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

tronb-Varttion

SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock

A very smart hurricane appears to be getting
up against the Income-tax. In the Isle of Wight
i t already "blows great guns"—Cowes is disconso-
late, and Ryde " refuseth to be comforted." li,
the manufacturing districts the discontent is no,
less general; the metropolis and its suburbs arc
in a similar state of effervescence ; while in nortl,
and south Devon—as we gather from the lout;
journals.—numbers Of families are reducing their
establishments, in order that they may be en-
abled to provide against the detestable tax ii.
question. Every where, in short, a grinding systen.
of household economy is the order of the day.
Mrs. Deputy Dobbs, who once rejoiced in three
female servants, is now compelled to rub on
with two ; Tomkins has taken his eldest
son from the grammar-school ; Jenkins hae
put a stop to his daughter's dancing-lessons; and
of the thousands of Smiths with which the
country is overrun, hundreds have given uy
their "one-horse shay," shot or sold their dog.
and substituted swipes for port at their five
o'clock dinner

On all hOnsehold 'domestics, in particular,
this iniquitous Income-tax presses with re-
morseless severity. Betty has just received her
discharge; Molly has got a hint thrown out
about a reduction of wages; Tom, the footman,
.has been told that he,need nalonger walk behind
his mistress in .velvet shorts to Church, carryint
her prayer book, and a gold-headed stick as tai
as himself; and Polly the scullion, is threatened
With a "Month's' notice" the instant the Col•
lector calls for his first half-year's dues. A tax tha
causes all this unmerited suffering, and make::
itself specially felt among classes which never..
by any chance, interfere in politics, must of
necessity be grossly unjust in its'character. Les
it fitll upon the rich and the independent, and
vvelcotne; but why should Betty be dismissed.
because Sir ROBERT PEEL wants money ?
should- Molly's .wages be reduced, becaust
Gen. POLLOCK has received orders to join Gen.
NOTT at Cauhul I—and why—oh why, should Ton,
be told to leave his velvet shorts behind him
in the pantry, and take himself off at " a month's
notice," because the Chinese refuse to yield sub-
mission to the " Barbarian Eye ?"- When Sit-
ROBERT PEEL can explain these. matters to our
satisfaction, we will believe that his. Income-tax
is not quite so flagrantly unjust in its operation ;
but till then, we shall take leave to consider h
as the most harassing—inquisitorial—outrageous
—and insolently oppressiVe measure that was
ever hatched by .the Devil, or a Tory, for the
express annoyance of John Bull. .

Our readers may perhaps imagine that the un-
popularity of this precious Impost is chiefly con-
fined to the Whigs and Radicals. But the case
is not so. The Tories detest it with equal hearti-
ness, for Mr. Deputy Dobbs, who has just turned
off his footman Toni, and the six Smiths, who
have just got rid of their six housemaids, are all
Tories, and bitterly regret the vote they gave at
the last,City election. So is it with the respectable
families of the Tomkinses, the Jenkinses, &c.
They too, are Tories. They, too, thought it a fine
thing to have such a respectable man as Sir
ROBERT PEEL to tax them—thinking, of course,
that he would have a sort of fellow-feeling for
pockets of respectability.-and now they find to
their cost that they have been deceived, and in
the agony of their disappointment have serious
thoughts of turning Chartists, and swallow-
ing the Five Points at a gulp !
But-as if the Income-tax were not in itself bad
enough, the utmost efforts are being made—one
Would almost suppose on purpose—to render it
as- Sir ROBERT PEEL has
not only established a raw in John Bull's sides,
but he has hired a-set of assistants, and armed
them with whips,
,for the express purpose of
,keeping that raw in:a constant state of irritation.
The Timee and. Herald of yesterday, and the
Post of to=day, rmike grieious complaints on this
score. The 'latter observes, "It is high time.
that some-dikniSsalsOfAssessors under the Income-
,tax, took place. Severe examples have become
necessary. Many a poor creature is justly sent.
to the:treadmill for a less guilty thing than en-
deavOtiring to extort a tax from those who are
not liable, in order to pocket a per centage on
the sum extorted. . A taste of the treadmill
would, we have no doubt, be very efficacious."
It is not often that we agree with the Post; but
when we do agree—as Puff says in The Critic
- unanimity is wonderful !" In the
above passage there is not a sentence of
which we do not cordially approve. The hint
in particular, about the treadmill is admirable.,
But why, oh Post, why restrict thine indignation
to the subordinates? Why not launch thy thun.
ders at the heads of the chief offenders? The
Assessors, no doubt, are much to blame, but who
first put it into their heads tg, do mischief?
These last, and not their helpless tools, are the
fit subjects for the treadmill and civilised hu-
manity cannot imagine a more gratifying spec-
tacle—or one more replete with useful warning—
than that of Sir ROBERT PEEL picking oakum,
with his head cropped, at Brixton

Slop clothes are proverbially worthless. Sailors
deal in them more than any other. class of men,
and generally pay a good price for what they
purchase. No men, as the rule, are more fleeced
by dealers tlian sailors; and, it appears, from a
recen: meeting on the subject of the distressed
shirt-makers, that slop-sellers are two-edged
dealers, and cut as much off the wages of their
work-woman as they cut off Jack's earnings.
They pay one penny a piece for making sailors'
shirts, and a skilful work-woman makes one in
two hours. The cost of making them accounts
at once fur their worthlessness when made. They
are only run, not sewed together, and when the
sailors get to sea they find employment in
re4naking their shirts. The excessive smallness
of the pay of the work-woman, and the excessive
high price generally asked by slop-sellers, make
the 'honesty of that class of tradesmen very
doubtful. If there be exceptions in the trade, as
there probably are, it is to be regretted for their
sake that the names of those who pay one penny
for makingashirt were not mentioned at the late
meeting, that the public indignation might be
directed against them. By withholding their
names justice was not done to the trade.
Fourteen hours a day do these sempstresses la-
bour for sixpence. What a noble field for Lord
Asntkv! The factory slaves - and the colliery
slaves get three times as much money for a less
degree of toil. Their condition, however, is only
a specimen of the general condition of the work-
ing classes. They are not worse off than agri-
cultural labourers. They are much better off
than the unemployed labourers of Greenock and
Paisley. They are generally either single women
or they have partners who contribute to their
subsistence. They haire not families, we hope,
to provide for out of their hard-earned sixpence
a day. They are not exposed when they toil
like an agricultural labourer to all the severity
of the weather ; nevertheless, they deserve
public colmnisseration and public support, but
they do not deserve them more than the agri-
cultural labourer who earns a shilling a day, and
must with that support a family.
The slop-makers and sellers do but take ad-
vantage of the necessities of the poor, and they
are far less criminal, worthy as we dem them of
reproach,than thosewho make the poor necessitous.
Those who stop up the channels of employment
and impede the labouring classes from finding
healthy occupation in factories, in embroidery,
in lace-making, in stocking knitting, are far more
to blame than the slop-sellers. In every part of
society there are too many persons for the work
to be done ; their competition is their own de-
basement; and those legislators are their worst
enemies who place restrictions on trade, and pre-
vent a single human being from engaging in. any
honest pursuit by which he may obtain subsist-
ence. But if we look at our laws we find one
forbids a man to import wheat, another prevents I

um from tiapin tin butter and chees2, and a
pt.( hibits him from b;.i! ging in sugar. We
have no hesitation in saying that these and situ:-
lar restrictive laws are the causes of the la-
mentable want of work which now makes
the people injure each other by excessive
:ompetition. No person can deny the
want
if work and the co-existence of laws
4)rbidding. men from engaging in particular
occupations; and should we seek further than the
xistence of laws so well calculated to deprive
the people of profitable employment for the
:ause of that want which actually exists'! Our
•estrictive system is the cause why sempstresses
Ire obliged to put up with a'penny for making a
ihirt, and why agricultural labourers cannot get
tbove one shilling or one shilling and sixpeare
.or a day's hard labour. In this case machinery
cannot be blamed, for sewing machines have-Apt
;et come into use, if any have been invented.

We have received by the Levant Mail copious
,ntelligence from the East. Letters from .0011
itantinople state that ALEXANDER, grandson of
CZERNI GEORGE, had been solemnly recognis.e.,d
)y the Porte, and that the firman for the &To'
iitian of Prince GIIIKA. had been forwarded
to
Bucharest. Two special Commissaries had been
appointed to carry the firrnan into effect. -
The quarantine station has been removed. from
the banks of the Bosphorus to one of the castles
it. the Dardanelles, much to the dissatisfaction of
he European legations.
The intelligence from Persia is fauna la
tad strong hopes are entertained. that all the
lifferences between that country and the Porte
, All be amicably arranged. A mutual age.e.
meat had been come to by the Commandeke
the Turkish and Persian forces to withdraw MOr
respective troops from the frontier, in order to
0-
,frevent any further collisions. the
From Malta we have a confirmation
eising of the Arabs against the French in Algie:B;
It would appear that up to the 314 t of oc,toued
the loss of the French; in officers alone, atIVPOF
to twenty-six. n
Co-) Aton-
Though no intelligence had reached bts
stantinople of the; rising in Syria, little dt°,:en
remain that serious- disturbances had the
place, and that great discontent prevailed in
Northern district of Lebanon.- .A.cc
French accounts from Beyrout, a rising thehad
taken place in the, district of Becher, and d
Albanians sent to restore order had been defe*.t
with considerable loss. ,one'
We regret to learn that the Mortality an t.:l
Lhe cattle in Egypt still continues to a frighi`:d
extent. MEHEMET Am on his way to Cell' ;lied
'topped at the Delta, where he
to remain for some time, in order t°
inQ
figate the causes of this dreadful Ini"to
Before his departure he had abolished the for
upon slaves, and had also adopted nleasure9
ording .t(01
providing food for the people, in
lily among the oxen shOuld tender it ilnP°6st
to cultivate the land this season.
e the The intelligence from Madrid is to I% the
instant. Reports were in circulation' that,
¢t
army was to be reduced to 60,000 Men, tin"' be
a treaty of commerce, and a loan also, was L.ie
some
made with this country. It will be
CaSe the nio;li)'
leQd
however, before English capitalists att'a'rs
,have
money to bankrupt States, which seem t%,00.
only one object in view—cheating their ereusfr,stn.
The Spanish Government is described lts r-e
cerely disposed to carry out the first -1116:15:1 to
still, from the difficulties which it will- ";8„:e
encounter, its success is anythingbut eerta--:%ty
The Three per cents. were done at.2l,l*tsaish,
days, and:the Five per-Cents. at 269-16 for
and:27.at sixty days. 'The -debt hearieir;%vr
tereaf' sold for 51 at days.
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.
We are glad to .find by the Paris 134e.1
114,1)Y
receivedthis day, that the new tariff adCW7iite
the German Union, is opening the eYeaa' 'to
French manufacturers, and compelling i
mech
admit that a state of commercial isolationi-7te,
as the monopolists would establish for Fill)*
would be ruinous to the country. in reteil led
the Royal ordinanCe issued in. July, direct
chiefly against England, but to a certain eThio
injuring also Germany, the Customs' 1•41-4 f
have doubled the duty on most of the arti°ll76o-
Parisian manufacture. It appears that 00 -
,of
day the merchants and manufacturers de,
the capital, engaged in the foreign
alarmed at this mode of retaliation, had an 5-0(1
ence of the MiniSter of Commerce, and difee
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attention to the fact, that the new aria'tie
almost .cquivalent to a prohibition,of flint— ''ifee
articles manufactured in Paris. ,Fol' :)0-(#1."
they said—" Gilt bronze of the .value
of
subject by the existing. tariff to 25f. dutY' 50f.
pay from the commencement of next Yceaoroefe
A chest of plated goods of the value (-"
which now pays 150 f., will pay hereafter o.yr
enormous duty of 300 f. A bale of stained Pa''vf
of the value of 300 f., now subject .to a dtil.ll'r-
-75f., will hereafter pay 150 f. A chest elocd,
furriery of the value of 400 f., now PaYilighefeg
duty, will hereafter be subject- to 4001 e ;Of
100 per cent. on the value. Iron and till
fine haberdashery, and kid gloves, in tile,,:fore
proportion. With such extraordinary facts uZeisr
their eyes, the undersigned have asked they''
selves what could have been the motive f°(0,14.
conduct of the German Union? What new, 0'
sures taken by our Government could hav-,511,0 ,
thorised the counnercial interests of 'Greruill"'ie-
consider themselves injured?" We. have° tee
formation respecting the reply made t Ile
Minister to this very needless question, `Tores
might' have told them that the new Jul)'
taken by the French Governmeet iii their
had
compelled the Germans to act iiiiown defence, and would probably the
all other countrie, one by one, f°ll°,,.‘leollY.
example till France was left alone ie lie. c
tot,
The
Paris traders seem afraid of such a ;ft
and ask the Minister to use his influence 'l.tiiriag
venting the German Union from thus iilJ t
French manufactures. But the Mi"ister strie-
begin at home. He must remove heavy red co-
tions on imports from other countries, 811dy.;10
wince commercial men that France i 5 re ire
meet them on fair and reciprocal terrns• ad@
trust,"' said the Deputation in conclasion,
the German Union has not adopted theaciieen-
sures for the purpose of isolating itself'
procal isolation would be as easy as.l,t van'
be fatal, and cannot suit enlightened ul,° .50
ments. 'Confiding in your anxious solicituaeio,
in the benevolent dispositions offriendlY "the 1.4
the undersigned trust that the delay c't.
tut-
of January, adopted by the Congress
„. tee
gard, will permit the Government to rem
difficulties, difficulties, equally injurious to the tWO en° relit
The French booksellers, too, are in g
Oa
alarm for their trade, and held a meetiligden''
Monday, in the hall of the municipality, t°
alit
sider the expediency of the commercial
with Belgium. After some discussion,
nimously agreed to the principle of the measll4,
and voted an address to that effect to the C/ %le
cif of Ministers. ,jiri0
The lollowing appointments have appear-1.-
the Moniteur:— co
Major-General Aupick, Commandant of thel4`, ,
d'Application d'Etat Major, is appointed to th.e.e?rn,
ieet.
mand of the garrison at Paris, in the room 01 I' trio
they dna,
re,
General Darriule, who passes into the second st'e de,
of the Cadre de Reserve. Alajur-General Canuna,e,
Commandant of the Military School of St. GYri.,;t,
places General Aupick at the Ecole
and Major-General Tarlet succeeds General, ti.ll
nade at St. Cyr. general
The Commerce states that it was the
belief in Paris on Sunday, that Count DE
BUfEAU, the Prefect of the Seine,
e
fain ptohset acflleerrksthaet
Hotel the e :d tli
ej at
joatr
of
that he was to be replaced by M. GaealrLf
;,.
LESSERT. the Prefect of Police.
BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, NOVE3fIIER
First Highestl.ovr' price:
Price. Price. Price. 118 90
French Five per Cents. 118 95... 119 -• 118 101
Four per Cents. 101 20... 101 20 .. 101 `""* 8(1.10
3 per Cents 89 25... 80 25... go 10.-.325i-,
Bank of France 3285 ...3285 ..3255. • )00
Latlitte Bank 5,000 f 5080 ...5080 -.5080 • 805
Belgian Bank BO5 805 • B°s 1060
1841 logo •*" 1034
Belgian Fives. . lO3l ... 1031 ... 103 i lo4g
1840 lO4l ... 1044 ..• 104° :23
Spanish Active 234 ... 231 ... 2')4 4
Passive
Portuguese Fives BB 33 e. 32-1 '"

Roman,
man, ex div. ..... 1031 ... 104 ... 1031 ... 1031
RAILWAY SHARES •
~8t Germain
L.II 835 ... 835 835 835
91 25... 91 25... 88 75... 90
R B 265 ... 267 50... 265 ... 267 50
A'Rouen
340rl ea ns.
t,rraib bur to 13a 1 e 205 ... 205 ... 205 ... 205