hit le be amodbm4 berameme ask various
litany polaellem, sad
—'Mss
salsalatid Winne the
domed he Math The duty apse ,
emsemiles then pease per lb., did set mat
.tits the uses eagsmin elm of works, sad might net
mead IL at 6d. epee • oboe volume ; bat whoa it was
coneldered that whoa the duty was applied toe amp elms it
peltheaemti is biome as mash as ahem H want apes
the psis. of the paper empinal, its Witness oaths would
be at ease apparee• (Hear, hear.) Daring the In years
sad* 16411„ shim 10111116. Chambers) had paid foe piper
the ease et 113 4261. of white then was maned as
duty 14,3261.—(hieir, 14mer)—med they were at russet pay.
tag at the rail ;JINN. awe Mduty to the ginernment.
M
It might that these Mlles MI lima the
ead that they sot pay them; that they were dr.t.
by the papewskete. mead, by the
_Webber% sad third,
by the rabbi. That was has, so doubt, la a watela Nam,
but it was seeteemleamble that they soled Watteau', epee
the probsiaa both of pew maker sad pabtisher. TM
with tilLbsimtnet Mak had been deterred him ea-
whisk they thought would be calm
=Olll//naielity. is esinenueme of the pries
whisk Wee he ihe artiste of paper. (Hear, hem)
They ast be able as one te make ma Maas-
diets la the prise el the arida they sow sold by
W ieuesdiele swath of these dada ; bat they would cer-
tainly he ambled to mho arnagemeate Minsk ea Meseta-
was hied es wield had them to serge La sew eaterprhes
calealatal. la their minim, le be ef Meseta to the by
malty. (Apedwas.)
_Diheselened ae they kid ben by
ths sithailes whisk bed boa paid to them by parka-
mew, thap(the Mama Ohimbers) were set leaned to
lessee;move theJerirm but as It was a satifeet
which seaseined rpahl Il
is mo
at bags, if the pa'aris should
men la the atelier, they would hi meet happy to lake a
pan la it. In filestration ell the maniocs ad troublesome
malignantr is the Buithethes, he might meatice are.
mashie bet that they had neatly disenered, which was,
the owns nestled is the prepamthen at ekesp publications
in the Isle of Man entirely free is duty. The paper mode
in that bleak:jail no duty, mid 'pea the paper imported
taro that from Eogisad this. was a drawback. The
lag measep=tar, "MX+ "west .at
gerfOrkentisit
tondos. , and other Wen, without the payment
of say duty, w result was, that the fair traders both ia
England and limelsad were oteapletely at alas, and amid
sot compete with a. publics**, that paid so ditty at all.
He had tikes the liberty of Galling the ahead= of tho
Home of Cam= and of the Kraise-ofiles is Lamas to
the subject, bet had received no satin as to whether the
practise was still coatimed or not.
Mr. COWAN—The Chandelier of the Riebequer told me
that it had been etopped.
Mr. CIUMBRES said he was very glad to hear that
sash was Ps sees He might maths es his own feelleg,
that, should these duties be remitted by pertiamiat, he
hoped, at the same time, that an est would be weed to per-
mit the perfectly free inhabitation of Meta made paper.
He thought that the paper makers ef Great Britain -had
nothing to bar from bee trade. He was fully parnaded
that they mold lees sothiug by compedtion ; hat, as the
other hand, be thaht that the perfectly has iatrodestim
of ?math sad gifia papers, foe particular purposes,
would have the street of stimulating the mmulmetate of the
article I. this eseatry. His fall navietioa was, that by the
complete -tents it then dads., sad the establishment of
Me trade hi paper, they would be enabled to supply
WOOLS' a the meet advaatageons terms, and *yea their
Wade sow very mach limited by the rethinks of the
'nisi laws.

Mr COWAN explained that petition had bees trans-
mitted to the goverment sad the legislates, from the
United Kingdom, praying for the repel of the duty ; and,
ia particular, an impertant petiole hail been
ad
tree
the sesadaseense in lenwataire, whisk had made a seed
dyable Implodes epee the Wade of many namehem of
Cirwith when be had etraventh as the settee.
isTled that the eblest of their present metes was
mania to essaerialiss the geeenesat, saline M their noel.
belie the varies sonelens in whisk Uzi had beinerly
Meese the waist to *dr them tol
the petition; already preenedmesnie saitesimar. litor ble.
elf, he we so tar tree being say jealousy la the same of
Nepotist dales for • messes et duty sr as sheaths I.
W mode of tanatien, be welted that be wee rather glad
to see se mew. Ober porde ea la anent the atten-
tion ef the gesement Ind et t to the settee ; for
he held that the mare hien that were stink seism
proems Itheitem wane fa w hisk the duties wee tepeethe
and levied. the Mrs dr= lad ether palsies beet
thirty Wand le and
Mr. DUZHAII, paperesathastarer. directed the atten-
tion of the sametiat to the ditty um souse paper, sed by
Oir"mm irsomerril. them. ant ethers, width, he seed,
sweated to 70 or 1:10 eat upon the arena east el the
ankle, or 40 per eat upon the ambled vale of the r•
tole; or, la Gum words, that at et even, lOL the paid for
seam paper, 44. was meted se ditty. He new that thee
were parties wb• paid la the worse of a yet from 1001. to
2001. for the mane paper wilt widen they peeked their
',ode ; and ia nob cue, thou who paid the first sae paid
401., and the seed M. of the do" to the mime. (Hear.)
He asked them if that we net es immeas.tax (of which pro.
bony them parties were set &were), Jest as mash es when
the selectee Nee sad reported the want they had to pay
to the sonieskeleaers t (User, hear.) It we to he bore
In Wad, however, ekes the se • enelderable ex.
rat, resovered the ems wYeslbw Om paid, by viral
the heavy paper abet
_with oar same ; bat it net
require an y groat e~aesa lbw that if meek were the
fast, it meet prove • heavy boa. epos Jo pose ass;
haw while the asin ensthelthie also memos eared
at ease 401 b. at onw, the 1.11111111. of piper fordmid the it
we very diarist Maid bean ore 111111166 the pit
had to pay when he tee his 4011 m. of sew at brig dlUtetil
tines. (Hier, bac Then Liaison Ile saw bmit, it
the veer did et weigh his paper milk lb sogsr—ead
be that to was pa sodded wo dip so—be is a
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