ing schedule D, which rendered
incomes derived from professions, trades, and employments liable to the
tax of sevenpence in the pound, Mr. Roebuck moved that it be fixed at
half that sum. This motion was warmly supported by several speakers; but
it was rejected, as was also another amendment to defeat this clause,
moved by Mr. Sharman Crawford. Sir Charles Napier made a proposition on
schedule E, to exempt officers in the army and navy from taxation; but
this was also rejected: and after this the progress of the bill went
on rapidly, more than eighty clauses being disposed of in one night's
debate. A second sufficed to get through the bill; amendments moved by
Messrs. Baring, Hume, and Benjamin Wood, being all rejected by large
majorities. On the third reading, Mr. Sharman Crawford moved an
amendment, to the effect that the present house of commons could not be
considered a fair representation of the people; and that therefore it
was unfit that any system of increased taxation should be imposed by
parliament until all just causes of complaint, with regard to the mode
of electing members, should be redressed. Lord John Russell himself
opposed this motion, and it was at once rejected; and after some further
discussion on the bill, it was read a third time by a majority of one
hundred and ninety-nine against sixty-nine. The bill then passed.

NEW TARIFF.

The question of the income-tax being thus settled, government proceeded
to carry into effect the other great branch in their financial
scheme--the alterations in the tariff or customs duties. A complete
copy of the tariff was placed in the hands of each member of parliament
previously to the 5th of May, on which day it was announced that it
would be moved to go into committee on this important subject. On
that day the proceedings in the house of commons, were commenced by an
elaborate preliminary statement on the part of the prime-minister, in
which he showed that the general object of the present government was to
simplify the existing law. Sir Robert Peel then went over in detail
some of the chief alterations proposed in duties on what is called raw
material. Among the articles under this denomination were clover-seed,
woods, ores, oils, extracts, and timbers, on all of which he proposed
to reduce the duties. On articles of foreign manufacture, Sir Robert
continued to explain that he proposed to levy an amount of duty,
generally speaking, not to exceed twenty per