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      authorities to clear their country of idle , profligate , or criminal foreigners by sending them to England . He believed that not fewer than 800 doubtful characters had been within a limited period sent to this country . This practice would account for the appearance of tue applicant here , who , although with a passport to Lyons , was compelled , when he got to that city , to leave it , and to embark at Boulogne for England . The French Government had doubtless found out that the applicant was without visible means of subsistence , and had , in the customary way , provided means for getting him out of France into England . The man was slightly relieved . The offence of stabbing has been frequent this week ; and one young man Frederick Judd , stands charged with parricide . .-- ¦ "• . ,

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      MISCELLANE O U S . A petition has been presented to the Housp of Commons against the return of Mr . Bethell , setting forth that he was by himself and agents guilty of bribery and corruption at the last election ; that Mr . Calvert , whose return had been declared void , became an agent , friend , manager , and partizah of Mr . Bethell ; and that Messrs . Acton Tindal , J . and J . Ward , C . Wheeler , Jl . Benson , G . Deframe , J . James , J . Jones , J . Prickett , and that a certain individual known as the "Man in the Moon , " alias Crouch , and others , who had been the agents of Mr . Calvert , were the agents , friends , managers , and partizans of Mr . Bethell . The Birmingham Association for Promoting the Repeal of the taxes on Knowledge have prepared a memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer which has already received upwards of six thousand signatures , including the mayor , members of Parliament , high and low bailiffs , and many of the clergy and members of the town council . When completed it is expected to have 15 , 000 genuine signatures , and will be 700 feet long . At professor Tennant ' s last lecture upon mineralogy , at King's College , he exhibited the largest lump of

      Califorrrian gold yet brought to thi 9 country . It was dug out of an alluvial bank at Carson ' s Creek , on the Stanislaus river , in August , 1850 . It is a water-worn specimen , and weighs 181 b . 3 cz . 8 grs . ; and its value as a specimen is about £ 1000 . It is the property of the Bank of England . In consequence of the reduction of the duty on bricks , many of the brickmakers at Altrincham , near Manchester , have increased the size of their moulds , without giving any additional wages to the labourers , whose work is increased thereby . The latter have , therefore , turned out , and considerable dissatisfaction exists among them .

      A solitary meeting of the old type , so well known aa " Papal Aggression Meetings" some months ago , took place in a dreary way at Liverpool on Tuesday , resolving to preserve our Protestant institutions in their integrity , to make the divine law paramount in politics , the Papal Question a test at the next election , and closing with the " usual compliments to the chairman . " A most extraordinary case of fraud in the corn trade has come to light this week , by which several parties in Dublin will be severe sufferers . It appears that a house in Ghent obtained advances from various houses in London , Liverpool , Belfast , and Dublin , upon bills of lading

      for cargoes of corn , which bills of lading it now turns out are either fictitious or forgeries , and the parties here are left completely minus . Amongst the sufferers here are Messrs . Perrins and Wright for £ 1300 , another house for £ 1600 . A house in Liverpool is a sufferer for £ 5000 ; and it is said that the entire amount obtained by this successful raid was about £ 60 , 000 , while the parties have levanted , and nothing is forthcoming for the creditors . It is difficult to imagine how shrewd men of business here and elsewhere could be so taken in , but it is partly to be accounted for by the intense competition in the corn trade . It shows , however , the utterly valueless character of bills of lading for goods . — Dublin Freeman .

      The one meeting in England has a fellow in Ireland Agreat demonstration came off at Dublin on the 29 th , in the Itotunda . The place was crowded to excess . They resolved that they would y ield to none in loyalty ; that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill was a gross and intolerable violation of religious liberty ; that the Irish representatiMes ought to oppose the bill < md the Ministry ; that Lord Aberdeen , and Sir James Graham , and the Irish members , deserved their warmest thanks ; that the Convent Bill disgusted and enraged them ; that , a petition should be drawn up aguinst it ; and that simultaneous meetings should be held on the second Sunday in May nil over Ireland to get up said petitions . Mr . W . Kcogh was the chief and bent speaker . There is a rumour that he is to be Solicitor-General for Ireland . IIis opposition to the bill and attack upon the Whigs was unmitigated .

      At a public meeting at the Council-hall , Sheffield , on Thursday lust , it wan resolved , " That Kbenezrr Klliot t . ' s long , zealous , and successful advocacy of free trade , and his great , genius aH ; i poet , deserve to be publicly acknowledged , \> y the erection of a monument to his memory . " A subscription has accordingl y been entered into , und JC'IWQ Iihh been already subscribed , chiefly in Sheffield . M ThadeuK Wolynski has published a letter in the Jtefi ' / f / ee Circular stating that all the reports published by M . Diossy respecting hiH coinmanderHhip , as well as about the willingness to go to America , manifested by him

      or by his companions , or about the change of determination produced by Mr . Worcell ' N visit on board of ship , in , to say the least , totally incorrect . A report also appears thanking the operative ** ' committee of Liverpool for their exertions- und the peop le of Sheffield , who have really done great , and wise things in behalf of the Polish und Hungarian refugees . Tiie Sheffield friends of t . hff relugieH , comprising eig hteen town couneillorH , have taken fourteen into their own hnuiCN ; and : i theatrical performance , has taken place , one-ludf the proceeds of which nan been placed at their disimHal by Mr . Dillon , the

      inunuger . At the annual meeting of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of tins Kar , Reverend 11 . Legge in the . ehiiir , it wrh reported that out of i ) 7 <> patient * admitted , CM ) lind

      been cured , 166 relieved , and 260 now in attendance . These patients consisted of clerks , needlewomen , domestic servants , distressed foreigners , soldiers , sailors , and police . The principal causes of deafness were to be traced to the fact of living in confined and damp localities , to intemperance , want of cleanliness , out-of-door exercise , insufficient and adulterated food , wet feet and clothes , sleeping in damp rooms and unaired beds . We understand that the committee of the Anti-statechurch Association having tendered an advertisement , containing a brief statement of the principles , object , * c , of the society , for insertion in the Exhibition Catalogue , the same was , after the lapse of a few days , returned by the Commissioners as " inadmissible . " We suppose that , in the present distracted state of the Church , it was not thought expedient to give currency to information of so suggestive a character .

      The dwellers in the pleasant places round about Kensington Gardens are not disposed to have their grassy promenade taken from them , without resistance on their part . A capital meeting was held on Monday at Notting - hill ; strong resolutions were passed , and a petition to the Queen agreed to , all which are evidence that it is not so easy for a Lord Commissioner of Woods and Forests to cut rides where he pleases . It is now currently reported that the ride will be on the south bank of the Serpentine , in Hyde-park .

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      The Governments of England and Sardinia have concluded a reciprocal treaty of commerce and navigation . The plenipotentiaries have signed it ; the Piedmontese Chamber has substantially ratified it by a large majority ; and it only remains for the British Parliament to do the like . The most important provisions of this treaty arethe complete reciprocity established thereby with respect to freedom of commerce , and reciprocity of navigation , placing British and Sardinian vessels on precisely the same footing , and the admission of Great Britain to all

      the advantages of the reduced tariff recently conceded by Sardinia to Belgium . This tariff reduces the duties on the great majority of products and raw material imported by Great Britain to Sardinia fifty per cent ., and in a few cases much more . The treaty will be mutually beneficial . A proclamation of the most inflammatory kind has been published in . Paris , shrewdly suspected of being the work of the police ; even the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle believes it " too absurdly alarming to be the work of the insanest democrats . " The French democratic

      papers have published an address to the people , signed by twenty-four Montagnard representatives , calling upon the friends of the Republic to remain quiet , and not to give a pretext for a violation of the constitution by raising insurrections or £ meutes . The Ministry are doing all they can to bring about an outbreak on the 4 th of May . M . Come has been elected to fill the vacancy in the Council of State . Stories relating to a pretended interview between M . de Persigny and General Changarnier have been going the round of the papers . These stories have no foundation in fact .

      Austria has raised fresh difficulties about the liberation of Kossuth and his companions in exile , and insists upon their continued detention . Sir Stratford Canning had had aniraportantinterview with theSultan . The ltussiansseek to prolong their occupation of the Danubian provinces indefinitely , by raising claims witJi which the Pone is not in a state to comply . The lithographed Correspoiidencaof Berlin has received information of a terrible and wide-spread conspiracy , whose purposes are , of course , revolutionary . The

      headquarters of this body are said to be London , the chief neat of their operations the south of France , with active committees and subcommittees in Germany , Italy , and Spain ; the conspirators are said to be provided wiili pecuniary resources , and to have established a perfect system of military organization the ultimate aim of which is the proclamation of a European social republic . Information of the conspiracy has been received by the Governments of Vienna and St . Petersburg , and appears to be credited there !!

      General Espartero has published a manifesto to the Progresista party , lie expresses his gratitude for having been elected its president . The l ' rogresistas have returned three out of the live candidates for Madrid — viz ., General Miktiel and M M . Hagrati and Mendizahal . The King of Holland { rave an audience , a few days ago , to Baron Billing , who is charged b y the French Government to negotiate treaties with those <> f Holland , Belgium , and Knqland , for the suppression of literary piracy . The audience lasted three hours , and tlie King warmly expressed his interest , on the Hubject .

      On the 9 i , h ult . the court-inariial of Piacenza condemned nineteen banditti to death , and one to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour . Fifteen of the former were executed immediately ; the punishment of the other four was commuted to twenty yearn of careen : duro .

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      Ministers were beaten last night by a majority of 14 on the income tax . In a committee of the whole House upon the income tax , on the motion being put that the several rates and duties be continued for the term , of three years , Mr . Hume moved , as an amendment , to limit the duration of the tax to one year , with a view of instituting an inquiry by a select committee into the mode of assessing and collecting the tax . He did not wish to get rid of the tax , but he wished it modified . He was in favour of direct taxation . Under the present system capital did not pay an equal proportion of taxation .

      The motion , was seconded by Mr . Alderman Thompson , who did not agree with Mr . Hume on . the policy of increasing direct taxation . He was of opinion that " the most convenient way of raising a portion of the revenue was by a moderate duty on foreign produce . ' ' Mr . Mowatt would vote for the amendment , because it would facilitate the revision of the income tax , and lead to the establishment of the system of direct taxation . Mr . Buck made a speech in favour of protection : —

      " Taxation was so unbearable that emigrants from the most industrious classes of the community wrote home to their friends urging them to join them , and saying that they would fifty times rather live in republican America , where the producer as well as the consumer was protected , than in monarchical England , with , its unjust and oppressive class legislation . " Mr . Macgregor supported the amendment , and a modification of the mode of levying the income tax . The Marquis of Ghanby thought that "the worst species of indirect taxation was better than the bestadjusted income tax . " Mr . Cobden pointed out to Mr . Hume that the motion he had submitted did not bring the real question to an issue : —

      " If he had brought forward the motion in a form declaring that it was expedient , on renewing the income tax , to impose a smaller charge on precarious incomes than upon those derived from permanent property , then the House might have had a division which would have fairly brought to issue the question that he desired to see decided ; but the division would have been against him . " Mr . Cobden then placed the question in its true li ght , by showing the discrepancy between , the reasons urged in support of Mr . Hume ' s motion . Mr . Uuck had opposed the income tux aa a , tax which pressed upon the agriculturists ; while Mr . Alderman Thompson let the House a little into the secret when he recommended them to remove the income tax and make up the deficiency by imposing duties upon our imports : —

      " The labourer when he drank his beer swallowed as much duty-paying liquid as the nobleman did when he drank hit * claret . It was impossible to put those two classes more nearl y on a level than they were at present , and , therefore , no additional but den should he imposed on the weaker . Why should they mulct the labouring classes for the purpose of easing the wealthier portion of society ? ' ' There were many other taxes he would repeal in preference to the income tiix : —

      " Upon every ground he should decline to join his honourable friend ( Mr . Hume ) in this motion . ( Ironical cheers from the I ' rotectionist ( taichc . H . ) If his honourable friend , or any honourable gentleman opposite , would tell him now he would advance- one step towards the remodelling ol thin tax by bringing 1 / iO gentlemen to vote for him who wanted to get lid of this ( ax , and vote an import du ; y upon grain in its place , he ( Mr . Cobden ) would vote for this motion . " Mr . Jacoii Hhi . Tj opposed Mr . Hume because ho thought it inconvenient , to endanger or cinbarrat > H Ministers . Mr . Sidnkv IIkiiukkt would retain the

      income tux at . leant until ( he commercial policy of tSir Robert Peel was curried out . But , he was opposed to direct taxation , though he admitted that it pi CHwed severely upon the poor . Mr . Wim-iam Miia . h made a dull speech f «> r Mr . Jl nine ' s proposition , but ngaiiiNt his arguments . The Ciuniihixoh of the KxcniHun . ii opposed both the arguments and iho motion of Mr . Hume , lie was not in favour of direct taxation , and he could not consent to the limitation of the tax to one year . IOurope was iu u precarious position politically . Would they endanger the « tahility of credit , at . micli n period , when n obody could Hiiy where anybody would foe a few months hence ?

      Mr . I ) i , skai ; m cleverly pointed out that though the Opposition had been charged with fi ghting for protection under the cover of Mr . Humo ' s motion , yot it

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      TO HEADERS AND CO-RESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . 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 . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , "Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London .

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      VMIXIIJVI . I , < i A Rl > KN S . The royal and ancient gardens of Vauxhall opened on Thursday with an < ' : chtt which augurs well for the Hurce . su of the season . Again in the . hands of Mr . Wardell , the gardenH have undeigone very many improvements ; many of the rural avenues nud walks which had become overgrown and out . of uhc , have Ix'en thrown open and made available . There appears every det . erininat . ion to iiiukfl thin establishment , worthy of the ( Jreut Exhibition year and to Hiitisfy even our foreign visitors , used aH they are to the most excellent , arrangements iu out-of door eiiurtuinments . An clnricnt . < oi ps of musters of the ceremoiiiefl , under direction of the indefatigable Mr . I * , liarne . tt , lias displaced the ancient nonsciiHe , and the result , wan that , amid a huge company of Kuglitm and KoreigneiH , animated by an exuberance of frolicsome festivity , the evening passed off without the HlightCHt conirfitemx . Several of the aristocracy wero present an KpodtatorH of the . joyoiiH scene .

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      May 3 , 1851 . ] ^ fff Q , t& 1 ftt . 413

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1851, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1881/page/9/