Taxis oh KNOWLEDGE.
The President, Vice-Presidents, and Committee of the Worcester Literary and Scientific Institution, have unanimously agreed to petition for a repeal of these taxes, and to forward the petition to Mr. Bulwer. No teen are better entitled to give an opinion on the subject than the petitioners; and they state their cost-Slime of the importance of diffusing knowledge, observing the great superiority, in all the moral and welts] relations of life, of those who read to those who do not. The petition also points out how much the productive industry of the country is cramped by those taxes, how the community suffers from uncontrolled local exaction, and abuses. wl deli an extended press would be the means of clacking. It also stoles the sober conviction of the petitioners, that, in as far as the Midland Counties are concerned, the TOVOMR, would not suffer if I he taxes were reduced one half. The petition thus con- cludes-- Your petitioners therefore humbly implore your honour- ablo House, as it values the prosperity, the happiness, and the morality of the people, to abolish or greatly reduce all taxes on knowledge, especially those on periodicals and advertisements."
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