30 APRIL 1842, Page 7

The leading Whigs are chargeable with gross neglect of their

public duties in Opposition, for not striving to mend the finance measure which they factiously obstruct : but if a correspondent is to be believed, their folly is exceeded by that of Mr. MASTERMAN, "who goes about in the City privately denouncing the Income-tax, for "Miele he votes in the House.' Our correspondent wishes us to call upon Mr. Kis-mamma. and Mr. Alderman TstompsosT, as a preferable course, to muster some thirty or forty on their side, and bring the weight of the objections of the commercial body to bear directly on Sir ROBERT PEEL.