The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-06 00:00:00

PARTIALITY OF THE HOUSE TAX.

The following tables were produced at the last Court of
Common Council by Mr. Jones, as unequivocal evidence
of the gross partiality with which the house•tax is levied
upon the metropolis and its vicinity. It will be seen by
the statement, which Mr. Jones said he had received from
a source of unquestionable veracity, that London is charged
60 per cent. upon the total number of house•, while most
of the provincial towns are not paying more than 33 per
cent., and some are assessed as low as 15 per cent.--viz.,
Dover and Rochester. As the law now stands, the corn-

missioners, one of whom is the gentleman who t
the tables, cannot relieve those who appeal and ai
him, and who are not only obliged to continue
larger rent than their premises are actually worth,
compelled to pay the enormous amount of taxes :•

exhibited
re under
to pay a
1, but are

CENSUS OF 1831.

Houses Houses
Places. Popula- Total assessed worthlo/. Assessed
tion. Houses. atlol. and and Taxes.
upwards. upwards.
Liverpool ...... .. 165,175 27,466 8,789 14,127 £59,086
Manchester
Greenwich 24,553 I 4,000 1,858 2,310
Rochester 9,891 I 1,858 156 991 2,356
Finsbury Bor 224,839 29,605 23,266 281,017
City of London 122,395 17,315 13,600 198,101
Marylebone Bor 234,294 , 27,888 21,630 282,201
'1 ower Hamlets 302,519 , 66,777 23,187 93,151
Westminster 202,1''0, 21,893 17,681
Lambeth Bor 154,613 ; 29,079 16,405
Southwark 134,117' 22,482 9,923
Evesham; 4,000 I 847 178 330 1,300
Worcester 27,000 ! 5,000 1,000 2,000 6,900
Scarborough 8,752 i 2,016 387 508 2,500
York
Dover 11,922 2,177 '273 1,488 3,340
Leeds 123,393 26,787 2,492 6,683 18,800
01dham...... 23,381 6,192 379 1,128 1,990

We are glad to be able to announce that Lord
ALTHORP was deemed considerably better yesttrilay. •
PAGANINI.—• We are certainly to be honoured
by another visit from Signor PAGANINI after Easter,
though the French papers, and of course the English,
stated positively that he had resolved to appear in public
no more, hut bad " determined to retire, and enjoy vaunt
cum dignitate " It is a matter of certainty, demonstra-
ble upon moral principles, that while anything is to be got
in this country, the hero of one string will be drawn to
our shores by metallic attraction.—Harmonicon.
REMARKABLE DEATHS.--It has been re-
marked as a singular fact that the principal heads of the
printing establishment of BALLANTYNE and Co., have
died during the last twelve months. First, Sir W. SCOTT,
who may be said to have created the company, departed.
Mr. BALLANTYNE shortly followed his illustrious patron ;
Mr. HUGHES, who had superintended the press depart-
ment for many years, died almost at the same time; and
within the last week Mr. M'CoaxiNDALE has been car-
ried to the tomb. The last named individual must have
been known to all the literary characters who have had
occasion to visit the Paul's Work Printing Office during
the last twenty years. His funeral, which took place on
Thursday last, was attended by upwards of 500 persons of
respectability.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
By the death of Colonel FANE, a sinecure
clerkship of the Privy Seal has become vacant. As the
appointment is one of the useless ones, it is presumed it
not he filled up. It will be recollected that some
differences arose between Colonel FANE and Lord, now
Earl DURHAM, on the subject of the Lord Privy Seal re-
fusing to permit the Gallant Officer's deputy to act, which
ltd to an application on the part of the Colonel to the
Court of King's Bench for a mandamus to compel his
Lordship to receive the gentleman whom he had appointed.
Colonel PANE represented the borough of Lyme Regis
in Several
in
the
lonian
Islands
n nts
, an.He
d served
was
in
his a sa n 4 Inspector y
ea
year,
Mi-
and
only son of the late Hon. THOMAS FANE, brother to the
present Earl of WEs-rstowansoin. He has left a widow
and one sou.