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---..--- 01E 10 ONS• )ck. 10 House WO' A lt 1 01' t, Ili I icP , VCt g osfe calau • etile: * ., °th°r he, Mr. Martin, Sir Denham Norreys, Mr. F. Made, 1 tom er :, Wood, Mr. H. - Stansfield, and Lord Granville ve ria - ,74 took part in it, but it was entirely con s,„ ' Q ua in its character, and the result was, that on ii4llestion of Mr. Brotherton, Lord Meridiem refrained from 7 1 4 4 4 the House, and the clause was agreed to, as was also the Floe 72d clause being put, lik o . ° el WOOD suggested the introduction of some words " would render the object of the clause mare specific kie., clear • The object of the clause is to oblige corn. %c c to affix a board, containing their rates of toll, at 114 0 2 4 their stabiles ; and another long conversation a s 4", to the present one, occurred on the power which the pk n ; t°ll would have of fixing the charge for the titled l ocomotives ; and Lord Granville Somerset de.. kri that the word " toll" included everything that Gould be c?. e l i orle a rail w ay. 0,77 73 to 80 were then agreed to. 81st clause being read, 1147: I SIB I'HORP sa id' he conceived that the power which t0115 t . t ,, 4 " gave of levying a distress upon the goods of the lee k " t of the company for the wrongful detention of any Eel was insufficient, and he thought that the distress ought eled on and of the company itself. thi s c'hiharrtit Lord G. Sore ERSET e xplained that the object of kis totid tis e was to enable the company to punish their servants for kil l It et, and the public had a right of redress provided by the 5555 , Which en a bl e d th em t o sue the company. 11, 4 , 4 " Si to 90 were then agreed to. kits HAYTER admitted that great difficulty frequently arose 4 411t i l ail way cop , anies taking London time. He had no 4 1 ,,cat• before lo m ng this evil would be remedied. %e t G. SOMER SET said nearly all the trun k li nes h a d ge t kkoi"*O clocks ; it wo u ld b e difficult perhaps to remedy the evil 6 4 1 th or . 'Vet -M PTRE called the attention of the Noble Lord to the i e401, 44 " f excursion trains on Sundays. He had frequently received , N ers* h tsft °o l persons living in towns to which these "Ri15,, 1 % tr ains went of the inconvenience that was felt by the CAW° went b y t h ese excurs i on-tra i ns walk i ng a b out. ~dons SI BTHORP thought, if they stopped these Sunday ex. L )4. they ought also to stop omnibuses.—(Laughter.) Itt;:,? °N ER recommended the Noble Lord to take this sub. `ofsi". c onsideration. In many cases these excursion trains P.sl on tst at the time when public service was commencing. leth,-"IETHORP You may as well move to shut up the (Hear, hear.) OimZEINTZ thought these excursion trains did more good it must be recollected that the persons who availed Na te " : O f these excursion trains were persons who c k titeC n i°, themselves on any day hut Sunday.—(Hear, hear.) dsml'Ot down the excursion trains, they ought to ek e "Ilentlernen's carriages, which rolled about and interrupted tk etd * ,Z t hiP at all times. — t" Hear, hear," from Colonel Sibthorp.) hi' S OMERSET said that if they attempted to legislate on Ithrs!'b;:g they would have to interfere with the running of he 0f44 ti a nd coaches on a Sunday. (Hear.) 1111 11 e was agreed to . °l4 e t % l c l ; hen resued, and te CHAIRMAN reported progress, h t he House adjourned t ill Five o'clock. PA I4 "LUMEN TAR Y DI V IS1ONS: (Pr.._ Um ---m.ss.--- -"' p ates and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) • NI wEDNEsDAy, MARCH 12. PROPERTY-TAX BILL, I Nti thit t un . e ; Clause (and whereas by the said recited Act it V i stki n the first Rule of Schedule (D), relating to deductions, 4 lis tt lr e ;' 4 u., be set against or deducted from the profits or gains titd e, of the Schedule for any disbursements or expenses of . /10, , Th a si`,,the Parties, their families, or establishments ; Be it 6 . o rD..rona and after the passing of this Act, whenever the 4 4,_' 1 43, — ",, ns so liable to be charged under the said Schedule shall kk,,,,v , pr "knlber or members of his family in carrying on his t s. °feast ° 5,,..,,, n, it shall be lawful to deduct such sum or sums of litkiterZ have been a fair remuneration for such employment ‘4,0; 4 *--..4 1 19n had been so employed) brought up, and read the ked "'ion made, and Question put, " That the said Clause k44;11. . "kcond time." The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 39. aid Farnham, E. BI Plumridge, Captain ikito w It e Ferguson, Colonel Ponsonby, C. F. A. C ' t ki' t j°h4 Hallyburton, Lord Rice, E. R. ‘ l ' 4 ; 1 I''. 11111, Lord M. Rumbold, C. E. r Oh, Johnson, General Somerville, Sir W. il k o tt k Martin, John Stanton, W. H. -. it . ' .Mitcalfe, Henry Thornely, Thomas Morris, David Towneley, John k ti4 1' j e . Murray, AlexanCer Turner, Edmund 1/4.. J. •T. Napier; Sir C. Wakley, Thomas Wyse, Thomas tf, r ‘ iZ ti s. Tr_ liri Paget, en (:!o A Colonel 1 TELLER:. . WD { " 46 Palmer, Robert Spooner, Richard -- " . n , Pattison, James Muutz, G. F. MAJORITY-NOES, 151. Eta li ' , lt tall ' Flower, Sir J. 4 y , 1 Wit' A. all% Forster, Matthew 0 34, Fox, S. L. k t 4 , , 44 1r 1 4. el Fremantle, Sir T. Fuller, A. E. ili k , Gaskell, J. M. 1 t , 11 , 1 11 z3 ,' l i a ll dst T o h n o e m e a a s Gptaitt t (4.441:, - W. It. Gordon, te3 o C n a t !tah o i i tit ' 4 4 :llz wa isc ° l lll je t Goring, Charles .ta r Graham,: ' Sir J. Pet s , Greenall, Peter 1 / 4._ b4 'l l lll , , , tt lit ik,; :it. v ii GGrtieniene,terrihioTmas lb°411 ;1 11.3 ' . r .lro . ga s iT n k l d r :a7d t li kt? toll l 'k Halford, Sir H. k ikitl i, l .. :' - vn Hamilton, W. J. , ifl it ilLn4 ILarwriess,,pia Benjamin 1:1,, Ilayea, Sir E. Heneage G. 11. * ,, l itt iiio lf tz z i : ra ' l ' Hepburn, ''SSi Sidney eTy: W. Sta li z t ,pi. Ilinde, J. H. • k lz" .. • t4.lt. Hogg, J. W. Holmes, W. A'Court Hope, Charles Hope, G. W. k4 1,, 7. 4t lugestrie, Viscount ~ i , tii i . w. Inglis, Sir It. 11. t * 1,4:4 ,.' . Fitz t James, William 4. James, Sir W. C. I It , Le. Jermyn, Earl , 14 ki t t. `kiteo, Jocelyn, Viscount wg. : o rci an • Johnstone, Sir J. II 14 :: : Langston, J. H. ! - Z4 Lawson, Andrew . 1 / 4 i t 11, Lennox, Lord A. 4 , Lennox, Lord A. e Linco ln,Long, 1 / 45414, ktlei. ittik v,-‘l. Lockhart, William .V ° ltilt Mackenzie, T. il i t ti , ltti e.,...'a . Mackenzie, W. F. \ • :N i 0.,, Maclean, Donald i t Ny' . (1. 11'Neill, Duncan ,nto rt Manners, Lord J. • : 'Per Marshiun, Viscount Marsland, Henry th .. 4 1)4 . .4... 1 Ns., C t it , further Enacted, Tnat from and after the passing 4Nilai 14 kh) ; Mall be lawful for all persons chargeable under \\kl .l t4q t,n 4r4 (E), who may have effected or may hereafter b kraott fr ec o _or t insurances t on f tl t i h e e ir a r i es in i u )e a c l tiv r e e l t i n fe in o m r I p iv a r d , fo to t 1 .4 4,t kk t or I, B l , l :..z o :rand o whenever such l deduction so rh b e . o : 1 4 a n ,_ce the net annual income below the sum of 1501., i' - ‘ u tigh - ' ai ng shall be entitled to exemption from payment b,„ t „ ",, ~ ,- "14 and read the first time :--Motion made, and 0 41.1, 1 4n . at the said Clause be now read a second time." ~ 4 N i tt44, MINORITY—AYES, 26. tN, Nt or . Hawes Benjamin Packe, C. W. N 1. 7 1,, 4, 11111, LOrd M. l'hunridge, Captain ISktOp' Inglis, Si! - R. H. Rice, E. R. )41„1 ,1 1 ; :. Johnson, General Russell, Lord J. tk, Leader, J. T. Smythe, George I§lt i , T Martin, John Somerville, Sir W. Manes, R. M. i t. Morris, David TELLERS. Muntz, G. F. Manners, Lord J. O'Brien, A. S. Spooner, Richard ~ 7 . . b MAJORITY--NOES 87. \ 1 07141 1 ' Escott, Bickham ' 31'N elll, Duncan IN / 4, Fitzroy, Henry 31arsland, H. \tok ill Forbes, William Martin, C. W. Forster, Matthew Morgan, 0. t,' , Fremantle, Sir T. Nichol!, John 'itl/ • : 4 ,4t111, r: Fuller, A. E. Pakington, J. S. ''., Gaskell, J. M. Patten, J. W. Gladstone, Captain Peel, Sir It. 4 (1 oGordon, Ili Gord Captain Peel, Jonathan 1 1ant i ‘lss4l oulburn, Henry Pringle, Alexander I \ 1 : 4, 1(1 . G Graham, Sir J. Renton, G. W. J. 4.,1... G ar ree ina i sai le, te T h . , T. Rushbrooke, Colonel t 47 at H t Gregory, W. H. \ lli,: Smith, T. B. C. Somerset, Lord G. ‘,' IP . Grogan, Edward Stewart, John y 'l'. Hamilton, W. J. 4.44 Ilarcourt, G. G. Sutton, H. M. Thesiger, Sir F. , klii*er, Heneage, G. H. Trelawny, J. S. WSidnAourt Vivian, J. Ennis k 4 1 , 11 .1 D ' o r li be ne rt s ' $ l- i:'_• ' Hnpe, Charles Wakley, Thomas , - Ct t 'go Hope, G. W. Wall, C. B. Jermyn, Earl Warburton, H. ‘ 4, tl' S t : l : l4 Jocelyn, Viscount Wood, Colonel Lawson, Andrew Wood, Colonel T. °li kk ik ,'' H, Lennox,Lord A. Wortley, John S. - 'lv : A i. Lincoln Earl of - Yorke, E. T. Illitln Lockhart, W. TELLERS.: Mackenzie, W. P. Young, John _ 4 i ktti a i ittill / I‘Geachy, F. A. Raring, Henry ~Vk t li , t lit 7.- t4 41 1 . 4 ° 0 1 r 5 ° , ( . 4 . Press 2, line 22, after the words "levied and PP ii t he s k hre first Clause, _to insert the words, Provided Vtli t e wi ,_ratee and duties shall not be assessed or taken k 1 104 oatever under the amount of 5001., except in re t"4 b Ylvhich such income shall exceed the sum of • llt by whichand t tk.4,tk . 11°! Queetion put, " That those words be there 1 / 4s, n eedivided :- 1 / 4 4 \ It tit ',,ft. M I N O RITY—AYES, 25. i{ ikett4ll. rete r . __. in, John t 4 4 , e ;11. t un m u s , ,Na F vid Somers 111 e, Sir W. Wakley, T. WSWIL John T. I s lk• It • • l' p h a T k le e r , , Sir C. Willituns, William tl . r ii t iti Wodehouse, Edmond \llk Plaroptre;J. P. kluMridge, Captain ' C1 1%41 nice, E. R. Ittimbeld, C. E. 81141301 1 ) , Colonel k ' 4 l i S lCk A' MA JORITY--NOES, 59. k‘to t ikor ce ~ tt e :ro t y tß;_f e k n li ry am 111`Geachy, F. A. M'Neill, Duncan h . ,. F°rster, M. Martin, C. W. N . 4, 4 , 14 . l!re i tn'intle, Sir T. N pe i e ch l o s ll i , r J ß ohn it v . 0, ' Fuller. A. E. Peel, Jonathan ' A l ki'. Gordon, el i Lp li tal . n Pringle, Alexander ..' a ll'ea y v lt, % r oturn, li. Round, John IN so , • am, Sir J. Smith, T. B. C. Greene, Thomas Somerset, Lord G. Ny N os_ 4l '../,,,id Grimsditeh, T. Stewart, John k s ( ...t :tlta r rd Herbert, Sidney Sutton, It. M. iti t 'r, . lohe, Charles Thesiger, Sir F. i t' i h r (;. 4 . Pe, G. W. Trotter, John Hutt, William k tt. ' 1: 4 Jortnyn, Earl Warburton, H. Wortley, John S. \,,C ~, /. ° celYn, Viscount Yorke, E. T. h,' r T. `'ennox Lord A. ' ' .1. Lincoln, Earl 1 1 I ' Lockhart, W. , 1 41 1. Mackenzie, T. I tt l "."'----- 1 , 1, ' k, l tl: t h . lit l „ Il le t I 'ICATION OF GLASS TO LOOM MOLTNT^ . "14 6 0 :0(1,." 0 , , pa5t our weavers have been in the habit of ki . 'll t,_%p r i of li tti 9rs . tal for the complicated mass c?mpriF.l - age„. tie wooden pulleys that were fixed in . their ' ' l l 4 , Oth„"er 4 his week we had an opportunity of N'C' , sha wl l 3 rat• t 4,1,,, 1 lon of crystal far a different depart t, tVkl. ~ ,,'?anufacture, where metal had formerly tstlytt4jory. of .;,.118 last improvement has been introduced 14 1 1'i, 4 14 4 411 b 'lr. Robert Kerr, and when it is considered 1,04: 1 1 . 4 tie; h e a t once moulded into any form, and that, Qt k ,iti, 4l l4 t en ,Pc'ssesses all the smoothness and hardness I,sn i t ,ef the . I;ered !Nei, we have no doubt but, with k' S I I t nith b tu . `,',ut2 7 , it vrill soon be applied to many de- , 4A:it l et f or n ro anufactures where light mallinery is 7:et t' o 'tal ' great number of purposes it will super • 4: 1 /i kt i, b and brass entirely. Besides its easy and k , ti te l i cls om ll .glass is invaluable from its being un -4,, 41. 4 111 0 ; 1 , Il ea% Or cold, which wood, and all the 11 k 'lt e are . -- Saturday Post. 't )% tth AT T „,,, I to 4 10 t rest ' DR AL.—Th k. amount already sub t, ftt,i,, l 5 Oration of this ancient ecclesiastical structure Is k lt t ra ti 1 , 1 4 1 4 4 1 °11 a second donation during the last week 14 ‘ t tat l op ta . litra ct ' ed quia of Westminster. The cost of the ' le.. *Lol l 4 ,, for and in progress is 2,5041., and the -, s th, i , . ,_ the choir, it is expected, cannot be ef " ° 000 L Meynell, Captain Morgan, Octavius Neeld, Joseph Neeld, John Newport , Viscount Nichol', John Norreys, Lord, Packs, C. W. Pakington, J. S. Palmer, George Parker, John Patten, J. W. Peel, Sir Robert Peel, Jonathan Pollington, Viscount Powell, Colonel Pusey, Philip Reid, Sir John Repton, G. W. J. Rolleston, Colonel Botts, Captain Rushbrooke, Col. Russell, Lord J. Russell, J. D. W. Seymour, Sir H. Sheppard, Thomas Smith, Abel Smith, T. B. C. Smythe, George Somerset, Lord G. Stewart, John Stuart, Henry Sturt, H. C. Sutton, henry Thesiger, Sir F. Trelawny, J. S. Trotter, John Tumor, Christopher Villiers, Viscount Vivian, J. H. Waddington, H. S. Wall, C. B. Warburton, Henry Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, John S. Yorke, E. T. T2LLIII3. Young, John Baring, Henry TELLERS. Inglis, Sir IL 11. Spanner, Richard TELLEM Young, John Baring, Henry THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 1845. prisoner was in the gaol. He there saw the prisoner, and at once recognised him. Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—If he covered the phial at all, it was with leather and not with paper. He had no doubt that the prisoner was at that time affected as he stated with varicose veins. He did not believe that Scheele's prussic acid could be taken into the stomach and yet not ascertained by the smell. He had mixed thirty drops of Scheele's with eleven ounces, or nearly a tumbler full, of porter, and the smell was slightly percepti ble. The bottle does not contain the quantity of eleven ounces. It is the property of this acid while it is volatilizing to give out a smell. He was aware that apple-pips contained prussic acid. He saw fifteen small apples tested by distillation, and then with sulphuric acid and sulphate of iron. The quantity of prussic acid that re sulted was one grain and one-fifth. Mr. Smythe, clerk to Barnett, Hoare, and Co., examined —The prisoner had been in the habit of banking with them. On Wednesday, the Ist January, he came between two and three o'clock, and drew a cheque fur 14/. Paid him in gold. His account was overdrawn at that date. He Relieved the paper shown him to be his handwriting. (The paper re ferred to was a prescription for varicose veins.) Cross-examined—There was not the slightest objection to his overdrawing his account. A letter was lianded to the witness, which he thought was in the handwriting of the prison er . Th e l et t er was a dd resse d to Mrs. Hart, 93, Crawford-street, Portman-square, and was as follows ;- 7 _ " Dear Friend,—l wish to inform you that I expect to be at home in a fortnight and therefore you had better not write to me."—Your friend, " A. HART." Mary Ann Moss—Witness lived with Sarah Hart, at 93, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square, about four years since. She was pregnant when she went there, and a child was born in March, 1841. The only person who used t 9 visit her was the prisoner. He came about once in six weeks, or perhaps oftener. The deceased lived in Crawford-street about twelve months, and then went to Farringdon-green, where she lived twelve months. She then went to Bath-place, at Slough, and witness called on her about eight or nine months before her death. When the prisoner first came to Crawford street, he asked if there was a person living there the name of Hart. She heard him, and said " Here I am ; it's all right." She had, at first, a back room furnished, but she aftewards bought furniture herself for the front-room. She saw a parcel once come to the deceased, and the prisoner called afterwards, and asked "if It was all right." Witness observed that she had got some blankets. When Mrs. Hart was confined, the prisoner called upon her, and went into her room alone. The last time she saw the decea-ed was in October last. She had not seen the prisoner for a long time before. Mrs. Bacon was unCer examination when cur express left. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCK. CIIESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Cataract 15 to 1 agst Obscurity 16 to 1 agst Era 25 to 1 agst Winesour 30 to 1 agst Theomun ac Bruck 33 to 1 agst Trueboy 66 to 1 agst Foig-a- ballagb. . DEBBY. 10 to 1 agst Alarm 14 to 1 agst Idas 16 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 20 to 1 agst Clear-the-Way 25 to 1 agst Miss Whip colt 33 to 1 agst Mentor 40 to 1 agst Old England 40 to 1 agst Annandale 50 to 1 agst Young Eclipse SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—That the payment of Clerks of the Peace and Clerks of Petty Sessions by fees, instead of by salary, is a system fraught with mischief's to the public, and calculated to pervert the administration of justice in the inferior Courts, especially in the country districts, we have shown not merely by argument but by facts. Many of the latter we have carefully selected from the provincial journals, whose reports of the proceedings at Quarter and Petty Sessions we have referred to for the purpose. Intelligent cor respondents, in different parts of the kingdom, have also supplied us with well-authenticated cases, by which the vices of the existing system were exposed, and the necessity of a change in the mode of remunerating these officers of justice was enforced. We may therefore be supposed to feel grati fied on finding that the Government has undertaken to cor rect the evils so generally admitted to exist. The Bill which Sir James Graham—as the Minister whose department is specially charged with the general superintendence of the public justice of the country—has introduced to the House of Commons, and which was read a second time last night, seems well adapted to remove the evils arising out of the present mode of payment. Having taken a special in terest in the subject, we congratulate the country on the interposition of the Government, and on the prospect of a more healthful mode of remunerating the Clerks of the Peace in counties, and the Clerks of Petty Sessions, than that which has been found to work so great au amount of mischief to the community. Sir James Graham, in the speech with which he moved the second reading of the Bill, stated the principle on which it was founded, and the means by which it proposed to secure the purposes it was framed to effect. The prin ciple of the Bill, as stated by the Right Hon. Baronet, is in the nature of an axiom " That, on the whole, justice is better administered by public ser vants receiving salaries for the duties performed by them, than by receiving fees for those duties." To adduce proof in support of such an axiom might, indeed, appear to be superfluous. The Right Hon. Secretary's remarks in sup port of this simple and self-evident proposition will be con curred in by all who have paid ordinary attention to the working of the system to which they apply :—" In the first place, he was satisfied that not only the ends of justice would be better answered by the payment of salaries, but he entertained also a very strong opinion that, in the end, economy also, ard the inter ests of the ratepayer, would be considered, and advan tageously considered, by the measures they were then dis cussing." The cold and discouraging reception which the measure met with from several country gentlemen, who carped at rather than spoke against several of its provisions, shows the jealousy with which the "great unpaid" view any interference with what they regard as a .kind of hereditary juri s di c ti on. A poac h er i n t h e i r preserves, and a Sec re t ary o f S tate w h o i nterferes w i t h their magisterial p r i v il eges, is alike the object of their anti pathy. To transport the one, and thwart the other, is their study. Who, but persons under the influence of deeply rooted prejudices, would have started objections so positively puerile and self-stultifying as those which Mr. Egerton, Mr. Darby, and Mr. Henley substituted for arguments in the de bate of last night ? The former gentleman paid but a poor compliment to the county magistracy, as a body, when he assumed that they would victimise the county rate payers by availing themselves of the power vested in them by the Bill to award inordinately large salaries to the functionaries who are now paid by fees, for the purpose of in ducing competent persons to undertake the duties which de volve on those officers. We know how dangerous it is to en trust any man, or number of men, with irresponsible powers, more especially with power over the public purse. We therefore recommend, as we have invariably done in similar cases, that the amount of salary proposed to be paid to the functionaries alluded to should be ratified by the Secretary of State for the Home Department. But who would have expected that a distinguished member of their own body, as the Hon. Member for Cheshire is, should have objected to the payment of clerks of the peace and clerks of petty sessions by salary, lest the magistrates should awa r d an extravagant l y l arge amount sT A s o p f A salary ß p.— t T o h t h e eoffi Property-taxofeer their !sillw selection as, ? as our readers have seen, read a third time and p asse d l ast n i g h t. S evera l amen dments were proposed a n d di scussed at greater or l ess length, but all rejected by considerable majorities. The amendment of Sir R. Inglis, limited as it was by the Hon. Baronet, to incomes of 5001. per annum et infra, shared the fate of the rest—sufficient proof that the House was resolved to carry the measure in its integrity, for if any alteration could be permitted, that proposition had certainly the strongest claims to consideration. Most, indeed, will regret that the danger of allowing exceptions, which, once ad mitted, would soon eat up the whole measure, rendered it impossible to adopt the benevolent proposition of Sir Robert Inglis. One or two points were raised in the successive dis cussions that are not undeserving of remark. Sir William Clay entered his protest against the. Bill, as an attack upon that most amiable and interesting class, misers; and Mr. Benjamin Hawes burled after it his malediction with a spirit and energy, that gives us all reason to be thankful that the Member for Lambeth cannot yet launch thunder-bolts. Misers, says Sir William Clay , are the great benefactors of mankind. Demosthenes thought differently when he called them " instinctive traitors." Bacon thought differently when he charged them as the collectors of foniites of misery and of moral con tagion. Lord Chatham thought differently when he called them bloodsuckers. History tells a dif ferent story of them, and history is not ill supported by the experience of common life. However, we concede, for argu ment sake, that misers are the objects of all that tender for them, and we concede, absolutely, that men are not to love and deep veneration which Sir William Clay demands be persecuted on account cf their wealth, or presented in the Turkish fashion with a bow-string, as the acknowledgment of their merit in accumulating money. But conceding all this, we take leave to ask, how is the miser more injuriously affected by a property and income tax than is any other person? "If the State take more , from the rich man than the poor man by a property and income tax, does it not leave him more and protect more for him also? For example, the man of 1501. a year pays to such a tax but 41. 10s. ; whereas the man of 1,5001. a year pays 451. This, however, is but one side of the account ; turn to the other. side. The State leaves to the former 1451. 10s., and protects it for him ; and it leaves to the latter 1,455/., and protects it for him—there is surely nothing unequal or unreasonable in this as they will tell at any insurance-office, - where we always find the premium bearing, ceteris paribus, an exact ratio to the sum insured. As to the ability of the Ipartiesie and to spuapyp,oirtt a i s av very simple sum, whether it is ea s ie r to vfamily upon 1451. per annum, or 1,4551.? There is, however, another view of the subject, at which the Member for the Tower Hamlets appears to glance. He seems to think that men will be deterred from growing rich, by the fear of the property tax ! Let him dis miss al l apprehension upon the such dangers, subject;me witness n will growthe rich if well-taxed d e a 1 'in contempt of all Jews of the 11 th , 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centurie s. Nobody will refuse 9701. because it is not a thousand. Well, if the property-tax neither persecutes the lovely miser class nor deters men from joining its ranks, where is Sir William Clay's objection? o We, for ourselves, though not a lto g ether so much enamoured the venerable order of misers as S i r William Clay, have nevertheless the highest respect for the prudent, frugal, saving order, and therefore we much desire to see that order infinitely extended ; confident that some thousands of prudent, frugal, and saving men, will accumulate more capital in a country than any possible number of mere misers—capital, too, which may be collected upon single objects of the greatest magnitude, as we have seen it in the case of our great companiesoind as we see it in the case of railroads. But how is the order of prudent, frugal, to almost i e nv c ci ise objects of e n , g and by un afe ev n te d t re3 s ; g i a n nt g i m eo m e p n ue tris t i c uil btgse too extended, xf savetei dd industry? d set , yr ut t ib b es spr t g e Sir Robert Peel's financial reforms, of which the property-tax is the essential basis. The differenez between the Member for the Tower Hamlets and the . Premier is this—the former would nurse and fondle a few Harpagons, extending to their bags an inviolability from even equal taxation, the latter would have a rich and frugal, industrious and progressive people—not persecuting the Harpagons, but not sparing to call upon them for an equal co n tribution.upon which Mr. Hawes hurried , his malediction is The round g the opportunity which the property-tax gives to the Premier to remove the taxes that affect industry and commerce—a reason, in the full enjoyment of all the honour of which we shall leave the Honourable MeMber for Lambeth unmolested. There is a remark of Sir Robert Peel's equally profound and just, width goes to the root of the whole question of the preference due to direct or indirect taxation—a remark - which will, we trust, be seriously eousidered ~by the peof)le , 41i depends upon the SUMMARY OF NE- S AND eptitton. " Who runs may read." FOILEXGN. On Sunday evening the King of the French received the Prince de Ligne, the Duke de Broglie, the Marquis de Lagrange, Count Philip de Segur, Viscount d'Haussonville, Barons Bourgoing, de Barante, and Deffaudis, and Generil de Saint Yon. _ _ The Duke de Broglie was to leave Paris for London on Thursday. A duel took place on Tuesday morning in the Bois de Boulogne, between the editor of the Globe and the principal proprietor of the Prtsse, in which the latter was shot dead. Several of the journals state that Captain Page, Aide-de-Camp of the Minister of Marine, is about to leave France on a special mission for Otaheite. The Rouen journals state that the following curious notice was lately proclaimed by the town-crier of Yvetot (Seine Inferieure) : " A considerable number of Englishmen being about to be em ployed on the railroad, the mayor engages the ladies, both old and young, not to walk in the streets after nine o'clock in the evening l'' A young girl hanged herself at Amiens a few days back, from vexation at not being able to procure anew dress to go to a ball COVET-F.A.SIZIODTASZE. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and suite are expected to arrive at St. James's Palace at the close of the present, or early in the ensuing month, from Corfu The Prince's apart ments in the Pa.ace are undergoing extensive repairs previous to his Royal Highness's arrival. _ _ _ The Marchioness of Douglas (Princess Mary of Baden) has been safely delivered of a son and heir. _ The Duke of Wellington will pass the Easter recess at Strath fieldsaye. His Grace is expected to leave town on or about the 20th instant. We understand Lady Charles Wellesley is in that interesting state which promises a contingent succession to the title and family lonours of the house of Wellington. _ _ Lady Brcugham's party, announced for Wednesday evening, was at the last moment unavoidably postponed, owing to the death of a distant relative of her Ladyship. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have arrived at the Claren don Hotel, from Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. MIS e .IX.L.Ca.NZOITS. James Matheson, Esq., M.P., has given the liberal donation of 1001. to the scheme for extending and improving the means of education in Dingwall. Notwithstanding the most active exertions have been used, both by the Metropolitan and City police, to obtain a clue to the disco. very of the person or persons' who committed the extensive rob. bery of gold bars at the terminus of the Dover Railway, in the Old Kent road, on the morning of Friday last, no trace had, up to yesterday, been obtained. The gold bars, twe in number, and ♦alued at 2,0001., and not 1,600 1 ., as has been stated, were con tained in a wooden box, about 3 feet 3 inches across, 13 inches deep, and 13 inches wide. A meeting was held on Tuesday evening at the George and Dragon Tavern, Blackheath.hill, to aid the central committee in raising a fund for the purpose of presenting to Thomas S. Dun. combe, Esq., M.P., a testimonial of their esteem for his conduct in opposition to the Masters' and Servants' Bill, and also for his ex posure of the Post office spy system. Thursday, the let of May, has been named for the formal open ing of the Bliswerth and Peterborough line. It is intended that the fares from Peterborough to London shall be—first.elass car riages, 225. ; second class, 12s. The time occupied in the journey will be about five hours. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Your account of the " disgraceful conduct" of some officers of the 37th Regiment, stationed at Gosport, should not be silently passed over, as it appears to me to merit the severest censure. It would be very amusing, Sir, could you favour your readers with some further particulars of the trial, and more particularly the names of the Magistrates who presided. I most heartily join with you in the wish that it may be carried to the Morse Guards.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A COUNTY MAGISTRATE. Upper Brook-street, March 12, 1845. ANNUAL MEETING of the METRO- POLITAN DRAPERS' ASSOCIATION. The third annual meeting of this Association took place last evening, in Exeter Hall, Lord John Russell in the Chair. The report being read, The NOBLE LORD, who, on rising to address the meeting, was received with great cheering, said he would not occupy the attention of the meeting fur any length of time in his opening remarks, as there were other gentlemen to follow, who would be better able than him self to explain the objects and benefits of the Metropolitan Drapers' Association. One of the greatest evils that existed in the present system was, that it not only injured the health and impaired the intellect, but took away all that time and those opportunities which ought to be devoted to spiritual worship. It was certainly a great cause of complaint, and one which ought to be re moved, that those who were engaged in shops should be compelled to begin work at seven o'clock in the morn ing, and not be allowed to close their labours till ten or eleven o'clock at night. Such a practice left no time for improvenient, either for this world or the next. It was easy to prove, that not only did it debilitate the health, take away all time for mental cultivation and improve ment, but to a great degree, if not altogether, totally deprived those employed of all chance of pre paration fur another and a future life.—(Cheers.) If this was the ease, why was it that one generation after another was permitted to pass away without some means of improvement being devised ? He must say, if, while they as a nation possessed all the advan tages of immense mechanical inventions and improve ments, and illimitable sources of wealth—yet, at the same time, they neglected moral culture and men tal improvement, then had not their civilisation passed beyond the limits of comparative barbarism ? Let them endeavour to improve society. There were, no doubt, many causes of evil beyond the reach of legis lation, yet, nevertheless, there was much in their power to accomplish. If they could not bring about a great amount of good in their own individual characters, there was a power in the country to which they could appeal, that of public opinion, which when once enlightened and directed to this question, would accomplish most important results. Ought they not to look forward to a time when the hours of the labouring classes devoted to toil would be made of moderate length, and a suffi cient part of the twenty-four hours be set apart for mental improvement, and for affording fuller opportu aities for making them better men and better Christians? The Drapers' Association were labouring for such a re sult ; and if he thought that wealth was the only object sought by his countrymen in the pursuit of business, he for one should lose all respect for the character of Eng land. When their great poet described the building of a pandemonium, .Nle.mmon, the least and meanest spirit was represented as leading on the work. But should the'y, who were seeking to erect a greater and a nobler temple—a temple of civilization and of Christian truth—not look for a purer and a holier spirit to lead them forward?—(Loud cheers.) Most certainly they should. The subject of late hours of employment branched into several departments, and though the present meeting was but a small portion of the public, yet would the question go forward and gather strength until at last it became re sistless.—(Cheers.) Having made these general remarks, he would not go further into the question, but leave it in the hands of the other gentle men who were to follow, and who could better explain the objects of the meeting than himself. (rho Noble Lord then sat down amidst loud and general cheering.) Various resolutions, having for the purpose the for warding of the objects of the Association, were then pro posed and agreed to. Among the gentlemen who ad dressed the meeting, was Mr. C. BULLER, M.P., who announced himself as favourable to the principle of compulsory legislation on the subject, should such legislation become necessary. The meeting, which was very fully.attended, broke up at eleven o'clock. WEST LONDON RAILWAY. The usual general half-yearly meeting of the Share holders sand Directors of the West London Railway Company vi as held at their office in Abchurch-lane yes tereay. There was a numerous attendance, and at two o'clock, Mr. GROUNDS was called to the chair, upon taking which, he very briefly addressed the meeting upon the state of the Company's affairs, and concluded by suggest ing that the report should be read, and hoped it would be adopted. The report of the Directors was then read, as was also an address to the Directors by the Shareholders, which was an echo of the report, and both were unanimously adopted. After a few words, in opposition to the report, from Mr. NV ITCHURCH, Mr. GUNTER said he differed from Mr. Witchurch. He never expected that the line could be carried on from the Kensington-basin Terminus to the Thames, without considerable addition to the Company, and the event had proved that he had not been in the wrong. The meeting then agreed to re-elect the same Di rectors for the ensuing year, after which The CHAIRMAN announced that they should now re solve themselves into a special meeting. The SECRETARY read the resolution of a former meet ing, empowering the Company to dispose of certain for feited shares, to the amount of 969, which he said had been held ky certain parties, who paid up but one in stalment, and had soon after become bankrupt. After ashort discussion, it was agreed upon that the shares should be forfeited, and that the Directors should be empowered to sell them if they should so think fit. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, a meeting of holders of loan notes of this Company, who had, through inadvertence, omitted to give notice in due time of their intention to convert the same into shares, was held at the London Tavern. At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for the meeting, there were six persons present, who de cided that reporters should not be admitted, inasmuch as it was reared that unguarded expressions might fall from the lips of acme of the speakers, in which case their appearance in the London papers would serve to irritate, rather than conciliate, the Brighton Directors. CAVALRY MOVEMENTS.—The following changes of quarters are now upon the point of taking place amongst the undermentioned regiments :—The Ist Dragoon Guards frum Canterbury to Exeter; the 4th Dragoon Guards from Ireland to Piershill Barracks, near Edinburgh; the sth Dra goon Guards from Manchester to Nottingham ; the 6th Dra goon Guards from York to Manchester; the 2d Dragoons (Scots Greys) from Piershill Barracks, near Edinburgh, to Ireland ' • the 4th Light Dragoons from Ipswich to Hounslow; the 6th Dragoons from Brighton to Birmingham • the 7th Hu s sars from Birmingham to Ipswich; the 16th Hussars from Ireland to Leeds; the 12th Lancers from Nottingham to Coventry; the 13th Light Dragoons from Exeter to Ire land; and the 17th Lancers from Hounslow to Brighton. VAUXHALL GARDENS.---ThiS popular place of en tertainment will be opened at Whitsuntide, for the hundred and fifteenth season, under the direction of Mr. Robert War dell, the former proprietor,- who has become sole lessee. The most extensive preparations are making, in order to render this delightful retreat as attractive as it was in its palmy days. - izz7tivi Witittton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. MURDER AT SALT-HILL TRIAL OF JOHN TAWELL. THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS. AYLESBURY, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. (Before Mr. Baron PARKE.) The Court resumed this morning at a few minutes before nine o'clock. The entrance to the Court-house was crowded to a dense degree, and it was with condsiderable difficulty an entrance could be effected. The prisoner when placed in the dock seemed particularly nervous. He paid marked attention to the evidence, arid particularly to the cross-examination cf the witnesses by Mr. Fitzroy Kelly. Mr. Cooper, the chemist of London, was the first witness called, -and he was examined at considerable length by Mr. Sergeant Bvle?, with reference to his experiments on the contents of the deceased's stomach, which had been sub 'lilted to him in order to test the existence of poison. He found in the stomach of deceased the pips of some apples. He discovered in the seeds of thole apples a quantity of prussic acid. He did not think that any, balance could measure the quantity of the poison. There was just as much as would colour the bottom of the phial. To the best of his ability the bottle originally contained more than a grain of prussic acid (the bottle con tained the contents of the stomach). The quantity was a grain' at the time of the second examination of the bottle—there might have been more at first. The pro bability was, that it would be so. The bottle was tested for the second time on the Bth of February, about four weeks after the first. He was not enabled to say how much prussic acid had been originally introduced into the stomach before the contents were removed. A variety of circum stances might tend to decrease this quantity, as absorption by the saytem, &c. Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—He had never before that time examined the contents of the human stomach whefe a person had been killed, or where prussic acid had been taken. He had had a good deal of ey perience of the chemical proper ties of prussic acid. It.had a peculiar smell, whether in its strongest state as concentrated acid, or i❑ its weakest form. It affected the back of the throat in a peculiar. manner. .He had met it more frequently in a diluted form, when combined with water, than in its concentrated state. lie had no per sonal experience of the quantity that would kill. His know ledge was drawn from books. Baron PARKE-The least quantity that would kill was that he thought mentioned yesterday in the case in the French hospital. By Mr. lieenv—He began his investigation with the view of ascertaining the presence of oxalic acid. When he tested the contents of the stomach he took various portions for the purpose of discovering the presence of various poisons. (The witness then detailed his mode of testing it.) He did not discovered the smell of prussic acid on first testing the con tents of the stomach. The smell of beer was the most pre dominant. When his experiments had failed to discover the other forms of poison, he directed all his skill to discover the existence of prussic acid. On the second examination, on the Bth of February, he took ft great deal more care than on the previous examination. This was a test of quantity, not of quality. The quantity actually obtained was one grain and forty-three hundredths of a grain of prussic acid. . One hundred and thirty- six grains of cyanite of silver was equivalent to twenty-seven grains of hydrocyanic acid. The stomach of deceased contained some undigested flesh, the apples lie had already mentioned, and a pulpy mass, of which he could make nothing. He did not see the apple pips, but knowing that that tribe would yield prussic acid, he after wards tested them. He was not aware that sweet almonds would yield prussic acid ; the bitter almond certainly would. He made an experiment, on two separate occasions, on different kinds of apples, and ex tracted a little prussic acid from both. The test was simply placing the pips in a retort with water, and distilling it. He then added to the distilled liquor a little sulphate of iron, and the contents of the other phial on the table was the result. He did not think it necessary to crush the pips ; the distillation was the only test. He thought that no substance contained pure prussic acid. Mr. KELLY—How do you reconcile that with your former statement respecting bitter almonds? Witness— His opinion was that prussic acid was so extremely volatile, that if it existed in a free state it mast be cent 'many evaporating, and it could not therefore exist unless combined with some other substances. Animal substances contained prussic acid. He would not say that it was likely to be produced by a change in organic matter. As far as he was aware of, he was himself the first discoverer of Prussic acid in apple-pips. He was not aware that if apple-pips were macerated, that they would yield more hydrocyanic acid. Mr. KELLY quoted from "Taylor on Poisons," to the effect that the odour of prussic acid was present when the poison itself was not existent. Did Mr. Cooper agree in that opinion ? Witness—l do not. By Mr. Brans—Before the trial he communicated to the prisoner's solicitor what his evidence would be. By Mr. Baron PARKE—After all the experiments lie had made, he had no doubt of the presence of prussic acid in the stomach. The absence of smell might be accounted for by its dilution, or by its odour being covered by that of other substances. It did net follow that the prussic acid should be in the form of salt. He had never stated that it was in the form of salt. In his opinion it could not exist in the stomach as a cyanite of potassium, where another and more powerful acid, as muri atic acid, was present in the stomach in considerable quan tities. He was not of opinion that prusSic acid could be formed in the contents of the stomach by putrefaction. Joseph Cooper, jun., was son of last witness, and had been 11i3 assistant for four years. He smelt the prussic acid in the course of these experiments at the time his father did. Charlotte Howard—Was servant with Mrs. Gilbert at Streatham. She was at Salt-hill on the 2Gth December, 1843, and became acquainted with deceased. Witness was in the family-way, and had a child at her house. During the time she remained there (four months) Tawell came there twice. At the end of September in the following year she was there to see her child, and Mr. Tawell came there. Mrs. Hart let him in. She did not see him. She knew his voice. He remained about ten minutes. She was told by Mrs. Hart to go and get a bottle of stout. She brought it and Mrs. Hart afterwards came out of the room and told her to go for a sheet of paper. She went and returned with the sheet of paper. Mrs. Hart was then in the back room and Mr. Tawell was in the front room. She went then into the room where he was. He went away in about a quarter of an hour afterwards. She saw Mrs. Hart again soon afterwards. She was very ill, and said, " Oh, I'm so ill. I was obliged to tell my master to go, for I can scarce stand." She looked very pale and sick. She looked dreadfully ill. She was very well all day before witness went for the paper. She retched very much, and went up stairs to bed. She retched there very much. She said " she had drank only a little glass of porter and it made her very sick." Witness then went to the room below and found 13 sovereigns, which she took care of. She saw on the table some of the porter she had fetched; it was not quite gone. She and the children drank the porter that was left in the bottle, and it did not injure them he the least. She (Mrs. Hart) remained in bed and complained of her head. By Mr. KELLY—There were three children in the house, two of Mrs. Hart's and witness's child. Mrs. Hart was not receiving medical advice at the time. Edward Weston Norblad, surgeon at Stroud.—He had practised for ten years. On Thursday, the 2d of January, he went with Mr. Champneys to Mrs. Hart's house. He saw the body of the deceased there. He had heard the evi dence of Mr. Champneys, and he would infer the existence of poison if death had suddenly followed the matter taken into the stomach. He would attribute the very sudden death of this person to one of two poisons—either prussic acid or oxalic acid. He was present at the two first examinations of the contents of the stomach. Mr. Cooper had correctly stated the tests he had applied, and he (witness) agreed with him in the inference he drew there from. Oxalic acid must have been detected if it contained:that acid. He had no doubt that prussic acid was in the stomach, and he attributed the death of deceased to that cause. He had heard the account of the last witness of what took place in October, and the symptoms were such as would be on the whole of the animal creation. It destroys life in the same manner in all. He had himself tried experiments upon animals. He had seen goats, cats, and dogs poisoned. He had especially tried experiments upon doge. He had administered to two dogs, some hours after feeding them—to one of them beer containing half and ounce of Scheele'a, and to the other one drachm of prussic acid. He gave it them at seven in the evening, and the effect was, that in 50 seconds the dog which had received the smaller dose fell, and iu ten minutes he died. The second died in half the time. He opened the bodies of the dogs eighteen hours after death, the same period at which the deceased was opened, and lie could ascertain no smell of prussic acid. On opening the stomachs of the dogs the prevalent smell was that of some beer. The food was but half-digested. He shouldhave expected a smell of prussic acid in the case of a person who had died in a quarter of an hour after its being administered. He attributed the absence of smell to the admixture with the stout. He had examined the body of Mrs. Hart, and he would on opening the body have expected to find the cause of death, and if prussic acid had not existed in the stomach he had no doubt he could have traced some other cause. The body was perfectly healthy. He was much in the habit of opening bodies, and he was satisfied that less than one grain would cause death. Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—He had never attended any one who had taken prussic acid. When taken as a medicine, the ordinary quantity was, of Scheele's, five minims, or drops. Prussic acid, he thought, might with advantage be used in varicose affections. He agreed with Dr. Thomson, of London, that, ex ternally applied, prussic acid might be found useful in cance rous diseases. He had the sense of smell very acutely, and he could not detect the smell of the acid in the stomachs of the dogs. The dogs were kept in an outhouse after they were dead, and before they were opened. He tried these experiments on the dogs on the 18th Feb. succeeding the death of the deceased. Headache and vomiting frequently followed a disorder of the stomach occasioned by something being taken into it. The quantity vomited bore no proportion to the quantity taken into the stomach. He had given medicinal doses of prussic acid to allay irritation of the stomach. Mr. KELLY—In the whole course of your experience did you ever find vomiting produced by pruisic acid ?—I have seen dogs affected to vomiting. Mr. KELLY—I speak of the human being. Witness (emphatically)—The stomach of the dog is ex actly similar to that of the human being. Mr. KELLY—You speak very dogmatically, but I would wish a plain answer to a direct question. Have you, Sir, in the course of your experience, seen vomiting from the stomach of a human being induced by prussic acid ?—No ; I have not. Two witnesses were then examined, but they established no important fact, and added nothing new to the evidence already adduced. Henry Thomas, chemist, Bishopsgate-street—He remem bered Wednesday, the Ist of January, perfectly well. He saw the prisoner on that day between twelve and two, at his shop. He asked for twp drachms of Scheele's prussic acid. He brought a half-ounce phial, labelled " Scheele's prussic acid." He gave that bottle to put the prussic acid in. The phial had a glass stopper. Witness could not get the stopper out, and was in consequence obliged to give him a stopper of his own. He thought the prisoner said, " You need not put a label on ;" but the Circumstance was so common that he did not pay any attention to it. He said he wanted to apply the acid externally to a varicose vein. (The book in which the entry was marked was produced.) Witness saw the prisoner on the following day, between the hours of ten and twelve, and he asked for two drachms more. He said he had had a misfortune, he had broke the bottle. He had the same quantity as formerly in the bottle he had originally bought. He had been frequently to the shop before that time. 13v Baron PARKE—He might have sold him prussic acid before, but did not recollect perfectly. The prisoner said he bad been an apothecary and chemist. He was in the habit of ,covering these phials with leather. Witness first gave information that the prisoner bad bought prussic acid on the Tuesday following. He afterwards came down to Aylesbury on the 13th, and he was told on the day following that the social state of the ' country. In a new country, where capital is scarce and equally distributed, and where the people live, as it were, from hand to mouth, almost without capital, direct taxation must be equally unproductive and oppressivel and whatever revenue the State requires must be raised from taxes on con sumption to which all must contribute more or less, and to which each may in some measure proportion his contribu tion to his means. Exactly the reverse obtains in a coun try where capital is redundant. In a country so cir cumstanced, " the pressure of contiguous wealth," unaided by the tax man, reduces the condition of the less affluent below what it ought to be, and indirect taxation affecting them (witness the failure of the 5 per cent.. duties in 1840) becomes unproductive, and unproductive it cannot be without having been first most grievously oppressive. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The Bank of England Direc•ors have this atternoon come to the determination of charging 2} per cent. on London bills and notes not having more than ninety-five days to run. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Four o'cleck•. SCOTCH BANKING. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the magis trates and town-council of Irvine against any interference with the present system of banking in Scotland. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Duke of WELLINGTON rose to give notice that on Tuesday next, with the permission of their Lordships, he would move that the House adjourn for the holidays, from that day till Thursday, the 3d of April. POOR-LAWS (IRELAND). The Earl of WICKLOW presanted a petition from the poor-law guardians of a union in Ireland, praying for an in quiry into the working of the poor-laws in that country. CORPORATION MONOPOLY (LONDON). Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition to which he called the attention of the House, and especially of the Lord Chan cellor, and his Noble Friend the President of the Board of Trade, from a great number of householders in the City of London, complaining that they had been threatened by the Corporation with legal proeeedings if they did not take up their freedom, which, at the lowest, would cost them each 1)l. 4s. Amongst these petitions was a poor widow, who had been in business but six months, obtaining with difficulty a few pence a-day for her subsistence—and if their Lordships would not interpose she would he absolutely ruined, for she could no more pay 111. 4s. than she could pay the national debt. The only way that he could effect what the petitioners desired was to bring in a Bill to extend to the City of London the 14th section of the sth and 6th Wm. IV., which abolished the same grievous monopoly in all other towns, cities, and boroughs, in the realm, in which, as well as in London, the same oppression was in force. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Bill for ex tending the income and property tax for three years. Also, the Consolidated Fund Bill, for appropriating 8,000,00C1. for 1815; and one for carrying into effect certain public works in Scotland. FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Lord BROUGHAM brought in a Bill, which was - read a first time, for extending the provisions of the sth and 6th William IV. to the City of London. The object of this Bill is to enable non-freeman to carry on business in places where freedom was previously a title. DIVORCE. Lord BROUGHAM presented a Bill, which was read a first time, for extending the suggestions in cases of divorce (not to cases of divorce, for that made a considerable difference). The object of this Bill being to facilitate the remedy of the poor man in such cases. RAILWAY SCHEMES. Lord BROUGHAM said that he wished to ask a question of his Nobls Friend at the head of the Beard of Trade, re specting the decisions to which the Board, of which he was the head, had come, with reference to the several lines pro jected between London and York. He would not ask this question to-day if it were inconvenient to answer it, but he would give notice of it for a future day, as his object was to found a motion which would bring before the House the day and the time of the day--for the time of the day was important, when this decision was come to. His reason for asking the question was this :—lt was well known in the City, at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, that the London and York had been decided against, and the consequence was that the shares of the other two lines had risen 2 and 3 per cent. premium long before the Gazette which contained that decision was pub lished. The Earl of DALHOUSIE said that he bad not the slightest objection to give the information which his Noble and Learned Friend had asked, as far as it laid in his power. The fact was that the precise time at which this decision was made was in the afternoon. The Board on that day was held in the afternoon, and, therefore, it was utterly impossible that this rise could have resulted from aucy communication with the Board of Trade. The inferences which his Noble and Learned Friend drew from the facts which he had stated, was, that either a com munication had been made from the Board of Trade with parties in the City, er else that proper concealment hadnot beenused in order to prevent the decisions of the Board of Tr a d e f rom being made use of in the stock market, and he could not conceive that the decision in this particular case had bad any effect on the operations of the stock market. There were three distinct parties to the communication between London and York. There was the London and York line, the Cambridge and Lincoln line the object of which was to extend the communication to York by means of Cambridge and the Direct Northern, These three parties were each pre pared to carry out their designs to the fullest extent. They were possessed of large capital ; they were supported by a long following, and were backed respectively by immense influence. 'I hey appeared to carry out their design to the very utmost. A circumstance, however, occurred, of which he was not cognisant until the Tuesday. This circumstance had occurred on the Monday. Upon con sideration the Cambridge and Lincoln and the Direct Northern had come to the decision of coalescing. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House resumed at Five o'clock. The Bedford, Birmingham, and London Railway Bill was read a first time. It was reported to the House, on behalf of the Committee on the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway, that the standing orders might be dispensed with. DARTMOUTH ELECTION. The following Members were sworn in as a Committee to try the merits of the petition against the return of Mr. Somes : —Mr. Pakington, chairman, Mr. Henry, General Lygon, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Darb- CORNWALL RAILWAY. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented several petitions against the Cornwall Railway Bill. POST-OFFICE ESPIONAGE. Mr. S HEIL begged leave to present a petition from Signor Palliotti, in reference to the transactions connected with the Government opening of letters addressed to foreigners resident in London. ;The petition was one of some length, and the petitioners declared that they had found it impossible to reconcile the treatment •f the Bandieras with the declarations of her Majesty's Govern ment, for this reason—that the letters were opened in the Lon don Post-office, at a time, and under circumstanees totally at variance with the statements of the Government. fhe petitioners then went on to state that the Bandiera party were in Corfu in April, 1844 ; that they were in Calabria on the Bth of May, 1844, and from thence until the month of July ; hut then, if the Government assertion be correct, it would be difficult to understand how they could reconcile the opening of those letters with the alleged fact that they were ignorant of this meditated descent, and, therefore, of all participation in the mur der of the six persons who had been executed at Bologna. On these grounds the petitioners argued that the English Go.. vernment were participators in this perfidious conduct, and prayed that a law should be introduced on the subject. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS ACT (IRELAND). Mr. SHEIL also presented a petition from a parish in the County of Down, against the Charitable Bequests Bill. Mr. B. ROCHE presented a petition to the same effect from the County of Sligo. POST-OFFICE ESPIONAGE. Mr. WAKLEY presented the following petition from the Electors of the Borough of Finsbury :—" The humble petition of the undersigned persons, appointed by the electors of the Borough of Finsbury in public meeting assembled on Feb. 26, 1845, for the purpose of signing a petition in reference to abuses alleged to have taken place at the London Post-office, and which petition was presented to your Hon. House on February 28th last by one of their representatives in Parliament, "Snewrrn,— " That your petitioners submitted to your Honourable House an expression of the mortification and disgust they felt at the existence of the abuses in the Post-office complained of, and prayed your Honourable House to examine into all the matters therein set forth, and that you would do full and substantial justice, —first, to the public at large ; secondly, to their repre sentative, T. S. Duncombe, Esq. ; and thirdly, to the consti tuents of that gentleman; and your petitioners further prayed, that your Honourable House would immediately adopt such measures as would effectually prevent the continuance or the recurrence of the abuses complained of. "That your petitioners feel and know, that such abuses in volve the personal rights and liberties of every member of the community, that they affect the general tone of morality throughout the nation, injure its reputation in the estimation of foreign countries, prevent the free communication between a representative and his constituents, and, in particular, im plicate the character of T. S. Duncombe, Esq., which your petitioners feel to be a great and grievous injury to that gen tleman, as well as to those whom he represents. " That your petitioners cannot consent to matters of such importance being neglected or glossed over by mere personal apologies and official evasions, but feeling, as your petitioners do, that a grievous public wrong has been done, they are of opinion that a public inquiry, and an adequate remedy, are im mediately and imperatively called for. " Your petitioners, therefore. pray that your honourable House will forthwith institute such a full inquiry as shall satisfy the public at large, and the electors of Finsbury in particular, whether any, and what warrant existed for the opening of Mr. Duncombe's letters, and whether any suspicion justly attached to his character, so that they may judge if that gentleman is any longer fitted to continue the representative of a free and independent constituency, and that you will enact a full and sufficient remeey, so as to prevent the recurrence of such abuses as are now complained of. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, (Signed) " George Rogers, 58, High-street, St. Giles's. " Edward Medley, 42, Brick-lane. " Charles Tapperell, 14, Smith's-buildings, City-road. " W. D. Cooper, 13, Bloomsbury-square. " Richard Moore, 25, Hart-street. " W. J. Linton, 85, Hatton-Garden. " Charles H. Elt, 18, High-street, Islington. " Thomas Savage, 213, Tottenham-court-road. &c. &c. &e." The Hox. Maxima then gave notice that he should, to morrow, move that the petition be printed, with the votes. Lord J. Al ANN ER S presented a petition from several Spanish officers who were resident in this country against their will. They had taken refuge in France, but they had been seized by the French authorities, and transported by those authorities to this country against their will. When they were landed here they were without money, and since their residence here they had been supported entirely by charity. They prayed the House to take their case in consideration, and either to supply them with the means of subsistence, or with the means of leaving the country. Mr. W YSE presented a petition from the guardians of the poor-law union of Nenagh, praying that they might be relieved from the payment of the money due for the erection of poor house of that union. Mr. HUNlEpresented a petition praying that no further prosecutions might be instituted against persons for blasphemy. fhe petitioners stated it as their opinion that truth did not re quire the intervention of laws fur its vindication. RAILWAYS, Sir G, CLERK presented certain papers from the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr, sum save notice that 140 51;ould 1 on Tuesday next, bring forward the motion of which he had given notice on Tuesday last, on the subject of the opening of letters of foreign ers at the Post-office. Mr. S. CRA WFORD gave notice that if the Govern ment did not propose any measure for the amendment of the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland, he should himself, after Easter, move for leave to bring in a Bill 0 enable the tenant, if ejected, to recover compensation from his landlord for any improvement he might have made upon the land, and also to amend the laws regulating the value of property in Ireland. Mr. WYSE gave notice that, after Easter, he should renew the motion which he had made last session on the subject of national education. [ - LEFT SITTING.] ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester, :larch 12. THE CROOME MURDER. It was arranged last night that the trial of the poachers for the murder at Croome should take place to- day. Accord ingly at twelve o'clock, after the disposal of some other Crown business, the following prisoners were arraigned before Chief Baron Pollock :--JosephiTurvey, 43, gardener; Francis Mny. ley, 34, capenter ; Samuel Turvey, 37, labourer; George Brant, 18, boatman; Thomas Hooper, 19, labourer; John Cooke, 25, labourer; Joseph Tandy, 42, gardener; Thomas Collins, 20, gardener ; William Cosnett, 25, labourer ; and William Brom field, 19, labourer. George Lippett, 35, carpenter, was ad mitted approver. Mr. Lee and Mr. Whitmore conducted the prosecution; Mr. Godson, Q..C., and Mr. lluddleston defended the pri soners. There were seven indictments against the prisoners. In the first, second, and fifth, the prisoners were all charged jointly with assaulting and beating Thomas Staite, and in dicting woundsof which he died ; with wounding Wm. Com pton, with intent to kill and murder him ; and with shooting at John Frances, with the same murderous intent. The third indictment charged one of the prisoners, Thomas Col lins, with shooting at George Baylis, and the others with aiding and abetting; and the fourth indictment charged Samuel Turvey, Thomas Hooper, and Joseph Tandy with wounding Richard Compton and George Brant, John Cook, Thomas Collins, ,and William Cosnett, with aiding and abet ting. There were two indictments which were not read, but to the whole of those brought into Court the prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. The whole of the prisoners having been placed upon their trial on the first indictment, charging them with the murder of Thomas Staite on the 19th of December last, _ _ _ Mr. LEE prOceeded to state the facts of the case as they have already been detailed in the newspapers, and called • witnesses. The first witness examined was Mr. Boulter, the landlord of the Plough Inn, Preston, in which town the whole of the prisoners lived. He merely proved that ou the night in question, Francis Dingley and Bromtigld applied to him for the loan of a gun, which, however, Wdid not lend them. The next witness, Thomas Kings, an inhabitant of Preston, proved that the prisoners Bromfield, Cook, Dingley, Hooper, and the two Turveys, were seen together on the same night. The third witness was William Wheeler, who was at one time in custody in connexion with this affair. His testi • mony went to considerable length, and it appeared from his statements that the whole body of poachers met by appoint-. merit on the night of the fatal affray, at a place called the Hollow-way. It would appear from Wheeler's testimony, that he was to have accompanied the party, but that at the last hour his heart failed him, and, instead of going himself, he lent his gun to Cook and his smock frock to another of the party. Next morning his gun was returned to him by Dingley with the stock broken, as if by someviolent usage. The party were afterwards seen by several other witnesses pro ceeding in the direction of the Croome covers. Two young girls, named Mary Ann and Julia Ann White, saw the poachers together as they were returning from I'erton School (Groom), where they had been having a singing lesson. The evidence of Richard Compton, one of the watchers on the night of the 19th December, then detailed the particulars of the attack upon them in similar terms to those employed by him in his evidence before the coroner, which was pub lished at the time' George Lippett, the approver, was then - called, and was examined at considerable length, his testimony bearing out that already detailed as having been given on the inquest. His examination was closed shortly before eight o'clock this evening, when au adjournment_ took place until to-morrow morning. It is fully expected that the trial.Will;occupy the whole of to-morrow. The popular excitement increases every hour. Lord William Lennox visited Captain Siborne's new Waterloo model yesterday, his Lordship was the fourth member of his family on this glorious field, accompany ing the late Duke of Richmond who was present, al though not a military man. Smatort FISUING.—The present being the 10th of March, our river opened for net and coble, agreeably to Act of Parliament ; and though the active tenant, Mr. Welsh, had only a half-day's work when we saw him, he was not without a portion of good luck. One fresh run salmon was taken, and two sea trout, which found a ready market—the former at 2s. and the latter at Is. 6d. per lb. Burn trout were also caught in considerable numbers, which sell readily at 4d. per lb. About fifty liggers were taken in all, and returned to the pools, until they have time to recruit their health by a run to the Solway. Two salmon were taken with the rod this afternoon below the Dock, one of which at least was clean.—Dumfries courier. EXTRAORDINARY - SURGICAL' OPERATION IN THE GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY.—We understand that one of those brilliant operations which has crowned the labours of modern surgery, and made it the instrument of its unspeak able value to the species, was performed in our Royal Infir mary on Monday last. A boy, labouring under cancer of the lower jaw, which must inevitably have consigned him to his grave in a few weeks, had that bone cut out of its joint at the temple, and with the bone the cancer removed. The boy is doing well, and we hare heard that sanguine hop es are en tertained of his recovery. Indeed he has not had a bad symptom.— Glasgow National. THE CURE AS BAD AS THE COMPLAINT.—The versal inquiry is, where can all the base coin that is about London have come from ? Surely it is not in consequence of a dividend having been paid on the Pennsylvanian bonds last week ?—Panch. FEMALE SERVANTS' HOME SOCIETY.—Last even ing the anniversary meeting of this society, which is established far the protection and religious and moral instruction of female ser vants out of place, was held at the Inquest-room, St. Andrew's. court, Holborn—Alderman Sir James Duke, Knt., M.P., in the chair. The report stated that during the past year fifty-four scr. wants had been received as inmates, and two thousand two hundred registered their names for situations in the metropolis alone. The receipts amounted to 12SI. and the expenditure exceeded 180/. The report was adopted, and several eloquent appeals in behalf of the charity were made by the Rev. Mr. Brown, and other clergy. men. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of 40!., No. 55,301," from L. F. C., for the revenue of the country." I NIPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 12. PR OPE RTY-T AX. Mr. R. SPOONER (in continuation from our Third Editicn) proceeded to say—The grievance of which he complained was this :—he complained that where the wife and the younger children of a trades man, or small manufacturer, were employed principally in assisting in the conduct of the business of such tradesman or manufacturer, he was not entitled to make any de duction from his profits on account of their services. This operated most unjustly, for where a person em ployed members of his own family in conducting his business, he was not permitted to make any deduction on account of their services, whereas his neighbour employed in a similar business, but who had no children, was entitled to make a deduction from his profits for all persons ens- ployed by him, and to whom he paid wages. It was a great injustice that a man should be thus placed in a better situation than his rival. They ought to con sider, not who did the labour, but what was the value of the labour which was done. He proposed to give the Commissioners power to allow persons so situated to make such deductions as might be just and reason able. The present system created a great injury to individuals, and a great objection in the public mind against the inequality of the tax. lie was aware that objections might be made to his proposal—he would be met by the common-place objection that a door would be open to fraud, but he would answer that by another common-place question, and ask what was the use of their expensive machinery, if they were not enabled to do justice and prevent fraud ? Things were not come to such a pass that the House of Commons was obliged to commit injustice because there was danger of fraud. What was the chance of fraud ? On the one part they would have the appellant anxi ous to escape from the assessment—but speaking from experience, he must say that there were very few attempts made by tradesmen to escape from their fair share of the tax—but on the other hand they had the Government officers who had every means in their power of making proper inquiries. Then another check was that of the Commissioners. They had local knowledge. Having local knowledge they could come to the consideration of this subject with full power to check all fraud. He thought that if they took all these things into consideration, the House would see that ther e was no d anger of fraud arising out of the clause which he had proposed. The intention of the Act was that the tax should be imposed in two different shapes. One was a tax on profits arising from the use of capital, and the other upon profits, the produce of the la bour of individuals. In order to tax labour the individual must receive 1501. This tax was now frequently imposed upon the labour of several individuals, and if their labour were to be separated it would be found that not one of them was subject to the tax. One objection to the remedy which he proposed was that it would open a door to innumer able applications, to which proper attention could not be given. He thought there was nothing in this objection. The House ought to be just. If more time were required to consider this subject Parliament ought to have been called together earlier. He would pray of the House, then, to give this subject that due and deliberate consideration which he con ceived it was entitled to receive at their hands, and which the merits of it called for. The Chancellor of the Exchequer need have no fear that any real or sub stantial inconvenience or injury would result by the adoption of this proposition ; but all should admit that the principle was erroneous which went to the extent of asserting, that because a man was in the receipt of 1501. a year, he should therefore be compelled to pay this tax. In conclusion, he would only say he hoped the House would give him credit for not having brought forward this subject without good and sufficient grounds for so doing.—(Hear, hear.) He knew he had been sent here by a large and respectable constituency, and it was his duty to defend their interests to the best of his judgment and ability, and that he had not shown any feeling but that which he had stated actuated him in bringing it forward. Mr. MIJNTZ begged to assure the Right Hon. Baronet opposite that this would be of the greatest importance to email manufacturers, such as his con stituents, whose profits were so low that the confirm ation of this tax would leave them no profits at all. On the question being put that the clause be agreed to, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he gave the Honourable Member full credit for the motive which had induced him to bring this subject under consideration; and if he did not agree to it, it would not be because there was not time to do justice to all parties who bad claims upon the Legislature. He agreed with the Hon. Member also in thinking that they should lay the burdens of the State on those who were able to bear them. But he must resist this motion, because he believed that, as th e l aw s t oo d, ever y re li e f was afforded except such as would operate unjustly to other classes. The maintenance of a family was supposed to be a proper employment of income, and the income of every man was taxed on the suppositicin that he de frayed out of it the expenses of his family. If any person employed in trade employed a mem ber of his family, whom he paid for his services, he would be entitled to claim exemption in that respect. The Hon. Member said that nothing would he easier than to carry out his proposal by the em ployment of public officers. Why, for a public officer to interfere with the domestic arrangements of a family would be a very serious 'and objectionable thing. He would call the attention of the House to another clause which the lion. Member had given notice of bringing before them. 'lle alluded to that in which the Hon. Member wished to deduct from the tax, the amount of local and other rates. He had no hesitation, whatever, in saying, that local rates levied on that part of the premises which was employed in trade, were allowed to be deducted by the provisions of the Act itself; therefore, if the allowance had not been made in some particular cases, it was owing to the maladminis tration of the law, and nut to the law itself. With respect to the other point urged by his Hon. Friend, he did not think it would be just, or that it would contribute in any way towards the easy collection of the tax, that they should depart from the original principle. Mr. SPOONER wished to explain. The Right Hon. Gentleman had, he felt sure, unintentionally misrepresented him. He did not say that the tax ' gatherer ought to enter every man's house to ascer tain how his family was employed, nor did what he said imply it. With respect to the second clause, after the Right Hon. Gentleman's declaration, he would not take up the time of the House in alluding to it ; but this he would say, that the Right Hon. Gentleman was mistaken in saying the maladminis tration of the law, in respect - to the allowance of local rates, was only particular and partial ; it was general if not universal, and several cases of the kind had conic under his own immediate knowledge. He had inquired in two or three different offices, one of them, in the City, and he found it was the universal prac tice to allow rent, because rent was mentioned, and to disallow poor rates and local rates, because the mentioning of rent and n o t o f ra t es did, inference, exclude them. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the clause . ... 39 Against it Majority against the clause —ll2 The clause was consequently lost. On our return to the gallery, Mr. SPOONER moved—" And be it further enacted that from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for all persons chargeable under schedules D and L, who may have effected, or may hereafter effect any insurance or insurances on their respective life or lives, to claim deduction for the amount of the annual premium paid for such insu rance or insurances ; and whenever such deduction so claimed shall reduce the net annual income below the annual sum of 1501., the parties so claiming shall be entitled to exemption from payment of duty." His object in moving this resolution was, to allow persons who insured their lives for the benefit of their families, to deduct the premiums which they paid for these insurances from the amount of their profits. It was their duty to enable persons who_ had to depend upon small salaries and incomes to make this provi sion for their families after death. The Right Hon. Baronet, the other evening, said he excluded clergy men from the operation of this Act, but this was not the case. The Right Hon. Baronet only excluded those clergymen whose incomes or livings depended upon tithes.—(Hear, hear.) It might be objected that an insurance did not differ in the least degree from any other investment, from which an immediate interest was derived. He, however, did not admit the justness of this reasoning, for, to a certain ex tent, paying premiums on an insurance was an absolute loss ; while, on the other hand, in vestment in the shape of annuities, &c., brought in immediate returns. Again, it might be objected that a man, to evade the income or property-t9x, would invest all his profits in in surances. But the unprofitable nature of investment —for to a certain extent it was unprofitable—would effectually prevent tradesmen or professional men re sorting to this system of fraud.—(Hear, hear.) All he asked for was, that, fr, m the incomes of profes sional gentlemen, clergymen, and annuitants, there might be deducted the amount of insurance which they paid upon their lives. They had already paid a tax on the policy, which increased their claim. He would not trouble the House at further length, and thanked them for the patience with which they had heard him. Lord J. MANNERS seconded the motion, cause he approved of the tax itself, and because he was anxious to render it as equitable as possible. He con sidered that the class mentioned by the Hon. Member was every way entitled to the benefits of such a provision. Mr. WARBURTON said that it appeared to him that the principles of the proposition cf the Hon. Member for Birmingham did not at all differ from that proposed by the Hon. Member for Oxford, but that it came before the house in a different shape.—(Hear, hear.) He had already stated one objection to the proposition of the Hon. Member for Oxford, which was this—they might suppose a long annuity divided into two parts—one consisting of income derived during the period for which the in come-tax was levied, and the other portion derived from that time which elapsed subsequent to the ex piring of that period; if they levied a tax, not only for the period during which the income-tax was im posed, but from the period subsequent to that time when the tax expired ; to be consistent they must levy it on the present value of deferred an nuities and reversionary interests. In 1841 an income-tax for three years was proposed, and it was now proposed to extend that period three years longer—that was, im the whole, over a term of six years. If they proceeded on the principle of the Hon. Member, and converted terminable annuities into capital, and determine, in the first instance, that the period in which the income-tax should be levied shall be three years and not six, having capitalised all terminable annuities, the true principles on which it ought to be arranged was this—that the period for which all annuities should be chargeable ought to be precisely of the same duration. To capitalise income arising from three years' annuity, and to capitalise income arising from perpetuities, the tax should be imposed for three years, and all parties pay a per tentage on the interest of capitalised incomes for a period of three years. Let them put aside, for a moment, the consideration of interest. Take the income-tax of 1001. a year, pay able for a period over which the income-tax was levied, say of a man who had a lease of three years' dura tion which gave him 100/. ; another man had an in come for the whole period of six years of 1001., there was 300/. in the first instance, and 6001. in the second, he meant the capitalised amount. In order to levy in proportion to the capital for the whole period of six years in both cases,the sum levied would be precisely in proportion to the amount of capitalised income. It was impossible to carry out the plan of the Hon. Gentleman, and he should therefore oppose it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended that the proposition of his Hon. Friend, however benevolently intended, could not he carried out. Some, no doubt, would be benefited, but the provision would open a door to fraud, and would ma terially interfere with the general principle of the measure, 1,700,0001. of the income-tax was paid by professional men, and those holding Government situ ations. 3,500,000/. was otherwise raised. It would be impossible, without the greatest injustice, to make any provision benefiting the former without allowing cases which had quite as much merit in the latter class to derive advantage from such a provision. If annu itants were to be excluded, persons would invest sums of money in life-assurance offices for three years, for the very purpose of evading the payment of the tax, and just such sums as placed them without its reach.—(Hear, hear.) He must call upon the House not to adopt the proposal of the Honourable Gentleman. Mr. lIAWES said the argument of the Hon. Member for Kendal fell to the ground because he sup posed the income-tax as limited, whereas it was to be perpetual. The only way to make annuities amen able was to make the tax permanent, of which there could be no doubt. It was nominally for three years in 1841, so it was now, and so it would be nominally in 1848. He was altogether opposed to arguments drawn from the belief of the temporary nature of the tax, which he believed had been and was now intended as perpetual. Mr. AGLIONBY thought the arguments of the Member for Kendal, or of the Right Hon. Gentleman, had not been fairly met. A man might thus reduce his income from 3001. to 150/. ; and thus, though he did not realise in one way, he did in another, and yet avoid the imposition of the income-tax alto gether. There was another point to which he would refer. The Hon. Member for Lambeth (Mr. Hawes) said that they might classify insurances, and it might be said that a man might insure his life for 2,000/., and if he wished to desist from paying his premium, on going to the office the Company would give him the value of his policy. On those grounds, ~~ 71 TA I