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hat of actual war, and he could not look upon the occur-
ences in China and India as such a warfare us came within

Lord EmoT contended that the measures of the govern-
ment had met with the acquiescence of the agricultural classes,
whose representatives in that house had been taunted with
having deceived them, though he admitted that great appre-
hensions prevailed respecting the tariff, which, however, he
believed were much exaggerated.

Mr. HAWES said that the agricultural representatives were
told that they had nothing to apprehend from the importa-
tion of cattle—that it would not materially affect the price of
meat ; and yet, notwithstanding this, they were told by the
right hon. baronet that any loss the middle classes might sus-
tain from the income tax- would be more than compensated
by the cheapness by which his tariff would enable them to
buy provisions. Could anything be more inconsistent than
this ? How could they buy meat cheap, unless cattle were
imported so as to affect the markets? He condemned the
inequalities of the income tax, and thought it a dangerous one
to be imposed, because it was calculated to render a minister
extravagant when he found such an inexhaustible source at
his command. He believed the result of the income tax
would be to excite popular indignation against schedule D,
and to finally lead to striking it from the bill, leaving the tax
to apply to property only ; and should this be the result it
would be a just punishment to the landed proprietors for the
party politics they had adopted and pursued.
Sir J. GRAHAM replied to the arguments of Mr. C.
Buller on the previous evening, and, adverting to the strug-
gle which had been made by many hon. members, and more
particularly Mr. Fox Maule, to postpone the consideration
of the income tax until after Easter, asked whether that
postponement had led to the excitement against the measure
upon which they calculated? or, on the contrary, whether
those honourable members were not now convinced that the
people were satisfied with the measures of her Majesty's go-
vernment? The right honourable baronet then proceeded to
deny that all the measures claimed by Mr. C. Buller for
Lord Melbourne's government could be attributed fairly to
that government. Catholic Emancipation belonged to the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel; and the measures
of Reform and Municipal Reform belonged to the govern-
ment of Earl Grey. The only. measures which the Mel-
bourne Administration could fairly claim as their own, and
which they had willed the consequences of to their succes-
sors, were—the war in China, the war in Affghanistan, and
the affair of the Caroline in America. The government had
to contend with the difficulties these legacies imposed ; and
were united in the opinion that the measures they now pro-
posed were those which were indispensably necessary for
the exigencies of the state. They submitted these measures,
relying upon the wisdom of parliament, and upon the patriotic
virtue of the people of England.
Mr. F. BARING imputed to Sir James Graham a want of
the temper becoming a statesman when he adverted to the
difficulties which he said the late government had left as a
legacy to the present administration. The right hon. gentle-
man then proceeded to contend that if the present govern-
ment should exceed in its experiment of the income tax, the
ultimate result would be that a system of agitation would
arise which would cause it to be abandoned in favour of a tax
on property. He contrasted his own budget with that of Sir
R.. Peel, and contended that if the produce of the income tax
were to be added to what the late government proposed, the
amount of revenue would be greater than it would be from
the measures before the'house.

Mr. FERRAND said that the measures brought forward by
Sir R. Peel were so great that the opposition side of the
house was staggered by their magnitude, believing their occu-
pation to be wholly gone. There was a universal shout
throughout the whole of Yorkshire and Lancashire of God
bless Sir R. Peel," owing to the fact that owing to his pro-
positions oatmeal was reduced 10s. a load and butcher's
meat 2d. a lb.

Lord WORSLEY could not support the resolutions of Lord'
J. Russell, for the same reasons as actuated him last year,
when he opposed his noble friend's proposition of a fixed duty
on corn ; but although he could not support the resolutions
moved as an amendment, neither could he support the pro-
position for an income tax, which he believed to be uncalled
for and unnecessary.
After a few words from Colonel SIBTRORPE the house di-
vided, and the resolutions of Lord J. Russell were defeated
by a majority of 368 to 202.
The report was then brought up and read ; after which
Sir R. PEEL said that he proposed to bring in the bill
founded on the resolutions of the committee on Monday
next, and to fix the second reading for the Friday following.
As soon as he had an assn, once that the income tax would be
agreed to, he would take the earliest opportunity of bringing
forward the alterations in the tariff.

Mr. LABOUCHERE thought it was more important to pro-
ceed with the tariff than with the income tax.

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Sir R. PEEL said he should proceed as.••••.
rapidly as possible
with the income tax, and when that was disposed of, or
nearly so, he would proceed as fast as possible with the tariff.
He wished it also to be understood that if he should be
defeated on the tariff, he should feel it his duty to resign his
situation as much as if he were defeated on the income tax.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the house adjourned.

?gm*tin ?axon 3Coll44Powt-ThA Ain•lthir,
Advertiser etaile a Purloin occurrence which took place et
Maryborough last week, A man named Cameron had
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e improper aseartions, calculated, in the opinion of I
air villagers, to affect the characters of several of them,
and which roused them to such a pitch of exasperation as to
mace them discard the more tardy operation of the law, anti
resolved upon inflicting at once summary and severe punish•
went on the culprit. For this purpose, the whole women
and children of the village rose en masse on Monday week,
and proceeded to the house of the happless wight, who,
much to his terror, had got some hint of their intentions,
just as the infuriated crowd approached the door. To fly
from the house was impossible ; and while the object of pub-
lic vengeance stood paralysed and trembling at the magnitude
of the danger, his wife snatched him up by the " cuff of the
neck," and in an instant had him locked up in her clothes
chest, at the same time sitting on the lid herself for ad-
ditional safety. The crowd having burst into the house,
every chink and corner was searched, until at last his place
of concealment was discovered, from which, in the face of
the prayers and entreaties of his poor wife, he was dragged
forth, hoisted on a deal, and paraded through the village
shoulder high, by the women and childern—the former
taunting and jeering him, and the latter filling up the pauses
with vollies of clods and other soft missiles. The next morn-
ing Cameron went to Dingwall and laid an information
against the principal ladies concerned. In the evening he
returned home, having procured a body of sheriff's officers.
His tormentors, however, being acquainted with his visit to
Dingwall and its object, a party of them collected about his
door on his return, and, before his guard could interfere, he
was pounced upon by half-a-dozen Amazons, lifted on the
sharpened edge of a plank or " wooden mare," which had
been previously provided, and again carried shoulder high
through the village, in the midst of the noise, the yelling,
and clodding of about three hundred women and children.
The punishment at this time must have been severe, for,
stopping in their course at the door of every slandered fair
one, this object of popular anger was tossed and jerked on
the sharp angle of the instrument of torture in a manner
sufficient to cause acute suffering. The ceremony was to
have ended by ducking him in a mill-pond ; but, after having
made the tour of the village, he appeared so exhausted, that
the idea was relinquished, and he was ultimately deposited
at his own door. The matter is said to be under judicial
investigation.

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