text:  What however as a matter of _mere speculation_ if the nation should by and by when familiarized with the character and working of the income-tax become more reconciled to it and prefer its retention as a substitute for _the Assessed Taxes_ which at present press so heavily on all but particularly on the working-classes! But while Sir Robert Peel was remodelling the Corn-Laws and creating a new source of direct revenue he also undertook another task--a herculean task one utterly hopeless and beyond the reach or even conception of any but a Minister conscious of occupying an impregnable position in the confidence of the country: we allude to his reconstruction of our entire commercial system as represented by his _new Tariff_