The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1842.

Opposition with credit to himself or advantage to the
country. Nature never intended the Noble Lord to
play any-prominent part on the stage of political life.
I.le,is at a crisis like the present intellectually, as well
as physically, unfit fer the leadership of a powerful
party. When the Tories were prostrate and almost
extinguished as a party 'by the heavy blow which the
Reform Bill, immediately on its passing, gave them,
the leadership of a person of Lord John's calibre
might have been tolerated ; but the moment that a re-
action had commenced, and every successive week
saw the Tories swelling their minority of 150, it was
high time that the. Whig Lordling should be uncere-
moniously thrown, overboard, and a person chosen to
succeed him, who, in addition to moral courage, supe-
rior talents as a debater, and enlarged views as a
statesman, should possess a strong sympathy with the
people—one, moreover, who, • instead of lagging be-
hind the spirit of the age, should be prepared to lead
the nation, as well as the Liberals in Parliament, in
the onward road to further and far more extensive
re Corms."

ONII7- TZAD -C 0 WIME

At the annual meeting of the Consolidated Trefoil
Mining Company, held yesterday in the Poultry, the
Report stated that the sale of copper for the last month
was 127 tons; and there was now tin to the value of
2001. ready for. market. The assets amount only to
1,7231., the diminution being occasioned by a decrease
in the quantity of the ore.
At Manchester great numbers of the coarse spin-
ners and power-leom weavers still -remain out, but
peace is kept : nearly fifty mills are in full work,
and about a score partially so. At Glossop, an
attack has been made on Mr. Shipley's works, and in
the affray four persons were severely wounded. At
Birmingham agitation has entirely ceased.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY).

IN RE MESSRS. WHITE AND LAMBERT.
Under the fiat which had been already frequently
before the Court, a point was raised on the part of
Messrs. Morley and Co., extensive ship- Drokers and
commission agents, with respect to their right to
prove against the separate estate of Lambert, or against
that of the partnership.

It appeared the baArupts had carried on business
as wharfingers and wareho uselt eepers, and that a quan-
tity of goods, belonging to Messrs. Morley, had been
consigned to their care, and a verdict subsequently
,given against them in favour of Messrs. Morley, for
some alleged damage the goods had suffered whilst
at their wharf. It was contended that previous to the
date of this verdict the partnership had been dissolved.
—The proof was allowed against the joint estate.
Debts to the amount of nearly 7,C00/. were proved
at this sitting, in sums varying from 1,0001. to 101.

IN RE THOMAS AND JAMES WEST.

The bankrupts in this case had been extensive
mercers and drapers. The aggregate amount of debts
proved against the estate was 14,7501.
After the admission of a few proofs the choice of
assignees was proceeded with, when Messrs. Anderton
and Leigh were appointed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)

The disgraceful system of extortion, so lately prac-
ticed by the men Fitzgerald and others, upon people
of the highest respectability, must be fresh in the
memory of all our readers ; and the facts which came
out upon the evidence at the examination of the pri-
soners at Bow-street and Marlborough-street, and
their subsequent trial at the Old Bailey, left little
doubt in the minds of the police and others conversant
with such matters, that the Fitzgeralds were not the
only people who had practised such a shameless and
disgraceful system of extortion.
This morning a well-dressed man. apparently about
35 years of age, who gave the name of Thomas Addy,
but whose real name is believed to be Robert Hyde
Eddy, was placed at the bar under the following cir-
cumstanc3s:—

Mr. Henry Bellamy. Webb, of 31, Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, stated that on Saturday,
the 20th ult., as he was proceeding along Hemming's-
row,- on his way home, he was met by:the prisoner,
who accosted him with " A fine night, Sir," or some-
thing of that sort. Witness shortly replied that it
was. The prisoner made one or two other common-
place observations, to which witness, being not at all
desirous of his company, replied very briefly. At
length, on arriving at Castle-street, Leicester-square,
as the prisoner still kept close to him, witness turned
round to him, and said "I don't know what you mean,
I don't want anything to say to you, why don't you
go away about your business ?" The prisoner made
no reply, and witness thought he was gone, but on
reaching New-street, Covent-garden, witness observed
the prisoner still at his heels. Witness took no notice
however, but pursued his way towards the Piazzas,
near-Covent-garden Market. When he arrived there
the prisoner came alongside of him, and accosted with
" D your eyes, what are you going to give me."
W itness asked him what he meant, when he said "D—
-you, if you don't give me some money I'll charge you
with an unnatural offence ;" and a policeman happen-
ing to come up at the time the prisoner gave witness
into custody, and he was taken to the station-house
where he remained till the Monday morning follow-
ing. On I%iondav he was brought up before the
Magistrate, but the prisoner, deterred no doubt by
the rigorous proceedings, which in the meantime had
commenced against some of his associates, did not
appear to prefer his charge. Witness was in conse-
quence discharged without the case being entered
into. Witness then proceeded to the Old Bailey,
where the Grand Jury were sitting, and preferred an
indictment against the prisoner for feloniously as-
saulting witness with intent to rob him, and the pri-
soner not appearing to answer the indictment, a war-
rant was issued for his apprehension, and placed in the
hands of Inspector Plume, of the C division, under
which warrant the prisoner was apprehended last
night in Castle-street. Witness had not the slightest
doubt that the prisoner was the man who accosted
him, and gave him into custody on the 20th ult., as
above stated. There was not the slightest ground for
such a charge.
The prisoner, in defence, merely stated that he had
received a wound in the head, and did rot know half
his time what he was doing. Such must have been
the case when he accosted Mr. Webb in the manner
stated.

Mr. HALL said it was a case for a jury, and fully
committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next
Old Bailey serrions.

LLOYD'S .SHIPPING—(rius DAY.)

LONDON, SEPT. I.—The weather changed this morn-
ing about one o'clock. and has continued to rain without
much intermission since. Wind, this day at noon, S.W.,
moderate breeze. hazy, with rain.
DEAL, AUG. 31.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Sappho, Dun-
lop, China ; Peruvian. Block ; and Elizabeth, Moffatt,
Calcutta ; Westminster, and Orixa, Ager, Singapore ;
Enterprise, Moxey, Demerara ; Pakenham, Warren,
Laguayra ; Helene, Westward. Sld. Olivia, Algoa Bay ;
Claremont, Demerara ; Arno, New Orleans ; Tyne,
Quenec ; London, Halifax ; James Harris, Pugwash.
OFF DovEn, AUG. 31.—Janet, Brown, New York.
OFF THE WIGHT, AUG. 31.—Glaphyra, St. Kitts.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 31.—Wind N. to N. N. W.—
Arrd. Switzerland, London.
POOLE, AUG. 31.—Sld. John King, Bristow, Cape and
Mauritius.

SALCOMBE, AUG. 30.—Arrd. Era, Hingston, Rio, sails
split and short of water. Arrd. off, Thisbe, Chartres,
Jamaica ; Jeannette, Bleekschmidt, Porto Rico for Ham-
burgh ; Anna Krilling, New York for :Bremen.
l'Ar.mouTH, Auc. 30.--Wind W.S.W. to N.N.W.—
Arrd. Wm. Campbell, Primrose, Jacmel, left June 27.
Arrd. off, Rambler, Le Gypt, Monte Video, and sailed
for London ; William (late Christof ), Quebec.
BRISTOL. AUG. 31.—Arrd. Earl of Liverpool, Neves.
CLYDE, 'Alm. 23.—S1d. Levenlass, Montreal ; New
York, New York.

_ .
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 31.—Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Sarah Birkett, Atkins, Valparaiso ; Yarmouth, Monte
Video ; Alice, Amwell, Barbadoes, sailed 2611 i ult. ;
Etching, Segur, Porto Rico ; Swan, Blanchard, Ha-
vannah ; Francis. Westcott, St. John's, N.B. ; Ara-
minta, Quebec ; Lady Lilford, Scott, Bombay. Arrd.
of, Joseph Hume, Africa ; Independence, New York ;
Fernandez, Ann or Albert, Arcturus, Hill, Quebec.
DUBLIN, Atm. 29.—S1d. Princess, St. John's, N.B.
SCILLY, Auc. 30.—The Emma, Percival, which arrived
here the 22d from Ancona, is discharging her cargo
(wheat), to repair her keel, having struck on a reef
near that port on leaving, June 18, and had put back
next day.

MONEY and
_C6MMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE

The great abundance of money has at length had
its effect upon the Bank of England, the Directors of
which establishment has issued a notice reducing the
rate of discount to 31 per cent. Until this appeared
the funds were exceedingly heavy, but it raised the
pride of Consols to 923 for Money, and to 93* for the
Account, and has given great firmness to the market;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 938; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 1013 ; New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents., 1004 101; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India
Stock, 250 252; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53, New,
49 51 prem.
But little has been done in Foreign securities,
prices remain nominally without alteration, but none
are officially marked. The quotation for Mexican is
35 351.
Rather more business has been transacted in Shares;
Great Western have been sold at 82, the Half Shares
GO ; London and Birmingham, 186 ; Brighton, 33 ;
South Western, 601 601 ; South Eastern, 22 ; Black-
wall, 73; Greenwich, 5 ; York and North Midland,
90, the Half Shares 361.
A single quotation for Spanish Three per Cents.,
at 201, is the only notice of the Bonds to-day.
The letters from Spain to-day announce the fact
that the Finance Minister has been unable to conclude
negotiations with the Bank of San Fernando, or any
capitalists, for a loan. The security offered was the
monopoly of quicksilver, after the expiration of the con-
tract with Rothschild. This presents another instance
of injustice towards the principal creditors of that
country. Ahnost the whole of that article finds its
way here, where it is largely consumed, and since
the contract in question has been in existence,
the price has been arbitrarily raised from about
ls. Bd. to 4s. per lb., while not one sixpence of the
enormous profit made either by the Spaniards or the
contractors, though derived from the English, has found
its way to those whose propeq in justice it is. With
the fact of this poverty in the '1 reasury being declared,
the agents are putting forth high-sounding ad-
vertisements about conversion, and threatening
exclusion from the benefit of the scheme,
if advantage be not taken of it before a specified
period. NumerouS inquiries have been made as to
the benefit to be expected,
but they are certainly pro-
fliThrtl-
blematical. The only benefit appears to be in
ing an opportunity for the emission of •any quantity
of spurious stock.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O •• • 444 45i to 44 4
Edinburgh and Glasgow ......
Ditto New „. .„0 ...... 34 to
Great Western .
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London ant' Brighton „... hA. ..... iia .. to
London and Blaokwall ............ 14.1#..... ... to
London and Birmingham .......•• 90 •....•186 ...... to
London and South Western ... 411,6 soi to sok
South Eastern and Dover... ...••• 50 ...... 22„„„ to .-_,
York and N mth Midland... ..•••• 40 ...„. po
Ditto New Shares.,,. ~,•••t• 20 •••••• 36i to
MANCHESTER SOCK
Ei'XCHANGE, AUG. 31.—WQ
have had a quiet market to-day. Manchester find
Birmingham, 244,-2b ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 73 ;
London and Smith Western, 628 On; Sheffield and
Manchester, 31* 32k.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, .WEDNESDAY EVENING.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF :THIS DAY.

TlMES.—Allusion was made, a very short time
back, under this head, to. the discouraging situation
of the various projects connected with steam naviga-
tion across the Atlantic, since when they appear to be
hastening at an accelerated pace towards final aban-
donment and ruin. The refitting Ot the ominous
" ten-gun " brigs by the Admiralty, is 'talked of, to
supply, the place of the steam-vessels Of the West In-
dia Atall.Packet Company ; the Great Western Steam-
ship. Company, trading between Bristol and New
York, are stated publicly to be in such pecuniary
difficulty as to be compelled to bring the whole con-
cern to an early close ; and the North American Mail
Company, the only party now left to prosecute the
enterprise of steam communication with America, are
appealing to Government and to the trading interest
to afford them a more efficient support, without
which they must also throw up their contract, and
that rapid and safe mode of intercourse be finally re-
linquished.
lt will be quite apparent from thg: previous history
of the last-named company, that they must 'form the
chief dependence of the two countries in this respect,
and that if they cannot succeed none can. It is stated
to be composed of about 30 proprietors only, and to
differ from joint-stock concerns gede..nilly.in confiding
the whole management to two indifiduals, Mr. G.
Burns, of Glasgow, and Mr. David Myer, of Liver-
pool, who are the individuals recognised by Govern-
ment as the contractors. Though usually termed
"Cunard's line," after' Mr. Cunard, of Halifax, that
gentleman is only one of the general proprietors. On
the 4th of July, 1840, they commenced the first
voyage of the contract service of carrying the American
mails, for which the Government was under agree-
ment to pay 60,0001. per annum, but within nine
months the managing partners made the mortifying
discovery that the undertaking was a losing one,
and that the whole capital they had em-
barked in it must be sacrificed unless they
could obtain some further assistance from Go-
vernment. On the representations they made,
a rehearing of the case was permitted, and
after a most rigid investigation into their
affairs, in the course of which it was proved, though
they carried a great number of passenters and light
cargo besides, that their receipts cow not cover the
expenditure, an addition of 20,000ta year was conse-
quently made to their allowance from the Govern-
ment. With this advantage, they were encouraged
to struggle on since that period with this undertaking,
but still find, with their large capital of 300,0001.,
arid the intelligence and industry brought to bear on
its employment, that it returns no profit. These
statements are denied, it should be observed, from a
publication at Liverpool, apparently under the influ-
ence of the parties engaged in this undertaking, but
there is no reason, for believing that it has given an
untrue or an exaggerated account, of their situation,
which, if they did, would be easily exposed, and re-
act upon themselves, and hence ttlmay be admitted
that the manner in which their appeal-1-s- to be dis-
posed of has become a public question.
After making this admission, however, the mode of
dealing with it is by no means rendered so clear by
the parties themselves as it ought to be in such a case.
They advert vaguely to possible attempts at competi-
tion with them, based upon the wreck of other under-
takings, and seek, perhaps too eagerly, to establish
what ought to be self-evident, after the experience
acquired under their own contract, that no under-
taking for steam conveyance across the" Atlantic can
succeed, unless united with the service of the
Government in the transport of the mails. Any
department of the Government, to which in regular
course their appeal ought to be made in a direct
manner, would require some better guide, and,
demand of the complainants not. only an exposition
of the grievances under which• they labour, but
some specific suggestions of such a remedy as
they themselves feel to be applicable to their situa-
tion. If the terms of their contract are still too
low, let them state, what ought to be a matter
of no difficulty after the long experience
they have gained, what terms they do require to work
the contract with that advantage to
_themselves to
which they are honourably entitled, and the question
would then speedily be brought to some issue. The
Government cannot, and the public will not, through
indolence and inattention to such matters generally,
do anything to keep off that rivalry which the North
American Mail Company seem to dread, and which,
if their position is a sound one, they ought as little to
apprehend as the Bank of England. or the East India
Company the puny attempts of any petty trading
Corporation.
The contract with this Company has been im-
pugned on the ground that it is a monopoly, and bad
in principle, and that the management of such an
undertaking should devolve upon the Government
itself, at whatever loss, as one Means, among others,
o' gradually creating an efficient steam naval force;
but we should prefer leaving-AINIn private hands
to those of the Admiralty or and -oiter public de-
partment. The dangerous and laborious service in
which they are to be employed secures a supply of
vessels of the best class and upon the best principles;
and therefore, leaving all other advantages out of the
question, we should be glad, not only to see the
Korth American Company secured in permanence
to the public service,- but an attempt made to re-
organize on better principles, and under more prudent
management, that West India Company of which the
ruin is pronounced to be all but certain. To return
to the old vicious system of the West India packets
and ten-gun brigs is a misfortune ; to recede from
the great project for a communication by steam with
America, so long successfully worked, and to the fu-
ture success of which the want of money is the only
impediment, is a national disgrace. . Future improve-
ments in this navigation may render that profitable
hereafter which is not so at present; but if the chain
is once broken, any attempts of that kind will be
without a motive.

However eligible the Southarapton dock may be
for the landing of the East and West India mails,
the dissension which was exhibited between the di-
rectors and some of the shareholders at the half-
yearly meeting held to-day at the Company's offices
is, to say the least of it, discouraging to its complete
success. There appears to be that want of co-
operation and cordiality between the executive and
constituency which, if persevered in,' cannot fail to
damage the undertaking in the public estimation,
since, while on the one hand captiousness is shown to
the objections which two or three of the shareholders
make to the proceedings or the manner in which the
business of the Company has been conducted, it can
scarcely be expected, on the other, that con-
cession will be made in order to secure that
unanimity on general matters which is at all times
essential to the well-being of any public under-
taking. According to the Report which was read to
the shareholders, there is every reason to believe
that the docks are in that stye—of forwardness
which will admit of their "being opened at an
early period for the reception Of vessels, and
hardly a doubt can exist, should the directors
be able to pacify those shareholders who are clamorous
against past proceedings, but that the undertaking will
ultimately gain a revenue of some consequence. The
introduction of the interest of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam-packet Company. is reckoned on as
increasing in public favour the pretensions these
(locks have for support ; and as this is the case, it
seems to be fully imagined that the packet-statical,
when once established at the port, will bring a vast
accession of other trade. The Report, on the' whole,
was certainly considered satisfactory; but the great
complaint alleged against the management of the Com-
pany is, that the expense of the construction of the
docks, as far as they have already gone, has doubled
the estimate, which. was put in for the completion of
the whole undertaking. It was pointedly remarked
at this meeting, as well as at the Black wall Railway
meeting yesterday, that it was much tQ ho rtgretted
that some legislative enactment doss not provide for
the levy of pains and penalties on engineers whQ
nish such delusive statements.
The Consol Market has declined to--ciay about one
quarter per cent., some sales aCied, it is supposed,
on account of the Beach banks, having brought thy.
ward more stock than was required to mge4 The_ de-
mand of the jobbers. It mus't also ho borne in mind
that the late advance, which is .0 all hands admitted
to have been rapid, will probably have shown persons
in the eharaeter of realizers who w(Illid otherwise
have .colitinned supporters of iyiees. Money has
not increased beyond ow rate of 1i to 2, although
the half-monthly settlement in the Foreign market
took place, •

. ,
SUN,—The " bear" party haVing ceased operations, at
least for the present, the Market recovered its firmness,
and Consols left off at 92i for Money, and 93 for the
Account ; Bank Stock, 1671 1681 ; India Stock, 251
252 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem.
More disposition has been shown to purchase Foreign
Securities, and during the last few days several
.parcels
having been taken quietly out of the ,Market, via** arc
consequently rising, with the prospect offmther Improve-
ment. Belgian Stock was 1011 ;Dutch Two-and •
a-Half per Cents. 521 %5,?.i; thOlive per Cents. 102 40211,
Danish, 84 81 ancrUraiilian, 641 651. ThQ ctigUtioli
fp,r Mpiean was 35i 351.
The prices of Shares exhibittd further decline upon
those of yesterday; Lod and Birmingham were ltA
188 ; Birtningbtutt and Gloucester, 42 44; Great Western,
821 84; the Hall!' Shares, 65 651 ex div.; South Western,
ox div. ; North Midland, 57 5q t the New Shares,
27/ 281 ex div. ; South Easter and Dover, 211- 221 ;
Eastern Counties, 81 n and Northern and Easter,
374. 38i each div. ;Brighton, 33 334 per Share.
The quotations of the Bonds were—ce.Jumbian, 20 20A;
Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Vivo per Cents., 331344;
the Three per Cents, 2(1 0 ; Spanish Five per Cents,,
tto
2csi 214 - ; the Three per Cents., 20 201.
rapers from Sydney to the 3d April have been re.
ceived this afternoon, but they du, not appear
e s add t
s an
t
p
p re
facts to the last which carne to hand. The markets are
represented to be extremely good, a nd the
the Colonists to be still further improved.

GREAT NORTH 01? ENGLAND
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of this Com-
pany was held in their office in Northgate, in Dar-
lington, on Tuesday last, the 30th instant, G. 11.
Wilkinson, Esq., in the chair.
The Report of the Directors was agreed to, recom-
mending a dividend of IL ss. per share for the
1 half-year ending June 30, 1842, being after the rate
of 2i per cent. per annum. From the half-yearly
statement of account it appears the Company's re-
ceipts have been 33,5431. 10s. 6d., making with the
reserve fund of 4,2681. 13s. sd. the sum of 37,8121.
3s. 11d., and that the disbursements of the Company
have been 21,040/. 13. 9d., leaving a balance available
for dividends 13,7721. 2s. 2d., out of which the Com-
i panv will pay 1/. ss. per share, as stated above,
exclusive of the income tax. It ought to be Men-
tioned that only three months' maintenance of way
is included in the disbursements, it having been
agreed, at a previous meeting of the Company, that
the expenses of maintaining the way for one year
from the opening should be debited to the capital
account.
The following is a portion of the Report :
" The Directors have to report that since the last
meeting of the Proprietors, the Royal Assent has been
given to an Act of Parliament, authorising the entire
abandonment of that portion of the Great North of
England Railway situated between Shincliffe West
-House and Newcastle. The Company is thus relieved
from the very heavy responsibility of having to at-
tempt the execution of works of great cost and unusual
magnitude. The sanction of the Legislature-has also
been obtained to the plan, already submitted to the
Proprietors, of forming a Railway to Newcastle, by
means of a Company on whose Shares a fixed divi-
dend of six per cent. is guaranteed for ten years by
the various Railway Companies interested in the mea-
sure. The shares in the new Company have been all
taken up, and the ground staked out, and in part
purchased.
" During the last half-year, almost the whole of the
Company's engagements for materials and/ contract
work have been discharged, and the contracts closed,
with the exception of two, which are expected to be
shortly settled. The only works of any consequence
remaining, are the bridges at Darlington Bank-top
and Haughton-lane, which will be commenced im-
mediately.
" The Directors observe with satisfaction, that in
coal, merchandise, lime, and fish, and in,the local
traffic generally, there is a progressive increase ; at
the same time, they cannot avoid the expression of
their disappointment, that the general revenue is below
what, judging from the experience of all other lines,
they conceived they were warranted in anticipating.
" In drawing a comparison with the receipts of last
half-year, it will he remembered that the first half of
the year is invariably less productive than the latter
half. The number of passengers conveyed during
the last six months has been—first class, 14,833;
second class, 25,486 ; third class, 37,620 ; making in
all, 77,939."

WOOLWICH-WEDNESDAY.
INCOME-TAX.

MEMORANDUM.

The folldiving letter from Messrs. Cox and Co.,
with one to them from the Hon. Board, relative to
the stoppages to be made from the Officers of the
Ordnance Corps, on account of the Property-tax, is
circulated for the information and guidance of all
Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General.
Deputy Adjutant-General's 'Office,
Woolwich, Aug. 28.
" Craig's-court, Aug., 1842.
" SIR,--Having received a letter from the Board
of Ordnance, relative to the stoppages to be made from
the Officers of the Royal Ordnance Corps, on account
of the Property-tax from the 6th of April last, we beg
to forwsrd herewith a copy of the same, and shall
feel obliged by your causing it to be promulgated in
the Horse Brigade and several Battalion offices, for
the information and guidance of the parties concerned.
" The Officers who take up their pay from us,
specially on the Ist of the month at Woolwich, will
have the gcodness, conformably to the enclosed letter,
to deduct from the receipts they may present on
Thursday next, the amount of the tax for six months
on their pay and such allowances as are liable to the
charge. We have, &c. " COX -and CO.
" Major-Gen. Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8."
" Office of Ordnance, Aug. 24, 1842.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed to communicate to
you the following orders, which the Board, at the
suggestion of the Ordnance Commissioners of the
Property and Income-tax, have been pleased to give,
with a view to facilitate the assessment and collection
of the tax in this department, viz.
" The Beard desire that you will stop the sum of
7d. in the pound on account of the Property-tax
from all sums paid by the Ordnance through your
agency, to the officers of the Royal Artillery, Royal
Engineers, and Royal Sappers and Miners, except the
following allowances, viz.—mess allowance, forage
allowance, travelling allowances, marching money,
allowance to captains of companies, for repairs of
arms, &c.

" That you will carry the sums so stopped by you
to a separate account to be called the Property-tax
Account,' the said sums to be paid over in such man-
ner as the Commissioners may hereafter direct,
" That the said deduction of 7d. in the pound be
made from every issue on account of the military pay,
allowances (except those before-mentioned), and emo-
luments of each officer, whether the aggregate annual
amount of his annual income be less than 150/. or
not; and should any officer claim to be exempted
from the tax on his military pay, gre., 'On the ground
that the aggregate annual amount of his income is
less than 1501., and is wholly derived from such pay,
&c., such officer is to transmit to the Ordnance-office
a notice and declaration, if he be in Great Britain
or an affidavit if he be in Ireland, or abroad, accord-
ing to one of the accompanying forms, as the case
may be, for the decision of the Commissioners of
Property-tax, and if the claim to such-exemption shall
be admitted, the amount of tax stopped and deducted
will be repaid to the officer.
" But if an officer's whole income being less than
1501. a 37ear, be derived partly from his military pay,
&c., and partly from any other source, his claim for
exemption, if he be in Great Britain, must be made
to the Commissioners of the Civil District, in which
he is stationed or residing, upon a form which may be
o')1 ained from the assessor of the parish, and the cer-
tificate of exemption of such Commissioners is to be
transmitted to the office of Stamps and Taxes, Somer-
set House, London, in order that the assessment on
the officer's military pay, may be discharged.
" If the officer so claiming exemption be in Ireland
or abroad, he is to transmit on affidavit of the fact of
his income from every source being under 150/. per
year, to the Ordnance-office, as betore directed in the
caae of his income being wholly derived from his pay
and military allowances.

"I am inconelusion, to signify the Board's further
desire that you will stop the arrears due from the 6th
of April last inclusive, from the next issue of pay, to
the said officers of the Ordnance Military Corps,
Medical awl Field Train department, as well as the
amount of the tax on that issue.

" G. BUTTER, for the Secretary.
" Messrs. Cax and Co."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 31.—The Calcutta, 84, Capt.
Rich, at Plymouth, has had her orders to pay off
countermanded, and is now preparing :to proceed to
Quebec, to bring home a regiment from Canada.
The Lords of the Admiralty have returned to
London from their official visit to this port. The
levees of the First Lord, the Earl of Haddington,
we-re numerously attended, and mr:ilied by much
urbanity and kindness.
The Numa transport, Lieut. Ward, agent, has gone
to 01,4tham to land her invalids from the West Indies.
She brought home Major-General Elrington and
Captain M‘Mall3r from the 47th Regiment, which was
left healthy, although much mortality had previously
prey ailed,

- Letters from the Southampton, 50, flag-ship of Sir
Edward King, from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope,
of Ist June, report all well, and daily expecting the
arrival of the new Admiral in the Winchester frigate,
when she would proceed to England, to be paid of at
Chatham, The Isis, 50, was shortly looked for, from
the South American station. The Andromache, 26,
was at the Mauritius. _ _

The corvette 6r;;ies, 18, is commissioned at this
port, by Commander the Hon. S. Carnegie, reported
to proceed to the Brazils. She is to have a crew of
140 men.

The new sloop Frolic, 16, is to be commissioned
shortly. Captain William llendry is the projector of
her. She is a fine commodious vessel, infinitely supe-
rior to the old 28-gun ships; is of 510 tons, and is to
have a crew of 150 men.
The Sappho, 18, Commander Parry, is to be dis-
mautied ant paid off at Plymouth, whither she has
149iNeded. The next vessels from the West Indies
will be the Pilot, 18, Racer, 16, and steamer Gleaner.
The islands were left more healthy than for many
mouths, The Admiral, Sir Charles Adam, was at
Halifax.

"The new steamer Thunderbolt, on her arrival from
Glasgow, will be commissioned, according to report,
for the Mediterranean.
The brig Fantome, 16, has left the west coast of
Africa, with despatches for the senior officer at Rio
de Janeiro.
The Formidable, 84, was at Gibraltar, and the
Thunderer, 84, at Cadiz, on the 20th July. Crews
healthy. The former was to make a short cruise
along the Morocco coast.
The Crocodile, 26, Mr. Elson, master, commanding,
is hourly expected to arrive with troops from Quebec,
and the steamer Phoenix, from the Mediterranean.
At Spithead—No vessel of war.