The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

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ill ; he has succeeded. Will he in the long run ?
With regard to Counsellor PRINS'S motion—Bosh !

lest move on the subject will be the abolition, not
tion of nunneries ; and we shall live, it may be, to see

(elect the late Earl SPENCER, then Lord ALTHORP,
e of the Exchequer, when he was bullied by the
.vening, on the apparently outre character
a items of his scheme of taxation—tiles, I
e,—excusing himself, good easy man, by saying it
was not so bad as the tax proposed by one of his prede-
•sors on shepherds' dogs. Both taxes were bad enough,
they did not bring so much obloquy on their pro-
niers as Mr. GLADSTONE'S recent proposal, most
'tons in character, to tax licenses. " Dealer :in
ee and T,"—how many times has this modest
'e met the eye on the small board over the chandler's
et these poor petty dealers were to be taxed up to
/es, by having leave to pay a tax for a license to sell
weed in leaf or in its pulverised state. But the
essure on such " small deer" were as nothing compared
that on the publicans throughout the kingdom they
Nould have to pay a tax upon a tax for the sale of tobacco,
music, and I know not what besides. Now
-rise must know—he has been told of
ere is no class of persons in the United
severely taxed as the keepers of houses
.c entertainment ; knowing this, he ought to
been cautious before he " tried it on." How-
ever. he has tried it ; and, from one end of the
country to the other, the outcry against the scheme has
been loud and unanimous. He said it would not do, end
on Monday he was fain to get out of it after a rather
sneaking fashion. It appeared that on an examination of
the scale of licences, as originally proposed, it was found
that it would he attended by very great inconvenience,
and in particular cases by what might be called oppres-
sion ; and he, therefore, made it his business to consider
how the scale could be revised, and in what shape it could
he put, so as to remove those objections; but he discovered
the effect would be to materially reduce the proceeds
arising from the scale. The Government had not at pre-
sent come to any absolute conclusion on the subject ;
but he thought he might venture to say, provided no
other inroad was made in the finances which were avail_
able for the public service, that it might be in their
power to dispense altogether with making at the present
time any proposal with regard to increasing the duties on
licences. Qualified and roundabout as the Chancellor's
statement is,—and it certainly was to the above effect—
JOHN BULL—I mean JOHN BULL'S purveyors—will be
right glad of immunity from the impost. The peri-
phrasticmanner of the 'Chancellor was, perhaps, adopted,
to render the relinquishment of the tax as little palpable
as possible, seeing he was compelled to abandon it.
Chacun a son gout. One likes to be disgusted some-
times, especially when it is paid for on compulsion ; for
this purpose I hied me to the House of Lords, on Tues-
day, to see how " Mon cher" ABERDEEN propounded his
income-tax bill. I had heard Sir ROBERT PEEL introduce
the measure, some years ago, and in one breath admit
that it was essentially a war-tax, and that the country
had enjoyed more than thirty years of peace ; but that he
believed his amended tariff would much more benefit the
public than his income-tax would damage them ; besides,
it was only for three years. Little JOHN RUSSELL,
though in the opposition, licked his lips, looking for
another chance of getting in ; he did not much object to
the scheme, knowing it would be a good thing for him
and his hungry Whig retainers. And he judged rightly ;
it came to his turn to propose a continuance of the ob-
noxious tax, and he did it with all the sang froid of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, and with much more hardihood. Then Mr.
GLADSTONE, encouraged by the submissiveness of the
English character, came forward and boldly proposed
seven years ; but then the tax is to be comminuted—
broken up into small particles, year after year. It passes
the House of Commons, and on Tuesday evening afore-
said, the Premier, Lord ABERDEEN, tried his hand at a
little bit of financiering, which he had not done for a
long while past. Before "Mon cher" made a mess in
his figures, which nobody understood, nor cared to under-
stand, he said, in the outset, that the tax was inquisi-
torial, encouraged fraud, caused loss to the revenue and
injury to morals. Morals! The morality of this great
country, Thane, is imperishable, like your own Aberdeen
granite ; therefore don't alarm yourself on that head.
Do you ? No. Then why throw this dust—cant—in
the eyes of an honest, tax-afflicted, and virtuous people ?
Then' again, you old " sneek-drawer," a phrase you have
heard at the village school, more than fifty years ago,
why say the public would not believe it if Ministers pro-
posed the tax for three years only. Of course not—after
what we—the public, have seen ; what you ought to have
said, or something like it, was this, " Stuff and nonsense,
why shilly-shally, we want your money, and will take it
for seven years ; you would only laugh at us, disbelieve
us, were we to name a shorter period." The Earl of
DERBY, of course, is not going to oppose the bill ; but he
appeared to be as much in the dark about the Earl of
ABERDEEN'S figures as your correspondent. Lord DERBY
observed that he could not help thinking some of the
calculations of the noble Earl were so vague as to render
it quite impossible to reckon on them. Lord BROUGHAM
came in at the close with a bit of fun, saying that the
income-tax was worse than any other tax—even a tax
upon law proceedings. Thereupon there was much
laughter, and the bill was read a second time, verifying
the old saying, " Let them laugh wile win."
Amidst all the gaiety of Queen -VICTORIA'S court at
present, and at no time, perhaps, in our country's history
was the English Court more truly gay—merry, and wise—
let it be added, than, at the present period, either in
ewing-room, concert, state dinner, or ball ; amidst all
;ety of the opera, and in that quarter surely there is
'icient, for the time at least, to banish care ; amidst
scenes and others not now to be described—
',am with its tented field,—there is one being the
rice of whom is well calculated to humble every
essing a well-constituted mind. I refer to
UEORGE, the blind KING OF HANOVER; just entered on
,arty manhood, in possession of a crown, firmly placed on
iq throne—part and parcel, is it not, of England—with a
een, of whose peerless beauty he has only hearsay
e
.ece ; the father of children whom he daily fondles,
et never saw ! I remember him when he and Prince
GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, now the Duke,
boys—too playful sometimes for some of the old lords.
For example, one evening when Lord LYNDH ' URST like
HOMER, was nodding, the two toys
got hold of the rich
antique gold and velvet purse in
s'.llbceithe Great Seal
deposited. On
',gland is deposited, or supposed to
'esion referred to, the Seal must havae been
hard
`he `he boys evidently felt something, nd tried
it out. Lord LYNDHURST was nr
.dg what they were about—" Catch a twee.-
-laughing heartily at the lads, the noble and learned for
explained the use of the Seal, and gave them to under-
`and that it was not for them to play with: Physiolo-
e3 say that the blind have faculties more acute than
'9 blest with sight, which compensate, so to speak,
want of one of our ereatest blessings. lam afrait.'

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Se KING OF HANOVER appears by no means au
gh at the opera, on either side of him, are, if not
arfaces, still familiar voices, and he is taken much
At Chobham he mixed in the gay throng of dis-
personages who formed the immediate suite of
5N (she mounted on a charger), but the KING
R'S horse, apparently a quiet animal, was led
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Would the readers of the Standard like to know any-
z about Count NESSELRODE ? To be sure. Done.
nt is one of two living diplomatists, TALLEY-
ving gone. NESSELRODE is the Prime Minister
peror of Russia; in personnel the Count is as
pin-wire, gentlemanly looking, without being
uandsome, about the age of our own PALMERSTON', and,
like PALMY, ►s a don at table. Several puddings and
jellies hue been named after NRSSELRODE. He is a great