The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-23 00:00:00

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL on incomes derived from skill and intelligence as ASSURANCE S t O th C e lE Y compared with those derived from real property ; sum of I Bo 3l nrs 2 Ls w hy s e a r d e e n d d te ec t l h ar e e; producing a Bonus vary- nor for still continuing TWO HEAVY T AXES OR the last T in January, 1852, the ing with the different ages from 2414 Policies, to 55 percent. on the Premiums paid during the Ave years, or from Si. to 121 . 10 s. per cent. on the classes in question as compared with the l an dl or d gum Assured. class. Mr. GLADSTONE, in his admirably f ac il e roil divisible in future among the Share and apparently logical style of speaking, is, in truth, Ig T : he e rs:be n a e l l n a Y s n h o a w r p o r f o ,P ided t for, the Assured will hereafter derive obtainable from a Muttral Office, without any Liability a very audacious vender of counterfeit logic. Risk of Partnership. Appearing to discard the brilli anc i es o f ora t ory, One-half the life premium for the first five years may remain o n and to appeal to the underst an di ng c hi e fl y, h e crelonlamliedpLativd thirty y y be assured at rates proportioned to the risk. days after proof of death, and all Policies are consciously, or unconsciously—th e l a tt er we believe I n di s putable except in cases of fraud. The last year's Report (Just pr ) nted) can be obtained free of for the most part—b egu il es hi s h earers, as he has GJEORGE 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. beguiled himself; by fallacies, which we det ec t ere 99, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. we get home. Take the present instance. He is determined to adhere to his Income Tax crotchet. As the Times even yet observes, it is clear to everybody else what are precarious incomes and what are not. Mr. GLADSTONE cannot, how ever, discern the difference, and asks with infan tine simplicity, "What is precarious income ?" Hence he is equally unable to see that any ap proximation to justice on this point is infinitely better than the present gross injustice. Indeed, by playing fast and loose with these con flicting arguments —now arguing that there was no difference, or next to none, now that though a difference must be confessed, yet that he could not find any means to deal with that difference— he disclosed pretty plainly the special pleader for a foregone conclusion ; and this is " the clean breast of it " which Lord JOHN RUSSELL promised at Guildhall his Government would make, if they could not better the present assessment. Well, having announced that he must leave the incomes of the " skilful and intelligent " exposed to the unmitigated depredations of his Income-Tax collectors, he proposes to " equalise" the affair another way. And how ? Of course by laying some compensating tax on " the lazy classes," as he :terms them, who have and work not, those who live on the proceeds of real pro perty. No such thing. He turns round to these latter classes and merely asks them to quiet the skilled and intelligent by paying one-half of a cer tain tax from which, in thoroughly feudal style, they had previously exempted themselves. By downright fraudin Mr. Pm's time, a fraud which that great man did his best to prevent—Land lords exempted themselves from Legacy and Probate Duties, and laid them upon all other persons ! The day of reckoning has been long deferred ; the landlords, in fact, owe " skill and intelligence" some 250,000,000/. for the past ; yet Mr. GLADSTONE had the boldness to represent this as an equalising.of any injustice done us by the Income Tax. These duties were like the Corn Laws--only in another form—a feudal monopoly. It was a tax evaded for the benefit of. their own class, requiring all these years to pay some 5,000,000/. or so more of Customs and Excise Duties, just as the Corn Laws were a tax laid upon us direct to a their pockets. This monopoly he now partly repeals, and then has the hardihood to tell us that the " workers," in con sequence, are put on a par "with the lazy !"—that we are to submit to fiscal plunder No. 1, because we are delivered from fiscal plunder No. 2. We do hope that the representatives of the in jured classes will lift up this flimsy veil before an indignant House. If the " Manchester School" fail in their especial department now, we have done with them for ever. We are left, then, to an unjust Income Tax. But this is not all : we are left to pay two or three millions annually, in the shape of Probate Duties, for it is we who pay it. Mr. GLADSTONE—as "unable" as ever Sir C. Woo") was, when justice for the many against the landlords is concerned—. is unable to touch the Probate Duties yet ! Why unable ? What is there in them more difficult to handle than in the Legacy Duties ? Why cannot the maximum value of real estate be sworn to on a valuation as well as the. goods and chattels of a poor tradesman, or of the deceased proprietor him- This duty, too, would begin to come in very quickly, as it is paid on proving the will. There is, and there can be, no reason for deferring charging real estate with Probate Duty, but Mr. GLADSTONE'S determination to make skill and intelligence pay two or three millions more as yet of Excise or Customs. Anti for what 7 That he may spare landlords, keep on the taxes on knowledge, retain duties on butter, cheese, salt meat, and eggs, and leave 50,0001. a-year to spare to secure the good-will of the Times ! It is clear, therefore, as we observed at the beginning, that " skill and intelligence," in the hands of Mr. GLADSTONE, are left virtually sub ject to two unrighteous taxes. One, the amount which they unjustly pay towards the Income Tax, and which they are to bear for seven years more, most assuredly to find the then CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER a very LABAN, who will demand another seven years' service for some beloved object. The only ti ing Mr. GLADSTONE has really done is to set the fashion of renewals for seven years instead of three. Tho second tax he saddles us with is the Probate Duties, which, if paid by all real property, would amount, we believe, to more than 3,000,0001., since a large portion of such property now escapes Probate Duty, though paying Legacy Duty. And this 3,000,000/. we have to make good. It is scarcely, indeed, possible to compute how much we lose for want of this 3,000,000/. The briskness of trade con sequent on repealing - the Taxes on Knowledge, and the free circulation of millions of Advertisements ; the uselessness of Education Grants, when every man would educate himself to read his cheap daily paper; the increased consumption of the few main articles, on which taxes need to remain, in the Customs ; the Post-office and Stamp-office both feeling the profitable effects of expanding educa tion and commerce—we repeat, the glorious work ing of an honest dealing with the Probate Duties alone can hardly be over-estimated. Unfair as the bargain would still have been, we should cer tainly have uttered somewhat fewer groans if, with the wicked schedule D still pressing upon us, we had been relieved from all the odious taxes with which we are still loaded to pay the share of Probate Duties which belong, in all equity, to wealthy Dukes, Lords, and Squires. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstont THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be performed ELOPEMENTS IN mu II LIFE. By Messrs. B. Sullivan, Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Buckstone, and Comp ton ; Mwdames Fitzwilliam, Reynolds, L. S. Buckingham, Sac. After which MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR KAMM To conclude with OUR MARY ANNE. ROTAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENINf4, Aram 23, will be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Tonga. Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID; or, Dorothy's Fortune. Principal characters by Messrs. 'A right, W. Lacy, Harey, J. Tin. Ing. Terry, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chester; Mrs. W. Lacy and Miss Murray. After which will ho fert , rmcd the new Drama, adapted from she French of Mons. Scribe, by Mr. Pa:grave Simpson, called XA-RCO SPADA. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Maclaine Vestris. THIS EVENING, Arum 23, Win b^ performed A HOUSE OUT Or WINDOWS. After which, A.S.S. (first time). To be f I!owed by USED UP. Pincipal character Mr. C. 31.1thewa. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Aram 2; Will be performed A DESPERATE GAME. After which, MASKS AND FACES ; or, Before and Behind the Curtain-by Messrs. B Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedford, and 0. Smith ; Mesdames Celeste, Woolgaz, &c. To be followed by BETSY B I KER by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with PEPINO THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS MONKEY. ROYAL OLYMpm THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farrcn. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be performed THE ROAD TO , RUIN. Characters by Messrs. Farren, 11. Marston, H. Farren, G. Cooke, riddear, Morgan, Bender, and Kinloch ; Mesdames A. Phillips and E. Turner. After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. To c nclur , e with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Fnpported by Mes rs. H. Marston, F. Robson, and Cooke ; Mesdames A. Phillii a and 11. Gordon. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AIitHITHEA.TRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Brilliant career of the New Spectacle. The extraordinary and novel Feats of the Horses, the Passage of the Burring Wool, the Leap through Fire, and the terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed from the fearful Heights of the Umtata, continue to be nightly received with increased astonishment and enthusiastic approbation. The training of the Horses for these astounding Feats has occupied Mr. W. Cooke's unremitting attention for months past. THIS EVENLNG, Aram 23, The Performances will, as during the week, commence with the highly successful and magnificent spectacle of AMAKOSA ; or, Scenes of Kafir ►Varfare ; with all its new, beautiful, scenic, inte resting, dramatic, and astonishing Equestf ian effects. To be followed by a most novel and brallant Routine of (lymnas and EquNarlan Achievement+ in the scenes of the ARENA, sup ported by the most eminent British and Continental Artistes of the day. To conclude with a Popular FARCE. l:•,=-ortice open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. NV. DAT —Morning 28 min. after 1 1 Evening 47 min.aft. 1 To•Moaaow—Morning min. a ft er 2 Evening 27 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICR, APRIL 23. THEIMMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52 —highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 50- this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 92. WIND, N.—Fair, but slightly overcast. Cht :r ~, ~~ C~G ~ ' ~ i` ~ ~~J LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1853. " The Income Tax, the whole Income Tax, and nothing but the Income Tax"—"the Income Tax, unchanged, unmodified, and unamended—the In come Tax for seven years longer, extended to all descriptions of incomes in Ireland, and to incomes amounting to 1001. a-year and upwards throughout the whole United Kingdom"! Such is the demand which the Financial Minister of the Joint-Stock. Administration makes upon the Imperial Parlia ment—the " cry" on which he threatens to ap peal to the country in the event of that demand being rejected by the chosen representatives of the people. But will it succeed, either at the Impe rial Palace of Westminster, or with the independent constituencies? These are questions of no ordinary importance to the great Coalitionists of the day, and to those who pin their faith on the Adminis trative abilities of "All the Talents." We can, how ever, entertain but little, if any, doubt, as to the results ; and we cannot for a moment suppose, that the independent Members for independent constituencies could be so base as to succumb to a threat so humiliating and so unconstitutional. If Hon. Gentlemen vote in accordance with their conscientious opinions —if they refuse to truckle to an almost unparalleled attempt at Ministerial despotism—they will decline to affix their seals to a new lease for seven years—in all human proba bility, " renewable for ever"—of the most iniquit ous specimen of class legislation that ever disgraced its concoctors. If they have the slightest regard for their characters, as public men, they must act fairly and consistently. They must repudiate the undue coercion so unjustifiably, and, we will add, so injudiciously attempted. If a doubt could exist on the point, the suggested alternative would be sufficient to turn the scale against the Government which has resorted to such un worthy means of obtaining support. What course will the men of the Manchester school, those who have hitherto so strenuously, so indefatigably, and so consistently denounced the grievance, take in the question ? Will Mr. COBDEN or Mr. BRIGHT agree with the propo sition that "it is impossible to draw any line of demarcation between precarious and perma nent income"? We should think not. These Honourable Gentlemen have well-established reputations to defend, which they will not be willing to surrender on light or trivial grounds. They have the contemptuous neglect of their urgent claims to avenge. They have no thanks to return for the sop to the " CERBERUS of the fourth Estate," that might induce them to sacri fice consistency by surrendering at the first sum mons, or still worse, by a faint and manifestly collusive appearance at defence. No. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for the West Riding, whose complaint against that part of the DISRAELI Budget was that it did not sufficiently discrimi nate between fluctuating and certain income, cannot now support a project, the very essence of which is that there shall be no distinction be-. tween the different descriptions of revenue. What can Mr. HUME say on this point ? Mr. Hum; on whose motion the Select Gommittee was appointed to inquire into the subject— Mr. HUME, whose admirable report points out the true state of the case more clearly than any document on record. Even if an occurrence BO very improbable should take place as the ter giversation of Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, would a similar backsliding b e p oss ibl e on th e part of honest,, faithful, and consistent Jon HUME ? If ever we could pledge ourself for a public man, we would willingly do so for the veteran Reformer. There can be ne mistake on the point, or indeed as to any of the Honourable Gentlemen to whom we have referred, or of their friends and coad jutors. self ? COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieu. tenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour, inspected the Exhibi. Lion of the Society of Painters in Water-colours, in Pall mall East, yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompa nied by her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, paid a visit to the Exhibition of Painters in Water-colours, in Pall-mall East, yesterday. General Mendiburu, Peruvian Minister; D. Josd An tolin Rodulfo, Secretary of Legation ; Doctor D. Julian Sandoval, and Captain D. Mariano de la Fuente, At tach& of the Legation, 'were present at the Levee held by his Royal Highness Prince Albert last Wednesday. The following Members of the House of Commons— Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir J. Wahnsley, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Ewart, Mr. John Cheetham, Mr. J. B. Smith, Sir John Shelley, and Mr. Wilkinson, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequ er at his official residen ce , in Downing-street, on the subject of the taxes on adver tisements and newspapers. A deputation from the Directors of the West-end and Crystal Palace Railway Company had an interview with Sir William Molesworth yesterday, at the office of Works and Public Buildings, in Whitehall-glace. The deputation consisted of Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. Geach, M.P., Mr. Fuller, with Mr. Farquhar (solicitor) and Mr. Fulton, the engineer. Dimpatches were sent to the Governor-General of Ca nada, yesterday, from the Colonial-office. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.—At a public meeting held lastow Tower Hamlets , . evening a a e ta t the ,t o consider Literar thatportionlnstitution, M of h opr e t h e t -st reet, T Chan cellor of the Exchequer's budget referring to the taxes on knowledge, the following resolutions were unani mously agreed to :—" That the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of continuing the adver tisement duty, and taking the stamp off the supplement, is eminently calculated to rivet the fetters of the press, William epe a and can on ly b e cons id ere d as a b r ib e to the Times newspaper." "Th a t a pet i t i on, praying for the total repeal of the taxe, on k now l e d ge, s i gned b y the chairma n behalfr e o s f en th ta e ti m on ee t t o in p g, ar b l e ia f m or e w ni arde . d th to Sir questj that he will support its prayer. " ~ wi a re it DDERSFIELD ELECTION —UUDDERSFIELD, Friday A fternoon. —Th e declaratiOn. of the poll took place this i l morning from the hustings in St. George's s quare, at 11 o'clock, b e f ore an assemblage of soine 2,000 or 3,000 people, when the returning officer declared the numbers to be as follows : 5-91'37 aLordori tyGfoodreriLcolli 6G7oscierif.ocrh,AlB2r.. announcementphStrkey was received with enthusiastic i J i o h s e e cheering. THE ATHLONE ELECTION. —Mr. Keogh, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, was y es t erday returned for Athlone - Mr. Norton, the opposing candidate, havingretired in the morning from the contest. The proposition, then, must be rej ec t e d i n t h e supp or Legislature. The w e i g h t of It will then di ssolution will party, added to the fri en d s a n e d really tern of Liberal Lord DERBY, must prove d ee i s i ve. remain to be seen whethe r a be attempted ; or, if so desp e rate ex pedient should be resorted to, wh et a h li er could possibly prove effectual. We believe thati tthe answers on both points must be in the nega tive, a five, and that Hon. Gentlemen may give their votes honestly and conscientiously without being in any degree terrified by a reappearance at the hustings being the result of their decisive con demnation and rejection of "The Times Budget." eli E lit S I , VA; I - 1 ' f-• !1p --- -....... ..• in" ----- ..---- ... j"7-1W ' ' ' t honestly award to Mr. GLADSTONE, ~ e ca n o 7 :; , f:,"3.- -.- "' ard the Legacy Duties, the credit which t::- . - 4 !)! 1 .7 -- " - - , Am: on temporaries give him. We thank "-`-' 7.a. 'lligi-Sirre-e:re for what he does, but we thank him n) ; - " ~her fir describing it as equalising the burdens ha. 11, , • • -' • ' THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1853. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE --(THIS DAY.) elitrb ';'.!-,::Vittott CITY, TWO 0 CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export and on speculation. There was rather more inquiry, and less pressure to sell. Railway Shares were quiet, with little variation in prices. The return of the Bank of England for the week to the 16th inst. is exceedingly interesting, on account of the important changes that had occurred. There was a large addition to the active circulation of notes payable on demand, besides a great extra requirement of bullion, notwithstanding the repayment of loans, and the sale of Stock or Exchequer Bills by the Bank. The cause of this was the withdrawal of large amounts by private depositors, as well as the decrease in the public balances. It is probable that the bullion was not diminished entirely from the demand of exporters, but taken partly for internal circulation. The Bank, to meet the withdrawal of private deposits, not only diminished its reserve of notes, but likewise realised some of its assets. The changes, compared with the pre vious week, are as follows : Active circulation.. THE SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. THE MODERN GUNPOWDER PLOT. SEIZURE OF ROCKETS AT ROTHERHITHE. BOW STREET---(THIS DAY). At half-past one o'clock this afternoon Robert Hale and William, Hale, father and son, appeared before Mr. Henry, the magistrate at Bow-street, to answer a sum mons charging them with having, in a house in their occupation, a certain large quantity of gunpowder, greater than was allowed by the law to be in the pos session of one person. There were several foreigners present in the body of the court, but in consequence of it not being publicly known that the case was to be brought on, the court was by no means crowded. Mr. Bodkin, barrister, attended on the part of the Crown, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendants. Mr. Bodkin said he was instructed by the Govern ment to submit to Mr. Henry certain circumstances which appeared to them to justify their interference with respect to premises in the occupation of the elder defen dant, if not in the joint occupation of both. He should show that they had brought themselves under the ope ration of a penal act of Parliament, which provided that no dealer in gunputvder should be possessed of more than 200 lbs. of gunpowder at one time and in one place, and that no person who was not a dealer should be pos sessed of more than 50 lbs. under similar circumstances, and this act imposed a penalty of 2s. on every pound above those amounts. Mr. Bodkin then detailed the cir cumstances under which the present seizure had taken place, and stated that the Government had other rea sons than obtaining penalties for instituting the present proceedings. He then called the following witnesses : James C. Evans, a superintendent of the Thames po lice, deposed that he executed, on the 13th April, a war rant, granted by Mr. Henry. The premises were situ ated at the back of the Grand Surrey Canal, in Rother hithe. He gotihere about three o'clock in the afternoon. He wasaccompanied by Sergeant Sanders of the detec tive police. He found a Ilan, who gave the name of James Boylen. He saw him sitting before a machine, lamming in rockets. Witzums inquired for Mr. Hale, and he said he was not there. He then asked if Mr. Robert Hale was there, and he said not since Monday. I told him we were officers of the police, and asked him if he kept any gunpowder on the premises. He said they kept no gunpowder—only a rocket composition. I then produced the warrant, and after reading it over to him, proceeded to search the premises. He first showed us a small cask of composition, which he said he was using. There were a number of shells and rockets lying about. There was a shed about thirty feet from the work house. I asked for the key of it. He called it the magazine. He said lie had not got the key, which was kept by Mr. Robert Hale. I then said I would break it open. On my threat to break in he produced the key, and opened the door. Among other things in the magazine there was a quantity of gun powder. I took possession of all I found there, and carried it away from the premises. It was weighed at the arsenal, where it was taken. I took possession of 79 cases, containing altogether 1,759 rockets. The witness then stated that on seeing the defendants they denied that the composition was gunpowder, and they offered to refer him to Sir Tnomas Hastings, and otherel in order to show that they were not carrying on a manu facture for illegal purposes. He took a portion of the ma terial to several chemists for analisation. He also made an experiment himself by loading two pistols, one with the composition, and the other with ordinary granulated gunpowder, and on firing them off he found that the balls placed in each made an equal indentation upon a board. Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—l found no granu lated gunpowder. When I made the experiment with the pistols I could not distinguish any difference between thatthe rep t o h r e ts o o n f e the wit t h wo, the composition sundertake madeton say hissing noise when it was let off. I know nothing of making rockets. I never was employed in any other proceedings against a party for making rockets or for having gunpowder. (The witness here produced two rockets, one was very small, being about an inch in thicknesi and four inches in length, but the other, which was charged, and rather startled the counsel and spectators had a formidable appearance, being at least a foot in length, 3 or 4 inches in thickness, and pointed at the ends. It appeared to be encased in iron.) Sir Richard Mayne directed me to remove the rockets and composition to the arsenal at Greenwich. I did not see on the premises 500 lbs. of what is ordinarily called gun powder. Thos. Clark said he took a quantity of powder from the premises of the defendants, and conveyed it to Mr. Way's chemist in Holies-street, and delivered it to his assistant. John Sanders said—l was present at the firing of the pistols in Scotland-yard. I loaded them myself, one with the composition and the other with a cartridge of granulated gunpowder. I put the same quantity in each. I fired at a board, and in both instances the ball went through the board into the wall. They both went off instantaneously. Mr. J. T. Way, examined, said—l am a professional chemist. I have been engaged in that department of science 12 or 14 years. I received from my assistant a , quantity of gunpowder for analisation. I found it to consist of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal. Those are the ingredients used in the manufacture of gunpowder. The proportions of these substances vary in different kinds. In 100 parts of this composition there were 70 parts of nitre, 12i of sulphur, 16} of charcoal, and 1 per cent. of moisture. It does not present the appearance of granulated gunpowder. Powder is granulated by being passed through a sieve, but it can be reduced in a pulp by the application of water. The composition is in my opinion gunpowder. Cross-examined by Mr. Clarkson—l never saw any gunpowder manufactured. My knowledge of the manu facture is obtained from reading. This composition had the appearance and character of gunpowder. Mr. Augustus Hoffman, professor of the Government School of Mines, in Jerinyn-street, St. James's, and also a professor of the Royal College of Chemistry, gave evi donee as to the materials of which the composition con sisted. Mr. Toser, belonging to the laboratory at Woolwich, stated that the composition was in the same state pr(.. cisely as the gunpowder used at Woolwich for charging fusees for the explosion of shells. Colonel Wilson, also connected with the same esta blishment, said he had examined the composition, and he considered that it was decidedly gunpowder. Other evidence was adduced to prove the occupancy of the premises by the younger Hale. This concluded the case on the part of the Crown . . Mr. Clarkson then replied on behalf of the defendants, observing that he would not enter into the mystery which surrounded the moving cause in this miserable prosecution, for that would pc Thably be the subject of inquiry else where, but would confine his attention to the only ques tion in the case, namely, whether this composition was or was not gunpowder under the meaning of the act. The learned counsel then complained that the premises of Mr. Hale, which were well known to the Government as a place for the manufacture of war-rockets, he having supplied them with quantities of these articles, being entered in such a surreptitious way by the police, especially as he carried on his business not only without any secresy, but in the most open manner. After alluding to the scientific evidence, he stated that the composition in question was purchased from Messrs. Curtis and Hervey, who marked the barrels in which it was contained "Composition," in contradistinction of gunpowder, and that he should be able to prove that its manufacture differed in some important respects from gunpowder. He then call e d - _ ___.... - Mr. Charles William Curtis, of the firm of Curtis and Hervey, manufacturers of gunpowder, said, Mr. Hale was a customer of theirs. The material with which they supplied him was a composition—they did not call it gunpowder, nor did he think it was termed so by the trade. It only went through . the process of making gunpowder to some extent. It had not gone through the granulating mill —a pro cess through which gunpowder always went. They were in the habit of supplying the same composition to firework makets. It would not go off like gunpowder ; he did not think it would fire a gun, but he had never tried that. Dr. Ure, the chemist, gave it as his opinion that the composition was not gunpowder. Mr. Bodkin having replied, Mr. Henry said he would take time to consider his decision. The hearing of other summonses was fixed for Thurs• day next, at two o'clock. THE BUDGET. (From the _Times.) To the great authorities who have pronounced that precarious income is undistin.uishable, for the purposes of direct taxation, from solid property, may now be added the respectable name of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone has said, what Mr. Goulburn always said that Mr. Pitt said, and what it was generally said that Sir Robert Peel said—be has declared that in a direct assessment on personal means he can make no difference between 51. plus the 1001. producing it, and 61. pro duced without the 1001. At the same time he does not deny the injustice of the decision • he merely says t h at it is unavoid a bl e . A s respects the real merits of the question, he has substantially come round to the opinions maintained for ten years past in this journal. It is true that he endeavoured, with the instinctive impulse of an orator, to extenuate the case against himself, and to re present the views at length predominant as originating rather with " feeling" than with reason. But in the e id he spoke out plainly, not only for himself, but for his colleagues. " Our object," said he, "is to meet the p iblic feeling, which wo recognise and share, that the operation of the Income Tax is severe upon intelligence and skill as compared with property." The feeling of the public, therefore, is now th e f ee li ng o f t h e M in i stry ; but the Cha nce ll or of the Exchequer is fain to acknow ledge his " total inability" to meet this feeling by the measure, naturally anticipated —a difference of duty pro portioned to the recognised difference of the cases. We can discern without difficulty where the insurmountable obstacle was encountered, and what was the assumption conceived to qualify the conclusion. Mr. Gladstone, as his speech disclosed, was at length fully possessed with the undoubted distinction between realised property and precarious income as regarded their respective taxabilities upon principles of justice. He was prepared, therefore,' to establi s h a correspon d. ing diffe rence i n th e rates leviable upon each, but when he came to classify the subjects before him under these two general heads, and assign each species in turn to the denomination either of property or income, he could discover no point at which to draw the line. Every such experiment left some income above the mark, or some property below it ; one exemption prepared the way for another with an interminable compulsion, and at last the calculator was driven in despair to abandon all thoughts of cutting off the top of the scale from the bottom, notwithstanding the glaring contrast between the two extremities, That this was the process of Mr. Gladstone's labours is evident from every line in his Speech, and, indeed, he gave the house an excellent description "of the way in which, when you set about a reconstruction of the tax, you find yourself involved." Neither can we profess to be much surprised at such a result with Mr. Gladstone. It was scarcely probable that a decision which certainly carried a fair amount of perplexity could be achieved by a mind so anxiously dis criminative as that of our. Chancellor of the Exchequer, but we are nevertheless of opinion that the knot might have been even arbitrarily cut, in default of a perfect disentanglement. The great and radical error on this subject has been the assumption, that the injustice involved in a total absence of discrimination is less than what would be committed by a discrimin'ation partially or unsuccess fully attempted. Nothing could be falser than such a conclusion. As we have more than once explained, a system under which every payment, without exception, is relatively either too large or too small, must neces sarily be at its very worst. Neither did we over state the case in thus representing it, for Mr. Gladstone himself, though so tardy a convert, has now borrowed almost our very words. He plainly admitted that the present Income Tax bore " too hard upon intelligence and skill, and not bard enough upon property ;" which is tantamount to confessing that all contributions made in respect of the former were too great, and all made in respect of the latter too little. How is it possible, then, that such conditions of taxation should be other wise than improved by any scheme, however de fective, for separating the things thus confused 1 "If you once begin discriminating," say the ob jectors, "you are certain to injure somebody." But by omitting to begin you injure all; nor can we see, even in the most unfavourable view of the case, how the least fortunate examples could be worse than before. A line of demarcation, in relieving 20,200 contributors, might have left 200, perhaps equally deserving, without relief; but is this as bad as leaving all the 20,200 unre lieved together ? As to the " war between classes," at which statesmen are so scared, we are quite unable to comprehend the force of such an argument against a differential duty. Establish a distinction, it is said, and you set riches against labour. But what are you doing by gainsaying this distinction ? What is that " public feeling" which has so grown and strengthened that Ministers themselves are now deferring to it ? What is it but this very sentiment of class against class,—of the laborious man, excited and aggravated by inequalities of taxation, against the inactive proprietor,—which Mr. Gladstone himself does not deny? Is it credible that class would be more set against class by proportioning duties to properties according to a recognised standard of right than by persisting in a system which is confess edly too hard upon one and too easy upon the other ? STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) ' MANCHESTER, APRIL 22. — From the most trustworthy American accounts, it is seen to be increasingly evident that cotton is very largely kept back from the ports, partly in consequence of the state of the roads, and very muc h with the view o f a ff ec ti ng prices ; so that the large fall ing off in the excess of receipts (especially considering that the comparison is still with heavy weeks) is not to be taken as materially significant in estimating the ulti mate supply. In our market, the persuasion that prices cannot be maintained id. per lb. above the level of last year, with so great a stock as there is on both sides the Atlantic, is more decided and more general in the pre sent week than it was before ; and the holders of cotton in Liverpool cannot conceal their own distrust on this head, for they are much more anxious to sell, and wil ling to concede fully lid. per lb. from last Friday's quo tations, while the trade quietly persevere in the judicious policy of buying only for their immediate needs. The prevalence of these views among all classes of buyers has caused the business of the week to be much restricted in its aggregate amount. On Tuesday, there were some operations, at full rates, in yarns and goods for the East ; principally occasioned, so far as articles for China were concerned, by the proposed re duction in the duty upon tea ; yesterday and to-day, however, this seems to have pretty nearly passed away, and the whole market is even duller. Speaking broadly, prices are inclined to be slightly in favour of buyers ; but we do not think that there is a quotable difference, except in the medium and lower numbers of yarns, which may be had at a decline of ad. per lb., though not from all producers. As to this market, there is no apprehension of any material or sudden fall in prices, which are low enough for a range in the raw material id. below the Liverpool quotations, £23,613,165 Increase Bullion Decrease Rest • A Society at Geneva has made application to the French Government for a grant of 20,000 hectares of . land in Algiers, upon which it is proposed to erect 10 villages. The West India accounts are of a chequered com plexion. The crops in Jamaica were short, but the mineral riches being discovered were of the utmost im portance, and mining operations were attracting a good -deal of attention. The discovery of gold in the Hectors River forming the boundaries of Manchester and Tre lawny has led to the forwarding of several lumps of the metal for analysis to Kingston. The Crown Surveyor was about to proceed to the spot for the purpose of exploring the river, over which there has been placed a restrictive guard. Extensive discoveries of copper had taken place on the lion. E. T. Clarendon's estates, where it is stated that there are several mines, the indications of rich veins extending for miles. Active explorations were being made to test this. One specimen upon analysis yielded 40 per cent, of pure copper. The staff and implements of the Mount Vernon Mining Company had arrived out. This new source of expected pros perity to the Island was creating much satisfaction among all parties. From the Metcalfe Mine the advices are highly en couraging, but nothing had been done at the Jobs' Hill because it was known that the purchase had been com pleted in London by the payment of 20,0001. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors in the Bank of Jamaica had been held. From the report it appeared that the gross profit of the half-year was 6,4901., which contrasted favourably wits the profits of the preceding half-year. The directors congratulated the shareholders on a more cheerful aspect of affairs, and expressed an earnest hope that the recent advance in the value of their staples, and the prospe c t o f success f u l m i n i ng operations would be the commencement of brighter days for Ja maica. Small-pox still prevailed at Savanna-la-Mar, and at Montego Bay there had been several cases. In Wester moreland, where the disease was far from abating, medi cal attendance was generally inaccessible. The amount of silver exported from London direct during the week to Thursday last was 147,189 ounces, and of gold 127,826 ounces and 93,2001., principally to Belgium and Port Philip. The Funds are looking up this morning, and Consols have reached 1001 and I for Transfer, and 1001 for Account, acme money purchases having been made. Business has, however, not been very active. The New 31 per Cents. have realised 1031 t i and the 3 per Cent. Reduced have touched par. Exchequer Bills are 4s. to 7s. premium. India Stock is firmer at 262 ; and South Sea Stock has been at 116. Advices from Ecuador state that Mr. Mocatta had not made any further progress. In the Foreign market there is more buoyancy also. Peruvian Scrip has advanced to 4f premium, and the Deferred Bonds h ave r i sen t o 68 an d 684. Equador Bonds are up to 61 4. Spanish Certificates are firm at 61. Mexican are quiet at 27g. Railway Shares are all rather better. French Shares are also slightly dearer. Agua Fria Gold Mine are it higher. The Great Nug• get have similarly risen. The Land Companies are dull, and also the Banks. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Front the O f ficial List.) 3 per Cent. Red uce d A nnu iti es 99j 10 done. 0 Business 3 per Cent. Con so l s A nnu iti es New 34 per Ce n t. A nnu iti es India Stock 262 South Sea Stock Consols for Account Exchequer Bills lid. June. £lOOO.. £5OO .. Small .. March. 47 '4 8 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Braz Tian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 66 7 . Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, Deferred Greek ex over-due Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. B9 Peruvian Scrip 4i 4 p Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4i per Cent lO4 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cont. 9 71 i i Spanish Bonds 3 per Cent 4B 4 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per. Cent 24k 3i Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6l 7 p c Swedish Loan Dividends on the above pay .ale in London. Belgian 4i per Cent. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 97 G TWO O'CLOCK. • lOO-1 100 i Consols Ditto May Account DARING BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE, WATCHES, AND JEWELLERY.--One of those daring burglaries which appears to bid defiance to the exertions of the police to discover the thieves was effected this morning, on the premises of Mr. Cutmore, manufacturing silversmith, watchmaker, and jeweller, of No. 6, St. Ann's-lane, St. Martin-le-grand, when property to the amount of several hundred pounds was carried off. The premises of Mr. Cutmore are adjoin ing the burial-ground of St. Paul's Church, which en compasses it on two sides ; in the back wall of the house, opening to the churchyard, is a small recess four feet square, in which Goddard, the gravedigger keeps his shovels, spades, and mattocks. Th e thi eves contrived to conceal themselves in this recess, and having closed the door, with great perseverance succeeded in cutting a hole through a nine-inch wall that separates it from the par lour behind the shop. The aperture was made about 15 inches by 16 inches, of sufficient size to admit a stout built man with facility. After . entering, they packed up every article of value, including above 120 gold and silver watches, above 1,000 ounces of plate, and a large quantity of valuable jewellery, with which they decamped by the same aperture as they entered. Mr. Cutmore, who does not sleep on the premises, on arriving in the morning to superintend the opening of his shop, found the fastenings safe, but on entering dis covered he had nothing but bare walls to look at. In formation was given to the police, and a large reward is offered for the apprehension of the thieves. It is sup posed that the robbery was effected by the same gang which broke into Mr. Lendesby's, watchmaker, of Bull and Mouth-street, a few weeks ago, and carried off pro perty to a large amount. PENNY RECEIPT STAMP. —A correspondent, whose letter appears to-day, urges that a suggestion from the Times might do good, to the effect that bankers' checks, constituting as they do evidences of payment, should be charged with the penny receipt stamp. This duty, however, has already been repeatedly performed, and, in the Times of the 28th February, 1851, the remark will be found, that to render the scheme of a penny receipt stamp universal and coherent, bankers' checks should be included. It was pointed out that the number of banks and their branches in the united kingdom was about 1,750, and that, assuming their average of checks to be 100,000 each per annum (some of them pay about 1,000,000), a total would be obtained from this source alone of about 730,0001. Bankers themselves, it was also stated, could hardly object to it, since, if it had any effect at all as concerns them, it could only be to prevent their customers from drawing checks for frivolous sums, while, with regard to persons in trad e w h o d raw a l arge number daily, it was shown that they would be protected from loss by the habit which would become universal of deducting the penny from the amount of the check, so as to make it fall upon the receiver. Finally, it was said, "It is true that the application of the stamp to bankers' checks would be tantamount to the imposition of a new tax ; but if those imposts which cripple trade and injure morality and health are to be got rid of with out waiting, year by year, for the slow operation of a surplus, it can only be by distributing the burden through some less - objectionable channel, and it is for the com munity to determine which they would prefer,"—Times. 636,450 18,792,996 433, 338 3,110,471 Increase Public Deposits Decrease Other deposits Decrease 1,310,929 Seven-day and other Bills Decrease 50,142 Government Securities 13,221,382 Decrease 450,000 Other Securities 14,085,637 Decrease 790,590 Notes unemployed 8,906,720 DecKease 933,025 There was a slight decline in the rates for bills of ex change negotiated yesterday upon the principal Conti nental cities, Paris being taken at 25 22i to 271 ; Am sterdam at 11 181 to ; Hatnburgh at 13 . 71 t o 81 ; an d Trieste at 11 5 to 8 fo r 90 days' paper. The Grain Market at Constantinople was heavy early this month, owing to the want of orders for foreign markets. The contemplated formation of a new Bank was exercising a beneficial influence upon the exchanges, especially as it was to be accompanied by a reform in the coinage. The emission of 50,000 Bank Shares having been de cided upon at Vienna, the price fell on Thursday to 1,395. TIMES" BUDGET. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SlR, —Unwillingness to appear jealous of a contem porary's good luck, or as he has expressed it, of " the high favour of Heaven," very naturally softened your criticisms upon that discreditable item in the budget, the paltering with the advertisement duties, and the remission of the stamp duty on advertising supplements. Your readers are, however, fettered by no such delicacy, and I trust you will insert the observations of one of them, which occurred to his mind quite independently of any remarks of yours. It must be confessed that the Times has borne its honours as meekly as could be expected. It very wisely attributed the great boon conferred upon it, not to any financial reasons; not to any consideration of advertisers, though Mr. Gladstone was fain to suggest them ; not to any desire to disseminate knowledge, the dogged deter mination to continue the stamp on news supplements precluded that—but to a special Providence, which willed that the wealthiest of journals should be wealthier still. How could the favoured journal, "bathing in bliss," and suffused with gladness and gratitude—how could it but feel that Heaven had smiled indeed ? It savours of impiety to attribute vast and unexpected blessings to mere human agency. Then a poor elector, the other day, sitting between two canvassers, was asked if the contents of a bit of paper lying near him would do, — and on opening it f oun d a 51 . note, he exclaimed "stun ning ; " and no doubt such is the feeling and the reply of the Times, " while it commends the Budget in mea sure," and Mr. Gladstone without measure. Indeed, the thing is so gracefully managed, that were the leading journal to be as firm as heretofore on the two great questions it has so ably discussed—lncome Tax Reform, and - the Rights of India —every reader be gin to tax it with ingratitude. Such kindly compro mises between what is due to its own dignity and to Mr. Gladstone's " rare favour" as its article of Wednesday on the Income Tax are felt by every one to be just the thing. What can a newspaper emancipated from Supple ment duty do 1 GL.—Feci ex servo ut eases libertuF, mihi Propterea quod serviebas liberaliter ; Quod habui summum pretium, persolvis tibi. memoria habeo. muto factum. GAUDEO. No, the Times must not, for decency's sake, henceforth thwart the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Coalition Ministry, nor, indeed, the ministry of which he is so essential a part. it is Mr. Gladstone himself on whom the whole blame must lie. And heavy altogether that blame must lie. There is first the open and undignified bribery. Nothing done by the Derby Ministry tran scends this. If they seduced electors to their side, it was, at least, secretly. • W. B.'s. Morgan and safe man had a darkened room, and Mr. Brown not a very cheer ful one under the Carlton Club-house ; but Mr. Gladstone seduces the press openly " and in the face of the sun." The Sun hints at 40,0001. I had taken the trouble to calculate a little, and it turned out thus—that Id. on 40,000 supplements, amounted to 83/. 6s. Bd. per day, to 5001. per week, and of course to 26,0001. per annum! The double supplements now would amount to 4,0001. or 5,000/. more, and if they appear daily, as may well be anticipated, the Gladstone bonus will be about 52,000/. per annum in addition to profit on the advertisements ! This, however, is but a very defective illustra tion of the jobbery of the thing. These supplements are to go post free. The Post-office is to be burdened with this huge bulk—paying nothing, of course, in consider ation of the sixpence still paid on each advertisment. paper containing nothing but taxed matter ought to go free. Well, how does the account stand for the Heavenly Chancellor ? Taking up a chance halfpenny supplement or two, I find they contain, on an average, 800 adver tisements, and 800 sixpences make 400 shillings, and 400 shillings make 201. That is what the Post-office and Mr. Gladstone get for carrying 40,000 halfpenny supplements to the Times all over the country. Now for the halfpenny stamp. 40,000 halfpence make 20,000 pence ; these make 1,6665. Bd., and this sum, according to Cocker, comes to 83/. 6s. Bd. D e d uc t th e 201. paid for th e advertisements, and the Government loses daily by this transaction 631. 6s. Bd., or 380/. weekly, or 19,760/. yearly ; and if the supplements be, as they most likely will, always double, then Mr. Glad stone proposes that the Post-office should carry the Times' supplements at a clear loss of 39,520/. We say clear loss, because the only plea now left for the penny stamp is, that it is an equivalent for postage. Mr. Gladstone, though, to be sure, no one believes him, declares himself not opposed to the free circulation of political news. How this is compatible with, first, emancipating advertising supplements from stamps ; secondly, continuing the stamp on news supplements; thirdly, bringing in a bill to make the penny stamp tax more stringent than at present —we at least cannot per ceive. Clearly Mr. Gladstone and the majority of his colleagues are bitter enemies of cheap political knowledge. It is not to be wondered at. The fewer who know of such doings as the one before us the better for the doer. Mr. Gladstone is the last man to be ignorant of what every one of your readers knows, and what Mr. Cobden reminded him of in the house, that the Times is the only paper which publishes such supplements. His wish, how ever, was, not that they should overflow into other journals, but that the immense mass of them should flow in the present channel ; and his reason for wishing that is plainly because he meant to make that channel his own. Abolition of the duty, and re taining the stamp on supplements, or abolishing the penny stamp entirely, would have thrown myriads of advertisements into channels of political information too numerous to be laid under obligation to the " high favour of Heaven." There seems to me, too, a bit of quiet spite in it to the Manchester men. They have been labouring most dili gently in their vocation of freeing the Press from all restrictions, especially to free- news from the penny stamp. They have wanted to increase immensely the circulation of other daily journals, and to create a penny Press for the rural districts. They most wickedly carried, by the aid of a late Chancellor, a motion for the entire repeal of the advertisement duty. "There," says Mr. Glad stone, " take that for your pains—l'll teach you to set up po litical papers for rustics ; I'll teach you to give the other daily papers a lift. Take that for it—l'll keep to my plan ; I'll lower the duty enough to get a host of advertisements for one journal. I'll take the stamp not off news, but off advertising supplements ; and l'll sacrifice as much to one journal in stamps as the remaining duty on ad vertisements will come to. Another time, gentlemen, please not to anticipate my Budget." It really looks as if he preferred throwing away some fifty or sixty thousand pounds upon the Times, to giving the whole community and the whole press the benefit of cheaper advertisements. One inconsistency, moreover, remains as glaring as ever. The column-long advertisements still pay the same duty as the three or four lines of the poor servant girl or foot man. The worst inequality of all is not rectified. Well, we do not deny that Mr. Gladstone is wise in his generation. Many old statesmen before him have known the advantage of " putting the pad lock on the mind." A noted one of antiquity bribed the great oracle of Greece ; the oracle which sent its leaders in hexameters over the whole then civilised world. An orator was not wanting, however, to tell the people of Greece that the Priestess Philippised, and no doubt orators and journalists here will be ready enough to coin a verb from the proper name of an English statesman, and to apply it to the leading jour nal. We beg, meantime, to suggest to Mr. Gladstone a new motto for his heraldic shield—Tempora mutantur It will record the leading feat of his Chancellorship. THE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SigN. Sin,—Agreeing as I cordially do with the principles of " Anglicus," would you allow me to suggest that he hardly expresses his own wishes in advocating the abo lition of schedule D. In fact, schedule D includes a vast deal of realised property invested in Bank, Railway, and other stock. The part which relates to precarious incomes would seem only to raise about half a million, so that the apparent loss to the revenue would not be so great as is supposed ;, but, in fact, there need be no loss if the affair is properly managed. But schedule Bis equally obnoxious as it affects industrial incomes, and this is not a class matter at all, but one involving na tional honesty, and the constitution of society. In fact, Sir, there are two different kinds of income • in this country, one only of which is a proper subject of direct taxation--income derived without exertion from capital, and income derived by exertion, which is, in fact, part of the working expenses by which capital is made profitable. Is it not absurd to tax not only the proceeds and increase of capital, but also to tax the means by which capital is made productive at all. It is clogging the wheels of enterprise and industry to do so, and, in fact, falling doubly on the capitalist - , , though, to escape a present payment, he shuts his eyes to the ultimate loss. _ _ Sir, it has been suggested that, at any rate, instead of the Chancellor of the Exchequer taking the backward step of taxing incomes from 1001. to 1501., that he should raise the same amount of money by allowing no exemp tions under schedule A and C, and on railway and other stocks, which may be called realised property. This would, at any rate, be thought an improvement, and prevent many evasions, and great trouble and expense in collection. May I beg the favour of your allowing the suggestion to be made public, and perhaps some one will take it up. If the income tax was thus carried for one or two years, it would not be worse than before, and by the time of its lapse, no Minister, it is to be hoped, will dare propose it in its present state. A pro perty tax it must become if it is to be permanent, and the country is to flourish and be fit for honest men to live in it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, The Panama Railroad, a most stupendous work, con sidering the excessively swampy nature of the country over which it has been carried, has been completed as far as Barbacoas (on the Chagres River), 26 miles dis tant from its terminus at .Aspinwall, on the Island of Manzanillo, in Limon or Navy Bay ; the remaining por tion, from Barbacoas to Panama, 23 miles, has been commenced ; at present, goods and passengers, after leaving the railroad, are transferred to canoes, which are poled up the river amidst numerous shoals, and against rapids to Gorgona, in the dry, or Cruces, in the rainy season; and from either of these places they are con veyed by mules to Panama, 21 'or 24 miles distant, over a road (so called), the difficulties, obstructions and dangers of which baffie description.—Cullen's Darien. BURFORD'S PANORAMA, LE ICESTER -SQUARE. - Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Royal Alice, Helena, and Louisa, M attended b R y Colonel Grey, L ady Caroline Barrington, adame owland, and M r. G ibbs, honoured Mr. Burford's panoranaas of Granada and the Alhambra, Nineveh, and the Bernese Alps, with their presence yesterday, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the pictures. • vertise, (From the Morning Advertiser.) In adverting, yesterday, to the ingenious device resorted p to by M r . Gl a d stone to purchase indirectly the Tames support of hi mse lf an d t h e Ministry of which he is a member, we promised to return to the subject. A more discreditable piece of work was never done by any Minister, than that which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer has undertaken to perform in this affair. No one for a moment doubts that the sole reason which has induced him to propose the abolition of the stamp on supplements to newspap ers i s t o curry favour with the Times. And, as if determined to make assurance doubly sure that the Times, and the Times alone, should enjoy the benefit of that abolition, he provides that the stamp be only dispensed with where the supplements consist exclusively of advertisements. Now, all the country papers, without an exception, which were in the habit of publishing supplements, invariably devoted a large portion of those supplements to literature and to general intelligence. They know that the bulk of their adver tising patrons would not be satisfied if their advertise ments were inserted in the supplement, and consequently they were obliged to publish a large proportion of these announcements in the body of the paper. The conse quence has b een , th at t h ey never h a d a sufficient num ber of adV er ti sements to fi ll a supp l emen t, without intel ligence or literary matter. But by this indecent pandering on the part of Mr. Gladstone to the pecuniary interests of the Times, the proprietors of provincial journals in the habit of pub lishing supplements, will henceforth be compelled either not to publish any supplements at all, or to pay the . stamp duty as a t p resen t. Th e Tones escape en tirely any such payment. With its large influx of adver tisements, it will be able at all times to escape the half penny stamp on the single sheet supplements, by devoting th e w h o l e o f it't o a d ver tisements. Nor will it have any difficulty in escaping the penny stamp when it is thought desirable to publish a double supplement. It has only to keep back a portion of its advertisements for two or three days, to ensure a sufficiently great accumu lation of them to fill every part of a double sheet. To see a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and one of the most distinguished Ministers of the Crown, thus deliber ately playing into the hands of one public journal, with the manifest view of thereby indirectly purchasing its support—and that journal, too, notoriously the most unprincipled ever known in• the annals of the newspaper press—is at once one of the most undignified and un seemly acts which a Minister of the Crown ever descended to perform. The Times has already shown how distinct has been the understanding between Mr. Gladstone and itself in this discreditable affair. With the same disgraceful dis regard of public principle and consistency which it is ever so prompt to display when it has a private purpose to serve, the Times, which hitherto, for months in suc cession, exhausted all its affluent vocabulary of invective and denunciation in holding up to public condemnation the iniquity and oppression of subjecting persons sub sisting on precarious incomes, to the same amount of income tax as those whose means are derived from fixed sources,—now turns round, and lauds to the echo a budget which is based on the principle of not making any difference between precarious and fixed incomes, and which is to be perpetuated for seven years, We will not ask whether inconsistency equally gross, and tergi versation equally glaring, were ever before exhibited, because they hav e b e e n ex hibi ted a hundred times over in the columns of the same journal ; but we do again say, for the credit of our statesmen, that no man occupy ing a seat at the Cabinet Council ever performed a more unworthy act than Mr. Gladstone has done, in the plenitude of his anxiety to obtain the support of the Times. If this ignoble practice of pandering to that profli gate journal by persons high in public office, is to be carried on much longer, the consequences to the country will become of a very serious kind. The Times will virtually become the great governing power in England. Downing-street will no longer be the seat of the actual Government. Printing-house -square will become the seat of political power. Public affairs will be adminis tered in Puddledock. The editor of the Times will virtually be the Prime Minister of this country. Lord Aberdeen will only be so in name. And when the Times has thus indirectly become the dictator of the course which Ministere must adopt, we eau be at no loss to infer the sort of administration of affairs to which the country will have to submit. The slavish feelings with which the Times is regarded by the members of the Government, are everywhere visible. It was only on Thursday last that Mr. James Wilson, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, made repeated reference in his three hours' speech on Customs reform, to the Morning Advertiser ; but for fear of offending the Times, the hon. gentleman spoke of this journal simply as . "a portion of the daily press." Within the last few weeks we have published several articles im pugning the conduct of the Board of Customs. These articles excited so much attention among the members of that Board, owing to the gravity of the charges we pre ferred, and the minuteness of the information of which we showed ourselves to be possessed, that the Customs department felt bound to take notice of them. The Secretary of the Board wrote two letters to us on the subject, both of which we published, following them up by the production of new inculpatory matter. To these articles Mr. James Wilson felt it necessary to refer in his speech in the House of Commons, but for fear of in curring the displeasure of the Times, the hon. gentleman carefully abstained from mentioning the Morning Ad rby name. Could anything be more unworthy of ..ie memb ers o f a Mi n i stry t h an to see th em thus openly - bowin g down, with the most abject servility, at th e , • shrine of a public journal, and that the most mendacious and most unprincipled paper which ever emanated from the press of this or of any other country ? The course which Mr. Gladstone means to pursue, if permitted by Parliament, in reference to the Stamp duty on newspaper supplements, ia calculated to give COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—DC COrdoVa ' S candle Intelligencer, of March 26, states that I ?r fi ness was very fl a t d ur i ng last week, as in addit 3 S to other cause s o f d epression the market was affecl; to some extent by the uncertainty existing 35 .0 what measures the Legislature means to adopt regard to the import duty and tonnage bills.. A y yet nothing has been decided upon, and opinio n appear to be divided on the subject. THE FRENCH EMPIRE, The Emperor has received at a private audie , from M. Ri ves , th e Mi n i s t er of the United Std' the reply of the President of the Republic, e . answer to the notification of his Majesty's The Prince Poniatowski, the Envoy Extra°lw nary and Minister Pl en ip o t en ti ary of TnscaniAe o • Paris, has signed w ith M. D rouyn de L h uys , sanitary convention already agreed to by the inl national conferenc e h e ld a t P ar i s, an d since men adopted by Sardinia, Portugal, and Turkey. The market for Rentes has been generally 3 u-ii,7 o and very little change in prices has taken y ief from the quo t a ti ons of Thursday. In the W i a share mark e t th ere has been an improvesle'"nt w the unfavourable report of Thursday, and Pr were generally higher at the close of business. MARKET NEWS' --(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. To'day's market was fairly supplied with vegetables , ,, g , which a fair steady business was doing, at full P' Fruit met a dull inquiry, at our quotations. ye, FRUIT.—Pine apples, 8s Od to 12s Od ; hot-house gr r , lOs to 15s ; Hambro ditto, Os to Os Od per lb ; apples, denseo, lOs Od to 13s Od ; cooking ditto, Gs to 12s per bushel ; r eg- , 0B Od to Os per dozen ; lemons, is to 2s Od ; orang , l B , 4s to Os per 100 ; pomegranates, Od to Od each ; alma t 5, 5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bushel ; 8 per 1001bs. ' • chesnuts, 8s t o 20 s per b us h e l ; SW' berries, Od to lsO ounce. Cabbage VEG ETABLES.—, is to 28 Od ; Brussels spro o : 2s Od t o 3 s Od per half sieve ; broccoli, 2s to 4s ; gre en c 4s Od t o 6 8 per dozen bunches ; French beans, is to 2s Pt, 100 ; asparagus, 5s to 9s per bundle ; sea-kail, 2s oata , i 28 6d p er b asket ; rhubarb, 9d to is 6d per b un dl e ; flowers, Od t o O s per dozen ; potatoes, 100 s t o 165 s per W 0; et, turnips, 3s Od to 4s Od • carrots Os Od to 8s Od per ( I ° ° bunches ; cucumbers, O s 6d to i s 6d each ; celery, 9u ; is 6d p er buhdle ; spinach, 2s Od to 3s 6d p er h a lf sieve M onions, 4s Od to 5s Od per bushel ; b ee t, i s Od to 111,/ per dozen ; leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch ; • shallots, Od to °" • garlic, 6d to 8d per lb ; endive, 2s 6d to 3s Od per sera small salad, Od per punnet ; horse-raddish, is Od to 31 per bundle ; mushrooms, is 6d to 2s o(lper bottle ; Par s e 3,1 2s Od to 3s Od per dozen bunches •; turnip greens, l' to is 6d per bushel. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. . r ., Geese, 4s Od t o 8 s O d ; Turkeys, 4s to 8s each ; JAIco 8,1 2s Od to 3s Gd; tame Rabbits, is Od to is 9d; wild ditto, to is; Pigeons, 7d to 10d each; roasting Pigs, 4s Gd to 8 .3 v OLI each Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to lOs Od; ditto Chickens, 501 Pl©~ to 7 s Od; barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to Gs Od per co. r u P:, Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od; Partridges, Os Od to Os Od; I l3r- e:1 2s Od to 2s 6d; Leverets, 2s Od to 28 6d; Woodcocks, 2s 1 , to 3s Gd; Grouse, Os tO Os Od; Snipes, 9d to ls 6d; c5 O 6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od ; Widgeons, 9' to is ld; and Plovers, 6cl to ls each. English Eggs, 80 Od .. 00s Od; French ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od per 120; fresh Butte" is Od to is 2d per lb. BREAD. The prices of w h eaten bread in the metropolis are fro lll 7d to 8d; of household ditto, 5d to 63(1 per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3 s 4d t o 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s Gd to 48 6d; Latu b, 6 ,1 5s 2d to 6 3 4d ; V eal, 38 8d to 4s 6d; Pork, as 6d to 4 4 per fills. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 3 s Od to 3s 8d ; Mutton Oa ;* , 3s 6d to 48 l a Lamb, 5s Od to as 2d ; V ea l, 3s 6(1 to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s '— to 4s Gd per 81bs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7sod to 12s Od ; Brills, Os Oct to Os Od; Cod Fi. 4 „, 1 11 ' 4s Oct to 8s Od each; Salmon, i s 6d t o 2 s per lb. ; Soles, In to 2s 3d per pair ; Eels, 6d to is per lb ; Lobsters, 84. 1 2s Od ; Crabs, 6d to is 10d ; Whitings, 3s Od to 6s per Doreys, 2s 6d. to 10s Od; Mullets, is to 5s each; Comm °fl Oysters, 9s Oct to 12 s Od; Natives , 36s Oct to s2s Od P e , bushel; Mackerel, 60 s p er 100; Smelts, 6.1. to is 6d per doz . : Scats, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6,1 to 2s 3d per gall Bloaters, is 1d to 2s 3d per dozen; Fresh Herrings, og, to as Od pe r d ozen ; Haddocks, te is Od each ; „ 4s to 6s per 100 ; Carp, is Od to 2s Od each ; Tench, 1 to 2s Od per b race ; G urnc t s , 6d t o is Oct each ; Halibu t ' 6d per lb. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d; 641 b to 721 b, 3 d , to 34d; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 33d; 801 b to 881 b, 3ad to gy; 881 b to 961 b, 34d to 4d; 961 b t o 1041 b, 4d to 44d ; 11. to 1121 b 011 to Od. Horse hides, 5s Gd to 6s Od; calf 81%1 light, is 6d to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 58 Od to Os Od; ou sheep, 1080 d to 1226 d; K ea t s, 1 08 Od to Ils 6d; Half-bps' 10s Od to lls 6d ; Dow ns , 7 8 Od to 9s Od; Lambs, 20 3d 2s 9d ; and Shearlings, is 6d to is Bd. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5 s t o 4/ 12 s; clo oe i ditto, 3/ lOs to Si 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per 10 °'" A full average supply, and a steady demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 16s ; cloaet ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 165 per low Supply good, and t ra d e rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 14s ; cloud ditto, 31 lOs to 515 s • and straw, 1/ 7 s t o 1/ 16 a p e r Do Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 20th inst., at the R ec t ory -h ouse, S t. Mi c hae l ' s ' Cornhill, the wife of the Rev. T. W. Wrench. • OF A DAUGHTER. Ic" On the 21st inst., a t 6 , Gloucester-place, Hyde-par e gardens, the wife of William Major Cooke, Esq. / MARRIED. by t he On the 21st inst., a t T r i nity Church, Botleys, ~,i2 Right Rev. the Bi s h o p o f W orcester, Leyeester, eldest '" ' I r e re ' of Edward Pen r hy n , E sq., of East Sheen, Surrey, to k second daughter o f R o b ert Gosling, Esq., of Botley's-P° ' Surrey. DIED. • On the 21 s t inst., at the vicarage, Wickham-mar ket ' Suffolk, Franc es , the wife of the Rev. Wooden Butler. On tho 20th inst., at Saudga.te, Kent, John StLYc a us . Esq., M.A., l a t e o f Worcester College, Oxford, and CIO road, St. John's-wood, London. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, 4 ;f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county Middlesex, Saturday, April 23, 3.853 . I the Times something like a motiopiily of the newspaper market. Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer Of, be alloWed to carry out his plans respecting the sta l ; l. on newspaper supplements, and in a very few years tliehe will be no morning journal in existence, except , t Times and the Morning Advertiser. We ()muff I , ni o . pregnable g roun d. O ur progress during the les t t years, both in circulation and advertisements, 1 10 1 surpassed anythi ng on record i n the history of the ( 131l y i, press ; and th a t p rogress h as b een goirg on much re° rapidly duri ng th e l ast two months, than at any P r ; vious part of these two years of brilliant success. is not on our own . account, therefore, that we cony' ; ,,h plain of th e g l ar i ng and i ndecent favouritism W'l7,, the Chan ce ll or o f t h e Exchequer is showing to ti'" Timm We speak more on b e h alf of our morning temporaries than our own. We have no wish, as, ‘cd can have no interest, in seeing th em exting,uisz le r Why should we gru d e the Conservatives those vices which th e M orn i ng Herald renders to tl',el; c tuse ? They have as good a right to an organ in... l " ic e r press, as they have to have a club of their own- 1 % 11 ,74 it he the Carlton or any other institution of the Nor have we any right, and assuredly we have no "' position, t o see k to get r i d of the Morning Post, as tbe o medium throu g h w hi c h t h e f as hi onable world exe hV e sentiments and compliments with each other. t should, ind e ed, regret, rat h er than rejoice, to see t'" " glass of fashio n ," an d th at " mould of form, " 1 00 1°' „ in pieces. but such, most surely, will be the result, not as re , Bards it on l y , b ut as re.3Dects other morning jour n°i : also, should Government thus persist in playing into to; hands of the Times. We call then on those m anhol e the fashionabl e wor ld , w h o are members also of t ' o House of Com mons , to oppose in the most strentl° manner the propos a l o f th e Ch ancellor of the Excheekt i s e, , to abolish the stamp on newspaper supplements. s , appeal with no l ess earnestness to the Conserva t!: members, to interpose on behalf of another mor 1111 :4i contemporary which has so long, and with so 1 0 % fidelity and zeal, l a b oure d i n t h eir cause. And, last; we address ourselve s t o th e i n d ependent Liberals in the House of Commons. We entreat them t o oppose tu, monstrous piece of fa vour iti sm t o t h e Ti mes, o n tb ' l broad ground that the thing is as flagrantly unjust is glaringly indecent. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Great Weste rn s t eam - s hi p, w i th the west India and Pacific mails, arrived at Southampto n yesterday. Sh e l e ft J ama i ca on the 27th of Mall,l Barbadoes on th e 28th, an d S t. Thomas ' s on 2d of April. The Great West e r n b r i ngs 80 passengers an $808,855. The yellow fever had almost disappeared in t he West Indies. There is little doubt but that the crops will be short throughout the whole of the islands. A copper mine, with a vein of beautiful 'U' chite, had been discovered in Jamaica. From Jamaica we learn by this arrival that tij ; ° , most important even t of the past fo r t n i g ht, ous to the sailing of the packet, was the reje,c,tif k by the council of th e R e t renc h ment Bill. The 06;(1 of Jamaica has, from its establishment, Pas% through a successful career , r efl ect i ng honou r of the attention of it s managers. A report has Jag been made and presented to the shareholder' giving evidence of a grea t d egree of prudence If the part of th e present b oard of directors t r u o praiseworthy, an d f or w hi c h they are entitled to i. s thanks of all concerned. It is gratifying to py . ;, ceive that a sum of 16 • 000/ was in 1840--e r,' three years after the establishment of the back b carried from th e reserve d surplus fund to std account, thus nominally increasing the pait. capital from 84,0001 . to 100,000/.—Co/onial $(". Bard.