The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

FALMO U TH.

Dxc. 3.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's
steamer Solway, Captain Duncan, arrived here to-
day with the mails from the West Indies and Mexico.
This vessel sailed from St. Thomas Bth ult., Bermuda
16th, and Fayal 27th. The Thames brought up the
Mexican mails to Bermuda, and she sailed again for
St. Thomas's on the 15th November. The steamers,
Dee, Trent, Forth, and Tweed, were at St. Thomas's
when the Solway left. This vessel brings about
,g 262,000 on freight ; and passengers, Mr. Francis
Murphy, lady, and four children, Miss Smith, and Mr.
Loperina from Mexico ; Messrs. de la Torre and Juan
Novo from Havannah ; Messrs. P. and T. Grillett
from Venezuela ; Messrs. Mercantati, Isaacs, and Dr.
Lang from Jamaica ; Captain Maude, 33d regiment,
from Barbadoes ' • Captain Loider, 59th, from Trinidad,
and Lieutenant Brady, R.N., late purser on board the
steamer Medway.
The news from Mexico by the Solway has been an-
' ticipated by the intelligence brought by the steamer
Caledonia. A gentleman who came passenger from
the Havannah, per Thames, to Bermuda, informs us
that on calling at Nassau on their way up they found
D. Turnbull, Esq., late British Consul at Havannah,
still there. This statement contradicts what has been
going the round of the papers, that he had been taken
to Cuba as a prisoner.
The steamer, Great Liverpool,' sailed yesterday with
the Indian mails; she had sixty passengers.

THE MEETINGS OF THE ANTI-

CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.

TO MR. EDWARD JACKSON, SECRETARY TO THE ST.
GEORGE'S AND WAPPING ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSO•

CIATION.

SIR,-It would have given me great pleasure to
have been present at the meeting of your Association
on IV ednesday next ; but a necessary absence from
town will render it impossible.
As my contribution, however, to the cause, I will
take the opportunity of directing your attention to a
system which has been set in motion against-us, and
which must be promptly met. It is matter of noto-
riety, that agents of the Government are stated to be
engaged in collecting words used at Anti-Corn-law
meetings, which may be produced from a green bag
in the House of Commons as reasons for legislating
against the League. In this position of things, men
under the name of Chartists come among you, with a
view to drop expressions which may be chronicled as
yours, and produced against you at the proper time.
It is the time of Castles and Oliver over again with
variations. We have hardly an English term for the
precise office undertaken by this class of our oppo-
nents; but " decoy ducks" is the nearest that occurs
to me upon the moment.
My advice to all meetings thus circumstanced is,
that they should protect themselves by the same mea-
sures as they would employ against any other descrip-
tion of insidious assailants of their property or persons.
No honest man intrudes himself into the assemblages
of people of decidedly opposite opinions ; if he has
strong convictions, he impresses them in meetings of
his own. Catholics do not go, in the proportion of
one to a hundred, to disturb the assemblages of Pro-
testants, although avowedly held with open doors ;
nor does the Arminian force himself upon the Cal-
vinist, while a tabernacle of his own is ready for the
dissemination of .his views. Neither you nor I ever
knew a man do this kind of thing without being paid
for it either in meal or in malt for a dishonest pur-
pose. And as there is an extraordinary baseness in
the peculiar means resorted to in the present case, se
will it warrant extraordinary exertions for the abate-
meat of the nuisance.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
!kheath, Dec. 5, 1842.

REASONS FOR THE REPEAL OF
THE INCOME-TAX.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
First—The termination of the Chinese war, and
consequent withdrawment of a large military and
naval force from China.
Second—The evacuation of Affghanistan, and a
great consequent relief to the finances of India, and
indirectly of England.
Third—The friendly treaty with the United States,
including the settlement of the North Eastern Boun-
dary -question, and every other point involving danger
of a national quarrel.
F,ourth—The disarmament this year of the formid-
able fleet of France. •
Fifth—The great reduction of our army and fleet,
which these several events will;render shfe and necessary.
Sixth—The good harvest of this year, which must
relieve the pressure on the Revenue and on the nation
always consequent upon bad harvests.
Seventh—The abundant produce of sugar this year
in the colonies, and the increased importation that
must follow ; which will materially augment the pro-
duce of the Sugar Duties.
Eighth—The expected increase in the import of tea,
and consequently in the produce of the Tea Duties.
Ninth—The very great probability of a revival of
trade, from the effects of cheap food, of peace, and of
the opening of the China market.
Tenth—The augmented produce of the Excise and
Stamp Duties and Assessed Taxes, which will neces-
sarily follow a revival of trade.
Eleventh—The receipt of upwards of five millions
sterling as compensation from the Emperor of China,
which will go very far to relieve our Exchequer.
Twelfth—The hatefulness and oppressiveness of the
Income-tax, which the nation will have no motive for
enduring now that war and danger are removed on the
side of China, of India, of France, and of America.
We do not see how these reasons can be resisted by
Sir Robert Peel, inasmuch as they nullify all the rea-
sons which he assigned for putting on the Income-tax.
That singular combination of causes, arising from
four successive bad harvests, a monetary crisis, failing
produce in our colonies, and a series of misunderstand-
ings with Foreign Powers, which increased our ex-
penditure and depressed our finances, being now all
removed, there remains no justification whatever for
continuing the Income-tax beyond the sth of April
next.

Upon a report laid before the King of the French
by the Minister of War, representing that the navy
had expressed a strong desire to join with the army in
contributing to memorials ill honour of the Duke of
Orleans, and that a statue, similar to that which is to
be placed in the great square at Algiers should be
erected in some eligible spot in Paris; and the Minis.
ter of War having further represented to his Majesty,
that the Duke of Orleans, in one of his dispatches
from Africa, had declared his desire that the ancient
triumphal arch at Djimilah, the most complete of all
the remnants of Roman art found in that country,
should be carefully taken down, stone by stone, re-
moved to Paris, and there re-erected on one of its
most conspicuous sites ; the King, by a Royal ordon-
nance, dated Wednesday, has decreed—first, that the
nav
shall be allowed to join the army in the sub-
scriptions in question ; secondly, that these sub-
scriptions shall be applied in raising two equestrian
statues, in bronze, of the Duke of Orleans, one to be
placed at Algiers and the other in Paris ; and, thirdly,
that the triumphal arch of Djimilah shall be taken
down and removed to Paris, in compliance with the
recommendation of the late Pritioe.