The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-18 00:00:00

IBER.

RACING FIXT

Tewkesbury
Redditch 2O
Cheadle (Cheshire)
Walsall
Ongar 2l
Bedford
Tenby 2l
Eglinton Club
Leicester 22
Liverpool H. (Hoylake) 22

Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt
and Edinburgh Club 6
York Union Hunt 6
rklonmouth 6
Wrexham
Harrogate

NOVE:

Newmarket S. 0.
Perth
Pontefract
Holywell Hunt
Richmond
Lanark .. 22
Newmarket Houghton.. 25
EBEL

Worcester Autumn 2
Epsom 4
Liverpool Autumn lO
Cowbridge Hunt
IRISH RAC:

Aberystwith
Shrewsbury Autumn 23
Kilkenny 2B

S TO COME.
SEPTEXITER.
Johnstown 2l Cashel
Taam

OCTOBER.
Curragh l2 I Carlow
Down Royal Corp 2O

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ASSO.
CIATI ON.
The following letter has been addressed by the se-
cretary of this association to the Foreign Ministers in
London, and replies of the most favourable descrip-
tion have already been received from their Excellen-
cies the Ministers for Austria, the United States,
Spain, Brazil, Sardinia, and Portugal :
Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, Sept. 7.
Sir,—l have been desired by the council of the
International Postage Association to make your Ex-
cellency acquainted with their proceedings, in the
hope that you and the Government which you re-
present in this country will yield the association
some assistance in its researches into the best mode of
simplifying the complicated system of postage which
has hitherto proved such an impediment to commer-
cial transactions, and to that frequent friendly coin-
m unication between the citizens of different countries
.. .vhich must he one of the surest bonds of union be-
tween nations.
The association trust that your Excellency will
find that their object is not merely to raise a popular
but calmly and deliberately
clamour for:
of obtaining their postage in this and other countries,
. to discuss the best means
the independence obfject without proposing to sacrifice
must
todthe postal arrangements of each
state, which
wouldeey
nte.nd in a great measure upon
the taste and habitspeople, and the form of go-
vernment under which they
take an
it as a favour if
I The associationlive. .
your Excellency would
municating this letter to theaGoOvvipeportunity of corn-
Loimetnt which you
rfpresent, and the association ,
suggestions,
all times be
Right
Granville hsppy to consider any observations
great Erie and
enable you so well
.to offer. The
even difficulties, which your
Granville is president of the association
any further
have the honour to enclose. a list of its m' etanb 1
most of whom joined it during the. ExhibitionrosilllenacyndreoLueirre
informationlBsl. members of
S ho Should
theyour subject,E oe
1 the council will think it an hono.ur. to have an oppor-
tunity of waiting on you and giving every explana-
tion in our power, if you will name a time for such
an interview. —.........

LETTING HOUSES TO A YothTRE ROUSE
TAX.
appeals on the
ear. Some
At a meeting of the assessed tax commissioners, held
last week at Plymouth. there were several
ground that the rent was under 204 per ysid_ereai
rentals were fixed at 194 195., as it was con
even admitted by the appellants, who said
when asked
were sup-
that the shilling was taken off to save the tax. The
commissioners decided the houses to bo worth 201. per
annum, and confirmed the assessment, They _
ported in that decision in consequence of the following
e Ise forwarded to the surveyor of the district by the -
0
13',ard of Inland Revenue :—" —, of the town of Black
burn, appealed against a charge made on him of 20/.
rent. He stated on oath that he took his house about
twelve months since at 191. 18s., and on being asked by
the surveyor to explain why a sum so unusual in rents
hea been agreed on, he admitted that it had been done
t' avoid the then expected house duty. The landlord
corroborated this statement, and admitted that, but for
the inhabited house duty, the rent would most probably
:
.aye been 201. The surveyor, in support of the assess-
ment, contended that as the rent had been fixed on to
save the then expected house tax, it was but fair to as-
sume that thq house was worth 201. The local commis-
sioners cocceive(l they were bound by the Act, and, as
it was under 201., relieved the appellants. The surveyor
demanded a case for the opinion of the judges, and on
the 25th May, 1852, they gave their opinion,
' that the
&termination of the local commissioners is wrong.' This
decision of the judges made the appellants liable to the
house duty." Most of the appeals at the meeting last
week cominggo
got through;
hthrionu the 'nape of the case, the business
q ;
the receipts for 194 19s. and
similar rums,
being produced, were hold, upon the an-
,a3soG n
an-
swers of the appellants, to be agreements to avoid the
tax, and upon the above case they were refused relief.