The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

INDIAN TERRITORIES.

In reply to Mr. DISRAELI,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would state to-morrow
when he should propose to make the Government
statement on the subject of Indian territories.
M. KOSSUTH.
On the motion for going into committee of Ways and
Means,
Lord D. STUART said—Before you leave the chair
I wish to take the opportunity of saying a few words in
connection with a subject upon which a question has
been put by my hon. friend the member for Finsbury.
(Oh, oh.) My hon. friend has elicited from the noble
lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
that in the statement he made to this house a few days
ago, in reference to the seizure of certain ammunition or
preparations for warlike purposes, my noble friend fell
into a very serious error, and made a statement which
he has now very frankly and properly recalled. (Hear.)
But that affair has been connected by the public press
with the character of an illustrious exile who has taken
refuge from oppression in this free country—(hear, hear)
—and it has been imputed to M. Kossuth that the stores
upon the premises of Mr. Hale were intended for his
use, and were, in fact, his property. It was, indeed,
stated that they were found in a house of his occupancy,
which is now generally known, and publicly acknow-
ledged, to have been wholly untrue. (Hear.) But as
the character of this distinguished gentleman had been
so assailed in a manner to aquire general notoriety, I
know that people in the country suppose there is some
foundation for the charge ; and I have often heard it
said, "If this be not so, if there be no foundation for
this imputation upon M. Kossuth, why does not M.
Kossuth take some means of explicitly denying them l"
I beg to state that upon M. Kossuth being informed of
the large, and of what took place in this house, he,
upon the day upon which these charges were made, did
me the honour to address to me a letter, which I re-
ceived late at night, and which I have now in my hand.
It is very short, and I will read it :
" Alpha-road, St. John's-wood, April 15, 18537'
" My Lord—ln answer to your kind note, I have the
honour to say, that all the accusations in the Times of to-
day about a house in my occupation having been searched,
a store of war materials belonging to me been discovered
and seized, are entirely unfounded.
" Not only in no house in my occupation, but also no•
where else in England, could have been any store of war
materials belonging to me discovered and seized, from the
simple reason that I have no store of war material whatever
in England. Bnt while I give this plain and flat denial to
the alleged charge, I desire explicitly to be understood that
I do not disavow my hostility to the oppressors of my
country, but rather avow openly my determination to free
my country from them. To this, my aim, I shall and will
devote all my life and all my activity, and to this activity
I never will recognise anyother limit but honour, morality,
and the laws of that country where I happen to reside.
And as it is not contrary to honour and morality to have
stores of war materials, to be used when required in the
service of my country, I declare that such I have, but I
have them in such countries where it is lawful for me to
have them, even with those intentions which I openly
avow. But in England I have them not, because I have
been told that some doubts may be entertained about the
legality of such an act. With this explanation I repeat
no store of any war material of mine could have been
seized, because I do not possess, either directly or indi-
rectly, anything of the kind in this country.—l remain,
with high regards, and particular consideration, my lord,
yours respectfully,
(Hear, hear.)

(Signed)

" L. KossuTH."

The motion was then agreed to, and the house went
into committee.

PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
the following resolution :
" That it is the opinion of this committee that, towards
raising the supply granted to her Majesty, there shall be
raised annually, during the terms hereinafter limited, the
several rates and duties following (that is to say) :
For and in respect of the property in any lands, 2, s. d.
tenements, or horeditaments, in the united
kingdom, and for and in respect of every
annuity, pension, or stipend, payable by her
Majesty, or out of the public revenue of the
united kingdom ; and for and in respect of all
interest of money, annuities, dividends, and
shares of annuities, payable to any person or
persons, bodies politic or corporate, companies
or societies, whether corporate or not corpo-
rate ; and for and in respect of the annual
profits or gains arising or accruing to any
person or persons whatever, resident in the
united kingdom, from any kind of property
whatever, whether situate in the united king-
dom or elsewhere, or from any annuities, al-
lowances, or stipends, or from any profession,
trade, or vocation, whether the same shall bo
respectively exercised in the united kingdom
or elsewhere ; and for and in respect of the
annual profits or gains arising or accruing jo
any person or persons not resident within the
united kingdom from any property whatevern
in the united kingdom, or from any trade,
n or vocation exercised in the united
Einc'crfedsosmi° ' :for every 20s. of the annual value
or amount thereof : r
0 0 -AFonrdtzro two
orys
efarroamfiAvmprilpsn, 1 o
1.8 0 0 7
1 8
8 o
AndAn d for
that threeon years
Aprilfrom,slB exceptA6op,ril la7a t
h. .o. 0 0 5
collection of moneys then duo, the said
rates and duties shall cease and deter-

mine.
rther
such lands, tenements or bereditamentspnent
And for and in respect of the occupation of
than a dwelling-house occupied by a e 0
"et of
of the annual value thereof, one mor y
• I of id, 6d., and
distinct from a farm of lands), for every ..,os.
each of the sal, sums
of
for the above-Darned times respectively."
substituting
Sir E. BTJLWER LYTTON moved as an amendment
that all the words after " it is the opinion
mittee" be omitted, for the purpose of
"e`otraht;
continuance of the income tax for seven
years, and its ex-
tension to parties heretofore exempt from its operation,
without any mitigation of the inequalities of its assess-
ment, are alike unjust and
impolitic."
eH ( ar, hear.) The
hon. baronet said he should endeavour to condense as closely
as possible the arguments he had to
his amendment. The right hon. advance in support of
gentleman (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) had informed the house that he
regarded the income tax as a keystone of his financial sys-
tem ; but he had requested h
attention too much upon hon. members not to fix their
various the keystone ; he wished them
rather to admire the
to bear. But he
sary in the first instance tB.
(Sir
r 3 superstructures itwas intended
Lytton) thought it was neces-
order to see if it were susceptible examine the keystone itself, in
and then they would be enabled to loorlTNavairth)rmuchanronre,
ease and satisfaction at the various erections of the
superstructure. (Hear, hear.) Granting that there was
much in the right hon. gentleman's budget worthy of his
own high reputation and of the approval of the house,
granting also that an income tax might be required for a
certain period to enable him to develop his financial sys-
tem, still one thing was perfectly clear—namely, that it
was not therefore necessary that the income tax should re-
main in its present state, but that we might possess all
the good things promised in the budget along with !those
reforms in this tax which he held to be required by the
general sense of the country. (Hear, hear.) This led him
to the main cause of contention between the nigh honour-
able gentleman and most of those who had supported Lord
Derby's Government; and perhaps also between 1301110 who
now sat on the same side as the right honourable gent le:.
tax. The
man, respecting the inequalities of the income
and ea-
late Government, when it was proposed to reL
redition
tend the income ;tax, made it an indispongsanbd they
estab-
to remove that element of °P ut unp to ist Y.!.
- trtmetion between
lished a broad and an intelligen
intellect, and income
income derived from procarwlls
But the right h
pit al. on, gentle-
derived from assured capl a .