The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

and upwards. T. Y. C. (4- subs.
Mr. Thornhill's Alenal:ppe, 5 yrs., 7st 121 b, walked over.
The Tavistock Stakes of 100 sous. each, h. ft., for colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b, then 3 yrs old. D. M. (4 subs.)
Lord Stradbroke's c, by Jerry, out of Marpessa (Nat) 1
Lord Albemarlo's Robin
Betting-2 to, lon Robin (taken), who led till near the
cords, where the non favourite headed him, and won easy by a

Klatch—D.M. ; 100 sous. h. ft.—Lord Albemarle's Nuncio,
Bst 71b (Robinson ), beat Lord Kelburne's c by Retainer, dam by
St. Patrick, Bst 41b. Betting 3to lon Nuncio. Won in a
canter by two lengths.
The Riddlosworth Stakes of 200 sovs.cach h ft, for three yrs old ;
colts Ist 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. Ab M. (11 subs.)
Mr. Greville's Gunter, by Bay Middleton (Nat)
Col. Anson's The Puncher, by Bay Middleton
Mr. Thosnhill's Eusebia, by Emilius
Mr. Bowes's The Lady of Silverkeld Well
6to 5 agst Eusebia. The Puncher made the running to
the bushes, where the others closed with him, and they ran
together a short distance ; half way down the hill Gunter went
in front and won easy by two lengths ; about the same space
separated the others. The pace was good.

DERBY BETTING BEFORE THE RACES.
7 to 1 agst Attila
14 to 1 agst Frederica colt—taken
16 to 1 agst Chatham—taken
23 to 1 agst Eleus—taken
25 to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's two—taken
35 to 1 agst Moss Trooper—taken
50 to 1 agst Policy—taken
50 to 1 agst Wiseacre
60 to 1 agst Acacia colt
• 1000 to 10 agst WilNat'l de Fortibus—taken
15 to 2 agst Frederica c and Eleus—taken
The Frederica colt was backed heavily.
The Jockey Club meeting, which was to have taken place to-
morrow, is pt stponed until Tuesday n.,x,t.
DURHAM RACES.—FatnAT.
The Cup Stakes of 10 gs. each, and 20 soya. added. Two miles.
Mr. Granger's The Provost, 6 yrs, walked over.
The Hunter's Stakes of 5 soya, each, and 5(1 adto.d. Two miles.
Mr. J. Davison's Shiraz, aged, 13st 41b ( Mr. Gregson) 1
Marquis of Londonderry's claret,. aged, 12st 41b.., 2
Six others ran. A good race.

FATAL COAL-PIT ACCIDENT,
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST, AND EIGHT
SEVERELY INJU RED.

Mai:chest .r, Saturday Night.
This melancholy accident took place in the extensive coa
mines of Messrs. Swyne and I.e2s, known by the name o
" Flowery Fields," situate in the township of New son, Lanca-
suire, a small village, about six miles from Manchester.
It appears that about eleven o'clock on Friday morning the
men in the mine, and the banksmen at the first entrance to the
mine, were thrown into the greatest state of alarm by hear.ng
a rumbling noise, accompanied by a tremendous shock, which
was quickly followed by an explosion and an emission of ignited
inflammable air. The alarm spread, but no assistance could be
afforded the unfortunate sufferers. It was known that there
were 26 persons in that part of the mine where the explosion
took place. In this -state of suspense things remained for
several hou'•s. Meantime Mr, Potter and Mr. F. Tinker,
two surgeons in the neighbourhood, arrived to render
medical aid. After the lapse of some hours the
medical gentlemen deemed it safe to proceed in search of the
missing sufferers, and both of them in company of a number of
miners and the underlookere descended the shaft, and after a
protracted and dangerous search, they succeeded in finding
eight of the missing colliers, but, unfortunately, all qu;te dead,
some of them having been suffocated, and others much bruised
and burned. Shortly afterwards seven more were found near
the same place, but also dead. The search was prosecuted,
and in about an hour afterwards the remaining, ten were dis-
covered. One of them, a person named John Bcwker, was in
the last agonies of death, and the others in a pitiable stale of
exhaustion, especially an elderly man named Urimshaw. 'Tha
surgeons succeeded in saving the lives of eight out of ten.
John Bowker died soon after he was found, and Grimshaw was
so far spent that all efforts to preserve his life proved fruitless.
It was 'wady four o'clock this (Saturday) morning before all
the killed and injured were got out of the mine.

AUSTRIAN POST-OFFICE RE-
FORM.

Private correspondence, dated Vienna, the lst inst., an-
noun•.es that the Austrian Government are about to follow
the example of Great Britain, and adopt an uniform rate of
postage. According to the present system, there ere seven
classes or rates of postage, varying from 2 to 14 kreutzers,
ac-
cording to the distance. The Austrian Government propose
to commence their reform by reducing those seven classes to
two—one at 6, and the other at 12 kreutzers; and finally to
adopt an uniform rate of postage of 6 kreutzers, equal to about
2d. Briti,h. Our corre.pondent further states that the Austrian
Government are likewise about to surrender the monopoly
which they held in their own hands of stage-coaches, and inlow
the fullest liberty for private enterprise in every matter which
relates to travelling, in the same manner as in Great Britain.
This reform will afford a pleasing contrast with the illiberality
in force in other continental States.

THE INCOME TAX A BADGE OF
• SLAVERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
&a—Taxes on earnings, or income other than fixed, in-
volve inquiry into the means and transactions of those who have
to pay them. This inquiry or prying into individuals' affairs is
neither more nor less then actual, unmitigated, and most evil-
producing tyranny. None but a nation of slaves, or a nation
in the last extremity of peril, ought to submit to it. But m e
are to have necessaries—save and except always bread, the staff
of life—cheapened in return for submitting to this tyranny. I
would ask high-siirited Englishmen how long it will be before
they become slaves—arrant, hopeless saves—if they allow
chains to be fixed upon them because they are gilded—if they
take the bribe of somewhat cheaper victuals ( bread ex,:epted)
for surrendering the sacred right of preventin,, the Government
from prying into all their homes, and trading means, and
affairs? For my own part, I would rather pay 50 or 100 per
cent. more for my living, and be free from the inquisitors of
the income tax, than be relieved to such amount and be silo-
ject to the preliminary printed interrogatories, subsequent
knowledge, and ultimate decisions of such odious spies and
familiars.

Rely upon it, Sir, the appalling feature of the income tax is
its inquisitorial and most unconstitutional prying into the affairs
of the community. %% hen I read the questions addressed to
firms by the Tax Commissioners of 1811 (which were printed
the day before yesterday in your paper), I was perfectly as-
tounded. I call, therefore, on all parties to go to the Lords
and the Queen against the unconstitutional and everlasting
income tax.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
PETITION, PETITION, PETITION.
London, April 6, 1842.
" UNIVERSALITY OF TAXATION.
"Taxes upon every article that enters into the mouth, or
covers the back, or is placed under the foot; taxes upon every
thing that is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste; taxes
upon warmth, light, and locomotion; taxes on every thing on
earth, and the waters under the earth ; on every thing that
comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw
material ; taxes on every value that is added to it by the in-
' dustry of man ; taxes on the sauce which paMpers man's appe-
tite, and the drug which restored him to health ; on the ermine
whitth decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the
criminal; on the pour man's salt, and the rich man's Tice;
on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbands of the bride;
at bed or at board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The
schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages
his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the
dying Englishman, pouring his medicine which has paid seven
per cent. Into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., throws
himself hack upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty two
per cent., makes his will on stamped paper, and expires in the
arms of an apothecary, who has paid 100/. for the privilege of
putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from
two to ten per cent. Resides the probate, large fees are de
manded for burying him in the channel; his virtues are handed
down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered
to his fathers—to be taxed no more."
P. S. (1842) Are taxes on earnings to be added ?

Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., has arrived at his
new and elegant residence in Portman-square, !rom
Wales, and Lady Hall and the family are shortly expected to
follow, seat

NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
The entries for the Craven and Handicap Stakes, to be run
for to. morrow, closedthis evening as follows :
Craven Stakes.—Captain Daintree's b e, by Mulatto, dam
by Middleton, 3 yrs ; Mr. Oshaldeston's Mountain Sylph, 5
yrs; Duke of Grafton's Florence, 4 yrs, Mr. l3atson's Bar-
bara, 4 yrs ' • Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yra ; Mr.
Ford's Heads or Tails, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas-day, 3
yrs; Lord Albemarle's Minaret, 4 yrs.
Handicap. D.M.—Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Sat /21b ; cby
Muley, dam by Actaeon. 4 yts, 7st 121 b ; Buffalo, 4 yrs, 7st
121 b; Scarf, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ; c by Mundig, out of Thebes. 7st
71b; Lisbuln, 4 yrs, 6st 41b; Tiptoe, 3 yrs, 6st; Etherilda
(sister to Perseus), 3 yrs, 7st 41b.
Handicap, T. Y.C.—Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Sat 71b ; Mena-
lippe, 5 yrs, 7st 12'b ; King of the Peak, 5 yrs, ist 61b.
The Duke of Bedford's Mona colt and Lord Stradbroke's
Memima colt have paid forfeit for the Tavistock Stakes to-
morrow, and both the Duke of Bedford's for their engagements
on Tuesday.

A match is made for Wednesday, between John O'Gaunt,.
Bst 121 b, and Fitzroy, Bst—T. M. 51.,
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.—MONDAY.
The Craven Stakes of 10 sous. each, for three yrs old, Est ;
four yrs, Bst 41b ; five yrs, Bst 131 b ; six yrs and aged, 9st
51b. A. F. (8 Subs.)
Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yrs (Rogers) I
Mr. Ford's [leads or Tails, 3 yrs 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Os-
baldeston's The Mountain Sylph, 5 yrs—Duke of Gratton's
Florence, 4 yrs—Mr. Batson's Barbara, 4 yrs—Lord Albe-
marle's Minaret, 4 yrs—Captain Daintree's b c, by Mulatto,
dam by Middleton, 3 yrs, and Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas Day,
3 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Florence--7 to 2 agst The Moun-
tain Sylph—and sto 1 agst Barbara. Florence was first from
the post, and led for a quarter of a mile; she was then passed
by Heads or Tails, who, overpowering the lad, made strong
running into the cords, where The Currier drew upon her,
headed her half way ltp, and won cleverly by a length ; the third
and fourth were well up.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, and only 5 ft, if de-
clared, &c., for 3 and 4 yrs old. D.M. (8 Subs., I of
whom declared).
Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe, 3 yrs, 6st (Cassidy) 1
Lord Albemarle's Buffalo, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
Lord Orford's Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
Lord Exeter's Scarf,4 yrs, Est 121 b
Duke of Portland's c, by Mundig, 4 yrs
Duke of Graf;on's Lesburn, 3 yrs, Est 41b
Lord Kelburne's c, by Muley Moloch, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 7
Betting-6 to 4 ag't Tiptoe; 4to 1 agst Scarf; sto 1
lgst Buffalo; 7 to 1 agst the Thebes colt, and 7 to I agst Lord
Kelburne's colt, Tiptoe, jumped off with the lead, made all
the running and won easy by two lengths ; the intervals be-
tween the others being wide enough to enable the judge to place
them all.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, for 4 yrs old