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

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MOM/ W.,
• THE INCOME TAX.
The movement against the war ninepence is /lbw.
fairly in operation at this side of the Channo!.. The
most important of the provincial denionstrations
came off yesterday in the city of Cork, upon whit h
00;asion a large and influential body of citizens MIA'
in the Court-house for the purpose of protesting
against the continuance of the tali i its Oeient
shape. The Mayor presided ; and;thn#rst iroitt-
tion, of which the following is a cOpyi 'w'as propoiied
in a lengthened speech by Mr. W. Fagan, one of
the city members :

" That, though the Irish nation had scarcely recovered
in 1853 from the previous year!. Of,fatuine and froth
cumulated local taxation weer :Like income tax 17'148 ox- ,
tended to Ireland, yet it has not only acquiesced in its
impos'it'ion, but it has most readily submitted to this in-
quisiiorial and inequitable tax being more than doubled
during the prosecution of a just and necessary war, on
the final of which were staked the honour of the
empire
liberties of Western Europe,"
and resultthe
Mr. Edmund Burke seconded the resolution.
The second resolution was proposed by Colonel
13eatnish, and seconded by Mr. J. F. Maguire,
M.P. :
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"That the act of 1854, which raised the tax to ls. 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 tsar, p
enacted that the whole increase should cease twelve
months after the sth of April succeeding -the ratifi-
cation of the treaty of peace; that the ear 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 ac-, of 1855 the increase
would not determine until 12 months after 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 points of law—,namely, that in
12 naoetbs.frosti the sth of April last, the increased in.;
come tax imposed by reason of the pas shOnidl,eiiii;ssid
determine ; and the increase of the revenue`a►nd the
contemplated reducti )n in the :army estimw es, as stated
by Lord Panmure, further justify this rational and mode
wive 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 pursuits 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.