The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
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vention. We

rt that

the doubling of the Income-tax was agross injus-
liable to the payment,

tree 'upon those who we
and:that his vaunted tale

br finance would have

been 'much better dispiaTeu
meaus. of causing. it to fall more equally
doubt that, for the 'Pres"":" --
fie, however galling it may be felt, but another
session should not

I in devising

There is no

witted t

a11o:

Ivor without

~,d to pass
our representatives. insisting upon such.ll rteax-ara.-
rallgeMent of our financial. system, as t/13t .
tion necessary for the war Shall be leviedri . _ com-
of an
raon,fess upon all:classes.
..
'll°o4le-tax was more intelligibasle e2in6Pothe :time of
e:liable ;
MT. PirT,when incomes
ast.lowrsued those who are
but by.the:mode at present
-to escape, while the
best 'able-to-pay are permitted
additional burden im-
greatest sufferers have a
Posed on them. There axe thousands and tens of
thousands of working-men in this country earning
wages which-enable them to gratify their taste; or
self-indulgence, and thereby to add to the rev e
in Malt and Spirit Duties, but, because their wages
are paid weekly, they escape direct taxation,
although their, gross earnings considerably
hand, there
iIP
erY abl exceed
the limit of liability: On the other
are very many
.nien who, salaries varying
from £lOO to .£l5O a year, ar,have to maintain a
family, and.at.the.same time to keep_np a certain
respectability of appearance, in order -to enable
them to obtain their livelihood. Yet, while the
but those self,infficted
first ' escape every
bayirectitheyirimopw:s4;i.otincabtead eappetites, the latter hay
a tax varying from £4
themin addition to their.share
38. 4d. to £8 15b- a year, 'in'
i 1 of general consumption.
of
Tthhee duties
se
finarelaluiaa policy of Liberalism appears
't° be centered in relieving-the artisans and opera-
lives by the reduction and abolition of duties upon
articles in most genera consumption, and trans-
ikirilt the burdens of the State to those who are
"SS nngterons, and at the same time less skilled
"
11 the arts of vulgar clamour and the application
the nress.nre from without, Liberal Legislators
oar It'
liver--to be actuated by principles of justice,
a eonscionsness of right and wrong, but to suc-
ecflll2:lbiewibase truculency to the mere. expediency
kingni_niailleannt- Touch the means by Which the
Ivor
(lan indulge, and immediately a
Fowl is teard from the tap-rooms,which frightens
the
Room. Minister of
,e dienc3, and then hi ' s only re-
applyl- i lie
t._ "" " Lo -the screw where it was applied
"e fore, and the CHANCXLLOR of thethEexwCHarEQUEs
glibly talks about the expenses of the a
dbedis.ing
paid out of the income of
the
year
red his name far
eevery in finance, which has
aßbt:e that of the }leaven-born Minister... There is
t-"'"e &gilt to find with his principle,
inif it is in any
i• 4-• n the way he
way NIA ticable, but the application •
zut: endempoured to solve the difficulty is little
t7,tttr t.ban State. ,robbery, sanctioned by Legis
Le ,subserviency, and only submitted to because
li--- mitired parties are powerless to help them-
ves, and have not been educated in the Man:
etliele,r 84%1 of political agitators. When _
irkoolicTit atbtevmpted to relieve the pressure of the
4il ' an i'lerease of the House Duty and
aaneltens-°ll of the latter to rentals as low as £lO
bettyyear,ep, sCii as to make an intelligible connexion
is,aue_ot,Tvsl—
thLaxaavtioollneyanodf
arhenTeesfreonnitation, he 'was asd-
Line Peelites found
~_
in the pr all quarters, an
al a ready excused
4°l' violating all their previous professions, anin.
lir/ling Radicals. EVen the Conservative
berg Were averse to offend the £lO voters, whom eheand.
helped to return them to Parliament, and the mt
allite not only fell to the ground, but the counenryt.
It
wagetil advantages of a Conservative Government.
a practical application of Free Trade pt
_n
clPles to those who had been the loudesi
scia•ila°llring for that new discovery in political
Thre
cience, and it was consequently repudiated.
~
,_
was' however, far more of justice and equity in
bislitELl'S proposal than the short and
teasyto
nletlina'
ob, —, by which Mr. GLADSTONE has sough
~,,!8--'6 niB financial difficulty, though neither scheme
'lB4 have been necessary but for that insane
atihetenCe to the Free Trade Crotchet of preferring

kivice to which th(

its-truth,.and of the fear which it inspired, in the
fact that, a few hours before the vote was proposed,
Lord'JomsT ThrssELL held a meeting of his -sup-

porters at the Treasury, and exercised the tact for
which he: is notorious in persuading his hearers
that the appointment was tile best that could be
made,- and enforcing his claim to their support by
gentljiniinuating his intetrtion to commit political
suicide as the consequence 'of their refusal. We

must give him credit for great power of coun-
tenance-in being able to repeat such a stale device
without being met by a derisive laugh df inere-
dulity,"for many of his. heurers must have been
forcibly-reminded of. Mr. O'CoNwELL's numerous
promises to die on the floor of the House of Com-
monsin behalf of that beloved' Ireland upon whose
misery and degradation be battened. Lord JOHN
RussELL, however, knew the extent of gullibility
of Radical representatives, and the result justified
nt at least,"it must be I his calcUlations. The more prominent were per-