The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

THE INCOME TAX.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—There are few Englishmen who will not
rejoice to see the odious income tax tottering to
its fall. The detestable impost is doomed ; the
insult, degradation, and robbery to which the
professional men, the traders, and clerks of this
country have been systematically subjected, is
coming to an end. But mark, Mr. Editor, a most
determined and complete organisation, on the part
of our countrymen, is absolutely necessary, else
the ravager will not be annihilated. Every town
and county must have its " Anti•lncome Tax
Association ;" a network of power must be spread
over the land ; the vampire must be destroyed by
the hands of our parliamentary representatives; in
a word, the work of destruction must take place at
the hustings Nothing can withstand the trades-
men of this country (I mean the shopkeepers), if
they take a stand. Let Liverpool speak out at a
town's meeting—let an association be immediately
farmed—let men like Mr. Jeffrey speak out and
denounce the impost in the name of the trade of
the country, and the monster will perish. Let no
I blarney nor evasion be attempted by our represen-
tatives ; if they cannot devise a plan, or pledge
themselves to support a measure for the abolition
of the income tax, let them seek anoth:.'r arena in
which to display their fiscal capabilities. Can we
forget the insult, the oppression, the bullying,
and the gross want of fair play shown to tradesmen
at Kirkdale, after waiting an audience some three or
four days, in the hope of meeting with justice.
Such oppression, if tried on the Continent, would
revolutionise half the capitals in Europe. Let the
cry be " Down with the income tax and no surren-
der."—Yours truly, ANGLO-SAXON.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

SOMETHING AKIN TO IT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THrl NORTHERN TIMEI.

Sir,—l have again transcribed another passing im-
promptu; it is the offspring of this subject, though it has
no ciaim to brotherhood with the disquisitions of your
acute currency doctors.
Money ! Oh ! money ! thou wayward, wayward help
mete ! What a roving rambling thing thou art ; thou
friend of friends, and thou friend of the friendless ; with
thy potent affixing qualities, which, like the magnet, holds
in close embrace the most incongruous, inadhesive mate-
rials without a single link of love, friendship, or esteem.
Money, oh ! money 1 Unto what shall I liken thee, thou
hateful, longed-for, coveted thing ! How oft could I say,
would there were no such thing; and, yet, oh, that I
could pile thee up as mountains of bliss, to be dispensed
abroad to the friendless, fatherless, and widows, as some
would pile thee up for very greed of thee—some for pride
and ostentation, and some for wrong, tyranny, and
oppression.
Money ! oh, money I Thou art like an evil genius in
fair attire, whose rich flowing garments commend them-
selves to all for beauty and grace, but whose mysterious
power affects all things which come within the blighting
influence of its corrupting subtle outgoings.
Money ! oh, money Thou art a faithless friend—thou
art a fickle foe ; with thy glowing hand proffered to all,
and thy magic gifts to few ; thou art in truth as an evil
genius, pervading the face of nature; denaturalising all
things, corrupting all places, and demoralising all
nations.

Money 1 money ! money ! offspring of commerce child
of necessity ! thou most useful thing ! Whatsoever be thy
form or superscription—whatsoever be thy worth—be
thy parts ever so costly, or ever so vile to look upon—be
thou brilliant as a jewel, or be thou ever so dull—be thou
in thy most choice attire and ever so charming, or in thy
most disfigured garb, and ever $o repulsive; yet art thou
prized of all, and loved ! Yes, loved to madness, by
thousands of wretched votaries, who care not how
they get thee, so they do but get thee, and who
seem to follow the pernicious advice of a father
to his son, who said—" Gat money, my son, get
money ; get it honestly if thou can, but get money."
And in truth it is a great bait, one suited to nearly all
mankind, for the choicest of them nibble at thy most
choice portions, even though they scorn to touch thy more
modest allotments. Oh! it is as a decoy bird of beauty
and song—it has charms for all eyes and music for all
ears—and the most frugal, yea, the truly upright, know
full well from sad experience, that in the ordinary ways
of life,
" Money makes the mare to go ;"
For not only does it procure the inanimAle comforts and
luxuries of civilisation, but, painful though it be to say—
it gains, it makes, yea, it buys very friends, and secures
the smiles and admiration of all around us.

Money ! oh, money Truly thou art most prominently
conspicuous in the world, whether for weal or for woe,
standing out in bold relief as a finger-post at the junction
of cross roads, directing to the high ways of ruin and
fortune, bp which men are drawn aside from the ❑arrow
path of peace and happiness.
And yet, 0 ! Money ; to do thee justice thou are both
for good and for evil—thou art a test of honesty though
thou dost not reveal the frauds either of the rich or of the
poor, for thy secret accusations—being cumbered over
with funded wealth. princely domains, or mercantile. im-
portance, are audible to none, no, not even to those thou
mightest have admonished, had they not so consigned them
to oblivion.

And now, oh, Money I that I have glanced at thy ways
and wanderings, let me part with thee in the fond hope of
better times, and a brighter era for thee, in which thou
mayest stand in thy normal character—a true commercial
medium—ample in principle, and founded only by the
wide spread measure of wealth and value.—l am, sir,
yours, &c., NEros.

UNSOUND MEAT AND GERMAN COOKERY
AT SEA.

At the Thames police court, Captain Wilhelm Übbflohde,
(a German,) captain of the lidcio, from Sydney, was charged
under the 19th Vic., c. 119, sec. 35 and 36, with not issuing
wholesome provisions to the passengers, and with issuing
provisions improperly cooked. Mr. Owen Evans, said he em-
barked in the Adele, at Sydney, with his wife and four
children, aged respectively eleven ten, seven and five years.
He paid £BO for their passage, and they set sail for London
on the sth of August last. He brought with him a side of
bacon, a quantity of butter, 1 cwt, of flour, and other things,
but for which he and his family would have been starved ou
the ship's diet. A few days after sailing, the passengers wrote
a remonstrance to the captain, on the bad quality and the bad
cookery of the provi-ions, but in vain. The beef was rotten,
and smelt strongly. The dough ( pudding) was full of mags
go's ; witness here produced a paper, which was full of live
maggots, which excited the admiration of the court. Tile pas-
sengers had to cause the meat to he removed from the cabin to
the deck. They, one day, Enid a German stew. It was so
horribly bad that it was thrown overboard, and three persons
who had taken some, became ill. Witness will remember that
horrid German stew all his day,. On the first of September,
they caught an albatross. Mr. Sadgrove (solicitor): You
caught a fish ? (A. laugh.) Witness : No; a bird. Mr.
Sadgrovo . Oh, to be sure, a bird. Mr. Druco (solicitor) :
You would not have killed an albatross if you had read Cole•
ridge's Ancient Mariner. Witness: We made a safe voyage
notwithstanding. The witness then proceeded to state that
the sugar served out, was coarse brown sugar ; so hard that
they had to cut it with a knife. The water had been curtailed
during a portion of the voyage. All the beef was bad except
one barrel. The potatoes were but scantily served, and dur-
ing a portion of the voyage they had none, although
potatoes could have been had for 4s. a hundred weight at
Sydney, and also at Pernambuco. They had no lime juice;
pickles were served instead. There was poultry on hoard, and
pigs, but witness had neither poultry or pork. He was a
steerage passenger. Every passenger on board complained,
and there was a " round robin" once. Witness was sick for 8
days, and his wife had scurvy from tho bad provisions, and the
want of antiseptics. Mr, George Whitehead, a second class
passenger, who paid £6O for his passage, and Mr. B. Waugh,
who paid £7O for the passage of himself and his wife, corro-
borated the above evidence, and said that they fortunately had
brought some provisions and luxuries for their own use. When
a shoulder of mutton was served to them it weighed but fib.,
including bone, for 18 persons, and the mutton chops at
breakfast were skeletons and dry. Some of the sleeping berths
were in a bad state, and the pigs seemed to be but little bigger
than the rats. First class passengers fared as badly. Monsieur
Beeson, a French gentleman, said : The cooking was neither
English nor French, nor anything. The mutton chop—oh,
oh ! —it vash like—it vash like—be could not tell vat it vash
like. He never had a good breakfast on board. He paid £7O
for his passage, and brought his own wines. There were
forty passengers on board the vessel. Mrs. Pitman (an
Englishwoman), and Mr. Edlar (a Garman), were called for
the defence, and said the cuisine, which was a German one,
was on the whole good, Some of the beef was bad, and the
puddings were sour, owing to carbonate of soda being used to
make them light, Tho ship's steward gave similar evidence.
The defendant said he had purchased quantities of preserved
provisions, but his agent did not send them, and his poultry
were nearly all lost in the stormy weather. Mr. Self, the
magistrate, said that it was clear that the act of Parliament had
been violated, and if this had not been the first case of the
kind brought before him, and if the captain had not been a
foreigner, and unacquanted with the law, he should have
inflicted a very heavy penalty. He fined the captain £25, and
£5 costs, in all £3O. The money was paid.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE ME. HAYWOOD,

THE BACON THAT WAS NOT SAVIsD ! —William Smith,
John Finegan, Thomas Finegan, and James Connor, four
youths of from fourteen to eighteen years of age, were
brought up by Constable Reilly, No. 91. on suspicion of
being concerned in the plunder of fifteen flitches of bacon.
It appeared that on Saturday night a bacon store, under
John's Market, was broken into;and fifteen flitches of
bacon, value £l5, the property of Hugh Carragher, stolen
thereout. From information which the constable received,
he went to Bradbury court, where he got one flitch of the
bacon, and subsequently he arrested the prisoners, and they
admitted that they found it lying " inadvertenly" at the
back of a crate near the market. They were reminded for
further evidence. (The remainder was not foiled.)
WHO STOLE THE MONEY ?—William Newell was charged
on suspicion a ha►ing stolen £l5 from a man named
E I ward Robinson, who resides in Etdon place. The facts
were these. On Saturday the complainant was out -on
business, and had £l5 in his possession. He got rather
" fresh," and went home in a cab in the evening, the cab
diving to the yard attached to his house. The prisoner; it
appeared, met the prosemitor on leaving the car, and
knocked him down, and in the scuffi Rubinson alleged that
he lost the money. The prisoner was drunk, and a►though
two witnesses stated that they saw the scuffle, they did not
see any money, nor could the prosecutor state that he had
the Cash at the time. The prisoner was fined 5s for being
drank, but liberated from the charge of felony.
STEALING COPPER.—James Burns, a carter, was charged
by detective &Von, under the following circumstances. On
Saturday he arrested the prisoner in Preston street, with a
quantity of copper in his posseseion ; • and, as he could not
give any account of how he got it, he locked him.up. On
enquiry, he found that the prisoner had been engaged on
Saturday, carting copper for Messrs. Moss and Co., copper
merchants,. of Ifenn's gardens, and. that ne doubt existed
the copper which he got with the prisoner, belonged to that
firm. Mr. Bluck who appeared for the •prisoner, cross
examined the officer; who, in reply, said he saw a person
in Messrs. Moss's employment, and that person promised to
be present to sustain the case, but he was not now present.
Mr. Bluck : Did you speak to him ? Officer : Yes. Mr.
Blues : Did he say he would come ? Officef : He did.
Mr. Block : And he is not here ? Officer : He is not. Mr.
Block : I suppose he does not intend to come ? Officer: I
do not know. Mr. Bluck: I contend, your worship, that
you must discharge the prisoner; there is no evidence to
show that he stole this metal, nor that it is the property of
Messrs. Moss. The only thing you can do is to fine him for
not accounting for the possession of the copper. The
prisoner was fined Sc. and costs for not being able to
account for the honest possession of the metal.