The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-31 00:00:00

SUM4'2ARY OF NEVIS

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PlOlir Optutost,

" Who runs may read."

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It is in Paris reported that the elections for the French
Chamber of Deputies wilt commence on the 28th of
August. We hear of no step taken by the Opposition to
defeat the Government candidates. _ _

The Marseilles journals publish the fol-
lowing telegraphic despatch, dated Paris, 24th, from the
Minister of the Interior to the Prefect of the Bouches-
du-Rhone, and which was probably sent to all the ports
interested in the sugar question :—" The Sugar Bill will
be presented at the opening of the next session. If the
question were to be brought up this year, it would be
compromised, and probably lost, the public mind not
being sufficiently prepared for it. Some questions were
put to the Government yesterday in the Chamber. After
the explanations of the Government, and some speeches,
the Chamber passed to the order of the day."
The French Minister of. War has appointed a sub-
committee to ascertain the extent and value of the na-
tional property in Algeria,. with a view to fix the due
assessment of the taxes, with. M. Laplagne Barris, a Peer
end Advocate-General of the Court of Cassation for its
President. The other members of the Committee are
M. Romiguieres; a Peer, Messrs. Dumont, of the Lot-et•
C aronne, Felix Real and Laurence, Deputies, and M.
Macarel, Counsellor of State.
The Moniteur Parisien states that the report of a
Russian loan having. been contracted for by a Paris
house is premature ; it adds that no negotiations have
yet been set on foot, and that it is possible the loan will
be taken by the house of Hope and Co., of Amsterdam.
The merchants and ship-owners of Nantes met on the
24th inst., and elected two delegates to proceed to Paris
to advocate their interests.
The Commerce states that on the occasion of the mar-
riage of the Prince, his son, the King of Sardinia will
grant a general amnesty to all political exiles.
The Sentinel: de la Marine, of Toulon, informs us that
a great number of troops have been embarked for Africa.
At the request of the Governor-General Government has
ordered all the depots of the regiments to join.
On the important question of a commercial treaty
with Spain, we find the following in a Madrid paper of
the 22d of March :—" The great bulk of the Spanish
nation will hail with delight the admission of British
manufactured cotton goods on payment of moderate
duties, under the impression that some reductions in the
importrates of duties on the wine:3, oils, dry fruits, leads,
and other produce of Spain; `will be made in England.
Cotton goods are publicly sold now throughout Spain, at
high prices, though they are contraband, and liable to
seizure ; whereas, when their importation shall become
legal, they will be sold much cheaper, which, no doubt,
will greatly increase the consumption.
3P WEI.= OPINION.

The beneficial action of the new tariff as regards our
colonial dependencies, is, thus viewed by the Times
Down to a very recent period—nay, even to the present
time—the possessions of Great Britain in the East and
in the West were subjected to infinite varieties of duties
and restrictions. Those differences are finally swept
away by the new tariff, and we shall know of no distinc-
tion between the produce of the various colonial provinces
of the empire. In one or two of the great staple com-
modities of the colonies, such as the timber of North
America, the duties in the English ports will be reduced
to a merely nominal contribution. In all the minor ar-
ticles of commerce, many of which will now for the first
time be cultivated with advantage in the • British domi-
nions, great reductions will be made on the duties.
And if this principle be gradually pursued, the time may
ciane when the commerce of the British empire will be
one vast system of coasting trade ; always bearing in
mind that the more the colonies are allowed to improve
their natural wealth, the more capable they will be of
affording new resources to meet the public demands."
The Chronicle suggests ,as follows:—" It would not at
all surprise us, were Sir Robert Peel, as in the case of
the proposed reduction of the malt tax by the Duke of
Buckingham (then Marquis of Chandos), to be dependent
on the Liberals in Parliament for his success in carrying
the tariff. We should only be deceiving our readers if
we did not state it as our sincere belief that he will have
great difficulty in carrying it. No reliance is to be
placed .by him on the country gentlemen. To the feel-
ings that pervade the country they cannot remain in-
different."
The Morning Herald, approving of the new tariff, in
regard of British and foreign woods, remarks :—" By
taking off the duty on colonial timber we encourage the
best sort of reciprocity, while by increasing the tax
thereon, and reducing that on foreign woods, we render
dearer to ourselves an article useful in ship-building, and
indispensably necessary to our manufacturing pre-emi-
nence, and that on the mere contingency of opening new
markets for our goods amongst jealous continental rivals."
The Morning Post still labours to supply reasons for
the advocacy of the income tax. "It is true," it says,
" that the income tax professes to fall with unusual
equality, according to the proportion of the means to
bear it. That is the great proposition in its favour,
and we deny that any thing has been brought forward to
invalidate that proposition. Let it be granted that it is
unequal, still it appears by all the argument that has been
brought forward, to be much less' unequal than other
taxes, and therefore it is fair to say that it operates with
unusual equality. It is ii6V-eo be denied, either, that in
some instances the inequality of the income tax is ' pecu-
liarly stringent,' as in the case mentioned by Mr. Att-
wood. But this instance, and some others of the same
kind, are, we submit, exceptions to the general equality
of the operation of the income tax ; whereas the con-
stant rule, operating in millions of instances every day of
our lives, in regard to taxes on articles of general con-
sumption is that of inequality."
The urgency for quiek and co-operative action
among the people against the new tax, is thus im-
portuned by the Morning Advertiser:" The consti-
tuencies of every town and county in the land ought to
meet without one hour's delay, and come to such decided
and unequivocal resolutions regarding the meditated act
of robbery, as shall leave Members no pretext for mis-
taking the wishes of those hose representatives they
profess to be, as to the course which they should pursue
on so momentous a question."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
From the report of the Committee for King's Collega
Hospital, it appears that the in-door patients, during the
past year, have amounted to 1,027, and the out-patients
to 6,3231., showing the total of relief returns to have
been 7,3501.
At the ninth meeting of the British American Land
Company, held at the London Tavern yesterday, the re-
port stated that, owing to the tax of one penny per acre
levied on the Company's lands, a tax of between 2,0001.
and 3,0001. was reaped annually from the 5,000 or
6,000 acres liable to it; and though frequent interviews
had taken place with Lord Stanley, no removal of it had
yet been made.
The inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Without
met yesterday in the Old Bailey. Sir James Duke pre-
sided, and the resolution was unanimously carried,
" That an income tax was unjust, unequal, arbitrary,
and inquisitorial."

SPORTING.
A good rifle-match, open to all corners," took place
on Tuesday at the Brecknock ground, Camden Town.
Mr. Lancaster, junior, won in fine style, bitting 22 out
of 24 skots, for the splendid silver vase.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Dr. Sprenger, a German orientalist, and the late Earl
of Munster's Secretary, is now engaged in drawing up
a statement as to how far his Lordship's history of Mo-
hammedan warfare can be carried. The materials will
fill five or six volumes.
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.

Greenwich fair terminated yesterday. The steamers,
though crowded during the last three days, afford no in-
stance of an accident. Upwards of 15,000 persons
attended Richardson's, and as many paid for admission
to the Crown and Anchor booth.