It is natural that great interest should attach to the
move- ment contemplated by Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright, in conjunct tion with the Manchester Reformers. It is now said that the popular agitation 1T to, be one for an " untaxed breakfast " --that is to say, for the removal or large reduction of the duty on tea and coffee, and on all other most heavily taxed articles, with the freeing of the tariff from several trivial articles. That some such reform, is very desirable we have maintained ever since Sir Robert Peel executed so large a part of the work. It his appeared to us that the beau ideal of taxation would be the extraction of an equalized percentage from the expenditure of the people—a much more convenient mode than the taxation of income, both because it would take the money of the State in driblets from the thrifty classes,- and would enable the very needy to economize even in their taxation. It would also make tub burden fall more equably on the whole effective amount of what we may call moving property. But this ii a view which would include wines and other -luxuries, as well as the staple drinks of the humbler ()lasses. We have 'yet to receive an authenticated prospectus of the new Manchester agitation.'
