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n ZIO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
'February..2B, 1848. ,
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LORD,—In July, 1841, I had the
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.?" submit to the consideration of Sir R. Peel, 'en about'
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to resume office, a plan for an equitable assessment of a
tax on property and income; but the transparent justice
of the principle of the measure was unheeded by the
, Right lion. Baronet. Since then, the matter hag
reposed in my desk.
Your Lordship is now dealing with the subject ina
conjunction of mach excitement, which, I trust, will
obtain my pardon for intruding this letter at sue"
moment on your attention; an act, I beg to say,
which
is not induced by unbecoming motive. I purpose Wills,'
witting to your Lordship, by the end of the week;• ca'"
culations to show the amount of revenue which a tax on
property and income would produce under the scale ,in
the third page. I have the honour to remain, you,'
Lordship very humble servant,
JOHN LEVINGSTON.
The Right Hon. Lord John Russell.
Income from land and all fixed property, from Mort-
gages, Annuities, and Settlements, and from Pay-
ments by the public.
£lOO to pay 50 shillings per Cent.
200 ~.
300 ... 60
400 ... 65
500 ... 70
600 ... 75 ••• •••
700 ••• 80
800 ... $5
900 ... 90
1000 ... 95
5000 ... 100
10000 and over 105
Income from Trading, from Professions, and from In
dustrial exertions, in every form.
.£lOO to pay 25 shillings per Cent.
200 ... 27 6d.
300 ... 30
403 ... 32 6d.
500 ... 35
600 ... 37 6d.
700 ... 40
800 42 6d.
900 ... 45
1000 ... 47 6d.
5000 •50
10000 and over 52 6d.
I believe that the foregoing scale would amply taut
the requirements of the Minster, and the burden
being honestly apportioned, would be received by the
public in a spirit to correspond. Ise° no sufficient reason*
for exempting incomes of 1001. from such a tax, equitably
adjusted, and including them, would realise more money
than is wanted. J. L.

[PR ICE SD.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAncir 2.
STOCK EXCHANOR.-The sales are-East Lancashire, New,
I'/4 c. dis.-Ditto, Quarters, 19 dis.-Leeds and Think, 16%
dis.-Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, % c. dis.-London
and North-Western, 135-Ditto, New Quarters, 4% p.....
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, par-
Midland, 1041,4 c.-Ditto, Halves, 3% dis.-North Staf-
fordshire, c. dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, 27 c.-Ditto,
New, No. 4,2% dis.-York, Newcastle; and Berwick (N. and
B. Extensions), No. 2, 1 c. p.-Ditto, Preference, 1% c. p.
enbead, STOCK EXCHANGE -The TutElßes, MarAelcßuir2.
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Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6 15-16 dis.-Lancashire and
Yorkshire, Fifths, % dis.-Ditto, 32/. Shares, 6 die -Ditto
(West Riding Union), 2% dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 1714 dis.
-London and North-Western, Quarters (B), 3 p. ex
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 14 p.-
Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 6% dis.-North Stafford-
shire, % n. dis.-South-Eastern and Dover, 28-Ditto, No 4,
214 c. dis.
BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 2.
STOCK EICHA.NGE.-The sales are-North British, Thirds,
1 c. dis.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 31 ex div.-
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 4 p. ex int.-
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 2% dis.-
North Staffordshire, % dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham
(A), 3% dis.-Shropshire Union, 2% dis.-South Stafford-
shire, 2% dis.
HULL, MARCH 2.
STOCK EXCHA.NGE.-Sellers are more cautious, whilst
buyers do not come forward eagerly, hoping to still be able
by souse unforeseen occurrence to purchase at lower pries.
The sales are-North Staffordshire, 1 ls. 3d. dis. -Darwens
101 dis.-North British, Thirds, 12s. 6d. dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MARCH 2.
STOCK EXCHANGR.-The sales are-Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 100-North British, Thirds, 275.
BRISTOL, MARCH 2.
STocK EXCHANGE.-The market remains nearly the same
as yesterday. The sales are-Midland Stock, 4 p.-Taft Vale
(Original Shares), 1191,4-Great Western, Quarters,
-Ditto, 17/. Shares, 5-16 p.-Midland, 401. Shares, % p.-
York, Newcastle, and.Berwick, No. '2, 1 p.
YORK, MARCH 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Great Northern, 6 a.
-Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds, 8 LA-North Britislt,
Thirds, 255. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 4%-Ditto, Extension, 7s.
-York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 2 (late New
Berwicks), 11/. 18s. 9d.-Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 9.
EDINBURGH, MARCH 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 11.
17a. 61-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 801.-Edinburgh, Leith,
and Granton, Quarters, 6d.-Great Northern, 5/. 17s. 6d.--
North British, Quarters, 4/. 135.-Ditto, Thirds, 255. 6d.
GLASGOW, MARCH 1.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, Now, 3%
-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 801.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 6/. 16 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and A; s, 65%
-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 534-Ditto, No. 2, 111--Glasgow
and Greenock, 153/1-Manchester and Southampton, 4s. 9d.
-North British, Thirds, 265.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Hull is to
take place on Monday next, to consider the propriety of
petitioning Parliament against the unjust intention of
continuing to tax incomes derived from personal skill
and exertion, and in the same proportion as those de-
rived from realised capital. .

Queen's Theatre, Hull, opened for the season on
Wednesday. The corps drarnatique are very efficient,
and, with the accessions announced, will doubtless form
one of the best companies out of London. The house
was well filled, and on the curtain rising, the audience
gave signs of hearty welcome to the whole of the per-
formers by the most deafening plaudits. After the
National Anthem bad been sung and encored, the
manager, Mr. Egerton, was loudly called for ; after the
applause had subsided, Mr. Egerton in a neat speech
returned thanks, giving every assurance of his continued
endeavours, by a succession of new pieces, and of per-
formers of celebrity, to merit the public approbation.
The good humour of the audience, and the evident wish
of the performers to exert themselves may be taken as
good criterion that Mr. Egerton may rely upon another
successful season.
PEOCLAMATIO'N or OUTLAWRY.—At the sitting of
the Sheriffs' Court yesterday, the bailiff (Mr. Hemp)
made proclamation in the usual form, and called upon
the following to surrender to the Sheriff of Middlesex,
or be severally outlawed:—James Hastings, at the suit
of Peter Plumley; Robert Peel, at the suit of W. S.
Hughes; William Kingdon, at the suit of Joshua Hands;
Robert Norman, at the suit of Leon Solomons; the Hon.
Henry Byng, at the suit of Abraham Josephs; William
Shairp, at the suit of Thomas Whardon Somersden;
Henry Burgess, at the suit of Richard Hart; John Bird,
at the suit of Simon Emanuels; William Cuthbert, at
the suit of John Carlon; William Platt, at the suit of
John Forrest; Henry Bromley, at the suit of Edward
Heneage; the Hon. 11. Thomas Stanley, at the suit of
Charles Lt.wis; Stephen Bradley, at the suit of Marie
Ilegarty •, Erie Baker, at the suit of—Peppercorne and
others; Edward Russell, known in common as Lord
Edward Russell, at the suit of G. Clement; Joseph Byng,
at the suit of J. Ilatherby; M. Greaves, at the suit of
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FATAL ACCIDENT IN LEITH ROADS, FEE. 28
A schooner, called the Nancy Dawson, about 160 or Iso
tons register, armed with four 6-pounders, and a propor-
tionate quantity of pikes, cutlasses, and pistols, has been
riding here for some three weeks, bound to Hong-Kong,
as is reported. As one of her boats was passing from
Newhaven quay to go on board, a squall fell into her
lugsail, and upset her. Various fishing-boats, pushed off
with great promptitude, and rescued three of the host's
crew; bit the fourth sank to rise AO more. One of the
crew, a little boy, was nearly exhausted, but hopes are
entertained that he will recover. This is the second
death by drowning that has taken place among the
schooner's crew since she came here, a man having pre.
viously jumped overboard. A great many more hoe
deserted.—North British Hail.

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past eleven. The next total eclipse of the moon,
visible in London, will occur on Wednesday, the lath of
September.
We read in the Courier Francais M. Jollivet,
deputy for the Ile-et-Villaine, left his residence in the
Rue Saint Florentin, on Thursday, intending to go to
the Chamber, but was not heard of for four days. On
Sunday, at eight o'clock, in consequence of an anony-
mous note to the commandant of the Tuileries,. search
was made for him near the Pont TOUNlfillt, and his body
was found under a heap of sand, with those of two
workmen. Ho had received a ball under the right arm-
pit. His watch, his medal as deputy, and his pocket-
book, containing his papers and cards, were found upon
him untouched."
THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE.—Last night one of
the greatest meetings that has been held on the Surrey
side of the Thames since the time
~ of Lord George Gor-
don's meetings in the then St. Ueorge's• fields, took place
at the National Baths, Westminster-road, for the purpose
of congratulating the French nation on its success in the
late revolution, and upon its establishing a Republic.
The meeting was announced for seven o'clock, but long
before that time an immense and overwhelming mass
of persons, principally of the working classes, had con-
gregated round the entrance to the place of meeting in
Oakley-street. No sooner were the doors open than the
multitude rolled in, and long before the persons who had
called the meeting together, Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P. ;
Mr. Wakley, M.P. ; Mr. C. Cochrane, and others, ar
rived, every foot of ground was occupied. From the
numbers that entered there could not have been less
than from 5,000 to 6,000 persons present. Shortly after
seven o'clock, the chairman, a working man, and the
persons who were to address the meeting, came on the
platform and were received with the most vociferous
cheering. The speeches of several parties were in full
accordance with the object of the meeting, and resolu-
tions in accordance were carried by acclamation.
ITALIAN WHEAT. A vessel arrived from Leg-
horn has brought an entire cargo, consisting of 2,100
quarters of wheat, of
.Italian produce. This is an un-
usually large and important importation from the Tus-
can states of Italy.