Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-21 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WIG„ OBSERVER.

. .
exiraordina4 conduct of the Income-Tax •
Commissioners have rendered passim.resistana in my
"ease impracticable, inaseauch as the• Collector, obtained
ft warrant,. bearing the sigiatures of VITr, William-lamb •
and, hii •sson-inLlatp„Xr. ,fiaize3..7killoi:,Tviiieh -precious .
document the tactic§'of the Collector made very service.,

able in his calling, by exhibiting it from house to house,
argument course, as an arguent ,of terror te.any dilatory
contributor to his per-centage. This was continued
during the latter part of Int week, when I was con:.
stantly expecting his appearanee at my house; instead
of which, he, armed with this authiarify, walked into
,:.the office of my directors, and there. took possession of
xnElit goods and chahers, I suppose, urposely to prevent
intimated intention of PAsivE REsisTANOE, coin:
-polling me to pay, rather than suffer any interruption of
the business of my employel. How far this conduce
of the Income-Taff Commissioners is legal I have not
had time to ascertain, anddt may just happen-that some
of your correspondents may be willing to supply the
desired 'information, which certainly appears of con-
, sillerable-importance to 'employers and employed. It's I
hiipe to bring, the whole mutter _before the public at
some future time, I will not now trespass., further..--
Thanking you, cordially, I, remain your obliged, servant,
Hurley

.
!. We have been icquested to publistrthe following cox
respondence in reference to,. the eitabliStnuent of .an
" Anti-Income-Tax" Association. in Wigan.
=u Wigan; .Januaxli 1 g 80.
"Sin,—An advertiseinenf.: having.' appeared in the
Wion..o6.seicer under the head Anti-Income4Tax,'
I addressed a note, to box 47, in accordance with the
advertisement contained therein;.which I send here,wit.'n-;

and as the parties for wtiOni I am writing do- not wish
• to enter the association blindfolded, will you haie the
• goodness, for their sitisfactio4 to inform. me•lio4 you
• intend to proceed in iipiriqsiirsAhe ............ the
tax ?. :and ymi will. much'. oblige, sir, your_ obedient.
• Servant, • • "WILLiA.3I JACKSON.
"Mr. J.:Partridge."

" 51, Ann-street; Birmingham,
" 10th January. 1860.
"Sin,—l have your letter of yesterday and the Wigan
paper. You should by all means join the society.
"In reply to -your question how to proceed, you-
should pledge your Members of Parliament—borough
and county—to vote against. .any re-enactment of this
= infamous tax. You should hold a town's meeting to.
condemn it, and let the chairman, .on behalf Of. theimest-
,
, sign.
iug a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and a petition to Parliament against it, and condemn it.
in the strongest terms. I send you a pamphlet with my
recent correspondence with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on the subject. But fora further expose of
= the subject,- see my lett*s to the Daily News, of Dec.
27th and Jan. 2nd. I wish yiiira suecessful movement;
. and am, sir, your obedient servant,
"J. PARTRIDOP,
" Honorary Secretary to the Birmingham
IncomOax Reform Association.
" Mr. W. Jackson."-
,sitt,—Persons' named who are willing to form an
Anti-Income-tax Society.are necessary to form an Assci-
• ciation, and Box 47 will, for the present, receive those
names until a sufficient number are obtained to call it
an association. "Yours respectfully-7-47 Box."

A FLAMING SPECULATION".—Some of the German
journals announce seriously that a company of English
capitalists have made an application to the King of
Naples for a concession for the extinction of Vesuvius.
The principal seat of the fire of the volcano is situated
several thousand feet below the level of the sea. By,
cutting a canal which would carry the water into the
crater the fire would be completely extinguished, andithe
operation, which would only cost two millions of francs,
would restore to cultivation land often times that value:
REWARD OF. I:LEnoism.--Mr. Richard Wilding, in
the service of Messrs. Collard and Collard, the piano-
forte manufacturers; has been presented with a valuable
watch, under the circumstances explained by the inscrip-
tion it bears, as follows :—" Presented by Messrs. Col-
lard and the workmen in their employ to Richard
Wilding, as a mark of their admiration for his noble
conduct in rescuing a boy from drowning, in the orna-
mental waters of the Regent's Park, on the 19th a
December, 1859, at the, imminent risk of his own life."