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

CHESTER CIIP.

agst Winesour—taken
agst Mr. llesseltine's Fitzallen—taken
agst Valerian—taken
agst Foig-a-ballagh—taken
50 to 1 agst The Bashaw—taken

35 to 1
40 to 1
50 to 1
50 to 1

50 to 1 aist Maccabeus (the Gladiator colt)—taken.
The nominations, which close to-morrow, are expected
to exceed 100.

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken
18 to 1 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 I agst Mr. Merry's Collier—taken
1000 to 200 agst Alarm, Idas, and Pam—taken.

OAKS.

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

INIQUITOUS INJUSTICE OF THE INCOME-TAX.—For
example :-300/. per annum arising from capital invested
in the Three per Cents., is at the present moment worth
10,0001. The incomeof 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 10,0001
in the funds I A system of fiscal policy more cruelly
unjust it would be difficult to conceive, one in which the
injustice 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 comare the case
of a tradesman with an income of 1,000/. 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 of 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 five, 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 90/. 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 worth
25,0001. at the same period.— Westminster Review.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.—On Saturday last, at
a county meeting, held at Aberdeen—Mr. Grant of
Tillyfour in the chair—resolutions, strongly condemna-
tory of any interference with the monetary system of
Scotland, were proposed, seconded, and unanimously
adopted, and copies of them ordered to be transmitted to
Lord Aberdeen, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Errol, and
other Peers connected with the county.—Scotsman.