The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

THE ADVERTISEMENT DUTY

Government—We are anxious that the working
classes should have employment.
Poor Man—l am out of a situation, and have no
friends to get me one. How must I obtain em-
ployment.
_ _ _

- (Government—Make use of the only true and ex
peditious means of making your wants known—Ad•
vertise.

Poor Man—What duty do you charge me ?
Government—Why, as you are out of work, and
consequently short of money—forty per cent. -
Poor Man—What by way of assisting me ?
Government—Yes—that's our way.
Lord Paynoby —I have a large estate to sell, and
consequently to advertise. It will occupy the whole
of one side of the newspaper; and is of the value of
200,000/. What duty do you charge ?
Government—Oh, my Lord, eighteen pence, only
eighteen pence.

—Lord Paynobody—What per centage is that on the
advertisement charge ?
Government —Too small to calculate, my Lord.
Poor Man—ls that what you call justice ?
Government—Yes—that's our way.
—Sheffield Times.

SUICIDE FROM THE lIARSII CONDUCT OF A TAX
COLLECTOR.—An inquest was held yesterday by Mr.
Bedford, at the Ring's Arms, Bowling-street, West
minster, on the body of John Wright, aged eighty, a
carpenter. The deceased has resided for upwards of
forty years at No. 22, Great Smith-street, but of late
he had fallen into arrears with his assessed taxes. About
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, Cox, the col-
lector's broker, went to the house with a warrant to
distrain for eighteen months' taxes, amounting to 91.
The deceased's sister opened the front door, when Cox
passed her and made an attempt to open the front par-
lour, which was occupied by lodgers, upon which she
begged of him not to alarm the lodger, and if he would
speak to the deceased, who was then coming up stairs,
everything could be amicably settled. Cox replied he
knew his business, and, to use the witness's words,
bounced up stairs into the first floor, and began taking
an inventory. The deceased followed him, and asked
Cox to wait three hours, rind he should bo able to settle
the demand, which was refused. The deceased, who
was greatly excited, left the room, saying, "It would be
the death of one of them," and in an hour afterwards he
was discovered in his workshop suspended by a sash-
line attached to a beam. He was cut down, and Mr.
Randolph, a surgeon, pronounced life to be quite ex-
tinct. The coroner said it was a most lamentable case,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity,
caused by the harsh measures adopted by the assessed
tax-collector."

THE EXECUTION OF THE AMERICAN DZSERTEES.
—We take the following report of this horrible massacre
from the American Star:—" On the morning of the 9th
were hung at Sau Angel sixteen deserters from the Ame-
rican army, who had taken up arms against their Go-
vernment. Immediately after, some ten or twelve were
whipped and branded on the cheek with theletter D.,
Riley, the chief of the St. Patricia crowd, came in for a
share of the whipping and branding, and right well was
the former laid on by a Mexican muleteer, General
Twiggy deeming it too much honour to the Major to be
flogged by an American soldier. lie did not stand the
operation with that stoicism we expected. The next
morning four others of the same company were executed
at Mixcoac, and on the 13th thirty more were hung upon
one gallows at the same place. The thirty were brought
out for execution about the same time that Chepultepee
was being stormed, and Colonel Harney, pointing to that
place, told them that they should live long enough to see
the American flag hoisted upon the battlements of that
f,,rtress, and no longer. In a few moments oar colours
were raised, and after they were shown to them they
e ere launched into eternity! The clergy at San Angel
pleaded hard to save the lives of these men, but it was in
vain. General Twiggy told them that to Ampudia,
Arista, and Santa Anna did these men owe their deaths,
for they stooped to the low business of soliciting deser-
tion from our ranks, and had succeeded in seducing from
duty and allegiance the poor wretches who had to pay so
dearly for their crimes."

THE FISHERIES.—A letter has been received in this
town, by the owners of the William Ward, from Capt.
Gravill from which it appears that this barque reached
Lerwick on the 4th instant, atter a stormy passage across
the Western Ocean. 'the crew are reported as being all
well, and the William Ward has again had a very suc-
cessful voyage, having caught ten large fish, producing
upwards of 130 imperial tuns of oil, and about seven
tons of bone. The William Ward left Hull for Green-
land on the 26th of February, and returned with about
ninety tuns on the 16th of May. In the course of the
voyage, however, it was found necessary to throw over-
board from 30 to 40 tuns, owing to stress of weather.
She left this port on a second voyage on the 20th of
June, and proceeded to Davis' Straits, where she has
been nearly all the season without falling in with any
other fishing Advertiser.

THE CONVICTS AT WOOLWICH.— Mr. Voules chief
superir.tendent of the Convict Estqblishmente, attended
yesterday on board the Warrior hulk, at Woolwich, to
inquire into the conduct of three of the convicts who
refused to obey orders when requested to change their
class on the previous Wednesday. Mr. Voules, on exa-
mination of their cases, ordered them to be kept in con-
finement until further orders. The chief superintendent
then examined into the case of one of the guards, named
Williams, who was suspended by Mr. Masterrean, for
striking Quartermaster White, in the presence of the
convicts, and Mr. Voules at onco dismissed Williams
from his employment. The power of corporal punish-
ment has been withdrawn from the resident superintend-
ents of convicts, and therefore the statement that they
have been more severely dr,alt with since Mr. Duncombe's
inquiry, has no foundation whatever.

A MAIL OF NEW INVENTION.—The whole of the
line of railway between here and York is being re•laid
with Lew rails, chairs, and sleepers. The rail of new
invention, and of a very superior make, and is considered
as a great improvement upon the old description, as, the
surface of the rail being convex, it presents much less
surface to the wheel, and thereby the friction is much
reduced—a great desideratum.—Darlingion
PILCHARD FISHERY.-- ST. IVES. —The fish enclosed
on the Ist instant, are not all taken up, but should the
weather continue fine, they will he landed on Friday
xt. It is supposed that nearly 3,000 hogsheads have
been sold fresh, at ninepence per six score. The drift
boats are bringing in good catches of herrings.— iVest
Briton.