The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-10 00:00:00

GREAT MEETING IN THE CITY ON THE
SUBJECT OF THE CORN-LAWS.

The Lord Mayor has forwarded to Mr Dillon the subjoined
reply to the requisition, signed by nearly 1,200 electors of
the City of London, requesting his Lordship to grant the
Guildhall for a meeting on the corn-laws, and to preside at
the same. It will be seen that his Lordship calls the meet
ing for Monday next :

Mansion-house, Dec. 9, 1845.
" Gentlemen,—ln pursuance of the requisitien which I had
the honour to receive, requesting me to convene a meeting of
the electors of the City of London upon the subject of the
existing corn-laws, coupled with your desire that I should
preside at the meeting, I beg to acquaint you that I hereby
appoint such meeting to be holden at the Guildhall of the
said City on Monday, the 15th day of December instant, at
one o'clock precisely.
" I think it proper, however, to observe, that I repose
confidently in the prudence and foresight of her Majesty's
Government; upon them rests the responsibility of providing
against the evil which you apprehend. My compliance with
your request must, therefore, be considered purely as a
magisterial act.
" Whilst I hold the office which I have the honour to fill
I desire to avoid mixing my personal opinions with the dis-
charge of my public duties; but I am, at the same time,
willing to afford my fellow-citizens every reasonable oppor-
tunity of expressing their sentiments upon public questions,
confident that they will manifest due prudence and discre-
tion, and avoid at all times creating unnecessary alarm.
" Subject to the foregoing expression of my sentiments, I
have no objection to preside at the meeting, if such should
continue to be your desire.—l have the honour to be, Gen-
tlemen, your most obedient servant,
" JOHN JOHNSON, Mayor."

INCOME-TAX COLLECTED UP
TO STH APRIL, 1843, IN ENGLAND.
Schedule (A),
Land—England and Wales.-- £32,655,137 tax £975,000
Houses, factories, and ware-
houses, wharfs, docks, ship-
yards, &c.
(B) Tenant farmers ... 20,486,606
(C) Funds 27,873,691
(D) Profits in trade 50,296,645
(E) Public officers. .. . 8,936,831

1,175,412
298,763
812,983
1,466,985
260,657

Total.
Scotland in all Schedules 9,284,383 ~ 394,324

Total £190,606,585 „ £5,384,124

Parliamentary, Paper, 235, dated May, 1842, returned the
value of land separated from houses, factories, warehouses,
wharfs, docks, ship-yards, railways, canals, public funds, &c. :
Land in England and Wales. £32,655,137 tax £975,000
Land in Scotland
Tenant farmers on half 20,486,606 „ 298,763

Total income-tax paid by land
Income-tax paid by houses, factories, docks, ware-
houses, wh....rfs, ship-yards, canals, railways,
public funds, profits in trade 3,873,092

Total income-tax paid in 181.3 £5,384,124
Total amount of manufactures exported from the United
Kingdom in 1843, 52,279,7091., being many millions of money
more than the landed rental.

THE QUEEN or DENMARK.—This new historical
romance, which has just made its appearance, under the aus-
pices of Mrs. Gore, is likely to meet with warm commenda-
tion from all classes of readers. The principal personages and
their characters, the incidents, the localities, the amusements,
of the Court and its manners, are painted with such truth to
nature, and the whole is in such perfect keeping, that we may
well believe, as the author asserts, that the information on
which he founded his narrative was derived from one who
had himself been an eye-witness and actor in the scenes de-
scribed. But, above all, the work is valuable as affording
an insight into those iniquitous intrigues by which Caroline
Matilda, sister of George 111., the young, high-spirited, and
wann-heartedConsort of the imbecile Christian VII., was de-
graded from her high position, separated from her children,
and consigned to an exile which soon closed he; Afflictions
and hot life.