The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

Sanie day, aged 40, MARY, wife of Mr. ELIJAH COOPER,
licensed victualler, Old Swan.

On the 24th instant, Mr. ROBERT CARTI
years a faithful servant to Mr. Drury, of Castle-street

R, for eighteen

Same day, at Seacombe, Cheshire,-Christina, eldest surviving
daughter of the late JAMES HERVEY, Esq., of Manchester.
Same day, at Moffat, the Rev. GEORGE GRAY, D.D., Pro-
fessor of Oriental Languages in the University of Glaszow_

On the 25th ultimo, aged 37, Lord CANIILUPE, eldest son
of the Earl and Countess Delmam The deceased lord repre-
sented Ilelston and Lewesfor several years in parliament.
On the 2611) ultimo. in Cookson-street, aged 22, Mrs. BART-
LETT, late of Teignmouth.

Same day, aged-435, Mr. JOHN LIGHTFOOT, estate azent,
North John-street, formerly of Middlewich, esteemed and
regretted by all wl.o knew him.
Same day, at her residence, Mount Pleasant,
wife of Mr. THOS. ROUGHSEDGE, wholesale stationer,
Cable-street. MARY, the

On the 27th ultimo, FANNY, wife of Mr. THOS. FLEMING.
of Sandon-street.

Same day, aged 5 months, JOHN, ihfant son of Mr. JOHN
WILLCOCK, of Upper Pitt•stre:t.
Fame day, at Broadwood•honse, Maghull, the residence of
her son, aged 83. Mrs. MARTHA DOBSON.
Fame day, at her residence, Kingsdown, Bristol, Mrs. ANNE

of this town

•elict of the late

Same day, aged 55 years, FRANCES
JAMES FAIRBROTHER, pilot, of this pc
Same day, at Northwich, aged 44 years,
of Mr. EDWARD ACKERS, late of the Par
On the 28th ultimo, THOMAS BATTINS
of Mr. CHAS. SMITH. letter-press printer, Chr
On the 30th ultimo. SARAH JANE, infant d
G. QUINE, of Trafalgar street.

RI: ANN, wife

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TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1850.

IT is now an established fact that the Income
Tax, imposed upon us originally for a limited
period, to cover a Whig deficiency, has become a
permanent burthen. We have rendered it so by
deliberately lopping off other sources of revenue,
which would by this time have enabled us to dis-
pense with so galling an infliction. The question
then ought to be seriously considered in what way
can its pressure and mode of collection be so modi-
fied as to render it an equitable tax, which it cer-
tainly is not, as at present levied. It is not just
that income, which dies with its possessor, should
be made to pay the same rate as real property,
which can be heired or bequeathed ; or that profits
in trade should be taxed one year, which may be
swept away the next by corresponding losses. The
monster grievance however, is the mode in which
the farmer is taxed, entirely irrespective of any in-
come or profit whatever. It can scarcely be asserted
that agricultural pursuits are at present remunera-
tive, or that the cultivator of the soil, under free
trade, has any income at all, arising out of his avo.
cation. If he is not paying rent out of his capital,
be is .giving his industry for nothing; and it i 2
grossly unfair that his contribution to the wants of
the state should be measured by the amount of his
burthens and not of his earnings.

It is time, we repeat, that this subject should be
grappled with ; but, in the mean while, a portion of
the community who contribute largely to the
amount raised by this tax have a remedy within
their own reach. The last financial statement
showed no decrease in the proceeds of the revenue
raised under this head. The anticipated revenue
for this year is not decreased. Yet can it be denied
that the trading classes of Great Britain have,
during the past two years, been doing a most
unsatisfactory business? It would be within the
mark to assume that the average income of these
classes has diminished by one half ; yet from false
pride, a delicacy about confessing deteriorated
circumstances, or some other motives, the tax col-
lector is allowed to dip his hands into their pockets,
to the same extent as in more prosperous times,
and the Government to boast of increased remune-
ration, reaped by the industry of the country.
It is painful, no doubt, to tradesmen to submit
their affairs to such an ordeal as is required in
order to show to the proper official parties the real
result of their business. We believe, however,
that the extent of the difficulty, as to this matter,
is exaggerated. Whatever it may he, it is obvi.
ously a duty which every tradesman owes to him-
self and his family—we may add to his creditors—
to take care that he does not submit to be taxed
for profits which he has never earned. There is
this fact, too, which ought to encourage such par-
ties to• make appeals wherever they feel that they
are over-rated, viz., that they will find themselves
in rather a numerous company. For one man who
is making as much by his business now as five
years ago, ninety-nine are not making half as
much ; and the result of a general appeal against
the assumptions of the commissioners would only
establish the fact, which most people are compelled
to admit, that, from whatever cause it may he, the
commerce and industry of the country are not in a
healthy condition.

THE recent conduct of Government, with respect
to Sunday postal regulations, has been a blunder
from the first, followed up by the infliction of
studied insult to the feelings of a large and respect-
able majority of the nation. In obedience, no
doubt, to the promptings of a small section of
very liberal, and we trust disinterested persons,tlbe,
authorities of the post-office, with the sanction or
course of the ministry, commenced some mcdifica-
tions of the system at present existing in St.
Martin's le Grand, by which increased facilities
were to be afforded for the delivery of letters on
the Sunday. The attendance of a few clerks and
sorters only for a few hours during that day, would
we were told, be all that would be required ; a very
small portion of the wedge was all that was sought
to be introduced ; but the public knew the men.
It saw in prospect further encroachments upon the
day of rest, which would not end until at length
vans both red and black, with general carriers and
twopenny carriers, would be met rumbling along
the streets of the metropolis, and the tide of com-
merce and correspondence become as rapid and as
absorbing on the Sabbath as on the remaning six
days of the week. The public, we repeat, knew
the men ; it took the alarm, and raised at once
from every quarter of Great Britain a protest so
energetic and so influential, that the authors of
the change shrunk back abashed, and finally re-
duced their measure to so pigmy a shape that a
majority of the House of Commons put their feet
upon it,-and not only crushed it, but gave effect to
the dethand which its proposition had created
throughout the length and breadth of the land, by
prohibiting Sunday deliveries altogether in the pro-
vinces, as well as the metropolis.
One would naturally have imagined that a
Government seeking to carry out honestly the
wish of the people—and if they believed that the
House of Commons' decision was not in accordance
with such wish, why did they not make at least an
attempt to reverse it ?—would have studied to make
such arrangements as would have rendered its car-
rying out productive of as little general inconveni-
ence as possible. An extra delivery in a few of our
large towns, the acceleration of a mail, or an addi-
tional mail on one day of a week, with proper no-
tice to the public to mature their arrangements for
the change, would have been all that was required.
Instead of this, Government seem to have acted
throughout in a spirit dictated by the wish to raise
a clamour, arising out of the inconvenience created,
against any cessation of Sunday labour. No suffi-
cient notice was given to the public; no satisfac-
tory arrangements made to meet any temporary
inconvenience which might he felt; and the result
has been—what was doubtless intended by Govern-
ment—to create amongst parties who have hitherto
been lukewarm upon the subject great dissatisfac-
tion and outcry against the measure. The liberal
and utilitarian press has plied the public ear with
letters representing in every possible shape imagin-
ary grievances. Mothers in the provinces were to
be debarred receiving letters on the Sunday calling
them to the sick beds or the death-beds of sons in
'London. Additional Sunday desecration was to be
caused by the transmission of parcels or special
messengers on such emergencies. All the while,
however, it has been omitted to be noticed that the
same difficulty has existed, and has not been com-
plained of, owing to non-delivery in, and transmis-
sion of letters from, the metropolis upon the Sab-
bath. The " Great Wen"—the centre through
which the postal communication from the northern
to the southern counties of Great Britain passes—
has enjoyed Sabbatical rest for years; but the pro-
vinces are to have no conscience,—no enjoyment of
a day set apart for rest from the cares and thoughts
of the world.

We were prepared for such a hubbub as that
which has been kicked up with respect to this
matter, to emanate from the ultra-radical portion of
the community,—in other towns, however, except
our own. For some time past,—to their credit be
it said—there has been a growing disinclination
on the part 'of the liberal merchants and trades.
men of this town, of all sects, to receive their let-
ters on a Sunday, as any post-office clerk in at-
tendance at the delivery boxes will avouch. The
letters, in nine cases out of ten, we believe, have
rarely been called for on the sabbath. But we
were neither prepared to find the factious cry
against the measure swelled by such an organ as
our contemporary the would-be organ of the
Church of England of Liverpool, nor defended
uPort grounds so preposterous as those taken up
in his last publication. It is grievous, in the eyes
of our contemporary, that the London Sunday
papers—the Dispatch, Era, Bell's Life, &c., &c.—
should not be delivered on that day, to form the
amusement of our population before, after, or,
we presume, during church hours. To prevent
the delivery of such journals, we are told, is " de-
strneffod ,o;+property." Charging stamp duties
mi. suck pin's, if we do not deliver them on Sun-
by fraudulent days, " leasaad as raising money