The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-14 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN.-THIS DAY.

The weather still continues unusually cold for the sea-
son; nevertheless, Vegetables are improving in quantity.
A few forced Peaches make their appearance. Forced
Strawberries fetch from 6d. to Is. an ounce. The supply
from the Continent of Green Peas, new Potatoes, Horn
Carrots, Asparagus, Radishes, Globe Artichokes, Endive,
and Lettuces, is still considerable. Both Seakalc and
Rhubarb are abundant. Old Potatoes are now chiefly
confined to Regents. Frame Potatoes fetch from Is. to
2s. per lb. Mushrooms are scarce. Cut flowers consist of
Pelargoniums, Primulas, Fuchsias, Roses, Cyclamen',
Mignonette, Cinerarias, Azaleas, aad Camellias.

METALS.—Mr. Moate's circular states that the
Scncb pig iron market has been very flat this week, with
sellen gradually reaching 495. to 495. 6d. ; there are, how-
ever, a few symptoms of improvement, and buyers at the
latter price have made their appearance. We close firm
at 568. per ton mind numbers, cash. Manufactured iron con-
tinues unaltered. Spelter continues very dull; no sale. to
report. Tin is rather firmer, and Banca may be quoted Is.
to 2s. better than last week. Tin plates are very dull of
sale, and prices have a downward tendency.

SIR ROBERT PEEL delivered a lecture "on Swit-
zerland" in the Town Hall, at Birmingham on Thursday
evening, to a very crowded audience.
" UNCLE Tom" IN ITALY.—" Uncle Tom's Cabin"
has crossed the Alps, and made its appearance as the
"Capering del Zio Tom," on the boards of the Carignan°
at Turin. It is imitated more from the two French melo-
dramas on the subject, than from Mrs. Stowe's novel. The
success is said to have been immense, and the actor
(Morelli), as " povero Tom," is described to bare " more
than once drawn tears from his auditory." The author of
this Piedmontese version is Signor Leone Fortis.
TUE SCOTTISH BENCIL—The vacancy on the
Scotch bench, caused by the retirement of Lord Cunning-
ham, has been filled by the appointment of George Deas,
Es ,formerly Solicitor-General for Scotland.
TUE CONTENTS OF FOREIGN MAILS.—Some of

the mail packet companies have called in question the right
of the government to compel them to convey pamphlets and
books as a portion of the mails. They tweed that, accord-
ing to their contracts, the mails should consist only of letters
and newspapers. It appears to be apprehended that the
conveyance of pamphlets and books by post to foreign parts
at a nominal postage is likely so to increase the bulk of fo-
reign mails that on long voyages the space they will occupy
will be of serious moment to steam-packet companies. Some
of the steam-ship owners are also about to try the right of
the government to compel them to carry letters at twopence
each without reference to the weight of each letter or the
number of postal rates that have been charged on it.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
May 12, 1843 Broome Pinniyee, Westbury, Wilts
George Fowler Bodington, Sutton Coldfield; Robert Bath
Smart, Balsham, Cambridgeshire ; John Charles Barrow,
Loughborough; William Thomas Bell, Great Grimsby ;
William Lucy, Bristol.
THE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yesterday the Com-
missioners of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads, north of the
Thames, held a publio meeting at their office, No. 22,
Whitehall-place, Mr. Lambert Jones in the chair, to let by
auction, for the term of one year from the Ist of July next,
the several tolls within their jurisdiction. There was a
full attendance of lessees from all parts of the country.gbe
tolls were divided into ten lots, of which only two lots were
sold. These were the Uxbridge and upper division of the
Tyburn roads, and the Hackney and Lea Bridge roads.
The former were offered at 9,500/., and were bought, after
an active competition, by Mr. Levi, for 9,900/. The latter
were knocked down to Mr. Bolton for 5,7001., the sum
asked for them by the commissioners being 5,310/s, which
sum they were let at for the previous year.
MONTENEGRO.—Last night's Gazette contains a
copy of the notification made by the Ottoman minister to
the British government, stating that the blockade of the
Albanian coast had been raised. The interest of this fact
expired in March last. When Count Leiningen obtained
an order for the cessation of lrstilities against the Monte-
negrine the blockade was practically at an end.
ROYAL ASYLUM OP ST. ANN'S. —The annual
meeting of girls formerly pupils of this admirable institu-
tion was held yesterday, at the Asylum, Brixton-hill. The
object of this annual ' gathering" is to give rewards to
those who have obtained certificates of good character from
their employers since their leaving the school. On this oc-
casion the Lord Bishop of Worcester presided, and distri-
buted the money gifts and books to 38 girls, and a more
intimating ceremony we have never witnessed. The testi-
monials ere such as to reflect the highest credit on the
institution.

1 ATAL ACCIDENT AT SOMERSET HOUBE.—Yeater-
day, a working man, named Dollen, was killed at Somerset
House. Seise labovrers were raising a heavy piece of
Wilber by means of a crane, when suddenly they lost all
contra. over the machine, and the timber falling, struck and
fractured deceased's skull.

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Lord Cauuing, and Lout Qtaalet d Allerley.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
Wu= Cletosoh—Bg
in Mmtgemelystire Barnstaple, places in Derbyshire, and
the YorkshirelAw Society, praying for an extension of Ws
jurisdictien of nosily courts.
Sit sawn' COVILTS.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from
several places in Scotland, praying fur an amendment of
the Simile' Courts.
lost iisin TAX IX IRXLANI,.—By the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE, from a place in Ireland, against the imposition
of an income tax in that country.
LAW OF EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM said that ke proposed to strike out
parts of ibis MU I. committee that evening when it came
before the h .use, and leave the remainder, to which he sp-
prebendal there would not be any objection.
Lard CAMPBELL bed no objection to the course pro-
powd, but thought their lordships should have an ample
upportunity of dieeussieg ell the clauses
EX rENsios OF THE INCOME TAX TO
IRELAND.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said a teport.had beim
current in Ireland that clergymen of all persimmons were
to be treated in a different manner from other persons. He
should he pled to know if any such distinction was to be
*MIA or not ?
The Len of ABERDEEN hoped the noble marquis
would not think him guilty of any discourtesy if ke ab-
stained from answering the question. The Income Tax
Bit would be introduced immediately into the House of
Commons, when the measure would be fully explained;
and a premature discussion upon any supposed modifications
might be attended with great inconvenience.
Lord CAMPBELL had the misfortuoe to be en Irish
proprietor. H. had no objection to the income tar being
wended to Ireland, if it was only levied on rent actually
received, for in that case it would not touch him.
(Laughter.)
PRIVILEGE.
The Earl of DERBY said that, before proceeding to the
erases of th. (kr, he wished to take notice of that which
he might consider a breach of the privileges of their lord-
ships house, for the purpose of doing justice, not to him-
self, but to another gentleman, with regard to whom a moat
unfounded representation bad been made in one of the
reining papers. Their lordships were aware that, by their
leave, he bed attended a committee of the other hones to
be examined as to the proceedings of the Dockyard Appoint-
sante Committee, and before that committee a question
had been put to him to which he gave a very distinct
answer, which was reported verbatim in the Suss
that evening, but which he found represented in
the Glohr, not only with great inaccuracy, but the
very opposite of that which be had stated, and con-
veying an impression most unfavourable to the gentleman
he referred to. If this had affected him (the Earl of Derby)
alone he should not have thought it necessary to call atten-
tion to the subject ; but when he wee represented as having
given a most unfavourable opinion as to the character of a
gentleman whose conduct was under examination, and with
regard to whom be had expressed precisely an opposite
opinion, he thought it was due to him to bring the matter
under their lordships' notice, and in the most public and
authentic manner to state what he did not say, and what he
had said on the occasion referred to. The question put to
him wee, whether he was aware of a statement made before
that oommittee—that Mr. Stafford had said that be (the Earl
of Derby) had put great pre sure on him with regard
to the disposal et the patroasge of the dockyeads—
and his answer was: " I should be very much
surprised to hear that Mr. Stafford had made that state-
ment, because I have the highest opinion of Mr. Stafford's
honour and veracity ; and I feel convinced that he has not
made any such statement, as he must have known it to be
wholly inecnsistent with the fact, and that it had not the
slightest f ,undation." In making that statement he ex-
pressed what he felt, that be had a perfect confidence in
Mr. Stafford's veracity, and that he should hear with great
surprise that he had made such a statement ; and he could
not bring himself to believe that such a statement ever was
made by Mr. Stafford. (Hear, hear.) His answer was
given in the Sun with perfect accuracy ; and he would now
read it as it appeared in the Globe, and he would only say
that as be was asked but four or Ave questions in the com-
mittee, and the answers were clear and distinct, and as the
proceedings were taken down in shorthand, he thought the
journalist who Inserted a false statement was quite inexcus-
able. This was the statement attributed to him in the Okbe:
" I have heard with regret some statements made by Mr.
Stafford, because I had a very high opinion of Mr. Stafford
and of hi, honour, and Mr. Stafford must have knows that,
at the time he made those statements, they were entirely
inconsistent with the practice of the Admiralty sad the rules
of the service." That represented him as hawing said that
he bad heard Mr. Stafford's statement with regret, because
he bad ever lad a high opinion of Mr. Stafford's honour,
and he must have known, at the time he made the state-
ment, that it was entirely inconsistent with the practice of
the Admiralty and the rules of the service. Their lordships
must feel that he should be abandoaieg his duty if be did
not call their attention to this matter, for the purpose of
pivieg the meet aaqualifled and emphatic contradiction to
the statensett in the (Hobe. (Hear, hear.)
COMMON LODGING HOUSE BILL.
The Uri ed SHAFTESBURY, is movie( the seeeed
voldbas old* bill, referred to the geed effects prodweed by
the imam* resuatly
es en the satgeetisa, inrsereveating
the overcrowding et I lioness. It by Capt.
Hale's report, that U, I . and men 90 k;d hereto-
his bees uewdsd into see Mem ; bet during tie thirteen
lasers Ere lie aut bail boss Is apersties. this ~wow&
bg bad beau goneedo4 Mho bonen bad bees deemed sod
wklummeoo,
_Om keds• bad bees improved, sad the
liability Is Member had boa wady roused. It was in
Oise Orme lksjealased ow see dellaiotlmd
eisiY.
=soas emi Ifs at almaissths of tits sallsil sestropsibs. Groot pad bad beau
effected by the Aenaf 11111.111“, NA It was to perfect it sad
prevent a rebels t M sew proposed this bit of amend-

int. - . -
Lard REDESDALE leek rib*** to some particular
provi•ione of the MU, mynially that which authorised the
removal of persons enHasi hem infections disease to
wolkhouses, where then were any *Midi's and rum*
of inane health. Amain that some alterations might be
aide is the bill in onmsittee, he would not oppose Hie se-
cond reading.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE expressed doubts aa
to the applicability of the bill to Ireland, and said that it
woad iatiat a wine Wary on the occrupiers of small
bosom
The Rail of SHAFTESBURY elated his readiness to
make any reasonable alterations ia eentatittee.
The Rarl of OLE NUALL said a few words.
Lord BEAUMONT wished to hate a &Saint* of the
term " coaunou lodgiag-honess." He thought inspeotion
Ethb be a benefit to a mita* class of knees ' but as all
lion of this kind was ea fanatic* of thei liberty of
,ject, and of the English swim that every man'e
was his Ned., it wee desirable to otraithe it to lodging-
of • certain elem.
ST. LEONARD'S said that 'as the bill stood, it
extend the power of inspection to any house where
wen taken. He threw this out for the considere-
d the noble lord.
The Delos of NEWCASTLE seggiated an amendment
Ulf* dame whisk gave the power of seeding sick panne
to eiterldhenem. and recommended the noble mover of the
ME Ile pet himself in communicatiou with the Alters of

unions'
Tin bill was then rend a wend time. •
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented • petition from
citizens of Manchester, praying that the future govern-
ment of India in this otiatry should consist of a minister
and a council appointed by the crown, and directly respon-
sible to the imperial parliament. This petition had been
agreed to at • meeting convened and prodded
over by the chid magistrate of the city, and
signed by him at she request ,of the meeting.
It contained the sentiments, not merely of Man-
chester, but of the great majority of the neighbourhood.
It came from a leedity which—London not rzeepted—had
• men vital Interest than my other part of the kingdom in
the material well-bens of the people of India. The pod
-
hosiers preyed fur a re Wla in the home goverment. They
were of opinion that the edging government had not
developed the resources of the coustry, and bad not pro-
vided for the welfare of the people. They therefore prayed
that the existing form of government should he abolished,
anilithat • government directly responsible to parliament
shqukl be Instituted in its room.
This Earl of ELLENBOROUGH welcomed the citizens
of Wissolawase se Marmite In the good nem of laden
Wean The change in politic opinion was well
shows by the petition, which set forth views he
had long bald, bat the whole of which he; had not dived
to •briag forward for fear of jeopardising improvements
thazappeand likely to be tarried out.
Lord WHARIiCLIFFE said in his opinion any attempt
to legislate en India La the present elation mast be preen.
hue.
EMIGUAT_IGN TO NEW SOUTH WALES.
The Earl of GLENGALL asked the Duke of Newcastle
whether the bill to regulate the indentina of assisted immi-
gran:e in the United to
and elsewhere, and their
employment in the colony for a certain time after their
snivel, mentioned in the despatch of Governor Fitzroy,
dated Sidney, October 19, 18.52, has passed the legislature
of New South Wales, and if so whetherithas received the
royal assent.
'the Doke of NEWCASTLE raid the deep tUh, dated
Oct. 19, 18.52, inclosed the draft of • bill which was re-
ceived in this country on the 22nd of January. Ha bad
since received a despatch front the governor of New
South Wale% dated as lately as the 6th of January.
from which he found that there were five despatches
between the 19th of October and the 6th of January, nee
of which had yet been received. He had every Teen to
suppose that nee of those despatchee contoined the act of
the colouiel li•gielatere, of which the draft bill had reached
this esuarry. Menne he was =eh," to say so positively,
but as soon es the dispatch was received. if it did contain
the act, he +sold lay it on the table ofche house, for the
information of the noble lord.
TRANSPORTATION FROM IRELAND.
Is answer to the Earl of OLLNUALL,
Do Dia, of ZiEWCABTIA aan, although thus iris

Woia—lormolrfa±
lid min *gash _ _ - great
assay bad bun amployel on long voyages because more
profitable, WI tbs abort voyage trade to vessels of
other nations. It was not ia his power to give any infor-
mation to the wale lard with regard to W number of ships
and sailors that want to Australia sad estwithed therefrom.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH ma be bed sat the
lout doubt of the improvement of dm Ibewhipt Mode, but
what he looked at was the falling ad tbs navigation for
the home trade.

CHIMNEY SWEEPERS REGULATION BILL.
This bill west through tossaittot.
CATHEDRAL APPOINTMENTS_BILL.

TI Dill ;;;111;1711;tiVill;;;I 11;1111;111111S;d:;6;17.2 state-
meet by Viscount CANNING that government could not
agree to some amendments which bad been proposed by
the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and after an amendment,
moved by the Bishop of Oxrorto, imposing certain res.
trietioes on the appropriation of chapter property, had been
*greed to.
CONES OF SPECIFICATIONS REPEAL BILL.
I his bill was read a third time and passed.
LAW OF EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE BILL.
This bill went through committee, and was ordered to be
reported after the mews.

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ing, however, the law of primogeniture," and to isave me
all the remains words of the resolution.
Hr. DRUMMOND said, he believed that it was said the;
walls had sacs, and if so, he might be said la thielnese le la
addressing the house, although there were 111 141110111114111116
dress (at this moment there were sea rely a theft 111111116.1111.
present). The appearance of the house was sartidalo mit
symptomatic of the alarm felt in the country on the piton
omission, which the bon. gentleman had slated. It was saki
that Dean Swift on one occasion finding no one in the
alga* bat the clerk and himself, addressed his—" Dearly
bliPleil Roger, the scripture moved you and me la sundry
' plagog," ana it seemed that the discussion at present was
awaited to himself (Me. Drummond) and the chairmaa.
(" Hear, hear," and a lava.) His right bon. friend (Sir
J. Pakington) seemed to AM that he (Mr. Drummond)
menattobeistirical,wheabe said this was an elder brother's
lax. He mast nethingel the sort, and in explaining what
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Seats
smile settlement did not pay this tag,
hat when the tax was put on partially, the
has chip was that they paid double ; as thh
awmismift
had
at the same rate as their meats,
and rosy had only their settlements after their parents'
death. Hip right hon. friend said that the land in this
country-was not held in large masses, but by yeomen, asd
permits of that class ; but his right hon. friend ought to
know that land of that kind was never under settlement ;
it might have insumbrances of all sorts, but never was
chameerwith settlements. That class never encumbered
their estates in that meaner, as large proprietors did ; and
the tax would not affect them. His (Mr. Drummond's)
*ideation to the arguments in this debate was that he could
met understood what any oae who did not object to a legacy
duty, when he was suited to affirm an abstract proposition
to apply to all successions, could mean by making one ex-
Option to it. He had, however, some doubt until the bill
was brought in, how the plan was to be carried out.
ae saw such difficulties and hardships that it would be
globose impossible to carry it out. For that radon he was
gem that time should be wasted In discussing the abstract
monition, and he thought they ought to have reserved
themselves until they got the bill before them and went
into committee. His difficulty was, that the tendency now
was, by means of simplification of titles and Utility of
transfer, to render land more easily saleable. He looked on
land as something more important than an object of sale ;
he looked oa it as the basis of monarchy. No landed pro-
prietor possessed any political influence if he wee a "par-
' twee," and it was because great estates were associated
with great names that they gave influence; bat if they
were cut up and made saleable like stock, all tho influence
attached to them would be gone. As a hereditary monarchy
more influence than an elective monarchy, so
and which went in a settled succession possessed greater
influence than that which was constantly changing hands.
His right hen. friend bad spoken of the increase of direct
taxation which sou intended to get rid of indirect taxation.
He (Mr. Drummond) said that you had got rid of too muck
indirect taxation ; for the object of the advocates of direct
taxation was, that it should be carried to such a poiat as to
become so oppressive, that it could not be borne, and that
we should be obliged to get rid of our military establish-
ments. They were mistaken however, for the first day that
the house refused the supplies, it would not be the soldiers
who would be turned adrift ; but the funds would go first
and the mills next, and the man with a sword or a bayonet
would be the last to go without a dinner that day. (A
laugh.) He said that it was dangerous to increase direct
taxation so mach as that the country would refuse to pay it,
and those who hoped for that event might depend upon it,
that it would recoil on their own heads. Ile would end as
be began, by saying that it would be better to let this reser
heti= pesond take the discussion on the bill.
. Mr. WW . WILLIAMS said the state of the house showed
the interest which was taken in a question which the hon.
gentleman (Mr. Fresbfield) called a war upon property.
With the permission of the select party present he (Mr.
Williams) would endeavour to fill up some of the time
which must elapse before the division took place at twelve
or one o'clock. ( Hear," and a laugt.) lie was sorry the
right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Pakington) was not in his
place. lie should have liked, had the right hon. gentleman
been present, to have observed on the long speech he had
made in opposition to the proposition of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Much apprehension had been expressed by many
noblemen and by some gentlemen of the middle class with re-
gard to this tax. If they would only take the troutle is
calculate the amount of the legacduty all such &porches. had
sions would disappear. It been stated lio
several high authorlies, and among them the right km.
gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire, that nine-
tenths of the landed property of this country was under set-
tlement ; that that kind of property was only liable to a
duty of I per cent. What was the amount charged at the
rate of 1p 'r cent. ? The legacy fluty was payable on the
gross capital. He would take an estate producing 1001. a
year, and estimating its value at 33 years' purchase, it
would be worth 3,3001. Now 1 per cent. on that would be
331., or something less than four months' rental of the first
year, and that was all the possessor had to pa y for the
enjoyment of the property for his whole life. The same
calculation would apply to large ea well as small 'estates.
Take au estate of 6001. a year, and at 33 years' purchase it
would be worth something near 20,0001., and the payment
of a legacy duty of 1 per cent. would amount to 2001., being
something less than a third of a year's rental. Take an
estate of • 1,5001. a year, and at 33 years' pur-
chase it would be worth 50,0001. ; the duty payable
would be 6001., or the third of a year's rental.
So again, an estate of 3,0001. a year, which was ',limited
'at the value of 100,0001., would pay a duty of 1,0001. But
from the manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had valued real property, he would never see 25 years' pur-
chase as its value, or even 20 years'. He (Mr. Williams)
would take the vllas at 25 years' purchase, and the duty
payable at 1 per cent. would only amount to one quarter
at a year's rental. That was the case of persons who came
into property, for the removal of the impediments I. which
they had been praying for years—(laughter)—and they bad
only to remain in their previous position for a quarter of a
year, and they would pay off the whole amount of the duty
which the landed gentry were afraid to contemplate.
Ile was astonished that the ratlmma who were connected
.with the land would mtoset thmassives to such a stigma as
'that which they now bees—l g on others a tax
teem which they carefully their own class. He,
tee his part, would not be so ;were he a coon-
tiroy eslansan he would not onlythis kg this extension of
the duty, but he would ask tag as imposition of the
iaty too. In condemns the has. gentleman made
an appeal to the par ercelknee '. protestant and religious "
body before him, singling out Mr. Newdegate, and he
when was their Christian morality which permitted
pang after year upholding and even aggravating, when
gh
m matead, the unjust and unfair system of taxation
the world had ever witnessed.
Hr. AOLIONBY would be glad to see an inclination in
that house to face more firmly the question of the burdens
on land. He, for his part, had bean a freetrader all his
life, and rejoiced in the results of free trade ; but he could
not deny that there were special burdens on real property,
and he thought that they would not get on satisfactorily in
adjusting their system of taxation until they relieved real
property, Including the land, from some of the weight of
taxation which it at present bore. But this was a question
apart from that before the committee; and he would vote for
the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exelsequer. He bad
been twitted the previous evening, on account of what be
had said of the present suffering state of the tenant farmers,
with befog at heart a protectionist, and with surrendering
his mooniest convictions to his party feelings, but these
who knew him were aware that he only voted for the
present government because he considered it the best and
me,' abt ril government they were likely to have.
Mr. IL G. LIDDELL took no selfish views of this
question. He was glad to see food cheapened to the poor,
and life made more easy to the manes of the people ; but he
pretested, as a matter of juetioe, against ailing upon real
opsrty almost alone to audit up the deficit thole ereuntOUS
on occasioned.
beouat OODERICH said that as the chief ground of
oppedtion to the proposition of the government was that it
bees with peculiu injustice on the land, and as no boo.
mamilemen opposite was more entirely bound up with the
intense of land than he was, he felt anxious to take an op-
portiunty of stating the reasons which should induce him. to
vote fur the resolution of the right lion. gentleman. (Rear,
hear.) It was admitted on all sides that every tag should
be levied in just proportion on all classes, and anima there
were some special reasons to justify the exemption of any
one class, that exemption was in itself an evil. (Hew,
hear.) But then it was said that it was unjust to extend
the legacy duty to real property, first, because that species
of property war already burdened with taxation from which
other descriptions of property were exempt, and secondly,
because the legacy duty was so unjust in itself that this tax
ought to be got rid of. Ho denied both of these positions.
He believed that the main isms) of the fall of the Frsni.h
nubility—more powerful in its operation than even the
vices of the noires in the last reigns of the French
monarchy—was that they rejected the advice of the best
and wisest of her statesmen, such as Target and others like
him, and refused to bear their jut portion of the taxa-
tinier the Waist. (Cheers.) He therefore asked bon.
gentlemen opposite to pause ere they rejected the proposi-
tion before the house ; for depend upon it, there was a
strong feeling, whether right or wrong, amongst the people
of this country, that the landed proprietors had made use of
their power and iaflucoee to shield themselves from this
tax. (Heir, bear.) He would recommend them to be
content with the advantages and consideration which the
possessiun !Aland brought with it. He would recommend
them, above all things, to be ready to hear equal burdens of
bastion with the rest of the community, aid by so doing
they would, more than by any other means, matributo to
the stability of the nation and the permanence of those in-
stitutions which they.regireled as its pride and glory.
Mr. I:AYLEYsaid he had heard with pleasure the speech
just delivered by the noble lord—a spa eh full of ability and
r.„oose. (cboara.) The Bolds lord in his concluding ob-
servations appeared to imagine that the liiivkil interest
eri,lied to shield itself from its due shard of taxation; the
truth being that, unlike personalty, it possessed a quality
which rendered such an attempt impracticable. (Hear,

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...mule was proposed, it wai admitted that land paid two-
pence in the pound more than personalty. The personalty
in the funds, in mortgagee, and in other forms of invest.
Went, amounted to not less than 00,000,0001. a year • why
should it not pay the income tax equally with realty
(Hear, hear.) He asked for no undue exemptions on behalf
of the landed interest; all that he claimed for it was
jostles.
Mr. PETO said state he had had the honour of • seat in
that hoase then were certain terms which he had often
heard, but had never had the happiness of hearing ex-
plaiaed. lie had heard, for example, of " peculiar bur-
ins on land ," bat had he been told what thaw pe-
culiar burdens were. (Ironical cries of " Hear, hear,"
from the opposition.) Again, with regard to the phrase
"financial justice," he had never heard it stated what they
were to do in order to carry out financial justice. As to
the statement that " land had been hardly dealt by," he
must say his own impression was that it had been more
considered and protected that any other interest in the
country, and that since protection was withdrawn
It had prospered more than any other. ("Oh, oh,"
from the opposition.) The general feeling in the country
with regard to the budget, as far as he could understand it,
was this—they did not like the income tax for seven years,
but were prepared to submit to it on gamut of the vast
amount of good b_y which it was accompanied. The effect
of many of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's measures
would be to increase the comforts of the poor man, and hon.
members should bear in mind that every new comfort given
to the poor man lightened the insurance on their own pos.
mace'. (Cheers.)
Mr. NEWDBGATE said that the hon. member spoke
with the chagrin of a purchaser of the advanced price of
land, but should recollect that that land was not the only
commodity that had advanced in value under the influence
of recent events. Manufactures and wages had also ad-
vanced, but bow could it be otherwise in the pre-
sence of so extraordinary an influx of the precious
metals. (Laughter.) The right hon. gentleman had
already secured himself from the possibility of defi-
ciency next year, and still he asked the representatives of
real property tolubmit to a tax which parliament in the
gradual exigency of the wcr bad before refused to consent
to. (Hear, bear.) The right hon. gentleman talked of
compensation. Compensation ! The landed interest bad
had enough of compensation. The repeal of the corn laws
had been compensated by the reduction of the sugar duties,
and the ruin of our colonies by the re,seal of the navigation
laws. (Hear, hear.) Now, forsooth, leasehold property
was suffering from an anomalous tax, and was to be cont.
pensated by the infliction of the legacy duty on real pro-
perty. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman was
now accumulating taxation on one narrow point,
and next year be would extend the franchise,
thus increasiag the demands on real property,
while diminishing the power of the holders to defend it.
That was a policy which he (Mr. Newdegate) asserted was
a rapid approach to confiscation. (Hear, hear.) He seized
property at the most distressing period, by a law which the
present possessor had no interest in resisting, and he did
this at a time when there was no excuse in the neceaitits
of the public service. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BRIGHT said that although he agreed to the general
proposal to extend this tax, the right bon. gentleman had
used arguments with respect to the burthens on landed
property which he had never expected to hear from that side
of the house. The right hon. member for Buckinghamshire,
with an ingenuity surpassed, had session after session
endeavoured to prove that there were special burthens
upon land which entitled it to exemption from taxation.
He had said everything he could say in decency, and yet
always failed to convince the house that there was anything
real in the grievance he tried to substantiate; and the
house and the country had regarded his complete abandon.
ment,of that idea with great satisfaction. (Hear, hear.) But
no sooner had he given up the notion that landed proprie-
tors had any claim to remissions on account of local taxa-
tion, than his great antagonist and successor took up the
story, and based his mode of extending the legacy duty on
that very fallacious end unsubstantial grievance.
Hence, while money in the funds, property in banks,
machinery, or merchandise, would have to pay from
1 to 10 per cent., according to the degrees of consanguinity,
real or rateable property would only have to pay k to 5 per
cent. He (Mr. Bright) protested entirely against that
principle, and would not be thought to acclaim, in that
which would hereafter be stoutly urged as a reason against
making this tax equal on all descriptions of property.
He gave the Chancellor of the Exchequer cre-
dit for the 'enrage with which he bad dared to
touch this subject at all. But for that, no doubt, his income
tax would have been defeated, and perhaps the present go-
vernment would not have survived an attempt to carry the
, income tax in its present form, unless they had linked it
with a proposition which the country approved from one
end to the other, namely, that the tax upon suceessions
should be levied upon all the property of the country.
A division being loudly called for, and no one rising, the
galleries were cleared, but no division took place. Oa our
re-admission,
Mr. DISRAELI was addressing the committee. He re-
commended his friends on that side of the house not to offer
any opposition to the resolution in that stage, in order
that the government might introduce their bill, and that
the sense of the house might be taken on the second read-
ing, when they had the details of the plan fully before
them. (Cheers.)
The resolutions were then put and agreed to, amidst loud
cheering, and the house resumed.

2 THE liIPMISS, SATURDAY ENVING, MAY 14, 1853. ;:,:.
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. . ,of the older nut to send more convidts' t. Nan bidet% s that the b dget Imes be considered a a war against pro- • oouldliot. ,: be tel and the poor rate were burden; ta.
- - -- Lead ; yet, as regarded Ireland, two vesedeAmmajame. s,
~• at it env . .1 '. , iWin •qpigagrto ad ;'• and personalty having bniMeto escaped:, s nail
lIOUSF. OF LOItllS.-FlilliAT, MAT 13. •iets had been sent, not to Van Dirss."TiTgand, bu 'le -Iglu . ,'" . w r•. : , it had( 4 them II .a it Wlas' now proposed that lattlalievidgf soy
The Luau CHANCELLOR took h', seat at 3 s'elack. Western Australis, and as large a c..m.. haillheen ie. tF ne rii T ainst p ity t • •is *it ho ed the leg duty. lawacte case of the stamp duty,.4ooo, . Mori
ROYAL A...15-ENT. before. t. - ..0•' .01 liel :.6 agine . • uancial are , h PIM rat I I was pai by land, only 2,000,0001. by perpetuity. f r. B.
The r.yal stunt we given by commission to the follow- .ATI...tiATION4T , .13 itself, might '', n draw it „ mithiefs end evrie, thoguestion was tia• be treated as one of equivalents, thir itMas la
Lord STANLF:i of ALDE •. , nee t .011111 hied _ kw. 1 that it 7..- ' •1 • oitt.iit hoot* ought to relieve the lend from taxation. Incea cif spoke,"
ag bill. -The Exchalser Bills ; the Crystal Pelee* Coo-
ney ; the Lowestoft Water, Gas, and Market ; the Dublin ! 'stun* att'aik for a few sights by ..,e''''", •• f E '';.''''''' -bth• • en.' was
,aftre. ngero. uw. -. r••.
.t , imporidgen it sti additional burden. (Laughter.) • "The 1
and Belfast Railway Company; sad the Grit Yarmouth 1 rough, say,. that a great number of sailors had gone out tai hon. frie • . might eom a a majority bat boast; but every possible wish to support the right bon. gentleman, \ vista% c
IV atc mot 10. I sump ..• at wages of not more theft a shilling a month. It the friendship he felt for him induced • - (Mr. Fresh• must tell him that he would find himself Mirrounded wi - .Igaie.
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Lord Calming, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. ' 161 ,14 I
!Le number of vessels trading in made between the Tyne which bad struck a heavier blow ataptaalic conidence: thus -(bear, being :rand even if the proposition were carried, Sir J.
and London so far from having disairdebed had increased. he expected. The hon. gentlentauffihea moved the follow the effect woad be greatly to einbarrus the titles of land, at Mr. 1
PETITIONS PRESENTED. that, we gams lage increase in..thcasabor of steamers, ing amendment :-Line 4, after " real" to insert after the a period when the general tendency of legislation was to object le
bbzwlTT paelms--Mip LimatilitellOHAll• hevalpies« Naafi-aah mast to 64 awing comb imp bug that c great word " estate," "In like manner as personal estate I. nee amplify them. (Hear, hear.) At the same time that this to mak I
lii M"a4tiamenaltigei Barnstaple, Plates in Dethllaitettaa many bad bees amadatiad es kw vismos beam more liable, so far @stimulus am be made applicable, orrery- measure we proposed, itras admitted that land paid two- ofthltic