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

g,od-Latured rebult anceilors of the E* apertinent for bin, 1 1 t had been stated, thj had been taken of ny one—such was di four hundred thou , .d nothing. They J *en taken off since that, that it was net iout raising the price with far less pressure .ncome tax ?—( Heat should assent to thii hich the Right Hon, [on. Gentleman pre. sties of this country the iniputations cast Hear) —when, if any in, a universal titter le, a d a broad laugh 'as quite ready to ak is a good measure--: rvient to the good of earty support to that there could be so itleman might seem might be in..cle sub anue of the country• n would remove the increase of revenue by the Right 110 a. 'y one winch was s ere the duty wig' tion would follow, in them, and lid' f revenue which re to take measures to there would rOt* m b ers on his side ticks dealt k ith by 1, that in the coo a given io Y. a were 17 articles, whole revenue untouched. es a the aritieles differential. He 'ree the mode in which tit for .the'esigen: was the article of ;barge di° • ht ght f ia‘te a sacrtei heo timber. le the Geve!urtueevi,i,„l. reauction otorc ' he must cehtws. at grounds venue had ena', not. would corglieo in his refJrenret, her for Porto: 1 .0011sta. s to app roxi 1 n) • one and lowa led Sir 1-1. Yarn) ursu ing for irrir and maintaining; '1: 'al and foreign.l„l.loer be 25 nous ;11 Sir Hen' Y , old be an. tinge , ' kinstinctiiet g no cti /sing & duty.wbbere: ivably from tu n • ff upon coloaibael t r , yt oreigo ti n ' These e obtained. a°l 0 . 00 les of eoas :11 were thi rer i e d l oct 1, and be Oubetier 7of the c _ fro y could with it 'G e ode' ight goo' , sl d t hat h a d flee °brought rgest ev e r 0 think r incliee floe refer to the of Trade, be k o i.. . t hat in out 01 ;turn Pre,Pardotity , gotta, q-orig nsurnption,", emot of 3,-,t3ria be ,ti cwt " re d last en intMlu''wood) ;be (hlr.. dria iestion Ws,_:°that bought fr°' e d to been a 110,1,09 venue weilleph peunds.,id of antleralla ;he Freno„ Oh' he tar& he long tim e ; t o! 5 . wait for , c bt , they 031, ti lt! be 1 r good, . a ti• et no bett, e ' b eta n who h a "' sel ;his deba te ' Mr. alluded t° d,el in was that •,,to 0 15 other g el ;e advantade'osl general °ors' war tbe E .e jeO , ed to b e f! 41 ,, bid of .. cy 6 a 9 0 11 Sal . to i es into . l a er hiel' ties; wi th . 'l ug by 1113ny n b y lisplay ea , i O. t h e Cell' tbe r „ prin. r „.l ea a e did. keese' e tariff P r b ri e of on to resee, ;;Ith ti'' aw e , were titv iat Old the ' sr. ouldde , a .,; re; the fiest a ono poly . OP' le w as of 0 1' 0 0 Li. less °d 0.0 in of tW' are po st dlit' eg aell subm it to sod e t that aed s' o dious a: 1 0' lode with "I'oo this tas. r State re riecee• iol. , f it is Cr.[' t r cable ths kc i a a lr alinj7tii 3 g rea t co aa ir,v s of tbefisteece a y, thee' eye fiber ler..,e i aid if t be ..0 5 1 / hat 0 0 r e .° The j die al• fau lt th e any t ears. f t he t e t o tier' 0 d i s whittdivid a3 a ce II; T i 'the a ge tt e f lc( ,ace; Ba tt o , re •oros a tter this er icra l P veal' Flory „aer the Pc7013:1 be o u te rs the h it in th.faetorY ec s ato h; ° ' rr ed t° he re.. jo as ' t; p ro , . s ec r reii t 1 1 l eri a g e ,i t ars on ce alan; Lliosog,Ajoess. bis let nae Gerit , )i t ct I; a t" ;7, Per inns' rep air rele Pu v , ,- ool a ,er, or pici the v , ec i‘n th e Ir geneJ, , o 1 0" ked ei e c leri c cows ef ter, fro tg uishe d the :1; lire A j" S ' Ot ral _ i d v w"`" iota, g • now . 00 ; : asion (' 14 n t'e WaS5l Or ,'OO.OOO/• and the cost of colleetinzit was 4,280,000/., ; tlemen opposite, the unanswerable speeches of Hon. Gentlemen th e n ' re o v r e en than eight * per cent. on the gross amount. In 1806 ou his side of the House—he could handy think it necessary Yet t h e a ° was more than six millions greater than in 1840, ' for him to proceed, but be would not on that occasion give a 14,41 an.ieo.lection of it in 1840 amounted to more than a mil- j silent vote. —(Cheers and counter-cheers.) Hon. Gentle .so a nt half than in 1806. What was the .necessity of , men opposite did not think those speeches unanswerab:e he coke Bctuch more now than at that period? The Right I hoped they would favour the House with arguments and figures I lL ecor : roeet had intimated that the revenue officers were j to show 'en to s o , that if the measures proposed last year had been passed, e extent pa:d by fees, but then it should be re- they should now be obliged to have recourse to an income tax that they were paid in paper money, depreciated, jto supply a deficiency of 4,000,000 a —( Cheers. ) That tax had chap..g to the authority of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. been denounced by men of the gi eatest eminence, and by nearly not less than 35 per cent. Looking at the mer- every constituency in the kingdom in 1816, as the most inqui. ,tiaotos;jh manufacturers , shopkeepers, and tradesmen of all de- sitorial, the most oppressive, and the most intolerable that hu 14dipme contended that the condition of all these classes man ingenuity could devise.—(Cheers.) He did not wish to det ally deteriorated. The condition of his constituents IFo further into the subject, feeling that the arguments used and 414., poorated to the extent of 60 per cent. The Property nis side of the House had exhausted the subject.—( Cheers and at-o'n in manufactures was depreciated in value. The Hon. Counter-cheers.) But when he found the House Was about to fa cto rustier for Salford had stated that a building for a manu- go to a division, and that Honourable Gentlemen opposite ry 3°'staiffer".ie"'nuic.n cost 120,0001. had been sold for less than were adhering to the "silent sytsem," he thought it necessary this w fly should they throw the weight of the taxes on t e debate should not terminate wi hoot hearing what Hon. thie f bur g portion of the community ? He thought the Gentlemen opposite had to say.—( Hear, hear.) If Hon. %q ui n ought to be borne by those who had obtained for Gentlemen referred to the debate of 1816, they would find that itsileonpowlieestepeacsualiar privileges, the landholders, the West India night after night for months before the then Chancellor of the sort of co-operators with the landholdere, and Exchequer brought forward his proposition, the subject had eeZet!ho derived their incomes from the public revenue of the been discussed on the presentation of the petitions, and some the, ~!. He woula propose that, instead of imposing this tax, of the best speeches had been made on such occasions. But tia4 e ; ° ,uld make a deduction, not only from the incomes of Hon. Gentlemen she uld recollect that that rule being altered, fee aboven° Occupied ter Treasury benches, but he would go and, as he thought, very wisely altered, they should expect to aad, them, and descend, to a certain extent below them, have more time consumed in the debates limy, and they should . . of th e l l o tel them to make a sacrifice, ' as well as the other classes not exhibit such impatience to come to a division.--(Hear, Of th e i rnunity. He then read an extract from the pamphlet hear.) He thought that the public interests required that .s prats t ight Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), advising the more time should be now spent in debates. For his own part lihat t h e submit to a free trade in corn but with a condition he had the indisposition to go to an immediate vote, if the party 'lige c a re hold be a remission of other monopolies, and a opposite re determined to adhere 'to the " s;lent system." h ,_ ad gri;_uction of taxation, as the operation of Mr. Peel's Bill And he had no doubt that when they came to a division, the It! (it dr " . n, a. bonus to particular classes of 30 per cent. Right Hon. Baronet would have a large majority ; and he Tett H en w liams) was thus fortified by the authority of the only hoped that — if the tax were imposed, and that. w hile he et e nv , ;esoiaronet, now one of her Majesty's Government, . trusted if it were necessary, the people would submit tot—they rived front 3 than a tax of 30 per cent., or the incomes de- were not throwing away that great weapon from acy struggle .gage"lu land or from the public Exchequer would free the in which they may be engaged in an European . war . .—(Ch . eers. , ) r from its embarressments. It would be a great service Colonel SIBTHORP rose amidst loud cries ot " Divide, di this Government if the Right Hon. Baronet would instil vide," and " Oh, oh." He said he would not trouble the Paninhlet into them; but he was afraid the Right Hon. House, were it not for the allusion which had been made to him 11"c'net had ' outlived those excellent principles. The Right by the Right Hon. Baronet who had just sat down, though he eigh t net at the head of the Government declined the other knew not for what reason he alluded to him.—( Laughter. ) Ile (le r state the probable amount of the revenue on corn. The Right Hon. Baronet ( sir R. Peel) was, he was glad to 2 000 ,0 c o• ;NO found it estimated in the Banker's Circular at say, placed in the responsible position which he occupied by the : t4 ifle a e • which ha thought too high ; still it would give united voice of his country. When he heard the Right Hon. tAle r 4, ° ' it. But he was now going to point out some items Baronet attacked for the measure he proposed to augment the eal retrenchment might be Profitably practised. Th e fi nances o f th e country, he was attacked for his endeavour to re. tae C 0 3,,,T , 1t amounted to 4,640,0001., the pensions charged on trieve them from the position in which they were placed by the lit 3 20 7 ( . dated Fund 620,0001., while in 1829 the latter were misconduct and delinquency of the party opposite.-- (Loud cheers 11,4'9111d h ay /. He was astonished that so great an increase and " Oh, oh.") It is true he resorted to extreme measures to bven permitted in time of peace. Then let the meet the extreme delinquencies of the party opposite.—(Cheers Zalte j ell. Baronet do one act o f j us ti ce— l e t him and "Oh, oh.") He saw the Noble Lord, the l a t e S ecretary f or ': e 'sOn a l s.ol property subj ec t t o th e pro b ate d uty t h at Foreign Affairs, who seemed to stand behind the two sinkin g pit. ` r t l , o th en e Pr i operty paid; let him also reduce the expenditure Isrs on his side—(Loud laughter)—smarting under theloss of power, p petty.a'e of 1836, and he would have 4,000,000/. Les the lace, and solar (Loud laughter.) His Right Hon. Friend ~ o f such men as the Duke o f Cl eve l an d , t h e D u k e of (Si r R . P eel) d:d not act like the Noble Lord. lie was never E`4t and t h e Marquisof Hertfrd, be not subject to the tax obliged to have recourse to a tail wanting a head.—Loud ihe ntlit' Posed upon the inherita nce o f t h e 501 . accumu l ate d . l aughter. ) No. That independent, honest, and manly man— i4 a a a'try and penury of the hard wo r ki ngman . A property (Laughter)—would scorn to have recourse to sue t attempt s . t - N ar ukt support to three ti mes th e present sum i f i t were He was a tower of strength, and he would be supported.— ° gati tey t y l but for the reasons he and o th er H on. G ent l emen (L aug h ter.) H e was called on to make these observations in ~.f.((lit night, stated, he would oppose an income ta x .—(C r i es consequence o f w h a t h a d f a ll en f rom t h e Ri g h t H on. Baronet N l °n," amidst which the Hon. Gentleman ea t d own (Sir G. G re y) , b u t as l ie was on hi s l egs l ie could not avo i d say i ng her auroptly that his Right Hon. Friend (Sir Robert P e el) w ou ld h ave hi s la,itNb G. n o said, the Hon. Gentl emen oppos it e seeme d h um bl e b ut s i ncere support. —( Cr i es o f" H ear, " and '• Divide.") Zttle ` o come to a division. At this he was not surprised ; Mr. BLEWITT moved that the Chairman report progress, and N.ttwas surprised that, on a question of such great import- ask leave to sit again.—(" Oh, oh," and " Divide, divide.") t‘v at on a question so vitally affecting the interests of at The Gallery was then ordered to be cleared for a Division, on : a eh - , e , a ° kingdoms of the empire—England and Scotland— the motion of the Hon. Member, when alp; 'arkable silence should prevail amongst those who were Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that as there were many Gentle.. Alit 'is to t io . e testify, by their votes, the confidence they felt in the men who wished to continue the debate, he hoped it would not be 14,4est$, of the Right Hon. Baronet—( L ou d cheers from the interrupted. He trusted that there would be no indisposition on h t h lt al side)—could testify that confidence, by their votes, the part of the Committee to listen to any Hon. Gentleman 'tea e Y shrunk from the oblcquv—( Loud cries of " Hear, who wished to speak.—(Hear.) But before they proceeded 1 t e ga,,,, , ° ' 1 , , the Opposition benches)—and the unpopularity of any further he wished to ask a question with regard to w,ntitet,Vrie measure proposed, er of venturing to state in that a notice of motion given by an Hon. Member, as to an amendment p alth r u st the measure would be acceptable to the constituents of the resolution. A question was to be asked, whether any excep „t 4 , ' t urned them to Parliament•—(Cheers.) But while Lion from the tax was to be made in favour of professions hing ter ',aat li e -raa rkable silence had been broken, he believed only bv minable annuities, or incomes from trades and p? And kAO,:* and Learned Gentleman, the Member for Horsham.: that question could only be put by taking away the first part of on the Ministerial benches)—he did not m ean t o a ll u d e the resolution. He sho u ld, th ere f ore, lik e to k now the opinion of Membersf those on the Treasury benches, but to those the Chairman, whether, supposing the intentions of the Right b ti elund th em ; an d h e b e li eve d t h at a l most the only one Hon. Baronet were carried, it would be competent to move a e- Nei n . "on. Members who had addressed the House that solution of that description? Pla t e , was the Hon. Member for Horsham, w h o had ex- Mr. GREENE was understood to say that he must express his his .. s„ t f willingness to make a sacrifice of his personal in- opinion that it would be contrary to the rules to omit words of the !atl eet ° ' the public good. —(Laughter.) Another Hon. resolution, and he apprehended it would not be competent to move 1414, that n, the worthy Alderman (Alderman Thompson), such a resolution as the Noble Lord alluded to in a Committee of st.otlet he was ready to adopt the proposal of the Right Hon.. Ways and Meant, but that it would in a comtnitteeott the Bill. ph arra , and that our war in Affhanistan ! and our commercial' Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he was then to understand that if eetab ee ss _ i nents justified the measure; but when that Hon. the Resolutions before the Committee were carried, it would not ~e v aalle to the details of the proposal, he pulled out of be competent to move the resolution in a Committee of Ways and "tatir r 7 t Unimpeachable and incs.ntrovertible documents to Means, but that it would in Committee on the Bill. l o llalit y l i e .great injustice of the tax in question, and th e ire- BLEVVITT said he would persevere in his motion, as he be. 2 , 114% 1 . 4. 1t h which it would press upon various classes of the Rested the measure would press on the country in the most despotic ;Ee t 1.1 11 1,... He knew not whether the remarkable silence ob- and aristocratic manner., N 'aid o l Hon. Gentlemen opposite was part of the discipline The gallery was then cleared for a division, but no division took (I .o _ l `t,d been imposed upon them Opp the Right Hon. Baronet place. On our entrance we found r etNi re 'T Cries of " Hear," from the osition benches)._who • Sir R. PEEL slating that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir 0. sal ved hi a of them their votes on condition that they should not Grey) had said that he was unwilling to travel over the field which ,elved e : l easUres by their speeches.—(hear, hear.) He per- had been already so much beaten, and, as tar as he was concerned, tioa.Pressions of dissent from that statement ; but then he he was perfectly ready to go on with the discussion. He trusted ,Poe ;Tie ought to be some reason given to the House why, that the House would reject the motion. ' t lac e question of the greatest importance brought before it Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no wish to prolong the debate, ie i sa 4 ,7 Reform Act, Hon. Gentlemen who had recently but if the Hon. Gentleman persisted in dividing the House, lie 4 1. 4 1. Ouse in their expressions of confidence in the Right would think it his duty to vote against an adj turnment• i '' ',°4l(j i .2 o net, and in their assurances that the measures he Mr. PROTHEROE said it was stated that this proceeding was 3 `.. 15 11Z7P . 05e to Parliament would be entrely acceptable to one for there was a precedent in former Parliaments. He tiZtituents, would not then get up l and say they were begged to fl ask the Hon. Gentleman who proposed the adjournment Cieh theylie had led their constituents to anticipate.—(Hear, lion, or merely to mark his dissent from the measure of the Right tits He 6_, re a d was glad to see the Right Hon. Gentleman oppo- lion. Gentleman ? If it was for the latter purpose, he could not jive's ; " Hansard," and he hoped the Hon. Gentleman give him his support . If it was for the purl: use of securing fur 'lthr studied the debate which had taken place in 1816 ther discussion, he should submit to him that it was too early to ~.'c04,71 to a repeal of the income tax That mi g ht, i n d ee d , propose an ad j ournment.—(Hear, hear.) iltiee.scinie measure for their silence upon the present oc- Mr. BLEWITT said he should imitate the prudence of the ttp e able would find ample evidence that the Right Right lion. Baronet, and decline to answer thi • question,—(Great Baronet was now acting in perfect con- laughter.) athe „with his conduct at that time. They would find Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, ,"llr n 'ad voted in support of the income tax which the Go- when there appeared, ' o 4t: At , rl 4 ,,,itself had pledged itself should lasr only during the For the motion 10'er ro t h;e! of the war. The country at that time smarting Against it le; „ infliction of the tax—an infliction which they had Majority against the motion the "a heroic fortitude long as a necessity for it existed Immediately after the division was over, and before the gallery a t4 lllt h o ot y struggle in this country was then engaged was opened, ti r th eb l l any point of honour, or any orject f conquest, but Dr. BOWRING (as we understood) moved that the Chairman existe,ce—the country, after having submitted do report progress. On (air readmission to the g allery, we found— • t korne tax, and continued the war for years, which they Mr. BLE VVITT on his legs. He said that the Right r sts eg li . t length to a happy and glorious termination in the Honourable Baronet, the Member for Tamworth, had w aterloe, could bear that tax no longer, and, in spite turned out the late Ministry, and had taken live months 4 ab„ n sernment of the day, supported by the Right Hon. Ito deliberate on the propositions which he should make o ii, h et rs they declared that it was a tax which should be re- ! with regard to taxation.—(Cries of "Oh I" from the Ministerzal _ie ‘ Zelusively fur time of war—not a war in Affghanistan, Beaches, answered by vehement cheering from the Opposition a 'gli,fopean war ; for it was in that sense by every one who Benches.) Yes! the Right. Hon. Baronet had taken five months to 4, , , lta t `n or th_e history of the last half century that it was named ; deliberate on his proposition—(Contin - ued Opposition diem s)—and • .sstner taxes to the amount of many millions had since he had stated them to the House o n Friday week last.--(Loud h a ris l ea ed; and the Right Hon. Baronet now came forward cheers.) It was only on Friday last that lie had stated to the House ;`,pt"„_ our of an income tax, in order to enable him the machinery by which he proposed to carry his plan of taxation .I.lr finances in, a proper and fitting condition.— intoeffect,and now he refused to give time House time to deliberate 1 . 4 front the Ministerial benches.) He would give Hon. on the proposition, or the country time to consider it.—(Loud ti tev ` t h the benefit of that cheer; he was happy to find j cheers.) Tiie Right Hon. Baronet had taken five or six months b, defiri ) ad reserved their votes for their cheers.—( Hear, and the House was to have no time at alt.—(Vehement cheering.) . o ne was more ready to admit than he was that Such conduct was not fair either to the II use or to the country. Q esie ty fles Which now existed in the revenue to meet the Capt. BERKELEY had voted against the motion for adjourn. a e,si he d i 7Penditure of the country ought to be supplied ; !Dent because he considered it was not fai.r to stop the discussion at 1), 'al b e not stand there to say that no additional taxes - that early hour, but he must say that he t bought there was equally o:,l'osee i• l mposed. He did not even say that if the measures as much faction in a dead silence—(Loud cheers)—and in the de. 'Ated .her her Majesty's late Government w ere now t o b e term i nat i on to come to a vote without any attempt at answering the t.vioolui be no necessity to impose fresh taxes ver y f orc ibl e speec h o f th e Ri g h t H onoura bl e B arone t o n hi s (C ap . ass o , W ks: 4 ,,,,7eit—uir-ibi: l financial deficiency. But the q ues - t a l e B er k e l ey ' s ) s id e o f t h e H ouse, h e sa quite as much evidence tha ` had been denounced in 1816 o f f act i on as i n vot i ng f or an early adjourn anent.—( L ou d c h eers .) th en lite 4 l n • t odious, the most inquisitorial and intolerable Sir GEORGE GREY said that teferen• had been made to what in pol y I ngenuity could devise—a tat which the cou n t r y h i .d f a ll en f rom hi m i n the course of the eli.seussion, as to, the argu tt4"atel ' o bmitted to in consequence of the circumstances ments on his (Sir G. Grey's) side of the douse being ex'bausted. ler t ,a to we were placed—the question was, wh e th er th a t h e h a d not for a moment meant to say—it .deed it would have been lle t 7ace to which they should ha v e recourse i n con- presumption in him to have done so—he had not for a moment 4. 4 111,14; r a de fi ciency in the revenue, which the Right meant to say that no arguments could be urged against the meusure : tk h e gre tt L iatonet himself admitted to be but temporary ? what he had meant to say was, that a fter the several speeches b " that he did not then see in his place the Right which he had heard, in which the argumi ents against the measure %ea), w"L`tentan the Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr C. had been urged with great ability,and. to which he had heard of ti, l aee ele 4 . o had been one of the most - active - denouncers ' of scarcely any attempt at reply—(Cheers)---11 e should not fatigue the tf, h_ me E zell ' e a .. a in 1816, and wh . o had ta . unted the Chanee . ll . or House by entering in any lengthened ergo ments on points t . vli ch thiseit era ,,elier of that day with speaking of the possibility had already been discussed. lie had never had the pre,umption to of 'nag the evils of such a tax. He believed it was the say that Hon. Members were to be preclu. led from addressing the el l tl sell44etieriee of the tax on the part of the present gene- House on subjects which were so intereseii i t; both to themselves and induced the Right Hon. Baronet to presume to their constituents. On the contrary, his ors ti opinion was the debate leoas th e House to agree to such a proposal ; and strong ought to be protracted—(Cheers)—and h e had voted against the te h. t he support of a party so recently and cheply motion which had just been negatived, mu achy because he saw ne I %Ni. eli mt, Whatever their own opinions might be, and reason why the debate should riot be cot dinned until the usual k, 1) 14 Olt be the opinions of their constituents, he had no hour for adjournment.—(Cheers,) I le t hat ow the Right Hon. Baronet would be supported by Mr. FOX MAULE said he undoubted' a • voted in the minority, I , l 44 a ttle jtsc t it y. But he felt certain that after experience and he gave his votp, not with respect to any discussion that had l ui et 'tari a l "own the nature of the tax—its odious and taken place on that motion, but becs i:ake he wished to see h oi st ut a , Process, of which the Right Honourable Ba- the vote upon these resolutions die erminately delayed. a: stel e s o slow to tell them a process which (Loud cheers-) ,He had made an app :al to the Right Ho. Utd:Ols ee av atired to attribute to Lord Grenville and Lord nourable Baronet before that discussie n was opened ; that ttel „nettle process which would he absolutely necessary in night he (Mr. Fox Mauls) told him that a vast number to ',l l _e s him to extract the tax from the pockets of the of the people of his (Mr. Maule's) country had not even the know. ler r , t„i t4 7 c=ertain that after a short experience the same ledge that these resolutions had been time osed ; and it was upon a gd " the ax would be engendered which had existed this ground that he (Mr. F. Maule) was .und in the minority. It 4 tti • ant ° t hat there would before long be a unanimous and was on this ground that he intended, by all legitimate grounds in tie 4 41 , „el . ' 6 ` lr tl , and for its abolition. What were the arguments his power, to prevent the vote.—(Loud el ieers.) 'es e „,,,o induce the House to consent to a continuance of Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but no division took t itte l i d dre s l'l '3 7 , they were precisely the same arguments which place. Ott our return to the gallery we sound tto as k e : . " ( . 1 , :o the House in order to induce them to vote for Mr. VERNON SMITH addressing tt ie House. He said that th be % ti l t e. The House was told, as now that the tax was he never remembered a great questi 07.1 like the present one on bps arti I ' t iled, and that if it were not imposed, they should which all the Cabinet Ministers rani tined silent. He must say e es of •.rd, r consumption used by the Poorer classes, and that they had treated this question alto contempt to impose so k r, ee Of • o i' the people more odious than the tax com- mighty a tax on the people of this ceuntry with so L a th i ' J ut at th tt" th e a ime e country . had expe- little argument in its favour, for which he would not except ; 1 4 tetra the "r and they unhesitatingly adopted in preference toe very able speech of the Right Hi ra. Baronet, the Member for t o old at t „ c onsumption of the country. When the House Tamworth, because he had' declined t cutter into any argument in. k be time that the tax should 1;e but temporary, and behalf of the machinery of raising th e tax. He must say that this .I,t4 c e 'Ptt e lf s led in a less odious manner, they turned a deaf ear question had not been debated in ie manner it ought to have t tr is t a lioe e, because they felt confident that no . essential been. He was not endeavouring to csf :er• a factious opposition, but t z , 1 : t h as t c°ll d take place in the machinery of the Bill if he would say that it was an intolerabe mode of proceeding, and one Ih e„. , „ PrOdUce the amount of revenue which the Minis- so which they ought not to snbinit,,f towever large the majority, in i:ta li aY a nticipated from it. Did any one believe that forcing such a measure througit tile' House without debate. Ha 1, 1 " th Nat i " coted now be made in the machinery by which confessed he was perfectly astonished. that the Right Hon. Baronet ii motet it ,„,° h i e extracted from the people? DAI any one be- who load usually shown such deferencef and courtesy to the House of Whi c T s 'd be divested of that odious and inquisitorial Commons at the course he had taken- on that occasion. It was for the tc„,, tiZ;,had its pressure so much felt on former occa- that reason he (Mr. V. Smith) matt found in the minority, and ur et tle,"'l tn s'" thci people only submitted to, because they voting for the adjournment, and nor.' for the purpose of delaying '41: 4 1 wee M ake M ake any sacrifice when the national honour indefinitely the debate on that que: it ion, which he hoped to see ia tt 'r e:,lasse - Co ncerned, and the name and power of England properly debated in the face of th s.t House and the face of the A t t k.u p p,, t ° , ll , but which they would not submit to when any countgao lea tl e Y'rig r , e h offered of meeting the demands of the country Sir J. GRAHAM, who spoke in :in extremely low tone of voice, ih"(141? f M tte r „; e means of providing for its expenditure ? said, that the Hon. Gentleman who tad just sat down,liacl attacked in,:tat„ar a 1 . l e nt that it was proposed to le v y th e p resent the Cabinet Ministers for their silei ace on that occasion, but the „mired period, he would remind, the House, that H on . G ent l eman seemed not to rec ollect the speech of the Right )ris e j t gleijan s ‘ been formerly made, and t he Ho use d i d no t Hon. she Chancellor of the Excheep ler, who went fully into the gelatefaieN of to its adopt ion. Then they were to have questaon. He was quite surprised • bat no Cabihet Minister had ail ea th ' . ial d „and other salaried officers, which he was sur- spoken in this debate Now he en' s.'d remind the House and the I Vh sl oti e ,7 4 l) ) ' not call up the Hon. Member for Lincoln (Colo- country, that in the early . parl of that . evening an announcement I,e who t It wa Important to know that th • Corn- r h _ er i t •es e those had been made of a determined oppo: tion on the other side of the t h ,yeele d be appointed by th e R ig ht Ho n . Baronet. House. The House had been infoi n ned -that night by the Noble .Nee l ,th e ‘" l hereafter be proposed that the tax should Lord, that be should take the opinir;a of the House on these reso. st Z,, th,, "les 4 would again he told that it was not advisable tuitions, and that it was his inten'Aoto , when the Bill founded on 1 1 ,,,,.,c,0n5ur0pt,00 to the injury of the poorer those resolutions was brought in, to d wide the House on the first ti l , t 7 be told that machinery for the tax already reading of It. Oil the secone rea titig of the Bill , he, there. ht, L ax . ats. machinery should be created for raising fore, anticipated ample discus•;ony—. (Loud cheering.) It wLs for °e b ; 11 "d then, although he did not think that the public convenience that nu , unnecessary delay should 4i iis, 4i nfe -4 ' l b e " s y task aft, r en .experience of the take place on that pre'iminary question. They did not w ry a uthisc , tl thearit ,obtained, to continue to impose it ; wish to avoid discussion ; on the co or teary, they were willing fully thas ex t e nt tt h e saw no security . in the general to eater into it, but on the present o c easion this was only the intro has r e _ tt e ,, x would create, that it would not be duetion of the preliminary measure, dhen such a course of oppose v at! ~v o tie . ," i s 67r now to adopt it.—( Hear. hear. ) It tion—(The rest ortiie sentence was , P West in the loud cheers that fol. a nd v mien to go into any figures with regard to lowed on the Ministerial side of the . Rouse.) 'll4l'lll at Y L ;M i ltle z' t e le e 4.. a . ii , enditute of the country, as the. House Sir B. HALL said he agreed in a flat had fallen from the Right h,"ti .711 h "le n ue. 7.F. subnotted to its consideration upon Hon. Baronet who had spoken last, that it was necessary sic come ti. M O ) , , t , t roe, 44 reo re "Xn ; and as it had been placed before to a resolution on that subject; but when there was so much op. of 4 44 bee t , 'into !'itY than he could pretend to. position in that House stud the coo ntry ; when they were placed th tt e tip ell Sh own 'l.lDell he stood was, that no reason in that situation, as stated by the Spi taker—when these resolutions la, ite:e ts,rtthieh her the imposition of such a tax—the should be adopted, via, that it was sof nosstb.le for the people to e r ne , the „ went was, that at the termination petition against the measure—the I ositii 'it in %Oki) they . wer . e g s- r: , ,ity: 4 „. 4 14 ‘ b a ! sho u 'j d itt try had, with one voice, demanded that placed by the Right Hon. Baronet a t the head f her Majesty s co n, w4rinw. recess removed. He admitted that other Government —who acted wisely ; he s lieu e ea u ° Ho e ;o a r) but when he spoke of that ne- questions as to the details of the qu- ions b s aught forward, and t o i ses wh ,., ~entlemen opposite cheered any allu- adhered to strict silence, and reins' - . a'o' old st in not answering e '2 o sr tl , at 1 .,, Q •t th ern ''', l had created the financial deficiency, he what his views were, and only a f 'eased since that ew Jays had ei • ettr ee 'at irefiei ee au approval of those steps which bad statement had been made ; and' l• fr o teen at hadihe e). Did not Hon. Gentlemen opposite to determine as to this tax, whicl eoen: week they Vere called upon ,1 41 to de,la. e to the country w site 'Le h easur e tea Alio• l ee s Proposed last year by the late Go- anti which, as regarded many I steri, l was rrit st obnoxious—die thought on , all classes, i press heavily -- ‘ 4 O t 'at ' nench (Hear, hear, and derisive cheers the least'they could expect 1 ! om the Government was, that time t o o s a l t ed, th, e s)—could Hon. Gentlemen oppo- should be given for the cone •• sition • is.l Lne m easures try t` ti icier that great piano , Af t •sui e4 ; et], same (len o. the late Government had to consider whether it was r , ecess ti it a tax of this kind should tte t he I n is l and that ?lency which now exists, would be imposed on the courier,: R e a d r3 ! I hiek it would have been a 4, 4 ,ep etiti eor ne tax , t ,. vvoted be found necessary fair course towards that H ouse w4d 1, ' ll4. ~._l 3r l of th e 4 . 0 00,0001. a-year ?—( Hear. 1 Baronet had stated hi., .todd spee propositions, ; ind the House be •tiven time to . jUdgeri t...es—the unanswered speeches and the country after Easter, to cons ides what those proposi. from the silence of Hon. G ' • en* tons were. H e %old only say that h e des, .red to offer no factious THE - riStTN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1842 or vexatious opposition ; but he did think that, as a question of the greatest importance that could be discussed in the House of Commons, time should be given to the 'House to determine upon its merits, before it was brought before before the con. sideration of the House, and to give an opportunity to their con stituents—for that was the greatest importance of petitioning the House on the subject—and he thought they aught to take their stand according to the forms of the House, so that they could pre vent the carrying of this vote, to give the country an opportunity to judge of these propo.itions. Sir ROBERT PEEL was surprised to hear the charge brought against him by Hon. Gentlemen on the opposite . side of the House for acting uncourteously—it was difficult for him to know how to act—sometimes lie was charged with speaking too much, and some times he was charged with want of courtesy for not speaking at all. He had spoken for three hours and a half the other night, and en deavoured to develope the plan of her Majesty's Government as well as he could. Objections were made, and ably made, by the Right Hon. Gentleman the late Chancellor of the Exchequer ; objections were also made by several other Hon. Gentlemen on the opposite side of the House, but he must own, as far as he was con cerned, he had entirely exhausted all he had to say upon the ge neral question and the development of the plan.—(Hear, hear.) He really thought that it was more consistent with true courtesy and respect, under such circumstances, to ma;ntain silence (meaning at the same time no personal discourtesy) rather than make a speech for an hour and a half or two hours, repeating what he had already said.—(Cheers and laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman said he (Sir Robert Peel) bad not vindicated the machinery of the measure—he had only explained the general machinery, and he embraced those principles in the resolutions he submitted to the House. However, he had strong reasons now to believe that what the country wished to see was, that the measure might be reduced to a tangible form. It was impossible for him, at any rate, to vindicate the machinery till it was put in a proper train. He hoped, however, that the country would recollect that the question upon which the House had just divided was put soon after half.past eleven o'clock, when there was no disposition on that side of the House to speak further upon the question. His Right Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and himself (Sir Robert Peel) had exhausted what they had to say. Other Gen tlemen had manifested no disposition to rise ;—the people of the country were watching their proceedings in that House with in. tense interest, and there should be no unnecessary delay.—(Hear, hear.) He could only say, that at half.past seven o'clock this evening he counted the Members on that (the Opposition) side of the House, and then there were only 23 Members on them—(Beer, hear)—and he should also say there were not many mote upon his side of the House.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Sir GEORGE GREY said it appeared a remarkable coincidence that the Right Hon. Baronet should have taken the trouble to count the House when there were so few Members on bath sides.—(Laughter.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that after what had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet, he should say that so long as it ap peared there were representatives of constituencies anxious to ad. dress the House, he (Lord John Russell) would not join in putting an end to the discussion ; but when the Honourable Gentlemen proposed an adjournment at half-past eleven o'clock, at a time when the debate could have gone on conveniently, he (Lord .1. Russell) felt it his duty to oppose it. He thought there had not been enough said upon the subjedt yet. The purpose and object of going into a Committee of the whole House was to con skier the matter for discussion more maturely. It was only when they began with the ordinary forms of a Bill— when they were about to impose burdens open the people—that the Howse of Com. mons resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, in order that it should have an opportunity to deliberate seriously upon the question, and ascertain the opinions of their constituencies. For that reason he should feel it his duty to take the sense of the House upon those preliminary points; therefore, without any in tention of giving unnecessary delay, whenever a question was put, Other with the Chairman (Mr. Greene), or the Speaker in the Chair, when he (Lord J Russell) was called on to pronounce " Aye" or " No," to the proposition, he should feel himself fully at liberty to take the sense of the House upon the question.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BROTHERTON said the motion of the Hon. Member (Mr. Blewitt) was made without any consultation with the Meinhers upon that side of the House. Lord WORSLEY disavowed any intention to give a factious or unnecessary opposition to the Ministerial mea%tire, but bethought it was due to the constituencies of the country to give them moretime to consider the question. He thought he should not be considered guilty of factious opposition if he expressed his opinion that the Government should consent to put off the measure till after Easter_ so that the country might have time to examine it thoroughly, and form a judgment upon it. He could assure the House that this was a subject of great importance to the agricultural districts, and he hoped her Majesty's Government would consent to adjourn the consideration of it till some future period.—(Divide.) Mr. BLEWITT said the Hon. Member for Salford had aecused him of bringing forward a measure without the concert of his party; he begged to say that he stood there as an independent Member of Parliament—(Oh, oh. and ironical cheers from the Ministerial benches) -and every motion which he brought forward was without reference to one party or the other —( Divide, divide.) Mr. DUNCOMBE said he thought the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government would save himself and the country a good deal of trouble if he would at once adjourn. As for the word "factious" as it had been applied, he (Mr. Du ncombe) (lid not know what it meant, but in every case, when they op. posed her Majesty's Government, they were called factious.— (Hear, hear.) He highly deprecated the precipitancy of the Go vernment, and the country considered it most indecent. He had been called on by his constituents to endeavour to defeat this mea. bure by every constitutional means, and such he was sure was the desire of many other constituencies, and this would be manifested after Easter, as soon as the people understood the matter.—(" No, no ") He was sure that the more the question was understood, tile more it would be opposed. It was for this reason that her Majesty's Government wished to press this measure through the House ; and so long as an adjournment was moved, he should vote in favour of it, Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, atsd the Committee dig Wed, when there appeared— For the motion 9l Against it 241 Majority against the motion — 150 On the gallery being re-opened, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE was on his legs. He said that the number for the adjournment on the ft rmer division was 51, on this division it was 01 ; the number had, therefme, consequently increased, and he hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would now consent to give the House and the country the time they required ; they required it that themeasure might be fully discussed. There were four or five Gentlemen near him who were anxious to address the Committee on this resolution, but he did not ask for the delay on that account; it was that the subject might receive a full deliberation. If the country then should be in favour of the principle of an, income tax, it would give its consent to it, with its eyes open— (Hear, hear)—if not, the people would have at least an opportunity of making up their minds on the question. He would say again that Hon. Gentlemen opposite would make a great mistake if they should ask the House to agree to this resolution this evening. He thereforebeggecl leave to move that the Chairman do report progress and ask leave to sit again. —(Cries of" Divide, divide.") Sir R. PEEL said—l will not voluntarily be a party to the post,. ponement of this resolution—(Hear, hear;—any longer.—( Cheers.) I may not be able to resist the obstructions which may be thrown in the way of the Mimic, but I will not voluntarily be a party to a postponement of the resolution, because I think the House is in a position to pronounce an opinion upon this preliminary step. If the sense of the country should be against the measure proposed, that settee may be effectually manifested against it in future stages of the measure. The Noble Lotd opposite has given notice of his intention to take the sense of the House on several stages of the Bill— on the first, second, and third readings. The first of these stages cannot possibly be proceeded with till after Easter, and the Bill itself cannot be produced till after this preliminary resolution is agreed ,to. I confidently believe that the sense of the country will be in favour of the Bill.—(Cheers.) There may be some difficulty attending the proposition of the resolution and the passing the Bill, but I believe that the country will be willing to bear those burdens which I believe are necessary to the mainte. Lanee of public credit and the national honour. I have a confident trust, also, that the proceedings of this night will not disincline them to that feeling.—(Cheers.) I place full reliance on the sense of the country, and I believe 1 do not mistake it, when I say that I think it will deprecate the course now taken. It is my inten tion, therefore, if I am prevented from proceeding now with this resolution, to fix the very earliest day which I can fix, which is the first day of Supply, Wednesday next, when I shall he in my place ready to discharge what I think my duty to the country, in proposing to the House the further discussion of this measure. I am desirous as soon as possible to make known to the country what are the exemptions, what are the nature of the regulations' and what the machinery for collecting the tax. I cannot have an opportunity of doing this until the House has assented to the third resolution, and, I believe, it is fitting that this resolution should be discussed at a time of the session when there is a certainty of a full attendance. Therefore, lam anxious to proceed with the preli. minary stage now. But, from long experience in public affhirs, I know what will be the result of contests of this kind. I voted with the utmost pleasure with the first majority when the motion was merely to put eff the present proceeding. The second was on the substantive point, whether or not the resolution was sufficiently 04. cussed, and wheth er th e H ouse was content t h at t h e proccedlWg should go on now. On the first division, the Members of the late Government voted with the majority, on the last they retired from the House.—(Hear, hear.) Ido not complain of their retirement, for, I take it as an indication that, in the opinion of the late Ad. ministration, we were perfectly justified in the vote and as far as the subject had passed competent to take the sense of the Howse.— (Loud cheers) But knowing the result of contests of this kind when persevered in, I will beg of my Hon. Friend not to press his motion, the sense of the House has been already manifested, and I am sure that if we show a little patience we ?hall reap our reward.—(Cheers.) Therefore I will, not oppose the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, although I protest against it; but I shall at a subsequent period of the evening move that these proceedings be resumed at the earliest possible period, that is, Wednesday next.—(Cheers.) Mr. FOX MAULE said that the flight Hon. Baronet observed with a sort of self-sufficient complacency, that the opinion of the country was on his side. What grounds had he for saying so ? Did he see the opinions of the newspapers, which were the exposi tors of the opinions of the country ?—(Henr, hear.) For his part, so far as he could collect public opinion he (Mr. Fox Maule) knew it was decidedly against the Right Hon. Baronet.—(Hear, hear, and great interruption, which was renewed amidst laughter and cries of Question," at every new attempt the Right Hon. Gentleman made to speak.) He would content himself with saying that he did not fear to meet the Right Hon. Baronet on the area of public opinion. Sir T. ACLAND said that it appeared from the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman that the object of these motions was delay and not discussion. The Hon. Gentlemen opposite wished for delay without discussion, in order to give their friends out of doors the advantage of determining on the measure before they knew its details.—(Ministerial cheers.) He had divided with the majority on the last divisions, believing, that by so doing, he was showing to the country the nature of the opposition which had sprung up within the last few days. It was his (Sir Thomas Acland's) wish that the measure should go before the public for their decision in a complete state. It could not do so unless the resolution was passed before the recess. He hoped this kind of warfare with which old Members were but too familiar would not be continued, but as Hott. Members opposite could not exercise their invaluable privileges of obstruct ing public measures without paying for it the penalty they had to pay for it this night was the waste of an hour and a half of public time. Mr. C. BULLER. wished to say a few words on what had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet and the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down,. He (Mr. Buller) admitted the impropriety of the attempt at adjourning at half-past eleven, and had voted against it. It had appeared to him afterwards, as twelve o'clock arrived, that it would have been in conformity with the usual coulee for the House to adjourn.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," from the Ministerial benches, and loud cheers from the Opposition). Why the Right Honourable Baronet had said before that be did not wish to place any obstruction in the way of Hon. Members who wished to ad. dress the He:use ; and it should be recollected that they were in Committee for discussion only one night. There was another ar gument which would justify him in his opposition to the attempt of the Government to push this question forward to an immediate vote, and that was the ground taken by the Right Hon. Baronet that he had further revelations to make respecting the machinery. Why it was the most preposterous thing ever known to propose an income tax one Friday, to develope the plan of machinery another at.d then to say that he bad further revelations to make and unless they would give bins a further stage of the Bill, to say h, would not make them, and would hold them (the Opposition) up to the country as preventing him from doing so. He (51r.13.)w0u1d appea to the country on that point, and ask who it was that withheld in.' formation from the pcople ? He who refused to give all his in formation at once, or those who said they would refuse to give a vote in the dark.—(Loud cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet was acting contrary to the precedent of all his predecessors. He (the Right Hon. Baronet) might have followed the precedent of Mr. pot, who when he first proposed the income tax had detailed all the machinery so clearly that he had no further explanation to make.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet had not been able to make it out at twelve deliveries. It was hard to call on the House to vote without this explanation.—(Cheers.) Sir R. PEEL said he had not said he had any further revelation to make, The charge was that he had not vindicated his machinery, and he protested against being called upon to vindicate it without the Bill being before the House. There were fifty or sixty clauses relating to the machinery, and it would be preposterous to enter into details in a speech. He had stated fully quite sufficient for every and any purpose, what the machinery of the Bill wa , , and respecting the details, no speech could give half such satisfactory information regarding them as the reading the Bill itself. If he were to begin now a speech explanatory of those details, it would be a much more effectual method of thinning the House than any other that could be adopted.—(Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN then put the question, that he do report progress, which was agreed to, and the House resumed. the backs of the middle-class constituency. This is as it should be. Peel would deserve thanks for the 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 wa* nothing for it but, to snake a ha c k o f th e 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 pressiin 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. We 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 abolishing or reducing them." 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, perh a p s , seem p ara d ox i ca l, b ut it is, nevertheless, true, that an impost so odious in its principle is only tolerable because it is seve.e in its application. We shall explain our meaning more fully. In times of great danger, such as we have lately encountered, taxation may be allowed to assume a more rigoraus 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 ceaFe, 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 he impartially levied. We put in these conditions iii 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 pinto 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, a n d 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, whue 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 t.s 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 tnis misery and corruption is now to be fastened upon the country for ever, and for what? Not, as before, for s:, 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, if is that an income tax now of 5 per cent. is much more unjustifiable than one of 10, or even 50 per cent. under farmer 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 alhe, as it soon will do, upon this aggravating topic, that then attempts will be made to soothe it by promises that even the 5 per cent. shall o n ly b e a t emporary 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 who:ly 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 - its 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 pained 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 resist it in every shape and form which it rnay assume, and shall not be found wanting to our engagement."—The Times, Feb. 6, 1816. " We are glad to perceive anything said, even in behalf of the British inquisition, the income tax, both because whatso ever is said in support of so odious a process can only serve to betray the cause it would maintain by the weakness of the de fence, and because we are sure that injustice and oppression succeed best in obscurity, andare overthrown by free discussion. " An evening paper, in the shape of queries, deduces the following inference : That a case of necessity being made out by the King's Ministers, the tax 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 I.'s reign, that the King might have recourse to ship-money, in a case of necessity ; and that his Majesty—that is, his Ministers —are the judges of that necessity. The truth is, that no one doubts the logic by which the necessity may be urged ; but common sense and common reason declare, at first sight, that it is all false. 'I here can honestly be no want of the money ; for if in p. ace, and after victory, we are to be subjected to the inquisition tax, to what unheard-of tortures must we ,have submitted in the case of defeat, or the continuance of war? France, the conquered country, hag, even at present, no impost more odiously scrutinizing or oppressive. But, to put the matter differently ; this tax has been called a war-tax, and we have been promised that with the war it should cease. What state of affairs, then, we demand, did they who made us these promises suppose would justify the extinction of the tax at the end of the war, if the present will not? Let them tell us how it is that the present condition'of Europe is not so satis factory as they expected it would be when they made us the promises; or else let them confess that they meant to deceive us, and never intended to relinquish the tax at all. It is most obvious that no possible good can result from its continuance in any shape whatever, because there is no possible good which, as a nation, we have not obtained. The farmers are said to be distressed ; but that is not now the matter in dispute ; the pro duce of the tax is not to be applied to their relief. In our foreign relations what do we want ? Absolutely nothing. And what in our internal concerns? Nothing but the immediate removal of those burdens, of which only the magnitude of the danger from abroad, now past, could justify the imposition. However, our purpose is in a great measure answered; for we see and hear that the nation is ready to rise as one man against this breach_ of faith which it is now attempted to put in prac tice: That which is wrung from its necessities can only be ap plied to its ruin."—The Times, Feb. 8, 1816. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MARCH 19.—This being the last day of term, a congregation was holden, when the following degrees were conferred . Masters of Arts.—Rev. George T. Hyatt, of Wadham Col lege; Rev. George Burden, of Magdalene Hall ; Rev. Thomas Lowe, of Oriel Colleg e . Bijhelors of Arts.—Thomas H. Mynors, of Wadham Col lege; Samuel Newington, of New Inn Hall. The examiners of the candidates for the mathematical scholarship have notified to the Vice-Chancellor that they have elected B. Price scholar of Pembroke College. This scholar ship is tenable for three years. Messrs. G. Smart, of Exeter College, and R. T. Davison, have been elected exhibitioners on Lord Crewe's foundation of Lincoln College. Messrs. W. Bradley, of Lincoln College, J. Banks, of St. Mary Hall, and J. R. T. E a t on , o f Elizabeth College, Guern sey, have been elected scholars of Lincoln College. The President and Fellows of Magdalen College have pre sent, d the Rev. F. P. Lowe, Fellow of their Society, to the Rectcry of Saltfleetby, All Saints, Lincolnshire. The Rev. R. Marriott has presented the Rev. F. A. Mar riott, of Oriel College, to the Rectory of Cottesbach, Leices tershire. The Warden and Fellows of All Souls College have pre s, nted the Rev. E. B. Dean, Fellow of that College, to ,the Vicarage of Lewknor with Ackhamstead, in this county. FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—An alarming fire broke out in Messrs. Harrison and Lathom's warehouse, situated in front of the St. George's Dock, on Friday night last, chiefly filled with cotton stores, much of which were damaged. Three ac cidents occurred : one from the falling of a fragment on a police man engaged, 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 about three parts grown. Under date of Turin, March 3, the Augsburg Gazette says :—" The negotiations tespeeting the marriage of the Princess Januaria, sister of the Emperor of Brazil, with the Prince de Carignan, have been broken off, because it was stipulated on the part of the Prince that, in case the Princess should be ci.lled to the throne the Prince 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 Common Council, held Dec. 19, 1798, Pitt's plan for taxing income caused the adoption of resolutions, stating " That, in the opinion of this Court, the Bill now pending in Parliament, 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, cruet, and oppressive," and , 4 that the said Bill proposes to establish an inquisitorial power unknown ix 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 on the 9th of January following. CORN BILL. In answer to a question from an Hon. Member, • Sir R. PEEL said, he purposed proceeding with the Corn Bill this day (Tuesday), if motions which had precedence should be disposed of at a sufficiently early hour to afford him the opportunity. QUEEN'S PRISON BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and was read a t►ird time. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. THE TO - 1(Y INCOME TAX. [OPINIONS OF THE COUNTRY PRESS.] (From the Dublin Evening Post.) " The discontent in general, and remonstrances the most 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 a grand inquisition set on kot 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 honour, of 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 variation 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 j ust i ce. " (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 feel 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." (Proin the Devonport 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 selves, 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 presages 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 sit at home at ease,' and receive their_Jents 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. He is to be put up like goods at an auction, at his own price, and knocked down if a higher bidder thinks him 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.) "Th 3 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 value of land, would have done more than meet the present financial exigency, but such a resort was not to be thought of in a landlord's Parliament. Leaving out of sight, however, this broad view of the question, as between the easy and pampered classes and the 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 a nation of shopkeepers,' an insuperable objection 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 themselves at an unduly high rate merely to save their credit." (Prom the Stafford Examiner.) " With regard to the supposition that the exemption of incomes of less than 150/. really releases the poorer classes from sharing ttie burdens •of the new tax, "itis only necessary, in pointing out its fallacy, to refer to the fact that the employers of these classes are already so overburdened that they can only meet the increased demand upon 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 and mer cantile 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 objections to the fact of irn posing an income tax in addition to the utmost extent of indirect ttxation—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 of taxing trades and professions equally with capital. In the last objection we fully sympathise with our cor respondents. Sir Robert Peers plan proposes, in fact, to impose the same tax upon a man who earns 3001. a year by his personal exertions, and whose income ex pires with him, as on the man who possesses a pro perty in land or money of 8,0001. This is manifestly a wrong, to which the most vigorous opposition should be offered." (From the Liverpool Journal.) "We can scarcely believe that Sir Robert Peel really means to impose this tax—that he does not rather use it as a bugbear to frighten the nation into something a shade less disagreeable. We doubt much that he will succeed in carrying it if he does propose it ; and, if he succeeds in carrying it, we doubt th a t h e w ill succeed in collecting it. Of all taxes, it i s th e one s imply to take no n o ti ce of their tax papers, and a Government might ju s t as hopefully and that can have easiest o nly be defeated by passive resist ance . 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 bl e to a th ss a i n g n fiv a e ny sh r il e l a in so g n s s .,, (From the Edinburgh Chronicle.)for taking five pound s an y more " This impost is the penalty which the electors are to pay for their culpable supineness and the Tory leanings they manifested at the last election, and luckily its pressure will be confined t o t h em. Th e r th el e ax in a c t o io ni n e s tariffo t f ax the will chi w efi il y l , be ifnot felt exclusively, gall by all classes, but SOUTH AMERICA. LATEST FROM CARTHAGE NA. (By way of Bermuda.) The following are particulars of the capture and de struction of the Carthagenian fleet by the British man or-war brig Charybdis (From the Royal Gazette Feb. 15.) IMPORTANT FROM C A RTHAGENA.—Her Majesty's brig Pilot, Commander Ramsay, arrived here on Fri day last from Jamaica and Barbadoes. She brought some highly interestini , 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 the Pilot has brought a single newspaper giving the par 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 British subjects, either for some real or imaginary offence, were incarcerated by the Carthagenian Government. 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. This letter, because it was not written in Spanish, was treated with contempt, and the bearer with much hauteur. On the officer's return to the Charybdis, and reporting these circumstances to his Com mander, Lieutenant De Courcy immediately entered the port; and when proceeding to an anchorage he was fired into by the Commodore's vessel, a cor vette, and the forestay of the Charybdis shot away. Lieutenant De Courcy then took up a position, and, however desperate such a proceeding may have ap peared on his part, in so small a vessel 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 his men having been killed. A brig and three schooners, that came to the assistance of the corvette, were at tacked in turn by the Charybdis. In five minutes after the Charybdis brought her guns to bear on the brig she was sunk, and the schooners soon after sur 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 Carthagenian Government had received from Colonel Gregg (who, it appears, was shot immediately after Lieutenant De Courcy's appli cation for his release was made) and the other British subjects whom they had imprisoned, an d h owever in formal the Consul's proceedings may pro v e t o h are been, nothing cou ld justify the contempt offered to Lieutenant De Courcy's application by the Commodore, who, poor man, paid dearly for his temerity. We arc told that Lieutenant De Courcy intends to remain at Carthagena, with his prizes, till he hears from the Ad miral on the subject of their capture, &c. We trust that Lieut. De Courcy 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 ultimo, boarded by Gen. Carmona's squadron, both ves sels plundered to a large amount of goods and specie, crew imprisoned, and Col. Gregg and three other pas sengers of the Jane and Sarah shot. (From the Charleston Mercury.) FROM ILAVANNAH. By the United States mail-brig Hayne, Captain Morris, arrived yesterday, we received a file of Havan nab 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 ment" 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 if she moved out, he would sink her as she passed the Moro. The matter was still unadjusted when the llayne left ; the British steamer was lying very quiet, and nobody knew how it would end. Rumour said the Governor- General had sent the captain of the steamer word, that unless 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 tish " enterprise" in Cuba. It is quite as interesting as their doings in China just now. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC; JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel has a motive not only for everything he does, but for 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 cleelarud before the election the course he designed to pursue, so general .would 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 his 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 the nation to reflect upon them during the re cess, and the people's representatives would have found, by communication with their constituents, that the feeling of the public is powerfully opposed to the plans of the Minister., Robert Peel has, however, got his majority, and thinking ho can do as he likes with his own, he counts confidently upon dragging it after him through the mire of unpopularity in which all who have a hand 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 th e m aj or ity— w hi c h 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, he is reck 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 tax. 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 and call of the present Minister. STANDARD.—We cannot think ourselves uncha ritable in assuming that all the complaints . against the proposed income tax which we hear are either purely factious, or the promptiegs of the subtle spirit which has established its shrine in the complainant's breeches pockets—too often the vestibule of the heart. These complaints touch, first, the consideration of personal honour—men ought not to be subjected to an inquisi tion. Secondly, the question of justice—the tax upon property and income is unequal. Thirdly, the question of national honour. Nobody complains of the invasion of the breeches pocket; all would freely pay twice or three times as much if it could be paid without the humiliatien of an 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 daylight. But is the law of England so tender, 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 of 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 secresy, but before the whole world. Again, by filing a bill in Chancery against a man, often upon no just grounds, you may compel him to make an equally minute and equally public exposure of his most private affairs. 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 ; butitis 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 suffers in such cases. But it is insinuated that interest as well as honour is affected by the inquiry into a man's in come. This is disproved by experience. No man was ever made a bankrupt by the operation of the old income tax. No man ever pre tended that he was. The fact is, that the greatest possible benefit would result to trade, and to credit, and to the interests of every honest trader, from 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 process of its accumulation ; but we may go further as regards landed property ; it is already subjected to a tax, much greater in amount than the income tax, from which commercial and professional 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 income is wholly exempt. If it is said the Corn-laws have compensated this ine quality hitherto, let it not be forgotten that the Corn-laws are about to be relaxed for the benefit of all classes, but the aericultural class, and the case of fundholders does not indeed stand upon the same footing, but they have L power which we fear must help them in the place of justice. Thirdly, there is the national honour, forsooth !—yes, the national honour is endangered ! by an arrangement for supporting the public service by equal i ns t ea d o f support i ng i t by un equal taxation ; 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 declar ed in solvency by 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 guardians of national honour in peace and in war. COURIER.—The nation must keep a sharp look out, or it will get neither fiscal reform nor revenue from pro. perty. Bit by bit the financial scheme of Sir Robert is nibbled at here, and a piece pecked at there, so that unless the framer tent his own fabric • well, there will not be a rag left out of r which t o ma k e a bank note, or dust out the cob ; webs from an empty Treasury. lgnis fatuus like, the splendid creations cf Ministerial wikdoin, which on their first appearance were hailed on all sides, Whig, Tory, and Radical, with rapturous and resounding plau dits as the twin stars of England's salvation, are now Glanced about in will-o'-wisp fashion through Conserva tive highways and byeways, through Whig and Radical bog and mor a s s , unt il at last it may b feared the fitful corruscations, by ever 'diminishing distance ren dered more dimly faint, will disappear altogether, swamped in some: Whig-Radical quagmire, or engulphed in the slough of despund. Excepting ourselves of th e 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 floundering on a lee shore. AMERICAN NEWS EIGHTDAYS LATER from AMERICA LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. By the arrival of the Garrick, Captain Skiddy, at this port, from New York, whence she sailed on the Ist inst., we have received papers to that date. The Gar rick has made a good voyage for the season, and had ten passengers. The news brought by these papers is not important. The greatest anxiety prevailed at Boston and New York for the safety of the Caledonia, whose non-arrival had excited great fears amongst the community, as the more iecent arrivals from Europe, namely, the North Ame rce, Hibernia, and Roscius, all reported the prevalence of very tempestuous weather. New York has also been visited by one of the West India line of steamers, the Clyde, proceeding on her way from the south to Halifax. She would take the mails to the latter place, and then return ; and it was stated in some of the papers that the Unicorn, which is one of the Cunard line, plying between Pictou and Halifax, would take the mails to England if the Caledonia did not arrive in time ; if this is the case, she may be expected hourly. We give the following extracts from the papers : Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamer Caledonia. The vessels that have arrived have experienced such severe weather, and met with so much damage, that it would be re markable if she should make a passage at this season without injury. Several of our finest packets have been out upwards of fifty days from Europe. it change of w i n d w ill, no doubt, bring alleet of inward-bound vessels to our shere. A Bill is reported in the Virginia House of Delegates, fixing resumption for the Ist of January next, unless the banks of Mars land and Pennsylvania shall resume earlier. SIR CMtItLES BACOT AND THE CArtarias.—lt appears by recent accouirs from the Canadas, that the new Gover nor-General, Sir Charles I3agot, has already won golden opinions from all parties, and that there is every reason to believe that his Government will be permitted to be carried on without meeting those obstacles which were so annnvinr to his predecessors, and so ruinous to the best intersts of the inhabitants. The Canadian papers are filled with ad.. dresses to his Excellency, and promises of support: whilst he has, by the prudence of his answers, left no room for either party to believe that they have triumphed over the other— although he has not concealed his determination to check any attempt at oppos,tion to bia measures. In the meantime he has announced it to be his intention to commence a number of public improvements as early as the season will permit, which, in addition to the permanent benefitthey will confer on the pro - vii.ces, will furnish the means of giving immediate employment to the immense number of emigrants who are expected to arrive as soon as the navigation of the St. Lawrence opens. We also observe, that the entire military establishment, in cluding the cavalry and infantry of the line, with the local militia of every dese.-ilition, are to be maintained on their pre. sent estealishment ; consequently, when so great an expenditure of public money be taken into consideration, combined with the estimated amount of the proposed improvements, it is but reasonable to infer that the Canadian farmers will have the benefit of an excellent market for the produce of theirtindustry. TEXAS. By the steam-ship New York, at New Orleans, the Picayune has Galveston papers to the Ist instant. From these we glean that Commodore Moore of the Texian service has not been treacherously seized and made a prisoner in Yucatan, as was confidently reported, though his Lieutenant, alarmed at his prolonged absence at Merida, had seized the Mexican Com missioners, and detained them as hostages for his safety. He soon after received a letter from Commodore Moore, instructing him to release them, and saying that he would be back in a day or two. Among the Commissioners were Generals Lemas and Anima, hitherto esteemed the most honest of Mexican Fede ralists. The complete reunion of Yucatan and Mexico is con firmed. The Texian prisoners under Colonel Cook have been heard from at Fresmilo and Zacateca., an their way to Mexico. At the former 400 dol., at the latter 1,000 dol. were subscribed for them, and much clothing contributed. They appear to be well treated, aecordir g to the orders of the Government. The war fever is getting up in Texas. A great war meet ing was held at Iloustoo on the 28th ult., and a war paper, 7'he Alarm-Bell of the West has been started at San Antonio. Frtoss FLORIDA.—The United States steamer Newbern, Capt. McNulty, arrived yesterday from Florida. We received no lei ters, but learn from Capt. MeN. that Companies " A" and " IV of the Sill Infantry, under the command of Capt. Owinn, on their march front Tampa to Palatka, were fired on while in the Wahoo Swamp, on the morning of the 13th inst. One sergeant was killed. and one private dangerously wounded On the 16th inst. three Indians tried to cut off an Express Rider in the Cabbage Hammock, between Forts Wheelock nil Russell. They were, however, unsuccessful. Companies " A" and " E" of the Bth Infantry, arrived at Palatka on the 16th inst.— Savannah Republican, Feb. 19. NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 12.--MUTINY ON BOARD THE TEXIAN SCHOONER OE WAR SAN ANTDNlA.—Between nine and ten o'clock last evening a mutiny broke out on board of the above-named vessel, lying off Slaughterhouse Point, below this city, which resulted in the murder of Lieut. Fuller, and the severely wounding of Midshipmen Odom and Allen. From what we can learn, the sailors had been drinking, and took it into their heads to go ashore, but were prevented from so doing by Lieut. Fuller, who was on duty. They then used very in sulting language to him, when he ordered up a file of marines to arrest them. The marines sided with the sailors, and dis charged their pieces at the officers on deck—five balls taking effect on Fuller. The mutineers then took to the boats, and part of them landed on this side of the river. Up to 12 o'clock they Lad not been arrested. —Creslent City. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FEB. 26. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. .5,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds sixes, 1870 .... s 3 19i 7,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds .. 2O 1,000 Ditto New York Sixes, 1862.... B2i 3,000 Ditto New York Five-and-a-Half, 1861.... b 3 77 50 Shares Delaware and Hudson opg 88k 27 Ditto Union Bank 450 Ditto Long Island Railroad. cash 544 109 Ditto Harlem Railroad b 3 48 SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD 1,000 Dols. Indiana Bonds 2oi 100 Shares Long Island Railroad 1,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds, Sixes, 1870 ... lg 2,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds l9i PHILADELPHIA SALES OF STOCK, FEB. 26. 22 Shares Mechanics' Bank . . lOl 4 Dols. States Fives, 1864 1,000 Ditto States Fives, 1860 SALES OF STOCKS AT AUCTION, Era. 26. 17,000 Illinois State this. Sixes, payablein 1865, at 18 pr et. MARKETS, FEB. 26. Ashes—A few brls Pots sold at 65 cwts. Flour—The market is a little stiffer to-day, and holders will not sell under 6,25. Grain—Nothing doing in any description. Cotton—Market very quiet to-day with very trifling sales. PORTUGAL. LISBON, MARCH 14.—After the stirring events which accompanied the restoration of the charter, the political horizon has again become as serene and tranquil as the atmosphere which is now ushering in the most agreeable of the seasons. The excite ment of a few days has passed away, and, as usual, discontent and intrigue begin to assume their pre dominance. The re-establishment of the Tribunal of Coun sellors of the Treasury, a tribunal quite useless un der present circumstances, as it serves only to increase the public expenditure and create a large amount of patronage, has produced great discontent amongst the leaders and followers of the late Chartist movement. It would appear that among the new Counsellors two individuals are particularly obnoxious to the Chartists, one a Dr. Albano, who served under Don Miguel, and the other Senor Souza e Azevedo, who also exercised the functions of a magis trate during the usurpation. Of course the Chartists, seeing such men preferred to themselves, begin to be clamorous, and yesterday a rumour was afloat that the Ministry would resign should her Majesty still continue to refuse her sanction to the many decrees for new titles, grand crosses, and stars, to be distributed among the followers of Costa Cabral. The partisans, however, of this hero of the day, through the influence of the King and Camarillo, succeeded on Saturday in overcoming the reluctance of her Ma jesty, and the decrees, agreeably to the wishes of the present rulers of Portugal, have been signed, and will be published to-morrow. Those who held the titles of Barons to become Viscounts; Baron de Sta. Maria to be Count : and Maximo de Mello, of the late provisional Junta at Oporto, to be Viscount. His Excellency the Minister for the Home Department, however, with true " Spartan virtue," declines any participation in these noble spoils. "In the Council of State on Friday last Baron do Tojal (John de Oliveira), as Minister of Finance, presented the conditions of a new loan of 1,060 contos de reis, contracted for with the Company " Credito Nacional." This loan is said to be the most onerous ever yet effected, and was strongly opposed by the other Counsellors of State ; but under the plea of dire necessity was acceded to. One of the conditions, it would appear, makes void part of the contracts for the '2,000 contos, decreed by the late Minister Avila to be consolidated from the Foreign Three per Cent. Stock, which did not, as expected, come into the proposed capitalization. Baron de Lagos has been trying, though ineffectually, to bring his proposals to an issue ; but if the consoli dation of the proposed 1,000,0001. sterling, with cou pons at a fair rate of ex c h ange , b e no t approve d o f i n a short period, it certainly cannot take place at all, as hp the end of next June another half-dividend will ill due. The sth battalion of Cacadores stationed in the Algarve, of which the late Don Pedro was Colonel, is ordered to the Azores or Western Islands, and some of its officers, who refused even up to the last to proclaim the Charter, are to be placed upon the third section of the army, or non-commissioned-list. Exchange upon London, at 30 days' sight, 53f pence per milrei. The British schooner Alert, Griffin, master, from London to Gibraltar, last from Falmouth, out 20 days, laden with a general cargo of merchandise, put into this port yesterday evening, leaky, and short of provisions, and will probably have to discharge.