The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-28 00:00:00

ThAMES EMBANKMENT. _Amongst the reports laid before the Court of Com mon Council on Thursday last, by Mr. Allan, the Chairman of the Navigation Committee, and likely to form the groundwork of important proceedings of the Corporation on the next Court day, is the Report of Captain Bullock, R.N., the hydrographer to the Board of Admiralty, who, with Mr. Walker, the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and other eminent scientific men, took a survey, last autumn, of the whole extent of the river Thames, under the civic jurisdiction. The following is an abstract of CAPTAIN BULLOCK ' S OBSERVATIONS. " Inquiries having been instituted by the Corpora tion of the City of London respecting the practicabi lity and expediency of a uniform embankment of the Thames throughout its course, it has been referred to me to consider and report on the effects likely_ to be produced by such a measure on the bed of the river. " Previous to my answering the questions submitted to me, it seems desirable that I should state what I conceive to he the natural laws regulating the move ments of a river, and the formation of its bed, so far as 'such laws are involved in the subject under considera tion. A current of water obeys the general law of motion, and continues its course in a straight line, until it meets with some obstacle which forces it to ' turn aside ; hence at every bend in the channel of a river, the current runs in on the concave side, and presses on the bank. " The velocity of a stream, under like -circum stances of declivity and pressure, depends on its free doms or, in other 'words, on its breadth and depth. In any given section of a river the greatest rapidity of a • stream will, generally speaking, be found in the deepest part ; where there is a shoal on the side of an active current, the contact of the rapid stream with the retarded and sluggish water on the shoal will have the effect of producing a circular mo tion or eddy in the latter, the extent of which will be regulated by the extent o f the shallows." After some further statements relative to the natural laws regulating the movements of a river, Captain Bullock proceeds:— " These principles.being established, we may now proceed to consider the question whether it be possi ble to devise a channel for a river so constructed as to secure the two conditions of clearness from all ob structions and permanence ; or, in other words, whe ther by embankments judiciously constructed with respect to width and form, a river may not be di rected in such a manner that its currents both ways vvill harmonise with the general windings of the course, and whether it may not be freed from all tendency to form shoals and to shift its channels. " It appears to me that these desirable ends may be easily obtained by embankment. A river's bed is spoiled by the too great diffusion of the stream, by the wear and tear of the banks, and by obstructions of one kind or another created in the water-way, from all.which ensue diversions of the current and a ten dency in the "river to change its course, throwing up banks and shoals, which more or less impede the na vigation. , "vow, these catte4 .. of deteriOration maybe corn , pletely removed by' embankments, • reducing the bed of a river to - a sufficient water-way, and nothing more, and presenting4o = the,pre,ssitre of the stream at the bends of the river a solid unchangeable point, i,of. anal a form as wily guide the current both ways in one channel ; if to these embankments be superadded some regulations calculated to preserve inviolate the principles on which the embankments are formed, and to 'prevent the projections and obstructions" in the water-way, it cannot bedoubted that the river will gradually work itself a free, uniform, and unimpeded channel, and having thus improved its course that it will have no tendency to change it. The same natural agencies which, left to themselves, continually change their direction, and plough up different channels in a stream, will, if fixed in their direction, and rid of variable and undue hindrances, be converted into the improver and preserver of the same stream. ". It is easy to apply to the Thames what' has been already said of rivers in general, but it inut not be overlooked that au additional argument for the pro posed embankment, may be found in the circumstance that the Thames is -rather wider above bridge than in the, Pool ; for the contraction of the stream above bridge, will probably have the effect of equalising the current, and giving it an equable movement. And, moreover, the single fact that the Pool is in general narrower that the river above bridge is of itself suffi cient to show that the latter is wider than necessary. " It would be advisable, perhaps, to expedite by dredging the process of clearing and deepening the bed of the embanked river, instead of leaving it to the comparatively slow operation of natural agencies; but in that case, it would be necessary to adopt a better system of dredging than that pursued at pre sent, and instead of making deep holes in the chan nels, the dredging machine ought to be employed wholly in removing shoals ; and, in general, it may be remarked that the mischiefs from the neglect of the river's bed or banks, or. from injurious interference with them, cost much more for their repair or correc tion, than would suffice to maintain a vigilant super intendence competent to prevent them. "The Thames, though for ages the greatest com mercial river in-the world, has hitherto been excluded from its due share hi the improvement going on around it. In our own times the navigation has re ceived incalculable benefits from science, and as might be expected from the, maritime genius of this country, the chief glory of their scientlficiabours belongs to ourselves. The Thames_has been' lately surveyed with the utmost care and.:minuteness by the direc tion of the Lords of the : Admiralty, but without re ference to the embankment of its sides. "Amidst all . this activity, originating in the spirit of the age, and called. for by its want's," it is not sur prising that the Corporation of the City of London, actuated by the same spirit, should" have directed their attention to the improvement of its banks. The extension of some care to this object is also impera tively called for by the recent change in the mode of plying in the river, arising from the great increase of small steamers. In conclusion, I strongly recom mend the projected embankment as a certain means of effecting a great and permanent improvement in the Thames. 'lt would, if fully carried out and maintained with suitable regulations, have the. effect of equalising the current and bed of the river, removing shoals, and increasing the navigable water-way. Owing to the numerous obstructions in the river with the interrupted and oblique currents attendant on them, as well as the constant wave from the steam-boats which washes the banks, there is a larger quantity of mud kept in a state of perpetual oscillation .than formerly. But this Neill be avoid e d bitAity of channel ; and with an unembarrassed water-way the stream, thus loaded by sedimentary matter,- will pass onwards towards the sea into deep water. The great extent of the mud banks, which now exhale offensive effluvia at low water, .would also thereby be much diminished. The stream being - made stronger and . deeper by its em bankment,would more effectually perform its cleans ing. office ; and these benefits, independent of that of that of considerably increased facilities of navigation, now 'grown so important, seem to me sufficient of theniselves to incite to far more arduous and expen sive undertakings than that of merely embanking the river near the metropolis." • • • MASSACRE-IN MANILLA. .. (From the Spanish Corresponscd.) IVe.received by Suez, letters from Manila, of the Bth 'of December, 1841, Two things occupied people's minds there, although tranquillity was re established. Ist, the 'effervesceney of the population ; and, secondly, the viOlence adopted by the superior authorities in the repression of the popular move ment. There are some particulars taken frian'the documents we received, which are interesting enough. An advice given to public by General Oraa, and dht.id the 9th of November, says the rebel Apolinario de la Cruz, .chief of the revolt, was shot. At the village de Tabayas, two days after, the other cabecillas underwent the same fate, Dionisio de los Reyes, Gregoriv Miguel de Jesus, and Francisco Espinosa de la Cruz. An order given at the Palace of Manilla, and signed Oraa, promises an amnesty to all those who took part in this revolt, having been . fanatised by Apolinario de la Cruz, and one called . Purgatorio. • Twenty days have been allowed them to come before the authorities, and all their fire-arms . are to be given up in the space of fifteen days. . The desperate collision which had taken place be tween the troops of the Governor of. Tabayas, who wra killed on the spot, and the band of Apolinario de la Cruz, had been occasioned by the curate of the town burning the image of St: Joseph, which belonged to the fraternity—an image which they thought miraculous ; and some friars of St. Joseph had been badly treated : these had been flogged, and flogging is the greatest affront possible among the natives. Apolinario had ehOsen to hide himself from the pursuit of the curate and the governor of the pro vince in an hermitage, two hours' walk from the ca pital. ... There were two streams at the foot of the hermit age. Apolinario and his ' companions had elevated a rampart of earth, half a yard_ hi g h, the side of which looks upon the capital of 'Tabayas. Behind that they . had dug a-ditch, not very deep, in whi c h th ey wa i te d for the troop. They resisted, for half an hour after the firing began. The -women of the fraternity, grouped together at a certain distance, weral coil templating the engagement , ketween the 464 an d Apolinario's band as calmly as if it wa s a tour nament. - As soon as the fire .of the troop had dispersed the groups, tie men and women of the ',fraternity ran sway confusedly, taking refu e NEVS ' near the altar . and in 'the chapel of St. JesePh• —, , ' A great many of them were seen at that moment 42 .... q embracing a wooden cross or . their brevet of the '"''' , l'3•- fraternity. Fanatised by their chief, they , t hou g ht • `i . .t...r! . .....: thy held ,in their . hands a talisman .against .tft* clea - • . th:. ,that was the tenor of their brevet. The num ,........„ .., A - ber ofdead. is said to amount to 400, without count -11. S ' - ---- ---- - • • ,„ ing the woundect It is said that a great many of [ them who surrendered were shot. But what we • scarcely believe is, that the executions continued for five days after the engagement, by the order of Ge neral Oraa. The curate of Tabayas, it is said, wrote immediately to the Archbishop of Manilla, begging of him to mediate with the Captain-General, in order to obtain the cessation of this butchery. It is not known what were the projects of Apoli nario. It is certain- that if he had wished, after the death of the Governor, Ortega, to march upon Tabayas he could have taken possession of it. Instead of taking possession of the province, these unfortunate fanatics remained in the cha pel, expecting the prodigies which Apolinario had promised them in the name of St: Joseph. The apostle did not show himself to his children • four young virgins served him—they were his aides-de camps. They communicated his orders to the faith ful. No one was admitted into the fraternity, ex cept on condition of. ,not asking to see the apostle (Apolinario.) Amongst the victims there are several who do not even know the face of their chief. In the hermitage they sung a canticle, which au old woman shouted out, and went . in procession to kiss his hand. This is the way these unfortunate people, whose plans we do not know, passed their time. It is a curious thing, that on account of this event, there were three lawyers put into prison, Fiorentino, Pontajo, and Marefosqui. General Oraa wanted to have them judged by a council of war, and the tribunal would not, which makes it be supposed (hat no conspiracy is yet proved. There is a mystery in this affair which the next letter from Manilla will, perhaps, unfold. At all events, it is important that the Government should - find means to restore con fidence between the natives of Philipino and the Spanish authorities. FRENCH. COINAGE. The Debats has an article which is not without interest, on the bill now before the Chamber of Deputies for calling in some of the coins now current, and substituting a new bronze coinage. The Debats approves of the calling in the mixed metal coins in circulation, but doubts the propriety of abolishing altogether the 5 sous, 15 sous, and 30 sous pieces, these divisions having been found useful. All that was necessary, says the Debats, was to replace the mixed metal 15 and 30 sous pieces by a new coinage on the metrical principle. After this notice of the bill,- our Contemporary proceeds to remark on the monetary system of France generally. This, it says, is very imper fect, and the execution of the coinage is exceed ingly inferior to that . of England. One of the great evils of the French monetary system, is the latitude allowed by law as to the weight of coins, which, we are assured, admits of such abuse, that in a bag of 1,0001. of silver money, the real value may be 50f. less than the nominal value. Another defect of the monetary sys tem of France, according to our Contemporary, js the weight, at which the gold coinage is is- Stied -to the public, .arid .certainly if 'the parts Stated be correet, this is e.ry serious: Accord lag to law, 155 - pieces of .20 francs go to the ,klugramnie; a.ritt- the -consequence - of . this is, ...that the gold ..and is gradually disappearing from circulation. Between the years of 1816 and 1841, the exports of gold from France were 1 milliard and 467 millions more than the im ports. Forty years ago, the metallic cur rency here was 2 milliards, 200 millions—viz., 1,500 millions in silver, and 200 millions in gold. The metallic currency is now three milliards and a half; of which we are assured that gold figures only to the amount of from 200 to 300 millions. We are also informed by the Debats that, fifty years ago, gold formed one-third of the metallic currency, whereas, according to the above state ment, it is at this moment only about one sixteenth. The remedy recommended by our contemporary fur this evil is to make 160 pieces of 20 francs out of a 'kilogramme of gold, instead of 155, as this slight difference of weight would take away the premium now offered to, speculation fbr the exportation of gold specie. With respect to the silver currency, the defect of the present system is, it appears, still greater than that of the gold currency ; for an enormous amount of silver is in circulation, and forms to a great extent so much unproductive capital. The amount of the metallic currency in France, the greaterpart of which is silver, is,'says the Debate, more than half the entire amount circulating in Europe, and if any improvernentin the production ofthe silvermines in South America .was to take place, so asto render silver more abundant in Eu rope, the consequence might be a depreciation of thereat valtio of silver in France to the extent of its nominal value. Other evils attending this large amount of silver currency arc noticed by the Debate,but they are comparatively ofslight importance. Our readers wilt probably he sur prised at the assertion that the metallic cur rency in France exceeds the half of the en tire metallic currency of Europe; but this surprise will cease if we take the word cur rency in a figurative sense as regards the greater portion of the coinage. It is incorrect to state that there is this great amount in circula tion,for it is a well-known fact that an enormous portion of it is never current. The system of hoarding is still carried on to a great extent in France, and if it be true that an excessive amount of specie rather paralyses than promotes the energies of a country, how much more posi tive is the evil when the larger portion of the specie is hoarded up and rendered unproductive, not merely as regards foreign commerce, bnt also as regards home enterprise. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNINCr. MARC ti 28, 1842. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FINANCIAL SCHEME. Even the agriculturists begin to think that their promised "protection" through the Corn-law is more than counterbalanced by the proposed removal of pro tection upon 'cattle. They can see no difference between being "dependent upon foreigners" for sup plies of beef and mutton, and being dependent upon them for supplies of bread ; and some of the sagacious and far-seeing men of the north have just discovered, that if ss. be gained upon corn, and 10s. lost upon cattle, the balance will be taken out of their pockets, not put into them. Our worthy 'contemporary, the Dumfries Courier says:— " In Galloway, we understand, there are hundreds of farmers who have no objection to the free im portation of corn, under a moderate fixed duty, or even by the sliding scale as remodelled of late ; butwho, at the same time, look forward with dread to the competition threatened in the trade of breeding by the introduction of stock—oxen, cows, calves, sheep, pigs, and even goats. Considering how differently society is constituted on the Continent of Europe, such an arrangement, in their estimation, will prove alike hostile to the rental of the laird ani the profits of the tenant ; and in the case of such as are saddled with a 3 per cent. income tax, on rents ex ceeding 1.501., must cut, more or less, like a two edged sword, by augmenting goings out, and diminish ing comings in. The importation of salted provisions is also objected to ; a duty of little more than a half-penny per lb. is considered no protection what ever, looking to the Hamburgh and other markets ; and every one perceives, or at least dreads, that the general tendency of the proposed tariff, as re gards agriculture, will press with unbearable severity on the Scottish farmer. Again, crofters, or such as pay their rents chiefly from the pigs they breed, rear, and sell at the proper season, will be driven, it is supposed, out of the market ; the bounty offered on the importation of flitches and hams will tread on many a sore heel in the north of Ireland; and, alto gether, it is apprehended that a blow will be dealt to agricultural enterprise, under the effects of which it may stagger for years. Even the bacon-curers have taken the alarm, and we heard of a posse of them lately in Annandale, who have made up their minds to a loss on their present 'stocks cf not less than 2,0001. sterling." • Thus, Sir Robert Peel, who. was to have settled everything—who was to have given us tranquillity and contentment at home—is in a fair way for un settling everything, and is spreading alarm and dismay through nearly all classes of the commercial and trading community.—Carlisle Journal. 4 A 4. r i g s' I N 4/I • ` SPANISH CORN-LAWS. On the 3d inst. was published, in Madrid, the Minister of Finance's project of a Corn-law for Spain, read in Congress on the 28th ult., as the result of the labours of the Commission employed to gather evi dence on the subject during the last five months. The following is a brief analysis : All dealings in flour, wheat, barley, oats, maize, rye, spelta, and other grains seeds, and pulse, to be declared free throughout the kingdom, and the isles adjacent, without subjection to taxation or destruction of any kind. The bargains, barters, and transactions in corn, &c., shall only be subjected to the law which extend in common to every species of contract. It is com petent for any person to open stores of corn, &c., for public sale by wholesale and retail in any pueblo, without incurring any charge or impost of any de nomination. All old restrictive regulations on this branch of commerce with reference to privileges, monopolies, &c., conceded by the former Governments, on account of the gabelas, public granaries, &c., are to cease, and the contractors to be renumerated by Government. In the corn stores and markets the buyers and sellers are only to be subjected to the orinary regulations of the police of the pueblo, and such share of charges as may be necessary for paving, cleansing, watching, &c. ; and the town-measurers and weighers are not to interfere in sales unless called in at the free will of the parties interested (a great concession, as at present every thing sold in every market in Spain is weighed, and the weighing is paid for by compulsion.) The commerce in corn, &c., to be free from - port to port in the Pe ninsula, and to and from the Beleares (where the ports of Palma, Mahon, and Ibiza, are appointed for ship ment, and reciprocally in the Peninsula the ports of Barcelona, Tarragona, Alicante, Valencia, and Car thagena, for reception from thence), under the usual regulations of pilotage. The Aduanas, in passing the corn in or out, are to demand no duty for re gistry or certificates, but to take strict account of quantity, prices, destination, &c., and to return monthly statistical accounts to' Madrid. The only expense attendant on the Custom-house transit to the dealers will be the stamps on certificates. (N.B. By the project for the regulation of the Basque fueros, which exempt the three provinces from the necessity of using stamps, the ports of Bilboa, Bermeo, St. Sebastian, and Passages, will be free fr om even this charge.) Pilot vessels in the carrying corn trade coastward are not to touch at foreign ports on their way. " The prohibition against the importation of foreign grain and flour shall still be in force, and continue in those provinces where the price of native produce does not reach 80 reals ($4) the fanega of wheat, and 130 reals the quintal (100 pounds weight) of flour, and bear that price in the sea-coast sapital for four weeks consecutively." But in cese of a "notable scarcity," the political chiefs of provinces may propose ,to admit foreign grain therein, and the Government may act upon their recommen dation. "If the case should arise that foreign pro duce should be introduced, grain and seeds shall pay two reals per fanega, and pulse and flour three reals per quintal, under a_ foreign flag, but nothing under the national ; in either case being exempt from all duty or arbitrio of whatever kind, and all species of restrictions and gabela that might increase the price." " All laws, ordinances, and rules, as well general as particular, which are in opposition direct, or indirect, to the above, shall be abolished and declared of no effect." This is the first step towards commercial consistency, towards the formation of the new tariff; but not a word has yet been said about it, or about the project for the regulation of the Basque fueros. Some days ago a man, named Aubain, 70 years of age, went to the shop of M. Juteau, a carpenter, at Orleans, to order, as he said, a table. Mine. Juteau, being alone, re quested him to call again, but Aubain replied he had something particular to say to her, and vt:nt wills her into a back room. As soon as he had shut the door he took a hammer from his pocket, and struck her violently . on the head, and continued beating her sin! it some of her neighbours came to her release. Aubain was seized, and taken before a magistrate, to whom he excused himself, by saying that Mme. Juteau had spread evil reports about him. After being searched, and deprived of evervthiug he had about him, he was confined in a lock-up houso till the next morning, when he was found dead, having hung himself with an apron, left accidentally by a woman who had been confined the preceding day. The injuries received by Mine, Juteau were very severe, but she is not in danger THE TORY INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE• SUN. SIR,—I beg to inform you that a requisition to the Mayor of this town, to call a public meeting for the pur pose of considering the iniquitous, unjust, and impolitic income tax, and other financial measures of her Majesty's present ill-advisers, is being most numerously signed, and the meeting will be held early in the ensuing week. I hope other places will follow the example, and come to the help of those who appear ready to retrace some of their false steps taken dtiriug the days of finality. I am, Sir, your obedient s4...vant, A PLYMOUTH RADICAL. Plymouth, March 25, 1842. THE PREMIER'S INSTINCT. . , Sir Robert Peel, like Sir John Falstaff, "will not give a reason on compulsion ;" yet he hath ever ready some " device,l c some " trick," some " starting-hole" to " hide" him from open and apparent shame." " I was a coward on instinct," quoth the fat Knight. " There is a keen instinctive sense of What man is worth," quoth the "buoyant" Baronet. "Beware instinct." "Instinct is a great matter." Oh ! Dogberry, Dogberry ! hence forth art thou . naught. , Thou didst indeed discover, that " to write and to read comes by nature ;" but what is that to " the instinctive sense of what a man is worth ?" No more than "an ancient and quiet watch man" is to a modern and bullying "Peeler." As they value their science, let the Phrenologists look to it, and lose no time in assigning to this "instinct" "a local habitation and a name." THE PREMIER IN A DILEMMA. The position of Sir Robert Peel, in reference to the income tax, and his ,intended reduction of the import duties, is far from being an enviable one; nor is it much to be wondered at that he should now and then, under the baiting of his opponents, exhibit a degree of ill temper rather unbecoming in a Prime Minister at a crisis like the present. On the one hand, he is anxious to allay opposition to the income tax, by expatiating on the probable cheapness of provisions, in consequence of his pro posed alteration of the duties on certain articles of food, and the removal of all prohibition on the importation of other articles. But, unfortunately, in his attempts to show that the cost of living will be considerably reduced by his alteration of the tariff, he finds that he is awakening the fears of the mono polists, on whom he mainly relies for support ; and therefore he is obliged to contradict on the one even ing, what he has been most vehemently asserting on the other. Thus, for example, on Friday last, in the course of his speech, he is reported to have spoken as follows :—" If my whole plan be adopted, there will be a diminution of the cost of living, which will repay to the contributors' to the income tax a large propor tion of the money they are called upon to advance:" But, unhappily for the Premier's consistency, he does not agree with himself. In his reply to a ques tion put to him on Monday evening, as to what would be the probable amount of revenue derived from the importation of foreign cattle, Sir Ro bert Peel said, " He had no - fear that the tion of cattle, fat. fat ,Or, lean, would materially, if at all,:injnie. the home grazier." But, if this is to be the sase, __what becomes of the much-Vaunted reduc titin in the cost of living,• which; according, to his O rf , nkilt the - i , 'iAli;tSke i onsbr,l tO be nearly equal to the whole stun each person would have to pay in the shape of an income tax ? Who can wonder at the disinclination of the Right Hon. Baronet to answer every question respecting his financial, scheme, which his indefatigable opponents may propose, when his complaisance is continually liable to place him on the horns of a dilemna, such as the one we have pointed out ?—Manchester Guardian. NEW ZEALAND. Intelligence has been received from Port Nicholson, in New Zealand, to the 27th November. The second colony sent . out by the. New Zealand Company has arrived. It is headed by Captain Arthur Wakefield, well known to his brother officers in the Navy for his professional zeal and intelligence, and his general popularity. Captain Hobson, the Governor of New Zealand, who has been engaged in the attempt to force into existence a settlement originated by him self, at Auckland, remote from the sites chosen by settlers from England and New South Wales, interferes in the affairs of other plantations rather in the spirit of a rival colonizer than of a British Governor anxious to promote the settle ment of the whole islands ; and in this instance he interfered to prevent the second colony from set tling where the Company's officers intended, in Cooper's Bay, on the west coast of the Middle Island. The colony was therefore placed within the limits of the Company's territory, but still in the same island, at Blind Bay, on the southern coast of Cook's Strait (the Northern coast of Middle Island). Here, as luck would have it, they were compensated for the loss of their first wish by finding an excellent harbour and an ample tract of rich land; and the colony of Nelson was founded with every prospect of the most favourable career. All went on well at Port Nichol son.—Spectator. MARY LEBONE VESTRY. On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Mary lebone Vestry, Mr. E. Joseph in the chair, Mr. Flood, the vestry clerk, brought up and read the following report St. Marylebone, March 23, 1842.—At the committee appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the abstraction of certain surplices from St. John's Wood chapel; present, William Low, Esq., in the chair. The committee having carefully investi gated the circumstances connected with the surplices stolen from St. John's Wooil chapel, regret that they are unable. to trace such surplices to any person or persons whomsoever." _ Mr. Gomm having moved the adoption of the Report, Mr. ANDERSON rose and said it was most unsatis factory that the committee could come to no other conclusion, seeing that the, surplices had been traced to the residence of a vestryman. From henceforth he should take his seat as a vestryman of Marylebone with the greatest reluctance, inasmuch as he con ceived that disgrace and' discredit were cast upon every member composing it. Mr. COCHRANE was surprised at the observations of the last speaker. Surely; he would not pretend to say that the stolen surplices had been traced to the residence of a vestryman. If such were the fact, he, too, would really be ashamed to take his seat, for it would tend to make them appear the most disgraceful body that ever existed.—(Hear, hear, and oh.) He called upon Mr. Anderson to explain. Mr. ANDERSON did not feel called upon to explain. Mr. FOSTER felt the force of all the observations made by Mr. Anderson.—(oh, oh, and hear, hear.) It was true they were unable to fix the robbery of the surplices upon any person, but still the Report of the Committee was most unintelligible. Although he (Mr. Foster) did not believe them to be the same surplices as those which were the parish property, still the police did trace, at the period of the robbery, cer tain surplices to the house of a vestryman, that ves tryman being himself a member of the Committee. Mr. COCHRANE—Good heavens ! Mr. GOMM said it was shameful to cast imputations upon any one, without a tittle of proof.—(Hear, hear.) The wife of the vestry had purchased, as a ward robe-keeper, certain sues, and they had been made into other articles of dress, but on being taken to St. John's Wood Chapel, 'they were declared to be quite a different cloth to those stolen. There was not a shadow of a shade of suspicion. Mr. SODEN said the charge against the vestryman by certain parties, was because he was a strong poli tical opponent of theirs, and they wished to see him disgraced.—(Hear, hear, and oil !) But they had not succeeded. The Rev. Dr. DIIIDIN said this was really a very ominous day for that vestry, when a member of it was charged with having his wife implicated in such a transaction. It was an implication so odious, repul sive, and abominable, that the vestry ought not to rest 24 hours under it. Mr. GIBSON said there could be no doubt of the charge being the result of gander from evil disposed persons, but, in order that the refutation should go fully forth, he would move that the Report be referred back to the Committee. Mr. W. EYRE seconded the amendment. The re port had gone forth, and it was proper that it should be fairly met. A VESTRYMAN said he .was the party alluded to, and it was nothing more nor less than an attempt to stab his political character. The surplices were bought by his wife from a lady residing at Battersea. On the question being put, the Report was adopted by a large majority.' On Saturday, at the Surrey. sessions, S o l omon Reeves, a labourer on the South Eastern Railway, was indicted for an assault on Thomas Gower, on the evening of the 22d of February, in the parish of Bletchingly. It appeared that this case'was connected with some of those disgraceful transactions which have lately occurred on the railway lines. The defendant, with nearly a hundred other labourers, forced an entrance into the house of the prosecutor, who keeps a beer .shop, and sells cheese and grocery, and demanded refreshments. They were refused, and defendant then said he would break the prosecutor's head and serve him the same as the others (alluding to two attacks and robberies committed in the neighbourhood on the preceding day, for which eleven men have been sentenced to fifteen years' trans portation). He then attempted to get over the counter, but the prosecutor drew a pistol, and swore that the first man who got over should receive the contents in his head. The threat had the effect of causing the de fendant to withdraw himself a little, but he subsequently struck the prosecutor, who had put the pistol in his pocket, sever a l bl ows w i t h hi s fi sts . A policeman was called, but he was told that if he interfered they would do for him, and he therefore retired ; he subsequently, however, returned with a body of constables, and suc ceeded in apprehending the prisoner. The Jury brought in a - verdict of Guilty, and the Chairman, after animad verting ,on the gross character of the offence, and the necessity of at once putting an end to such conduct, sen tenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. FLANDERS MALL. , A letter from Berlin of March 18, to the Cologne Gazette, is as follows :—" I have refrained from speaking to you of all the reports which have been in circulation for this fortnight past, respecting a military insurrection at St,.,PeterSburg, because, they appeared toi me to be unworthy of credit, But, I now believe that I may assure yoti, that however 'exaggerated all the accounts in circulation.marbe,-it is,' however cer. tun, that a regiment has been indliOd :its; 'officers to mutiny. This mee,t,ir_ig,,, pressed `energetic'`inYtasureS:' 1 - 16we'ver, ebin municated to you only as a report the following details. The Emperor, it is said, hastened to proceed in person to the barracks of the regiment which had mutinied, and had nearly succeeded in bringing the men back to a sense of their duty ; he represented to them in impressive terms the criminality of their psoceedings, when an .officer stepped forward to seize him. • • His Majesty killed the rebel and withdrew, seeing that there were no hopes of prevailing by milder means over the misled soldiers. The barracks were immediately attacked, a great part of the rebels fell with arms in their hands, and the rest were sent to Siberia the same day. 'We cannot say here what truth there may be in the account, which, however, is not imurobable ; and it will not appear uninte resting if we think that a military revolt, however unimportant, has taken place. BERLIN, MARCH 9.—lt is related in the higher circles that the two Royal houses of Prussia and Ha nover contemplate a further alliance with the Ducal house of Dessau, which is nearly related to both of them, by the intended betrothing (which some say is already decided by both parties) of his Royal High ness the' Crown Prince of Hanover to the Princess Agnes of Anhault Dessau, and he is now here. TURKEY.—Accounts from Constantinople of the 2d of March, which have just been received, announces a desperate attack of the Druses on the English and American missionaries, whose establishment they de stroyed, and burned , their books and MSS. Several .Marionite convents are said to have been likewise plundered and laid waste. The protest against the Turkish Governor of Lebanon, continues to be made at Constantinople. The Porte would not yield, but the power of Izzet seems to be drawing to its close. tst;LO!AN k.UNDS—BitritaLs. MARCu 45_ weitial Debt, 2% per Cent. .................5 13 Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cant.*... ...... 102% Loan of Thirty 11111orts, 4 per Cent. p3 .......--- Spec Cent. — Thirty. 6, yen— lSt', (IMO) 1 n 3 .1 4 Loan of City, 1:22.4 per Cent 1.7 Society of Connn:rce, 4 ~',per Cent S2 Bank of Barium, 5 per Cent.... .......... N. t,o at Society — Exchange on Louden (short) .... ........ ..-.Brussels Papers, March 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. ...VIENNA. 31.tacm IR. rive per Coats. Metalliques boar pc: Cents. lOO t 4 Three par Cents. Bank Shares . 1614 HAMBU RGH BORSENHALLE, MARCH 22. . _ Bills. 14 in Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares..oo .oo . •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0 0 000 16.15 ..• Anglo. Russian Lo an llO 109% Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate , 03% Inscription, Ist series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates ...... ........." ...... ••••• 000000000 19 New 4 per Cent. (1840) o '............. ........... .. Dutch Actual Debt. 2% per Cent ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. Polish Bonds ..... .. ..... ••••••••••• lns New Tickets. 107% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 p,r Cents. •••••• 175 EXCHANGER OW LONDON. HAMBURG. MARCH 22.--13 9i.:.:Twontnitths:l9 S, STocitun.m. Minos 11 —Seventy-five days,•l2, 15 PRTIRISURUH, MARCH 11 —1•wo months, 26 pence. Mlncli •2+. Three months, 6. 22%. CHRISTIANIA, MARCH y. —Three months, 40 53. Viiumi, }hams 14.—Three months, 9. 40. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BOSTON STEEPLE-CHASE—Tnu RSDAY. __— Handicap of 10 EOM each, 5 ft, with 100/. added. Four miles. Mr. R. Hunters's Peter Simple, l2st 71b (Mason) 1 Mr. J. Smith's Commodore, 11st 101 b Mr. W. Loft's b g, by Sandbeck, I Ist 71b Mr. Walker's Perseverance, 1 Ist 71b , Mr. Thorpe's Waverly, I Ist 71b The race is claimed by Mr. Walker, on the ground that his opponents took the wrong line. COURSING. POTSBUDY MEETINQ, MARCH 21 AND 22.—The oup was won by Mr. Sharp's Spring, the Avon Stakes by Mr. Sharp's Stortsman, and the Consolation Stakes, by Mr, Smith's The Queen. _ _ INOULSEY HURST, MAitcx 22,—The Cup (16 dogs) was won by Mr. Hodson's Beauty, and the Stakas by Mr. Luce's Lily. BE TING AT MANCHESTER — FRIDAY. Cussrra a Cur.-10 to 1 agst Lanercost—taken, 11 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn—taken, 12 to 1 agst Marshal Soult, 16 to 1 agst Cormorant—taken freely, 23 to 1 agst Rhodanthe, 25 to 1 agst Cruiskeen, 30 to 1 agst Johnny, 30 to 1 agst The Maid— taken. The rest as before. DERZY.— Bto I agst Attila, 16 to 1 agat Lord of Holderness —taken freely, 20 to 1 sgst Chatham—taken, 35 to 1 an Palimuus, 35 to 1 apt Espartero, 40 to 1 agst Joanna c. No other change. OAKS.-8 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's lot. 2,000 GUINEAS STAXIS..-5 to 2 agat IV iseac b 5 is agat Meteor, 7 to 1 agst Timoleou. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Earl Dude's hounds will meet on Wednesday, at Jack mane's Bottom ; Sat., Cirencur Kennels. Essex Union lids., Wed., Maykami , Hall ; Sat., Rams den Heath-101. Mr. Horlock's lids., Wed., New Park ; Sat., Fordgate. Mr. Giles's lids., '1 ues., Aston Ingham ; Fri., Rough borough -10. Tick ham lids., Tu., Icey- street : Fr,, Monk Down-10i. Sir John Cope's lids., Tues., Crookliam-street ; Wed., Lodden Bridge ; Fri., Pence-11. Vine lids., Thurs., Malshanger House ; Sat., Chin ham--11. East Essex lids., Tues. , Cavendish ; Thurs., Donyland ; Sat., Panfield. Essex stag hds., Tues., Mark Hall-12. Norfolk lids., Tues., Aylmerton ; Wed., Edgefield-101. Earl Fitzhardinge's hds., Tues., Dixon; Wed., Lit comb ; Th., Brid gew orth ; Sat., Broadway. Sir W. Carew's lids., Tues., Berry ; Sat., Windy Cross-41. Mr. B. Cockburn's lids., Tues., Cotlaigh ; Sat., Broad chest-11. Tyryside lids., Thurs., Lechryd Bridge. Sinnington lids., Tues., Stilton's House, Helmsley ; Fri., Hovingham-9. Mr. Watson's hds., Tues. Ulgham Village ; Thurs., Warkworth ; Sat., Masseth Quarry Bank-10. Slaley hds., Wed., Fortherley Gill ; Sat., Farnley Whin-9. Forfarshire lids., Tues., Balwall ' • Thurs., Newton Arbirlot ; 7th Milestone, Dundee and Forfar road-10f. STATE OF TRADE.—We much regret to have to announce a further deterioration in the state of our market. A complete gloom has pervaded things during the whole of the week. On Tuesday it was hoped that some improvent might have been felt, some realization of previous hopes experienced—everybody; however, was deceived. The business done on 'Change in yarns was on that day limited to a degree, and prices of nearly all descriptions fell full one-eighth per lb. In cloth a similar effect was seen. Little .business was done, and where sales were effected it was at a reduction in price, alarm ingly low though prices previously were. " Well!" said a large spinner, a Conservative too, the other day," as good 72 reed printing cloth as can be made may be bought at ss. per piece, or is. a pound, and fair 40s'. mule twist may be readily found `at 83-d. per lb. ; one half of the spinners will be broken shortly, and then the other half may hope for an improvement ' So much for the . " im proved confidence," "'renewal of public faith," &c. &c., prediieted as likely to ensue from the advent to power of the all-wise Peel Got ernment! When will the Tories discover that we want sweeping measures rather than plausible Ministers Y—Manchester Guardian. THE BOURTH 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 Alarlborough-street._, NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WA.',I'ERLOO." In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eightien) Price One Shilling each, with characteristic Engravings, by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear with the Magazines at the end of March. THE FORTUNES OF ITEC.TOR. 0' HALLORAN, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. JLIL Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. • Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John Cumming, Ormond-quay, Dublin ; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgir; Grapel, Liverpool. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MARCH 28, Will be repeated, in Two Acts, with additions, Militia's Masque of COMUS.—Comcs, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris; the Lady. Mrs. Walter Lacy; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin ing ; Syrens, Madame Vestris and Miss Itainfertk ; Cupid, Miss Dowton ; Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris; Sabrina, Miss Rainfurth. After which. Mr. Charles Mathews Farce of THE RINODOVES. Sir Harry Ringdove, Mr. F. Matthews; Harry Ringdove, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mooney, Mr. Brougham; Miss Longclackit, Mrs. Orger ; Cecilia, Miss Lee. After which will be produced a Grand Romantic Fairy Extrava ganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT —Wino upcnatyme (hing of Neverminditsnamia), Mr. J. Bland; Princes Paragon, Pr.cious, and Placid (his three Sons . by Madame Vessels, Miss Murray, and Miss L e; Jingo, Mr. Harley; t e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at half-past Six, anis the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :3s. 6d ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price as. ad. ; Pit :is., Seeond Price ^s ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-of lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap. plication. Private Boas to be had solely of Mr. .Andrews, Book seller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY. THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unpreeedented Splendour. THIS EVENING. MARCH 28, Will be performed an entirely New Equertrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOOROISH LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED,. BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments • a Double Company, Equestrian and finest Dramatic, and the Stud Horses in tha World. After which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever before witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. B ATTY . 'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu merous and matchless Creamm-coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Sdotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaul.ers, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionist, in the kingdom. _ • _ conclu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY•M•AN; OR, HOW MANY 'MORE WIVES. THE WEATHER.—Noox, MARCH 26. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 46 1 Highest 46 f Lowest 35 Barometer 29.92.—Wind W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER 'AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 40 minutes after 2 I Evening I) minutes after 3. Tiite c§ttit. LONDON? MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1842. When Mr. PITT on Nov. 24th, 1797, proposed his plan for increasing- all the assessed taxes, which was the foundation of bis scheme for an income tax, he stated " that as the plan was new in the financial operations of this country, it was not his intention to call for any decision on its merits at the present stage of the business." Be stated his plan for the consideration of the House, and though the country was then at war, though time was of great importance, though any doubts thrown on his success might have been injurious to the power of the country, he did not ask the House of Commons for an opinion on the subject till after the lapse of to n days. Sir ROBERT PEEL, far from being so mo dest, would have forced the House, if he could, to have come to a decision on his novel income tax in' the course of a week. If he did not succeed the fault was not his, but the merit of stopping him belongs to the Opposition. He had no good public reason for hurrying through the resolution. The reputation and power of the country will not suffer from the delay. N o allies will be disheartened, no doubtful friends converted into open fbes ; and the public inter ests would not have suffered, though a month had been allowed, after promulgating the plan, to obtain fur it public favour and support. Sir ROBERT PEEL knew apparently that nei ther his measures nor his motives would bear a public scrutiny ; and knowing that he endeavoured to take the country by surprise arid carry his noxious measure before the people were awake to the consequences. With this view he kicked up a great dust about the tariffand about the twelve hundred rates of duties he is to reduce, hoping by the help of that to blind the people, but time having been obtained to clear away the dust,. both his tax and his tariff are attacked from all quarters, and even by some of his own followers. If he were in a hurry with his income tax, he was not slower with his tariff. For the comparatively paltry purpose of inquiring into the:settlements of Western Africa, and :what can be done to re lieve the labour market,- lowering the wages of the ncgroes of the West Indies, Lord STANLEY obtains. a Committee of Inquiry. He and the Ministers will not have a lock of' the negroes wool without the solemn sanction of a Com mittee of the House of Commons, but Sir ROBERT PEEL takes it on himself, without inquiry, aad without consulting the vast 'interests implicated, to propose measures which Will affect all the trades of the country. S.arcely one of the du- ties which he is to repeal or alter was imposed without the preliminary sanction of an inquiry, and most of them, at least all the important ones, were improved in bye-gone times,in consequence of petitions, representations, and claims of the par- ties interested. All these, with a sort of Bone partan rigour, the Right Hon. Baronet has un dertaken to modify after his own fashion, and to adjust by his own authority the relative claims of all the varied interests of this great empire. Such a proceeding savours of prodigious arro gance, and if, on consideration, all the parts of the scheme were unobjectionable, it ought to be opposed, in order to discourage in him and others such inordinate presumption. In the United State, we believe, a Committee has been ap. pointed to investigate the whole subject, and le gislation will not there take place till the Com mittee hcs reported. If it be said that the Import Duties' Committee inquired and recommended many alterations, we reply, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party re pudiated the inquiries of that Committee ; stig matized them as incomplete and one-Sided, and what is more, he has not followed its recommen dations. His plan for altering the timber and coffee duties, as far as we know, is entirely his own. That Committee made no inquiries into the propriety of abolishing the duty on cattle that we recollect: we are sure that they called no graziers and farmers before them, and that part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme is also his own device, or adopted from soiree of the subalterns of the Board of Trade. It did not originate with that Committee, though the principle of setting trade free, on which it is recommended to Parlia ment, was a favourite with most of the Members. Whatever may be the merit of that part of the scheme, except as the Anti-Corn-law League have justly demanded the abolition of taxes on provisions of all kinds, it belongs exclusively to Sir ROBERT PEEL. The principle of setting trade free has been often enough espoused, but the peculiar manner in which Sir ROBERT PEEL sets about giving effect to it is his own. The alterations be pro poses were not before dreamed of; they were un called for by any class or condition of men, and must be called PEEL'S crotchet. It is a sort of I free trade whim which has seized the Right Hon. Baronet. If COBBETT were alive, he would no longer call him PEEL'S Bill Peel, but PEEL'S crotchet Peel. . He will be hereafter as much renowned for his Tariff Crotchet as be has been for his Currency Bill. But, though it may be amusement to his capacious mind to sport with the interests'of nations, it is no amusement to the public; and it is quite a sufficient reason to op pose such a man; that his crotchets are his own, and not in strict conformity to those alterations which any great body of the people demand. There is not one great interest in the State, nor one leading public opinion, which strictly ac cords with the changes which Sir R. PEEL pro poses either in the Corn-law or the tariff. They are not free trade, nor are they complete under the old protection. They are not Conservativq holding "fast by things as they are; neither aro they revolutionary, gratifying those who look for great changes. They are not framed according to the demands of natural justice, and cannot be defended on any general principles. They are simply PEEL'S crotchet, to be passed into laws because he is a necessity for the Tories. A measure which rests on such individual views, which is not in accordance with either general principles or the demands of the people should be scouted_wel piece of wanton and officious tyranny—not accepted as useful legislation. Far from settling the conflicting claims of different classes, Sir R. PEEL'S crotchet has made complainants of those who have been unheard of for years, and has provoked more re clamations from different quarters, than were ever provoked by the Whigs in the eleven years of their administration. The income tax, too, is entirely Sir ROBERT PEEL'S crotchet. Nobody asked for it. On the occasion of Mr. BARING proposing the additional per tentage to the taxes in 1840, Sir ROBERT PEEL approved of his plan, and spoke against having " recourse te.a property •tax for so small a sum as 2,500,0000 He was not ex pected, therefore, now to propose such a tax, and it must be considered as a misbegotten child of his present pride. When Mr. PITT proposed such a tax, notwithstanding he could say, that the " voluntary exertions of indi viduals compensated to 'the public' for the meanness which shrunk from equal contribu tion, " yet he had, in spite of the public enthusiasm, to complain: of fraud and evasion. and to take strong measures to prevent them. Fraud and evasion will now be ten times as great as they were under the former tax; and Sir R. PEEL, by fixing a point 'at which the evasion is sure to be successful, informs people at once how they may evade the tax. At present, also, great changes are going on in the distribution of wealth and employment in society ; and, in general, there is little prosperity, while in many trades there is a decline. When Mr. PITT imposed his income tax, owing to the recent inventions and improvements in the steam engine—owing to our monopoly of .the commerce of the world, and owing to the depre ciation of the currency then in progress, every man, as Lord ASHBURTON once remarked, then found himself richer when he rose in the morning than when he went to bed- the night before: When the people Were . prOsperons, :when the bulk of the income-of the country was increasing every year; an income tax was coin= parati'Vely_bearable., : Now the reverse-is. the case. Not. -only ialbe -bulk of the . fri'corite not increasing, but there are a• considerable portion of the people who are losing their incomes. In another•part of our paper will be found an account of the stopping of the "Age" Brighton coach, which at once shows that on all the coach roads which come into zondpatition, with any recently opened lines of • railways, there are large classes of persons whose incomes are di minishing. According to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan they will be taxed on the incomes they have lost. It is our belief that there are in many parts of the kingdom many trades, which, like that of an innkeeper and a coachmaster on the Brighton road, are declining in prosperity ; and to tax all such persons on an Average of the in comes they have enjoyed for the last three years will be a cruel injustice. Mr. PITT wanted an income tax for great and rapidly increasing expenditure. Sir R. PEEL levies it to compensate diminished re venue. These circumstances shows that the income of individuals is declining, and it esta blishes a difference between the two periods, which will . make an income tax now three-fold as mischievous as it was.then. Mr. PITT esta blished an income tax to carry on war; Sir Ro- BERT PEEL establishes it to revive trade. What folly. The former was a great man, who had some comprehension of what was adapted to times and circumstances ; the latter is a poor imitator, whose botched crotchet, if lie* have influence enough with the House of Commons to procure its adoption, will add to the distress and seriously injure the country. We have from the first treated the amended ariff and the income tax as unconnected ques, tions: Sir ROBERT PEEL, with Dr. , BOWRING and some other Liberals, have treated them as connected and inseparable., On their showing, it the Liberals consent to the. income tax, they are certain to have the tariff tIS their reward and compensation. Is this true?• We think the ques tion very important; for though the amended tariff, which we regard as far less beneficial than some of our contemporaries, would not reconcile us to the income tax, if we were certain to obtain it; yet the possibility of not obtaining it, even though the Liberals assent •to an income tax, should make them extremely wary in their pro ceedings. The resolution imposing an iacotne tax is pro posed i❑ a Committee of WayS and Means; the resolutions for altering the tariff cannot be pro posed, we apprehend, in the same Committee. The reduction of the timber and coffee duties cannot form part of the supplies for the year; and the resolutions for altering the tariff must be submitted to the whole House, we believe, in a Committee on the Customs' Acts. It is plain, therefore, that the tariff and the income tax are totally distinct measures ; and there is no reason to conclude, because the Opposition assent to the latter, that the Ministerialists will assent to the former.. _What are its beneficial parts? The reduction of the duties on potatoes and meat, the:aboli tion of the prohibition to import cattle, &c., against, which the farMers, and the farmers' friends, are now moving. in every part of the kingdom. Supposing, therefore, that Sir R. PEEL is quite sincere in proposing these altera tions—supposing that he means no trick; that he does not put them tbrward, as mere lures, not meaning to carry them—will he be able to carry them in opposition to his agricultural supporters ? As a Minister he is entirely their creature. The Duke of RICHMOND stated, in the HouSe of Lords, that the landlords had made Sir ROBERT Prime Minister, and they :could unMake him. Even admitting Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sincerity and uprightness—qualities thr which we are not dis posed to vouch in any politician contending for power, much less in him who - has sacrificed the interests of the country for the purpose of getting into office—it is quite possible that he will be un able to carry the alterations in the tariff which he has proposed, after he has succeeded in enact ing an income tax. . in resisting the adoption of the leading point s of the tariff we have adverted to, it is nearly certain that the agriculturists of his own side of the House would be supported by a con siderable number of representatives of English agricultural communities, and of Scotch and Irish counties of the other side. Such a union might defeat Sir R. PEEL in the House of Commons, and if he were not defeated there the Lords might throw out the whole measure. We maintain, therefore, that there is no security whatever that the proposed tariff will be acceded to after the income tax is passed. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declaration, that he would resign office, on which some persons may build, to secure the passing of the tariff, if the income tax be acceded to, does not -seem to us to war rant such a conclusiorh On Wednesday he said, "with regard to the details of the tariff, as I stated before I ant perfectly open to conviction, and if I should consider that the arguments should pre- ponderate in favour of a modification, I shall have no difficulty whatever in assenting to it." The Right Hon. Baronet is not even pledged, there fore, to carry through his.propOsed tariff if the ar guments of the graziers and others against his propositions should preponderate against his reduction of duty on meat and potatoes. So little pledged in fact is Sir ROBERT to these de tails; that be has already, if we are rightly in formed, consented to a considerable modification in the wrong direction. The import duty-lie pro posed on starch was ss. per cwt., which amounts on a quarter. of wheal,--ttriiitifactured into starch, only t o -7s. - 6d., whilst the average duty n the whe a t it se lf, as est i ma ted by Sir ROBERT PEEL, would be about 15s. per quarter. On- re presentations being made by parties engaged in the trade, that this rate of duty on starch would throw the manufacture of that article into the hands of foreigners, who would supply all our starch, the propoSed duty has been admitted to .. ; be an oversight; and Mr. GLADSTONE has mated the willingness of Government to increase it , to lOs'. per cwt. which will place the En r, manufacturer ab ou t onpar with the foreigner._ he gave way t o t h e starc h-makers, why sh ould : he not given way.to the equally cogent represent 4; tations of graziers and pig breeders, backea., as they will be by powerful men in both .House. of Parliament ? W e can se e no reason. We are cure Sir ROBERT PEEL is not pledged to the details of the tariff, though he has accepted BowalNG's praises, and arrain therefore, we serf, that there is no c onne xion betweeit the ,come tax and the tariff, a nd no goo d reason ° r concluding, because the f or mer be carried, th8!,,1, 'the latter will be allowed t o pass. It may be irksome to our too Confidt friends, perpetually to be ca ll e d on to be watcheil.4 and mistrustful, but we must tell them that th l uncertainty will require them not to slack en the'r .determined opposition to the income tax. Th s . must not mind being called factious; they ri"u not heed the silly threat to destroy the Pr'sle lege by which they are abl e t o defend tim e peel ) r from oppression; they must r e sist Sir R° l/ f r , PEEL'S plan to the utmost, and by al liamentary means in their power. het t • h i L ea pay no attention to the assertions of steht!lthed as Sir JOHN RAE REID, that the jobber s. metropolis are in favour of the tax—til e 1- /efr at large will not go with the jobbers i b u ` ss i. , them, on the ground that it is quite ble to be sure that the tariff will be c ' t ,' though the income tax b e assented to, us : t iie 2 i privileges of the House to d e l a y a nd defe' ll n , hungry and plundering faction, which boa t r t, !4 sent, on false pretences, usurped the G It is quite impossible to look - around li t — Or travel through the country, arid see ° b e have mense number of comfortable houses whi c ' d v of been erected on every side since 18169 an oil be convinced that Sir R. PEEL has veil Toe underrated the produce of his , proposed' in n - , die tax. We stated that as our impression ft°'4,,p.- first, and the opinion is now very general. ;oft pose, then, that Sir R. PEEL 'Should Sl 3 e Cee o ool , passing hiS piti, and have 1,060,600/: or 1; re ° more in the Exchequer than he immediat e v re ' quires, what use will he make- of it'! ifile. uer t another Sir RQBERT who 'will answer •th* ; tion. Does not the land groan for more Are notithe people denniralised and dt.7,;E4 because there is a great dearth of pars6 ll4 iiig RODERT INGLIS will answer yes, and lie $", v ; , . , forward the claims of Sir ROBERT PtElf" friends, the clergy, for 1,000,0001., to ea rl /04 i! to the - glory of GOD and the extension ° Church. With Sir R. PEEL'S, Lord STAr. and Sir 3. GRAHAM'S avowed opinions, tin ( Lit s the avowed opinions of the bulk of Sir R. vorl, supporters, there' cannot be a doubt that th ii it 4 tew hundred thousand pounds the Exel . Y can spare will be devoted to Church exte Ot o Will the Dissenters submit to an income ttt%', the certainty before them that its produc e be deVoted to stifling dissent, if possiblei O d e tending the Church on its defunct body 1 2 for them to act—ive have done ours' duty in gesting the probable destinati o n of the WV ° the income tax. ide a l s (ec We regret to learn from a source enti Confidence, that the King of the Fn'Elic° li bouring under a disease whi c h, t o.a man at age is very alarming. He i s s a id t o be P ii ,, with dropsy, and, as he is n ow i n hi s siatr i t eite. year, a complaint of this kind may justly' e' ii tt the most serious appr6hensions. ' His 31.4i , 10 i0' deserves every credit for the - skill and ing e 7, J ee he has displayed in preservi ng th e ge neral P ' bof , of Europe, and, we may say, of the world' to o we doubt much if any of his s u bjects (a t ol e which they dislike) will give him the o te 4 credit for preserving the Constit u ti o n- g'' al a i'. ; to ~,t4e - French nation, after -the: ::110', Sion .of the old BOURBON dynasty. l ',. ;t ittr; -swerved from every principl e o f that C°ll-oli' lion ! lie has shackled th e press, l oa d e d the /' try with a vast amount of debt, for pure d' the best doubtful, and has alien a t e d ev erY l)° o- Man who helped to raise him to the thron e ; el iel i are not sufficiently acquainted with the I , r iv ef.;' character to judge of his reasons or 'lla ° l ` . .peci but it cannot fail to strike every ifllpard ill '61 1 ; tator, as a singular circumstance, that th e es 0 1 ZEN-KING, who was installed by the he r° ,lth e July, and no men ever more justly deser v v e co u pl,e' , title, should now be afraid to meet iii 3 2„,01i0' , ' and be compelled to open his Houses of I f the merit, guarded and shielded by troops ° 1 cir line, like the most imperious despot. T h ' i ple' '. cumstance is at utter variance with the Pr i° di f ,' on which he mounted the thr one , and wil e t he he or his people are to blame, w e m ust le 3 ` f th e , world to . judge. Perhap s th e a dh e rents ° . - 1, BOURBONS could decide the question. ' il tiO!: 1 Letters on the subject of the Income Talc o oie v . . to pour in on us from all quarters,. and scarce our numerous correspondents but derioundeeesor, indignant terms as a galling burden which- -- 710 is once ',clapp e d on our s h ou ld ers — we s h a ll h r( so lifr greatest possible difficulty in shaking 06 1 t ! i ~ There is but too much ground for thisOPln ie " R. PEEL woll knows how available an Incolno'iC may be made for party purposes, and haVin , ,, ‘. 4(e .hul familiarised us to it—ha v i ng once go t the sv` e ,,0 1 ' 3 , he will take special care to drive it home. d or, , for protracting the i m p os t ,b e i on d th e three' JP , will be " plentiful as blackberries" with h inl i;,oo l° will discover that France looks menacing-=tbs t ia bt . l i nt .'' is not so frank and conciliatory as she sh° ll. t, Ir y that America require s wa t c hi ng; -that, - in fit : h . „t r, one cause or other, it is absolutely necessar y -', 0 ,40_,,, Income Taishould still be persevered in. / k much doubt," says a Morning ContemporarPle, speedy withdrawal of the t ax w hi c h the Pe °1) :: , "' the Premier hope for." F or our own part,- -!t2_l not a doubt upon the, subject. Our belief aniTor t a strong, positive conviction that the impost is 01( as a perpetuity by the Tories, and that they -1 ' 4 ,3e remit it until some such s torm wWt.iff. l ,iPt l ' e L ces - i-L•-• 0, their ears, as scared them out of theitsfaf;;;jeti ° o memorable year 1832. Entertaining thisl ig it o o !, we urgently entreat our countrymen to w. l O th e , their position ; to look the danger that threateo d e ter boldly in the face; to grapple with it ; and!„ vho lif mine not to desist from agitation until it n' i : t hel°: overcome. 'Now or never is the time to be st ort oi t ?, • selves. A fortnight hence, and the golden uPP c guar may have passed, not to return. Already th cilltili. of Commons ',begins to exhibit symptoms of fil o 1 0 6 0' ; and uneasiness. The Tory majority is bY, P e bil';'' firm or resolute ; and a word spoken in t 4° ;d:i ll ',,t: Constituencies will have an immediate, gut,f the" 1 fluence on' its 'votes and speeches. In ,'. ,0 01 ) the ..4 41 4 urgent spirit would we appeal to all w oogiA,, Members of Parliament: More espeeioY, o: ie r I entreat them not to be diverted from their ~v: 1 any idle apprehension of being called," if,t, to avail thernselves, without scruple, 4 eye ) of opposition, no matter how..extremei Pit,",,,osit,; they may be. The present is no season .fdr,:si, / ,, 0 1 1 1 ( ishness, or nice attention to the rules , : ;1 01 4 e ie mentary etiquette. Sir ROBERT PEE!' il ur ta ti announced his intention of giving no gua r _ in a ll ' s country, but of insisting on the Income-ta x (490 0: rigor; and he must be met in the Same sPni! ts he re: unscrupulous, uncompromising hostility• sown, so let him reap. clo'' / ' t aolitl:ll'r T eC O l ' S:l-" I ve litt le tb e As respects the Tory Members, We ha 1 4:akin ; d, that we shall shortly find many 'of the n ' fall'' a /Ol t ; same view of the Income Tax as ourselves,:s o f Il on this particular question, into the r‘ .. 1 ....0 .- - 11 4 : , Liberals. And no wonder. Sir Bolas-rill 1 ',, i0 ;, grossly deceived them—lulled them into . 7 0 ,4, , 10 0 .. , curity—and taught them to believe that 11 , 4 e lfri propose n 1 measure but such as should b e ,itiol m cla e s e s t es wi o t f h tl a ie rceoamdyn'macnicteyp.tanrcne hisfr ot in Tamworth he conjured all good Tories W 7, - 10 0-.- -e , ' discretion —his good sense—his experienerostio; , . 0 forth ; and more than hinted that, as mOde tiiii 9 .1 his great political characteristic, theY wp ,ho Ifd - to be safe under his guidance. And bow 7,i 0 c4/7'l l , lowed uy ::sayings ? By the proposal of !I ~