The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-25 00:00:00

A c,,,91yA1q,,,N iNothEyr.

An old soldier, writing to the late Duke of Welling,-
tan on the subject of corporal punishment in the Bri-
tish Army, mentioned the following anecdote
" In 1816, when I joined the 87th *gAtuqo,, wt.*
the command of Sir Hugh °gat\ thew was a bugler
in the corps, who Vtecu, thcongil, Om whole of the
Peninsular Vaddy Slutn,non was a favou-
rite, vckthi all the men? and something of a hero ;
daddy ho, left, ,N 6 the recollection of ttkM. sots---his
onlY Solace; the notice taken of; the cznteen—his only
triumph, the whiskey. 151.c.04 .t say Paddy Shannon
beeinne a, vdrinker, ', QX that Paddy soon made his ap-
P0440'? c't./ the halberds ?
• tthe regiment was paraded, the proceedings req,d,
and Paddy tied tip. The signal was given for the, ciruni-
mets to begin, when Paddy Shannon, exclaimed :
Listen now, Sir Hugh. Do, xc„u mean to say you're
going to flog me ? rat recollect who sounded the
charge at liaross when you took the only French
liOught.that day it would come to this ; and the re
tily.-
eagle, exc-r. taken. Wasn't it Paddy Shannon ? Little
mcnt so proud of that same eagle on their cotontts.'
Take hint down,' said Sir thigh, and Paddy escaped
unpunished. A very short tiny, Lowever, elapsed, before
Paddy again found li;,teiselk in, similar circumstances.
Go on,' F.c,id the colonel.
',4oret he in a hurry,' ejaculated Paddy. .4 ily43, a few,
words to say, Sir Hugh.'
'The eagle, won't save yon,,t4tini,e,
' Is it the eagle, indeed then L wasn't going to, say
anything. nbet4 th,at same titongh, You are,, and ought to
proudof;i. But I was just going tio-os1,; if it 'wasn't
PaddyAhannon R 1 o when: tbo I'ireach of Tarifa was
sterined'by'2.l,oo Vreneh, and only the 87th to defend
4, if 4 wAvvi Paddy Shannon who struck up ' Garry-
AW.tA, to glory boys,' and you, Sir Hugh, have got the
swan two towers and the breach between them upon your
coat of arms in testimony thereof.
"Take him down," said the colonel, and Priddx was
again unscathed. Paddy, however, hat'A him; list of
services to get through and n gopfl„ 44, of whiskey, and
ere another two n\othls lip Was again tied up, the
sentence reAdi, :,nod an assurance from Sir Hugh Gough
that nething should again make him relent. Paddy
trial the eagle—it was no use. He appealed to, air.
Hugh's pride, and the breach of Takifa wittb,o,u,t an
avail.

" And is it me " 10 19,4 I#4.e. outs "that you're
going.to fl ? Si Hugh 0041, before the
NxisoAe, rerrefitt who know it well, if it wasn't Paddy
Shannon, the French Field-Marshal's
staff at the lAttlo of Vittoria, that the Duke of Wel-
l:l,47ft sight to the Prince Regent, and for which he got
that letter that will be long remembered, and that made
bins a Field-Marshal into the bargain ? The Priueo
Regent said, You have sent me the baton of a V 444-
Marshal of France ; I return you that oi• a Field-
Marshal of England.' Wasn't it 1y Shannon who
took it ? who never got rap, ca. recompense, or ribbon,
or star, or coat ef, foss, or mark of distinction, except
the tloggiwyou are about to give him."
"."ralto lum down," cried Sir Hugh, and again Paddy
WAS forgiven."—Quebec Vindicator.

At the Privy Council, yesterday, Mir. Win. Hutt, by
command of th,o (Aileen, was sworn of her Majesty's
ii[Aogst,lionorfable Privy Council. The right lini . gentle-
man was declai:ed by the (ineen in Connell, Xice,gresi-
deut of the goard of Trade:.
DEPUTATION TO LAND, 13*LIfiERSTO1i; Opt; CHNACK-
RATES.—A depAtation of laymen, to, urge, ueem bar
Malestys iiffernpeat to,rec,on,sid;r Ogler- dt4arnlllatiou
o 4 to,introdnce a measure foic 4,.vttlement of the law
•chuirefi-rateesdpring.tlit ppi,sant session, had an inter-
view. *WI., ..kr*onAt Palmerston on Thursday. The
depultatiton, 4;ciiicled Lord J. Manners, M.P., Sir Minto
tN\ctiilhar, M.P. Mr. Arthur Mills, M.P. Mr. J. W. P.
1 W-atlington, M.P., Sir S. Northcote, M.P., &c. After
speeches by Lord J. Manners, Mr. Parke,' M.P., and Mr.
Braithwaite, Lord Palmerston said that he had listek\eci
with interest to the statements which had been ire to
him by so numerous a body of gentlemen, wixo had done
him the honour to wait upon hiin„ 11:3 need not tell
those assembled that it was, one of great difficulty,
CledetiniTnein.'
owing to the state of pFties, and' the diversity of facts.
attention.
that churches should. b le
He assured them that he would consult his colleagßea, in
, fßacetyptilivlet,iibifoec.retelolifattlhealrreemadaryksennigaadgeed their
h. Altr• Backe, and
other things, repair,' as in
it was, 1---
'fully admitted,,?asttiteinhkienepolinnwg
in constant zr,pair 'by, a small outlay wheh . g .-I't
instead abeiq
'admitted, most desirable
allowed, to become ai I apici_atea 1 mred,
,area thus
to necessitate a large outlay in the 00,. ~ '
' IC aware of the ctosn b.i.
was quite . -q be of years. He
ll HAN: of arriving at
satistattory solution Q 4. the qupstioil • but the ' a
deputa-
tion, of course, would not expect him,
tout the
opinion beYond that, and to
assure them that the
Whole queStion.shaild, continue to,receive
the anxieus
consideration Of her.Majest ,
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_ov§rnylen,

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of
our correspondents.]

THE INCOME-TAX.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.
SlR,—May I venture to suggest the imperative neces-
sity of a wide, energetic, and determined agitation for a
just and equitable assessment of what 'I fear (as a pro-
pitiation to Manchester interests), will now constitute a
permanent source of our pablic
mean the
income-tax.

I will not enter into what I think it should be as a
speciality—a strictly war tax, or again to the failure of
the prophecies of our hair-splitting croteliettv Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer when formerly gilding-the pill,
by assuring his dupes that it would be doubly saved to
the poor clerk, in the cheapening of the articles of his
expenditure, which are now some 20 to 30 per cent.
higher; or yet to the sham and delusive attempt to call
it a tax for the year, while we are told of a certain neat
shilling loomia° ff in the distance.
My proposal, sir, is to organise a powerful system,
such as carried the Reform Bill and the Repeal of the
Corn Laws, to tell the Chancellor though lie cannot
see -a distinction between the income delayed from the
brain, and that from the 3 per cents., we can; that the
tax shall be levied upon property fixed, or capitalised if
you will, and not from precarious incomes, at the market
value of the latter ; and that in no other shape will the
middle classes be sacrificed to spare the just demands
upon hereditary property, or the avaricious cravings of
a bloated milloeracv.—Yours, Sze.
Liverpool, 24th Pelmuary.

JI:NIUS.

MR. HORSFA M.'S SPEECH.

TO THE EDITOR oF TILE DAILY TIMES,
pr. our
presentative, Mr. Thomas Berry llorsfall, spoke against
the motion of the honourable member for Essex, which
seems to my mind rather an inconsistent)'
proceeding,
on Monda night, for the resolution of the
after voting,
right honourable member for Bucks.
Surely, the true Conservatives of Liverpool will
question such a course as this by their representative.
Certainly, I would be one of the last persons to ques-
tion the propriety of any member being hound down so
that he cannot exercise the right of private judgment on
any question of minor importance; but surely this is
not a matter of minor importance,in which the interests
of nearly every Conservative and Liberal of Liverpool
is involved and materially affected, that by a onesided
treaty with a foreign potentate we are to be called upon
to pay an income-tax of 10d. in the pound, to make up
the deficiency created in the revenue by the reduction of
duties, principally affecting, the French nation.
And yet Mr. Horsfall says he would
ed
have support •
the motion, had it been condemnatory of the income-tekx
alone." Now, I maintain that the motion is, sub-
stantially, a motion to that effect, as the redaetion of
the various tariffs must of necessity create a deficiency.
Such deficiency, to he made up by the very impost he
condemns, yet he will vote for its continuance.
I leave the matter for Mr. Horsfall to reconcile, as he
knows full well it must be either treaty and increased
income-tax, or no treaty and reduced income-tax. And
in
.confirmation of that I quote an extract from the
speich of a Liberal member—Sir P. Baring—to this
effect.--vas it safe to create a deficiency of ten millions
of revenue dependent upon the single source of the
income-tax. And, according to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's own showing, a deficiency of some twelve.
or thirteen millions must be the result next year, tepa
as a matter of course, an increased income-tax,
I call upon every Conservative, and
Witt feel the
oppression of the iniquitous impel.,
-protest against
the vote Mr. Horsfall intenda, to give agtainst the motion
of Mr. Du Cane. And let Mr. liersfall know, through
the medium of your valuable paper, the he must, one
day, givit ay account of that vote hefe" his constituenev.
Apoltogising for trespassing so lay upon
space, I ant, yours, Sze„ your valuable
February 2 , CkvisAsTENT CONSERVATIVE.
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