The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-31 00:00:00

CHESTER CUP.

35 to 1 agst Winesour—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen—taken
50 to 1 agst Valerian—taken
50 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh—taken
50 to 1 agst The Bashaw—taken
50 to 1 agst Maccabeus (the Gladiatorcolt)—taken.
The nominations, which close to-morrow, are expected
to exceed 100.

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst )tr. Greyille's Alarm—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken
18 to I agst Colonel Anson's Kedger
18 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam
25 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer
26 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca colt
33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
33 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's colt out of Calypso's dam
35 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt
35 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
35 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o'Cockpen
—take 40 to 1
50 to 1 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy—taken
60 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Collier—taken
1000 to 200 agst Alarm, Idas, and Pam—taken.

OARS.
7 to 2 agst Kent's lot—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch—t
12 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Refraction—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Heather Bell —taken.

INIQUITOUS INJUSTICE OP THE INCOME•TAX.—FOT
example :-3001. per annum arising from capital invested
in the Three per Cents., is at the present moment worth
10,000/. The income of a clerk is unsaleable ; it depends
upon personal services, for which he may be incapaci-
tated at any moment ; and if he die, his family are
beggars. Yet the clerk is called upon to contribute the
same amount to the revenue as a rich man with 10,000/
in the funds ! A system of fiscal policy mere cruelly
unjust it would be difficult to conceive, one in which the
injsstice is more clear and self-apparent ; but the
majority of the House of Commons, when the tax
was thus unequally imposed, shut their eyes to its
iniquity ; and they will do so again, if the public let
them. The principle is the same, if we compare the case
of a tradesman with an income of 1,0001. derived from
the profits of his business and a nobleman of 1,0001. per
annum derived from landed estates. The value of the
latter at only twenty-five years' purchase is 25,000/.; the
good-will ut a business, dependent upon the innumerable
accidents of trade, will rarely sell for more than five
years' purchase. The relative position, therefore, of the
tradesman and the nobleman, in the case supposed, is as
one to live, and the operation of the present income-tax
is as five to one in favour of the nobleman. At the end
of three years, each will have paid 901. to the revenue—
the one out of a property worth 5,0001. at the time the
tax was imposed, the other out of a property wui'th
25,0001. at the same period.—iVestniinster Pevie4,.
CuituEsuoy QuEsmar.—On Saturday last, at
a county meeting, held at Aberdeen—Mr. Grant of
Tilly-four in the chair—resolutions, strongly condemna-
tory of any interference with the monetary system of
Scotland, were proposed, seconded, and 11114n1MqusiY
adopted, and (10piPS of them ordered to be transmitted to
Lord Aberdeen, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Errol, and
other Peers connected with the county.—Scotsmax.

THE SIEGE OF MONTE VIDEO.
(From a Brazilian Paper.)
MONTE VIDEO, Ocr. 4.—We have a saying in this
country which comes to us from the Spaniards—via",
that on the 29th of September (San Miguel's-dap,
anda o Diabo sotto (the Devil runs loose). Oribe
may say that on last San Miguel's-day many devils,
instead of one, were let loose. Few days have been
so disastrous to him since the commencement of the
siege.
I have already informed you of the surprise sus-
tained on the 9th ult. by the left of the besiegers.
On the 29th the scene was repeated on the right, but
with much greeter advantage to the fortress, and with
as little sacrifice as before. The besieging party had
kept a strong picket stationed on the brow of a hill
called Joao Fernandes, situated on the other side of
the Miguelete, not far from the coast of Bahia, and
about a league from the fortress. Besides this prin-
cipal picket there were several others, covering the
vaet line intervening between the Cerro and the posts
adjacent to the Cerrito. At ten on the morning of
Sept. 29, the 3d battalion embarked, with the inten-
tion of proceeding to the garrison of the Cerro; but
no sooner had it reached its destination, than 180 men
belonging to the corps of dragoons posted at the
Aguada galloped across the plain, and passed
the Miguelete. Turning suddenly to the
right, they cut off the besieging line at Joao
Fernandes, surprised the pickets, who fled in dis-
order, killed about 70 men, fired the encamp-
ment, took 4 caravans laden with provisions, 12
mules, 60 horses, and about 40 heads of cattle. The
besieging party were so completely taken by surprise
that they could offer no resistance. The loss on the
part of the dragoons was only one man, who was
drowned in crossing the Pantanoso. Whilst the dra-
;eerie were engaged in thie.gallant operation, the 3d
battalion disembarked on the neighbouring .eoast, and
immediately marched to the assistance of the dra-
goons, in the event of the latter being forced from the
Cerrito. A small party of Oribe's cavalry appeared
in sight, but they maintained themselves formed, and
kept at a considerable distance, when they beheld the
conquerors quietly marching in the direction of the
Cerro, taking with them cattle, horses, mules, and
waggons, and prisoners, whilst from the hill there
arose dense masses of smoke from the burning en-
campment. As it was Sunday, and a very bright
day, and as the scene took . place on very elevated
ground, the whole population of Monte Video had
assembled on the heights, and some thousands of tele-
scopes were, directed on the Miguelete, among the
rest was my own, which, thanks' to Dollond, showed
me every object as distinctly as' now see the lines
on this.papar. •It would appear 'that Oribe thought
the operation of the dragoons was merely a feint, in-
tended tp cover some other movement in . the centre,
for instead of hurrying to assist the right, he des-
patched 'four battalions to• the. centre, and prepared
them as it were to receive an attack. ' In the fortress
a signal aii+as given for all to 1)0-at their posts, but
nothing particular took•place. • • ••)
On the following day the troops embarked, with
the cavalry and the cattle, andetbds the success of
this bold enterprise was complete.. The published
accounts exaggerate the number of the killed and the
amount of the booty captured-; but the statements
above given may be depended-on.
r But this was not the only disaster wrought by the
Diabo solto on the 29th, as may be seen from the
following facts, which being collected from an au-
thentic source, their accuracy may be relied on.
Oribe, who had felt uneasy about the trade of the
Buceo since the events of last August, fitted out for
its protection a small armed vessel called a hiate ; and
on the ground of his pretended legal' presidency the
.-vessel hoisted the Argentine flag., Early on the morn-
ing of the 29d), and scarcely 48 hours after the hiate
had commenced .her cruise, she gave chase to some
fishing boats. ' Two of the: Wats. Were taken, and a
third ran for-protection under the lee of the American
barque Roaalva, whose-master, Mr. Burrows, was
'on board at4lae- time: The barque happened to be
lying at anchor neap the - United States frigate
Congress. .The hiate commenced firing into the
hoselva, and the latter immediately hoisted her flag.
Mr. Burrows, who was sleeping' ,in his berth when
-'the firing commencedl, 'rose • and came upon deck.
'Presuming from her flag-that the hiate belonged to
lithe fortress, he requested her to desist firing ; but the
Aggressor demanded that the fishing-boat and her
crew shoUld be given up, alleging that they belonged
to the besieging forces. Burrows replied, that he
would rather die than deliver them up. Meanwhile
the firing continued, until at length the boats of the
Congrese oame up and captured the hiate. On search-
ing her, it was ascertained that she had no orders on
board, and that her commander had no commission or
warrant. Being questioned respecting the Argentine
flag, he replied that it was the flag of the legal Pre-
sident, Oribe. he commander of the Congress, Cap-
tain Worbees, finding that the hiate was without or-
ders, and that her commander held no commission,
and that the vessel was sailing under false colours,
there being no other Argentine flag than that belong-
ing to the Argentine Republic recognised by foreign
Powers ; finding that the said vessel bearing false
colours had fired on the American flag, captured the
hiate as a pirate, took down her colours, and hoisted
the Union flag in their stead, and detained the crew
prisoners on board the Congress.
It was soon ascertained that the two fishing-boats
and their crews, captured by the hiate, had been
consigned to Rosas's corvette the Vinte e Cineo de
Maio, to which the hiate had made signals for that
purpose. Captain Worbees sent a message to the
corvette, but the captain declared that he had nothing
to do with the command of the hiate, but admitted
having maintained friendly communications with it.
Captain Worbees then intimated to the commander of
the corvette that, by detaining as prisoners men
captured by a pirate, he rendered himself an accom-
plice of the piracy ; wherefore, and in consideration
that he contended the piracy was not the act of the
forces under the authority of Rosas, he would only
make them strike their flags as a mark of correctional
police.
The American commander put on board two of the
vessels of Roses seven American sailors, and a number
of the fishing-boats' crews (not less than twenty, it
appears), who were detained there at the time, he
restored to liberty. After some hours the Roses's
ships were informed that they might hoist their
,colours; but their commanding officer replied that he
would not allow the colours to be hoisted, And that
they would all remain prisoners until satisfaction was
obtained for the insult, and until fresh orders were
received from Roses. In the evening the vessels thus
detained entered the port, where they remained under
the American flag.
During three days the blockaders remained with-
out showing colours, and without moving from their
anchoring ground. Some of the commanders of the
neutral stations, and among the rest the Imperial
(Brazilian), desired the blockading commander to ex-
plain himself as to the singular position in which he
appeared. He replied, that after the insult he had
received, he would not again hoist his flag, unless
satisfaction was given, or he received new orders ;
and that, in the mean time, it was evident he could
not carry on the blockatle. It appears, that on the
following day (the Ist or 2d inst.) the said com-
manders decided that the blockade had ceased by the
act of the blockaders themselves, and that it could not
be resumed without a fresh and formal declaration of
its existence. We are, therefore, now without any
blockade of fact or right. Yet, I know not for what
reason, nothing is published officially on the subject.
The whole of this affair appears indecorous and
ridiculous; for on the morning of the Ist inst. the
brigantine Echagne came in sight, and was known
to have on board the new commander of the squadron,
Don Antonio Foil. As none of his vessels had a flag
out, a gun was fired, to make them show their colours,
and afterwards a second gun. No notice was taken,
and they soon began to make off.
The small vessel called the Vinte e Cineo de Maio
then put off, and proceeded to the bay, where she
anchored, and remained all day. Next morning she
moored beside the other blockading vessels, which at
eight o'clock hoisted their colours, notwithstanding
that they had received no satisfaction, nor any new
orders from Rosas.

On the sime day—namely, the Ist, the American
commander received a note from the blockading corn-
moaors, complaining of the insult he had received,
and proposing, as a measure of accommodation, that
he would hoist his colours, if the American would
agree to salute him with 21 guns. I know nit what
answer was returned ; but this I imow, !that the
colours were hoisted, and that nobody saluted them
To-day the American commander has also received
two complaints from the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Oribe. I have seen nothing of them, but it is Ilaid
they are couched in uncivil and violent langue,ge,‘ and
in an assumed style of legal autliority. I have pot
heard what reply has beep_ returpea, •
here you have, then, the events of the 29th ult.,
and its consequences to this day. We shall soon hear
what Item will think fit to say, and see how he will
resume this blockade.

The National sap, that ola Vat instant Senhor