English and Foreign.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 465, 18 April 1857, Page 8

English and Foreign.

(From tHe 'Home News,' Jan. 12.)

• The course: Government intend to adopt with reference to the Income-tax is not of a character likely to satisfy public feeling, if the information, wbicli has transpired on the subject may-he relied, upon. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will, it is understood, ielinquish the additional 9d. of Incometax,, and then bring forward an ; army estimate of £9,000,000, and a navy estimate of £6,000;000. Adding to these the Ordnance and other military estimates, the total "sum he' will require fot the peace establishment of the ensuing year will amount to nearly £20,000,000. This money nYust be provided; and as the Government prefer lo obtain it by direct rather than indirect taxation, they will ask for the reimposition of-the very 9d. of additional Income-tax which they had just abandoned: —the difference, however, being that they will not avail themselves of a legal technicality ta procure it, but will throw the entire responsibility on the 'House of Commons. ' ■ ' ' ' ■ - It seems, as we have elsewhere intimated, to be generally understood that early in the 'approaching session a motion will be proposed pledging Parliament to the resumption of transportation-, under certain limitations, and with a view to afford complete security hereafter against the evil's' under which the country is now suffering from the ticketof.leave system. Whether ihe Government is prepared to adopt this course, we are not able to affirm with certainty. Official opinions are strongly divided a-- to the expediency of a recurrence to transportation ; or,' rather, as to the actual results of the. tieket'Of-leave experiment, it being urged by those who still continue to support it, that it has not yet had a sufficient trial, and that the evidence of its working is neither so ample nor so conclusive as to justify its abandonment at present. There is no doubt, however, that some measure must be introduced to' relieve our already over-crowded towns from the additional pressure of bands of liberated convicts ; and the only "practical remedy which has yet been suggested is that of sending them abroad. The really difficulty, «-'c apprehend, in the way of its adoption hitherto has been ihe selection of a locality. But the vatiety of suggestions recently made on that head may be presumed to have removed the last pretext for hesitation. The vast , regions available for such a purpose in the Hudson's Bay tenitory, Carpentaria, and Rupert's Land, leave no further excuse on the ground of territory for resisting the demand for transportation. - The returns of the revenue for the last quarter present an increase of neailv a million, the net increase on the year boing nearly foui millions. The general feeiing in England respecting the hostilities at Canton is strongly in support of the conduct of the British authorities. A treasonable conspiracy is suspected to exist in the Neapolitan army. The soutii-east cuast has been swept recently by eevere storms, and several casualties have occurred at s -a. Lerd Napier has been appointed British Minister at Washington. The submarine telegraph al"n>r the Persian Gulf has received the sanction of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. FEANCE. T Funeral of the Archbishop of ParisThe funeral of Mohseigneur Sibour was performed on the 10th of J;inuary, in the cathedral church of Notre Dame. A procession, escorted by a squadron cf'the Guides, a battalion of gendarm s, and one of troops of the line, went from the archbishop's pa:ace, through the several streets to the cathedral. The service was performed with all the pomp of the church, and was exceedingly impressive. The coffin was finally deposited in the vault destined to receive the mortal remains of the Archbishops of Pari^ which is situated at the entrance of the choir.

I'rtE New Conference .—The correspondent of the ' ludepeudance,' speaking of what passed in

the late conferences, says:—Although the opinion is well' accredited (and'supported even" by tKe state-; ment of several plenipotentiaries) thnt no " proto-' col procesrverhal " will he'drawn up of .the'two last' sittings of the conference, th,e contrary.is as,ser,ted, to-day', from such a good source that I have every, reaso'ii to' think that the original /determination mast-have been altered, and that these two" documents.will shortly be published by the ■' Mbniteur.'* It is said that Russia is not very well pleased with the r-.'si.li of the deliberations, and that she considers herself almost ill-u^ed, doubtless on the ground of the lonj dateI'assigned for the evacuation. However; in a teriiiorial point of view it is' affirmed that she gains more than she loses, the town of'Konirat being more importa.it to her than Bolgrad.' A curious aneciloteis, told of the conduct of # the Turkish plenipotentiary in the conferences .Hitherto it has been supposed that to speak of the Turkish' empire as the " Sublime Pdrte" was't'6 use a^rrio'st respectful locution, and one quite mi; conformity with the figurative style which is in favour in the East. But on two different occasions, when, this expression occurred on readingl over the protocol, Mehemef Djemil Bey protested, and said that tKe ".,Sublime Porte" was only a House,' and 'that his positive instructions were that the phrase1 '■' His Highness the Sultan" should be substituted for it. It was only on the repnsentation of Count Walewski that such a change would necessitate the entire redrawing of the protocol that his Tuikish Excellency withdrew his objection. • No doubt, however; attention to the desires of Turkey upon this point; now that they are known, will be paid on futute occasions. , , Letters from Senegal, of Dec. sth, announce the death of Mohammed Sidi, the chief of the Brack - nas, who was one of th° most determined adversaries of Freiicli''domination, arid who, in consequence of the expedition of, last October, has retired into the desert. This chief was an ally of the of King of Trarzas, who took himself to flight to escape from the French troops. " M. Eugene Delacroix has been elected a member of the Academic dcs Beaux Arts, in place of tlu late celebrated painter Paul Delaroche. ' ' .