arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and
Offices, until the 6th day of April, 1845." We see that it was imposed
only for three years, but the Old Man of the Sea, once on the popular
back, has never come off; and, in all probability, never will. It began
at 7d. in the pound, has been as high as 16d., and as low as 2d. There
is in _Blackwood's Magazine_ for Aug., 1842:

"THE INCOME TAX.
An excellent New Song.

All you who rents, or profits draw,
Enough to come within the law,
Your button'd pockets now relax,
And quickly pay your Income Tax.

A pleasant medicine's sure to kill,
Your only cure's a bitter pill:
The drugs of base deluding quacks
Made Peel prescribe the Income Tax.

You can't enjoy your pint, or pot,
And then refuse to pay the shot;
You can't pursue expensive tracks
With a toll, or Income Tax.

Ye Quakers, clad in sober suit,
And all ye Baptist tribes to boot,
'Twas right, perhaps, to free the blacks,
But, thence arose this Income Tax.

Ye bagmen bold, ye lovers fond,
Who daily like to correspond,
Remember, as you break the wax,
Cheap postage means an Income Tax.

Ye noisy fools, who made a rout
To try and keep the Tories out,
The blunders of your Whiggish hacks
Have brought us to this Income Tax.

Old Cupid's {194} wish to crush the Czar
Has cost us, in the Afghan war,
Both English lives and Indian lacs,
And hastened on the Income Tax.

Regardless of the price of teas,
They anger'd, too, the poor Chinese,
The Mandarins have shown their backs,
But war soon brings an Income Tax.

Yet now I hope the new tariff
Will something save in beer and beef;
If that be so, you'll all go snacks,
And half escape your Income Tax.

At least, we poor folks fear no shock
At hearing the collector's knock;
His jest, the poundless poet cracks
On him who calls for Income Tax."

The day of reckoning for the Rioters of August duly came, and both at
York and Salford Assizes many were punished, and at the end of September
Feargus O'Connor was arrested in London for sedition, as were other
Chartist leaders at Manchester and Leeds. In October, more rioters were
tried, and sentenced, at Stafford and Liverpool.

Even women meddled with Chartism, and on 17 Oct. a meeting of female
Chart