The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

111gLAND.

Dentrx, Fen. 2d.
Waterford is now the centre of contending parties.
The weakest of all, however, is the Young Ireland
denomination, which has never been able to fi:Aver
in presence of that scorching Old Ireland light, Alder-
man Delahnnty. The hopes of Mr. Meagher from
the beginning were but slight : weak as they were,.
they have grown still more evanescent through the
course pursued Ly his father, who has declaied his
intention of resigning in the event of his sou's
success. This settles the pretensions of Mr.
Nle.-.gher, junior. Mr. Lamle Murray has also
retired, with a quasi stipulation that he is
to be invited to fill up the next vacancy. Ills
place has been occupied by Sir H. Winston Bar-
ron, who is proceeding actively on his canvass. Un-
deterred by the prudent conduct of his father, who
objects to the monopoly of the representatieu bit• one
family, the junior Islr. Meagher assembled Its fe 1-
lowers on Sunday, on the bill of Ballybrecken, with
confederate band and banner. In the evening, while
regaling themselves with lofty patriotism and exqui-
site music, a crew of Old Ireland boatmen boareed,
and drove the young gentry under the hold. The
mayor interfered, s'Al peace v: as restored.
Clare has not been taught by the late commission.
A Mr. Daly has been served w;th a threatening
notice by " Mies Maguire ;" and Mr. Daly raj aims
by stating, in a letter to the Cla•r Touraal, that
tuirteen murders have within the last dozen ;can
been committed in Ennistymon, for which as t one
culprit has suffered. He expresses Lis resolution to
beard his secret enemies.

SCOTLAND.
En'Nnunor Fyn 2'

A meeting of the Edinburgh Merchant Company
is immediately to be called, for the purpore of re-
sisting the contemplated increase of the income-tax.
The Edinburgh presbytery meet to-morrow, et hen
resolutions against diplomatic relutious with home
will be moved. It is expected t:.at they will be all
but unanimously agreed to.

COMMISSION riv THE LOHD-LIEVIENANT OF LINLITiI-
- J. Pringle to be major, vice Jobu-
stoue, in lst or Berwickshire, &0., Ragiineut at North
British Militia.

~•THHE EDI:CW*IIOK STVI,ENTS —The trial by the Flee:awl
Academicus of the fear students who were supiin.i.d
to be the ringleaders of the late riots has b..en I
to a conclusion. Two hara been suspended from 'liar
stu 11, or " rusticatsd" far two years, ri.ee fir one year, and
on• tor three months. They have taken the opinion of
counsel so to the legality of the sentences. Tie g•nerat
feeling is that, in " rusticating" fur two yen's, the k. L..tus
Academic= has been harsh.

PROVINCIAL.
PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THE INCOME TAX.
The local papers report the very general die 2cotent
existing in all parts of the ecuntry respecting the proposed
increase of the income tax. Much stress is 1::::l linos
the propored imposition being made witliout any distinction
between incomes obtained by personal exertion and inc-roes
arising from realised property. Yesterday, an int:neut....l
meeting of the liberal party assembled at the Town
Ball, Derby, to consider what steps sheull Ito taken
to thwart the ministerial scheme of ways and means,
and against wh:ch men of all parties protest. A memo-
rial to the borough members was drawn up, t amp:sive
of the surprise and indignation of the memorialists et the
proposed increase of taxation ; pointiog out the od:ous
character of the income tax, its inequaiity, and
to.: injustice of taxing precarious incomes at the
same rate as investe d property ; showing the deter-
mination of the usernerialiats to go for a redection of
the national expenditure—the certainty, if the budget pats
in its present ferm, that it will lend to the dissolution et the
liberal party, not only in the borough of Derby, but also
throughout the kingdom—and earnestly entreatingthe. ment-
hol's to give to the present proposal of her Majest)'• govern-
ment their most determieed opposition The men-oriel was
proposed by one of the leading whip of the borough, and
carried by scam:diem. It has recetv4 d the siguaturts c,f
nearly all the leading and active liberals, and a &pun:time
will wait upon the minahees in London. A petition to toe
lions° of Commons, of which the following in a eiiiiy, has
also been agreed to. :.nd it will (says our corresiendeiro be
numerotudy signed by men of all parties :
Your pew ionvrs have iv ail with surprise and regret the prope-eal of
her Baleen's got ennui at to increase the taxation oleic eonntry tad
add to the burden. which already press ton severely apes tie iiiilus.
trious portion of the pupnlation. That, independently of ll a °nom
and inquisitorial character of thn ierieoe tan, and the ummiley and
injustice of levying butil nn iropot In time of peace, your petitioners
cannot but view tie Fopteed increase from 3 to 5 per read. waali set.
grounded Indignation :nil ::'arm; and your petitioners are deterinicA
to make every constitutional effort to mid such an
imposition. That your petitioners protest again, t the mint-
test injustice of taxing the incomes of those who are dependent
upon their exertions equally with those derived (ram ilea pr.iperty ;
arid agree in the opinion 4.1 members .f your hon,urablc Lowe, MY
if, under prevent eircurtitmees, it be found impossible to e id:rely
abolish the tax upon bean, vii.ur honourable hou-.c oo.rht ~claht,
instead of increasing it, TO levy the tax open a fair equitable, end
graduated Peale. That year petitioner. are weary of the yovirty ;a-
creasing ixpenihture, and pray your honourable tiaue to adopt the
wo e economical course of reducing the expenditure to the loselit pre-
siblc scale, being convinced that in reduction alone is the sea-Mingo(
the country to he reeraht. That the only effectual mode of
curtailing expenditure is the Tering of aopplies : fatal e ape-
rlence having taught the ;Toole that whatever mil be the amount
in grants, ministers will csperal them, and still be raking for
more. That to your honorable house your petitioner., as i• their
right, look for protection, and humbly suggest, that if minlitry cuter
ministry Li allowed to go on increasing the burdens of the coi.ntry,
and all alike ',unmet( d in their extravagance, the hearts of the peooe
will fail fir in, and all enr.tdence in the legislature be last. Vu' le pen.
donee, therefore pray that your honourable house will no: paw mint
bill to increase the incline tax; that by rigid emu Loy the experath.
tore of the country nosy be reduced, and no more be levied by tax-
ation than absolute necessity requires ; that by revisal° awl teed,-
tion such tales as press heavily on the poor may be repealed; mind
that, if it be too much to ell lot that the Niece should to, shift-el
from the poor to the rich, the rich may at least he made to beer their
just proportion of public burdens, impaled mainly for the protection
of thennelvesand their wealth.
If necessary, there will be a public demonstration
against the budget. The exclusion of Ireland is a
sore place. At Leicester, on Tuesday afternoon, a highly
respectable and influential meeting of merchant', rr ar.ufac-
turn". professional men, and traders, was held is the Town-
hall, John Bigns, Esq mayor, in the chair ; when it was re-
solved to petition parliament against any increase in our
military or naval expeniiiture—and likewise against le e pro-
posed mereese of the income tax from three to five per cent.
A very strong opinion was expressed upon the injustice of
the latter proposal of the whig minister, seeiag
that real property was still an highly favoured by it,
and that Ireland was to be wholly exempted from
its operation, en the plea of the suffering the Itieh people
had ,:edergone of late, although it is notorious that a large
I if tv.,:. the chief portion of the landed property in that coun-
try is held by noble and corporate owners, who reside in
Berland. Upo,l these points—the unequal operation of the
income tax, the exemption of real property, and tee pm-
tiality displayed towards Ireland, as if with the view of pro-
pitiating the Irish members to the support of tie budget
en Coto—the petition now in course of signature wales in
very decided terms; and the borough members will be imbed
upon to support then:diens of Mr. Mormon, Mr. Bright, and
Sir B. Rail. The Lirerpool Courier says, in reference to
the meeting to be held there this day, that a strong desire
is expressed that it should not only be held in the
largest building in the town, but that shopkeepers and
others should close their places of business during the time the
meeting is held, in order that all may have an opportunity of
being present to testify against the unjust and iniquitous
augmentation of a tax already cuff t'iently burdensome and
odious. "Every one will admit," continues that journal,
" that it is no ordinary occasion that could induce a number
of tradesmen, in the most respectable part of the town, to
leave their establishments in the middle of the day, and
form themselves into a deputation for the purpose of im-
pressing the conductor of the press with the views enter-
tained by themselves, and by every one of their class with
1 st. hum they had communicated, with reference to the mew
' irnpe:t intended to be laid upon them. Yet each a ' '
have we Lad of the unpopularity of the - • A.,- ii..2.i.: 2
!•: .n ; and it is one vrli w ch. is o' Op 5 •
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