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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1853. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL, on incomes derived from skill and intelligence as ASSURANCE SOClE TY . t compared with those derived from real property ; sukinlvo7-IB3olnlns2V h w a a y s e a r d e ed n t declaredo the the last n January, 1852, the Policies,' producing a Bonus vary- nor for still continuing TWO HEAVY TAXES on the ing with the different ages from 24%:13 5t50 1. os per cent . per en onthcePtr. on thequestion classes in as compared with the landlord Premiums paid during the five years, or from . Sam Assured. class. Mr. GLADSTONE, in his admirably facile The small share of Profit divisiblehstsutruetdure willam hoenrgeatfhtee;Sdherairvee and apparently logical style of speaking, is, in truth, - nolders being now without provided for, the A 11 the benefits obtainable from a Mutual Office, any Liability a very audacious vender of counterfeit logic. Risk of Partnership. One -half the life premium for the first five years may rema i n on Appearing to discard the brillian c ies o f ora t ory , credit. Invalid Lives may be assured at rates proportioned to the risk. and to a ppe a l to the understanding chiefly, he Claims paid thirty days after proof of death, and all Policies are consciously, or unconsciously—the latter we believe Indisputable except in cases of fraud. for the most part—beguiles his hearers, as he has The last year's Report (just printed) can be obtained free of GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. Grea t Russell street, Bloomsbury, London. beguiled himself, by f a ll ac i es , w hi c h we d etect ere 99, - 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 lie 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 lie 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 fraud in Mr. PITT'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. 250,000,0001. 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 Porn Laws were a tax laid upon us direct to fill 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. WOOD 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 self ? 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. GnAnsToNE's determination to make skill and intelligence pay two or three millions more as yet of Excise or Customs. And for what ? That he may spare landlords, keep on the taxes on knowledge, retain duties on butter, cheese, salt meat, and eggs, and have 50,000/. 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 thing Mr. GLADSTONE has really done is to set the fashion of renewals for seven years instead of three. The second tax he saddles us with is the Probate Duties, which, if paid by all real property, would amount, we believe, to more than 3,000,000/., since a large portion of such property now escapes Probate Duty, though paying Legacy Duty. And this 3,000,0001. 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 belorg, in all equity, to wealthy Dukes, Lords, and Squires. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be performed ELOPEMENTS IN BMW LIFE. By Messrs, B. Sullivan, Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Buckstone, and Comp. ton : Mesdames Flizvvilliam, Reynolds, L. S. Buckingham, &c. After which MR. BUCKSTONWS ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR. EASSUS. To conclude with OUR MARY ANNE. ROYAL. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Air. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. 1111'ID ; or, Dorothy's Fortune. Princ i pa l characters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vin ling, Terry, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chester; Mrs. W. Laey and Miss Murray. After which will be rerfirmed the new Drama, adapted from the French of Mons. Scribe, by Mr. Paigrave Simpson, called }MARCO SPADA. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Veetsi S. THIS EVENING, Apaii 23, Will be performed A HOUSE OUT OF WINDOWS. After which, A.S.S. (first time). To be ((Towed by USED UP. Principal character Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, APam 23, Will be performed A DESPERATE GAME. After which, MASKS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain—by Messrs. B Webster, L. Murray, Money, P. Bedford, and 0. Smith ; Mesdames Celeste, Woolgar, &c. To be followed by BETSY BAKER—by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with PEPIN() TEE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, MS MOl4 KEY. ROYAL OLYMPIC; THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, WM be performed THE ROADTO RUIN. Characters by Messrs. Farren, H. Marston, H. Farren, G. Cooke, Eiddear, Morgan, Bender, and Kinloch ; Mesdames A. Phillips and E. Turner. After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. To c nclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Supported by Mes rs. ii. Marston, F. Robson, atd Ccoke ; Mesdames A. Phillips And H. Gordon. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. 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 Burning Wood, the Leap through Fire, and the terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed trom the fearful Heights of the Umtata, continue to be nightly received with increased astonishment and enthusiastic approbaton. Thu training of the Horses for these astounding Feats has occupied Mr. W. Cooke's unremitting attention for months past. THIS EVENING, APRIL 23, The Performances will, as during the week, commence with the highly successful and magnificent spectacle of AMAKOSA ; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare ; with all its new, beautiful, scenic, inte resting, dramatic, and astonishing Equestrian effects. To be followed by a most novel and brilliant Routine of Gymnas and Equestrian Achievementi in the Scones of the ARENA, sup ported by the most eminent British and Continental Artistes Of tt e day. To conclude with a Popular FARCE. Wm-office open daily from Eleven to Fonr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnta DAT —Morning 28 min. after 1 I Evening 47 min.aft. 1 To-Mottaow—Morning min. after 2 Evening 27 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHER.—Sere OPPICS, APRIL 23. THERMOMETER, 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. ~ f ~,~~ ~ tit at,),. >1431 0 COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieu tentnt-Colonel F. H. Seymour, inspected the Exhibi tion 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. Jose An tolin Rodulfo, Secretary of Legation ; Doctor D. Julian Sandoval, and Captain D. Mariano de la Fuente, At taches 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 Excheq uer at his official resid ence , in Downing-stre e t, 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-place. The deputation consisted of Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. .Geach, M.P., Mr. Fuller, with Mr. Farquhar (solicitor) and Mr. Fulton, the engineer. Dispatches were sent to the Governor-General of Ca nada, yesterday, from the Colonial-office. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.—At a public meeting held Chan street cellor of the E xc h e q uer ' s bud ge t ref erring t o the taxes Tower Hamlets, to consider that por last evening at the Literary Institution t ,. o M n ° o rPe f the knowledge, the following resolutions were ounani mously agreed to :—" That the plan p ro p ose d by Chancellor of the Ex c h equer , o f con ti nu i ng the the adver tisement duty, and taking the stamp off the supplement, is eminently calculated to ,Tivet the fetters of the press, and can only be considered as a bribe to the Times newspaper." "That a petition, praying for the total repeal of all the taxes on knowledge, signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, be forwarded to Sir William Clay for presentation to Parliament, with a re quest that be will support its prayer." morning HUDDERSFlELDtrenrinnogonfi:o_ from Tthhee declaration n osft I t U iee D 0 ; 0 E 0.1 1 l el F 3, st F c li gk L u D at F ,c ea r i tt d hl a i y ls o'clock, before an asseniblage of some b 2,000 or 3,000 people, when the returning officer declared the numbers to be as follows : - For Lord Goderich, 675 ; for Mr. Joseph Starkey, 593 ; majority for Lord Goderich, 82. The announcement was received with enthusiastic cheering. THE ATHLONE ELECTION. —Mr. Keogh, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, was yesterday returned for Athlone ; Mr. Norton, the opposing candidate, having retired in the morning from the contest. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) 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. Theyeturn 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 v:ous week, are as follows : Active circulation.. Increase X 23,613,165 636,450 18,792,996 433,338 3,110,471 Increase 3,585 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 14,085,037 Decrease 790,590 Notes unemployed 8,906,720 Decrease 933,025 The Banking Institute holds its annual general meet ing next Tuesday. Bullion Decrease Rest — 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 25 221 to 271 ; Am sterdam at 11 181 to ; Hamburgh at 13;71 to 81 ; and Trieste at 11 5 to 8 for 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, 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 Hon. E. T. Clarendon's estates, where it is ktat3d that there are several mines, the indications cf 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 hill-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 6,490/., 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 prospect of successful mining operations wou:d 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 for Transfer, and 1001 I for Account, some money purchases having been made. Business has, however, not been very active. The New 3i per Cents. have realised 103 k s 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. Advice 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 have risen to 68 and 68k. Equador Bonds are up to 6i Spanish Certificates are firm at 6i. Mexican are quiet at 27g. Railway Shares are all rather better. French Shares are'also slightly dearer. Agua Fria Gold Mine are higher. The Great Nug get have similarly risen. The Land Companies are dull, and also the Banks. BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY, ( From the Official List.) _ Business done 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991 100 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities India Stock 262 South Sea Stock ......... ...... ........ . Consols for Account Exchequer Bills 14d. June. £lOOO 4 £5OO Small 4 8 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK BrazTan Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. Equador Bonds .Grenada. Bonds, Deferred .... Greek ex over-due Coupons .. Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian Scrip Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4A per Cent Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent Spanish Bonds 3 per Cent. March, 47 101 66 6 j 10 111 `r - 4j 68 j p 120 104 j 48 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 24k Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 6i p c Swedish Loan Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4i per Cent. Dutch Exchahge, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates... 97 6i TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto May Account loot PENNY RECEIPT STAMP. —A correspondent, whose letter appears to-day, urges that a suggestion from the Times might do good, to the effect that banker"? checks, constituting as they do evid ences o f 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 trade who draw a large 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. DARING BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY or PLATE,. WITCHES, 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. The thieves 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 avv offered vnohdsieedl‘hitobh f u o rato r thk t .t. ehshteet. Mouth -street , intoptop, b r mab e e h frrie e . apprehension of the thiev es . It i s sup wLwwe n a was ek e se ff b ye ago,c, s t , effected a au b t4 y chc t i na h ra e rki seeadr7oeofff gang .l perty to a large amount, 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 gunpowder 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 (haler should be pos sessed of more than 60 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 got there about three o'clock in the afternoon. He wasfaccompanied by Sergeant Sanders of the detec tive police. He found a man, who gave the name of James Boylen. He saw him sitting before a machine, lemming in rockets. Witness 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 pplice, 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 he 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 othera in order to show that they were not carrying on a manu facture for Wegal purposes. He took a portion of the ma terial to several chemists for analisation. Healso made an experiment himself by loading two pistols, one with the composition, rnd• the other with ordinary granulated gunpowder, and on firing them off he found that the ballsplaceo 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 the reports of the two. I will undertake to say that the one with the composition made no 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 thickness 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 remoue 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 Bolles-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. He 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 h ave b een 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, 16i 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 Jermyn-street, St. Jam es ' s , an d a l so a professor of the Royal College of Chemistry, gave evi dence as to the materials of which the composition con sisted. The examination of the witnesses was not concluded when we went to press. The decision of the magistrate will be given in our next edition. ELECTION COMMITTEES. -(THIS DAY. BERWICK-UPON-TWEED. On the meeting of the committee this morning, Mr. Wells stated that upon consideration of the facts which had been already adduced, and the intimation of the committee that the agency of Thomas Smith had been sufficiently established, he had felt it to be his duty to advise his client, Mr. Stapleton, to withdraw from further opposition to the petition. It was then stated by the learned counsel that the case as regarded the other sitting member, Mr. Foster, had been only a fishing case, and it was not proposed to adduce any further evidence. _ The room was then cleared, and on the readmission of the parties the chairman read resolutions to the follow ing effect : " That Mr. Stapleton was by his agents guilty of treating at the last election, and was not duly elected." Mr. Hawkins then proceeded to sum up the case against Mr. Forster. KNARESBOROUGH. This committee sat this morning at half-past 11 o'clock. The petition complained of a double return ; and from the statement of counsel it appeared that, at the last Mr. Dent, Mr. W oo dd , o b tained each 113 votes, election, there were four candidates, o f w h om th ree, M r. West a head nithe fourth, Mr. Collins, only 107. The three first were then declared duly elected, although the bo rough is only entitled to return two members. The petition prayed for Mr. Westhead's seat ; and it appeared from the evidence that, among the votes recorded for him, was that of Mr. R. Dews, who was admitted by counsel to have acted as Mr. Westhead's paid agent at the election. The committee came to • resolutions declaring Mr. Dent and Mr. Woodd duly elected. They also altered the poll taken at the last election, by striking off from the list of votes recorded for Mr. Westhead the name of Mr. R. Dews, as not . being entitled to vote for that gentleman. It is somewhat singular that this is the third double return for this borough. The two former ones occurred in 1688 and 1689. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) —wind, S.E. Sailed—Sir John rowgate, Matanzas ; J. LONDON, April 23.—Wind this day at Noon, N w light breeze, dull and cloudy__, with rain. LIVDRPOOL, April 22. • • ; Beresford, Africa; Queen of England, Bahia; Narra janset, New York; Onward, Quebec; Vergo, St. Do mingo ; Melbourne, Jamaica ; Bai P. Harward, New Orleans ; Samuel Badger, New York , Windsor Castle, ditto; Ellerslie, Q uebec. MARGATE, April 22.—The Active, on Founess Rock, will be a total wreck. STRALSUND, April 19..—The Bertha, Newcastle, is on shore, and remains in a dangerous position. ELSINORE, AprillB.—The William Shepherd, of Shields, has been got off shore at Saltholin, and towed in here to repair. FATAL, April 15.—The Angelo, Mauritius to London, which put in here Feb. 25, leaky, has been condemned and sold. YSTAD, April 18.—The Isabella, from London, has been got off shore, and proceeded in good' condition. TOBAGO, March The Isabella Thompson, Deme rara to London. has put in here, wilh 10 feet water in her hold ; is discharging. EXTENSIVE SALES OF A PORTION OF THE LATE MR. PETO'S LONDON PROPERTY.—The above valuable free hold and leasehold properties were on Wednesday last brought to the hammer (by direction of the Court of Chancery) by the firm of Farebrother, Clark, and Lye, and commanded a very crowded attendance of capitalists. A very spirited competition was maintained throughout, and every lot offered was sold, the following being the result :—A valuable leasehold property, comprising the whole of Furnival's-inn, sold in one lot for 55,0001. ; a freehold property, Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for which were several competitors, realised 18,600/. ; two freehold houses in Clifton-street, Finsbury, 1,1001. ; a freehold dwelling-house, and part of Robinson's Horse Repository, in Little Britain, 1,8701. 2 • five leasehold residences in Portland-street and Upper Portland-place, with a range of stabling, produced 20,1901.; two in): proved rents of 451. each, realised 2,0901. ; also a pair of villa residences at Blackheath, 1,810/. ; and other small property in Clerkenwell, &c. Producing together up wards of 100,0001. THE •' TIMES" BUDGET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. Srit,—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. When 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 " st.in ping ; " 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. It - Ale?,d, 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 I GL.—Feci ex servo ut esses libertus, mihi . Propterea quod serviebas liberaliter ; Quod habui summum pretium, persolvis tibi. Tr.—ln memoria. habeo. GL.—Haud muto factum. —Ti. 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 pre ss o p en ly " an d i n th 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 831. 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 52,0001. 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. A 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 831. 6s. Bd. Ded uc t th e 201. paid for th e advertisements, and the Government loses daily by this transaction 631. 6s. Bd., or 3801. 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 39,5201. We say clear loss, because the only plea now left for the penny stamp is, that it is an equivalent for postage. Mr. Gladstone, tho ug h, t o b e 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 th e y s h ou ld 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 abolishinc, the penny stamp en ti re l y , wou ld have thrown myriadsb 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 i n it t o th e 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--I'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 I'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 s p m n t e t n i n beforeg the pad him h in av h e is k g n e o n w e n rati t o h n e . ad M va a n n t y age old of sta lock on the mind." 'A noted one of antiquity bribed l t e he ad egreat in oracle m e o t f e r G s r o e e v c e e r ; the t h e w o r h a o c l l e e w t h h e i n c h e s i e v n i s i e t d s 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—Tentpora mutantur. It will record the leading feat of his Chancellorship. THE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —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 kindi 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 b e 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, T. M. 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 shoal; 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 baffle description.—Cullen's Darien. BURFORD'S PANORAMA, L EICESTER -SQUARE. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Royal Alice, Helena, and Louisa, attended by Colonel Grey, Lady Caroline Barrington, Madame Rowland, and Mr. Gibbs, honoured Mr. Burford's panoramas of Granada and the Alhambra, Nineveh, and the Bernese Alps, with their presence yesterday, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the pioturee. Ot 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 Impc• 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 ' . AII 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 " CERBERIIS 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 Gommiftee was appointed to inquire into the subject— Mr. Hum; whose admirable report points out the true state of the case more clearly than any document on record. Even if an occurrence so very improbable should take place as the ter giversation of Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, would a similar backsliding be possible on the part of honest, faithful, and consistent JoE HUME ? If ever we could pledge ourself for, a public man, we would willingly do so for the veteran Reformer. There can be no 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. The proposition, then, must be rejected in the Legislature. The weight of the really Liberal party, added to the friend s and supporters of Lord DERLY, must prove decisive. It will then remain to be seen whether a It will be attempted ; or, if so desperate an ex _ pedient should be resorted to whether it could possibly prove effectual. 11:e believe that the answers on both points must be in the nega tive, 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 co; demnation and rejection of "The Times Budget." We cannot honestly award to Mr. GLADSTONE, in regard to the Legacy Duties, the credit which some of our contemporaries give him. We thank him sincerely for what he does, but we thank him neither for decribing it as equalising the burdens THE BUDGET. (From, the Times.) To the great authorities who have pronounced that precarious income is undistinguishable, for the purposes of direct taxation, from solid property, may now bo 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—he has declared that in a direct assessment on personal means he can make no difference between 51. plus the 1001. producing it, and 51. 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 unavoidable. As resp ec t s 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 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 we 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 the feeling of th e Mi n i stry ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer is fain to acknow ledge his " total inability" to meet this feelinc , by the measure naturally anticipated—a diff erence o f 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 establish a correspond ing difference in 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. Evdi y 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 discrimination 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 hard 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 exam pl es cou ld b e 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 scare d, we are qu i te 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 ? ( From the Morning Advertiser. ) In adverting, yesterday, to the ingenious device resorted to by Mr. Gladstone to purchase indirectly the Times' support of himself and the 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 newspapers is to 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 t o general intelligence. They know that the bulk of their adver tieing 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 been, that they never had a sufficient nu n ber of advertisements to fill a supplement, without intel ligence or literary matter. But by this indecent pandering on the part of Mr. Gladstone t) 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 at present. The Times will 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 the whole of it to advertisements. 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 have been exhibited 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 lu g a seat at the Cabinet Council ever p er f orme d 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 cau 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 A d vertiser by name. Could anything be more unworthy of the members of a Ministry than to see them thus openly bowing down, with the most abject servility, at the 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, is calculated to give the Times something like a monopoly of tho newsPaP i : market. Let th e Ch ance ll or of the Exchequer 0 % be allowed to carry out his plans respecting the 8 41 , t41 1 0 on newspaper supplements, and in a very few years "I N will be no morning journal in existence, except by Times and the Morning Advertiser. We occupy pregnable ground. Our progress during the last 'w years, both in circulation and advertisements, hs a i .gi surpassed anything on record in the history of the press ; and that progress has been going on much r 07 , 1: rapidly during the last two months, than at any pi t vious part of these two years of brilliant success. is not on our own account, therefore, that we cf. r h plain of the glaring and indecent favouritism ": 1 ; the Chancellor of th e E xc h equer i s show i ng. Times. We speak more on behalf of our morning ' temporaries th an our own. We have no wish, ?l e d, can have no i n t eres t, i n see i ng them exti ngasuer. Why should we gru d e t h e Conservatives those °•r vices which the Morning Herald ren d e rs to t , qj: cause ? They have as good a right to an organ in e press, as they hav e t o h ave a c l u b of their own—st d, it be the Carlton or any other i ns tit u ti on o f the "'So Nor have we any right, and assuredly we have ne thi position, to seek to get rid of the Morning Post, ds medium through w hi c h th e f as hi onable world exe4 4 ie sentiments and compliments with each other. t o should, indeed, regret, rather than rejoice, to see e s " glass of fashi on ," an d that "'mould of form," br °- k in pieces. But such, most surely, will be the result, not 0 a y Bards it only, but as respects other morning j ol l, fli t he also, should G overnment thus persist in playing ind hands of the Times. We call then on those metn"'ibt the fashionable world, who are members also a House of Commons, to oppose in the most stre oll° o manner the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exel ie4 v/e to abolish the stamp on newspaper supplements* tso appeal with no l ess earnestness to the C on sero. l o , members, to inte r p ose on b e h a lf of another in orD ii i c ; contemporary whi c h h as so l ong, and with so fidelity and zeal, l a b oure d i n th eir cause. And, 135tbe we address ourselves to the independent Liberals 15 th House of Commons. W e en t rea t t h em to oppo S° 00 monstrous piece of favouritism to the Times, ° ij it broad ground that the thing is as flagrantly unjust is glaringly indecent. WEST INDIA MAIL. - The Great Western steam-ship, with the tiP o India and Pacific mails, arrived at Southarer e b, yesterday. She left J ama i ca on th e 27 t h of Pro Barbadoes on the 28th, and St. Thomas's 0 11 2d of April. 3 , 1 (1 The Great Western b r i ngs 80 passeng er $808,855. e The yellow fever had - almost di sa pp ea red $ 1 West Indies. ba There is little doubt but that the crops short throughout the whole of' the islands. 0 , A copper mine, with a vein of beautiful ID chite, had been discovered in Jamaica. From Jamaica we learn by this arrival tha t, most important event o f th e pas t fortnight, .1100 ous to the sailing o f the packet, was the reJe iu e fl k by the council of the Retrenchment Bill. Theel of Jamaica has, from its establishment, P' o o through a successful career, reflecting honolo,oo the attention of its managers. A report has ic io been made an d presen t e d to t h e share ho' on giving evidence of a great degree of pruderic e o l the part of the present board of directors t he praiseworthy, and for which th e y are en titled to r' thanks of all concerned. It is gratifying ceive that a sum of 16,000/. was in 184 u -v three years after th e establishment of the le an); carried from the reserved surplus fund to account, thus nominally increasing the Pa i o ve capital from 84,0001. to 100,0001.—Colonial dard. e : COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—De Cordova' s M t o,' cantile Intelli gencer, o f M arch 26, states tha b titioo ness was very fl a t d ur i ng last week, as in auZetel to other causes of depression the market was 31 %s to some extent by the uncertainty existing ;it) what measures the Legislature means to adopt regard to the import duty and tonnage bill 0 0 yet'nothing has been decided upon, and OP. appear to be divided on the subject. THE FRENCH EMPJI The Emperor has rece ived at a private 0 0 0 from M. Rives, the Minister of th e United ,diefJii " the reply of the President of the ReputAge answer to the notificati on o f hi s Majesty's 113itordr The Prince Poniatowski, th e Envoy EXT4'oy nary and Minister Ple n ip o t en ti ary o f Tusea thi 3 Paris, has signed with M. Drouyn de Lkun i ter sanitary convention already agree d t o by the 1 00 national conference held at Paris, and sinc e adopted by Sardinia, Portugal, and Turkel,: 00 The market for R en t es h as b een generauf post and very little c h ange i n pr i ces h as takerijoll from the quo t a ti ons of Thursd. In the rflt occ share m ar k e t th ere has been • an• proVeP je" ; the unfavo ura bl e report of Thursday, ant' I" were generally higher at the close of business' MARKET NEWS—(urs DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. t in To•day's m ar k e t was fairly supplied with vegetable] which a fai r s t ea d y business was doing, atPfl Fruit met a dull inquiry, at our quotations. ag e* FRUIT. —Pine apples, 8s Od to 12s Od ; hot-hous ° oa ts lOs to 150; Hambro ditto, Os to Os Od per lb ; a pples, " c o t, lOs Oct to 13s (id ; cooking ditto, 6s to 12s per bushel ; 1 ro° ,1/ Cs Od to Os per dozen ; lemons, is to 2s Od; 48 to 9s per 100 •; pomegranates, Oct to Oct each ; 0 5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bushel ; C o° toe layer 1001bs. • chesnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; berries, Od to 16'6d per ounce. ai * VEGETABLES.—Cabbages, i s t o 2 s Od ; B russel s .pro 2s Ocl to. 3s Od per half sieve ; brocoli, 2s to 48 ; pet Is Oct to 6s p er d ozen bunches ; French beans, Is t° O lA 100 ; aspar agus , 5 5 t o O s per bundle ; sea-kail, 20 o li: 2s 6d per bask e t ; rhubarb, Oct to is 6d per bundle; toa: flowers, Od t o O s per d oien ;, potatoes, 100 s to 165 0 1 3° " t i o ze' n turnips, 3s Oct to 4s Od • carro t s, 6s Oct to 8s Oct per 1 ". bunches ; cecumbers, Os Gd to is 6cl each ; celery, 05i is 6d per bundle ; s pi nac h , 2 s Od to 3s Gd per ha" jo , onions, 45 Od to 5 s Od per b ushel ; beet, is Od to , r.A to • per dozen ; l ee k s , 3d t o 4d per bunch ; shallots, u— ote garlic, Gd to 8d per lb ; endive 2s 6d to 3s Od Per se $0 small salad, Od per pdnnet ; horse-raddish, , Oct Od 1 7. 4 141 per bundle ; mushrooms, is 6d to 2s Oct per bottle; 17 0 2s Oct to 3s Oct p er dozen bunches ; turnip g reens, to is Gd per bushel. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. 0 10 Geese, 4s Oct to 8s Od ; T ur k e y s , 4 s t o 8 s each ;.ritt 2s Oct to 3s 6d; tame Rabbit s , i s Od t o i s 9d ; w ild di PI to is; Pigeon s , 7d t o 10d eac h ; roasting Pigs, 4s 6 d t°6o 0,1 each; Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to 10s Od; ditto Chickens/ , i ple; to 7s Od; barn-door Fowls, 38 Od to 6s Oct per I . l' o oo Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; P ar t r id ges, Os Oct to OS Od; j". 20 2s Od to 2s Gd; Leveret's, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Woodcocks, Teta , to 3s 6d; Grous e , O s t o O s Od ; S n i pes, 9d to is fid; 0 6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od. ; Widgeons, Od tp is ld; and Plovers, 6d to is each. English Eggs, 8g u tter' 00s Oct; French ditto, 6 s Oct t o Vs Ocl per 120; fresh 13 is Oct to is 2d per lb. BREAD. 0 The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are; 7d to 8d; of household ditto, 5d to bid per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. 11, • ris o 6 4 Beef, from 3s 4d to 3s 10,1; Mutton, 38 6d. to 48 6d, 4 0 5s 2d to 58 4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Pork, 3s 6d t per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. 0, Beef from 3 s Od to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to —.3. 1 Lamb, 5s Od t o G s 2d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Pork, 30 to 4s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7s 0d to 12s Od ; Brills, Os Oct to Os Od; Cod Fib 4s Od to 8s Od each; Salmon, is 6d to 2s per lb. • Solt 0 to 2s 3d per p a i r ; E e l s, 6d to is per lb ; Lobsters, 7 0 %,; 2s Od ; Crab s , 6d t o i s 1 0d ; Whitings, 3s Od to 6a r..„,011 Doreys, 2s 64 to lOs Od; Mullets, is to 5s each ; UT A vde Oysters, 9s Od to 12s Od; Natives, 36s Od to t2s n o w bushel; M ac k ere l , 60 s per 1,00 ; Smelts , 63 to is 6d P e lsnolli Scate, 64 t o Od per lb ; S h rimps, is 6,1 to 2s 3d per g7 O Bloaters, is ld to 2s 3d per dozen- Fresh I3erringsl4,oo; to Os Od per d ozen ; Haddocks, 6d' to is Od each ; P f lo 0 4 4s to 6s per 100 ; C arp , i s Od to 2s Oct each ; Tench, „1,6 to 2s Od per brac e ; G urne t s , 6d to is Oct each ; 6d per lb. HIDES AND SKINS. 3a l Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to 3d; 641 b to 72 1 10; to 31d; 721 b to 801 b, 34d to 33d; 801 b to 881 b, 3.',d 0 040 881 b to 961 b, 3id to 4d; 961 b t o 1041 b, 4d to 44d 1 sr to 1121 b Od to Od. Horse hid es, 5 s 6d to Os Od; calf 01 ' 1 0 light, 1s 6d to 2s 6d; ditto, full, 5s Oct to Os Ocl; r e d* sheep, 1080 d to 1206 d; K en t s, 10 s Od to lls 6d; Half' q d to 10s Od to lls 6d ; Down s , 7 s Od to 9s Od; Lambs, 20 ." 2s 9d ; and Shearlings, is 6d to is Bd. HAY MARKETF. O pfe r SmrrifriELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5 s t o 4/ 12 s ; ditto, 3/ 10s to Si 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 11 16s per A full average supply, and a steady demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 168; - too ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ O s ; an d straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per Supply good, and trade rather dull. % d oll WHITEOHAPEL.—Meadow h a y, 3/ 3 s t o 4/ 14s; voli• ditto, 3/ lOs to Si s s; an d s t raw, 1/ 7s to 1/ 16s per a Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. BIRTHS. SON. • 4 101'4 On the 20th inst., att h e Rectory-house, St. AU Cornhill, the wife of the Rev. T. W. Wrench. OF A DAUGHTER. k , e ,por" On the 21st inst., a t 6 , Gloucester-place, lIYu gardens, the wife of William Major Cooke, Esq. RRI ED. 17Y th° On the 21st i ns t. , a t Trinity Church, Botleys, s t sO O Right Rev, the Bi s h op of Worcester, Le tester elde- srere , of Edward Penrhy n, E sq., of East Sheen, Surrey, t ° second daughter o f R o b ert Gosling, Esq., of Botley's"r" Surrey. DIED. ar On the 21st inst at the vicarage, WickhWickham - n' icet' r Suffolk, Frances, the wife of the Rev. Wooden Butle.;o4P On the 20th inst., at Sandgate, Kent, John S t o e , rc er Esq., AI.A., late o f W orcester College, Oxford, an d road, St. John's-wood, London. at LONDON : hinted and Published by MURDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Th,e Sun Office, lni f of Strand, in the P rec i nct of the Savoy, in the co"- Middlesex, Saturday, April 23, 18,53,