WAR TAXES.
Horton Hall, 24th April 1854. San—I entirely concur in the sentiments expressed in your last number by a British subject residing abroad ; but a far more serious question arises upon the subject of the Income-tax with reference to British subjects residing at home, namely, whether the quarter of a million subject to this tax, with all its aggravations, are to bear the whole of the war-expenditure with which we are threatened, leaving all the millions of their fellow subjects, for whose interests the war has been ostensibly undertaken, comparatively free. I have conversed with many Philo-Turks, but never yet found one whose philanthropy went to the extent of an additional Income-tax. Assuredly it would not be the least of all the calamities of which war is the fruitful parent, if we were to be compelled to retrace our steps in the path of com- mercial freedom, and reverse those principles of financial policy, which, in- augurated by the late Sir Robert Peel, have already so largely contributed to the advancement of the material interests of the country. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, BEWAIL BOTFIELD.
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