The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-25 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

Most of the provincial markets held on Saturday were
but moderately supplied with wheat, in which a fair aver-
age business was transacted, at full prices. Barley—the
show of which was comparatively small—moved off freely,
at extreme quotations. In the value of malt, no change
took place. Oats ruled steady, and the currencies were
well supported. Beans, peas, and flour sold slowly, at
barely previous rates.
Advices from New York to the 15th inst. state that both
grain and flour were in good request, at very full prices'
Most of the Continental markets have ruled inactive, on
former terms.
Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English
grain were very moderate. From abroad, we received
22,691 quarters of wheat, 6,677 barley, 10,835 oats, 2,
beans, 330 peas, 1,237 tares, 800 linseed, 18 mustard seed,
410 sundry seeds, 4,813 sacks, and 4,120 barrels of flour.
The quantity of wheat received fresh up to our market
to-day, coastwise from Essex and Kent, was very moderate,
and in but middling condition. From the East coast the
arrivals were small, but of full average weight. By land
carriage, from the Midland counties, they were by To
means large ; and the total show of samples was decidecllY
limited for the year. Notwithstanding that the attendance
of both town and country millers was comparatively
limited, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home
produce ruled steady. In a few instances, really fine
Essex white parcels ruled the turn in favour of the
growers • whilst the value of low and effected:middlinualitie
was well supported, and a good clearance wag s
For forward delivery parcels the demand was in a singe s°
state.

The show of foreign wheat, fresh as well as ex-grex3rb
was again rather extensive. A moderate business vie°
transacted in good and fine parcels, at full prices ; but low'
qualities were much neglected. In the quotations 21°
change took place.
Floating cargoes, the arrivals of which have fallen off to.
some extent, met a dull sale, and late rates were Well
maintained. The supply of English barley was limited,' ;
'
of foreign moderately good. There was less inquiry A,°6
Malting samples, on former terms • but grinding and ~(11;
tilling sorts moved off steadily, at very full prices. "
had rather an inactive inquiry for malt; in the quotations,
however, no alteration took place.
Although the supply of Irish and foreign oats was Borne'
what on the increase, the demand for all kinds was toler-
ably firm, at full currencies.
We were rather scantily supplied with beans. Dealers
generally purchased with extreme caution, on former terreg•
There was a slight improvement in the sale for peas, the
finest of which were well supported.
The flour trade was very dull, at the late decline ill
value.

CURRENCY FEB IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex St Kent, t—Chevalier .... Gls to 634
Red ..•• new 42s to 47s Oats Yorkshire and
Ditt0............ old 4ls 52s Lincolnsk., Feed 16s LI:
Ditto, White new 443 588 Potato ..........215
Ditt0........ old 4ss 60s Yotnrhal and Cork
lA. 196
Nirfolk and Lin- Black. .is
coin, Red, old Cork, White . . • • • 17s
Ditto new 21
Rye—Old ...• ........ 34: 3014,

46a 52s
37$ 47s
28s 30s
293 31s
26s 293
303 33•
33s 38s

arley --Grinding .....
Malting . • . . • . •
Chevalier . •
%fat t—Suffolk and Nor-
folk • • ...• • • • . .. 54s 58s
Brown . • • • • • • .... •. • • 46s 52s
Kingston and Ware 57s 60s

Pigeons ...... 36s 44
Peas—Grey 30s
Maple. •• • ..• •• •• 330 161
White....... 40$ •
Boilers 370 40!,
Flour—Town-made... 390 r,
Suffolk .......... 325 3—,
Stookta k Norfolk 32.5 •?"

SMITHFIELD.
During the last week the import of foreign stock into
London amounted to 3,895 head. In the correspondinig.,
period of 1852, we received 1,889 ; in 1851, 1,573; 1'
1850, 1,093 ; in 1849, 1,035.; and in 1848, 1,877 head.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. rig!,

From
Dordt
Antwerp ...
Hamburgh
Rotterdam._

.0-
- - 18
11 -
20 - ".--

126 ... • -
1,572 ... --
654 -.--

- - 19

325 ..•

Total .... 620 ... 2,883 ...
The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :—",
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. rib-
-1852 4lO ... 1,038 ... .., 441 ...
1851 lB4 ... 98.5 ... ... 337 ...
1850 395 ... 317 .., ... 211 ...
1849 5BB ... 504 ... ... 211 ..•
18411 643 ... 1,024 ... =-. ,„ 210 ..•

356 .••

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The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was Were'
131 y extensive, but in very middling condition.
For the time of year, the arrivals of beasts put up fro
,111,
our own grazing districts were good, and of full aver6,l
weight ; indeed, very few of them were beneath the reie'-'
quality. The attendance of buyers was not to say log° j
whilst the beef trade ruled inactive, at, in most instances,
a decline in the quotations obtained on Monday of 2d 11,',
81bs. A few very superior Scots realised 4s 4d, but t'
general top figure for beef was 4s 2d per 81bs. ive
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire,
received 2,000 Scots and short horns ; from other per",. 0
England, 700 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and,
Scotland, 340 horned and polled Scots. the
The number of sheep was again very moderate. On
whole, the mutton trade ruled steady, at last week's 5
rency. The primest old Downs, in the wool, sold at_ 0
4d ; out of the wool, 4s 6d per 8 lbs ; and a clearance
effected.
001
Lambs—the supply of which was tolerably good—rn, of
off steadily, at from 5s to Gs per 8 lbs. From the Isle
Wight 230 had come to hand. tb4
Prime small calves sold at full currencies ; otherwise, ,
veal trade was rather heavy, at Friday's prices. dye
We had a fair demand for pigs, on former terms-
supply was but moderate.

s, cl. s
Prime Seutlidown 5 2 40
Large cave. calves 3 4 6
Prime small do 4 ; 6
Large hogs 3 0 u,
Smallporkers 3 8
Suckling calves 20 0 24 0
Quarter old pigs 19 0 ,
. 5s Od to 6s Od.

Per Blbs to sink the offals.
B. d. s. d.
Inferior Boasts ...3 oto 3 21
Second quality ...3 4 3 6
Prime large oxen 3 8 310
Prime Scots, &v. 4 0 4 2
Inferior sheep ...4 0 4 2
Second quality ...4 4 4 8
Prime crse.-wlled.4 10 5 0
Lambs

TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts
Sheep and Lambs 20,230
Calves] 249
Pigs 175

A statement and comparison of
stock exhibited and sold in
Monday, April 26, 1852, and
1853.

FOREIGN SUPPLY 945
Beasts 470
Sheep
Calves
Pigs
the supplies and prices of
opt
Smithfield Cattle Market,;
this day, Monday, APril

Per_Blbs, to sink the offals.
25 1953
April 26, 1852. 'Apr. , 0 4
s. d. g. d. s. d• Q"
Coarse and inferior boasts ... 2 2to 2 4 3 oto 6
Second qUality ditto ... 2 6 210 3 4 u 3 10
Prime large oxen ... . . ... 3 0 3 2 3 8 4 0
Prime Scots, &c . " ... 3 2 3 4 4 0
Coarse and inferior sheep' ... 2 6 284 0 4 8
Second quality ditto .. ... 210 3 4 4 4 6 0
Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 3 6 3 8:4 10
Prime Soutlidown ditto ... 310 4 25 2 "6 0
Lambs 4 4 5 45 •0 4
Large coarse calves 3 0 3 8 3 4 4 6
Prime small ditto ... 310 4 2 4 2 3 6
Large hogs 2 0 3 4 3 0 4 0
Neat small porkers ... ... 3 6 3 8 3 8 4,66 i
Beasts.., 4,341 230
9
Sheep 25,950 0,
Calves... „. 218 r 5
Pigs
...390

COP
SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 28, 1851.—Beasts, 3,772 ; ss
and lambs, 23,300; calves, 169; pigs, 380. „ 00;
April 29,1830.—Beasts, 4,448 ; sheep and lambs, ,
calves, 165 ; pigs, 225.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. loto
The arrivals of country-killed meat up to these 110140
last week were seasonably extensive, and in fair ton-io
condition. To-day, the supplies on offer slaughteno
the metropolis are tolerably good. On the whole
general demand is inactive, as follows :

Per Blbs by the carcase.
s. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 2 8 3 0
Do., middling 3 2 3 4
Do., prime large 3 4 3 6
Do., do. small 3 8 310
Pork, large 3 4 3 10
Lambs

S. 3d• 0
Mutton, Inferior 3 6 4:s
Do.,middling 310 k 6
Do., prime 44 4 '4
Veal • 3 0
Pork, small 4 0
4s 10d to 6s 2d.

BOROUGH HOP.
1 ll • Our market is very moder at pp
ely. plied with alki
of hops, in which ilv - - - of

uops, in _ach only a limited busuiess doing, as- ld
Mid and East Kent pockets, 120 s. to 160 s• • WB9''
co
Kent, 110 s. to 1265. ; and Sussex, 105 s. to 120 s. per

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The import of potatoes into London last week well-x.50°11;
sonably large—viz., 451 tons from Rouen, 33 ditto foe;
Gravelines, 46 from Dunkirk, 28 from Erguy, poll'
Nantes, 210 from Rotterdam, 45 from Calais,' lu, ;af;
Bordeaux, 72 from Pont l'Abbe, and 54 from et'
Coastwise the arrivals were tolerably good. The de ,I.o'
is heavy, at barely stationary prices. The quotations 04
York Regents, 115 s to 165 s per ton 2 • Lincolnellire
100 s to 1255; Scotch ditto, 100 s to 1255;
to 100 s.

WOOL.
The transactions in English wool since Monday las- vo
"ore °

been trifling. Prices, however, have ruled stes,di. For J°
and colonial parcels have moved off slowly, on fertiAllr
terms. The imports last week were 41 bales fronyiyo
'
burgh, 35 from Madras, 287 from Alexandria, iv 9
Mogadore, 57 from Amsterdam, and 1,107 froni
bourne.

SEEDS. • &t'll
Since our last report the business doing in linse,,el
been comparatively limited. At public sale, a P„,',; pet
East India has been forced off at from 44s to '0100"
quarter. Alexandrian, off the coast, has changed t 10°,1.
at 435. Shipments from the Black Sea is quoted P'
44s to 46s ; and Calcutta, 46s to 48s per quarter•
seeds are dull in sale. In cakes very little is doing. 40
460
c arraway .••• • • • • is 440
Coriander— •• ••" 38S 600
Ifemps eeLg. ing..
per quarter 169:
Linseed,4
Crushing •• •••• • 445 480
Baltic .. .•..• • •• 46;
Odessa •• •••• ••
Linseed Cake, pr. tOrs, 9.100
English •• • 8' r' 00
Rltaappeser Coeedraeki,gelins,:Pwper:toptr°l:l2llll,:so 111°‘

*Turnip,White, per bush. 9e to lls
Swede ........ 103 12.
Mustard, Brown—. .• 7s 9s
White, now •• • 7sed 93
Tares, Winter, new.... OsOd OsOd
Spring • . • .• 53 6d 63 6d
Canary, per quarter • . 40s 448
Nye grass.. •.. •• 28s 84s
Clover, Red Eng . (cwt.) 448 623
White •• • • .... .• 481 67.
Foreign Red .. • . 44s 623
White.... 503 67s
Trefoil, new.......... 243 284

TALLOW.
,1430
bls
Our market is very active, and prices are consleolc ;co
higher than on Monday last. The delivery 'fob bel°4o
very extensive, owing to the very limited stock% for 'to
the outposts. New tallow is selling in largo Parl3,„tel),V.o
autumn, at from 47s to 47s 3d ; and from SIP.
December, in separate months, 47s 6d to `-"..,°8,1b°'
tallow, 4Gs to 47s net cash ; rough fat, 2s 7:1(1 P°:

uadiow, aus to net cash ; rough fat, 'Zs I
• 1849. 1850. 1. 185 1,-•-7), 1
,2ut tv
Stock this day ...... 25,151 28,155 34,562 42,84'j 470 °pa
r 3Es 9d 33s 9d to 3isGd to 360 d 01
Price of Y.C. • to Oos Od 37s Od 00s Od to 44 ):80
Delivery last week .. 1,612 1,421 818 !,,,1,010 95' 91,
Ditto from June 1.... 91,741 87,8E7 87,057 9,"'"in; O.ID.
Arrivals last week .. 520 394 1,133 ' A 69 v:: 4
Ditto from June 1.... 106,367 90,551 98,101 104,, 40
ngs Od
Price Of 19W11 41s Od 885 Od 395 6d

THE INCOME TAX.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
lir• Gladstone's abominable Budget seems to
haveZ been cunningly prompted for the pecuniary
left of some large fundholding sybarite.
or 40 years without rhyme or reason, he is to
ensured 2/. 17s. 9d. per cent. interest upon
every 1-001. of .his Consols.
.., foreign-built carriage is to be imported free
hf"V. At breakfast, he is to daintily satisfy
alis,aPpetite with duty-free sausages from Bologna
u. Reindeer tongues from Lapland. After spell-
tiVphrough the unstamped advertising sheet of
ger; "nles,_ he takes an hour's stroll into his pre-
aja-4 el, and with the help of his keepers and beaters
`itit.Y-free foreign gunpowder, he contrives to
de,,°°.„K Rome scores of tame pheasants, orders his Im-
re' butler to seal their crowns with free-of-duty fo-
wr,Perfumed sealing-wax--and then to his lunch,
willconsist of sandwiches made from delicious
datdo ' imported duty-free from Westphalia, washed
frewn with foreign metheglin, also imported duty-
ei Re drawls through the afternoon in gos-
hiPreg tittle-tattle, and at dinner he is served with
vihisZnP made from Italian macaroni and vermicelli,
lie -e" are to pay less than half a farthing per lb. duty.
able
then primed for feasting upon foreign-caught
and salmon, and turbot with oyster sauce,
for, free of duty. Then he attacks a free-of-duty
44A-truffle stuffed French turkey and Portugal
D./2°3 and after filling up crevices with duty-free
baeZse and ptarmigan from Norway, and canvas-
duck from New York, which he washes
with duty-free champaigned cider and perry
hirled from Germany, he complacently lavers
watoeuenlinate fingers in duty-free foreign rose-
-444' Land then exercises the brightness of his
ter efeb by yawning ,at the foreign duty-free pic-
whi- Li-rules, and pictures, and marble statues,
de,:',.,luxuriously adorn his salle-a-manger. At
akfe",,,he partakes of foreign grapes, and 'medlars
the lc,lLunces, paying only 2d. per bushel duty, and
farthi wax candles, which are to pay only a
ta,ate ritg per lb. duty, exhibit to his foreign-acquired
coves gaudily painted foreign oil-cloth table-
' imported at the duty of only one penny per
v0,,;,(3. Yard. After his claret, which he will endea-
Vilf„;`°,iraPort at the duty of only 2d. a bottle, he
it.enis cup of chicory-coffeefree of duty, washing,
heitin-Ivia with a glass or two of duty-free honied-
table ; and, if the night be not spent at the gaming-
e-idc'r in. other dissipation, he may then retire to
theiZr-downed bed to sorrowfully meditate upon
dress of his fate.
Rah the poor striving tradesman, or skilled arti...
1,11.01°1' over-worked clerk, or much-pitied parson,
bet :lances to rejoice in some hard-earned pittance
(.I.en 1001. and 1501. a year, is for the first time
tit—ug the present generation to be unmercifully
Po for seven long years at the rate of sd. in the
• He is not: to eat rank Holstein butter
401. he pays upwards of a halfpenny a lb. duty,
01 " coarsest Dutch cheese without paying a duty
dud pears
of a farthing a lb. Foreign raw apples
llt,Peale he must not touch without paying the
3d. per bushel—if dried, one shilling a
~helquit, without
dates, ahealth-promoting and nutritive
dies lt!ithont paying more than a Id. per lb. duty.
wife is not to make a foreign potato-flour pud-
j., or his children eat their foreign-oatmeal
I'dge, or foreign bread or biscuit, eLcept by pay-
„'ne duty of 4-id. per cwt. His humble tallow
be twelves must pay a farthing per lb. duty. If he
h t emperate man desirous to indulge in the
bout
beverage of spruce beer, he must pay
4414 3d. per gallon duty, and he will not evenbe
IV' ed to brew it himself without .paying 2s. 6d.
• duty upon the foreign essence. And if, in the
Cinest pride of his heart, he should wish to make a
rt,. h. day present of the tinyest silk parasol or a
fo
t4°lgli hat or bonnet, however coarsely manufac-
of felt, or hair, or wool, or beaver, to the
ite of his bosom or the bairn of his loins, he dare
40t do so without first paying, not a duty of one
Penny per diametrical yard, but the enormous duty
Of one shilling each.
And yet, forsooth, this new, this " Heaven-
horn" Budget is impudently called an extension of
tree trade! Query—Would Satan himself ever at-
tempt to palm off such arrant hypocrisy even among
the unhappy inmates of Bedlam ?
This [Queen's head stamped on the writing-paper
itself, and not a Queen's head postage stamp] is the
amp which should be used for the new stamp-re-
drpts, and on Bankers' cheques. The Times is
ealning over his cleverly-concocted advertising
~, and his penny-label correspondents are a set of
/Waddlers.

COlov
1,-„-L OF A. LETTER ADDRESSED TO JOHN
E84:4., M.P., ON THE PROPOSAL TO
----TEND THE INCOME TAX TO £lOO A-
YEAR•
Patricroft, near Manchester, April 23, 1853.
beg respectfully to entreat your earnest oppo-
-12. to the parts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
Ya et Proposing to tuttax the wealthy man's "men Bei--
of2`9', private carriages, horses, and dogs," to the extent
of 14'00/. per annum, and to tax the precarious incomes
vi• to 1501. a-year to supply the deficiency ; for such
eheql;leally be the operation of the Chancellor of the Ex-
UvereT'aPlan. Barefaced proposals to rob the compara-
No t,° give more to the already rich.
%ride Wno has thoroughly investigated and under
Matter will say, as the Chancellor of the Ex-
vaPereprft;_tirsated, and as is stated in the Times news-
mill the 19th inst., that " the man with 1201. a year
e
estap -it well off under the proposed changes, on al?
•:„--"n of losses and gains," as I will show from
t'r p° Cage, takingthe assumed income of 1201. a year.
Sa'o6 lecil,tax, sd. in the £. ........................ £2 10 0
rnynf; 'I the proposed reduction of duties in
P 644'1Y—self wife, and nine children (sup-
to g the price of all articles to be reduced
Wetconsumer the full amount of the reduc-
-4 duty, which I believe very few expect,
"uich certainly will not be the case with
t4;t;Pect to all the articles enumerated ; as to
dit is well known that the merchants and
ealers intend to pocket the 41d. per lb. re-
-4 e4'°n in duty, for it is too small an amount
t purchasers share with of ounces and ilbs.
of tea)
'uneumption of tea, average 11b per
,week, duty reduced 5 5
Ditto soap, 31b. ditto ditto l3 0
Ditto butter, 41b. ditto ditto
Dittoiito
Ditto cheese Alb. ditto ditto
eggs, doz. ditto ditto 1 3
apples, say a bushel a year

.1 11. 6

1,4
430 the proposed " readjustment" of taxa- --
0na................................................. -00 18 6
Mr consumption of all the other articles the duty on
ich is reduced, is so trifling as not to be worth taking
rp%accoutt.
141! the loss, to such as me would be not less than
`T per annum, and probably much more.
Andthe this is not the time for laying more taxation on
dance
whose preeatioussincomes, of which there is no
ae_t'ce_ of increase, range from 100/. to 1501. per year—
') W that brea.ctis fully 1-10th dearer than during the
prrri°ll4 two years—animal food far above the average
ioce—butter and cheese high—potatoes, essential in
oje families, enormously dear. The present increased
iaiee
the of potatoes alone over the average of years before
tit Potato disease made its appearance, is, on the quan-
ej., we require, equal to the proposed income tax
item4o/. a-year ; and leather, which forms an important
2, in the shape of shoes, has advanced in price at least
" Per cent., and no prospect of the price being lower,
48 very few hides are now received front South America,
,v'hence, until recently, a large proportion of the best
hides have come for some years past.
On the whole, it appears by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's statement, that I and thousands of others
who have expended the saved portion of our hard earn-
ings in buying bits of freehold property as a qualification
to vote in the election of M.P.'s, professedly anxious to
Promote the welfare and comfort of the great mass of
the people, and to adjust fairly the burthen of taxation
(which freehold property, in my own
n and numerous
ether instances, has not made 3 per cent., the property
itself being now not. worth what it cost by 15 to 20 per
cent.), and who looked anxiously forward to the repeal
13f the corn laws, and the removal of restrictions on the
4,;'l,Pertation of articles of food generally, as measures
great benefit, which would enable usex-
-IPend more on the education of our children, to
make
home more comfortable, and save a little against a
rainy-day," -day' " are to be deprived of the anticipatedi
bene-
fits except the miserably small total calculated saving o
Per cent.—not equal to the present increased cost of
butchers' meat and potatoes.
,Purther, it is most unjust that an income of 1001.
!rneuld be taxed 21. ls. Bd., whilst 991. pays nothing.
"n 1 it is considered " expedient" that all precarious in.
e,., tit'is under 1001. a-year should be exempt, then the
o",lY
equitable and common-sense course will be to com-
-rellee charging from 1001. and not from 11., and
b
11°P, ens thus—let 1101. pay 10 fivepences or 4s. 2d.;
orl-`• Pay 15 fivepences or 6s. 3d ; 1201. pay Bs. 4d. ;
nn on charging all parts. of 51. as 51. This plan
I`2,).`tni be simple and so just that I am sure no one would
l'eiJect to it, and what is still more important the prin-
Pal inducement to fraud in making returns of income
would be removed, and this an should be extended to
421 precarious incomes under 2501. or 3001. a-year. Be-
rhnd these amounts tax on the whole income could be
(letter afforded.
.gain, if the income tax is to be levied on incomes
under 150/., what constitutes the " inexpediency " of
is trenching on what the Chancellor of the Exchequer
ThePileased to call territory of labour "—that is
nexpediency of taxing artisans and foremen of arti-
-2001: thousands of whom in England earn from 1001. to
1 o Per annum, with less risk of injury to health and
~°.rvity than the clerks and others who will be
.6.,l‘jeet to the proposed extensioa of the income tax?
at is it but the fear that a storm of strenuous, indig-
wouid°PPosition would be raised by this class, which
ether Irive from office the present Ministry, or any
taxation Ministry, that proposed such a re-adjustment of
of the
richa! is now before the public, viz., the unta,xing
vanman's luxuries in the shape of " men-ser-
e r
ges, horses, and dogs," and to raise an
%la; tent ea riarevenue out of the income of the clerk, ar-
, and foreman
of artisans, which may cease any
ax
who helps to pass these parts of the