A Meeting of the Ward of ...
A Meeting of tfie oWa fFarrFingdon-without was held yesterday, for the purpose of considering about peti- tions for the reTeal of the assessed taxes. It is, to be sure, not a little extraoidinary that a Mlinister, when he under- takes the duty of abolishing taxes, should lose sight of the order ia which they are naturally imposed. The course, as we take it, in the first imposition of taxes is, to begin with luxuries, and to delay as long as possible any burden upon the necessaries of life. If, for instance, in a new so- ciety, the question were whether silk robes or glass windows should bear the first v;sits of the tax-gatherer, no humane or reasonable man would hesitate to give precedence to the silk. A ladv may enjoy innumerable comforts notwith- standing the high price of satin ; but light and air are in- dispensable to the poor ; and to the lowest degree of poverty these gifts of Heaven are the most precious. WVhat, then, would be the obvious method witlh a considerate Milinister in removing the public imposts? 'Vould it not be to re- lease the necessaries of life before its luxuries, thus observ- ing the inverse order in which the exactions on both were established ?