The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-11 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

SIR, —The Lords of the Treasury have just committed
a flagrant act of injustice. Clerks to Taxes Commis-
sioners have, as near as may be, worked through their
entire duties under the income tax for 1854, ending
April last, and because the poundage has become in-
creased (by the double duty) those lords have, in the
plenitude of their wisdom, issued an order that they
shall make deduction from the clerks I Their lordships
may have reckoned without their host, and if I mistake
not will so discover.
When the clerks' poundage (which is but three half-
pence in the pound, and ought to be threepence) was
rendered more paltry by reduction in the assessed taxes
a year ago, those thinking lords had not one word to say
about better remuneration to clerks, though their labours
were increased by parties becoming liable to the tax
who were not before.

No wonder, sir, that the people are' daily becoming
more dissatisfied, and call for " Governmental Reform."
—Your Obedient servant,
A CLERK TO COMMISSIONERS.
11th June, 1855.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present
were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl

Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord
John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon
Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and the
Earl of Sarrow by. The Council sat two hours and a

quarter.
Mr. Van Buren has taken apartments at the Bedford

Hotel, Brighton.
The British subject arrested at Hamburg on suspicion

of being a recruiting agent has been released.
We hear that Miss Edith Heraud will shortly appear
at the Haymarket, in a new play, in five acts.
Admiral Sir-John Ommanney lies at his residence in
a state of health which precludes the hope of his reco-

very.
REAR-ADMIRAL BOXER.—We regret to announce that
a telegraphic despatch, reporting the death by cholera,
at Balaklava, of Rear-Admiral Boxer, was received in
Dover, from the Crimea.
Mme. Barbieri-Nini is singing at Matttua, " I Lom-
bardi," " Macbeth," and other favourite operas of Verdi.
Her success is said to be very great.
At Vienna Mme. Lesniewska, a polish cantatrice, if
there be any faith in names, is now singing with very
great success. In "La Sonnambula" she is described

as perfect.
The following are named as the troupe of the Th6atre
Italies at St. Petersburg during the next season :
Mmes. Bosio, Lotto, Marai, Demeric ; MM. Tamberlik,
Calzolari, Bettini, Lablache, Ronconi, de Bassini, Didot,
Tagliafico, Polonini, Cecconi.
THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRACY.—The Marquis of Salis-
bury, as Lord Lieutenant of the county, gave a splendid
entertainment on Saturday to the Middlesex magistrates
and to the officers of the five regiments of county militia,
at his mansion in Arlington-street. About 200 noblemen
and gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous entertainment.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—EXETER HALL.—The
last performance of Elijah takes place on Friday next,
the 15th inst. _ _

CRYSTAL PALACE.—FIVE SHILLING DAT, June 9.
Admissions on payment, 659 ; ditto by season tickets,
3,015 ; total, 3,674. •
It is said that Mr. Sould, the late American Minister
to Spain, is going to Mexico with a mission supposed to
have connexion with the affair of Spain and Cuba.
A new opera, by M. Charomonte, given at the Pagi-
nini (Genoa), under the title of Una Burke per correzione,
is the sole operatic novelty for the lalt week on the
other, side of the Alps. It was successful on the wh6le,
but the local journals mention the richezza d'instru-
mentazione in a manner that makes us suspect it to he
unusually noisy. Messrs. Sinda.co, Mariani, Zacchini,
and Mine. Adele filled the principal parts.
A Festival is to be celebrated, with full choral Ser-
vice, in Westminster Abbey, on Thursday, when Cie
Bishop of Oxford is to preach in behalf of the funds of
the Incorporated Seolety for Promoting the Enlargement
of Churches and Chapels.
ETON FESTIVAL,—The anniversary dinner of the
noblemen and gentlemen educated at Eton College was
celebrated on Saturday, at Willis's.. The Earl of Mal-
mesbury presided, and a very large muster of Etonians
supported the noble earl in the chair.
Captain Fox Maule Ramsay, of the 56th Regiment,
is appointed private secretary to Lord Pannsure. and has
entered upon his duties at the War Department, in con-
junction with Lord Gifford.
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto, may be expected on the 15th.
The Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart.,
was sworn into office on Saturday, in his own Court of
the Exchequer, before the barons, as Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
The Royal Mail -stearn•ship Asia,- Captain E. G. Lott,
sailed from the Mersey for Halifax and Boston on Satur-
day, at four p.m., with the usual mails for the United
States, 175 passengers, and a general cargo on freight.
Boy DROWNED.—Yesterday afternoon a boy, about
rine years of age, named Edward George, the son of a
paper banger, residing in Plutntree-court, Shoe-lane,
whilst playing at the river side at Elackfriars Bridge,
slipped into the water, was carried down with the tide,
and Fank near the steam-boat pier. Mr. Ware, the pier
master, had the life-boat instantly manned, and the drags
were used, but the unfortunate lad could not be found.
The "Prophets" has now been several times repeated
at La Scala in Milan ; end, according to the journals,
its popularity increases at each succeeding representa-
tion.
Lieut. T. Carew, emigration agent at Plymouth,
whose province it was to ascertain that proper boats
were on board the John, emigration ship, and other
needful precautions taken prior to her departure, which
it would appear by the Board of Trade report werg not
strictly attended to, has resigned his appointment.
ARABIC.—The French Government has granted a fresh
delay of three years for the completion of the two dic-
tionaries, French and Arabic and Arabic and French,
for which two prizes of 5,000 f. each were offered by a
decree of the 29th November, 1852.
On the 29th ult. there were 210 cases of cholera at St
Petersburg.
NEW BILL ON SPIRITS OF WINE.—On Saturday a
Government bill was issued, for the use of spirits of wine
duty free in works of art and manufactures. The object
is the promotion of arts and manufactures.
ILLICIT DISTILLATION OF SPIRITS.—On Saturday a
bill before Parliament, amended, was printed, for the
better prevention of illicit distillation of spirits in Ire-
land. When justices refuse a certificate to allow sale,
the same is to be entered, and an appeal may be allowed.
EXPENSES OF THE REGISTERS OF VOTERS.—A re-
turn obtained by. Sir G. Tyler, M.P., shows that the
gross total amount of all expenses paid by the several
counties of England and Wales relating to the prepara-
tion and completion of the register of voters for the re-
spective counties for the year 1854-55 was 10,7791., in-
cluding 9,714/. for England and 1,065 for Wales. The
amount charged on each county varied from 241. to 9661.,
the clerk of the peace being sometimes paid by a fixed
salary.
The King of Sardinia intends visiting Paris and Lon-
don. He has been advised by his physicians to under-
take that journey for the benefit of his health, impaired
by recent family afflictions. The King is to -be accom-
panied by two of his ades-de-camp and the Intendant-
General of the Civil List. M. Cavour is to join his Ma-
jesty in Paris. The regency of the kingdom will be con-
fided to Prince Eugene de Carignan.
POSTAGE BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND VIC-
TORIA.—By a Treasury warrant dated the sth of June,
1855, the rate of postage by post between Victoria
through the United Kingdom shall be, for any letter not
exceeding half an ounce in weight, is. ; exceeding half
an ounce, two rates ; exceeding one ounce, four rates ;
exceeding two ounces, six rates ; exceeding three Ounces,
eight rates ; and for every additional ' ounce over four
ounces, two additional rates.
The Regius Professorship of Civil Law in the Univer-
sity of Oxford, -recently vacated by the death of Dr. J.
Phillimore, has been filled up by the appointment of Dr.
Travers Twiss, vicar-general of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, and recently Professor of Political Economy in
the same University. This appointment, we believe,
has been invariably held by a.distinguished member of
the College of Advocates, practising
,in Doctors' Com-
mons, and we are glad to observe that Lord Palmerston
has not departed from the rule on the present occasion.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen
honoured the performances at the ttoyal-Italian Opera
with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty
was accompanied by her Serene Highness the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe ; and Prince Albert joined the
royal party before the close of the opera. The royal
suite consisted of the Duchess of Wellington, the Hon.
Miss Paget, Lord De Tabley, and General the Hon.
Charles Grey. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary and the Hereditary
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg ,Strelitz also honoured
the performances with their presence. Lady Suffield,
Lady Caroline Cust, and Lady Katherine Grey Egerton,
and Major Purves were in attendance. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Qambridge was also present, at-
tended by Major the Hon. J. Macdonald. His High-
ness Mustapba Bey occupied a box on the grand tier.
And among the fashionable companyin the theatre we
remarked—His Excellency the Portuguese Minister and
the Countess Lavradio, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister and the Baroness Hocbschild, the Duke of
Montrose, the Duke of Leeds, the Earl and Countess of
ellardwicke, &c.
Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge, of the 7th Royal Fu-
siliers, has been appointed Director-General of Army
Clothing under the new organisation of the War Depart-
ments. The duties of the Assistant Director-General are
of a purely civil nature, arid while the appointment of
Director-General will always be held by an officer in the
army, that of Assistant Director-General will be occupied
by a civilian, its duties mainly consisting of the conduct
of the correspondence with the contractors and the other
departments. Mr. • Ramsay, who has been appointed
Assistant Director-General, has been ip the War-office
for nine years, and for nearly six years filled the office of
Private Secretary to different Secretaries at 'War. He
was also Secretary to the Army Promotion Commission
last year. Major-General Cator retains the office of
Director-General of Artillery.
WRECK OF THE LONDONDERRY STEAMER.—The Lon-
donderry steamer Maiden City, on her passaeee from ttiee
port, struck on the rocks inside of Maughokl-head, Isle
of Man, during a thick fog, on Wednesday night, about
11 o'clock, and speedily filled. No lives were lost. The
steamer had a full cargo of guano, Indian corn, and other
merchandise, and it is feared she will become a total
wreck. The Lyra, from Londonderry for this port, was
hailed by a boat from the wreck yesterday morning, and
took from her the steerage passengers, who were brought
to Liverpool. The cabin passengers had previously gone
to Ramsey.--Liverpool Mercury.