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Goremment to afford to the people over which it rules ; that a bundant evidence has been adduced to prove that , Wider the British Government , the progress of the people in industry and wealth has been retarded ; the administration of justice has been defective : the nature and mode 6 f taxation have been oppressive ; public works have been inadequate for the purposes of communication , navigation , And irrigation ; and that altogether the governing power has left the people in a state of misery disgraceful to their fillers ; and that this meeting believes that no security can Be g iven for the reform of abuses in India but b y a thorough reform of its home government , and entertains the opinion that the Court of Directors and proprietors of East India Stock should be entirely disconnected from
the government , of India , which , for the future , should in this country consist of a Minister and a Council appointed by the Crown , and directly responsible to Parliament . " A deputation from the Association formed to promote a Cheap and uniform system of colonial and international postage waited on . the Earl of Aberdeen , for the purpose of impressing , uppn his lordship the expediency of reducing the rate of postage to threepence instead of sixpence , as at present proposed by the Government . Besides the commercial men , there was quite a troop of Members of Parliament with the deputation , The Premier expressed his entire concurrence in most of what had been advanced by the different speakers . He did not feel , however , that , consistently with his duty , he could receive the proposal
inade by the deputation . It was admitted that one penny taight be reasonably required for the domestic , and another penny for the colonial part of the expense ; but the ocean postage was , complained of as excessive in amount , ifrow , many of the gentlemen present were no doubt connected with the shipping interest , and if any of them were willing to undertake the conveyance of letters at the rate which was called enormous , the . Post-office would be very happy to accept the offer . He was not competent to enter into the details of the , question , but as far as he understood what had . been represented to him on the subject , by the office over which Lord Canning presided , he could not say that
fie was prepared to reverse the opinion which the noble viscount had expressed on the subject . Mr . Wallace , of the Anglo-Celt newspaper , who was Ocowricted of a libel on the 31 st Eegiment , was on Thursday ( sentenced , by the Court of Queen ' s Bench , to six months ' inxpr . ison . ment , and to pay a fine of 501 . to the Queen . General Sir Walter Gilbert , one of the heroes of the great Sutlej campaign , is now on his way home frpm IJcfypt , in consequence of the state of his health , precluding the possibility of his further residence in India . He will leave Alexandria for England as soon as hia strength will admit of his undergoing the journey .
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A report received from the " Bridge-house committee of the Common Council in relation to the proposed erection of a new bridgebetween Blackfriars and SoUthwark bridges , and the rebuilding of Blackfriars-bridge , has been ordered to be printed . The report stated , that the committee were o £ opinion that additional bridge accommodation was desirable , and recommended the court to entertain Mr . Deputy Bennooh ' B proposition for a new bridge , provided the necessary fundi could be obtained for the puippae . The annual accounts relating to the British Museum have been printed in a Parliamentary paper . The estimate Of the sum required for the year ending the 31 st March 1854 is 55 . 840 i The sum granted for the y » ar ,. lboJ-d was 62 , 343 ? . The number of visitors to the establishment £ om Christmas , 1851 , to Christmas , ^ 6 % ^^^ In the preceding jear the ? number ^ 9 2 , 627 , 216 the increase arising from the opening of the Great Exhibition .
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Tho thirty-sixth annual mooting of tlio lloyal Dispensary for Diseases of tho Ear was hold at tho Dispensary , D . panutrsot , Soho-nquaro , on Wednesday last , tho Tt « v . P \ Davis fjainb in tho chair . Tho report was read by tho Bocrotary , which stated that tho number of patients admitted during tho last yoar under the oaro of Mr . JIarvoy , tho surgeon , woro VMS , of which 660 wore cured and 1308 relieved , ahowins that tho inoroaao of putiontH bovond thoso of last Voar admitted to tho institution woro 851 ) , and that 224 more had boon ourod and 110 roliovod , oohsmting of casoa of doafnoas , complicated with noises in tho head and other disnasos of a kindred nature . Tho report nlao Htulod that the advioo afforded at tho institution had provonUwl many from becoming app licants for piiroohial reliefas inmates rf workhouaoB . Th « rovoronil L'onUoman lorciblv appoalod to tho mooting on behalf of tho institution , and « ud that
soothing an affliction which , from its melancholy tendency deprives the sufferer of all intercourse with his fellowcreatures . The public were earnestly solicited at the meeting for support to enable the committee to meet the large and increasing demands that were daily made upon it for assistance . Votes of thanks were passed to the reverend chairman and to Mr . Harvey , the Burgeon , and the meeting separated .
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THE GLADSTONE BUDGET : ITS ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES . Mb . Gladstone has earned his right to take his stand as a Finance Minister next to Peel . Whatever exception we may take to pertain items of his scheme , there is no denying that his Budget is a masterly conception , and that its practical results , if it be not frustrated by party conflict , will prove of the utmost benefit to the revenue , to the commerce of the country , and to every class of its inhabitants . . . .
" We begin with the assumption that the incometax could not advantageously be dispensed with , but that it is better to continue that impost , disagreeable as it is , rather than to forego the advantage of continuing those improvements in the whole scheme of taxation which Sir Robert Peel began . We agree with those who hold that the income-tax is unjust—because , with a profession of apportionment , it really presses with great severity on some , and lets off others with great ease . But experience has proved that ifc is at present impossible to arrive at any agreement upon a practicable plan of adjustment , even if such an adjustment be possible ; which we have learned to doubt . When Mr . Gladstone entered upon the
subject of the income-tax , there appeared to be three courses open to him—to relinquish it , to continue it as it is for a time , or to re-adjust it and render it permanent . He has taken neither of those courses , but to a great extent his plan combines the advantages of all three . The experience of Sir Bobert Peel ' s measures has shown that , with better adjusted taxation , the produce in revenue steadily increases ; and by his further improvements Mr . Gladstone secures a still larger growth of that valuable produce . By continuing the income-tax , therefore , ho lays the seed of that which is to supersede the neces-Bity for it . Independently of that process , a rvmsirlarable amount of the public debt , consistof
in ^ Long Annuities , will fall in with the year 1860 . Taking that fact , together with the growth of the revenue upon which he has a right to calculate , he provides for the gradual diminution of the income-tax , and for its final extinction in I 860 . It isthus atonce retained for present use , definitively settled as a temporary tax , and arranged for extinction under the operation of permanent causes . For his purpose of further financial reform , Mr . Gladstone required more than his estimated surplus of 800 . OOOJ . ; and besides some minor taxes , which are of no great moment , he obtains an additional revenue by two grand extensions . One is in itself of a twofold nature : tho incometax is extended , at tho rate of 5 c ? . in tho pound , down to the limit of 1001 . incomes ; and it is
extonded to Ireland . Both these extensions are warranted , not only by the benoiit which tho income-tax has purchased for all classes , but by the further benefits which it will yet secure to them . The other grand extension is that of tho legacy-duty to real property . This last spreading of tho burden not only neutralizes the injustice of keeping personal property liable to a tax which landed property escaped , but in its cflocfc it tonds to correct , tho too groat pressure of tho these
income-tax on trades and profusions . By moana Mr . Gladstone obtains a working surplus of somewhat more than 4 , 000 , 000 / . storW Ho had now to . choose tho taxes which ho would remit or reduce . He had , of course , tho whole field of taxes out of which to choose , and the groRH produce of which nrrtounts to about ( 50 , 000 , 000 / ., but of course ho was limited within thkl 4 , 000 , 000 / . —considerably within , becauso it would not bo safo to leave himself quite without a surplus . Under such circumstances , after a ohoioo has been made , it is euBy to suggest rvtihoub why this or that reduction would Uavo been .
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At a late hour on Tuesday night we received a telegraphic communication to the efjecfc that William Tyrr ^ ho youth at present lying under Bontence of death at Jtirk-Llo and about whom so much interest has been excited in this neighbourhood , had that day been reprieved . — T ^ Offl ^ Jfj ^ rZi qf the Two Sicilies announces a miracle said to have taken placp at Ban where ono of tho JE belonging to tho crown with which our Saviour was tortured let fall aomo drops of blood on Good Friday last , fca the presence of a numerous concourse of popple . A Wmilar miracle is stated to have taken placo at Androa on the same day , with another thorn of the crown ; and it is added that this is not tho first time such a thing has occurred , but that it has boon aovoral times observed , tho la 8 « Tho KrLl City , " says tho Builder , " has boon full of visitors , including as many as 35 , 000 foreignora Our porreapondent informs us of tho discovery of tombs near tho Via Appia , that fruitful mine of antiquarian interest , containing Iho ashes of tho froodmen of Nero , Pompoy , and Crosar . Dr . B . Braun has nearly completed a guide to the monumental rolicB of Home . Tho gas works now boinct erected for the illumination of Itomo , under tho direction of our energetic countryman , Mr . James Bhophoru , mnneor , are rapidly progressing . Tho Qiomaledi Konta congratulates tho inhabitants on tho advantages which will follow thoir completion . "
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HElAiiTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . A declining rate of mortality affords evidence of a gradual improvement in tho public health . Since the weekly mortality rose to its maximum at the end of March , the number of deaths fell in the first -week of April to 1340 , and in that which ended last Saturday to 1243 . Since the week ending March 26 , in which it -was 33-3 deg ., the mean temperature has risen to 44 * 4 deg . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 972 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , gives a mortality for last week of 1069 . The return of last week , therefore , shows an excess of 174 above the estimated amount .
The two complaints of an epidemic character , which from their fatal effects appear to prevail most at present , are typhus and hoopingcough , the former having destroyed last week 65 lives , the latter 68 . Bronchitis , though much abated , is still marked by a severity not usual at this season ; it was fatal in 128 cases , while the corrected average of corresponding % eeka does not exceed 84 . Phthisis destroyed 165 persons . Pneumonia has declined to 89 , -which is also , however , greater than is usual in this month . , , ___ . , . ,., . Last week the births of 853 boya and 826 girls , in all 1679 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1407 . . _
. .. ...... At the lloyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29943 in .: On Monday and Friday it was above 30 in . The mean temperature of last week was 44-4 de £ ., which is slightly below the average of the same week in 38 years . On Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday the mean daily temperature was below the average of the several days , and on the firstmentioned day it was 6-4 detf . below it . On these days the wind blew from the north-east ; at other times from the north or north-west . The mean dew-point temperature was 35-6 deg .
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BIRT&S , MARRTAGES , AND DEATHS . SlRtHS . Ou the 4 th of Match , at Meerut , the vife of Captain Cookson , Cantooment magistrate : a daughter . _ -, Oa the 16 th of April , at 13 , Rutland-square , Dublin , the Countess of Courtown : a son . , _ , * On the 19 th , at Ealing , the wife of Henry Blackett , Esq ., of 13 , Groat Marlborough-street : ft son . , Oathe 19 th , at 3 , Bentinck-street , Manchester-square , the W 1 Oa ° the i 9 thTat Brook-hall , ' Londonderry , the wife of Captain Leach . Royal Engineers . : a son .
MARRIAGES . On the 12 th of April , at Brussels , bjrbia Excellency the Ambassador from Rome , in his private chapel , Viscount de Xerokhoye Yarent , ConseiUer d'Ambassade , Chared d Affaires of the Emperor , from turkey and Belgium , to EmUy , eldest daughter of Baron de Peneranda de Franchimont , of Brussels , and granddaughter of the late John Spong , Esq ., formerly of Brussels , ^ uto ^ tftftS cSh of the Holy Trinity , Bronvpton , Edmund H . Yates , Esq ., only son of the late FrederioH . Yates , to . Louiaa Katherine , youngest daughter of Henry Wilkinson , E 9 On tho l ™ t ™ P S ^ OTbSry , Captain Charles William Miles , of Burton-hill , Malmesbury , son of the late Philip John Miles , Esq of Leigh-court , to Maria Susanna , only daughter oi Joro llin . ' Eso .. of Henbury , GUocestershire . and 8
On the 14 th , at the University K-ing uouege , ADeraoon , by tho Rov . Robert M'Pherson , D . D ., Professor of Divinity in that University , and uncle of tho bride , William Stewart James HomoMunro , M . D ., Esq ., of Latheron , county of Caithness , N . M ., aBSiatant . surgeouH . MEighty 4 lurd Regiment to Isabella Oirilvv , second daughter of Hercules Scott , Esq ., hlj . V ., Vrofeasorof Moral Philosophy and Log ic in the same University . On the 14 th , at the Church of St . Stophen-the-Martyr , St . Johu ' s-wood , A . L . Vandenbergh , Esq ., of Portsmouth , to Louisa Ann , only daughter of J . W . May , Esq ., Consul-General of tho Netherlands , of Holland-lodge , Regents-park . On the 15 th , at St . Matthew's , Brixton . the ROT . Matthew VuAnLitof St . Peter ' College , CambridgeChaplain
.... ., , of the Koyal Asylum of St . Ann's , to Eliza , youngest daughter of tho late Richard Weal , Esq of Bmton . nv ^ wipir On the 19 th , at Countesa-Woir , Exot « r , the Hon . Frederick O'ltryc iFitz naurioo , Lieutenant H . N ., to Mary Anne Taylor , eldest daughter of the late Robert Taylor 8 Abraham , Esq ., and 1 granddaughter of the late Rev . lUchard Abraham , rector of Chartcumb , and vicar of Ilminnter , Somerset On tno lOlh , at MinHtoad Church , Hants , the Rev . William Walton Henningham , M . A ., Ht . Peter ' H Co lege , Cambridge to Matilda Anno , yonuueat daughter of the late Major-O . uierat J B Parker C 6 , <> T < ho Royal Artillery , and Lioutonant-( lovornor of tho Royal Military Aoadomy , Woolwich .
DEATHS . On thn Oth of April , at Fmiikfort , Karonesa Adelaide , tho wife of Huron ChnrloH do Itolluiuhilu . OhIIih lath , at tlui Vicarage , Great llmlwyn , Wilbi , Bear-A « l » iir * J Sir Thomas Follows , Kut ,, C . H ., Ac , in tho wovonty-Hi thoVath " iTh residence , ColtiHhall , Norfolk , Commander Tainan Ht John , R . N ., in bin seventy-flint year . C n t £ 1511 ' . . at Loioester . in the lf , rti « th year ol Iiib ago tho llev Antluiny l » aiii « K ) k Harrison , of Queen ' H CoUego , Oxford , f
A Ci 5 ; h" ! t ? r ^ naulS ? - West , Maior-Oonoral Kobori i » ,. ilCiabriei ; c . « . and K . U ., Colonel of tlo Boventh D n VtE * rri ^ rjfc'rup . K . t ^ . ^ . d m lw , T M Rainbow , ICsq ., for twenty -eight years tho muohoftlio JtovJohn HHSumnor \
. . a . m ^ .. » , ° On fh "' lBt at - Liverpool , Miss Mary Ana Sunter , aged ninlen . youugoat daughter of Ueorgo aud Margaret Wuntor , k # Dorby .
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Apiiii , Mf 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 895
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There is nothing-so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep thWs fixed when all the world is by the very law ot its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnold .
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SATURDAY , APBIL 23 , 1853 .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1853, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1983/page/11/
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