The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-13 00:00:00

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'f r c portiotesr 00 ) 90 alr • 000 A vi . , 11 0 01 ,1, 1910% 0171, eburgliep.,,ol),;" rou te . 0 . of 0 , 0 1 0 he 101 0 Iti fr, lite r ~001.40 ; will :act ', e t:, ers , 5 1 01,0,1 ~6 oor" o lo r , r„, itioW K s th e , orfice coltgwir 401'10,0;01,4 ° ls po, • Cl , ' I j ig wsi w oo 0 blic tat th e :0 1 , V I A, ch aps St ler t i; eVe s eP ee ef 110 t ld ntele' e t o 0 V t the P° 0 „,, - 0/ e 0 0% 1 .4 eli? dch oi ,co 0 0 • • a J Of . w ish t° ill' riOentsec°l OS . 4 01 logo"uhi A li 0, i 0 ii o go I; .0 1: i al ; ft,/ so„ . rt e%c" ; .pog r de r i ot p erk". ti' s ic o o ol .l se t ° (of to , i toto_ g ieg;t i oel , 00P•o 0 fvo v oidg e o lgtO i ; Co ° ,al 1 0 , ..'" / t l 4 Ptil . '' 1.. 1/1 g g - t n on $ c ;rt. Osborne, Mr. Martin, Sir Denham Norreys, Mr. F. Manic, t °n el Wood, Mr. H. Staesfield, and Lord Granville • onierser, roe% part in it, but it was entirely con- :ers at i onal its character, and the result was, that on dorfilgestion of Mr. Br o th e rton, Lord Marsham refrained from 71 ' , gig the House, and the clause was agreed to, as was also the Coloneltt On the u1. 72e1 clause being put, WOOD suggested the introrluction of some worts „. w ould render the object of the clause mare specific ;a4cli es elea r. The object of the clause is to oblige com t,,,, to affix a board, containing their rates of toll, at c„:: ft their stations ; and another long conversation vo'irtlar to the p resent one, occurre d on the power which the , se d " toll " wo u ld h ave o f fixing the charge for the of locomotives ; and Lord Granville Somerset de rzar7r t hat the word 1 . toll" included everything that could be red along a railway. •rt:uses 73 to 80 were then agreed to. th e Sktclause being c ol • read, ? n et SIBTHORP said . he conceived that the lower which clause eflle u r op gave of levying a distress upon the goods of the Pro - ° f the company for the wrongful detention of any t o _ "I' was insufficient, and he thought that the distress ought ;e l levied on the goods of the company itself. 1114 r ," HArrait and Lord G. SOMERSET explained that the object of ke,,..:' 555 e was to enable the company to punish thcir servants for te th "fete and the public had a right of redress provided by the clau which enabled them to sue the company. t utee 81 to 90 were then agreed to. tro t ; I IAYTER admitted that great difficulty frequently arose doubt itrailway companies taking Loneron time. He had no "'at, before l ong, t hi s ev il wou ld be re !Decried. %tired G. SOMERSET said nearly all the trunk lines had got etk °I 'M clocks • it would be difficult perhaps to remedy the evil Plain ed „ pr or. WbJ ect L•uMPTRE called the attention of the Noble Lord to the tok u :," excursion trains on Sundays. He had frequently received eree t i r — ,` n ts from persons living in towns to which these N oi ,.. s 'on trains went of the inconvenience that was felt by the c o 7 W ho went by th ese excurs i on -trains walking about. tura:fel SIBTHORP thought, if they stopped these Sunday ex- M 1 4 4". they ought also to stop o the Noble Lord to take this sub. ato his consideration. In many cases these excursion trains c Just at t h e t i me when publ i c serv i ce was comm e n cing. 1 4 ne1818 THORP—You may as well move to shut up the 1t ,,, '"" t. "."-- (Hear, bear.) ''UNTZ thought these excursion trains did more good It must be recollected that the persons who availed ttlti t' ld; le of these excursion trains were persons who Il the:t enjoy themselves on any day but Sunday.—(Hear, hear.) Put down the excursion trains, they ought to oisk L. gentlemen's carriages, ” - !•ich rolled about and interrupted tor W orship at all times.--t" Hear, hear," from Colonel Sibthorp.) this G SOMERSET said that if they attempted to legislate on lit% "' fl eet they would have to interfere with the running of .„-boats and coaches on a Sunday.—(Hear.) ~`n e taut 4 * e Wag agreed to. 'lite '' M ° use then resumed, and the CHAIR AN reported progress, v. well the House adjourned till Five o'clock. I tUAMEN TA it V DIVISIONS. I*°74 tiki rotes and Proceedings of the house of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12. h iteS d PROPERTY-TAX BILL, .Ih. W .Wided a thirel time ; Clause (and whereas by the said recited Act it :no 8 ,,,,L 5 the first Rule of Schedule (I)), relating to deductions, )6,2ng 1 , 4 ;7_ shall be set against or deducted from the profits or gains tzten._erothat Schedule for any disbursements . or expenses of b:_etm - '"„, c e f the parties, their families, or establishments ; Be it ;ni l o ' r That from and after the passing of this Act, whenever the i.210y ersons so liable to be charged under the said Schedule shall O ' or „f timber or members of his family in carrying on his ii lle 7 as °F neme ssion..it shall be lawful to deduct such sum or sums of 1 4 4 ;Y et h :nnld have been a fair remuneration "for such employment lk 'tittl e .' Person had been so employed) brought up, and read the 4 0*, r ---- 3totion made and Question put, " That the said Clause 4, 1 a second time:" The House divided : s ~ MINORITY—AYES, 39. ta,! kr 143,.,0 Colonel Farnham, F. B. Plumridge, Captain r g krd ciii,. i avid Ferguson, Colonel Ponsonby, C. F. A. litw, J• G ' Hallyburton, Lord Rice, E. R. k ii i,, P n „ Hill, Lordßumbold, C. E. eli, J .,,,_ .. Johnson, General Somerville, Si W. ti i 7%., , c` s ,' l4 ' Martin, John Stanton, W. H. I, e' ' ti e , It P' ' Mitcalfe, Henry Thornely, Thomas bip 4 ksto • 11 . Morris, David • Towneley, John bi i h k, Ull, ~J. Murray, AlexanCer Turn,r, Edmund btk't Sir j ' C• T. Napier, Sir C. Wakley, Thomas bt, '44,q • O'Brien, A. S. Wyse, Thomas t4c.o .inb uorge Paget, Colonel TELLERS. IN e. Thomas Palmer, Robert e, .1, 7 Spooner, Richard "ionini tison, James Muntz, G. F. ke N,... a ,:c.Ptain 11' 11 , lip t i.• A. de,Y, 4 il 'arn Vl le Co . ? an * liq R . 3liel t!itla i \\''' 'ha m NI 4 , li a Y 2 R' ' rho rrY ,t,. w I s , )41 ? 41°11. ;• ; 11 44 1 =itti; \ iscount tr... 1114 tr 4 ' Se i w aier 0; 1 ' I L G. 11N 'k .l'et 0,.. Adrni. 2F qtoter i ft - T likzt r , i t• u.. lsz t ,;„,li i. ry i ll Zit e ° . 4 ,-' J oseph X_ t e. ...„,.. c . Zr, w i_ ll . L. lict,i Band c • Ward trtl* tii Willi am Stria , , cl Ward r i p 6Z n ; I4 . W, k i kr 1 " 1 - t i klr i ,_. toilk7p . t fe44:71° 0 14 Sir w. IP ' 11. T R. c . N 'Z i k. .4. T. '::„...,411. Lo d an azan t; 113 Z t. ti e . l N I N P. R 0 4 ,4 10 . 11 t ° , Itertle ' 1 / 4 4 , i4 b". V is count 444 t; "I. V CI% T. titth ani r ts,) ,..T. ° Y, 14"" k v r 7 . trd iitlllis, ( I . l tha i 4a" he it further Enacted, That from and after the passing INt, it fr, shall be lawful for all persons chargeable under N., .. i iily 1„ — ; and (E), who may have effected or may hereafter N qt44.lurance or insurances on their respective life or lives, to 1 44, 4 14 sitt ah 'tl°4 from the amount of the annual premium paid for t lt /,_ sh, - ,; 4 , c 0 or insurances ; and whenever such deduction so ktibtFolitle,l-4 reduce the net annual income below the sum of 1501., 1 brn is° c laiming shall be entitled to exemption from payment L . is' i nght up, and read the first time :—Motion made and ' ''. " That the said Clause be now read a second time." 44kIlktl_ d ivided '— MINORITY—AYES, 26. ktkoqtrir:eitT, pet 1 Hawes, Benjamin Packe, C. W. iltk to ;,i 4 , J. Hill, Lord M. Plumridge, Captain 11 Inglis, Sir R. H. Rice, E. R. 4"0 : It ' .1 ' Johnson, General Russell, Lord J. 0 0 .0 1 .11 • Leader, J. T. Smythe, George q t •T. Martin, John Somerville, Sir W. 01 444, th otkti itl i i o l r n i e i s s , D R a . v ik i i d . TELLERS. , kr H . Muntz, G. F. Manners, Lord J. N. O'Brien, A. S. Spooner, Richard 4V: e l ta 4 4 , 13; . MAJORITY—NOES, 87. r T . ra R i t e ß a Ptain Escott, Bickham 31`Neill, Duncan Fitzroy, Henry Marsland, 11. IN W ,-, i lfig 4 * Forbes, William Martin, C. W. lt'q: iolo n ji Forster, Matthew Morgan, 0. Fremantle, Sir T. Nicholl, John ‘ll;ll.4 arry Fuller, A. E. Pakington, J. S. th it4. ll, ti. Gaskell, J. M. Patten, J. W. 4170 14 ti0h.. ' q Gladstone, Captain Peel, Sir R. 4, v i :. Gordon, Captain Peel, Jonathan Via4 ‘ Joh;:coalit Goulburn, Henry Pringle, Alexander 0,7, 1,4 ‹ : , Lo rd r , Graham, Sir J. Repton, G. W. J. '4. e r. ss• Greene, T. Rushbrooke, Colonel kg iair.. , Gregory, W. 11. Smith, T. B. C. ,1I '" Grimsditch, T. Somerset, Lord G. 114 7'' ' ' " t• Grogan, Edward Stewart, John li t ,:(1 \.' \ Y. H • Hamilton, W. J. Sutton, H. M. tiks l l ,..dr r i tt ,,,, Harcourt, G. G. Thesiger, Sir F. 'N., ell William"' Hencage, G. H. Trelawny, J. S. Cl, -, * 54 , td,,, — Herbert, Sidney Trotter, John Cl,kfa ' s , gi r a r Holmes, W. A'Court Vivian, J. Ennis P., 114.4 '4.g " • Hope, Charles Wakley, Thomas b . lii r 0 . Wall, C. B. ilZkr 44 Y, 1 . , ° " J il e s) r P n e i)%l G l,.E W ail Warburton, H. La c b kk i Y :C li 'llel Jocelyn, Viscount Wood, Colonel th ill ria, eoro Lawson, Andrew Wood, Colonel T. ,4 .::_, P. R . Lennox, Lord A. Wortley, John S. "e, .k . Lincoln, Earl of Yorke, E. T. N- q‘l 4 e . W . 'r. Lockhart, W. TELLERS., ' Nil._ Mackenzie, W. F. Young, John A , ' 4l Al`Geachy, F. A. Raring, Henry tii , ,,thd, rie 1inb * ,, 4 3 , 4 4 ihe 1l tl)r oPosed, press 2, line 22, after the words " levied and IN: a,lllat the of the first Clause, to insert the words, " Provided h t t ~,3' i heo 'e said rates and duties shall not be assessed or taken i 4: . ,;" th ' ll e whatever under the amount of 5001., except in re tied':;110%015:11n1 by which such income shall exceed the sum of . . T ., Made, and Que,stion That those words be there The Uouse divided : Ik i t 'd MINORITY—AYES, 25. I , E. 0. k,,. 'k, 1. Martin, John Somerville, Sir W. 104 1 4, b r : eter Morris David Wakley, T. ,t 4141400, ,y . Iluntz, G. F. Wawn, John T. 4 1 , - tt - w • Napier, Sir C. Williams, William Packe, C. W. Wodehouse, Edmond I t b 4 l, k ' Is t . l ' 11 1 1. deli' , l, g tin Plumptre, J. P. ; i i .f . atitir,i 4 Plumridge, Captain Rice, E. R. ' Ceti", Rumbold, C. E. ""` Sibthorp, Colonel *tiai MAJORITY—NOES, 151. Flower, Sir J. Meynell, Captain Forster, Matthew Morgan, Octavius Fox, S. L. Neeld, Joseph Fremantle, Sir T. Neeld, John Fuller, A. E. Newport, Viscount Gaskell, J. M. Nicholl, John Gill, Thomas Norreys, Lord . Gladstone, Captain I'acke, C. W. Gordon, Captain Pakington, J. S. Gore, Montague Palmer, George Goring, Charles Parker, John Goulburn, Henry Patten, J. IV. Graham, Sir J.. Peel, Sir Robert Greenall, Peter Peel, Jonathan Greene, Thomas Pollington, Viscount Grimsditch, T. Powell, Colonel Grimston, Viscount Pusey, Philip Grogan, Edward Reid, Sir John Halford, Sir 11. Repton, G. W. J. Hamilton, W. J. Rolleston, Colonel Harris; Captain Rous, Captain Hawes, Benjamin Rushbrooke, Col. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, Lord J. Heneage, G. H. W. Russell, J. D. W. Hepburn, Sir T. Seymour, Sir H. Herbert, Sidney Sheppard, Thomas Hinde, J. 11. Smith, Abel Hogg, J. W. Smith, T. B. C. Holmes, W. A'Court Smythe, George Hope, Charles Somerset, Lord G. Hope, G. W. Stewart, John Ingestrie, Viscount Stuart, Henry Inglis, Sir R. H. Sturt, H. C. James, William Sutton, Henry James, Sir W. C. Thesiger, Sir F. Jermyn, Earl Trelawny, J. S. Jocelyn, Viscount Trotter, John Johnstone, Sir J. Tumor, Christopher Langston, J. H. Villiers, Viscount Lawson, Andrew Vivian, J. H. Lennox, Lord A. Waddington, H. S. Lennox, Lord A. Wall, C. B. Lincoln, Earl Warburton, Henry Lockhart, William Wood, Colonel Long, Walter Wood, Colonel TA Mackenzie, T. Wortley, John S. Mackenzie, IV. F. Yorke, E. T. Maclean, Donald M'Nelll, Duncan Manners, Lord J. Marsham, I ..count Maraland, Henry TELLERS. Young, John Baring, Henry TELLERS. Inglis, Sir R. H. Speoner, Richard krrlt, MAJORITY —NOES, 59. 1i 'vri 11. A elii,:olt, q • Escott, Bickham M`Geachy, F. A. lii" , l)ri elo n ''' '' r ge Fitzroy, Henry 31`Seill, Duncan r tit, 4, h . el Forster, M. Martin, C. W. ~- „ _4,40 1 1, N I , Fremantle, Sir T. Nichol], John 104, 0 , toracottilt Fuller. A. E. Peel, Sir B. Ii t ZNI 'ItQ . C • Gaskell, J. M. Peel, Jonathan )1„ .. 1 ,,', 0 1,4 Gordon, Captain I'ringle, Alexander ll - ‘4l *.dtili Goulburn, H. Round, John li rt irota ty . R. rei Graham, Sir J. Smith, T. B. C. 11 ,„%k1t; * ,,. H. Greene, Thomas Somerset, Lord G. ('Cvnilt.klriatina Grimsditch, T. Stewart, John tlo' , 4' ttitv ' Herbert, Sidney Sutton, H. M. t'i gi i . t, Sir "4 Hope, Charles Thesiger, Sir F. 4l', IV J . Hope, G. W. Trotter, John itt e y r Si r ti. Hutt, William Warburton, H. Jermyn, Eilri Wortley, John S. lk i Y4 ' % . ,,_ . er r' z e e l Jocelyn, Viscount Yorke, E. T. kk„: 1 , 0 ,"'",, 0, 1 ,. Lennox, Lord A. 4 , iv P * R. Lincoln, Earl TELLERS. • T. Lockhart, W. Young, John 1 1 Mackenzie, T. Baring, Henry , •a tt •Rs 4 P () ,. ,1, * -- "APPL IC AT lON OF GLASS TO LOOM MOUNT... Pg 1; 14 1th: 141 e time past our weavers have been in the habit o f • n k ,,,,,q4 /1 6.4 rods of - ory tlf r the complicated mass compris . ttiL t 'efi c," e r ti r a i. of little - w s oo a de u n pulleys that were fixed in their L sgt h p ittlo th 'g e ß• This week we had an opportunity of Zat ti - 41 th e , 7 Preparation of crystal fn. a different depart tipi,"„B"_,awl manufacture, where metal had formerly nit,, e efa e l,u• This last improvement has been introduced , 'tit,` P rat k ,l' r Y of Mr. Robert Kerr, and when it is considered p„,,or he a once moulded into any form, and that, Uti - , 11 514 - '"en, it possesses all the smoothness and hardness *4:oreliti,,alld tempered steel, we have no doubt but, with 14* -4 111 ' h !s of th e duty, it will soon be applied to many de kity ti of our Hianufactures where light machinery . teh, clot lat f or a great number of purposes it will super f lOetal and brass entirely. Besides its easy and N tt et aiN br °r T a tion, glass is invaluable from its being un- C 4B lei , 4111 1), heat, or co l d, wh i c h woo d , an d a ll t h e r more, are.—Saturday Post. hti bi kl,, f or , k lt OATH EDIt r...—ThP amount already sub ;l7 00. e restoration of this ancient ecclesiastical structure is bi o . lo o,: f °l-, including a second donation during the last week k 4k, cre r Zo the it tot 7 t ration of v „„ Marquis of Westminster. The cost of the, et- 1 11 4 o ' -‘lltra cted IN %ark 5.0091. kand r0g2,5041., and the the choir, t it is expected, cannot be et'- , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 1845. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Worcester, March 12. THE CROOME MURDER. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. evening, and that the discussion should be postponed till this day week. He trusted that no opposition would be offered to this mode of proceeding, as all would have an opportunity of expressing their opinions when the discussion was taken. lie then moved that the Bill be read a second time. Mr. HAWES said he would not offer any oppo sition to the Bill until he had heard the opinion of the Noble Lord at the head of the Woods and Forests; but he thought it would be better to post pone the second reading for the present. Lord LINCOLN thought it vs mild be much more for the convenience of the House if the Ilonourable Member would consent to postpone the second read ing until after the holidays.—(Hear, hear.) He had already promised that he would examine into the sub ject' and consult scientific men as to the best co urse to be adopted. Within the last two days he had re ceived some information on the subject. One reason why he was anxious to have the Bill postponed for a short time was that measures of a sanatory character, of much greater importance, and on a far larger scale, were under the consideration of the Government; and he thought the decision of the House, in refer ence to the present Bill, would be materially influ- I enced by those measures.—(Hear, hear.) He would therefore advise the Hon. Gentleman to postpone the I Bill until about a fortnight after Easter. Mr. MUNTZ hoped the Hon. Gentleman would take the advice of the Noble Lord, and in the mean time consider how far it would he possible fur him to alter the Bill as to the appointment of inspectors ; if he did not, he should feel it his duty to resist the measure. He could not approve of appointing in spectors to discover the nuisance. Only imagine a nuisance so small as to require inspectors to find it out.—(Laughter.) He would go further than this. Suppose these inspectors were in league with those who had plans of preventing the nuisance, they might be continually tormenting the manufacturers to adopt r these schemes. Mr. WAKLEY said the Noble Lord himself did not state what course he was prepared to pursue with respect to the Bill if it should be postponed. With respect to the removal of the nuisance, it was generally felt that it was very possible to effect it, if' the House would but provide the necessary powers ; and it might be done without any great inconvenience to the public. He thought the subject could not be satis factorily settled unless it was referred to a Select Committee of the House. He hoped the Noble Lord would consent to the second readirg of the Bill, and then it might be referred to a Select Committee. Sir R. PEEL said a Committee was appointed last year, hut it appeared that no one had read the report, and the subject seemed nearly forgotten. He would suggest that Hon. Members should read the report of the last Committee, and then they would be able to judge if any further evidence was required. The Hon. Member for Finsbury seemed to have spoken under the impression that there had been no report. Mr. HAWES said, the Select Committee ought to be appointed on the present Bill. As to the report of the Committee itself, he had a perfect knowledge of its contents. Sir W. CL AY thought any measure on the sub ject ought to emanate from Government. The smoke was discolouring all the magnificent piazzas and porticos of the public buildings, and the beautiful architecture of the new Houses of Parliament would speedily suffer from its damaging influence. The public were most anxious for effectual legislation on the subject. Mr. BRIGHT said there was a general feeling that the settlement of this question was a very easy matter. The Right Hon. Baronet. at the head of the Government recommended Hon. Members to read the report of the last Committee ; but he (Mr. Bright) thought that the perusal of that report only showed the extreme difficulty of legislation. No doubt parties had been examined before it who said it was a very easy matter, but this was the evidence of inte rested individuals—persons who had inventions to dispose of, and on whose testimony but little reliance could be placed. The expenses of attending these Committees had been alluded to, but there was only one individual, the vicar of his (Mr. B.'s) parish, who asked for his expenses. There was the greatest difference of opinion as to the principle of the Bill, and no lawyer in Westminster-hall could explain its mean ing. It sought to appoint inspectors who were policemen ; and the fact was, that any common constable would, if the Bill came into operation, be in danger of having himself and others blown up, for he would no sooner see a volume of opaque smoke proceeding from a chimney than he would directly poke his nose into the engine -house, igno rant of the machinery and its operations. He thought the House might employ itself much better than in this meddling legislation, which never could be at tended with useful and permanent results. He trusted, therefore, that the Hon. Member would withdraw this Bill, and turn his attention to some more useful pro ject of legislation.—(Hear, hear.) Mr MACKINNON was surprised to hear the ob servation that had fallen from the Hon. Member who had just sat down; and it was quite evident he wa; not aware that a local Bill, having precisely the same meaning as this, had for some time been in operation in the towns of Man chester and Leeds; if he were, he could not, of course, have said that this Bill could not be passed. Now what was the real state of the case ? Whether the Hon. Member opposed this Bill in order to please his constituents, or for some personal motive, he (Mr. Mackinnon) could not help saying that it did appear to him rather extraordinary that he (Mr. Bright) should oppose a Bill which he had said he could not understand. Surely the Hon. Member could not say that he would be willing to lend his aid to the poisoning of the atmosphere, merely because it would save him 301. or 401. for the altera tion of his chimneys. He believed there could not be a second opinion that this was a nuisance which could very easily be much abated. He should accede to the request of his Hon. Friend, and postpone the second reading of the Bill. He should certainly press the second reading on Wednesday, the '2d of April. Mr. COBDEN said, the Honourable Member in referring to the remarks made by his Honourable Friend the Member for Durham had stated that the provisions of this Bill were now in force in Man chester. Now, he believed the corporation of that town had power to enforce similar provisions, but they had postponed enforcing them until the present month of March. His Hon. Friend had suggested to the Hon. Member, and he wee:ld - repeat the sugges tion, whether it might not be advisable to postpone this measure until the result of the experiment about to be made in Manchester had been ascertained. The people of ilfranchester were favourable to putting down the smoke nuisance, and the Hon. Member need not, therefore, expect any opposition from that town. After a few words of explanation from Sir R. PEEL and Mr. MACKINNON, the second reading of the Bill was postponed until the 2d of April. PROPERTY-TAX. On the order of the day for the third reading of this Bill being put, Mr. WAKLEY rose and said that on a former occasion when the property-tax was discussed the Hon. Member for Lambeth had referred to some in justice which had been done by the Commissioners to the Hon. Member for Oldham—he meant Mr. Fielden. Since then he had received a letter from the Hon. Member on the subject, and in order to make the case complete, he would read an extract from this letter to the House. The Hon. Member stated that " We have been very unjustly treated by the Commissioners ; we made a return to them for the three years ending Dec., 1843, which return was true; but they were not satisfied with charging us at 12,0001. as the profits on our trade, and they in creased the charge to 24,0001. We exhibited a return to them, which showed that, in the average of the three years they lost 24,0001. instead of gained that sum. The Commissioners wished the case to stand over till Easter, to which I assented ; but yet they have sent in and demanded the money." Now, really the operation of a tax of that kind was calculated to create in the public mind the greatest possible discon tent. Every person must feel the injustice of it, and though the amendments which had been pressed on the House were rejected, he hoped that the Com missioners residing in the country, who acted in this outrageously unjust manner, would receive some intimation from head-quarters which would check them in their course. Nothing could be more monstrous than this proceeding. Mr. Fielden had designated it as a robbery. It might be sanctioned by law, but it was nevertheless a robbery, and if there were any parties who had] any general control over those Commissioners, he trusted that some intimation would be given to them which would check them from put ting the law in practice in a manner which must produce so much dissatisfaction, because of its great injustice amongst those who were to pay it.— (Hear.) General JOHNSON said it was necessary that some alteration should be made in the law, because it was so oppressive that people in trade did not know what they were about. If persons did not know what they were worth, and if they offered to produce their books in case what they said was disputed, and a sum was still levied upon them at the will of the Commissioners, those persons must give up their entire property to the will of the Commissioners. This was a most unjust and iniquitous proceeding towards his colleague, who was in a large way of business, and who was surcharged to an amount of 24,0001., when he had actually lost that sum. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had never heard of the circumstances to which the Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Finsbury, had ad verted till that moment when he had heard the state ment. He did not know how that case arose, and knowing nothing of the circumstances it was out of his power to satisfy the House with respect to it. But he knew this, that if Mr. Fielden had recol lecte,d it, there was a power of bringing the case before +the gommi.ssioners of Somerset Heuse,, - through' 'lin appeel; - of WhiAl he i might have availed himself, to correct the error of the Commissioners in the country, if they made HOUSE OF COMMONS. March 12. 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 folio wing pric were arraigned before Chief Baron Pollock - :—Jostpkremy, 43, gardener; Francis Duty • ley, 34, capenter ; AS'anitiel Turvey,37, labourer; George Brant, Ist, boatman ; Thomas Hooper, 19, labourer; John Ceche, 25, labourer; Joseph Tandy, 42, gardener; Thomas Collins, 20, gardener ; IVilliuna Cosnett, 25, labourer ; and William Brom field, 19, labourer. George Lippett, 35, carpenter, was ad oitted approver. Sir. Lee and Mr. Whitmore corducted the prosecution ; Mr. Godsrm, Q.C., and Mr. Huddleston 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 flicting wounds of which he died ; with wounding Wm. Comp ton, with intent to kill and murder hint ; 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 tiding and abetting; and the fourth indictment charged Samuel Turvey, Thomas Hooper, and Joseph 'randy with wounding Richard Compton and George Brant, John Cook, Thomas Collins, and William Coanett, 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 on the night in itiestion, Francis Dingley and Bromfield applied to him for the loan of a gun, which, however, he did not lend them. The next witness, Thomas Kings, an inhabitant of .Preston, proved that the prisoners Bromfield, Cook, Dingley, Honpe,r, 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 ment en 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 Dingle) , with the stock broken, as if by some violent 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 Perton School (Croome), 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 an adjournment took place until to-morrow The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. • Mr. ALLIX moved that the Members for the borough of Aylesbury be added to the Committee on the Sparrow§ Herne Road Bill. Air. GREENE hoped that the House would not consent to this motion, as it would be establishing a very had precedent. Mr. AMAX considered that as the road was to terminate in the town of Aylesbury, it was but fair that the opinions of the inhabitants should, through the medium of their representatives, be consulted in the matter. The moti , n was agreed to. MIDLAND RAILWAY EXTENSION. Sir W. HEATIICOTE brought up the report on this Bill. The standing orders had been complied sith. KENDAL. RESERVOIR.. Sir J. Y. BULLER brought up the report on this Bill. The standing orders had been complied with. STANDING ORDERS ON RAILWAYS. It was reported that in the London, Bedford, and -Birmingham Railway the s t a ndi n g orders had been complied with ; as also with respect to the Trent Valley Railway, and the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway. SIIEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. JOHN PARKER, this Bill was brought up and read a first time. GLOSSOP RAILWAY BILL. On the motion of Mr. J. PARKER this Bill was brought up and read a first time. NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL RAILWAY. Mr. DARBY brought up the Bill for this rail way, and it was read a first time. LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM. On . the motion of Mr. TROTTER, this Bill was read the first time. NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. Colonel ROLLESTON brought up the Bill for railway, and it was read the_first time. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Mr. J. PARKER presented a petition from the Sheffield Peace Society against any increase in the navy, and suggesting that it would be much better to settle national disputEs by arbitration than arms. WINDOW-TAX. Sir G. GREY presented a petition from Devonport for the abolition of the window-tax. Lord ASHLEY presented several petitions against the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath. Mr. F. MACKENZIE presented a petition from the schoolmasters of Peebles, praying the house to take measures to alleviate their distressed condition. Mr. C. BERKELEY presented a petition from a solicitor residing at Cheltenham, against certain clauses in the Bastardy Bill. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from a sur geon residing in Great Russell-street, against the income-tax. morning. It is fully expected that the the whole of to-morrow. The popular excitement increases every hour. FLANDERS MAIL. Mr. CRIPPS presented a petition from the As sociated Justices' Clerks against that clause in the Clerks at Petty Sessions Bill, which prohibits them from conlucting prosecutions. NOTICE OF MOTION. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that, in Committee on the Bastardy Bill, he would move, that the justices of the peace should have power to issue an order of affi liation in cases where the mother of the child died before the order was applied for. RAILWAYS. Mr. G. BANKES presented a petition from the inhabitants of Chard, in the county of Somerset, com plaining that the decision of the Board of Trade, in respect to certain railways, was inconsistent with the interest of the petitioners. The HoN. MEMBER also presented a petition from another place in Somersetahire, complaining that the Board of Trade had given preference to two lines of railway which were not so advantageous to the inte rests of the petitioners as others that might be adopted. PROPERTY-TAX—BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. BRUSSELS, MARCH 10.—Yesterday the King gave an audi ence to Mr. Colotnbe, the Minister of Spain. His Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers. A letter from Virton says that in the month of March there has not been more intense cold in the Ardennes than at present, and that the snow has never been more abundant. At nightfall all the wolves, in bands of five or six together, prowl about the habitations, and though no person has yet been attacked by them, every body finds it prudent to remain at home. The English steamer The Soho, from London, arrived in the river at Ternenze on the 7th, but being unable to pro ceed any further on account of the ice, put back, and pro ceeded to Ostend. We learn that sixty-eight petitions for a change in the corn laws will be presented to the Chamber of Representatives to morrow. Some of them recommend the adoption of a system analogous to that which is now followed in France. Some of the petitioners wish that, if the discussion of the new law should be deferred to another session, the land-tax on arable land may be in the meantime remitted.—Brussels Papers, March 10. On the motion that the order of the day be read, Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., said he wished to call the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to a class of cases which ap parently ought not to come under the operation of the income-tax—he meant provident societies, whose income was under 1501. He knew of a society which had been established upwards of a century for granting pensions to widows and orphans. That society had been charged with the tax, although the income of the society was under 1501., which was derived from investments in land and loans. The managers of the society appealed to the Assistant-Commissioners, but they dismissed the ap peal on the ground that the property was not vested in Government securities. He (Mr. Ellice) had looked into the Act, and there, certainly, he found a clause to the effect, that if the property was not so in vested it should not be exempt from the tax. In other cases the parties might have the drawback ; but in this case that could not be done, because the payments of the society were made in sums of from ss. to Si. He now asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether it was contemplated by the Govern ment to exempt societies established for purely bene volent purposes ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the clause to which the Hon. Gentleman referred was inserted for the purpose of exempting benevolent societies which were enrolled according to the Act of Parliament. But in cases where the societies were only voluntary, and their property was invested in mortgages and such securities, it was very difficult to provide an exemption. lle had only received the Hon. Gentleman's notice about an hour before he came down to the House, and he immediately communicated with the department to which the notice referred, and he would take care that measures should be taken for affording relief, and it was only in consequence of the construction of the law that a remedy had not been already given. Mr. ELLICE said the reason he had not com municated with the Right Hon. Gentleman before was that he had only received the case within the last few days. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to call the atten tion of the Right Honourable Gentleman to another case. It was known that the legacy duty department and the assessment to the income and property-tax were carried on under the same Commissioners, viz., the Stamps and Tales' Commissioners. Now, supposing a person left another an annuity of 1,000/. a year, and the person to whom the annuity was left was sixty-four years of age, according to the tables of the officers of the legacy department, that annuity, so granted, was worth 8,3001. The charge on that individual, not being a relation by blood, would be of course 10 per cent., amounting to 830/. To pay that he was allowed four years, thereby reducing his income in round numbers to 800/. a year. Now any one would suppose when the assessment to the property and income-tax was made, that he would only have to pay 800/. a year ; such, however, was not the case, for he was assessed at one thousand pounds a year. Now that appeared to him to be a palpable injustice, and he trusted the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exche quer would give instructions to have that injustice re medied. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentle man another question. He understood that since the property-tax had been established, there had been at the office of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, for the purpose of making assessments to the income-tax, a copy of the Bank of England Dividend Book. New, it had always been supposed that was a secret record kept by the Bank of England only. [The Hon. Member was proceeding when he was called to order by the Speaker.] He wished to know whether the documents to which he had alluded were actually sent to the Stamp-office ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the documents were not sent to the Stamp-office. COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS. Mr. DUNCOMBE wished to ask a question of the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department, with reference to a petition pre sented the other evening from the miners of the county of Durham, praying for inquiry into the cause of the explosions unfortunately so frequent in the collieries of the north. There prevailed an opinion that the lives of those indi viduals were not properly cared for; and he wished, therefore, to know whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce a measure for the better securing of the lives of miners. Failing any such intention, he would ask whether there could be any objection to the appointment of a Committee to take the subject into consideration ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that the subject had received the especial consideration of the Govern ment; and after the recess, he should be prepared to lay on the table of the House the report of the in spectors of mines, together with the objections of the coal owners to the rules which they proposed, and he thought that some measure might then be adopted of a satisfactory nature. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. Mr. MACK INNON presented a petition from the Board of Commerce in Glasgow, from the Guild of that city, and from several other bodies in that city ; from a place in the county of Som erse t ; ano th er f rom several individuals in London and Westminster; and another, signed by 5,600 inhabit an t s o f Glas gow, in favour of this Bill. He had also to say that petitions would be pres en t e d f rom Manchester and Leeds in favour of the Bill. The Hon. Gentleman said that in consequence of the great mass of business which was to be brought on to-night, he should merely move the second reading pro forma, and take the discussion on some future evening. Indeed he thought that from the great exertion which the memberi of the Govern ment had •to undergo, and especially from the grievous :imposition on -,the Speaker; Wednesday ought to be a day of rest. For these reasons he should move that the Bill be read a second time this SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vublit Optnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. 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 General 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 Presse, in which the latter was shot tlead. Several f 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 EngliFhmen 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 I" 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 ! COURT-P.ELSHXONABLE. His Royal Highn - ;:sPrnce 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 Palace 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 honours 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. ,MAN LOUS James Matheson, Etiq., - 11 7 .1 ) .,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, two in number, and valued at 2,0001., and not 1,6001., 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, Blactheath.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 Set vants' Bill, and also for his ex. posure of the Post office spy system. Thursday, the Ist of May, has been named for the formal open ing of tt , e 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 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your account of the " disgraceful conduct" of some officers of the 37th Regiment, stationed at Gosport, should not be silently passed over, as it apptars 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 par;icularly the names of the Magistrates who presided- I most heartily join with you in the wish that it may be carried to the Horse Guards.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A COUNTY MAGISTRATE. Upper Brook-street, March 12, 1845. ANNUAL MEETING of the METRO POLITAN DRAPERS' Al - ...SOCIATION. The third annual meeting of this Association took place last evening, in Exeter Hall, Lord Juhn 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 for 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 improvement, either for this world or the next. It was easy to prove, that nut only did it debilitate the health, take away all time for mental cultivation and improve• inent. but to a great degree, if nut altogether, totally deprived those employed of all chance of pre- , paration fur another and a future life.—(Cheers.) If this was the nese, 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 treats, 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 pow, r 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 Rides 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, Mammon, the least and meanest spirit was represented as leading on the work. But should they, 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 have 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. (The 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 land Directors of the West London Railway Company was 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, aLd 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. WITCHURCH, Mr. GUNTER said he differed frcm Mr. Witchurch. lie never expected that the line could be carried on from ;he Kensington-basin Terminus to the Thames, without considerable addition to tie Company, and the event iiad proved that lie 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 annouxued 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 by certain. part:es, who paid up but one in stalment, and had soon after become bankrupt. After a short 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 RAILWAY.--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 tbr the meeting, there were six persons present, who de cided that reporters should not be admitted, inasmuch as it was feared that unguarded expressions might fall from the lips of some of the speakers, in which case their appearance in the London papers would serve to irritate, rather than conciliate, the Brighton Directors. CAVALRY AlovEmßwrs.—The following changes of quarters are now upon the point of taking place amongst the undermentioned regiments :—The Ist Dragoon Guards from 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 Guarits 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 Hussars from Birmingham to Ipswich ; the 16th Hussars from Ireland to Leeds; the I•ith Lancers from Nottingham to Coventry; the 13th Light Dragoons from Exeter to Tre-: 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. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. 111031 THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DILI. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—It is understood that the Dutch Government are proposing to establish a line of steamers between Singapore and Batavia to carry the overland mails, and for the convey ance of Dutch passengers. The merchants connected with the trade of the East are anxiously looking for the remainder of their letters by the Bombay mail of the Ist ult, rid South ampton. The inconvenience of there being no regular steamer for this purpose is much felt in the City, and the plan of leaving the dispatches for the chance of a steamer from Con stantinople calling at Malta, en route for Southampton, to take them up, is greatly deprecated. The amount of remittances brought by the Tay packet, on account of the Mexican dividends, is 10,000 dolls. The mercantile letters from Mexico contain tolerably full particulars as to the capture of Santa Anna. Being in the vicinity of Mexico (city) with about 10,000 men, he marched upon Puebla, which he attacked without effect on the Ist and 2d of January. Retiring to a neighbouring village, he remained there till the 10th, when hearing that Generals Bravo and Paredes had reached San Martin, with 9,000 men, he left the bulk of his forces at Las Vigus— having first directed them to make their submission to the new Government—and, with 2,000 men, marched towards the coast. On reaching the pass of La 0 11 a, which is situate between Las Vigus and Jalapa, and was strongly fortified by the troops under General Rivera, he asked in vain to be allowed to pass, and being unable to force it, abandoned the troops, who had remained faithful to him to the last. On the morning of the 13th of January he went off, with half -a dozen followers, by an unfrequented path, along the . Sierra de Perote, endeavouring to escape to the coast, but in the night of the 15th he was arrested at the village of Jalacingo, not far from his own estate of Manga de Clavo, and was sent under arrest to the Castle of Perote, where he was a prisoner at the date of the advices. Santa Anna has sent a memorial to Congress, wherein, after recapitulating the services he has done his country, he offers to exile himself for ever. Some think that Congress will ultimately accept this proposal, although there seemed a strong determination to bring him to the scaffold, and they had actually senta judge to Perote to question him, and had formed a grand jury to try him. Legal difficulties will, it is thought, stand in the way of trying a chief magistrate ; and should the process—as it most likely would—prove of long duration, there is the chance of Santa Anna again rallying his party. The present quarrel, it is to be recollected, is between two sections of the Centralist party; but the Federalists are be ginning to stir themselves, and that might lead to a coali tion of their political adversaries. One of the ill effects of the unsettled condition of Mexico was the state of the roads, which are now infested by robbers. In trade very little was doing. As far as concerns the mere fact of Santa Anna's capture, these accounts confirm those previously received from New York; but all the details are so very different, that there are many in the City who consider that the former account was only a lucky guess, and that the advices by the Tay bring the first authentic information of the affair. SUN.—Consols close rather heavily at 99% % for Money, and 100 to % for Account. Exchequer-bills touched 68s. premium. Spanish Active Bonds were 29%; and the Three per Cents. 40% to 41. Mexican brought 36% % only. Colom bian were 14 1 4 to %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 63%. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—The Bristol and Exeter, 13 ; Cambridge and Lin coln, 4., , g; Churnet Valley, 5 1 ,, ; Dublin and Belfast, 3; Eastern Counties, 6%; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 12 1 4 ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6%; Great North of England. New, 15 to %; Great Western, 97 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 20 ; London and Birmingham, Thirds, 42 ; Brighton, 14 to 13%; South-Western, New, 9%; London and York, 3 / to 1 ' • Lynn and Ely, 3 ; Midland , 40 % to 41 ; New, 11 %; 4 4‘,vcastle and Darlington, 23 ; North British, 7 to % ; Nortkern and Eastern, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter, 5 1 4 to 1 ,4 ; North Kent, 1%; Rughy, 2 3 4 to 3 ; North Wales, 2%; Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 6 ; Direct Northern, 1%; Shrews bury and Birmingham, 11 , : South Devon, 7% to 7 ; South- Eastern, 8%; Staines and Richmond, 1 ,4 ;South Wales, 3 1 4 to 2%; West Cornwall, 3; York and North Midland, 48 to ; Selby, 44 to 45%; Ditto, Extension, 10%; Great North ern of France, 1%; Orleans and Vierzon, 15 1 , to 14%; Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%; Paris and Orleans, 30%; and Rouen and Havre, 17 premium ; Sheffield to Lincoln were 1 4 premium to par; Hull and Gainsborough were % ; and Preston and Wyre, 19% discount. 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. • SALMON FISHING.—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 itsjoint at the temple, and with the bone the cancer removed. The boy is doing well, and we have heard that sanguine hopes are en tertained of his recovery. • Indeed he has not had a bad symptom.— Glasgow National. THE CURE AS BAD AS THE COMPLAINT.—The uni versa' inquiry is, whefe 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 P—Punch. THE CHANTING Iliwx.—A few days since a gen tleman shot, in the neighbourhood of Hasborough, a very curious bird, called the chanting hawk, or Falco musicus dandin. It is a native of Africa, and is very seldom seen in this country. Cuvier says it is the only bird of prey that sings agreeably. In size it equals the goshawk, its plumage is grey above, white, barred with brown on the lower part of the back and on the under parts of the body. It is pre served by Mr. Spinks, hair-dresser, North Wa!sham, where it may be seen. . The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of 401., No. 55,301, " from L. F. C , for the revenue of the country." EMALE SERVANTS' HOME SOCIETY.—Last even ing the anniversary meeting of this society, which is established for 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 ser vants had been received as inmates, and two thousand two hundred registered their names for situations in the metropolis alone. The receipts amounted to 128/. 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. any error at all. The case was, therefore, not without a remedy—(llear, hear)—and he begged leave to point out that as the best remedy to which Mr. Fielden could have recourse to rectify the error of which he complained. There was an independent authority in Commissioners in London to inquire into the circumstances, and to apply a remedy. Mr. WAKLEY, in explanation, said that Mr. Fielden stated that he had appealed against this 24,0001. surcharge. He made no general accusation against the commissioners, as ho knew, in the metropolis, that they behaved with great forbearance, and between 70 and 80 per cent. of the appeals were allowed. Mr. BRIGHT wished to call the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a circumstance which created great dissatisfaction in his district. The Com missioners were chosen from the Commissioners of Land-tax, who were all of one political party, and there was a general impression that they did not deal impartial justice. It was be lieved that it was of no use for persons of the opposite party to appeal to them ; and he knew a gentleman of undoubted veracity who preferred to put up with a surcharge, because he had found that his statements would not be listened to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Gentleman last mentioned by the Hon. Mem ber for Durham might have appealed at once to the Commissioners at Somerset House if he did not choose to apply to the local Commissioners. Mr. HAWES said it was important to be gene-1 rally known that the Act gave the power of appeal to the Commissioners at Somerset House, in the first instance. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re.. ferred the Hon. Gentleman to the 131st clause of the Act. Mr. BERNAL said the Honourable Member for Finsiiury had not complained of the absence of appeal from the local Commissioners ; but the me of the Hon. Member for Oldham was, that these Commissioners postponed a case till after Easter, but in the meantime sent another demand for the tax. Sir R. PEEL said that the Lords of the Treasury were exceedingly desirous to obviate any inconve nience or unpleasantry to which those who had to pay this tax' were exposed. On the demand for the money, and there being sufficient grounds for oljection, the party on whom the demand was made might apply to two tribunals. If he under stood the question of the Hon. Member for Durham (Mr. Bright). aright he conceived that the Act gave no option of appeal. Now, he (Sir Robert Peel) thought that this was very important, and he would take the opportunity of saying that the Government were exceedingly anxious to avoid the unpleasantry which all felt in having their private circumstances investigated by their neighbours, and had therefore felt an objection to appointing local Commissioners. And though they had every dis position to avoid the appointment of Government assessors without absolute necessity, yet in this ease it was conceived that their appointment would be less objectionable than the institu tion of local assessors ; and they had an additional inducement to this course, from the supposition that fraud against the Government, on the one hand, and extortionate charge on the other, would both be ob viated. The Hon. Gentleman was in error in sup posing that there was no appeal, and if any one felt that te assessors were likely to be actuated by local prejudice, he was at liberty to appeal to the Special Commissioners, so that if he suspected injuryfrom one tribunal he was at liberty to appeal to another. Mr. BRIGHT said that he was quite conscious that there was this power of appeal, for he had himself applied to the Special Commissioners. He had not liked to be under the finger and thumb of the local Commissioners, as he well ktiew some of his neigh bours had been, and he had consequently applied to the Special Commissioners, but the Special Commis sioners had surcharged him, and he did believe that the evil which had been complained of existed to a great extent. On the motion being put that this Bill be read a ,hird time, Mr. SPOONER said he would beg to bring for ward the motion of which he had given notice, and while doing so, he would beg to ask the indulgence of the House. The clauses in the Act of Parlia ment to which he would refer affected a great number of individuals, and as the hardship of which he spoke was great, he trusted that no opposition would be offered to the object which he had in view. The clause which he wished to insert was intended to relieve those individuals who were engaged in busi ness—and who were assisted by members of their family without giving them any regular salary— from the income-tax, and it was to this effect : "1. And whereas by the said recited Act, it is pro vided in the first rule of Schedule (D), relating to deductions, that .no sum shall be set against or de ducted from the profits or gains arising under that schedule for any disbursements or expenses of maintenance of the parties, their families, or establishments ; Be it Enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, whenever the person or persons so liable to be charged under the said schedule shall employ any member or mem bers of his family in carrying on his trade or profes sion, it shall be lawful to deduct such sum or sums of money as would have been afair remuneration for such employment if any other person had been so employed." Now the clause was construed to the following effect :—That where a master of a family carried on a small business, whether it was a shop or a manu• factory, and employed the, members of his own family, he was not entitled to deduct from his profits the value of the labour of those individuals. He admitted that there were exceptions —that where a person was of adult age, and a member of the family of the principal, if the prin cipal paid him a bona fide salary, he was en titled to make a deduction for such salary ; but he was not entitled to deduct the value of the maintenance and labour of members of his own family where no salary was paid. 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 em 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. He 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 there was no danger of rand 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 doer to innumer able applications, to w hich proper attention could . The e o thought s e there nugh w t was nothing th ns just. ninot this s e If more time were re q uired to consider this sub j ect goibvjeenciion ff. e 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 w hi c h 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 equated him in bringing,it fprward„ 1 6egged415 - lasittre 'Aim- Wit Hon. Baronet opposite that this would be of the greatest importance to small manufacturers, such as his con- stituents, whose prcAts were so low that the continu 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 Hcnourable 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 v;ho had 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 ware able to bear :hem. But he must resist this motion, because he believed th a t, as th e l aw stoo 3, every re li e f 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 supposition that he de frayed out of it the expenses of his family. If any person employed in trade employed a mem ber of his fainily, whom he paid for his serVice,s, he would be entitled to claim exemption in that respect. The Hon. Member said that nothing would be easier than to carry out his proposal by the ewe ployment of public officers. Why, for a public officer to inter:ere 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 Hon. Mernbei had given notice of bringing before them. He alluded to T that in which the lion. 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, werr allowed to be deducted by the provisions of the At itself; therefore, if the allowance had not been made 41: some particular cases, it was owing to the Maladminis tration of the lave, and not to the law itself. With respeit to the other point urged by .his Hon: Friend; he, did not think it would be just, or that it would contrihatf in any way towards the easy collection of the tax, that they should depart from the original principip. i , Mr. SPOONED wished to . explain.-. The Right lion. Gentleman had, he felt sure, unintentionally misrepresented him. He did not say that the, fair gatherer ought to enter every man's house to wet.: taro how his family was employed, nor did what he said imply it. With respect to the • second clause, after the Right lion. Gentleman's declaration, he world 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 come 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 lice to allow rent, because rent was mentioned, and to disallow poor rates and . local rates, because the mentioning of rent and not of rates did, by inference, exclude them. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the clause . ... 39 Against it Majority against theUlause —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 E, 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 Hight 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-tlx 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 be asked for was, that, from 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, te 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 of 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, is 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 centage 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 100/., there was 3001. 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 be 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. 3,500,0001. 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. HAWES 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. AGL lONBY thought the arguments of the Member for Kendal, or of the Right Hon. Gentleman, had not been fairly met. A man might tins reduce his income from 300/. to 150/.5 and thus, thoulh he did net realise in one way, he did in another, akl. yet avoid the imposition of the incoree-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 forl,ooo/., • and if he' wisFeelliciiti - sis“riiiii‘ h 4 4'S on going to the office the Company would give him the value of his policy. On those grounds, Anal