The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—l fully coincide in the opinions expressed last
night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that when the
present amount of taxation is compared with the wealth
of the country, it is evident that the distress must be oe-
vasioned nut so much by the amount us by the injudicious
mode in which it is levied ; there are probably us taxes
which press so heavily on the labouring classes as the M tit
Tax and the duty on Seaborne Coals; the injurious effect
of the Malt duty is two-fold, it oppresses the agricultural
interest, and it highly detrimental to the labourer. Every
otie' conversant with agriculture must be aware that the
light soil, are at present cultivated, in some instances
with a positive lose, in none with great advantage to the
farmer. If, then, the Malt Tax was repealed, the ad-
slitional demand for barley, the produce of these light soils,
would at once confer a benefit of inestimable advantage
.on the agriculturist. In fact, it might not be going too
fur to assert that this single and simple measure would
prove of more benefit to the farmers, and consequently to
the labourers, than soy other that can possibly be devised.
Not merely would the value of light toils he improved ;
not merely would barley be in greater demand, and become
a more, valuable commodity, but the turnip husbandry,
which is se intimately soanected with the growth of barley,
would receive an immediate stimulus. In the next place,
as regards the comfort of the labourer, the advantage would
he very great. Instead of resorting to the public tavern,
to drink a vile compound of any thing but malt and hops,
lee would be able to brew at home a wholesome beverage,
which would increase his physical powers, and his capacity
to labour. On the muscular strength of the peasant ale-
pooht in no slight degree the welfare of the kingdom, irk
proportion to it his labour is more valuable, and it must
also be borne in mind that whatever tends to weaken his
powers, and incapacitate him for labour, tends also to
augment the poor rates, that dead weight on the national
prosperity. If, too, the labourer could brew at home, it
would induce him to remain at home, encourage his do-
mestic habits, and promote his happiness and morality.
Perhaps the late tumults have been occasioned not only by
the pressure of actual distress, but by the change of those
habits of life, which, in former times, attached the peesant
to his own fire side and the comforts of his home. The
repeal of the Beer Tax was no doubt beneficial, as far
as it went, but I think the Malt Tax the more objection-
able of the two, inasmuch as it is a tax on the first stage
of production, and independent of the general objections to
a tax of this nature, prevents the poor men from brewing
for himself a wholesome beverage, and will induce him, I
roar, stilt to resort to the public-house, instead of enjoying
ki 4 meals by his awn hearth.
The tax on coals seems no less "ohjectionuble. There is
no less a stun titan 800,000/. paid by a tax on one of the
necessaries of life, and that' too, paid only by one part of
the kingdom. The great 604 proprietors derive no ad-
vantage from it, hut rather the reverse; as, if the duty
was lets, the consumption of their evil might be increased.
Nor doe* the Government derive the whole advantage from
the dearness of coals, as it is partly occasioned by the
enormous and unwarrantable expenses incurred at the
,wharfs, for porterage, and other items. The duty is un-
just, because it is a tax imposed on only half of the king-
dont ; it is impolitic, because it is injurious to the inte-
rests of manufacturers in the south of England, by in-
creasing the cost of production ; and it is oppressive, be-
cause it raises the price to the poor of one of the nervosa-
io's el life.
I have thus endeavoured to state, in plain words, the
advantages that would result to the labourers and agriettl-
turists front the repeal of the Malt Tax; and those that
would arettr to the manufacturers and the poor of the
smolt of England from the repeal of the duty on Sea-borne
Coal. These are too wee which bear directly on in.
dustry, and both of which increase the distresses of the
lebouring poor ; anti I hope, therefore, that in any plans
for mending our present defective financial systetn, his
Majesty's Ministers Will, if possible, grant the relief that
would be afforded from the repeal of these taxes.
f ant
convinced that few taxer would be more beneficial to the
productive industry, nor any more conducive to the wel-
fare and happiness of the labaurlng classes.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ALPHA.

Dee. lb.

The commercial letters from Berlin, of the
66 instant., which we proceed first to *mice, contain
Some further particulars respecting the insurrection at
Warsaw. We gather from them that a plot had acme
tite.44xisted, and that its ramifications were deemed so ex-
tensive as to make it extremely probable that the rise will
Anon become ernelfil in Poland. The extreme unpopula-
rity of the Grand Duke CONSTANTINZ is liSitittai VI the
re,tensitde cause of the revolt, but a far more important
oljeet than that of ridding Poland of hie presence appear*
to he aimed at. A great number of Russian officers in the
Polish regiments were killed by the revolted soldiers, and
the Minister of the War Department, as well as the chief of
the kcal ltolicar, shared the same fate in the very ante-room
of the Grand Duke. it was almost a miracle that Cox-
&TA N was enabled to effect his escape in the midst of
the fighting in his own Palace, which had been attacked
evidently for the purpose of putting him to death. When
the tat news of these occurrences was received at Berlin,
the Po platian 5 per Cents. fell from 91 to 83, and the price
of the new loan from 85 to 77. The fall in Russian
stock front the 4th to the 6th was from 118 to 89. Prta•
sian troops, to the number of 12,000 own, had been sent
its great baste to the. Duchy of Posen, where a good deal
of fermentation had takes place in the public mind. It
is said that a proclamation, full of patriotic exhortations,
roldreoted to the Polish natioa, had been issued by the
Provisional Government, in which a republic is spoken of,
The Berlin letters add that fresh disturbances had broken
out at Dresden.—Times.

In some of the accounts from Berlin it is :t
firmed that the King of PRUSSI♦ has at last taken the re.
solution t of giving the long-promised Constitution to his
subjects. An'aneedote was current, and no doubt is said
to have been entertained as to its authenticity, front which
it would appear that this resolution is to be ascribed to an
uttleoked.ter circumstance, and not to the peculiar temper
of the times, or to the news from Warsaw. It is said that
at a late grand dinner given in Berlin, at which some of
n►embers of the Royal Family attended, the Crown
Prince gave, as a toast, " Death to PRIMP of France,
and to the Belgian Constitutionalists." One of the guests
got up and told this young aspirant to arbitrary rule, that
if the Klein, his father, bad been present, he would not
have ventured to give such a toast. On which the young
Prince threw the glass he was holding in his hand into
the face of the author of this remark, by which he in.
flitted a severe wound. This act of violence was worn-
ambled with an exclamation that when he (the Csown
Pawn) bromine Karoo, he would condemn to perpetual
imprisonment in a dungeon ail those of his aubjetits who
{should dare to entertain any notions about constitutional
liberty. The particulars of this occurrence were snails
known to the Kton, who immediately sent for General
ch4,l6,,Han, and desired him forthwith to draw up the
plan of at Constitution by which the beside of the Sove-
reign should be so tied up as to take away all power from
putting into execution over the loyal subjects of Prussia
any such threats as her future King had held out.— Times.
AnDUESS' 01, THE TRADES, &C. TO THE
Kits -.-tlez Saturday Mr, Mecum, the Chairman of the
Trades' Meeting at which the addles* to the KING, and
preiented to his !aloes-re at the Levee on Wednesday,
was agreed to, received a commuuication from the Score-
fery of State's Office, in answer to a letter addressed to
Lard Met,nousce on the flth, informing Won that his
v had been graciously pleased to aceept the loyal
address of the Trades' Societies and Benefit Institutions
London and its eneirone, and had ordered it to he inserted
in the Gaunt. The trades were not a little cstonitinal
to learn from the repOrts of the proeve.lings in the Bowie%
of Lords and CAninons, that their peaceable procesion
to
Saint Joan{ 'e, to express their feelings of loyalty and at-
tachment to the Kittle, should have proved a tnurce of
serious akint to the Duke et Witimatoroer and other
Noble and Honourable Personages, and more particularly
to tiad themselves charged with promeding With a revo
1,0 iun'ary flag. In explanation of the litter circumstance,
it hpiettue that the Spitallielde weavers would have been
,if the most cortepictiously placed batiks to welcome
Mantirre upon los effluence into the City of London
ti.e ettiortebie of NoVeutherr, )14.1 not the 11°Yel
vtt.il been totfortonstsly postponed; and to add to the
gaiety of desk apwsrance, tome of the Inetriufteturlnt
funnies protected them with eilka of various catmint and
patterns, which were desisted into very tasteful flags, to he
b Inn! by them out the oecaticio. Thetse were tarried in
the procesolort to tit. James's lust Wednesday, and among
them was the formidable flag, ati.talienly called the Sri-
'colour, formed of wend *trip. of ditTerem.col.tured eilke,
which had been !abseiled tel twine of the workmen in the
mower above stated.