The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—When the income tax was imposed on the industry
of the country, it was justified, or attempted to be justified.
by representing that the reduction of duties on various
articles imparted into the country would prove an equiva-
lent. Now, sir, what is the result? Why, not one article
do we get cheaper since the imposition of it, and Earl
Russell more than once in his place in the House of Com-
mons denounced it as an unjust tax. It is a tax, too, which
causes more iniquity, and proves more oppressive, than all
the Customs and Excise put together.

Taxes must be imposed; but the income tax proves delu-
sive, inquisitorial, and oppressive; and why should it be
continued in a time of peace ?

If this is worthy of a corner in your widely-circulated
journal, please insect it,---I am, your most obedient servant,
A CONSTANT READER.
Stoke Newington, March 31, 1861.

MARRIAGE OF A NEW ZEALAND CRIEF.—At
the parish church of St. Anne, Limehouee, yester-
day, Kamariera Te Wharepapa, one of tha New Zealand
chiefs now residing at the Strangers' Home, Limehouse,
was married to Elizabeth Reid, of the parish of Marylebone.
The Rev. E. Day, 8.A., was the officiating clergyman.
FLOGGING OF WOMEN IN AUSTRIAN POLAND.—
A letter from Lemberg (Galicia), in the Press of
Vienna, says : —" Since the beginning of the month the
military tribunals in this province have been actively occu-
pied. They try, on an average, four cases a day. A certain
number of persons have been condemned to corporal punish-
ments for various °Fences, particularly for having insulted
sentinals when on duty. Several individuals have been
bastinadoed or whipped for that misdemeanor, among them
them two women—Julia Choroctowka, a dressmaker, aged
34, who received 10 lashes, and Catherine Samborska, a
servant, aged 20, who had a similar punishment. A great
number of persons have been condemned to imprisonment
for from ono month to four."

SYMPATHY WITH DENMARK.--A public meeting
convened by the Mayor, and over which his worship pre-
sided, was held at Newcastle on Wednesday night, and pro-
nounced emphatically on the side of Denmark. An amend-
ment was moved, but was almost unanimously rejected.
Sympathy with the Danes in their gallant struggle with
Austria and Prussia was enthusiastically expressed; and
the crowded assembly, desiring that in any measure which
might be taken by this country the integrity and indepen-
dence of Denmark may be the end in view, declared in fav-
our of the extension of material aid to the invaded nation if
peaceful means should fail of securing that oljzct. These
resolutions the mayor was requested to sign on behalf of
the meeting, and transmit to the First Lord of the Trea-
sury and to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Newcastle Chronicle.

AN ODD 'WAY OF PUTTING it—More than 9,000
clergymen—that is, we presume, more than half the
clergymen of England and Ireland—are said to have signed
the Oxford declaration that they hold the Bible to be
the Word of God, and not merely to contain it; and also that
the punishment of the cursed equally with the life of the
righteous lasts for ever. In other words, half the English
clergy have abjured all but textual criticism of the most
wonderful history and literature in the world, and assented
to a doctrince which ought to make them maniacs of re-
morse, if they have ever lost a moment that might have
helped to snatch a single human being out of the hands of
God. We now know that 9,000 English clergymen ought
to think capital punishment the most shocking of political
orimes,—Spectator.