Star.
London, England, 1831-01-06 00:00:00

HOUSE AND WINDOW TAX.

The following petition to Parliament against these most
oppressive and partial imposts is now in course of signature
among the tradesmen and middle classes of St. James's
parish. We hope their example will be followed by every
populous parish throughout the kingdom :
" TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT AS.
SEMBLED.
1" INN PETITION OP TIM 1/NOIRSIONED INNIINITANT BOUM.

HOLDERS OF THE PARISH OF ST. JANES, WESTMINSTER.
" Showeth,—That the House and Window Tax la in the highest
degree oppressive and unjust in its effects upon the middling classes of
the people, especially those engaged in trade and manufactures.
" That their property has of late years undergone very great deterlora-
don ; and that, in the present dist:owed state of the country, the re.
turns and profits of trade are so reduced as not to remunerate for the
capital and labour employed ; that this state of suffering is still further
aggravated by the enormous amount levied for House and Window Tax.
"That under these circumstances, while pressing necessity compels
the most rigid economy, this impost operates with increased severity
and partiality upon traders, forming an alarming and overwhelming
expense, front which it is impossible to escape; while persons of rode.
pendent property can and do, in Immense numbers, either through choice
or necessity, reside on the Continent, and evade it altogether, thus eon.
verting it into a direct and most oppressive tax upon the industrious
classes.
" That it is unnecessary to trouble your honourable house with the
details of the incessant and harassing vexations connected with this tax,
as the tax luelfis so obnoxious in principle and oppressive in effect upon
the most numerous class of tax-payers in the kingdom, as to render it
an intolerable grievance; and, when your honourable house but calls to
mind that the difficulties of the country, now in the sixteenth year of
peace, are so great, that even delay In administering to its imperative
necessities is attended with danger, we entertain a full confidence that
the immediate repeal of this tax will suggest itself to the wisdom of
your honourable house as one of the most effective and politic mea-
sures that can be adopted, conducive to the permanent interests and con-
ciliatory to the feelings of the people.
" We therefore pray
.your honourable house to take these matters into
your serious coadderation, and that you will repeal that portion of the
Assessed Taxes levied upon houses and windows.
And your petitioners shall ever pray."
EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATER.

There are in the United States of North America forty-three Mae-
Colleges or Universities. Though the returns are incomplete
Ittrosttea some of them, the lobos ing table will show many important sta.
tistical facts:—
The number of Instructors in NI Colleges, is

217

The number of Graduates, in 30 in 1828, waros2
The number of Under-Graduatesin 33 in 1828 t 2,809
and 18111 • - - - - -
Number at Nimes in SI College Libraries - 128.118
Number of admen le 1111 !WNW Llisarire - - 481,730
Yale College, in Ceseastires, sari Boma Wendy is 'lamas.
setts. have the greatest ssimberat Imam simi papa, ion Mire Is
the former sixuen 'Nehmen" 11116 mann b the latteriliNen web.
era and 264 mama Tile he Cap Limy k there, Havado
which eastalea 20M0 slam The seat in tilt d Be. Mary's CA+
lege, &Maar" villa has 11,000 volumes. Saida these, there ens
four colleen vMd he,. libraries to the amount of 11,000 volumes. Oat
et the list of =Mr" testy-three, a return is made of the name and
title of the Paniktest or Provers of funy, from which It appears that
the Prolamin er Provosts of thirty-six colleges are clergymen. There
we else 011neen theological seminaries in the United States, belonging
to thedilleeittleasesbutiona of Christians. Out of these eleven due
their origin shun 1820, and seventeen since the year 1800. The whole
number of students in fifteen of them, in 1829, was 599, being an aver-
age et forty pupils for each seminary.

THIL PRUSSIAN UN iv ERSITIRS AND SCHOOLS.--The
sum amigned by the Pruden Government for the maintenance of
their six Universities in the year 1829 were as follow :
Balla, independently of 8.11401. paid for the t £13,1"
support of Belentille Institutious -- §
Bonn

Dredau 10610
Halle
Konigsberg
Orietswaldo

Total - - - 1:33,110
Theme sums go to provide for the current expenses of each Institution,
sad include certain &Gammas to indigent students. u well as the official
salaries to the nehmen, whose remooeration, however, is principally
derived from the fees paid for attendance upon their pralectie'ns. The
'debt* acheilei, se "grammar schools," are also establishments sub-
Jett to the control of the Government, and supported essentially at the
"pease 011ie Sate. Their number in 1829 was, for Eastern Pruett',
8; Western Prussia. I; Brandenbers, 18; Pornerar 1'46; Silesia, 11 ;
Paean, 3; Prussian Bazoay,22 , Westphalia, 19; Julien, Cleves, and
`Berg, 12; and the Nether Rhine 132.