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HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

Lord Eglintoun presented petitions from Montrose and
Ayrshire, praying for a modification or repeal of the Bank
Charter Act.
After a short discussion, the Diplomatic Relations
(Court of Rome) Bill was read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving that
the House should resolve itself into a committee of ways
and means, observed that he thought it desirable to avail
himself of that opportunity to state more fully than his
noble friend at the head of the Government had done on

bringing forward the budget what the state of the finances
were, and further to draw the attention of the House to
the course which the Government had now determined to
pursue. The right honourable baronet havims proceeded
to give a revised version of the financial affairs of the
country, intimated that it was not the intention of the
Government to persevere in the proposition—in conse-
quence of the objection it had met with not only within
but without the walls of Parliament—of imposing an
additional amount of income tax of two per cent., as an-
nounced by his noble friend, but to continue the tax at
its present rate for three years from the period at which

it ;guild otherwise have expired. It was proposed to pay
the expenses of the Kaffre war of £1,000,000, and the
excess of the last year's navy estimates of £245,000, out
of the existing balances in the Exchequer, leaving the
deficiency for the year, supposing the present income tax
to becontinued, at about a million and a half. lie did
not pledge himself or the government as to the course
it might be necessary to pursue in reference to this defi-
ciency " bee,

It might _.ome imperative to propose, ins,
in the income tar, such an amount of taxa-
,sence of an increase of the revenue to that

of an increase
Lion, in the at

extent, which could only be rather hoped for than ex-
pected. as would balance the amount of expenditure for
the year. The right hon. gentleman concluded by mov-
ing that the House resolve itself into a committee of ways
and means for the purpose of an amended resolution
being proposed, continuing the income tax at its present
rate for the period of three years.
A protracted discussion ensued, Mr. CARDWELL sug-
gesting that the committee should be postponed for the
purpose of affording time for the consideration of this
amended proposition, to which the Chancellor of the
Exchequer acceded, and the committee was fixed for
Friday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
Earl GREY, in an explanatory speech, moved the s,

motion, after some observations from Lord Stanley and
the Earls of Waldegrave and St. Germans, was agreed

HOUSE OF COMMONS

TUESDAY

Colonel DUNNE moved for the appointment of a select
committee to inquire into the working and efficiency of
the Poor Law in Ireland.
The motion was opposed by the Government, and, after
a debate, was negatived by a majority of sixty-four; the
numbers being 165 to 101.
After some discussion, on the motion of Mr. NEWDE-
GATE, a select committee was appointed to enquire into
the law and custom of different parts of the United King-

dom, as between out-going anu in-coming Lun....r.., ...0
also as between landlord and tenant in reference to un-
exhausted improvements or deterioration of land and
premises occupied for agricultural purposes.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

WEDNESDAY

Mr. P. SCROPE reiterated the charges, which he had
formerly retracted, against Mr. Walsh, a landlord in the
barony of Ennis, for having ejected between 500 and 600
tenants from his property. Something must be done to
prevent occurrences of such a description, which could
only be rivalled in such countries as Algeria.

Mr. MONSELL descanted on the utter insufficiency of
the Poor Law in the county of Mayo. and passed some
censures on the inconsistency of Mr. Scrope in bringing
such censures forward, and in then voting, as he had done
yesterday, against the appointment of a committee to in-
quire into the working of the law.
Sir G. GREY defended the conduct and vote of Mr.
8 :rope, and deprecated the renewal of last night's debate
on this occasion.

A guerilla fire was then kept up for some time against
Mr. P. Scrope by Mr. T. W. Egerton, Mr. S. O'Brien.
Mr. Stafford, and Mr. Wakley, and returned by Mr. F.
O'Connor and Sir W. Somerville.
The Poor Removal Bill was then read a second time.
The order of the day was then read for resuming the
debate on Mr. Anstey's monster motion. _ _

Previously to entering upon the manifold charge: pre-
ferred against him, Lord PALMERSTON informed the
House, in reply to a question which had been put to him
in private by Mr. Wakley, tl at he had no reason to be-
lieve that any personal violence had been offered to any
British subjects resident in Paris during the late occur-
rencies in that capital. He then apologised to the House
for detaining it with a discussion on transactions 20 years
old at a time when events of overwhelming interest were
succeeding each other with unexampled rapidity. The
topics to which Mr. Anstey bad called the attention of
the House were 40 in number, had been the subject of
139 discussions in Parliament, and were contained in a
correspondence filling 2,775 folio volumes of official
papQr._ It would not be consistent wtLt. bia dilly to lay
before the House the secret papers for which Mr. Anstey
moved ; but if the House should think it right to appoint
a secret committee to look into all those transactions, lie
should have no objection whatever to such a committee.
He then proceeded to deny the truth of all the charges
Mr. Anstey had preferred against him, warning the house
that if there was any want of arrangement in his defence,

it was the necessary consequence of the want of arrange-
ment in Mr. Anstey's attack. The noble lord then vindi-
cated himself from the covert insinuations, the direct
taunts, and the grossly calumnious accusations of Mr.
Anstey and Mr. Urquhart, in a masterly seech of great
eloquence and power, which occupied five hours and a half
in delivery. His lordship was accompanied throughout
by the sympathies of the House. At the close of his
spr 'ch,

Lord D. STUART moved the adjournment of the debate
- • -

but before any decision could be come to,
The SPEAKER informed the House that it was 6 o'clock,
and vacated the chair : and thus this " monster motion"
seems likely to terminate without any result, for the
debate was not even adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS

THURSDAY

Petitions were presented against any alteration in the
navigation laws • in favor of an alteration of the area of
taxation under the poor-law in Ireland ; against the cir-

perty tax ; and for

)rotection to the West

India COlo

The New Zealand Bill passed through committee
The consolidated fund bill was read a second time

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

-THURSDAY

Petitions were presented in favour of the abolition of
the Income Tax, in favour of the Heslea of Towns Bill,

against any increase in the army or navy, anc
admission of Jews into Parliament.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice that. on the 17
he should ask leave to bring in a bill to amend t
relating to friendly societies.
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Government to make any alteration in the law relati
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having moved
the order of the day for going into committee of ways and
means, on the income tax resolutions,
Mr. HORSHAM moved, that if the income tax be con-
tinued, it is expedient to amend the act, and not to impose
the same charge on incomes arising from professional and
precarious sources, as on those derived from real property.
The hon. member concluded a powerful speech illustra-
tive of the hardship and, injustice of the present tax, by
announcing his plan to be to retain the same number of
schedules as in the present act, but to cast them differ-
ently. Incomes arising from professions he would take
from schedule D and place in schedule E, which referred
to incomes also of a precarious and terminable nature,
viz., emoluments arising from public offices, leaving
" D" entirely for incomes arising from trade, com-

merce, and manufactures. And the scale of tax he would
then propose would be as follows :—On incomes included
in schedules A and C he proposed an addition of one penny
to the present rate of tax, making eightpence in the
pound. On incomes which would he included in schedule
E, viz., professions and emoluments from public offices,
he proposed that the tax should 'be fourpence in the
pound ; and upon incomes included in schedule D, viz.,
trade, commerce, &c., he proposed the intermediate rate
of sixpence in the pound, leaving B as at present. By
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ght increase on schedule-A, they would relieve
11 the other classes, and raise a revenue more than equal

to that derived from the tax, and without those vexatious
objections to which the impost, as now levied, was liable.
This arrangement gave a total, according to his calcula-
tion, of £5,581,000, instead of £5,600,000, which had
been the produce of the tax for the last year ; but minis-
ters calculated in their budget for the ensuing year that
the tax would produce only £5,200,000. His proposition
would at all events fall more equally on the several classes
of income than the present, and he believed the scale he

proposed was so far Just, that it made a difference between
those incomes which were permanent, and which repre-

sented accumulated capital—those which represented
capital and labour, and those which represented labour and
skill only. It had also this recommendation, that it
would relieve those who were most oppressed by the tax,
as now imposed, while the only additional burden which
would be thrown upon any class was the extra penny in
the pound on permanent incomes—a burden which he
believed would be cheaply purchased by the large amount
of relief it would give to other classes, the satisfaction
with which the change would be received by the country
generally, and the ease with which the tax would be col-
lected. The hon. member was loudly cheered during,
and at the close of, his speech. A protracted discussion
ensued, the proposition being, of course, opposed by the
government ; at the termination of which the house
, divided, when Mr. Horsman's motion was negatived by

a majority of 316 to 141. The house then went into
committee/reform/1, to sit again on Monday, Mr. HUME
intimating his intention of proposing that the duration of
the tax be limited to one year.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ITALY

The news from Italy is important. Martial law having
been proclaimed in Lombardy, by order of the Austrian

government. It appears that the worst effects have been
caused by this. A deplorable reign of terror has been in-
augurated. The ordinary course of the law has been
suspended, the people are not only prohibited from meet-
ing together in certain places, but they are forbidden to
and or hiss

hey are nol

in public, and are not allowed to collect money for the
poor, or receive subscriptions. The consternation through
the whole of Lombardy is universal. Cannon are to be
seen levelled in the streets of the principal towns, which
seem as it were deserted. It is also forbidden to ring the
bells of the churches. It was on the 22nd instant that
martial law was declared in Milan. Bergamo and Venice
had both been the scenes of disturbances. It was said
that the secretary of the Austrian Legation at Pesaro had
been assassinated. At Palermo the provisional govern-
ment had called a Sicilian parliament to prepare a project
of constitution, the one offered by Naples having been
definitively refused.

Accpunis from Messina state that fighting re-com-
menced on the 22nd ult., and that nothing could exceed
the daring of the people. They were well provided with
all the necessary material of war. Their guns were heavy,
well directed, and well manned ; and although the Nea-
politans fired well, the overwhelming force of the people
rendered their exertions useless. Many of the former
were killed ; of the latter the loss was not so great. At
eight o'clock Fort Reale fell by assault. At ten the Ar-
senal was taken, and an hour after Terra Nova. All the

outworks of the other forts, except thct of San Salvadore.
were taken. Notice was given by the people to the com-
manders of the different ships of war, that at half-past 3
p.m. on that day the people would make their attack on
the citadel ; but the result is unknown, as half an hour
before the attack the Neapolitan steamer left the harbour.
To judge, however, from former successes, the opinion
that the people would remain victors against the

wa
troops

Naples was quiet. Lord Minto was to leave imme-
diately for Palermo, to negotiate matters with the com-
mittee of that city.

INDIA AND EGYPT,

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have advices
from Bombay to the Ist of February. The intelligence
is of no great moment, and there has been a sort of
interregnum in political affairs ore,,,ionea by the entrance
into office of the new, and the retirement of the late
Governor-General.

Lord Hardinge left Calcutta on the 18th of January.
Subscriptions for a statue to be erected at Calcutta in his
honour had reached the so of 2,0001. within a few days
from their commencement, at a time of unexampled pres-
sure in money matters.

AMERICA.—By the packet-ship Cambridge, Captain
Peabody, we have advices from New York to the
16th ultimo. —The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Capt.
Shannon, was seen going into New York en the evening
of the 16th.—The town of Orizaba had been taken pos-
session of.

SPAlN.—Madrid mails of the 26th have arrived, antlbring
a report of a formidable and unexpected Carlist move-
ment at Ignalada, the largest town of the Catalan princi-

t was successfully enter-
-300 Matines, and at the
same times by two other parties of insurgents.
AUSTRlA.—intelligence received from Vienna, states
that owing to the menetary and political crisis which is
now pending in Austria, the imperial family have, from
their private property, placed the sum of one hundred
million florins at the disposal of the minister of finance.
The house of Este alone advanced thirty millions of this
sum. Disturbances have taken place in Styria, and addi-
tional troops have been ordered there.
The Sydney papers received on W.edn
of October, give little intelligence of

ity, governed by 161
on the night of the

sday to the 30th
minent interest.

An expeetatiOn seemed to beentertain.ed that Sir Charles
Fitzroy might be induced to resign, on account of the in-

(tin wa

knOwn at the date of these id-vices. The ratest shipping
reports speak' of several vessels being laid on with produce
for London. From the interior the news is tolerably sa-

tisfactory

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TERMINATION OF THE KAFFIR WAR
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