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. . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' — t ¦ . ¦ - ... ¦• ¦ ... TH E money pressure is beginning to tell , but only beginning to tell , upon the political world : we shall see more of its effects before very long . An . agitation is rising up against the Income-tax , and the citj of London has joined in the movement . The object is , not to abolisli the tax . but to obtain relief from , it at some definite
period , and to secure a more correct adjustment in the meanwhile . The demand is proper in itself . The Iaconie-tax is very badly adjusted . The most glaring defect at present- is , that the man of 99 £ . 19 a . a year , is charged nothing ; , and the man of 10 OL Is . is charged 6 / .-lGs . Sd . It is as absurd in the case of a man of 150 / ., as he pays 8 / . 15 s . Avlieu the man of 99 / . escapes . There is not that difference in the condition of the two .
The fair mode would be , to strike off a given sum from everybody ' s income . But , we say , the lacome-tax cannot be rendered just . It was therefore a fit impost only for the time when it was introduced—a time of less pressure than the present—for one great effort , —the readjustment of our commercial tariff . As soon as that was accomplished , the purpose should have been to use the
readjustment of the tariff as a compensation for the Income-tax payers , who should have been at ouce relieved . This is the rising opinion in the country . The tax is not of a proper nature , it cannot be made ju 3 t , and the people are beginning to feel practically the grinding , grazing- pressure upon the inequalities ; therefore , they are moving . The state of the purse makes them come out politically .
And the state of the purse will exercise a yet stronger pressure upon their political feeling . Wo have not been alarmists , and do not intend to become so . Wo cordially concur in the assurance of our contemporaries , that , speaking general ly , and always excepting Itedpathrobsonism in Ha many forms , the state of our trade is extremely sound . We do not think that the 13 ank of Ens ? -
our worst enemies , and to alienate us front our best friends . The events of the week show this . When England take 3 a very firni course abroad , tlie Emperor N-Aror . EON is drawn from out of his retreat , and is obliged to agree with us . When our Ministers politely yield , his own importunate subordinates again take up the management of affairs ; and , through the alliance , we give positive support to the intrigues of a De jMok >* i ' , — ~ wc assist in that enormous scheme in which Djs Morny lias for his accomplices Alexander of Russia , Isaac PereirE v Hope , and others . English moneys which has already gone to be
wasted about schemes injurious to the trade of thus country , is now to be niched away on 201 . shares set afloat amongst the reckless speculators of the English money-market on the fiction of constructing impracticable railways in Russia , but really for the purpose of creating a great Russian stock . It is by the ' good understanding' which our Government keeps up -with the courts of those vulgar persons , Alexanjder of Russia , and Francis Joseph of Austria , that schemers like D e Mokny , of the Capel-court order , are made men of very high rank , are allowed tlie facilities of Imperial position in order to push their bubhle schemes . An honest scliemo would Lave been
aboveboard , the conditions stated , the shares offered for purchase by business men in an open way . The Income-tax was originally an auxiliary to the institution of Free-trade in this country , it was kept on , doubled to meet the war expenses , kept on double ; and we are to go on paying that double tax , while ' peace' with Russia , and the equivocating terms on which "we stand with all the parties to the Treaty of Paris , facilitate the giant adventurers in taking away the money that the Englishman would use to pay his Income-tax !
The only result would then be that the SutTAV would retain that Order of the Garter with which , our Gazette announces that he has been ceremoniously invested this week . If even that were so , for there might be then no Suman in existence to wear the G-arteiv A Russian sloop of war has been firing on an English , gun-boat in the Sea of Azof ; and although it is said this week that Russia will give up the Island of Serpents , she sticks to Bolgrad , which keeps her so far on the way towards Constantinople . Sir James Outram has left England this week to take the coihrnand . of the Anglo-Indian force
against Persia in Herat . The Constitutiomiel explains that the French officers have not been guilty of the conduct ascribed to them by the Morning Post . We suspect that the writer of that article was too well informed to be suddenly set aside by the dictum of the ComtituUonnel . We are assured , however , that M . Bouree has poured
into the Shah ' s ear advice favourable to this country , and very unfavourable to the attack upon Herat ; while tlie French officers in the Persian army are only individual adventurers , for whom the French Government is not answerable . In that case , of course , the French Government would have nothing to say if M . Buhler were shot as sx cosmopolitan spy in the service of our
en . Our contemporaries arc surprised by the fact that the Presidential electors nominated by the majority of states in the American union are instructed to elect Mr . Buchanan . Our own readers will not be surprised at the event . ITor need out contemporaries have been so , if they had not allowed their own alien wish to blind them to the obvious facts in America . At home we have the confirmation of the
The English people will not be very slow to discover this connexion between the foreign policy of our Governments and the iniquities the Income-tax . If we should have another war , it would be an excuse for tripling the tax ; but with that attempt we should have war at home as well as abroad , and the discord of the English people
Bishop of Lojsdon , and the confirmation of Sir Auexani > er CccKBUitN , as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas . It will be well if the Bishop prove as strong a man . 13 the Judge . It is understood that a peerage is at Sir Alexander ' s disposal , whenever he shall be inclined to take it . The appointment hns given very general
satisfacnnght perhaps afford the opportunity in which Alexander , Francis Joseph , Ferdinand of Naples , Frederick of Prussia , and somebody else , might arrange their little matters ; entirely depriving England , and England's true friends—Belgium , Piedmont , and the honest people of France—of any conceivable advantages obtained by the late -wax .
tion to the public , and we know that it is univei :-sally popular with the bar . A proof of this jvaa shown the other evening in the Middle ,, temple Hall , where he was received with vinging cbiQcrs , from the students as well as the bnr ^ young opinion as well as confirmed opinion ratifying the selection . The reception was so unusual that it caused a visible effect on the feelings of-the , new
land can , by any change in its charter , supply everybody who wants it with just enough more of jnoney to make his circumstances easy . " But there > s something besides banks ; there is good government ; thcr o is an intelligible principle for guiding too affairs of the country ; and wo do believe that . ° insincere spirit of our foreign policy is operatm to entangle us very closoly injthe schemes of
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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness ia the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barnsrs erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brothernood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page Ireland nil Tho'ValewsTrt Estates .... ... 1117 James Watt and Steam Engines ... 1121 l ablicMeeting 3 ..... 11 O 0 America mi The "Unconvicted ....... 1117 The Five Gateways of Knowledge 1122 Xord Ravenswortlv and the Blaydon Con tinontal INotes .. mi ' Judgments '—and Want of Judg- Seventeen Russian Stories ......... 1122 Institute .... . 1106 Miscellaneous ...... 1112 went 1117 Obituary 1106 Postscript .. 1113 Gold-Seekers in England .... 111 S THE ARTSState of Trade ; 1107 -iiai ' if inline Commissioner Phillips on Capital Theatrical and MusicalNotes ...... 1123 Xove and Suicide ; 1107 public AFFAIRS— Punishment ......... ; ...... ^ 1118 The Handel Tilusical festival 1123 Starvation of a Family .................. 1107 Pre sident Buchanavi Ill OPEN COUNCIL . — - The Great Bullion Robbery ..... 1107 The United Defalcation , Garotte , A ^ snranon for As < snr ^ rs nil ISravalandMilitary .................. . 1103 and General Appropriation Corn- Assuranco i or Assurers iuj The Gazette ' :..-. 1123 A Mysterious Tragedy .... . 1103 pany ( Limited ) .. . ..................... 1113 LITERATURE :-Accidents and Sudden Deaths 1108 The Generals at Kars ...... 1115 Summary ... 1120 ; COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS— . Our Civilization .... 1101 ) The Dublin ZKurder 1116 Catherincdc jtfedicis ..... ........ 1120 ' City Intelligence , Markets , &c 1124
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VOX ,. VII . No . 348 . ] SA-TURDAY , NOVEMBER 22 , 1856 . Price { XSt ^? JgS ^ '
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/1/
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