ts for its cessation. That it
never will cease, however; that it will be as perennial as evil in the
abstract, or the Deuce himself, is feared by everybody except the jolly
beggars, and those who are too ignorant and helpless, or too lazy, to
earn liability to its infliction. Any symptoms of acquiescence in it, of
anything but dogged opposition to it, on the part of the public, will
infallibly encourage Chancellors of the Exchequer to try and perpetuate
it. To pay it voluntarily, to pay it at all except under protest, to pay
it under any circumstances whatever but those of legal necessity, is to
give Chancellors of the Exchequer that encouragement: much more to pay
it in a conspicuous and ostentatious manner, at beat of drum, so to
speak, as the gentleman settles his just accounts in _A New Way to Pay
Old Debts_. And this is encouraging the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER to
go on cheating the nation, or rather cheating part of the nation, in
order to bribe the rest. It is being an accessory to the confiscation of
one's own property; to defrauding one's self: whereas, surely, if
suicide is the worst kind of murder, self-cozenage is the vilest sort of
roguery. Therefore, we argue that the conscientiousness that pays
conscience money on account of Income Tax is, as aforesaid, morbid; a
diseased bump, in phrenological language, which ought to be shaved, and
have ice put to it, or leeches, or cupping glasses after scarification,
to be followed by a blister: recourse to these antiphlogistic measures
being combined with alterative and cooling medicines.

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A GROSS IMPOSITION.

Should the Corporation of London be "hauled over the coals" it will
certainly be the heaviest burden that has yet been laid on the
unfortunate coals--in spite of what they already suffer.

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IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS.--The machinery of a cotton-mill in general
goes like clock-work, but this is not the case when the hands strike.

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THE GAME IN THE EAST.

Of all the games that e'er in the world of play were hit upon,
Since the ingenious "heads I win, and tails you lose," was lit upon,
The most winning game by far is that now played by the CZAR
With France and England--famous flats to try his wicked wit upon.

A Turkey is the stakes in the match; and who can wonder
That to the wily CZAR France and England should knock