The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-04 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The total augmentations of the army for foreign ser-
vice will amount to at least 15,000 men. LietitAtant
General Sir Benjamin D'Urban goes to India as Com-
mander-in-Chief.
On the Ist inst. Lord Greenock retired from the com-
mand of the troops in Great Britain, and was succeeded
by Major-General Sir Neil Douglas. His Lordship had
been in command of the district for five years.
The 11th Hussars are under orders to march from
Hounslow to York, on Thursday or Friday next.
A grand •military fete was g►ven by the officers sta-
tioned at Plymouth, on Tuesday last, to Lieutenani:
General Ellice, on his retirement from the command
of the Western district. Above 400 persons of rank
were present:
Sixty men of the 53d regiment, now in Edinburgh
Castle, have volunteered into the 10th regiment, under

orders for India, and have marched to join that regiment
iIOW lying at Airleiiciter.
:0'44 tri .
The se3sions of the Central Criminal Court comtnenco
this day ; then) arc upwards of 200 charges of felony, a7,nocl
lome serious misdemeanours.
The murderer Wilkes was executed at eight o'clock on
.7;aturday morning in front of Stafford gaol, and Williams
At twelve on the same day at Shrewsbury.
According to the official account of the accident on
he South Western Railway, near Winchester, on Satur-
day, six labourers were buried by the fall of loose chalk,
two of vhom were taken out unhurt, and the other four
were killed on the spot. The line was to be resumed
this morning.
At Liverpool, on Saturday, an action was brought by
L'he Phoenix Banking Company, of that town, to recover
a large sum of money from the British Silver, Lead, and
Copper Mining Company. The case was not of an in-
terest to justify a statement of it in detail, but in the re-
sult twenty-one of the twenty-three defendants were
ixed with the liabilities of the Company, and a verdict
was returned against them, and those who had allowed
judgment to go by default, for 6,5981.
Robert Pierce, who was found guilty of different
attempts to poi-on his wife at the North Wales circuit
on Friday last, was discovered to have committed suicide
in Flint gaol on Saturday morning last by suspending
himself from the prison bars.
LITE:IA.IW aND SCIENTIrIC.
A Society of Scientific and Amateur Naturalists has
just been formed at Berlin, under the presidency of the
distinguished Humboldt, for the purpose of forming a
Zoological Garden at the South-end of the park : the
King of Prussia grants to it all the animals formerly
kept in the island of Peacocks, near Berlin, and assists
:argely with money.
COURT—FASEXONAIIME.
The Duke of Marlborough is expected at Mivart's
Hotel to-morrow, from Blenheim.
The Duke of Rutland's party broke up on Saturday last.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry enter-
tained a small party on Friday evening, at Holdernesse
House. -

The Mo.cquis of Sligo still continues indisposed, in

The Marquis of Aylesbury has left town fur Totten-
ham Park, Wilts. . . _

The Earl of Jersey is gone on a visit to Lord and Lady
Southampton, at Whittlebury Lodge, Northampt nshire.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon return to Gros-
venor Crescent, on Monday next.
The Countess Dowager of Essex arrived in .Belgrave-
3quare, on Saturday.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have been visiting
the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn at Hampton-court.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are expected
in Carlton-house Terrace to-day, for the season.
Sir Robert Peel arrived in Whitehall Gardens, on
Saturday, from Brighton,
AIMS. - •

Signor Morelli is stated to have made handsome over-
tures to Meyerbeer for the composition of a new opera,
o be produced at Milan, during the next Carnival.
Two new rooms have just been opened at Hampton
Court ; they contain some fine paintings by Michael
Angelo, Titian, Parmeniano' and Hassan°.
The works of the splendid Chateau at Grimston Park,
are now much advanced. Grimston Hall was formerly
aplaincountry house, but the spacious and.noble archi-
tectural additions made by Lord Howden, in the shape
court7yards, lodges, colonnades, &c., have rendered it
sumptuous seat. The Tadcaster quarries have supplied
she prmeipal stone.
NIXSCEIMANSOUS.
To-day is the anniversary of the death of Oliver
Goldsmith in 1774, and of De Lalande in 1807.
Lord Sinclu,ir died on Thurday last at Oxford, *here
he was finishing his studies, at the early age of 22.

THE OPPONENTS OF THE CORN.
LAWS, AND THE INCOME TAX.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—The opponents of the Corn Laws have lost
their tide, by not setting their machinery in motion every-
where against the Income Tax during the recess. After
:hey had been borne down by superior numbers on as much
;if the question as lad then developed itself, it was a
perfect god-send that a minister should bring forward
an unpopular tax, so contrived as to be only a codicil to
the refusal to repeal the Corn Laws, and a prolongation
;if the general principle of removing taxation from the
landed interest to lay it upon industry.
That such a proceeding on their part would have been
assailed by their external and internal enemies on the
pretext that Income was not Corn,—or that the selfish
and absurd portion of the working classes who have done
their best to establish their incompetency to making a
component part of any attempt for the advancement of
public liberty, would have raised the howl against the
Middle classes' which the Minister intended,—were con-
sequences to be calculated on, but not necessarily reasons
to decide.

At this moment, symptoms of resistance to the Income
Tax are accumulating in. every direction ; and it is easy
to see how much al moven-ants of this kind would have
been advanced, if the ready-made machinery had every-
where been applied to prompt and to assist.
Though the best of a tide may have been lost, it de-
pends on what there is to do and the promptitude in
doing it, whether substantial use may not be made of
what is left.

Why should not every meeting to be holden on. the
subject of the Corn Laws, direct its proceedings against
that particular form of the general principle, which has
been presented to us in the Income Tax ?
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.

Blackheath, April 4, 1842.
- P.S.—Allow me to take the opportunity to return to
the subject of a former letter, which was the effect of the
proposed Tax on property derived from temporary incomes.
The question is complicated, and therefore a fine hot-
bed for deception to sprout in. The best way will be. to
suppose a case. A few days hence some member of par-
liament will object to the levying a nine times greater
proportional amount from the smaller property; and a mi-
nister will probably rise and say, "Honourable gentlemen
on the other side have admitted that they do not mean
to press for a graduated income tax ; yet the Honour-
able gentleman founds his complaint on one being
the smaller property." And then he will turn round to
his little boys behind, and bid them holla. How «ill
you answer this ? it is a very tolerable fallacy, which
is more than can be said of all which proceed from the
same source.

The answer seems to be, by distinguishing between
two different demands. One demand, which every-
body makes and which is made now, is that the pro-
perty worth in round. numbers 1,000/. shall not be
assessed in the same total sum as the property worth
9,000/., but shall be assessed in at all events only one-
ninth of the sum. Another demand, which is not made
now, but which a people wiser and stronger would insist
on, is that the property worth 1,0001. should be assessed
in less than one-ninth of the sum demanded from the
property worth 9,0001. And the business of the
niqer, is to confound the demand that is made, with the
demand that is not.