The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Mosnar.—The Queen and Prince Albert, o..‘e
Hereditary Prince and Princess of Sale Coburg Gotha, a•._
tended by Viscount Jocelyn and V'iact►unt Shirley, v att, eal to
Adelaide Lodge this morning, and returnee► to the Cwltif it
pony phaetons.
Their Royal IlighneF,t-es the Prince of Wales and the Prinec;•a
Royal were taken an airing, ac.comp-anied by the Dowager Lady
L3ttritort.

In the afternoon the Hereditary Prince and Prine.i
Saxe Coburg vent into the Great Part, in a pony phaeton,
his Serene Highness driving.
The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening will in-
clude the hereditary Prince and Princas of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, Vit•count Jocelyn. Hon. Miss Devereux, Baroness
I.ehzen, Baron de Brandenstein, Viscount Sydney, Captain
Hood, Hon. Colonel Grey,-aild Colonel Lkitiverie.

Yesterday was the birthday of bee Royal Ilighnesa the
Duchess of Cambridge. The auspicious event was celebrated
as her Royal Highness's residence at Kew. Prince George
of Cambridge arrived at Kew fawn town in the forenoon_
Shortly before three o'clock, her M.ajosty the Qneen
Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, arrived to pay e visit of eongratula-
tion to the Royal Duchess, attended by her Suite, from her
residence. Bushy House, Bushy Park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Ludy
Charlotte Dundas, arrived at Kew, to pay a congratulatory
visit to the Royal Duchess a short time previous to her Ma-
jesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had
also arrived from her residence in Bagshot Park, and his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, from Kensington Palace.
A dejeutter was served to the Illustrious party in-
cluding the Duke and Duchess, and the Princesses Augusta
and Mary of Cambridge.
The Royal party remained at Kew until past five o'clock,
when her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took her depar-
ture, attended by Lady Charlotte pandas. Px her residence.
Claivnee House, St. James's.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager afterwards left for Bushy
Park, and the Duchem of Gloueestur returned to Bagshot Park.

A Deputation from Leeds and Manchester, had an interview
with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at hie official residence, in
Downing.street.
Mr. Wickham. ChalYwan of the Stamp; and TaxeF, bad • an
interview with the Chancellor (4 the Exobaper yesterday, iu
Downing- street.
A Deputation, including the Mayor of Leeds, Mr. Hold.
forth of Lads, Mr. Chappel of Manchester, Mr. Gardener
of Manchester, Mr. T. A.shten of Hyde, Mr. Ashworth of
Bolton, Mr. Brook of Iludderufield, Mr. Akroyd of Halifax,
Mr. Walker of Bury, Mr. Higginbottom of Abbtou, Mr. Car-
rick of Carlisle, and Mr. Biggs of Leicester, had an inttorview
with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial-office
Despatches from the Governor of the Cape to Good Hope
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

WORKING OF THE INCONEE-TAX.
Recent inquiries and information which has
reached us, has convinced us that the Inome-tax
create indirectly as great a lass to the revenue' as the
profit which it directly brings into the Exchequer.
There is, in fact, so strong- a disposition to scve the
tax by giving up other taxed article, that
scarcely an individual in the community wilt,
neglect so obvious an expedient of lawfla evasic n. We
will describe one case—that of a profe.4sional fr nid re-
siding in a large manufacturing town hi this evuntyp
Last year he kept a four-wheeledchaise, orieherst but
compounded for one or more horses, a man-ser'rartk. and
a couple of dogs. MI these he put down previewps to
the month of April, with the express dcsig of saving
119 much of the Income-tax, out of othev cOntribut‘ons
•to the State, as he possibly could. By this mewls his
saving will be 121. What Ms income is., we are got
aware, but assuming it to be 5001. a yea, the 'bean ie-
tax will be. 141, 11x. a, so that his coutribUtiou to
the revenue, instead .of being an addition of the late ter
amount over -and above his former eontriLution.-„w ill
only be an addition of 21, 1 s. 84., orless than en e-
fifth of. whit Sir Robert Peel 'Caliiiilated Upon. as
amount is so small, that were our friend and Others *1 Kw
adopt a similar, expedient, dispoSed, he might easiity
save it in other ways, by reducing his consumption twe
excisable articles, for instance, or by blocking
unimportant window in his honse. This last exv.dieult
we know has been resorted to by many, and a tett-
gatherer in the same town to which Ni'e have alxwe
alluded, reports, that there is scarcely a single Inha-
bitant from whom he has been in the habit of collect—
ing taxes, who has not adopted, or who is not preparing.
to adopt, some mode of saving the Incotre-tax, or a
portion of the Income-tax, out of the other taxe.
If this practice•be generally resorted to, the Income-
tux will not be nearly so productive as Sir. Robert
Peel anticipates. Taxation has now gone as far as it
can go. The squeezing process has been carried to
-an extreme; and the time has at length arrived, as
with a milch cow, when, milk as they will, the Go-
vernmentcannot draw another drop.--liee4s Tire .

The Earl of Orford, Lord Miltown, Sir William
and Lady de Bathe and family, Sir John Rynas-ton, Lady
Slade, Colonel Blomefield, ke. &c., formed part of die
large number of passengers who proceeded to Antwerp,
and the Rhine. on Sunday last, by the Antwerpen, Cape,
Jackson. from the St. Katherine's-wharf Tower. 'The
same Company's steam-ship Princess -Victoria, Captain
Minter, arrived at the Wharf yesterday morning, from
Ant.n•erp--Colonel Dixon, the Hon. !Mr. Upton, Mr.
Canning, &c were 'amongst her p-asscfigOm
IN TRRESTING Rtmc.—On Thursday morning, a
piece of wood, addressed to the Lord Steward of her Majesty's
d ta
Household, wat. landed at the Woolwich Dockyard from the
Rha
o ulliaier lth
11Illasj :stety, at Windsor Castle. It is said to have
ara-ves4el, and forwarded yesterday as a pre-
sentformed part of the identierl tree on which Alexander Selkirk
mate-his notches to calculate time, and on which his.parro
perched during his long solitary residence in the island of Juan
Fernandez, He was, as is well-known, the hero of 'De Foe'
interesting tale of Robinson Crusor.