The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-21 00:00:00

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LONDON
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1842.

Almost all the country pagers have now begun to dis-
cuss the income tax, and few or none, we are happy to
say, approve of it. One dilates on its injustice to
tradesmen and profeSsiOnal men ; another expostulates
against the hurried manner in which Sir R. PEEL is fore-
in; it through the House ; and a third, shows very forci-
bly that it has been constructed to favour the landowners
who will take advantage of its provisions to evade pay-
ment altogether. 'As far as we have seen, they all ob-
ject to its inquisitorial nature, and condemn it ye-
hemenently, more on account of its intrusion into do-
nic:"tic life than of its pecuniary burdens.
We are, however, surprised to find that some quasi-
liberal Journals of the metropolis praise Sir ROBERT
rf.r.r.'s scheme as the largest and " most judicious bud-
get that has ever been brought forward." They com-
pensate for their praise, indeed, by showing that he pro-
poses to bring into use an odious and complicated ma-
chinery, in order to raise 3,700,0001., employing which
in 1816 to raise upwards of 14,000,0001., shook the
strong and then popular Government of Lord LIVERPOOL
to its centre. We cannot conceive any thing more un-
statsman-like, more injudicious, or more unskilful, than
to run the risk of offending the bulk of the middle classes
in order to raise '3,700,000/. a year.
The projector described by SmoLLELT, who had in-

vented a very cum!iroas machi:ie for cutting down
cabbages was merely absurd, but Sir R. PEEL, who in
introducing, his cumbrous machinery, is dealing with
the. mighty interests of humanity, is not merely absurd
is ini.:,ehievous and cruel. The lower classes are
one and ail set against the Government. They demand
more political power. Ills proposed great change will
Not benefit -them, nor in the least degree soothe their
irritated minds; while if it be carried into effect. it will
vtx, disgust, and outrage the middle classes.
Withme, considering time and circumstances, Sir
ROBERT PEEL has blindly followed Mr. Prrr's device. In
answer to the objection that this was only 'a war tax,
he replied that Mr, PITT adopted the tax to meet
financial difficulties, that the country was now in
financial difficulties; and therefore the tax now was as
appropriate as in a time of war. Brit when Mr. PITT
first laid on the property tax, and when the Whigs after-
wards extended it, the country was engaged in a war
for:its very existence, which kindled the enthusiasm of
the;pioople -in favour of tile Government. The bulk
of ,tl4 community were heartily and enthusiastically
opposed, firs:, to revolutiOnary France, :and afterwards
to litioN.trAftTE. There is no such enthusiasm now to
make the people submit cheerfully to privations, and
carry ' the Tory Government successfully thrOugh its
present difficulties.
Nor can that enthusiasm be awakened by the colt
formal orations of Sir _ft. Pv.EL. lie has no heart—he
wants sincerity, and , his present project is unconnected
with any sentiment but that of the duty of preserviug,
the Government from financial difficulties. • But the bulk
of the people already complain of its enormous cost, and
already speak of it more as a curse than a blessing,
For Sir R. PEEL now to kindle an enthusiasm which
will make the • public submit to the inquisition of an
income tax, is as hopeless as an attempt to breathe life in
the dead.
The public will look also at the different objects of the
two Ministers. Devoted to his country, Mr. PITT
thought only of maintaining her independence and
adding to her greatness. He was bent on subduing
France, and no man doubted his sincerity or his patriot-
ism, whatever might be thought of his policy. What is
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S object ? Has he any similar noble
plan in view ? Does his policy contemplate an exten-
sion of dominion, or the vindication of the national
honour ? No. He is only intent on maintaining the
dominion of the landlords. He proposes an income tax,
in. order that he may keep on the Corn-law, by which he
personally - profits ; and he expects the people to
submit to the same sacrifices for a purpose which
they detest as for one they admired. Both in
the circumstances of the times and the policy of
the Ministers there are such essential differences, that
.now to adopt an income tax because Mr. PITT had re-
course to such a device, is not a more judicious imitation
than that of the Chinese tailor who copied the patches
and the dames of an old coat given to him for a model.
The spirit of imitation in a statesman is a sign of a little
mind. He should create, not follow precedents ; and
that Sir ROBERT PEEL could find nothing more suitable
to the present position of the country than a hateful
income tax, shows that he is a man of very limited

• resources.
The difference we have adverted to in public sentiment,
sag,gests at once a great probable difference in the results
of the tax now and during the war. Hundreds and
thousands of men who would have disdained to evade a
tax honestly imposed for such a purpose as the defence
of the country, will think it a duty to evade it when
imposed only to enable Sir ROBERT PEEL
to preserve the Corn-law. From several quarters
we hear that landlords and their tenants will
votispire to evade it. Men with families will make
ever part of their incomes to their children for their sup-
port, and honestly swear that their income does not
amount to 1501. a year. Persons holding property in
the funds will divide it amongst several parties, as trus-
tee* &c.—each of whom shall have less than the
required 150/., and so the tax will be avoided. Trades-
meh will take their children or foremen into a nomi-
nal, partnership, and the divided profits of their trad,.
will appear below the required standard.'
The tax, then, will be very generally evaded, and the
respbasibility of all the immorality which will ensue
will properly belong to that unthinking statesman, who
by imposing a tax when ib is unwarranted by popular
feeling, sets the duty of individuals to themselves,
and their duty towards the Government in opposition.
-I.Qoking on such a tax as the consequence of those mo-
nopolies which Sir ROBERT PEEL is carried into power-
to support, we are ready to declare that the duty of men
towards their country, as well as their duty towards
themselves, requires and commands them under present
circumstances, to evade and defeat such an odious and
_inquisitorial law.

Par from looking on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme as
we regard it as one of the wildest that could
be fallen on by a Conservative statesman. It is a
cunning contrivance, which, pretending to promote the
public welfare, serves no interest, and satisfies no party.
It unsettles a great many branches of trade without
setting any free, or placing any on a permanent founda.
With the words of freedom on his lips he
introduces a great number of new restrictions, and h
whets the appetite for further change both by "hat
he -ives,itnd what he withholds. His conduct isat tha same
time a complete though tacit admission, that Conservatism
imititutions as they are, is an impossi-
bility.or holding fast by
beComes s ise statesmen, thereforo, to aseer-
ctaih what icstitutions ought to be, and on-that model
attempt to reform them; not go or 'patching and cobling
an old garment that is falling to pieces and can no longer
be held together.
Besides its_ injudiciousness, Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme
.
bas the demerit of pleasing no great class. It was un-
(tidied for, and is unpopular. He has borrowed some
sut,pstions from the Import Duties' Committee, and on

them he has engrafted an income tax. A most favour-
able opportunity is offered to the Whigs to regain their
lost hold of the public mind by a firm, spirited, and un-
ceasing opposition to this odious tax. We trust that
they will stick to their opinion that this tax is not
necessary; that by a proper system of commercial reform
and economy in the public expenditure, the revenue and
expenditure might be equalized, and pointing out the
social, the moral, and the pecuniary evils of an income
tax, they will in spite of the insolent taunts of Sir
ROBERT PEEL make use of all the forms of the House
to delay the progress of his measure till the public have
had full time to consider it. The tax will be a curse to
the country, and our representatives will neglect their
duty if they do not prevent Sir ROBERT PEEL from im•
posing it.
Sir R,

•
sir R. PEEL ascribes to his proposed income tax:the
merit of not falling on the wages of Labour, but this is
a fallacy which Lord BROUGHAM happily exposed on
Thursday night in the following passage :
A very great delusion prevailed in the country—at least
amongst that large classy the labouring population, for whom
he felt so strong an interest—u to the operation of the income
tax on them. It was i very common thing for them, or for
those who instructed them, and who should know better; to say
that the income tax could in no way affect them. There was
no greater delusion than this. It required but little argument
to show that the labourer was affected by the diminution of
the fund out of which he was paid. When the capital accu-
mulated, the fund of the labourer was increased ; when it
became diminished, the fund to pay the labourer decreased in
the same proportion. The manner in which the income tax
was levied showed its effect on the labourer. You levy so
much on men possessed of income ; all that you withdraw
from their capital supposing them tradesmen, farmers, or
manufacturers—came from that accumulation which they had
made this year, and would probably spend next year. The
money which they paid as an income tax was no longer an ex-
penditure from which they could derive any direct advantages,
for it was taken from them to be applied in another way—to
support labour of another kind, which was not productive.
If that amount were not taken from that class it would be an
,•eumulation, which would be spent in the same or the next
year. _

their Lordships would remember that there was an essential
difference between a tax upon incomes and a tax upon con-
sumable commodities, :inasmuch as the former was unaccom-
pauied by any extension of the supply given to labour, whereas
the other, at the same sime that it put something into the
Treusury, of necessity also put something Into the fund out of
which the productive labour of the country was rewarded. A
tax of 1,0001. upon incomes added nothing to the labour of
the country, whilst a tax of the same amount collected upon
articles liable to the duties of the excise or the customs of ne-
cessity caused an expenditure of 1,0001., or it might be of
2,000/. or 3.000/. more, which went to support the trade and
commerce of England.

In confirmation of this view, we must state that Mr.
PORTER, slims in his work on the Progress of the
Nation, that the condition of the people, judging
by the produce of taxation,, improved much less
between 1801 and 1821, involving a long period of
war, and of increasing taxation, than in the subsequent
years when taxes were reduced :

" Although," he says, " the amount of taxes received in
1811 was greater than the computation raade, from the duties
imposed by the sum of 2,663,3201., it was smaller than the
amount which should have been received, by 5,663,4011. when
we take into account the increase which had been experienced
'n the numbers of population. In 1821, the amount actually
collected was 5,786,3451., beyond the compound amount, but
8,810,902/. below the sum that should have been
received, considering that the population was then
greater by 29 per cent. than it was in 1801. Between 1821
and 1831 taxes were repealed beyond what were imposed,
amounting to 17,321,40.11., and the effect of this reduction was
immediately seen in the proportionally greater consumption
of articles on which the old or modified duties were continued.
The amount received into the Exchequer in 1831 was greater
than the amount by computation to the extent of 14,705,7821.,
and was within 550,3251. of the sum which it should have
reached, considering the immense number by whom it was con-
tributed. In 1836, when the public burdens had been still farther
reduced by 4,981,261/. the amount of duties and taxes received
was greater than it should have been by coznputation, to the
extent of 22,072,8041., and greater, also, by 6,320,3991. than
the remaining taxes would have yielded at the same rate of
consumption by the increased numbers of the people.
Thus, it is clear, that as long as the Government went
on adding to taxation. so long did the condition of the
people go on deterlorating, and it was only as the Go-
vernment abolished taxation that .their condition
was improved, and they came up to, or even
went beyond the mark which they had reached
when the computation began. The bulk of the people
then have a strong and even an intense interest in re-

di.cing all kinds of taxation to the lowest possible level.
Sir R. PEEL'S scheme proposes to add at least 3,000,0001.
to the taxes, and the burden will fall, and must fall, on
industry, which produces all the wealth of the commu-
nity. For the labouring classes to look quietly on, be-
guiled by Sir R. PEEL'S and Mr. GOULBURN'S l onied
wordS, while they are despoiling the middle classes
by an income-tax, will be most injurious to their
own welfare. They must not allow any grudge
on account of previous ill-treatment, which we
have always admitted they have received, to betray
them into a criminal indifference to increased taxation.
On the contrary, their interest is the same, on this point
at least, as the interost of the middle classes, and they
ought to make common cause with them in resisting the
imposition of an income tax.

We wish to direct the special attention of the public
to recent correspondence, which we have elsewhere
inserted, between the deposed Raja of SATTARA and his
agent, and the Directors of the East India Company.
This correspondence forms another chapter in the his-
tory of the disgraceful conduct of the Directors towards
a high-minded and innocent native Prince, placed by the
fortune of war in a state of dependence upon them. We
cannot conceal our indignation at the treatment
which the agent of the Raja, a gentleman of
rank and worth, has received at the hands of
the twenty-four irresponsible oligarchs of Leaden-
hall-street. Every act of the majority of these
men proves their perfect sympathy with those by whom
the descendant of SEEYAJEE has been cast down from his
hereditary throne, and plundered of character, property,
and power. Those of our readers who remember the
facts we published in connection with the return of the
Raja's Agents in July last, will see the paltriness and
dishonesty of the reasons assigned for refusing to recog-
nize the accredited Agent of the Raja now in Lon-
don. To deny to this gentle Man copies of doCu-
ments, so important to the interests of his master
is cruel and inhuman. The artifice, however, can
avail but for a short time. It is in the power of
the friends of the Raja at the India House to bring
these documents to light, and still further to expose the
scandalous injustice to which the Directors have become
parties. As the friends of truth and justice, we hope to
see this done speedily. We desire to see British supre-
macy upheld in India ; but we see in conduct such as
that pursued towards the Raja of SATTARA, the seeds
and the sources of those troubles and disasters
which entail upon us loss of wealth and human
life, and what is more precious than either, of
British honour, and moral influence. A course of
undeviating justice is the only method of permanently
retaining our possessions in the East. We cannot too
soon adopt this course. Let a commencement be made
in the case of the Raja of SATTARA. Should our past
policy be much longer persisted in, England will be
ruined by taxation, and India will be lost by the tyranny
and exactions of the Court of Directors.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

OSTERLEY CLUB COURSING MEETING----17;znAy

AND SATURDAY.

- - The Cup (16 dogs) was won by Mr. Nicholls's Vietoria,
beating Mr. Watson's Fanny (received the goblet).
ARDROSSAN CLUB COURSING MEETING—FRIDAY

AND SATURDAY

The Cup (10 dogs) was won by Dr. Brown's Monarch,
beating Sir W. A. Maxwell's Milo.
The Champion Collar by Lord Eglinton's Waterloo, beating
Dr. Brown's Driver.
The Eglinton Park Stakes (13 subs.) by Lord Eglinton's
Blackbird, beating Dr. Brown's Bella.
The Tyro Stakes (20 puppies) by Dr. Brown's Kirklayd,
beating his Glenowther and Heather Jock (drawn).
The Harbour Stakes (12 dogs) by Lord Eglinton's Chester,
beating Dr. Brown's Dandy.
The Selling Stakes (12 subs.) by Lord Eglinton's Fireball,
beating his Mossrose.
lIOOTON CLUB COURSING MEETING—FRIOAY.
The Cup was won by Sir P. Mostyn's Midnight.
The Hot-in Stakes by Sir P. Mostyn's Mariner.
The Wirral by Sir W. Stanley's Selma.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Sir C. Constable's Stag Hounds, Wednesday, Buretwich
Dairy Houses ; Satureay, Wych Toll-bars, at 11.
Findon Hounds, Tuesday, Henfield; Thursday, Wapping-
thorne-gate ; Saturday, Parham.
Essex Union Hounds, uesday, Rettenden Common ; Sa-
turday, Wisendon Wash, at half-past 10.

Ea;i Essex 'Hounds, Tuesday, Bythorn End ; Thursday,
Chalkney ; Saturday, Balmer, at half-past 10.
Essex and Suffolk Hounds, Tuesday, St. Osyth Flag ; Sa-
turday, l'attingstone White Horse, at half-past 10.
Mr. Tudway's Hounds, Tuesday. Hardway ; Thursday,
Evercreesh ; Saturday, Hardington Pillars.
Mr. B. Cockburn's Hounds. Tuesday, Cock's Wood, near
Oxminster ; Saturday, White Cross Ottery, East Hill, at 11.
Lord Gifford's Hounds, Tuesday, Mocktree Common ; Fri-
day, Barne's Toll-bar, at half-past 10.
Mr. Candler's Hounds, Tuesday, Woodcote Green; Thurs-
day, Grafton Mill ; Saturday, Bransford Bridge, at 11.
United Pack, Wednesday, Patton, half-past 8.
Montgomeryshire hds.—Tues., Llanymyneck Rock; Sat.,
Llansaintfftaed-9.
Essex stag hds.—Tues., Beauchamp Roothing-12.
East Sussex hds.—Wed., Fulmer; Thurs., Norton Top;
Piddinghoe.
Norfolk hds.—Tues. Hockham Hall ; Thurs., Kennel; Sat.,
Bawdes well-1 • _

Earl Dude's Buscot House ; Thurs., Coles-
-11-10i.
Mr. W. Horlock's Ms.—Tues., Catcombe Wood.

Hambledon hds.— Wed., Barn Green; Sat., Upham Pond-10i.
Sir N. Carew's hds.— Tues., Sandy Gate; Sat., Thorns-1 1.
Mr. Bulteel's hds. —Tues., Gara Bridge; I hum, Erme
Bridge-IU.
Badsworth hds. —Tues., Barnadale Bar ; Thurs., Grove
Hall ; Sat., Notton Village-10i.
Mr. Giles's hds. —Tues., Highnam ; Sat., Dy 'noel Abbey
—lO.

Sinnington hda—Tues.,Woelaugh; Sat.,AshberryHouse-9.
Hurworth hds.—Tues Over Dirwidale Bridge; Sat., CottitT
Wood. •

Hay( hds.—Wed., Sewing Shieidi ; Sat., Kennel-9.
Mr. Fane's harrs.—Tues., Blewsbury Downs.
Whiteeross harrs.—Tuvs , Bishopstone ; Sat., Butler's
Cross-101.
Perthshire hchi.'—ii •
Ved. Duuerub; Sat. Irmernytie-10i.

THE fISUN; LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1842

and Dalkeith Railway; Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Baines, from
the Lei-lion and Croydon Railway ; Mr. Vickers, from the
Sheffield and Rotheram Railway; Messrs. Miller and Lead-
bitter, from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ' • Messrs.
Brandling and- Carr, from the Brandling Junction Railway ;
Mr. Stuart, from the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railway ;
and Mr. Grahame, Secretary to the Deputations had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Blaney, Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, had an inter-
view with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial Office.
The Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street, on
Saturday.
Sir T. Acland and Captain Trotter had an interview with
Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Mer-
ritt, Canada had also an interview with his Lordship on Saturday.
Despatches from the Cape of Geed Hope were received yes-
terday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were received on
Saturday from the Governors of the Mauritius, Sierra Leone,
and Western Australia.

OPINIONS IN SCOTLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Glasgow, 7th March, 1842.
SIR,--For a few days after learning the extent of
corruption in high places, the Scotch remained as it
were staggered and confounded, worn out by the ex-
ertion they had already made, and each man asking
his neighbour what is to be done now.? but lam re-
joiced it announce through you to our London
friendigtat the battle-cry is once more rising through
the length and breadth of Scotland, and, with a spi-
rit of determination worthy of the people who main-
tained their liberties against England for five centu-
ries, although beaten in every pitched battle, save the
crowning one of Bannockburn. •
In the first place traitors are to be called to ac-
count. Stirling has shown the example : Lord Dal-
meny was returned for the Stirling district of
Burghs, against the wish of the Dumfermline electors,
who never trusted him solely by votes from the town
of Stirling. He was so elected upon a written pledge
to vote for the total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws ; he has broken it, and the first four names
upon a requisition about to be presented for his resig-
nation, from the Stirling electors who voted for him,
are those of the four Bailies or Magistrates of Stirling.
A similar dose is in preparation by Edinburgh for
Babington Macaulay.
In Glasgow our Members both did their duty, and
Mr. Oswald, in particular, although drawing his
whole income, about 20,0001. per annum, from land,
seconded Mr. Villiers' motion ; but here also the ex-
citement is such that the declaration in favour of
" Manhood Suffrage" has been subscribed by
eleven Justices of the Peace, some of them the pro-
prietors of manufacturing establishments, amongst the
largest in Britain. The sentiment everywhere heard
is—" no representation, no taxation." "If by im-
posts on the necessaries of life all are taxed, all should
vote in the election of the body who impose these
taxes."

It is also an ominous sign of the times that the movers
and seconders of the resolutions at the " Sturge Meet-
ings" are everywhere Dissenting clergymen. At the
Edinburgh meeting four clergymen spoke, at Alloa
three, at Paisley three Dissenting and one Established
Church clergymen, and at Airdrie three. At the
Glasgow meeting, which will be held in a few days,
several will come forward.
One-third part of the whole population of Paisley
is supported by public charity. The funds are ex-
hausted ; they have been unable to obtain farther as-
sistance in England, and so have entered into a third
local subscription, which has only yielded 9001., or
one week's supply. The people will be starving im-
mediately, and when starving, desperate. Let the
landlords know that when the moment arrives, there
will not be wanting those who will point the finger to
them as the cause of the -evil. In fact, the manufac-
turers here, when solicited for subscriptions, already
answer—" We see no prospect of being able to main-
tain ourselves and families. We cannot help you ;
go to the landlords ; they have caused and profit by
the evil."

Do not let Sir Robert Peel, the landlords,
or fund-holders, deceive themselves ; there is a feel-
ing of exasperation abroad, which could hardly be
surpassed, even in France at a celebrated epoch.
Already, in numerous instances, have the bonds of
private friendship been severed, and men come to re-
gard as personal enemies all who maintain or speak in
favour of laws which threaten the existence of them-
selves and families.

Lord John Russell's late speech has been received
here with marked reprobation. The response to it
has been—" Woe unto those who call evil good, and
good evil." " Woe unto those who cry peace, peace,
while there is no peace !" " Though hand join in
hand, yet shall not the wicked go unpunished."
There are few of those who fire bullets at the effigy
of Sir Robert Peel, or shout when they see it
dangling in the air at the end of a rope, who do not
wish, and if they saw a hope of success, would not try
to convert representation into reality.

LORD BROUGHAM'S SPEECH ON THE
INCOME TAX will be published TO-MOII.ROW.
11. Hooper, Pall Mall East.

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THE WEATHER.—NOON, MARCH 21.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 43 Highest 46 Lowest 34
Barometer 30.05.—Wind N.—Freezing Point «9. Deg.

HIGH WATEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 2 minutes after S. 1 Evening 49Lminutes after 8.
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SUN OFFICE, Three o'clock

The excitement throughout the country, raised by that
much-dreaded impost, the income tax, becomes every
day more intense. The people are recovering from their
lethargy, and now seem thunder-struck at their own

supineness in returning a House of Commons ready to
support a Minister who issues a decree like a foreign
despot, and, like him, also rejects all petitions and re-
monstrances against the inquisitorial measure. Of
what use, say they, is the right of petition, if we
are precluded from petitioning against a tax which
we all equally abhor, and of which we knew nothing till,
as far as we are concerned, it became irrevocable? Since
the agitation of the Reform Bill we have not been so in-
undated with letters in the same time on any five sub-
jects of public interest, many of the writers exclaiming
against Sir R. PEEL as against an insidious and practised
robber. Now he may be able, though we trust not, by
this coup-de-main, with the host of Tories at his back, to
carry his point, but when it is carried, what has he
gained ?—the determined hostility of the great body of
the people, who, harrassed more and more by the

.nquisitorial proceedings of tax-gatherers and the
secret communications of spies, will resist his Go-
vernment till he is finally expelled from office.
Does he imagine that he can carry on the affairs of
the country against the will of the community, or that
the people will submit to the dominion of one class, who,
in all the taxes they impose,
.take especial care of
their own pockets ? The new Corn-law---the exemp-
tion from the probate and legacy duty on landed property;
the I proposed tax on trades, professions, and terminable
annuities are all glaring [instances of partiality, for
which the electors will take signal vengeance the first
opportunity. Were •a general election to take place
next month, the Tory Cabinet would in another month
after the meeting of Parliament cease to exist. Let the
people, therefore, be only true to themselves, let them
assemble in every city, town, and village, not to petition
(for the right in this instance is abolished) but to de-
nounce the inquisitorial scheme. Let the few real repre-
sentatives of the people be faithful to their trust, and use
every legitimate means in the house to protract the de-
cision till after Easter, and then the voice of the nation will
be too strong for even this strong Cabinet, though supported
by the Court, by the House of Peers, the West India inte-
rest, and the whole aristocratical force of the country.
To the Liberal Members all class now look for protec-
tion. This is no party question. It comes home to every
family, and Tory as well as Liberal electors will cheer
on the minority in fighting for the good cause. They
are the more bound to pursue this course, because the
prayers of their constituents are rejected by the scheme
of the wily Premier. These can only be heard
through their representatives, 'and should they fail to do
their duty, the public will justly exclaim, " The
representative system is a mockery ; our mouths are
shut by an order of the Collective Wisdom, and those
sent to protect us are dumb dogs that cannot bark."
We, therefore, look forward to the proceedings in Par-
liament up to Thursday with no common interest. The
agitation has only commenced, and shame be to the
leaders who desert those they hfl.V.o sworn to protect.

The too common prevalence in this country of that
most dreadful of human maladEies, insanity, is en ex-
cuse, if any be wanted, for thu.4, early returning to the
L
suoject of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET'S Lunatic
Asylum Bill, upon. which we offered a few ob-
servations in The Sun of Saturday. Other states
of suffering, however appalling, can never be
so terrible as this. The sickness of the heart
is hard to be borne, but the patient can hear
and comprehend words of consolation and of hope—
can with the eye of faith, catch glimpses of
Light worlds beyond the grave, when all help
is denied in this state of - being. But what
is this to the closing of the windows of the mind
which admitted the light of reason upon the soul—
to the sad survey of the ruins of that noblest struc-
ture of God—the human intellect? What degree of suf-
fering can be compared with that in which the conscience
is haunted with visions of imaginary guilt, in which
the only creations of the fancy are images of duplicity,
cruelty and fear, in which the burning brain, racked
with pain and scorched with tire, retains no impression
but those of wretchedness, and in which all else is tumult
and distraction ? No, malady equal to this there is none.
It is of human visitations the most terrible, and the most
worthy of the ameliorating solicitude of the Legislature.
We, therefore, call upon those who are disposed to
support Lord G. SOMERSET'S Bill, to prevail upon
that well-intentioned Nobleman to replace it by
a much more extensive measure. Let him bring
forward a National Lunatic Asylums' Bill, and we shall
be ready to give it our best support. But we obL
ject to any more partial legislation upon the
subject, because at the best it is but a patching up of
an evil which is universal, and which ought to be uni-
versally remedied.

Thirty.seven

The Madrid papers are of the 12Th inst.
According to advices from Girona, we learn that six
companies of the line are closely pursuing the Cabecilla
FELIP and his band, and that the Spanish brigands
who wounded the French Custom-house Officers near
Ceret, formed part of the troop of the factious chief, EL
Mucrtacno.

Accounts from Figueras menti.ou that 400 musket s
GO sabres, nine horses, and the Cab,ecillas Mum:um°,
ZORRILLA, BEP DEL OLY, and BowricA, had entered by
San Lorenzo de Sardas.

The Constitutional of Barcelons6 complains of the
smuggling which is carried on by the French steamers,
It sap, that, according to information obtained from
one of the passengers of the Phenecian, a considerable
quantity of prohibited goods wet-1.3 run ashore dur-
ing the night between Valencia and Alicante, and
that a similar landing was effected bet ween the former and
our city. The Constitutional rec of amends most vigo-
rous measures to be employed, in order to put a stop to
`le illicit traffic which is being cai Tied on with such im-

punity.

Amongst the very absurd. rumuours in circulation at
Barcelona, was one that Don Carlos had fled from
Bourges in order to gain Portugal.

There is a continued dearth of news in the French
Journals. The Government has po:stponed for another
session the settlement of the Sugar Question, to the ex-
treme vexation of the merchants of Havre engaged in
the Colonial trade.
Lord ABERDEEN'S version of his co nversation with the
French Ambassador obtains no cre di,it in France. Even
the most violent opponents of the G uizot Cabinet pro-
fess their adherence to the statement made by the Count
de ST. AULAIRE. To the recog) lit ion of the Algerine
conquests of Franco by England, t buy profess, however,
unbounded indifference.

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DUTCH FUNDS.—ArasTianard, MmA03:17.1011.
414.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
93
Amort Svndic,4% per
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent
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CHARTIsT CONFERENCE.—We have rene.re oyes,
Messrs. Vincent, Roberts, Philp, and Clirfkthe re
communications impugning the ace-unto,' .(1 confereuw-
given in the Northern Star, of the late ChartigL strong,
at Bath. The Chairman of the meeting nsu's •
iteetins de,
term, calls it a misrepresentation, and at • -
, 1,
last week to consider Mr. Bartlett's report, lsworatii.
nounced in still stronger terms by a forma' 1.-
We hope the controversy will now-cease.
SUICIJ~E OF THE De I, 0
MUNSTER. ,
Last night between half-past 11 and 12 o'clock
guished Nobleman committed suicide, at his re:idell„hollIA
13, Belgrave-street, Belgrave-square. The nleautouildlw
dreadful fact became known to the members of his
by the discharge of fire-arms being beard to procdet'.o,
library, into which his Lordship had but a short t7lO,
ously retired. On entering the apartment the E..,astOf
lying extended on the floor, and bereft of life. 11,6 ,„„"
peared, placed a pistol in his mouth and discharged t"„tinel
through his brains ; his death must have been iastsu;ro7
His Lordship had been indisposed for several clar':"4
much as to confine him at home. No cause is as Pi! be
for his Lc rdship destroying himself. An inquest so
,n the body this evening.
thiseo.

ELECTION COMMITTEES''
(THIS DAY.)
WIGAN.
The Committee met at eleven o'clock in Roomll°. 7,dij
Hawes in the chair.
,
The scrutiny on the part of the petitioners was Fri,t.i
with, and the first vote objected to was that of Hear, ley, No. 302 on the register, house in Scholes.
thee'a,
It was proved that the voter had removed prior to
tion, and the vote was struck off.
M i :0
William Corless, No. 120 on the registry, house iltbe,
was next objected to on the part of the petitioners oo
40,
ground.
WO
Mr. Wardle, an auctioneer in Wigan, proved ":,,,te,d
rained the premises prior to the election for 181. ":)97
Woodcock, the landlord, and that the voter's daugVl.mifiti
tenant to Mr. Woodcock.
tom_

Catherine Corless proved that she succeeded her
_7 -110;
the tenancy in January, 1841. Mr. Wardle threaten of,
her father voted for the sitting Members, Mr. Potter, 70. tr,
creditors would come and destrain him. She varb,olol;
, nothing out of the business. She lent him money, rosid
pulated that she should be paid by her father. Sb h
a-year rent. to r,
The CHAIRMAN said the Committee would desire
the vote supported.
ed itziltO°
11Ir. TALBOT, for the sitting Members, contend ~-01.,1
case was one of joint tenancy, and thoui.h the rent'ressbirdo
only 181., and, therefore, not' of sufficient amount ,te_am
a vote in a case of joint tenancy, that abjection sou
been taken before registration.
The witness, Catherine Corless, was called blot"' stir
answer to Mr. KEMBLE, said, that Mr. Potter threiii•
father, because her father owed him money. Dir
°,,,• p
otsk
not put his threat into execution after he voted. `"'"
Crosse'9jo
.. -
rates herself sinee she became tenant.
00 1
The vote was struck off. This placed Mr.
Standish equal on the poll. $ •.,
Pit
John Stringfellow was next objected tu, on tl4
petitioners.
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