The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

third his prochice, instead of paying one-tenth as the law
requires. I'ean answer for the truth of this aSsertion,-
from personal observation. The shepherds, toe, are the
objects of special persecution. The pasturage tax, which
in Capo d'lstria's time was 10 lepta a head, is now 36
lepta ; to this must he added 7 lepta communal Aim,:
4 lepta duty on wool, together 46 lepta, besides day. on
his cheese and butter,; altogether the poor shepherd
pays annually, 1 drachma, or near 9d. sterling per sheep,
and very often, when payment is enforced, kis
flock is sold, and barely fetches that amount a
head. The discontent arising from these , oppres-
sions is great, and the destitution of a great part
of the peasantry is such that we may anticipate
troubles ere long ' - for men must have bread. M.
Monastiriottis, the Governor of Sparta, reported to his
superior, the Home Minister, that thousands of families
in Sparta were starving for bread, and that unless a
quantity of food were provided, they would arm,
and provide themselves with the means of subsist-
ence in the neighbouring provinces. For three months
a deaf ear was turned to these representations ; and it
was only when the threats were about to be carried into
effect that a miserable supply of had wheat and maize
was doled out. The Government neglect everything.
In Mainor and at Calamata misery has caused numbers
to be attacked with leprosy, and the disease is conta-
gious in the highest degree ; yet the Government allow
the poor wretches to wander about, and provide no hos-
pital or lazaretto for them. At Chiarenza the brave
Suliots and Chimariots, after great difficulty, offered un
asylum by the Greek Government ; and sonic 150 of the
families of these warriors went there, and, after infinite
delays, at last the Government built them huts, and en-
gaged them lands and the means of subsistence.
myself saw these huts the other day falling into ruin,
only three being occupied ; and, ou inquiring what had be-
come of the families, I was told they had nearly all died
of starvation, and the remainder had fled. At Catochi,
near Missolonghi, some hundreds of individuals, belong-
, ing to the families of the deserters, are held in banish
meat from their homes, without shelter, without food,
and scores of miles from any one who feels an interest
in them, to compel the deserters to return. Can any-
thing be so iniquitous as this system ?

The share which England has had in placing
OTHO on the Throne of Greece will surely justify
any interference on the part of Lord ABERDEEN,
which may have the effect of relieving Greece from
this system of tyranny. We cannot say that remon-
strances have not already been addressed, on the part
of the Noble Foreign Secretary, to the Greek Go-
vernment; but if not, we entreat Sir ROBERT PEEL
to lose no time in recommending it. Among
the British residents in Athens a general belief
prevails that King' OTHO is encouraged in the fatal
policy which he is pursuing by France. This
appears to us very improbable. We cannot
discover any benefit that France could derive from a
civil war in Greece—and a civil war will undoubt-
edly result from a perseverance in the present policy
of the Greek Government. Were Russia to support
the mal-administration of King OTHO, her motives
would be intelligible enough ; but what in the world
can France gain by plunging Greece into all the hor-
rors of civil war ?

The non. Member for Greenock has refused to
act as an Income-tax Commissioner. True to the
declaration which he made in the House of Commons,
when this unjust, inquisitorial, and tyrannical mea-
sure was before it, he will in no way assist in inflicting
it upon his countrymen. We trust he will have many
imitators. No one opposed to the tax can be blamed,
even by the Government, for refusing to have any
thing to do with its collection. The following is the
letter in which Mr. WALLACE communicates to the
Clerk of Supply fOr the county of Renfrew his refusal
to act as an Income-tax Inquisitor under the auspices
of a Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer :

Kelly, truly 26,.1542.

DEAR have received your 'letter of the 20th,
informing me of my being chosen a Commissioner to
carry into effect the Act commonly called the Property 7
tax Act ; but the proper name of which is, the Income-
tax Act. As I consider the tax as an unconstitutional,
tyrannical, and unjust one, I will take no part v%hatever
in its administration. Were Itodo so I should consider
myself as no less degraded than I look upon the law it-
self which inflicts it as disgraceful in a country of free-
men. You mill, therefore, have the goodness to intimate
my determination to those it concerns in the Upper 'and
Under Ward of the county, by laying this letter before
them. • I remain your obedient servant,
ROBERT WALLACE.
To Wm. Barr, Esq., Clerk of Supply, Paisley.

There is very little news of interest in the French
Journals. What items are worthy of notice will be
found in our. Foreign Summary.

BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 6.
First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Pt:lce. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents 118 70... 118 75... 118 50... 118 50
4 per Cents 101 75... 101 75... 101 75... 101 75
3 per Cents 78 25... 78 25... 78 ... 78
Bank of France 3215 ...3215 ...3215 .. 3215
Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1027 50 ..1027 50...1025 ...1025

5,000 f 5040 —5049 ...5040 ...5040
Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 ... 775
Belgian Fives lO2l ... 10.2; ... 104 ... 102
1840 lo3* 1034 ... 103 ... 104
Spanish Active ... ... 22* ... 22i 22t
Neapolitan
Roman•
RAILWAY SHARES
St. Germain .. . ... 820 ... 825 ... 820 825
Veiiailles, R.B ....292 50... 292 50... 292 50... 292 50
• L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95
Rouen
Orleans. 'iss 555 ... 555 555
••• •••
_ _

Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 203 75... 202 50... 203 75

HAMBURG MAIL.

ST. PETERSBURGII, JULY 26.—The Imperial Court
went into mourning the day before yesterday for twelve
days, on account of the death of the Duke of Orleans,
the news of which was brought here on the 23d, by the
steamer from Havre. It excited a great sensation.
BERLIN, JULY 30.—1 t is very probable that a consi-
derable reduction will shortly take place in the. rate of
postage. The rate is in no case to be higher than six
silver groschen, and the lowest to be one silver groschcn.
BERLIN, JULY 31.—The Court, according to an official
statement, has gone into mourning for 14 days for the
Duke of Orleans. This mark of attention is the more
delicate, because only 14 days is fixed by the regulation
for the Princes of our own Royal Family.—Rumburgh
Papers, Aug. 5.
BELGIAN 1. U N DS—l:Wants, Auc. 6.
Actual Debt, ssi per Cent. -14
• Rothschild'a Loan, 6 per Cent BIN
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. .....
.---..---------- 3per Cent
—Thirty.seven— --
--------(1s4,0) lOl6
Loan of City, 1=32, 4 per Cent lln
Society of Comunerce, 41,iper Cent. Fti
Sauk of Belgium, 5 per Cent 73
National Society...
Exchange on London (alma) ... —
.—Brussels Papers, Aug. 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viensa, JULY :.,9
fiveper Cents. Metalliques • .. 10814
FONT per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000000000000000000 li Oh
Three per Cents. ' 76
Bank Shares " • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I. •••••• MG
H A .51111.11U11 BUttaEN HALLE, Alva. 5.
Mill.. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. „, 109,4
Bank Shares
......

Anglo-Russian Loan 1194 RV
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate.- it:.3!B 10274
Inseriptien, Ist series
Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 99 R 74
Ditto in Certificates 9,;) 97y4
New 4 per Cent. (1840)- b9
Dutch Actual Debt, ay; per Cent. ......... t.). 50s
Ditto a per Cent. -
Polish Bonds
New Tickets... l6B -
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. — 781(
Spanish, New 5 per Cents.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAIIBURGII, Atm. 3-13 814, Twe tnonths 1 i 7.
Picreassuaa, JULY o.—Three months, 37% pence.
RIGA. JULY :30. —Three Months, 38%.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Acct. 9.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. 10376 1t 3%
Prussian English Bond., per cent. I, 91,,,
Exchange on London — 22%
Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 3.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—The returning officer
made the official declaration on Saturday. The numbers
were announced to be—for Mr. Walter, 1,855 ; for Mr.
Sturge, 1,801 ; majority, 84. The warrants against
Mr. Frearson and Mr. Feargus O'Connor will not be
followed up. A petition against the return has been
already drawn up, and will be presented before Parlia-
ment separates.
ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.--Operations for re-
building the spire of this church, which suffered so much
during the late storm, were commenced on Saturday
last. Several workmen were employed during the day
in conveying the scaffolding, &c., on to the premises,
and it is expected that the rebuilding and necessary re-
pairs will occupy at least three or four months. In con-
sequence of the alarm expressed by the neighbour-
hood and the pew renters, as to the present safety of
the church, the services ha►e been suspended until
further notice, the duration of which, however, will not
be 'affected by the repairs which the spire will have to
undergo.
The Rev. Cuthbert Sauthey, son of the Poet. Lao
reate, has been appointed assistant curate and evening
lecturer at Cockermouth Church.—Carlist? Journal.

The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel,
the Ocean, from Rotterdam, arrived ott the Custom-
house on Sunday with the Dutch mail.
Lord Stuart de Rothsay, Captain Ward, and
Captain Knox, left London vu Sunday afternoon in the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Wil-
berforce Antwerp.
Mrs. Moo ntjoy Martin took her departure for. the
Continent on Sunday, from London-bridge Wharf, in the
.14:arl of Liverpool steam-packet for Ostend.

It is the intention of some of the banking firms of
the metropolis, and we are told of a few of the leading
mercantile houses, to relieve their emplves from the
pressure of the Income-tax, by paying the amounts due
when the salary is at or over 150/. This praiseworthy
example has been set by the banking firms of Messrs.
Labuuchere and Co., Messrs.,lioare and Barnetts,
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, &c. ; and we hope
it will be generally followed by all the wealthy establish-
tnents in the country, to whom the payment will be
light as compared with the deductions, if made from the
salaries Of those in their employ, and to whose unwearied
And anxious labours the principals are mainly indebted
for the realization of wealth.7-Sunday Paper.