The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

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The celebrated y, he had rge basket tech lasted ) lenish t he resence 'of was -ileac le speaker. licate the Pv slave/ -R-om n per t the uutts, Ist., states he no?' ars of Qui et t i by th e a nthnthe o an d l/ ' )ts d c" r .O itisfied, is tateli 9, of h e 26t h he auto°- bilitY °f - a can arniP tied in tile defendsotf Bounsi°vi ~„: tiff'sopn , n a i t o . ,t bY caP ° f grou"a urt tepli• liz?h.eaulth AO' Ida,/ a ol d ,alking o c• rie u rvier ehavreadf I the ' of le She th t o t S • 80 11 , e t1 1 " t • tie but lit The lind• .ork tile 1' Or ris° n olio o. i tot for Frid a l• . 6 10 1 T e l veniuq e ft veinio* too:f o to het rece's * t heir upon Wire le le 31 11 leno l Vuti of th e - ,„10 0, oc v o i, s hit, ot oo. ae Pri° - - e Bl3 per ow e, at! , on e (:41,etl whe r n f fO .l v [0054 fr 0- in $ ll .O too° _ t 06 aclor tor,: i s co- . , to " li ab 50% re . 4 ed 11 :10i t ' g LS D iv ‘ ‘l ,ljog . ; ( 11os- -- , 0 1 br est-„g ; e a r re pe lll : oo l tb e sp 4 ape t r .: 0 1 1 ,ari,„ of Cey s o a do° , ,of Jsfi o f :ev• ttm it o jed tt a , t • t he folk r )0 ree: li, P.. S t o s:.c l 7 r . wer e i P the o este r !' d lv :argnittes ci ti n r l e r o f COl. re' hav e bcf. oce 3 ialte . ol co da 511f r r ibe" obok t hey 1 ;01 rit es will oso gab', 50 0 do a t ro a Co lll' A. - oh ilS °.„ o' o er the i 0 the X 00 t 5 C°ll n eut ral in per tee!. t he f o f t he f „ottis A n d ro , tb e ,pg AMWAY BUSINESS IN PAR LIAMENT. ONDAY, fo FED. s , 1845. The following Petitions r Railw io ays Bills were presented, and ordered to lie on the table : Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Colna Extension Railwav--MancheAer South Junction 'and Altrinchym Rail waY—treat Grim , by and Sheffield Junction Railway— Clydesdale Junction Railway. Petitions for the following Bills (presented on the sth of .rehrttary) were referred to the Select Committee on Peti tions for Private Bills : illonkland and Kirkintilloch Railway—Wakefield, Ponte fract, and G oo l e Railway —York and Scarborough Railway eviation—M anchester and Leeds Railway—Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch and Oldh a m and Heywood Extension)—Asbton, Stalvbridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway (Ardwick and Giiide Bridge Branches)--London Ikand South -W estern Railway, No. 1' (Metropolitan Exten- G oinbu i gh '.,a,)--Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway— and Glasgow Railwav—Caledonian Railway 111mgow. Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway—Ma. , chester and tt!riningliam Railway (Ashton Branch)—Leeds and West ding Junction Railway—Richmond (Surrey) Railway— eat Yorkshire Railway—Leeds, —Leeds,Dewsbury, and Manchester J anction Railway. Y Also the following- Bills presented on the 6!h February : tadford Railway I%.l " r wch and Brandon Railway Deviation and Dies and Bradford B ranches —London and York Railway—Leeds and Extension Ohipley to Colne)—Glasgow Railway_ R ailwav—Gl. , sgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr seara,v—Shrewsbur and Birmingham Railway—Hull and ."Y Shrewsbury Branc v i Railway. The following Bills were lilt, wise presented February 7 : h.cockermouth and Workington Railway—Whitby and irickering Railway—Mfast and Ballymena Railway—Lan taasitier rad Carli;lisle Railway —Kendal and Windei mere And and Birkenhead Railway Extension. ,!ld the following Bills were presented on February 10 /ta?ilackhurn, Burnley, Accrington. and Colne Extk - .11-1 : n wa,waY--Nlanchester South Junction and Altrinchum Rail 1— G 3--H uddersfield and hlanohester Railway and Cana Ja reat Grh ashY and Sheffield Junction Railway—Clydesdale action Railway. (I G TI CES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. rnireat Grimsby and Sheffield Junction itailwa3.—Com iiee on Petition, Friday Feb. 21. alittadderstield and hlanchester Railway and Canal—Com- Gl ee on Petition, Friday, Feb 21. tait t as gw, Paisley,_ Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway—Com- Gr on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 25. da a 'g" . Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Tues- Feb. 25. Co lanehe ster, South Junction, and Altrincham Railway— tatnittee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 21. .....„- 111 ,t ) PE - RTY and INCOME-TAX. I S in 'a TIJE EDl7'Ult OF THE SI.J.N. thiht.;‘vhEvever may be said of other royal speeches,. ,i --, it `b ust uoi„ be admitted that the p , , ill it , " 1 0 Purlia , ,-nt, has much of plth acid so, stance and , Particularly thlt part which alludes to the property in come ii _ -taxes. tr uth w aa for much too long a time considered a political t hat --x„,those taxes should be only considered as war all ' and that at ot h er t i mes tuxes on consumpt i on °t 'ld b I h e alone resorted to. formerae for very many years (and I remember hat t z t v . property and income) been of opinion t f:t. ? N is on property is the most legitimate of all taxes; it 14, - "Uces most money to the Exchequer in proportion to th.‘;;lititrisreiisy Anittnouut, and is raid by those who can best afford it. 41:.1,0,12r institutions thod to the protection of property, the onlv important country in Europe where it...r:aatnteriri9ught only "1 410 11 falls so lightly on it. separate the property from the income-tax :_ to be resorted to in the event of 541, ; "" x bay from its inquisitorial nature, ought to be Nl Tl ltte d to only upon the most imminent danger . to the 0 41. 41 47, When victory must be bought and chained to w h asts at any price. p. qt ,,, e ll Sir R. Peel three years ago proposed the ,by ' t i i rt Y and income-tax, it was submitted to cheerfully . 14 E tL t PNPIe, as however onerous or distasteful the ` ll 4t E ~,,I . - 48, any expedient was considered better than k ilt ; e should have a deficient revenue in a time of com 'te P(•ace. ttie r T of us remember—and those who do not can easily Ithe r , ° it—the statemenothat was made by Sir R. Peel *liiehuhe brought forward his propositions—the estimate %o il " made of its prohaule proiluction; and the of it . to whieh it actually produced in 1843. the first year finan-chteruPlete operation. does not say . much . for his NlO.l talents, and certainly dyes not justify all those „,,,,, r 4 that his polit.cal friends of all oa. ties so freely kee wd! b e er hifoundm withnearly . Theor fo q u llow ite i ncogrr. estimate and pro- Lai ) d bivi d s e 'rl nousf s ...... A; Estimate. Produce 1841. P4 l ,"ada d . 1,600,000 £2,421.206 le (41 : : a . ,. ....... •:........... 646,000 150,000 'ropt,, Tty ............ £2,396,000 £3,555,358 „ Att u 0 L r anade ••• ..... £1,250,000 d,. ........ 120,000 .......... .C 1,370,000 Int °Dm. XI 838. , 66 Prupert) 3,555,358 X2.396.0u0 £5,394,224 Ex e .C 3.766,000 € .3 3 ......... 1.628,224 , I'4, „ n £5,394,224 b etn llosi I 'll divine and it is useless to guess, at the ,. ".1-',ei;"'' ` , ltteh it is announce!! will be made by Sir cr, - h i elud I b t Prida •• ' but we may, I think, very' h a" 1 ) . * Ut-tr e ;1 ."st )' t.roLerty-tax in some .hope or ~,itli;‘ , / %. 1 b e h t he .. d • pr,„- o r ,. rropos e to be . 11'0'111. 4 gre , it in nv others, I am in •r. at hopes that tht ri ', l f s . w ill til. tie be proposed to be oontinufd for 17- I 'ed t..' irona five to seven lears, and that it will be p d to mill" -' 0 " 1, 4 1 1 : ( 0 ) utit to at least v s e / r . per rent. upon all fixed and if it were carried I L h l°4 Per Lr.,'Per”. whatever, be ' s. much the better. A c t i rtop, ri . la., it would 41. 4 ) - tax now producw•s I.bllerty now excused 1,200,000 Ati t i 24 Per £4.755,358 3.244,642 cent., about ih io.,_ £8,000,000 tVi..i. teeth ti, e• &mins in , axe.- tiolil"" Would admit et . th • toll'iwin' i''' ~ ' X 1,500,000 Windows about . 700.100 kill) ' ' ******************* 400,000 Clia‘'s ********************************** • ••• 600,000 l'ttPer **************************** 950,000 Te4• l-1"113 *************************** 1,500,000 *************** 1 000,000 r,6ugar".. ******************** '600,000 'ttoll ****************************** .......... tie • ' (tVia.. • 000. um. 414143,, a considerable surplus to be I havrts•Y arise. and England may, c . )11 1It ti e s i_always been of opinion that deflt 6' w Th it o l; as ore on property, sto o,w--aui, itna.dea ch e. ap . country a t t s o x l a i t v i e on in in; . and if we kithi 4 - tve to the principle of .poni_tish it. h I e at ! can be more easy than toa( P "b 4 I be „ 4 ,,, ° , t see why the principle, if adopted that justice , to 4,,1tg1a4-p'eded to Ireland. lam sure is all nonsense k ,hoo - r--',.' iMperat. .1 * requires it. It . all know i i „ re , should let4the -1- Ireland bang thepoorer countrYa•mes,a. nor di b etwe b ri St. Giles's and St. James of a dif ferohtil s ad , La en • but no one ever r To "th ese system. i nt e es,' Measures shouli be added . a and other ex lieottnination into all our c.1"121° may be mad,' NU '' En kl 't 'll b • d that reductions r estanii,h nisiistrt and search &oh wi,ia w.l ° .(iti ffi .ie„ey of ou 6, nof sut•et,L ~..• out i mpairin g the e c" fu they reduc ttlka ild tend very gr, atly to a —l Elie vi OR hali'lL,',. m ,/ "' CoUltneree. , bp, OFF EAST ''l/44-Tltije'loNs-----OP--- A - SHIP 11 . Y FIRE -..a av , a fire ions, the rh-hll4ll,etirtl„evclllerelred onZiradfttehretshhriepe ilCenlir)c)t 3 .F .5e(1)1 2 ' : t a ki n g . in ti'leartebf,,,,f Sly. Pletcher: of .lehouse• Llageld„, '''„,als at the A est India 0 ,:qinit.;„'• the rep i t • c lated at the time , havingsand ..zt ' - g to the I-1 ( rn el • r h u ad been collecting igvhetde,riania:'• t,. gave lilaitsdla the the of theer)-hip which by D ck bu S oy, e fro m a c a o l b l t i ) e l r , 'tick- ''(' eXtin • e o- and on returning , t*ster',tight fire s 1 1 - 'y in his frigrt e ra m non deck t f t i l i e r „, et he foundish the flames, b eans not ex . river. ~ her i n 1h u r or ill%l, .-hv'eear.f irt:e: 0 : f. iaDipi (ii)gnnsge, 4 1 '1' 4 \44 y e_n the fire burning a so furiously ns h n ort time 44 1 i. oft ~:ut!.ary eans. Pterc Jw, .. th,,,n, , , . , est ludia Dock - b r and in -a d s towed the to a t d t e i f i y e • iir,Tl,,ry hi s i: B l : . and Pilot steam It tii a l• '' 'OKI assim'iteDd the i u laices, amid t, . , this ___B-;-e_ in at tiling b u n g :h . :g irl: this 4 "tk,v, t1 ,7 4 ,.. 0 13 .. i,n done . s le N . vs , t v o a w .. ed cl e ar ot th si s ie u i p night a4,:f!tik in",e_t 113-house in 131ack _.. ii tion of bbt iv...ger that she might be kept cleraerarh, dln 0,4 P Water on the west side nex ef t t t i h m e n l a s4 a . tttirt bea t At this moment the ship, a. R deemed nec . es- Cp• to s!---Inasts, rigging, and all. It wa, t,atiger of doing fore a ah wa l so L 'lnt , t a fui ther scuttling, but the Afteri 4 - " e ivaa great that it was abandoned. warps were b,..t4r h: 111 on shor t the west side of 131ackwall tnkt-;' point off ea n v' h As the tow after ic' e Nl' Wa s fo impossible Greele to • hold her in deep waterrun her „, of the else - necessary to . high w re .a a t e e i r l, g ti: 11 ,or o ~ and it was therefore ,t ii ‘eisv,.s„`° prevent her driving among, ' the sh r i t r i i i pit s i ut . t i . t f ob 4 ti, an d eausilig still grii,r calaii.ity . -len alowe, Bahia.`thi4 having been -ff •• ', the ve- sel was tu ' ,itit L., The fiaree N s v .e at er °lat_ as-no a ect" ld be brought to bear on the riß,i,"'''ql o'clock thei_na:in a . n , been R previously cons bound masts, n n r a i l g . i agtiendt consumed. f,trt ~STee r r * a I,l"'„a_s wh, anrinsatbetrmaed"pht.ly laden, and wasi, coals. Still mile after taking m part of her cargo _ was . 1) 1.1r 1) . 'vic Yeeterday morning the hull of the vessel t eed ltit. h iT g• s Yes he3, ~4.4'7,es ATTACK UPON GAMEKEEPER-• the i,-;df. o'i'`°llllation at forwarded to Bow -street that on and ut. se\ eral men, . armed with guns It_ ell i tl t l ge - ,, a t s ll , !_2sth The gamekeeper, h,,, , e, for tCotered a wood in the parish of Favant, WI ik,4,.tver, 4:)?_11!'1),ose of destroying game. _ 4.2: tiph,,,,7_ieo dames B 1 which ' Ntear."""t them and a desperate conflict ensile( arrett, assisted by two other pFr h4,-,t that rett an o ins assistant; (i, , . 344 ' l a bar 'A. • • , b•in •• so dreadfully in- , 1 o COM P''ttN•ks of ,theY still lie dangerously ill, and with but little . ed ft.tnelr ultimate recovery. The fellows w 1 the fe tter ""e outrage h v hithertO eluded the search of n ellera4,?fiustice. O:ef tbem is, b tr i n th_ . 4 .144 " neighbourhood. however, a well-known f ell. , 1,1.. sttsTATioN OF THE COUNTY or Bucit, .„. • b., 1. _ been or ere i e con -4\l It haling b d dt) be issued for the el ction p,titierl,'""r of Parliament for the county of Bucks, in_ the h'-'ailfern%4 Mr. Charles Scott Murray having accepted e 0 41 0 1 Y o -ti '4lftiodreds, it has been generally imagined that tn -18 Wh the Duke of Buckingham, the Al arquisof Chan 'ast'. 4,,,°,ttained his majority on the 10th of September he tthros,,4l4start as a candidate to fill the vacancy in t 4hattttur.,_t4titt thus created, and with a certitity of being r at retied' Indeed, it may be observed, that it was the . gen 4 _ Zesis,ion throughout the county at the election in 18 I,_ ti."otwevvol,-I;:;°ll:alyni•i:•nouldhetire from Parliament, in favour of is coming ,l'on :1•' that anotliller ient has • been determined f'l'oe' tt:,-Ild that Mr T • arrang ri )f age We understand, lsw 11,taitr,eiiii‘e:; e t e n d ' et I%f ofel luntsinoor-park Iver, will l'Y tl i !IN' eandidate (invcettlas'e ervative interest, supported It that thereis Gr a: Kill t9i- b i ne e ' Duke an) ' to the return e".opposition s ß it u ie c n kingham. 41 otiz 1 , 1 - -.-. .." -,. Bii'•:,;,,vicl7.-- h,, - ;!vtisy. Li s ~,. ` •=-,, • .I.:_ D ~. ,„ ~, u . . - , . .. _ . to .tigimess .isa ic.K tut %mow 20; For 133 , the Duk t of .11ru, - 0 1 th aglstote 01 Maryleboue Police-o ffi ce the suns of e p00r,119,4. STAMFORD ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) On Friday Sir George Clerk commenced his canvass for this borough. He was very coldly received ; but in the evening he sent out a second address, stating that " from the cordial reception he had met with, he had no doubt of his success" (no opponent having been brought forward). On his canvass, at nearly every house to which Sir George went, he was asked whether he would support the Syston and Peterborough Railway, which is to pass through our town, and would have the effect of bringing coals (one article only) to us at less than half the present price, now very little below thirty shillings per ton. In all cases he said he sup ported the Syston Railway, but be objected to the present plan of crossing near the bridge ; and that he had a plan, by which the railway might pass at some distance on the north of the town, instead of passing through it. MONDAY, ELEVEN A.M.—Sir George Clerk, accompanied by about fiairteen electors (including about half-a-dozen lawyers, who were paid), proceeded to the hustings, where (it having become a deep snow) Sir George was pelted unmercifully with snowballs. The Mayor, Charles Haycock, Esq.. was cheered, and with some difficulty obtained silence. But on the reading of the Act against bribery and corruption, the people shouted " a lie," " farce," &c.—it beirig well recol lected that, in 1831, the Marquis of Exeter's agents served notices to quit, and even upon widows, that they might marry to preserve a vote. After rilence was obtained, Dr. Hopkinson proposed Sir George Clerk. and stated that the Stamford ans bad been highly honoured by his appointment to the Mastership of the Mint by her Majesty.—(Cries of Not her Majesty, but Sir R. Peel," and hisses.) Mr. GILCHRIST, miller, briefly seconded the nomination, and said that he was sure Sir George meant well for the town, but he was sorry that he was railed against during his can- VAS,. THE NATIONAL DEBT. A RETUR N showing the RESULTS of the OPERATIONS undertaken in 1822, 1824, 1825, 1830, 1834, and 1844, for REDUCING the CHARGE on account of the NATIONAL DEBT, and the Terms upon which. such Reduction was made ; also, showing the ANNUAL INTEREST on the FUNDED DEBT saved. thereby. UNITED KINGDOM. Gross Capitals. Annual Interest. Annual Interest saved. Proclamation having again been made, Sir George Clerk w•as declared duly elected. Sir GEORGE spoke at some length, acknowledging the kindness of his reception (notwithstanding the snowballs), and at sonic length gave his opinion of the railway, amid cries of "We won't have it " He said he regretted to find that he had not been so well received this Wile as on former occasions, and he saw that the people had set their hearts upon the railway, but he objected to its crossing the road on the present level, near the bridge. Mr. CHARLES LOWE, a Conservative, then powerfully ad dressed the assemblage, and stated that the line proposed by Sir G. Clerk could not be effected because of the hills, and consequently the cuttings would be so great, and seriously expensive, that no company would undertake it. As to the bridge, every one knew it to be the most. dangerous between Gondon and York.—(Cries of " It is," and immense cheer ing.) Mr. Lowe begged to introduce Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, to give his opinion. —(Hear, hear.) The MAyou, however, stated that he could not allow a non elector to speak, and declared the business terminated. Sir George Clerk and his friends had a narrow escape ; the hustings were being pulled down, amid the cheers of the crowd, before they could withdraw ; and on his mounting the chariot, trimmed with ribbons and small flags, a rush was made, and the ca rriage was nearly stripped ; three out of the four splendid large flags which preceded him were wrested from the ensigns, and torn : Sir George himself was pelted through the streets as he stood in his carriage, and had his hat knocked off above a dozen times. After Sir George's party left the hustings, Mr. Ews, a gentleman connected with the Midland Counties Railway, addressed the electors from a neighbouring inn, and fully convinced them of the importance of the present line pro posed by that Company. Since the election Sir George's party have made overtures to the Stamford Railway Committee, which are likely to benefit the town. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. CHESTER CUP. Bto 1 agst Mr. L.win's Lot . 10 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Sep:mem—take 11 to 1 16 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity 17 to I agrt Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era 22 to 1 agst Mr. W Scott's Cataract—taken 28 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—t 30 to 1 30 to 1 ag , t Lord G. Bentinck's Pug 30 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbing's Celeste 30 •0 1 apt Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence—taken f. 33 to 1 egst Mr. Parry's Zanoni—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour 35 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Strathspey—t. 35 to 1 ag , t Mr. Williams, n's Extempore—taken 40 to 1 itgst Mr. Mt-iklam's Truebuy—taken 45 to 1 agst Mr. Ir, in's F”igh-a-billtigh —taken 50 to 1 I.gst Mr Collett's COrrantia—taken 50 to 1 agA Mr. Isaac Day's Seuport—taken 50 to 1 ,gst Mo.tyn's Miltou—taken 60 to a `ollett%, The Dean—taken 66 to agst Mr. A M I r r.. ( Davis's Yheoman ac the immerous lot enumerated above, the only In.r,,es in demand were Sefniserim, The Era. St. Law rence, Pride of lifldar-, and "Frueboy, and on them the outlay wa' not by any weans heavy. Pl,nty of layer , - against Ob,curity and Pug. THE SItTN, LONDON, TUESDAY_EVENIIyiG, FEBRUARY 11, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Last night, in anticipation of the financial state ment to be made next Friday, Lord Monteagle moved for redoes returns, the most important of which are already before the world; and took the opportunity of predicting, prejudging, and prescribing the Premier's intentions, as far as the circumstances allowed. How far it is customary for Ministers to remain open to new reasons and persuasions till within four days of their sessional declaration, it is not for us to conjecture; but Lord Monteagle is better informed, and he appears to think his advice will not be entirely thrown away. Whatever the result, however, we fear he will scarcely , enjoy the credit of contributing much to the Ministerial de cision. It is true the Premier still rejoices in the maiden pride and liberty of apparent irresolution. He still smiles complacently on a hundred rivals, and remains the besought of all beseechers. The flattering incense of deputations, and addresses, and memorials, and petitions, and pamphlets, ascends before him ; and if the omens are doubtful, still omens there are, and the worshippers are not absolutely discouraged from a further prosecution of their appeals. But it is scarcely to be supposed that a Minister who has taken such singular pains to collect his facts beforehand, should not have really made his Election by this time. Lord Monteagle resigns him self with a sigh to a further infliction of the income-tax, and, we presume, speaks for the rest of his party. " Durum, sed levius fit patientia, " Quicquid corrigere est nefas." There is no help for it, and there is an end of the question at present. We quite agree with his Lordship that it would be satisfactory to see a beginning of the end. But that begin ning is not yet in view, and is put still further out of sight by almost every speaker who ventures upon this difficult ground, including Lord Monteagle himself. He is anxious-- so are we, indeed, and so is everybody—ou the strength of the temporary surplus, to reduce some of the taxes which especially harnreer manufactures and commerce, and so affect the general revenue. On a survey of the report on the tariff, wkich he justly describes as one of the most important and v - aivable papers illustrative of our commerce and customs which has ever been drawn up or prepared for Parliament, he complains that the reductions lately the subject of so much exaggeration by friend and by foe, were chiefly on the most insignificant items, on mere nominal heads of duty. Out of 22,730,8861. raised upon 813 articles, there are 585, or about three-fourths of the whole, which produce only 42,0001. From these facts he appears to draw a double inference—first, that it would be a very pretty piece of simplification to strike off three-fourths of the list at so slight an expense; secondly, that seeing we profess to be reducing duties, we should do so in earnest with the weightier items of the revenue. There has, he says dispa ragingly, been little or no reduction upon raw materials, upon articles partly manufactured, and upon manufactured articles; while, on the other hand, the increased consump tion and increased revenue have taken place in articles of food, comfort, and luxury. Whence he would have us infer that the new tariff has had no great share in the improve ment of trade, and stability, f or it i s stability rather than increase, of the regular revenue. With some qualifications this statement cannot be denied. It is wonderful to what narrow dimensions the , most formidable bug bears of the new tariff shri n k in the document before us. But will Lord IliorAeagle, and the whole chorus of supplicants, have rr,ercy- on that poor temporary sur plus, that still poore: permanent deficiency? Can we fairly hope that the bo,laer reductio ns h e urges w ill so improve the general revenl:(e as to keep things even as they are now ? AVe have 'already dealt with timber and with wool boldly enough,—perhaps boldly enough with the coffee. 'We have attained and passed the maximum of revenue on corn, if the can-laws are to remain unaltered. There is no hope from these quarters. Abolish the duty on cotton wool, his Lord ship intimates. With all our heart. But there goes 700,0001. But then comes the duty on tea, for reducing which there is as much cry, and almost as much reason. Lord Monteagle hints at its depreciation, exclusive of duty, from 2s. 6d. to ls. 6d., as if that should b e the rule for the duty. Thi s would involve a sacrifice of nearly two millions at one fell swoop in the rather doubtful and distant hope of an equivalent improve ment to trade. Then lie is very energetic on behalf of slave grown sugar. But while Lord Monteagle has his hobbies, others have theirs. The population of London show their hands and their garments, and ask her Majesty to fulfil her sanitary intentions by taking the duty off soap. The window tax has numerous and inveterate enemies, among whom we beg to number our humble selves ; but, alas ! on it depends upwards of a million. Take off all these taxes, put all these items 'together, and it is evident that, instead of dispensing with . the income-tax, we shall soon h ave t o d ou bl e it. Lord Monte ag l e w i s h es to have a hand in the pie—to give advice sufficiently pertinent to be adopted, and suffi ciently original to be called his own. He is not so unrea sonable as to think he can do this without sharing the usual risks of legislation. A simple course is before him. He has alluded to the different lights in which we should naturally view the income-tax in the various cases of its permanency and its temporary character; let him propose such modifica tions in it as will make it just and tolerable as " part of the permanent ways and means of the country." This will take the sting out of it. The professional man, and the trades man, whose income and property may cease to-morrow, and be buried in their graves, who must give all their time, their health and strength, to their income; who must, in one way or another, insure their lives at the loss of present means of expenditure, will only more and more resent the gross ine quality of a tax which exacts the same from them as from the landowner, or fundholder and shareholder, whose income is indeed property, and who have their time, their health and strength, at their entire disposal. POST.—The report of the cattle market held yesterday gives a pretty clear indication of what the tariff is likely to do for the agricultural interests this year. It appears that a large importation has taken place, 165 beasts and 205 sheep, the quality of which is highly lauded. We remember, at the time the tariff was under discussion, that it was urged there could be no animals fit for our market brought from foreign countries ; but it is now evident that foreigners are learning how to feed their cattle, and it is more than likely that, ere the coming season is over, the statements which we made in relation to the working of this measure will be more than realised. If the agricultural interests have suffered from the operation of the tariff in former years (and who will say that they have not ?) how much mere likely are they to be in jured in the present season, when foreign cattle feeders have acquired the knowledge that will enable them to compete with us in point of the quality of their stock ? The subject is a painful one for the friends of agriculture to contemplate ; but, unless some stop be put to the importations both of corn 'and of cattle, we can see no end to the depreciation of home produce. CHRONICLE.—The House of Commons will be called upon, on Friday next, to sanction the continuance of the two very dissimilar imposts which are commonly included under the phrase " income-tax." It will be called upon to renew the tax upon property, a tax comparatively speaking light, and easily collected, and unobjectionable in principle ; and at the same time to renew the tax upon income, a tax most unequal in its pressure, collected in a manner which involves innumerable hardships and vexations, and at variance with almost every principle of sound fiscal policy. Up to the last moment, we believe, the hope has been very generally cherished that the injustice of the income-tax, properly so called, would not be persevered in. People have clung to the notion that so grievous a burden was not meant to be per manent. Nobody will be so foolish as to retain this impres sion after a renewal of the tax, even though it should be only a renewal for a limited period. Its prolongation, even for three years more, will in reality make it perpetual, as far as anything of the kind can be made so by an act of the Legislature. That this must be the consequence of an affirmation of Sir R. Peel's proposition on Friday night, will be obvious to any one who reflects that the rea sons for repealing the income-tax cannot be expected to be more numerous or powerful at any future time than they are at the present moment. Its operation cannot easily become more grievous or mischievous than it is at present. Nor can we fairly expect the arrival at a time when the Exche quer can better spare the amount. \lre are not engaged in war, and we have a surplus revenue of more than three mil lions. The income-tax, as distinguished from the tax upon property, produces but two millions. In the present state of the country, if it be solemnly renewed, what possible expec tation can there be that at any future time it will be given up? We do not believe that the immeasurable annoyances of this tax would have been borne so quietly as they have been, if it had been looked upon as a permanent arrange ment. The voice of public complaint would long before this time have startled the Minister, if it were not hushed by the assurance that all the torturing apparatus of inqui sition into private affairs was employed only to meet a temporary necessity, which would soon pass away. If the house of Commons, by its vote, dissipates this impression, we are convinced that the shock to the com munity at large will be much greater than the Government seems to anticipate. The various agitations which have been set on foot for the remission of particular taxes, are very likely to lead to an erroneous conclusion on this subject. The soap interest would probably be willing to compound for the removal of the soap duty, by assenting to the continuance of the income-tax. The glass interest might readily pay the same price for a remission of the duty on glass. The paper interest would give much (and what interest would not ?) to be free from the visits of the exciseman. Westminster and Bath might make a sacrifice to get rid of the window duties ; while Manchester, with more reason, pronounces the worst possible tax to be the tax on raw cotton, the material of our staple manufacture. The more active and agitating of the agriculturists lose sight of the income-tax in the grand, but impossible, conception of escaping from four millions and a half of malt-tax. The merchants trading with China think of cheapen ing the cup which " cheers, but not inebriates," rather than the beer-pot, and would barter, perhaps, more than an income-tax, for a reduction of the tea duty to a shilling a pound. With so many powerful parties urging the remission of particular taxes, the Government and Par liament are in some danger of forgetting that the country at large would not consider the benefit of any one of these re missions an equivalent for its sufferings from the income-tax. We are not insensible to the evils which attend our indirect taxes, or to the great advantages which the removal or re duction of many of them would confer upon the national in dustry. The excise duties on soap, paper, and glass, for instance, operate as prohibitions of improvement in those departments of industry. The revenue Acts prescribe certain processes which must be followed, and will not permit expe riments, or dhe application of the most recent scientific discoveries. Thus, chemical manufactures are conducted nearly upon the principles which prevailed a hundred years ago, and are practically little better than if Davy and Liebig had never existed. It would be a great good to get rid of these taxes; but the public at large would feel it a much greater good to get rid of the income-tax. Even the reduction of a shilling a pound in the price of tea, the greatest boon to which the continuance lot the income-tax is likely to lead, would be considered a sorry substitute for the removal of that tax itself. if Sir Robert Peel, in pro posing his property and income-tax for three years more, does not intend it to be permanent, what sound objection can there be to confining it to income arising from property? Por three years the possessors of the most precarious incomes have borne equal burdens with those entitled to incomes of the same amount in perpetuity. Every clerk struggling to bring up a family decently on 3/. a week, and having even that sum diminished by some little insurance upon his life, that he may not leave his children to starve, has already paid 10/. 2s. 6d. income-tax. The owner of a capital of 5,000/. in the Three per-Cents., or of a property in fee-simple which would sell for nearly that Sum, has paid no more. Would it be unjust to continue the tax upon the latter parties, and to exempt the clerk for the next period of three years ? We believe that, at the end of that time, he would still have borne far more than his real share of the public burdens. In fact, all the objections that can be urged against indirect taxation apply with equal force to the tax upon commercial and pro fessional gains. The machinery for collecting it is as vexa tiouse an interference with private affairs as can well be imagined. No tax can present so many temptations t o o ri f t d and falsehood ; and .cone can press upon the majority - of3 i - ve those who pay it with more cruel severity and injustice. m trust, ps i f t o i o r n the f s c i r l e c d h it a o t f ax th w e i Mo n u o s t e boot suffered to p ta s t w t i h t e ho r t ej t resistance. SUDDEN DEATH AT WINDSOR CASTLE.: —Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, a man named Coker, in the employ of Mr. Bates, her Majesty's builder, was ascending the st a i rs of Henry the Eighth's Gateway, when he suddenly fell b ac k against a doorway on the first landing, apparently in a fit. Mr. Holdeniess, surgeon, was immediately in attendance who pronounced that the poor fellow had died install: taaeotaly, DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—take 12 to 1 13 to 1 ag-t Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—% and aft. off. 14 to 1 agst Colonel Arson's li. dger—ditto ditto 15 to 1 a4st Lord Stradbroke's Idas—ditto ditto 30 to I ugst Lord CliesterflAd's Newsmonger—taken 30 to 1 ogst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken 30 to 1 .g,t Lurd Gla, , guw's Miss Whip colt—t.ken 33 to 1 agst ihnstone's Annandale—t. -to to 1 35 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster—t. all in 40 to 1 agst Duku of Richmond's Laird o' C•ickpen.. 50 to I agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken 66 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzbos 1000 to 10 agst Mr. D. Cook's Yellow Boy. A disposition to back Ledger, Idas, Newsmonger, Men tor, and Miss Whip colt was observable from the opening of the room ; the market, however, was so languid, that very little moniiy was got on. Nothing was done on Pain, John Da) 's two, or Pantasa, and if Annandale We Ltheriit were mentioned, it was only to show tiiht arc . :, LT Lhc no;:. est. OAKS 7 to 1 ag3t Mr. Worthington's Lancaster Witch—t. 12 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere 17 to 1 agst Lord G. Bt ntinek's Miss Elis. A new writ was last night issued for Lewes, on the appointment of the Hon. Henry Fitzroy to a lordship of the Admiralty. This is the gentleman who, in the House of Commons, gave his most solemn assurance that he never expended, directly or indirectly, one shilling in bribery or corruption. The new Lord of the Admiralty is a man not very easily put out of countenance, and we dare say he will again canvass the electors of Lewes with as much nonchalance as if the borough had never been inundated with Lord Southampton's gold, or as if the electors had forgotton his own appeal to Heaven that neither bribery nor corruption had been employed to secure his return. We may refresh Mr. Fitzroy's memory upon this subject before he goes to the hustings. The scruples of Sir Edward Knatchbull prove too strong for forthcoming Ministerial measures. What can Sir Robert Peel be meditating? To be sure, Sir Edward is to be raised to the peerage , or, shall we rather say, the peerage is to be lowered to Knatchbull. The new Paymaster of the Forces will be the Hon. Bingham Baring. A vacancy is thus created in the representation 01 Thetford. The vacancy in the secretaryship of the Board of Control, created by the promotion of Mr. Baring, will be filled by Lord Jocelyn. Is Lord Ashley's motion to be an open question? It will be seen by a report in another part of our paper, that Sir Thos. Fremantle has been re-elected for Buckingham.—Chronicle. CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE BT A Boir.—On Monday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Lion and Lamb, Drummond-crescent, Euston-square, on the body of Thomas Press, a boy aged 13, the son of a cowkeeper, who committed suicide. James Press, the brother of deceased, said he resided with his parents at 43, Drummond-crescent. The deceased went to school, and occasionally assisted in carrying out milk. On Friday last, at dinner time, it was discovered that he had been playing truant, and had appro priated some money belonging to his parents to his own use, and spent it amongst some other boys. This coming to his father's knowledge he boxed his ears, declared he should have no dinner, and threatened to beat him.' Shortly before two o'clock deceased's mother gave him some dinner, and then told him to wash himself, which he did. About half pa t three the same afternoon witness went into the yard, and observed the cowshed open, and on entering he discovered the deceased banging by his neck handkerchief from a beam. Witness gave an alarm, and Mr. Lambert, a neighbour, and his mother, came and cut deceased down. He was quite dead, and in order to effect his object roust have got on one of the rails placed to divide the cows, and then jumped off. The jury returned a verdict—" That deceased destroyed himself by hanging, but in what state of mind he was in at the time there was no evidence to show." BIDEFORD.—COMMITTAL OF A WIFE AND SER VANT FOR SETTING FIRE TO VEIL llttsßAND's HousE.—Mary Lashbrook, and her servant, Mary Hayes, underwent a long examination on Saturday last (it having lasted nearly the whole of the day), before James Gould, Esq., and Major Wren, county magistrates, on suspicion of wilfully setting fire to the premises occupied by the Lashbrooks, the property of C:iptaiii ke, in the parish of Northam. The girl made a full confession, stating that she was instigated by her mis tress to commit the act of incendiarism during the absence of her master at Appledore, and it was clearly discovered that the house and outbuildings had been fired in four different places, considerably detached from each other. Both prisoners were committed for trial; but the mistress was admitted to bail, in two sureties of 50/. each, and her husband in 1001. The prosecution was instituted by Mr. John Hamlyn, the Bideford agent to the West of England Office, in which the property is insured. Mr. Lashbrook, the tenant of Captain Pyke, has always been considered a respectable farmer, and the conduct of his wife in conniving at such an act is viewed with astonishment. It can only be accounted for on the sup position of her insanity.—North Devon Journal. The following notices have appeared at the General Post-office, St Martin's-le- Grand !—By command of the Postmaster-General. Notice to the public, and instructions to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and letter-receivers. General Post-office, February, 1845.—A new line of mail communication having been established between Suez and Calcutta, via Ceylon and Madras, mails for India, &c , Egypt , and the Mediterranean, will in future be made up at this office, and divatched on the evening of the 24th of every month, via Marseilles, in addition to the mails for India, for warded through France on the 7th of the month. When the 24th falls on Sunday, the mails will be made up and dis patched from this office on the following evening. The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 20th instant. The next mails for Ceylon, India, and China, via Marseilles, will be dis patched from hence on the evening of the 24th inst. The Forth will take out the West India mails of the morning of the 17th inst. The Cambria for American mails of the even ing of the 3d March. BERWICK HARBOUR. — We understand that the Harbour Commissioners here have received a communication from the Home-office, respecting the eligibility Of Berwick harbour as one of the proposed harbours of refuge. The com munication contains instructions to transmit all the plans and reports relative to the harbour, in order that they may sal to tt-±, hive,tigation of the Government COM tUltibiuUelb appOillted W ex.ainihe the claims ut the various ports. A similar communication has been received by the focal authoritiva at Dunbar....-Duck am: Kelso Warders 5 per Cents. reduced to 4 per Cents. ; viz., 1051. 4 per Cents. for 100/. 5 per Cents., per 3 Geo. IV., c. 9 Bank of Ireland Debt at 5 per Cent. reduced to 4 per Cent. at par. per 3 Geo. IV., c. 26 Old 4 per Cent.. reduced to 3- per Cvntf. , . at par. 5 Lim IV., c. 11 per Cents. 1797 reduced to 3 per Cents.; via.l3B/. 6s. Bd. Consolidated 3 per Cents. for 10015 per Cents. 37 Geo. AL, c. 10 4 per Cents. exchanged for 100/. of 3i per Cents , or 701. of 5 per Cents., per 11 Geo. 4, c. 13 ,., 4 per Cents. 1826 reduced to 31 per Cents. at par, per 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 31 Bank of Ireland Debts at 5 and 4 per cent. reduced to 31 per cent. per 3 and 4 Via. c. 75, and Warrant of Treasury, January 30, 1841 i `Five per Cent (Nevy) Annuities Capital Amount of Dlssents paid off •••• Bonus of 5/. per cent. allowed to those who as sented 3i per Cents. Reduced at par to 31 per Cents. until Oc tober 10, 1854, and from that period to be reduced to 3/. per Cents , and not liable to further reduc tion until after October 10, 1874, per 7 Vict., c. 4 and 5 ICapital, 4/. per Cent 'Bank of Ireland Debt. at 5 per-cent Same Capital, at 4 per cent Your per Cent. Annuities Capital 'Same Capital, at 3i per cent., including 6,149 245/. Non-assents, vested in the Ctbna_ missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, per 5 Gra. IV., c. 45 Capital at 5 per cent. Deduct Dissents paid off jCapital at 3 per cent '4 per Cent. Annuities, formerly Navy 5 per Cents. Capital Amount of Dissents paid off (Which was exchanged for 150,119,6091.31.105, per Cent. Annuities '469,398L 5/. per Cent, Annuities 4 per Cent. Annuities, created in 1826... Capital Same Capital, at 3L 1 Os. per cent., including 4,133,721/. Dissents, vested in Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on ac count of the Fund for Banks for Savings... Debt at 5 per Cent. Debt at 4 per Cent. Same capital at 3i per Cent 1 New 31. 10s. per Cent Annuities Capital Reduced 3L 10s. per Cent. Annuities.., do. 31. 10s. per Cent. Annuities, 1818 do. Old 3/. 10e. per Cents. and Debentures do. (Amount of Dissents and Non -assents paid off 'Same capital at 34 ss. per cent. The Gross Capitals herein stated include the Capitals standing in the names of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt. National Debt Office, February 7, 1845. S. HIGIIAN, Comptroller-General. An ACCOUNT showing, in Columns, the TOTAL AMOUNT of the FtiNDEDand UNFUNDED UNREDEEMED PUBLIC DEBT of the UNITED KINGDOM, and the ANNUAL CHARGE thereon, on the sth day of January, 1817. and on the sth day of January in every subsequent Year up to 18 44 , so far as applies to the NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE. United Kingdom. (3apital of Un redeemed Fundtd Debt. At Ist Feb. 1817 At sth Jan. 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1329 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 X. 796,200,191 776.742,403 791.867,313 794,980,481 801.565,310 795,312.767 796,530,144 791,701.614 781,123.222 778,128,267 783,801,739 777,476,892 772,322,540 771,251,932 757 486,996 755,543.884 754.100,549 751,658.883 743,675,299 758,549,866 761,422,570 762,275,188 761,347,690 766,547,684 766,371,725 772,530,758 773,068,340 772,169,092 Annual Charge thereon. X. 29,842,014 29.310,454 29,934,294 27,789,658 30,149,920 29,985,216 28,596,866 29,078,570 28,372,206 28,267,272 28,556,903 28,389,869 28,245.534 28,285,900 27,674,754 27,658,299 27,703,433 27,782,116 27,783,454 28,403,305 28,533,192 28,524,739 28,585,503 28,748,794 28 556,324 28,701,458 28,609,708 28,516,682 S. HIGHAM, Comfit. Gen. National Debt Office, 7 Feb , 1845. AMOUNT of the UNFUNDXD DEBT In EXCHEQUER BILLS, and the ANNUAL CHARGE thereon, on the stb January 1817, and on the sth of January in every subsequent Year up to 1844. In the Year ided the th Jan. Amount of Capital in Exchequer Bills. Rate of Interest 1844 44,650,300 56,729.400 43,208,400 36,303,200 30,965,900 31,566,550 36,281,150 34,741,750 32,398,450 27,994,200 24,565,350 27,546,850 27,657,000 25,490,550 27,271,650 27.133,350 27,278,000 27,906,900 28,521,550 28,976,600 26,976,000 24,044,550 24,026,050 19,965,050 21 076,350 18,343,850 18,182,100 18,407,300 3d. 22 Nov. 1816 21d. 24 Feb. 1817 2d. 11 Oct. 1817 iid. 24 June 1824 • 2d. 19 Dec. 1825 lid. 30 Sept. 1829 13d. 11 Dec. 1829 2d. 29 Sept. 1836 2id. 21 Nov. 1836 2d. 14 Dec. 1837 lid. 18 Mar. 1839 24-d. 16 Mar. 1840 2d• 15 June 1842 11d. 17 Mar. 1843 11d. 16 June 1843 2,173,927 1,891,315 2,026,450 847,091 1,529,181 2,009,311 1,309,409 1,111,220 1,086,015 820,000 770,000 802,186 860,475 806,076 726,465 604,365 577,320 723,596 636,417 688,701 692,095 871,309 641,370 788,707 559,130 797,046 1 631,601 -- . - - - 594,051 The Interest paid within each year is given in the column of Charge, which Interest has accrued upon the Capital stated in the pre ceding Year. S. J. WOOD Charge of Interest in the said Year. 1 52,422,143 2,794,276 1 49,627,867 7,481,3501 15 7,109,217 1 ,153,846 1,153,8461 76,248,1801 7 6,248,1801 1,013,668' 41,0111 972,657 1,296,876 .53,671,091 2,880,915 1 50,790,1761 Interest. 5,254,186 23,469 0,622,911 0,622,911 1,015,384 1,615,384 2,630,768 2,630,768 57.243,517 67,701,606 9,514,369 14,401,171 1248,860,663 103,352 248,757,311 248,757,311, 7,481,393 16,284,368 1 57,692 46.153 13,049,927, 12,668,6851 48.632 38,906 16,031,607 15,277,655 424,916 371,801 50,769 64,615 115,384 92,076 Exchequer Bill Office, 6th February 1845. ROYAL COURT OF GUERNSEY. (Abridged from the Guernsey Star.) ACTION AGAINST THE GOVERNOR. SIR WILLIAM COLLINGS, JURAT OF THE ROYAL COURT, Z. MAJOR•GENERAL W. F. P. NAPIER. LIEUTENANT pass. It was, as at present b e f ore t h em, a case b etween two private individuals ; it was not for the Court to an ticipate the objections which might be raised by either party ; it was for those concerned to raise those objec tions if they thought proper, and for the Court to decide on them. They were much indebted to the bailiff for calling their attention to the questions which he had spoken of ; but as the law officers of the Crown did not advise them against the course of proceeding which was now sought for by the plaintiff, th e y saw no reason to object to it. The Queen's Sergeant then twice called " William Francis Patrick Napier, Esq.," and no answer being given, a record was made of " Vera—et es t l'a d jonction des Officiers de kr Rcine permise."—Rule granted, and the adjunction of the Crown lawyers permitted. COVE RNOR. Magistrates on the Bench—John Grille, Esq., bailiff; John L. Marehant, Thomas William Gosselin, Thomas Le Retilley, Harry Dobree, Thomas F. De Havilland, Thomas Andros, and Edward M'Culloch, Esqs. Jurats. The plaintiff, Sir William Collings, having taken his seat at the bar, the following action was read by the Greffier " Sir William Collings, Knight, actions William Francis Patrick Napier, Esquire, C. 8., Major-General in the British Army, to hear his complaint and declara tion of having, the said William Collings, been seriously insulted, calumniated, defamed, and libelled, by the said William Francis Patrick Napier, on the 30th of March, 1844, or thereabout, the said William Francis Patrick Napier having written and sent to the said William Col lings, tie said 30th of March, 1844, or thereabout, a letter of which the following is a copy : _ _ . " March 30, 1844. " Sir,—Major Bainbrigge has informed me that you refuse to contradict the infamous and false charge which has appeared in the Gazette of the 16th, as part of our speech, and which I have pointed out to you—you pro mised you would contradict it ; you now refuse ; you have therefore forfeited your word as a gentleman, and I am entitled to hold you responsible, as having made use of the language exhibited to you in the Gazette. " ' This, Sir, is a foul ;.harge which you have dared to utter as a judge on the bench, against me, her Majesty's representative. My position prevents ma from exacting from you that reparation which I would instantly hue done if I hail been in a private capacity. I shall therefore call upon the Secretary of State to enforce the reparation due to me in my public capacity for this false and in famous charge, meanwhile leaving you with the dis honour of having added to that false charge thy• breach of your word as a gentleman.—l remain. Sir, ‘-:‘ W. NAPIER. Lieut.-Governor. " ' Sir William Collings, Knt.,' &c., &c. " The said letter being false and calumnious, tending to degrade and dishonour the said William Collings both as a private individual and as a jurat of the Royal Court of this island—the whole against his honour, credit, and reputation, to his great prejudice and damage, and without any provocation on his part; and to see him obtain the adjunction of the Crown lawyers, so that he may have due reparation and costs." The Queen's Sergeant was proceeding to evoke the defendant in the usual manner, when The Bailiff said, " Who enters this action?" Advocate Tupper—" I and Mr. M.Culloch?" The Bailiff—" Have you either of the Queen's officers acting with you?" Advocate Tupper—" It is not necessary that we should have." The Bailiff considered that this was not the usual manner of commencing actions of the nature of that which was then before the Court. After a lengthened argument as to the competency of the Court to entertain the action, The Queen's Comptroller, having been called on for his opinion, said that he felt much difficulty in the pre sent case. lie considered that, as a general rule, Advo cates had no right to enter actions of this nature without the concurrence of the Crown officers, but as he doubted whether they, the Crown officers, could act against the Governor, he thought it better to let the Advocates take the course they thought proper. Ile was not in the cause at present—if he were thereafter called on to act, he should do so as he then might consider right. Mr. Tupper had better be allowed the rule he sought for. Mr. Le Rodney observed, that taking the rule could not prejudice any one. The Queen's Comptroller—l have no objection to let the ease puss. The jurats were unanimous in allowing the case to THE EARNINGS AND PITTANCE TAX. A tax on earnings is a twofold bane — A gyve on liberty, a clog on thrift Less like a statesman's than a despot's shi ft ; We've writh'd beneath 't t oo l on g to writhe again. Uneconomic is it, as 'twould be To dam some feeder of a fruit'ning flood, To cut away some toproot of the tree, To drain the chyle, or bleed the scant of blood. But these are petty views, compar'd with this, fh' uncohgtitutional, which, wisely scann'd, Notes something with our freedom much amiss, When Government's a Pry throughout the land ; And domiciltar* search --'tis nothing less— Prolific, n ,w, of fraud; now, mulcts spare, frank distress. BOANERGES. * The inquisition into the contents of the account bo , k and b dger of the professional, mercantile, and trading man ; and into the pocket or memorandum book of the pensioner (male and female), the widow, the orphan, and the poor gentleman, is domi ciliary search with a vengenrY, and in the shape of an extortioner to boot. TEIGNMOUTIL—The surplice is still continued. On Sunday last the greater part of a very small congre gation left the church, amidst much noise and confusion. Report says that the worthy incumbent is preparing for a siege, and that on Sunday next, the police are to guard the church to prevent an uproar, that the surplice wor shippers may not be disturbed. The only mode left is to petition Parliament, and it is to be hoped that not many days will elapse before that constitutional method of expressing the feelings of the people will be adopted. Nothing must be left undone which can constitutionally be done, until the surplice is left off in preaching ; the chair at the commu nion unscrewed, and turned round, that the clergyman may not be ashamed to look his cengregation in the face ' - and the weekly offertory abolished ; the watch words must be, persevere and conquer, and until then, and until the minister has expressed something like contrition for his conduct, and apologised for his ill judged epistle to his parishioners, abstain from going to Vest Teignmouth church.— Western Times. THE LATE DR. ADERCROMEY'S PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY.—We understand that the family of the late Dr. Abercromby have presented his valuable professional library, amounting to nearly one thousand volumes, to the Royal College of Surgeons, of which he had been a member since 1804. This munificent donation was a nnounced to the College at its meeting on Monday last —Scotsman. SINGULAR ROBBERY.— OR Tuesday night, some person cut and carried away about 180 feet of the copper wire rope by which the signal fans close to the station at Chelmsford, are worked. The weight of the wire stolen is nearly half a hundred weight, and its value about 101. The robbery must have been effected by same person well acquainted with the position and value of the property, but as yet no clue has been obtained. — Suffolk Chronicle. 1822 1824 1824 1825 1830 834 841 1 1843 8,706,505 1 8,084,612 621,893 1 3,051,800 1,197,025 11,539 381,242 9,726 753, 952 53,115 23,308 845. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ho noured the performance of the French Plays with his presence yesterday evel.ing. A deputation of gentlemen, appointed at a public meeting held in Galway on Tuesday last, to proceed to the Board of Trade to present memorials in favour of the Irish Great Western Railway from Dublin to Gal way, attended yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation was composed of Mr. I)enis Kirwan, High Sheriff of the county of Galway, Lord Wallcourt, Mr. Lachlan Maclaghlan, J.P., Mr. A. 11. Lynch, Master in Chancery, Mr. T. N. Redington. M P., Rev. John D'Arcy, Mr. R. M. Lynch, Rev. M. H. Eyre, and Mr. Thomas Joyce. The deputation transacted bu siness at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, and were accompanied by th e Ri g h t H on. A. R. Blake, the O'Connor I)on, M P., Mr. Thomas B. Martin, M.P. and Garratt O'Moore, High Sheriff of the county of I Roscommon. Mr. Wallace, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade.: Mr. Cardwell had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The 11 - layor of Coventry, and a deputation from the Town Council, attended by the Clerk, transacted business yesterday at the Railway Department of the Ofgce of the Board of Trade, and presented a memorial in favour of the Coventry, Bed worth, and Nuneaton Railway. THE COURT AT BRIGHTON BRIGHTON, MONDAY.—Her Majesty took equestrian exer cise in the Royal Riding School this morning, attended by Colonel Buckley and Colonel Wylde. The Princess Royal took a carriage airing this morning on the Cliffs, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce took his departure from the Palace this morning. The royal dinner party, by invitation, this evening, com prised Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Ashley, the Earl of. Gainsborough, Hon. Colonel Montague, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, and Captain Seymour. Her Majesty's private band were in attendance after dinner. Names have been left at the Palace to-day by Viscount Seaham (Ist Life G uar d s ), Sir henry and Lady Bruce, Sir Jukes and Lady Clifden, Brigadier-General Sir 11. and Lady I'ynn, Lieutenant-General Sir T. and Lady Hanbury, Sir William Abdy and Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, Sir Theodore and Lady Brinckman, the Earl and Countess of Chichester, Visount and Viscountess Dillon, Miss Burdett Coutts, Earl and Countess of Granville, Mr. and Lady G. Fullerton, and the Rev. J. S. M. Anderson. At the Bench of Magistrates this morning, Major Allen observed that as the Court was very full he wished to men tion to all present, that it was a very shameful practice in this town, whenever her Majesty was here, for people to collect round the gates of the Palace, in order to see her Majesty come out. Now there was an express enactment in the local Act of Parliament which subjects every person who remains on the foot pavement and thereby obstructing the passage to a penalty of not more than 5/., nor less than 20s. ; and, if that fine should not be paid, he wash able to be sent to the House of Correction. Ile observed yesterday (he would not go again into what had oc curre d on S aturday, be cause it was too disgraceful to mention), but yesterday he observed a number of persons collected around the Palace, when her Majesty was expected to come out. He then called on the police to execute their duty strictly, and not t o su ff er any person to remain on the pavement. - If people wanted to see her Majesty they could do so respectfully, w i t h out crowd ing upon her or obstructing her as she passed. He now called on the police to do their . duty in future, by putt i ng this section into operation, and if people congre ga t e d w h en her Majesty was passing, to bring them before the magis - trates, when they should most certainly be fined. He hoped that so long as her Majesty remained in Brighton there would be no more complaints of her having been obstructed or annoyed in any manner whatever. They ought to be proud of her Majesty's visit, and do all they could to promote her enjoyment while here. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER TAINMENTS. MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET. Mr. Wilson commenced his series of Scottish enter tainments for the season of 1845 last evening, at the Music-hall, Store-street. The first part consisted prin cipally, but not exclusively, of the songs of Burns. We had the " Birks of Aberfeldy," " Tara Glen," Hazlitt's favourite song of " Mary Morison," " Bide ye yet," and that quaintly humorous song, "My Spouse Nancy," which was not only sung, but acted, by Wilson, with the richest gusto, and was, of course, rapturously encored. Then followed that fine song by the Rev. John Skinner, " John o' Badenyon," and Hector M'Neill's beautiful dialogue song, "Saw ye my wee thing"—•in itself a drama. This concluded the first part. The second part consisted of the favourite Jacobite songs ; and if the Scottish minstrels of 1745 sang these songs with half the taste, pathos, and expression which the Scottish minstrel of 1845 infuses into them, we do not marvel at the enthusiasm excited throughout the whole of the ❑orth country by the arrival of the hero of such soul stirring lyrics. The most delightful part of the enter tainment, however, to our thinking, was the introduction, in which Mr. Wilson gave us some exquisite fragments of old Scottish song ; true they were but fragments ; but fragments such as these—like the fragments of Gre cian sculpture —are worth whole collections of finished works by less-gifted artists. We hope Mr. Wilson will give us more of these delicious fragments. Could he not give us the remaining portions of some of them ? At all events we would request him to use his best endeavours so to do. The Music•ball was, as it always is on these occasions, crowded. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A new piece in two acts was produced here last even ing with the title of The Carbonari. It is, like most of our present dramatic novelties, from the French, but it is scarcely so good as most of them, being deficient in that great merit of the French playwrights, closeness and neatness of construction, and effective incident and situation. Dialogue predominates over action, a perilous thing in most cases, but luckily in the present instance, a large share of it falls to Mrs. Stirling, whose unaffected and natural style of acting is always interesting. The plot is a variation of the main idea of Don (Argar de Bazan. A young nobleman. Frederic, Marquis de Pa larcini, is, with other young liberals, imprisoned in the citadel at Parma, on suspicion of being Carbonari. Re becca (Mrs. Stirling), the daughter of a jew goldsmith of the city, whom Frederic bas in former days rescued from the attacks of a fanatic mob, comes to the prison provided with money to bribe the keeper to aid in the young Marquis's escape, and by the interference of Gianina (Miss E. Stanley), with whom the deputy jailer, Pepito (Mr. Compton), is in love, she succeeds in conveying a letter to him, apprising him that means have been taken to secure his flight ; but he refuses to peril others for the sake of a thing so worthless as his own life. The reso lution is no sooner taken than a report is brought that the warrant for his execution has been signed, the Go vernment having resolved on making some severe examples. A young friend, Ascanio del Dongo, is a fellow-prisoner with him, and supposes himself, errone ously, to be beloved by Rebecca. With only a few hours to live, the Marquis thinks he may as well secure the happiness of his friend by marrying Rebecca himself, and leaving her a widow and a Marchioness with immense wealth, and at liberty to wed Ascanio. Rebecca does not know of his impending fate, and thinking that theresolution ofthe Marquis proceeds frcm love for her, she consents, and the marriage is solemnised with a celerity peculiar to the weddings of French dramas. Now comes the em barrassment. By a sudden rise of the populace the despotic Ministry is upset, the Liberals placed in power, and the Marquis, instead of being marched to the ram parts and shot, is freed, escorted to the palace, and made Prime MiniFter! But what is he to do with a wife who does not love him, and whom he has promised to his friend? He applies for a decree of divorce, but in the interview in which he intends to com municate to her their separation, he discovers that he is the beloved ; finds the Jewess looks charmingly in her bridal dress, and finally keeps her him self, leaving his friend to console himself as best he may under his disappointment. The comic bye-play of the piece is carried on by Gianina and Pepito, in excellent style; but the incident, as we said before, is meagre, and there are none of those telling situations that so abound in the stage career of that " humorous dare-devil," Don Caesar, to whom the Marquis of this piece is next of kin, without much family resemblance. But it is well put on the stage, and well acted. The second act is by far the best, and the admirable manner in which Mrs. Stirling plays throughout the scene in which the Marquis gra dually discovers her affection for him, and her exertions to save him during his peril, is most expressively na tural. The applause at the fall of the curtain was only moderate, but Mrs. Stirling was called for, and received the approbation of the audience. S, r•:!!"&-! -1 _ 7,* GIR VAN. Aly • The storm of Sunday week was the most that has visited our coast this season, and has left with us, as evidences of its fury, one large schooner ashore, and one that fortunately succeeded in riding out the gale at anchor, a short distance to the westward of this harbour. The first schooner is the Ellen Stewart, of Dundee. She was on her voyage from Waterford to Glasgow, with a cargo of flour. The latter is the Liska, of Waterford, also for Glasgow, with bacon and marble. Both vessels were descried from this port immediately , after daybreak, and their precarious sivation created the most intense excitement and alarm for their safety. The Liska drove her anchors, and was brought up on good ground about half a. mile from shore; and, to the admiration of every one, rode out the gale in safety. Her rigging, however, is completely dismantled, the sails having been blown into rags, and the foretopmast, spars, &c., carried away. She is left, in fact, without a stitch of sail to enable her to remove from her anchorage, and in con sequence, a tug steamer has been sent for to take her up the Clyde. The Ellen Stewart was not so fortu nate. Being farther in shore she was obliged to make for this harbour to prevent her being driven among the breakers to the northward ; and the tide • being little more than ebb at the time, she struck heavily on the bar a t th e harbour-mouth the sea making its way right over her. The master and crew immediately took to the rigging, with the exception of a boy, a passenger, who was lashed to the windlass • and from this time, about nine o'clock, a.m., tin half-past twelve, the situation of both vessel and crew was perilous and distressing in the extreme. Every means. was tried, for a time in vain, to get a line from the shore to the unfortunate vessel, but at length this ob ject was effected by those on board attaching a line to a small buoy, which floated ashore. Having by this means gut a hawser on board, which was made fast ashore, the vessel was kept more steady, and the wind being right in shore kept her head on, and thus owed her, for had she broached to in the bar she wout4 inevitably hove gone to pieces. As the tide flow." 1 she was driven gradually up the river, and the warner,' were got off in safety, but much exhausted. Theo were carefully and kindly attended to, and soon W covered their strength. The greatest praise is due to the shipmasters and seamen of this port, for the energy' and humanity displayed by them in doing everything that could be devised to save the vessel and crew, whose escape altogether was most providential, and was deeply sympathised in by thousands of anxious spectators ashore. The vessel is very much damaged, and the cargo of course destroyed to a considerable extent.—Ayr Observer. ADVENTURE WITH A BOA CONSTRICTOR. (From the Madras United Service Gazette.) Captain C--, of her Majesty's 84th Foot, was one of the most indefatigable sportsmen I ever met with, and the entire of his time that could be spared from regimental duty was passed in the jungles. He was a man of vast personal strength, could undergo any degree of fatigue, in short, poss esse d a per f ect l y i ron const i tution. Hip halms, too, were anything but luxurious—a single attendant carrying a rifle of large bore, a mean carpet to sleep on, a limited stock of linen, and a good supply of ammunition accompanied the sports— man, who pursued his game by day, and at night sought shelter in some village, perfectly care less as to his accommodations in the way of food or lodging, his beverage being moreover the simple ele ment, for he never carried with him supplies of any kind, trusting his commissariat aid to Providence and rural hospitality. In this manner Captain C became well known to the natives of the country in every direc tion where sport was to be obtained ; he was aufh ciently acquainted with their language to himself understood, and the kindly simplicity of hir manner attached them to his person, and many of them indeed have been known to walk miles to give him early inf o rmation of lar g e game, which were his favourite objects of pursuit. Captain C— was thus quite "at home" in the Wynaud jungle and great western ghauts, where he probably brought to bag single-handed more heal of large game—elephants, bisons, tigers, and the like, than any other man ever did before, or ever will again in India. When upon one of these excursions, Captain C— happened to be passing the night at a small village in the Nirynaud jungle, when a ryot who had been out very late searching for a stray bullock, came to tell him of a large cheetul, oY spotted deer, which he had watched to its lair. lie had also heard from the villagers that a huge. snake had been seen several times in that neigh bourhood. He started accordingly after his game at day-break, accompanied by the villager and a favourite dog, which rarely left his heels unless ordered. After proceeding about half a mile through very dense jungle, and being as the villager supposed near the spot where the cheetul had laid down, Captain C— of a sudden missed his dog, and hearing a rustling in the bushes about ten yards off, accompanied by a whimpering noise, he turned in that direction, and saw what he at the first glance took for a tiger, from its colour, a mixture of black and brown, but soon discovered what the monster really was—a huge enormous boa constrictor, which seized his poor Juno, and was at that moment crushing her to atoms in its terrible coils. The native who was with him saw what it was likewise, and immediately fled. Capt. C. afterwards described the appearance of the reptiley when thus coiled round his dog, as somewhat resembling a barrel, every portion in violent muscular motion, and he distinctly heard the bones of the poor animal crack in succession within its terrible embrace. At last the monster raised its head and fixed two glaring: eyes on Captain C—, who in another moment might perchance have been fascinated by their deadly gleam, but with unerring aim he placed two balls in its forehead. Their effect was not, however, as he expected, fatal, and the snake instantly un coiling itself from its victim, came straight at Cap tain C---, who, of course, took to flight, but so thick was the jungle, that he found the animal gain ing on him, From the noise it made amongst the bushes ; and therefore sought shelter in a tree, re loading his gun with all possible expedition. Whe ther the reptile followed him by sight or smell, he could not judge, but Captain C— was only just pre pared for a second discharge, when the baa reached the tree, and instantly twining itself round the stem would have soon seized him, but fortunately.at the next shot he blew out both its eyes with a charge, of BB ; yet though the snake appeared for a moment stunned, it still continued its efforts to reach him, until by repeated shots it was incapacitated from rising, not though till Captain C— had com pletely emptied his powder flask, and even then he did not venture to descend, as the reptile continued coiled round the tree, occasionally by a muscular movement slowing that its vital powers were not yet wholly extinct. At length, after some hours' solitary confinement on his perch, and shouting until he was hoarse for aid, Captain C—had the satisfaction to see a number of villagers arrive, by whom the mon strous animal was soon completely destroyed. Capt. C— had no means of accurately measuring its length but by a piece of stick, which the natives said was a cubit long, and he declared that it mea sured upwards of thirty of these, and was much thicker than one of his own thighs, which were of a make that would have well become the leather fie ;for shames of any Life-guardsman The bead of the boa was cut off, by his orders, and sent to the Hon. Mr. Cole, then Resident at Mysore, and its enormous jaws may still possibly be inexistence at the Mysore Residency. Pardon the prolix of AN OLD SPORTSMAN. Sir Francis Doyle has been appointed Assistant Solicitor of the Excise, with a salary of 1,0001. a-year. Mr. J. Hornby has paired off with Sir B. Bulkeley until Easter Monday. THE SWINDLEES.—TUNDSIDGE IVELLS.—On Sa turday these parties, whose capture we announced yester day, underwent an examination before J. Deane, Esq., one of the magistrates of the town. The male prisoner gave his name Kidmar Stuart, 25, and the female, Rosina. Amelia Stuart, 21. Her maiden name, she stated, was Dettmar. James Wallace, apprentice to Messrs. Delves and Jull, grocers, deposed, that on Saturday last Mrs, Stuart came to his master's shop to pay her grocer's bill, amounting to 31. Os. 2id. She gave him the cheque (now produced) for 10/. 10s., and he gave her in change seven. sovereigns, nine shillings, a sixpence, and a fourpenn ) . piece. She then ordered some other articles, whi c h wer e sent to her house. Robert Jull, of the firm of Delves grocers,defproosneldonteh ofa consequencetihneir assistants,of fe samew en i t n o r :h r e check that - m ) ju a l t l i received on cash drawer and took therefr om t h e been produced, and mall went by the •_ had 21. ready .train to town. On the following morning he presented the cheque at the London Joint Stock Bank, Princes -street, f or pay ment, but the clerk told 1 • him there were "no effects. - ' He also told him that the person signing his nar3 Kidmar Stuart was a notorious swindler, and that they had had a. very large number of his cheqnr% presented by different parties for payment. Mr. Jeseph Delves, bouse•agent, deposed to the male prisoner's (handwriting on the cheque, he having seem him sign the agreement for the hire of the house, No. 10, Calverley-promenade, and the signatures were precisely similar. The prisoners were then remanded till Thursday next, in the expectation that furdier cases int,: be brought.; against them. FATAL ACCIDENT Al' SOMERSET-HOUSE.---All quest was last evening held at Mr. Spooner's, the Prince's Head Tavern, Buckingham-street, Strand, by Mr. Higgs, on. the body of Sarah Huson, aged seventy-seven. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased had, for the last twenty-one years, been employed as charwoman at the Stamp-otlice,Somerset-house. On the morning of Mends''. the 3d inst., she was proceeding to her work through tie square of Somerset-house, which, owing to the rain and sub sequent frost of the previous ni,ght, was a complete sheet of ice, when she slipped down. She got up and walked on,. but on reaching the door of the Stamp-office she again direr. and fell with great violence across the scraper, hi ribs, and other. forated her stays, fracturing several of . her pl d • .• her She was immediately ace ill wise severely 'rum ._. u , -cress Hospital, where shi) a sb and conveyed to Chan „ ge c red and cited on Saturdly last of . the injuries reteirea, Verdiet.-.." Accidental death. ' WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee arrived at Southampton yesterday. She was five days over due. She does not bring any specie on account of Mexican dividends. She does not bring any additional news from Mexico. At the time of her departure, Santa Anna was advancing upon Vera Cruz. He was closely watched by Paredes, but no collision had taken place between their troops. The Dee, on the 22d ult. encountered a heavy gale from W.N.W., which lasted three days. One of her paddle-floats was carried away. At 10 o'clock A.M., on the morning of Saturday last, the Dee exchanged signals with the barque Uni corn, belonging to and bound for London, in lon. 9.20 W., lat. 48.46, all well. On the same day also exchanged signals with the Woodbridge, of London, running westward, and wished to be reported. On the 9th, in the afternoon, off the Start, spoke the Luton, of Baltimore, steering W.S.W. OXFORD, MONDAY NIGHT.—The Proctors of the University have decided on not interposing their veto on Thursday next, and the Tractarian party are straining every nerve to bring up voters in support of Tract 90. The mi nority, it is anticipated, will be very large--some say as many as from three to four hundred—including the names of Mr. Gladstone, Dr. Hook, and others, who are stated in Tracta rian circles to have promised their support against the con demnation •f the Tract. —. From a Corre.spandent. On Monday, the 10th inst., a general assembly of the Academicians of the Royal Academy of Arts was held at their apartments, in Trafalgar -square, when Charles Land seer, Esq., was duly elected a Royal Academician in the room of Henry Perronet Briggs, Esq., deceased. DEATH BY DROWNlNG.—Yesterday information was received from sea, that another fisherman, whose home was at Barking, was drowned by being knocked from the deck of the smack Humility, by the tiller of the vessel, on Friday last. His name is Joseph Balla, and he has left a wife and two small children to deplore his untimely end. He was about twenty-five years of age. •