The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Sheep. I
16,010 I C 11101.3". I
NZICVGATE AND LEADENHAMI.

I riffs.
305

For the time of the year, the arrivals of country killed
Meat for these markets, since Monday last, have been
tolerably good—viz., about 150 carcases of Beef, 340
ditto of Mutton, 210 ditto of Lamb, 100 ditto of Veal,
and 240 ditto of Pork. The supplies on offer, slaughtered
in the metropolis, have been somewhat on the increase,
owing to which, and the high prices demanded by the
salesmen, the general trade has ruled heavy, on some.
what easier terms—the fall in value haring been 2d per
Bibs. From Hamburgh, 20 baskets of Meat have come
to hand ; and nearly 500 carcasses of Foreign Meat,
killed in London, hare been disposed of.

At per atone by the Carcase.

s. d. to s. d. I. 1. to s. d.
Beet ,Inferlor ••2 10 3 C Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 3 6
middling .... 3 0 3 2 j middling.. 310 4 4
prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prime 4 6 4 S
prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, largo • . . 4 0 4 6
Vaal •••• • • 4 0 5 0! small . . 4 $ b 0

Lamb. 5s lid t• 4i 101.

BOROUGH AND sprramrxmas.
The arrivals of Potatoes at the water- side continue
liberal, those by land-carriage seasonably extensive.
From abroad we received last week nearly 500 tons,
mostly from Antwerp. The demand for all kinds is
heavy, and prices are again lower. York Regents, 130 s
to 150 s; ditto Shaws, 90s to 100 s; Wisbeach Regents,
100 s to 130,; ditto Shaws, 80s to 100 s; ditto Blues, 80s
to 90s; Scotch Whites, 905 to 955; Essex Blues, 120 s to
130 s; Belgian Whites, 80s t 0,905; Dutch ditto, 75s to 80s
per tor.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
Although our market continues to be very moderately
supplied with Hops the general demand is heavy, and
prices ar© with difficulty supported. Sussex pockets,
31 to Si 68; Weald of Kent, ditto, 31 Si to Si 10s; and
Mid and East Kent ditto, Si Ss to Si 8s per cwt.

WOOL.
Very large supplies of Wool have arrived in the Port
of London since this day se'nnight—viz., 3,889 bales
from Port Phillip, 1,164 ditto from Hobart Town, 800
ditto from Launceston, 448 ditto from Algoa Bay, 508
ditto from Alexandria, 110 ditto from Slonte Video, 48
ditto from Ostend, 29 ditto from Antwerp, 159 ditto
from Ilamburgh, and 400 ditto from various other
quarters. It is generally expected that public sales, of
20,000 bales, will be shortly declared. In the private
contract market exceedingly little business is doing. In
prices, however, we have no change to notice.

TALLOW.
Although no material alteration can be noticed in
prices, the transactions in Tallow continue on a very
limited scale, and there are sellers at a trifle beneath the
nominal quotation of the day, which is 6d per cwt lower
than on Monday last. P. Y. C. on the spot is 50s to
50s 6d per cwt. Rough fat, 2s 10(1 per Sibs. Fur for-
ward delivery we have very few sales to report.

IVIARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY AN ERRAND BOY.—James
Trouser and Joseph Powis were placed at the bar before
Mr. Bingham, the former charged with having stolen a
cash box, containing nine sovereigns, two crown-pieces
of William the Third, a pocket-book, and a bill of ex-
change for 761., the property of Miss Gaynor Owen,
milliner, N0.:4, Clifford- street, Bond-street, and the latter
prisoner was charged with receiving a portion of the
stolen property.
The prosecutrix stated that she was a milliner and
dress maker, and carried on business in partnership with
Miss Dorothea Price, at No. 4, Clifford-street, Bond-
street. The prisoner Trower had been in their employ
as errand boy for about fifteen months. On Friday
night last, about nine o'clock, she missed the cash-box
from the place where she had deposited it the night pre-
vious. She was very much alarmed at not firding it in
its usual place, and caused a strict search to be made,
but without success. On Saturday morning she went
to the Oriental Bank and stopped the bill. She subse-
quently went to Vine-street station, and informed the
police. The bill of exchange, two crown-pieces, the
pocket book, and the purse, containing nine sovereigns
produced, were her property.
Robert Checkley, 184 C, said,:on Saturday morning
last he received information that a cash-box had been
stolen from No. 4, Clifford-street. Witness proceeded
there in company with another constable, aad questioned
the prisoner where he had been to dinner ? The
prisoner said he had been home to dinner. Witness
then sent the other constable to the prisoner's mother
to make inquiry into the truth of the prisoner's state-
ment, which proved to be entirely false. Witness then
proceeded to search the premises, and found the cash
box in the dusthole, and the two crown pieces on a
ledge in the coal vault. Witness then took the prisoner
to the station, where he denied all knowledge,of the rob-
bery, but after being locked up for some time
he admitted the theft, and told witness that
a boy at a news shop, in Saville-passage, had

got the rest of the property. Witness went
to Saville passage, where he saw the pri-
soner Pow:,. Witness told him that he wanted the money
Miss Owen's boy had given him. The prisoner appeared
astonished at witness's question, and demanded to know
what he meant ? Witness told him that he might as
well give the money to him, as the prisoner Trower had
told him that lie had got it. The prisoner then handed
to him the purse, containing 91. 14s. 6d. Witness took
him into custody.
The prisoner Trower declined saying anything in de-
fenee.
The prisoner Powis said he knew nothing at all about
it. Trower gate him the money, and told him that it
was his wages.
Mr. BINGHAM committed them both for trial, but
consented to take bail for the prisoner Powis's appear-
ance at the Central Criminal Court.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
SIR,—On Wednesday the 19th, the House was
occupied with " Killing Hares." Happy land !
Under certain circumstances hares are to be slain
without game certificates; but not with guns. An
amendment to that effect was introduced at a late
stage, and carried by 49 against 44, " on the ground
that it was unsafe to encourage the use of fire •artus
by the lower classes."
On Saturday the House met at two o'clock, fur the
purpose of receiving the " Crown and Government
Security" Bill from the Lords. After which, and a
little speaking on Ireland which introduced itself
without visible cause, it adjourned to the Ist of May.
This, then, may he a good opportunity for return-
ing to the question of taxation, which was commenced
in the letters of the Bth and 13th March. And first,
for the capability of an income-tax for being em-
ployed to equalise, or at all events reduce the in-
equality and unfairness of other taxes. The mistake
of saying that one unfair tax could not be mended
by another, has been commented on before. The
possibility of it, provided the two taxes press
in opposite directions and not in the same,
is as evident as that a boat pressed down
by an excessive weight on one side, may be
set straight by putting the excessive weight in the
next package on the other. It might be better to
make every package in succession trim the boat if it
can be done ; but if it cannot, or if the contrary sys-
tem has been begun already, the next best thing is to
trim in the other way.
Now with respect to that large portion of taxa-
tion which is raised by taxes on consumption, some
people know and some people do not, that so far from
these being laid with any pretence to fairness, they
are laid in such a manner as to press two,
three, four, and so all the way up to
eleven times as heavily on the poor as on the rich.
Soa
13' for instance, is taxed twice as much per cent to
thelaundress as to the fine lady. Sugar, nearly
three
times as much to the hand-loom weaver who
brown, mint tea for his children with the coarsest
m'own, as to the countess who uses the finest chrys-
tal. Tea, since the open trade with China, in nearly the
same proportion as the sugar; the difference before
wberientgc
hg
who
oter stoops Spirits,tobas four times as much to the
consumes the choice produceegeneva, as to the man who
much oftfo thethe Wtoestblndian stills.
Port wine, twice as
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bleful for their ailing
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vivant who can afford to revel
particular." And tobacco, upwialnnrdiasfo‘olfrbich,
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as much to the Irish labourer
whiskered dandy in Pall Mall. The numbers
not be all exact at the present day ; becauser-may
altera-
tions are from time to time taking place. But they
the numbers as they used to be, (See Westmznstir
Renew for July, 1834, art. Aristocratic
the
esimplest
tntof)
and though the numbers may be altered, the prin-
ciple is left. And all this is done by h
processes. Nothing is wanted but to lay the tax on
quantity and not on value, and the rest does itself. There
is no disguise or concealment about it ; Chancellors
of the Exchequer avow it openly, and say that it
must be done because there would be a great deal of
trouble in doing anything else. Even liberal Mem-
bers of Parliament give up the point, and admit that
there is practically no such thing as not taxing the
poor two, three, four, and up to eleven shillings in
the pound on articles of consumption, where the
wealthy are taxed one.
Not but that there may be hope that light may yet
be thrown on this great impossibility of nature. The
last papers from France report that the Parisians or
their Government have discovered that at the gates
of Paris the poor man's wine is taxed 100 per cent
upon the value, while that of the rich is only taxed
from sto 10. As the lowest-priced wine consumed
in Paris is ten sous or fivepence a bottle, the in-
ference would seem to be, that wine of all kinds is
taxed five sous or twopence•halfpenny a bottle at
the gates ; thus making 100 per cent on the poor
man's thin potations, and 5 per cent on the drink of
the man who indulges in claret at five francs, which
is in fact far from being the highest price. Our
Chancellors of the Exchequer will probably live and
learn.

But while waiting for this, it is clear there ought
to be a counterpoise in some other quarter. And
nothing presents so fair an opportunity for this as the
income-tax. There is an almost unlimited possibility
of laying it so as to press on the richer classes ; and
for this it is, the rich abhor it. It is amusing to see
how their organs in the press descant on the injus-
tice of excepting small incomes; believing that
because they contrive to forget or keep out of
sight the fact of the poor paying so enormously
on another class of taxes, other people will do the same.
But it is plain that the income-tax offers
special opportunities for helping to set the boat upon
an even keel. It might be better, as was said before,
that if it were possible the other taxes should all be
laid so as to press equitably, and the income-tax should
be laid so as to press equitably too. But if this
cannot be done, one must be made to mend the other.
And this may be done, not with any mathematical
exactness, but in a rough way which is all that is
attainable in such cases, by increasing the action of
the income-tax upon the higher incomes and taking it
off the lower. Means to which are, first, to increase
the income at which liability to the tax shall commence,
allowing every man to deduct the same amount
from his chargeable income. Secondly, to reduce as
fast as may be convenient the taxes on consumption,
and add the amount to the produce of the income tax
by increasing its general rate. To which, if these
are not sufficient, might be added a third method ;
which is to lay what may be called a second story of
income-tax, beginning at three or four times the
income that the first did, and allowing every man to
deduct this new amount as before, from thein-
come which is to be chargeable to this second story
of taxation. By these or similar ways it seems un-
deniable that we have a machine capable of carrying
the adjustment of taxation to any extent which might
be fixed upon.
The difficulties in the way of this would undoubt-
edly be many, and not all of them imaginary or arti-
ficial. At the same time a cheerful hope may be
felt, that if the difficulty lay the other way, the
genius of the wealthy would be found equal to the
crisis. Something too may be expected from the
solution of the problem now attempting at the gates
of Paris. In the mean time, with your permission, I
will employ more of these days of Parliamentary
vacation in proceeding with the subject.
1 am, Sir, your obedientr sieiroil
vrt),soN.
T. PERRONET
Blackheath, London, April 24, 1848.

LORD MILLTOWN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—As the reports you are pleased to give in
your paper, of the 19th, of my remarks at Concilia-
tion Hall last Monday, is liable to misconception,
may I request you will correct it. You state me to
have said " Blood alone would enable the Govern-
ment to continue the union." Now, I beg to say, I
never said anything of the kind. My argument was,
" that as by the rebellion of '9B the Act of Union
was mainly carried, so alone, by an insane and cri-
minal outbreak on the part of the people, or by civil
war, can the repeal of that measure be retarded or
rendered impossible."
Such, Sir, is my conscientious opinion. I believe
that Act is so injurious to the true interests of both
countries, that, ere long, at the united demands of
the majority of both, it will be peaceably cancelled—
such a repeal would be a blessing, carried by any
other means (even if possible), a curse.
I seek not, Sir, to make your paper the vehicle for
my opinions, but I think that I, and others, who like
me, endeavour at a moment of great excitement, to
keep the people within bounds, have reason to com-
plain, that while every phrase, no matter h.onwadvised
rebel-
lions, every word, however hasty, that the
recorded,d order are
or intemperate may utter, is carefully
observations to preserve peace and goo
totally omitted, or absolutely perverted.
em'
d.
our
ill-advised
I have the honour to be, 6'
MIL LTOWN.
which, though curtailed,nd for that paper, singularly
and for
of what I did
say, and by which I
I enclose a report, taken from the Freemans Journal,
incorrect, still conveys
1848.
Mussborough, April
i!moowillingthe to abide.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
siß,—Allow me, through your columns, to re-
commend the working clases to visit, during the
holidays, the exposition of British art manufacture,
Barry's grand historical painting, and the models at
the house of the Society for the Encouragement of
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, as above.—Your
obliging insertion of this will confer a special favour,
on yours truly, N. B.
April 22.