P.S.—We have not yet visited the extensive locker of Davy Jones, Esquire, but we intend very shortly doing so.
30. Penn died, 1718.
'Tis very obvious that science then
Had not found out the everlasting pen.
THE TAX UPON PROPERTY.
EFFECTS OF THE INCOME-TAX.
Everybody is beginning to draw in to meet the necessity for pulling out. Tradesmen are reducing their expenses in all directions, and a respectable grocer has just dismissed an assistant who suited him to a T. A cook-shop boy, who used to be kept purposely to carry out the provisions to the customers, has been sent away, in order to enable the proprietor to carry out the provisions of the income tax. A large linendrapery house in the Westminster Road has cut off "a young man," who is thus thrown, as it were, as a burden on the rest of the community.