From Marshall's Statistics of the Metropolis, it appears that in
Mid- dlesex there are 89;803 houses assessed ; in Southwark, 3,044; in the Brixton Hundred, 3,188; in the Beacontree Hundred, 1,463; being a total of 108,986 houses paying the Assessed Taxes in the Metro- polis. Now, the numbers of members of the Anti-Assessed Taxes Asso- ciations, paraded by the orders it their various Meetings, consist of forties and' fifties,—there pot-honse juntas; and the total manlier 'a members avowed as enrolled a few days ago was 2,000, or two out of every 108 householders, even if we give the agitators the credit of enrolling none but householders; but it is notorious that peti- tions against the Assessed Taxes presented to Parliament have been signed, as their meetings have been attended, by operatives and others, who never paid a shilling of the Assessed Taxes in their lives. Out of this 108,000 case§ of payment, about half-a-dozen cases of open resistance are paraded, and these are ate cases of the agitators them- selves—regular agitators ; mo..;dy the Same persons who axe agitating for the restoration or the parochial watch and the abolition of the Police ; add, lit some instances, for obtaining the management. of the lighting of the parishes, and in all instances with the support of as large a proportion of the respectable part of the inhabitants. The, numerical proportions give a .just notion of the proportionate re- spectability engaged in the affair. Let it not be forgotten, then, that these juntas who assume to themselves to represent "the rate- payers," "the ground-down and cruelly oppressed rate-payers of the alotrnoolia " are, on their-own showing, not more than 2,000, out of 108,000. En.„=.1 Irving can boast as crowded meetings, as wise, and probably as numerous, and ceri.:1-2_1„sr tihonest a train of followers. The . rate-payers of the Metropolis,, though not r:".fllling,to f 2 -payments (and not a few of them see clearly what the agitit'tors are too ignorant to see—that the lange;;:, proportion will' ultimately go into the 'pockets of the landlords), have properzy to lose, and.would not readily submit it to the government of such agitators, and de not sigh for the restoration of the reign of the Dogberries or Charlies, or the parochial lighting, so favourable to`thieves and every species of peculation.—Cor- respondent of the Times.
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