The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

INCOME-TAX.

Petitions against the proposed income-tax were
presented from the parish of Maryle.bone (agreed
to at a meeting held that day) by Sir B. Hall,
Bart.; from the borough of Northampton; from the
inhabitants of Bethnal-green, by Sir W. Clay, and
from Brentford.

Mr. HUME gave netice—taidng it fur granted
that there would be a reduction in the Government
establishments —(Laughter)— that he would move
that an humble address be presented to her Mr.jesty,
praying her Majesty to give directions that ail per-
sons who shall be appointed to civil, military, naval,
or other offices after this date, shall be I:ppointed
subject to a reduction of salary.—(llear, hear.)

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Mr. HUME, seeing the Noble Lord the First
Minister of the Crown in his place, wished to put a
question to him in allusion to the late affairs in
France.—(Hear.) In that country the Government
that existed but a short time ago no longer existed
now ; but a new one had or would be established.—
(Hear, hear.) Now, what he wished to ask the
Noble Lord was, whether it was the intention of
her Majesty's Government to withhold alto-
gether from any interference with the people of
France—(Great cheering)—and to leave them
at liberty to choose and settle what government
they pleased for their own country.— (Great cheer-
ing.) He had thought it his duty to ask the ques-
tion, and he hoped there would be no objection on
the part of the Noble Lord frankly to answer it.—
(Great cheering.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL (who was much cheered)
said—l can have no objection whatever to answer the
Hon. Member for Montrose's question.—(Hear, hear.)
We have, as may be supposed, received official intel-
ligence of what has taken place in France—(Hear
hear)—and in answer to the Honourable Mem-
ber for Montrose's question, I have to state
distinctly that we have no intention whatever
to interfere in that form of government—(Tre-
mendous cheering)—which the ,French nation may
think right to adopt, or in any way to meddle
with the internal affairs of Fr ante.—(Great cheering.)
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL felt compelled to coin-
plain of a breach of privilege committed by the
propr,ietor of the Northern Stc.(r newspaper, in that
paper of Saturday last, against .the Secretary at War
and himself, and accusing him :of being the deadly
enemy of the Hon. Member for Nottingham.
On the motion of the Hog. tIEmBER the article
containing the breach of privileg,e, which consisted of
an attack upon the Secretary :tit War, Mr. 1111. J.
O'Connell, and the other Members of the Notting-
ham Election Committee, was read,. :and
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, after el'pressing a hope
that the mere mention of the subject would be sufli•
cient, moved pro forma that the printer and publisher
of the Northern Star should be called to the bar.

Mr. HASTIE seconded the motion.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said that if he ;~•id made use
of any expressions which were offensive to the Hon.
Member, he would at once withdraw weal, and
begged him to accept his most humble apokiogy for
such expressions.
After a few words from Mr. O'CONNELL, the
motion was withdrawn.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

In reply to a question from Mr. IV YLD,
Admiral D. DUNDAS was understood to say th..t
it was the intention of Government to send out two
ships next April in quest of Sir John Franklin and
Sir John Richardson. The ships would be manned
and officered by persons in the navy, who had
volunteered for the service, and their pay would be
doubled.
EXTENSION OF THE INCOME-TAX TO
IRELAND.

Sir B. HALL stated that he had been asked
by several Irish Members whether it was his
intention to bring forward his motion fur extending
the income-tax to Ireland. lie begged to state in
answer to such inquiries, that he could not exactly
tell upon what day he would bring it forward, but
he could assure them that he would take the sense
of the house upon his motion as soon as the Irish
Members had recorded their votes upon the question
of iro since x. 4p income.ta anon the nentdp of this
coma y.—(UheersZ) •
WA S AND ATEAN§—FINANCIAL STATE