The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
THIS EVENING, (Tuesday,) the sth April i an
LAFONTA/NE will give A CONYERS lOIs
tIIS•MIEDICAL INSTITUTION, Mount-pleasan ad sub
the Public a series of Experiments.
Tickets to be bad at the Medical Institution, 2s. Gd.
To commence at Eight o'clock precisely.

kNIMAL MAGNETISM CONTRASTED/WITH
N EURO H YPNOLOGY'

MR. BRAID, Surgeon, will deliver anoth LECTURE
IYI. on the above subject, at the MUSIC- Li Bold-street,
TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 6th instant, at
Eight o'Clock in the evening. Front Se s, 2s. 6d.; Back
Seats, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, is.
The Lectnre will comprise Mr. Braid's recent investiga-
tions, and will be illustrated by experiments, showing the
relative value and importance of the different modes of ope-
rating for the induction of the phenomena, and their applica-
bility to the cure of what have hitherto proved to be intracta-
ble and incurable diseases.
Three brothers, and others, born deaf and dumb, will be
exhibited, all of whom have been restored to permanent
hearing in a few minutes, and several to the use of speech by
this agency. Mr. -B. will show the transposition (
sense, and the supposed magneti
without contact, with the true
andhithertoincomprehensible L

drawing patien

n of these wonderful

Mr. B. will also explain the mode of mesmerising animals;
and that it was by this agency Van Amburgh gained his won-
derful ascendancy over the wild animals he exhibited. The
young lady who exhibited a degree of clairvoyance at Mr.

Braid's form

er lectures will appear on this occasion

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/TO THE PUBLIC.
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occasion to remit small sums in Cash, ari
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course will be to cut such Notes, &c. in half, sending each
half, if possible, by two different Posts. In the case of Bank
Notes or Bank Post Bills being sent, the Numbers, Dates,
and Amounts should be carefully taken.
With the great convenience thus afforded for transmitting
small Sums at so low a charge, and the power now given of
Registering Letters containing value, it is hoped the Public
will no longer forward Letters of value, except in one or
other of these methods.

By command,
W. L. MABERLY, Secxetar

UNITED STATES,

The packet-ship Sheffield, Captain Allen, arrived at this

port on Friday morning, from New York, aler a passage of
only 17 days. She has brought papers from that city to the
IGth ult.
On the 18th ult., the House of Representatives received
from the President a special message. It related to the
financial embarrassments of, the country.. It set forth the
condition of the treasury ; the impossibility of meeting the
demands on it ; the pressing wants of the navy, army, &c.;
and suggested the necessity, as the exchequer bill would not
pass, and as the government would have no means of anti-
cipating the revenue or postponing debts, of speedy, provision
being made by law for the extension and increase of the loan,

or for authority to issue treasury notes to the extent of .the

emergency. The secretary of the treasury, in his statement
of the means of the treasury on the Ist of March, acchmpa-
nying the message, estimates the total expenditure far the
current three months at 9,574,040 dols., and the deficiency
of estimated means at 3,254,686 dols. 47 cts. After a brief
conversation the consideration of the subject was postponed.
With respect to Hogan, whose arrest had induced the Pre-
sident to bring his case by special message before Congress,
it now appears that he did not elude justice, so to speak, by
escaping from gaol, but that after a long argument before
Judge Ransom, he was discharged on the ground of the in-
sufficiency of the warrant. The Niagara Courier says, that
" there was sufficient evidence to have detained him for trial,
had it not been for the defect in the warrant."
The news of the arrival of the Acadia at Halifax, and the
safety of the Caledonia, had been carried to New York by
the West India steam-ship Clyde. The latter vessel, in
going out of New York on the 13th, grounded on the upper
middle, where she remained about two hours. Ih working
her off an accident happened to her air-pump, and she re-
turned to the city to repair. She was to leave New York on
the 17th.

The habeas Corpus brought by Nicholas Biddle, Cow-
perthwait, and Anderson, had been dismissed, and bills would
be at once sent up to the grand jury.
The state of trade at New York is described in the journals
as ♦ery bad. A complete stagnation prevailed; and, though
the spring was commencing, business showed none of the
signs of improvement incidental to the season. English and
French manufactures had gone at the auction sales at ruinous
prices. Money could be obtained without difficulty on good

personal security ' • but there was scarcely any demand for it,
so limited bad business transactions been for some time.
Little was doing in stocks, The exchange on England re-
mained unaltered.

The legislature of Maryland had passed a bill, requiring the
banks to resume cash payments on the Ist of May. The
banks had, meanwhile, virtually commenced paying in coin
and specie, and bank notes were at a par.
The legislature of Pennsylvania had also, at length, passed
a similar bill. Several of the banks of Philadelphia bad par-
tially resumed, but others had refused compliance with the
law.

The Hibernia Transient ship, from New York, arrived
here the same evening, bringing papers one day later, but the
contents are unimportant.

SPAIN

Advices from Madrid, to the 26th ult. announce, that no
negociations for a treaty of commerce with England are on
foot, but the Spanish Government intends presenting to Con-
gress, the project of law authorising the importation of for-
eign manufactured cotton goods, on payment of an ad valorem
duty, varying according to quality, from 20 to 25 per cent.
The Ministry then hopes to be authorised by the British Go-
vernment to hold out to the Cortes the probabilities that it
will, in fair retribution, to make such reductions from the
present import duties in England on the wines, fruits, oils,
&c. of Spain. _

It is Understood that £60,000 will be sent next May to
to England to pay off legion claims.

THE INCOME TAX

Our metropolitan contemporary, the Standard, has done
an acceptable service by reprinting Mr. Pitt's speech on the
Income Tax, on the 4th Dec., 1798. It is an unanswerable
argument against those who are so assiduous in cultivating
that small field of hostility to the governmeut plan of finance
which comprehends the tax upon terminable annuities and
the proceeds of trades and professions, and we present our
readers with the following extract :
" As to the criterion of the general tax, it has likewise
been objected to the details, that the application is unequal
in respect to the nature of income, its duration, &c. Although
Ino not intend to enter so much into the discussion of the
provisions of the bill, I am anxious to remove those errone-
ous conceptions which are entertained upon this subject.
Here I cannot help remarking, that the arguments of the
bon. gentleman on this branch, suppose that it is necessary
to correct the inequalities which distinguish the mode
in which all taxes are imposed. If such be the sentiment of
the honourable gentleman, his objection goes a great deal
further than the bill before the house. The inequalities of
which he complains arise out of the nature of society, and
the distribution of its ranks, and the classification of its
property. If he attempts to remedy what he in this con-
siders as unjust, he will attempt something which has never
yet been done by any system of taxation—something which
springs from theories of legislation neither founded in wis-
dom nor justified by experience. I proceed to explain my
meaning more fully. The honourable gentleman says, that
if two persons have each £5OO per annum, one of whom de-
rives his income from land, the other from industry, they
ought not to be both taxed equally at £5O. He assumes,
that each having £4.50 a-year left, the impost is unequal.
What does the new tax do ? Are they not left in relation to
each other precisely as they were before? The tax creates
no new inequality. The justice or injustice remain precisely.
as they were. To complain of this inequality is to complain
of the distribution of property : it is to complain of the con-
stitution of society. To attempt to remedy it would be to
follow the example of that daring rabble of legislators in
another country from whom the honourable gentleman bor-
rowed some of his political principles, and which, though lie
now reprobates, be still seems inclined to follow up. To
think of taxing these two species of incomes in a differ-
ent ratio would be to attempt what the nature of society
will not admit--what has never been practised in the
course of four thousand years. But on what foundation
does this principle, which the hon. gentleman has broached,
rest ? Where is the clear inequality on which he so vehe-
mently insists? Is the industry of the artist, the manufac-
turer, the mechanic, less the creature of the protection of
the law, less involved in the g reat contest in which we are
engaged less likely to be overthrown in_any disasters of the-7
state, than the income which arises from land ? I heard
with satisfaction the
„argument of the honourable baronet
behind me, though
perhaps, go along with him to
the extent to which he cannot, perhaps,
it ; of this, certainly, I am
that if all classes intr
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sure,country are not strictly equasl
sharers in the advantages
_constitution of
._ this
country affords, there are none who ought not to contribute
in proportion to their means for the public defence in a
quarrel, n which
the comforts and happiness of all are so
deeply involved ; unless when the compassion of the legis-
lature forbears to extend the scale of taxation to those who
entleman are in the lowest class of income. The
Principle of the Y unfounded. In im-
honourable g then is entirel
puting to him that extravagant principle which strikes at the
am sure I do
whole distribution of property in society,
s
nothing which his own arguments do not justify
' nor do I
think I am mistaken in stating those principle, for the
honourable gentleman was particular careful to repeat his
monstrous propositions over and
.over again, in. proportion
as he saw that they were disgusting ot
her he feelings of the
house. That industry ought to be encaged and pro-
moted, is a settlement which nobody will dispute. It should
be remembered, however, that this, among many others,
is a case in which virtue is its ownAn income of £5OO from
reward. What, then, i;
the true state of the argument?
land may be equal to about cl. his capital. In the funds,
3,000 i so that a man is con-
tented to take three per cent. for
according to circumstances, and in the different funds, a man
may have five or even six per cer?t. If he lays out his capital
in trade, and adds to it his own industry, he gets from 10 ``•
15 per cent. Now, if you leave the proportion undisturbe
what is it that forms the encouragement to lay out money
trade and manufactures, but the improved produce derive
from industry ? This is the incentive which inflames ente-
prise and stimulates inzenuitv. Allow that order, and

which your commerce and your arts have risen to such al
unexampled height of prosperity, to remain undisturbed
and you preserve that incentive, that encouragement, am
that reward on which industry depends. I much doubt
indeed, whether any table which the hon. gentleman could
form from all the new political lights which he ever received,
could lay the foundation more secure or more permanent for
arts, commerce, and every kind of exertion than that on
which they have grown so great, and flourished so long."

THE STANNA.RIZS.—We have great satisfaction in an-
nouncing that his Royal highness Prince Albert will be
forthwith appointed by her Majesty Lord Warden of the
Stannaries of Cornwall, vacant by the decease of the Marquis
of Hertford. From what we have heard, we have no hesita-
tion in congratulating the county on this appointment of his
royal highness, who, we believe, will apply himself vigorously
to the reformation of the business at the Duchy-office, and
direct that the appeals now pending from the Vice-Warden's
Court here, shall be immediately disposed of. This announce-
ment will, we feel assured, be received with pleasure by the
suitors and the county at large.—Falmouth Packet.

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