The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-07 00:00:00

Published. Among these precious documents
was a the follo,vin •
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•
, Duty paid Duty which would be
No. of at payable at the scale
9 Win. present chargeable on ten
9 dows. Scale. windows.
9. liar'
I}ll6°`l"h owe £. s. d. £. s. d.
Stow_ ereastie
.....
... 168 42 17 9 17 10 0
ch.,,,,,, ............. 180 46 11 3 18 15 0
p:.,_owtorttt
........ :51 52 12 9 27 3 9 .
..- I]`ownr h ............ 280 54 1 3 29 3 4
1..0. Ran
.......... 35.0 59 6 3 36 9 2
Nv.n. C1eat„.......... 365 60 8 9 38 0 5
It4tatwortli House.. 453 67 0 9 47 3 9
illetlb"lkey P° 69 1 3 50 0 0
enit
... ...... .)11 71 7 9 53 4 9
1 ......... 722 9J 19 3 81 8 4
\........414..!..1.2
1, ....... 77—,770 614 7 0 398 18 6

let is taking extremes with a vengeance ; but
Tic us take the average to expose these
gross
Isrepresentations." Seven shillings and five-
pence halfpenny is the highest sum per
anl,'" paid under the present scale of
t;). This is applied to houses having he-
theer! forty and fifty windows. The houses in
h: city of London and possibly of Westminster,
the generally from thirty to fifty windows eachß,
e a`
verage of the tax paid by which is about 87s.
ave taken the trouble to calculate what Mr.
I lc' ,hs proteges ought to pay if they were
earged at the same rate as the average of sho
ltn p-
ae,Pers or clerks in a merchant's counting-house,
the result is as follows :

Duty paid
according
to the scale
fixed by
the payers.
s. d.
168 42 17 9
180 46 11 3
261 52 12 9
280 54 1 3
350 59 6 3
365 60 8 9
453 67 0 9
480 119 1 3
511 71 7 9
722 90 19 3
3,770 614 7 0

Duty which would be
paid were the Lords and
Dukes to whom the said
Palaces belong charged
at the same rate they
fixed upon a City Shop-
keeper.

No. of
IN i n -
dows.

4"wod
k, Cher c
a5t1e......
, .....
............
t:t(ha Worth •••.....
144 ...........
We,Vteat .............
81
%:;°1 11bby1 ..
~; ... A se.
ni ............
Total
.....

X s. d.
5S 16 0
63 0 0
91 7 0
98 0 0
142 10 0
127 15 0
158 11 0
168 0 0
178 17 0
252 14 0
1,339 10 0

clas at say you to comparing the middling
slatsfiez' with the nobility now, Mr. RICK ? We
Ivot17; °n Saturday, that the middling classes
141," not object to this tax, if it were fairly
is .e") and we remain of this opinion. There
hai°4lething even beyond an equalization of the
butet wanting to make it a perfectly fair tax ;
140 'et the extremely wealthy pay in an equal
soien with those who bear the heavier part
he many other imposts, and this may long
if t'eaceably collected. As the matter stands,
iles:tielet: strictist
ers will not see that the people expect
justice, as one of the first fruits of
theri ef4cled Parliament, the people must show
kteiredthat the constitutional weapons they are now
obil with will be brought into action till it is
thea-hoe,(l. Perchance the Government will see
wip r°'icY of yielding with a good grace what
else be forced from it with a bad.
The ma.
Irish Church Reform Bill was last night
O 4 second time in the House of Commons.
Qtiv °Pinion of its necessity has been already so
leatie expressed that few observations need be
411 Ltipon the debate of yesterday evening.
the ;I'e arguments of the soi disant friends of
11411.R'rish Church, who oppose the Bill, are
q14,1i-ed by the single unanswerable fact that the
lefe;e Proposed by the Bill is no more than
ttleh'ltit to preserve the Church Establish-
-114 d' the enjoyment of the emoluments they
that so dear, When the Irish clergy reflect
41)Iiih.t,he chances in favour of their being
• tiate,,
as a corporate establishment, pos-
4'N ° corporate property, are by no means
t °nee
of sacrificing a
Sit wiii see the wisdom
hi° keep the remainder. It is singular that
44t -°1441' PEEL and others should contend
44,▪ 4,''-ge fixed income, or, as they call it, " a
e,etmaintenance," should he provided for the
hoe' ill order to encourage the spread of
hat ti!antism when history clearly proves to us
1,114),T'
cPread of any form of religion ceases
ql,i,ciately its ministers have fixed incomes.
Ctsh d continued to spread till its mini-
,44lt a," fixed incomes. The Reformation spread
Ilkokitill the reformed clergy stepped into
.good
e4heeha. Dissenters from the Established
-i, still increase, and are the chief
414,-,,i1 which Christianity has been spread
es b'ern times ; but even their progress
lsta)een' checked (we allude to the Metlio-
See si,inee their clergy have had an abun-
N.°` Worldly comforts placed at their com-
-Iht sent We could enlarge upon this point, but
11
Neel is so notorious, that it would have
eGtiee it to be travelling out of the way to
had not so many, despite the experi-
,kwerofcthe past, insisted that the " expansive
Ileti?` Protestantism" could not be exerted,
98(1 Rit4
P ministers had a well expanded purse.o
ETER insisted upon 2001. per an-
tiqhpel: a sine qua non, for preaching the
%r 1 we imagine we should have remained
this day.
efer our readers to an account given in
I.llle ; part of The Sun, of the meeting of
Council yesterday, to swear in the
ett
oldsmiths, to assay the coin. It will
lenity tthat Lord BROUGHAM took the oppor-
;ll44oc:express an indirect opinion upon the
Y with which the House of Commons
4Y,tell wearied upon the subject of the cur-
tt • It •
1,,-Nt,„ Will make capitalists " sure of the
1.4
iolbj that Ministers were unanimous upon
Port
subject.
ft 'thatt
41 the t, Papers contain no fresh intelligence
1)) '.148t °f moment.
•Pitth e rep,
44 gains strength in Paris that the
the ittt4 Qv 'T has accepted the propositions
.t° him by M. de VARENNES, with
one of the restrictions sought to be
NI the against his right of sovereignty .over
eollluest
alldachalics which he had obtained by
IllitileNOti4 that Russia is opposed to any
tqw the last 11.11; made to :VEIL EMET ALI,
Pepo'rt°4 tothLer made his unqualified sub-
'4) for Otte
)4, This is not an improbable
`e bet `Y is interested in prolonging the
orde wee 4 r
40, r that IBRAntm. and the SULTAN,
d~tigr•
that
May thereby have a pretext for
g the
stay of her troops at Con-
,
I~n~haB able
yre
.‘
fur
'l'tai4 is to have two thousand
.14,41,14 r lc'r, at the Italian Opera; and it was
and c 0 re she would agree to come over.
ate
t') have two thousand guineas alto.