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THE SAILORS" STRIKE IN THE NORTH.

SHIELDS, TUESDAY', NOON.—Great excitement was
caused in the borough of Tynemouth yesterday by
the appearance of 70 armed policemen from New -
castle. It seems that on Saturday night about 20
seamen went on board the Commerce, a laden collier,
lying ready for sea, and having ascertained that the
crew had signed for under-wages, ordered them
ashore. They all complied with the exception of the
carpenter, who refused to obey their summons. They
then hauled him from below, and after tearing his
clothes, took him ashore with them. This, with the
attack on the Shipping-office on Friday, determined
the mayor and magistrates to take steps to prohibit a
meeting of seamen from both sides of the Tyne, to be
held on Monday evening, The police took possession
of the quay with drawn cutlasses about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, but the sailors having marched out of
the town with the Blyth men, who had come across
to fraternize with them, there was no disturbance, the
policemen only capturing the table, with the sheets
for the memorial to the Board of Trade, and capsiz-
ing some apple stalls. The meeting, instead of being
held on the quay, was held in the Assembly-rooms,
there being a great mass of seamen present. The
policemen were withdrawn, and order was restored
to the town again. The military were under arms at
Tynemouth Castle, ready at a moment's notice. • The
mayor has written to the Admiralty requesting them
to send a war-gtearnor down to prnteet the vessels in
the harbour.
After the police took possession of the quay the fol-
lowing notice was issued :--
BOROUGH OF TYNEMOUTH.
" NOTICE.

seamen, and other persons de-
sirous tminags,
business at the Shipping Master's-
office,‘'A of a
10l masters,rnttbensN4 mates,
New Quay, will be protected by the ma-
gistrates of the borough from violence and interruption
in so doing. And all persons ass.,amro hblinegrebfoyr tohredperuerd-
pose, or ostensible purpose, of interrupting the lawful
business of the Shipping-office,
forthwith to disperse, and in default of compliance with
this notice will be dealt with according to law.
..By order,
~ WILLIam LINsKILL, Mayor."
The clerks from the shipping-offices were obliged to
go on board the vessels ready for sea yesterday, and
get the men to sign articles there, as they refused to
enter the offices for the purpose.
Freights were up ls. 6d. a ton yesterday, and a
number of owners fixed their vessels for the London
market.
The memorial to the Board of Trade received the
signatures of 2,000 seamen and ship-carpenters yes-
terday and Saturday, making above 4,000 seafaring
waitedtheir grievances t o him.
upon the Mayor of
people belonging to the Tyne and Wear alone who
have polled against the shipping-offices and regula-
tions of the Board of Trade in their present form.
A deputation from the united body of North and
TS oyunteinhSouh itehl,ds seamen
They say they want nothing but peace and order, and
affirm that the attacks on the Shipping-office and
and explabianveed
Commerce were made without their cognizance.

The cat leapt into Hip •
followed, and so
EFFECT OF HUNGER ON A Fox.—Onpeursoufionugracity
capture of the varmint. In
policemen, while on duty near
thWatesttghaeteg-übarirddgiea,ri
oaft one
o'clock e
across the
tyhyeeas trbedir,iddagwye
htneolrwoeranri,d,nsbgo,t
lhdoe bcsrieetrfneadrTd
ha„
injpublicuredphe iateneselnf
eNaVriltyh
madethe j jump, np,
the morning, having crossed the river in the night, he was
found in the meadows, and after a chase, was run into a
pool near Over Bridge, and killed by a dog.—Glouccster
Chronicle.

•-•
We are happy in reporting that the Rev. Mr.
Morgan, curate cf the Bangor District Chapel, near this
place, whose left arm was recently amputated close to the
shoulder, having been shattered by the accidental discharge
of his gun whilst coursing, is doing very well, under the
skilful treatment of Dr. Richard

I will, however, say no more on this subject than
that, as far as Scotland is in question, I know your
good sense, toleration, truth, and piety, are more than
sufficient to defend your faith, liberties, and institu-
tions against all hierarchial danger.
But the taxation and expenditure of the country is
too important in regard to your interest to be neg-
lected by me. Although it will be difficult for any
Chancellor of the Exchequer or any Government to
carry through Parliament even the financial measures
which may appear to them the most equitable—much
more so will it be for the House to entertain the pro-
jects of others—yet every Member of Parliament and
every one of her Majesty's subjects have an undoubted
right, under the British Constitution, to remonstrate
against grievous or unequal taxation, and unjust or
indiscreet expenditure. But more than all, it is the
duty of Members of Parliament never to consent to
any profuse or unnecessary expenditure, and to resist
all unfair taxation. If the House of Commons be
supported when right, and controlled when wrong, by
the people out of doors, no Minister, however inca-
pable or corrupt, can unjustly tax the people.
But it was a House of Commons not representing
the people—a House corrupted by the Crown and the
Ministers of the day, which allowed the Sovereigns
of Britain and their Ministers to tax the people for
the expenses then and ever since of the following wars,
the entailed expenses of which now constitute the
whole of our taxing perplexities. First—To allow
William of Orange and Queen Anne to wage war
for the gratification of the Dutch, or William's ambi-
tion, and for the glory and fortune of the Duke of
Marlborough; and which war ended-1. by Louis
XIV. placing his grandson Philip V., in spite of
England, on the throne of Spain ;-2. by his form-
ing the famous family compact, against which Eng-
land afterwards made several expensive wars ;--3. by
ceding Louisburg and all Cape Breton to France,
which saddled England with another expensive war ;
atoonf dws4wh 1111 c5h733d6e3b
—and, 4. by imposing on the people, for the first
time, the burden of a national debt; the invention
aimportedl., amounted,
uenv
tef
err
doym,
ft
afterlr- It Holland lntahgne dopfbe yawche
William
ocfh
Utrecht,youl lalr .
e
still liable, and on which you have paid for 136 years,
at simple interest (it was first 6 per cent.) no less a
sum than (at 4 per cent., being less than the average)
393,000,000/. sterling.
The extra expenses, over and above the peace estab-
lishment—caused by the wars of William and Anne
against France, amounted to 59,572,058/. sterling,
exclusive of palaces and grants to the Duke of Marl-
borough, and disgraceful pensions paid ever since to
the heirs of the husband of one of his daughters. I
will exhibit this scandalous annual payment else-
where. George I. was not very belligerent, and the
extra expenses of his little war amounted to 6,048,2671.,
and the interest of the debt was diminished in his
reign by lowering the interest.
But in George ll.'s reign we engaged in wars of
enormous carnage against France and Spain, which
caused high taxation, and the extra expenses of the
war of 1739 against Spain, and the general war of
1755, amounted to 157,690,6851. What was the loss
and gain? The expenses of giaintaining the Govern-
ment until 1825, and of the army since 1759, in
Canada, and of having ceded to England three small
islands in the West Indies, for the soil of which,
however, British subjects paid French proprietors, very
justly, 3,000,000/. ; besides which, that war led to a
ruinous commercial crisis, and the national debt at
the peace of 1762 increased 146,682,844/. ; this was
exclusive of the high war taxes voted, levied, and
spent. Then came the American war against public
liberty, and for enforcing the payment of taxes with-
out representation—which attempt brought forth the
famous dictum of Chatham, " THAT TAXATION WITH-
OUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY." This unnatural
war, persevered in by an obstinate King and a wicked
Ministry, cost the people of Great Britain
139,171,8761., exclusive of about 3,000,0001. paid as
compensation afterwards to American loyalists. What
was the loss and gain ? The disappearance of British
authority over a country now inhabited by more:than
26,000,000 of people ; and the gaie of an enormous
international commerce, without the expense or per-
plexity of governing thirty sovereign states, now in-
dependent, and astonishing the world by their pro-
gress' prosperity, and power. Then came the wars
with France, equally wicked, and more dreadful in
their carnage. From the year 1793 to the year 1801
there was added to the national debt, by loans at
high interest, 327,000,0001. sterling, for which the
Treasury received 215,000,0001., or 66 per cent. of
the amount funded; but this was far less than the
expenses of the war, for there was about 50 per cent.
and more added to the revenue as war taxes, squeezed
out of the produce of labour, and the debt was in-
creased to 561,203,2341.
From 1801 to the close of 1815 the war expendi•
ture amounted to 708,376,8801., and allowing
15,000,0001. per annum as a peace expenditure,
which is far too much for navy, army, and ordnance,
that expense amounts, in fifteen years, to 215,000,0001.,
which reduces the extra expenses caused by the war
of the French Revolution, and of our second quarrel
with our brethren in America, to the respective sum
of 493,376,0301. sterling; add to which subsidies

from 1793 to 1815 to Hit'riover and the other states of
Germany, to Austria, Sardinia, Spain, Portugal,
Sicily, Russia, and the Prince of Orange, amounting
to 46,289,4591., besides clothing and arms to the value
of 1,582,045/.
The Battle of Waterloo and its attendant and
con.equent expenses added, in a little more than a
year, above 120 millions to the national debt ;
the interest paid on which has absorbed ever since,
for 35 y ears, nearly 4,000,000/. per annum ; or in
all nearly 140,000,0001., and far more than double
that amount at compound interest. That is to
say, the British people have paid fur the glory of
Waterloo, annually, ever since 1815, all the window.
taxes, and all the Excise duties on soap, and the duty
on hops, besides which, in consequence of those wars,
extravagant payments and corrupt pensions have been
so mystified in the public accounts that it is impossible
to unravel the scandalous practices which prevailed,
and which were sanctioned by a House of Commons
not representing the people—a House which has con-
tinually, by its money votes, enforced the infliction of
fiscal tyranny over an unrepresented nation. Nor
can I forget that the country known in history as the
ancient kingdom of Scotland was until 1830 one great
corrupt borough, the Members from which always
voted for the worst measures of the worst Ministers.

Having made these preliminary remarks, let us
look at the consequences. After the efforts of all
Europe to extinguish the Bonapartes, and all our blood-
shed in Spain, the heir of Napoleon is this day the
supreme ruler over France, by nearly the universal
choice of the French people. Louis Philippe, before
his overthrow, concluded a second family compact
with Spain, from which a British Ambassador was
insolently expelled. But we, the people of the United
Kingdom, are of all nations the most grievously, and
unfortunately without the remedy of honourable ex-
trication, oppressed by the calamity entailed upon the
whole people, in consequence of our belligerent glories.
We have now, and for ages will have, or else submit
to national disgrace, to deal with and to provide for
the enormous and evil bequest of a debt of 800 mil-
lions, by an extra annual taxation, exclusive of the
cost of collection, of about 28 millions sterling. With
this oppressive burden, and the general naval, mili-
tary, and civil expenditure, we have to legislate, in a
House of Commons, which is far from representing
those who pay 58 millions annually of taxes, exclusive
of local taxation, out of the products of skill and
labour. I will not at present enter upon a great
question, which I consider a necessary reality, that
must inevitably be carried, before long, in an age of
steam-ships, railways, and a steam press—l mean a
fairly reformed House of Commons.
Now, with regard to the taxation of the country,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will probablyl show
a surplus of from two to two
it to
half millions.
of its
Each interest wishes to apply to
is proba-
particular grievance-tax. The window-taxtb
bly to be abolished ; that will take, incltidNinhgich willthelO
per cent. additional, about 1,800,0001.,_ v
leave from 200,0001. to 700,0001. to be spread over a
reduction of taxes on knowledge, stamps, paper, hops,
malt, and other obnoxious taxes.
All the claims and clamours, therefore, for abolish
ing any of those taxes are all absurd, without a
thorough reform of our expenditure. I gave my

Total, from
Tbat those reductions are practicable and equitable,
I am prepared to prove ; but the details of the various
items of reduction, especially in the four last sums in
the above statements, would extend to far too great
a length for me to enumerate them further than to
say-1. That I propose not only to abolish the whole
expenditure of the Woods and Forests, but to sell or
lease the whole of the lands occupied by those forests,
and to transform them into the uses of man, for which
Providence designed those uncultivated soils ; 2. To
reducing the expenditure of the army, by withdraw
ing nearly the whole of our troops from the colonies,
according to the plan which has been most judiciously
begun by Earl Grey, and to reduce the army, which
constitutes a police degrading to the military force in
Ireland; 3. That if the Irish people will not, like the
people of England and Scotland, preserve the peace
and save the lives and property of each, they, and not
the taxpayers of Great Britain, must defray the
enormous sum of 563,6071. per annum for the pay,
clothes, arms, and horses of 12,758 armed constables
and 353 horses. Of this expense 523,7711 is charged
on the Consolidated Fund, and only 39,9261. on the
counties and towns of Ireland. My opinion is, the
Irish are in every respect fully able to take care of
themselves, if you do them justice in removing other
grievances.
_ _

4. In the next place, I pray the Admiralty not to
go into an epileptic fit; and I beseech all her Majes-
ty's subjects not to be alarmed by any one who would
frighten them by the cry that England will never
again sing "Britannia rules the waves ;" for I am
sure that she will long ride proudly over all the oceans
of the world, and I have no idea of rendering the
British navy less effective than it is now in the first
year of the last half of the nineteenth century. But
I do, notwithstanding, propose what will before long
be as effectually done, as the repeal of Corn and
Navigation Laws; that is to say, no less than the
utter abolition of three naval dockyards—to sell the
lands, buildings, and docks, which they occupy—to
apply the proceeds to the sinking fund,, and to save
all the annual expenditure and blundering naval con-
struction, and waste of those establishments.

Deptford was at one time the property of the East
India Company, where they built crazy and expensive
ships. The vessels built by contract for the free
traders, as they were called, of the Indian Seas, were
so eminently superior for sailing and sea-worthiness,
and so much cheaper in cost, that the company to
protect their monopoly against these interlopar,,
wisely sold their dockyard to the Government, and
had their ships built afterwards by contract in private
shipyards. Deptford has always been a yard of enor-
mous expense - and it is now useless except for main-
taining an establishment at great cost. All the apace
it occupied is absolutely required for the commerce
of the Thames ; for such has been the amazing in-
crease of steam and sailing tonnage, that it will not
be longer possible to navigate the river, with the
coal ieet and coasting craft anchored in the pool.
Therefore let Deptford, the only space left to form
dock-room for colliers and coasters, be sold, the money
applied, and the annual expenditure saved, as above
stated.

Let Chatham Dockyard be also sold, for there is
no necessity for it. Sheerness may be necessarily
retained as a dock near the mouth of the Thames, not
for building, but for refitting ships of war.
Pembroke Dockyard was a blunder from tbe first,
and it has been scandulously mismanaged. It also
ought to be abolished, and its ground and construc-
tions sold for whatever they may bring. The annual
expense would then, at all events, be saved.
If a dockyard be at all required in the Irish
Channel, the real point of command, and the best
port for refuge in distress, is Cork. But even in that
port th 3 utmost that should be maintained ought to
be no more than convenient for refitting.

Now, Woolwich, Portsmouth, and Devonport, are
amply commodious, as national docks, for any neces-
sary construction, repairs, and refitting, of ships of
war ; and I believe it will be found that a far more
formidable navy, and at much less expense, may be
maintained by having all ships of war, both steam and
sailing vessels, built by contract, with sufficient
guarantees for efficiency. Let Sheerness be main-
tained merely for refitting, and let there be infused a
practice of economy and intelligence in all that may
hereafter be administered, under the Admiralty, and
then the sum of five millions per annum will be suffi-
cient to maintain the British navy in a far more for-
midable condition than it is at present, with an ex•
penditure of nearly seven millions sterling.
As for the Ordnance, there has always been great
waste in buying a far too great supply of stores,
many of which have become obsolete by new in-
ventions, made while those stores of arms and other
articles have remained useless in the arsenals. Con-
sidering the greater cheapness and rapidity of manu-
facturing every article required by the Ordnance,
the sum which I have set down ought to be amply
sufficient.

Believing it, therefore, practical to reduce the
present gross expenditure from 55,481,655/. to
49,180,000/., the saving effected would be 6,301,658/.
—3. y, in I °um]. uutubein, nil millions uudcr the prt—
Eent system of taxation, and it ought to increase.
There is now a surplus of mere than will compensate
for the repeal of the window tax. Let us suppose
that repeal accomplished. There remains of the as-
sessed taxes (exclusive of unredeemed land tax) rather
more than one and a half millions. All these inqui-
sitorial taxes ought, for good reasons, to be abolished.
The taxes on carriages and horses are injudicious, as
all limit employment.
We have now to meddle with the Excise. The
duty on bricks, which yielded nearly half a million,
we repealed last session. The hop duty, which pro-
duces 206,0001„ ought also to be repealed. Paper
pays 810,0002.—a large sum. If we can cover our
expenditure without it, the duty should immediately
red.ia
y te
be removed out of the list of taxes. The railwayono
duty is a most indefensible tax ; unlike tolls
p rO-
- of it is applied to mending railwaree in 're-
duces about 236,0001. in Great Britain;
land. Now, we have from licencesabc
one hundred thousand pounds. The soap
duty yields
about million
about the same amount. Malt about five millions,
and home-made spirits al6o _ five millions. In
al"iuelded by the Excise
all, about fifteen millions are y
duties. rocs revenue of about seven
The stamps yield
millions ; of which the taxg on knowledge—that is, on
newspapers and advertisements—amounts to rather
more than 500,0001. rather more than a million
This is certainly a barbarous
itnax*GFire assurance yields
Britain, and about 50,000?. in Ireland.
Marine assurance produces about 158,000/ in Great
Britain, and little more than 1,0001. in Ireland. The
stamps on both fire and marine assurances are pre-
miums on imprudence, and ought to be repealed. I
cannot enter farther into detail as to stamps, but the
whole scale, including probate and legacy duty, re-
quires an equitable revision.
Now we come to the property and income-tax.
My conviction i‘, that the property- tax neither can
nor should be abandoned. But I am now—as I have
always been, and as I stated in my letter to you two
years ago, on financial reform—of opinion that it
should be, de facto, a property-tax, and none else;
and to this tax it must come, as in all justice it can
be proved to be the only equitable mode of imposing
this tax.
I therefore consider-1. That, in justice, all tenant
farmers should be relieved from the tax on their farms,
or that valued on rents, which they pay under the

3,0001. and upwards, 5 per cent., and 1-10 per cent. addi-
tional on the amount of the tax.
Now, taking it for granted that the gross expen-
diture may, as I firmly believe, be kept down as low
as 49,180,0001., how is the revenue to be provided ?
I would submit the following pro forma scheme for
levying the necessary revenue, viz. :-
1. Customs duties on the following articles:—
(a) Tobacco, say
(b) Sugar and Molasses at equa-
lized duties
(c) Tea at is. per lb ..... 3,000,000
(d) Coffee and Chocolate at duties
equalized
(e) Distilled Spirits (foreign and
colonial)
(f) Fruits of all kind (preserved or
otherwise) •••
(g) Spices of all kinds ...... . .......
(h) Wines, duties adjusted for re-

650,000

600,000
100,000

'enue .. 2,000,000
(i) Silk Manufactures, and all other
articles of luxury at an ad valorem
duty of 10 per cent., excluding all
articles of food and raw material,
as timber, &c.

£18,500,000

Total estimate from Customs
2. Excise:—
(a) Distilled spirits
and gradually reduced as the re-
venue on other articles increase,

10,500: