The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

of these miserable coxcomberies of a profession
which has hitherto been manly and magnanimous. I
Enough of these little piques and squabbles
more worthy of the waiting•women in " Torn
Jones," than of officers in the Royal Navy of
England. The dignity of the service is not in this
manner to be preserved. And if we may so apply
the phrase to the baubles of rank attainable in the
profession, we would exclaim—Non sic, non sic
ilur ad astra ! For the abandonment of all such
despicable systems we look with confidence to
the present Lords of the Admiralty, and as affording
the most brilliant illustration of this we are sanguine
that CAPTAIN PENNY will very speedily find his
grievances rectified at the instance of the gallant and
noble sailor now presiding over that board—at the in-
stance of his Grace, ALGERNON PERCY, Duke of
Northumberland.

We have already declared that " so long as the
question of protection, and the re-imposition of taxes
on human food remained in abeyance, we were
by no means indisposed to afford a fair trial to the
present Government." The great cause of legal re-
form will not in any degree suffer by the elevation of
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN to the woolsack. That distin-
guished, we might without flattery say, " incompara-
ble" jurist, will we have no doubt introduce
measures of an enlarged and comprehensive
character, going at least as far as, if not much far-
ther than, any that has received the sanction
of men in authority. His thorough knowledge of
the subject under consideration, which will enable
him to detect almost intuitively the existing evils,
will also suggest the fitting remedies. And we are
satisfied that under the auspices of the new LORD
CHANCELLOR the probabilities of the cleansing of the
Augean stable are as great as we could reasonably
anticipate under any living statesman. The purifi-
cation, too, will be effectual, although the stream may
not be sufficient to sweep away the ancient landmarks
but merely to remove the excrescences and fungi that
have sprung up during successive ages.
There is another change which we also hail with
unqualified delight BENJAMIN DISRAELI, the
talented, accomplished, and eloquent BENJAMIN
DISRAELI, has assumed the position formerly occu-
pied by Sir CHARLES WOOD! ! ! Behold " the coun-
terfeit presentiment of two" Ministers of Finance--
the one as remarkable for brilliant genius as the other,
his predecessor in office, for his almost unparalleled
dulness and stupidity. "Major A.," the well-known
writer on short whist, declares that it is better "to
play on a bad principle than on no principle." So it
is in politics. We may differ in many points from
the Right Honourable Gentleman the Member for
Buckinghamshire, we may consider that on many
points he has arrived at erroneous conclusions, but
better far to have a really talented man, who, although
mistaken, may be open to conviction, than a perverse
and obstinate blockhead, whose only claim to
office consisted in his unreasoning opposition to
every proposition—his extraordinary and almost
unnatural development of the vis inertia'.
But from Mr. DISRAELI we may hope and look for
better things. lie is for the people and of the peo-
ple. He has shown his perfect knowledge of the ini-
quities of the apportionment of the income-tax, and
the injustice of compelling the bard-worked profes-
sional man to contribute to the maintenance of the
national establishments and the liquidation of the
national liabilities in the same proportion as the for-
tunate possessor of a handsome sum inscribed in the
books of the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England, or of other accumulated and realized
property. He has, indeed, clearly and uneqivocally
expressed that opinion, and declared that it was im-
possible to maintain the impost in its existing form
without a considerable modification of Schedule D.
On the great and all-important question of currency
reform we cannot suppose that the friend, the asso-
ciate, the alter ego of the late Lord GEORGE BENTINCE,
will permit the bullionist fallacies to remain without
exposure, or the infamous monetary code founded
thereon to encumber the statute-book much longer.
But there is one point brought prominently under
notice by the important meeting of the Association
for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Know-
ledge, on Wednesday evening. Mr. DISRAELI, not
only as one of the most accomplished living authors
of the age, but as the worthy descendant of an
almost equally distinguished father, who had boldly
assumed end long maintained a prominent posi-
tion in the reeks of literature, must be well
aware of the grievances to which the frater-
nity are subjected. The tax may not have
proved very enormous, or materially checked
the circulation of his own works, but it has blasted
the hopes of many Thing authors, and must oppose
thest
to many works
rongc happilyst,although not insuperable, ob-
stacles emanating from the most
gifted sources.
Consider fora moment what CHARLES KNIGHT has
stated respecting the impediments to publications
arising from the paper-tax and the advertisement
duty. It is not merely the sum payable for the
paper duty, but the annoyances, the inquisitorial
visitations, and the vexatious obstructions interposed
in the way of the manufacturer, that increase the
price of the article of primary necessity to the
author and publisher. There is an accumulation of
grievances that amount to a very formidable sum
total, and for a beneficial arrangement on this point
we look with far greater confidence to the
writer of " Vivian Grey" and " Coningsby"—
the son of the distinguished author of the
" Curiosities of Literature," than we could possibly do
to any of the aristocratic dullards who have filled, or
might aspire to, the all-important office of Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland.

The advertisement duty, too, will have many claims
on his notice, which will not, we trust, be overlooked.
The equality. of charge—the imposition of the same
tax on publicity on the humblest servant seek-
ing for a situation, and the highest no-
bleman desiring to sell an estate worth
hundreds of thousands of pounds, is too ridiculous to
bear argument. It only requires mention to carry its
own condemnation with it, From Mr. DISRAELI we
anticipate on these points, and also on the vexata
questio of newspaper stamps, a fair and unprejudiced
decision, which is more than we could hope for from
a Whig of the ancicn regime. We therefore, con-
sidering these various and" itnportant recommenda-
tions, are disposed to make every reasonable allow-
ance for the announcement of the intentions and
policy of the real founder, and bona fide leader, and
guiding spirit of the new Administration.

With profound regret we announce this day in our
columns the death from paralysis, at the ripe age of
83, of the venerable Dr. MURRAY, the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. Although a
Whig in politics and a Catholic in creed, the
departed prelate has, during the whole of a long and
honourable career, been both respected and beloved
by persons of all principles and of all religions. His
views were neither sectarian, nor of a partisan cha-
racter. His influence was at all times conciliatory.
His efforts were invariably directed to the allaying
of ill will, to the suppression of bigotry, to the dissi-
pation of fanaticism, to the discountenancing of agi-
tation. An advocate of education, he ever proved him-
self a champion of _ enlightenment. And as by
his candour and by bis impartiality Dr. LIN'
GARD secured to himself the admiration of all
intelligent minds in regard to his labours as a Roman
Catholic historian, Dr. MURRAY by his amenity, by
his serenity, and by the prevailing dignity and
sweetness of his temperament, won " golden opinions"
from all classe3, from all parties, from all
creeds, and from all professions in his character
as a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic. It is expected by
many that either the Rev. Mr. MEAGnon, P.P. of
Ruin:nines, or Archdeacon HAMILTON will be nomi-
nated the Successor of the deceased prelate, but who-
ever may be selected, it cannot soon be forgotten in
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