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The Morning Herald predicts, as will be seen by the
lowing passage, that the Income-tax will not be abandoned a,
the endof three years, but that, on the contrary, the per-tentage
on income will very shortly be raised :—" We do not believe
that, at the termination of the three years for which the Income-
tax is ebout to be imposed, it will be abandoned. 111t.ny rea-
suns beget this scepticism ; there is, at present, but an indif-
ferent prospect of such a surplus tree years hence as will
enable any Minister to propose the dispensation of this tax; if,
indeed, the present eastern policy of England is to be persisted
in—if the Afighan war is to be renewed—if the Chinese war is
to be indefinitely waged, the people of England must be pre-
pared for an early increa e of the per-tentage which is about to
be imposed on income."
The Post says-" Supposing it were demonstrable, that, by
granting universal suffrage, the party now called Conservative
could obtain a majority equal to that which the Whigs pos-
sessed in 1833, it would not be the less contrary to Conserva-
tive princil lee to concede universal suffrage. We do not pre-
tend, however, that if every man had a vote, w ithout reference
to station, property, or :my other qualification, that the Conser-
vatives would obtain a majority of such votes. If the right of
representation rested upon numbers alone, no party could stand
against the tide of revolution. The immense majority would
be composed of those who have nothing to lose, and who would
therefore be sure to try whether something might not be
gained by change."
The observes, in an article on the present state of
affairs in Affghanistan We were wrong at the outset:
granted. And if matters remained now where they stood six
months back, we have little hesitation in avowing the satisfac-
tion with which we should have heard that all the supposed
advantages of that unjust advance were to be simply abandoned.
But it is not so. A fresh state of things has sprung up. The
relations of portics are reversed. The balance of injury has
fearfully changed sides. And a withdrawal which would then
have been an act of high justice, which might still be an act of
gerierou, compensati n in an individual who has none but him-
self to care for, would be now, in a Governme.,t, a betrayal
of the interests and of the principles which are intrusted to
its keeling."
We t ile tie following from the Clironicle:—" The Income-
tax Act cannot. Of course, be carried into effect without an ex-
pensive machinery, arid where the carcase is there will the eagles
be gathered together. How much may not the hopes of par-
ticipating in the good thi, gs under the Act have contributed
to moderate the opposition to it? It is true, all cannot have
offices, but each busy personage may, nevertheless, have flat-
tered himself that he will be the fortunate candidate."
Cr.
An An!i-War meeting was held at Worcester last Monday,
of about 100 of the householders, when a petition was finally
adopted to be presented to the House of Commons, praying tor
a discontinuance of the warlike operations in China and Aff-
ghanistar.

The Proprietms of the South Eastern Railway held their
special meeting yesterday. The Report stated the balance in
hand to be 62,4611. ss. bd. The distance that would be opened
in the month of May would be 40 miles ; 8 to Croydon, 12 on
the joint or Brighton line, and 20 miles on the South Eastern
line. In the month of August 15 miles further would be
opened, in :November II miles further, making the whole dis-
tance from the metropolis of 66 miles.
PUBLIC ritTPIZOVEIVIENTS.
• The Royal Exchange and Gresham Trusts Committee have
concluded their Reuort, agreeing to negotiate with the Bank
of England for the advance of the sum of 70,0001. for the
City's expense of rebuilding the Exchange and Gresham Col-
lege, and cur sealing a bond for 5,0001., part thereof.
LAVVIT AND PO Wen.
The investigation into the murder at Merthyr- Tydvil was re-
sumed at the beginning of the week, when the Jury returned a
verdict of NVibul Murder" against Richard Edwards, who,
On good evidence, is believed to have strangled his mother,
Tamar Edwards, but up to Wednesday last he has eluded the
v'gilance of the police.
7..X'I`BIZAILY AND SCIENTIPXC.
Blue glass has been discovered by a French scientific horti-
cultut ist to promo:e vegetation in a most extraordinary manner,
as it admits none but the chemical rays of light; red passes
only the eahric, and yellow and green only the luminous par-
ticles, both of which, withcut the chemical, kill the plants;
white glass has no influence at all.
The body of M. Humann has been embalmed by M. Cannal,
and is to be removed to Alsace for interment in the same vault
with his deceased wife. His death was caused by aneurism of
the heart.

FINE ARTS.
Mr. Hope gave a splendid tail at Paris, last Monday, to cele
brate the completion of his magnificent hotel in the l'aubourg
St. Germain.

COUIZT---PASIZIONAIME.
Lady Harriet Clive will give her second ball and supper this
evertinz in Lower Gross enor-street.
Sir Robert Peel has caused invitations to be issued for a
grand state banquet on the 19th of next Incnth, in honour of
her M-je,ty's birth. day.
Lord 1-lill has derived so much benefit from his late sojourn
at Brighten that he intends to return in a few days.
The Dowager Lady L)ttleton had a soiree on Wednesday
night.
Lady Howard's first bal in Beigrave-square takes place on
the 16th of May.

MISCELLANEOUS.
On this day, in 1794, died James Bruce, the celebrated tra-
veller to the sources of the Nile, at his flnily seat in Scotland.
His death, in his 64th year, occurred thus :—A large party
had dined at Kinnaird, and while they were about to depart,
Bruce was gaily talking to a young lady in the drawing-room,
when suddenly observing that her aged mother was proceeding
to her carriage unattended, he hurried from the room to the
great staircase. In this effort his foot failed him; he fell down
several of the steps, broke some of his fingers, pitched on his
head, and never spoke again.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.
(From the Fotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. )
THURSDAY, APRIL 28.
SUPREME COUR? (SCOTLAND).
MINOR' I Y of Twenty-four (Tellers included) who toted in
favour of Mr. Wallace's Motion.
i ilastie, A. Pechell, Captain
Hume, Joseph Power, James
Jervis, J. Watson, W. H.
Johnstone, A. Williams, W.
Morris, David Wood, It.
Most)u, E. M. L.
Murphy, F. S. TELLERS
Napier, Sir Charles Wallace, It
Bowling, Dr.

Brotherton, J. --
Chapman, ti.
Crawford, W S.
Dashwood, G. 11.
Duncombe, T. S.
Oundas, J. C.
Heiden, J.
Forster, Matthew
UM, Thomas

WINDOW DUTY.

RETURN OF THE DUTY ON WINDOWS, ASSESSED FOR THE
TWELVE TOWNS IN ENGLAND WHICH CONTRIBUTE THE
LARGEST AMOUNT; 1840, ENDING APRIL 5, 1841.
Amount of Duty.
Bath
Birmingham
,
Brighton • . 14,753
Bristol 15,377
Cheltenham
Clifton 7,818
Leeds
Li.erpool
Man( he,ter
Norwich .. 6,892
Newcastle-via-I'3 ne
Plymouth
TBOS. LIGHT T FOO, A. and C.G.
Accountant and Comptroller-General's-office,
:Stamps and Taxes, April 2, 1842.

KING'S Cox..LEGE.-'—lt appears that the Report of
the Council read yesterday, at the meeting of the proprietors,
that the total receipts of the past )ear, amounted to 21,5691.,
and that the number of students at present matriculated is 813.
13uussur.s, APRIL 27.—The whole city is full of
the second abduction of the daughter of an ex-Senator, by the
same young man, who took her to London six months ago,
where she was taken from him Ly the police. They left Brus.
sels on Sunday night, in what direction is not known.
BERLIN, APRIL 19.—The manifold reports that
have been in circulation r speeting a change in the situation of
M. Von Rochen, has suddenly died away, as General Von
Pfuel is aprinted to succeed Baron Bulon in the Diet at
Frankfort.

PORMIGN.
The French Railway Bill is the leading subject discussed in
the Paris Journals of Wednesday. Their comments are un•
import ant.
The appointment of M. Lacave Laplagne to the post of Mi-
nister of Finance furnishes the Opposition prints with a handle
for some observations on tne conduct of the Governinent. They
maintain that the position of the Cabinet is seriously affected by
the death of M. Humana, and they aver that the latter will not
be efficiently replaced by the new Minister.
We iearn, from Madrid, that anything approaching a treaty of
commerce between England and Spain, is viewed in the worst
light by the Catalonians. These gentry are busily employed in
devising means for thwarting the good intentions of the Govern-
mont, and though their Deputies have declared in favour of a
protecting duty on all cotton goods from abroad, still they feign
to consider that their interests are at stake.
Barcelona Journals continue to be filled with details of the
ravages which are committed by the factions who infest the
mountains. It would appear that Felipe, who is the most
formidable of tie bakdit chiefs, was on the 16th in the vicinity
of the Angeles, near Girona, and that he had 150 men under
his orders. A sum of money has been offered for his head by
the political chief of Girona, as well as for those of his Lieu-
tenants Proone and Geronela.
The German Journals publish a circular sent by the Turkish
Ministry to all the Gov. rnors of the provinces, alluding to the
appointment of a Commission to inquire into the complaints of
itt treatment made by some Christian subjects of the Porte at
Smyrna, and ordering that, in future, the Christian subjects
of the Porte, in all parts of its territories, shall have justice
so fairly and equitably administered to them, that they may be
ni4 longer compelled to place themselves under the protection
of foreign Ambassadors and Consuls, under the impression
that justice is not otherwise to be obtained from the Turkish
authorities.
A Bavarian Journal of the 16th inst. says :—" It is affirmed
by some dignitaries of the Church, that his Holiness has posi-
tively determined to visit during the summer some spa in the
Austrian empire. It is generally believed that his Eminence,
the Prime Archbishop Cardinal Schwarzenburg has induced
the Pope to take this resolution."
PAUZZADTENTAIVir

The Lords received some Bills from the Commons, and some
petitions against the Corn-laws ; they appointed a Select Com-
mittee to examine Lord Denman's Law of Evidence Bill, and
they adjourned.
In the Commons, Mr: Divett reported that Lord A. Paget
was duly elected for Lichfield; and Sir E. Hayes reported that
Mr. Hornby was duly elected for Blackburn.
From the Southampton Election Committee, Mr. Reding-
ton reported that a Mr. Mabson, who had been served with the
Speaker's warrant to bring before the Committee all the papers
in his possession nn the subject of that election, had sent away
part of those papers after he received the warrant, and had not
produced them.
To enforce the authority of the House Mr. Redington
moved that Mr. Mabson be committed to Newgate ; but sub-
sequently altered the motion to bring Mr. Mabson to the bar.
To the bar he was accordingly brought, and after being ques-
tioned, Mr. Reditegon moved that he be committed to the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. A debate, which lasted a
considerable time, and employed all the legal talents of the
House, ensued. Mr. Hodgson If inde moved the adjournment
of the debate, but was defeated by 166 to 16. In the end it
was decided that Mabson should remain in custody of the Ser-
geant-at. Arms, and be produced to the Southampton Election
Committee when wanted.
The House was principally occupied for the rest of the even-
ing by two motions of Mr. Wallace, the first of which, to bring
in a Bill to reduce the number of Judges of the Court of Ses-
sion, was lost by a large majority; the second of which, relative
to defaulters in the Post-office, was withdrawn, Mr. Wallace
consenting to receive an abstract of the information he sought.
The remainder of the bu,iness was of a routine character.
The House rose at One o'Clock.
PUBLIC OPINION.