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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1852.

that subject. Lord DERBY long since—in the
beginning of March, 1851 when announcing
the failure of the attempt to form a Protec-
tionist Ministry, emphatically stated, that un-
less the country, on the next appeal, pronounced
distinctly in favour of the principle, the question
should be set at rest for ever. What has since oc-
curred shows that the declaration was made in the
most perfect sincerity—that the most talented col-
league of the Noble Lord fully concurred in the
decision, and that the new policy has been accepted
by every person of any importance or influence con-
nected with the party. In the absence, then, of such
impost, the Property-tax must be renewed, either in
in its present or some modified form, unless we are
prepared to submit to a permanent deficiency, and
a regularly increasing excess of expenditure a
course which Mr. DISRAELI Will not be prepared to
propose or sanction.
Will it then be renewed in its present form ? Such
a proposition might emanate from Sir CHARLES
Wool3,—who so frequently showed his stubborn and
unyielding obstinacy on the point, and who pre-
ferred the destruction of the Cabinet of which he was
a Member, to any graceful concession to public
opinion,—but not from Mr. DISRAELI. That Right
Hon. Gentleman was one of the Committee appointed to
inquire into the working of the tax, and to consider
by what means it might berendered more equitable ;
he is, therefore, thoroughly cognizant of the injustice
and impolicy of the present system, and also of the
various remedies that have been submitted for. its
amelioration. He has had ample time to reflect
thereon ; and has, doubtless, fully determined on the
plan on which be will stake his fiscal reputation, and
the permanence of the Government. That, however,
still rests in his own mind, or has only been commu-
nicated to a few leading Members of the Ministry.
The public, however, have as yet no certain data, we
can therefore only speculate on what ought to be,
taking into account the disturbing influences that
will operate unfavourably to, and very probably pre-
vent the adoption of, any sound and equitable adjust-
ment. Mr. DIsREALI is not one to exclaim, " Video
meliora proboque, deteriora sequor." We do not
believe that he would willingly bring forward a mea-
sure of which he did not conscientiously approve ;
but great allowance must be made for his position,
and the materials with which he is obliged to work ;
and we fear that complete justice cannot be ren-
dered to the industrious classes in a Parliament
constituted as it now is. Considerable progress may,
however, be made in the right direction, and that we
anticipate from the Right Hon. Gentleman.

The Tax, then, will be modified, and most probably
increased to some extent, and rendered more general
in its application. There can be no sufficient reason
why Ireland should be exempted from its operation.
Assistance, and that of the most valuable description,
might be rendered to the people, and to the full extent ,
of the amount levied ; bat property, wherever situated,
is the legitimate subject of taxation—and exemption
to Ireland is neither more nor less than gross injustice
to Great Britain. We know not whether Mr.
DISRAELI wiU take this view of the saject ; but should
he do so, he will be sustained by the Parliament and
people of the United Kingdom. And even in Ireland
the measure would be popular when it was ascertained
that Ministers were in (LrLest in their efforts to de-
velope fully the great, but sadly neglected, natural
resources of the country.
The basis of the taxation will also probably be ex-
tended-1001, or perhaps 601., per annum being made
the starting point in place of 1501. as at present. The
number of contributors would thereby be doubled
or, if the smaller sum were selected, trebled
by the change. It would be far better that no
exemption whatsoever should be allowed. It is in
consequence of the " exemption " that fraudulent
evasions are chiefly resorted to. But so long as " in-
come" is taxed as well as property, there must be
exemptions. There is a scale of earning so low that
it cannot be charged. We cannot come on the wages
of the labourer earning 15s. or 203. per week.
If accumulated and realized property alone were
taxed, and industry freed, until its profits were in-
vested, when they would of course become liable—
the exemptions might be abolished, and the evasions
would be hardly practicable. It has been truly
stated, that the "returns under Schedule A are made
by disinterested, under Schedule D by interested,
parties. In the one case there is great facility for
detection, in the other detection is very difficult."
Mr. PRESSLY, in his evidence on the subject of eva-
sion, says—" We get every penny upon the dividend,
and every penny upon a man's salary; all that we do
not know is the profits of a man's trade, but in all the
other schedules it is collected to a penny without any
disclosure whatever." Mr. TILL gives similar testi-
mony. He says " Under Schedule A there is
little or no difficulty. A man produces his lease, and
the question is settled as to the value of his property;
but with regard to Schedule I), there is no doubt
that considerable difficulty presents itself in the
Commissioners satisfying themselves that they are
making a right decision ; it in reality must be taken,
generally speaking, according to the conscience or will
of the party who comes to appeal or make the return."
The frauds and evasions, so demoralizing in their
operation—the inquisitorial character of the Tax, so
loudly and justly complained of—are all ascribable,
therefore, to the attempt to tax industry ; and all the
reasonable objections to the impost would be at once
removed, by rendering it really a property and not
an Income-tax.

The reduction would not be so very great. The
amount of temporary incomes from trades and pro-
fessions, &c., may be taken in round terms at one-
third of that arising from accumulated and realized
property. This is the proportion generally adopted,
and it nearly agrees with that of Mr C. WILLiou,
whose excellent letter on the subject appeared in our
impression of yesterday. Mr WILLICH is a compe-
tent witness ; he has entered into very elaborate cal-
culations on the subject, which he thoroughly under-
stands. If, then, anything like a fair allowance were
made for the difference between fixed and permanent
incomes and fluctuating and temporary—if the latter
were only charged at one-sixth, or even one-fourth,
of the former (either being much higher than its just
proportion), the total abolition of the tax on income
would only lessen the receipts by one-eighteenth or
one-twelfth of the total amount to be received. But
as the capital embarked in trade, commerce, manufac-
tures, or agriculture, would still be fairly chargeable,
the loss would be far less—not more, probably, than
one-thirtieth or one-fortieth part of the entire receipts
—a matter of comparatively trivial importance, when
compared with the vast benefits that would result from
rendering industry perfectly free, and conciliating the
affectionate respect of the working classes for the
honest Parliament that recognized their claims. The
frauds and evasions, too, would be avoided the
demoralizing influence that unfortunately induces so
many of our fellow-subjects to become habitual
violaters of the law of the land would also be removed.
These blessings would be cheaply purchased at a
much higher price than one-thirtieth of the charge;
but even for that there would be an ample equivalent
in the removal of all exemptions. Property, whether
real or personal, if producing only a single pound per
annum, is fairly liable to taxation ; and there would
be no necessity, in such case, for either exemption or
graduation of the Tax. Both, however, become essential,
Property-
tax as
or at least judicious and proper, when industry is
charged.
We, therefore, feel convinced,
that
much, if not more, would be realized by a
alone than by a Property and Income-tax. Can
there, then, be any doubt or difficulty as to what
course ought to be pursued ? What will be done is
another question. We fear that the masses are not
sufficiently represented, or the humble voter suffi-
ciently protected in the exercise of the franchise, to
induce the Legislature to take so sagacious and equi-
table a view of the subject. There is still too much
class legislation. The Parliamentary Dives is
teuscarcelyailee
ofy the
yet prepared to relinquish his hold on the
purse of
fltlile toiling Lazarus, or to place the entire
principle
wed
and
realized of the national liabilities, and the main•
national establishments, on accumu-
ao
be property. The people must there-
foreconnted with a gradual approximation to
the sound
and to obtain their just rights
by moderate
instalments.

America has lost her great son in DANIEL—=7----
WEBSTER, as England lost hers only a few months
since in ARTHUR, DUKE or WE
matter of ptculiar regret to us that cam. It is a
the most illustri-

ous among the citizens of the United States in our gene-
ration should have passed awayalmost immediately aft( r
the displey of the most lamentable incapacity as an ad-
ministrator. Had DANIEL WEBSTER expired only a
few months previous to the actual period of his de-
mise, he would have left a reputation unmarred by
the remembrance of many undignified blunders, and
much unstatesmanlike vituperation. It is a curious
circumstance, however, that the renowned orator has
disappeared from the stage of life under an aspect
somewhat similar to that which marked the closing
scene in the existence of one of his most eminent
contemporaries. QIIINCEY ADAMS died, it will long
be borne in recollection, but very shortly after the
utterance of those intemperate words of scorn directed
against Great Britain, which all but rang the tocsin
of war, and all but lighted one of those brands of
popular fury,which, in the generality of instances, re-
quire the exhaustion of rivers of human blood before
they can be effectual extinguished. The departure
from this world of DANIEL WEBSTER has, in truth,
occurred under similar auspices. He has breathed
his last, whilst there are still ringing in our recollec-
tion his haughty and irritating references to the
course lately pursued by the English Government.
There is another reflection, moreover, which cannot
fail to enhance in every generous mind, on hearing of
his demise, the consequent and profound sense of
melancholy. His career was incomplete. He fell
in the great race before reaching the goal. He has
fallen to rise no more ; and this, too, precisely at
the very moment when his admirers were looking
forward with eager hopes, and some of them with
confident expectations, that his dearest wishes would
prove to have been on the eve of their realization.
His hand was palsied by death at the very instant when
it was stretched out to seize the bauble of the four
years' power devolving upon the fortunate candidate
chosen to the Presidency. Although he had reached
the age of seventy—having been born on the 18th of
January, 1782, at Salisbury, and having died on the
24th of October, 1852, at Marshfield—DANlEL Wen-
3TER must still be regarded among the luckless cata-
logue of those distinguished men who have expired
while standing, as it were, on the very brink of the
fulfilment of their loftiest ambition. It is true that
he has not been stretched in his coffin while yet in
the prime and bloom of his manhood—as was the case
with poor CHARLES BULLER, when the highest offices
of the State seemed opening up to his appreciated
abilities as an administrator, or as was the case again
with poor WILLIAM FOLLETT, one of the ablest advo-
cates that ever graced the Bar of England, and who,
it can never be forgotten by those who knew and
honoured the scope of his commanding intellect,
passed away into the grave, while his fingers were
actually closing upon the seals and ermine of the
Chancellor. Not such, it is true, has been the pre-
mature decease of DANIEL WEBSTER, but still a de-
cease eminently sad in its appeal to the popular
sympathy—for WEBSTER, at the period of his dissolu-
tion, was considered by many of his fellow-citizens a
likely successor to the curule chair of WASHINGTON.
It is interesting, profoundly interesting, to us as
fellow-creatures fated to pass through the same mortal
extremities, to observe the awful serenity with which
the strong Public Man appears to have watched the
on-corning
moment of his inevitable dissolution.
His entreaty to one of his intimate friends, " Don't
leave me till I am dead—don't leave Marshfield till
I am a dead man"—his muttering to himself in an
undertone—" On the 24th of October, all that is
mortal of DANIEL WEBSTER will be no more"—his
incoherent reminiscence of GRAY'S "Elegy," by re-
peating indistinctly, " Poet, poetry, GRAY, GRAY"—
his joyful recognition of the first line of it when read
to him, " That's it, that's it"—are all of them inci-
dents characteristic of the man of courage and sensi-
bility, of the scholar and, of the Christian. Imme-
diately before dissolution, he appears to have
spoken of the difficulty of the process of dying;
and on the verse being recited to him, "Though I
walk through the shadow of death I will fear no evil ;
for Thou art with me ; Thy rod and Thy staff they
comfort Mb"—he exclaimed, " The fact, the fact ! That
is what I want ! Thy rod ! Thy rod ! Thy staff ! Thy
staff I" And these were his last words—and so he ex-
piced.

America, according to our latest dispatches from
the opposite side of the Atlantic, has already evinced
her willingness to honour the memory of her great
tribune, the departed statesman. The citizens of the
United States appear to have understood the worth
of his career, the dignity of his intellect, and the sig-
nificance of his character. They appear to have compre-
hended to the full the truth that,:in DANIEL WEBSTER,
they have lost not merely the most remarkable of
their orators, but one of the noblest and one of the
truest types of a genuine American. They remem-
ber the grand old figure of his father—" a remarkable
man, six feet in height, and of commanding appear-
ance," who rose from the rank of a common soldier
to that of captain, while fighting bravely under Worzei
during the invasion of the Canadas. They have not
forgotten that both EZEKIEL and DANIEL WEBSTER
approved themselves in after years the worthy sons of
a worthy stock as the offspring of ABIGAIL (née
EASTMAN) and her husband, old EBENEZER—any
more than they have forgotten that the second
of these sons (the one over whose tomb
they are now lamenting) was born, by a
coincidence, sufficiently curious as having oc-
curred to a person so illustrious, in the very last
year of the memorable revolution. Everything com-
bines, indeed, to incite the more public-spirited citi-
zens of the United States, to evidence, by some
honourable tokens of gratitude, the sincerity with
which DANIEL WEBSTER is regretted, under every
consideration, by the great mass of his fellow. coun-
trymen. In testimony of the fervour and of the dif-
fusions of their regrets for the great man recently
deceased at Marshfield, we find that everywhere
the intelligence of his death was received through-
out the whole States with marks of the pro-
foundest dejection. The Courts were at once
adjourned at Albany, at Syracuse, at Pittsburgh
and in other localities. The newspapers were published
in mourning in Charleston. Meetings in token of
respect were forthwith called together in Baltimore.
The bells of the churches, of the public buildings, and
of the workshops, were all tolled at Harrisburgh.
Places of business were closed in Rochester. The
county offices were draped in black at Philadelphia.
Flege were half-mast high at New Orleans ; the
public edifices were closed, and minute guns fired
from sunrise to sunset. America gives proof indeed,
is ali directions, that DANIEL WEBSTER'S demise, in
the seventy-first year of his age, is regarded as a public
calamity by the vast majority of the United States
population. Death has in this manner, towards the
close of 185 c), overshadowed the Councils both of the
United States and of tho United Kingdom—for
while America was preparing to pronounce by public
acts the importance of the Funeral of WEBSTER,
England has been engaged in arranging all the
necessary preliminaries for the gorgeous and national
obsequies Of WELLINGTON.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S FIINERAL.--The
works at St. Paul's are being carried on with very much in-
creased rapidity as the time for their compulsory termination
approaches. Upwards of 700 men were employed in the in-
terior yesterday, and the number will probably be increased
between this and Saturday, when Messrs. Cubitts expect to
have finished their labours. The Emperor of Russia has
selected, to attend the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington,
three officers of most distinguished service and high rank,
namely, General of Infantry Prince Gortzakow ; Major-
General Count Benkendorf, Imperial Military Commissioner;
and a colonel.
We are requested to state that the second session
of the Convocation of the Clergy of the province of Canter-
bury, will be held on the 12th inst., at a quarter before 11
o'clock, in the Jerusalem Chamber, at Westminster.
REPRESENTATION OF ABINGDON.—We are informed
that Mr. J. T. Norris, of Sutton-Courtney, possessing con-
siderable influence in the borough and its vicinity, will be a
candidate for the seat vacant by the death of Major-General
Caulfield.
SWEARING IN OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR.--Yes-
terday Alderman Challis, the Lord Mayor for the ensuing
year, was sworn into office in the Guildhall, with the usual
formalities.

UNITERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The council held
their first session for the academical year 1852-1853 on
Saturday last. Thanks were voted to the Rev. Thomas Dale,
vicar of St. Pancras, for his sermon, preached in the parish
church, in aid of the funds of the hospital, on the 31st Oct.,
when the collection amounted to upwards of 160/., and Mr.
Dale was appointed a life governor of the hospital. The
following prizes were awarded : The Fellowes Clinical
medals to Mr. Thomas Hillier (silver), and to Mr. Joseph
Gamgee (gold);
.the Longridge prize of 401. for general
the Andrews
asnc scholarships 1
Naturalarships forp hilporsootehiyenteoy
pro-
ficiency in medicine and surgery to Mr. William Roberts;
in Latin, Greek,
A Mr. Thomas Bey
(501.), and to Mr. Thomas Savage (704) Mr. David Mason,
M.A., was appointed profeesor of English Language and Mathematics,
Literature,

LIVERPOOL RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

The Hurdle Race.

Caurire
Labyrinth 2
Four ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships met shortly after 2 o'clock, when
the swearing in of Peers was resumed, which con-
tinued up to the period of the adjournment.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock; but the
proceedings of the sitting were exclusively confined
to the swearing in of Members.

MONEY AND COMAIERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLccx.

The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady, and prices underwent no particular change.
The sales amounted to 5,000 bales, including 300
Surat for export, and consisting• of about 3,500 Am-
erican, 50 Parnam and Maranham at 61-1, 12 Behia
at 7d.; 1,800 Egyptian at 7'431 to Jed. ; 800 Surat
at 3d. to 51.; and 25 Sea Islands at 2s. id. to 2s. 31.
Railway shares were firm, and a good business was
done.

The official return of the Trade and Navigation of
the United Kingdom for the month ended Oct. 10th,
has been issued. The imports of cocoa amounted to
324,185 lbs, which, as compared with those of the
corresponding month of the previous year shows a
slight decrease ; and in coffee there was a falling off
of 2,438,416 lbs. The imports of wheat increased
15,224 qrs ; cotton manufactures increased to the
amount of 9,7701, flax to the extent of 38,219 cwts,
hemp 36,485 cwts, linen manufactures to the value of
1,8691., rice to the extent of 81,276 cwts, salt-
petre 46,779 cwts, raw silk 334,391 ibs, thrown
15,375 ibs, European silk manufactures 7,777 lbs.
and spirits 38,218 proof gallons. In the imports of
sugar there appears a decrease of 64,623 cwts.,
but in unmanufactured tobacco an increase of
1,723,4391b5. Of wines the imports are less by
311,566 gallons.
The exports have been larger in coals and culm,
being 433,304 tons, cotton manufactures, cotton yarn
by 283,664 lbs., linen yarn by 769,308 lbs:, and
thrown silk by 4,570 lbs , and soap by 4,234 cwts.
Refined sugar decreased 9,404 cwts., and woollen yarn
1,886 cwts. In the declared value of the imports of
woollen mannfactures, there is an augmentation of
172,8541.
The total exports of the month were 7,382,2921.
against 6,346,9941., in the corresponding month of
1851.

The shipping employed in the foreign trade of the
United Kingdom during the month to October 10,
amounted to 611,066 tons inwards, and 748,635 tons
outwards, against 799,340 tons inwards, and 674,064
tuns outwards, at the like period of 1851.
The tonnage of vessels employed in the coasting
trade entered inwards and cleared outwards during
the month, was as follows :

ENTERED INWARDS.

1852 ... ... ... ... 1,124,581
1851 ... ... ... ... 1,026,952

Increase, ... 95,7119
CLEARED OUTWARDS,

1852 ... 1,273,688
1851 ... ~. 1,273 394

Increase this year, ... 294
The demand for bills on India has become more
moderate during the last fortnight, the total amount
drawn by the Hon. East India Company being only
41,7101, of which 26,1951. were on Bengal. The
rate is now 2s. ld. per rupee.
The advance expected in the price of silver has
taken place, all that was brought by the Magdalena
having been sold for shipment to the East Indies.
The bar silver was disposed of at ss. lid., an advance
of no less than *l. per ounce. The dollars were taken
at ss. Oid. It is probable that this sudden rise would
not have occurred, for it exceeds by far the ordinary
movement in the bullion market, if the dealers in
India had not already entered into contracts which
compel them to purchase on almost any terms.
The demand from that quarter satisfied, there
will probably be a reaction, but the ques-
tion remains what amount will the Indian mar-
kat really absorb ? The increase of cultivation in our
Eastern territories, the formation of railways by
means of British capital, and the expenditure for the
Burmese war, will all account for the large sums in
specie taken from England, as we cars hardly assume
that the balance of trade i 3 so far wail-Ist, us as to
require these constant remittances. The necessity of
increasing our gold coinage, by bringing out 15s.
and perhaps even Si. pieces, will force itself ere
long upon attention, for should the drain of silver
continue, even the alloy in our coin might not pre-
vent its being purchased for exportation. French
5-franc pieces have already been bought, already
yielding scarcely any profit, as upon receipt in India
lnod Consols remain
Decemberthey will be melted down and re-issued in rupees.
at
The English Stock Market has been very quiet,
a
AlcoAccount.foTrhe New
transfer, and
oi _r.
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1031 to -1, and
the Three per Cents. 99i h. Bank Stock is duller at
223. Exchequer Bills have been 735. to 76e. pre-
mium.

Foreign Securities are steady, and in some cases
rather looking up. Mexican Bonds have improved to
25g- ; Turkish Scrip is up to 2 and prem.; The
Swedish Loan is at 1 discount; Spanish Deferred
Stock has been up to 2.51 to ; Sardinian Bonds are
better, being 984 ; Dutch Four per Cents. are
97 to t.
Railway Shares, although not much dealt in, are
very firm ; Caledonian have risen 1 to 11, the traffic
being again reported to be very favourable ; French
shares still tend upwards.
Gold Mines nnd Banks are supported.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business clone.
Bank Stock ... 223
8 per Cent. Reduced A nnuitie3.—.. ..... 99i 3
3 per Cent. Console Anne. ... 100 k ff
Now 34 per Cent. Anise.
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 —
Ditto 30 years, Exp., Oct. 10, 1859 ..... 6 3-16
India Stock 275
Do. Bonds, 1000/...
Ditto under 1.0001. .
South Sea Stock
Dittto Old Annuities 991/4
Consols for Account lOO%
ExcliNner Bills. I%d. March

June.

1.0001.
73 6
500/.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Danish 5 per Cent._

Grenada, 1i,4 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred

Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian boyids, 1849, 6 Der Cent., ......
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portutruese 5 per Cents.
Ditto Small
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5. per Cent.—
Ditto 4% per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent... 254 i
Swedish Loan .. I A dis.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 . .. 2h 2 1 p.
Austrian Bonde, 5 per Cent., 10 Gu. E.... 81.4‘.
Belgian Bonds, 41,i per Cent
Dutch Excha., 2Va per Cent., 12 Gull.— 65 % NI
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto Bolls ..~.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols no%
Dilto Account. Dec. 9 ... 1003/8 IA

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 8.

Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Hermann of
Hohenlohe, and the Duke of Terceira, wont out shooting
this morning, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Captain Hon. M. West, and Lieutenant. Colonel F. H.
Seymour.
The Duke and Dubois of Terceira, and the Earl and
Countess of Hard wicke, left the Castle to-day for
London.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Wednesday) at Buckingham Palace. Summonses wore
issued yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of State
from the Privy Council-office.
The Attorney-General for Ireland had an interview
with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Hibbert and Mr. Davidson had an interview with
Sir John Pakington, yesterday, at the Colonial•office.
Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Earl of Hardwick° returned to town yesterday,
from Windsor Castle. _ .

--- • • ------ -
Dispatches were received from the Governor-General
of Canada, and from the Governors of the other North
American provinces, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign office, Downing-street. The
following ministers assembled :—The Earl of Derby,
the Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr.
Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John
Pakington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke
of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the
Earl of Hardwieke, the Right Hon. J. C. Herries, and
Lord John Manners. The Lord Chancellor joined his
colleagues about three o'clock. The Council broke up
at hall-past four o'clock.

The brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
James Disraeli, of No. 4, Vigo-street,.Regent-street, has
been appointed to the Treasurership of the County
Courts of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Lincoln-
shire, circuits 17, 18, and 19. The salary is stated to
be 4001. a yoar, with 1501 a year for a clerk.

ILLNERS OP THE MARQUIS OF NORMANBT.--W43 re.
gret to state that the Marquis of Normanby is confined
by severe indisposition at Mulgra►e Castle. His Lord-
ship is suffering from a slight attack of paralysis, brought
on by congestion of the liver. We are, however, happy
to state, that his Lordship is going on most favourably.

STRANGE HALLUCINATION.—A German, residing in
Paris, a hatter, lately lost his reason from grief at the
death of his wife, and fancied himself made of glass. He
was accustomed to tell people not to approach him too
near, lest they should break him; and for the same fear
he scarcely moved, and could with difficulty be persuaded
to eat. Last week he hanged himself. A letter left on
the table stated that he had voluntarily put an end to his
existence to avoid being broken to pieces.