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13, Great Marlborough-street. E NEW NOVEL BY L. E. L 11 "LADY ANNE GRANARD; OR, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols., with Portrait of the Authoress by Finden. .Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. has undertaken to revise at sight the whole tariff of this great commercial empire. But, as we have previously hinted, perhaps Sir ROBERT PEEL does not mean to carry his tariff. He has put that forth to amuse his oppo nents and frighten his friends into submission. The Glasgow Argus positively affirms, that to some deputations which have waited on Sir ROBERT, he has signified his willingness, on ac count of the pecuniary loss it might occasion, to postpone his tariff to another session. When he has got an income tax he will, perhaps, appoint a Committee to inquire which of all the taxes on trade he can, a year or two hence, best remove. In the mean time, he has alarmed every interest in the country, and kindled more agitation amongst classes generally quiet than has pre vailed for many years. 'We believe that he has effectually blown up the foundations of his own popularity and power. Perhaps he relies on the Houses of Parliament and disregards public opinion. He has not been much accustomed to look beyond the former, and if he can prevail there he may think his power will be safe. The Parliament has a long term of existence, which is just begun. Per haps he means to rule by means of Parlisme nt in spite of the people. Such a scheme may suc ceed for a season—he may pass his income tax, and postpone or pass his tariff; but neither will last beyond the period when his odious, inqui sitorial scheme, for extorting money from the people by the threat of exposing their private concerns, shall have come into operation, and shall have excited public indignation. May it not then happen, that in overturning the in come tax, the power which imposes it will be endangered? If the constituencies think it useless to petition the Parliament collectively, they may warn their Members individually of the fate which will await them, and await the Parliament, should it make itself the tool of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S foolish ambition. As the agriculturists are re sisting the tariff, and probably will be sue cessful, the townspeople ought to resist the income tax, which will then be uncompensated by the tariff, and will fall with double severity on them. On Monday Parliament re-assembles, and if the constituencies do not mean to sacrifice their own rights, and disinherit their children, they will everywhere meet and express their opinions on one of the most multifarious, most arrogant, and most worthless changes that ever a Minister attempted in Great Britain. THE FOURTH VOLUME OF LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, Containing the QUEENS OF HENRY VIII., By AGNES STRICKLAND. IS NOW READY. •„• Orders received by all booksellers. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO. " In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eighteen) Price One Shilling *ash, with characteristic Engravings, by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear with the Magazines at the end of March. THE FORTUNES OF _HECTOR o'n AL L ORA N, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John Cumming, Ormond-quay, Dublin /Sell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Grapel, Liverpool. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, :MARCH 30, Will be repealeciMoLrt's Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF F GA RO.—Tlic character of Susanna by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Count Alma:viva, Mr. Stretton ; Cherubino, Madame Vestris ; Do c t or B ar . tolo, Mr. J Bland; Figaro, Mr. Lefler; Basilio, Mr. C. White; the Countess, Miss Rainforth ; Marcellhaa, Miss Grant; Barbarina, Miss Lane. . _ _ After which will be repeated the Grand Romantic Fairy EXtraya ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT.—Wunsuponatyme (King of Neverminditrnamia). Mr. J. Eland ; Princes Paragon, Pr.cious, and Placid (his three Sons , by Madame V.stris. Miss Murray, and Miss Lee • Jingo, Mr. Harley; t'e White Cat, Miss M ars h a ll . Doors open at half-past six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Circl es 5 5 ., Second Price is. 6d. ; Pit 35., Scoond Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of. rice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap plication. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, Book seller, IV, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unpreecdented Splendour. THIS EVENING. MARCH 30, Will be performed an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL, OF THE HAREM, HER KOOROISH LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments; a Dauble Company, Equestrian and Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in tha World. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed, THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introduc.ng Mr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting 'of nu. merous and matchless Cream-colourect Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Courers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaul - ers, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. . . . To conch' l• with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; OR, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Great and extraordinary aitraction for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, MARCH 30, Will ha performed a most interesting New Domostic Drama, in Three Acts, entiiled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; Olt, THE CLONE CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HlGHWAY.—Characters by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveney, Alessre. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard 's er, Seaman , &c. After which, with. gorgeous scenery, dresses, Sze., ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.--Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the Princess, Mr... E. F. Saville; Widow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith . To cone!ude with THE RED ROVER —The Red Rover, Mr. D le; Fid, Or. E. F. Saville; Hector Homespun, Mr. Gardner; .Aladame de Lacey. Mrs. Lee. The complaint made by the West India planters As, that the cost of growing sugar, under the discriminating duty, is more than the price they can obtain for it in the English markets. Fol lowing out the system, patronised by Sir R. PEEL and Lord STANLEY, of regulating and pro tecting trade, securing to certain " great inter ests," by means of laws an adequate return for the capital embarked in cultivation—however recklessly.'or unskillfully that may have been applied—it will be necessary to raise the discri minating duty still higher, and increase the price of sugar by keeping out everything that can pos• sibly be used in its stead. The principle of pro tection followed out to- its true consequences will compel the state to go on, as the disadvan tages of the cultivation of sugarincrease, enhancr. ing the sum fixed as a protecting duty till the whole property of the people be swallowed up in encouraging the growth of sugar. There is, however, another method by which the market may be extended, and which some idle, or ruminating people, called thinkers, say is preferable to the PEEL-STANLEY system. They say that men must have bread before sugar, and that the more difficult it is for them to get bread, or the dearer it is, the less money they will have wherewith to buy sugar. They say, that when bread is cheap and abundant, trade is invariably good; employment is comparatively plentiful; the people have something to give the West Indians and others who produce articles next in utility to those necessary for subsistence; and that, conse quently, the means to obtain a good price in the home market, for West Indian raw sugar, is to put an end to the Corn-laws, and allow trade to go a-head. But it so happens, say these idle ruminating people, who do not always believe all the conclu sions which avarice and ambition draw from any premises it suits them to assume, that the very saime cm-sm_ avkd..trilakl of who pass laws to give tke West Infiia planters a high price for their sugar, also pass laws to give the landowners a high price for their corn, to narrow the supply of food, to limit employment, to keep down po pulation, and to take from the bulk of the people the means of purchasing sugar at any price, much less at a high price. They both stimulate the production of sugar and narrow the market for it. To enable the people here to consume, at a good price, all that the colonists are stimulated to produce, they ought to be allowed to increase as fast as possible, and to acquire, by the freedom of their industry, as much wealth as possible. But those who stimulate the labours and the competition of the planters, by an enormous bounty, at the same time destroy the growing market for their produce. The very same law-makers, say the idle thinkers, aim at effecting incompatible objects. They want to accomplish physical impossibilities— to enrich both the agriculturists, who buy sugar, and the planters, who sell it. They cannot aug ment by a single grain the whole sum of sugar and corn produced, but they say that by raising the price of both, the two being, in the end, ex changed for each other, they can increase the profits both of the sugar -growers and wheat growers. The law -makers cannot interfere with either without taking 'a portion of it to reward them for their trouble, which is known as a tax which may amount to a sixth part of the whole; and yet while they are unable to augment the whole stock, and while they take a part of it to themselves, they pretend that by their interfe rence, and by devising a discriminating duty on sugar, and a corn-law which takes something away from the agriculturists, and largely away from the sugar planter, they enrich both. The idle thinkers say that this a specimen of all the protecting laws concerning trade, which Lords PALMERSTON and HOWICK have lately declared, very emphatically and very justly, is nota proper subject for legislation. They add, that when the system is subjected to a severe analysis, it turns out to be a piece of gross quackery, or gross humbeg, by which the tax-collectors and tax•consurners may profit, but by which all the producing classes, whom it pretends to benefit, are cheated and defrauded. We are inclined to believe that these idle thinkers, the class of men whom BONAPARTE bated, and whom GEORGE 111. hated, under the name of metaphysicians, are nearly right, and we are clearly of opinion that the persons who strive to enrich the West India planters, while they maintain a heavy tax by a sliding scale on bread, are playing at cross purposes. They are building up with one hand, and pulling down with the other. They set some men to sow, and others to take the seed out of the ground. They pass one law to raise the price of sugar, and another to limit its consumption. Contradictory purposes like these, which may be traced in every two lines of the tariff, are called political wisdom. They are what politicans break nearly all the commandments to effect. They are what the people are required to obey at the point of the bayonet, and asked to worship ; and what all the respectable part of society think it their duty to enforce at the expense of life and fortune. The idle thinkers shake their heads at the sad conclusion, and ask, can good come of such a monstrous error and delusion? THE WEATHER.—NoorI, MARCPI 10. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 51 I Highest 56 I LoWe6t 45 Mirometer3o.---Wind W. by N.—Freezing Point X 2 Deg. • HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ~.. 11 minutes after 4 I Evening ......:n2 minutes after 4. titg LONDON: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1842. There can be no doubt that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a prodigious statesman. He came into office eight months ag,,) at the head of a great and united party. The majority of the constituen cies were for Sir ROBERT PEEL. With unex ampled patience and unbounded confidence did the people await his decision. A fortnight has scarcely elapsed since it was known, and all classes and descriptions of persons hiss at Sir R. PEEL. His great supporters, the farmers, de luded by the ignorant squires and the designing clergy, who were a little alarmed by his useless invasion of their palladium, the Corn-law, have been thoroughly terrified by his tariff, and no gander in their own yard can utter more unplea sant sou ids than they send forth against their recent idol. From Sussex to Inverness they are in motion, t) decry and denounce his tariff. If one section of the ship-builders like his tariff, another section, and the timber merchants, ho have got an immense stock on hand, cry out lustily against it. Where the people are silent, as in co-wed and corru pt _____Lon—finn_ it_ iA more from indifference and apathy than from any liking co the tariff. Many persons think it is of no use petitioning the House of Parliament. They are tired of putting up their prayers to a deaf idol. Nowhere, however, do people move in favour of Sir R. PEEL. A measure, involving numerous and extensive changes, is proposed by the Prime Minister, beloved and ho noured a few weeks ago, and it is received in moody silence, or with great disapprobation throughout the country. Now, he is, we assert, a prodigiously great statesman, who, before he has well acted, and before he has encountered any disaster, is all at once, by his own project, hurled from the height of , popularity and confidence, to the depths of dis- I like ind distrust. • We believe that he richly deserves the change. He took hold of the tariff, including some twelve hundred articles, and, of his own will and plea sure, made alterations in the duties o:i them all Such a thing was Lever before heard of; we believe, i the h'story of the world. No despot, in the plenitude of his power, ever attempted it. -Without consulting a single interest, with out asking one party concerned, he flings down a measure which must alter, with out improviux, ti e distribution of labour and capital in almost every branch of industry, giving employment to some and taking it from others—. making some pourer, but not, we believe, in cresiiing the riches of any. Such a measure, even if an anel had proposed it, and Infinite Wisdom had regulated its proportions, would necessarily have excited the disapprobation of the many interests it so soddenly alarms and da.turbs. At the same time Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff is remarkable for a want of wisdom and the injus tice of its proportions. He has just proposed a Corn-law, whic!i maintains the sliding scale, with a view to protect the agriculturists, as he says, when the harve , ts a: e abundant, but in his tariff he places a fixed duty on cattle, on meat, on po tatoes, on fruit, on starch, on an immense variety of agricultural produce, which he allows to be imported at the same duty at all times. Take, for example, the article starch, which mainly consists of the nutritious portion of grain. It is condensed food, and much easier transported than wheat. With a fixed duty cn starch, it will be prepared abroad, so as to be converted into fond on importa tion, as s:igar is imported from the Channel Islands disguised as confectionary. When the duty on wheat, therefore, in consequence of the price being below Ws-. shall be 205., the duty on starch will only be equivalent to a duty of las. on wheat; starch will then be imported in great quantities, and the pretended protection given to the agric ilturist by the Corn-law is, pro tanto, destroyed by the tariff. What is true oGtarcl:, is true of all kinds of cat tle and meat. The duty on them is fixed without any relation to the price, while the duty on corn varies with the price. But all these are articles of agricultural produce as well as wheat, and the farmers might just as well have a fixed duty on the latter as on the former. Thus does Sir R. PEEL adopt in Lis tariff, as to agricultural pro duce, the principl e he contended against as to corn; and thus does he run counter in his tariff to that very principle of protection he has re cently established by his Corn -law. Without going through the items, and show ing that he has done relative injustice to the potatoe-growers and to the owners of orchards, mho made an outcry against the Whigs for fi t . ing the duty on apples at double th e duty in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S tariff. This principle of a txed duty on numberless articles of provisi ons, rnd a sliding duty on cm—, shows either gross norance of the working of his own laws, or Lross infirmity of purpose in the Satrap who The Magistrates for the Division of the County of Middlesex, comprising the extensive and populous borough of the Tower Hamlets, held an adjourned I meeting yesterday, to give their decision respecting-. certain licenses which had stood over from the 4 ` 4 former meetings, a n d we are g l a d to fi nd that p ono . ot ono license in the di s t r i c t was quashed. This is - ditable t o th e j ust i ces, as well as to the pa•,t.t'l 'es • eery U cre nder their li their control, but while givilpg them al'.,.due prai beral se for conduct, and perhaps r we ask whether it is just toplace. 'ec-!l6renal leniency, ! .4*ge body of trades. men at themercy of a few Magistrates. The state ofanx iety inwhich many publicans have been placed by the suspension oftheir licenses is almost beyond endurance. Many of this class are widows, with large families ; they must fee counsel to state their different cases, and from no fault of theirs but want of due protection from the police their licenses are suspended, or taken away altogether, and they and their families brought to ruin. This is no uncommon occurrence, for all Magistrates are not so benevolent and merciful as those of the Tower Hamlets. In the country, where the power of the press has little effect on the squires and parsons the most grievous acts of partiality, injustice, and even oppression, are prac tised with impunity, and the unfortunate victims have only the choice of unqualified submission, or great loss of property. The present feud between Churchmen and Dissenters respecting Church-rates affords one instance out of hundreds of the small chance which the latter class have of obtaining justice from such a bench. A licensing parson will of course consider a multitude of offences amply atoned for by pay ment of th• obnoxious tax. The Tory squires, and (according to Lord BROUGHAM) they are all Tories, will keep an eye to politics, and show no mercy to a Whig or Radical publican. This is an anomalous state of things, which is a disgrace to the Legislature. Why should any man's pro perty be placed in such a precarious condition that he must abjure, or feign to abjure, his political and religious creed, in order to be allowed to live ? We do not blame the justices half so much as the nobles, the bishops, and the country gentlemen, who make laws for the rest of the community, and who thus subject a large and influential class to the caprices, the jealousies, and the worst passions of a few of their neighbours. The property of a publican should be as sacred as that of every other member of the community, and in the name of common sense and justice why should it be taken from him, or in any way injured, without a fair and open trial by his peers ? We trust this important subject will be duly considered in all its bearings when the Bill for licensing and regulating public-houses comes under the discussion of Parliament. If this act of justice is again delayed, the publicans have an easy remedy. They amount to many thousands throughout the kingdom, and have no little influence in refloating Members of Parliament. Let them unite as one body, and resolve to support no candidate who will not lend his assistance in abolishing a system that entails upon them incessant annoyance, and brings not a few of them to the workhouse. There is no class of criminals for whom we have less sympathy than persons guilty of bribery at elec tions. No matter what may be their political prin ciples, we regard them as more deserving of universal execration than the thieves and pickpockets annually shipped from our shores to Norfolk Island. We, therefore, have no fault to find with the Tories for the new-born zeal which they display in the punishment of bribery at the election of Members to serve in Parliament. On the contrary, we desire nothing more than that they allow no criminal to escape. On the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, the Tories are the fittest persons to prosecute a crime of which they were the original instigators, and of which they still secure a monopoly in their own hands. How sturdily they fought to preserve the franchise to the pauper freemen, during the debates on the Municipal Reform Bill, solely because they sub sisted wholly on bribes ! 'While the rotten borough system lasted, they openly bought and sold the Par liamentary representation of the country. They are, therefore, perfectly acquainted with bribery at elec tions, in all its most concealed corrupting phases. As practised by the Whigs, they now discover that it tells against them, and they prosecute it. We heartily wish they may utterly eradicate it. Let them but endeavour to do so honestly and impartially, and we shall cor dially support them in such a cause. But then they must go honestly and impartially to work. They must make no distinction between Whig and Tory criminals. Neither must they be content with pu nishing the recipient of a bribe, and allowing the greater criminals, the rich man who supplies it, and his agent who administers it, to escape. been constantly attended by the medical gentlemen attached to the Royal Establishment, who had suc ceeded in restoring him to a state of consciousness. Yesterday morning, however, an unfavourable change took place and the sufferer expired in the evening. RAILWAY A PPOINTMENTS_.(From a Correspon dent).L—John Dixon, Esq. has been selected to fill the office of chief Manager for the Birmingham and Derby Railway. Alfred Yarrow, Esq., succeeds Mr. Dixon as chief Engineer on the Chester and Birken head Railway. The professional ability of these gentlemen augurs favourably for the interests of the lines committed to their charge. ELECTION COMMITTEES. WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS. The Committee met yesterday morning at the usual hour, Mr. Stuart Maxwell in the Chair. Evidence was taken as to the registration of the two voters Ploughman, and the argument on the personation by Ploughman the baker, of Ploughman the s a ddl er , was continued on the pa r t f the sitting Members by Mr. Talbot throughout the morning. The Committee finally struck off the vote of Plough man, the baker, as bad. On the part of the sitting Mem bers a claim was then made for the vote of the other Ploughman, the saddler, to be added to their poll. The claim, however, was rejected by the Committee, thus leaving the sitting Members in a minority of one. The most important items of intelligence brought by the Levant Mail, are the answer of the Sublime Porte to a joint note of the Ambassadors of the Great Powers, recommending the restoration of amicable relations with Greece, and the removal of OmAe. PASHA, the Austrian renegade, from the Government of Syria. As a large Turkish force was concentrated on the Greek frontier a conflict must undoubtedly have taken place, but for the prompt and well-timed interference of the Ambassadors of the Great Powers. Some time must, however, elapse before an entire - conciliation takes place. Prince 111A.VROCADATO, has arrived in Constantinople as Ambassador from King OTHO to the Porte, has made some demands which are not stated, but which are said to be very displeasing to the Sultan. No doubt the repre sentatives of the Great Powers will again interfere, so that this new difficulty will be removed by the exchange of a few diplomatic notes. The removal of OMAR PASHA from the Government of Syria is a still more important event. And yet what was there which might not have been expected in his persecution of the Christians of Lebanon ? Who ever expected toleration of former co-religionists from a renegade from their faith ? What really sur prises us is, that the Porte did not foresee what would have been the career of OMAR PASHA. in Syria at the time of his appointment to that Pashalic. There was a report in circulation at Constantinople that a son of the EMIR BESCIIIR would succeed OMAR as Governor of Syria. Such an appointment would be popular among the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon, and without conciliating them the Porte cannot re tain Syria. WIGAN. The Committee met at the usual hour yesterday morn• ing, and immediately proceeded with the scrutiny of voters. Up to the time of our going to press, the following were the names that were struck off the list of voters : Thomas Howorth and James Sutton, on the side of the petitioners ; and on the side of the sitting Members, Thomas Barton and Ellis Rigby. THE COFFEE I:UTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Bishopsgate Without, Monday Night. SIB,—I am not in th e habit of writing to newspapers, but Sir Robert Peel seems inclined to gull the people so much in his tariff, and I am so pestered with my cus tomers about the expected "hrge" reduction in coffee, that I am induced to drop you a line to explain to the misguided people how they are deceived. When the Premier made his grand speech, he said he intended making very large reductions in the duties on Coffees, for, said he, I intend reducing the duty on foreign, from 15d. to Sd. a pound, and on colonial from 6d. to 4d. The latter is correct, but the former is not a reduction from 15d. to 3d., but only from 9d. to td., for the knave knows very well that a 15d. duty never was paid, but it was always imported from the Cape of Good Hope, at a 9d. duty ; therefore it follows that this wonderful reduc tion is only ld. a pound, and of course we grocers intend reaping the benefits. Now I could mention other articles which appear to be reduced on paper in the same way, but as I am especially bothered with my cus tomers asking when this " large" reduction is to be made, I write to you just to set the deluded beings - right in the article of coffee, and to assure them that, if they expect to pay Peel's income tax from their savings in provisions, they will be outrageously mistaken, for the reduction being only nominal, they will reap no benefit. A BISHOPSGATE GROCER. REFORM—REPEAL. A specially convened wardmote of the Repeal War dens and Secretaries of all the wards of London, was held on Monday, Thomas Steele, Esq., who is called Head Repeal Warden of Ireland in the chair, in the absence of the Rev. Dr. Magee, C. R., of 'Westminster, Head Repeal Warden of London, who was unable to attend. A series of resolutions on the subjects of Repeal of the Union and of Reform were passed with acclamation ; but as we consider what our Irish friends call Repeal to be nothing but a pure delusion, we of course will not inflict on our readers any recital of the resolutions on that shadowy subject. A resolution was moved and passed unanimously on the subject of Reform. It was to the effect that Mr. O'Connell is as indubitably the father of the Re form Bill of 1832 as of the Emancipation Bill of 1829. inasmuch as it was not until he in May, in the latter year, giving friendly reproach for their apathy, precept, and example altogether, taught the people of England how to organise themselves in political unions, on the model of the Irish Catholic Association, by the moral pressure of which he had carried the Emancipation Bill. It is matter of history, -that it was by the moral pressure of the English and Scottish Political Unions that the Reform Bill was obtained by the people. The exhortation of Mr. O'Connell, alluded to in the resolution, was given at a great meeting of the leading Reformers of England, at the " Purity of Election Dinner," at the Crown and Anchor, in Westminster, at which Sir John (then Mr.) Hobhouse presided as the locum tenens of Sir Francis Burdett. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—.The proposed income tax, I hold to be uncalled for, and unjustifiable—it is an inquisi torial, and un-English (to coin a word) tax ; and I trust it will be petitioned against, in so general a way, that it will never pass into a law for the following reasons:- Ist. There is no other necessity for it than that it is the most popular way of raising money, and which any Administration would have done, by taking from the industrious and moral class a per centage on their industry and providence, allowing those who are improvident to go un taxed. The Pacha of Egypt does the same, by some pretext or other, the moment any of his subjects have more than 1301. per annum ; and how does his Administration work ? Why no man there thinks of acquiring more than to sup ply his daily wants. 2. There are abundance of means of raising the required money without resorting to the in quisitorial means of obliging every one to open his private accounts and affairs to the tax gatherer, and to become liable to vexatious and endless surcharges, &c. The preposterous con tinuance of the penny postage, when no one would object to an additional charge of one penny on each additional distance of 100 miles from London ; a further tax on spirits; one on salt, wool, &c., and articles of luxury, would be clearly preferable; in fact, anyt hi ng b ut the proposed inquisition on property and income, which can only be justified on the principles of the press-gang. The Whig Administration might easily have done the same thing; but I hope a discriminating people will rouse them selves for once, and show by their numerously and influentially - signed petitions that the pre sent Administration is not entitled to the confi dence of the country; that, instead of reforming and reducing the expenditure, they merely seek the bringing about a levelling system by taxa tion, a la Pacha of Egypt, for the sake of popularity, defying the only class that has kept them, and put them in power, and that has been, and is, the very strength and power of this great and commercial country, by taxing them exclusively and inquisitorially, and by a tax that was pledged to be only a war tax.—l have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient servant, March 14. T. B Nothing can be conceived more humiliating than the condition of the French Press. It is prostrate at the feet of the Commissary of Police, for the Ministers hardly deign to notice it. Of this fact the Journals of Sunday report an instance which would 13( ludicrous but for the despotic principle which it involves. That laughing periodical the Charivari has been in the habit some years of publishing a sheet of comical illus trations at Easter. The printer, dreading the terrors of the Law Officers of the Crown, refused to print it. The responsible Editor applied to the Civil Tribunal to compel him to print the paper, but the Court refused to interfere. Thus, by not permitting any Journal to be printed, except by a licensed printer, and by leaving it op tional with each printer what articles he may, or may not print, the Government has the Press far more in its power than if the strictest censorship existed. For the censor would be a man of education, and would exercise his functions so as not to incur the contempt and ridicule of men equally well edu cated with himself. But the printer has only his own caprice to consult. He need not read the article which he rejects unless he pleases, and when he does read it he is justified in being guided by his fear of prosecution rather than by his taste. Of general news there is none in the French Jour nals of Sunday, with the exception of the following extracts : Count Bresson, the Minister of France at Berlin, has arrived at Paris. The Emancipator, of Toulouse, announced that Mar shall Claurel, being perfectly recovered, set out for Paris on the 22d. The National of the West, of the 25th, says, that on that day five delegates were appo i nted to go to Paris with the remonstraces of the city of Nantes. General de Rumigny arrived at Paris yesterday ,-- _Atom ing.—Constitutional, March 27. The letter from B er li n, dated the 17,th, addres se d to the Cologne Gaz e tt e , g • iving verynute det a il s respect burlniing the reported military insurrection a t S t . Peters ( gh, is voted by the Commerce, which adds--" There are certainly very precise details, and yet we can say as having been told it by a Frenchman, who left St. Pe -o,,rsburgh less than three weeks ago, and who has ,lo reason to refrain from offending Rus sian sus ":,iibility I ...ich could t even that he has no knowledg e of any event w Germany." afford a ground to ',..tie rumours circ , f iated i n The Didon M arnier, arrived at Toulon on the 25th from the Levr- v.—Commerce. f_.:igate, Captain A TAX ON LOSSES. We cannot tell how it may be in future years, 1 / 4 though prospects at present are gloomy enough), but of the payments made on the transactions of 1841, much more will be "hush -money" to the tax-gatherer than profits of trade made by the merchant or tradesman. The merchants or shipowners of the port of Liver pool will, no doubt, be expected to pay a large sum towards the income tax out of the profits of last year. Many of them probably will pay pretty handsomely rather than submit to have their affairs looked into ; but it will be out of their capital rea lized in former years, not out of the profits of the last. The losses on cotton in Liverpool during the last year are understood to have amounted to a mil lion sterling ; on timber there has been a deprecia tion of between forty and fifty per cent. on the heaviest stocks ever held ; on iron the fall has been ruinous ; Broailian and other free sugars and cof fees have been a mere drug on the market ; sheep's wool and dye wares have fallen greatly; colonial shipping has been unsaleable at any price, and British shipping has lost, at least for the - present, one-third of its value ; yet all these articles will be expected to contribute their quota to the income tax, and any one concerned in them Who returns his income at nothing (as thousands may with truth), or who returns less than the commissioners expect, will not only be liable to be examined on oath, but will be actually examined and compelled to disclose all the details of his business. Precisely the same state of things exist amongst the manufacturers of Manchester, Bolton, Stockport, Leeds, Notting ham, and T.,icester, and amongst the importers of PrCauce in London and the other out-ports of Lne kingdom, as well as Liverpool ; but all this is nothing to the tax-gatherer and his master. "An income he wants, and an income he'll have," and those whose pockets and consciences refuse to contribute will have to buy exemption at the risk of ruin. The shopkeeper will be treated precisely in the same 'Manner. He will have to pay or plead his T,'.',•verty, and he, like the merchant, will in, a vast number of cases find it better to make a false return of profits and to pay the penalty than to allow the world to know his real circumstances. The univer sal pressure of the times will thus add unspeakably to the inj us ti ce an d tyranny of a tax whi c h can never be otherwise than unjust and ty.annical.— Liverpool Journal. TINE ARTS. ..: I '..e remains of the late Earl of Munster were re `-roved from town ;) ,.. eterday for interment at Hamp 'l ton. The carri-ages of the Queen Dowager, his Royal IHigh llest the Duke o f S ussex, the Pr i ncess S op hi a, anfl other Members of the Royal Family, followed in the mournf u l procession, the servants appearing in their scarlet uniforms. Mi . . White, one of her Majesty's Messengers, ex piredlast evening in St . James's Paliee; where he was conveyed a few days a go . Mr. W ; having, fallen dowil suddenly in King-street, St: jamees; :Zip..aapppleetie Mack lad-hPeli '904#94-fOotlieiPao;Wrde 64 _ - - A Bill has passed the House of Delegates of Mary land Legislature, which provides that any free negro or mulatto, who shall come into the State after the passage of the Act, may be arrested by any person, and shall be aludged to be his slave. And any free negro, who shall leav e t h e State and return to it, s h a ll b e liable to the sam e P e nalty; unless, in both cases, they are tra velling as servants of a white person. The fact that they are in the State, to be prima fade evidence that they have come into it contrary to law. The rest of the spirit. Lill, which conta i ns 35 sect i ons , i s in t h e same liberal Every delegate from Baltimore` voted-against it. It passed, however, and is now before the Senate. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MORNING, MARCH 30, 1842. AND Ptibltc OP tlitOn. " Who runs may read." ki.X.ECTIONEERING. Continued indisposition has compelled Mr. Chalmers, who has represented the Montrose district of burghs since August, 1837, to adopt the resolution of retiring from Parliament. Mr. Joseph Hume, it is said, has re fused to stand. Mr. D. W. Jobson, who has publish e d a work on th e F renc h Revolution,has offered himself as a candidate to represent the burghs. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The payment of the out-pensioners of Chelsea Hos pital will be in future perfbrmed by captains selected from the half-pay list. This plan will be put on expe riment in North Britain first, where ten officers of that rank are to be posted. Helmets of German silver are to be substituted in the Household Brigade for the be ars ki n caps. The Ist and 2d Life Guards are to have a white horse-hair plume added ; and those of the Royal regiment of Horse Guards a red plume. They will be worn for the first time on her Majesty's next birth-day. LAW AND POLICE. A city policeman, named Herbert Godwin, was charged at Guildhall, on Monday, with stealing a silk cloak, time piece, and some calico, from Sarah Lewis, keeper of a marine-store shop : owing to some present defect in the evidence, the prisoner was remanded to Friday. Three young men, named Green Wilcot, and Wilkin son, appeared a t M ary l e b one on Monday, to answer the charge of stealing a d inkey and cart, the property of a costermonger. The prosecutor not wishing to press the charge, they were fined 10s. for the damage they had done him, and discharged. Edward. Moore, a lad of 18, was charged at Worship street on Monday with having stolen a variety df articles of wearing apparel from the persons of different chil dren. The prisoner was committed for trial on six charges. A table of large dimensions, exhibiting a series of eight representations of the finest ancient and modern buildings in Rome, has just been exeeuted for the Court of Russia by the Chevalier Barberi, of Rome. SPORTING. The Easter-Monday hunt took place on Monday with the Royal Stag-hounds, when Highflyer, a bold deer, was started from Stoke-common, near Windsor. It ran from Burnham Beeches on to Fulmer, and after a run of an hour and a half,was taken at the Marquis of Westminster's seat, Moor Park, in Hertfordshire ' about , 100 being in at the finish. The pri va t e mee t, for to morrow, has been arranged for Salt-hill. The "ancient hunting of the stag," at Epping, which,. in former times, "his Lordship of the City did, with, divers members of the corporation," attend and patronize. but which has been decreasing for the last ten years, has appeared in no shape this Easter. Some few scores of old people attended on Monday, as usual, at the ancient turning-out spot, north east of the ten-mile stone, but neither the well-known covered cart, nor the stag dressed out in ribands, came through the forest of Epping. COURT—PASTIZONABZE. The arrival of the illustrious visitors to the Duke of Wellington is deferred until Wednesday, when her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will come from Windsor Castle. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond has returned to town from Belvoir Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford returned to Oakley House on Monday from Belvoir Castle, The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro left town yesterday for Strathfieldsaye. The Earl and Countess of Beverley leave town to day on a visit to Admiral Percy, at Rickmansworth. The Earl and Countess of. Clarendon left Grosvenor crescent on Saturday for Grove-park, Herts. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland leave town to-day for Strathfieldsaye. Lord Charles Wellesley arrived in town on Monday from Woolwich, and in the afternoon set out for Strath fieldsaye. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left town for his seat, Bletchworth, Surrey. • IMIBCIMILNEOT7S. Sir C. F. Williams, it is understood, has resigned the Recordership of Ipswich, which he has held for the last fifteen years. I:atta - 's yioloncello, capable of producing such exqui site tones, was; shortly after the manufacture, _soli for 300 francs to French family in Spain, Where it Tong )4tus . F neglected. Batta, himself subsequently bought it SUMMARY OF NEWS of another connoisseur, into whose hands it had fallen, for no less than $,OOO francs, and it is now considered to be without a rival. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The depression with which the Money Market closed yesterday has been completely superseded to-day, and although the amount of business has been but- trifling, the funds left off firm, Consols being 8911 for money, and 898 sellers for the account. Exchequer Bills 27 and 29 premium, In the Foreign Market the last price of Belgium was 103 104 ; Danish, 811 821 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52 524 ; the Five per Cents., 1021 103 ; Brazilian, 69 70. The quotation of the Portuguese Five per Cents. was 34 341; the Three per Cents., 20 20k ; Columbia, 26* ; Mexican, 421 ; and Spanish, 241 -a. But little was done in Shares. London and Birming ham left off at 85 87 ; Great Western, 261 271 ; the Half Shares, 134 14+ prem. ; Birmingham and Glouces ter, 56 58 ; South Western, 59 60 ; Gosport, 59 60 ; North Midland, 69 70, the New Shares, 34 35 ; and Brighton, 354 36 per share. South Eastern and Dover 221 221 • and Eastern Counti es 13+ 12 4 di scount . The Foreign Exchanges were rather more favourable than on our last post day. Amsterdam was 12 4,1 12 5 ; Rotterdam, 12 5 12 5+ ; Antwerp, 12 41 12 5 ; Ham burgh, 13 12 f 13 121 ; Frankfort, 1511 1511 ; Paris, 25 82k 25 871 ; Vienna, 9 52 9 53 ; Madrid, 36* 36i ; and Lisbon, 36+ At a late hour the Hamburgh mail arrived, bringing thei following quotations of the Exchange on London : Amsterdam 12 12 5-loths at si g ht, and 12 5 at two months ; Stockholm 12 14, 90 days ; St. Petersbdrgh 37 15-16ths 38 at 3 months. The reception which the deputation from the coal owners from Sunderland met with from Governtnent, when it was stated that no further progress would be made in pressing the resolutions put forward before sth April, and that in the meanwhile every attention would be paid to any representation which might be made, has given great satisfaction in the • City. It is admitted, even by the most strenuous supporters of the proposed measure, that many parts are particularly objectionable, and it would appear, therefore, that no ti me i s to b e l ost i n urging the hardship which individual interests will suffer, if it be carried as at present printed. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Consols remain at 89} 4, for Money, and at 898 for the Account, with very little doing • the market, how ever, appears fir m . N ew Three-and-a-half per Cents., 99A- to 991; India Bonds, 9 premium, and Exchequer Bias 27 to 29 premium. With the exception of Mexican, the Foreign See.uri ties are quite neglected ; the hope that a portion the dollars, between one and two hundred thousand, on board the packet, may be for the dividend, caused the quotation to advance to 424 ; since then it has been fluctuating between that and 421, which latter is now the nominal rate. The other Bonds are quoted : Spanish, 241 ; Columbian, 261 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent., 52+ ; Ditto Five per Cent., 103 21. The Share Market has been—Great Western New, 64; Do. Fifths, 108 ; Brighton, 35i 4 ; South Western, 591; Manchester and Leeds, 81 ; Manchester and Binning ham, 27 ,; Northern and Eastern, 34:1. Intelligence has been received at Liverpool, of a battle fought between the Bolivian and Peruvian armies about November last, General Bollavian being in command of the former, and the President, Gamarra, at the head of the latter, was killed, and his forces completely routed. Accounts from Buenos Ayres, to the 2d January, had arrived. The House of Representatives was about to meet, and fetes to take place to celebrate the late suc cesses over the Unitarians. Business appeared to be dull, for which the season of year will perh a p s account .. Exchange in Engl an d , the highest 2 15-6 d, and the lowest 2.1 d. The Coffee trade is at present memorializing the Go vernment to reconsider the proposed plan of abolishing the differential duty on that article, when imported from British possessions in the East Indies. The arguments adduced are certainly cogent, but the chief difficulty lies in so framing the Act so as to prevent the evasion .of it, which has hitherto been the case. Hitherto ex tensive operations have been carried on by landing coffee at the Cape of Good Hope from Brazil and .other parts of South America, which upon being re shipped to Engl an d, came un d er the denomination of "imported from a British possession," and therefore subject to the duty. of ninepence instead of fifteen pence per pound. The origin of this trade was certainly legitimate, having its commencement in the barter of our manufactures with the natives of the Eastern Archi pelago, and for which Singapore, a British settlement, became the grand entrepot ; but the late encroachments of the Dutch upon commerce in those seas other than their own, led to the almost ,complete aband onmen t o f t hi s branch of ty a d e ; a ft er wards the Cape was substituted as the nearest port which would confer the privilege of the lower duty. If freedom of trade continue to be allowed in our Eastern colonies, where it has hitherto been unrestricted, it will be almost impossible to prevent the entrance and re-shipment of coffee and the subse quent evasion of duty. It is not improbable but that some relief will be afforded to the holders by giving time to work off their present stock ; but if the manner of rating the article be continued, it will enhance the price to the consumer, and injure the revenue, by pre venting the admission of foreign coffee, otherwise than by a circuitous route. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Ditto New Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths ~.. London and Brighto n London and South Western 3Bl 594 to Manchester and Leeds Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Northern and Eastern - JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial ofEngland... 33 LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 28. Eastern Counties and Great Westerns were in request to=day. Other Shares were little noticed. The sales included : Eastern Counties, ; Debentures, 161. 14s. 2d, ; ditto New, 4/. 4s. Bd.; Grand Junction, 179 ; ditto New Quarters, 244 ; Great Western _Halves, 64 ; ditto Fifths, 10f ; London and Birmingham, 175 ; ditto 321. Shares, 58 ; ditto New ditto, 29+ ; London and Brighton, 351. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 28. Middling and inferior sorts of American Cotton were rather lower, but other descriptions remained unchanged. The sales consisted of 500 Surat at 31 to 41,- ; 30 Maran ham at 6d. ; 40 Pernams, 6* to 7 ; 40 Bahia, 6i ; 120 Egyptian, 7+ ,• and 2770 Americans, 4+ to 61 ; being a total of 3500 bales. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 28, 1842. We have very little doing to. day. Manchester and Bir mingham, 271 ; Leeds, Quarters, 44 ex. div. ; Bank of Manchester, 3/. 3s. 9d. - CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — 'lndia Stock •..... — 3 per Cent Red. \ D itto Bonds ll pm 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent Red . New 34 per Cent New 5 per Cent. . - Ditto 500/... 29 pm Long Annuities :,oexpire Ditto Small 29 pm Jan. 1860 Bank Stock f or O pen... Oct 1859. ••• ••••• India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. . — Consols for Acct B9B FOREIGN FUNDS, Austrian, 5 poi cent.... - Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet rent lO3l Ditto, New Ditto 34 Brazilian Bonds. 69 Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian 6 per cent...:.. -- Ditto, Metallic .....„ Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 244 Ditto, I 824.......... ..... 26i Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 424 French, 3 per cent — —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 IDutch, 2i per cent. 524 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. , 102 j SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) Ditto New Shares (174 paid) 154 it Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 36 London and South Western - 591 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ••• •• 'Bl Manchester and Birmingha m (40 paid) ... .. 27 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) ...... 341 South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 25 York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares (15 paid 324 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—i . YESTERDAY. ) Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 ( Genoa 25 90 Antwerp l2 74 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 'Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 'Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 152 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres 8er1in..... ......... ... 7 New York, 21days sight 464 Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 56 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ Madrid Cadiz Bilbao ... 354 New Doubloons ......0 0 0 Barcelona Seville HAMBURGH BURSEN HALLE, MARCH 24. Bills, Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan llO 11)9N Russian 5 per Cent, Ist series, Certificate 103% 101% Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per cent. (1840) . Dutch Actual Debt, .*4 per Cent. ...... 51% 51% Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds • 151 New Tickets 168 Anglo-Danish Loin, 3 per Cen t 7141 783 Spanish, New 5 p:r Cents. ............ ..... PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN. M4RC11 1 2 7 2. 6 Bills M one y. St. Schuld. Sch., 43. per cent. ........ It43i Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 pet cent. 10 2% Szchange on London, three months —.. (5 22% —Prussian State Gazette. March 23 •••••••, On the 15t1 - - FORIGN. The Levant M a il has arri E ved, bringing advices from Alexandria of the 6th, from Constantinople of the 7th, from Smyrna of the 9th, and from Malta of the 18th inst. The news cannot be condensed in a few sentenceo here, and will be found in detail in another part of The Sun. From the Turkish capital we have the satisfactory in timation that Ihe Porte will listen to the representations of the great Powers, and recall Omar Pacha, the Aus trian renegade, whose s wa y i n S yr i a h as pro d uce d such disastrous results. It is considered probable that, a son of Emir Beschir will be the successor of Omar. The lonian Parliament opened at Corfu on the Ist inst.. and on the 3d the new Lord High CommisSioner delivered his speech. The finances he admitted to be much involved, the expenditure having exceeded the re venue. He mentions various reductions to relieve the debt of upwards of 150,0001., and demands the authorisa tion to sell all public property of every kind, and to put an end to the grain department, and to leave the trade in wheat free, like that in all other kinds of grain. ' The accounts from Malta state that on the 17th inst. the jury acquitted Mr. John Levick and Lieut. Antonio Mattel, the former as principal, and the latter as his second, in the late fatal duel. Mr. Fellowes returned to Malta on the 14th from his voyage of research in Asia Minor. The Augsburgh Gazette gives a full account of the troubles at Ibraila. On the 22d, the States voted an ad dress hostile to the Government. On the same evening, the insurrection broke out at Ibraila. A lieutenant of cavalry was first shot ; but his death aroused the colonel who commanded, and who was able to repress the muti neers, and take fifteen of them. The Semaphore de Marseille of the 24th inst. brings news from Algiers of the 20th. The Governor-General continued to receive propositions of peace from the dif ferent tribes which had hitherto held out for Abd-el- Kader. On the 17th General Changarnier returned to Belidah from an incursion on the territory of the Had joutes, bringing with him 480 prisoners and 3,000 head of cattle. A difference exists between the Porte and France on the subject of the new Consuls of the latter Power. Botta, a son of the historian, has been named Consul at Mossul, in Mesopotamia. The Porte refuses to sanction the appointment, on the ground that the French have no commercial interests whatever at Mossul, but merely re ligious ones, which they want to take advantage of. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle thus reverts, in just and forcible terms, to that villainous impost, the income tax:—" Not that there is the least probability of Sir Robert Peel's adopting any amendments tending to make the tax bear fairly upon the different classes of society. As the reviewer truly observes, ' this is an extreme case of class legis lation.' It is an injustice, and it is intended to be an injustice: Render the impost fair and equal, and it ceases to be what Sir Robert Peel wants. He no longer finds in it a propitiatory sacrifice to the power of agri cultural monopoly. Justice and equality - would be a great incoavenience to him. They would mar his Par liamentary and Ministerial tactics. 'He wants a wrong in the income tax to support the wrong in the Corn-law, and overbalance the right in the new adjustment of the' tariff. Impartiality i n hi s scheme would be an imper tinent intrusion, not less offensive than that of the honest man in the closet of Dr. Caius. The tax is better let alone in its integrity of iniquity." ' The Morning Herald says :—" There can now, we presume, be no longer an y d ou bt as to t h e va l ue of votes at Cambridge during the elections to return Members to represent that borough in the last and present Parlia ments, or of the estimation in which the crime of bribery is held by the venal electors of that town. Double votes on either side of politics are worth 101., and ' bribery is all a parcel of stuff and nonsense !' To re: present Cambridge is then, truly, not a very enviable' distinction, no matter whether it be enjoyed by Mr. C. M. Sutton and Sir Alexander Grant, or Lord 'Cosmo Russell and Mr. Foster ; it is a distinction which, if the House of Commons did its duty, would be for some years at least impossible of attainment." The Advertiser, after alluding to the sanguine expec tations formed of Sir R. Peel, when he succeeded to office last year, goes on to say :—." But Sir Robert has anni hilated all these favourable anticipations, and the income tax now stands exposed in nude and hideous deformity as the most unjust infliction with which the most des potic of its governments ever visited the country. A measure which leaves the country no alternative but a quiet endurance of public robbery, or the overthrow of the Ministry which has proposed it." The following is from the Times :—" Our attention has been more than once called to the delay which takes place in the administration of justice, one of the causes of which has not, we believe, been hitherto the subject of public censure—we mean the increased and increas ing length of forensic speeches. We have heard of judges, in former times, dispatching twenty or five and twenty causes a day upon an average ; whereas at present, if the causes be not undefended, the most experienced judge will scarcely dispose of more than four or five. Perhaps to a certain extent the exami nation of witnesses may be more laborious and search ing —perhaps more trifling, and pushed more into col lateral subjects than heretofore ; but certain it is that the eloquence of the bar is distinguised by a prolixity unknown to former times. There are persons now living who can remember the very few words in which ordinary cases were opened by Lord Erskine. In his day the speeches of counsel in general did not occupy more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour on both sides, and in cases of unusual magnitude or interest Lord Erskine's rarely exeeeded an hour ; whereas at present there are few cases seriously contested in which the leading counsel on both sides confine the range of their rhetoric within the space which that celebrated ad vocate required fiiihis defence of Lord George Gordon. Now, as a judge generally sits about six hours in the day, it follows that he cannot try six, or even five causes, if the speeches on both sides together occupy an hour 'n eafil cause." MONEY—TRADE—COMNIERCE A meeting of the creditors of the Messrs. Wigney's, took place at the Brighton Town-hall, on Monday : two large debts, one for 2,0171. and a second for 2,3131. were proved, as also a third for 30/. ; after which the meeting adjourned to ten o'clock to-day. The affairs of the sugar factory in Scotland are said to be very complicated, and a balance-sheet cannot be produced for some time : the assets are not likely to be more than able to pay the ex penses of working the commission. tlo At fr BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTIOP --- t as . 1 1 Annual General Meeting of the Board of the year 1841 the Report was read, Ni n e l i v 3ol l/. 1; appears that during the past year a stun 0, e jo' l been distributed in relieving the necessities o,,,rit. cases. The assistance thus afforded has of cours nc ei . in amount and duration, according to the circtioL'ed of each particular case, .all of which have receP o f thr, most prompt attention and careful examinatio;s to r Board ; and they have the satisfaction of beli evi such assistance has been of essential, indeed in m any . atanc.is, of vital importance, and fully realised W e t cee fit' . .r pations of the Directors, alluded to in their las when the ca , p rO; Report as having been contemplated Committee was formed. The funds have gor d ia .. „ ol gressively improving ; the total amount, inc 4 , ll t or interest, invested with the Commissioners for tier of the national debt is 10,6541. 16s. 54 P 00, nearly 4001. per annum ; boyond this the ji; tio crs e j the institution at the present time frc annum.' e v e lions is nearly 2801. The interest a lone, , ue from the commencement of the institution islu su m of 1,3541. 16s. sd. The new edition of ,b.f ie d to r :1 and the newly-arranged list of members We n . gese and circulated, must it is presumed, have gll e d , trno satisfaction; this and the books necessary for tiperA actions of the institution, have added in a eat . ...g — g l; to the expenses during the past year. The,,gr,,,. e s - o ness and attention with which the perioc tam noticed the progress of the institution thanks of all hi members. le .3 insu., says a letter from Madrid, one of the 15 brigands who have infested the country near Meutrida, was arrested at that place. He was found con cealed in a dry well, from which he discharged his musket and killed the offiv- commanding the detach ment of troops which arrested him. Before he would surrender it was found necessary to throw burning brim stone into the well to drive him out. The Marquis do la Marche died suddenly On Thurs day morning, in the Church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, while in the performance of his religious ditties. as of ad advanced` age, Mit- up to the mcluenc°l his he was appa ren tl y in good health. deatn --?~" THE INCOME 7AX AN D TARIFF. TO THE EDITOR OF THE st heiflF Six,—You have so ably and manfully uP interests of British commerce, that I trust votaticce is ne e d e d f or so li c i t i ng your power ful assi'' the present occasion, As Sir Robert Peel seems really in endeavour to uphold our commerce, I fully suggest that the annual donation of 21 '- st ijv the King of Hanover be withheld, until an ment of the tolls levied by that Potentate 90,...,0. merchandise can be adjusted on terms fair ail able to both parties. If Sir Robert Peel's Government would 5 ,, manliness to propose the suspension of t in tif os until his Majesty will listen to reason, I feel a fro ° that, notwithstanding a few • wry fac es o r ultras of my party, they will' be 11. 4 1 by a large majority in the House of Colut!cios by the almost universal voice of the coral-010 manufacturing classes. Although I u' t iisO d ea:ruldfroool.'esirlif ashamed of my politics, I cannot forget the a- to °, rendered by my party, when in oPl ) n siti ly'eve e ' Radicals, in effecting a reduction of the all ° the King of B e l g i um , an d I h ope th e y wi l e, o fe just on the present occasion, for the preitt,uc tis ini cannot render.. me unmindful of the ior inflicted o n our commerce, and the ve.xatoesby tions on the masters of our merchant shi,P s ' preposterous am oun t o f t o ll l ev i e d by the 1 10 1 ', nover, as well as the m o d e o f co llecting it' Dove, the names of the Q ueen , the Queen and Prince Albert, th e D u k e o f C a mbridge , a ° 11 , 0 (1 41 ' branches of our Royal F am ily, are often sexenvire subscriptions to reli ev e th e unexampled s uue, distress now prevaili ng i n man y parts of tou to dom, the King of Hanover does not appea r bute a single shilling to any one of th e 9 ,t00 . appeals made to the affluent in behalf o f out t multitudes. Hull, March 14, AN OLD g oy, TO THE EDITOR OF - „,i'eve ) . 4 l ‘ Sin,—How stands the account ? 01 - h i to 1842. AN your obedient sercloI;) the new tariff, from some taxes which attn e , eo ties consumed in my family, but in lieu of 0 10 , 5 1 " saddled with an income tax, equal to six tj duties I pay on articles of consumption. je Again, I get credit, and pay at m3I e° ' , s t hers e tf . for the consumabl e a rti c l es , an d the dut ies but not so with re s p ec t t o th e income t3 " c llec t ', three months I shall be call e d on by the t fl7i I for one quarter's ta x on i ncome , and n niesg htive promptly, am liable to be summoned, an d property distrained. ati ties The builder may be reli eve d by reduce d timber, and the shipowner by a lower lnitYs%lll\ foreign_ provisions for ships' use, but all t ' A c i, (Xli c , o expense, who am saddled with this proPt.e9oll`ii inquisitorial income tax. We have absur a , l ",, l 1/ / ,' t absurdities. It is said that the new Corn -la for the purpose of exclusion of foreign e °lll 'i t y t 7,1„ the protection of the home grower ; but 16 ', j 5 high -duties, when the price of corn i s lour s a ti ff i cie; the low price, with a moderate fixed . dutY , a 0 pet s protection? What foreigner would bring e ar fa the low price would not remunerate hi, in t i e dl cost of his corn abroad, and the to w fixed dutf ' or 0, and the charges of transit. Take 40s. per '1 or, average price, at the port of shipment abroan/. s psi add the charge of transit, 10s. per quar t % cd t duty of 6s. per quarter, he lands his corn It 505; I f 565. per quarter. The price 'in England / 0 0, ° ,1 0 525. per quarter ; where, th en , th e n ecessitY ° 7 o, l ` of. 20s. or 18s. per quarter as a protection meant for the purpose of exclusion. I am, Sir, your obedi en t servant,..„ f o March 29, 1842. ANTI-11u TO THE EDITOR OF THE UIa 4it , A by Six,—The principle of taxation recogaincor P i R. Peel, of every individual contributinCt to his means, is unquestionably sound. whether it applies to th e p ro p o sed n ie ,„, - '4 4 which, as Sir Robert Peel say s , is to be a „„ - ii r l income," without ref e ren ce t o its nature, see permanence. • f e le! According to Sir R. P ee l' s no ti ons ofjust ic :;ti ,t are to be taxed, not a ccor di ng t o the pr°P. iv e possess, but accordi ng t o th e i ncome they "me-oce"01 it, the prud en t an d i n d us t r i ous paying "nro w ,p. the idle and the impro v id en t, an d the " t! il r e scgr" servant," who hid e s hi s t a l en t i n th e napkin , scot free. tes sl ' Now, there are thr ee i n di v id ua l s , each nos ,h r et 10,0001. One of th em i nvests hi s propertLut 3 r per Cent. Consols, deriving an income of ow" per annum, and payi ng a tax of about 91. Anear Another invests the same sum in Long " 0 /, 0 ;,1 yielding about 7001. per annum, of which 3"ilife,,o much of the principal p a id o ff, an d must bee f V ihe to keep up the origi na l amoun t o f hi s prOPe aol i o person has to pay a t ax o f 20/. ; or m ore tha t i l io t that of the other, though it is obvieu,.% it er., "means" are no greater than those of the t c 'saa,,ie, A third invests hi s money i n b us iness, o f Oro industry and skill, an d running the chances a IA ( he draws an income of 1,000/. a years a tax of 30/., of which tax no less than thirds of the whol e , i s a di rec t tax upo n in I's J u commercial enterprise ! This is Sir reejt -this is the justic e E ng li s h merc h an ts are ° T.L . ' in lieu of fair competition and free trade. O 7 E , L A THE FUNERAL OF Tii-D„ — A EARL OF MUNSTEIb.„, ° At 8 o'clock yesterd a y morn i ng t h e retua"ii i e oi ,, lamented Nobleman (enclosed in three coffin s ' e ot e 'ill one composed of the best Spanish maliega n id e d:,, with rich crimson Genoa velvet, thickly st a w pio,re gold ornaments), were removed to the hearse , ' D oe ^•,O drawn by six horses. When all the a rrango n v ro ce: p e, completed, at ten minutes past eight, moved forward in the following order re with armorial bearings on each - side, thre. e , - tbel: s o the Il i coaches, each drawn by four horses, containut,,,pn'oe tives and immediate friends of the deceased , sel'i e sif ;V carriages, amongst which were those of her 3 L a ' es ,se, s ; D e Queen Dowager, and those of their Royal 1 1 -i,g 11 ;5 01 ; Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex, the carrlifoO n l e i late Earl and Dr. Chambers. The Eari,, °. , of" i f o . '?" Lords Adolphus and Frederick Fitzclareneee ° os s th the mournful procession, which proceeded a c sit, t ;l grave-square, through Wilton m -crescent bridge on the high road t remains of the eceased Petr were to be lnt vault under the church LLOYD'S SHIPPING. 411' DEAL, MAWR S.W. me mcder" - Florence, Davis. Madeir a ; M ar i a , i ms terdail l 'Afrl c r i rinam. Arrived from th e Ri ver , Af r i ca nus, f or for Sophia, C. C. C. Medusa, for Sydney. 0: 100 KAMSGATE, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Adonis, 14° Newport, with damage, les l/ A Y CowEs, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Moslem, .ge- g ° Ai r r PLYMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Wind s:t, Star of the West, Demerara. t „di, FALMOUTH, MARCH 27.—Wind O tw Arrd. Lyra Packet, Vera Cruz, sailed 3d 11 111sPqr 11th, and Havannah 20th, with 280,0 0 V itr o. I. freight ; Montrose steamer, Southampton, for , t ° 4 , 4 r, rived in the Humbe r , 28th, William Lee, Cal _ . ..,4e 114 1P .A 4 LIVERPOOL, MARCH 28.—Wind -1.4 sic ) ; stone, Smith, Bombay ; Phili ps , Rimtner, B o ni' Dec. 21 ; Blucker, Laguna, sailed Jan. 26 ;„,ier,, A qs'' Hodgson, Buenos Ayres ; Amelia, Alex a. 01 1 ; i 'd Cabello ; William Guthrie and Glenview, Ne`, /r , 0 0 .4,1 Superb, Stewart, and Alabahma, Wood, Mobile P A Hood, Scott, Savannah ; Normandie, York, sailed • George Washington, Ne vi " r t v v i ,° o o barque, with "Liverpool " ' on her stern, Y e- I 'o w oo , painted yellow inside, and yellow boats, a ' v 4 ° , l %, of„ . ` , head, painted skyblue, painted ports, flush 1 7„ clis t ;; 0 10 rents y about 300 tons, not coppered, was seen 1 " 1 , - e rel' ;fi g 13th inst. in lat. 42, lon. 39, by the Ameli a, arrive" - 110'0 Port Cabello, which remained by her until the toe t s d morning, when the wind, having come roan ~„ N. W., the barque ste ere d t o th e sou thward , s"; intended making one of the western islands. gt etp CORK, MARCH 26.—Arrd. Comet, Gilpin , New Brunswick. Arrd. off. Si l k swor th, " pop Sierra Leone, and sld. for Liverpool. 13 „ n unt e , 4 t1) Hardy, Forsyth, arr d. h ere f rom B ar b a does, v very heavy gales from S.W. to N.W., 10th a "" th inst., and lost sails, &c. i, „ BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 27.—The Vintage, ? b Os" has been towed in h ere , h av i ng b een f a llen in w it doped, by the Union, arrd. here from London. Qu er' SUNDERLAND, __MARCH 27.—Sid. Synune t q' of I i; YARMOUTH, MARCH 28.—The Mariner, 3 13 „, been i ll mouth, has been assisted int o the roads, havi ng age contact with the Newark light, and received a° her hull. OW' IV " NEWHAVEN, MARCH 28.—The John an. - London to Cowes and Shoreham, is ashore near Head, and expected to become a wreck. . . . - , • ~.0 I. Il tt&r -.1.1.-- • .......," Agt,"litilii 4 ..' ~,, . s 'k ~...r416._ . %6 N