The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

firiptrial Vatiittirirtit.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR brought up the report of the
ririinittee on the Marriage Bill, H hich report recouirnended

LEA the further progress of the bill should be postponer:
ail after the circuits were over.

The Earl of ABERDEEN, in reply to a question from the
arquis of Clanricarde, entered into an explanation of the
currences which led to the misunderstanding between the
government and the French ambassador. The latter,
n, claimed to deliver his credentials to the Queen,
rithout the presence of her court, while the regent, on the
then hand, claimed to receive them himself, and not in the
reset-ice of the Queen ; which claim appeared to be justified
y one article in the constitution, which conferred upon
he regent all the royal authority. The British government
uggested, as a compromise, that the credentials should be

delivered to the Queen in the presence of the regent, and
that he alone should answer. This was declined by the
Spanish government, and he believed very honestly declined,
and the• French ambassador retired from 141adrid. It was a
mere matter of etiquette, but he feared at the time, and
those fears had since been confirmed, that the circumstance
would have a very prejudicial effect upon the negotiations
for the renewal of diplomatic relations between Spain and
the great northern powers, though he hoped this prejudicial
effect would he of but temporary duration.
Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would move a series
of resolutions this evening relative to the financial scheme
proposed by Sir IL Peel on Friday night. The effect of his
resolution would be,
That a direct tax on income should never be resorted to
unless under very extraordinary circumstances. _ .

That such a tax should on no account form part of the
ordinary sources of the revenue, because from its inquisito-
rial nature it would lead to much vexation, and would give
facilities to the government of raising its amount at any
time, and thus increasing the revenue instead of seeking for
revenue in retrenchment. _

That care should be taken that the pressure of such a tax
should be distributed sr+ as to make it easily borne by all
classes, and that the highest persons should be permitted to
bear their full share in proportion to their properties as well
as the poorest.

That a distinction should be made between income arising
'rom capital and income arising from_labour.

That a distinction should be made between income en-
joyed for life only, and income where the party had also an
interest in the capital.
. .

That no distinction should be made between incomes aris-
ing from salaries in the civil service and pensions.
That it was not consistent with sound policy or justice to
exempt the smallest income from the charge, except on the
supposition that the party possessing it was wholly unable to
pay anything ; and lastly,
That while it was the duty of the people to pay the tax, if
imposed by parliament, it was erpially the duty of parliament
to afford relief to the people by the practice of the strictest
economy, and to remove the tax altogether as soon as the
ordinary revenue of the country had recovered from its tem-

porary depression.
Earl FITZWILLIAM declared that he was never surprised
at anything more than at this attempt to revive, not the pro-
perty, but the odious income tax. He approved of the pro-
posed tax on property, and only found fault with that por-
tion of the plan because it did not go far enough.
The LORD CHANCELLOR laid upon the table a bill fur the
amendment of the laWs relating to bankrupts.—Adjourned.