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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Notice is hereby given, that on WEDNESDAY, Gth of April r.,t 4 t, the Senate will proceed to Elect Examiners in the fol lowin g "ePartmente _ . hxaminerships. Salaries. A kis. £ Present Examiners. tine in Classics ........ ....150 T. B Burcham, Esq, M.A. T wo in Mathematics and l 150 [ hey. Prof. Heaviside, M.A. :Na tural Philosophy . 3 G. B. Jerrard, Esq., B.A. Two In Logic, Moral and e „ c Rev. H. Alford, M.A. int ellectual Philosophy i "" /T. B. Burcham. Esq., M.A. 'One in Chemistry.... .. .. 50 Prof. Graham, M.A , F.R.S. 2n 4 in the French Language .. 40 C. J. Defile, Esq. Twoin the Ge rman L anguage 40 Rev. A. Walbaum. "two in the Hebrew Text of ihe Old Testament, the Greek Text of the New Rev w. Drake, M.A. Te stament, and 5crip ......... 50 [Rev'. Prof. Gotch, M.A. tore History . • MEHICINE. °nein the Practice of Me-/ dicine ... ••••••. •• •• 0. i 150 Alex. Twee, edi Esq IN! -11 Surgery •.. . . . 150 Joseph Hodgson, ~ M.P., F.R.S. Esq., F.R.S. ..... . --te in Anatomy and Ph siology . y i 155 Prof. Sharpey, M.D., F.R.S. ()„ noinp a h t y lv s e Anatomy lo l o garld ,"oinparl 100 one • Prof. Carpenter, M.D., F.R.S. iu Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and ilOO Edward Rigby, Esq., M.D. Infant s ....... ••••.. One in Materia Modica and Vharmacy 100 Vacant. T be present Ex a mi ners are e li g ible, and intend to offer themselves for re-election. Candidates must announce their names to the Registrar on or be fore the 3Ah of March. ny order of the Senate. R. W. ROTHMAN, Registrar. golZerset Hong°, March 2, 1853. TUE EBRO CANALISATION COMPANY. the The Sharch,lders in Engia.d are respectfully reminded that Ein , ; ?! .01 1 , 1 instalment of 4/. per share is now in course of payment, c ei i' t c . er tO d, deduction of Six Months' Interest, at the rate of 4 per rest kill i r Arainum, upon the original deposit of 41. per share. lute next. be charged on any payments in ar rear after 31st March By order of the Directors. 4,C. STEWART , Secretary. Adam's Court, Old Broad-street, 28th Feb., 1853. 'EAST and WEST INDIA. DOCK COMPANY. The DIRECTORS hereby Give Notice, that it is intended (unless the charges shall have been previously paid) to SELL , , on irons 1 Ith April next, such WlNEB,and other SPIEL! S, as , to oi the length of deposit, or depreciated quality, are not considered? e worth the charges thereon. and that sundry parcels for whit._ "lirrants have been issued will be included in such sale. 8 List of all the Goods may be seen at this House. GEORGE COLLIN, Secretak • . East and West India Dock House, Linker-square, March 1, 1853. - ri PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS. GREAT NEW SOUTH WALES RAIL, WAY COMPANY. • •' To Provisionally Registered. Incorporated by Royal Charter, or empowered by Act of Par liament, or of the Colonial Legislature, with limited liability . Capit al £601,000, in 30,000 Shares of £2O each, with power to in . crease the amount if required. - Deposit, £2 2s. per Share. mm 4 4 ,.0r near Newcastle to or near Maitland, and thence to or Ith,,,..Sagenhoe near the foot of the Liverpool Ran g e, through or near IF 'a Creek, Belford, Castle Forbes, Darlington, Singleton, and asej Town, with power to make branches suitab le to the local 1* of the district. Szcarraxi.—Charles Thomas, ESQ. et a ir tio t x all Australia demands railway accommodation is be y ond s T hatL the rich and fertile district of the River Hunter, from its at and increasing traffic, wealth, and commercial im p ortance, . 1 Most in need of this facility, is equally undeniable. It !Company, therefore, is intended to supply such requirement. owi"as projected in the year 1845, under favourable auspices, but re -- a to the temporary check that soon s.fterwai ds occurred in com- Aub the promoters were advised to wait the revi val of • confidence. t e j,: More recent development of the resources of Australia, its cro._overies, 'and valuable coal and other mines, and the in tai7,7_ed and rapidly increasing population and commercial impor• ori: Of this district in particular (popularly termed the garden spot Pria e ,, c ,?lelly), abundantly testify that the time has now arrived for trigl,`,f"ag with this undertaking, and the Directors have accord trai:tatermined to do so, it being obvious that the existing means of the " are altogether inadequate to the present wants of this part of Theolony. high w e , s li pe of Railway is intended, therefore, to supply a " great the i i ; 3 ' along the district of the River Bunter, for the transit of iraft le ,7 ll austible resources of its gold and coal fields, as well as its tiro u se agricultural prodece of cern, cattle, wool, &c., and also of txte"; iron,io and other articles of commerce, for which this line wi ll market fe, re ▪ l a Perficial glance at the map will be sufficient to show the com- Th e l,advantages of the undertaking. effet t _lite Will be about 100 miles (more or less) in length, and will _ 4 saving in distance of upwards of 100 miles along the circuit tfloute of the River Hunter. taraj e ..Yuater's River as is well known, forms the principal agricul the ce,,tiatnct of the colony of New South Wales; and according to the w l i sas of 1841 contains upwards of one-fifth of the populat on of ki n rla colony, Port Philip district included. th e ;engineering difficulties exist, and from the level character of 100„,,ntry, and the abundant supply of timber and other materials e a , l ": the line, it is believed that the expense per mile, on the Ameri- Ithh 3l 4 i t elit. will not exceed 6,0001., a trifling sum in comparison Accoseenormous expense of an English railway. 4 eq. e at ,f," ll, B* t w o opinions recently expressed by influential gentlemen M 4 l 6: . ‘eel with the locality, at a meeting of the Australian Agricul lailwa„uinPanY, holden at the London Tavern, upon the necessity for Th nes . , communication in this district, (for which see reports in the aad railw ay Would n Daily News of the 12th February, 1853,) the cost of a Th e ot exceed 1,500/. per mile. 1( k al acknowledged importance of this Railway to the Idist r ij wa nts and full development of the abundant resources of the ‘ora o . 't as well as to its more effective government, lead the Direc , ker_aoelleve that they will be enabled to obtain from her Majesty s iet er Z t rY for the Colonies, in a matter of such great commercial Th e 4 11 assurance of the support of Government. eighh.:, - r ectors also feel confident that the undertaking will prove Th'e management and remunerative to the shareholders. will be vested in a board of directors in London "aeuxh, -- ',, - Local boards or agents if necess ar y ). And it having been heet&l" d es irable to appoint, for the m ost p art, p ractical men, con „allacatPor„ acquai nted with the colony, the Directors propose after „., s a a.3' cti;"' appoint from amongst the shareholders or otherwise so — vnJointi: r Parties as they may deem advisable to act as Directors, "rarneni„,„ W ith themselves, taking Into their cons ideration the re• The ea „72 11 11 of s hareholders. each, capitol at first is intended to be raised in 30,008 shales of 201. te a • - orkin to, as far g', mineral, and ornamental properties and special inte feprreetcable, will be respected. 1/ 4 4 Prieation as obtaining res a charter of t„.; , llent, liiniatinnigat: for of incorporation, or act of Par each shareholder, is intended e made; obtaining an act of the colonial legislature :!iathprising the executio n o f the necessary works, and for allowing ' 4 aterest on all deposits and , Should they ultimately sail paid up, procuring a charter, or act, with 4 aM, ited liability, it is Intel - ied ti n ia as shall or shareholders u e called, and that such of them then, by letter addressed to shall from the undertak- Le Secretary, express their desire to withdraw "ig, shall be at liberty to do so, and to roc-ive back lo their deposits, less their proportion of the expenses incurred. i ., It is intended, in case of need, to apply for articled labourers from i l lina, or other ports, at reasonable wages, and under the customary l ira, regulatins. 1 .„,\ , , ails will be made of not exceeding 2/. per share, at intervals of -- ",,,L less than three months, or in pursuance of the charter or act. N. 'be Directors reserve the right from time to time to amend or or this prospectus, and to increase or decrease the proposed capital r r i . "tuber of shares of the Company, or course or limit eif the line, if °,,,,n1 local circumstances or otherwise they may consider it desirable. i ,, 4 he names of the directors and officers will shortly be announced, i l l , in the meantime all communications and the solicitors, for shares v a ' be received by the Secretary, at the office of the solicitors, Messrs. „..rritt and Osgood, 24, Basingh a ll-street, London, where pla ns and "Pectuses naay be obtained. To 4 , FORK OF APPLICATION FOR SNAILS. n we Directors of the Great Now South Wales Railway Company. ,k nti shares of 201. tato, emen,—l request you will allot me ti er V ll the above undertaking, the whole of which, or any less num tle,.._`nat may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to accept, and pay the or v i Zsit of 2/. 2s. per share, and to execute when req uired the deeds ' 44 C OU T any. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Adcress .. NIONS of the TIMES—not the "Daily Times" krt. - or th e " Sunday Times," but the black and white rain and snow fL ‘ L t ittles," provoking the ska ter's wrath by broken sheets o t f vr r- `ing for every one to contemplate , un less the y are ha,bited n ar,,, firm, and comfortable attire, which , for these " times,' .should 4 ,S ne Zwaterproof . Their being at this season many counterfeits, it •Ltid t „„, s , 37 improper to describe the features of the genuine articl h e. and ;,"tili 3 O made of first - rate materials, combining firmness, strengt a , tor re 2erior finish—it should be cut on principles which secure troh i ;l' At, which cause the garments to fall i s a graceful man ner eau nciT e Person of the wearer—it should display workmanship which 1 141 b it l an. and such as only a thoroughly artistic establishment cantri o st ,. The Dress to measure or ready made, presented by . 4 . - and SON, possesses all these qualities on the most command otherleois, and is charged considerably lower prices than at any k e - o , °n se. Its variety affords the amplest choice for Ge ntlemen and e u. "'saios, for Sportsmen or Juveniles, on the sam e terms. Hats Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, &c., of the best, most fashion- Ost, s a ild serviceable character, may be had at E. MOSES and E stablishment or its Breaches, for very small outlays. EIGRATION. impositions being prMactised by persons professing to befriend B. tat - ,, n ts , it becomes imperative that all parties intending to emi tried sh ould kould purchase all goods required at the well - kno wn and long bestablishment o f E. MOSES and SON. Every article requ i r ed Plato ti inspected previous to being bought , and be in g marked in bilit a r,, r ee. at a very low price, affords every opportunity of making . 40 r t atn .'le and economical selection. A distinct d e p artment is kept la i . t tiag and Ship sa iling information, with full lists of Ou tfits any gentlemen, may be had on application , o r post free, Cm j ",,,a,rt of the kingdom. pnbli MOSES and SON regret having to guard the the imposition having learned that the untraesmalike sa n , — ` l 13 f " Being connected with their Establishment,d T " or It's concern, " has been resorted to in many instances, and for en-eNNEns, they gto state that they have `' ksa ElON WIT H ANY OTHER HOUSI sOa OUT OP LONDON, to_ except their own Establishments, as fell ows : 1 4,8; 41 ° ,1 City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 1 -et;: n o 1 d 86 , Aldgate, opposite the Church, all com municating. West -end Branch. 506, 507, 50 8 , New Oxford-street, ,2, Ha rt - street, all communicating. r4 ' ll ord %ern_ (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 end 20, Bridge-street. lier_eici Branch, 86, Far.late. ghe e ,rstnt Tailors, Clothiers, llatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and 1110 a p ters, mid General Outfitters for Ladles and Gentlemen. lANT.—Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be ~ t 1 141 1 1 ?, if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned h,•Qesitation. All gooda are marked in plain figures, the lowest „ Th. ll ) which no abatement can be made. slatnr-cia Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on 1) ,.... 311, When business is resumed till 12 o'clock" . ii,.411 firreo," .entitled " The World's Pharos,g th 8 Assistant, full list of prices, an d directions for self conta -mea e ent nl a ay be had on application, or post-froe , to any pa rt of en 4 1 ) 1C11e'` a t ° 1 1n °11 e Almanac) for the year ending 1853 can be had gratis Po n Parle Franca's. ufricht man Deutsch Qui si parla Its.liano. Aqua se lia bl e Espanol n ., IMP ORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICA L WORKS, i Published, by H. RaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London. No L _ . -• oX B vo., in cloth, pr i ce s s . by post free, 55. 6 d" . TRIJE & FALSE SPERMATORR HLY-2 ") 1441 .011 With the Vie w ' o th e C o rrection of wide-spread Errors_ Cle4 to the Tr ea t m e nt and Cure of Sufferers from D ebilit y of the 4ti're System, "Dr Sexual Hypochondriasis. 4, Tranalated from the German of Dr. PICKFORI ) :urn• triPlckford ta known to E ng li s h readers by his frequent pracrBsti Z,e butions to German medical literature. This Is the Inf Orraill us, that he has addressed himself to the noa-mil. l 16 teet —er • Wa trust this may not be the last, if hegn i% tw, r 41 , 1 Y other e qua ll y fl agrant ev il w hi c h it ma y be in Vy,„ co rrect.” —London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. *ar t, ! 'l.°ln ised in a former num b er th a t we should recur to this Vcith 'n order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes oR tereat severity the impostors who snake a livelihood by preying And eiedulit Friends public. The tribe of ;andymi c old 4'edical are mercilessly exposed if this book blea m .d its f way into the hands of those who suffer from th com ,42e to `, v ) ,, Which it needless'trea we are satisfied that many hindreds would iti{g 140Inuch suffering of body and mind, and what Is of /11 4 ,„_.a1s rta rm; though it is that which the quacks most prize— ,,_``.l3irfeat"eY • • • • • -This volume is well qualified to put an end to the 4 ..•aeut n ,....._ , Ystens of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat -okely f l' u .„. a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, "" .0 nauch good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. • No. 11. Tu x livo., in cloth, price 3e. 6d., by post free, 45., 14 4 n ',, (3.11, OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi apt.,.—:'3ll[ll)le, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate e a Y Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAT, he /4 14 "aber of the R o y a l C o ll ege o f S urgeons o f E ng l an d . Sganl. 4t root Of hi s vie ws he (Mr. Courtenay) has given of a great man y case s successfully treated, as bad Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. , De ., ll od a ,„ aa .."xvill. No. had rcs'sted, for a inoo ed '"'•ive Years, the treatment by difitation, and was finally s e -- ;. (ll trati en - rn aby 'weeks. But cases avid. and xix. appear, both I: ave ritY, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag. -acter than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet tha , tthersi'rd°Pted by Mr. Courtenay !toyed eminently successful.' Igiars ou the Treatment Of Stricture* No. 18,858.] THE 140th Number of the HYGEIST and MEDICAL REFORMER, for MARCH, contains the follow :—Semi-Jubilee of the Foundation of the British College of Health, New Road, London—The Doctors and their " Reform Bill" —Obscene Medical Publications—Cures of Fistula and other Com plaints by Morison's Pills—Report of Mr. French, General Agent for Baltimore, U.S.—Cure of Stone by Morison's Pills—Dr. Southwood Smith on theßlood, &c., &c.—Office, 262, Strand, and may be had of Ell the agents for the sale of Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the country. Price id., or 2d. by post. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during the week, " The Thistle," " Shamrock," " Carillonneur," and" Wind sor-castle" Waltzes, the "Champagne Galep," and "Marco Spada," "Le Cirque," and " Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight ; dancing to commence at Nine o'clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven. PATRON-H R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LAST WEEK of the OPTICAL and MUSICAL ILLUS TRATION of SHARSPERE'S " MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S i REAM ," introducing Morning and E tI; ,e e ni O ng RIGW T L UR M E U S SI b C y by Sir Pepper.Heu sq., on .h..: endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted to . a Juvenile Audience; by Dr Bachhoffher. on the MECHA NICAL PROPERTIES •t a JET , of STEAM; by Mr. Crispe, on ERICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE.—DISSOLVING VIEWS, including Day and Night Views of WILMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, Ice., &c. Admission, ls. ; Schools and. Children under ten years of AP, half-price. B RITISH COLLEGE. OF HEALTH, New-road, London. MORISON'S PILLS. TO THE EDITOR. Ste,—The duty paid to the English Government for stamps on Morison's Pills amounts to 130,0001. This, perhaps, is the best a swer to the false and interested reports circulated by the lower class of Doctors, to the prejudice of the above popular medicine, which has now s,ood the test of 25 years' experience. As we have often said before, Doctors live by disease, and of course any medicine that cures at a cheap rate will never answer their purpose. We are, Sir, yours, &c., THE MEMBERS OOF F THE BRITISH HEALTH COLLEGE New-road, London, February, 1853. ALLSOPP'S PALE OR BITTER ALE. -- Messrs. essrs. S. ALLSOPP and SONS beg to inform the TRADE that their celebrated ALES may be obtained in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards, from the BREWERY, Barton•On-Trent ; and from the undermentioned Branch Establishments : LONDON, at 51, King William-street, City; LIVERPOOL, at Cook-street; MANCHESTER, at Dude-place; DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree; GLASGOW, at 115, St. Vincent-street; DUBLIN, at Ulster Chambers, Dame-street; BIRMINGHAM, at Market-hall ; Messrs. ALLSOPP and SONS take the opportunity of announcing to PRIVATE FAMILIES that their ALES, so strongly recom mended by the medical profession, may be procured in DRAUGHT and BOTTLES GENUINE from all the mast RESPECTABLE LICENSED VICTUALLERS, on "ALLSOPI"S PALE ALE" being specially asked for. When in bottle the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by its having " ALLSOPP and SONS" written across it. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Boast Meat Grevies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauco is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad•street, Worcester; also by Dies:s. Barclay and Sons, Messrs Crease and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. j4ADIES of delicate complexion, who suffer from exposure to cold winds and damp Atmosphere, will find imme diate and soothing relief in the application of ROWLANDS' HALT DOR. It allays all irritation and tenderness of the skin, and renders it soft, smooth, and pleasant; removes cutaneous disfigurements, freckles, and tan, and imparts a healthy and blooming appearance. Gentlemen, after shaving, will find it allay the irritability and smart in4 pain, and render the skin smooth and pleasant. Its purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its selection by Royalty and the several Courts throughout Europe, together with the elite of the aristocracy. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL is a delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation for the Hair, and as an invigorator and purifier beyond all precedent. Weakness, premature greyness, and tendency to fall off, are entirely prevented by its regular application. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, er PEARL DENTIFRIFICE, preserves and beautifies the Teeth, strengthens the Gums, and renders the Breath sweet and pure. - - - - Sold by A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-gardens, London ; and by Chemists and Perfumers. NO ACT OF PARLIAMENT REQUIRED TO SETTLEI THE BOTTLED BEER QUESTION. "LIABLE BROTHERS and CO. beg to inform Ira the Public that they have made arrangements to Sell Bass's or Allaopp's PALE ALE, and other Pale Ales of the first quality, Genuine DUBLIN STOUT, in Bottles manufactured expressly for them, containing the full IMPERIAL QUART and PINT MEA SURE, at the following prices : Base's or Allsopp's best Pale Ales, at per dozen im- s. d. perial quarts .. Ditto ditto pints 4 6 Genuine Dublin Stout, warranted of the first quality— Per Dozen imperial quarts . 7 0 . Ditto ditto pints .. .. 4 0 Earle Brothers and Co guarantee their Ales and Stout to be of the finest quality, and earnestly invite the Public to avail themselves of the great saving they will make by honouring this firm with their patronage. Earle Brothers and Co. call the attention of the Public to the im portant fact, that they are offering Three Gallons, that is, One Dozen and a Half of the present miscalled Quarts and Pints, for a Lower Price than the Public is now generally paying for Two Gallons, or One Dozen of precisely the same article, identical in quality, and brewed by the same eminent firms. The advantage to the Public is one-third more for the same price. The Public has loudly complained of the short measure it has been the practice of the dealers in Bottled Beer to give. Earle Brothers and Co. offer the Public a complete remedy, and respectfully beg the Public to avail themselves of it. TERMS, CASH. 13. d. Bottles charged per dozen, quar t s ..•• .. 3 0 D itt o ditto pints • • .. 2 6 Full credit given for the bottles when returned. EARLE BROTHERS and CO., Wine and Beer Merchants. DUNCANNO/f-STREET, TRAFALGAR-SQUARE, LONDON. MEDICAL ADV U YOUTH AND MAT ICE ON THE SECRR ITY.ET INFIRMITIES Or DR, SAMUEL LA'MERT, 1117, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Lector of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. 4AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro cureedm misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous D e bility, various forms of Insanit y , Unhappy and Unfruitful M ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of perso penalties, which cannot be violated without incurring grievous and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness mayai be abremo evall. ed, and how the evil and its corvequences may be avoided, d ov that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derang ement to which the timel y aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long ser of years been engaged in an xtensive practice in the treatment of these eellca;;e com , plaints, e and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through .the medium of the IMAM press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of been soci a ply is free. In selecting thi' depar tment of practice, he has rev , arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too geserally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues who of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injuryns on those have been induced to place faith in their pretensio. At home for consultation daily from. Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters mast contain the fee of 11., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desiratlo that patients wishing to consult Dr. LAIIERT should first obtain a copy of his work in SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail tho various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price Is 6d, in English, French, Spaaish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free oy pos , for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. CIILVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. I.l' To be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row, Carvalho, 147. 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The legacy and probate duties now produced about 2,300,0001., whereas, if they were ex• tended to all kinds of property, they would produce be tween eight and nine millions. When Sir R. Peel intro duced the income tax a second time, he said that this would enable him to make a vast reduction in the taxes which affected the raw material of manufactures and the food of the poorer classes. And the effect of the imposition of the income tax had been that taxes to the amount of 13 millions had been repealed or reduced. It was, therefore, hardly possibl e t o f orm an id ea o f th e reduc tion of taxation which might be made if these duties were extended to real property. The division on this resolution would test the value of the Reform Act. The majority of the Parliament which in 1796 imposed the duty on personal, and rejected that on real property, was said to have been returned by 180 peers and great landed proprietors. Now, since the Reform Bill, that house was said to be composed of the representatives of the people ; and he repeated that the division upon this motion would enable the people to judge how far this was the case, and how much they had gained by that measure. He trusted it would show that they had at any rate gained a majority of that house against the 1 longer continuance of this manifest and palpable injus tice. The hon. member concluded by moving "That in the opinion of this house, real property should be made to pay the same probate and legacy duties as are now payable on personal property." The SPEAKER said that he had at a former part of the evening stated that his secretary had received notice from the agents of Mr. Callaghan, the petitioner against the return for the borough of Carlow, stating his inten tion to abandon that petition. He found, however, that his secretary had made a mistake in copying the letter of the agents, and that it had in reality reference to the withdrawal of the petition against the return for Lime rick, and not to that against the return for Cork. The house had, upon the statement which he _had fgpnerly made, ordered the order for the reference to the petition against the Carlow return to be discharged. As, however, the house could take no stdp in a matter of this kind ex cept in accordance with the statute, it followed that as there was no - withdrawal of the petition against the Car low return, the order which they had made upon the supposition that there was, was null and void. It was now necessary that he should read the notice of the agents with respect to the withdrawal of the petition against the return for Limerick, and that the house should then order the discharge of the former order, re ferring it to the general committee on election petitions. This having been done, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said—The office which I hold would naturally inspire me with every prejudice in favour of the motion of the hon. gentleman who has just resumed his seat. He does not propose, as is too often the case, to deprive the ex chequer of the funds which belong to it, and for which it has ample employment. But he proposes to enlarge its funds, by imposing certain taxes not now universally applicable to the different kinds of, property, upon a certain class to which they do not at present ex tend. Notwithstanding this, it is my duty to object to the motion which the honourable gentleman has made. And first of all, with all respect to him, and while granting the evident sincerity of his intention, and the perfect fairness of th e manner i n w hi c h h e has stated the case ; I cannot help pointing out to the house that there is much inconvenjence and something like—l will not say evasion—but escaping from the rules of the house, in discussions of this nature. The effect of a re solution of the nature of that moved by the hon. gentle man, is neither more nor less than to call on the House of Commons to depart from the work of legislation and practical business, and to content itself with the expres sion of abstract opinions. Supposing the house were to adopt the resolution of the hon. gentleman, the question of the probate and legacy duty would stand precisely where it did before. The hon. gentleman knows that there are plenty of instances of resolution of this kind being adopted by the house, commonly with the same want of forethought ; and which, notwithstanding that they related to measures of great importance, have taken no effect whatever. Now, these resolutions are not merely of a neutral or negative character, but they do positive evil ; because they tend to delude the country, and to make it suppose that we are doing the public business, when we are in reality doing no such thing, but merely expressing abstract opinions that do not affect that which should be done. The proper lace to have proposed this resolution would have been in a committee of ways and means. The hon. member brought it forward in the month of December last, when the budget of the late Government was proposed, and he was then perfectly in order ; but at present he calls on us merely for the ex pression of an abstract opinion ; and though I do not in tend to take advantage of that objection to escape in any degree the discussion of the case, yet I do not enter on it without a protest at least to this extent, and without en deavouring to point out to the house the practical incon venience that attends this method of procedure. lam convinced that the motives of the hon, gentleman in bring ing forward this motion are perfectly fair and just. We are not disposed, either on this or on the other side of the house, to contend for exclusive privileges in taxation of one kind or the other. Such a privilege needs only to be named to meet with universal reprobation. The neces sary defects of human legislation in these matters render it impossible to attain in practice perfect equality in taxa tion, but it is now universally admitted that that is the object to which your legislation should be directed. But then I must represent—and I think that I may ask the assent of the hon. member to this proposition— that that perfect equality must of necessity be the result, not of one of your taxes only, but of your entire system of taxa tion. It is impossible to lay on any one tax which shall operate with entire equality. You must consider each part of your system of taxation with reference to every other vital and essential part of it, and must strive to attain a great general result which will fulfil the great ends of justice by laying the burdens of the public taxation equally on men's shoulders according to their strength ; and that is the principle I shall endeavour to apply to the consideration of this and of every other similar sub- loot. I must say in the first insiance that Ido not think the statement of the hon. gentleman is as accurate as a general fact when he represents the question—the important and difficult question before the house—as - being a class question or a question of class interests. He spoke at one time of the exemption that " the great " had secured for themselves as against " the small." Now, it appears to me that that is a distinction eminently in contradiction to the actual state of the case. If he means to speak of the great owners of real property as against the small - Mr. WILLIAMS : No, no, the owners of real as against personal property. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : The ' present state of the law as amongst the different holders of real property is unfavourable to the great and emi nently favourable to the small owners ; because it is generally proved that the land of the country is under settlement, and in the process of putting it under settle ment it has undergone considerable changes, and that portion of the land which is not under settlement, and which is a small proportion of the whole, is, with the exceptions usually to be found, the land which is held by small proprietors. (Hear, hear.) The honourable gentleman will say that this is a question between the landed class and the owners of personal property ; but that would be very far from being an accurate represen tation, for this is indubitable, that, whether the exemp- tions now enjoyed be just or unjust, politic or impolitic, they are exemptions that it is in the power of every man holding personal property to secure to himself just as much as it is in the power of the owner of real property to do so. _ (Hear, hear.) Ido not mean to prove that by any elaborate argument, but merely by a statement that lies upon the surface of the case, namely this, that, considering the mode in which land is usually dealt with and the mode in which the great bulk of the land escapes the payment of legacy duty as under settlements, it is as much in the power of an owner .f personal property to put his property under settlement as it is in the power of the landowner. (Hear, hear.) And personal pm- . . . . perty in this country does go very extensively under I settlement. I have been making inquiries to see the 1 extent to which funded property is placed under settle ment, and it is impossible to attain anything like per fect accuracy in the calculation, but I will venture to say that a considerable portion of the entire funded property is under settlement at this moment. (Hear, hear.) The difference between the settlement of landed and personal property is this—the settlement of landed property is always made with perfect bond fides—it is made in reference to family arrangements— it is commonly made in the early part of the life Of the actual possessor of the property, with reference to the contingency of his death, which is not likely to take place for many years. (Hear, hear.) Many settlements of personal property correspond essentially with this settlement of landed property ; but there are settlements of personal property, such as by deeds of gift, that do not correspond with this settlement of landed property at all. (Hear, hear.) Deeds of gift are exec u t e d b y parties in trust to reserve the proceeds and capital o f the property to the absolute and unrestricted disp osa l of the person who constitutes the trust, and with power of re voking the trust whenever he pleases, with no obligation to publish the trust, so that it is in tary the a power eet 0 t o f pa a p n e y r man, by writing certain things d own on a which he keeps in his drawer, and makes body, to execute one of those volun known it b no deed of gift by which he carries his beyond the rule of the l c p ers onal property egay or probate duty. complaint. Mr. WILLIAMS—That is The CHANCELLOR of the rt of my not describe this practice to_ but most important E fo ß r - a - , -I do important purpose, namely, inninent for the purpose of showing that this great, momentous, and very difficult ques tion is not a class q g u iv e a sti in the way it is supposed, because it does not vantages over personalas the landed property those ad assigned to it property which are too commonly conferring in the present state of the law. (Hear, hear.) The bad state of the law J o F ic T i ' the absurd state will be law I am willing each in due time not and be remedied—but thet°lacw has that most odious aggravated feature aboutlass of landed it, namely , that those lawsl are laws passed by the c prop r i e t ors for the purpose of securing t° lasses the e elusive hear .) Having Privileges, which the commercial c a.s holders of money do not enjoy. (licar' LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1853. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a place in Glamorganshire, praying for the Extension of County Courts ; also, petitions from the Portsmouth and Nor wood Literary Institutions, praying for the distribution of Parliamentary papers. The Duke of ARGYLL presented several petitions from different places in Scotland, against the Maynooth grant. In answer to the Bishop of MANCHESTIR, The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government to make any alterationi n the system by which convicts were now sent to Bermuda and Gibraltar. He was happy, however, to inform the right rev. prelate that the convicts at those places would be rapidly placed on the same footing as those who were confined in prisons. New prisons were being built for their reception, which were lighted and ventilated on the new system, and where they would be under better supervision than in the hulks. In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that it was not at present convenient to say what were the intentions of her Majesty's Government with reference to the aboli tion of transportation as a secondary punishment, be cause there must be a great alteration in the system of secondary punishments and the prison accommodation before the Government could come to a final opinion on the subject. It was his own conviction, however, that before long it would be necessary, for the good of our colonies, to bring the punishment of transportation to a close. _ _ Lord CAMPBELL said he hoped that transporta tion would not be abolished, because, as a judge, he believed that if he sentenced a man to imprisonment for life — it would not produce the same effeet-asif hs sen tenced him to transportation for life. After a few words from the Earl of HARROWBY, Lord MONTEAGLE said that if the question of transportation would be discussed he hoped it would be in the shape of 'a bill, and he hoped that they would not only consider the abolition of transportation, but also the means of supplying its place, in order that we might not increase the social evil which we sought to remedy. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM and Lord WHARNCLIFFE, The subject then dropped. The Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Bail in Error Bill passed through committee. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. The Earl of MALMESBURY then rose to move for certain returns , respecting railway accidents that had occurred during the year 1852, and said he wished to take, the opportunity of drawing the attention of their lordships and of her Majesty's Government to this sub ject, which had lately created considerable interest in the public mind. A strong feeling existed, in which he par ticipated, that these accidents had lately considerably increased, and were still increasing. He believed that durin g the last year a greater number of railway acci dentshad occurred, and that more lives had been sacri ficed in consequence of those accidents, than at any former period. Scarcely a week had passed in which the public prints had not contained some lamentable ac count of mutilation or death. A strong impression existed in the public mind that the manner in which railways were managed was extremely dangerous to pas sengers, and that sufficient endeavours were not made to prevent the occurrence of accidents ; and it'was con sidered desirable that a third power should be interposed between the railway companies and the public, to pro tect on the one hand capital and industry as it ought to be protected in a commercial country, and on the other hand to protect the lives of her Majesty's subjects from such injuries as might with due precaution be guarded against. Travellers were not now on the same footing as they were sixty years ago. Formerly, persons tra velling from Edinburgh to London took the precaution of making their wills, the journey occupying something like a fortnight. But things were now altogether changed, and fromthe slowest point of travelling we bad arrived at the most rapid, and persons now starting on a railway journey thought it necessary to insure their lives. There was something ridiculously tragical in the appearance of many of the railway offices by the side of the time bills were to be seen notices posted, with the most ingenious candour on the part of the directors—notices in the most seductive terms, advising the traveller to insure his life, showing him that it was his duty to do so, in justice to his wife and children ; and many persons were induced to do so under the im pression that they might never see their friends again, and that if their friends should happen to see them they might not be able to recognise them in a shapeless mass., To show the extent to which insurances of this kind were incurred he was informed by credible witnesses that the railway insurance companies had received some thing like seven per cent. as a dividend. The public were clearly at the mercy of the railway companies. Formerly the coach proprietor and the innkeeper stood hat in hand before the public, but now the public were obliged to stand hat in hand before railway directors. The subject of railway travelling was one which ought to engage the attention of the Government, and some effort ought to be made to tranquillise the public mind. Some time ago he was requested to make a representa tion to the directors. They confessed the annoyance ; acknowledged that there could be no reason for having only three trains to London and four down trains ; they also admitted the cruelty of detaining these poor people at Southampton, and the injustice of having taken away the day communication by post, but promised that the matter would be remedied in March. Sic vole, sic jubeo. The station-masters admitted that the evil arose from nothing but the want of a little management. He urged on the Government the necessity of considering whether they could not apply some remedy without infringing on the rights of the companies or the rights of property; and felt quite certain they could not do a more pepular thing than to institute an investigation into those evils of which the public had so much right to complain. (Hear, hear.) Lord VIVIAN wished to ask whether the Govern ment could not interfere and stop the traffic on a line in the event of its being in a dangerous condition ? Lord STANLEY (of Alderley) said that after a line was once opened the Government possessed no power to interfere with it or stop the traffic.' The Board of Trade was empowered by act of Parliament to send down in spectors to examine the line, whose duty it was to cer tify whether the line was in a fit state to be opened and could be safely worked, and until such certificate was given no line could be opened. With respect to the subject which had been brought under consideration by the noble earl, he thought there was none more deserving of their lordships' attention. The returns were then ordered. Lord MONTEAGLE 6ve notice of his intention, on Friday next, to present a petition from Bombay, on the subject of the renewal of the East India Company' charter. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes to four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Manchester and Salford Education ; City of Dublin Steam-Packet Company ; Lands Improvement Company. WEST LONDON WATERWORKS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. BARROW moved that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Sir J. SHELLEY suggested that the bill should be referred to a select committee, as the subject stB to the supply of water to the metropolis involved details which could not be inquired into satisfactorily by the house. Lord SEYMOUR opposed the suggestion of the hon. baronet, on the ground that the whole subject had al ready been investigated by a committee of the house. He thought it would be most unfair to sanction a competing scheme like in the present, after the settle ment which was come tothe last Parliament respect ing existing water companies, and which imposed on those com panies very heavy conditions, for the purpose of obtaining an improved supply of water. If the pre sent water companies did not fulfil their engage ments, the better course would be, instead of sanc tioning opposing schemes, to deprive them of their powers, and place the supply of water under the control of a municipal body. He should vote against the second reading. Sir B. HALL supported the bill. Aft e r some discus sion, in which Mr. Bouverie, Lord jhou s . Manners, divided,o rt W alms l y, ed Against it, 9 3 and dot— -99 others, took part, the F n reading, there p appeared— Sir when second Majority, 6 The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. Mr. V, SMITH appeared at the bar, and reported that the committee appointed to inquire into the peti tion against the return for Cambridge had come to the resolution that Kenneth Macaulay and John Henry Astell, Esqrs., were not duly elected for that borough, and that the last election was a void election ; also that they were both guilty, by their agents, of bribery at the last election. [The resolution come to was given in detail in The Sun of yesterday.] On the motion of the hon. member, it was agreed that the evidence taken before the committee should be laid on the table of the house. The HoN. MEMBER also gave notice that to-morrow he would move that the evidence be printed, and that no writ be issued for Cambridge until the 11th of April. Pin a bill in the House of Lords to suspend its operation, in order, as he said, " That their lordships might have an opportunity of preventing that injustice which must ensue if one sort of property was to be taxed and land was not." This bill was rejected, and he entered a pro test in the Lords' journal, condemning in strong terms the injustice of taxing personal property and wholly to exempt real property. In 1804, 1805, and 1815 acts were passed to extend the area of these taxes, and from 1815 they had continued the same to the present time. In the act of 1805, legacies left by will, chargeable on land, and also the proceeds of sales of land directed by will to be sold, were both made subject to the legacy duty, but not to probate duty. The following were some of the partial and unjust provisions of the acts im posing these taxes :—Leases on hand for a term of years including outlay for improvements, must be valued, and both probate and legacy duty paid on the full valuation, while leases of land for lives, and the land itself, pay nothing. Houses built on building leases pay both duties on their full value, but the ground landlords pay no duty, neither are those taxes paid on the value of the same houses when they fall into the landlords hands after the expiration of the leases. Houses built by landlords on their own land are exempted from paying both of these taxes. Lands sold on a lease of one thou sand years for a peppercorn rent, although as good as freeholds, pay both duties on the full value. This is ac counted for by the estates of the aristocracy not being held by this tenure. If a landed estate is left to a person which is charged with mortgage or other debt, and along With it funded or any other personal property, I he can apply the latter to pay the debts on the landed estate without paying upon it either of the duties ; the value of a farmer's lease, including outlay on improve ments, of his stock, crops, implements of husbandry, furniture, and even wearing apparel, must pay both probate and legacy duty, while the owner of the land pays nothing. Probate duty must be paid on the full value of an insolvent estate, and the whole amount is not returned. 'Property left by a husband to a wife, or wife to a husband, pays neither of the duties. Per sonal property of every kind• of the value of 201. and up wards pays both duties. Numerous means were re sorted to of evading the probate and legacy duties, and the practice was carried to a vast extent. For instance, persons possessing large landed property saved large sums of money for their younger children, which to avoid these duties they gave to them in their life. time. The late Lord Stowell, the judge of the Ad miralty Court and Consistory Court of the Bishop of London, where wills are proved, in order to save pay ing these duties under his will, transferred large sums in the public funds to his son, whom he required to give him (Lord Stowell) a power of attorney to receive the dividends, which he did during his lifetime ; the son died a short time before him, and a Chancery suit was instituted to ascertain to which of the two the property belonged, so that the learned judge was after all taken in. Property given by deed of gift was, after death, or by deed of settlement, exempted from the duties. In 'the case of funded or other property registered in joint names, the survivor took possession of the whole with out paying any duty. Mr. Porter in his work "The Progress of the Nation" stated that less than three tenths of heads of families who die annually leave pro perty subjected to these duties. The probate duty, like our whole system of taxation, threw its heaviest burden on the poorest classes. A., legacy of 201. paid 24 per cent. probate duty, but the duty was reduced in amount as the value of the bequest rose. It was 11 per cent. on 1,0001., and would be only 4 per cent. on 1,000,000/. ; above that amount no duty was charged. On letters of administration taken out when there was no will, the probate duty was 50 per cent. more. As a proof of its pressure on the poorer classes, he might mention that in 1848 there were 26,463 letters of administration and wills proved, the value of the property left by 17,602 persons being from 201. to 2501. The aristocracy and landowners justified their exemption from paying those taxes, on the pretence that the conveyance of land sold was excluisively burdened with heavy stamp duties. But in fact the conveyance of land sold paid precisely the same stamp duty as the conveyance or transfer of shares or stock sold in railways, canals, docks, joint stock banks, insurance companies, gas works, mining companies, harbours, water companies, and all other joint-stock companies, and the bonds of corporations, except the stocks of the Banks of England and Ireland, and of the East India Company, which paid only 30s. for the transfer of all amounts, however large or small. All the shares he had enumerated, except the last, paid the duties of from 21 to 11 per cent. on probates, and from Ito 10 per cent. on legacies. Mr. Porter, who for many years was head of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, and who was afterwards promoted to the secretaryship of that board, said in his work, "The Progress of the Nation" :—" The probate and legacy duties are accompanied by the advantage which generally attends direct taxation, that a much larger part of their produce than taxes indirectly collected finds its way into the public treasury ; they are also free from the evil effects commonly ascribed to direct taxation ; that it engenders irritation, and is regarded as a greater burden than the payment of duties to a greater amount on consumable commodities. The probate and legacy duties are in truth not felt as a tax ; objections to them I as levied in this country might be brought forward, viz., the partiality shown in excluding from their operation that description of property which from its greater com parative value and security is called real property. This partiality has always been felt as a grievance, and the sense of injustice which it is calculated to awaken is of more moment than any temporary irritation that may accompany any demand for money taxes." This was a most important statement, considering the authority of the person by whom it was made. In the year 1851 the amount of property which paid the legacy duty was 51,837,0001., and the amount of the duty was 1,315,3801., the rate varying according to the degrees of ' consanguinity from 1 to 6 per cent.; and, in fact, being 10 per cent. when no relationship existed between the testator and the legatee. The average rate was more than 21 per cent. In the same year the amount of the probate duty was 1,063,400/., the rate varying from 21 per cent. on 20/. to 11 per cent. on large sums up to one million, all above that sum paying nothing. In some cases legacy duty only, and in others probate duty only was paid; and as there was no official return of the gross , amount on which the probate duty was paid in 1851, he had taken it as the same as that on which the legacy duty was paid. The average duty paid on this was more than 2 per cent., making the average rate of the legacy and probate duties together more than 44 per cent. In the year ending April 5, 1851, the rental of real pro perty on which the income tax was paid in England, Wales, and Scotland, was, of land 47,800,0001.; of mes suages, 43,000,0001. ; of manorp, mines, quarries, and tithes belonging to lay impropriators, 4,430,000/. ; making together 95,230,000/. Taking the same descrip tions of property in Ireland at 12,500,0001., they amount together to 107,730,0001. As no income tax was paid on incomes of less than 1501. a year, the amount of the rental in Great Britain did not include land, houses, mines, manors, quarries, and lay tithes of less value than 1501. a year, except in cases where other property com bined to make up an income of that sum. If this enor mous amount of real property was made to pay the pro ' bate and legacy duties, it would produce the following amount, taking the annual rental of Great Britain at 25 years' purchase, and the average duration of the lives in possession of that property at 22 years, and the rental of Ireland at 15 years' purchase, and the average dura tion of lives while in possession at 22 years, this would give us the amount on which these taxes would be paid annually, 116,738,0001., which at 41 per cent. (the aver age amount of the taxes), would amount to 5,253,0001. From this a deduction should be made of the amount of real property which now pays those duties. This, Mr. Trevor, the comptroller of legacy duty, estimates at 500,0001., being two-fifths of the whole amount of the legacy duty; but Mr. Pressly, commissioner of stamps and taxes, estimates it at less than 400,0001., in refer ence to which he said:—"l have endeavoured to arrive at something like a calculation, but it is very unsatisfac tory." Against this deduction again should be placed the value of land, houses, mines, manors, quarries, and lay impropriator tithes under 1501. a year, which are not included in the income tax returns. The amount under 160/. a-year in schedule Ais 9,940,0001., of which 11 per cent, is personal property, leaving of real property I 8,847,0001., which, at 25 years' purchase and 22 years' duration of life in possession, gives 452,400/., a medium I between the estimates of Mr. Trevor and Mr. Pressly. If the probate and legacy duties had been imposed on real property in 1796, and had been allowed to accumu late with interest and compound interest to this time, they would have paid off the greater portion of the na tional debt. The injustice of these taxes did not escape the late Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Disraeli), who in his speech on the budget said, "We have not neglected carefully to examine the question of the probate duties, and we think it not impossible to bring forward on the right occasion a duty on successions that will reconcile the system of injustice now so much complained of." That was the legacy which he had left to the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, and if he did not carry out faithfully these principles, the nation would triumphantly bring the right hon. member for Bucks (Mr. Dis raeli) back to power, for they never would allow the continuance of the gross injustice at present perpetrated by these taxes. He could refer to many instances of large landed estates which had been bequeathed by land owners, in order to show the amount which would have been realised to the nation had real property been charg able to these duties. He would, however, only mention one instance. Lord Rolle, not long since, left to a rela tion of his wife an estate worth 40,0001. a-year ; the value of that estate, at 25 years' purchase, would be 1,000,0001., upon which the legacy duty would have been 100,000/., and the probate duty 15,0001 . , if real property had been subjected to these taxes. If a labourer on this estate, by frugal savings, had left behind him property of the value of 201., including his scanty furni ture, and even his smock-frock, it would have been com pelled to pay both probate and legacy duty, even if left to a brother or sister, And this was in England—in a Christian country, where it was said that we acted on the principle of doing to others as we would be done by. He entertained the highest opinion both of the abilities and the moral qualities of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, and doing so, he implored him to take this subject into careful consideration, and to remove from the landed interest the stigma of screening themselves t from the payment of taxes which they imposed upon others. He had, indeed, great confidence that the right PETITIONS. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented petitions from York shire, Kent, and other counties, against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. MASTERMAN presented a petition from. an Assurance Company, complaining of the tax on an nuities. Mr. R. PALMER presented several petitions from the East Riding of Yorkshire, against the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Surrey, in favour of the separation of Church and State. Mr. MULLINGS presented a petition from a body of London solicitors against the Examiners of Chancery Bill. Mr. SMYTH presented a petition from the letter carriers of York, praying for the redress'" of their griev ances. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition in favourpi the London University returning members to Parlia . ment. Mr. MILES presented a petition from Cumberland against the admission of Jews into Parliament; also a petition against the grant to Maynooth. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the letter-carriers of Bridgnorth, complaining of the order of the Postmaster-General abolishing Christmas boxes. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose in favour of the extention of the county court system to Scotland ; also a petition against the taxes on know lecke. kr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Birmingham in favour of an ocean penny pose. PILOTAGE Viscount GODERICIr wished to asli, the President of the Board of Trade whether he was able to give an as surance that he would bring, forward the measure relating to pilotage, of which he had given notice, on Monday next ? Mr. CARDWELL said he had consulted with his noble friend the member for the City of London, and he had no doubt that he should be abl e t o ma k e his state ment on Monday next. THE GUARDS. Colonel LINDSAY wished to ask the right hon. the Secretary at War if it was true what the hon. member for Montrose stated last night, namely, that there had been no reduction made in the emolument, of the colonel of the Grenadier Guards, as recommended by the com mittee of 1835 ? Mr. S. HERBERT was glad to have an opportuniii of setting this question right. He apprehended that the hon. member for Montrose had not been correctly re ported in the newspapers, as the hon. member did not state that no reduction had been made in the emolu ments, but that the recommendation of the committee of 1835, that the office of Colonel in the Guards should only be conferred upon veterans in the army. Now, first of all, with regard to the recommendation of the committee in reference to the reduction of the emolu ments, it had been strictly carried out, and the pay of the i Senior Colonel in the Grenadier Guards had been reduced from 4,000/. a-year to 3,000/., while that of the two junior colonels had been reduced from 3,0001. to 2,0001. With regard to the recommendation which the hon. member for Montrose referred to, he begged to state that he had looked over the report and proceedings of the committee, and that he could • find no such recommendation recorded, nor could it well have been made, for it had been the practice, from time immemorial, give the colonelcies of these regiments to such members of the royal family as were capable of holding important mili tary offices. Up to 1835, of the ten colonels who held the office in question, only four were not members of the royal family, and of that four the Duke of Welling ton, who of course was an exception to all rule, was one. Now, Prince Albert at the time of the death of the Duke of Wellington, was the senior colonel in the Guards, and it was in the natural course of regimental promo tion, that he succeeded to the colonelcy of the Grenadier Guards, and the Duke of Cambridge to the Fusi lier Gdards. He might also be allowed to add, that while Prince Albert held the appointment of colonel of the Fusilier Guards he never .Lrew the full amount of his pay of 2,000/. a year, but devoted a por tion of it to increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the men. (Hear.) Mr. HUME having been on the committee remembered distinctly that it was the wish of the committee that the three colonelcies of the Guards should always be conferred as a sort of hono rary distinction upon veterans in the army. A recom mendation to that effect was proposed by a member of the committee who was connected with the navy, and if it was not embodied in the report of the committee, he was sure the right honourable member for Coventry, who was then Secretary at War s would bear him out when he stated that the Government of the day were favourable to carrying out the wishes of the committee t o i n on th o i n s s F u r b i n j %c o t . Albert H e h ador r t h n e o D w n i s k h e t o o f c t a m h r o b w r d any ; o r n e fltehc e t c o o n t t r h a e r y, s h t a e t i t o h n o u g w h h t i c both t h h e y a d filledd ne h o b n u o t u r h a e n d h c a ed i a t right to blame the Government of the day for neglect ing to see that the recommendation of the committee was carried out. Mr. HERBERT said it might have been the intention of the committee that these offices should be kept for veterans in the army ; but their report made no mention whatever of any such intention. FOREIGN REFUGEES. Lord D. STUART said he wished to ask the Go vernment a question of some importance. It was cur rently rumoured that demands had been addressed by certain foreign powers to the Government of this refugees country whohad found for the removal an a r expulsion sy certainloufm u poli England.tie a 1 Now, he wished to ask the Government if there was any foundation for those rumours, and if there was, what course they intended to pursue ? (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said—Sir, In answer to my noble friend's question, of whether any application has been made by foreign powers to her Majesty's Govern ment for the expulsion of any foreign refugees now in the United Kingdom, I have to state that no such ap plication has been made. (Hear, hear.) In reply to the other question, of what course the Government would pursue in the event of such an application being made, I have only to repeat what has been stated on a former occasion in this house, that any such application would be met with a firm and decided refusal. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) It is indeed obvious that that must be so, because such a measure could not be taken by the Government of this country without fresh powers being conferred upon them by act of Parliament ; and I apprehend that no Government, even if they were in clined to do so, could apply to this house for such powers with any chance of success — (loud cheers)—inasmuch as no Alien Bill, passed within the present century,' ever gave the Government power to expel foreigners from the kingdom except with reference to considerations connected with the internal safety of the country. The British Government has never undertaken to provide for the internal safety of other countries, and it is sufficient that Parliament should give the Government measures for our own internal security without meddling with that of other countries. (Hear.) But I cannot confine my answer to this simple statement. I must ask to be allowed to add that, while on the one hand British laws and the spirit of the British Constitution give to foreigners of all political opinions and all categories a secure and peaceful shelter within this country, I think, on the other hand, that those foreigners who avail themselves of the hospitality of England are bound in every principle of honour— (loud cheers) —as well as by a regard not only to international law, but also the law of the land, to abstain from entering into any intrigues or pursuing any courses intended f or th e purpose of giving umbrage to foreign Governments, or of disturb ing the internal tranquillity of foreign countries. (Cheers.) In reply to Mr. SOHOLEFIELD, Mr. FITZROY said a fourth portion of the census of 1851 would shortly be published, and laid` before the house. The delay that had taken place was owing to 300 pages of the work been accidentally b9rnt at the printers. DICKENS'S "HOUSEHOLD WORDS."' In reply to Mr. COLLIER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the report of the law officers of the Crown on the pre sent state of the law affecting newspapers, had not yet been received by the Government. PROBATE AND LEGACY DUTIES. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, in rising to bring before the house the subject of the extension of the probate and legacy duties to real property, said he had given notice before Christmas of a motion to this effect, with the view of thus making up the deficiency in the revenue antici pated as likely to result from the reductions announced by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. In deference to the generally expressed wishes of the house, he had withdrawn that motion. It had long been one of the most crying grievances of our system of taxation—that real property was exempted from those probate and legacy duties which were levied on every description of personal property. The act which imposed the probate and legacy duties was passed in 1796. Mr. Pitt, ap prehending successful opposition from members of both houses of Parliament to subject their estates to those taxes, brought in two bills—one to subject personal pro perty to pay them, and the other to impose the same duties on real property. On the introduction of the first bill, Mr. Fox objected to the separation into two bills. He said " There was a great deal of force in the objection about not bringing forward the other bill with regard to the tax on landed property. He saw no good reason why they should be separated, but many why they should be kept together." Mr. Pitt agreed " that the principle on which the two bills was founded was much the same, and if this bill passed it would be very desirable that the principle should be extended to real property." The bill passed—only 16 voted against it. It passed the Lords without opposition, and soon re ceived the royal assent. That bill having been secured, the other bill was proceeded with, to impose the same duties on real property, on which occasion Mr. Pitt said, "That the principle of the bill having been already existing upon legacies, it never could recognised in the personal succession tax, and also on erllyuctance, because persons would feel t b h e e p d a u i t d ies wi fo t rm b r e little or no hardship in paying a tax out of that property which they did not expect to enjoy. The bill passed with little opposition to the third reading —a mot i on made by Mr. Pitt that it be now read a third time was lost by a majority of two. He then moved that it be read a third time next morning, when the numbers for and against were equal. The Speaker gave his casting vote for the motion, but Mr. Pitt, seeing no chance of nassing.it through either house withdrew it. The other till h av wg already become law, Lord Lauderdale brought / /~~~- e)L--e.--g ~,,- made material deductions from the statemenf—of-lh e honourable gentleman, I shall now make a few remarks on his sanguine expectations with respect to the enor mous-amount of landed property that may be brought under the operation of the law by the change which he proposes should take place. (Hear, hear.) I did not precisely catch the actual figures he stated, but I thought his calculation was that several millions were to proceed from this proposed taxation of landed property. But the honourable gentleman has made a most serious omis sion, because it is not true that nothing whatever is paid by landed property to the legacy and probate duty. (Hear, hear.) Annuities and all sums of money charged upon land pay legacy duty ; all lands directed to be sold for the purpose of dividing the proceeds pay legacy duty; and an eminent solicitor, Mr. Baxter, gave in evidence before a committee of the House of Lords, that out of ten wills disposing of unsettled landed property, nine directed the estates to be sold and the proceeds to be divided. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS—That was in a particular district in Yorkshire. (Cries of order, order.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I am going through the deductions one by one. And this gentleman gave it as his opinion that this quantity of land was liable to be sold, and to pay the legacy duty. (Hear, hear.) I have had an opportunity of seeing Mr. Trevor, an intelligent witness who gave evidence before the committee of the House of Lords, and I asked hina the proportion he now forms of the legacy duty that is paid by real property under the provisions of the act ci 1805, and he computes it as seven -sixteenths of the whole amount. (Hear, heai.) Your machinery does not enable you to state with perfect precision the real amount paid by real property, but a good judge tells us that it automats to seven-sixteenths of the whole. (Hear, hear.) Though it is tree that a great deal of real property escapes the legacy duty, y e t thi s i s also unquestionably true, that if you had the pow er t o l evy your legacy duty uniformly and equally over the whole property of the country, and if you succeeded in levying that legacy duty over the whole of that property, I doubt very much if you would get so good a proportion as seven. sixteenths out of the land. (Hear, hear.) I think y ou might get more than nine-sixteenths out of personal property, and less than seven-sixteenths out of landed! property. (Hear, hear.) But anothe r imp or t an t deduc tion is to be made from the statement which the hon. gentleman has made to the house. The supposition is that the great bulk of landed property escapes altogether the operation of this duty, but those who discuss the question appear to forget the subsisting mots/doges upon the land. (Hear, hear, hear.) Now, what proportion of the land of the country is under mortgage ! I believe I should be estimating moderately if I said the land of the country was charged with mortgages to the extent of a fourth part of its value. (Hear, hear.) It may be more, but I assume it is one-fourth, so that the bene ficial interest to that extent pays probate and legacy duty. (Hear, hear.) Now the hon. gentleman could not intend to say that if this new system which he pro poses were established the parties should pay the tax twice over. (Hear, hear.) Suppose there is an owner of landed property which is valued at 22,0001., and the income from which is 7001. a year • suppose also th ere is a mortgage for 7,0001. c h arg ed on that land on account of which the owner pays 4001. yearly ; surely the hon. gentleman does not intend to say that the owner of that land is to pay the probate and legacy duty on the 7001. a year, and on the 4001. a year too. (Hear, hear.) To come, therefore, to a t r u e judgment in the case, you must deduct from the whole mass of the landed property of this country the portion of it that pays .probate and legacy duty in the shape of interest upon mortgages. (Hear, hear.) Thus far I have only spoken of the deductions that ought to be made from the statement of the hon. gentleman ; further I will go on to say, that it is one of those subjects that cannot be viewed as an isolated question—we must take into view many other circumstances and previsions with respect to the landed property of the country. The hon. gentle man spoke of the stamp on conveyances. No doubt was the policy of the Legislature comparatively to burden the transfer of land, and to facilitate the descent of land—on the other hand, to burden the descent of personal property, and to make the transfer of personal property easy. The statement has been often made, and the hon. gentleman impugns it by stating that the same stamp duty is levied upon the transfer of railway shares that is levied upcn the transfer of a piece of land. That is true, but he should recollect that there is between 70,000,006/. and 80,000,0001. of property— no small portion of personal property, namely, the funded property of this country—that pays nothing at all upon transfer, and when settled to a considerable degree pays nothing on descent. (Hear, hear.) Although you may choose by your system of stamp duties to fix the same rates for landed and personal pro perty, it will happen that your personal property will go scot-free as to transfer where the landed property must pay the stamp on transfer. (Hear.) The reason is that the great bulk of personal property is capable of passing by delivery, and being so capable it requires no legal transfer ; it has no legal transfer, and the stamp duty is not paid. It is quite true it is paid upon railway shares, and on some limited descriptions of personal property ; but as to the vast proportion of the transfers of real property they are subject to no tax whatever but the re ceipt stamps ; and I believe it is but too true that that that trifling amount is in many instances not paid at all. (Hear.) The sum of 10s. is enough to cover the transfer of a million of money, and the fact is that the great bulk pays nothing or next to nothing upon transfers. (Hear.) That the tax upon conveyances is a compensation for legacy and probate duty is not entirely to be put out of view, and when you are adjusting a system of taxation for real property and personality, you must not forget the facility of transfers which personality so entirely en joys, and that, although you may enact that an equal rate is to be paid upon it, yet, in practical operation, the great bulk of it escapes from the payment of the tax. You cannot put that out of view in considering what justioe demands in dealing with the taxation on real pro perty. (Hear, hear.) lam the last person to claim any favour for real property—but it should not be subject to unequal taxation ; and the amount should be estimated not by any one duty, but by the operation of your gene ral fiscal system, and it is utterly impossible to exclude from the view of that general fiscal system of local taxa tion. You cannot forget that in England alone 10,000,0001. a-year is levied off real property, about which personality knows nothing at all. Mr. WILLIAMS—Houses are charged. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It is the realty that pays, Houses may be real property as well as land. Mr, WlLLlAMS—Railways. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER--I al ways looked upon the case of railways, in respect to the rates they pay, as one worthy of consideration ; and I agree with thehon. gentleman entirely, that railways and the unfortunate owners of tithes are very unfairly treated. (Hear.) In the consideration of your fiscal system you cannot put out of view the fact that in England something like 10,000,0001., and in the whole United Kingdom 12,000,0001. or 13,000,0001., are levied off real property for the purposes of local taxation, about which personal property knows nothing whatever. (Hear, hear.) That is not the principle of your law ; according to the principle of your law, personal property is just as much subject to those local charges as real property. (Hear, hear.) I do not, however, wish to see personal prop er ty su bj ec t t o th ose c h arges. It would lead to confusion, tyranny, and a multitude of evils, if you attempted to subject personalty to those charges ; but I do not doubt that if plans of reform are driven to an extreme extent you may bring that personal property within the scope of local taxation. (Hear, hear.) In stead of endeavouring to reach mathematical precision in each item of taxation, we should look on the result of taxation as a whole, and endeavour to establish fairness in its operation. (Near, hear.) The time will come for the discussion of the income tax, and at present I am not going to open it prematurely, but I wish to advert to a single point. I am not going to speak of the in come tax at this moment in so far as it falls upon skill and labour, but I am only going to look at it in so far as it falls upon property, and upon property, too, which is the subject likewise of legacy and probate duty. (Hear, hear.) Confining my view to that subject, I say boldly you cannot defend the present incidence of the income tax upon real property. (Hear, hear.) The in terest arising from money in the funds and the interest payable on mortgages pay the income tax according to the income actually received repairs,nccases so ; em b s u e t taxt where p real a yo p snn r o o t p hvi e ean r t eci a n y on ine p t oe a m y f ai s esr a t t. th e x income tax, not according to what is recei ve d, b ut i t i a no p n a pays th e arrears, n h al income ai.td o t a x o pays ze o t t h hn e e r ceived. Mr. WILLIAMS—Then amend it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —No man will be so grateful to the hon. gentleman as I shall be, if he will produce a good and practical pan to amend it. (Hear, hear.) The melancholy conclusion I am driven to is, that we must perforce r ake up our minds in many cases to put up with inequalities, a ities, and be satis fiifetdhothaeatlnoenciuthaLweshoaler,etfhoeunedndstoo justice are attained balance one another. (Hear,h r ea u r p . o ) n thinkthis Ihiaon, thesediaeussiand without t a ki ng th em are all most important facts hatbea view you cannot arrive into k at tt aaomfaeirisoelsattimedatgeueosftitehne question. Therefore, to —to look at the operation of the law with regard to one descriopftiootnh other r f systems of y, 'without considering the opera tionsa reprehensible practice, but it is dice that requires to be corrected and qualified, and acoPnr:idered in reference taxation upon it is, 1 will not say sion that will be a safe guide in practice. ( Ilea T , r h ! a u r y .) With respect to the mode in which one particular driti, if we are to arrive at a general conclu is fixed, I think there is a strong againstcas . e n / consequence of present system requires amendment in of the scale the capricious and absurd arrangem ent of duty. (Hear, hear.) WhY are as if there were no have reached one million of money, e a Y,_ fund stopping at that such thing in this country p an immense amount of we to stop when we rding to the amount ? And if nothing be re adjusted. I es duty which, ace° 11 through personal property ulreajt escape, and esp ia_ y ec t law is most e e a e r done, that scale should present law, Should not deeds of gift the oP It is clear that the (Hear, • of this country, unsatisfactory. the personal property present ) mous increase in duty does not grow larger. hear ) There has been n aeneenntoher ; amount that has paid o s ol , and there is very little doubt that if but the legacy l eg acy duty fora series of years is ~hout 45,000, f ?ter . the principle of the law, looking to did no. fr 4 , 5 0 ,Z004)2 1 0/ I . 3 , ro o p u e t rty of , you which seven aid 'isiireeari,criec°lf _get something very near to double that hear.) The hon. gentleman has ad personallrop:eixrttyoeanitohsne v a erie d to the case of the poor man ; he says his property pays the full probate duty, and I agree that it does, and you should (Hear, that it is a great hardship. 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