The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-04 00:00:00

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PRECEPT OF THE COMMISSISSIONERS REQUIRING
SCHEDULES.
To - of the Borough of Leeds.
We, John Brooke, Charles Brown, and Thomas Ikin,
being three of the Commissioners appointed to carry into
execution the general purposes of Acts passed in the
43d, 45th, 4Gth, and 48th years of the reign of his pre-
sent 4ajesty, for granting to his Majesty a contribution
on the profits arising from property, professions, trades,
and offices, and for amending the said Acts, and regu-
lating the assessment and collection of the duties of the
hundred or Division of the said borough of Leeds,_ do
hereby require you to return, or cause to be returned at
our office, situate in Call-lane, in Leeds aforesaid, within
the space of ten days after the date of this precept, a
schedule, containing particulars as hereunder required.
What sum or sums of money have you employed in
your trade of , or in any other trade carried on
by.you during the three last years ending the sth April
last, distinguishing the amount employed in each year?
Whether such sum or sums so employed is belonging
to .each of you in equal proportions; or whether any
part thereof is advanced by either of you, or by any
other person, at interest, into your said trade, with the
amount thereof, if any ?
The amount of the balance of your profits and gains
during such three years, distinguishing the amount in
each year, and the respective times when such balances
were taken ?

The Amount of any and what losses during such year,
distinguishing the nature and particulars thereof in each
year ?
The particulars of the deductions made by you during
such three years from such profits or gains, distinguish-
ing the nature and amount of such deductions in each
year ?
Thereof fail not.
Given under our hands, this 16th day of Nov., 1811.
JOHN BROOKE,
CHAS. BROWN, Commissioners.
THos. IKIN,
Now, if this was not satisfactory to the meeting, there
was another specimen Which would follow after it:—
Precept of JOHN BROOKE, JOHN WILSON,
THOS. IKIN, CHAS. BROWN.

How did the increase arise in the sums of money em-
ployed by you in your trade in the year ending sth of
April, 1810; and whence did the decrease arise therein
for the year ending sth April, 1811?
What was the amount of your stock in hand, includ-
ing book debts and all your partnership effects, in the
several years 1808, 1809, 1810, and ending sth April,
1811, distinguishing the amount, therefore, in each year?
What was the amount of excise duties paid by you in
your trade in each of the above-mentioned years, distin.
guishing the amount paid each. year?
How much money did each of you draw from the
stock in the several years 1808, 1809, and 1810, ending
sth April, 1811 ?
Have you in your estimates of profits included any,
and what sums, expended by you or either of you, in
support of your respective families ?
What is the average of the prices at which you have
bought and sold the different articles you have dealt in,
in the several years 1808, 1809, and 1810, ending each
year on the sth April in the succeeding year, and the
amount bought and sold in each year at that average ?
Have you in your statement made any, and what de-
ductions on account of losses sustained by you in any
matter not connected with your trade, or not arising out
of it, with the particulars of any such deductions ?
Or on account of any improvements of your premises,
or for repairs, or supply of your utensils ?

Or on account or Pretence of the interest of the capital
employed by you, and which, or any part of it, might
have been made thereon, if laid out at interest ?

If you make no deduction in the settlement of your
profit or loss, how or in what manner do you make the
balance of your profits or loss appear in each year ?
Thereof fail not.
Given under our hands 20th May, 1812.
JOHN BROOKE,
MOT.
Commissioners.
JNo. WILSON,
CHAS. BROWN.
(Abridged from the Manchester Guardian.)
-MEETING AT MANCHESTER.—OR Friday a public ,
meeting of the electors, convened by placard, was held
in the Town Hall, " for the purpose of considering
the proposition of Sir Robert Peel, now before Par-
liament, with respect to the income tax." Sir Thomas
Potter, Holland Hoole, Esq., Boroughreeve of Salford,
Mr. William Rawson, Mr. Alderman Brooks, Mr. Alder-
man Burd, Dr. Eager, Rev. William Shuttleworth, Mr.
William Evans, Mr. James Hampson, Mr. Robert Chad-
wick, Mr. George Wilson, Mr. P. H. Holland, Mr. Henry
Rawson, Mr. Archibald Prentice, Mr. David Holt, and
other gentlemen were present. The body of the room
was completely filled.
Resolutions to the following effect were agreed, to
TI at. in the opinion of this meeting of the electors of
Mar.chester, the proposed tax upon the profits of trade
is calculated to aggravate the difficulties under which
the cotton manufacturer is labouring, and to increase
the sufferings of the working classes, by diminishing the
fund for their employment, and lowering the wages of
labour. That the deficiency of the revenue has been
caused by the operation of baneful monopolies, especially
the Corn-law, which are undermining the trade of this
district ; a .d that, to attempt to maintain the national
income by ,axes upon the profits of capital, and to leave
virtually u;. touched the chief source of the present com-
mercial distress, must speedily destroy the fund from
which the I evenue of the State, the employment of the
people, and the incomes of all classes, Eire mainly drawn."•
" That this meeting of electors hereby calls on the mem-
bers for tl is borough, to oppose the imposition of any
new taxes, until all the monoplies on food are abolished,
and that, in accordance with the above resolution, a re-
quisition to the members be prepared for the signature
of the eke ors."—A considerable deal of confusion
took place at one time in the meeting, in consequence of
a person who was not an elector, proposing an amend-
ment favourable to an income tax, which one of the elec-
tors afterwards moved, but which was lost when put to
the vote, by a considerable majority. The working
classes generally seem disposed to favour Sir Robert
Peel's plan, and we congratulate him on having for an
avowed ally Mr. Fergus O'Connor and most of his im-
mediate friends. Sir Robert Peel fanned the flames of
bigotry against the Catholics to suit his purpose, then
betrayed her dupes, and was opposed and hated by them.
More recently—so recently that we might suppose he
must still be smarting from the lesson—he has stepped
into power by flattering the prejudices of the farmers,
who are now stigmatizing him throughout the land as
an imposter and a cheat ; and now he is endeavouring to
keep power by gulling the lower classes, and separating
them from the middle classes. In what mode they may
take vengeance, when they too find themselves deluded
and betrayed, we do not venture to say, but they will
scarcely be satisfied by merely withdrawing a confidence
which the Right lion. Baronet will not value, whenever
it does not serve the purpose of giving or securing him
political power.

ST, GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
It is in contemplation to place in the fine campanile
of this church a most beautiful peal of eight bells, the
tenor to weigh about eighteen or twenty hundred
weight. The whole of the expense will
,be defrayed by
a voluntary subscription amongst the wealthiest inhabi-
tants. His Grace the Duke of Bedford, in consider&
of his great property in this parish, heads the list of
subscribers with a mnnificent donation. The cost will
be about 7501. or 800/. This celebrated steeple was
built by Hawksmoor, the pupil of Sir Christopher Wren,
and has been the subject of much severe and unjust
criticism., by those who never had the talent or ability
to erect its equal. A finer bell tower is not to be found
in London, or a better situation for a peal of bells.

WEYMOUTH ELECTION. We have made up the
los 3 sustained in the Election Committees by the result
of the Weymouth case decided this ernoon, which has
given both the seats there to the Liberalor candidates, W.
T
Bernal and Mr. Christie. The y_" Members" who
had wrongly usurped the seats, are Lord Villiers (the
Premier's son-in-law) and Mr. I lope.
The " Black Bottle" Colonel and his regiment ar
expected in York next week. A rumour is afloat thate
Prince Albert will be present at the review of the York-
shire Hussars, which will take place in September next
but of this we cannot at present speak with certainty.—'
Leeds Mercury.
TUB CONDEMNED CRIMINALS AT YORK.—Accord-
ing to the usual arrangement, the execution of Jonathan
Taylor, of Escrick, and Robert Nall, of Sheffield, the
two wretched criminals condemned at the York Assizes
for the murder of their wives, will take place next Sa-
turday, the 9th of April. ,We do not hear of any respite
or reprieve for either, but this ie by no means decisive
of their fate, as the Royal clemency, when it is ex-
tended, is not usually made known till near the day ap-
pointed for the execution.—Leeds
Mercury.