The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

NEWBURY.

A meeting has been held here to determine upon a
petition to Parliament for a reduction or total repeal of
the income tax.

The present mode of levying the income tax was de.
nounced as most injurious and oppressive, particularly
to the industrious classe3, the tradesmen, and proles.
sional gentlemen.
A form of petition to Parliament was agreed upon,
and a resolution passed, requesting that Mr. Robert
Palmer, Viscount Barrington, and Mr. G. H. Vansittart,
the three members for the county, should support it■
prayer on its being presented to the House of Commons.

TORQUAY.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the town was
held in the Town Hall, on Thursday, to consider the
propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the abo-
lition of the income tax.

Resolution, declaring the income tax to ba despotic
and inquisitorial, were carried.
A petition to Parliament embodying these resolu-
tions was also resolved upon.

CHIPPING NORTON, OXON.
Last Tuesday a numerous and influential meeting
of the tradesmen and farmers of this borough wai
held in the Town-hall, under the presidency of th!
Mayor, Mr. T. Rolls, when resolutions were unan-
naouiq passed expressive of the iniquitous and oppre.
slue character of the locum tax, and a determinatim
to use every constitutional effort to effect a reform.

At Louth, Lincolnshire, one day last week, a elver
watch and appendages, with other articles belonging to
Mr. Wray, saddler of that town, were sold by piblic
auction on the Alarket-hill to satisfy the demands et the
income tax collector, Mr. Wray having retused b pay
the amount levied upon bunt atter au unsuccessful appeal
against the assessment.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

A meeting of the Board W 33 held yesterday in the
Council Chamber, Guildhall ; Mr. Tnwaites in the chair.

FINANCE.

The Finance Committee reported the following weekly
cash account:—
Balance in hands of Treasurer, 20th of
January, 1857 £6,386 4 11
Ctiecques arawu, but not presented. 1,297 10 8

Available balance

45,088 14 3

Amount of deposit on account

Total general balance £82,088 14 3

THE NEW STREET, SOUTHWARK.
A deputation from the Society of Friends presented a
memorial, stating that the intended new street in South.
wark would pass over part of the burialground in Red.
cioss-street, S ,uthwark, of which they are trustees, and
that the remaining part would, in all probability, be
wanted for building purposes, the foundations of which
would interfere with bodies interred therein. They
therefore suggested that legal provision should be made
to protect any human remains that were in the ground.
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Improvements Committee,
THE NEW STREETS.

Mr. WRIGHT moved—
That the following recommendations of the Commit-
tee of Works and Improvements be adopted—that the
designs which may be sent i❑ to the Board by the several
competitors, showing the best mode of laying out the
surface and subsoil of the new streets, and other parti-
culars described in the resolution of the Board of the 16th"
Jan., be referred to a committee of seven persons, con-
sisting of four professional men, and the chairman and
two other members of this Board ; that the Committee of
Works be authorised to select four professional men for
that put pose ; and that the Board do nominate the two
members to be associated with the chairman."

Mr. DOULTON seconded the motion.
After a very long discussion,
Major LYON moved as an amendment—
" That two professional men be elected instead of four
to assist the committee."
Mr. Alderman CUBITT, M P., seconded the amend
went, and said that from what he had seen of sub s aye
in the Rue de Rivoli and in the Boulevard de Sebastopol
in Paris, he felt impressed with the fact that the subject
of subways was at present by no means developed.
Mr. SEELEY objected to receiving reports from pr
fessional men of whose ability and experience they were
necessarily ignorant. Such a course must lead to endless
confusion.
The amendment was put and Deg dived, and the ori-
' ginai motion was carried by a majority of three-1$
voting for it and 10 against it.
After the disposal of a great deal of routine busineei
the Board adjourned at half•past 5 o'clock.

DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.— There are two clerkslipe
vacant at Devonport by the superannuation of Mr.
Sbeppard and the death of Mr. Northane. More super.
annuations are expected, and it rumoured that on or
before the Ist April, the end of the financial year, all
officers and clerks, without exception, above 60 years of
age, will have to retire.—Civil service Gactte.