The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-30 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 20.—The Russian Government has
adopted a singular mode of showing its resentment
against Prussia for refusing to renew the cartel for
the mutual surrender of military deserters. Every
year, about the time when the Russian recruitment is
put in force, thousands of refugees are sure to cross
the frontier to seek a shelter in Prussia. Many of
these are people without any means whatever of main-
taining themselves, and the Magistrates have hitherto
been in the habit of sending such individuals back to
their own country. Russia now refuses to receive
any of these fugitives, and thus forces Prussia to do
the best she can with the uninvited guests that throw
themselves upon her hospitality, and threaten to be-
come a serious burden to the country by vastly
increasing the number of paupers. What course our
Government will adopt to counteract this evil seems
as yet uncertain. To insist upon the .abandonment
by Russia of a system so contrary to all the principles
of good neighbourhood might not, perhaps, lead to any
satisfactory result. The best plan, perhaps, will be to
take the fugitives by the hand, and send them to those
provinces where a want of hands is felt. The popu-
lation of our eastern provinces is by no means dense,
and the public works about to be undertaken will, no
doubt occasion a demand for labour in many parts of
the kingdom. . _

These fugitives, if unassisted, must become pau-
pers ; but with a little assistance they may be made
useful citizens. The greater part of them are young
men who have fled merely to avoid being forced into
the army ; they want nothing but employment, and
if the means for obtaining that be facilitated to them,
they may become valuable members of the community.
If this plan be adopted, Russia is not likely to perse-
vere in the present policy. Her frontier provinces
could not long suffer the annual emigration of
thousands of the most valuable portion of their la-
bouring population, and to the large landholders this
species of emigration must prove a serious annoyance,
inasmuch as every estate is bound to furnish its fixed
quota of recruits, no allowance being made for the
absence of those peasants who, by a voluntary expa-
triation, have deprived themselves of the advantage of
marching to glory in the ranks of a Russian regiment.
Arany of the fugitives are not merely conscripts,
but deserters from their several regiments. These
desertions have hitherto taken place to a great extent,
notwithstanding the existence of a cartel by which
Prussia obliged herself to deliver every Russian sol-
dier that sought refuge on Prussian ground. Now
that no such apprehension continues, the temptation
to desert is materially increased, and the number of
deserters will certainly be augmented, unless the re-
giments are removed to a farther distance from the
frontier.

Partly, no doubt to check desertion, but ostensibly
to prevent smuggling, a line of Cossack sentinels has
now been placed all along the frontier, and so closely
to each other, that one sentinel can always keep his
neighbour on each side in view • but smuggling con-
tinues in spite of this rigid cordon: militaire; and as
the temptations to deserters are even stronger than to
smugglers, desertion, we may take it for granted, will
be but little lessened by the measure alluded to.
The reduction in the duty on salt in Prussia has
given the more satisfaction, as it awakens the hope
that, at no very distant period, the duty will be alto-
gether abandoned, When the Prussian landholders look
forward to an active trade in salted provisions to Eng-
land. The Konigsberg Gazette contained an able ar-
ticle on this subject a few days ago, in which the
writer endeavoured to show, that neither Denmark,
Holstein, nor America would be able to compete with
Prussia in the provision trade, if once the oppressive
duty on salt were abolished.

OYSTERS.7—Last night (Nov. 1) was a great day for
the oysters in our harbour. The law regulating the
taking of them, allows the privilege to catch on and
after the Ist of November, for a certain time, and for
the last few days everything in the shape of a boat in
the vicinity has been in readiness for the occasion.
As early as four o'clock yesterday afternoon, boat after
boat, scow after scow, and canoe after canoe, could be
seen steering for the large oyster bed at the mouth of
West river, and by ten o'clock in the evening it is es-
timated that not less than 1,000 persons were on the
ground. The moment the clock tolled the hour of
midnight the strife commenced, and at sunrise this
morning it was estimated that over 10,000 bushels
had been taken, and we have no doubt that is less
than the actual quantity.—New Haven Palladium.

Bl:TltrE.it llosriTAL.--Sotne time since, two of
the lunatics at this establishment made their escape,
one of -whom was re-captured the same day. The
other (James Grant) has onli recently been heard
of, being found at his mother s house, at Inverness,
having walked all the distance from London to Scotland.

REPEAL OF THE INCOME-TAX.
The provincial journals have commenced an appeal,
which we trust the Liberal Press throughout the
country, backed by petitions to the House of Com-
mons, will continue to urge upon Sir Robert Peel, for
the removal of this now unnecessary impost, until it is
abandoned. The Durham County Herald has the
following :

" One of the most obvious and immediate advan-
tages of the treaty of peace which Sir Henry Pottin-
ger has arranged, is the vast amount of money which
will be brought during the next three years into
the national treasury. The primary reason alleged
by Sir Robert Peel in his speech on the 11 th of
March, for the imposition of the Income-tax, was
the heavy expenditure on account of the China
expedition, which he estimated for 1842-43 at
not less than 1,500,0001. If only on the
ground that the heavy drain on the treasury to
meet the expenses of this war will be stopped, the na-
tion may indeed rejoice at peace being restored in the
East ; and since 21,000,000 of dollars are destined to
fall into the lao of the Government, let the people not
only hear, but also feel, the felicitous effects of the
grateful intelligence, by the immediate. abrogation of
the Income Tax—a tax so odious, so abhorrent, so de-
spotic and inquisitorial, as must render it alike the
policy and happiness of a great Minister to repeal it
instanter, at a moment so propitious.
"In order, however, to aid Sir Robert Peel in so
praiseworthy an object, we would urge upon the in-
habitants of this and every other town in England
and Scotland to petition ParNament for its abroga-
tion. And if the Premier should in this matter dis-
appoint the nation's hopes and wishes, he may rest
assured that when that high office may again become
vacant, the community will never more ask for re-
Peel !

" The news from China and India is already highly
gratifying, and coming at the present juncture, when
trade in every quarter is drooping and depressed, it is
well calculated to inspirit the British people, and to
induce them to anticipate brighter and better days ;
but if the repeal of the Income-tax result from this
arrangement, the gratification of the country will be
greatly enhanced.
The Caledonian Mercury speaks thus :—" When
Sir Robert Peel introduced the Income-tax, lie esti-
mated the deficiency in the year eliding .sth April,
1843, at 2,569,0001. to which there fell to be added
a sum of 700,0001., or 800,0001., on account of the
Chinese war, over and above the 500,000/. already
assigned for that purpose; then there was the defi-
ciency on the last five years, ending sth April, 1842,
of 7,200,000/., making for the six years, ending sth
April, 1843, a deficiency of about 10,000,0001. The
total produce of the Income-tax was calculated at
3,771,0001., and the additional Irish duties at 410,0001.
"While the estimated deficiency in the current ex-
penditure was to be made good in the shape of addi-;
tional taxation, of course the debt of the by-ffone few
years was not to be redeemed all at once. ell, then,
in what shape is the country to receive the benefit of
the 5,000,000/. to be paid by China ? had the
Chinese question been settled on the present terms
previous to March, 1842, when the Income-tax was
announced, Sir Robert Peel would never have ven-

tured on such a scheme. And because this unlooked-
for and prosperous contingency arises when that tax
is adjusted and in the course of being imposed—and
simultaneous with the announcement of the final vic-
tories in Ind?a, which contest was another ground for
the imposition of that grievous tax—is the country
still to be kept under so odious and galling a yoke?
There must be a mitigation more or less when Par-
liament meets, or Sir R. Peel will be hurled from
power."

I - At a meeting of the Glasgow Town Council, on
Thursday last, Mr. Bell gave notice of the following
motion That this Council, in consequence of the
happy adjustment of our differences with China, and
the prospect of the speedy termination of the war in
Affghanistan, memorialise her Majesty's Govermnent,
praying that Government may submit to Parliament,
as early as possible, a measure to repeal the Income
and Property-tax."—Glasgew Chronicle.
At one of the stated meetings of the Merchant
Company of Edinburgh, held yesterday at their Hall
in hlunter-square,
Mr. ROBERT CADELL begged to submit a motion
for an early meeting of the Company to con-
sider of a petition to Parliament for the repeal
of the Income-tax, not three years hence, but
On the close of the first year, on next sth of
April. Every one was aware of the glorious
news of the last few days ; they had removed
every reason given by Sir Robert Peel for the imposi-
tion of this abominable tax. The fears from collision
with the United States were at an end ; the Chinese
war, one of the principal reasons for the impost, is
closed ; the Affghan war, one other reason for it, may
be said to have ceased ; but, above all, nearly five
millions of money is to be paid, which will meet
half the declared deficiency of the revenue, one main
cause of the tax ; a saving on the Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. will bring in one million more ; and there
is the grinding of the drain on our incomes for the
difference. During the war, which many here must
recollect, the severity of ten per cent. was less felt be-
cause every man's hand was full—prices high—money
yielding a high interest—and we had, as a nation, the
monopoly of the trade of the world. The tax was not
felt by those Sir Robert Peel meant to feel it—he thought
to relieve those who had some one hundred and
fifty pounds a year, while, in fact, he had placed it on
the lower or working classes. The rich cut down
their establishments ; the middle classes save it by
ecenomy ; every trader feels the effect of all this ;
and the poor man-servant or maid-servant is turned
adrift—they are the real sufferers. Now is the
time to make a movement. The greatest politi-
cal blunder of our time was made by Lord John
Russell, in not protesting against this tax, as one
only to be levied in peace, on the day its was tabled
by Sir .Robert Peel. Let that eminent nobleman go
forthwith to the Guildhall of London, and lead a cru-
sade against this tax, and he will be responded to from
one end of Great Britain to the other, and let him
give forth, that longer than the sth April, 1843, it
shall not last.

The meeting received this proposal with one burst
of approbation, and appointed a meeting to be held in
their Hall, on Friday the 2d December, to take the
subject into consideration.—Scotsman. [This example
should be universally followed.]

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 28. 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, conferring the honour
of Knighthood upon Jasper Atkinson, of Portman-square,
in the county of Middlesex, Esq.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto John
Guille, Esq., the office of Bailiff of the island of Guern-
sey, in the room of Daniel (le Lisle Brock, Esq., deceased.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 29.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. de
Sontag as Consul, at Malta, for his Majesty the King of
the French.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 26.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Lawrence Smith,
of Hurstperpoint, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
The follOwingplaces have been duly registered for
solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th
and 7th William IV., cap. 85

St. Bartholomew, the Apostle, Ramhill, Lancashire.
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Liverpool.
Baptist Chapel, Pershore, Worcestershire.
St. Patrick's Chapel, Sheerness.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
JOHN BROWN and GEORGE MEAKIN, porter-
merchants, Walsall, Staffordshire.
GEORGE FORSTER, woollen draper, Newcastle,
upon-Tyne.
RICHARD FOSTER WATKINSON, woollen cloth
merchant, Huddersfield.
BANKRUPTS.

JOSEPII PHILLIPS, tavern keeper, Hercules-pas-
sage, Threadneedle-street, to surrender Nov. 30, at
twelve, and Dec. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall-strect. Lackington, Coleman-street-build•
inns, official assignee ; Fox, Loxley, and Fry, Poultry.
JOHN :HOOKER ,CHATTERTON, haberdasher,
Nottingham, Dec. 8 and Jan. 9, at one, at the Waterloo-
rooms, Birmingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Bir-
mingham ' • Cursham and Campbell, Nottingham.
JOHN HENRY BELL, apothecary, Bristol, Dec. 13,
at •one, and Jan. 10, at two, at the Bristol District
Court of Bankruptcy. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol;
Edwards, Bristol.

THOMAS ROWELL, linen-draper, Cambridge, Dec.
5, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Alsager, official as-
signee, Birchin-lane, London; Adcock, Cambridge ;
Smith, Bedford-row, London.
MARGARET EDMONDS, lodging-house-keeper,
Park-place, Saint James's, Dec. 14, at one, and Jan. 11,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Pollock
and Co.,Parliament-street.
WILLIAM THOMAS, tailor, Bristol, Dec. 9, and
])ec. 30, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court of
Bankruptcy. Acramau, Bristol, official assignee; Short,
Bristol. _ _

EDWARD MANSELL, upholsterer. Chippenham,
Wiltshire, Dec 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court of Bankruptcy. Hutton, official assignee, Bris-
tol ; Pinniger, ChippThain.
THOMAS FEAVER, mercer, Ludgate-hill, Dec. 13,
and Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basingliall-street. Green, official assignee, Alderman-
bury ; Ashurst, Cheapside.
BENJAMIN PRICE, general dealer, Birmingham,
Dec. 5,
at half-past eleven, and Jan. 5, at twelve, at the
Waterloo-r ooni Birmingham. Whitmore, Birming-
ham, official assignee; Ileywood and Webb, Birmingham.
EDWARD EVERALL, coal-merchant, Liverpool,
Dec. 3, atone, and Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court of Bankruptcy. Bird, official assignee,
Liverpool ; Rodgers, Liverpool.
SAMUEL APPLEYARD, stuff merchant, Man-
chestt r, Dec. 13, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Alan-
cheater District Court of Bankruptcy. Pott. official
assignee, Manchester ; R. M. and C. Baxter, Lincoln's
Inn-fields, London ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester.
MARY MANWARING, grocer, Gornal, Stafford-
shire, Dec. 8, and Jan. 5, at balf-past eleven, at the

Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham. Whitmore, official.
assignee, Birmingham ; Palmer and Nettleship, Trafai.
gar.square, Charing-cross, London ; Wight, jun., Kings.
romford, Staffordshire.
WILLIAM HESLEWOOD, ROBERT HESLE-
WOOD, and JOHN SKITT, white-lead manufacturers,
Kingston-upon-Hull, Dec. 12, at twelve, and Jan. 4, at
one, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds ; Tilson, Squance, and Tilson,
Coleman-street, London ; P. and R. Wells, Hull.
WILLIAM GREEN, coach7maker, Cheltenham, Dec.

15 and Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court
of Bankruptcy. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Pack-
wood, Cheltenham.

RICHARD WARREN, druggist, Liverpool, Dec. 9,
and Jan. 10, at eleven, at the District Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Liverpool. Follett, official assignee, and Cross,
Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Temple, London.
DAVID THOMAS, merchant, Manchester, Dec. 10,
and Jan. 14, at ten, at the District Court of Bankruptcy,
Manchester. Pott, and Hampson, Manchester.
JOHN ANTROBUS, plater, Birmingham, Dec. 13,
at twelve, and Jan. 11, at one, at the Waterloo-rooms,
Birmingham. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; Hodgson,
Birmingham.

ISAAC BELL and JOHN DAVISON, earthenware-
manufacturers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 8, and Jan.
10, at eleven, at the Newcastle. upon-Tyne District Court
of Bankruptcy. Miller, official assignee ; Williamson
and Bill, Gray's-inn, London ; Ingledew, Newcastle-
upon-T} _net

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JOHN CUNLIFFE, coach and car proprietor, Liver-
pool, Dec. 9, and Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy. Turner, official assignee,
Liverpool ; Whitley, Liverpool; Garey, Southampton-
buildings, Chancery-lane.
RICHARD ELLISON and JOHN GOODWORTH,
linen manufacturers, Barnsley, Dec. 12, and Jan. 6, at one,
at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, Commercial-
buildings, Leeds. Hope, Commercial-buildings, Leeds,
official assignee ; Mencer, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Hopkins, butcher, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire,
Dec. 22, at half-past eleven—R. March, hatter, Cheap-
side, Dec. 22, at half-past eleven—J. Cockburn, mer-
chant, New Broad-street, London, Dec. 20, at half-past
twelve—J. Brook and 'l'. Brook, drapers, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire, Dec. 15, at half-past two—G. Boggs,
W. Taylor, and W. Shand, jun., merchants, Great Win-
chester-street, London, Dee. 22, at half-past one—J. W.
Thomas, corn-merchant, New Corn-exchange, Mark-
lane, Dec. 22, at twelve—S. Jackson and T. F. Jackson,
woolstaplers, Bermondsey-street, Surrey, Dec. 22, at
eleven—F. Preston, ship-builder, South town, Suffolk,
Dec. 22, at half-past twelve—B. Simmons and J. Brook,
ironfounders, Folly, Dockhead, Bermondsey, Dec. :12, at
half-past eleven—J. Hutton, merchant, Fenchurch-street,
Dec. 20, at half-past one—J. Simmons, corn-dealer,
Longwick, Buckinghamshire, Dcc. 20, at one—H. T.
Harrison, hotel-keeper, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden,
Dec. 20, at half-past twelve—H. Brand, coal-merchant,
Cambridge, De,.!. 20, at twelve—W. Brocksopp, grocer,
High-street, Southwark. Dec. 20, at half-past twelve—
J. Richmond, merchant., Lime-street, London, Dec. 20,
at eleven—E. T. Gough, patent agent, Strand, Dec. 21,
at eleven—G. A. Kull:mum, pianoforte-maker, St. Mar-
tin's-lane, Dm. 20, at one—J. Kingsford and F. E.
Kingsford, wine-merchants,. Dover, Dec. 20, at twelve.

In the Country.
D. Buglass, victualler, Sunderland, Dec. 20, at eleven,
at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Sharp and R. Pearson, machine makers, Bradford,
Yorkshire, Dec. 20-R. Lamb, iron merchant,' Stockton,
Durham, Dec. 20--J. and D. Arthur, iron masters,
Neath, Glamorganshire, Dec. 20-R. Morris, timber
merchant, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Dec. 20 -E.
Minty, maltster, Warminster, Wiltshire, Dec. 20-T.
Wonnton, hosier, Burbage, Leicestershire, Dec. 20-W.
Stewart, muslin manufacturer, Ludgate-hill, Dec. 22-
W. hearse, tailor, Belgrave-place, %Val worth-road, Dec.
20-J. E. Beerbohm and W. E. Slaughter, merchants,
Fenchureh street, Dec. 22-T. Scott, commission agent,
Bow Church-yard, Dec. 23-W. Ansel', shopkeeper,
Pontypool, Mcannouthshire, Dec. 22-0. King, J. San-
dell, and D. 11. King, paper stainers, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, Dec. 24-J. Atkins, sen., and J. Atkins, jun.,
lime merchants, Coulsdon, Surrey, Dee. 23-W. Mills,
innholder, Caterham, Surrey, Dec. 23-IZ. B. Culyer,
corner, Clifton-street, Finsbury, Dec. 22--T. Wooster,
jun., merchant, Liverpool-street, City, Dec. 22-F. J.
Osbaldeston, horse dealer, St. Alban's, Dec. 22-J. Rey-
nolds, sen., and J. Reynolds, jun., drysalters, Dowgate-
dock, Upper Thames-street, Dec. 20-4. Ivory, car-
penter, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Dec. 20-J.
Flood, surgeon, Dean-street, Westminster, Dec. 21-R.
11. Smyth, merchant, Cornhi!l, Dee. 23-J. J. Smith,
bookbinder, Gate-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Dec. 23-
J. Simpson, licensed victualler, Camberwell, Dec. 20-T.
Humfroy, jun., bricklayer, Great Stanmore, Middlesex,
Dec. 22-W. and B. Cribb, 'Heifer match manufacturers,
Regent's-canal-basin, Dec. 22-F. J. Mitchell, builder,
Aldersgate-street, Dec. 22-G. F. Sizer, linen draper,
Worcester, Dec.2o-G. Greenwell, J. B. 1). Dearberg,
and W. Whitehall, silk manufacturers, Fore-street, City,
Dec. 21-J. Bryant., bookseller, King William-street,
West Strand, Ike. 20-J. and J. .1. Shury, engravers,
Charterhouse-street, Dec. Newman, ironfounder,
Scrips, Essex, Dec. 22-J. Reeve, carver, High Holborn,
Dec. 22-J. Dover, merchant, Three Cranes Wharf, City,
Dec. 23-J. Mills, canal carrier, London-wall, Dec. 23-
S. Smith, timber merchant, Pump-row, Old-street-road,
Dec. 23-W. N. Hunt, stationer, Watling-street, Dec. 23
-T. Maguire, publican, Liverpool, Dee. 21-11. Brand.
slater, Cambridge, Dee. 20-D. Antrobus, salt merchant,
Great • Budworth, Cheshire, Dec. 22-T. G. Martin,
wine merchant, Great Winchester-street, Old Broad-
street, Dec. 23-A. Mathe and S. Moore, dealers, Liver-
pool,
Dec. - 91- G. I'. Kennon Kenn and A. Samson, calico
printers, Manchester, Dec. 22-J. Brookbanks, draper,
Dudley, Worcestershire, Dec. 23-J. Hayward, book-
seller, Manchester, I)ec. 22-R. Wharton, innkeeper,
Oldham, Lancashire, Dec. 21-li. Hepworth, cloth manu-
facturer, Leeds, Dec. 22-J. Ross, woolstapler, Halifax,
Yorkshire, Dec. 22-W. Reynolds, cotton spinner,
Breightmet, Lancashire, Dec. 21-F. Arthur, coach-
maker, Birmingham, Dec. 26-J. Pidcote and 'l'. Barton,
corn factors, Nottingham, Dec. 22.