3 JANUARY 1857, page 17

Why We Pay The Income-tax.

SELDOM has any public movement been at once more reasonable and more unreasoning than the present agitation against the Income-tax. It appears to be gradually acquiring......

Hugh Miller.

SOCEETY is addicted to intoxication : it does not become corporately the prey of George Cruikshank's bugbear "the bottle," but it lends itself to intemperance of a far more......