The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

TAXATION

" The ab.lition of all Excise duties on domestic pro-
ductions and manufactures, and the consequent conso-
lidation of the Customs and Excise, together with the
reduction of the coast guard.
" The admission of colonial wheat, pulse, and flour,
at a statistical duty of 6d. per quarter and 6d. per barrel.
" The reduction of duty on tea_to Is. per lb.
" The reduction of duty on tobacco to ls. per lb.
" The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to ss.
per cwt.
" Ditto on foreign ditto to 10s. per cwt.
" REVENUE COMPENSATION.

" Fixtd duty on foreign wheat at ss. per quarter.
" Fixed duty on other foreign grain and pulse, 2s. 6d.
per quarter.
" Fixed duty on foreign flour, 2s. 6d. per barrel.
" Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to 3s.
per cwt., as an equivalent for the excise on soap.
" The charge for postage to commence at Id. for a
quarter of an ounce, instead of half an ounce, to make
up for the loss of excise on paper, which has always
been a tax on Education and literature."

" REASONS FOR REMOVAL OF EXCISE DUTIES ON HOME
PRODUCTIONS, AND ADJUSTMENT OF REVENUE DUTIES.
" As long as an income and property tax is imposed,
which, together with the burden of the poor-laws, falls
principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists,
foreign imports, competing with our domcstic produc-
tions, cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty.
" The reduction of duty on tea, tobacco, and sugar
would not eventually yield less revenue, owing to the
increased consumption, whilst the comforts of the poor
would be greatly enhanced, and our commerce ex-
tended, especially with China, and the inducement to
smuggle put an end to.
" The loss of revenne on the Excise duties would be
compensated for by the duty on foreign wheat, pulse,
flour, and cotton wool, together with an increase in the
Post-uflice revenue, which would be equivalent to the
loss of the Excise on paper, to which would be added the
enormous saving in the expense of the collection of the
Excise duties, as well as in the reduction of the coast
guard establishment.
" Since 1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on
foreign imports have been reduced for the chief benefit of
the manufacturers, while the Excise duties have been
retained and the income and property tax imposed. Five
millions having been taken off and five millions laid on
withont any benefit to the poor mall.
" The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be
about ten per cent. ; on colonial sugar about fifteen per
cent. ; and on foreign thirty per cent. ; making an ave-
rage of twenty-two and a half per cent., whilst the pre-
sent duties are respectively about forty-five per cent.
and seventy per cent.

PORTRAITS WHICH DO NOT

FLATTER.

The Prefect of the Loir et Cher, as soon as he was in-
formed of the evasion of the Count de Alontemolin, ad-
dressad to the mayors of the department a circular, con-
taining a minute description of the persons of the Spanish
Pretender, as well as that of Cabrera. The Count is
described as follows :

" Age, 28 years ; height, 1 metre 65 centimetres
(sft. qin. English) ; black hair and eyebrows, narrow
and round forehead, brown eyes, large and long nose, a
little bent on one aide, middle-sized mouth, black beard,
worn en collier, round chin, oval face, and dark com-
plexion. The upper lip and the teeth slightly project,
and which is more visible when talking ; speaks French
with facility, but with a strong foreign accent ; the
knees turned in, which is more particularly apparent
when walking ; holds himself very erect ; a turn in the
left eyeball, showing at times the whole of the white ;
wears his hat inclined to the right side, and over the
eyes."
Ramon Cabrera is thus described :
" Born at Tortosa (Catalonia) ; age, 38 years ; height,
1 metre 63 centimetres ; black Bair and eyebrows, or-
dinary forehead, greyish brown eyes, middle-Nizod nose,
mouth rather large, beard black and rather thin, round
chin, oval face, dark complexion. his eyebrows are
bushy, and come close to each other ; has a small scar
on the forehead, over the left eye ; legs slightly bent •
never looks a person in the face when addressing
him."

CONTAGIOUS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES.—By an
Act of last session (9 and 10 Victoria, chap. 96), provi-
sion was made for the more speedy removal of certain
nuisances, as well as to enable the Privy Council to
make regulations for the prevention of contagious and
epidemic diseases. According to the preamble of this
statute it was considered expedient, for the purpose of
preserving the health of divers of her Majesty's subjects,
that better provision should be made for the removal of
certain nuisances likely to promote or increase disease.
On the receipt of the certificate of two medical men
certain public officers, specified in the Act, can complain
to justices of the existence of nuisances. The justices
have power to summon the parties, and to make an order
for the removal of the same, and in default the parties
complaining may enter the premises and remove the
nuisance. The costs and expenses incurred can be re-
covered from the owner or occupier of the premises. By
the fifth section the Privy Council are empowered to
issue orders at any time to prevent the spreading of con-
tagious and epimedic diseases. The Act contains twenty-
two sections, and three schedules of forms to be used.
A NEW ROMAN NOYEL.—Mr. Herbert, the dis-
tinguished author of " Oliver Cromwell," after the ex-
ample of Bulwer and Lockhart, is, it appears, about , to
test his powers as a delineator of the manners and cus-
toms of classic times, by the production of a work en-
titled " The Roman Traitor, a True Tale of the Re-
public." We hail this announcement with great
pleasure. Mr. Herbert has already given sufficient
evidence of his ability as a novelist, to leave not a doubt
of success, ai far as the interest arising from the con-
struction of his story is concerned ; and we understand
that almost all the characters are veritable and renowned
personages of the Republic, and that they are depicted
with a degree of skill and accuracy, displaying a great
amount of classical learning on the part of this popular
writer.

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vain. These pills are sold at Professor Holloway's establishment
244, Strand, London, and by all druggists.
SHIELDS' •Stc7r. 24.—The Equity, Smith, of and for this
port, from Rouen, in entering the harbour last night, got
on the rocks near Tynemouth, and is considerably damaged.
BRIDLINGTON, SEPT. 23.—The John and Ann, Seymour,
which was on shore near the new pier this morning, has
been got off with damage, after throwing part of Cargo over-
board, and brought into the harbour.