The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

A highly influential meeting, presided over by the
Mayor, took place yesterday in the Sessions-house, con-
vened for the purpose of opposing the increased tax upon
income. Various resolutions were carried to that effect,
and the following petition was unanimously agreed on:—
" The humble petition of the inhabitants of Liverpool,
in public meeting assembled,
" Showeth,—That your petitioners have learnt with
regret and dismay the proposal of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to impose additional taxes on the already overbur-
dened people of this country.
" That your petitioners are of opinion that the present
amount of revenue is amply sufficient, with proper
economy, to meet all needful expenditure.
" That your petitioners, besides being convinced that
no necessity exists for increased taxation of any kind,
entertain insuperable objections to any income-tax whieh
is not based on a graduated scale with respect to
amounts, and also a decided distinction between the
incomes derived from trades and professions and those
arising from real property and other fixed sources.
" Your petitioners, therefore, respectfully call upon
your Hon. House not to sanction the imposition of fresh
taxes on the people of this country, but to exact a rigid
economy in the national expenditure, and that in the
consideration of any prolongation of the income-tax,
you will require that a graduated scale be adopted, and
that a marked distinction between incomes derived from
trades and professions and those arising from real pro-
perty, and other fixed sources, should be made."

READING.—A meeting, convened by the mayor of
this borough in consequence of a requisition more nume-
rously signed than any similar document on former oc-
casions, was heldin the Town-hall yesterday, for the
purpose or,opposing the projected increase of the income-
tax.mayor presided. The assemblage consisted
persons. Mr. Cowslade, of the Reading
of nearly
Thesoo
Mercury, moved, and Arr. T. Harris seconded, the first
resolution, which was to the effect that the meeting
urged the necessity of retrenchment in every depart-
ment of the public service, and that the proposition for
increased taxation, after thirty-thee years of peace, was
monstrous, and should not be quietly submitted to. The
resolution was carried by universal acclamation. Mr.
Rogers then addressed the meeting, and moved a second
resolution—" That previously to the re-imposition of the
income-tax, it was the duty of the Government to take
measures to render it more equal in its operations." Mr.
Exalt seconded the resolution, which, after some obser-
vations by Mr. Hedges, Mr. Bartlett, and Mr. Weedon
(the mayor), was carried amidst loud cheers. On the
motion of Mr. Farrow, the adoption of a petition to
Parliament, echoing the sentiments of the resolutions,
was passed unanimously; atter which, on the motion of
Mr. Pigott, M.P., thanks were voted to the mayor, and
the meeting was dissolved.
GLOUCESTER.—The town-council of this city, on
Wednesday, unanimously agreed to petition the House
of Commons against the continuance, and, above all, any
increase in the income-tax, as its operation in its present
state had proved most oppressive to the trading and
mercantile interests in Gloucester, as well as most other
places. A petition also from the citizens to the same
effect is in the course of signature, and
has already had
affixed to it the names of a great majority of the inhabit-
ants of this city.
The agitation against any increase or continuance of