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Tuesday evening at the London . Tavern , for the purpose of considering "what steps should be adopted to procure a removal of the tax upon all incomes under 1507 . per annum . The subjoined resolutions were agreed to : — " That this meeting has heard with alarm and regret that a large number of warrants of distress and other legal proceedings have been issued for non-payment of income-tax against persons not liable , and who are wholly unable to pay ; and this meeting cannot too strongly condemn the practice of alienating the affections of her Majesty ' s subjects by the infliction of a tax which , on the one hand , erects a barrier against education , fetters trade and industry , and deprives thousands of the comforts and necessaries of life , and on the other hand , opens a door for immorality , fraud , and evasion , especially in its bearing upon incomes from 100 / . to 150 ? . per annum . "— " That this meeting is decidedly of
1 HB OPIUM TRAFFIC . A meeting was on Thursday ' held at Freemasons ' Hall , cbnvened by the Society for Suppressing Opium Smugging . Mr . Thomas Chambers , M . P ., was in tie chair , and gave several statistical details on the subject in question . The following resolutions were carried , and a petition framed on them was adopted : — " That the contraband traffic in opium in China is contrary to the laws of God , an impediment to the progress of the Gospel in that country , and injurious to the social condition of its people . "— " That the opium monopoly in India , by which the contraband traffic is sustained , is opposed to the laws of this country , to the commercial interests of Great Britain , India , and China , and contrary to the principles of international intercourse recognised by all civilized nations . "
opinion that , in order to protect persons against a continuance of the present cruel , unjust , and . inquisitorial system of deciding cases of appeal , all who feel grieved by any such decision would do well to make a solemn declaration of the facts of the case before the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor , or some justice of the peace , and forward the same to the Board of Inland Revenue ; and in ease no means are taken to ascertain the truth of such declaration , then , to forward a copy of the same to the Right Hon . the Chancellor of the Exchequer , soliciting the immediate attention of that right lion , gentleman thereto . "— " That this meeting would recommend all persons who have been compelled to pay any incometax for which they are not liable by law , to make a solemn declaration of the facts of the case , and apply for its return , first to the surveyor of the district , and , if not returned , then to the Board of Inland Revenue . "
Another resolution , expressed as follows , was negatived : — " That this meeting is of opinion that the act of Parliament by which the increased income-tax was created ought to be repealed forthwith , and that the remaining charge during the ensuing session of Parliament be placed upon a more equitable basis , or the tax upon trades and professions be totally repealed . " One of the speakers was a Mr . Winter , a working man , who related his own case as an instance of great hardship : — " He was assessed at 1001 . a year , out of which he had a blind wife , his wife ' s sister , three children , and an aged parent to support . His wages as an engineer were 38 s . a week , with occasional overtime . Upon appealing to the commissioners , he was
treated almost like a dog , told he must pay , and because he did not a broker -was sent in . Being determined to go to prison rather than pay , he had removed his goods . ( Hear . } The money was paid by his -wife ' s relatives , but the effect upon his wife had been such fchatfor three months she was on a sick-bad . The next year again he did not pay , and that time he was taken to Horsemonger-lane prison , where he remained for ten days , until he vras released by the intervention of the society which had called the present meeting . " ( Hear , hear . ' ) The speaker concluded by reading a statement
of ms last week ' s expenses , which amounted to 27 . 4 s ., while his earnings were only 1 / . 19 s . 9 d . —A Mr . Walker , -who keeps a small chandler ' s shop at Bromley , and also works occasionally as a dock labourer , likewise illustrated the dishonest tyranny of tlie commissioners from his personal experience . He said he did not earn more than 40 / . a year , but be had been assessed at 100 / ., and the demand was insisted on . He was , moreover , in hourly expectation of being taken to prison The meeting was very numerously attended and very unanimous in opinion .
A meeting has also been held at Drcitwich , at which resolutions denouncing the continuation of the war percentage and the mode of levying -were unanimously carried . Sir John Pakington addressed the meeting in the sense of the resolutions , and afterwards made some remarks on our hostilities with Persia and China , in which he inclined to think we were in the wrong , but at the same time wished it to be observed that he would not commit himself to that opinion until the arrival of further details . A meetin / r , with similar results , has taken place in the Town Hall , Sheffield , under the presidency © f the Mayor .
HALIFAX MECHANICS INSTITUTION . The new building of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute was formally opened on Wednesday evening by a public soiree and meeting . The groatest enthusiasm was manifested for some days previous to the opening to obtain tickets of admission . Within a day or two of their iasuo all wore bought up , and hundreds found themselves shutout from taking part in the event . Upwards of six hundred persons drank tea together in the rooms of the building . Attlie «»><¦<) which followed , JohnCrosaley , Esq , presided , and Mr . Monckton Milnes , M . P ., the lion ; E . LajiceUes ,
M . F ., Lord Wharncliffo , Mr . IS . Baines , Mr . F . Crossley , M . P ., and others , addressed the meeting on the cxcelloace of education to tho-working num . Mr . F . Crossley aaid he was prepared to give 500 / . towards the extinction of their debt of 4000 £ , provided the whole debt -were paid before tUo 1 st of January , 18 G 1 ; and , until that time , ho would give five per cent , on the sum ho had mentioned . It wa 3 also announced tliat Mr . Brown , who loft Halifax tvhen a boy , and wont to London , and who had risen to eminence as » merchant , had sent , without solicitation , one hundred guineas towards the institution ,
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Violet . —The mail bags , supposed to be lost with the Violet packet , which , was wrecked during the late gale , have been recovered , owing to the activity , zeal , and presence of mind , of Joseph Williams Ifortleman , the officer who had charge of them , and who , though he must have seen certain death before him , brought up the bags from below , placed them , as it is supposed , on the upper deck , and thus gave them a chance of floating . By these means they were saved . Mr . Mortleman has left a widow and ten children , two of whom are entirely , and one partially dependent on her , as well as an aged father , This is a case into which we are persuaded the public will look . Contributions may be sent to the credit of Captain Knocker , R . N ., at the London and County Bank , 21 , Lombard-street .
Co ., of Liverpool } , ran aground on the edge of the Horse band in making for Spittead . Subsequently she was towed off by a Government tug , and anchored at the Motherbank . Stranding of the Tyke . —The Royal Mail Steamship Tyne , Captain Valler , on her passage from th « Brazils , ran aground early on Tuesday morning , darim ? amist , about five miles to the westward of St . . Alton ' s Head , off Chapman ' s Cove , between forty and fifty miles from Southampton . Lieutenant Fuge landed with a part of the mails , and received some severe bruises about the head In doing so . As the boats were leaving the slip struck the latter
, a sea and swamped the boats . Some of the passengers were thrown Into the water , but they were all rescued . The boats reached the shore in safety , and the passengers were taken care of by Lord Eldon ' uncle , and conveyed to hi 3 estate , Encotnbe Castle , where he entertained them in the most hospitable manner , and subsequently had the whole taken in his carriages , or in other vehicles provided by his Lordship , to the Wareham Railway Station . Steam-tugs have been despatched to the assistance of the vessel . A coast guardman has been drowned by the swamping of a boat as it was going from the shore to tue ship .
The British : Shipfin © at Gibraltar suffered very considerably in the storms which prevailed on the 25 th and 26 th ult . Loss of a Schooner . —On the 21 st of November , a fine schooner , named the Invoice , left Cardiff for Genoa with " a cargo of 130 tons of bar iron , since which time no tidings have been received of her . Several pieces of wreck have recently been washed ashore on the coast of Somerset , and since then some papers have been picked up at Watchet belonging to the Invoice , of Plymouth , freighted with iron . She had on board a crew of nine hands , all of whom , it is feared , have been lost , as parts of the boats have been found . Masts , sails , and chests have been picked up at Minehead and Listock ; and along the coast pieces of wreck have been washed ashore . The Invoice was the property of Hr . Evans , harbour-master of Plymouth .
Cruelties on Board an American Ship . — An inquest has been held at Liverpool on the body of a young Dutchman , about nineteen years of age , belonging to the American ship Guy Blannering . He was so frightfully ill-used on the passage of the ship to Liverpool that he died shortly after being brought ashore and taken to the hospital . His body presented a dreadful spectacle , owing to the injuries which had been inflicted . The jury have returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the second and third mates and the boatswain . The two latter have been committed for trial ; the £ rat named is still at large . The third mate , who is a young man respectably connected in Liverpool , cri « d like a child when the verdict was given .
The Late Gales . —The destruction of shipping property on the Durham and Northumberland coast , occasioned by th « late gale , has been very great . Above thirty vessels are ashore on the line of coast lying between the Tees and the Tweed . More than fifty seamen have been drowned by vessels foundering at sea within the same area . Several of the small craft employed in conveying iron ore from Whitby to the Tyne have been lost with their crews ; and the loss of life by vessels foundering on the coast between Lowestoft and Berwick will exceed one hundred persons . The Northumberland coast in the neighbourhood of the Coquet and the Fern Islands felt the storm , which was the most violent and destructive experienced for many years .
Ahoqpheb Violent Gale prevailed at Plymouth last Saturday night . Admiral Sir Houston Stewart ' s flagship Indus , 78 , in the basin dock at Deyonport , partly broke from her fastenings , and damaged several boats moored in the basin . The next morning she was again secured . The same gale destroyed the tidal bridge which connects the pontoon at Milbay with the land . Uwlooked-kor COMPLIMENT . —After addressing a meeting of electors on the evening of Friday week , Lieutenant-General Sir William Codrington proceeded to the Dockyard station of the North Kent Railway for departure to London . While waiting here , a seaman named Robert Gardner , son of sub-Lieutenant Gardner , of the Royal Sappers and Miners , advanced to the General and presented him with a full-dress sword , which he had taken from the house of the Russian
Governor at Yalta during the occupation of that town by the British troops . General Codrington , who was taken by surprise at the circumstance , accepted the present with hearty thanks . Gallant Conduct . —About twelve o ' clock at noon on Sunday , the ;_ 4 th inst ., the brig Era , of Rochester , while off Easington , was struck by a tremendous sea , by which one of the crew was washed overboard . The vessel was shortly afterwards driven on shore between Castle Eden Dene and Horden , where a number of villagers were gathered together on the shore , among whom were Mr . Rowland Burdon ( chairman of the quarter sessions ) and the curate of Castle Eden . Mr .
Burdon proposed that a chain of hands be formed for the purpose of reaching the rope , and that the taller men should go in first . The proposal was at once agreed to ; a stalwart gamekeeper went first , Mr . Burdon second , and the curate of Castle Eden next . They then advanced into tho water until Mr . Burdon was up to the shoulders , when tho end of the rope was caught , and a communication obtained with tho vessel , and tho crew were drawn on shore . Mr . Bunion had promptly sent down from tho castle a supply of brandy and other restoratives , together with a quantity of blankets , for tho shipwrecked mariners . — Yorkshire Gazvfte .
Chatham Dockyard-. —Several extensive improvements and alterations are being carried out at Chatham Dockyard , which , when completed , will make that establishment tho most commodious Government dockyard in tho kingdom . One of tho principal improvements now ia progress is at No . 7 granite slip , which is to bo lengthened sixty feet , giving a length of thrco hundred anil thirty feet . Tin ! Royau Yacht Appointments . —Wo understand that much dissatisfaction has been occasioned among lieutenants of good claims for services performed prior to , and during the late war , by tho aelcction of his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningon to fill tho vacancy in the Royal Yacht . — United Service Gazette .
Thk Sauiuna . —In consequence of the absenco of a local pilot , and of the London pilot taking his place , tho Sabrina , of 072 tons ( belonging to Messrs . Oxley and
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OBITUARY . Rear-Admiral Robert Hexley Rogers died at Plymouth on Thursday week . He entered the navy in the spring of 1796 , and was placed on the list of retired rear-admirals in June , 1851 . lie distinguished himself in the expedition against New Orleans during the last American war . Mr . Pkliiam , the solicitor , wlio for tho last sevenand-twenty years has been more especially distinguished as an advocate in connexion with shipping and mercantile cases , died at his residence in Arbour-square , Stepney , last Saturday morniug , in his fifty-sixth year .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Suicide . —Mir . Thomas Higgs , coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster , and formerly for many years deputy coroner for London , has committed suicide in Crosier-street , Lambeth , by swallowing 1 essential oil of almonds . For some time past he had been suffering from illness and despondency . An indented inquisition paper , such aa jurors sign at inquests , was found hanging to tho top o £ hid bedstead ; it contained the following notice in Mr . Iliggs ' s handwriting : " 20 th of August , 1856 . I seem dying from cholic , with stoppage in the bowels of long standing . In the event of my being unable to transact business at" inquest , please refer the constables to nvy deputy , W . John Payne , Esq ., 2 , Tanfiold-chambora
Temple . The inquest account ia in small boxes in tho back room . Taplett ' a Charity papers in boxes—one in front room , the other in the back room . My friend , I know , would kindly sec to my papers . The general and some principal papora are in drawers on the sideboard . Mr . and Mrs . Roberts will attend to my wants in emergency . ( Signed ) , Thos . Higgs , born 7 th of February , 1787 ; appointed doi > uty-coro ) ior for "Westminster in 1818 ; appointed to the Duchy of Lancaster by patent dated 17 th March , 1828 ; second patent , October , 1830 . "—An inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Gurney , which , as we mentioned last week , waa found , in tho Regent ' s Caniil , near Camden-town , and has teTminatcd in a verdict of suicide under the influence of temporary insanity . His watch and rings , which were at first supposed to be missing ( an idea which gave rise to suspicions of violence ) , have trinco been found at hia house . Mr . Gurnoy was possessed of considerable property , and his motive for killing himself docs not appoar .
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JiLNTJAitr 17 , 1857 . ] / TITjS LI 4 DER ; 57
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2176/page/9/
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