Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-23
EXPENDITURE.


Navy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 7,762,397 6,942, 397
OluhaHce. Z,ooS,I4o 2,332,O5I
Miscellaneous ............. 4,22s2l9 3,9il,23l
sa&
e52,374,s4s ESQ, ,s53,6a2
Showing diminished expenditure Of no less than a2e
and surplus upon the year of e. 1885, The Chancellor
Of the Exchequer appears have doubt the
OF 1850 win oast equal that of ls49 and there will be
further reductions of expenditures there s hope for
reduction of taxation. The window and the excise on
paper and the duties and on foreign books
are named among those which likely be abolished.
These taxes altogether amount than fl 900.
The removal Of the upon windows appears be
, and will be very warmly advocated sautary
Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT, the spirited and enlightened pub
Usher Of the Penny Magazine the Penny Cyclopedia &c.,
has issued very powerfully written pamphlet, under the title
Of The Struggles Of Book against ercessiue Tarao "
The book to which he audes being the Penny Cyclo-
pgda. The total cost of this work to the publisher,
for " Literature and Engravngs," e42, ,000. The
pay ment for the duty upon paper Gl6,500; and
the total burden of taxation borne by this publication
Mr.. knight estimates at e32, 0O0 This spirited pub
Usher has, during the last twenty years. expended 900
upon copyright and editorial labor and within the Pc
riod paid thousand pounds through the op ration of the
paper duty. "If the Government says Mr. Knight, would
devote the duty upon printing paper (about half million
sterng) to any large purpose Of educaton would breathe
fore the public in the perfect confidence that all thinking
men will that this upon paper grevous burden
upon all endeavors to duse information that cheap rate
which Produced honestly and useuly by the coopera
ton of large numbers in the purchase of valuable book
and with the conviction to which have reluctantly arrived
that no large work, such the Penny Cyclopada to
sold at c price, again be undertaken in thu
country whilst such exists GA revolution has been
effected, in which sound literature might have higher en-
courgement in the many than the fen, if the Govern
did not stand in the way. England, the civilze--
England whose preogave is to teach the nations how
to lives, is the only country the world that puts tax upon
hose productions of the mind, which the pioneers all
national greatness Mr. Knight has certainly made pow
eul plea in favor of the abolition of the paper de-
puaon Of makers and publishers has waited upon
Lord JOIN RUSSELL and made such representations respect
ing the mschievous operations of this that think the
Premier be convinced impocy persistng olevy
The subject Of emigration engrosses much of the attention
Of legislators and phanthropss The expense under
the Poor Laws in England and Wales, for the year which
ended Lady day, Is4s, e5 1872 $685. The number of
paupers receiving relief in and of the last
Is. of july 997 1896 The expense of each was there.
fore about e5 los head This is strange anomaly in this
wealthy etepsing and well governed empire But the fact
affords matter of exuaton the proeconists for the
last year, bad as improvement upon the
preceding The appalling calculation is that every six
eenth person, in every three households
dead weight on the industry of the other fifteen. "From
this prospect says leading journal Of the day. look
the Atlantic. Sail round the Cape Of Good Hope to the
anipodes. Every where possess lands flowing with
milk and honey, and either with no Ca,aaan;tes at ALL or
very harmless We possess land enough only
sore millon but for hundred millions and the inhab-
tans of those regions clamong for laboers And
have the eades of communication possible open
to these lands Of promisethe As to the expense
One years maintenance of million paupes would place
he with sovereign each in their pockets Upper Canada.
Two years maintenance would land them at Cape Town
Port Natal Three years maintenance would distribute
them Australia, Van Demans Land, and New Zea
land Such IS the extent of our paupers such the broad
features of the emigration question, applied
mova of paupes Practicable and easy as this sou-
ton of difficulty be, it is striking that our
ratepayers either ignorant of it. careless of aiding
its accomplishment for they have spent any
year, in promoting emigration than tfife above on
FIVE hundredh part of what maintaining the poor h
them In Ireland the case has been very different
The spontaneous emigration from that country the Unite
States for several years past is computed have no.
less than Gl, 100000 year nearly all contributed from
private resourcesthose of the emgants themselves Of their
friends the Atlantic and of their landlords Thus the
ratepayers Of England and Wales spent last year, pro-
noting emigration, about one-hundredh part of what
Irish spending annually Yet England is the richest
and Ireland the poorest country in the world
We observe, by the fnal correspondence between Mr. c.
GHEvrLLE and the Stewards Of the Jocky Club relative to
the match proposed by the Pacha of Egypt between the Eng
h and Arab horses that Jockey Club is cohcern
ed the is declined 1t is, however, thought probable
that the challenge may be accepted by private individuals in
this country. ~.