The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

THE LAW 'OFFICERS OF THE
CROWN AND THEIR UNIVERSITIES.
The ibllowing list of the great law officers, showing
Ate 'respective univergities-a,swisicis they are members,
vilakvetieVievia, be found correct:—
Or CAKBRIDGE. OF OXFORD.
HIGII COURT OF CHANCERY.
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.
—Right Hon. John Sin-
gleton Copley, Baron
Lyndhurst, 2d Wrangler
and 2d Smith's Prizeman,
1794. Trinity College.
MASTER OF THE ROLLS.—
Right Hon. Henry Bick-
ersteth, Baron Langdale,
Senior Wrangler and
Smith's Prizeman, 1808.
Gonville and Caius Col-
lege.
VICE-CHANCELLOR ofENO-
LAND.--Right *.llon. Sir
Lancelot Shatiwell,
7th Wrangler, 2d Chan-
cellor's Medalist, 1200.
St. John's College.

VICE-CHANCELLOR. - Rt.
Hon. Sir John Lewis
Knight Bruce, Honorary
D.C.L. Exeter College.

VICZ-CIIANCELLOit..--. Rt.
Hon. James Wigram, sth
Wrangler, 1815. Trinity
College.

COURT OF Q 1
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—Rt.
Hon. Thomas Denman,
Baron Denman, 8.A.,
1800. St. John's College.
SECOND JUSTICE.-Sir J.
Patteson, Knt., 8.A.,
1813. King's College.
THIRD JUSTICE.--Sir John
Williams, Knt., 18th
Senior Optime, 1798.
Trinity College.

FOURTH JUSTICE.—Sir J.
Taylor Coleridge, Knt.,
Ist class Lit. Hum., 1812.
Exeter College.
FIPTSI JUSTICE.—Sir Win.
Wightman,Knt., Queen's
College.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

CHM JUSTICE.—Rt. Hon.
Sir Nicholas Conyngbam
Tindal, lint., Bth Wran-
gler, and Ist Chancellor's
Medalist, 1799. Trinity
College.

FOURTH JUSTICE-Sir W.
Henry 34aule, Senior
Wrangler and Smith's
Prizeman,lBlo. Trinity
College.
FIFTITJUsTICE —SirCress-
well Cresswell, 13th
Junior Optime, 1814.
Emanuel College.

COURT OF:
CHANCELLOR.—Right HOD.
Henry Goulburn, 8.A.,
1805. Trinity College.
LORD CHIEF BARON.—Rt.
Hon. Sir Jonathan Fre-
derick Pollock, Knt., Se-
nior Wrangler and
Smith's Prizeman, 1806.
Trinity College.
SECOND BARON.—Rt. Hon.
Sir James Parke, sth
Wrangler and Ist Chan-
cellor's Medalist, 1803.
Trinity College.
THIRD BARON.—Sir Eclwd.
Hall Alderson, Knt., Se-
nior Wrangler, Smith's
Prizeman. and Chancel-
lor's Medalist,lBoB. Gon-
villa and Caius College.
FOURTH BARON.—Sir Ro-
bert Mousey Rolfe, 17th
Wrangler, 1812. Down-
ing College.
FIFTH BARON. Thomas
Joshua Platt, sth Junior
Optime, 1810. Trinity
College.

THE TA

RATION.

In talking of the taxation of Great Britain, the
landlords always insist that the land bears peculiar
burdens, equal to, in their way, if not greater, than
those with which the remaining kinds of property are
loaded throughout the kingdom. This assertion is
made every day, and with reference to the present
time. Look at the facts of the case. During the
reign of King William 111., according to the state-
ment of Sir John Sinclair, in his work on the Revenue,
the annual average of the land-tax was 34 per
cent., that is, more than a third of the whole revenue
of the kingdom_ As Mc. Macintyre states the same
fact, his deductions being taken seemingly from one
individual year, more " than a fourth of the public
revenue was derived (in the reign of William of
Orange) from the land- tax. At that time the whole
of the revenue was about 4,600,0001., of which the
tax on land was about 1,300,0001." Now, no man can
deny that the species of property which has increased
most enormously in the ratio of productiveness, since
the close of the seventeenth century, is land. The
rents of the landlords have been doubled, trebled, and
quiadrupled—much more, indeed, in many cases—
within the last few score years. The land- tax should
then have been greatly increased in common fairness,
with the increasing revenue which has been exacted
from the country. Has such been the case ?
"In the year 1842," we find " the total amount
of revenue is 52,000,0001., of which the taxes
on land amount to less than 1,200,000/." The land-
taxes redeemed since 1798 ought to be added to this,
since the annual payment was sold for a value equal
to it, and the land-tax ought to be stated at about
2,000,0001. But taking this latter sum as the correct
one, what an enormity of increase on the burdens of
the other classes, while the land stands comparatively
at little more than the same rate as in William the
Third's time ! A third at the utmost has been added
to the land-tax, while the common taxes have been
raised to nearly twelve times their amount in the
same period, notwithstanding that the vast increase
in the productiveness of land would have justified so
fully a proportionate augmentation of the burdens
thereon !

Look, sgain, at the different proportions in which
land pays to the public revenue in other leading Eu-
ropean countries :—ln France, the land and pro-
perty-tax brings 23,200,0001., while other taxes fetch
17,500,0001.; in Austria the former rates at 8,795,0001.,
and the latter at 7,700,000/. ; and in Prussia the
land brings to the revenue 3,990,0001., while the re-
maining taxes stand at 3,667,0001. And yet our
British landholders have the impudence to talk of
their bearing " peculiar burdens"—paying, as they do,
but about two millions of the fifty composing the pub-
lic revenue !

Nor is this all. We have yet to reckon what the
landholder gains by the laws on food which he has
established, and place them against the taxes which
he bears. He may be easily shown to be in the posi-
tion of a gainer by the corn-laws to an extent far ex-
ceeding what he contributed as a tax-payer. Such
is the sort of contribution which the British land-
holder makes to the revenue of the empire. There
will come a time when men will wonder at these
things as monstrosities unpsralleled in the history of
nations. Nay, the time is fast coming. The League
are not working in vain.—Scotsman.

A GHOST IN DAYLIGHT.—The superstitions of last
eentury have not entirely passed away. A remnant
is still left at the present day, oven in the heart of the
agricultural county of East Lothian, as the follow-
ing will show :—On Sunday last a worthy elder of
the Free Church, who is a farmer and a bachelor,
left his house in the care of a female domestic, while
he went on his way to attend his regular place of wor-
ship. No sooner had he taken to the road than a great
noise was heard in the room he bad left, which sounded like
the pattering of many feet. Such a sound proceeding
from the master's own room was anythinc, but " canny,"
and so frightened was the servant that she called in a
neighbour, but she in her turn also got frightened,
when both took to their heels sad ran a distance of a
eir
quarter of a mile to where the hinds' houses are, when
story
of the house being haunted was soon told
t the gaping wonder of the assembled women. After
many consultations, curiosity got the better of their
fears, when it was resolved they should go the ha'
house in a body, and endeavour to make out the cause
of the disturbance.
This was accordingly done, but on
reaching the room door, the same noise was still heard
with even greater violence than before, but none would
venture to open it; at lasato(rle of the women espied a
man on the public road, and
to him they applied for
counsel and assistance. The
man
ecourageously agreed
to lend his aid, and laughed at tvlier?'r f,ars, telling them
there were no ghosts nowadays; but sooner was he in
the house, and heard the noise, than rhoe o was affected
with the malady, and declared his unwilalin gness to open
the door. In this dilemma there was nothing for it but
waiting with patience until the master home
from chureb. As the noise was loudercatTletn ever,
they wisely concluded that this was a warning that
he had net long to live—of course the warningnot apply to themselves. In the interim all thestcooruileds
that ever were heard of about warnings and ghosts were
fully discussed, until the worthy elder made his appear-
ance, when, with breathless anxiety, ho was told of the
awful sounds heard ; but to calm their minds he pro-
posed to read a chapter of the Bible to them, which was
accordingly done. Thus fortified, the elder opened the
room door, when the astonishment of the females may
be more easily imagined than described, when out
started the ghost in the shape of a pet foal that has been
in the habit of following its master into the house, where
it is gener.illy regaled with a piece of bread, but in the
present instance had been inadvertently shut in the room.
else Warder.