The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-02 00:00:00

Encumbered Estates Commission, which, after a few
words in explanation from the Attorney-Genral for
Ireland and Sir G. Grey, were postponed until to -morrow.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Ilalf.past Twelve o'clock.

ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON MR. DIS-
RAELI'S MOIION.
Ilfjority (tellers included)—
. Conservatives 30
-.- 244

Minority (tellers included)—
Proteotionists
Liberals ...

Irish Brigade

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TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

(EVERY ZIONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—Oa Monusy the 30th of June, " the great
Chicory question" was once more brought before the
House. The universal English nation is crying out with
one united uproar of vociferation, that chicory may not
be mixed with its coffee. It may have a coffee-mill for
one and ninepenco, but it prefers continually to cry.
The British portion of the world is going to ruin, be-
cause chicory is mixed with its coffee, and nobody cares
to prevent it. Such at least is the representation, fro%
those whose burning patriotism is heated by the reco
leotion of coffee plantations within the tropics. The
madness of the public is equal to its suffering. "My
public," that "unprotected female," goes to the coffee-
shop and says, " Let me have some of the Treasury
Mixture," having at the same time full power, if pos-
sessed of the smallest portion of a market-woman's
arithmetic, to calculate from the prices of the respective
commodities, the exact proportion of each which is con-
tained in the Mixture demanded. " A coffee-dealer
would mix," as the obstinate trader was always por-
trayed in Walkinghame's well-thumbed page, "coffee at
two shillings ti pound, with chicory at eightpence,
to make a mixture which should be sold at one and four-
pence. I desire to know, how much there was of each?"
The babes in market-making can solve the problem • but
if Parliament will not interfere to stop the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's ruinous laissez faire, the prosperity of
the country is at an end. Such were the statements
from the coffee zealots. Whether the House likes the
Treasury Mixture, or for other reasons, the motion for
restriction on the liberty of the coffee-pot was rejected
this time by 199 to 122.
On the same day was a repetition of the sort of de-
monstration which has come in so many forms from the
Conservative side, with little visible purpose but that of
measuring strength in what racers call "a training gal-
lop," and showing off the gifts and graces of the leaders
in the display. The proposed object, so far as it was
expressed in words, was something peculiarly misty; for
the pith of a rather lengthy motion was to oblige the
Government, during the existence of a Committee on the
Income Tax, " not to make any material sacrifice of
public income in effecting such changes as may be
deemed advisable in other branches of Taxation." Who
can tell what is " a material sacrifice"? where will
ten men be got to agree upon what is meant by " a
material sacrifice"? Altogether it was wonderfully like
the movement of the little boy inside the carriage, who
thinks he could drive a great deal better than Johnl if
Mama would let him. 'Yet there were accessories mixed
with it, which are worth the noting. There was a visi-
ble abatement of hostile demonstration against the pre-
sent tenants of the box, a kind of volunteer admission of
their perpetuity in their places, which looks as if it
came by cause. Is the nominal leader of the Conserva-
tives quarrelling with them; or is he trying to alarm them?
Unless it is a specimen of the " blundering organization
that does what it did not intend," which he so unsparingly
ascribed to a political adversary on Monday night, there is
something coming which time will explain.
The real substance of the proceedings, was to hold a
field-day on the Income Tax. And here it was lament-
able to see, how that largo portion of the community
which consists of the Working Classes paying at ten or
eleven times the rate of the rich on articles which they
consume, and the least wealthy owners of incomes and
houses who share in the same injustice, was left utterly
without a fragment of representation in tho debate.
Not a voice was lift up, to hint that such things were;
but dumb dogs all. Surely the times are coming, when
this will not be so. The Income Tax is a struggle
between the house of Have and the house of Pay; with,
the object of making the former pay a rough approxi-
mation to their share, by the exemption of the smaller
incomes. And then stand up what pass for the peo-
ple's champions, and cry, " An Income Tax ought to
be universal, as the direct taxes are ;" the universality
of the direct taxes consisting in the poor paying ten
or eleven times as much as the rich. Whether this is
ignorance or wilfulness, the harm is much the same.
Meanwhile the Queen's Ministers at this moment are
the only quarter where the Working Classes and the
small incomes meet with any consideration; though they
are obliged as diligently to hide it, as a maiden who is
letting concealment " prey on her damask cheek." The
movement on the present occasion was a failure for the
projectors, for it ended in a division in favour of the Go-
vernment, of 242 to 129.
On Tuesday the whole ()Wing was given to a debate
on the spiritual destitution existing throughout England
and Wales, and an Address moved to the Queen for re-
medying the same out of the resources of the Esta-
blished Church. A laudable object, if Addresses can
accomplish it.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, July 2, 1851.