The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

crews of the foreign ships in dock were allowed to use
their own tea and coffee, and other articles, duty free.
(Hear. hear; " that's the point.") While for every
pound of tea they (English consumers) used, they paid a
duty of 2s. 241.. and for every pound of sugar 111., fo-
reign seamen in dock paid no duties at all. (Vehement
cheering.)
The most important feature in this meeting is the decla-
ration elicited from Mr. Mackenzie of his opinion upon
the subject of the Income Tax. The honourable gentle-
man said :—" My opinion is simply this. I think it is a
tax which ought not to be imposed upon the people of this
country in times of peace. (Cheers, avid cries of `'Bravo.")
It is a tax which was imposed by Sir Robert Peel, for a
temporary purpose in order to get rid of an acknowledged
deficiency. It has been my object, ever since the expira-
tion of the first term, to get rid of that tax without en-
dangering the public credit. Mr. Herries, a member of
the present government, while in opposition, moved a re-
solution to the effect that, before any other tax was abol-
ished, the income tax should be repealed. ( Hear, hear')
He (Mr. [Terries) said to the government—' If you cannot
abolish the tax this year, you admit you have a certain
surplus ; take so much of the income tax off as will leave
sufficient to meet the public credit.' If that motion had
been carried, the whole of the income tax would probably
in a short time have been got rid of ; but the Whig go-
vernment refused to accede to the proposition, preferring
to take off other taxes which, as far as my experience
goes, do no good to anybody. They took off the duty
on bricks, for instance. (Laughter.) In the present
state of the revenue, I think it would not be easy for any
government, without a surplus, to meddle with the income
tax, for if they took it off they would have to place some
other tax on ; but I know the opinion of the present go-
vernment is that the income tax ought not to be imposed
in times of peace, and, if circumstances enable them to
diminish or abolish it, they will do so." (Applause.)
After the candidates had concluded, the meeting was
addressed by Dr. James, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Edward
Hebson, and Mr. Coleborne.

On the motion of Mr. Mackenzie, seconded by Mr.
Turner, a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Briscoe,
and three cheers having been given for the Queen, three
for the Earl of Derby, three for the Conservative candi-
dates, three for Mr. Brainley-Moore, three for Dr.
M`Neile, three for the chairman, three for Mr. Gibb,
three for Mr. G. H. Horsfall, and three for Mr. Tyrer, and
threehearty groans for " Maynooth," the meeting broke up.
After the candidates had entered the carriage which was
awaiting them in the street, the enthusiastic crowd took
away the horses, and, after attaching ropes to the front,
drew it along at a rattling pace, amidst the most deafening
shouts of applause. In going down Moorfields, on the
way to the Adelphi Hotel, they passed the Royal Hotel,
where the Radicals and Romanists had been holding a
meeting. Three groans were given for " the Pope," fol-
lowed by exultant cheering, which must have rung pain-
fully in the ears of their papistical opponents. Arrived at
the Adelphi Hotel three cheers were given for the popular
candidates, and the crowd gradually dispersed.