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only' deaitroce taxes.cagfstioevre
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asked for:the tax only for a limited and temporary period.
He confessed that the pleas for its successive extension
had by no means been satisfactory to hiamind, but he was
still more surprised at the ground' upon which it was pro-
pe to extend the increased till April, 1853. Why, the
line I
t was distinctly fixed for one year after the termina-
tio of the war, Well, what was the termination of the
wa ? The cessation of hostilitioa and the signing of the
art lee of the peace. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer
sal " all groat statesmen knfaw that a war had not ceased
un I the treaty of peace was ratified." All the great states-
me in the House of Commons applauded that statement
( aughter)—and the consequence was, that although the
tf
trejlty was signed a week before the expiration of the finan-
cial year, the ratifications having been postponed for three
we'elae-after -that period, they_were asked to pay two years'
additional tax instead of one. Now, ho had no hesitation
in saying that had Ministers come forward, and asked for
the extension of the tax for another year, there would have
been such ara opposition to ,it that they would have been
comPolleo. to withdraw thoproposition. It was clear, there-
fore, tb at the tax rested upon a very slender and unsound
folltui.atien. There could be no doubt whatever that the tax
wks a war tax, and nothing else, and now that the war was
tried, the tax specially imposed to meet the demands
o the war should cease also. They all knew that in that
bprough and elsewhere the Government establishments had
been very materially reduced, and he should like to know
why the tai-Should not be reduced also. As to the question
4hather 'the tax, in a reduced and different shape, should
/*come a part of oar financial system, they were not called
pon to discuss it that night, and having pointed out what
e considered the point really at issue, he should have
groat pleasure in giving effect to the decision of his consti-
tuents to the utmost of his power in his place in the House
of Commons. (Cheers.) In conclusion, Mr. Chambers, re-
ferring to some observations of Mr. Thwaites, denied that
be borough was either a Goeernment or a corrupt borough.
ad it been either, he should not have occupied the posi-
len of its representative.
The resolution was agreed to unanimously amidst loud
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• 6 OknErit tliekiitertiaticiOoi OfrafeittiWei3;‘-
°dying the reso ution, and that Mr. Chanabera be re-
"'vitt
nested to_ present and support the same. In supporting
he resofution, he said that this was no party question. It
as ono which affected alike all parties and all classes, and
hereforo all were called upon alike to exert themselves to-
es justice done. ,
Mr. DUVALL seconded the motion. •
Mr; NICHOL4Y,.one of the deputation from the Metropn-
lktan Association, supported the resolution, and earnestly
advisa ihe constituencies of the citiqa 'and boroughs
throughout the country to imitate the electors ,Of Stroud, -
who • had signed a declaration plodding themseives not to
support any candidate at the next electidn who did not
pledge himself to tlui speedy reduction, and the future
equitable adjust ment'," or Elia/ repeal 'or the 'tax. The it!
presentative of &rola waa Mr. Horsman, thO Secretary N..
Ireland. That movement would, therefore, be felt at once
by the Government. 'ln Marylebone, the ittpertant metro-
politan horciugh to Which he'(Mr. Nicholay) belonged, they
had-also-a-Ministerrf-the Crown (Sir B. Hall) for a repre-
sentative. They would soon have a borough meeting, .and
he would endeavour to lead Sir Benjaniin to that meeting,
by a, silken string, and to get such a pledge-from him.', If
not, woe to Sir Benjamin. This was not
,a question upon
which they. should be mealy mouthed. They mast speak
out; and -he was happy.' to say that ' the movement was
Spreading with unexampled rapislity throughout the whole
country. The tocsin was sounded, and in a short time
he believed that unity and energy would give them a
triumphant victory. (Cheers.)
Colonel SLEIGA next addressed the meeting in condem-
nation of what he called a hideous imposture, a scandalous
abomination, and a shocking fraud upon the industry and
the intelligence of the country. If they took an income of
1501.. a-year, derived from professional and personal exer-
tions, it would be only worth their purchase, and the mar-
ket value would be 4161. If they took 1501. a-year, derived
from permanent property, its value in the market would
be 3,7501. The Government taxed both these incomes
alike, and the result was that the income"from casual and,
precarious resources was taxed at the rate of i 2/. zs. per!
cent., while that from permanent sources was taxed only
ss. 4d. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear," and "Shame.") For
hislowapart he went further than previous speakers,' and
would entirely abolish the tax upon professional and trad-;
ing incomes. (Cheers.)
The resolution. was then unanimously agreed to,(tind th
proceediilgs'closed with a cordial vote of7thanks to thi
Chairman.

• MEETING AT DORCHESTER. 1
A meeting of the inhabitants of Dorchester was held i 4
their Guildhall on Tuesday—the Mayor; Mr. J. Ensor,
presiding,—" to consider the best means of effecting a
speedy abolition of theincome tax." The Rev. W. Barnes
moved
,a resolution declaring the income tax to be unjust
in its principle and offensive in its character, which was
seconded by Mr. J. T. Shorto.The next resolution was
.proposed.,by Mr. ,1M.;: C. Weston, seconded by Mr. T. 1.;. •
Tulloch, declaring that the practical operation of the lawss4
rdzittng kithe income tax was in quisitoiial and productiv'e'
of great hardship, inequality, and ipjustice; and that This
ik.
meeting would be satisilail With- n hing lesi than their
'total and immediate abolition.- It -urged by the first-
speaker that there is a positive immo; ,ty in putting a tax
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upon Virtue:--and 'that the income tax is a*Aßeeniv •
yiiv,t44lld. i usltis try ;; b3llti as, acle rgyin a nAttlitfAN.:
,ii•rea vpiialon; ta.'it,-that it almost, colispela taZa'aii
tamper with his conscience, or else he must over tax MM.
self. Any law (said the rev. gentleman) which tempted a
man, although not extortionate in any other way, any law
which tempted a man to tamper with his conscience was
a bad one, and woull be found in course of time to be as
demoralising as it was bad. The resolutions were all passed
unanimously, and a petition to Parliament in accordance
with them was adopted.

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Chitty on Contracts not under
Broom's Commentaries,' Book 11. uitym?
" By order of the Council
RICELIED
"Council Charebor,,Lincoln'ei:innk
" Educational Term cia.
of Jan. and ends on the 30th of Ilarch\.lSayivi
of each priiate class will take place on the Eaßual Oprb.
or evening of meeting next after the firstVubliersicturo
on the same Subject."

AN ACTION, TO RECOVER ONE .7:lUlVai
D.RED.TIIOUSAND F.RANCS.

It has been stated that great sensation has been
caused by a lady having brought an action against
a lieutenant-colonel of the army to recover
100,600 f. damages for his refusal to marry her
according to the civil form, after being married to
her according to the forms of the church—land the
principal circumstances of the case have also been re-
lated. On Wednesday the matter was brought on
before the Civil Tribunal, Paris, and it excited ex-
traordinary interest, the Court being crowded by
fashionable personages. M. Berry, advocate for the
lady, after some preliminary observations, made a
statement to this effect :—The lady, Mme. Audouin
by name, daughter of an adjutant-general of the
Neapolitan army, was married to a, superior officer
of the army, who died in 1854, leaving her with a
son. She was an affectionate wife to him, as his
family testified. M. Dubost, the defendant, then
chef d'escadron, was afriend of her husband, and
frequently visited him.. After his death, he con-
tinued his visits to her, took great interest in her
position, endeavoured to get her child placed in a
public school, and with the consent of her family
became the boy's guardian. Before long he began :
to Manifest sentiments of affection for the lady, and
employed all means to touch her heart. She in
time conceived a passion for him. He proposed
marriage, and on the 28th May, 1854, wrote to her
mother to demand her'hand. The mother gave,
her consent, but immediately after he told Mme.
Audouin that his parents and all his family were
vehemently opposed to the marriage, and that his
mother threatened to curse him if he persisted in J`
making it. This plunged her into despair, and on
the Bth June she attempted to kill herself byi taking
a dose of laudanum. M. Dubost, hearing of what
jals se. had .done, hastened: .e e and manifest
:oet-PrUrP4o.4tai.ctts,a aelltaliiaNteta
in, and they declared tha mild not live 1 the
cure of Saint Thomas d'Aquin was accordingly
Summoned, and he administered the last sacra-
ments, of, the church, M. Dulecist all the time being
on his knees by the side of the bed Weeping. When
the ceremony was over he begged .the priest to
marry him and the lady, and the latter' by her ges-
tures made a similar prayer. • The cure hesitated,
and went , into an adjacent room to question the
physicians onthe condition. of the lady ; they told
film that "she could not 'pass the night." He, '
therefore, to console her, performed the marriage ,
'ceremony between her and Detest. The next day
a fats:hirable turn took place in' her situation, and
ten. days after else Was, well enough to leave the,
!house. She and M. Dubost then drove to a jewel-
ler's, and. he there purchased two wedding-rings,
!on Which he 'caused to be engraved, " C.C., E.D.,,
;united the Bth June, 1854." On the 22d. the-
.(
couple attended mass, and the cure afterwards, in F
the vestry, blessed the rings and presented them to
the pair. From that day they believed theltiselves
husband and wife. M. Dubost wrote several let-
ters to Mine. Audouin, expressing the most pro-
found affection for her ; 'in one of them he said,
" Claire, lam your husband before God ! my
honour and my love you should confider On the
31st July, expecting that his military service might
call him away, he executed before a notary a deed
authorising M. P—; an, engineer by profession,
to, take measures
,for oblaintng the consent of his
parents to the marriage,- and.even4, if necessary, to
give the notice that it would be effected without
their consent; also to settle• the conditions of the
marriage settlement. The day after he handed that
gentleman eletter addressed to the Minister of Wet,
solicitinglis, authorisation to the marria,gel,.ln the
evening' he promised to visit Mine. Audouin, but
ire* went. In the course, of ~tbe evening that
lady's 3 =lid receive!! alletnionymous letter 'stating
that t` a great mist-61.031e had occurred in!the
boat family, and that Felix (the defendant) must
remain at home." she took the letter to the cure
,of St. Thomas d'Aquin, and he called on Mme.
Andouireto coMmdnicate- the contents to her. She
went ,to,ihh hOnse of old M. Dubost-=nothing had
-occurred) she then went to the lodgings of her
lover- ahe was not there. She afterwards received
a letter from him, saying that " something had.
,11; I - ned which rendered. calm Mid isolation neces-
:: ry tethim,", begging,of her 'to love him, for he
loved-Aar and, was, her husband, and declaring
mysteriously that " it was from Algiers the blow
had come 1" Madame Audouin knew from his
.own confession that he had abandoned a woman at
(tiers by' whom le had had" a child—tand she
,
•
. 64 from .this reference fa that country
meant to abandon her likewise. Not hearing of
him for some days she made inquiries, and learned
that on his own demand he had been sent to the
Crimea. She went to the Crimea, and had him
summoned to herpresence in the ten tof the chaplain.
She then solemnly called on him to fulfil his pro-
mise to her, but he refused. "I have forgotten all
that has passed. between us," said he, " and will
not hear talk of it !" On this she drew forth a
poignard, stabbed herself in the breast, and fell
bathed in blood. For three weeks her life was in
danger, and then she was brought back to Paris.
Some time after M. Dubost, who had risen to the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, came to Paris, and.she
and her friends called on him to have a civil mar-
riage celebrated between them, so as to make the
religious one valid ;' but he refused. She went to
him, and supplicated him to fulfil his engagement
to her, but he again positively refused. She then
drew forth a 'pistol, and seemed disposed to dis-
charge it at him or herself, but he wrested it from
her. He afterwards denounced her to the police.
Seeing that he was determined not to fulfil his en-
gagements she brought the action. The learned_
counsel then proceeded to argue that the lady had
suffered grievous wrong at the hands of the defen-
dant, and that the tribunal ought to grant heavy
damages.—M. Mogent Saint Laurens, advocate of
Lieutenant-Colonel Dubost, said that the law with
regard to breach of promises of marriage was that
damages could not be obtained when the promise
alleged to he broken had not been freely given
and his answer to the case was that his client had
not given a free promise. He then said that
andMme.was
Audouin, who was forty years of g
of an irascible, violent, romantic chaaraecter, had,
very shortly after the death of her husband, at
which she pretended to be profoundly afflicted,
begun to lay her nets for M. Dubost, and he being
good-natured, and perhaps rather frivolous, was not
on his guard against them. Not content with the
visits which he paid her, she wrote him letters ie.
which she called him the " friend of her unoccu-
pied
hours," and applied to him endearing epithets.
Passionate language soon began to be employed
between there, but as he did not talk of marriage,
as she wished, she on the 26th of May took a
dose of poison, and when he presented himself at
the house he found her pale and haggard, and ap-
parently in a dying state. On this
he, to soothe
her, wrote to her mother to demand her hand ; at
that time the ashes of her husband, who had only
been dead two months, were not cold, and yet she
made no objection to his writing The family"
Dubost opposed the marriage, on &wombs of the
violent and eccentric character of the lady, and so
on the Bth June she had
recourse to another poison-
.ing. On that day she wrote to him to say that she
meant to take laudanum in 0 • order to procure sleep,
but she added, ,c I ma deceive- myself by taking
too strong a dose r, He Saw clearly that the letter
was intended to announce a suicide, and ho hasten-
ed to her house.
Re there found her in apparently
a dying state, With a priest in his robes, lighted can-
dles, and several persons around her bed; the scene
was very dramatic.. When the priest had adminis-
tered extreme unction to the lady, aPho appeared
to be dyina. Dubost, who really felt great emo-
tion, criedilMarrY usr and the marriage ceremony
as gone throngs.
h-
But that ceremony was void,
both in the eye of
the law and according. to the
canons of the church. The question strquently
presented itself to the mind of M. Duboe ;—was the
poisoning of Madame Audouin fictitious or real?
If fictitious the case fell to the ground, and the
learned counsel contended that it was's°, inasmuch
as madame Ain-loam was perfectly conscious of all
d had übse uentl recorded it
ans q y.
that was passing,
'tine' ; whereas if she had taken poison enough
in yen b
to cause her death, she would have been in a stu-
pefied state. This doubt and the violence of Ma-
dame A udouin's character convinced M. Dubost
that marriage would only be misery for both, espe-
cially as he had not disguised from her that he had
been connected with another female, and was the
father of a child. As to the Scenestbat subsequently
took place 'between him and the lady, they proved
the prudence of his resolution. The learned gentle-
man concluded by contending that as the promise
M. Dubost was alleged to have made bad been
given under moral constraint it was not binding in
law, and that therefore no damages
were due from
him. The Public Prosecutor, after summing uP
the case, expressed the opinion that the action
ought to be dismisfegle The Tribunal postponed
judgment for a week.—Calignani's Messenger.

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MR. THACKERAY'S LECTURES.—Yesterday evening,
at the Marylenone Instit uLion Mr. Thackeray began, for
the first time in London, tho eeries of lectures on the
"Four Georges," which he had previously delivered in
tha UniLcd hates of America, in Scotland, and in the
provineeE. The mow was crowded in every part.