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London, England, 1842-04-07 00:00:00

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The budget for 1843 gives the following details respecting
the diploinatio agents and consuls of France irivarious coun-
tries. There are in all twenty ambassadors, of whom those at
St. Petersburgh and London are allowed salaries of rsoo,ooof.
each ; the ambassador at Vienna has 200,000 f. ; Madrid,
120,000 f. ; Constantinople, 100,000 f. ; Turin, 85,000 f. ;
Naples, 75,000 f. ; Brussels, 60,000 f. ; Berne, 50,000 f. In
addition, there are 21 extraordinary envoyes, of whom the one
at Berlin has 100,000 f. ; Mexico and Washington, 80,000 f.
each ; Rio Janeiro and the Hague, 70,000 f. ; Buenos Ayres,
Frankfort, and Lisbon, 60,000 f. ; Stockholm and Copenhagen,
50,000 f. ; Athens, Dresden, Hanover, and Stutgardt, 45,000 f.;
Florence, 40,000 f. ; Carisruhe and Cassel, 30,000 f. ; Darm-
stadt and Weymar, 25,C;00f. each. There are charges d'affaires
at Bogota and Texas, with 35,000 f. each ; 33 secretaries of
legation, having from 6 to 10,000 f. salary, and 15 attaches,
with 3 to 4,e00f. each. There are 23 consuls-general, of
whom the one ni London has 45,000 f. a-)ear. The others are
not laid at so high a rate; at Bagdad, for instance, the consul-
general has 15,000 f. The number of consuls of the first class
amounts to 40, with from 12 to 30,000 t. salary; and of the
second to 44. Some new consular appointments are, as our
readers are aware, proposed in this budget. The whole amount
of salaries for diplomatic agents and consuls put down in the
budget for 1843 is 2,931,000 f.
The French Journals of Tuesday are chiefly on the discussion
of Monday in the Chamber of Deputies. They are, however,
without interest to the general reader. Two of them have
found room to notice the absurd statement of the National,
relative to the baptism of the Prince of Wales; not, as 'one
would expect, for the purpose of denying the truth of it, and
wondering how the National has been so mystified, but to re-
cord it as a political event of deep importance. Nothing is too
absurd for the credulity of French Journalists.
The Quotidienne announces that it has received a letter
from General Donadieu, stating that, wishing to publish a
work, the printer he applied to refused to print it, al!e4,ing as
his reasons the new rigorous measures taken against the
press, which placed him under the necessity of not printing any
work whatever, from fear of prosecution. The Quotidzenne
adds, that it has perused the manuscript, which contains only
general views of politics and moral philosophy, and takes this
opportunity of repeating its censure of the severity with which
the law relative to the responsibility of printers has been en-
forced, with a view of fettering the press.
The Constitutionel has the following news from Africa :
Lieut.-Gen, ral Renault having left Mostaganem at the head
of 250 chosen n.en to meet a battalion thit'was expected, fell
in by chance with a camp of Arabs 4,000 strong, established
about six leagues in the interior. Notwithstanding the vast
disparity of numbers, the French did not hesitate to attack the
enemy, who thus surprised ;were defeated with a loss of five
hundred men. Sixty prisoners with their horses fell into our
hands.
The following financial news is from a Madrid Journal of the
28th of Mirch : —Notwithstanding that the Stock, Exchange
has been closed during the last six days, the speculators for the
rise have been supposing private bargains amongst themselves at
30, 31, and even 31i per cent. ; but the Five per Cents.,
without the eight coupons, are only worth 20 per cent., and the
Three per Cents. ;as much. The general impression is, that
the funds in question must decline from 241 to 25.
In a letter from Constantinople of the 17th ult. we find the
following :—" The Porte has hitherto held firm on the subject
of Omer Pacha,'s nomination as Prince cf the Mountain, and
adhered to its customary system of temporising. Several
councils have been held, but nothing has been decided. A
sort of half measure was conie to yesterday, in osier to save ap-
pearances. Selim Bey, formerly Mouhassil of Smyrna, is sent
as mediator and commi,sioner. It is believed that the dis-
missal of Omer Pacha is already settled, but no one can say
who is to replace him."
PARLIAMENTILRY.
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The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway was
forwarded a stage last night, though an attempt was made to
impede it.
The rule of the House of Commons not to receive petitions
against a tax under discussion .t as put to the test by a petition
against the mode of levying the income tax, which Lord John
Russell presented from the farmers of Roxburghshire, but
which be withdrew on the Speaker deciding that it could nut
be received.
Sir R. Peel graciously added, that he would consider the
peculiarities of Scotch farmers.
A new writ was issued for Montrose in the room of Mr.
Chalmers.
Sir C. Napii r gave notice that he will move to exempt offi-
cers of the army and navy, under the rank of General and Ad-
miral, from the income tax.
In answer to Lord J. Russell, Sir R. Peel said that about
340,0001. of the Canton ransom swelled the revenue returns for
the present quarter.
'the House went into a Committee on the Copyright Bill,
when its principle was discussed at tome length. Lord Mahon,
on whom Mr. Talfourd's mantle has fallen, made a long
speech in its favour. Mr. Macaulay took the adverse side.
The Bill, however, was carried a considerable way through the
Committee, with amendments, the purport of which is to ex-
tend the term of copyright for seven years after an author's
death, or for a whole term of forty-two years, whichever may
b•' longest, but which limits it more than Lord Mahon proposed.
The Bill occupied the House nearly the whole evening. The
Committee is to sit again next Wednesday.
The Report on the Corn-keeping, out Bill was brought up,
and the Bill ordered to be read a third time this day.
A Bill to prevent timber ships from Honduras or North Ame-
rica loading timber on deck was read a first time.
No other business of importance or interest was transacted,
and at a Quarter past Twelve the House adjourned.
PITEMIC OPINION.

The Chronicle, reverting to the question of the income tax,
says It is very true that the tax is to be at first only 7d. a
pound ; but let the small end of the wedge be once in, it may
be driven home much sooner than is nuw generally appre-
hended. Had the Premier proposed a tax of ten per cent. at
first, the cout.try would have been in arms against it. But it
is folly to calculate on a continuance of the tax at 7d. a pound.
There will never be wanting pretexts for adding to the amount
of a tax so convenieot to the fin .neier. The principle accord-
ing to which the tax is calculated ought to weigh more with
the people than the actual amount taken in the first instance,
for the principle having been once acquiesced in, it will remain
the rule, should the tax be increased."
The Times justly and forcibly argues on the glaring in-.
equality.of the income tax in the folioµ•ing terms :-- " It is a
mere. fallacy to talk of SCOI. per annum being the real available
income of those who have but a precarious or life interest to
that amount, in the same sense as it is the income of him who

draws it steadily from capital : the one can spend it all ; the
other, in nine cases out of ten, will have to lay by half of it, to
form a provision for himself or his family. The one has really
5001. a year at his command—the other has 2001. or 250/.

Should ;we really leave these men as they were before, if we took
from each of them 501. a year? Or, to put another case com-
monly urged, let two different persons lend the same sum of
money on virtually the same terms, sn that it shall produce
them, say 2001. a year for ten years; the principle of the loan
being in both instances, that the lender shall be able in each
year to si end a sum of money equal to the interest of
the capital so invested, and yet lay by enough to repay him his
whole principal by the end of the ten years. This mays or
rather must be, the principle of the bargan in both instances.
But let the agreements be worded differently; let one man call
it a purchase of a terminable annuity for ten years; lot the
other carefully sej crate payment of interest from repayment
of principal, and make the transaction a loan of money upon
interest to be repaid by instalments. The result will be that
two persons investing precisely the same sum of money in pre-
cisely the same way and receiving precisely the same benefits,
will pay to the Government the one three per cent. on his
whole returns, the other only on that fraction of them which
comes to bins in the shape of interest, probably amounting
to about one-third or fourth part of the whole ; the
one will pay 6/., the other something under 2/., per annum.
Now, to say that this kind of inequality is unavoidable—that
laws must proceed on broad principles, and that some hard-
ships must result—that they cannot be avoided entirely—and
that their partial avoidance is not worth the complexity and
loss that they would occasion—all this, though we think it un-
true, is yet not unintelligible or palpably absurd ; but to quote
any authurity, however high, in support of the opinion that
such an inequality created by the tax is not an inequality at
all—that such a tax leaves incomes relatively where it found
them—to throw up the plea of justification, and put in a bold
Not Guilty' is really an insult to the most ordinary under-
standing:"

The -Herald observes, with reference to Mr. Wakley's speech
on the copyright question :—" We are grieved to add that
Mr. Wakley, who rides much too hot and fast a horse for the
steady roads of such a suburban constituency as that of Fins-
bury involved himsef in sonic dilemma, unworthy of his repu-
tation as a skilful n aster of fence. How d;d he attempt to en.
force his argument that authors of the present day were re-
munerated beyond all former example ?' In what way did he
justify his assertion that ' it was degrading to literature for
authors to apply to the House for an extension of protection ?'
—thus indicating ' sordid and unworthy motives.' Ile ' un-
exampled remuneration' be brought home to the guilty heads
of such minor ' authors' as Scott, Byron, Southey. Ent how
did he prove that men of science were entitled to similar
protection ?'—or that `no one would say that their works
were not of more consequence to the world than mere literary
works ?' Why, by inference irresistible, that such compilations
as the Lancet were not thus protected. Shade of John Aber.

nethy I Is this not too much ?"
The Post sa)s—" It must be satisfactory to every honest
mind to observe that the continual attempts of the Whig-Ra-
dical party to damage the present Government by dishonour.
able means are generally received with derision or disgust.
We have no objection to fair controversy, and should be very
sorry to see any Government unchecked by a watchful
opposition ; but we blush for the kind of oppo,ition with which
the present Government is assailed, while we rejoice to find
that such opposition is not a whit more successful than it de-
serves to be. The truth is that facts are too strong for the
Whig-Radical party to get ever. • The country is aware of the
unfortunate condition to which public affairs had been brought
under their weak and wilful guidance, and satisfied that vigorous
measures must be taken to restore these affairs to a condition
worthy of the great British nation."
On the subject of the income tax, the Advertiser observes as
follows :—" It is not, we repeat, Lord John Russell's resolu-
lions v.hich will defeat a scheme so subtlely devised, and sup-
ported by the whole weight and influence of a selfish aristo-
cracy, and their nominees in the House of Commons. Other
means are necessary to free the State from the thraldom which
the Tories have re-established over it. The complete suf-
frage' movement in Birmingham, proceeds with unceasing vi-
gour. It has started on a Witt basis, and a safe and secure
principle, affirming, in the very outset, that the people might
march to their full rights through the forms of constitutional
law, and by that moral force which should unite the majority
of all clas,es in one grand national union. Ireland, and other
parts of the mph e, are proceeding with similar purpose, and
on a similar principle. It is to these movements that Lord
John Russell should address his attention."

BIONEY—TEADE—COMMERCM.
An arrangement has been made between the Directors of the
Bank of Manchester and the shareholders of the Alliance Bank

in that town, by which the entire capital and business of the
latter will be made over to the Bank of Manchester on certain
conditions agreed to at a meeting of the shareholders of the
Alliance Bank, held on Saturday last.
On Tuesday, a vessel delivered her cargo, consisting of 1,053
casks and 66 cases of brandy, and 100 bags of clover-seed, in
the docks, in the short space of eight hours ! '1 his is, perhaps,
one of the quickest deliveries of such a cargo on record in the
annals of the port of London.
A general session will be held at Guildhall on Saturday
next, for the transfer of licenses to persons taking taverns, inns,
ale-houses, Rm. in the City of London.
Npape t ho i
AVAL AND MILITARY.
In a Dutch rof sth nst., it is stated that a bottle
was picked up on the shore near Wyk, containing two letters,
dated the 2d of March, by Captain Thomason of the ship Blair-
had threatened during the day
Adam, in which he informs hierelations at Perth that the crew
overboard. to murder him and throw him

TIMATRICAL.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean appeared as Hamlet and Ophelia last
night at the Haymarket. Maine. P:essy made her second ap-
pearance kit night at the St. James's Theatre, in the comedy
of Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle.