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 classes, the tradesmen, and profes-
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 its
prayer on its being presented to the House of Commons.

RUMOURED DEATH OF BARON ALDERSON.—In
our first edition yesterday we copied from a contem-
porary a paragraph announcing the death of the
above learned judge. Upon making inquiry at his
residence last evening we learned that there was
no truth in the rumour, but that, on the contrary,
a slight improvement in his health has taken
place. He is not expected to be able to resume his
official duties again.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Australian
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company is called for the
9th February, to receive a report from the directors, and
to authorise application for a supplemental charter.
At Constantinople on Thursday the exchange on
London was quoted 128. The rate, it will be remem-
bered lately fell from 136 to 121, upon the news of the
proposed arrangements for the establishment of a na•
tional bank.
A general and special meeting of the Rome and Fras-
cati Railway Company is called for the 23d of Feb. at
Paris.
A comparative statement of the receipts on the Lom-
bardo-Venetian Railway shows a total of 205,1001.
during the past year, against 160,4001. in 1855, the
increase being 44,7001.
It is stated that, owing to the activity of the home
demand, only a small portion of the silk recently arrived
will be likely to go to the continent.
The Bank of Antwerp, whose charge for advances on
foreign bills has lately been 6 per cent., have to-day
reduced their rats to 5 per cent.
GENERAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. The new
movement organised under the above designation is
about to be inaugurated, we are informed, by a Free
Trade Hall meeting, on the evening of the 6th February,
at which Sir John Pakington and Mr. Cobden are
expected to be present. We learn also that a conferencft,
for free discussion of the provisions of the proposed
scheme, is to be held in the library hall of the Athe-
naeum on the evening of the 30th. Numerous importan t
accesiecins o the committee, we hear, have recently been
obtained.—Manchester Guardian.
OFFICIAL CHANGES.—The office of Deputy-Secretary,
like that of Secretary at War, is to be abolished. Sir
who bas most efficiently discharged
Btheenj'd"uitniesliaovvs
of eth' e office for nearly six years, Mil
become permalent Under-Secretary of State, .
Peel retaining the Parliamentary Under-Secretaryship,
and Col. Mundy obtaining a military command. The
office of Secretary to the Ordnance will also be abolished,
as the ordnance branch is now amalgamated with the
army generally. We understand that Mr. Godley, now
Director General of Stores, will be Assistant Under-
secretary to the department under the new orgagisa
ti on.
AMERICAN SHIPS AND THE TREATMENT OF THEIR
CREWs.—The chief officer (first mate) of the American
ship, Albert Gallatin, was summoned yesterday, at
Liverpool, for assaulting three foreieners, one a French-
man, named Millard, and the other two Germans, named
Zimmerman and Zill, under circumstances of great
cruelty. The 'pinch fined the defendant 40s. and costs
in the first case, and Si. and costs in the second, and
40s. and costs in the third, accompanying his decision
with some pertinent remarks upon recent affairs in con-
nection with American ships at that port.
DEaTRUOTIVE FIRE IN LWERPoOL.—Between eight
and nine o'clock on Friday night the premises of Messrs.
J. and J. Huntington, of Park-road, were discovered . a
to
be on fire. Situate as the mill is, in the centre of
densely populated neighbourhood, the inhabitants
were
esaid
to
greatly alarmed. The mill and warehouse w
storeys in height, and has only beenraootbs.
Floor after
be filled with wheat and flour, and i
awtehree
paabs bout
isaenv eonf
the present owners for about thsrhee
and by 12 o'clock the
floor give way with terrific
,nreit.—Yesterday after-
shectlilontrithFeobt
juNilDdi
held before Mr. Baker, at the
. noon an inquest
, wase White Sortie street, Ratcliff, on
Dn buildings
Ati alone
A rizec
amr aTaci
a;Thite HoofrsaeTa g
the ba:zly newlyerb female child, which was found
13 of Thursday last, in Collingwooth
dead on thell3
-,,, iff Itched up in a fish basket. The medical
street, .I...atca
evidence proveivdvetrhaatsestvhieieroaclbeivlmdidaehrnakedse btooef esnvh recentlyviolence
entiacea toi born,
tn obriant i
and that there
and the jury returned an open verdict
ueairreyCwwlialalf jury
ST. FlNCRAS.—Yesterday
held before Mr. Brent, at they
bee::oofamr:,:,.,anD:Eubunudto.dtpeh:id in a fish basket."
b...°,7 alive'
evening an
. l
Pratt-street, Camden-town, respecting
Bell and Cirn,rown,
e infant found murdered in Han.
the death of a fema.
ared from the evidence that on
rington-square. It appt:
-maid, who was walk-
Monday afternoon last a n:'reerY
ing with some children in the ..square, observed a black
bundle lying on the footpath, whi:eh upon untying she
found to contain the deceased's bos:IY. • nfA rope was
fastened tightly round the throat of the 2 an.
cal evidence having been adduced in pro:fttl.l,daMtbetedheine
child had been born alive, and that its death h.. ,of
caused by strangulation, the jury returned a verdie. . i -----
" Wilful murder against some person or persons UR. '
known." of Mr,
vaeot at Devonport by the superannuation
In England, personal distinction is the onlypasss: 1 0 More sn er.
DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.—There are two clerkships
n'alL;ed that onr' or
port to the society of the great. Whether this... d.iin.
s are ex acted,
andd
jotfl-'the financial year, all
tinction arise from fortune, family, or talent,s(lic. lay, Sheppard and
__ the death of Mr. N. .rrat
betcfre the Ist April, the
1 material ; but certain it is, to enter into high 1 . il Service (lactic.
I a man must either have blood, a million, age, will have to Gtvretire.--
--Disraeli. .
or a genius. officers and clerks, without exception, above 60 yaws of