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usformatiGra . on-subjects reserved from the public eyeandear ; but we shall know better henceforward , for we see from these precedents what is the proper course . Do not move for a return in the House of Commons , but invite your Minister to dinner , g&fc him on his legs , and out it will all come . It is much the most complete and instructive form of ' returns . ' Do not move an Address to the Crown , but simply , over the dinnertable , poke fun at your Minister , or make him angry , and he will ' rise to reply . *
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THE TUN . ' AT SOUTHAMPTON . An essay was on-ce written to prioYe that civilization is hostile to the arts . Ife spoils the landscape , invents unpieturesfae hats , takes all the Lalla Hookh drapery out of ladiea' attire , trims a man ' s face until Holbein himself could not make it heroic , throws brick-built viaducts across the woody hollows in which ve met and the valleys of paradise , abolishes G-fetna-green , renders Chancerylane more formidable to the wayfarer than
Hounslow-heath , and quarters a Scotch regiment near the Acropolis . To these unsightly contrasts must be added the degradation of a Southampton feud into Cockney c fdn . ' The reporters , genii of the longtesotindLng line , declare what ( deplorable "bitterness * has been created , what friendships have been shaken , what animosities Scowl across the street ; yet there is no bloodshed—nothing but unpictorial riot and
ungrammatieal bluster . Nob an elector has been killed with a shot frofii a revolver ; not a bowie has been drawn ; not a mask has been seen in the streets . Instead of this , an unfortunate official is dismissed ; the"W " 3 : GT 7 ELiN " advocates send a threatening circular to the Custom-house staff ; and , in the midst of the trashy exhibitions , Lord PaIiMetiston rises through the floor , disguised as an ironmonger , and laughs in the face of Andrews . Akdeews is not content . He
" Electors , will you be represented by a sfctangerP" " Bead Palmerston ' s opinion of Akdkews , " " No Moneyocracy , " " . Railway Interest , " until the eye wanders over a patchwork surface of incoherency—^ AliliOTEMlfDBEWUTI . EilDOTVlS' 'WlliH BTPliEft ANDEEWSA . liMEESTO 3 rAMPT 01 > ri 400 AIiETE , Air ! 'Funny , ' but not heroic . There is a political fair at Southampton ; the booths are not yet open ; the performers have not addressed the vast multitude ; but money is in circulation ; trade promises to be brisk ; the three principal speculators will probably devote from
12 0001 . to 15 , 0002 . to the interests of the city of their love ; the seot ^ and-lot , charged from the brewhouse and the distillery , will hoarsely articulate while they can , in public parlours , on the merits of the munificent . Faivet will , very properly , wear" the flamecoloured , devil-embroidered buckram of a martyr until his case is reconsidered ; the clamour of public meetings will precede the backdoor clink and . rustle of legal tenders , and Southampton will not care one tittle what ' principles' it sends into Parliament . Like a plain-dealing landlord , it lets the premises , and asks few questions .
Elections being under notice , let Southampton take warning froin Lanark , where Mr . BAiliiiiE Coohbane , who wrote a virulent book against the Italian Liberals , recanted on the hustings ; and let Greenwich take a hint from Southampton , and not let the thing go for less than its value . The constituency knows Codbington , but
who knows ' Colonel' Sxeigui ? Beally , what with bribery , intimidation , family nominees , and personal objects , we have a pretty Parliament ; it is wonderful good fortune that brings forward , simultaneously , Sleigh , CODBINGTON , COOHKANE , Andrews , " WEGUEiiKsr , and 33 uTiiEB , all ready to protect us from quackery and corruption . " We shall next have Geobo-i : Thompson" once
more , and we shall then expect to see a Mahratta dance performed on the floor of the House of Common ' s . Nothing is impossible . Is not Major Heed an honourable member ? Are there not two candidates for Greenwich ? Is not Southampton now ' view , ' and to be put up' shortly ?
encores the nobls lord , and will have the laugh repeated . So PaiiMebston" repeats it , with aggravation , all tending to showthat he thinks "WEGHJELi ^ r a more respectable man than the honoured Coachmaker of the locality . But the Coachmakor ' s friends are delighted , gather round their champion , despise the insinuations of the judicious bottle-holder , and vow that all the bullion in
the Bank of England shall not make Weg uelin member for Southampton . They are right , probably . Andeews took the lead from the first , and has hitherto kept it , though , as Butler is , metaphorically speaking , buying up all the unsold goods in the market , there is a chance that one oi * other of the Liberal candidates may be thrown overboard by a party of hia own friends anxious to save the borough .
It must be repeated , however , that the struggle is not dramatic—not half so dramatic as an ' intertribual' fight among the Cherokees , or an engagement at the Tipperary ' station , ' or a Lord Geob-gke Gordon Riot . There are no bursts of * tintamarro and jingle * jangle , ' no hearts bleeding from their bitter wounds , though daggers and wormwood arc plentifully talked of by the local orators . It is the belligerence of bill-stickers . Ten boya rush out of an office , fiendishly shouting ,
with " "WEGiTEiiiN will betray tho Ballot " glowing in rod capitals upon a prodigious placard . Half an hour later , similar fiends are scaling their light ladders , and tearing those paper banners from the wall , and up goes " Andhews has always opposed tho ^ Ballot , " gigantically printed in blue " Buti / eji is the true lieformer" flaunts nbovo , with " Wegtoelin for Southampton , " " Andrews for Southampton , " Buti / jer for Southampton , " <( Electors , will you be deceived ?"
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INSURRECTION AGAINST THE INCOMETAX . The counties , as well as the towns , axe rising against the Income-tax . The movement is rapid and general . Scarcely a member of Parliament will come down in February without one or more petitions against the amount of the tax and the method of levying it . Few persons ask for its abolition . What they require is tha-t it shall be lowered to a
peace level , and fairly adjusted . If that is done , they will pay ; if not , they will insist on repeal . The deprecatory arguments of " Whig journals have had no effect in moderating the enthusiasm of the agitators , who compose the great body of tax-payers throughout the three kingdoms . And it is likely that the Tory opposition , having no principles of their own , will be eager to represent a cry which promises popularity to them and embarrassment to the
Adminisof the year be framed with no -view to the modification of the Income-tax , a simultaneous and vigorous agitation may still defeat the purposes of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . Sir Ohaeles "Wood was once compelled to withdraw his scheme , after it had been submitted , **) the House of Commonsfour great metropolitan meetings sufficing to change the plans of the administration .
pound on precarious as well as on fixed incomes for three years to come , the Ministers thea in office will be more equitably disposed than Sir Cobbtewali , Lewis . I ^ o good security is offered for this fiscal Beform Bill at three years' sight . Now , while the country is warm upon the subject , is the time for action , in and out of Parliament . Remember , that even should the Budget
A single illustration places in . the clearest light the injustice of the lacome-tax , as now levied . No professional incomeis worth more than three years' purchase . Pew incomes arising from permanent property are worth less than fifteen years' purchase—the product being as one to five ; yet the- per-eentage levied is the same on both . Eyen supposing , however , that a professional income of 150 ? .
a year , capitalized , were worth as much as 500 L , while a permanent income of 1502 ., capitalized , were worth only 2000 Z ., what would be the difference , supposing the tax were commuted , by one year ' s payment ; of sixteen pence in the pound , upon the whole ? The professional man . would pay 35 Z . The owner of property would pay 14 OZ . Tet , under the existing law , they pay 140 Z . each , that which is worth 500 £ . being , taxed to the same extent as that which is worth 2000 / .
This constitutes the glaring injustice of the Income-tax . The public , ire hope , will not desist from agitating against it . It is more ingeniously devised than any other tax existing for extorting the most from those who can afford to pay the least . " Under pretence of being direct and equal , it is systematically unequal in its operation , while , instead of being direct , it is evaded by concealments and subterfuges of every kind .
tration . By whomsoever supported , by whomsoever attacked , the Income-tax must go , unless it be remoclified upon honest principles . In its actual shape it is an intolerable burden . You may point to tho expenses of the liussian war ; but . this impost , lovicd principally upon small incomes , is not a fair means of paying them ; you may show tho advantages of clearing oil' our heavy accounts before I 860 ; but tho clearing off should bo shared by nil classes in an equal ratio . Wo have no guarantee that , when wo have paid eixteenpence in the
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There 13 no learned man but -will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , vrhy should it not , at least , be tolerable for hia adversary to write 1—MliTOJf
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THE MOOlsPS MOTION . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Decornber 15 , 1856 . Sir , —Will yon kindly permit be to say , as a last word , that if Mr . Steel thinks he can give a mathematical disproof of eithex of my statements—viz . 1 . That tho moon does not rotate * on her own axis ; and , 2 . That the sidereal day is not the measure of the earth ' s rotation *—I , or some one of my coadjutors who have likewise had a Mathematical Education , will be happy to maintain them against him . As a popular journal is not a fitting medium for such discussions , I have arranged for the insertion of any such communication , signed by Mr . Steel in , the English Journal of Education . What that gentleman may effect for the credit of science "when he begins to reason , it were premature to say , but he ¦ will not help it by sneers - I am , sir , yours truly ,. J . Stmons-
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Voluntary Starvation ;—A debtor in tho County Gaol , Gloucester , named William JVankiss , aged fiftysix , died on Sunday , tho 28 th ult ., reduced almost to a skeleton from having refused for some time to tako th < proper amount of nourishment lie had boon imprisonoc since September , 1858 , and boing nimble to procure out of hia own scanty moans , sufficient food for himself was offered the prison faro , which for a long time ho refused to take . Ultimately ho consented to take some bat it was too late . Lockjaw ensued , und ho died .
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Janttary 10 , 1857 , ] ^ HI ^ IeaM B . : 39
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¦ ¦ ¦ + — ¦ — C » N" THIS DEPARTMENT , AS AM , OPrOTONS , KOVTEVEK BXTREWB , ARK ALLOWED AN EXPRESSION , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIM SELF RESPONSIBLE JTO . lt NONE . ]
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* I will bo bound by tho definition of those term given in " Barlow ' s Mathematical Dictionary . ''
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1857, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2175/page/15/
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