The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

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Mr. WASO

WALLACE, and
SPEAKER called upon the

,nd alluded to the mis-

committee of ways and means, through
affirming the income tax had passed
He then stated that
general state of the

s in t

.eeh of Sir Robert Peel's, in 1833, in
eged, the right hon. baronet bad argued
it to enforce an income tax on England
Ireland was exempted. His lordship

s no difficult

re in a state of perfect
to contend with in

ate of India did not justify the im-

ome tax. There was no need to be under
from China, for the only expense in coh-
le from the expedition. His
he general principles of which
that the bill be

, in conclusion

11 he stated his objections to an
inancial condition of the country was
t it was at the present moment ; and
le noble lord, applied to the circum-
Cith respect to what had been said, as
atlicting an income tax on England,
I to Ireland, he had to reply, that the
but for a limited time, and that in
machinery in existence for its collec-
ily stated on a former evening that,
tend it to Ireland, he levied on Ire-
the new tax on Irish spirits
according to his estimate, would
uivalent. He admitted all the
hey were driven to a choice of
y believed that it was indispensable
ne tax to meet the present emer-
n. baronet then stated that, owing to
sition between the Scotch and English
d right to reduce the charge on the for-
o one-half, or, in other words, to charge

e an eq

of 31d. in the pound.
contended that this income tax was one of
sorted to with a view to evade one of the

of that class legislation of which the people
d which this income tax was meant to bolster
gentleman repeated many former arguments
'acme tax, and said that the plan of the
e serious addition to its other evils of be-
)r which it was proposed—

to the peop
led the inequality of the pressure of the
ound that there was inequality in the
and in none more than in those which
in the term indirect taxation. The income
war tax, but he could not understand why,
of war the additional burden of an income
ded. He would rather see it tried in time

,st sever

xperience of the parties upon
rity, in order that they might

properly when it became necessary to

rt the proposition for an
ould be modified in the
eration in the rate of the
ies as compared with in-
Should this modification
Linst the third reading of

is hon. friend would gain nothing by
eading to give his vote against the
hon. baronet had already explicitly
t he would in this respect admit of
respect to the operation of the in-
uld ultimately create such a feeling

the peace of the kingdom

fended Sir R. Peel from th

arge of in-

n Rus;e3

so much as a mea-

of the time

There was,

the measure of which he could not ap-
there ought to be the same exemption
head as for the labour of the hand, and
le a difference between the per centage
professions and that levied on real pro-

speaking from the opposition side,
easures proposed by the government to be
id comprehensive, and he should, therefore,
ost decisive support. In the moneyed and
ests, to which he belonged, he had not been
len who did not approve cf the measures of
They did not go far enough, it was true, as
,tions in the tariff, but as far as they went
expand trade, and must, therefore,
public. Still, if an income tax were
exigencies of the times, it was nothing
d spoliation. He thought, however,
and so believing, whatever share of
reposition, he, as an honest man, was
of. The honourable gentleman
his side of the house they
the right hon. bart. through
intil he appeared as black as
however, had seen the right
sition for some years in a cre-

,ted to

t

tuber then contrasted the con-
i that of Sir Robert Peel, anc

e could see the germs of
inistry of the latter. T

by a mos

'nthusiasti,

Sir Robert Peel

member had
ter that the politica,

sion of Sir Kober

He denied that i

income tax, ani
Wild be converted into tb,

members supporting NI: a.
() say " Yes" to this tax, say
a tax which, he would tell
;ed amidst the heartburnings

aid p ref

hole of the pro-
_ roposed by Lord J. Russell,
ion in giving the preference to the
,?.r that the deficiency admitted to
aving in the expenditure; but if he
)position in that house it would be

ere to have a

upon them, it was their own doing; they had
complain. The only parties who had a right to
were the unrepresented classes. The hon. aLd