The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-30 00:00:00

MALTA.

We have letters from Malta of the 22d inst.
On Wednesday, the 17th, Admiral Sir William
Parker, Bart., G.C.8., left the Admiralty House, to
proceed on board the Queen. At three o'clock,
accompanied by some of his personal friends and his
staff, he proceeded, after having partaken of a dejeuner
la fourchette at the residence of Lieutenant
Colonel Warde, R.A., to the Custom House, where a
guard of honour, supplied by the Maltese Fencibles,
was drawn up to receive him. Here also Lieutenant-
General Ellice and his staff, Colonel Warde, several
staff officers, the veteran Ruggiero Settimo, his secre-
tary, and many friends, assembled to bid farewell to
the Commander-in-Chief of the naval forces.
To them Sir William Parker addressed himself ex-
pressing the gratification he had ever experienced
from the manner in which the heads of departments
had seconded his views, and from the courtesies he
had always met with from the public in Malta. The
admiral then embarked, under a salute of 17 guna,
from Fort St. Angelo, the ships in port manning
their yards. At eleven A.m. on the following morn-
ing a signal from the Queen was made .to the ships
(Spiteful steam-sloop excepted) to striae the blue
ensign and hoist the red one ; thus giving up the
command to Rear-Admiral Dundas. An hour after,
towed out by the Scourge, the Queen left port on her
route to England.
Sir William in the fleet was highly unpopular ;
wedded to opinions of the old school, it was difficult
to adapt his views to the wants of the day. In Malta
he was, however, as popular as his warmest friends
could desire. Ever courteous, ever hospitable, ever
provideat, he had the interests of commerce warmly
at heart, and his pride seemed to be to afford any as-
sistance at his command when circumstances called it
forth.
The Scourge has gone to survey Graham's Shoal,
which, if report is to be depended upon, has been
rising since Lord Kerr last reported upon it. She
returned yesterday.
The Spiteful has left port for Gibraltar, where she
is reported to relieve the Janus.
The Hercules troop-ship, sent out to take the place
of the old Ceylon, has gone homewards, manned by a
portion of the Queen's crew. She has on board seve-
ral invalids.
The island is in a state of considerable excitement,
to-day being fixed upon for the third reading of the
Militia Bill in the Council. As it is proposed, the
measure is unpopular, not, it is believed, from the
Maltese lacking the courage to defend themselves if
attacked, but on account of the provisoes to deprive
them of their civil liberties and privileges if they du
not go out when called on. In a word, the measure
has been proposed and carried before the people knew
of it, and has been badly timed.
Two volunteer corps, the one a rifle, have been set
on foot, and will perhaps ere long be organized.
The military are being taught the use of hand
grenades 4 2-5 inches, by Lieut.-Colonel Huey,
68th Light Infeniry.
On Saturday night the master (Lang) of the Eng-
lish brig James Ray, 233 tons, arrived in port with
his craw, eleven in number, in his long-boat.
It appears that the brig left Trieste on the 12th
instant with a carve et s isnsus. sea
cotton roc Liverpool weather fresh, On the 19th
she sprung a leak early, which gained rapidly, the
crew cuestantly employed at the pumps, and all
endeavours to free her were fruitless. The
pumps became shortly efter choked by the grain,
and the captain, finding all hopes of saving
his ship gone, determined on abandoning her.
Ile put into the long-boat a small quantity of
water and provision, his papers and chronometer, and
embarking his crew, stayed by the unlucky brig for
an hour, when she went down. The accident hap-
pened off Mount Ems, about 175 miles distant from
Malta. From the moment they embarked till in sight
of the island, they saw no ship. The sailors, with the
humane feeling which is often shown, would not
allow a parrot to perish, but took it with them, and it
is now alive in Malta.

CAPTAIN STOPFORD.

(From the Portsmouth limes and IVaval Gazette 0)

Saturday.)
We see it stated in the daily papers of yesterday that
Ciptain the lion. l'ilontsgu Stopford, of the London,
goes again to the Waterloo at Sheerness, as flag-captain
to Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy. Port-Admiral
at the Nore station! Is this ahuffl) really going
to be tolerated by the Duke of Northumberland?
If so, wo shall begin to think that his Grace is not
SO sharp-sighted as we judged him, or that a large
amount of influence " from without" has been brought to
undermine his Grace's better judgment. How many
changes has this shore-hugging Captain rung out of the
4ating Admiralty since ho was appointed last for sea
IrcNice? Let us see. Oa the 26th of July, 1850,
T' Was appointed to commission the Trafalgar, 120; be
fittedinf.. her out, and when she was about putting to sea a
went ashore,
of captain Stopford's family fell ill, and he
(7:',o4tore, tra,eafering the command of her to Captain
had lately paid oil another ship! Captain
Greviliv who
soak the Trafalgar to the Mediterranean,
arid retains the
of Augu.,t, command of her. On the sth
appointed
Captain the Honourable Montagu
Stepford
It.to, at SheorneVointed to commission the Waterloo,
tlttlhtiet fitted her out for the flag of Hear-
Admiral Dundas
ception
of
the min.rasihe was nearly ready for the re-
I when the French cock began
to crow and frightened' the Lards of the Admiralty,
Who substituted • the Britannia 120, at this
port, for the W lestt theaterloo,of that
ship should get her sidesbattered in
annclher
flag
salted by the overpowering French squadron in the
Captain M,diterranean; thereupon
So ford a
Z
s a
(the a t
flag-ship),
s-
ferred to the London, 92, at sheer_
e p
while Captain Mundy went on with the fitting the
Waterloo, to take the gag
from the London; and now
we are told Claptqta Stoptord is
..aboe;to ,
leave the Lon-
don for the Waterloo, Captain All'"uY returning to the
f ormer again!
110',v this is, without exception, one of the moat
" art-
ful &Agra" to gain sea time at the expense of lons in_
fluentially named otlicer3 we ever heard
°- f
. When
Captain Stopford has served time"
in th>o 'lonshore manner, it is rumoured Captain Charles Ed:',3
(anothm- lucky name in the navy), the late courteous
private secretary to Sir Francis Baring, Will Slide
into his berth, the senior sea Lord of the present
Admiralty being a relative of the Eden family by mar-
riage! A pretty hash up of naval patronage truly! Can
the Duke of Northumberland—a man of honour, and a
sailor—be aware of this " shuffling and cutting" to win
the game of " sea time" by the party who have so long,
'mail. the ,reign of the Auckland-Baring Boards
of Admiralty, appropriated to themselves and
obtained for their cc:•nncxious the best berths in
the service? If he is, and tolerates it, the country and
the navy will be very much deceived is the character of
the noble and distinguished head of the Admiralty, from
whose able and impartial administration of the affairs of
the service they anticipate a total regeneration of prin-
ciple in the distribution of that patronage which falls to
his gift.

PtrnLlC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—There was
on 'hfonilay printed, by order of the House of Commons, a
Parliamentary paper, showing the public income and expen-
diture from 1822 to 1851 inclusive. In 1822 the revenue
r4velved into the Exchequer amounted to 54,135,743/. ; the
"xlieniliture was 49,391,2251. ; leaving a surplus of 4,744,518/.
This wee the largest excess over expenditure mentioned in
the period embraced by the return. In the same year taxes
were repealed or reduced amounting to 2,139,1011., and no
new taxes were imposed. The capital of the funded and
unfunded debt was 832,811,2951. The balances is the Ex-
chequer at ',the close of the year were 7,797,0201. In 1851
the revenue received into the Exchequer was 52,233,006/. ;
the expenditure 49,506,610 i.; leaving an. excess of 2,726,396/.
The faxes repealed and reduced were 2,679,861/., including
the window-tax of 1,878,8004,
and the inhabited house duty
imposed, estimated t;
, 600,000/. The capital of the debt was
784,869,332/, awl the balances in the Exchequer at the
close of the year were 8,381,6311. In 1846 the surplus of
income was 2,846,;508i. In 1847 the deficiency of income
was
2,956,684
1, and in the following year the deficiency was
796,419!. In 1849 tha surplus Ives 2,098,12C1., and in 1851
2,578,800/.
FOREIGN ~._IIII. PJUILDING.—TiIere is
BRITIiii AND
NEW :".. 1 A 1 I', IN at pre3ent loading in the river
,!,:iylne
a new vessel belonging
---- •" --' to a company at Hamburgb., 6 8 was built at Sunderland
e•—•..--/ -_, - ,!..
~ .
t'-'"I -" ~.,• '_ —..., . for emigration purposes, is 484 tons new measurement, was
Lthan what would '
/,' built at 91. per ton. and 1.3 stated to have cost her owners, in I
ler. build lug and fitting out,
:',.' a:e been the outlay at fiambtagu, the aalPwrights on the
1,502/. less
/4 i-.49l'ear being pail 4a. per day.
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" Thus taking 50,355,0371. 5s 6d. out of the p
the people to put a sum of 21,28.4,761/. Bs. 9id.
public treasury of the State. But the total net
less cost of collection, from Customs and Excis
year ending sth January, 1851, was 35,133,953/.1
representing, at the same rate of charge, an a
taxation of 83 119 1634 7s. 0.0.

pockets of
into the
t revenue,
;e, for the
193.10,P.,
.mount of

The difference £47,985,209 '
Less the charges of collection 2,116,469 1

7 2
0 7i

Leaves .. £45,838,739 16 6
or 130/. 94. 4icl. per cent, upon the net revenue raised
from these sources for State purposes, neither paid into
the Exchequer nor to any Government officer, but
simply wasted in the process of collection.
" To state the case another:way :—Supposing the same
amount of revenue were to be raised by a system of
direct taxation, which might undoubtedly be collected at
an expense not exceeding 2 per cent., ; and probably
less, the gross amount to be levied on the public would
... £35,e50,973 9 3i
Cost of collection, say 2 per cent...

Net amount to be paid into the Treasury X 35,133,953 19 104

" The Finance Accounts show that—
ofCustosduties
£22,019,783 19 7 {rnwere collected at }£1,293,801 12 1
a charge of
15,260,639 10 111 of Excise duties at do. 862,664 18 6i

£37,280,423 10 6,1, Total. £9,146,469 10 7i
But the cost, if levied directly, would be
as above

717,019 9 41

Showing a saving, in the collection
alone, of

As shown before, the actual amount
paid by the public under the present
system of Customs and Excise Duties,
is ..,•• •
But if levied directly it would only be 35,850,973 9 3.'2

The annual saving to the public under a
system of direct taxation, would,
therefore, amount to ... . £47,268,189 17 9{
" We thus raise a revenue of 35,133,9531. 19s. 101 d.
from,Customs and Excise duties, at a loss of 1341. 10s. 9d.
per cent., while, at the same time, we impose a charge
upon industry and production (for taxes on consump-
tion are necessarily taxes upon production—a fact often
forgotten) of upwards of eighty-three millions yearly,
besides stamps amounting to some some five millions
more. Such ' a load would sink a navy. Were there
no other reasons—which the Council would by no means
affirm—it is in itself amply sufficient to explain why im-
ports should bo unprofitable, important manufactures
eesuaf_geling, and competition everywhere intense and ex-
no_l_ taend though this estimate may afford an ap-
-4 AZettir to the amount of money paid directly out
consequence of the customs and excise sys-
tem, item for money not earned, which, could
tem, therel
ed
it be t,:icart,:in , would probably prove at least as much
more.
To pay a directtFL.e
costs nothing beyond the amount
of the tax itself
and the aim collection of it. In the
State of New yo;;
K there is le •
vied what is called the
mille tax, because the inhabitants
or the thousandth Part of are taxed one mile,
a dollar on every dollar of
capital they posses!. This tax is levied
at ' f
t atcost 9 two
per
cent. But if it were to be raised
twenty mu no le per dollar it would cost oen mine or
more to collect
it. In fact the per-tentage cost, though something must
be allowed for increased responsibility, would be lessened
as the rate of the tax increased. What is do in w
York may be done in England; a Single rate on all kinds
of property, real and personal, or capitalised •
income,
collected by one staff of collectors, would serve all '
pur-
poses, a corlaiu proportion for the estate, so muchfor
the poor, so much for police,: so much for sanitary pur-
poses, &e., &c. Every other tax could be dispensed
with. Away then with all custom-houses, all excise and
customai officers, and all the odious and detestable re-
strictions which belong to customs and excise duties.
Away with every kind of tax or rate-colleeter• What
to fraud,
a mass of temptation to evasion, to corruption,
we should annihilate at once! Truth would take the
place of falsity,
Government
would cease to be a cheat,
and cease to make cheats of the people. This ono change
would do more to reform morals than the Church ever
has done, and England would in consequence be ren-
dered a comparative paradise.

EXTENSIVE GAROTTE ROBBERY AT LIVERPOOL.'
About nine o'clock on Friday night a gentleman was ac-
costed by a female in Elliot-street. He remained in conver-
sation with her a minute or two when he was suddenly at-
tacked by two men, who knocked him down. The woman
immediately grasped his purse, containing about 3001. in
gold and notes. She was captured on the spot, but the two
men unfortunately escaped. On the way to the station-
house she threw away] 2301., and in the 13ridgwell 601, was
found upes► her, . .

When made np in From what
When
PLACES. General Post-office port dis-
London: patched. due'
America (by Brit. pkt.)N March 2G .. ,Llverpoel .• March 30
America (by U.S. pkt.) N'April 6 .. • • jLiverpool .. April 2
•
America (by IJ.S.pkt.)3llllarch 31 .. ..liboathavapt.
Africa (West coast).• N 14th of the month Plymoath April 3
Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo., Dover .. March 23
Belgium • .. •• N Daily • • IDover .. Daily
Brazil M 9th of the month Southampt. April 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M'9th of the month iSotithampt. April 16
California(viaChagree)3li2d & 17th of month Southern pt. IMarch 29
Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month Plymouth • • April 3
Constantinople* •• 2411th 17th 27th ofmo 'Dover .. March 30
Central America .. BS,2d lic 17th of mon. 'Southampt. March 20
Channel Isles •• NMon.,, Wed., &Fri.,'Southampt. Ta. Th.l3at
Chili •• •. Mll7th of the month (Southampt. March 20
Prance M& N Twice daily .. Dover • • Twicedaily
Greece* •• •• N 7th 17th 27th ofmo !Dover •• March 30
Hamburgh N•Tuesday & Friday ;London .. Tues. Sat.
Holland MiWednes. & Satan ,London Moa.Thur
Honduras .. . 17th of the mouth;Southampt. March 20
Ireland .. M& W Twice daily ;Holyhead • . Twicedaily
India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. April 21
India (viaMarsellles) N Sth& 24th ef month pover • • April 2
Mediterranean (via
Southarenton) .. M 20th of the month Southampt. April 21
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N Sth&24th of month Dover • • April 2
Mexico .. M2d of the month.. iSouthampt. April 5
Madeira • • .. 9th of the month 'Southampt. April 16
Malta* 7th,17th,19th,27th 1 Dover 'March 28
& 20th of month
Naples' .. •• N sth 15th 25th ofmelDover .. April 2
Papal Statza* sth 15th25thof mopover .. 'April 2
Peninsular.. .. ... M 7th 17th 27th ef mo Southampt. April 6
Peru • • .. .. •• Mil7th of the month Southampt. March 20
Tuscany* .. N'bth 15th 25th of me Dover • 'April 2
West Indies .. M'l7th of the month Southampt. 'March 20
West Indies (except
Havtutna & Nassau) M 2d of the month ..,Bouthantpt.lAprll 5
* The mails to those c ountries thus marked (0) are conveyed by

SonthamptiAprll 5
:ed (*) are conveyed by

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March
_29._

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at Five o'clock.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the
Lord Provost, town council, and magistrates of Edin-
burgh, praying for the abolition of the tests imposed on
the professors of Scotch universities; also a petition
from Perth to the same effect; also a petition from
Brighton, praying for the enfranchisement of copyholds;
and a petition from Cork in favour of tenant right.
PRIVILEGE.—EXCLUSION OF LADIES FROM
THE HOUSE DURING PRAYERS.

Lord CAMPBELL called the attention of the House
to a question of privilege. On the last occasion when
he was present in their Lordships' House, when
the Noble Earl now at the head of the Government had
been installed into office, there naturally had been a
groat anxiety shown to be present, and the galleries
appropriated to Peeresses and their unmarried daughters
were accordingly filled. When prayers commenced
the ladies were ordered to withdraw, and obliged to
remain waiting in the cold corridor until prayers
were terminited. It appeared to him that this
„„,w rrty ..saauag -...yv')U3 courao, cull 1.1t7
hoped that their Lordships would take some steps to
remedy the grievance of which he complained.
The matter then dropped.
FOREIGN REFUGEES.

Tho Earl of MALMESBURY hid on the table of the
Rinse further correspondence relating to foreign re-
fugees in England.
OPENING OF NUNNERIES.

The Earl of RODEN presented a petition, signed by
a large number of ladies of the county of Tyrone, pray-
ing for the opening of the nunneries io the visits of in-
spectors.
DEPOSITION OF THE AMEER ALI MOURAD.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move for a
copy of a proclamation issued on the 21st of January,
1852, by Mr. Frere, the Commissioner in Scinde, by
order of the Governor-General of India, declarin 2; the
forfeiture to the British Government of all the territories
held by the Ameer Ali Meurad, except such as he re-
ceived from his father, on the ground of his having wrong.
fully obtained possession of a portion of those territories
by means of a forged document styled the treaty of
Nownahur ; also, for an account of the estimated reve-
nue of the territories so forfeited, distinguishing such as
were obtained under the treaty of Nownahur from such
as were held by the Ameer Ali Mourad at Rais, under
the Cession of the Turban, concluded at Dejee on or
about the 19th of December, 1842 ; and also, for an
account of the estimated revenue of such of the terri-
tories so forfeited as wero heretofore in the possession
of the Nuwab of Babawulpore, and were intended to be
ceded to the said Nurfab by the several treaties signed
by the Ameers of Sciade on the 14th of February, 1843.
Tho Noble Earl said that the papers for which he moved
related to the late deposition of Ali Mourad from the
territories lately occupied by him in India, on the
ground that he had gained possession of them by means
of a forged treaty.Thc condition of Ali Mourad was that of
an independent prince, en ally of the British Government,
and the question between him and the British Govern-
ment was one of state against state, and we had no right
to proceed against him both as a prince and a subject.
Ho was no ordinary individual; fir many years he had
been a faithful ally of the British Government, and had
it not been for his co-operation in the year 1843,
when ho joined with Sir C. Napier with 5,000
men, it was very doubtful whether Sir C.
Napier could have brought the operations which he was
engsged in to a successful issue; in the affair, too, of
Moultan, and in still later operations his assistance had
been of great service. The charge brought against him
was that be had gained possession of certain districts by
means of a forged treaty, and the result of a
trial ordered by the British Government was
to confirm the accusation. He (Lord Ellenbo-
rough) complained of the manner in which this
trial had been conducted, and the judges who
had presided. Gallant officers they were certainly,
as ho freely allowed, by the qualities of a bold sabreur
were not those of the judge, and he certainly did not
think that two majors were the most fitting persons
to couduct an investigation of this sort. The
value of the property which Ali Mourad had
got possession of was but 4,0001. per annum,
while the tine was 100,0001. He therefore hoped that if
the present Government did not altogether annul the
judgment which had been pronounced, they would at
least revise it, and relieve the British name from the tar-
nish
which the whole of this trausacton had thrown upon
it in the minds of the people of India.
Lord BROUGIITON said he should not have presumed to
rise before the Noble Earl, the First Minister, if this matter
concerned her Majesty's present Government, or if ho were
about to speak for any but those who were immediately
answerable for that proceeding. If that injustice had been
committed, or if there were that gross violation, not only of
the substance, but of the forms of common equity, to which
the Noble Earl had alluded, he (Lord Broughton) alone was
answerable for it, he having been President of the Board of
Control at the time of those proceedings, and having autho-
rised the sending to India of the dispatch by which this
Prince had been tried, and unjustly, according to the Noble
Earl, but justly, as he (Lord Broughton) should show their
Lordships, deprived of those ill-gotten possessions which he
had acquired. By the courtesy of the Right Honourable
Gentleman who now presided over the Board of Control, be
had been enabled to refresh his memory with regard to
these transactions, and as they had heard the precise and
admirable statement as far as it went of the Noble Earl, he
hoped they would now lend him their attention while he
(Lord Broughton) stated the facts according to his know-
ledge of the matter. In the early part of the Noble
Earl's statement he had with sufficient accuracy intro-
duced to them the charactor and position of this Indian
Prince. It was quite true that he was a man of consider-
able importance, that he had rendered services to the British
Government, and had taken taken a distinguished part in the
eldest was Meer P
proceedings in Scinde. What sort of services these were,
and what kind of distinction he had acquired, he should how-
everstate d presently
show them. He was, as the Noble Earl bad
the third son of a chieftain in the upper portion of
Scuds, Who died sometime ago,ad left three sons. The
,00stana khan, the second
li
portions, of which he gave khan,
when
Khan, and the •
third Dleer Ali Mourad who was considerably I
younger than his brothers. Now 'the father of these I
three princes died he .
divided his property into four equal
an additional fourth to the eldesot esaocn, ofthe rail, With the
h; swsaosns )Veer
leftA
headship, or turban. The brothers, after the. death of their
father, went on amicably tegether until after the death of
the second brother, who was succeded by his son Meer
Nussen Khan, who took a conriderable part in the transac-
tions of Scinde. In a short time these princes quarrelled
themselves, the eldest brother, Meer P
among ,00stani and
his nephew, taking Part against Ali Mourad, who wished to
secure to himself a lari.er share of ower. There
pm a Icing gaggle) IYAICII at lastl2r9k.e Out into