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HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH AND SUSSEX CHRONICLE JUNE 16, 1849 INCOME AND PROPETY TAX. Protected by Royal Letters patent T)R. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS fJ taste of Medicine, and arethacnlvremedvi; have no to be taken by Ladies. They fortifv The Kmme'e periods cf life, and in all nervous a'flfe tons mlm at 3 msVi heaviness, fatigue on slighi kn of the heart, lowness of spirits, weakness, and PWatio al'Petite, and remove mdieestfin yPll1 wind, head aches, giddiness, "Stion, heatt-butt. in bill who seemed to infer that the smallness of toe ma-jority would ensure its rejection in the other House of ThTbiUwas then read a third time and passed.

The other orders having been disposed ot, the house "TUESDAY, June 12 Sir Hubert Inglis called the attention of the house to the conduct ot the United States in preparing an expedition to the Arctic Seas to discover and relieve the missing shipsand crews under the command of Sir John Franklin. He pronounced a warm panegyric upon the conduct of the American Government, and upon that of Russia, which had taken the same geuerous course. Lord Palmerston and Mr. Disraeli concurred in this lion should be pertniitted to participate in the iadefn-nityso proposed. The speakers following in succession were Mr.

B. Cochrane, Mr. Roebuck, and Bruce. aftet wtljch some excitement took place on. tie question of adjournment, the opposition (0 forceJadivi.

sion, -Lord John Kusseil eompsairijn that the house was taken by surprise Mr.Herries's motion of which no notice hud been riven, which allegation, as to the surprise, was defied by Mr. Disraeli. Ultimately a division was upon the question that the debate be adjourned totnetrow, which was carried by 172 against 10, 3 Lord Jahn Russell was understood to say that the budget would, far that purpose, be deferred until to-morrow Teek. On the motion of Lord J. Russell, a srWi commit Minister at tt French Naval Com- the Neapolitan Commode to tl bv snancter at Palermo, Wtn a at (hat adjacent coast had been raised.

BANKRUPTS. rom the Times.) I The returns relative to the Income and Property Tax jnst printed by order of the House of CommotiS, disclose a curious slate of facts. Coupling these returns with our actual knowledge of the condition of proles, sienal men and tradesmen throughout the kingdom, we here have vidence of a very gross sys em of concealment, and what, in the present condition of the law, musl needs be styled fraud. The figures in this return of Mr. Moffait'a bear mainly on schedules and Of the first three schedules which concern land in property, land in occupation, and profits arising from dividends it would be needless tospeak.

The annual value of ihese is accurately enough known from the assissments and Bank books. There is, therefore, little need of flying to Income tax returns for an approximation. In the report for 1841 of the Census Commissioners there is, an elaborate table of the occupations of the population of Great Britain. By these it will be found that at ihe time of the taking of the census the following were the numbers of the persons engaged in the three learned professions: Clerical, legal, 17,340 medical, 20,585. In other pursuits requiring education there were of persons under 21 rears of age, 94,360 and above that age, 13,324.

The numbers of ihe swarming commercial class we must leave to the imaginations of our readeis. NOV, uncer the fourth schedule, or head of persous assessable to ihe income or Property tax, it is provided that, Upon the annual profits or gains arising or accruing (0 any person residing in Great Britain from any kind of property whatever, whether situate in reat Britain or elsewhere, there shali be charged yearly for every 20 shillings of the said profits or gains the sum of sevenpenee and upon the annual profits or gains arising or accruing to any person residing in Great Britain from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation, whether, there shall be charged yearly for every twenty shillings of the amount of such profits or gains the sum of sevenpenee." The figures we are about lo print from the return are so startling that we quote the very words of the act. Such are the requlsuions of the act and by this return of Mr, Moffait's we are enable to form a judgement either of the pitiable condition to which the professions and trades of this great country are reduced, or ofthe fraud practised in the returns to the Income tax. It may be useful to some future Macaulay to know that in the middle of the 19th century professions, trades, and employments" in the island of Great Britain, upon a population of 20,000,000, were thus far profitable, and no further. There were earned by all our clergymen, lawyers, physicians, bankers, merchants, manufacturers, surgeons, architects, civil engineers, incomes on "the following scale, according to the return fer the year ended April IMS Psrsons, 22 376 768 400 703 1,483 5,234 874 1,713 2,124 3,043 5 532 7,324 15,043 20,909 38,825 34,270 50,000.

a-j ear, and upwards 10,000. and under 50,000. 5,000. 10,000. 4,000.

5,000. 3,0002. 4,000. 2,000. 3,000.

1,000. 2,000, BOO. 1,000, 900. 7011. 800.

600. 700. 00. 600. 400.

500. 300. 4011. 200. 30OZ.

150. 2002. Under 150. AT On Saturday a very numerously attended meeting of the landoivueis, farmers, and other inhabitants of Glou. cestershire, was held at the shire Hall in this town, to take into consideration the distressed state of the agri-cultural interest, and to determine what steps should be taken thereon.

The Shire Hall, which is calculated to hold about 3,000 persons, was densely crowded, and on the platform we observed Earl Ducie, the Marquis of Worcester, m.p. Sir Win. Codrington, ji.p.; Sir H. Crawley Bowery, Grauiley Berkeley, Esq. ji.p.

Humphrey Brown, Esq. m.p.; the Rev. J.Edwards, the Rev. E. Lyons, Capt.

Somerset, D. Bowley, Esq, S. Bowley, Esq, C. 3. h.

Baker. Esq, E. W. Josephs, Esq, W. Hartland, Esq, W.

Ailen, Esq, C. Buller, Esq, On the motion of Mr. Graniley Berkeley, the High Sherift'ofthe county, Griffiths Price, Esq, was called to the chair, who briefly opened the business. He said that a heavy amount of disiress weighed down the agricultural as well as the manufacturing interests nobody could doubt, though there might be a'difference of opinion as to the mode of alleviating that distress. Air.

Peter Matthews, a tenant farmer, came forward amidst loud cheers, to propose the first resolution. All the farmers warned was equal-handed justice. They were not going to parliament pining and whining, but to demand their rights. They wanted to give a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. In 1842 the poor-rate in his neigtibourhoocl was for the half year ending in March, 4,370.

and the price of corn, 47 s. per quarter; at the last half-year the poor-rate was 5,390. and the price of corn was 30s per qr. The provisions were now upwards of 40 per cent, cheaper, and the poor-rates 30 percent, higher, That was the effect of free-trade. Now he found tiiat manufacturers had some protection 10 per cent, an cotton, 10 per cent, on silks, 15 per cent, on velvets, If they were to have free trade in corn they ought to have free trade in everything, with great rruuewuns in rent ana taxation, or tney could not goon.

Parliament retused to listen to them, and it they con-tinuet! in their present course iliey must wait on the Queen 100,000 strong, and, telling her that the ministers were ruining the best strength ofthe country, call upon her to dismiss them, and call to her councils men who would pursue a system of government which would give the people employment, The speaker concluded by moving a resolution, to the effect that extreme distress prevailed among all classes connected with agriculture in this country. Mr. David Bowley seconded the motion. The resolution was then put, and declared to have been carried, amidst huzzaing and clapping of hands. Mr.

J. Kearshaw moved the second resolution "That the distress could onlybeattributed to the effects ofrecent legislation, which left the occupier of land to bear a larger share of local and general taxation ihan other classes, though it left him open to competition from the foreigner." -Mr. O- F. Onslow seconded the resolution, Earl Ducie then came forward amidst loud cheering and uproar. He was about to move an amendment to the resolution before them, because it attributed the distress to the repeal of the corn laws (no, no).

He was talking to M. Guizot the other day about the anarchy and revolution existing on the continent, ami that great man had said, that iftliey had notremoved that monster grievance, the corn laws, this cuuntry would have been 111 as bad a state as any other. Now if the corn laws had not b3en repealed, and ihey had been farced to feed the population on their own ddmp and unwholesome wheat of last year, they would have been subjected to the cholera uproar, and cries of nonsense, the choiera is not here.) Ke concluded by moving his amendment, this meeting regrets the depression under which the agricultural interest is labour, ing; hue believing that it will revive with the general improvement of trade and commerce, has only to express its gratitude to God for the continued peace and security this country has enjoyed and the present prospects of an abundant harvest, so essential to ihe general prosperity of ihe country." Mr. Samuel Bowley seconded the amendment. Mr.

Grantley Berkeley, m.p, as a colonial proprietor said that their interest had been leading a forlorn hope against free trade tor some lime. He did not complain of free trade, bui he contended that, before it was ever introduced the ministers ought to have made a general and great reduction of taxation both the colonies and England ought to have been put in preparation for the ciiar.ge. He called upun the meeting to adopt such resolutions as would restore to old England that upright, honest, and merry name she had hitherto delighted in. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the distress felt by the agricultural interests was chiefly attributable to the non-introduction of a system of revised taxation, which would have secured a fair trial to the principle of free trade, and rendered it a benefit to the people." Mr.

H. Brown, M.P, seconded the amendment of Mr. Grantley Berkeley. Sir William Codrington then presented himself. Nobctly regretted more than he did ihe necessity for that meeting, and he Highly approved of the original resolution then before them, The Marquis of Worcester supported the original resolution, and contended that the opinion of Guizot, with regard to the govern, ment of this country was not worth much, seeing that he couid not govern his own country.

Earl Ducie having withdrawn his amendment in favour 01 that of Air. Grantley Berkeley, the question was put, when the amendment wits negatived by a small minority a result which was received with loud cheers and counter cheers. Resolutions having been p.issei, pledging the meeting to use every effort in endeavouring to obtain an alteration in the present system, petitions were adopted to bath houses of parliament, in accordance with tne resolutions and being voted to the chairman, the meeting separated, GIVE, GIVE, From Punch.) Poor John Bui! is saoly used by those naughty little boys in Dov. ning-street, who will tease the old gentle man bv dropping schemes of Retrenchment, and then jerking them out of sight when he stoops to pick them up. As tor lolloping aimisiers ttirongn tne mysterious recesses of the Estimates, you might as well hunt a rat through ihe labyrinth of the London sewers.

How is the poor Financial Reformer to find his way through these most miscellaneous papers, the items of which aiejambied together like the stock of an old curiosity shoo, or the contents of Lord Brougham's memory Silver trumpets and Knights' collars, the King of tbe Belgians' -'little account," and the Frescoes of the House of Lords, University grants, and red calico, brass wire, rum, and pigtail for the Chiefs at Portendic, (where is Portendic ventilation experiments, and travelling expenses ofthe Mosquito King, lunatic asylums and the new Houses of Parliament, schools and diplomatic establishments, commissions commissions commissions commissions, expenses of this department and ihat office. It is very well to say Cobden is backward in coming forward with his infallible gauging stick and his wonderful pruning like, but how is the poor man to know where or what he is cutting, in such a melee of expenses justifiable, and expenses unjustifiable, of salaries that should be larger, and salaries that should be smaller, and salaries that shouldn't be at all, of votes for education and votes for jobs, of great services that are poorly paid, and no set vices handsomely rewarded, of offices with 100 macu work for the hands, and offices with two many hands for the work There are the silver trumpets and kettle-drums, that are blown and beaten out in three years, and paid for afresh every year. Couldn't we manage to make these people blow their own trumpets, and content themselves with their own brass, instead of other people's silver, for a material Then there are those stationary" expenses that are never stationary, but go on regularly increasing. Then there's that brave Beige Leopold, who won't pay bis own travelling expenses, and who will keep coming here, and sending in his hotel bills to us, who don't invite him and don't want him, though we respect him very mucn when he's at home. And the Mosquito King.

We shall next have the Queen Bee coming down on the country for the expenses of swarming. We have always uuders'ood mosquitos were raiher a nuisance, and, really, we cannot see why the King of such a race of stinging insects should be kept at our charges. Why doesn't he take example by the industrious fleas, and support himself and pay his own way And who is the President of Liberia a colony of'free negroes whose Chief seems more fiee than welcome that we should give him a free passage in a ship of war, at an expense of 180. The Sultan of Johanna might surely live on the profits of his own Johaiinisbersr, which sells remarkably high. As to the Navy Estimates, they are past a joke.

There doesn't seem to be a dockyard authority that oughtn't to be put on the stocks of his own yard for the reckless way lie goes to work, swallowing up the public money, We should like to see the dockyard bills put into piaia debtor and creditor English, thus Dk, Joh Bull, lo rigate Maelstrom, ou guns. lS4M-4y. April 1. To original cost of building ana fit-tiua1 frigate Apri! 20. To "finding round stern didn't suit, and squaring ditto May 20.

To finding square stern ugly and altering back to round June 1. To putting a new head to original hull June 10. To putting new hull on to old neaa July 20, To putiiog in new masts, finding original ditto 100 weak July 29. To finding new masts too heavy, ana niittiiifi1 down ditto 50,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 20,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 2,000 10,000 0,000 4,000 2,000 50,000 Aug. Aug.

Aug. 4, To altering tanks to get new trim 10. To finding frigate too much by head, and bringing her down by stem 20. To finding ditto too much by stern, and brioeina- her up by head Sept. 10.

To putting screw into ditto Sept. 15. To finding screw didn't work, and taking out ditto Sept. 30, To repairs of frigate Oct. 12.

To patent sheathing for ditto Oct, 15. To finding patent sheathing didn't do, and re-coppering ditto Nov. 20. To considering what to do next with ditto Dec. 31.

To losing ditto on coast of Africa Total 158,000 We cannot but think that if some such simple plan of exhibiting the national expenditure were adopted, we should find John Bull more awake to its excesses, and less easy in his submission to overcharges than he is at present. GREAT COUNTY MEETING GLOUCESTER. Hysterical Diseases, "a proper found to effect a i of Iff Ful) Directions are eiven with evonw ssqte. 1 hese Wafers do not contain anv minor.i be taken either dissolved in water, or whole mmera1' ana W4J Beware of hiiTArro.Vs. The very great celebrity which Dr.

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netl- Mi L-oonen men, alter prescuinifi tions, brought forward his motion, in the form ot an address to Her Majesty, that foreign Powers be myiled to concur in treaties oinoing tne pui-i matters in dispute between idem, which cannot be arranged by amicable negotiation, to arbitration. He be'an by expressing his regret that there should be so much misapprehension even in that house upon the subject of his motion, and he referred to the "sneer-thrown out by Mr. Disiaeli upon it, in the matterjust brought before the house, relative to the conduct of America and Russia towards our missing navigators, and he accepted their acts as a proof that we lived in altered times. With reference to this motion, he represented two distinct classes a body of Christians who upon principle repudiated the doctrine of war auy case and a large proportion of the middle and working classes, who entertained an abhorrence of war, and desired a guarantee against future hostilities. He did not ask the house to pledge itself against war tor defensive objects but he assumed that it would not sanction so sreat a calamity unless it was imperatively demanded in vindicating our honour and our just interests.

His plan wastoadoptforcommunitieBihemode of adjustment resorted to by individuals, by employing arbitrators, not necessarily crowned heads, wlo had, however, arbitrated successfully, but commissioners; and Mr. Cobden adduced instances in which, during the last fifty years, commissioners had been employed to adjust disputes between nations, and in no instance had such arbitration led to war. There was, therefore, nothing visional, nothing even novel, in his plan nor could ihere be auy difficulty in the details of a mode of procedure which was habitual in private life. He then anticipated objections to his plan. If the treaties were not abided by.

it would be said, war must follow but that was an objection to all treaties, and we should In such a case have this advantage that the recusant party would engage in war with the brand of infamy before the world. Then it might be said the interests of Engiaiid could not be iutrusted to individuals but this assumed that such disputes involved great imperial interests whereas wars generally originated in trifles. Then he might be told that this country was now carrying out a peaceable policy, and that the plan was unnecessary hut Mr. Cobden appealed to the increase in our naval and military expenditure and the accumulation of stores, as incongruous with the notion that a pacific policy was expected to continue. AgaiD, he might be told that his plan would not suit all cases but ia any case arbitration was more rational than a course which, as Bemliam said, was "mischief on the largest scale." He admitted that the awards of arbitrators could not be enforced, for he disclaimed all participation in the opinions of those who proposed a great paramouut tribunal.

The worst that could be said of his plan was that it would fail in averting war but in that event our situation would be no worse, and there was a chance of its being amended. Mr. Ewart seconded the motion. B. Cochrane and Mr.

Urquhart opposed the mo-ti-jii; LordR.Grosveiior,Mr,Mackiunon, Col. Thompson, and Mr. Hobhouse supported it. Lord Palmerston assered Mr. Cobden that in opposing the motion he did not treat him, or those whose organ he was, with anythiug but the greatest possible respect.

He agreed ith him in attaching the greatest value to peace, and in entertaining tne utmost norror of war; and he was glad that Mr. Cobden had made his proposition, because he would convince the world of our sincere and honest desire to maintain peace. But whilst it was desirabie to show that in England there was a fervent lone of peace, there should not exist an impression that the manly spirit of Englishmen was dead, and lhat England was 'net as ready as ever to repel injury and aggression, for nothing would be more dangerous than that an opinion should go abroad that so rooted was our aversion to war lhat we would submit to anytbing to avoid it. This was an answer to the complaint of Mr. Cobdea against the provident precautious made against a possible war.

He opposed the motion because he considered the plan to be founded upon an erroneous principle, and that it would be impracticable. It was based upon an analogy between private life and the transactions of nations but among individuals there was some legal tribunal to enforce the award, which gave effect to arbitration and this essential ingredient Mr. Cobden admitted was wanting in his plan for he had abandoned, or not proposed, what had been believed to be a part of his scheme, viz a great tribunal, and he proposed that the arbitrators should consist, nut of States or Sovereigns, bat commissioners in private life. But, if Governments were asked to bind themselves to refer their disputes to a third party, the party must be named at the time, or hen the "dispute happened the former course would not be asreed to. and the latter would be difficult.

In the Maine boundary question it was most difficult to agree in ihe choice of an arbitrator, and, when chosen, America refused to submit to his award. The plan would be not only impracticable as respected foreign nan'ons, but it would be dau serous for England to submit her rights to the final judgment of a foreign Power and his objection was not removed by the proposal to substitute for a Government, which acted in the face of the world, some irresponsible private persons. The principle of the plan was new, for Mr. Cobden had cited no cases of successful arbitration; the cases he liad adduced were cases of mediation or inapplicable to Iris argument. It was most desirable that where two nations differed they should come to an understanding to allow a frieudiy tli'ird party to step in and briug them to a compromise and the present practice opened a door to this kind of mediation, which was becoming frequent.

He should be sorry to meet the motion in such a way as to appear to negative the principle 011 which it was founded he would, therefore, meet it by moving the previous question, which, though not strictly applicable, was the most courteous mode of resisting the motion. Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr.

Hume, spoke inlavotirot ihe motion and Mr. lUtines, jonn Russell, and Capt. Harris, against it, Mr. Cobden having replied, tiie house divided, when the previous question was carried by a majority of 176 against 79. Sir J.

Hobhouse had leave to bring in a Mutiny bill for India. The Sele.ci Commit tee on Receivers, Courts of Chancery and Exchequer (Ireland), was nominated. The Highways (Annual Returns) Bill, was read a third time, and passed. The other business was disposed of, and the house adjourned. WEDNESDAY, Juxe 13.

Mr. Hume moved the second reacting of the County Rates and Expenditure Bill, the object of whicii was'to place county expendi-tui upon a better footing, and to subject it to a control somewlat similar to that under which borough expenditure was now placed. Sir Pahinylon objected, and moved as an amendment, that the whole subject of county expenditure be referred to a select committee. A desultory discussion ensued, which occupied the greater portion of the sitting, after which the house divided, nud the numbers were, the question being that the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question Ayes 9H "Noes 154 5S It having1 thus been decided that the amendment, and not the original motion, should constitute the main question, the amendment became then the question before the house. Mi: Milner Gibson moved an amendment to if, to the effect that the inquiry of the proposed seiect com.

mittee should embrace some mode whereby th: control of the rate-payers over county expenditure might be made more effectual. After some discussion, the gallery was cleared for a division, but nine took place adjournment of the debate was moved, in order that the amendment, as proposed to be amended by Mr. M. Gibson, should be printed. The House divided, and the numbers were For adjourning the debate, S3 Against 131 Maj Thy against 48 Coi'? Break then moved thai the house do now adjourn.

The discussion on this motion was progressing, when six o'clock having arrived, the house adjourned, THURSDAY, Ju.ve 14.1 The Lords amendments to the Navigation Bill were considered, and agreed to altera short discussion. On the order of the day for the consideration of the report of tiie Committee of Supply on Colonial Services, Mr. Gladstone proceeded in a speech of great length to call the attention of the houfe to the affairs of Canada more particularly in relation to the Rebellion Losses Bill, expressing his earnest hope that parties would act in concert on this question, as nothing would be more fatal to the interests of the empire than that disunion should prevail at so important a crisis. The right honourable gentleman's appeal was addressed to Lord John Russeil with a view to eliciting his opinions, but he did not conclude with any motion. Lord John Husseil condemned the speech of the riibt hon.

gentleman p.s calculated to increase and foster the disunion existing between the two parties in Canada, and concluded by expressing his opinion that tne Re. hellion Losses bill should be carried out in the spirit declared by Lord Elgin, and by one of his chief advisers, being anxious that Lord Elgin shoud be allowed the full liberty to act according to his own views of what was necer.sary and advantageous 10 Canada. Mr. Jlenics came to the rescue of the opposition, there being no motion, before the house, by stating that unless the government would consent to modify the act, he should move, That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she would be pleased to withhold her royal assent to an net of the Canadian Assembly, entitled An act to provide for the indemnification to Persons in Lower Canada whose property was destroyed during the rebellion in loS? and in 18311," without ami until her Majesty should have received satisfactory assurances that no person who had en-g iged in aiding or abetting in that unnatural rebel Capua. Levis Pcsman, Duite'-piace, AWgate, MortSg Wm, New-road, Whitechapel-rcad, OBCnARDTwitOam, West SmUhfield, and of Hornsey, rick manufacturer Wright, John Northampton, corn merchant, anct ci Birmingham, baker Jnglis, New-street, St.Mamti's-m-the-Fielos, biker Bore George Henry, Slar.way, Essex, surgeon Sr, Thomas, St! Ann's-piace, Limehousc, auc Thomas, Great Suffolk-street, Souihwark, Birmingham and Sheffield, warehouseman Mutin, William Prosser, Bath, wine merchant Sodev William, Gloucester, ship broker StilTON, Waller Robert, Bristol, chemist iDDOX, William, Liverpool, tailor Si'TER, William Henrv, Liverpool, ship broker Hen-shall, Henry, formerly of Bury and Stockport, licensed victualler, but now of Kendal.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. MONDAY, June 11. The Defecls in Leases Bill wasread a third time, and passed. The Earl of St.

Germans presented a petition from Mi- finlrisworthv Gumey, on the ventilation ot coal mines and a very interesting conversation ensued, which Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Laiisuownc, aiifl JLorcl Wtmrueiiife took part. Curd Campbell then moved the second reading of i "Bill Ifie JMcues, 11 cjuuu; jjmi. Lord Brougham stated his objections to the bill, desiring that it should be referred to a committee. The bill was also assailed by the Earl of Gleugall, the Lords Monteagle and Stanley, and defended by the Earl of Wieklow. Ultimately LordCampbell consented to refer the bill to a select co'minittee.

Their Lordships then adjourned, TUESDAY, June 12. Lord Beaumont brought the Italian question before the House, aod at the close of his observations asked whether, siuee the lauding t.f the French armv ft Civiia Vecchia, any comnimiieaiion lad been received by Her Majesty's Ministers relative to the intentions of France in that expedition whether any advice had been asked by or given to France as to its'ultimate object and whether Her Majesty's Ministers could explain the views of France as to the future settlement of the ilonian States. The Marquis of Lansdowue replied that he was not called upon loexpiain themotiveswhichhad influenced the French Government to seud an expedition to Italy. All he deemed it necessary to state was that the Government, though aware of the intention to send lhat expedition, had been no party to it, and that it had been undertaken by the French Government eutirely oti its own responsibility. The Earl if Aberdeen considering the entente cor-diale which existed between the two Governments, could scarcely believe that the French Cabinet had not exp'ained' ils views.

If the diplomatic correspondence from Paris were laid before the House, it would perhaps throw a i'ght upon the subject. After some further discussion, the matter dropped. The order of the day for the third reading of the Navigation Laws Bill was then brought forward, when The Earl of Eilenborouyh rose to protest against the bill, after'which he proceeded to detail the mea-suies which it would be necessary for the Government to introduce without delay in order to neutralize its bad effects. The noble 'lord alsi warned the shipowners to increase the efficiency of their vessels, and to improve by every means in their power the moral and religious condition of (heir s.iiiors. In conclusion, lie dismissed this bill with great disgust for the principle; and feelings upon which it appeared to be founded, and at the same time with a profound apprehension its consequences, which, let the shipowners da what they mightlet the Government do what they might he conscientiously believed, impairs the mercantile marine of this country, and thus affect the security of the empire at large.

Earl Gramille in leply thmked the noble Lord for the valuable suggestions which he had thrown out, and trusted that they would make their proper impression on the public mind. With respect to the condition of the mercantile navy, it was the intetrioti of the Government to bring1 forward a bill during the present session to improve the discipline of the merchant service. The Earl of Winchelsea. Lord Stanley, and Lord Brougham thou briefly repeated the objections which induced them to oppose the bill and the Marquis of Lansdowue, alter commenting on the unconstitutional course pursneJ by opponents of the measure when they called in question the right of certain noble Lords to vote by proxy, invited the House to assent to the third reading of t.ie bill. The brll was then read a third time.

A clause by way of rider was then proposed by the Bi -hop of Oxford," the eti'ect of which was to exclude the Brazils, in ci-n sequence of the great encouragement given to the slave trade by that country, from any participation in the measure" After considerable discussion, in which Lord Roden, Lord DrnmaDjand the Marquis ot Lansdownetook parti the clause was rejected on a division, in which the numbers were For the inoiiin 9 Again! it 23 Majority 14 The bill was then passed, and their Lordships adjourned. THURSDAY, June 14. Lord Campbell said their lordships were aware that W. S. O'Brien had been convicted of Itiirh i reason, that his sentence had been eom-mntJj to transportation for life but an objection had raised on the part of O'Brien that the crown had no right to exsreise the prerogative of mercy he admitted that the crown had no right to enforce the condition of transportation upon him, and that he rejected it.

The dignified and humane course no doubt ould be to remove the doubts which had existed as to the power of the crow thus to exercise the prerogative of mercy in eases of high treason in Ireland. He had luoked into the acts of parliament, and had come to the conclusion that, upon a conditions! pardon passing the grer.i seal, a mitigation of the sentence might be carried into effect but as doubts had beeu expressed on the subject, he now proposed that a declaratory biil for their removal.sliould be passed with all possible despatch. Lord llr jityhvn concurred that this was the belter course of the two. This was the last act of that absurd and preposterous vanity in which ibis man's treason had its origin. O'Brien knew when he rejected the offer that he would not be taken at his word, but he thought he would make a flourish, and pretend to confront a danger which had no ex'stence.

lord IX-nman s.tid no dnubt could be entertained that the Uieen had the power of commuting the punishment of death to transportation in this cuuntry; if that power did not extend to Ireland, there would be no difficulty in enacting the present bill. Earl Stanhope on present petitions complaining of agricultural distress, accompanied by a speech asked whether tut-government intended to proceed any further with their measures of free-trade. The ilartjuls of La'isdowne replied that he was not prepared to give 'any ploge on the subject. The Bishop of Oxford then moved the third reading of bit! for the Protection of Women, nud, in spite of Lord Campbell's opposition, succeeded in carrying it upon a division bv a majority of four. Tueir Lordships then attjoui fieri.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, mv.va, June il. In answer to a que pin i'i rmnie, Lord Jcliu litisscil observed, that he did not construe the deelnratifi) made in (he I'rnieh President's message, that a good understanding had existed between France ami England with respect to the arts of the trench Government in connexion with European questions, to imply thai England had in any way concurred in the expedition to Koine. The language of the message, as he interpreted it, implied ho more than that, generally speaking, a croud understanding had existed between the two countries. In reply to another question put by Mr. Hume, Lord Palmerston observed, that some months ago he had received a communication from the French Government, apprising him that an expedition to Civita Vecchia wis in but no was then given of any expedition to Rome.

In reply to that communication he stated that it was not the province of the British Government sav what course France ought to take in the matter, but that in his opinion the difference between the Pope and his subjects might be satisfactorily arranged by diplomatic intervention, that intervention liavir.sr for its object a reconciliation between them, with it view to ihe Pope's return to his capital, iw3 the establishment of the constitution which he had before granted to his subjects, to be so mem ded as to embrace a real and practical se- oi tiie temporal ttom the spiritual power. But declined ail interference in "tut tl thlr(1 reading of the 1 ariianienWy Oaths Bid. read'a third "iat the bill be icaii imrt! tune that dav six months he amendment was seconded bv Mr Ronhael ard ivas supported by Mr. Nevdegate, Mr Gen ne" Mr Mr Huumtre yvlule the propped bill wa9 tended Tl wtZ Mr. Crowdcr, Mr.

Sadlcir Mr. Sheil, Mr. Roebuck" and llr. r. ood.

Lord J. ltusseli having briefly reviewed the areu-men ts tendered against the bill, alfeU The House then divided, and the numbers were For the amendment 2(16 Against it 072 Majority against The announcement of the numbers was received with loud and repeated cheering by the opponents of the tee was appoited to consider the present practice of this House in respect of the exclusion" of strangers. Several bills were forwarded a stage, and, the other orders being disposed of, the House adjourned. june 12, 1849. The late Sin Benjamin D'Uhbajt.

Sir Benja min D'Urban, Commander of her Maiestv's Forces in British North America, expired at Montreal on the 25th ult. The gallant officer entered the army nearly 60 years ago, his first commission in the 2nd Diacon Guards bearing the date of 1792. He suhseouentlv served in the 29th Dragoons in St. Domingo; be was also for a short time in the 20th Dragoons, the 25th Light ditto, and the 89th Foot. He served on the Staff Ireland, and in 1808 he went to Spain as an Assistant Quarter Master General, under Sir David Baird.

His services in the Peninsula wera at the battles and sieges of Busaco, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Sala manca, VHtoria, tne Pyrenees, tne WiveJle, ihe JNiye, and Toulouse. He was a Grand Cross of the Bath, and Colonel of the 51st Foot, which regiment he had held since 1829, Irish Spirits. The quantity of Irish spirits brought to charge for home consumption, in 1848, amounted to 7,022,758 gallons, and the amountof duty received thereon to Of this spirit 507,280 gallons were distilled from malt only, 6,433,250 gallons from a mixture of malt and unmulted grain 71,246 from sugar or molasses and unmalted grain and gallons from sugar. Woollen Manufactures. The declared value of the British woollen manufactures exported from the united kingdom in 1848 amounted to 3,733,828.

They included 196,876 pieces of cloth, 681 napped coatings, duffles, 25,265 pieces of kerseymere, 19,911 baizes, 1,512 806 pieces of woollen or worsted stuff; 1,895,785 yards of flannel, 4,157,266 yards or blankets; 1,106,261 yards of carpetting 23,061.510 yards of mixed woollen and cotton 88,201 dozen pairs of stockings, and 178,300, sundries. The quantity of sheep and lambs' wool lm. ported in the year 1848 amounted to Ihe quantity of Alpaca and Llama wool imported was and the quantity of goats' wool, British Museum. The total amount expended on the new buildings and fittings of the British Museum, and for ornamental sculpture, from the commencement of the rebuilding in 1823 up to the 31st of March, ,1849, amounts, as shown by a parliamentary return, (0 696,995. The total amount of expenditure that will be required for new buildings and buildings is estimated at 56,0002.

The Income Tax. A return moved for bj Mr. Mofiatt, 31. p. gives some particulars relative to the in.

come and property tax. It appears that in the year ending the 5th of April, 1848, the number of persons of ail classes assessed to the income-tax untlei schedule amounted to 147,659. of whom 34,270 had incomes under 150. a year; 38,825 under 29,909 under 15.043 under 7,324 under 3.043 under 700-; 2,124 under 1,714 under 875 under 1,000 5,234 under 1,483 under 3.000.; 703 under 400 Hntler 788 under 371 under and 22 persons with incomes of 50,000. and upwards.

The number of persons charged under schedule in the year 1847-48, amounted to 49,707, of whom 21.960 had incomes under 8,645 under 8.702 under 4,049 under 2,244 under 1,040 under 634 under 522 under 276 under 1S8 under 838 under 1.5U0.; 244 under 166 under 55 under 4,000., 23 under and 61 with incomes of 5,000. and upwards. The net total amount of the income tax received for the year ending the 5th of April, 1848, was viz under schedule A 309,890. under schedule 744,273. under schedule under schedule and 340,769.

under schedule J3. BANQUET AT MERCHANT TAILORS' HALL. According to ancient custom, Monday being the anniversary of the Festival of St. Barnabas, the Master, Warden's, and Fraternity of the Guild of Merchant Tailors of the City of London gave a magnificent banquet and entertainment in their hall, in Threadneedle-street. This anniversary was honoured by the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, for the first time since his admission and inaugurationinto the art and mystery of a MerchantTailor, and with it to the citizenship of the first city in the world.

Other distinguished guests were, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The banquet was served at seven o'clock, The Master of the Merchant Tailors' Company (W. Waugh, Esq.) occupied the chair. Covers were laid for 180 the cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts drank, the Master called upon ihe corn-pan to drink with all their heart and good-will to the health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Citizen and Merchant Tailor (Cheers.) His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on rising, was received vith the most enthusiastic manifestations of welcome, iu which the ladies present took a prominent part. His royal Highness spoke in the following terms 1 thank you very sincerely for thisexpression of kindness and "cordiality towards me.

Although I have on former occasions had ihe happiness to meet you in this room, it has alwaysbeen when it has been de voted to some charitable object. (Cheers). am for the first time among my brother cheers.) I am here fulflllinga promise 1 made at the time you first received me into your body, and I beg you will not measure by the tardiness of my appearing'iu that character the value 1 attach to the Honour you have conferred upon me. (Cheers.) I well remember when I first came of age, and when the companies of the Goldsmiths and the Fishmongers offered me their freedom, I felt compelled to decline thuse honours, in consequence of having' been informed, as I was aware by historical tradition, that they represented two opposite political parties. Under such circumstances, I was only allowed the choice of one of tliose two companies.

In consequence, 1 looked to the Sovereign to whom 1 had become united, and to whom I had devoted my whole existence, and I felt that 1 belonged only to the nation at large. (Loud and long-continued cheering). Free from the trammelsof office, and the responsibility of party. 1 remember well how much pleased I was when these two great companies, waiving the provisions of some of their statutes, finally agreed to receive ine as a member and amstill more pleased to fitid myself, in addition to those honours, associated with the company in which I now find myself. (Great Cheering.) Any one be proud to find himself enrolled as a member of a corporation such as this, which can boast of universal beneficence and usefulness during a period of nearly foureentiiries.

It has been exemplified in this happy eouutry how it is possible to advance the general progress of mankind with due reference to the forma and institutions founded by the wisdom of our forefathers. (Hear, hear.) Let us hope, therefore, this country may continue'iis charitable functions, and remain equally, an object of respect with our children and our children's children, I beg to propose Prosperity to the Merchants Tailors' Company." His Royal Highness resumed his seat amidst general and vellementcheers, and the royal toast received the fullest honours. The Master then successively proposed, Ihe health of Prince George of Cambridge," thehealth ofPrince Edward of Saxe Weimar," "thehealth of the Duke of Wellington," to which each responded. Various other toasts having been proposed and duly-responded to, the company rose. The Master then conducted the Prince Consort and the other royal and illustrious guests to the drawing room, in which the ladies had already assembled.

After a brief stay, Ihe Prince, attended by his suite, left shortly before 11 o'clock, and soon after the whole company separated. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Tuesday, June 12, 1849. Joshua field, President, in the Chair. The first Paper read was A Description of the Construction of a Collar Roof, with arched trusses of bent timber, at East Horseley Park," by Ihe Rt.

Hon. the Earl of Lovelace, Assoc, Inst.c.E. The roof, which covered a hall of fiftv-six feet long by twenty-four feet wide, was describe'd as being sustained by four arched trusses, springing from stone corbels. The ribs of these were each composed of four layers of deals, three inches thich, bent to the required forms in the same manner, thus giviug great strength and lightness, as well as performing the work with greater economy of labour. The tracery was cut out from two thicknesses, half-an-inch each, of tub-slave ock, glued together, with the fibres at right angles to each other, which facilitated the carving, and gav.e greater strength to the minute tracerv.

The ceiling was formed of half-inch 'diagonal boarding, and as the slate battens crossed it ia a horizontal direction, the roof was strongly braced against the action of wind, and the staining of the alternate boards gave a pleasing variety of effect. This kind of construction was first suggested by Colonel Emy, in his work on Carpentry, but he had applied it to much flatter roofs of large span, hereas Lord Lovelace's intention to demonstrate its applicability to roofs tor edifices in the pointed and Tudor styles, and to shew that great advantage would result from bending timbers rather than cutting them to the requisite forms that the thrust of the roof might be entirely taken from ihe upper part of the wails, and carried far down them, and that such a construction might be adopted as would satisfy every condition of solidity, and, at the same time, admit of considerable decoration. In the discussion which ensued, the ingenuity of the design and of the mode of execution of the roof were equally approved, and the Noble Earl was deservedly complimented for the motives which induced him to briug to the Institution the account of only one of his works. Such a return as this will be the best comment upon the practical working of the act. It should be remembered that not only" professions, trades, and are include'd in this scheme, but also "annual profits arising from any kind of property whatever," save in so far as a return may have been made under one or other of the three first schedules.

Now, upon the very highest figures in the return little observation need be made. We will not discuss the case of the 78S British subjects who enjoy annually from their exertions in professions or trades, sums varying from 5.000. to 10,000. a year. This is the category of Divines with golden stalls, or Atorney-Gene-rals, or of Brodies' or Locoeks' and of tbe partners in the great banks and commercial firms.

We will take a far more moderate instance, namely, that of the persons whose incomes fluctuate between 3,0002. and 4,000. per annum, To how manystrtiggliiig men with lofty aspirations, to how many anxious merchants and hardworking tradesmen, should it not bring comfort to be made aware of the paucity of those who have succeeded in attaining the glittering' prize There are about 703 persons who have accomplished the task, Oxford, Lincoln's-inn, and St. Bartholomew's, not to mention the Stock-Exchange and Mincing-lane, can do no more. There are if we believe tiie return-but 1,500 persons, situated as are tiie majority of the most highly educated and industrious classes of England, who realize an income varying to 3,0002.

a-year. There are little more than 5,000 who are gaining beyond 1,0002. to 2,000. per annum. The number S75 represents the total of bankers, merchants, lawyers, divines, doctors, who have succeeded in attaining the mediocre independence of somewhat under 1,0002, a year after lives spent in commerlciai or professional' exertion.

So oil up and down the list we have reprinted above from the return. But leaving out of the question all the higher classes, and referring the four first gradations of the return to a single category, will it be believed that there are not to Be found in England mors than 118,017 professional men, merchants, tradesmen, whose incomes fluctuate between zero and 400 a year Consider what London is, and Manchester, and Liverpool and the county towns, and Brighton, and Cheltenham, and Bath think of he Post Office Directory the form in which it is printed of pages it contains and that each line in it contains struggles of an active and energetic man, educated as is lite fashion ofthe middling classes in England and lhat this book refers to the metropolis alone and then say that there are not 131,000 persons in England whu are in the position we have described. We have not at hand the means of testing the numbers of persons contained in schedule and of comparing them with the figures, in Mr. Moffait's return. Nd doubt under this category there is fairer play observed, for thelncome taxofh'cerscau havenodifticulty inascei'tainitig tbe numbers and pesitiou of persons employed in the Government offices, or of those who receive pensions, annuities or stipends, payable by "Her Majesty, or out of the public revenue of ihe united kingdom." When we find, therefore, about persons the exact number is 49,707 thus accounted for, and add, by a rough approximation, the number of employes and junior clerks whose income is notoriously below a-year, we are not startled at the figures in the return.

But in Ihe case of the 147,659 persons returned under Schedule it is evi-eenily a glaring absurdity to admit that the "trades, professions, and occupations" of Great Britain can furnish no greater number than this. Deduct from this total the' number of those who are returned below 4002. a-year, and the reckoning stands thus 347,659 118,047 29,612 If from this last result again be deducted the number cf those hose income is returned as above 3,000., or even 2,000. a year, we think the conclusion will be found somewhat startling. Tne Income tax in its present form has been a grie-Tousand a demoralising tax to the country.

Precisely what we prophesied all along has happened. The numerous and opulent class of persons included ia Sche-duleD. have revolted against theinjustice ofthe assess, mem, and have defended themselves against the requisitions of the act by a system of concealment and fraud. This is a lamentable but a true fact. When the injustice of the impost was pointed out totheChaii-ctlior of the Exchequer at the time of the discussion for its renewal, he defended himself by urging ihe impracticability of a graduated and equitable assessment.

There were insuperable difficulties" in the way. Well then we now point to Mr. Moffati's return, and ell him are "insuperable difficulties' in tne way of his scheme. The traders and professional men won't pay the tax, They juggle with their eonscinces cook their accounts falsify their returns, and leave the Chancellor of ihe Exchequer in the lurch. We regret this, but we do not wonder atit.

Direct taxation, which as a philosophical system must certainly bear aw ay the palm, in practice is found to be faulty, unless there be means of ascertaining and intercepting the property upon which the dutj is to be charged. Direct taxation, unfortunately, puts a direct premium upon immorality. But when superadded to this incident, inseparable from the scheme, the tax is levied from certain classes in unequal proportions, the result is that the immorality necessarily engendettd by the form of a taxation receives a certain palliation in the eyes of the defaulters. Many persons no doubt would shrink with disgust fiom the notion of making a false return but the great majority do not so shrink, as an inspection of Mr. Moffatt's return will speedily show.

An evasion of this tax by a large proportion of the per-sons included under schedule is regarded in the same light as was running of kegs of spirits by the smuggler, or the snaring of hares by the poacher, in the good old days of Customs and Game Laws. We had predicted this result, and it has happened. We will not say that in any case Ihere would not have been a certain amount of fraud and deception but the present form of the income-tax has converted fraud and deception into venal offences in the eyes ofthe people. Prince Albert's Own Norfolk Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. The Earl of Leicester, the lord lieutenant of Norfolk, has succeeded in his recommendation to ihe government to disband this corps.

Local circumstances" have, it is said, rendered this step expedient, but what these circumstances are is un-explained to the public. Messrs. Sutton, of Reading, have succeeded in cultivating a yellow violet. Its bright golden flowers are said to afford a pleasing contra-1 to the purple and white violets. The magistrates at Huddersfield have convicted a temperance hotel keeper in 33s.

fine and costs, for selling ginger beer during the hours of divine service, it being a fermented liquor," and therefore coming under the clause of the public house act, The Cardigan and Carmarthen mail was upset last week on raising the coach, an inside passenger, Mr, Morgan Jenkins, draper, of Cardigan, was found dead. He was subject to fits, and it is possible that the shock occasioned by the upsetting of the coach may have orought on a severe attack, which terminated thus fatally..