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- 71 _ • _ _ ' . N 4Z • - • • • 4 • - • . • • ' A, • •• . • I • THE UNJUST INCOME TAZ f s za : ) o.v tt, j -• 1 4:!It t o I 11 . . /TIN - \ • I • (42 1 14. 4 5 , r /,&-` t.esaf ‘s,to , , 4 I,*. ) + 0 , 1" 4,U. 0 /42 # O , • t'l, , /11 ~1 , 4 , 0,1 4 4 \ • 7N, • • 8 11„ DI 4 11///, , y, inv ~ O IT \s ;Eg• I O; South Australian Copper Mining Company, i °ll7ll AUSTRAL 17, Gracechurch-s reet. lAN COPPER MINING The facilities of a new Government deßend in no small degree upon the bequests of its predeceisor. In this respect the Protectionists were more than usually fortunate. They found the.basements of half a dozen of good popular measures substantially laid for them, and they had nothing to do but to put in the sickle where others had put in the seed. 'Lord Aberdeen's Adminis tration will not be so favoured. The business before it comprehends more than one question of difficulty, and among these there is none more pressing, more imme diate, or more critical than that of the income tax. Vais discussion admits neither of procrastination nor evasion, It cannot be postponed, for in a few weeks the existing tax will expire, and if there is a single point on which men of all opinions are agreed, it is that a tax, the inequalities of whi c h were extenuated on the plea f its temporary character, can never be made permanent without careful revision. Nor is there any chance of evasion, for a large party--almost, if not quite a majo rity of the house—have at length committed themselves to an open confession of what everybody's conscience admitted long ago. Equally impossible will it be found to rule the question either by the convenience of states men or the traditions of political parties. In the present state of public opinion, such points can be decided only by the plain laws of justice, as demonstrable by argu ment, and approved by the common sense of the country. To the reconsideration of the income tax, as demanded by the popular voice, there have been but thre e objec tions raised, and of these two may be dismissed without comment. Mr. Babbage ventured upon the declaration that between income and property, between precarious profits and solid substance, there subsisted no difference at all, and that the complaints founded on this imaginary distinction were consequently groundless. This argu ment, if maintainable, would certainly be effective ; but as we do not observe that anybody runs the risk of adopting it we may leave it to sink of itself. The second objection was drawn from the ephemeral charac ter of the whole arrangement. It was not worth while, it was said, to construct any elaborate classification for a purpose of a few years' continuance. But this excuse has been gradually weakened by each successive renewal of the tax, and it has now ceased to have any force at all. All the strength, in short, of objectors and dissen- 55' 2 . ----- 1,5 20 Mo IoT T , • COMPANY. o. A IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Committee of Manage ke;:Ppointed at an Extraordinary Gtueral Tfeetang of the Share qT?it t he 'th inst , have Resolved as follows : tat all Sh ar e s in the Company be duly Registered in the of the Company at aotice of the same be given, by public advertisement, Git rs i l ion the shares to be sent into the office of the Company for aecordingly. T Th ' ue t a pro rata allotment of the unappropriated shares in ilt r 7P e oY ba made at par in respect of every Share so sent in for 14,'Pen as aforesaid, on or before Tuesday, the 18th day of 185 3, but that all Shares not sent in for registra ion as 24.1 on or befere the said 18th day of January, be ab olutely l ot ! , from all benefit of such allotment. 4i;'ela theirerefore Gi that ,4reholders requested to " a th Shares for ven, registration aa acc ha are ordingly. The Committee ar Bement beg to intimate to the Shareholders, that those only registered will be entitled to the bonus arising from the t ela realised on the Shares already said, which under the au k. of a Meeting of the Shareholders, might be divided among ihtf.A ..sti this 21st day of December. 1852. 1 7, Ctracechurch Street, London. By order of the Committee of Mana•zement, J. THOMPSON, Chairman. SAML. H. ARMITAGE, Put-- er. • 19 2 1,521 75 3 3, 918 „ 3, 074 131 LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1852. [ PRICE 5D . No . 18,803.] COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. THOMAS HOOD'S GRAVE.—At a General hie.ling of the Subscribers to the HOOD MEMOaLAL, held Dec. 2d' at the 'Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscrip tion List be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and WO LOVERS •OF FISH.-100 Real Yarmouth Bloaters (cured to keep from two or three months) for 65., or 225 for 125., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps for the amount.—Address Thomas Lettis, jun., Fishcurer, Great Yarmouth. and machinery, are all subjects of pressing import ance. Abroad, there is nothing so essential to our proper influence and security as the well-established conviction among foreign States that the strength of England is in the hands of a resolute, far-seeing, and lasting Government. It is impossible for any State to /inspire • •its allies with confidence,, or its antagonists :with alarm, if its own, councils are un settled, and the pledges of yesterday may be modi fied or disapproved by some other Minister to-mor row ; and it is essential to the public welfare that the Queen's Government should be represented throughout the world by men worthy to speak in its name and to act with its authority. _ _ . Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Contents for January. 'So. CCOLXXXV. THE FLITCH OF BACON; or, the Custom of Danmow, A Tale of English Borne. 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It tests, under Pro vidence,with the people of England to say whether they place the destinies of their country with confi dence in the hands of these statesmen, and whether they are prepared to afford that support to the Ad ministration without which the busiliess of the State cannot be carried on. In the - name of all the greit interests of this community, which require an efficient Government—in the liable of all the con victions of the Liberal party, which are here fairly represented—in the name of constitutional liberty itself, which would be our destruction, and not our pride, if it were incompatible with the steady con duct of pAlic. affair§, li6rcl Aberdeen, Lord John Rug:sell, and their colleagues, call upon the country to sanction and support what they have attempted to effect. L ONDON and. NORTH-WESTERN RAI LW Al'. ALTERATION IN TRAINS FOR JANUARY. The 9.15 A.M. Express Train from LONDON, will be dispatched at 9 o'clock. The 9.30 A. 14 Express Train from LONDON, will be dispatched at 9.15 A M. Zob„ . DIRECIORS. i' 4 ,.il Villiers Shelley, Bart., M.P., Park-lane, and Maresfield ,`, Missex—Chairman. Il t "„ g reY Brown, Esq., M.P., Westminster, and Tewkesbury— "atT-Chairman. Baring, 'O. Alston, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-square. i' ' - ' a ring Esq., Piccadilly. and Putney Heath, Surrey. 'eor ].„ ge De la Poer Beresford, Bart., Travellers' Club and Oriental ktTas Chandler, Esq., Rotherhithe, Surrey, Shipowner. im.urable Gorge Hamilton Chichester, Connaught-terrace, y.lver -v -kr, w. t t is` Esdaile, Esa,, City Saw Mills, Regent's Canal. iiqvard Grahstin, Bart., Admiralty, and ask, Cumberland. tkerry, Carlton Club,•and Springfield. h. .'.nand, Esq., Croydon', Chairman "of the North Devon Rail- I and Dock Company. • f j'"'DINGCouNsEL—SIT John E. Eardley-Wilmot, Bart. ce GINEY-ss—Messrs. John and _Alfred Blyth, Limehouse. t, METALLURGIST AND ASSAYER — CharIes . Watt, Esq. il 'ct its —Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane. By order, General Manager's Office, EastOn Station, Dec. 1852. MARK HUI AIL GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY. ISSUE 01' PREFERENCE STOCK to complete the Line. Incorporated by 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 10, and 14th and lith Victoria, c. 75.) NEW YEAR'S GIFTS. MRS. PATIKES' FINE ART DISTRIBUTION, IN 7,000 ONE GUINEA SHARES. AN UNRIVALLED. OPPORTUNITY is afforded by_this GRAND SORE lE for the interchance of those endearing proofs of f iendship and aff , ction which mark the festive season, comprehending, as it does, so great a variety of works of Artistic and Literary excellence, the love of which is the charac teristic of taste and refinement. The Distribution takes pace on Wednesday, the 29th ofijaecember, in the Lecture Room of the Western Institution, LeiceWr-square, and, among other valuable property; the following Allotments may be enumerated : TWO VALUABLE CABINETS, ornamented with rich Oak carv ings, containing 154 Sets of richly-illustrated Works on Art, Science, Voyages, History, and Travels, and a selection of standard writers on Divinity. Ptelosophy, Poetry, &c. . JOHNSTON'S CELEBRATED HISTORICAL PAINTING of FLORA. MACDONALD and PRINCE CHARLES. HER MAJESTY VISITING THE BOTHIE IN BRAEMAR. Painting. By Mclnnes. HIGHLAND COURTSHIP. Painting. By Johnston. EIGHTY BEAUTIFULLY-FINISHED DRAWINGS, mounted, in Portfolio. WALNUT CABINET, containining a Bible, illustrated with 583 Engravings. 6 vols., Royal octavo. AMBOYNA CABINET, with Bible, in 4 vols., and 400 mounted Engravings. ELEGANT OAK. BOX, containing Autograph Notes, with Seals, of 245 Peers. DEVONPORT WRITING-DESK OF WALNUT, ornamented with Six Miniatures. WALNUT CABINET, with Three Miniatures. VALUABLE MICROSCOPE, with numerous apparata. This Line, 72 miles in length, will join the AbUrileen Railway at Aberdeen, and proceeding northward through a rich, populous, and ertile inland district, will accommodate the towns of Kintore, In verury, Huntly, Keith, and Elgin. tients is now thrown 'upon the third and sole remaining argument—viz, that a complete and perfect distribution of such a tax, is absolutely impossible, and that we had better, therefore, avoid any stir in such a hopeless un dertaking. We affirm that this reason is in no degree more valid or maintainable than the two others. The present issue of stock consists of 30,000 preference shares of LOl. each, entitled to a minimum preferential dividend of 5 per cent. ;~- ~, tx (Attu—Messrs. R. anc i y. Sutton, 22, Royal Exchange. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Mullins and Paddison. SECRETARY— George Byam, Esq. • l ikkOrFicts—lCo. 6, Broad-street Buildings. b. , tt Irector, with much confidence, submit to the Public this r rir aki ng for Mining, Importing, Smelting, aril Refining Gold, on 4,,!t improved system. The contemplated operations of the !I (which. until the Charter is issued, will be conducted on e" s t - book system) will be principally confined to the auriferous l e , pr of Australia, where, even the quantity now raised , b y a ver y k t cess, is of vast magnitude. alia great number of persons who arerking in the diggings of a large majority are labourers, who not being furnished t o l'Y taleans for reducing the poorer ores, can avail themselves t he comparatively small quantities of the auriferous deposits 14 such a state of purity, and uncombined with other sub r, as to render gold actually 'visible to the eye, awl at once, marketable without scientific aid. The " Times" (of the I : ,.. e eenaber, 1852), under the article " Australian Gold Fields," AppEcat , ons for Shares may be made to the Secretary at Aberdeen, or the following Stock and Sharebrotdrs ;-iZlessys«.Carden and Whitehead, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings ; J. 6. Morice, 1, Warn ford-court, London; G. and T. Irvine, 2, India-buildings, Liverpool ; from either of whom forms of application for shares, detailed pro spectus, and maps of the line may be obtained. (From the Morning Herald.) PURSUANT to an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause POWER v. MOLE, the Creditors of WILLIAM POWER, late of Pomeroy-street, Old Kent-road, in the County of Surrey, Licensed Victualler (who died on or about the 24th day of April, 1847), are by their Solicitors on or before the 11th day of January next, to come in before JOSEPH HIIMPIIRY. Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Cham bers in Southampton-buildingA, Chancery-lane, London, and prove their debts, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said order. Tuesday, the 11th day of January next, at eleven in the forenoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed La hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 13th day of December, 1852. ABBOTT and WHEATLY, 22A Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, Plaintiff's Solicitors. cau l', or t laYhere remark that the gold exported since October last, 4, , 1ts a value of 2,863,4771., and all these accounts, we a e as hob' the Melbourne Herald,' are rather under than overstated. _ _ a stounding results have been. obtained by unskilled labourers, without either plan or concert." Ite r ' le nee. says the Argus,' "has done little or nothing for ns. thn eeesses in obtaining gold are of the rudest nature. The search acterised almost solely by what the sailors call sheer "4'( thousands stupidi of ens are actually thrown away because they 4W no immediate benefit to the digger, and yet by numerous late that very refuse often contains a larger proportion of gold, All not in view, than had been already extracted. 'lre, Olt ore, in which the gold Is visible, is certain to be a constant toi c l f plunder ; but moderately rich, and even poor ore, in which ,her is NOT visible, and which is not worth the while of any „even to look over a second time, would give a very large pro „'''ose who judiciously purchase, and reduce it. This will be It i n'llder the immediate superintendence of the officers of the 11 '411 Y• e A ssayer and ChemistOf the Company, Mr. Charles Watt, has }1 for reducing the ore by which amalgamation is enti r e l y t se y„,.'ed, the great expense of quicksilver bei n g totall y avoided, h iy - ' every particle of gold 'or silvet is extracted at a compara small expense. Mr. C. Watt has also a I•atent for refining , 1 11,7, 4 a silver in the most expeditious and least expensive mode V l .° known. In confirmation of this statement the Directors t eelved the following letter from Mr. Charles Watt q t . Selwood Place, Brompton, Dec. 15, 1 852 I tliii" l !TLE)t.arr,—l have read the paragraph in your prospectus re • ko,t tome and my patent, and I beg to assure you that I am fully 4 14 51 to liey out th announcement therein made.—l have the to be ntleman e , your obedient servant, " CIIARLES WATT." tile Directors of the Chartered Australian It g' Importing, and Refining Company." h as been deemed expedient previously to the application for and he h. royal charter for securing certain privileges. and for limit liability of each shareholder to arrange for the purchase of !,;;. ,a te in the country where it is proposed to commence ope r a * gypAccordingly, after a protracted ne-otiation, an agreement has l co ncluded for the purchase, in a Niel known auriferous district, ! 1 o a ,Ne freehold Estate, situate in the County of Argyle On one Sy: h it there is a long range of rocks, capped with Quartz, and in ;'e3' beneath a rapid stream flows into the lower levels, present l'e,(l the features of an immense accumulation of gold. These 11 5 .„ 1 vets are occasionally overflowed, and large alluvial ri4 o s have been formed, where, in obedience to the gravity of the Matters and the force of the impelling torrents, the precious ,ty7 i are deposited lu the sand or mail. " Gold," says Mr. Stutch n his Report on the Geological and Mineralogical Survey of pan 'ikt °o th Wales, "in small quantities has been found on the summits the flanks of the mountain ranges, but, with few exceptions, N4' evidence of a' - rasion, The largest produce in every instance ,11 1 , 54 found in the lower levels." o ft will be of the most essential servi e to the C om p an y , as ,0f t only rich in itself; but is in the vicinity of an immense qttan trefuse gold ore. It has always a plentiful supply of water, and 5 high main road to Bredalbane and Goulburn. It will also tosterially aid (by the means it will afford of snhsistance to °t . burthen) the transport of the concentrated ores to the sea ,l h :s distnce of laLut 50 mil, - h; vendor, having the greatest confidence in the undertaking and i‘o° l4 vantaes to be derived to the shareholders, has consented to e 'whole g of the purchase-money (which does not amount to t h generally paid for grazing land in the agricultural districts 14,, , Qua1) in shares of the Company. sg ~,Igara to the title of the rreeholdas to this estate the follow - r 1 - ron has been given : l ilt , 5 governor of New South Wales having made a Grant of l c the county of Ar2yle, in New South Wales (which appears , l t i Tgistered and enrolled); and which laud has since been eon -6.,,50 the gentlemen who have contracted to sell 2,000 t . tcres, part t to the Promoters of " The Chartered Australian Land, .xek) Importing, and Refining Company," we are of opinion that 'qt,;,, el ent title is shown to the property so agreed to be sold, subject I question as to the necessity of registration in the colony. " BELLENDEN KER, "S. VALLIS BONE, "J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT, Standing Counsel to the Chartered Australian Land, Mining, Importing, and Refining Company. ;11, 11 .„uoin's-inn, 23d Dec., 1852 ." Directors refrain from estimating the returns for fear of over itklg the profits, though their thorough conviction is, that a most „ 51 . 1 11 result must speedil y ensue. 4, htueation, for shares to be made to Messrs. R. and J. Sutton , Sal Exchange. • LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. kIIGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill - street, 44 te St. James's, 1 . :! Charles Emile Laent, Onslow House, Brompton-road, 0 uensed pursuant to A ct of Parliament, of 25th George 11. Oen 'rs et .vel'Y evening with Lament's Celebrated Band. Principal a-tiston, M. Boulcour. )til / oor, Admission—ONE SHILLING. open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at sad terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. kPATRON —H R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. 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PROGRAMME: —Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be, observed by either sex. Time' and choice, on both' sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure. to secure - healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and Its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. By R.. 7. CI7LVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-live years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Reception hours daily till Five. Evenings, Seven till Nine. 10, Argyll•place, Regent •street. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, • Just published, by H. Batlliere, 219, Regent-street, Londe& No I. Bvo., in cloth. price ss. by post free, 55. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first 'lmo, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his nwer to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We promised in a former number that we should recur to this work, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of Quiet Symathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it tre Its, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, thrngh it is that which` the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a mote rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. 'lvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had restated, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed In as many weeks. But cases xviii. and 'xis. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more .ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet th 3 treatment adopted by Mr. Courtanay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. ,THE COALITION MINISTRY. ( From the Times.) The statesmen of England have done their duty, and a combination of tried ability, high character, and political energy, almost without a precedent in our Parliamentary history, has been formed. Every name in the list of Lord Aberdeen's Administra tion will be received by the country with the re spect due to past services and established reputa tion ; but, what is even more extraordinary, there is scarcely any name deserving to be placed in-the first rank of English political celebrity which will not also be found in this remarkable Ministry. By what means, it will be asked, has so powerful and unexampled a combination been brought about ? By what diplomacy have all former differences and heartburnings been effaced ? And what policy is to 'result from the united counsels and exertions of all the chief administrative and Parliamentary leaders of the nation ? To the credit of the eminent persons engaged in this undertaking, and to the honour of the times we live in, we confidently reply, that the first conditions on which this affi ance is based, are no artifices of political intrigue, no coalition of rival parties from emnity to a third, but the mutual confidence, the unblemished truth fulness, the unselfish and patriotic spirit exhibited, as it were, in generous emulation, throughout this transaction. Constitutional government has some times been reproached with stimulating to excess the meaner passions of mankind, and of ruling men by their mutual jealousies and dissensions. On the present occasion the English Cabinet presents a totally different example, and, far from admitting that the decay of mere party distinctions has weak ened any vital part of our free institutions, we should look back in vain to any passage of our his tory for so able a body of public men in the service of the Crown. Whatever may be the measures and the policy of the new 'Administration, which it will be our duty to discuss without prejudice or prepossession at the proper time, the acknowledg ments of the country are already due to the disin terested spirit by which alone such arrangements have been rendered possible. Men who have filled the highest positions in the State have voluntarily accepted offices of a different official rank ; some who had been separated from their former colleagues have rejoined them on amicable terms ; some, with equal good faith and good will, have Even joined statesmen who were once their antagonists. It is not to be imagined that human nature is altered, or that the sacrifice of personal pretensions or the extinction of old differences can be ae3omplished without an effort. But it is the part of gentlemen and patriotic Ministers to allow no sick private weaknesses to ruffle the current of public affairs ; and the negotiations for the formation of the new Government have been so successfully conducted on this high principle that they have encountered no obstacles from those causes which were most to be apprehended. But this zeal for the public service. and this good will which happily prevails between the lead ing statesmen of the present time, would not suffice for the construction of a powerful and ;acting Go vernment, if it did not correspond to the truth and reality of our political situation. The -value of the combination consists in this--that the ntembers of Lord Aberdeen's Government are brought together as much by duty as by inclination ; a much by sound logic as by good policy. They ar united in one Cabinet, because for the first tine in the memory of any man now alive, or in annals of several generations, although these veterans of political warfare may still be tinged with the re spective colours of their former companies, they are no longer divided upon any one great question of public policy which it becomes a Government to decide. To keep up the strife of parties for the mere acquisition of power or the gratification of personal vanity, after motives of conscientious and irreconcilable difference have ceased to actuate men, is to convert constitutional government into a farce, and opposition into a trick. The differences which have prevailed between the several sections of which this Administration is composed since the settlement of the great questions .of commercial policy are far too inconsiderable to afford standing-ground for an opposition. Different mod es o f applying the same principles, or of viewing the same objects, are of use in the a micable discussions of a Cabinet, but they are too slight for the conflicts of Parliament, and they cannot sustain an opposite system of go vernment. And herein lies the distinction between the character and prospects of this Admistration and the fate of those governments, almost equally brilliant in their structure, hit disunited in their essential policy, which have )rought discredit on such combinations. In 1806, for instance, a Mi nistry was formed of somewhatsimilar composition, though of far inferior power, to the new Cabinet. But the Catholic question was already, and for 20 years afterwards; a stumbling-block t o th e c omplete union of any government, and an insurmountable barrier between any liberal government and the conscience of George 111. M. Fox and Lord . Grenville were not agreed on th e vital question of peace and war, or on the management of our rela tions with France ; and, though they had united for the public convenience, the f us i on was, i n other respects, insincere. If we believed that to be the case with the members of the new Adminis tration, it might have our forbearance, but it could not have our confidence. It strength lies in the fact that the course of events End the state of political opinion have brought Dien formerly dis united and opposed to the same point of action, and that, except on such minor natters of opinion as must always be variously entertained by various minds, there is. no criterion of diversity and no trenchant badge of difference between them. The time is, therefore, come which enables us to shake off some more of the unmeaning and frivolous dis tinctions of party animosity, and to unite for the public interest those elements of our national great ness which it is the incessant object of fashion to scatter, to embroil, to deteriorate, and to keep apart. If, then, the point of action be indeed the same at which the whole array of illustrious names in this Administration is now arrived, what a career of public utility lies before them ! In the work of law reform, if Lord Cranworth receives the Great Seal, we can say no more than that he must emu late the admirable career of his immediate prede cessor. In the colonies, the moment is one of criti cal interest, for the maintenance of our connexion with Canada, the adaptation of the institutions of Australia to its extraordinary development, and the pacification of South Africa demand prudent and energetic measures. At home, the improvement of the defences of the country, the instruction and discipline of the militia, the advance of sanitary measures, the reform of the dockyards, and the augmentation of the navy in men as well as in ships Among many of the younger men of this gene ration, who are not aware of the earlier career of the noble lord the member for London, the nomi nation of Lord John Russell to the Foreign-office must excite great surprise, but, having attentively observed the career of the noble lord for a great number of years, we are bound in fairness to state that we by no means consider his nomination as Principal Secretary of State for Fodeign Affairs as the most objectionable appointment made within the past week, however strange the other appoint ments may be. Lord John is a man of a cold and - impassive nature, reserved, silent, and undemon strative—perfectly civil and well-bred, and is not liable to those fitful gusts of caprice and humour by which the administration of the noble viscount the member for Tiverton was too often distinguished. Lord John may commit some errors—may be guilty of some mistakes—may do those things which he ought not to do, and may leave undone things which he ought to have performed ; but although he will not conduct his office with the tone and tem per manifested by Lord Ma lm esbury, we are con vinced he will not be guilty of the impertinence and imprudence of schooling foreign Cabinets touching matters of internal government that concern them alone—that he will never, for instance, think of reading lectureg to envoys and ambassadors on the manner in which their sovereigns, whether imperial or royal, should perform their duties to the people submitted to their sway, or presume to counsel or command foreign Ministers of State, whether Aus trian, Russian, or Spanish, on the measures which they ought to concede or to withhold in their re spective countries. We are certain, during the coming session, to have reason often to differ from, and perhaps not seldom to disapprove of, the course of her Majesty's present Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs • but we hope we shall not have to accuse him of lowering the' dignity of the Sovereign or of the country by a petty ped dling interference in matters in which Great Britain has no concern. Lord J. Russell is neither a brilliant nor a first rate man—but cold and impassive as we have pro nounced him to be, we are sure that we shall have, under the tutelage of the present administration, a host of diplomatic tours de force and state paper escapades. What guarantee have we, in reference to foreign nations, to the stay of Ultramontanism in our own empire. It is not merely in states steeped in igno rance and superstition—such as the states of the Church, the Two Sicilies, Spain, Portugal, and parts of Austria and Bavaria—that we see the progress of Jesuitist Ultramontanism triumphant ; but in some districts of Protestant Prussia, Wurtembercr, Hesse, and Saxony. Belgium is at this moment covered with the agents of Jesuitism and Ultramontanism and some of these have penetrated of late, with no ordinary success, into commercial and Protes tant Holland. In Austria, in which five years ago the Jesuits were in disfavour and disgrace, Jesuit colleges have risen whose preachers and professors exalt the ecclesiastical above the secular power, and boast that they are themselves above the State, and amenable only to Rome. In Tuscany, a less powerful State, whose Grand Duke has lately sur rendered himself body and soul into the hands of the Jesuits, the reverend fathers have thrown off all disguise, and openly proclaim persecution, im prisonment, and even torture for religious, or, as they phrase it, heretical opinions. Similar doctrines are proclaimed by the Pope of Rome, and addressed to all the faithful in Italy and Europe, but more especially to the Piedmontese, who still preserve a constitutional Government, and desire to maintain the laws of marriage voted by the Chambers. Nor is this conspiracy against freedom of thought and toleration confined to Italy and Germany. In Spain, an affiliated lay-brother of the order of Jesuits—M. Bravo Murillo— was lately the Presi dent of the Council of Ministers ; and it is only by a miracle, and by the co-operation of the Moderados, the Puritanos, and the Progresistas, that he has been prevented from laying violent hands on the constitution itself. Though the attempt has been for the moment frustrated, yet it may be renewed by another unscrupulous Jesuit Minister any day within the next three months. Notwith standing, that these events are seen with ill-dis guised alarm and disgust by the great body of the people of England, there is, nevertheless, a faction in this metropolis which witnesses with de light this progress of pure Ultramontanisna. The Wisemanites, the Hendrens, the Doyles, see in this great conspiracy the triumph of their Church and creed—a triumph which they hope to witness at no distant day in the humiliation of Protestant England. Would we could say that there are no Puseyites tainted with these detestable and anti-na tional sentiments! On the contrary, we believe the number neither few nor inconsiderable. It is in Ireland, however, that the Ultramontane party have exhibited, without disguise, their trea sonable venom. That there is a complete conspir acy and confederation between the Jesuit, Ultra montane, and Obscurantist parties in Rome, in Belgium, in Austria, in Spain, and in Ireland, we entertain no doubt whatever. Cullen, M'Hale, and Cahill go hand in hand with Pius IX., with Antonelli, with the persecutors of the Madiais, and with the Spanish lay Jesuit Bravo Murillo. The Nation and the Tablet boast of the idem relic and the idem nolle with every Jesuit inquisitor on the continent, and on this their firm friendship is based. No matter how ignoble the quarter—how despicable the hand that deals a blow against t he religion and liberties of England, the priest party in Ireland would see this blow struck with plea , sure, in the hope that by it their Church might prosper on the ruins of civil and religious liberty. It becomes at this juncture the peculiar business and the bounden duty of the Foreign Minister to watch this Ultramontane spirit, and to see that no Jesuitical treason, hatched on the continent , is, under favour of Pope or Cardinal, feathered into maturity and strength of wing in Ireland. ( From the Daily News.) It is an unspeakable relief to be told that Sir James Graham does not go to the Home-office. Admitting all his great efficient services in behalf of free trade—admitting the administrative skill he showed when before in the Admiralty—where he may be most serviceable again—admitting the just views he displayed in the committees of military and naval expenditure—admitting the decidedly liberal tone of his more recent speeches—still the opening of Mazzini's letters, and all the low, dirty, and revolting details of an un-English espionage connected with that ugly story, will haunt one. At no time—but above all at a time like the present— could any true Liberal feel comfortable if the Home-office were presided over by a minister who stooped to show such undue complaisance to conti nental despots. The present moment is one in which there is unutterable danger and disgrace in any mood apa thetic of the public that would tolerate complicity or connivance with foreign absolutism on the part of English Ministers. Civilisation and its attendants, liberty and rational Government, advance and re cede alternately. The retrogade movement is like the reflex of the wave of the rising tide—merely preparatory.to a further advance. But all with whom it is earnest to be borne up and onward on the billow of advancing freedom and civilisation, must cling fast to whatever they can lay hold of when the wave is receding, lest they again be car ried out to sea. At present the tidal wave of liberty is rushing backwards for the moment with fearful rapidity and impetuosity. The possibly excessive surge of 1848 has been succeeded by a temporary ebb still more excessive. Everywhere on , . the Continent freedom is trampled upon and despotism triumphant. It is a matter of vital im port that Englishmen should remain firm in the popular faith, and that the English Government should so conduct itself as to leave all mistake on this head impossible. What is required of Englishmen in 1853 is nearly the reverse of what was required of them in 1848. Now despotism is unquestionably as much in the ascendant on the Continent as a liberty verging on anarchy then seemed to be. It behoves English men, in these circumstances, to show the same well balanced affection and judgment now that they did then. As Englishmen practically protested against the sway of physical force and mob-rule in 1848, so they ought practically to protest against the sway of physical force, and kingly and priestly deSpotism, in 1852-3. •We have hinted at the risk that impends of two great concessions being made to what are called " Liberal. Conservatives" in home politics in the matter of Parliamentary Re form. The momentary alarm that the opener of Mazzini's letters, and transmitter to the Neapolitan government of the information that led to the cap ture and judicial murder of the Bandieri, has awakened us to the danger of an over-subserviency to Continental despots intrudinLinto the Home office. ' The most intelligent and earnest advocates of non-intervention and a pacific policy are keenly alive to the importance of sympathising with and favouring the progress of liberty and good govern ment in all surrounding nations. If they protest against the intervention of foreigners in the domestic affairs of any state it is because they know that "who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." If they exhort to abstinence from aggression, it is be cause they have learned from history that permanent free institutions were never established by the sword —that armies organised to put down oppression have, with the one exception—that commanded by Washingtonbecome oppressors in their turn. The enlightened and intelligent friend of non-in tervention sympathise with the efforts of freemen in all lands, and are prepared to aid them in any way in which they can receive real effective assist ance. • That they are so prepared, partly at the instiga tion of sentiment, there is 'no reason for their being ashamed to confess. Sentiment is as necessary a part of our nature as reason : it is to be regulated, not extinguished. When, in consequence of per verse reasoning, any man or nation has contrived to deaden himself or itself to the accesses of generous sentiment, they have become incapable of virtuous action. • The love of liberty for itself is a necessary condition of a healthy political morality. But upon calculation as well as mere sentiment, it is advis able for a nation and its rulers so to conduct them selves as to prove that they sympathise with the rights and liberties of their neighbours. Govern ments are ephemeral, peoples are indestructible ; Louis Napoleon and the kings and emperors, his contemporaries, with the systems of which each forms a part, will pass away, but the nations of Europe will endure. It is our interest to attach to us those who have the surest prospect of sur vivorship. As in private life there are duties we owe to our families, and duties we owe to our neighbours, so in political life there are duties we owe to our countrymen, and duties we owe to the foreigner. It is our duty to assist and uphold our country men against the aggressions of strangers. But as at home there are abettors 9f oppression and friends of freedom, so also in foreign states. The friends of freedom have everywhere a common cause against the abettors of despotism, their efforts in behalf of which are only to be limited by the duties their nationality imposes upon them. In the great struggle commenced by Luther, had not the Protestants of Germany, the Low Coun tries, and England, and the Huguenots of France, to a certain extent, made common cause, Popery would have crushed them all. And in like man ner, if the members of the popular party through out Europe in our day do not stand by each other as far as their obligations to their respective countries as citizens permit, despotism will in its own good time trample them all down. Even apart from this consideration, every free country has an interest in encouraging its citizens to cultivate a practical sympathy for the friends of liberty all over the world.. It keeps alive the glow of independence and freedom for home use. For these reasons the people of England ought to beware of all those men who have betrayed a sub servient spirit towards foreign despots in any office where they can indulge it. It is not the mission of this country to be propagandist, or the Quixote of liberalism in Europe ; but national dignity and the true interests of the nation alike require that our rulers should be compelled by the pressure of popu lar opinion so to act that foreign rulers shall see and feel that they entertain a constant sense of their re sponsibility as the administrators of a people jealous of their liberties. ACCIDENT ON THE BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. --An accident of an alarming character occurred on Friday, upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, but which fortunately was unattended by fatal consequences, although it was of a serious character. The accident occurred at the Yatton and Clevedon junction, about eight miles from Bristol, under the following circum stances. The mid-day train left Clevedon at the usual time, but on arriving at the junction, however, to go on to the main line, by some inexcusable negligence the policeman in charge had omitted to turn on the points, the consequence of which was that the train continued its course on the short line, at the termination of which was an engine-house. Into this it dashed, carrying away the gates ; after which it knocked away some supports of the roof, and brought down the whole covering, and finally dashed through the engine-house into a field behind. The engine-driver was severely injured by the falling bricks, and many of the passengers received more or less severe contusions. One lady had a tooth knocked out, and a gentleman had his hat knocked against his head so seriously as to produce an extensive wound. The train was consequently delayed upwards of two hours. Every attention was, however, paid to the injured and alarmed passengers. An inquiry will be instituted forthwith into the conduct of the policeman who was on duty. AN UNWELCOME SIGNAL. —Henry Maxton, one of the servants at the Great Western Railway, had his head severely injured on Monday morning last. He was i in the act of turning a signal, when the pole, being much decayed, snapped off and fell upon his head, thereby knocking him down and causing him to be in sensible for some time. He was taken to the hospital, and is now doing well. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Sunday se'nnight, the dead body of a female was found under suspicious circum stances, on the cliffs, a few yards north of the lighthouse at Hartlepool. A razor was picked up within a few yards of the body, and on examination it was found there were several cuts or scratches upon the throat, none of which, however, were sufficient to cause death. An in quest upon the body was held before J. Settle, Esq., coroner, and a post-mortem examination of the body was made, by which it would appear that the deceased had been suffocated. Deceased has since been identified as belonging to Windynook, near Gateshead. Her name was Isabella Rogers. The affair is at present involved in much mystery. . AN AGED SLAVE.—Among the old people at present in St. Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea, there is a old man of colour, named John Turner, aged 102. He was born at Jamaica in 1750, and when a child was stolen away from his parents. He went to sea on board a man-of-war ; he afterwards entered the army, the 62d Regiment, as a cymbal player, commanded by Colonel Hull. In this regiment he remained for twenty-eight years, when he was discharged in Halifax, in America. He then came to England, where he has remained ever since, and has a pension of is. 2d. per diem, a portion of which is stopped for his and his wife's maintenance. DESTRUCTION OF THE ALSTON VIADUCT.—The fine viaduct at Haltwhistle which carried the Alston Branch or the Newcastle Railway across the Tyne, has been re duced to a total wreck by the recent floods. One arch has been completely washed away, and the other injured to a serious extent. The amount of damage done is enormous. The bridge cost 20,0001., and a moiety of that sum will not restore it. The inconvenience is great —all traffic along the line being entirely stopped. The accident arose from the constant undermining influence of the water, which was aggra vated greatly by the re cent flood. In rebuilding the structure, precautions will be used to prevent a recurrence of the accident. The danger to which the structure was subject had been fre quently pointed out, but without effect. Carlisle Patriot. [ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS FOR THE CURE OF WOUNDS IN LEG G.—Ex.. tract of a letter from Mrs. Simpson, of Bly, near Leeds,- dated October 16, 1852.—" To Professor Hollo way,—Sir,—l was afflicted for 18 months with a very bad leg, in which there were three deep wounds. I tried all kinds of remedies, and was under the care of differ ent surgeons here, and at Leeds, but derived no benefit from their treatment. I was at last advised to resort to your ointment and pills, and I am happy to say, that by the use of these valuable medicines, my leg is completely gored and as sound as ever it was.”—Sold by all drug gists, and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London. The only condition which could give any force to this argument is that the last state of things should be worse than the first, and that the new classification should create a greater amount of injustice than the absence of all classification prevailing before. Such a condition is positively impossible. Under the existing system, as we remarked the other day, every payment, without any one exception, is an unjust payment. Every person contri buting 7d. on his income, as contrasted with property taxed at the same rate, contributes too much ; every per son contributing 7d. on his property contributes, by the like rule, too little. How can such injustice be exceeded, or how, by any attempt, however imperfect, at adjust ment, can it be otherwise than lessened ? The reasoning of objectors seems to be founded on the assumption, that a wrong which everybody suffers is no wrong at all,f and that unfairness loses its quality when it is made univer sal. We conceive, on the contrary, that it becomes more intolerable than ever, and that no stronger case unjustly ts can b em u ad p e on ou ev t son taxed upon his income that other incomes are taxed everybody. It tax li t e h ign an i t fi h e e e p n r o o th of in t g ha t t o i a t pacer likewise. The comparison is not between income and in come, but between income and property. We say that the class producing incomes without property is hardly used as compared with the class possessing property and income too ; and, by way of defence, we are told that the suffering class is a large one, and that every mem ber of it suffers alike. Is this common sense or justice ? What would Mr. Goulburn have said if his argument about the fundholder had been met not by a detectionvif its fallacy, but by the assertion that the fundholders were a very large body, and that one fundholder would fare just the same as another? er. No proposal of reform can be damaged by the charge of imperfection unless it can be shown that such imper fection exceeds that which it is proposed to remedy. Certain speakers in the late debate took occasion to enumerate certain inequalities and anomalies which would still survive the suggested recognition of the dif ference between property and income. . Sir Francis Baring said that certain descriptions of business—such as that of great brewers, for instance—were trans missable from father to son with almost as much safety as realised property, whereupon Mr. Gladstone observed that the ".distinction between fixed and precarious incomes had been shown by the right hon. member for Portsmouth to be based on no solid principle." Was there ever such a conclusion ? As if the difference be tween one quality of possessions and another could be proved to have no existence by the discovery of a point at which they touched ! What would have been the character of our legislation, or what the present posi tion of the country, if the course which is recommended on the subject of the income tax had been pursued on other subjects ? Take an instance to the point. When the Reform Bill was pending, in the debate on those schedules of A, B, C, &c., which Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham had been concerned in forming, Mr. Croker rose and deliberately recapitulated to the House the names of 12 or 14 boroughs excluded from the franchise, each of which presented a greater rental and a greater population than 12 or 14 other boroughs which were admitted. There was no denying his facts ; but what was the result ? Did the house forthwith resolve that it was " impossible to con struct a perfect scheme of representation ;" or did they, because "no two people could be found to agree in a plan," decide that it would be unwise an d hazardous to unsettle the existing system and open the question of Parliamentary reform ? No ! they knew that the proposed reform was imperfect, that it included all the anomalies detected by Mr. Croker, and probably many more, but that its general scope was just, and that, as its general operation must be right, the course of true policy was to make it law and to correct it afterwards by the aids of time and trial. That this must be the case with the income tax also it is now easy to perceive. The hour is come at last. Mr. Disraeli and his party are bound to the cause, and Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer candidly proclaimed the truth for its own sake. Mr. Cobden and his friends were prompt to hail the concession, and the hon. member for the West Riding almost begrudged his opponents a prin ciple which, he said, "should have come from the other side of the house." Even Mr. Gladstone, in his latest speech, after confesstng that it might be " possible to distinguish between permanent and precarious incomes, professed himself " ready to consider this distinction with the exception only of the fundholders' im munities," and this exception was demolished by Sir F. Baring, who unhesitatingly lent his authority to the point, that "it was no breach of public faith if they taxed the fundholder in the same manner and at the same rate as holders of incomes of a similar nature." He proceeded to declare that " the income tax, if mad • a permanent part of the revenue, must be revised with the view of making it fairer ;" and that, if precise accu racy could not be effected in the arrangement, at leas an approximation to accuracy should be aimed at.' Here, then, are Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Glad stone, and Sir F. Baring—representing the four partj, es which constitute the house—agreed to a greater or le s e ext k ent upon the desirability, if not the practicability; o f rec tifying an unjust impost. With such a concurrenc e of opinion, however tardy, it is impossible that reform can be delayed. All that Ministers have to do is to discard the persuasion that no alternative exists between absolute perfection and absolute imperfection—between a system which is wrong in every incident and a system which may possibly be wrong in some. Let them only, as Sir F. Baring says, " approximate to accuracy " by the best means in their power, and the country will be satisfied for the present.—Tines, A VISIT TO THE DIGGINGS.—The following is an ex tract of a letter just received per Chilean, dated Sydney, August 31, 1852, containing an account of a visit to Melbourne, Victoria, in the steamer Yarra Yarra : " We left Sydney on Monday, the 2d of August, cleared the heads at six o'clock the same evening, and next morning at eight I was on deck, and saw some smoke on the horizon, resembling that of a steamer, and pointed it out to the chief mate, but he said it was only a cloud ; however, after breakfast, the captain was on deck, and he said it was a steamer, and we at once supposed it to be one of the English steamers, as we had passed the Shamrock, the only steamer expected from Port Philip, on the day previous. The steamer gra dually neared us, and we made out that she was a screw vessel; so this settled all our doubts on the matter - and at 11 o'clock she came quite close to us , and enabled Captain Gilmore to speak her. When we heard it was the Chusan, what a sensation it caused on board our steamer, and no little annoyance to know that we must await our arrival at Melbourne before we could hear any of the late news brought by her. I thought at the time for what I knew might be Fai board her, and we are even looking out for him in the Australian. Since I have been at Port Philip, it shows me more the folly of any one remaining at home ; as said to me, every one should be up and doing, and take the ball while it is rolling, as in a year or two there will not be so good chance from the hundred and thousands coming out to these colonies. Just fancy on the day of our arrival at William's Town, which is the port of Melbourne, no less than 30 vessels came in and the same number went out, and on one day during our stay there, there was an addi tion to the population of 1,500. The Government aro in the greatest fix to find shelter for one-half of the people arriving ; the churches are thrown open at night as dormi tories ; there are about 60 tents on the reserve on the op posite bank of the river Yarra to that on which Melbourne is situated, all let out by the Government to newly arrived immigrants at the rate of ss. per week, and they are about hiring a number of large ships lying idle in th e bay from want of hand s f or t h e same purpose. There is one large ship there, the Duke of Bedford—she is, I believe, an old East Indiaman—and the captain has been compelled to turn her into a lodging-house, as all his sailors have left him. You see fine large vessels of 1,400 and 1,500 tons lying there without a soul on board but a ship keeper, and I am told they have been this way for months. The common boatmen get 10s. a day from Government. Board and lodging you pay 41. a week for, fowls are 12s. a pair, boots from 41. to 61., and every thing c orrespondingly dear, but the people are all ma ki n g money and do not mind the prices." AMALGAMATION OP THE GRAND CANAL AND MD LAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES.--A ooall tion has been formed between the Irish Grand Canal and the Midland Great Western Railway Companies. The junction is to be effected on the terms of giving 501. in the United Company for 1001. Grand Canal Stock. \ f .CHARTERED AUSTRALIAN LAND, OW._ !XING, IMPORTING, and REFINING COMPANY . vi s uireetors hereby give notice. That no FUR fIIER APPLI s'NS for SHARES can be received after MONDAY ne xt, the gist , • By order of the Board, Aea. GEORnE BYAM, Secretary. 6, Broad-street Buildings Dec. 23, 1852. 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