The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—No man surely can read, without deep sympathy,
of the extreme distress which many of the brave and noble
Poles are still enduring in this favoured country.
Let me, therefore, request the favour of you, to whom
I am indebted for a knowledge of the painful facts commu-
nicated in your Journal of yesterday evening, to receive and
apply a small inclosure of ten pounds, in aid of these suf-
fering strangers.--I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient servant,
J. I. BRISCOE.

Twickenham, 3d October, 1837.

The late Lord CASTLEREAGH, in his peculiar
manner of expression, called the endeavour to abate
taxes "an ignorant impatience." It appears by the
estimates published on the authority of the Statistical
Society, vide Report of their Transactions, that the per-
sonal property annually bequeathed in Great Britain
is about 45 millions ; a large proportion of this sum is
charged with a legacy duty of ten per cent., and
adding the probate duty, also chargeable on that pro-
portion, it is probable that in six or seven transfers
the whole of such proportion is taken by the public
revenue. From both legacy duty and probate duty
landed property is free. Surely this is a tolerable
specimen among many others of the old aristocratic
system of Tory taxation. Were landed property
brought under charge for probate and legacy duty, the
rate might be so low as to make it not much an object
to pay, and a considerably larger revenue would be
derived than is now obtained from personal property
only—thereby affording means of further reducing those
taxes which press on the middling and lower classes,
an object which we understand the present Adminis-
tration has very much at heart. It is said on the first
proposal to fix this duty in Mr. RaT's Administra-
tion, landed as well as personal property was intended
to be charged ; but the Tories, with their usual tact,
got the Bill divided into two Bills, and passed only
one, viz., that charging personal property.

We have received the following communication from
a Correspondent, which we have no hesitation in in-
serting :
So consistent a Reformer as is the Editor of The Sun
could not have been aware, when he so favourably noticed
the professions of Mr. Turner, M.P. for Truro, that this
gentleman had in a most ungenerous manner ousted Mr.
Tooke from the representation of that place, who had
acted for five sessions on all the articles of those professions,
with the addition of the Ballot.

With the exception of Sir Hussey Vivian, who effected
the same mischief in Cornwall, by sacrificing Sir William
Trelawney (another advocate for the Ballot), Mr. Turner
is almost the only other instance of one Liberal turning out
another, and in circumstances of peculiar aggravation.
October 2, 1837.

Poor ERNEST of Hanover begins to experience
how " uneasy is the head that wears a crown."
Scarcely has he had time to seat himself on the throne
of his ancestors before plots and conspiracies are dis-
covered, having for their object the assassination of the
once " dear Duke," and the now high and mighty
Sovereign of the vast and powerful monarchy of
Hanover. Letters, bearing the post marks of several
towns in Switzerland, and addressed to members of the
regicidal Societies of " Young Germany," " Young
Italy," " Young Hanover," " Young Europe," and
we believe the " Young Universe," who have esta-
blished their respective head quarters at Gottingen,
have been seized by the trusty agents of his Hanove-
rian MAJESTY, containing full details of the hor-
rible designs of these villains. We trust that the
bare announcement of this appaling fact will
kindle the indignation of Europe against such So-
cieties ; and that all Governments will make it their
study to exterminate them root and branch. Be it
known to our readers that we have latterly taken the
King of HANOVER into our especial good graces.
We were alarmed at the tragic strut which he as-
sumed on first taking possession of his dominions, and
for some time we were apprehensive that his oblique
glance at the Constitution boded some dire calamity.
But we were mistaken. Poor ERNEST wanted brains
for the perpetration of mischief. on a grand scale.
He is merely a pantomimist in the gambols of the
Holy Alliance. The MACREADY of the company of
Continental Sovereigns is NICHOLAS ; ERNEST
must only figure as MITCHELL or JOHN REEVE.
When Kings are the performers, and nations the
stages, we prefer the farce to the tragedy of Roxalty—
Royal buffoonery to Royal butchery. We are there-
fore most anxious that laws should be enacted by every
Legislative Assembly in the world for the exclusive
protection of the King of HANOVER'S person, and
that it should be made treason against all Governments
not only to compass but to think his death, whether
by violence or by the order of Nature. As to the
whispered report that the letters and post-marks were
forged by direction of his MAJESTY, who was himself*
the inventor of the conspiracy, we pronounce it a vile
and detestable libel, for which the originator would
deserve to lose his cars. The high estimation
in which the Duke of CUMBERLAND was ever held
by the people of this country for his many
princely virtues—his chastity, his liberality, his
nice sense of moral purity, and his stainless repu-
tation—render a belief in the story of his having re-
course to a sham conspiracy to defeat the holiest
Constitutionalists utterly impossible. But we trust
the discovery of the designs of these wretches
will defeat their trcasnnatile yillany, and should
such a measure he deemed salutary, afford a de-
cent pretext for hanging some fifty or sixty of the
students qf Gottinge!), I'9r the nigre purpse Of
making an oiample, his MAJESTY need not be over
particular. VON SCHELE will find witnesses ; and—
for ipspirin 4 Wholesgine terrors the moil) inmacent
the victims immolated the !letter,

The whgle of the Paris Papers of Monday have
ben reolv4 They contain a ioqd deal of p§Sip