The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

bad debts, which must be at least 201. to 301., then the
premiums on a policy of insurance on his life, for say,
2,0001, which if effected when young may not cost
more than 2f per cent., or 50/. a year more than the
money allocated to the "savings-fund" for a provision
for his old age, which should be at least 20 per cent.
on his income, or 60/. per annum. These various
drawbacks will amount to at least 150/., or one-half
his income, and if he can really apply 150/. to the
personal expenses of himself and family, he may con-
sider himself very fortunate. All this time the fund-
holder, with 10,000/. in the Three per Cent. Console,
pays only the same amount, 8/. 155., although he has
the entire surplus of his income, 291/. 55., for his own
use ; and there is not the slightest necessity for his
insuring his life or saving any portion of his divi-
dends, as be is certain that his position will never be
worse than it is at this moment. We appeal to the
common seuse of the :people, whether this is just or
equitable ? We appeal to the industrious classes,
who are the chief sufferers under the system,
whether they will still tolerate this glaring absurdity ?
If they really feel the grievance as they ought to do,
the remedy is in their own bands. They have only
to show themselves really alive to the injustice, to
give expression to their feelings of indignation at the
injury inflicted upon them, and to give significant
hints to their respective representatives that they
will be expected to discharge their duty in endea-
vouring to obtain redress, or that if they refuse, or
neglect to do so, they will have to answer for it on
their next appearance on the hustings. The inti-
mation, if properly given, will he attended to. Sir
CHARLES WOOD may learn that the system of which
he is so deeply enamoured, and which he appears to
consider absolute perfection, must be surrendered in
deference to the voice of public opinion temperately
but firmly expressed.
We have given but one illustration of the injustice
of the mode of assessment now in operation, we might
multiply examples to no end. The case
of professional men, who have no capital
whatsoever save their educations and shill
in their respective callings, is even harder than that
of persons charged under Schedule D. Every argu-
ment applicable to the one will also bear upon the
other with additional force. If a man of this character
realises by almost incessant toil 600/. per annum, being
compelled to keep up an outward appearance of wealth,
he pays 17/. 103. for income-tax, as much as the pos-
sessor of 20,000/. in the Three per Cents. He
must pay 1.34:h part of his entire property.
Even supposing that he is so fortunate as to
be free from deb, while the fundholder,
estimating the value of his property at the present
quotations, will only contribute the 1-1,148 th part of
his property, or, in other words, the professional man,
the barrister, or doctor, must pay 34 times more in
proportion to the value of his property than the fund-
holder. Reformers of all classes—Englishmen, who
love equity and justice, consider these matters seri-
ously and attentively, and say whether you will sanc-
tion the perpetuation of a system under which such
things are not only possible but of every-day occur-
rence. Exert your mighty force, and you will
speedily obtain adequate redress.

The National Concerts, and the new chef d orchestra
Herr Labitzky, have afforded us an opportunity, for which
we have fur many a month longed, of hearing genuine
music, applied to the purpose of the dance—of hearing
originality in the place of compilation, and grace and beauty
instead of a trick of effect. Herr Labitzky received a really
British welcome the other night at the Opera, to which he
replied by giving her Majesty's subjects some of the most
lovely music we ever heard. The Berlin waltzes and the
Herbst Blumen waltzes, have both a sparkling freshness,
combined with some of the most delicate effects imaginable.
VISCOUNT FIELDING.—This nobleman, whose re-
cent secession from the Established Church has been the
subject of so much comment, is, it may not be uninteresting
to state, connected with the royal house of Austria. His
father, the Earl of Denbigh, late of the Queen Dowager's
household, is a peer of the German empire, and also Earl
of Desmond in the Peerage of Ireland. Viscount Fielding's
wife, who has also joined the Church of Rome, is closely
related to the Earl of Cardigan. Perhaps no family has
more historical associations connected with it than this.
Lord Denbigh has now in his possession a most magnificent
miniature of Charles the First, which that unfortunate mo-
narch presented to his Lordship's maternal ancestor, the
devoted Sir Henry Firebrace, while he was attenoing him on
the scaffold. The miniature was given to Firebrace at the
moment of decapitation. It is set in diamonds in a small
ring. The baronet's granddaughter and heiress, Hester,
married Basil, fourth Earl. The first Earl was a devoted
Royalist, but, strange to add, his son, the second Earl,
espoused the opposite cause, and while the father fought
under the royal banner at Edge Hill, his son, Viscount
Fielding, was on the right wing of the Parliamentary horse,
which broke the left wing of the King's cavalry. The name
of Basil Fielding has been well known in literature. Should
Lord Fielding survive his father. his principal place of abode
will be at the manor of Lutterworth, celebrated as being the
scene of the birth and death of the celebrated John Wick-
liffe, the first preacher of the reformed doctrines in England.
Sunday Paper.

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM :MILBANK PENITEN-
TIARY.—A few days since a most determined and well-
contrived attempt to escape from the Penitentiary at Mil-
bank was made by two convicts confined in that prison,
From the profound secresy observed by the officers of the
gaol relative to this mysterious affair nothing beyond the
subjoined facts of tke attempt to escape and the recap-
ture of the two prisoners has transpired :—lt appears
that by some means, not at present ascertained, the two
convicts were supplied with false keys to open the prison
doors, and during the absence of one of the guards con-
trived to get out of their cells, which adjoin, and make
their way to the turnkey's room, where they possessed
themselves of the cloaks and caps used by those officers
during their night watches. So effectual was this disguise
that it was only by the voice they were recognized. In
passing along the gallery one of the guards on Auty hap-
pened to hear a noise as if some person was moving about,
and knowing that there was no officer in that part of the
prison at the time challenged them, and, having received a
reply that did not appear to him to proceed from any of his
brother officers, mace an instant alarm. One of the pri-
secers immediately fled back to his cell, throwing off the
cloak Li his retreat, the other was captured with the cloak on
him, and both were conveyed before the governor. A very
rigid inquiry into the circumstances attending the. possession
of the counterfeit keys has been instituted, and is at present
proceeding; but in what manner they were introduced into
the prison is at present unknown. It is supposed that had
they succeeded in opening the gates
it was their intention to
have liberated all the prisoners in the cells they would have
passed in their transit.

ALLEGED CRUELTY TO LASCAE SEAMEN.—On
Tuesday last a resumed inquiry into the death of Dorgayah,
one of the Lascar seamen who recently died on board the
New Liverpool. in the Southampton Docks, was held before
Mr. E. Coxwell, the borough coroner. Mr. Pocock, who
appeared for Captain Bowles, said that every facility should
be given fOr the prosecution of the inquiry. The principal
witness examined was the " serang," whose evidence was in-
terpreted by Captain Lake. and who having after some ob-
jections from Mr. Pocock been sworn on the Koran, deposed
t) the inferior quality of the rice served out during toe voy-
age, to the badness of the fish, and to the want of several
articles of diet, which it was customary for the supply of the
Lascars to be provided by the captain. Thomas William
Yeathere, steward on board the vessel, gave evidence favour-
-4ble to the captain and in some respects at variance with
that of the " serang." After which, the Coroner having read
extracts from the regulations under the Act 4th George IV.,
chap. 80, for the guidance of masters and owners of ships,
proceeded to sum up. It was clear from the meLlical evi-
dence that the Lascar had died from sea scurvy; if they
were of opinion that the scurvy had been caused by wilfully
withholding the provisions which ought to have been suii-
plied during the voyage, they would then return a verdict of
wilful murh er against the person whose duty it was to have
supplied them, and who had wilfully withheld them. It
they were of opinion that they had been negligently with-
held, they would return a verdict of manslaughter against
the person by whom they ought to have been supplied
The jury then retired, and in about half-an-hour returned
a verdict of "Manslaughter" against Captain Bowles,
who it was discovered had left the court, and against whom
the coroner said he should issue a warrant.— _Hampshire
Independent.

18re are assured that there is no truth in the state.
ment which has appeared in some of the public journals, that
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Solicitor-General, has accepted,
or intends to accept, the vacant puisne judgeship in the
Court of Exchequer. It is only surprising that the report
should have been credited, for the practice of the Learned
Gentleman brings him in nearly three times the amount of
salary attached to the vacant puisne judgeship; while, with
his great talents and high standing at the bar, he may rea-
sonably aspire to some higher judicial o't ce than the one
which rumour has represented him as willing to accept. It
is unnecessary to add,, that the reports about a vacancy in
the representation of Southampton are, of necessity, equally
unfounded.—Advertiser.

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FOREIGN CATTLE.—We have so recently directed
attention to the greatly increased importations of live cattle
from the continent that it would not be necessary to refer
again to them so soon were it not that they have further
assumed a new feature of interest and importance in the
extensive arrivals of horned stock from Denmark.
It will be recollected that the arrivals from the state men-
tioned have not been so regular as those from Holland,
and therefore the recent arrivals possessed interest on ac-
count of their comparative novelty, and this interest is
vastly augmented by the fact that the individual cargoes
from Tonningen, the produce of Denmark, not only exceed
in extent all other supplies of the kind, but have now also
far exceeded in number all previous arrivals from Denmark,
which have hitherto been confined to two or three arrivals
at most in the course of a week. The steam- shin Trident,
from Tonningen, has brought 286 head of oxen and cows and
40 sheep; the Tiger, froai Tonningen, 234 oxen and cows
and 41 sheep; and the Wilberforce, also from Tonningen,
204 beasts and 10 sheep, the produce of Denmark. The an-
nouncement of three arrivals of the kind from Denmark, and
to such an extent in One day, will be amply sufficient to show
the importance which these supplies from that state have
now assumed, being altogether unprecedented from that or
any other foreign state of Europe. The fact of powerful
steam-ships being emplo.ycd in the traffic is important evi-
dence of the interest attaching to this entirely new branch of
the foreign cattle trade.

It is reported that Mr. D. Hill, CounsF-1,
Recorder of Birminglkunt has been offered, and has accepted,
Mr. Baron Rolfe's seat in the Court of Exchequer, in the
event of the Learned Baron being appointed to the vacant
Vice-Chancellorship.

SATANIC.-Will Horace Greeley please to inform
the poor Irishmen of New York, what has become of the sum
of 25,000 dollars which they subscribed, out of their earningF,
to make a revolution in Ireland ? Answer, old Slievegamon.—
New York Herald.