The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

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Tina DAY —NI-or/ling 13 rain. after 5 I Evening 38 min. alter 5
To- Sfoitawv—Morning 1 min. after 6 Evening 24 Join. after 6

THE WEATHER.—SuIu OFFICE, JANUARY 22.
THERMOMETER, DT THE SHADE.
46—highest since noon yesterday.
:I—lowest this morning and during the night.
40—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29'99.
WEND S. W.—fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.

KlNGsTolvx (DUBLIN) —Wind W.N.W., gentle breeze—
cloudless.
PLyatotrru—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
BRIGHTON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
liasviNGs—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain.
bonTrinmyrox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., strong breeze—rain.
TUNBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
BASINGSTOKE Wind 5.,.-gentle breeze—overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Swim), N—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
CA3IBRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
IttlGnv—Wind W., gentle bre,ze—partially cloudy.
ButmzHcaAm—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
YARMOUTH—Wind S.‘V., strong breeze—overcast.
CREWE—Wind S.W., light airs—cloudless.
CoNwAY—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
HOLYHEAD—Wind S. W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
MANCHESTER—Wimi IV., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LANCASTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
WHITEY—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SHAP—Wind S.W., gentle breeze— partially cloudy.
CARLISLE Wind W., gentle breeze—heavy rain.
BERWICK—Wind W., strong breeze—heavy rain.
The returns from tha following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on ,Monday morning at nine
o'clock :
CO ILK —Wind S., strong breeze—rain.
LLMERICE—Wind S., strong breeze—cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind S. W., hard wind—rain.
MULLINGAR—Wind S., strong breeze—light rain.
POOLF: —Wind S. W., strong breeze—overcast.
CREWE— Wind S.S. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LEEDS Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
YORK—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
LANcAsTart—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast.
DARLINGTON—Wind S., strong breeze overcast.
SHAP—Wind S., strong breeze--rain.
WHITEHAVRI - Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
Eza-TTocx—Wind S., strong breeze rain.

At the Royal Observatory,_ Greenwich, the mean reading
of the barometer was 21.550. The mean reading of the
t hermometar was 45', which is 8° above the average of the
same week in ten years. The excess of the daily mean
temperature above the average was on Sunday 11Q-5, on
Monday 99-9. on Tuesday 7', on Wednesday B°•s, on Thurs-
day 6'9, on Friday and on Saturday 4°•l. The wind
was in the south and south-west.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1851

Earnest exertions are still, we rejoice to observe,
being nude in furtherance of the movement com-
menced for the abolition of taxes upon knowledge.
Eighteen months ago, an association was formed for
the purpose of carrying this most desirable reform
into effect, the nucleus of the association consisting of
a cluster of compositors employed on the newspapers
of Birmingham. Gradually since then the society
. has increased in numbers and importance, embracing
among its supporters several most influential names.
On Monday the annuel meeting was held at the public
office, the chair being taken by the respected Member
for Birmingham, Mr. scrioLßeeeeD. Anything which
indicates a continuance of the solicitude already ex-
prersed in behalf of this great improvement is to us a
matter of deep and cordial satisfaction, more espe-
cially when it is discovered, as in the present instance,
that practical efforts are being made to sustain public
ardour on the subject, and to
disseminate
throughout
the community some notion of the evil as at this
moment existing, in all the magnitude of
its influence
and the multiplicity of its ramifications.
The principal feature of the grievance, as was
remarked by the Honourable Representative of Bir-
mingham, is most unquestionably the most onerous
of all the imposts levied upon knowledge—the
tax upon paper. The weight of this intolerable bur-
den has hitherto, of all things, acted the most preju-
dicially
in retarding the movement of popular inquiry,
in crippling the genies of the intelligent but indigent
members of the labouring population, in rendering
works of instruction unnecessarily costly, and re-
stricting a certain class of literature to the wealthier
sections of the multitude. Against this very mon-
strous tlnd almost insurmountable affliction some of
our more enterprising and humane publishers have
had to struggle in the very teeth of a
detestable opposition, driven back on the one
hand by the prudent appetites of the people,
and warned off in the other direction by a nearly
inevitable insolvency.
KNIGHT, for example, h Such men as CHARLES
have suffered the most ter-
ribly from the ill-consequences of the said tax upon
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\e,„ iseusting publications for the ino the issuers of
je-. t.,!lt orshippera of the horrible. bile
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