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London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

Palace, so that the visitor requires no small amount
of self-possession to preserve his attention from lapsing
into a state of bewilderment. We presume that no
doubt can, therefore, any longer remain either as to
whether the Exhibition can be thoroughly examined
in more than a glance, or when examined prove
capable of advancing the cause of education.

Although the Income and Property-tax Bill stands
for a third reading this evening, after which no im-
provement can be effected for twelve months, we
should not altogether despair of some modifications
being agreed to even at the eleventh hour, if those
who are impressed with the injustice and inequality
of the existing system would force their views on the
Legislature, and determine to try the effect of a divi-
sion for the purpose of obtaining some instalment of
justice. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
is entitled to no degree of credit for the
promised inquiry. He resisted it to the
very last, declaring that his mind was made up, and
that no good would arise from the investigation. It was
not until he had sustained a signal discomfiture, being
defeated by a majority of 14, that be yielded a re-
luctant assent to the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee. The nomination of that Committee has not
even yet taken place. It may be fairly constituted of
impartial and unprejudiced men, and from
what fell from the PREMIER last week in
reference thereto, we would fain hope that
such will be the ease. But we alao know
the peculiar opinions of Sir CHARLES WOOD on this
subject. The Right Honourable Baronet, on a
former occasion, when the public mind was no less
excited respecting our restrictive monetary code and
the disastrous consequences arising from impolitic and
inequitable legislation on that all-important topic,
than it has more recently been on the unequal opera-
tion of the equal assessment of all descriptions of in-
come without reference to the sources
from whence they were derived, declared
that a " Minister must be mad who would
consent to the appointment of a Committee
on any matter unless well aware of what would be
the nature of their report." He manifestly considered
that the reference of any question to a Committee was
only an ingenious device for the purpose of putting
it on the shelf until the temporary excitement should
have terminated. It might also have the effect of
removing some degree of responsibility from the
Government and transferring it to the Committee.
His powers of " packing" a Committee, so as to
attain his object, have not been tested on a solitary
occasion, or even when the Committee was appointed
at his own suggestion. The nomination of the Com-
mittee to inquire into the cause of the commercial
distress of 1847, when a report was carried in direct
opposition to the evidence by the casting votes of
himself and of the author of the inculpated law, was
an illustration of the former, and of that on the Irish
savings banks of the latter. In that case the Hon. Gentl-
eman the Member for Dublin had carried his motion
for a stringent inquiry, despite the determined oppo-
sition and resistance of Sir CHARLES WooD, who,
however, then took the matter out of his hands, and
so arranged the Committee that the object of the
mover was in a great degree defeated.
It is, therefore, possible, that notwithstanding the
protestations of the PREMIER, such a trick may again
be attempted. The third reading should, therefore,
be postponed until after the names of those who were
to conduct the inquiry were duly published. And
even if assured that it would be fairly and im-
partially conducted, so that we might naturally
anticipate an equitable and politic decision,
why, we ask, should palpable injustice be
submitted to patiently for another year, or why
should not those chargeable under Schedule D en-
deavour to obtain some concession, although it might
not be adequate to the exigencies of the case, or such
as they have eventually a right to expect ? We have
already suggested that a reduction of the charges
under Schedule D to one-half of its present amount
would greatly mitigate existing discontent, and
make those who were chargeable pay their
quota more willingly. While such 'gross and
palpable injustice as now prevails is recognised
by law, every subterfuge will be resorted to, in order
to save the parties from being plundered. Exorbitan

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duties occasion an organized and extensive system of
smuggling and deception. Men think it a meritori-

ous act to evade such inequitable enactments, which
seem to be

" More honoured in the breach than in the observance."
And so it is that many persons deem it no great
harm to deceive the income-tax collector.
This evil, and anything that tends to demoralise a
portion of the community by making them disre-
gard the truth, and carry on systematically a course
of fraud and deception, despising, disregarding, and,
if practicable, evading the law of the 1 and, is an evil
of no ordinary magnitude—can only be averted
by removing, so far as practicable, the deep sense of
wrong and injury that must now prevail. The tax
would be more freely paid than at present, and the
loss might not be so great as may possibly be
imagined. Two added to two will not always
amount to four in financial arithmetic ; nor will
two taken from four leave a balance of two only.
We trust, then, that another effort may be made to
obtain some immediate relief for the sufferers before

the measure be permitted to pass through its last
stage.

We have seen the advantages to be gained by per-
tinacity. Colonel SIBTHORP would force on his
amendment. The Honourable and Gallant Gentle-
man refused to listen to the Ministerial blandish-

ments ; he would not be cajoled or diverted from his
purpose, and he has achieved his object. The farmers
are relieved, although their grievance was nothing in
comparison to that of many of those charged under
Schedule D. It is, however, one of the weaknesses
of our excellent Minister of Finance, that he will

truckle to opponents and concede matters which he
would obstinately refuse to his steadiest friends.

ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN FOR THE WARD OF
LANGEOURN.—On Saturday a numerous meeting of the con-
stituency of the Ward of Langbourn took place at the school-
room in Lime-street, over which the Lord Mayor presided.
Mr. J. Masterman, M.P., amid great applause, proposed Mr.
W. Cubitt, M.P., as a fit person to represent the ward in the
Court of Aldermen. He did not hesitate to declare that the
more the electors should see of his Hon. Friend the more they
would admire his energy, decision, and integrity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Kilby seconded the nomination. Mr. Singer and Mr.
Finley then addressed the meeting. The latter gentleman,
in alluding to Smithfield-market, said it was a mere matter
of quarrel between the Government and the corporation.--
(Cries of " Yes, yes !" and " No, no !") The Government
had never made a greater mess than in the market question.
Mr. Brook said Mr. Cubitt had been chosen as a candidate
because he was the best man they could find. He was so
well known in the City that he needed no eulogy. No other
candidate having been proposed, Mr. Cubitt was unani-
mously elected alderman of the ward, and in a short speech
returned thanks for the honour conferred upon him. Mr.
Beach, the treasurer of the ward schools, moved a vote of
thanks to Sir Jon Key upon his retirement to the Ward of
Bridge Without. The motion having been seconded by Mr.
White, was carried amid loud cheering. A vote of
thanks was moved and carried for the Lord Mayor as
chairman of the meeting, after which the wardmote was
dissolved.

A MAN KILLED BY THREE IRISHMEN AT STAM-
FORD.—(From a Correspondent.)—This generally quiet town
was on Saturday evening, about half-past six o'clock, thrown
into great consternation by a report that a man named
George Large had been murdered at the Horse-shoe Inn, Red
Lion-square. From what can at present be learned, it ap-
pears that seven or eight men and the deceased had been
drinking together for some time, and in the course of the
afternoon a few words took place between Large and an
Irishman named Patrick M‘Glen. They afterwards agreed
and staid together for some time, when Large was standing
by a table, and on remarking that he would leave the Irish
company, he was struck by M`Glen on the left temple. De-
ceased immediately fell on the floor, and then *Glen, to-
gether with two other Irishmen, named Michael Barnet and
John Farrell, set to kicking him about the body, the other
parties ( with the exception of a man named Wilson, Who
was half-drnnk) having left the house. The poor fellow
evidently died from the first blow, although the savage at-
tacks were continued for some time. Policeman Mitchell
succeeded in apprehending lII•Glen and Barnet at a lodging-
house as they were about leaving the town. Farrell, a
lodging-house keeper, was shortly after taken into custody.
A post mortem examination has been made, and an inquest will
be held this day (Monday.) Deceased was unmarried and
thirty-two years of age.
FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS AT CHELTENHAM.—Ar-
rivals—Hon. Mrs. Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs.
Waters, Captain Newell and family, Captain and Mrs.
Saville, Rev. R. Phayre, Hon. Mrs. Phayre, Rev. J. F. and
Mrs. Sadleir, Rev. Dr. Bosworth, General and Mrs. De
Motte, Lieutenant-General and Mrs. Mason, Captain O'Brien,
Captain and Mrs. Fraser, Dr. and Mrs. Lynch, Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Carter, Sir T. Phillips, Rev. E. F. Arney, Captain and
Captainor aws .w l
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Mrs. Butler, Major-General and Mrs. Thorn, Colonel Hawk-
n2 Looker-on. Douglas, RN. Rev. H.
We understand that the Earl of Bective, son-in-
law of that staunch Protestant and Protectionist, Mr. Alder-
man Thompson,
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talon. His Lordship present himself to the electors of
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principles being similar to those of
doubt is entertained of his
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