The Sun. — 1857-03-09 (London, England)

TABLIAMENTA.RY BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK.  There is a considerable amount of impor!ant business on the paper for the current week. This (Monday) evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer will propose to go into committee of supply, in order to get over the estimats as early as possible ; but Mr. Gladstone will oppose this course, and will open up a discussion on the whole financial condition of the country, in the follow; int., amendment-, of which he has given notice : " That in order to secure to the country that relief from taxation which it justly expects, it is necessary, in the judgment of this house, to revise and further reduce the expenditure of the State." Sir C. Napier has given notice that in committee on the navy estimates he will bring under the police of the house Sir IL Peel's recent speeches at Stafford and Tamworth. For to-morrow (Tuesday) there are no very urgent motions, but the debate on Mr. Gladstone's amendment will probably extend over that eveoirva Mt. Thomas Duncombe will call attention to the grievances of the Land Transport Corps, and Mr. H. Ingram will move for a select committee to inquire into the present method of collecting and assessing the revenue of the country, and to report any improvement they may recommend in this department of the public service. For Wednesday the orders are— the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Corporations Bill, the second reading of the imprisonment for Debt Bill, the second reading of the Grand Juries Act (1856) Amendment Bill, the second reading of Sir J. Pakington's Education Bill, and a committee on Sir Stafford Northcote's Industrial Schools Bill. On Sir John Pakington's Education Bill Mr. Henley will move as an amendment that it be read a second time upon that day six months. On Thursday Mr. E wart will ask leave to bring in a bill to abolish capita punishment in all cases except treason and murder, and to assimilate the law imposing capital punishment in Scotland to that of England, and Mr. Muntz will move the following resolutions That the collection of a property tax under the existing law is univel sally admitted to bear most unequivocally on the parti, s who pay it. That all taxes which bear unequally must be unjust and oppressive, and it is the bounden duty of the representatives of the people to remedy such inequality as much as the circumstances will admit. That to defer the application of a practical remedy under the pretence that it would not be a perfect one applicable to every individual case, is in truth only to add insult to injustice. That such admitted inequality would be greatly alleviated if a property tax was imposed upon the owners of different classes of income, capitalised according to the relative value of the subject from which the income is derived. That the abstract justice of such principles cannot be denied, and the details for carrying it into practical operation would be very simple. That among other tables of classification which may be sug;ested the following would be equitable, and would undoubtedly relieve the people from a great portion of the itiequality, injustice, and oppression inflicted upon them by the present mode—lncomes arising from land, funds, rents, mortgages, tithe', and shares, capitalised at twenty-five years' purchase ; incomes from house property capitalised at fifteen years' purchase ; incomes from commerce and trade capitalised at ten years' purchase ; incomes from professions capitalised at five years' purchase. There a're no orders on the paper for Friday at present ; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer will, no doubt, move to gcr into committee of supply. I  MAMMOTH AgERICAN