The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA. LATEST FROM CARTHAGENA. 1 (By way of Bermuda.) The following are particulars of the capture and de struction of the Carthagenian fleet by the British man of-war brig Charybdis : • (From the Royal Gazette Feb. 15.) IMPORTANT FROM CARTHAGENA.—Her Majesty's brig Pilot, Commander Ramsay, arrived here on Fri day last from Jamaica and Barbadoes. She brought some highly interesting news from Carthagena—no less than the capture and destruction of the Cartha genian fleet by her Majesty's brig Charybdis, Lieut. M. , De Courcy, Commander. We cannot find that th e Pilot has brought a single newspaper giving the pa r ticulars of the action ; we therefore are compelled to resort to oral information, though we have no doubt., of its correctness. The particulars, as far as we can ascer tain, are. that a Colonel Gregg and some other Th„itish subjects, either for some real or imaginary o ffence, were incarcerated by the Carthagenian Goveriuneat. The Colonel having applied to the British Consul resident there for protection, that functionary inter ested himself on his behalf, but his intercession proving unsuccessful, he communicated the particulars to Lieu tenant De Courcy, of her Majesty's brig Charybdis, then in the neighbourhood. Lieutenant De Courcy dis patched an officer with a letter to the Commodore of the squadron at anchor in the port, demanding the release of Col. Gregg and the other British subjects. Thi , letter, because it was not written in Spanish, 'w• Ar, treated with contempt, and the bearer with mi „ e h hauteur. On the officer's return to the Chary} Adis, and reporting these circumstances to his 0 mander, Lieutenant De Courcy immediately e-nicered the port • and when proceeding to an aP. c t iorage he was fired into by the Commodore's vessA a cor vette, and the forestay of the Charybdis shot away. Li eu t e nant De Courcy then took up a position however desperate such a proceed i ng may have' and, ap peared on his part, in so small a vecisel against so ap parently overwhelming a force, he did not overrate the bravery of his little band, for after a short fight the corvette surrendered, the Commodore and 25 of men having been kill e d. A b r i g and three schooners, that came to th e ass i stance of the corvette, were at tacked in turn by the Charybdis. In five minutes after the Charybdis brought her guns to bear OR the brig she was sunk, and the schooners soon after I.lr rendered. The Charybdis carries but three guns, one long one amidships, and two carronades, and her full complement of officers and men is but 55. Whatever offence the Carthageniun Government had received from Colonel Gregg (who, it appears, was shot immediately after Lieutenant 1)e Courcy's appli cation for his re'.ease was made) and the other British subjects whom, thy had imprisoned, and however in formal the Consul s proceedings may prose to have been, notWarg could justify the contempt offered to Lieutenant.De Courcy's application by the Commodore, who, poor man, paid dearly for his temerity. We are told that, Lieutenant .De Courcy intends to remain at Carthagera, with his prizes, till he hears from the Ad nib' al on. the subject of their capture, &c. W e trust that Lieut. De Convey will meet that reward to which his bravery, in this instance, so well entitles him. The cause of the fight above alluded to was, that the brig Jane and Sarah, whilst lying at Sapote, in com pany with the sloop Little William, was, on , the 6th ultixno, boarded by Gen. Carmona,'s squadron, both ves sels plundered to a 'large amount of goods and specie, imprisoned, and Col. Gregg and three other pas sengers of the Jane and Sarah shot. (From the Charleston Mercury.) FROM HAVANNAH. By the United States mail-brig llayne, Captain Morris, arrived yesterday, we received a file of Havan nah papers to the 15th inclusive. TROUBLES IN CUBA. Captain Morris informs us that when he left Havan• nab, on the 15th inst., there was " considerable excite =tent " there, owing to a difference of opinion, or some .other difference, between the Governor-General and - the British steam-packet. The latter was going off without passing her mails through the Post-office, according to the laws. of the place. She was stopped, and the Governor-General said or swore, that it she Moved out, he would sink her as she passed the Moro. The matter was still unadjusted when the Hayne left the British steamer was lying very quiet, and nobody lznew 11.,w it would end. Rumour said the Governor- General had sent the captain of the steamer word, that tinlcss he complied with the laws he would imprison him. Forthwith. There are the seeds of trouble in this, and we may as well keep an eye on the progress of Bri t; sh "enterprise" in Cuba. It is quite as interesting as their doings in China just now. :SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel has a motive not only for everything he does, but Kor everything he leaves undone; and We can now clearly perceive the object with which he concealed, as long as he possibly could, the measures :he intended to propose when he should become posses sed of the Government. Had he declared 'before the election the course he desigred to pursue, so general would r have been the indignation excited by - his grand . financial scheme, that the country would never have returned to the House of Commons a majority to carry lois project ; and if, after the elections had termi nated,:he had made known, on the meeting of Parlia ment, the nature of his views, there would have been time for,theliation to reflect upon them during the re cess,'and the , people's representatives would have found, by Oinmanication with their constituents, that the feuding of the public is powerfully opposed to the plans the'Alinister. Sir Robert Peel has however, got hi s mai 411(1 thinking he can do as he likes with his own, tic counts confidently" upon dragging it after him through the mire of nepepularity in which all who have a Band in the imposition of the income tax (in the shape which the Tory - Minister seems resolved it shall bear) must be inevitably immersed, when the evil consequences, which are now only partially foreseen, shall come to be fully and bitterly experienced. The Premier is like the proprietor of the goose that laid golden eggs ; for, allowing him to be master of the niejority—which stands 'in this instance for the goose—and admitting that this majority might give him many golden eggs in the shape of frequent votes in his favour, die is rsck . lessly destroying the goose, in order to get all the gold at once, for the doom of the present Parliament is sealed from the day that it gives Sir Robert Peel his income ta:i. We would recommend the Tory Members to rouse themselves from the blind and stupid subserviency into which they seem to have allowed themselves to fall : if they had been regularly mesmerised, or subjected to any other species of humbug, they could not be more com pletely at the will of the quack, than they are at the beck aind call of the present Minister. STANDARD.—We cannot think ourselves uneha , ritablesin assuming that all the complaints against the proposed income. .tax which we hear are either purely factious, or the promptings of the subtle spirit which has csAiblished its shrine ha .the complainant's breeches pockets —too often the vestibule of the heart. These coraplitints touch, first, the consideration of personal honoter-'--inen ought not to •be subjected to an inquisi tion. S'ecol - idly,' the question of jaatice-s-the tax upon property - and incotne is unequal. Thirdly, the question of national honour. Nobody complains of the invasion of the. brecc/Le s pocket ;, all would freely pay twice or three times as much if 'it could be paid without the humiliatien: of au inquisition, upon terms of perfect equality, and consistently with national dignity. We shall, therefore, we are sure, render an acceptable service , -if we can relieve these patriots from the scruples by which they are deterred from serving their Country to the extent of their generous de sires. • First, then, comes the question of personal honour. When was honour before identified with mys tery ? We have -been accustomed to think that honour loves the open plain, and prefers to . walk in dq,ylight. But is the laW of England so tender s as it is pretended, of the honour that would skulk in darkness and obscurity ? By no means. Every man may be compelled to give evi dence sof the most secret transactions of his 'life; when - ' - produced as a witness in. a court of justice, and_ to render this account, not before commissioners sworn, to secrecy, but before the- whole world. Again, by filing a bill in Chancery against u man, often upon no just grciunds, you may compel him to make an equally minute and equally public exposure of his most private affairqs Neither the law of England then, nor the practice of England, respects the dark lantern and cloak of such spurious honour even in individual cases ; but it is ob vious that a general demand for explanation —even were it public, instead of being guarded with elaborate delicacy--can be neither so invidious nor insulting as an individual demand—what all suffer no man sutlers in such Oases. , But it is insinuated that interest as well as honoit' is affected by the inquiry into a man's in come. '"fhis is disproved by experience. No man was made a bankrupt by the operation of tq old income tax. No man ever pre tended that he was. The fact is, that the greatest possible, benefit would result to t ra d e , an d to erectit,,,, and to , the interests of every honest trader,sdrom the utmost publicity being given to the affairs of every man in the kingdom. Secondly, the tax is said , to be unequal, because the same amount, three per cent., - is demanded from incomes and other life an nuities:as from realised property, landed or funded pro perty.- We have already in part met this objection, by showing that realised property has been already sub mitted to taxes in the pro cess o f i ts accumulation ; but .May go f ur th er as regar d s landed property ; i s 'already subjected to a tax i much greater in amount, than the income tax, from which commer c i a l and professi ona l incomes, and the interest of funded property is wholly free • the land pays the land , tax, the poor rates, and a host of other rates, from which mere , incom e ha e holly exempt. If it i s Said the • Corn l aws compensated this ine quality'. hitherto, let it be forgotten that the Corn-laws . are about tot be relaxed for the benefit, of all classes, but the ayricultural class, and the case of fundholders does not indeed stand upon the same footing, but they have . a power which we fear T T l l i a i t r i d o l l ir a , l there is must help, them in the place of justice. the national honour, forsooth l—yes, the supporting the honour is endangered !' by an arrangement for public service by equal instead of supporting i t by un equal 7lnxation ; and to complete the impudent absurdity of the pretext ; the complaint of injury to the national honour is raised by those who have asserted the national honour by six successive years of declased in. solvenckby six years of furtive and unauthorised loans. Who have pursued this shuffling case concurrently with gross neglect of the proprietors of the means by which a nation is to be defended—precious guiudians of national i.).honour in pea ce an d i n war. f COTJRI nation must keep a sharp lookout s , or it will get neither fiscal reform nor revenue from pro s perty. Bit 'by bit the financial scheme of Sir Robert s is nibbled at • here, and a piece pecked at there, so that unless the framer tent his own fabric Ave 11, there w ill no t be a rag left out of wl dch to make a bank note, or dust out the cob ebs from an empty Treasury. Igni.s fatuus like, t ie splendid creations of Ministerial wisdom, which on - 3 ieir first appearance were hailed on all sides, Whig, ".fory, and Radical, with rapturous and resounding plau (fits ras the twin stars of England's salvation, are now .lanced about in will-o'-wisp fashion through Conserva tiff, highways and byeways, through Whig and Radical beg and morass, until at last it may be feared the tful corruscations, ever diminishing distance ren dered more dimly taint, will disappear altogether, swamped in some Whig-Radical quagmire, or engulphed in the slough of despond. Excepting ourselves of the Courier, our contemporary of the Post is alone among the faithful Conservative few of the press who stand by their colours, true to the pilot lashed to the helm of the gallant ship which the Whigs left desperately flo.mdering on a lee shore. THE TORY INCOME TAX. [OPINIONS OF THE COUNTRY PRESS.] (From the Dublin Evening Post.) The discontent in general, and remonstrances the 'inost vehement, are uttered in all directions against the proposal of a tax on income, which is denounced as most inquisitorial and obnoxious, and the adoption, in time of peace—at least of peace in Europe of an impost, never heretofore resorted to unless in war. but it is not the income tax alone which forms the ground of public dissatisfaction. The new tariff is a most prolific source of discontent, and there appears to be scarcely a single trade or interest that does not complain." (From the Leeds Times.) " An income tax is a tax of a most searching and unpitying nature : it falls with unequal weight on the classes the least able to bear it : it is exceedingly odious in its operation, from being so inquisitorial ; and it will afford too many opportunities to the un principled, for escaping the operation of the tax. How is it possible correctly to ascertain the incomes of men in business ? In times such as the present, how many are there in large business who scarcely know whether they are losing or gaining ? And who is to ascertain the amount of people's income, in order to tax it ? Are we to have agrand inquisition set on foot by Income Tax Commissioners, who are to have the right of fetching up every man in the country from his counting-house, his shop, or his barn, and of overhauling his ledger and his • day book; prying into his profits, his debts, and his assets, and of wringing from him, by slow torture, secrets which motives of hon our , o f delicacy, or convenience, impel him to conceal within his own bosom ? And, even though correctly ascertained at one time, the estimate of a man's income, who was extensively en gaged in trade, might prove quite fallacious at another." (From the Berwick Advertiser.) " The person whose income depends upon a thou sand accidents is taxed to the same amount as he who derives his from a source as little liable to v ariation as is consistent with the ordinary course of human affairs. This, however, is only one of innumerable Instances in which the tax would operate unjustly. Fair as it may at first sight appear, an income tax can never be equally levied. It is, therefore, of necessity. a continued systematic violation of justice." (From the Hereford Times.) " If Sir Robert Peel be not successful as a State Physician, assuredly he has earned the character of State Conjuror. But will the nation be satisfied with his legerdemain ? What does he propose to accom plish ? The agriculture, the trade and commerce— certainly the two last—are in a state of the most urgent distress; and as the master means of relief, Sir Robert Peel taxes the profits (?) of the farmer, merchant, and tradesman, sevenpence in the . pound ! Verily, this is conjuration on a national scale indeed ! Let, however, this fact be constantly kept in view— that Lord John Russell and the Whigs offered to re lieve the national distress without adding a feather's weight of new taxes to the burden already heavily pressing the back of John Bull ; whereas, Sir Robert reel and the Tories have determined to add four mil lions of pounds to that huge and hardly-borne burden ! Let not this broad distinction and difference be for gotten by either the farmer or tradesman, when next autumn he pays the first half-year of Peel's income tax." _ _ • • (Prom the Deroaport Telegraph.) " The income tax, if imposed in its present form, will operate with much injustice. The sources of in come are as various as the amounts of incomes them ,.elves, and the nature of the source from whence an income is derived ought to be considered in reference to the tax it is to bear. Two men may be in the re ceipt of the same amount of yearly revenue, and yet stand in very different positions as to actual wealth. Is it just to tax that immense class of professional ' men, whose means are almost entirely derived from exertion of body and mind, which depend upon a thousand causes that can scarcely be defined ; popular favour, personal skill, the influence of connexions, and all those prestiges created by personal character and deportment—is it just, we ask, to tax the incomes of this class to the same amount, and in the same manner, as the revenue of the lord of broad acres, or the opulent fundholder, the classes who may 4 sit at home at ease,' and receive their rents or { their'diVi dends without exertion and without care ? We can not think such a taxation would be equitable." (From the Derbyshire Chronicle.) " Every man's house is no longer to be his castle— his private arrangements are to be public property, his • ledgers a species of Government newspaper. lie is to be put up like goods at an auction, at his own price,_ and knocked down if a hi g h er bidd er t hi n k s hi m worth more, It is not a new experiment, it has been tried and failed. Even in war times it was scouted, every one looked on it as a pest that was destroyed for ever. Sir Robert Peel, however, arises again as chief inqui sitor—this indecent exposure will at least show him how _little his Corn-laws and monopolies have left the people ; that however flaunty their outward appear ances may be, there is wretchedness and destitution beneath ; that there are private miseries which they could silently endure so long as they were kept from the rude public gaze, but which will become intolera ble when he tears aside the veil and holds them forth to the scorn of gossips, and the ribaldry of scandal monger:;." (From the Bolton Free Press.) " The main feature in the scheme is the tax of sevenpence per pound to be levied on income. It is not so much a tax on property as on the skill, credit, and labour of the middle classes. The lower classes being unable to bear further taxation, those a little higher in the scale must bear the pressure, in order that those above them may still retain their immuni ties. An equitable land tax, recognising the increased I value of land, would have done more than meet the present financial exigency, but such a resort was not to be thought of in &landlord's Parliament. Leaving out of sight, however, this broad view of the question, as between the easy and pampered Classes and tho straitened and daily-sinking manufactures, the income tax is liable to many objections, the force of which is becoming more apparent, the more they are dis. cussed. Its inquisitorial character forms among nation of shopkeepers,' an insuperable objectl.on to it. In this point of view it has been well remarked thet it is a tax on distress,' as in the present state of things, it will force multitudes to assess themselem at an unduly high rate merely to save their effalt." (From the Stafford Exandsrer.) " With regard to the supposition that the exemption of incomes of less than MU really releases the poorer classes from sharing the burdens of the my tax, it is only necessary, in pointing out Itt. Pallacy, to refer to the fact that the emplovei a these classes are already so overburdened that they tan only meet the increased demand open them, by withdrawing a corresponding portion of' the income by which their dependents are maintained. And is it reasonable to suppose that the incomes of manufacturers anti Hier candle men, already so insufficient to enable them to pay adequate wages, can be further diminished with out occasioning further reductions of wages ? But even setting aside the olliettions to the fact of im posing an income tax in addition to the utmost extent of indirect taxation—inaddition to taxes upon the con sumption of commodities, so burdensome that the consumption is gradually decreasing —the scheme is insufferable, on acconnt of the iniquitous partiality of, its apportionment." (From the Somerset Gazette.) " We have received a great number of letters from correspondents in all parts of the county, urging ob jections to the new tax. These may be reduced to two—its inquisitorial character, and the injustice t taxing trades and professions equally with capita;. In the last objection we fully sympathise with our Cor respondents. Sir Robert Peel's plan propos,-, s , i n f ac t, 1 to impose the same tax upon a man was can WM. a year by his personal exertions, and who* chtome ex pires with him, as on the man wh pbssesses a pro perty wron in land or mor,y of 8„000t. This is manif es tl y a g, to whiel the west 'vigorous oppositi on s h o uld be offered." Mora the h at l Journal.) ""We efth scarcely believe Sir bert Nel means to imp ose t hi s tax—that h it as a ess ,disa bugbear to tighten e d ßo ries tot Wally rather u se a shade the nation into some thi ng greea l ble. We doubt much that he will succeed in carrying it if he does propose it ; and, if he succeeds in carrying it, we doubt that he will succeed in collecting it. Of all taxes, it is the one that can easiest be defeated by passive resistance. People have only simply to take no notice of their tax papers, and a Goverment might just as hopefully and creditably send its officers out to rob on the highway, as send them to help themselves out of people's pro perty at their discretion, and without ,b e i ng a b le to assign any r easons for aking five pounds any more than five shillings." (From the Edinburgh Chronicle.) " This impost is the penalty which the electors are t ear y an for th e i r culpable supineness d the Tory luc l idly its ngs they man i fested at the last election, and pressure will be confined to them. The relaxations of the tariff will be felt by all classes, but the income tax will chiefly, if not exclusively, gall THE INCOME TAX. EXTRACTS FROM THE TIMES, 1816. "It was with great grief that we heard of the intention to continue the income tax during a time of peace, and our dis like to the proposition was rather increased than abated by the intimation that it was to be reduced to five per cent. The notion may, perhaps, seem paradoxical, but it is, nevertheless, true, that an impost so odious in its principle is only tolerable because it is severe in its application. We shall explainotir meaning more fully. In times of great danger, such as we have lately encountered, ta xa ti on may be allowed to assume a more rigorous aspect, because the mischiefs to be provided against are more alarming, and the preparations for defence, and the funds necessary for the support of them, must be upon an equally extensive scale. But the evil in that case reme dies itself, or rather it points out its own limits and duration. It ceases, or ought to cease, with the threatened danger which produeed it. No one, for example, would object to part with 10 or even 20 per cent. of his annual income to preserve his country from the tyranny of a Bonaparte, during the existence of that tyrant, provided the danger was clear and the impost could be impartially levied. We put in these conditions in order to account for the opposition raised against the income tax, even when it was most allowable to have re course to so harassing a financial measure. But now, when Bonaparte is no longer formidable, and France ceases to hold a threatening attitude, what can justify this deviation from the ordinary rules of taxation—this inroad upon the rights of Eng- . lishmen ? * * * * There is nothing that men in a state of society hold sacred sinto which it does not obtrude itself, or thrust its odious agents. It pries into the marriage settlements and claims of consanguinity among the living ; it ransacks the wills of the dead ; it hunts deeds and bonds in the deepest recesses of the bureau, and drags ' them to light. Rushing into the counting-house, it spreads wide the ledger, and thereby blasts commercial con fidence, and chills mercantile speculation. It stands at the door of the shopkeeper and counts his customers ; it mounts the chariot of the physician, and numbers his fees. It adjusts the claim between debtor and creditor, whose relation to each other should only be known to themselves. It com putes the feelings of filial piety, of gratitude and hu manity, by items of pounds, shillings, and pence; for it estimates the support allowed to decrepit old age, to decayed services, perhaps to penitent or discarded guilt. In short, if any man would know whether the income tax ought is apply in this or that imaginary case, let him be assured that if its application can render his home comfortless, or his closet suspected to him, there will the myrmidons of income tax have a right to be. Nor is this the termination of the mischief, for like every other tyrannical measure, its manifold oppressions have the effect of driving those who are the objects of it to a corresponding degree of baseness, falsehood, treachery, and per jury, in order to elude its grasp. "And all this misery and, corruption is now to be fastened upon the country for ever, and for w h a t? N ot , as b e f ore, for so important a gain as 10 per cent., and in order to preserve the independence of the nation ; but for so small a result as even half 10 per cent. ; so much have our comforts and our virtues sunk in value, and at a time, too, when we have nothing to dread from foreign enemies, nor from any thing but our own want of economy at home. " Clear, therefore, it is that an income tax now of 5 per cent, is much more unjustifiable than one of 10, or even 50 per cent. under former circumstances. A man, perhaps, might not object th the admission of a whole company of soldiers into his house, while a foreign enemy or a gang of marauders were in the neighbourhood ; but is that a reason why the Com mander-in Chief of his Majesty's forces should billet a file of musketeers upon him all the rest of his life ? Be well aware then, countrymen, that if you do not at once state your feelings now that the foreign enemy is no longer at your doors, you will have the file of musketeers in your homes as long as you are housekeepers ; that is, you- will have the 5 per cent, income tax saddled upon you henceforth and for ever. "We know very well when the country has once shown itself anise, as it soon will do, upon this aggravating topic, that then attempts will be made to soothe it by promises that even the 5 pet cent. shall only be a temporary impost. And this brings us retrospectively to a painful subject indeed, namely, the violation of the solemn engagements already en tered into with the country, that the tax in question should be wholly and finally abolished at the end of the war. No future promises can now weigh much, if those which have been already made are to be so grossly violated. No pledge can equal in sacredness those which have been already given, because they were given while the faith of Go vernment in this respect was yet unbroken, its honour untainted. What claim to future credit have those who are already bankrupt in fidelity to their past engagement ? It is the curse of this tax to produce treachery on all sides—on those who would impose, and on those who would elude it. No income tax will always be wanted on the one hand, while it is conceded on the other; re fuse it manfully, and it will soon be found that there is no oc casion for it; and Ministers, however paiced at first, will ulti mately, as Englishmen, have Cause to thank the country for its firmness. At all events, we have long been pledged to rssist it in every Shape and form which it may assume, and shall not be found wantin g to our engagement.' —The Times, Feb. 6, , 1816. " We are glad tO perceive anything said, even in behalf of the British ilitplisition, the income tax, both because whatso ever is said in support of so odious a process can only serve to llttray the cause it would maintain by the weakness of the de fence, and because we are sure that injustice and oppression succeed best in ob,lcurity, andare overthrown by free di cussion. "An etching paper, in the shape of queries ) deduces the follevting inference : That a case of necessity being made out by the King's Ministers, the ttt in question is one to which they may legally have recoUrse. This savours a little, by the way, of the opinions held by the unjust judges in Charles L's reign, that the King might have recourse to ship-money, in a ..e. of necessity ; and that his Majesty==-that is, his Ministers —are the judges of that necessitV. .The truth is, that no one doubts the logic by which the necessity' may be urged; bet common sense and common reason declare, at ti!st sight, that it is all false. " 'I here can honestly be no vigil, of the money ; for if in peace, and after victory, w 'ate to be subjected to the inquilition• tax, to what uolrelA-bt tortures must we have submitted ill the case of &teat, or the continuance of war ? erititch, the cOttplered country, his, even # preMtt, no impost Mit odiously scrutinizing oe topprtsiive. But, to put the matter differently ; this ts.k has been called a war-tax, and we have been or it that with the war it should teiset What state ef Mire, then, we demand, did they Who flu& et these ptokeises suppose would justify the ettinetioe of the tax et the end of the war, if the prefer!: *ill hot? Let them tell us how it is that the ritr%t condition of Europe is not so satis factory as the)? a pected it would be whe n th e y ma t e us t h e promises , t , !!'r 'else let them confess that they meant to es, VA never intended to relinquish the tax at alh it it 111 t Izihvious that no possible good can result trOkll its ebntinuance in any shape whatever, becaest thero is ho possible good which, as a nation, we have het obtained. The farmers are said to be distressed bet that is net now the matter in dispute; the pru, duce of tki tax is not to be applied to their relief. In our feltign relations what do we want ? Absolutely nothing. AM what in our internal concerns? Nothing bat the hittnedlale removal of those burdens, of Whith OtilY the ftiagnitude of the danger from ahroed, no* past, could justify the imposition. However, ottt ptiFpose is in a great measure answered; for we see ttlfd heir that the nation is ready to rise as one min agaibst his breach of faith which it is now attetnpteti to put in prac tice. That which is wrung from Its necessities ca n only b e a y : plied• to its ruin,"--The nowt, Vetk. 8j 1816: UNIVERNITY iNTELLIGEN'C.E. 1 31eVonh, illAntit !O.—This being the last day of term, a eongretatlien Was holden, when the following degrees were toiMrred Masters of Arts.—Rev. George T. Hyatt. of Wadham Col: lege; Rev. George Border, of Magdalene Hall; Revs Thotnai Lowe, of Oriel College, Bachelors of Artit.--ThetnaS Aiyhm, of Wadham Col lege ; Samuel NeWing* bf Nekv Inn Hall. The exatniners bf tt candidates for the mathematical scholarship Fakt hotified to the Vice-Chancellor that they have elected B. iarice scholar of Pembroke College. This scholar. ship it tenable for three years. Messrs. G. Smart, of Eketer College T, Davison, have been eletted exhibitioners on Lord Cr ewe' sfoundation of Lincoln College : Messrs. W. Iltitclley, of Lincoln College, .1. Banks of St. Mary H a ll ) an d J . R. T. t ato n , o f Eli za b et h College, 'Cuero,. sex, have been elleited scholars of Lincoln College. PreSidint .tid Fellows of Magdalen College have pre sented the lev. F. P. Lowe, Fellow of their Society, to the Reriti-27 of Saltfleetby, All Saints, Lincolnshire. the Rev. It. Marriott has p resente d the IN V. Ps AsMar riott, of Oriel Coll ege , t o the Rectory 9f VottsPach, Leices. terhire. The Wat'deh and Fellows of All Souls College have pre tented the Rev. E. B. D ean, F e l low of that College, to the Vicarage of Lewknor With Ackhamstead, in this county., FIRE AT LIVEIIPOOL.—AiI alarming fire broke out in Messrs, Harrison slid fathom's warehouse, situated in front of the St. GWrgt's Dock 4 on Friday night last, chiefly filled with tottbn stores, roach of which were damaged. Three ac cf.:tents Vcchrred one from the falling of a fragment on i poltee- Yttait ettgaged, and another by a sailor's falling from a masthead in the docks to see the fire. Mr. Wombwell's female elephant died at Newark at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. She was til?otlt !hiv e parts grown. Under date of Tttrib, Mardi 3, the Augsburg Gazette says :--" The negotiations teppectihg the ihyri6ge of the Princess Januaria, sister of the Ehipteiron btßrazil, with the Prince de Carignan, Not bb al broken off, because it was stipulated oh thb part of the Prince that, in case the Princess simUld he called to the throne, the Prim:should be invested with the Imperial dignity. This condition could not be accepted, being contrary to the Brazilian Constitution." THE 'INQUISITORIAL " INCOME" TAX:.—In a Court of Com Mon Council, held Dec. 19, 1798, Pitt's plan for taxing income caused the adoption of resolutions, stating " That, in the opinion of thi s C ourt, the Bill tow .pending in Parli ament, by which it is proposed to tax the precarious and fluctuating income arising from the labour and industry of per sons in trade, professions, &c., in the same proportion as the permanent annual income from landed and funded property, is most partial, cruel, and oppressive," and " that the said Bill proposes to es'ablish an inquisitorial power unknown in this country, inconsistent with the principles of the ,British. Consti tution, and repugnant to the feelings of Englishmen." This Bill, however, received the Royal assent OA the 9th of January following. THE SUN, LONDO the backs of the middle-class constituency. This is as it should be. Peel would deserve thanks for the I direction he has given the pressure, if he had had any choice. But choice he had none. The back of the cart-horse was broken by former loads, the high mettled hunter would bear no burden, and since more must be carried somehow, there was nothing for it but to make a hack of the sleek old coach horse. Surely we shall see some kicking now, if the beast has any spirit." (From the Glasgow Post.) "Much is said, and by the Liberal presslin particu lar, against the income tax. A direct levy on the scarcely definable precarious profits of the man in business, who scarcely knows what is his own. We are quite aware of the evils of such a tax. We are aware of its disgusting, scrutinizing, inquisitorial nature. We are aware how much it can be evaded, and that for one man who will conscientiously pay his just proportion, twenty will cheat the Government. W e are also aware how injurious it must be ; nay, the utter ruin that must follow persons with a declining business. If they proclaim such a thing to the tax gatherer, they are at once overset—they are down for life—and, therefore, hundreds struggling with un known poverty will have to defraud themselves to save appearances. This is most undoubtedly an obnoxious system, but the more obnoxious the better. All taxes are obnoxious—the fewer taxes the more prosperous will be the people ; therefore, whatever taxes we have, let them be as obnoxious as possible, we say ; and that the more particularly when they are made to fall with double force on those who have the means put into their hands for ab o li s hi ng or re d uc i ng them. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1842, Their Lordships then adjourned. SEVERN NAVIGATION BILL. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 21. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool sack shortly after Five o'Clock. EASTER HOLIDAYS. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that in reply to the question put to him by the Noble Viscount oppysite (Viscount Melbourne) last week, he had to state that it was his intention to-morrow to move that their Lordships do adjourn to Thursday, April 7. • CORN-LAWS. The Earl of CLARE presented a petition from the millers of the county of Limerick, praying for adequate irotection in the event of any alteration in the Corn-laws. Lord 'BANDON presented petitions to the same effect, from the millers of Cork, from the millers of Cohie, and from the millers of Fermoy. CORK PACKET STATION. The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the merchants of Cork, praying that Cork might be made a packet station from Bristol. ESTABLISHED CIIURC H. The NOBLE LORD then presented petitions from the Protestants of Atherne, and front those of several other parts of Ireland, prayingfor protection to the Established Church. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a place in Tyrone, praying for an alteration in the law of Presbyterian marriages in Ireland ; also a petition from a place in Cornwall, praying for a revision of the tariff. The Noble Lord also , pre sented a petition from an individual whose name we did not hear, against burial grounds being formed in populous places. The petitioner stated that a relation of his had been interred in a churchyard in London, and his (the petitioner) again visiting London he went to the spot, for the purpose of indulging in hiS reeollections, when he found that the stone had been re moved from the grave, and another body interred therein. Lord WHARNCLIFFE laid on the table certain re turns relating to the Poor-law Amendment Bill. On the motion of the Noble Lord the following Bills were read a third time and passed—the West India Clergy Bill, the Newgate Gaol (Ireland) Bill, and the Consoli dated Fund Bill. The Archbisbop of CANTERBURY moved the recond reading of the Ecclesiastical Residences Bill. _ The LORD — CHANCELLOR laid on the table of the House a Bill to define the jurisdiction of Justices at Quarter Sessions. HOUSE OF COMMONS MARCH 21. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before Four o'Clock. Mr. C. WOOD brought up the Report of the Com mittee appointed to try the Lewes election petition. Mr. HOGG brought up the Report of the Committee appointed to try the Clitheroe election petition. The Hon. H. FITZROY then took the oaths and his seat as Member for Lewes, in the place of Summers Harford, Esq. and E. CARDWELL, Esq., took the oaths and his seat as Member for Clitheroe, in the place of Matthew Wilson, Esq., unseated by the decision of the Committee. Mr. PAKINGTON presented a petition from Droit wich in favour of the Severn-Navigation Bill. Mr. BAYLEY presented a petition from the Here fordshire Canal Company, in favour of the Severn Navi gation Bill. On the Order of the Day being read for the Report of the Committee on the Severn Navigation Bill being brought up, Mr. MUNTZ moved that the Bill be re-committed. He thought if the Committee had paid proper attention to the statements laid before them, they would never have passed the Bill in its present shape. A large por tion of his (Mr. Muntz's) constituents were inte rested in the Birmingham and Worcester Canal, and they objected to the Bill that it called upon them to pay the full portion of the toll, although they would only pass over a small portion of the river. They also ob jected to the placing of a lock on the river just below the entrance of their canal, which would be very prejudi cial to their trade. The Shropshire people would be called upon to pay no tolls, although they would be ma terially benefited by the improvement, while the pro prietors of the canal were called upon to pay the full tolls. They were also desirous, if the lock were not re moved, of having permission to cut a short canal, 400 yards in length, into the river. He should move that the Bill be re-committed. Mr. PAKINGTON did not think the objections had been fairly supported. and he hoped the Bill would pass without opposition. He need not remind the !louse of the importance of the measure to the trade of the district ; its importance must be evi dent to all. The opposition to it was entirely of a selfish nature ; it was the opposition of a small party to a great national improvement, because that improve inent would tend to deprive them of certain advantages which they enjoyed at the expense of others. The objections which were now affixed to the Bill, had all been offered in Committee last year, and were then overruled. He saw no reason why the Bill should be re-committed, and he trusted that It was not necessary for him to urge the House to reject the motion. ktr, M, PHILIPS said, that the Hon. Member who had` jest sat down had accused Hon. Gentlemen on that side of the . Morisco with unfairly opposing this Bill. He (Mr. Mark Philips)• was certainly opposed to the Bill, but on grounds by no means unfair. lie was opposed to the measure, because the effect of it wtiititl Lid to place a permanent bar across the river, which must itijare the navigation very much, He was of opinion that the loch ought not to be made in the place intended, and he was therefore opposed to the Bill. Mr. PAKINGTON explained. He was misunder stood if Hon. Gentlemen supposed that fie stated the opposition to the Bill to be unfair. • Mr, OLIVE trusted the House would not listen to the obeereetions of the Hon, Member for Birmingham (Mr. Muntz) with respe.et to the re-committal of the Bill. Mr. LAI3OUCHERE said ; though this matter came before the House in the shape of a private Bill, yet in reality it concerned public interests of the greatest importance ; and he was glad to see that it was likely to• receive the consideration of the House. Those who did not object to the principle, but the details of the Bill, he would remind that it received a long cotleideilition in the Committee of last session, when all the eiA Members composing it were unanimous in their decision respecting it. }le hoped the House would not consent to a farther delay in the Bill. The LOUD ADVOCAT.E, as Chairman of the Com mittee, bore teatitoony to the tuiziousmanner in whichthe matter had been intt _ stioted, should not go ihte nil the objeetions of the gon, Member 1‘.:7 1 ‘IF" chester, but ho I(Yitid ask, why had not this oppositt..7 been made before ? Not One Objeegon had been brought before the Committee at its sitting in the present Session, Me, SCOTT spoke in favour of the rreetnenitment Of the Bill, After a few words from Sir C. DOUGLAS, toed G, SOMERSET said ho was always desirous that Bills of a local character should be discussed in the Hotted the influence of local feelings. He thought the House would be undoing all its work if it consented to delay the Bill. Sir T. WILDE said, that if the motion weee acceded 14 the effect would be to throw out the Bill alto ether. If aliiy improveffiente were necessary they could be made in the House of Loede, OBM813:1' add It was very rarely the Horse dentseilieel to the ie . -committed of a Bill unless on very strong grounds, The 1?;i11 was Already six times before the House, and he believed the' ob)ect of those who asked for its re-committal was to thieW out the Bill Lied ilk - Of/STATE said, that as he was aware of the great expense to which parties would be put by a re committal of the Bill, he should vote against the amend- Me& of the Hon: Member for Birmingham. He hoped that the fileestife wiittld, hereafter, be improved in the other House of Parliament, After a few words from Mr. SCIRILEFIF,LD in sup port of the amendment, Mr, MUNTZ said that, in order to save expense, iii . siiptild withdraw his amendment, with the hope that the objectionable clauses of the Bill would be altered in the ether How, The Amendelefit waS theti vfkhclraEwti i and the Report Was agreed to. BOROUGH OF BRibi l edit Tile pPEAKER acquainted the House that he Intel received iteithes from the agents of, the petiticeittra , , against the retutit t,ti Mf: ochrane and Iva, Mitchell, the Members for the BoraliA,' bf ifyidport, stating that they did not intend to continue the fniVstsention, In answer to a question from an Hob:0/411LT tMem nfiili Was inaudible in the gallery, Sir IL PEEL that in 1840 the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Chancellor of the, Exchequer proposed, and with the sanction of the Reuse carried, a nieasure for adding five per cent. to the cititln" of Cus tome . end Ei.icise, • That five per cent., which efal feindiited itlfi),Ce;. he Kopowl to apply to all the duties of Customs tint.V•xgilSe'Avitich wee not included .;.;: the pre sent reduction. The Milt denfleiiehli!r had spoken of the ex- treme difficulty of haring a 5 Of 001 ?Owen as a 4 rift , Bent, It was - not proposed to hate ti ici' Aar; ad valorelittitq c btet per cent. upon the amount cif dial: Dr. DCOWRIN that gave notice that in Committee wild p'rop'ose that .Additional onc-twentieth should tie rain the tutif.. Tiff; IVI§W Thl4lll', Ju answer to a question from Mt: DtPi ? MYSEAT PEEL said he very much teatred that tildWitil *oats. his intention to take the resolutioti 9f the lioifse with feteteme to the income tax, before 1M sliO kI iii.otveed with the consideration of the tariff, that tad 1 - 161. Oettelemt4 Would have sufficient time to consider the mattdr i Gls bier's' wars m prospect of making any progress with the tariff befOre tlie Easter recess. In answer to a question from Sir C. 111401111YS, re lative to the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers from England, Sir J. , GRAHAM said that the Poor-law Commis sioners had instituted an inquiry in the various counties of England and Wales, as to the number of those persons referred to, and that a considerable mass of in formation on the subject had been collected, but was not, as yet, completed. In the course of a few months, how ever, the Commissioners would report on the subject, and then that Report would be laid on the table of the House. BUILDINGS' REGULATIONS 'AND BOROUGHS' IMPROVEMENT (No: 2) BILL. Mr. TUFNELL moved that Mr. Hodgson Hinde be discharged from further attendance on the Select Com mittee on these Bills, and that Mr. Richard Hodgson and Captain Rous be added.—Motion agreed to. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) WIGAN. The vote of John Stringfellow was struck off. This Placed Mr. Standish in a majority of one over Mr. Cross, one of the sitting Members, and in a minority of four under Mr. Greenall, the second sitting Member. Sizer Barker, house and shop, in Hallgate, was then objected to on the part of the sitting Members. James Hainsough, assistant overseer of poor's-rate in Wigan, proved that Barker was rated in March, 1840, for his house in Hallgate. A different person was rated in October, 1840. The house was empty in March, 1841. The vote was struck off. William Pearson was the next vote objected to on the part of the sitting Members. The evidence was similar to that in the last case. Mr. Cross being restored to his position on the poll, Thomas Worthington was objected to on behalt of the peti tioners. _ _ John Green the landlord proved the determination of the voter's tenancy prior to the election. Counsel for the sitting Members contended there was not sufficient evidence to identify the voter. The room was cleared. The vote was struck off. Peter Moon was the next voter objected to on the part of the petitioners. The vote was struck off. - - - It was now the turn of the Counsel for the sitting Member to object, Mr. Standish being placed above Mr. Cross on the poll. Joseph Harrison was accordingly objected to. The assistant overseer of poor's-rate proved the change of the tenant's occupation. The vote was struck off. Wm. Le, house in Hallgate, was next put forward by the Counsel for the sitting Members. The overseer of poor's•rate proved that Le was rated up to October, 1841. . William Atkinson proved that he succeeded Le in occupation of his premises on the 3d of June, 1841. Le had a small room in the house ; it was by witnesses permission that he kept the room. It was not worth 101. Vote struck off. The next vote, that of Robt. Wall, was objected - to mithe part of the petitioners, Mr. Cross being again placed at the head of the poll. Edward Wardle proved that the voter had changed his occu pation. The vote was struck off. John Farrimond was next objected to by Mr. Slade on the part of the petitioners, but the Committee did not pronounce any decision in the case, having adjourned till 11 o'clock to morrow morning. This leaves Mr. Cross and Mr. Standish equal on the poll, and a majority of five in favour of Mr. Greenall. WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS. The Committee were occupied the whole morning with the case of a voter named Jacobs, objected to on the part of the petitioners, on the ground of disqualification. The vote of Jacobs was struck out, as was also that of Richard Watson, on the same ground. The Counsel for the sitting Members now objected to the vote of Richard Ludlow, deceased, for the petitioners ; and they proposed to call Mrs. Ludlow, to prove the invalidity, of her husband's vote ; but the Counsel on the other side con tended that she could not be called to give evidence against her husband's interest, This was the rule of the Courts of Law. After some argument, the Committee decided on hearing Mrs. Ludlow, if her evidence were voluntary. Mrs. Ludlow then came forward and gave voluntary evi dence. The question was undecided when the Committee adjourned GREAT MARLOW. Some further evidence was then gone into, and the further inquiry into the vote of Michael Redmond was adjourned till to-morrow. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, March at. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF STAMFORD. The hearing of this case terminated this morning; it was ordered to stand for judgment. VICE- CHANCELL ORS' COURT, March 21. ( Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RAM. ) CROCKETT V. CROKETT. His HONOUR gave judgment in this case; the effect of his decision being, that Mrs. Crockett, the mother of the plaintiffs, is to receive the income for her life, on consenting to maintain the children. COURTENEY V. COURTENEY. In this case his Howous overruled the exceptions. It was ordered to be mentioned again on the minutes. TAYLOR V. tHE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an application for an injunction to restrain the de fendants from proceeding with a siding on their Railway. The defendants refusing to give an undertaking. His HoNone. granted the injunction, with liberty to apply. By arrangement of counsel, it was agreed that the case should be again heard on the first day c f Easter term. SURREY SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday, before T. PocaLE, Esq., Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The CHAInAtAN briefly delivered his charge, and stated that the calendar contained the flames of upwards of 80 prisoners for trial, and therefore their services would probably be required for two or three days. John Munday, 29, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him with stealing, at Stoke D'Abernon, a ches nut cart-horse, the property of Thos, licsterton, The prisoner was sentenced to ten years transportation. John Harwood, jun, 20, and Simeon Harwood; 50, were indicted fbr feloiliottsly stealing at Worplesdon, 18 bushels of potatoes, the property of James Feted. Mr. LOCKE defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is a market gardener, residing at Worplesdon, and the prisoners were labourers residing hi the same parish. the pt otectitor ivas in the habit of storing potatoes, in what are called " blirtOnti," eteth barrow containing about twenty bushel: of potatoes. On the 1 6t h February last, he discovered that one of these bar rows had been broken up, and nearly the whole of its con tents taken away. On the same day the prisoners were dis coiered, having in their possession a bag containing po tatoes of the same kind as those the prosecutor had missed, the bag containing about 18 bushels, In the house of the prisoners a quantity of potatoes were found iitlt be: longing to the prosecutor. The potatoes lost were of that description called " Golden Nobs," being that kind he usually reserved for seed. The prisoners lived in the parish of Worplesdon all their lives. Mr. LOCKE addressed the Jury for the defence, and called witnesses to prove that the prisoners were not out of bed on the night the robbery was committed. Several witnesses stated that they had frequently purchased po tatoes of the same description as those in question from • the prisoners. • The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. Levi Harwood had been previously convicted. The prisoners were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment each. The case occupied the Court till past four o'clock. SUICIDE OF TILE EARL OF MUNSTER, 'he death of this Nobleman by his covti hand *a§ the engrossing subject cntiVePtilltil at the ii:lo.st.ati of the toWn . yesitttlay intirhing. The lamentable action is stated to have occurred at a late Hour on Surtditynight ; Wht hilt lid:4aq* Nada Wad tattfrned try the fe: port of a pistol. On going to the Ncble Earl to ascer tain the cause, he found his Lordship wounded by the discharge of a pistol, and the Earl desired the servant to fetch* doctor, IViltinclech Aftei the ter-Van% had to eplitteci him, the iN - ohle Earl pdi d, stdolki pistol to his mouth, and thus destroyed hinikllf: The late nobleman was; besides being Earl of . Attn: ster, Vistnthit Viticl*neet and 13afeti of Teoeiburt; in tlk Peeffite tl the VtAitiid Iltiilgdt3ctl 11 Viivy ecittit= ikl9Bil:Lenerai in the A rmy; an d Aide-de-camp io the Queen ; Governor and Captain; also Constable and Lieutenant, of Windsor Castle COltinel of the Ist Tower thithittke dila a' Udifilatieflef thtl Royal Military College and ild . yill Military Asylum ; Knight Grand cross of the order of Ferdinand of Wir: Vieezl 3 rVslaiii b 1 thg Ut4sl Sticleiy; and. P.R,S. He was born Jan. 16; 1794, and was i!ofis sequently in his 49th year; He married, in Octiziller; 1810, kail,Nrynolham, daugh ter~Of tin! late hail of E.:gremolit, and Htt4 left 'Sane by her several children, the two eldest of whom are laugh. tern: His eldest soh„ iltut rl of i MunSteri*ti, was brit gity 16; itN, Wild is in . is 18th year. The late her was the eldest son ofKing William the Fourth, by the celebrated actress, Mrs, Jot*, The Earl of Mtltsttt bilkiNi the army in February, 1807, and the date of his last eommissioni as Major ' - General, is Nov: 23, 1841, His Lordship served in the Peninsula, and was severely wounded ht Tnidtittiti It's Lordship was on half-pay of the 24th Dragoons. He served the campaign of 1808 in Spain, with Sir David Baird's -army, as Aide-de-camp to Adjtttant=General Stewart, in. 1813 as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-Gettertd, ie, 1818, 1815 and in 1814 with his regiment. He subBequently Went to the East Indies, and ac ted as Aide-d e - cam p to t h e with 1:8 e 1 pd rr anti a "G to e h r e t B Fr returned the to erla Englandnu overlandiscf Hastings,in June, a • About six weeks since hiS lordship.ttiiti faiiiily re turned to town from O ste nd, Whefe they had ht+h fesi& ing for some tittle, and since that period it had been no 'iced that he was not in his usual spirits. This fact was, however, attributed to the effeets of several severe attackslit of the gout from Which h e had 6ugered and tilt urss city lASI, on going to the House of Lords with soine of the younger members of his family, his manner is said to have rather altered, SEDITIOUS LANtiIIA6E.----Mth O'Connell found guilty at the Queen's County Assites of dtraluntiiiig landlords high rents, &c,, is rentented tti sit itionths' impristinment, an ii to give security, hi mse lf in 500 i., and two sureties in Mb . each, to—h o ld hi s tongue . REDUCTION OF THE CONSTSEELAtiY. - ;A lle Aril Evenbey /Ind states that it is the intention of Sir Hotert 6,4 to make redu c ti ons on an extem i ve sca l e ' .4 every department o f the above force, and embody the Irish militia , B " eta l persons, alarmed by trieg of diStrOs* in the Rue St. Eloi, tWo nlght.„4 aoB;bastetieti i n? tile ttiti *MI found 9 milf9ttilltatt Wotan a tile U. 411 siiitioed in aeinral plates With a poignard. Two mats were seen running away, but they were pursued and capttired, and en being taken before a Corn. inissary tif Politie; tliEy Wbrb &nit-bitted being trial for an attempt to murder. They are men of the lowest order, but the cause of the attack has no transpired. 1 . 1117. NIGER PliVlll4 , - -, 4 lable-§ponnful of Peru vian bark, given in the morning early, has been found a fever. Preventive among merchant-ships' companies at Batavia, where simil ar deadly fevers to those o f Africa prevail; and hence It may be ohly neeot3ity tO apply the bark=p.raetlee to the Afri can toasts and r i vers, in order to insure a similar freedom from fever there al so . —Li terary G aze tte. DiscovEßy OF ii umAN SKELETONS H IN TE STRAND:....on Saturday afternoon depth net exceedingfrom the surf a c e , a large a s the men employ e d i n a foot and a half the er ection of a new sewer in the 'Strand were excavating th e ground in front of St. Clement's Church , they found, at a number of human skeletnns, man y of them in th i s most perfect condition, ar d i n • r , one instance the . : ~, was, with a large quan-Lity of lair attached . ,t is supposed that the ancient huriii.gr. mid ; of St. CleMent's banes once 'covered the spot In questio n. A shed was erected, and the bones depo sited in it, and ult iina4ely a large hole was dug in St. Cie -32e11V4 Ograyard, s in which they were placed. ' '',' ' ' • •. INDIA-THE OPIUM TRADE. In answer to a question from Mr. LINDSAY, Sir ROB PEEL stated that he would have no hesitation tb read 'to' the Honourable ,Gentleman the purport of the instructions given by the Lords of the Treasury to the Supreme General Coun. cil of India, in the month of December last. The in structions were to cause a full and searching inquiry to be instituted at the earliest practicable period into the actual value of the quantity of opium con fiscated in each district in the months of April and March, 1839, and what were the quantities in the markets at the time that confication took place— to report the result of the inquiry, and trans mit to the Lords of the Treasury the evidence adduced on the occasion, together with whatever other information on the subject the Governor in Council might think fitting. He (Sir Robert Peel) had no doubt that the Governor-General of India would direct those inquires to be made, and would remit to this country all the information possible to be col lected on the subject. IRELAND—NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. SHAW wished to put a question with re ference to the interests of the Established Church in Ireland, in connection with the present system of education in that country. His question was, whether now that the Irish estimates were in course of prepara tion, it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to devise any means, or receive any proposals for schools in connexion with the Established Church in that country. The members of the Established Church had not enjoyed a reasonable share—(Cheers from the Opposition benches)—of the advantages to be de rived from the funds annually granted for the promo. tion of education in Ireland. Lord ELIOT said that it was the intention of Go vernment to include the usual grant for National Educa tion in Ireland, in the Estimates for this year without proposing any alteration. THE STADE DUES. Mr. HUTT wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet relative to the Stade Duties. He asked whether any arrangement had been made by the Govern ment on this question ? Sir R. PEEL said, that as the negotiations were still pending, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not press his question. Mr. HUTT would only take the opportunity of re minding the Right Hon. Baronet that this question had been pending for a long time. Sir R. PEEL said, there were many other questions which had also been pending for a long time.— (A laugh.) As soon as he should be enabled to make any communi cation on the subject he would do so. SYRIA—THE DRUZES. Sir C. NAPIER asked whether any despatches had been received by the Government from Bey rout, rela tive to the union of the Marmites and Druzes for warlike purposes. Sir R. PEEL was understood to say that despatches had been received, but that from the necessity of read ing up the foreign despatches each night he should not be prepared to answer any question on the subject till to-morrow (this day). THE REVENUE. Mr. HAWES asked when the Report of the Revenue Commissioners would be laid before the House ? Sir R. PEEL stMed that it would be laid on the table as soon as practicable. A message from the Lords hreught up certain Bills. MARRIAGES—IRELAND. Lord J. RUSSELL asked what was the present state of the Bill brought into the Lords on this subject ? Sir R. PEEL said, his impression was that the second case that had occurred on this subject was not a cri minal but a civil case, had been turned into a special one, to be argued before the Judges in Ireland, and that an appeal, if thought necessary by the parties, would be made from the Judges to the House of Lords. But the question was, for the present, suspended, as their Lordship s were desirous to consider the decision of the Judges, as a Court of Law, before they further legis lated on the subject. . _ FOREIGN CATTLE. An HoN. MEMBER:WIO3e - I1;1n;;; could not learn, begged to ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether he could state what would be the probable amount of revenue de rived from the importation of foreign cattle.—(Laughter.) This was no laughing matter—(Laughter)—and he would be thankful for a precise answer. Sir ROBERT PEEL said this resembled the ques tion put to him the other night, when an Honourable Member said that because he (Sir Robert Peel) knew the rests of the sliding scale, lie ought to know what revenue the Corn-law would yield. To answer the present question would be still more difficult now that the prohibiam on the importation 'of foreign cattle was about to be removed for the first time. But he was sure the apprehensions on this subject were greatly ex aggerated. He had no fear that the importation of cattle, fat or lean, would materially, if at all, injure the home grager.—(Hear.) This was all he could say at present on the subject. He had heard of a calculator who, having given the height of the mast and the name of the Captain, was asked to find the latitude of the ship—(laughter)--to give a precise answer to the question put by the Hon. Gentleman . would be about as difficult. On the motion that the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee be read, Lord HOWICK presented a petition from the coal owners and ship. owners of Sunderland, against the pro posed tax on coals. Mr. FOX MAULE said that before the Order of the Day be read, he had, in consequence of several communications which he received • from • Scotland, no other alternative than to state to the Right honourable Baronet opposite the position in which the people of Scotland were placed at that mo ment. The Right Honourable Gentleman developed his financial scheme on Friday week, and had stated that he had taken the, greatest possible care to se cure the utmost secrecy with respect to his plan. The knowledge of that plan had scarcely reached Scotland, when it created considerable alarm amongst the classes who were to be effected by it, and the Right Ho nourable Gentleman was now proceeding to take the resolution of the Committee upon it, and it was only at the time that he was proceeding to take that resolution that the people of Scotland were in formed for the first time of his plan; nay, a portion of the people of Scotland were in ignorance of it, although that portion of the United Kingdom would suffer, more severely from his scheme than any. other. He would, therefore, put it to the Right Honourable Baronet whether it was not due to that part of the country, to which he (Mr. F. Maule) belonged, to wait until the people there had expressed their opinion on the tax with regard to which it was his duty to state they entertained very strong feelings. He had, therefore, in the name of the people of Scotland, and in the name of those who had communicated with him to request the Right Honourable Baronet to consider before the Order of the Day was read, whether it might not be consistent with his duty to defer taking the sense of the H o use until after E as t er , an d to g i ve t h e people E of Scotland an opportunity of communicating with their entatives, and letting them know their wishes on rfPrb- —(Hear, hear.) the subjee.. •" PEEL said that he was sometimes told sir ROBEk j. • touch anything, ho was touchln sometimes that that he AIYO.g Afraid A,„ • ~ . usly and now th e Ri g h t g e proposed a d m i s - Hog. Gentleman told MYR that w v gon of f oreign cattle he mit ifrt .6suw., the inte res t s o f - (i):4 the mare people of Scotland. if 14 say that lie had attoni2ted to do justi ce to a ll -(Hear.) He (Sir R. Peel) proposed, for instance, to with. the Corn Bill this day, and at the suggeseiNt Honourable? Gentlemen he was obliged to deter the con , sideration of it, €.* the whole he should say that he could not be a patty to any further delay which was caused.—'(Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.) He thought Or House was in Is condition now to deter mine whether it was politic or not to tapply the deficiency iii the revenue by an income tax, or what other tax, and therefore he could not, be a party t o tray further delay.-4eries of " Hear, hear.") The Right Hon Gentlemaif (Mr: Fox Maule must bear in mind that if the people' Seotland had a claim for the diminunition or reductiOW of the duty which it was proposed to lay upon them, tiny vvotdd have a perfect opportunity of urging their claims in the progress of the Bill, or it would be perfectly open to .the Right Bc nourable Gentleman to propose an amendmnlit , while the Bill was in Committee; but as to the general queitiiv whether ,or no there should be a tax upon income he (Sir Robert Peel) could not help thinking that the House was now fully in a condi tion to determine that question.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FOX • MAULE said, his object was simply to claim, upon the part of the people of Scotland, time to consider between the receipt of the intelligence to impose tho income tax and the passing of the resolutions upon that subject. The Right Hon. Ba ronet, in giving so courteous an answer as he had just Riven, had done his duty to himself as Minister of the Crow's, but he (Mr., F: Maule) felt it his duty towards of Scotland to ask on their behalf f or ti me t o the people co „ ;oer the „z‘sti , on before the resoluti ons were passe d . 11 , 04 - u T ~TEL assured the Right Hon. Gen tleman that i,l4' reecivaSl many Scotland since theybposltion for imposing an income tax was made known, dad sp 'e'aking generaly he (Sir keel) must say, that from sit he could hear upon the subject the people of Scotland were most satisfied with the proposilin,---(Hear, hear.) MIAMI:MAL MEASURES.. In reply to a quegtitd? from Mr. C. WOOD, with re , spat to the Co - . - n-law Bat Sif ROBERT PEEL tridal he was most aidit4o to ]ring the Ministerial measures to a conclusioll, laroceeding with the Coin question depended entil'Av With the House ; if it was thought subject was sufficient, /1 0 4 that the discussion itAtik , the thing could be more satigitiototy to him (Sir Robert Peel) than to bring it to a atelation, but it seemed as if the was no desire to do so.—(l4ear, hear.) H e had evhiettl every anxiety to determine the question— he had fixed it fey every night last week. 'As other night ha asked the gallant Officer opposite (Sir C. Napier) to grant his motion to have prece dence to the corn question but the Gallant Officer (as he had a right tO' do) claimed precedence, and the Corn Bill was postponed-.-in fact he (Sir Robert Peel) had exhausted every means to bring forward the question before, but he found it impossible. If Hon. Gentlemen opposite thought the question had been sufficiently discussed, and were disposed to permit the Bill at once to pass into a l aw , h e s h ou ld be most happy to hear it.--(Hear, hear) If he could bring on the Corn Bill to-night he should be most happy to do so; but if not, he hoped the Hon. and Gallant Officer would permit him to bring it forward to-morrow. Mr. C. WOOD had not expressed either impatience or the reverse ; he was ns anxious as the Right Hon. Baronet could be that the question should be set tled, so as to set the anxiety of the public at rest on the subject. He had asked simply for information, more with a view of ascertaining when he might be able to leave town, than for any other purpose. Mr. CHARLES BULLER thought the Right Honourable Baronet had a few nights since told the House how extremely important it Was that the Corn Bill should pass without delay—( Opposition ,Ch,enTs)—and now he was for bringing forward his s:0 Bill.— I ear ' . r income tax to the exclusion of his Corn . a , said that, ca. , The Right Hon. Baronet, a week ago, 11 a the whole country was agog—(uestion was corn could be sold until the 4 vett the Right Bill. That such was the anx A ety la o u f g settled, and in that assertion he belie f ond ;Met :. Honourable Baronet was quite cot r ec t, and Zel. Titie exclusion of night to press forward the income tax to t. the Right Hon. Baronet was now tryi _g t. tiver neces- th.he)--teadfcire,htibsaC:urno --4'''''. sity there might be for hurrying forward the i , the Corn Bill.—(Opposition cheers.) Wha urry for few people were in such a confounded r __, ,_ /tin ." , an income tax.—(Cheers and laughter.) - 1 } e i na b c , Honourable Baronet in hurrying forward tIa„L . 3., b ,, night otter sure of the income tax was not acting l'. sure tha:', the House, and it was not the first tn. . L o ___ h nose The Right Hon. Baronet was trying to coercet t C h . e ß p u a l r l t er e ) f hthaed Right olisery eliclethh.aßt Baronet.—( eotf.f(ifc:ahre:v:) ~, h duct M o r n . d been s , precipitate Bill. — en ( t r, t o o na th o e p i p n o co si m ti e on ta o e n , ? i o n rhs o .a) r . der Thew --;.;0.;,, into g it e i t g h a a t t t a h e u lion. Baronet had said the Corn Bil l ...,.., „ foal .. al debated a great deal too much.—(Cries of" Nat "`_ l . 6 h a d . ~'.: the Ministerial beaches.) The Right Ron. 8.41r 0 .' __ teen , said that the question had been debated for I; iler) 4 ;, nights, and from his saying that he (Air - mea nt ~t a concluded the Right Honourable Baronebt.__cs No . ', T at to say that it had been debated too In" h • then PO no," from the Ministerial benches.) OIL, it, , 11 the Right Honourable Baronet had il l ' had been debated too little.—(Loud langlitetringTb.tt ''ve was one point of the greatest importance in 11 vet. Is e averages which had never been discussed at' a i nto an j' hoped the. House would not be hurried T he c o ra decision on the income tax, in order to get at „ t was Bill.—(Hear, hear.) If the Right Hon. Baron,; ati t he really desirous of forwarding the Corn Bill, he.„' wee remedy in his own hands, by giving the Cornlßiu dente of the income tax that evening.— Sir R. PEEL said, that although the Corn i' l de been debated sixteen nights, it had not beeletade bated too long, because the result of the d : pore had been that the country had become more ° a i d t haS satisfied with his measure.—(Cheers,) He 113 d s t ld Pr °- a t .; soon as the estimates should be voted, he w° l- cem ent eeessi with his financial measure. That annotleeoctly. had giv en the greatest satisfaction. He was acfing,„„„ort as he had said he would. It was of the utmost l'' re r o an ance that the House should proceed immediately to el os sed• . (Cheersi)3.,, 104 opinion, as to whether or not an income tax should be t o i tt ia be It was most important that the opinion of the House IR' b o ust win g AS expressed at the earliest period upon a propos ition eo ., form the foundation of our system of taxation for they , AorA tion to any imputation that he wished to kee p back the wol' a dons of the Corn Bill, and to deprive the counery of the gre t „ t est he tapes he anticipatedfrom that mea s u re h e l i ed only' to aaJ ec e s tels had done every thing in his power to bring O l e Billio n ' nos ier before the House, and to induce the Gallant Officer t o n to ( Sir C. Napier) to allow him to introduce the anbi ec bi i: bus i " morrow night. But on those nights devoted to Po to to ness, he said it firmly, but respectfully, it was r his inte n oto tog proceed with the preliminary resolution upon Cle in s before the Corn-law Bill. iht o'ni Lord J. RUSSELL said that he thought the ft-g. fi a tha Gentleman had fallen into a slight error when I .1 ..,e r:,, to the when he determined to introduce the resolution re la":,, at , seir incometax, and to take the sense of the House o n "' k J p ro- , jest, he found that there was a general wish that he •5 11 ° e ,,i s becl teed with the measure. The subject which the Ho lifosour to hear was the statement on the part of the Right : ~,,, c oin' able Gentleman of his general financial plans, and of , bea r.? j, mercial alterations which he contemplated.--(Hears t" For his own part he agreed with his Honourable Fri el l ii o ".. 1 if the public interest was solely to be considered it w} ers tial t i most desirable to proceed immediately with the collai(!ts ha of the Corn-laws. With respect to the averages, %''°' it e c i never yet been considered in detail, and which co uld la , r 111 perly be discussed except in Committee, nothing whate" l , a i n? been done. With regard to the income tax there 0 0f ,, , doubt an anxiety prevailing throughout the count r y p ,us . people should kaow the amount of the tax to be levied• t he) everybody was now pretty well prepared as to the sat ° ors should have to pay, and whether the resolution was ta ke t ° o hid'' consideration a little earlier or a little later did not seem t i co ss to be of so much importance. The Right Hon. Ge,l ine d J• ' might take his own course upon the subject, but he t '',; A iell Russell) could onl say for himself that he would ce'7, o t lti •, divide the House — first on the resolution, and afterivardl as the li,nort ; on the first reading, on the second reading, and - . , third :eading.—( Cheers and counter cheers.) _„,. t tr Sir R. PEEL said that he had heard with some eni -e t , 0 1 ' course which the N9ble Lord proposed to pursue ; brlt , o % p ee'. same time, that regret tb . as somewhat qualified by the so° 000 VI meet made by . the Noble Lord that, even before the t _ st si , ter, every one knew t s.j o : n r oti e ., o , l7, came to a decision on the rims:, would have to pay—that was to se ,v, that the propo , si so reasonable.—( Hear, hear, laughtex*, and cries of ' On itisf .1% , It was so necessary for the public inter&t, that without:e; 00 ft e for the decision of the House, every man could know ne lau gli',: i o l the amount which he would have to pay.— ( Renew ed 0 ,1 ter from the Opposition benches.) 0, iPF r a) 5 TE TAX. i '4 l The House then resolved INCOME itself into a Committee °' r al t and Means, Mr. GREENE in the chair. iell ; a t vi b i e i 5 .11Ir. HAWES 'then rose and said, the announeetne b oo the Noble Lord on that side of the House had made . . of tbe iel,' 0 0 termination to offer every Parliamentary opposition to , Ow w it position of this odious and unjust system of taxation I'' , :'; 1)1" . 0 , 1 which he firmly believed would be hailed with satisfsou jea „ , 04 , thousands out of doors. If the Right Hon. Gentlen.or o bos really made out a ease for resorting to an income tax , ' f or Oa t it shown that the national honour absolutely demanded L Ateve t the national credit was at at stake without a, then he ; 0 01 no opposition would have been offered to it. But 1t Atha merely the ground that the Treasury was empty whi c h e a justify a resort to the income tax. He firmly bel ie/ 0 0 if a fair consideration had been given last year to the in to the ,''.*, of her Majesty's late Government ,' with respect lOO corn, sugar, and timber duties, they would ne t ll'i stood in need of an income tax. But ' the Rig - sts nourable Baronet had refused to debate those questlo, o '; t o' he now found himself reduced to the necessity of resort-W:ord; tax the most odious and unjust that could possibly be prl i ,,i( tb, He believed there never was a truer remark than that " the Noble Lord, the Member for Sunderland, the other nigh t : t io', 6 ',,,1 nothing could be more injurious and u n wi se a t the presen t V: . than to support the national cr e dit by an income to;: 0 0,7 1 ' S i tradesmen be called upon to di sc lo se th e i r affairs-let v - o ,ll o ' 4 . be called upon to risk their credit—let merchants b e be' `., ; t ...I be o f A upon to expose all the secrets of their transactions, es--- „. is o -, sr lieved that in a short time there would be such an expre ss feeling on the part of the public as no Govemmeet , .I tieu es t strong, would be able to resist. The Right Hon. G j e. t ; o tio" .0 told them that he intended to introduce certain 11 10 °_„, 1 , rl l', '" into his Bill. When the second uroperty tax was p ro d to Lord Bexley in 1815, he proposal to reduce it from ) 10 0 0 per cent., and he proposed various modifications. I : be el i t ig A c e , try had a large majority ; yet such was the popular, `;'; e l , " • '' the subject, that at length the tax was refused, Sr. " - 109' e t ,e P '" Trounced by one of the most eloquent Members ~ f that fit t o ) . i one, the remnants and records of which were on l ialel i a destroyed by the hands of the common hangman.- -- A,„'est s o o'., The city of L on d on t h en teeme d w i t h pet i t i on s a O vi - e 0 a ip tax. In fact, it wou ld b e i mposs ibl e t o con d uc t the it, ; 1 :0 :1 without adopting the most odious inquisitorial proceedi,_°b'e these he was convinced th e peop l e of England would ' 4 'oo' 4 J much spirit to sub m it t o .—(H ear , h ear .) One of the P e o f ( 1 : 6 1 at that time wa s f rom th e L or d Mayor and Coroorati°ll eo - ' City of London. The Lord Mayor's words were, " Tb a r t e ea''' hsh : e l as w ould ppsaueroltdypieoepr;poelytselifetiuwelivco:viiiihel;s,; if the amount of the tax were reduced from 10 to 6 „P e- 1 ; iii :e . its odious and inquisitorial principle would be unchort ion 'is deed, that it would become more galling." In this °V P „0 0 ' e .1 (Mr. Hawes) concurred, as the smallness of lhe, ta te 0 ,1 ° ,, f t oblige the inquisitors scattered over the country ''',,, c0,,,d cmr i i t n le iaeumnai refusing The ge i h t odr i efev twenty-two . living eii e g n ncr h oet o y t nd -sit H tteo t w h n o fto e et r h , r . et li mof ß r epi i aeal people. feeling it o enp t a n n e glr e e ei ff. t affair s feoft o rh p it aa p ; t i e o pe n tan w p n l i e t t e h i d n i t ; o o b r iv e d na e u r, t : W ee :j o is:rh il e position. y iti n e o n w p f r h o e po ß se ig d h p t r H es e e n n . te ß d e t r h en e e s t tr w on as ge n s e t t c i o n n s t t r i a fi s e t a to o l no ; f e 0 00 ,,5.. in : 4 a t el i n ‘ w ' s e th s iet t l o ew H hoi o us n t el d . r A ru l e s etmiffbytehar that ty fo r tHa t ox h n_ e . i r tAh o ie p e m p p o rb s ei i g t r i r o ei n ne so t e o fff t h pr e iunb iT o r 00. .. 4 t , io , tu :ious opposition to it. What necessity was e tb ere h t o f ? l°: ,lo Irnt , :n 4. , 6, inocorvnaentadtgauextsi?es deornWiveatrhbeele sugar duties. ; the itrnhiperyoonirtattoiaonborefer;lv—dih.:ef Syr on timber? All th e jedvocates of an alteration trtioe4e, timber duties advocatest. the, ; alteration with the le fe ler Va t i s e having the price reduced to the rived from that source increased. N , : r ith respect to the l i, if ...: 4 consumer and the re pots to made by the Right Hon. Baronet from Sir H. Par, ae , o ota!,;, Right Hon. Baronet had proceeded further with t he ti be it would be seen that Sir H. Parnell had said, tha t slotat ber duties were altogether removed the sliipowoo r- see f eat materially benefited thereby. But let thesis f a g io e was actually done, because when they talketi! r esi t coercion, it was esirabie to know what that tia l r• was. The new mode 0f levying the duty "" 0 nil' t he was equivalent to laying on s considerable dutl ° oss , f ,tio Compared with the proposal of the Committee ° arec i ,4s.' ' altered mode of taking the averages would make a diff er be r $' o 'oet diSeriveinating duty between foreign and colonial t' t . t . in g sa al c old If this !tele discriminating duty be maintaire,d a "3tbo t g sso' of revenue Would be sacrificed, and the only tN n ° fle t i .i: e a justify a discrinlMuting duty was to get a revenne' a tae "SO: a large amount of retenue 'destroyed, while at the „ -- ca ilt., ve rta j ` large colonial protectient was also destroyed. Ile " t e l e I ` se' fore, that they had no right to shut him out froos tio bert t to that may be derived from lowering th e duties 0 1 . s riF.,llO impose an income tax.—( . Hear.) He had clet°2 l ,beish i ba cc the tax that might be derived from timber. i ! t e o must fi r' quote those authorities which Gentlemen oloP?" pa rts. be ore considered when they were preparing Pee', o bjec t flo e 3 111 Gregor , in the evidence which he gave oft t",, t u el pro e re,,i , a Committee of the House, said " That 'he v'''',-,t. On °00(1" duty of 7s 6d. or: colonial timber, and tit, - ,,f lit ; uor timber, and that he expected to raise a reveal'', of ten y —( Hear, hear.) Such would be the inere e- s the r i g e t O n ' I tion which would take place on an alteratie r ; ° that :'-,., . a re (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Hawes) believe; id d e rive is a t sumption would be so great that they 11 % 1-L u la lalt e noi rlte° venue of nearly 1,000,000/. ; but he vi-- had 11 cu t° half a million. The" Right Hon. Gent le r " een viol.' the other night that the question was one -e : e. --. at 0 tax and other sources of increasing the rev e i." u s li. o bis in tot that would be the question, and it was e s 'res* regarded it. What did Mr. Deacon Han" sly .„,. I ; n se whom he (Mr. Hawes) knew to h„„av e ,„ v is his_ I' m ob deal of labour and thought on it. Il e A l - 30 proP°"" d u ty. before the Timber - Committee in 1834, Itsesistrotiof th h ti ie an d tarn a quarter of amillion of revenue by 2 1 , ° Home in r lif e , he He (Mr. Hawes) was acquainted with Mr' . hoar of ti ffs with private life ; and he knew that up to the IL I 01 the tarl ccam .3. 4 was an advocate for an improved adjust:es:id_ regard to sugar, the Right Hon. Baron take the subject into his consideration y in ',very -- the_ i t so. did not know how tar it ;could encourage know „estheeort or to t re3tbenait,h-ebe130.,,„: and elsewhere. He (Mr. H.) : l id " 3 7; saY 5° reject the alteration of the duty o er, why -- th e y nntobacc°. the object to give a monopoly to w t is --h b e ed ? s e u s g t a in r on accou nt inter -t PI its being slave produce. If the fo , . 1 1r o d v r id i;g b u e P g r a r was e ntice the tariroe., The, o w p h e i n c / h y ...wiaf, thealso l s a t t s e i r a , v w e theger increase in th tool ; 1 _ l4 , in 1841,, although there was consumption and revenue f capital of the co sy re wa l ls and a vast augmentation 0 one of the largest sug n the O n { he had it on the authority of in 1840 was less t h e uan tity P 0 ^ London, that the consumptiolk e n vras told that the a g n ~, e i. was. g 1:, --(Hear, n .na,,(3213 0 sumption in 1828, and whe n ~ , ( m r. H aw awes " oon ,parea lle sugar imported was increased fit s incrased, and if the y s a considerable' to that the population also f was rthe last ten yrar- , , - . r ease i f " ~s ° , e the wt. r , the consumption of sugar for of . Y-roduce. considered.--(._ _ as „else being , e the population of the country own promice eecauseitiht e regard to, If they excluded slave-grown same principles ;hour, but 1 grown, let them act on the 0 . of slave-grown I falling off would be found ° to ha . ve taken P iae ' Hear, Ilea • / nly then he said other articles, the P " d e ltiest Indiao re onop.--, , _ le o f dia. they intend to uphold th d too much from the r e ) o f free . that they had receive ncples and country. Let them g ive their ‘-'° who Pr te with those ctedtheY able to compe te they would then be t f the world. He ex g Rig ht ' sugar in any par o rOO 0001. e s od slave-grown that a revenue of ..) , ~,. would derive troll' the r evenue ll' - pe r had never told them It to make ' 4 trade, and let them act towards them on those P ri - -educe • lion. Gentleman test the value 0 AD tion on the subject ; but they might to derive from corn, and that it was ditficu,„_ sioa