Glasgow Courier. — 1848-02-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INCOME-TAX state a universal cessation of busisess daring the three preceding On Thursday, a special meeting of the Edinburgh Merchant days, in consequence of the rejoicings for the new constitution. Company was held In their hall, Hunter's Square, to consider the The last quotation of the Five per Cents, was Heti, being an tin- financial statement of the Government, embodying the conprovement of f since the last advices. From Palermo the dates tinuance and increase of the Income-tax. The meeting was are to the 13th, up to which time order had bees effectually pre- pretty numerously attended; John Stark, Esq., the master of served by the vigilance of the Provisional Government. The the company, occupied the chair. Mr. James APLaren moved a number of armed men in the city caused some anxiety, but the series of resolutions, to the effect-Mu the company viewed with Areets were patrolled day and night by the National Guard, the deepest regret the financial statement of her al ijesty'e The French Ambassador having arrived at Naples, it was hoped Government, inasmuch as when there was a deficiency in the that the affairs of Sicily would speedily be arraaged by him and revenue of last year, they proposed not to meet this with a Lord Minto. tary and naval reduced bet an increased expenditure, in augmenting the millereas?.sweas. by adding intolerable, as it was proposed to be anCambridge, of the country; that this c:emopii n d 1.3,y d.ding two. per cent. to that obnoxious inpost, the We have very much pleasure in finding that our,srecospencleted, incurate, the Rev. William Stow, 8.A., St. Peter Income-tax , and that, If it were necessary to increase the exoddlotnuereraothfeliebycoretrey.,,aesnshioand beenoth eprporpoobseated, atnhadtitehgisaesyhdouutldy oCaramcbertidugeen, Duke obr Anrgaypnpo._inste4derbDoornemes JtoicuraChale:pplaoirngetto is The British end North American Royal Mail Steam-ships.— These splendid vessels, under the skilful guidance of the to heritable property. in support of these resolutions, Mr. British and North American Steam-ship Company, continue M'Laren, Mr. J. E. Macfarlane, and Mr. J. B. Todd, severally to perform their Atlantic voyages with admirable pane- addressed the meeting at great length. The resolutions were tuality. During the past year, the several steam-ships unanimously carried, and It was resolved that a petition founded made twenty voyages to and from this tort and Hall_ on them should be sent for presentation to Mr. Cowan, M.P. It fax and, Boston, the distance steamed eing upwards was also agreed that a requisition should be sent to the Lord of 120,000 miles, without experiencing the slightest Provost t 3 call a public meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh mishap. The total number of passengers conveyed by them on an early day, to express their sentiments on the subject. during the same period between the three ports, amounted to 4Wl—viz. 1804 from Liverpool to Boston, 249 from Liverpool to Halifax and 247 from Halifax to Boston; on the return tripe, Pal were from Boston to Liverpool, 253 from Boston to Halifax, and 270 from Halifax to Liverpool. The average of each plumage for the year, from Liverpool to Boston, was fifteen days, and from Boston to Liverpool a little over thirteen days., including the detention at Halifax both ways. This is certainly most expeditions work, especially when it is considered that, during many of the passages, the steamers had to contend with violent weather.— Liverpool Mercury. ' The Conside Iron Works, Shoddy Bridge.—This gigantic undertaking—now the largest in England of its kind—is proceeding with inernamed vigour; a new rolling-mill having been lately attached, by which the company are enabled to turn out no less a quantity than 1?000 tons of manufactured iron per week. This is wholly independent of the largo finishing establishment of the same company at Bishopwearmouth. The population brought together to work the conceen at Conside is upwards of 20,000, and the weekly wages paid them now amount to about £4,200.—/Arliene Chronicle. A Miser—Au old miser named John Rich, well-known in various parishes in South Devon as a purchaser of old raga, Sec., and who resided in Dorchester, died on Monday. Fle was found dead on his bed of rags, and a jury returned a verdict of apoplexy. Under his head was found an old pair of breeches, with forty sovereigns sewed in different parts of them. There was also discovered a book, stating. that there was placed, about the year 1920, the sum of .£6O lathe Exeter Savings Bank, and writings for £2OO in the late Totnee Bank, and £63 in the Western District Bank, &c. It is stated that he was worth several hundred pounds, which have not yet been discovered. Suicide on a Railway.—On the 19th inst., Mr. R. Oakly, florist and market-gardner, of Southampton, went to the Nine Elms terminus of the South-Western Railway, and having placed a paper parcel on the buffer of a waggon, deliberately laid himself down on the rail, a short distance from the coke ovens. A Richmond train coming up passed over him, mutilating his body in a most dreadful manner. Mr. Oakly was 25 years of age, and, we are informed by a Southampton correspondent, was much respeoted in that town. An unsuccessful law suit was, it is said, the cause of  his suicide,