Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

formers,- are levied for two objects ; th protection

of property And; the protection of life,

Nov, as

the working mats possesses life only: and not pro-
perty, he should- not be taxed for the protection.
of the latter. Both the judicial and the financial
quack are very logical, and if you admit their-
premises, it _would seem almost certain. that tile
full conclusion_ must follow.' Possibly, it. in ;the one
case, we were. not required to swallow .a
in the other, to•revolutionise a system, we should'
not care to question the beauty and the sequence
of the theory:. But, let us ask, in the. first place,
is it •possible, to, apportion the national taxation,
on such a definite plan ? And, if it: were;.
would be the•object? After all, all classes. of
citizens are- to, be called upon for:their propor-

tionate contribution to the national- revenue, even
according- tosour new authorities. If, therefore,
the State exacts no more than their just propor-
tion, of what importance is it what particular
branch or the- public service ostensibly demands

it ? Money-is, naoney, taxes are ,taxes, no• matter
what therare pretended to be levied for. The State
is one andindivisible ; speaking without profanity,
even in. the State we are " all_ membems ine of

" another ;"' always in the long rum suffering
together f and rejoicing -together ; the,, national
compaet binds us with the same ties, and secures

us equal, services, and answers . good. end which
is not, good; for the whole family of the Common-
wealth,. National peculiarities are not such as
to split np the Imperial system, irate, several con-
flicting; or wholly inarked.:off interests. There
in. a complete interdependence throughout the
whole, and everyone 1)0,5 a vital interest in
the general wealth an,cl4 general prosperity. If
Nvw take the trouble,. therefore, to examine
narrowly the formula: on which our local
financiers profess to: base , the plausibility of
their scheme, we may ask,—Are not the working
classes as much interested in the protection of
property as the capitalist himself? We do not
say to the same extent, or to the same amount of
money, c ounterl up in pounds, shillings, and
pence ; but we. say as much interested as to the
arts and means. of living ; as to the power of ac-
quiring the comforts and necessaries of existence?
The produce of the capital of this country is in
one sense the property of all the people in it. All
are supported by it, and concerned in its safety
and protection. The capitalist, by what we may
call, the accidents of Providence, in one way
the labourer, by the arrangements of the.
same Arbiter, in another. But both for the
one great object which is alike to all, from
the throne to the cottage ; the means of
living comfortably and happily, according to the
necessities or the tastes of their different modes of
life. Descending to particulars, is not the work-
man as much affected as the owner himself, when'
a mill stops work ? Or, if we come to police
protection," would he suffer less if the mill

suaniaz a Mg

were burnt to the ground. by the malice of an

incendiary_?

The principle will hot heir discuision, It
seems to partake too mincll of that character
which Mr. BRIGHT his imparts •d to hisl/4 politisal
exercitationsi a character derived: from the
artificia.division of the body of the nation into
wholly separate classes, having *holly different
and even conflicting interests'.- It is the same
principle' which, in the one case, must lead to
revolutitra and chartism; and, in the other, to
revolution and communism.

Let it not be • charged, however, that 0111
We do

position, as yet, is more than negative

not offer to afinT that the burden ,of "tarafi°l3l_

may be more equitably proportioncd: *ll,
say, that the formula upon which the Financial:
Reform Association bases its projected re-arrange'
meat, is false in logic and in fact,

TIIE has been a -wonderful increase 41- the
Shipping Trade of France during the presel,lt
century, but more especially since the principles
of Fit* Trade have been introduced'- and adopted
in this. anuntry

We take. from official statistic^9
certain tables of the trade iitYrards maxi outwards,

for a series of years, which appear-- in =other Page

of-out present impression

We•eolleet from those retums that 6.o'lloll*s,
of vessels-( rench) entered invards. has, increased

fronti4ll2r since 1827 to 10,53541 a 1858:1: that

by 64.

A tonnage of A2B,433_between 1811

SEPTEMBER 22, 1859

of there extending :the' commerce of each coun-
try ; and we hope and trust it may excite
in each nation that spirit of emulation in trade,
and in eivilizatioii, which M. DE MORNY SO
eloquently declarel to be that which it is
the intention of the EMPEROR
.to foster and pro-
rac'te• Disastrous as has been the catastrophe
Ivllieh has befallen the combined forces in the
i)
elh6, we rely upon Him " Who setteth up one
4 Putteth down another," thht it will work good
1)11t of evil. Events are Illis,-Lthe instruments
11 Which they are wrought are man's. Through
the treachery of the Chinese, so wantonly dis-
played, our intercourse Will yet be extended, and by
this means Christianity, we believe, will be even-
tuallY propagated among that ingenious, and sin-
gular, yet often savage people, in a true CathOlic
liPirit by our Missionaries, and by Evangelizing
Societies.