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1i ONUME*T TO THOMAS HOOD.—The atteici _Subscribers to the Hood Memorial Fund er (requested to Ds MEETING at the Whittington Club, Strand, on WEDNEa of th r.i-NINg, April 27th, at 7 o'cloe , , to receive ti'e Final Repo t e Committee. WATKLNS, lion. bcc. T RE LECTURE delivered by Mr. JAMES ,• HIBEFET, of Manchester, at the town Hall of Todmorden, 13 n ue WrGEIAN SYSTEM of JA.M MORIOS, the llygeist, Co 3 Ito n ri7 o - T l : r/ nted, and may be obtained from the agents for the saln of Universal Medicines throughout the country.—Br.tish Vs of Health, New-read, London, April, 1853. m This Evening at 5 for 6, and following Evenings. It Alderman MOON having retired from and nu business, the entire splendid Stock of choice ARTII-TS' PROOFS and some fine FEINT INIPRESSIONA . of the 7.e a iZ l '' and magnificent Engravings rublishcd by him during his k r and enterpris , ng career, and which has been disposed of to se r ,.. l°3 's, will be SOLI) by AUCTION, without the slightest re toG an I BARRET T, at their ROMs, 22, Fleet -0". THIS EVENING, at Five for )": ix.. and continued according s ; tal 4 ll c, 'which may be had on application (if from the country, ing til l .1 Z twelve postace stamps) Such an opportunity of to the e finest works of . the country at a very moderate rate has bekne occurred, and no doubt they will r iv e In value ircune ,Y after th e sale, this being the entire remainder. MIDDLESBROUGII, YORKSHIRE. p. R. R. HENDERSON, Auctioneer, will Ihrt ga , SELL, by Auction, under a power of sale contained in a I ‘lll,l i ,pe Deed (if not previously disposed of by private contract, of OF s lk i,ule notice will be given), at the Town-hall in Middlesbrough, after s URDAY, the 39th day of April instant, at 5 o'clock in the SL', r , in lots t o su it purchasers, All those FREEHOLD Mt.S - Oarth b 3 or DWELLING-HOUSES situate in Faversham and , Streets In Middlesbrough, occupied by Captain Hammond, r i • Mr. Phillips, Messrs. Blower, Proudlock , Watson, Dunker traleaa„l„4olor, and Fetherst.ne, and which were lately built by Mr. n "Porl a piece or parcel of ground containing b admeasurement r e Yards or thereabouts ; together with the rights a nd tai4 v „,, e - longing to the respective premises, as the same are now oY the tenants, who will, on application, permit an inspection. IVlsk e urt s her particulars, apply to Mr. Unthank, surgeon , App l e b y isteit ven .' 4 r. Thomas Wright, accountant, Stockton; or to Mr. rson ngt oh solicitor Dal ngt 2 • , Ist April, r 15530 n. J , 92. E.A.TPS COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatta. Itie ce s;k B lTLEs, approved by the French College of Physicians, and ki tt _ s!'ullY administered in the Paris and London Hospitals. and Cl eho7,... l ‘. fl ged bY them to be the best remedy for the cure of , la d o ,7.cea, Gleet and Lencorrhceal Discharges, on an average of b' e r g ( see " Lancet " of 6th Nov., 1852, an extract from ss hich by 0. f o rwarded immediately on application).—Prepared and sold 40 zet tu ° p 7 eall, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, L . ondoi! ; and chornit:_ annaclen, 161, Rue Montmartre, Path principa f 100 ea, of France, England? and the Colonies. Price of bottle . o tlle A o r t ae , ' 4s. 6d.; 50 do., 2s 9d., with direations, and stamp with one f Gabriel Jozeau printed thereon. DIJBLIN GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. ilttpupt TOURS IN IRELAND IN 1853. hatteciv• TOURIST TICKETS (availab'e for a mmth) will be t the following stations, on and after 10th MAY : totid o „ Ist Class. 2d Class. Xai ntu " (Euston Station) .. £ 6 10 0 £5 5 0 6 6 0 o xfo gth, Glasgow, Hull, Bristol, Carlisle, 5 5 0 kirrw Ster, Chelt en h am, G loucester •••• 5 15 0 4 15 0 Li nn n Abln, Rugby, Leamington, Coventry, • • ••• • .. 5 5 0 4 5 0 ic l'uninpton, Huddersfield, Leeds, Shef -16: • Derby.... ..... •• • • • ..... •• .... 5 0 0 4 5 0 I .ll,,, e _ be neriWarrington, Stoke, Macclesfield 4 4 0 3 10 0 Chester ... 4 4 0 3 5 0 . • •• •••••••• •••• •• Co enable the holders to proceed to Chester, Bangor, Dublin and the Lakes of KWarney. lor: e holdo• of each Irish Tourist Ticket is entitled to have issued k 4 t ;' ,l3 , at the office, 52, Westlsnd-row, Dublin, at very reduced ()I 4, tickets for a tour in the county Wicklow, in Kenmore and i i 4 f Pgaritr, up the river Shannon—for the journey from Dublin to to r ,"t• for the excursion to the Giant's Causeway, and from Dublin i'alway for the tour through Connemara. v erY purchaser of a ticket is prasented, grafP, with a copy of the t• rated Irish Tourists Hand-Book," compiled solely for these ou ri. ~i` e fullest and most accurate information afforded at the Chester n 4 Holyhead Company's O ffi ce, 52, Westland•row, Dublin. See -80 Bradshaw's Guide," rage 123. OUR BUDGET FOR THE SEASON must be the easiest to understand and the most appreciated, because of its application in the most protitede and seasonable num ber to every Individual in society. Its coatenti are variety, abun dance, superior quality, and unparalleled cheapness ; reductions in prices, and improvements in the style and comfort of Spring and Summer Attire ; and all the requisities and elegancies of Dress de sired by all classes are brought out with brilliancy, beauty, perfec tion, and cheapness. To say oar "Budget" contains, some excellent ino ._.Styles and some remarkable features is purely unnecessary ; t - `ains every no invention which practical experience and the polite eustoms of society will approVe, and every feature which a mighty pro gress in skill and commerce can produce. We, then-fore, the proprietors of the largest Clothing Business in the world, invite Z t ention to New Styles of Dress in countless succession, for gentle ea and their tons, for mechanics, and all others who are making a -en ge in their wardrobe suitable for the preSent season, and only hteat k oQL , a well known fact, That every kit dof Dress procured at E. "S atd SON'S is the newest and neatest, the most serviceable co mfortable, as well as the cheapest which can be obtained. Ite •LtOSES and SON'S Spring and Summer Hats, Caps, Hosiery, 00,, &c., are splendid exhibitions of the richest and the best te r ;'„• They have been selected from every distingu!shed manufac euatitVitish and Foreign, and are as much celebrated for their sty e, ip and superior finish, as they are for being the cheapest Goods e world. 1 THE TIME AND POINT OF EMIGRATION. thy, l4 is the Time, and Australia is the Point to which thou Sands 11 4 th e to steer. Everyone has 'rime to examine his Outfit and lei'ilOu in( he will require at the t staaffibistidntMOSES and in, A Separate department is kept where-Ilse Goods are arranged 44%, Pectic.: stud ors ry article required is furnished in the best at the lowest price. otr Largest Wholesale Clothing Establishment in the world 19 that 'fla r ii a li t ° eats ,u, 8 ! 8 and SON where Merchants, Captains , and Emigrants moment make the most suitable and profitable invest nrl'all Li „ 1 1 7°Mlati e 0 ; ea Outfits for Ladles and Gentlemen, and Ship-sailing th e k inBdo m ay be had on application, or lost-free to any part of flpx ciA M. t tnte 1 1, IS 'OTICE, to revent disappointment. —The Estatlish -15. " asti - s e l C losed tne whole day, FRIDAY. April 29, but will Re „ 81pr r ,,,7 all the evening of Saturday, April 30. ve blic SON regret having to guard the iftis e h_ a gairis+ , E. MOSES and ti lt "ad of litoosition, having learned that the untradTrnan,:lik,e Olve..e c oh „ Being connected with their Establishment, or It s r - zern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for N° e n , -- "as, they beg to state that they have °- ; ‘ , E IMN WITH ANY oTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, 1,4 -(4l don " r „ -C eDt their own Establishments, as follows : Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, Ler; • Ald ateop posite the Church, all communicating. 3 .13 Branch, 'o 506,507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, ormin-i,street all communicating. %,„1:71 (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. ~erSheffield Branch 36, Paroste. Sho e AMLIt Tailors ' Clothiers, HatterS, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Np a rs, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be 'the si t ,"`" a desired, o if preferred the money will be returned Drice aesitation All r goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest Th'eVa which . ne abatement can be made. aStu z e-stablislunents are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on n e t„ 3 ' B „. when bu s i ness i s re sumed till 12 o'clock. of Arte e ; 'aak, " The Herald of the Seasons," containing full lists nee in' our system of self-measurement, facts re'ative to Aus t ralia , nuY emigrants, &c., may be had on application, or post-free to A },Z Of the kingdom. %lapplication ▪ arneAlmanac for the year ending 1853 can be 'had gratis , Bier Po Pule Franca's. strieht man Deut=ch Qnl si parla Aqua se habla Espanol MEDIC ` -- DR, 4 VICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. bo or " A lltrEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, „ A ~ tdi„," . .aredicine, and Matricalated Member of the University of 8 " un rel Honorary - Member of the . London Hospital Medic lit%lets*, Licentiate of Hall, London, &c., &c. • AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on te ,, gilltf„,„ th , o various disorders of the nervous and generative syste r m o. , iiticed ". from Juvenile irrega'arlties and excesses, which ave p a lere (I Gore misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prem dis. tit% :eftY at an stages of life, than perhaps any other class of . 1 1 th i n ,'" to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience ' , ice ' , oalMent of these diseases has proved that there are in exist egdstecret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in Debtli.ee, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous age,, r, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marti ttszessMDetency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their It i s m odifications owe their almost entire origin. Dri to iabsolutely necessary that all men should know that there are illea r ,t" of personal management which cannot be violated w'thout the il Zgc grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed May `,,"a3 , of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties an d ,7 Mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove 1, th m .",?tv the evil and its con equences may be avoided, and above all, d sr Linere Is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional ,-,`'n, s _gement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. in'''"UTOß LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged pl ai lit extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn t : e , and s the only legally qualified andsPhyician who, regardless t , . 11 taunts and envy of the hypocritical mock-modest, has had ..,',iii confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct ;t:tention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is rev ee• In selecting nil , defy rtment of pfactiee, he has been amply , arded by the great success that has attended his efforts In the `Matment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the ' 4 re of unqualified and ignorant empiries, who, with their pirated Pu blications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues , s 4 their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who `itve been induced to place faith in their pretensions. ,„ At home for , co nsultation daily from Eleven till Two, a n d f rom ' l % till Ei ht. All letters trust con t ain the fee of I/ , and advice and me d i cine, g can he forwarded to any initials or address. L'" 1, 4 , t 1 3 desire le that paticnts wishing to consult Dr. LVMERT Uhl first obtain a copy of his work on SE LF-FRESERVATION. Aqelt_edleal Treatise on the Philoso b y f Marriage, and Nervous and eti 7g . lve Debility*, illustrated y P fif h t ° coloured engravings, and d es ,e'ng to detail the varionstdirrders resulting y . from secret habits and d "'es. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct Irl,Zription of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, 14 4 cII, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper I / °th era and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street•• tiv a l, l ' 39 , Cornhill ; Storle. Titchborrie-street, Haymarket ' or free ' q,,,,'" i'olli for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Authors resi ',ice, 37, BEDFORD•SQUARE. LONDON_ I MPORTA.NT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, ‘ltt it publlabed, by U. Bat Mere, 119, Regent-street, London. No I. by post free, Fs. 6d., vo., in cloth. price ss. ON TRUE & FALSE MATORRITCEA, / a e with the Vi ew t o the Cor S r P ec E n ti • 4 riliation to the Treatment and Cure of S e re b ad uity E o r f rors ,s 3 oß ff n er o e f rs vd fro d za " D p sle4 erat ive System, or Sexual Hypochondrlasis. his frequent practi , Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD t4:l4._ur. Plekford 's known to English readers by himself to the nox-m l th_.entributions to German medical literature. This is the first eai. c al he Informs us, that he has addressed d:_ r yader. We trust this may not be the it may ,ZZ(..t 'Y,_ other equally flagrant evil w h 1 be Gazette. "W — l'° Correct." —London Medical May should recur to this 1,,,,,_,: promised in a former number that we author lashes , v ,',.r,_ . in order to exhibit its aim more "'.early. The A 30, 1851. o ,' l great sevetity the impostors who make a I , iveliboo_ol , b m y preying 't th, ar ld , N.eledulity of the public. The tribe of Quiet ~ 1 3. book d ; mould „ tedlcal Friends,' are mercilessly expose __ rr m f th core - R ai find its way into the hands of those who saffe and if this book 4 et of which it treats, we are satisfied that twiny 11 indreds would leasraved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what r is ze — of 11e IrePortance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— ,,,l, _ Ate,, h i ° eileY......This volume is well qualified to put an end th ~,,rieal system of treating Spermatorrheea, and to place the treat- %i,,,1t aPon a more rational and physlologica basis. It is, theiefre, 7 t ° 0 . 0 much gocd."—Medfral Circular, June 16, 1852. No. H. TA E pv,,.. n cloth, price 33. 6d., by post free, 45., enc .. Ve t; „, C UgE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Pli 1 tux"' once Sinn le, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate aPParently Intractable Forms. BY F. N, i s , MeMber of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. th, I,!ieproot of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given as an.. wr 7 0I a great many Cases successfully' treated,. as bad kievra_Which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which be bad operas ed. Deriod 4 l'a'es ix., xi., xii., and xvill. No. ix. had res sled, for n a treT toved ‘' !swelve yeirs, the treatment by dilitation, and was tin s 7 ln duri t t k i „ n e a many weeks. Rut cases xviii. and xix . appear, both gr avat— ", severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag ,,ttna7:, eharacter than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the `,...Drnl e lePted by Mr. Courtenay proved ernirently successful." ser.Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. No. 18,903.] TIIE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the libraries, in 3 vols., D A GR ESII AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, By MARY ANNE LUPTON, " Ada Gresham is entitled to a high place among modern works of fiction. The story' maintains a high interest thrcughout." — Standard. " A work written with great command of lan:nage and much knowledge of the passions. It is full of vigour and undoubted and cannot fail to find an extended popularity."—Observer. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, sneceSsors to Henry Colbnrn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. A M, NA TIO SAL EDUCATION. Published this day, in Bvo., priea One Shilling, SPEECH of the Right Hon. LORD JOHN RUSSELL on NATIONAL EDUCATION, delivered in the Rouse of Commons, April 4, 1853. London : Longman, Brown, Gracn, and Longmans. MR. EDWARD HUGHES'S NEW ENGLIS 11 READER. Justpublished, in 12mo. (pp. 528), price 4s. 6d. cloth, SELECT SPECIMENS of ENGLISH PROSE, for Schools and Private Reading : Comprising Pieces relating to —l. Geography and Natural History; History and Biography; 3. Educat'on and Progress ; 4. The Sea and Maritime Adventure; 5. Imagination and Sympathetic Affections; 6. Science and General Knowledge ; and 7. Religion and Morals. Witb Explanatory Notes Awl Questions; axd an Etymological Appendix of Greek, Latin, and Elston Roots. By EDWARD HUGHES, F.R.A.S., &c., Head Master of the Royal Naval Lower School Greenwich Hospital. On the same plan, and by the same Author, SELECT SPECIMENS of ENGLISH POETRY. Third Edition. 12mo. price 3s. 61. London : Longmtn, Brown, Green, and Longmans. • TRANSLATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S SANCTION. On hursday next will be published, in 2 vols., post Svc., Wee t L, sloth, HISTORY of the PROTESTANTS of FRANCE, from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Present Time. Translated from the French of G. DE FELICE, D.D., Professor of Theology at Montauban. Extract from the Translator's Preface. " My best acisnowledg,ments are due to Dr. Felice for his courtesy in furnishing me with the MS. of the Supplementary Chapter, written expressly for the English Translation, and bringing down the Narra tive to the present month,—a favour enhanced by the handsome manner in which it was conferred." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmats. L ONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL. 'lO-MORROW EVENING, Handel's JUDAS MACCABEUS. Principal Vocalists—Miss Birch, Miss A. Byers, Miss M. Wells, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Seymour, and Mr. Lawler. The B a ud and Chorus will consist of nearly- 800 Performers. Leader—Mr. H. Blagrove. Organist—Mr. Jolley. Conduct ,r—Mr. Surma" (founder and 20 yetis Conductor of the Exeter-Hall Oratorios). Single Tickets, 35 55., and 10s. 6d. each. Books of the Words, with 16 pages of the Music of the Oratorio, 6d. each. --Only Mice, No. 9, Exeter-Hall: 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," " Shamroc!c," "Rose , " and "Amina" Waltzeg, he "Napoleon" and "Le Romanesque" Galops, "Le Cirque' Quadrille ; " The Gold Hawk,' and " Juno," Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight; to commence at Niue o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. PATRON -11.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Last Week of the Optical and Musical Illustration, with Dissolving scenery, of a Midsummer Eight's Dream, with the Ori ginal Music by Sir Henry Bishop and others, concluding with the most interesting Scenes <nd Sores from Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery, Morning and Evening. Lectures :—By J. H. Pepper, Esq.—Half-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bacilli °fiber, on Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and Walking on the Cel:ing will be explained ; by M r . Crispe, on Ericsion's Caloric Engine. Admission, Is. ; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. TEA. -IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.- Government having announced by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, their inl.ention to reduce the duty upon TEA from 2e. 214 d. per pound tc le. 10d., with a further progressive featly redaction until it descends to ONE sarm.um ONLY, we have much pleasure to inform our friends and the public, that the ad , antages arising from these proposed redoctioss will. immediately they come into opera tion, be given to our Customers, and the prices of the whole of our Teas be regulated accordingly. Should Parliament confirm the proposition of the Minister (which is confidently anticipated), the new duties will probably be received at the Custom-house on Tuesday next, the 26th April. SIDNEY, WELLS, & CO. Tea Merchants and Dealers. No. 8, Ludgate-hill. CONTRACT FOR HAIR FOR SEAMEN'S BEDS. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 22d April, 1853. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the sth May next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Depiford -30,000 lbs. of HAIR for SEAMEN'S BEDS. One-third to be delivered by the 31st July, another third by the 31st August,and the remainder by the 30th September next, or ear lier if preferred by the party tendering. No Tender will be received for less than half the quantity. A sample of the iJair may be seen at the said Office, or a sample may be produced by the parties tendering for approval. The conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, Tender for Hair for Beds," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accon.panied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound, with the person tendering, in the sum of 201. per cent.on the value, for the due performance of the Contract. The successful results of the last Half Century have proved beyond question that ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL possesses sin gularly nourishing powers in the growth, restoration, and improvement of the Homan Hair, and when every other specific has failed. This celebrated Oil is now universally ac , nowledged to be the cheapest, and superior to all other preparations for the Hair. It prevents it from falling off or turning grey—strengthens weak hair —produces a thick and luxuriant growth— cleanses it from Scurf and Dandriff—and makes it beautifully soft, curly, and glossy. Its operation in cases of baldness is peculiarly active; and in the growth Of WHISKERS, EYEBROWS, and MUSTACHIOS, It is unfailing in its stimulative operation. For Children it is especially recommended, as forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair, and rendering the use of the sub unnecessary. In dressing the hair nothing can eqn its effect, rendering the Hair so admirably soft t at it will lie in any direction, and imparting a transcendent lustre.—Price as. ad. and 7s. ; Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 21s. CAUTION!—On the wrapper of each Bottle are the words, ROW LAND'S MACASSAR OIL, in two lines. The same are engraven on the back of the wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,023 letters. sold by A ROWLAND & Sons, 20, Hatton Garden, London ; and by all Chemists and Perfumers. D R. T b ` e 'u ha L d ir of E S R berwood LL :3 B P t NEW rn t WORKS.co 47, Fleet-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price ae One Shilling each ; by ' Is ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." CONTENTS s—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex curshits about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places - Country Trips and Rambleg—The Sea -London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama—"n Eating, Drinking, ;sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. II FRAGMENTS FROM THE FOUNTAINS. Two Vol. I. VISIT 10 THE:LAKES ; SKETCH:OFIEDINBURGH. &C. Vol. 11. 7..1E LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, "That three score years and ten our course may run." A popular review of almost every fbrm (cause and cure) of net rously-debilitat d health and enfeebled constitution that harasses the young, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, and em hitters old age; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu• lation 01 every-day life. _ Iv. THE PASSIO2t3. 1 . What passions hurt the body—what Improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT : —l.lfe's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its inf , lngement. The casualties of icentiensness and dissipation, with illustrati - ns, graphic, narra tive, and rernediative. Advocacy of early marriages. TUE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides. as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and Its removal. Sterility audits conversion. Cases. &c. Dy R. J. CULVERViTELL, M.D. (1841), .R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 24), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. Price is. each; by post, Is. 6d. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvallo, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of M. R. Culverwen, M.D.. 10, A rgyll-place. Rovent-street, who may be consulted daily from Ten t II Five and Seven till Nine established under a of Canada, is about t CANADIAN' MAIL P ACKETS.—A line of mail packets, c o ontract made by the Government commence running between this port and Quebec. 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SPIRIT OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS. bers will feel disposed to look upon this proposed new schedule of Customs duties as a thing of course to be passed and settled upon some brief explana tion of a single principle or statement of practical convenience expected to result ; but this is not the way in which the taxation of this country ought to be regulated, and least of all so on the present occasion, when a main ground for relieving many articles from taxation is that the amount realised by the duty upon them individually is small—as if a Customs duty on im ported goods were a separate tax laid upon each article, and not a general duty l ev ied upon what is brought to market as merchandise, and passed through the Custom-house for the purpose, with out reference to whether the cargo be what is called an assorted one, consisting of a thousand strange articles, which have never come before, and may never come again, or be of one commodity shipped in bulk. THE INCOME TAX. (From the Morning Advertiser.) When Lord John Russell made his unlucky mo tion on the income tax, he confessed its injustice, declared that the ministers were incapable of reme dying it, and ended by proposing to add 2 per cent. to the rate. The house barely tolerated his speech and unanimously scouted the motion. Outside it was said with much truth, that he had accused the ministry, of which he formed a part, of ina bility and knavery in the same breath, and had requested the house to allow them to enlarge the injustice; and make it more conspicuous. No one seemed to put the common sense question, why do we pay men so many thousands a year who prefer to do wrong, and are unable to do right ; and why trust such people with any public business at all ? The affairs of a nation are larger, but they are not more difficult, than those of an attorney's office, or a merchant's counting-house, where people who are otherewise unfit for the place are discharged on the spot, or choosing the unjust, are handed to the policeman. Mr. Gladstone has given us the second edition of Lord John Russell. The statesman who declared that little wisdom was required to govern the world, formed his opinion from past and per sonal experience. The insuperable difficulty of distinguishing between the precarious incomes of professional and commercial men, and the rents of land and houses, do not exist in the thing, but in the men who prepare budgets. They belong to. the classes who are always favoured at the expense of the industrious, skilful, and enterprising, among whom no miraculous number of them have ever been found. They stave off as long as they can, what must inevitably come at last, that the land of the country must, after its holiday of two centuries return to its natural destination, and sustain, if not as originally it did, the whole, but the chief bur den of supporting that Government by which its holders are pretected and kept in possession. We must now all bear equitable shares in taxation, and whenever that principle is admitted, funded and real property of every description will be rated in its just proportion. The pretended difficulty has been solved a hun dred times in this and other journals, and in pam phlets, which cannot be enumerated. There is not a knotty point in it. A river flows through our neighbours ground, and supplies him daily with fish : our little garden cannot be watered unless it rain. Is there no difference, and if there be, who is so ignorant or stupid that he cannot estimate the respective values of the two properties Why, what Lord John Russell and Mr. Gladstone say they cannot do, would be accomplished in half an hour by an actuary's pupil of a year's standing. Suppose, for the sake of familiar example, two men of the age of 44 years, of whom one enjoys 50,0001. a year in the rent of real property, or his hold on the funded taxes, and the other, by dint of study or labour, acquires a variable income, which never exceeds the five hundredth part of that sum. What is more easy to comprehend, than the latterywlandeh years' r sit is' the difference which this every day reality presents? The value or expectation of life at all ages has been accurately calculated for two centuries in every country of Europe, and is daily and hourly acted upon by insurance offices. Now freehold estates often sell for 30 years' purchase ; but any other term will serve for illustration. Apply this prin ciple to 2001. a year in certain and unchanging rents, and let the chargeable income of a trade or profession be estimated at the same amount. We shall now have one invariable rate of taxation, and thus one difficulty is gone, but the changeable and the unchangeable income cannot be both valued at thirtytthe other sh h yearly while wy for the rtaorh of e question much rs thee n p rd o s u t ei worth ciewrhreaocis s e n•dut three vv l aee n nrr ad n years'.b e more. The saleable, cases W A out of ten ycta e the most general computation of the expectation of life is 21 years. At 30 years' purchase the owner of 2001. a year in rent would receive 3,0741. ; but let the annuity of 2001. be sold at 21 years' pur chase, and he will get only 2,5641. Here we have a real difference, and a mode of dealing with it which has been in use among men of business and the world time out of mind. The former should The main question of this night's debate is, how ever, of wide enough bearing to enlist all our readers in the class of those personally concerned in the issue, so. as to deserve at present our exclu sive notice. Mr. Gladstone has told the house that . he loolth upon it to be impossible to assess this income tax fairly upon the different classes at present subjected to its influence. He has given reasons irrefragable for not adopting any of the schemes for this pur pose that have been put forth by actuaries and em pries, and the conclusion he comes to is, that be cause it cannot be justly apportioned, it never ought to be made a permanent item o`the nation-'s , Budget. He asks Parliament, therefore,' to con tinue the tax with a sliding-scale of decrement for seven years, that is to 1860, when the Long An nuities will fall in, and leave available, as a sub stitute, some two or three millions of annual revenue now applied to their payment, thus holding out the prospect of the tax being then entirely dis pensed with. Now, this would be very well if the public could be brought to give implicit credit to a Chancellor of Exchequer's promise of the prospec tive abandonment of any tax ; but, unfortunately, in respect especially to this income tax, we have had the experience of no less than four renewals, notwithstanding that the tax was originally asked by Sir Robert Peel as a temporary expedient for three years. This prospect of getting rid of the tax in 1860 is something like what they call in the East " a bill upon Paradise." It is a cheque upon futurity which may or may not be hon oured when the time comes, according to the circumstances or disposition of the bank to which it may then be presented. This prospective be nefit, however, is all that is held out to the public as the inducement to submit, for seven more years, to what is admitted to be an iniquitous tax, and to bear, without murmur, further burthensome imposts besides. The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes much of the relief granted to various classes by several of his changes in the customs, excise, and assessed taxes ; and some of these, doubtless, are just, and wise, and beneficial. They must, however, and in the committee they no doubt will, be examined in detail. Let us • confine ourselves first to his new burthens. He subjects incomes from 1001. to 1501. per annum to his income tax, from which they have hitherto been unwisely exempted, and he tells the clerks and small annuitants, who have to submit to this mulct, that they can now better than ever bear the impost, since they will get their tea and soap cheaper, and may so make up for what they will have to pay in hard cash out of their income. Again, the Chancellor of the Exchequer subjects Ireland to this tax, and very justly so. But the unjustifiable part of the proposed method of dealing with the income tax is the admitted bear ing of the measure upon the landed interest, and on all who derive their income from land. The tax being levied on the gross rent, and not self-assessed as t u pe oc 1 p yu deriveob horsesineos na o e lltaq t yeh h nune6 e di r vdrdai. nolnneßgecnasoout. incomes etTte e doh s shuifi9csrl i dtoa s i sno reduc m tion a l ofint a hfidg r ne e ,etgnw d hp wteoh b r yui whereas rnhsaesd Mr.rasteehsoassessed dt G l t taxes are but a small item, and will have been com pounded for in all cases where the rate would have been onerous. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, leaving this class subject to their tax, which rates at ninepence in the pound; has selected them especially for a new and very grievous impost in the shape of legacy and probate duty. This, be it observed, is a tax payable on successions that will impose the necessity of a forced sale or mort gage of part of every estate at each succession, with all the costs and law charges of transfer. There is no doubt that good arguments exist for subjecting real property to the same taxation upon death successions as personal property invested in the Three per Cents. or other stocks. The only rea son that we ever heard alleged for the distinction is, that a heavy tax like ten per cent. on the gross value, which is the legacy duty paid by a stranger or distant relation, must necessarily involve a forced sale of part of the property, which, in the case of land, cannot be effected with the same facility as the sale of stocks, so that, if enforced, the tax would in course of time break up every estate in the country. On this account the taxa tion of land, instead of being levied upon these successions, has been raised in the shape of a heavy stamp upon every mortgage, or sale, or lease, while the transfer of personality is free of duty, and entails no law expenses. Thus, both descriptions of property have been considered to be placed nearly on a par. Now, the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to lay the legacy and probate duty upon landed - property, without relieving it of one iota of the taxation or law charges to which it is subject, in the shape of stamps and deeds upon every sale, mortgage, lease, &c. ; and this at the very time that he de clares the conviction that landholders are paying ninepence in the pound :compulsory income tax, while other classes pay only sixpence. This speci men of Exchequer justice will, Ire doubt not, be teta lswhsl ese: on prominently put forward in the debate of this evening. It requires only to be stated in order to make its impression, and, unless the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes some modification of his -Budget to remove this palpable feature of injustice, othertalf oaoaysxdrceels tone we think it very likely that the entire Budget will be wrecked on this ground. A Peelite and a Free , trader should have been particularly cautious not to give to Iris first Budget the appearance of un merited harshness and ill-treatment of the class which has looked upon free trade as the source of its injuries and declared ruin. not be taxed at less than 5 per cent., simply because that it-is true and market value. If the latter be taxed at 21- per cent. it will be taxed one-fourth more than it ought to be, for it would find no mar ket. Thus this mighty difficulty is dispelled with the breath of a little common sense. The next of these marvellously invented difficulties concerns ascer taining the age of the tradesman, lawyer, parson, and author, four classes of infinitely more import ance and value to the world at large than the land grubber. How is this to be done Y By precisely the same means that have hitherto been taken to ascertain the amount of income which is liable to pay the income tax. It must be had from the very same return to the tax gatherer, which has hereto fore only stated the income. By this means, a tax of 5 per cent. upon all in come from lands, houses, funds, and other fixed property, and 2 per cent. or less upon precarious profits from personal exertion, would place a larger sum at the disposal of Government than it has hitherto raised in the shape of an income tax. It will have the rare character of being a voucher for the honesty of its imposers, but that may not be deemed a recommendation. It may be objected that false returns will be given of the age. No doubt cases of that kind will occur. The fault is inseperable from every plan which makes the payer of a tax his own chooser, to a certain extent, of what he will pay. The Government is already, and must ever be, at the discretion and honour of the contributors of taxes of this nature. Two re turns of the income tax and the number of persons paying for different incomes, from 1501. to 50,0001. a year, and upwards, are before us. They are the years 1846 and 1847, and the gross amount is nearly the same, or 5& millions, but there is a difference in the classes and number of persons for which births and immigrations will not account. In 1846, there were 111,599 payers, and in 1847 they had increased to 147,664, exceeding the former by 36,065. Allowing for neglect, mistakes, and oversight, the Government must have been de frauded by not less than 33 or 34,000 false re turns. Now, the value of the property rated to the income tax is stated thus, and the sums it should yield at 31 per cent. are annexed : £ Interest on Tax. 94,810,599 43,145,786 64,344,835 Ownership Occupation Profits or Gain THE TIMES' BRIBE-NEWSPAPER SUPPLE £202,301,210 £7,080,540 ATEYTS, The tax in 1846 produced, instead of , seven mil lions, no more than 5,603,4481., besides engender ing feelings of intense hostility in occupants and other unfairly-taxed payers against the favoured classes. That feeling ought always to be discou raged by a prudent Government, which certainly ought to be wiser than those classes. It proves to us that many false returns were made, and that consequently the present is an immoral system in promoting fraud. There can be but little deception, and that not of much consequence, in obliging people to return their age. If the owners are taxed 5 per cent., which is the market rate of the value of their property when sold, the Government would have 4,740,5301. ; and if the two others were taxed 2 per cent., which is more than they are worth, the whole prouce would be 6,890,3421., or 7,035,2471. at 3 per cent., which would be as unfair as the pro posal to continue to excuse a few wealthy families from paying their just proportion at the expense of all the more useful members of the community, of those, too, without whom there would b 3 no Eng- ' lish nation. We have only attempted to indicate the easy mode of dealing with factitious difficulties when placed in the hands of competent persons. The rates are debateable subjects, but the amounts under a just Government would be about what we have indicated. A minister and a general who talk of difficulties are not fit for their offices. (Front the Morning Post.) To-night the House will sit to pass judgment and sentence on Mr. Gladstone's Budget. There are several points of of the it HousewhichNvell of Commons,deservethe andserious notice them because there are important principles involved which we should be sorry to see adopted without full argument and consideration. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the resolutions which he has placed on the notice paper, has given precedence to the changes he j proposes in the tariff of Custom duties, but he has told the House that he shall take thefirst vote upon the Property and Income Tax. It is well that he has made this ar rangement, for there are so many questions involved in his proposed revision of the Customs tariff, that we doubt if the House could come properly to a vote upon that part of the scheme without consi dering separately, at least, each class of articles ; but if it did its duty, it would decide upon every individual item of proposed new duty, which would occupy at least a week in settling this one head of the Budget. We dare say that many hon. mern tulle of his generosity towards the Times, afford to dispense with 50,0001. or 60,0001. yearly revenue, he affects to be so hard driven to make both ends meet that he cannot afford to part with all the 160,0001. revenue derived. from the advertisement duty. He is, he tells us, necessitated to oppose the entire abolition of the advertisement duty from financial considerations. He must retain at least one-third of the amount—that is, one sixpence out of the eighteenpence. Mr. Gladstone would never have dreamt of offer ing the Times a direct bribe for the support of his Budget, or for its advocacy of any other measure, in the success of which he might take a special in terest. Nor, ox the principle of giving the worst of all characters his due, do we suppose our con temporary would accept a direct bribe, even if the right hon. gentleman were so far to forget himself as to offer it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not the man to manage matters in any such clumsy manner as that. He has hit on the right sort of thing. He knows the Times full well. He comprehends the genius of that journal. A more ingenious device to accomplish his purpose could not have been resorted to. He has purchased' all the support which the Times can give his financial measures, and that journal is doing its best to get him through his difficulties. • We presume the Chancellor of the _Exchequer does not take it for granted, that the support of the Times is to be given either to him, as an indi vidual Minister, or to the Administration of which he is a member, after the Budget has been carried. •We mistake the character of the right hon. gen tleman for shrewdness, and have over-estimated his acquaintance with the journal whose services he has bought, if he labours under any such im pression. He will find himself at fault if he has any such notion. The 'Times is under no such mis conception. That journal does not re g ard the future support of the Ministry in general, or any measure of Mr. Gladstone in particular, as part of the bargain. That is not in the bond. Not at any rate, according to the Times' reading of it. Mr. Gladstone may, on the contrary, rest as sured that once the Times has received the amount of the boon beyond the chance of recal, it will take an early opportunity of turning round, and, for the purpose of making a parade of its pretended inde pendence, assail the right hon. gentleman and his colleagues in the Cabinet, with unwonted fury. The moment the Budget has either been carried or rejected, the Times will regard the compact as at an end. It will consider that it has given all the consideration which it engaged to give for, the abo lition of the stamp on supplements, and that it is again free to return to its old habit of assailing all and everybody. Mr. Gladstone has made a bad bargain for his colleagues, should they remain in office after the Budget has been disposed of. The Times will have no mercy on them after the terms of the compact have been fulfilled. The very fact of Mr. Gladstone having had re course to this discreditable expedient to purchase the support of the Times, implied a consciousness that his Budget was not such as would command the approval of the country. Had the right hon. gentleman felt satisfied in his own mind of the in trinsic merits of his measure, lie would have had confidence in its adoption by the house. In that case it would not have been necessary to give a re taming fee to the TiMes, or to any other journal. The hostility of the Thunderer to a good measure never yet has prevailed, and never will. The honest part of the press would have given its prompt and cordial support to an unexceptionable Budget. And there would have been so strong an expression of public feeling in its favour as would have carried it triumphantly through the house. But Mr. Gladstone evidently had no faith from the first in his own financial scheme. He manifestly anticipated an unwelcome reception to it by the public and has sought to neutralise that hostility by a dishonourable bargain with the Times. Mr. Gladstone never committed a greater error since his first appearance on the stage of public life, and before many months have passed away—very pro bably before many weeks have elapsed—the right hon. gentleman will be convinced of the gigantic mistake he has made. By putting the Times in a position to acquire greater power and influence in the country, he will find that he has only put into the hands of our contemporary a lash wherewith to scourge his own back. And most certainly there will be a poetic justice which all must ad mire, should the right honourable gentleman be the first to receive a practical proof of the in creased power for castigating those who have in incurred its displeasure, which, by this act of gross and glaring favouritism, he has conferred on our contemporary. IVROLESALE POISONING IN " CONSECRATED GROUND." " Thou shalt do no murder," says the clergyman every Sunday, repeating the commandment. All under the church in which he speaks are vaults crammed to the ceiling with putrefying corpses : another is, perhaps, at that moment waiting to take its place among the dead and deadly inhabitants of mother church's great store house of disease. "The prayers of this congregation are desired for two persons dangerouSly ill," says the clergyman. One is a man in the last stage of typhus fever. He lives in a house abutting on the "Church's Holy Ground." This "holy ground " is made up of the most tremen dious ingredients. That old garden of Attains, which grew nothing but poisons, was an Eden of innocence when compared to it. This garden that the church cultivates, has for its soil mouldering coffins and putrefying flesh ; its flowers are pestilence—the sexton tends them by carefully digging and stirring up the filthy ground. He had been shovelling about the dead with unusual energy, and the man now dying of fever breathed the polluted air than which arsenic could not be more fatal. The other sick person, about to leave this world, has lately been a mother ; she had been to be churched, and in her delicate state the fumes of the charnel-house below, reeking through the cracks in the church floor, had blown upon her as with the breath of an evil spirit, kindling up a disease no medicine can cure. The clergyman ascends the pulpit, talks of the uncertainty of life, the mysteri ous ways of Providence in shortening its duration ; but he does not say a word about the duty of obeying God's physical laws or the sin of neglecting them ; it never strikes him that every one of his order who does not strenuously protest against poisoning the living with his "holy ground" is an accessary to murder, and will rbe held guilty of no small share of the deaths that spring from it. His service over, he visits the parents of a s i c k, puny child—here agai n h e has nothing to talk about but the mystery of baptismal regeneration and supervenient grace. He counsels the mother to bow meekly to thechas telling rod, and ascribes to Providence the sickness of her child. ' He does not care about " carnal learning," or the parish doctor could tell him that it is by a mur derous violation . of the laws of Providence in keeping up the abomination of his " holy ground" that this poor child is afflicted, and that thousands are growing up consumptive and. scrofulous, a burden to themselve , , grief to their friends, and an expense to the public, Le cause his order has not done their duty and made the metropolis ring with the duty of obedience to divine physical law, wilfully to continue sinning against which is a most serious breach of divine moral law. In fact, with few exceptions—and all honour to them—the clergy, with the bishops at their head, have been ever the great stumbling blocks to this branch of sanitary re form. The people sicken and die—what matter ?—the fees come in ! "Thy money perish with thee," would have been the rebuke of a Christian apostle. Our Church is very apostolic, but such rebukes are not (From the Morning Ae:vertiser.) Mr. Milner Gibson, in his very able and lurnk nous speech, when introducing his motion last year in favour of the abolition of taxes on knowledge, repeatedly declared, in the hearing of a full house, that iu the course of a few years, should matters continue as they were, there would be no morning papers except the Morning Advertiser and the Times. We refer to the words of the right hon. gentleman—words from which no member of the Legislature expressed dissent —for the purpose of showing, were that necessary, that in holding up to condemnation the conduct of Mr. Gladstone, in conferring a marked favour on the Times; we are not speaking from any considerations which imme diately affect this journal. We speak on behalf of our struggling contemporaries, not our own. If any favour were to be shown at all by the Govern ment to the daily press, it ought to have . been to those journals which are the weakest, and, conse quently, needed it the most. Mr. Gladstone thinks, or at least acts, differently. He is for and crushing those papers which are struggling, for giving greater strength to a j ourna l which is much too powerful already. A Minist er of the Crown who can make so obje ctionable a us e of the influence with which his position invests him, is wholly unworthy of that position. A Minister has no right to evince favouritism with regard to public journals. Or, if lie will have his favourite paper, and his peculiar friendship for its proprietors, he has, at least, no right to shower the patronage of Government on that journal, to the serious injury Of all other papers. Ministers ought, on the con trary, as Ministers, to encourage, by all the means in their power, every legitimate commercial enter prise. But if the Chancellor of the Exchequer be inac cessible to considerations of this nature, there are other considerations which ought to satisfy him of the inexpediency of the notorious favouritism which he is showing to the Times. By abolishinc , the duty on newspaper supplements, the righChon. For the sake of conferring a favour on annum. „, s cr u a b in m st itt a e n d E o n n e F is ri hm da n y n, t r o es t id h e e nt Tr in ib r un ra al n : gentleman gives up about 50,0001. of revenue per the Times, or, in plain language, putting 20,0001. its e Exchequer u e e v r e every will alsoear, deprive our pre s s e e n r_ t Commerce, it was again decided that a Frenchman can ; no l t n pr a oc c ee as d e' a He will ; on bills of exchange given by him to another Englishman' eoi ai.l nifil l sot e ii rtising never fails to produce to it. been passed to the Frenchman in the regular course of o a v e a rmdal advertisements n s: c t o o e i : s i f i e :t m l f ik e means of getting situations through f t 1 public all t hebenefit which a liberal in England, when such bills have not, before coming due, alAsnoddyeeptr,ivtheotlrigandienMr. Gladstone can, in the pleni- business.—Galignani. given. The Surveyor of the Commissioner of City Sewers tells the corporation that within the' city the over crowded burial-grounds are made still more pestilential by about 1,810 burials. a-year. The Board of Health published a cholera map of the metropolis ; the south side of the river is ominously distinguished by an im mense smudge of blue, deepening in tint in proportion to the mortality of the district. In the darkest spots the Church's "holy ground" is still at full work cultivating typhus fever with diabolical industry. We have had months of rain saturating these " con secrated" spots with moisture, and soon may, come weeks of intense heat. Here will lie a time for the Church's horticulture ! The best medical authorities tell us that if heat should come on, and we continue digging and stirring up our graveyards for fresh inter ments, that we must have a season of fearful pes tilence—it may be cholera—it may be typhus—but death will be busy reaping the Church's crop. Under these circumstances, Mr. G. A. Walker is again pa triotically circulating notes of warning, and here and there a solitary graveyard yields to his attacks ; but at the slow rate we are progressing, another teeming har vest of plague and pestilence will be gathered in before the trade of cultivating disease is stopped by our Legis lature. Thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of pounds might be saved by timely action. Upon all who can stir in this movement, and who do not stir, a heavy load of blame shall rest, and chiefly upon that part of the clergy who remain dumb dogs and will not bark to secure the safety of their flocks. Let them reflect upon these things the next time they utter the words "Thou shalt do no murder." Front the Atlas of Saturday. __,_,,,,, [PRICE 5 D • LETTER FROM THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ON_ THE BUDGET. The following important correspondence has been placed in our hands for publication, and we give it with out a word of comment, as the plain and feasible argu ments of the Chancellor, and the spirit of considerate kindness which dictated his reply to the remonstrance of the clerk, need no exposition and no eulogy : • Birmingham, April 20, 1853. Sin,—l am a clerk whose salary is just above 1001. a year, and will therefore come under the operation of your measure of the income tax. Now your proposition will come to this. I shall have to pay 21. is. Bd. hard cash to the tax-gatherer ; and I shall be glad if you will point out where I shall be re lieved--.--on house rent ? on clothes ? on meat ? on flour ? on coals, which last during the past six months increased 75 per cent. ? on education of children ? on medical at tendance ? on borough or parochial rates ? Mark, sir, these items, after all, are the great items in house keeping. It has been said that our class will be more relieved than others by the remission on 238 articles. But these, if I rightly understand, will be only as a drop in the bucket. The repeal of the corn laws was a bona fide re - - lief, for which all are Most thankful. I hope, sir, you will therefore pause before committing so great an injus tice.—l remain, your most obedient servant, JOSEPH LLOYD PHELPS. Downing-street, April 21, 1853. Sir,—The reasonable tone in which you write to com plain of the proposal to extend a modified rate of income tax from incomes of 1501. downwards to those of 1001., leads me, though my time is very much occupied, to address you an the subject. You observe that you will have to pay 21. is. Bd. to the tax collector, but will have nothing in return on the most important items of expenditure. Let us look into this matter more particularly. _ _ The tax collector, should Parliament adopt the propo sition of the Government, will about the month of January next call upon you for the half-yearly payment of U. Os. 10d., which will be repeated in July, and this for seven years ; when, unless Parliament, in considera tion of other public benefits or necessities not yet fore seen, should prolong the tax, it will drop altogether. Is this a hardship ? _ _ If you and your s family do not form a strange excep-. tion to the general rule, you have since 1842 been de riving great additional command over articles of use and subsistence from the changes that have been brought about in our fiscal system. I think I do not overstate the actual savings upon incomes of 1001. per annum, which have directly flowed from legislation since 1842, if I put them at 51. per annum. In what manner has Parliament been enabled to give you the benefit of these savings ? By the imposition of an income tax at sevenpence in the pound upon all incomes of 150/. and upwards. Have the owners of these incomes who have borne the exclusive burden derived from the accompanying changes in legislation a greater proportional benefit than those who own incomes of 1001. ? On the contrary, it may be easily inferred from general considerations, and it is most plain to me -from carefully collected facts, that the benefits of the income tax have amounted to a much larger percentage on incomes below 1501. than on incomes above that sum. Ido not antici pate that you will doubt this. The question then arises, if the income tax is again to be imposed for a term of seven years on those who have heretofore paid it, with a view to another great scheme of remissions of indirect taxation for the benefit of the entire community, but especially of the incomes below 1501., is it fair to those having 1501. and upwards, after the class next beneath them in wealth have come into actual possession of a great pecuniary advantage, free of any cost whatever to themselves, that the higher in comes should again be required to bear not only the main but the exclusive burden, in order again to confer the main benefit on the lower Put yourself in my position. Suppose the Govern ment had not asked Parliament to go down, at fivepence, to incomes of 1001.,; suppose I had now been replying to some person with 1501., per annum who had been complaining to me that I called upon him to pay a tax in which you did not share, in order to bring about benefits in which you were to have a greater share than he—do you think I should have as good an answer to make to him as I can now make to you ? But let us look more closely at your case. I observe, first, that you are in enjoyment of certain money advan tages, which have been obtained for you at the cost of others. But is not on that account that I would call upon you to pay. Ido not scruple to say, that if you have a family—and if you have not, your case must be regarded as an exception to the common state of men in society—you will realise savings from the changes we have proposed to Parliament greater than the cost at which we invite you to buy them. You are asked to pay 21. is. Bd. per annum for seven years from Jan. next. You will thus pay within about eight years from this time the sum of 141. u s. Bd. in all. The present value of this payment, distributed as above, may be from 111. to 121. What is it proposed you should gain on articles of common consumption in return for this 11/. to 121. I have before me the household expenditure of a clerk in a country town with a wife and five children, and with an income of 1001. per annum. . . I find that in 1852 his . tea cost him 3/. 18s. But the changes proposed to take effect within the next three years will reduce the price of tea by 30 per cent. Thus then he will gain three•tenths of 785., or 1/. 3s. 6d, per annum on his tea. I find that his soap cost him in the same year 265. From the sth of next July, if the changes proposed by the Government are adopted, the duty of lAd. per lb. on soap will be repealed. I may take this duty at 40 per cent. on the price. But the repeal of the duty will lead to such improvements in the trade that I un derstand there will be a further saving on the short price of 30 per cent. I will, however, take the whole reduction of price no higher than 50 per cent., and this perhaps not until after a couple of years, when the Uncle shall have had time to expand in its state of freedom. The clerk, whose income is before me, will for the same quantity of soap then pay 13s. only instead of 265. He will have saved 11. 3s. 6d. on his tea, and 13s. on his soap, together 11. 16s. 6d. This annuity is perpetual ; it is for himself, and for his chil dren after him ; he will have bought it for a sum equal to between 11/. and 121. Do you think he could buy a perpetual annuity—and I call it so, because it is strictly true that money saved is - money gained— of 11. 16s. 6d. for ill, or 121. down? No, nor for double nor treble that money. I have certainly here the case of a man with a family larger than the average. But pray observe also that he is, therefore, poorer than the average of those who have 1001. per annum, and thus his case shows how our pro posals will operate on the most needy among those whom they affect. I have, however, another case before me, of a country tradesman with 1201. per annum, having a wife, but no children ; and in this instance the figures would not be very materially different. I might, however, have pushed my case much further. I might have taken credit for savings that a large por tion of the population will realise from the reductions of duty on butter, cheese, and a multitude of other commo dities, as also from reductions on stamps and other arti cles. But I will not enter into them. I wish, however, to point out that these reductions operate in many ways not at first sight perceptible. A printed calico which cost 225. 6d. in 1330, including a duty of ss. 81d., may now, when the duty is off, be had for less than 11s. Again, I think you are mistaken in sup posing that the tax on soap does not enter into the cost of clothing. It is an important ingredient in the manufac ture of printed calicoes, woollens, and worsteds. In some of these cases only half drawback is allowed ; in all of them a worse and dearer article is used than would be employed if soap were free, and the cost of the cloth ing on our backs is enhanced in proportion. Again, you say education is not cheapened. I beg your pardon. We shall propose this year an addition to the vote of 100,0001. Every farthing of that money will go to cheapen and to improve the education of the chil dren of persons with incomes less than 1501. per annum. You say medical attendance is not cheapened. Surely, medical attendance has, since 1842, been virtually and really cheapened to you, if medical men (as has been the case) have been called upon, without any increase of their fees, to pay income tax, in order to reduce the price of articles of which persons of 1001. a year are, relatively to income, larger consumers than they them selves are who have paid the tax. You may, perhaps, say all this tells in favour of carry ing the tax below 1001. I need not now enter upon that question ; the labouring class, properly so I alled, r esents a case to be considere d a p art ; but th ink ere is no essential distinction, speaking g enerally, be tween incomes of 1501. and incomes of 1001., which should exclude the latter from a moderate share of this tax ; and I further think I have shown that the strictest considerations of justice not only warrant, but even may seem to require, the proposal which the Govern ment has made. At any rate, lam certain of this, that had you been my constituent, and had a dissolution f Parliament been impending, I never should have pre sented myself to you with greater confidence, to render an account of my trust, and to ask for its renewal, ;t p h r a o n . on the day after I had stated to Parliament posa ls which her Majesty's advise rs have laid before it. I remain, sir, your obedi en t servant, Mr. J. Lloyd Phelps, W. E. G LADSTONE. You are at liberty to make any use of thi s letter you may think fit ; although the figures I have u se d i n may have been somewhat roughly stated.—Birmingli it ta m Journal. THE PITMEN AND THE WAGES QUESTION.—The miners of the North Eastern district of Northumber land met at Horton, near Blyth, on Saturday, to con sider the necessity of asking for an advance of wages, and to adopt certain resolutions to secure a better pro tection of their health and lives. Resolutions were adopted, and no doubt in the present bra state of the coal trade any reasona b le demands made by the men , will be acceeded to. /`~ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, which was attended by the following officers : Captains.—Andrew Snape Hamond (1846), George Kny vett Wilson (1848), Jeffery Wheelock Noble (1846), and P. Onslow, R.M. Commanders.—W. G. N. King (1834), C. J. F. Newton (1838), Lewis Maitland (1841), George Stewart Reynolds (1841), John Steane (1841), Edmund Peel (1841), George Snell (1813), R. Moorman (1815), and James A. Paynter (1846). Lieutenants.—John Edward Lane (1811), Martin Ben nett (1815), William Mansell (1821), Robert A. Newman (1827), John 0. Bathurst (1838), H. Temple (1845), Geo. E. K. Gore (1843), William H. Payne (1845), John F. C. Mackenzie (1846), and Edward F. Dent (1846). Paymaster.—James Ozzard (1813). PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24. Her Majesty's ship Hastings, Captain - F. W. Austin, arrived at Spithead this morning from the East Indies, and saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief at this port. The Hastings has brought no news, having made an unusually long passage from the Cape, which place she left on the 6th of February, St. Helena on the 21st of February, and Ascension on the 28th of that month, since which time she has touched nowhere. The Victory flag ship. yesterday received 100 newly raised men from the Excellent, for training. A Norwegian man-of-war steamer anchored at Spit head last evening, and saluted the garrison and flag-ship. The American packet-ship Devonshire brought up off the Nab at 8 o'clock this morning, 16 days from New York, landed passengers, and proceeded to London. The ship's carpenter fell off the yard overboard and was drowned last night off the Isle of Wight. The Plumper Screw sloop is under repair, and will come out of dock oh the 28th, and be placed in the steam basin to be fitted for service. Wind S.W., blowing hard, with heavy showers of rain. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 23. Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Amphion, 34, Cap tain Charles G. E. Patey, arrived this morning from Sheerness. The London, DO, Captain Charles Eden, arrived on Thursday from Portsmouth, and, having saluted the Port-Admiral, anchored in the Sound. On Friday she sailed for a cruise in the Channel. One report returns her to Portsmouth, another states that she will proceed to join the fleet under Rear -Admiral Dundas in the Mediterranean. The steam transport Ithadamanthus, Master-Com mander John Belam, sailed yesterday afternoon for the eastward. The officers and crew of the surveying vessel o Scorpi n 6, Lieutenant - Commander Grant , were paid off inth; pay-office in the dockyard on Thursday. The brig Wizard, 6, Lieutenant-Commander Bacon, was placed in dock on Thursday, and, having been ex amined and repaired, was towed on Friday by the Con fiance steamer into the Sound. She sailed to-day for Queenstown. The steam-ship Cyclops sailed to-day for Deptford, having in tow the store-ship Melampus, which will bring to this port the remainder of the enginework for the St. Jean d'Acre. The St. Jean d'Acre has received her boilers and will be placed in dock on Monday to be coppered. SUNDAY. The African stem-ship Company's mail packet Hope arrived yesterday from the Thames, and is appointed to sail this afternoon with mails for Madiera, Teneriffe, and the west coast of Africa. WOOLWICH, APRIL 23. The Phoenix screw steam-sloop, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, has been taken into the basin for the con venience of completing her coaling. Several of the workmen in the factory have been employed over hours during the week in forging a new hammered iron shaft for the Sidon steam-frigate. The shaft a ill be 11 feet long, by 21i inches diameter, and weigh about five tons. - It will be completed by the hamtnerers on Tuesday next, and be turned and finished so as to be ready to send round to Portsmouth on Saturday. The Sinbad lighter has been taken into the basin to receive on board the screw, cast and finished at the factory here, for the Agamemnon, 91, screw steamship, at Portsmouth, and the Sinbad will take it round to that port. The screw, when finished, will be 18 feet . in diameter, by 3 feet in depth. IMPORTANT ALTERATION 1N THE TOB-4 CCO DUTIES. THREATENED EXTINCTION OF THE SCOTCH AND IRISH MANUFACTURE. Amon.. what will be considered the mino r a lt era ti ons proposed by Mr. Gladstone on the Customs'-duties, ts one which, if the state of our information on the point is not imperfect,• will inflict a great injustice and a still greater injury on the tobacco dealers or manufacturers, especially of Scotland—a class whom, as collectors of nearly five millions of annual revenue, should obviously be cautiously dealt with by financiers. The question raised by the new Tariff can be stated in very few words. The present duties on Tobacco are 3s. per lb. on " unmanufactured," and 9s. per lb. on "manu factured," with 5 per cent. added—say, respectively, 3s. 2d. and 9s. 6d. Mr. Gladstone proposes to make the duties 3s. 6d. and 9s. ; but it is not in this, but intan alteration of the classification of the two kinds, manu factured and unmanufactared, that the grievance or danger lies. At present, the " unmanufactured," pay ing the 3s. duty, is interpreted literally, and includes only the leaf ; while the " manufactured " includes all kinds wholly or in part made up—negrohead, twist, Cavendish, shag, and cigars. Mr. Gladstone proposes to transfer to the class " unmanufaetured," the three articles designated Cavendish, negroh6ad, and twist, i.e., to allow these articles to be imported at 3s. 6d. instead of Os. 2d. of duty. Such a change would of course make a mighty differ ence to the home manufacturers, who buy the leaf under the 3s. 2d. duty, and then manufacture it into the shapes which, when imported, bear a duty three times higher. The conclusion must not be jumped to that the differ ence between the duty on foreign and on home Caven dish, negrohead, and twist, is a protection, and that Mr. Gladstone's proposal is simply an operation in free trade. Our home manufacturers seem to us to have at least two sound objections to the change. The chief of these is, that they are laid under severe and costly re strictions from which the foreign manufacturer is exempt. For instance, they are compelled under vexatious regu lations and ruinous penalties to manufacture with " pure water," while the foreign manufacturer uses saccharine matter in various forms and degrees, which not only greatly augments the weight of the article as sold to the consumer, but gives to it that very flavour which the smokers desiderate and are willing to pay extra for. The foreigner thus enjoys, but for the differential duty, a great advantage over the home manufacturer ; and even as things stand, the supply of all outgoing ships, a very important branch of the trade, is made up of foreign manufactured tobacco, solely owing to the disadvantages under which the home manufacturer is placed by the burdensome regulations to which his process is subjected. If the duties are nominally equalised on the three articles named, without the conditions of manufacture being also equalised—i. e. being both left unrestrained—time foreign manfacturer will supply the whole consumers as he at present supplies all those (viz., out-going vessels) from whom the 9s. duty is not exigible. Now„the justice of the case seems to require one of two courses. Either set free the process of manufacture, or at the same time maintain a differential duty equiva lent to the cost of those restrictions on the home manu facturer from which the foreign manufacturer i. free. If the home-manufacturers are not prepared to adopt the former of these alternatives, they have no case ; if the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not accede either to one or the other, he is doing injustice. The other ground of complaint seemingly possessed by the manufacturers is secondary but not unimportant. Besides the three kinds of manufactured tobacco just . . . dealt with, there is a fourth, 'called "shag," which - for no ascertainable reason, is, unlike its fellows, to be al lowed to remain under the 9s. import duty. Now, it so happens that the English manufacturers produce almost exclusively shag, while the Scotch and Irish manufac turers employ themselves almost exclusively in the pro duction of the other three kinds. So that, besides the injustice as between the home and the foreign maker, there seems another as between the manufacturers of the three kingdoms. This should give an extra stimulus to the Scotch and Irish members in seeking redress. The Irish members have well-known and greatly dreaded powers of troubling ; and the Scotch ones can present themselves with the persuasive claim that they are not in the habit of joining together to ask or do anything whatever. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS.— The anniversary festival of this society, which was esta blished in ISO 6 for the purp ose of relieving indigent foreigners in this country, was celebrated at the London Tavern on Saturday. The Earl of Carlisle occupied the chair, and amongst were the Chevalier Ns theguests,f o Bunsen,mthe r e were the n early 200 present, Hon. J. R. Ing ersoll (the Ame rican Minister), Colonel Lawrence, Mr. J. D. Fowles, and a large number of foreign gentlemen. The chairm b a r n i , fl in proposi ng th e iny a a d r v e e n r e t n e td leading ai the n a a to tt a n s e t k " e S n uc e c h e a s r s it t y o t ( l i l i e nn S e O rs Cie c t o y n ,;' ained e article of a contemporary journal. He believed th a t, however much opinioixnin t, opinions might differ: in the abst rac t as to proprietyof mstreams of charity, with c h ar i ta bl e o tl b l e ets th n like th e wa t ers of t h e pool of Bethseda, requiredd forth their l a t en t virtues Aftoccasional agitation to draw appeal i n f avour of the recipients iptserofrnthakeibonguanntieselooqfutehnet institution, he stated that though it had not been established 50 years, 5 o,9soforeigners „u an of different nations had b een re li eved, and 8 the usu a l ra t e, and 95 at a reduced rate, pensionslt te,werenow 0 . w paid out of its funds. It might be said that charity began at home, but distress, like kindness, made " the whole world kin." It was true alike at Car thage as at Troy—" Sunt la,erymaz meum et mentem mortalia taugunt," and the fact that charity did begin at home supplied the strongest argument in favour of a society like this. In the course of the evening, besides the ordinary toasts, " The Foreign Sovereigns and Governments, and their representatives present," was given and acknowledged by the Chevalier Bunsen and the Hon. J. R. Ingersoll. A liberal collection was made, including the following subscriptions : her Majesty 1001., Prince Albert 251., the King of Denmark 501., King of Spain 101., the Emperor of Austria 10/. ' King of Belgium 101., Emperor of Russia 301., Earl of Carlisle 101., and Hon. J. R. In gersoll 101. RECTORY OF ST. JAMES'S, PICCADILLY.—The Rev. Thomas James Rowse% M.A., incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Stepney, has been appointed to the rectory of St. James's, Westminster, rendered vacant by the resig nation of the Rev. Dr. John Jackson, Bishop elect of Lincoln. ----- --- .e_— p,,, IM PORTANT TO CONTINENTAL TR VELLERS. VIE DIRECT TIDAL SERVICE of TRAINS r olk _ an STEAMERS between LO N DON and PAR I S , via _atone and Boulogne, will be resumed on the Ist of MAY. ItAtt!Z e la 1 Express Train will leave the S WTH-EASTERN 41. Terminus, London -bridge, every day, for the dlr eet r'ne Tidal Steamer and another Train will c leaveßoulogne *h oe r, after the arrival p ct the Passengers from Folkestone ; the la the aue J ?. ur naY being thus accomplished daily, without interruption, The test pi n s ble time. thei o e correspondence of trains and steam i rs is arrarge d for Frnev from Paris to London. 40, il l ' Particulars, t'me tables, &c., at the London - bridge T erminus ; _gent Circus, Piccadilly ; and 4 Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. G. S. HERBERT, Secretary. won Bridge Terminus, April 23, , 1853. 015 OS 0 8 015 D , 1 al , c , 09' o ite 4,0 L On ttl vett rlO l4 , 11; Esaj B 0 110 71 4 )1 7 16 1 16 0 cp 1 1 v 1 6 t b. 1 5° ' .e44,iir 1 40 ,TD 16 inc r ' 1 Xll ( o lj p 1 '- \