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A Large Paper Manufactory At Bermondsey,...
Among the advertisements which appeared m The Times « n toe 26 th of last month , there was one directed "To the Xaritable and affluent . " It spoke of a person in the last extremity of suffering , who , at the eleventh ^ hour , invoked fhfl aid of her fellow-creatures to alleviate the seventy of w distress . This advertisement caught the eye of a be-Tiflvolent man , a Mr . Richard Forster , an architect , resid-W ' at No . 9 , Jfevr prmond-street . He answeredthe announcements and immediately received a reply , which stated that tha writer ; was an unfortunate young woman , the d aughter of a merchant , whohad been seduced , but who bitterly repented of her crime . MjvFqrster sent her a . 61 . note and subsequently a sovereign . A short time afterwards he received a second letter from the same person , breathing the warmest gratitude for his past kindness , and imploring yet a little further assistance to enable her to TPitiove to a comfortable lodging in the Hampstead-road ,
which had been offered to her . "I was deceived , Mr . Forster , "—so runs the letter— " cruelly deceived , by a base and heartless villain ; A license was even purchased for our marriage . I believed all ; my heart knew no guile ; the deceptions of tM world I had , scarcely ever heard , of ; but too soon I found myself destroyed and lost—the best affections of my heart trampled on , and myself infamous and disgraced . But I did not continue to live in sin ! Oh , no I was despised , and loathed the villain who had so deceived me . Neither have I received , nor would I , one shilling from him . " In this piteous strain the letter continues . Poor Mr . Forster again fell into the snare . He forwarded a post-office order for 31 . 19 s . 6 d ., which was duly received and pocketed by the rascal who concoeted the letter . But this was his last victory . He was caught in the act , tried at the Middlesex sessions , and convicted . He is a very old offender and swindler on a large scale .
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Health Of London During The Weee^ In The...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEE ^ In the week that ended last Saturday the number of deaths registered in Iiondon was 1026 , which is nearly the same as in the previous week . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842-51 the average was 903 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 993 . Compared with the calculated amount , the mortality , of last week exhibits an excess of 93 ; and hence it appears that though , aswas shown in last return , the public health has improved since March , it is not yet in so favourable a state as might be expected at this period of the year .
In comparing the results of the last two weeks it will be seen that there is again a slight increase in deaths referred to the principal puhnotiary complaints , except consumption , those caused by bronchititfhaving risen from 71 to 86 , those by pneumonia from 61 to 67 , and the total of this class from 172 to 187 , while the corrected average of the ten weeks corresponding to las , t is 145 . The zymotic class has also increased in the two weeks from 204 deaths to 232 ( while the corrected average is 490 ) , arising partly from scarlatina . This disease , which was fataV . in the previous week to 88 children , numbered last week 45 cases , and prevails considerably at present ; hooping cough rose from 35 to 42 .
Last week the births of 806 boys and 730 girls , in all 1536 children , wore registered in Xondon . In the seven corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1433 . At tho Uoyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 inches on Tuesday ; tho mean of tbo week was 29-762 inches . Tho mean temperature of the week was 48 min . 6 deg ., which is rather below the average of the same week in ton years , Tho mean daily temperature was below the average oh Sunday , Tuesday , Wednesday , and Saturday , and above it on Monday , Thursday , and Friday . It was lowest on Tuesday , whon it was only 42 min . 5 dog ., and highest on Friday , when it was 53 min . 8 deg . The general direction of the wind was E . N . E . during tho first throe days , thon S . W ., and on Saturday N . N . ET
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . n A 1 BIRTHS . . 9 n th ° 29 H * ult ,, at Vernon-hUl , Bishop's Waltham , Mra . Arthur Helps : a daughter . On Thursday , the 20 th ult ,, at Swanacomb , Kent . Mrs . Robert Owen White : a daughter . tt »? tll ° 2 nd inafc M afc Ryde , the wife of Captain Bolgravo , of U ^ M . 8 , Hydro : a daughter . On Tuesday , tlio 4 th inst ., at 15 , Deivn ' s-yard , Wes « hinster , tlio wife of the Rev , H . Q . LiddoU : a daughter . _ , MARRIAG 18 . On the 20 th ult ., at Boxmoor , Herts , Robert Miohael IiafTan , captain Royal Engineera . of Otham , Kent , to Emma , eldoat mirviving daughtor of the late Williiuu Noraworthy , Esq ., of O xford-torraoe , Hyde-nark . un the lat inat , at Brussels , at tlio BritiBh Embassy , Hilden I I * onry . eldost surviving aonof Sir Henry T . Oakoa , Bart ., t 0 J ™ l > > widow of ( , ho late John Bond , Esq ., of Londonderry . un tno 4 th inat ., at St . Panoraa Now Ohuroh , Franois Henry liumptre Eaq ,, of Lyme Rogia , Doraot , third son of the late ' •<< nvn . ru JIallowa Plumptro , Esq ., of Queon ' a-Hquuro , Bloonia-» ury , t ; o Catherine ) 3 JYanoo 8 Alaagor , sixth daughter of the late ino miia Masaa Alaagor , Esq ., also of Queon ' H-aquare .
n , , DEATHS . il » v < i " r ™ lP -Agincourt , returnlne from India , on Sun-11 a ' J ° i th of March , Major George Teblw , 33 rd Roginienfc """ K'U JSativq Infantry , Commandant of tho Itogimont of n ;' i n > , tho 42 »« yoar of h » B ago . un | , i ) e 25 th ult ., at Hohnosdalo-loduo , Nutfiold , Surroy . tho m 2 o ? T «? « , * 9 f « V * " ™™ Bug « lon' Enq ., for many yoara do . fiv i- ^ ° V Royal Surrey , and tho oldeat inagiatrato and h £ ¦ llouton » nt'ofthooounty . Woll iJl lHt in . ^ . ftti I'hotford , Norfolk , ivgotl 70 , Thomaa Bid-Oh « V «!«&¦' * ° fi wouqoator-plooo , rortman-Hquaro . formerly On tlS !? . P ^ wtwy . of Btttto'B-offloo forWofgn AUaira . > noxnp ,, « aii i ln ? : J hia rosi ^ onoe . OO . GroHVonor-Htrflot , to tho SyZ ! S h & , T e fiimUy ' * ktfrymplo , mt 3 - th ° Ram fuW ^ ' H ? ^ »«» t ., at 10 . Ohonter-pla « o , ReB cnt '« . parlc . W « nfv nXi " 9 ? ? 'A f Stin »»« l taylor Ooforidgo , and widow of On th « ri F O 0 rid « ' MHfl ., « vg « cl 40 . , „ , T i Q « o ? B " ooJft "" V * ' * ' JamoB ' B- « quaro , ag « d 71 , John UbmZ 3 j 1 nP * $ 8 ^» Sooretary and librarian , to tho London * wary , deeply lamented and much respected .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , qwing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent qf the merits of the communication . - No notice can be taken of anonyinous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication ^ bu t / as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters fqr the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Weljingtonstreet , " Strand , London-Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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Saturday , May 1 . THE BUDGET . The House of Commons resolved itself last night into a Committee of Ways and Means , and listened to the statement of the Budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer—^ a statement remarkable for its clearness , and above all praise for its candour . Mr . Disraeli has won " golden opinions from all sorts of people , " and his speech , as Mr . Gladstone subsequently said , will form an epoch in the history of the Free 4 rade question which will not soon be forgotten . Protection has long been dead—Mr . Disraeli , above all men , has delivered its funeral oration .
After bespeaking an unprejudiced hearing , he observed that when the revenue exhibited a deficiency , the question was , what were at once the soundest , the least unpopular , and the most practicable m 6 ans of supplying it . There were three principal sources of revenue—1 st , the duti e foreign imports ; 2 nd , those on domestic manufactures ; and 3 rd , direct taxation . The policy Parliament had adopted in recent years did not offer much encouragement to an . attempt to induce the present House to supply the deficiency by an increase of the duties on imports . The reduction of these duties had been systematic and continuous—nearly nine millions sterling having been removed in ten years . ( Opposition cheering . ) As regarded the second head , if one party wished to relieve national industry by
reducing Customs , another was equally earnest to do so by remitting Excise duties , and this latter course ( that of his late friend Lord ( 3-eorgo Bentinck ) he thought entitled to the gravest consideration . Excise duties to the amount of 1 , 500 , 0002 . had been removed , and efforts were made so lately as last week to get rid of still more . On the third hea < J , direct taxation , his difficulties were not less . He sketched the history df the deceased income tax , which had been introduced apologetically , and framed so as to meet an exigency , but which the House , even under those circumstances , would not adopt except upon a large basis of exemption . It was so modelled that the multitude might not feel its oppression . Even the able and powerful minister who introduced it could get it renewed only after and
repeated discussions , and it became at last so odious unpopular that its latest renewal was only obtained on the tax being referred to a select committee . This showed that there was no inclination to direct taxation . Ho had wished that tho report of that committee had been ready , as it was a matter of delicacy to discuss subjects at present under consideration . He had given the cominitteo every facility in his power . One of the great objections to the tax was its falling indiscriminately upon permanent and upon tomporary incomes . On that subject the committeo had recoived tho amplest ovidonco from the ablest men , and ho was bound to say , that if thoir recommendations wore carried into effect , schedules A , B , and C would bo not loss
odious than schedule D . Tho feelings of tho people must bo consulted , as woll aa the principles of science Further , tho . committee wore unanimous ( and so , ho believed , was the House , ) , in holding that if direct taxation wore to bo a permanent source of revenuo , it must not rest upon a basis of exemption . It ought to bo universal in its application . Direct taxation , founded on a system of exemption , was confiscation ; but ho was not urg-ing this as against the Minister who had introduced the " income tax , at the time an avowodly tomporary oxpodiont . After dwelling still more oarncstly upon tho distasto which had boon evinced for this tax , ho referred to tho recent repeal of tho winflbw tax , which had deprived us of nearl y two millions ( nogativo murmurs ) , as it was said , for sanitary , not fiscal purposes ,
although it was now admitted that all tho sanitary objocta in viow could have boon ofl ' octcd whilo tho tux waa in boing ( rcnovvod murmurs ) ; and ho obsorvod that in partial aid of tlio rovonuo another direct tax had boon imposed , upon tlio vicious principlo of exemption , and that out of throo millions and a-half of houses , not more than 400 , 000 had boon taxed . Tho timo was not far distant when tho JIouso must arrivo at a definite conclusion upon its finance principlo . Ho then wont into the statistics or tho rovonuo lor tho last financial yoar . Sir Charles Wood had estimated our income afc 5 i 2 , MO , OOOJ ., and it hadactunllv amounted to 52 . 408 . 317 / ., bointf an oxcosa ot
a 2 Oi 0 OO * . fan Opposition ohoor ] ; and Sir Oharlaa Wood had woll dbsorvod that ohoor , for this oxcohh had aocrucil notwithstanding a vaafc remission of taxos . Ho then w ont into detailed figures to aluiw tho oll ' oofc which had lioon produced upon tho various articles tho taxation upon which had boon recently romittod , and loud and ropoatod Opposition ohoorinff broke out when ho dosoribod tlio roflult , in tho case of iho sugar duties , as " yory romarkablo . During tho last six yoai'H , tho consumption of sugar huxl inoroaaod 05 , 000 tona , or notvrly iV 3 por oont . upon 1840 . Ho proceeded to say that the proporty-tax had boon estimated at 6 , 38 O , OOW . ~ it had reall y amounted only to
6 , 283 , 000 Z . Among incidental augmentations which ^ would no toccur again , was that on the Post-office , which , had . been estimated at 830 , OO 0 Z ., but which the Great Exhibition had sent up to 1 , 056 , 000 ? ., the census postage having been . , 000 ? . The estimated expenditure for last year had been 50 , 247 , 00 OL—it had actually amounted to 50 , 291 , 000 ? . The surplus , therefore , was 2 , 176 , 980 / . ( Cheers . ) Her Majesty ' s Government was but formally responsible for the estimates , for the ensuing year ; which were those of the late -Government . The estimated expenditure was ' , 163 , 9792 . Among the details compr ising this expenditure were 6 , 491 , 8932 . for the army , ^ 6 , 493 , 000 ? . for the navy ( including the packet service ) ,
which , if deducted , would leave the navy estimates' at 5 , 622 , 842 ? . The ordnance was 2 , 492 , 000 Z ., and the miscellaneous estimates 4 , 182 , 000 ? . He should ask an . increase of 200 , 000 ? . for the Kafir war , makinff the whole estimate for that war 660 , 000 ? . There was also a militia vote ( murmurs ) , but it was " not much larger " said the honourable gentleman , " than the majority which sanctioned the bill—it was 350 , 000 ? . " He next came to the question of supply . He anticipated a reduction in the Customs , owing to the approaching diminution in the sugar duties , and would therefore take them at the amount of 1850 , namely , 20 , 572 , 000 ? . The Excise he took at 14 , 604 , 000 ? . The stamps at 6 , 339 , 000 ? . The assessed taxes
( diminished by the reduction of the window duties ) , 3 , 090 , 000 . The property tax—as it would virtually remain in force until October—would of course be half that of last year , 2 , 641 , 500 ? . The Post-office , 938 , 000 ?; the Woods , 235 , 000 ? . ; miscellaneous , 260 , 0002 . ; and old stores , 400 , 0002 This gave a total of 48 , 983 , 5002 . ; and showed a deficiency of 2 , 180 , 479 ? ., which , in 1854 , if all things remained the same , would be 4 , 400 , 000 ? . Having thus , he said , laid his statement before the House in an unvarnished manner , he added that , as compared with the last two years , there had been no decrease on the property tax , and that though he came before them with a deficiency , the state of the country was one of great and sound
prosperity . But there were classes not prospering , and their adversity was beginning to tell upon the property tax . He had been warned by the highest authority that he must begin to make allowance for decrease in rentals , and for farmers availing themselves of the remissions afforded by Schedule D . He then entered into a calculation of what the property-tax , if renewed , would afford for 1853 . This , allowing a deficiency of 150 , 000 ? . from the above-mentioned causes , he estimated at 5 , 187 , 000 ? ., which would give a surplus of 461 , 021 ? . He proceeded to saythat there remained but one course . There had appeared but one course open to Government to adopt , and he believed that no prudent man could hesitate . It was their conviction that the House ought , in this or the next Parliament , to come to a settlement of the principles on which Government
the finances of the country ought to rest . was prepared to denounce the systematic reduction of indirect taxation , while direct taxation was imposed upon a limited class . They would not have shrunk from examining the whole financial condition of the country , with a view to revision , but he put it to the House whether in the limited time which had been at their disposal they could have accomplished that object . He had therefore an uninteresting and prosaic proposal to make , which was a recommendation that the property and income tax should bo renewed for the limited period of one year . Expressing a hope that ho should bo afforded every facility for carrying a law to that effect , he concluded ( amid cheering ) a " speech occupying more than two hours iu tho delivery .
This speech delighted tho House . All the succeeding speakers , except Colonel Sibthorp and Mr . Hume , gave Mr . Disraeli ungrudging praise . The Opposition was brilliant with satisfaction , the unconverted Protectionists gloomy with surprise , vexation , and discontent . Sir Ciiari-es Wood had nothing to do but to concur . Mr . TnoMAS Baking concurred — with a faint demurrer to tho free-trade tendency . Mr . Gladstone was perfectly -willing to let tho case of tho commercial policy of tho lost ten years rest on Mr . Disraeli ' s
statement . Sir John TyebeMj praised , but interpreted tho statement as provisional , and the budget as provisional Mr . BBianr honestly participated in the satisfaction expressed by all ; and hoped Sir John Pakington would now abandon bin intention of proposing to put tho people on short allowance of sugar . Sir John Pakington made a lame reply . Ho , at all ovonts , was not a convert to tho policy of 1846 . After a good deal of desultory talking , tho resolution was agreed to , and tho Houso resumed .
This sitting of tho lost day of April is certainly one of tho most romarkablo wlrich lias taken placo since the Peel budget of 1846 . Lord MATiMKSmritY , in giving a further reply to Lord Granvillo in tho House of Lords last night , rplativo to the reception of Rosas , produced the Treasury order , which l » ad been issued six weeks ago , instructing tlio authorities to receive him in tho usual way . Tho Copyright Amendment BUI , relating- chio / ly to tho works of IVonch authors , passed through Committee .
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OPENING OV TUB BOYAL ACADEMY . Tina Royal Acudomy , which opeiiH to tho public on Monday , gavo its private viow yesterday . Tho nbsonco of loading nainos is remarkable , but advance is apparent in many qunrtorn , and showy picturos aro abundant . There is no Euatlako , but Lo Jounc makes a tolerable substitute j no Landeeer , but Sidney Cooper , tuid . Aua-
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Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08051852/page/11/
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