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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1851.

In the Home of Lords last night,

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the TOwn Council of Chichester, complaining of the
conduct of the Rev. Mr. KENRICK, the incumbent of St.
Peter's, in that city, who had roused to read the burial
service over the body of a Dissenting minister, of (mem_
glary character, and slso over the body of a woman who
bad committed suicide while in a state of lunacy.

'The Bishop of 'CHICHESTER could not extenuate the
conduct of the Rev. Gentleman. _ _

After a few words from the Bishops of LONDON and
of EXETER; and Tram Lord I.:ROUGHA.3I, the petition
was ordered to lie on the table.

Lord laxouGuAm.moved the committal of the County
Courts Extension Bill.

The LORD CI NCELLO opposel the Bill, and pointed
out several objections to the proposed enactments.
ly agreed that the Bill should be re-
rrmil, and discussed on Monday.
then adjourned.

,ved an address, praying her MAJESTY
dssion to inqpire, in India, into the
its -of the existing laws touching the
lanagement of the territories under the
the East India Company. In support

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of his motion the Hon. and Learned Gentleman entered
into a detailed statement of what he considered the
abases of the Government of India.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL considered that an inquiry in
India would produce great excitement and mischief. If
an inquiry were necessary it had better be before a Com-
mittee of the House.

Mr. Hums: considered inquiry necessary, but did not
approve of sending a Commission to India.
Sir JAMES Hoar defended the Court of Directors and
the East India Company. _ __

The motion, which was supported by Mr. BRIGHT,
and opposed by Mr. MANGLES, was eventually withdrawn.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then:moved, in pursuance of the
resolution of last session, that the House resolve itself
into a Committee to consider the mode of administering
the oath of abjuration to persons professing the Jewish
religion. The Noble Lord recapitulated the history of
the attempt of Baron ROTHSCHILD last year to take his
seat, and concluded by declaring that, in his judgment,
it was for acts and not opinions that Parliament ought
to legislate.
Sir ROBERT INGLIS reiterated his former objections
to the measure.
Mr. M. Gassoil considered the measure should have
been introduced earlier, and hoped that if it were again
rejected in another place, the Government would take
some decided step.

Mr. PLIIMPTRE and Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed, and
Mr. WEGG•PROSSER supported the motion, which on
a division was carried by 166 to 98.
The usual formalities having been gone through, a
Bill was introduced and read a first time, and ordered to
be read a second time on Friday week.
On the order of the day for the committal of the
Designs Act Extension Bill,
Mr. ARKWEIGHT moved that it be deferred for six
months.

After a short discussion the amendment was nega-
tived by 132 to 42, and the Bill passed through Com-
mittee.

The Apprentices to Sea Service (Ireland) Bill, the
General Board of Health, and the Process and Practice
(Ireland) Bill were each read a second time.
The Marine Mutiny Bill and the Mutiny Bill were
read a third time and passed. _ _

The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

After exhausting every pretext and subterfuge
that could be devised for procrastination, Sir
CHARLES WOOD is at length driven to extremities.
He must now " screw up his courage to the sticking
place ;" no further excuse or apology for delay is
available. The new Budget, the successor to that
PRECIOUS production which was so unanimously re-
pudiated by all classes and parties throughout the
country, and so ignominiously rejected by the Par-
liament, 'must be produced this evening. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER must bring forward an
entirely new financial scheme, one that will be more
just a'ad politic, more equitable and expedient than
that which so strongly excited the public indignation,
that it was compelled to be withdrawn without de-
bate or discussion.

That most injudicious project contained three fatal
mistakes, any one of which was sufficient not
merely to render it unpalatable to the com-
munity, but to render any Cabinet unpopular
that could sanction such unwise and obnoxious pro-
positions. These were, first, the projected application
of by far the greater portion of the expected surplus
to the reduction of the national debt; secondly, the
transparent humbug respecting the pretended aboli-
tion of the window-tax, while it was to be retained
and perpetuated to two-thirds of the present amount,
with all its monstrous inequalities : and, thirdly, and
worst, of all, the gross injustice of asking for a re-
newa.:l of the income-tax in its present monstrous form,
with out alteration or adjustment of any kind, and thus
making the precarious earnings of industry contribute
as highly to the national Exchequer, for the liquida-
tion of the national liabilities and the maintenance of
the aational establishments, as the rents or dividends
of ate cumulated or realised property. Sir CHARLES
may have " come to a conclusion" that it should
be so, but he may rest assured that the
count ry has arrived at a very different de-
cision ; and obstinate as he may be, he will find that
it is g tbsurd to make the Dame Partington attempt of
keeping back the tide of public opinion with his
finannial brooms. He must necessarily give win
and if he cannot do so with a good grace—if he do
not '"swallow his leek" without threats or gri-
m ems, his sins will be visited. on his Ministerial col-
leagr Les, and the entire Cabinet will be involved in
the destruction occasioned by his recklessness and
ince ipac i ty. _ _

V Pere it not that the income-tax will expire na-
turs:ily to-morrow, we should probably have had
furt .her delays, but the speedily approaching dissolu-

tion. of that horrid monster, and the absolute impos-
sibity of prolonging its hateful existence by any
finairtcial quackery, rendered it essential to bring the
subji!ct under the consideration of the popular branch
oftl~e Legislature without further procrastination. As it
is, w e may congratulate the English people on the great
fact., that from and after the termination of the finan-
cial year on Saturday, the sth of April instant, the
con:: ntry will be free from income-tax of any descrip-
tio o , until a new Bill receive the Legislative sanction,
and. pass into a law with the assent and approbation
of .the three estates of the realm. Even this is some-
thi;ag to rejoice at. Whatever change or modifica-
tion may take place must prove beneficial to those
o earn their daily bread by their physical or intel-
lectual labour, and who for the last nine years have
been most unfairly plundered
,under the guise and
sunction of law.

The equal taxation of every description of income,
without reference to the sources from which it may
bo derived, is so unsound in principle, so unequal in
operation, that it would be a mere work of supereio-
g ation to offer any arguments on a point
that must apparently be obvious to the
meanest capacity, were it not that the British
Pa rliament had deliberately adopted the iniquitous
system, and that a person, who unfortunately occupies
a 'position that gives a certain degree of weight to his
opinions on financial questions, had recently an-
npunced, the "conclusion" he had arrived at, in favour
o f the present form. It becomes every man, then, to
protest earnestly and emphatically against its con-
t inuance. There are no causes in existence that
s hould induce us to consent to its renewal, for even
a limited period, without an equitable adjustment
being previously effected. In 1842 it was carried as
a :mere temporary makeshift to replenish the exhausted
Rxchequer, which had wasted away under heavy de-
ficienees for several successive years. In 1845 it was
willingly renewed because the series of experiments
bald been catered upon that eventually led to
e abolition of the bread-tax and the establishment
o 4 free-trade principles. The country was enjoying a
ti,ansient gleam of sunshine ' • the money marketwas easy,
cash abundant, and atlowrates of interest. Every thing
Phis couleur de rose, all was activity and enterprise--
the people had no time to think on political subjects.
T.'ne matter therefore passed almost sub silentio, and
the
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discussion, but the same effect was produced from
very different causes than those in o •
operation in 1845.
The nation had then passed through a commercial
cx isis of no ordinary magnitude. There had been a
arful pressure on persons even of the most un-
d:oubted solvency, and many first-class firms were
vtnable to weather the storm ; credit was almost ex-1
t inct, the operations of industry paralysed. The na-
t3 oval revenue participated in the general gloom; when
tJ le working classes were without employment, they
could not indulge in their ordinary comforts, and
tk us the produce of the indirect taxes was materially
n,duced, and the national income was inadequate to
m get the national expenditure. It was not at such
a time, ,or under such circumstances, that fiscal
etranges could be sanctioned, or that any portion of
tb a direct taxation of the country could be re-
litnquished. No attempt, therefore, was made to ob-
tain a revision of the system—the people were con-
t meted to resist the increase to 5 per cent. proposed
by the C
-nazi CELLOR of the Exc REctuEN, which they did
IzecessfullY• But that success was attributable to
tho unfair and partial assessment of the charge, rather
them to any objection to its character as a direct im-
pobt. It was the simple fact that incomes under
schedules D and E were proposed to be taxed as
Eghly as those under schedules A and C, that led to
Übe decisive failure of the proposition to increase the
chtf.rge from 7d. to is. in the pound, or from 21. 18s.
41. to Si. per cent.

`The circumstances are now, however, very different
fro al what they were at any of the former periods.
It 'is no longer pretended that the tax is to be con-
tin; tted only for A limited period. It is well under.

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stood that it is to be permanent, and most probably at
even a higher rate than at present charged. None
now in existence can hope to see the day when Eng-
land will (after the next few weeks) be free from the
property-tax. There is a handsome surplus in the
Exchequer, so that any experiment may be reasonably
tried. Everything indicates that this is the most
favourable opportunity for placing the matter on an
equitable basis, and the people are not disposed
to let slip that opportunity to gratify the whims and
caprices of the financial Minister. Let all those who
are favourable to full and impartial justice
to all without distinction, who think that the great
constitutional principle that every man should bear
his just proportion of the public burdens, and should
contribute to the national expenditure secundum
statum et facultates, join heart and hand, and the vic-
tory will be speedily achieved ; that is, if Sir C. WOOD
should have the hardihood to enter the lists once more
in favour of " the conclusion " he had arrived at.
What matters it if the Whig Ministry fall in the
contest ? Better that ten such Ministries should be
swept away—that all the traditions of office, the
etiquette of Downing-street should be disturbed and
violated, than that the British Parliament and the
British people should continue to sanction such in-
justice as that which would be perpetrated by the re-
newal of schedules D and E without alteration or
modification.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The National Assembly proceeded on Wednesday to
renew the Presidents and Secretaries for the ensuing
month. In the Second Committee, M. EUGENE SUE
was elected President by 18 votes against 17, given to
the Due DE 1311,CGLIE.

The negotiations for the formation of a definitive Mi-
nistry have again completely failed.
The Messager, the organ of M. TRIERS, has the fol-
lowing on this subject :
" Yesterday M. Odilon Barrot met M. Fould at dinner
at the house of a friend. The conversation having turned
on the recent failure to form a Ministry, M. Odilon. Barrot
declared, in the presence of M. Fould, that the President of
the Republic had never called upon him for a programme of
his policy, and had never made him any proposition what-
ever, from which it may be concluded that the President of
the Republic wished to make it appear that he was seeking
to form a definitive Ministry, but in reality never made the
attempt. As to the law of the 31st of May, M. Barrot denies
that he had expressed himself respecting it as has been stated.
He was merely disposed, by way of conciliation, to adopt the
modification proposed by the committee on the Municipal
Bill, if it should have received the sanction of the majority,
but he went no further."

The Journal des BMWs publishes in exlenso the pro-
test of the French Government against the incorporation
of the Sclavonian and Italian provinces of Austria with
the German Confederation, and precedes it with the fol-
lowing remarks : _ _

" Our correspondent at Berlin writes us that the German
journals show great discontent at the importance which the
Debuts has attached to the pretensions of Austria. The as-
sertions, ho a ever, of the German journals can neither change
the nature of things nor destroy facts. France bas twice
protested, as we have before said ; she did so at Vienna by
her note of the 31st of January, and afterwards by that of
the 23d of February. She has done still more ; she has very
recently communicated to the Imperial Cabinet, and to all
the other Cabinets who signed the convention of the Con-
gress of Vienna, a memorandum in which the question raised
by the pretensions of Austria is discussed in all its phases, and
in its relations with the politics of Europe. Has Austria the
right to demand the admission into the Germanic Confedera-
tion of her Sclavonian and Italian possessions? Does it come
within the competency of the Confederation ? Both of these
points are treated at length in the memorandum of the
French Cabinet, and the dangers of such a system to the
Germanic Confederation and to the peace of Europe are forci-
bly pointed out."
The brother of M. BAROCHE, the ex-Minister, died
yesterday.
There was a perfect panic at the close of business at
the Bourse yesterday, and the most improbable;reports
were circulated to account for the fall in Government
Stock. The Five per Cents. opened at 93t. 35c., and closed
at 92f. 75c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f.; Or-
leans Railroad Shares, 8851.; Havre, 275 f.; Great North-
ern, 4751. ; Avignon, 205 f.; Vierzon, 447 f. 50c.; Basle,
1551..; Bordeaux, 402 t. 50c; :Paris and Strasburg, 367 f.
50c.; Tours and Nantes, 276 f. 25c.
11.1j6.ft ESS tfONk IN FUREllili RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.
Boulogne and Amiens, 95,x—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 18—East Indian, 1514—Luxembourg, 1%-
Ditto, 3%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4% --- Paris and Stras-
bourg, 10% -- Rouen and Havre, 111 A— Sambre and Meuse,
34—Tours and Nantes, 641.

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