The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-17 00:00:00

MEAT MARKETS.

SOUTIJALL, Nov. 16.—The numbers of fat stock on
offer in to-day's market, were somewhat less than
those exhibited on this day se'nnight. For the primest
Beasts and Sheep there was a steady inquiry, at full
rates of currency; but, otherwise, the demand rulert
heavy. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s
4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s; and Pork, 4s to 4s 4d, per
8 lbs. Supply—Beasts 34, Sheep 1,602, Calves 25,
Pigs 28. Nearly the whole of the supply was dis-
posed of.

Rosin)Rn, Nov. I6.—We had a fair average sup-
ply cf stock here to-day, which moved off slowly at
the following prices :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal 3s Gd to 4s ; and Pork,
3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81b. Suckling Calves, 16s. to 25s ;
Quarter-old store Pigs, 15s to 26s ; and mulch Cows,
with their small calf 151 to 181 each.

LEWES, Nov. 15.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ;
Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d ; and
Pork, 3s 4d to. 4s per Blbs. Supply moderate, and
trade dull.

THE INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—It seems that the imposition of the odious and
inquisitorial Income-tax is not enough without add-
ing to its burthen and offence injurious consequences,
from the imperfections in the Act of Parliament, in
regard to the deduction or retention of that tax from
small ground-rents. Now, Sir, although the mean,
fastidious, or oppressive landlord may avail himself of
this deficiency in the Act, who could have expected
that the oMce of that Government which has imposed
this iniquitous tax, for such I consider the Duchy of
Lancaster to be, should act in the way it has done
towards their tenants? I hold a house of that Duchy
under a long term, paying a ground-rent of 201. per
annum. At their audit on the 3d instant I went to
pay-the half-year's rent, and from which I claimed a
deduction of 70 pence (ss. 10d.) for Income-tax, when
I was told that the auditors had determined not to
allow any such deduction, unless it were proved to
them that that tax had been paid. The house was
many years since underlet at GO/. per annum, and
when I received the 301. for the half-year due to me
at Michaelmas last, I, without the least hesitation,
allowed my tenant the 30 sevenpences, and took only
of him-291. 2s. 6d. This rent belongs to an annuitant
for life. I therefore retained 91. 14s. 2d. for the
Duchy, and paid the 19/. Bs. 4d., the balance to the
amount, so that in fact I have only the 9/. 14s. 2d. for
the Duchy. However, this explanation was of no
avail, for nothing less than the 101. in full tale would
they receive, and as I had not that sum in hand, the
half-year's rent is unpaid to the Duchy. My tenant
underletat a further rent, and his tenant, it appears,
has done so also. It is impossible for me to produc
any voucher for the payment_of this abominable tax.
But surely, Sir, this is sometlitag like adding insult
to injury. Can there, for one moment, be any doubt
but that an Income or Property-tax must be paid to
the extent of the ground-rent ? Then, why this an-
noyance and perplexity of accounts ? Suppose I pay
the 10/., when and how am Ito get it from the
Duchy ? Am Ito dance attendance upon them for
this paltry 55.10 d.; and how am I to satisfy their
tender scepticism that the tax is paid ? Must I pro-
duce all the sub-tenants, from first to last, to remove
their scruples ? Suppose, Sir, it were the last half-
year of the tenantcy, and they were paid the whole
rent, what then is to be done ?
I hope you will insert this at your earliest conve-
nience, and that some one of your legal readers will
oblige me and many others with the real construction
of the Act, and whether we have any, and what, re-
medy.—l am, Sir, your constant reader, K. Y.
Strand, Nov. 10, 1842.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF CAsnEL.=-The Right
Rev. Dr. Sandes, Bishop of Cashel and Waterford,
died at his residence in Fitzwilliam-square, Dublin,
on Monday. Dr. Sandes had long been a Fellow of
the University of Dublin, and was elevated to the See
of Cashel by the late Government.
ALLEGED RAPE.—At the Staines Petty Sessions
yesterday, Robert Pleury, a labourer, aged 18, was
charged with forcibly violating the person of Elizabeth
Brown, aged 16, a servant out of place, and living
with a married sister at Stanwell, next door to a beer-
shop, in Foing from which the prisoner, it appears,
saw the girl looking out of the front window of her
sister's house, which he entered without ceremony,
and proceeded up stairs ; but the complainant had in
the interval gone down to a back room below, and
hearing strange footsteps on the stairs, was alarmed,
and not without reason, for the-prisoner came down,
and, in spite of her . efforts to keep the door closed,
forced his way into the room, and committed the
offence, which he endeavoured to repeat. The screams
of the prosecutrix were heard by some persons in the,
neighbourhood, but no one went to her assistanced
The prisoner declared that the girl was a consenting
party. The Bench, however, were of a different
opinion, and committed the prisoner for trial.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR UXBRIDGE.--TWO

LIVES LosT.--On the afternoon of Saturday last an
accident occurred in the neighbourhood of the village
of Harefield, about four miles from the town of Ux-
bridge. It appears that for some days a number of
labourers had been employed in excavating chalk in a
pit near- the village, for the purpose of its being
burned- into lime. In digging for that purpose, it
' was necessary that a portion of the cliff should be
undermined, which was done in the course of Satur-
day, and about four o'clock in 'the afternoon, while
the men were still employed in completing the opera-
tion, a slip took place without any previous warning,
and two of the workmen were buried under, a cone of
chalk, weighing, it is computed, upwards of 20 tons.
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two young men, residing in the village ; but although
extraordinary exertions were made by the a
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assembled to remove the superincumbent weight of
chalk, a considerable period elapsed before they could
be extricated, when both were found to be in a lifeless
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WRECK OF A CONVICT SKIP.—We have elsewhere
convictgiven some
ship, account
off the thoe wreck, ofth ehe r Waterloo,
Cape f Good Hope, in
pas-
sage out •, and have inserted a list of the names of the
convicts drowned. It will be seen, that the two first
are apparently, those of James Thelwell and James
Skerratt, who were convicted at the assizes at Liver-
pool, in March last, of robbing the Blackburn coach
of a portmanteau, containing a large
sum in notes and
gold belonging to Messrs. Cunliffes, Brooks, and Co.,
bankers, of this town. We have reason to believe,
that several others of the convicts lost are from this
neighbourhood.—Manehester Guardian.
The Rev. Thomas Robinson, M.A., Lord Ahno-
Der's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cam-
bridge, and late Archdeacon of Madras, has been
elected Morning Preacher of the Foundling Hospital.
Canova was specially summoned to Paris in order
to his being consulted by Napoleon on his gigantic
project of reducing the streets of Paris to regularity
and right lines, and giving them convenient breadth,
" What do you advise ?" asked the Emperor.
" That you leave_ it as it is, or throw it all down,"
said Canova. The Emperor made no reply, dismissed
him, and followed his own suggestion.
AN INNOVATION.--We learn that a noble Colonel
of Hussars surprised the mess lately at country quar-
ters by walking into dinner with a " dashing white
sergeant" leaning upon his arm. This was consideied
by many an old campaigner as something Morse than
a black bottle.
The General Steam avigatiOn Compatty'
N s Vesse
the Giraffe, from Itotterdain, arrived off the Custcan
lkaise, at eleven o'clock, A. N., 'tl46 day, with the
Dutch mail.