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London, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

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FROM THE MAINING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
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It will be seen that a slight omission occurred in the
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former article supplied to cur readers, which is now
completely rectified by what appears in the following
expose :—We gave an article a few days since on the
window duties, and we then stated that we had not
gone into the Acts authorising a composition for assessed
taxes. The Composition Act, 4 and 5 NV. IV. c. 54,
enacts " that every person who was or shored be duly
assessed, or who had evmpoundcd under former acts for
his dwelling-house, warehouse, shop, or other premises,
in respect to the windows and lights therein, for the
year ending the .sth day of April, 1835, should be
entitled to make or open, and keep open, free of duty,
any additional number of windows or lights in his
dwelling-house, warehouse, shop, or other premises,
so assessed or compounded for, and that no person,
not so assessed or compounding, by reason of his dwel-
ling-house, warehouse, shop, or other premises, not
containing seven windows or lights, should be brought
into assessment or made liable to rates and duties, be-
cause of the opening of any additional number of win-
dows or lights in such dwelling-house, warehouse,
shop, or ether premises." There is a pros iso that if
any such person as aforesaid, whether he should be
assessed or have compounded or should be liable to
be assessed or not, should erect or build any addition
to such his dwelling-house, warehouse, shop, or pre-
raises, or make or open any communication with any
other tenement or building adjoining or near thereto,
then and in such case all the windows and lights in
such dwelling-house, warehouse, shop, or premises, and
in such additional or adjoining tenement or building,
should be rated and assessed together to the said duties
in like manner as the same would before the passing
of this Act be liable to be rated and assessed under any
Act or Acts in force. By the 4th Geo. IV. chap. 11,
one-half of the window duties were repealed, and that
Act contains an enactment which, by mistake in our
former article, was stated to be contained in the Act
57th Gen. 111. cap. 25, and the enactment is, that
from the sth of April, 1823, so much of the duties ou
windows or lights in shops or warehouses being parts
of dwelling-houses, is respect of any number not ex-
ceeding three such windows or lights in any shop or
warehouse in the front or fronts, and on the grounti or
basement story of every dwelling-house occupied by
any person or persons in trade who shall expose to sale
or sill any goods, wares, or merchandizes in any
such shop or warehouse, shall cease and determine.
We have to add that it is not this clause, but the
other exemption in the Act 57th George 111., cap. 25,
sec. 1, which is extended by the sth George IV., cap,
44, to offices or counting-houses for the purpose of ex-
ercising or carrying on any profession, vocation, or
business. In the Act 57th George 111., cap 25, there
is a proviso that the occupier of any mill or place of
manufacture, or warehouse, not being part or parcel of
any dwelling-house, nor attached or adjoining to any
dwelling-house, nor having any internal communication
therewith, may, by the licence in writing of the Com-
missioners of the district, signed by them, or any three
or more of them assembled at any meeting, after due
notice given by the occupier of such mill or place of
manufacture, appoint any one of his or her servants,
named in such licence, to watch and guard the said
mill or place of manufacture or warehouse in the night
time, and that the abiding of such licensed servant
therein for the purpose of watching and guarding the
same, shall not render the occupier thereof liable to any
of the duties granted by the Act 48th of George 111.,

cap. 55.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

The ilLniteur of Saturday, has the following para-
graph t-
-4, We IR lieve we are able to assure the public that the
Government has received a new note from Lord Palmer..
st on, of a more conciliatory character than that of Nov. 2.
If we are well informed, the English Ministry gives in it
an assurance that Great Britain is constantly disposed to
unite its efforts with those of France, to obtain from the
Sultan the revocation of the decree of deposition against
Mehemet Ali. There is reason to believe that the next
news from the East will be of great importance."

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'The most important part of the above statement
fertnomentthe
East will be of great importance.
observed with refe-
rence to the expectations we were
the East, towards
speedy arrangement of affairs in .
assistance would be rendered by
which material rnreewaders cannot
the French Government. We ‘‘
t.'
mayneOxut as well state
alluded, and to which the Moniteur also al-
ludes. It becomes the more necessary to make such 4
thhaeveprfoerpgaorattteoGni'what we yesterday
subject are inaccurate in some material respects. In-
structions have been sent to Admiral Stopford to send,
the
Stopford, to
accounts et
receivedof t
an officer to Alexandria with a communication to the
Pacha, that on his withdrawing all his troops from
Syria, from Candia, from Arabia, and Adana, restor-
ing the Turkish fleet, and making due submission to
the Porte, the Four Allied Powers would use their
best endeavours to obtain from the Sultan a revoca-
tion of the decree of deposition, and his re-appoint-
rt
oe I nrael return
ronly i t three
id,aayeisiai
ment to the Pachalie of Egypt. The officer was to
,ris
definitive AlexaAlexa ndriaaa, s whencewer,w it
with
we
hwi
cahs
he would be ordered to proceed without delay to Con-
stantinople. But despatches were also sent to Admiral
Stopford, instructing him to continue to prosecute_ thee
warfare against the Pacha with the utmost energy, till h
should receive a communication from Constantinople,
conci
ded
acquainting him that an arrangement wfaesr
believing
with the Pacha. There is every reasonhav e concluded an
that the Pacha would long ere now have h
e been left to his
arrangement on the above terms,
if the French Govern-
own unbiassed judgment.
Bnt
to encourage Me.
1 ment has hitherto used its
influenceagainst the demands of the Pour
toas statement,
ateAmo ndelffietiTaltsh
hemet Ali to hold out
perfect assurance that M.
Powers, we have thee
most Allies in their endeavours to
Guizot will second th
bring this warfare to a speedy termination. We believe
we may affirm that m
Guizot has undertaken to exert
his influence to induce the Pacha to accede to the terms
and the word of M. Guizat has
by the Allies,
proposed
ksacred.
always been (From the Morning Post.)
but justice to the
trust that we do c better por-
"ref
our political adversaries, the Whigs and Radii
tion
that they
(Nils, in supposing regard with disgust, rather
than with approbation, the coarse, Impudent, and shallow
tirades in which their newspapers arc so apt to indulge.
contreversy upoP matters political or ecclesiastical is a
noble exercise of the mind when conducted with infor-
mation, intelligence, and decency ; but it is shocking
and de„ railing to have to encounter, day by day, the
rudest assumption in the place of argument, and mere
abusive blackguardism in the place of allowable levee.
five. Yet this is what every gentleman who condes-
eends to the business of newspaper writing is obliged to
encounter in dealing with the diatribes of the daily press