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London, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

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Vtibite Optatatt.

" Who runs may rend."

FOREIGN.

The Courrier Fruncais, of Thursday, contains an article
on the taxation; it announces that in the whole depar:ment
of Nievre the patents for 1842 have been increased by, a third
and more than formerly ; in all the towns of Nievre petitions
are signed for withdrawing the rolls of 1842. This Journal
adds;—" What is now going on in the Nievre departmerd,
will soon hapren in other paces ; the Most formidable con-
demnation. the Administration coultl receive, is the seeing facts
prove exactly contrary to their solemn words andertgagements."
fil. ..Sauzet, the President of the. Chamber of Deputies, gave
a magnificent ball on Ntturday night, at the Valais de 11nur-
bin. No less than five thousand invitations had been issued.
A number of Generals and tacers attended in lull uniform.
The Dukes of Orleans, Nemouri, A umale, and the Prince de
Joinville, were present. Lord Cowley, cur Ambassador;
Iteschidl'acha, the Ottoman Ambaseactor; as well as other
members of the diplomatic toips, were also present. The
Ministers, all the Parliaintntary notaliiiit-es, and the most dis-
tinguished " illustrat ions". of the Fren.li capital, were included
in the company. The bail last e f till daybreak.
At Lisbon, on the 4th instant, the Queen of Portugal's birth.
day was celebrated with the usual festivities. There was a
bull-fight, at which the King and courtiers attended. .
Four French sailors were art est.tl at Lisbon for killing a Per-
tugut se boatman.

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In the Lords, last night, sortie p titions were presented
against the income. tax.
1..,rd Campbell moved the second reading of his Bills for re-
forming the Appellate Jurischvion of the country.
The Lord Chancedor id=approving of the measures, moved
that they be read a second time in six months, which amend-
ment was carried after a shout debate, mid the 13i11s were thrown
out. So ends Lord Campbell's present measures of judi-
cial reform.

In the Common-, Mr. Wakley presented a petition, informing
the House that the petitioner hnd others would be ruined by
the income tax, which, on this plea, was order ed to be laid on
the table.

We have elsewhere adverted to Mr. T. Duncombe's motion
on the subject of petitions, the debate on which was renewed.
Here we shall only say that Sir H. Peel, Mr. M. Alilnes, and
Captain Hamilton, Lord Sandon, and the Ciiamellor of the Ex-
chequer, opposed the motion, and that Lord flowick, Mr.
H. Berkeley, Lord Egerton, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. S.
Wortley (a Tory) supported it. Ultimately it was lost
by *tie.
On Sir C. Napier inquiing of the Speakyr if he might have
followed Sir Itibett Peel on Friday night, the Speaker replied
" Yes," and a short discussion arose as to the rules of debate,
in which the Speaker maintained his previous opinion, and
Sir Robert Peel came to his aid with some cases.

The adjourned debate on, the Report of the Income Tax
Resolutions was resumed by Dr. Bowring ; and aPer Mr.
Macaulay, Lord Stanley, Mr. Labouchere, Lord F. Egertcti,
and several other Members had addressed the House, the debate
was again adjourned.
A short discussion arose on the question of the adjournment.
Lord Egerton, in the course of his speech, spoke of an yfactious
opposition to the measures of Sir R. Peel as highly criminal in
the present state of the country ; and also made some allisions
to Affghanistan, which was i truth a prominent subject. of the
debate throughout the whole evening, confirming the statement
that the income tax is to be imposed on the country for the sake
of conquering .Cabool.
These remarks called up Lord John Russell, who reminded
the House that the criminality was on the other side, which
had put off giving the country any relief for nine
months, and that papers connected with Afghanistan
had been laid on the table of the House, and the
Tories had not raised any question on them. Both the
Noble. Lord and Sir j..Hobhouse declared themselves ready to
meet any inquiry into the origin of the war, an to take their
full share of the responsibility. Roth eulogized the conduct of
Lord Auckland.

The House adjourned at a Quarter before Iwo.
',Erni.= OPINION.
The Times contains a leading article on the subject of the
right of petitioning, from which we quote the following pas-
sage :—" We cannot but repeat our regret that Sir Robert
Peel has persevered in his opposition to the reception of peti-
ti, ns against the income or any other tax while under the
consideration of Parliament. We regret that he should have
exposed his Ministry to something so very like a defeat as a
mere majority of one. And we regret. that he should have
taken a position wh:ch seems to us at variance with the
ordinary principles on which the House of Commons
must be cnnteet to act, and which, therefore, he will
not be able to maintain, but at the expense of much
credit and popularity. The arguments urged by him in favour
of this course are— first, that it is backed by the practice of 150
years ; secondly, that it would enable persons, factiously dis-
posed, seriously to embarrass and delay the Government meat
sures for the defence of the country, when expedition was ab•
solutely necessary for the common sefety. For ourselves, we
must confess we are not disposed to regard with any very deep •
reverence an antiquity which goes no further back than 150
years: it appears to us just that age which is not so much tine-lent
as old-fashioned. it is old enough to be out of date, but not
old enough to be bound up with any very venerable or touching
associations. - N6r is the subject-matter one which receives
any greaz dignity from antiquity, even were that anti-
quity fire times what it actually is. Laws which have become
national habits—which are interwoven even with popular pre-
judices—which cannot be removed without danger, or at least
shock, to certain ether true and useful ideas with which, in the
mind of the people, their ramifications are entwined—or main,
laws, which embodying, though'ioeorrectly, a principle of deep
importance-, have yet in their imperfect shape, by mere force
of long habit, obtained a binding form, which could not be
hoped for any newer, though jtister and more convenient, ar-
rangement,—such laws in sack an antiquity have not only a
presumption of wisdom, but a tangible and substantial advan-
tage—not. only ground for hesitating, but a reason (as far as it
goes) for re:wing to change."
The Herald says :—" A majority of 1 only,--on a division
of 222 to 221,—repudiated the question of bringing- up the
anti- income-tax petition. We may be allowed to offer a few
words on the more erorninent speeches of the evening. In
doing so, we cannot' refrain from renewing the expression of
our regret that a great constitutional right should have
found its staunchest opponents in Conservative Mi-
nisters. The' event of this division has at once con-
firmed and justified the terms in which we befere al-
luded to the The 'spirit •of fair play ; con-
sistent good faith in public as in private affairs; and
attachment (proof against all averse conditions of circum-
stances), to the_ privileges accorded to them by the constitu-
tion—these are the properties which identify the cause of a
Conservative Government with the hearty support of the Con.
servativc portion et the public. Were it en account of this
feeling, alone, We should always be reluctant to see a Con-
servative Premier' vindicating any course opposed to the na-
tural tendency of such moral properties by arguments founded
merely on considerations of expediency or convenience in
relation to the- greater facility it might afford to the despatch
of the Goeernment or the Parliament."
The public
ine; t s
Advertiserbus makes thethe
following
observations on the im-
portant question - of the right of petitioning Miserable,
even to contemptuous pity, was the position in which Sir
Robert Peel last night stood in the House of Commons, on re-
smiling the debate on Mr. T. Duncombe's motion to receive a
petition against the income tax. The Right Honourable Ba-
ronet, in addressing the' House, appeared not to have reco-
vered his self-possession, so indecorously lost in the debate of
Friday night; and commenced his speech as follows :—" Sir, 1
cannot acqn esce in the motion that this petition be brought
up, because I believe that the country generally is adverse
to the proposal." What ! The Premier believes that the
country is adverse to having • its own voice heard in the
House of its so-calleil Representatives I ! We do not be-
lieve the Premier such a dolt es to believe any such thing.
The country may on other subjects be divided in opinion,
but on the right, the necessity, and the value of pstitioniug,
notwithstanding the gross disregard with which petitions for the
most part are treated by the House of Commons, there exists
throughout Om country but one feeling of anxious unanimity.
If the country,' as asserted by the Premier, were gene, ally .
adverse to the proposal,' no inconvenience need be appre-
hended from complying with Mr. Dune, rube's motion, as th
country would not offer petitions against its own feelings; but
the country, as the Premier well knows, so far from being ad-
verse
to the proposal, regard; it as the vital principle of public
freed'sm, and therefore the assertion of the Premier must be
• regarded as a willul falsehood, perpetrated in support of a posi-
tion in favour of which no other or better argument could be
alleged than that it has existed for 150 years."
We take the followi from the Chronicle :—" The debate
on the income tax was again adjourned. The principal feature
in the discussion was the resuscitation of Lord Stanley. Con-
jecture has, of course, been busy in accounting for the silence
hitherto maintained by a nobleman not remarkable for his dif-
fidepce, except on subjects strictly within his own department.
Some would have it that Lord Stanley has been purposely
kept in the shade by the Premier, uniter the apprehension
that the peculiar talent for irritating opponents pos-
sessed by his Lordship might add to pia difficulties.
Others again give his Lordship credit for sufficient suseepti-
KV to wish that time might deat'en the impression left by
his Tarnboff expedition before he again placed himself con,
spicuously befere the public. But his exhibition last night
sufficiently proved that Lord Stanley's silence was not the re-
sult of any eist rust of his own powers. 'there was a daring dis-
regard of truth in his misrepresentation of Mr. Macaulay,
quite worthy of his most successful efforts in the same line.
e he feeling against the income tax begins to grow stronger in
the House; and the country is now taking a most decided part
against it,"
The Post says With regard to the new tariff, the Whig-
Radicals give out that the Government will receive the sup-
port of the great body cf the Liberal Opposition. That, we
take the liberty of thinking,
will very much depend upon sir.
eumstances: 'lf the Liberal Opposition' can put the Govern-
ment in a minority by voting against the Government, we feel
morally certain that they wilt so vote. If they see that, let
them do what they will, the Government must succeed, then
indeed, we doubt not, they will make a merit of approving the
measure of their opponents, and vote with the Ministers. The
Whig party
never yet wore superior to the grand motive of
embariassing those opposed to them, and we see nothing in
their present temper to lead any rational being into the belief
that they are likely to improve upon their former practices.
We believe that at this moment Lord John Russell would be
but too happy to coalesce with the country gentlemen whom
he so glibly insulted on Friday
evening, if they were to resolve
on opposing the importation: of • cattle and provisions to this
country, which it is the object ofe part of the tariff to en-
courage."
El EETZING.
The registration i;7C
Wednes-
day, when the Liberal registry showed a gain of 31 over their
oATlaty°o,reland, concluded on Tiopponents.
The Wigan Election Committee terminated its proceedings
yesterday, when Mr. Standish was declared the sitting Mem-
ber, thus giving to the Liberals a gain of one.
'1 he Marlow Committee also terminated, and Mr. R.
Hampden was declared the sitting Member, giving a gain of
one to the Tories.
NAVAL AND VIXIATAItY.
General Sir William Houston died in Kent on Friday last,
at the age of 78, having been 61 years in -the army. His ser-
vices in Egypt gained him a medal, and his brilliant services at
Fuentes d'Onor also won him a similar honorary distinction.
A case of spontaneous ignition took place on Sunday in the
decks of a surveying steamer at Woolwich, originating among
some tow, oil, and turpentine, stowed together : it was fortu-
nately quenched in time.
Another wreek, in which four out of six persons have been
drowned, has taken place at Dungeness. On this dangerous
point, nearly twenty Frenchmen-alone have perished recently.
In 1724 King George I. was driven on shore; and lives are
yearly lost.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the Central Criminal Court, Godwin, the policeman,
repeatedly examined at the Nansion-house on a charge of
stealing aelcak and time-piece from Mrs. Lewis, who keeps a
marine store-shop, was tried and convicted yesterday, and sen-
tenced to be transported for 15 sears.
At the Livers of AF,izes Inst week sn action was brought
n.q.zinFt Crrrie am!

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mortgage security, which the Z:•.octe,y haU sulfured a loss of

11,3501. - It appeared from the evidence that no imputation was 1
y,
..„ T„ „ 4.,,, made aga'nst the moral character of the eerendants, but were
ri $3 ‘,, ~U :,t simply liable for negligence ; and the jury returned a verdict
vid 1. 90 ,k,k I for the full amount.
Elizabeth Er!ge was tried at the Chester Assizes for poisouing
her brother and sister, on the 7th of August last. It was
clearly proved that she had bought arsenic, and on the body of
the sister being opened, about forty grains werefound in the
.stomach. Tie brother had died six weeks before, and strong
suspicion existed that the prisoner had poisoned them both, in
order to get their property. No evidence to satisfy the Jury
on that point 'was given, and they accordingly found a verdict
of Not Guilty. I
COXTIZ.T-ziAsur '',N11.73Ta2"... , i

Arrangementi arc in progress for the installation of the Duke of
Northumberland, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
The Duke of Wellington, ar.d Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, have
announced thfir it.tention of being present on the occasion. .
Prince arid Princess Nicholas Esterhazy arrived at Calais
on Wednesday. and on hursrlav proceeded to Vienna.
The Duke of Rutland returned yesterday to Belvoir Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedlerd return to town for the
season, nn Thursday riext.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose arrived in tawn yester-
day, from Northamptonshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abereorn, are expected in
Park-lane on Thurida next.
'The Earl of Devon arrived in town yesterday, from Powder-
ham Castle, Devon.