The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN. THURSDAY MO -
THE INCOME TAX.
The movement against the war ninepence
fairly in operation at this side of the Channel. 'NC
most important of the provincial demonstrationto-
- off yesterday in the city of Cork, upon which
owasion a large and influential body of citizens met
in the Court-house for the purpose of protesting
against the continuance of the tax in its present
shape. The Mayor presided ; and the first resole.
tion, of which the following is a copy, was proposed
in a lengthened speech by Mr. W. Fagan, one of
the city members :
" That, though the Irish nation had scarcely recovered
in 1853 Irorn the previous years of famine and from ac-
cumulhted local taxation when the income tax was ex-
tended to Ireland, yet it has not only acquiesced in its
it positive, but It has most readily submitted to this in-
quisi orial and inequitable tax being more than doubled
Ouri,,g tile prosecution of a just and necessary war, on
the final result of which were staked the honour of the
empire and the liberties of Western Europe."
Mr. Edmund Burke seconded the resolution.
The second resolution was proposed by Colonel
Beamish, and seconded by Mr. J. F. Maguire,
M.P. : _ _ _

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"That the act of 1854, which raised the tax to is. 2d.
in the pound during the war, enacted that 12 mouths
after the sth of April succeeding its actual termination
the increase should cease and determine, while the act
of 1855,. which added 2d. more in the pound to the tax,
enacted that the whole increme should cease twelve
months after the sth of April succeeding the ratifi-
cation of the treaty of peace ; ttiat the ,ar was termi-
nated by the Conference at Paris on the 30th of May
last, and consequently, by the act of 1854, the increase
would cease on the sth of April next. That the ratifica-
tion of the treaty, a formal act, was received on the 30th
of May last, and thus by the act of 1855 the increase
would not determine until 12 months alter the sth of
April next. That this meeting, in common with the
whole country, do protest against this discrepancy be-
tween the verbal provisions of two acts of Parliament
being taken advantage of to impose on an overtaxed
community a war-tax during two years after the war has
terminated, and therefore require from the Government
and Parliament a due fulfilment of the engagement with
the country, freed from t. oints of law—namely, that in
12 months from the sth of April last, the increased in-
come tax imposed by reason of the war should cease and
determine ; and the increase of the revenue and the
contemplated reducti in in the army estima'es, as stated
by Lord Panniure, fii'tber justify thiszational and mode
eta e expectation oft a people."
The third resolution was as follows

" That the act of 1853, which provides for the gradual
reduction of the tax and for its total extinction in
1860, should be adhered to, and that steps should be
taken immediately to render the law, while it exists,
less inquisitorial in its provisions, and to cause the tax
itself to be more equitably levied, distinguishing be-
tween realised property and industrial capital, and
between fixed and uncertain means, whether the latter
accrue from the exercise of the learned professions, or in
the fields of literature, or in the purAuits of trade."
A petition founded upon the foregoing resolutions
having been unanimously adopted the meeting
broke up. County meetings for the same purpose
were held on Tuesday in Derry and Carlow.