The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, INIoNDAT.—This morning the Queen and
Prince Albert took their usual early walk in the Home
Park and Slopes. Afterwards the Prince, attended
by Lord Rivers, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater,
and the Hon. Captain Duncombe went out shooting
in the Great Park. The keepers were in waiting at
Bear's rails. His Royal Highness shot splendidly, 24
brace of pheasants, 8 brace of partridges, 4i brace of
hares, and 2 couple of rabbits falling to his barrels.
His Royal Highness returned to the Castle to lunch.
In the' afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious
Consort rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal High-
ness driving, followed by a pony carriage and four,
containing the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon.
Miss Stanley, and the Hon. Miss Hamilton ; Lord
Rivers, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, and the two
Equerries in Waiting, were on horseback.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were
taken out twice to-day, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lyttelton.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte Dundas, and Lieut.-Col. and Mrs Bouverie,
will join the Royal Dinner circle at the Castle this
evening.

His Royal Highness Prince Georg, of Cambridge
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at
Marlborough House.
His Excellency 1113 'furnish Ambassador, and
General Sancho, the Spanish Minister, visited the
Earl Of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office.
M. Hupedon transacted business on Saturday at
the office of the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Ripon left town yesterday for his seat
Nocton, Lincolnshire.
Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of
Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office. Dispatches were also received from the
Governor of Gibraltar.

We stop the press to announce that Mr. J. Arthur,
bookseller, was arrested this afternoon, by a police-
officer from Manchester, on a charge of sedition, and
was taken off in a chaise in the custody of Kent, of
the Carlisle police establishment. It is understood
that the charge against Mr. Arthur is founded on the
part taken by hi:n at one of the Chartist meetings in
Manchester, when he signel,c?rtain resolutions which
he described as " dangerous in one of his letters ad-
dressed to the Chartist Association in this city, during
his sojourn in Manchester as the delegate from- the
Chartists of Carlisle. The arrest was not known
until a few minutes before his departure.—Front a
Second Edition of the Carlisle Journal.
THE \VAR PRESS.—We observe that the War
Press, headed by the Whig Morning Chronicle, as
usual, is frantic because Lord Ashburton has not em-
lroiled us with America, but succeeded in getting the
Boundary Question amicably and honourably settled.
Be it remembered this is the same Press that hounded
us on to war in Syria, to war in China, to war in
Affghanistan ; and it is said to be the representative
of Lord Palmerston and the late Whig Ministry. We
trust the country will keep those men out of office so
long as they are actuated by so fierce and bloody a
spirit. We observe it statedin rounded and mighty
periods, in justification of these breathings of fire and
slaughter, that " the honour of the country is con-
cerned." The honour of the country forsooth ! As
if that had in reality anything to do with the matter !
If there be " honour," however, assuredly it is getting
out of these abominable Whig wars as fast as we can.
It is to the eternal infamy of the country that it ever
allowed a Whig Ministry to engage in them.—Leeds
Times.

It is not perhaps generally known that many of the
iron masters are generous enough to allow from
2s. 6d. to 10s. a week to several old workmen, when
quite unable to do anything. Anthony Hill, Esq.,
of Plymouth iron-works, used to exhibit a benevolent
example in such acts until the Union of 1831. It is
said that he has not given so much since that me-
morable twisting epoch. William Crayshaw, Esq.,
gave 10s. a week to old Rees Beynon for some years
up to the time of his death. Other masters, it seems,
act similarly.—Mownouthshire Merlin.
INCOME-TAX.—SALARY or CURATES.—A clergy-
man,•having the assistance of three curates, wrote to
the office of Stamps and Taxes requesting to know
" whether in the returns to be made under the Pro-
perty-tax Act their salaries were to be deducted ?'
The reply is as follows :—" In answer to your letter,
I am directed by the Board to state, that the salaries
of curates can only be admitted as a deduction in the
returns made under the Property Act, in those cases
in which curates are licensed by the Bishop at a fixed
stipend."—Birminghain Advertiser.
DEATH OF THE BAILIFF OF GuERNSET.—The Gazette
of this island contains the announcement of the death
of Daniel De Lisle Brock, in nearly his eightieth
year, at Guernsey. In 1821 he obtained the high and
responsible appointment of Bailiff, or Chief Magistrate
of Guernsey, we believe through the joint recommen-
dation and exertions of Sir John Doyle, and the then
L ieuten ant-Governor, Major-General Bayley. During
his Chief Magistracy, he several times was deputed
to London on the various interests at issue, as they
related to the welfare of Guernsey, and in all of which
so conducted his measures as to elicit the highest ap-
probation of his fellow citizens, and on two occasions
pieces of plate were voted him.
TIIe iNcomE•TAX.---The Income-tax is likely t.)
prove more dangerous to Sir Robert Peel than Iv,
supposed, or than it need be, through gross misma-
nagement of the details. Some country papers have
complained that the provision to secure secresy, by
which householders are empowered to forward their
returns under sealed cover to a superior officer, is
frustrated by the local assessors breaking the seal.
Instances have come within our own knowledge of
needless, and therefore unjust, trouble given; even
the returns are negligently served, and when applica-
tion is made at the offices they are frequently found
to be unprovided with them. People the less grudged
the tax, odious as its very name was, because they
thought that it would be well managed ; and they re-
garded the Premier's repute for business-like qualities
as a guarantee that it would. They.did not indeed
think that he would himself do duty in every office.
but they expected him to see that others did theirs.
Ills that been looked to ? Are the subordinates who
executed the law fitted for their office by ability, zeal,
arid discretion ? the army of tax-collectors free
from tra; tars—political adversaries of the Govern-
ment, who would like to make the tax not less, but
more odious ? The First Lord of the Treasury ought
to be able to answer these questions ; and to say that
the management of the tax has
been intrusted to these
who are not only ab:e and honest in their own per-
sons, but capable of choosing their subordinates pro-
perly. At all events, it is manifest, from the very pro-
ceedings of the functionaries and the construction of
the returns, that the system itself is faulty. It might
be worth the while of Minister to investigate this
inatter.—Spectator.
KINGSBILILGE -Pooa-Lag-Uicrori.---The guardians
of this Union hive again reieet3cl: iv motion for the
appdntment of a paieChrVain, by a Ijority of four. '