The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

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lATR E form Association." Nevertheless, while he avows --
himeelf indisposed to countenance any such branch or
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su?plementary agitation, Mr. HUME acknowledges his
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" ORIGINAL to support, and to support hear..
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With all News o
stage stamps to Frederic any member by whom it may be separately pro-
Order of an News-agents ; or, send six postr.nd.
Era" Oftlee, 3, Catherine-street, posed. In speaking thus, it must be allowed, at any
Ledger, "rate, that the veteran Reformer is expressing himself
in language of becoming consistency. Mistaken, we
cannot but believe him to be, in altogether deprecating
any movement in favour of the Ballot, apart from
, that which is carefully watched over by his own (the
Financial) Reform Association. Naturally enough,
Mr. HUME would like amazingly to see the Ballot
carried out by means of that particular society, in
preference to another, that would require, in order to
render it successful in its object, a thorough and ela-
borate organization. lie acknowledges this prefer-
ence; but, while acknowledging it, he reminds those
who are in favour of the enterprize be himself is anxi-
ous to discountenance, that he shall, in spite of this
predilection of his about the right way of agitating
the question of the Ballot, "always heartily support
any member by whom it may be separately pro-
posed." So far so good. Apparently nothing can be
more fair or more straightforward. Yet examine the
matter a little more closely, and one becomes suddenly
aware of all its speciousness. Mr. HOME'S declaration
simply resolves itself to this.—" As a member of the
National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Asso-
ciation, I am prepared to support Mr. BERKELEY'S
annual motion in favour of the Ballot, but I am not
prepared to support any separation movement, outside
the House of Commons, in behalf of the same most
desirable innovation." In other words, "I will sup-
port in favour of the Ballot every effort that I know
must fail by reason of its isolation, but I won't sup-
port a single energetic endeavour that may be likely
to succeed in gaining this great desideratum; because
I am anxious that the Ballot, when it does come,
should come from my own favourite Association."
View Mr. Humes argument upon this subject in any
light you please, and it must simply and inevitably
resolve itself to that. We regret the circumstance
deeply, because we consider it to be one deplorably
calculated to retard the accomplishment of a change
which, by better management, might, long before
this, have been realized. It should he remembered,
we conceive, by the veteran and venerable represen-
tative of Montrose, as well as by all the other more
enthusiastie sticklers for exclusive support to the
Financial Association, that it was not thus we gained
that memorable victory over the banded advocates of
Protection. It was not by an association grasping
at the removal of imposts upon all kinds of foreign
imports that the commercial system of England was
reconstructed upon its present broad and natural
foundations. No ! It was by a League restricting
its endeavours to the destruction of the duties upon
one commodity—a League against the taxation upon
corn—a League which, by wisely confining its efforts
to the cheapening of the loaf, effected by its success
in that direction, the consequent cheapening of sugar,
of beef, of timber—in short, of all those numerous
articles of consumption which were catalogued
in the successive Tariffs of Sir ROBERT PEEL.
What enhances our regret at the course pursued in
reference to the question of the Ballot by Mr. HUME
in his twofold capacity as chief of the Radical Re-
formers and main supporter of the Financial Re-
form Association, is the circumstance that precisely
at this juncture an insidious effort is being made to
divert the popular attention from the Ballot, by the
more lukewarm advocates of the development and im-
provement of the system of national representation.
The herring is trailed in the current number of the
Edinburgh.
Yes ! It is all now settled. The problem is fairly
solved. We need have no further anxiety upon the
subject. The grand old Whig Quarterly has found
the difficulty out at last, and told us all about it, and
explained the remedy in a manner as sure and as
plain as—what shall we say ?—as sure as " eggs is
eggs," and as "plain as a pikestaff." The Edinburgh
publishes, in fact, a very simple substitute for the
Ballot, by the adoption of which (the substitute, not
the Ballot) all further agitation upon the subject may at
once be effectually dissipated. After this we shall
have the Quarterly solving the problem of perpetual
motion ; and Blackwood squaring the circle; and
Fraser finding out the clue to the longitude ; and
Bentley informing us how to concoct the " elixir
vita ;" and Ainsworth disclosing the way in which the
" aurum potabile" may be most readily manufactured.
According to the suggestion of the Edinburgh, all we
have to do in order to get rid of this " vexed ques-
tion " of the Ballot is, simply to adopt the plan
now "practised at the election of Boards of Guardians
and other parochial contests in England, and, with
some small modifications and improvements, in Scot-
land." (p. 484.) No more talk about secret voting—
that un-English system—in other terms the Ballot !
No more polling-booths ! No mote broken heads !
No more Six-mile Bridges ! No more political
treatings, or patriotic skrimmages ! The whole
" thing " is to be done as quietly as you please.
There are to be men who are to carry boxes ; and
these boxes are, of course, to have lids ; and in the
,tr lids there are to be slits; and through the slits are
to be dropped voting papers ; and the voting papers
are to be left at the electors' houses ; and are then to
be filled up, or not, at pleasure ; and are afterwards
to be returned to the collectors who will call for them
—and this is the substitute for the Ballot gravely
proposed to the people by the Edinburgh! We have
stripped the project of its alluring embellishments,
but such is literally an accurate synopsis of its
character. As already observed, therefore, we regret
that Mr. HUME should have chosen, precisely at the
very moment, when even the most extravagant en-
deavours are being made by the opponents of the
Ballot to deny the Reformers of the United King-
dom the opportunity of its realization—we regret, we
say, that the veteran Member for Montrose should
have selected this particular juncture in which to
throw cold water upon the project of a separate
movement in favour of that great system, consti-
tuting the only secure guarantee of a really popular
or national representation.

TILEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAILKET.
farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
The celebrated Comedy of MONEY, by Messrs. Barry Sullivan, B.
Web,,ter, Buckstone, Leigh Murray, Ilowe, Lambert, and Parselle ;
xrs. Fitawilliam and Mrs. Stirling.
After which, the successful Farce of BOX and COX, MARRIED
and SETTLED.
Ts conclude with the Farce of THE WOMAN I ADORE.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, Oct. 22,
Will be performed USED UP. Characters by Messrs. C. Matthews,
Roaby, Baker, and Horncastle ; Misses C. Horn and M. Oliver.
After which THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Jason, Miss Julia St.
George ; Medea, Madame Vestris.
To conclude with (fifth time) a new Farce, called A HOUSE
OUT OF WINDOWS. Characters by Messrs. Boxby and Baker ;
Mrs. Macnamara and Miss Martindale.

THEATRE ROYAL, .DELPHI.
Open for the Season.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING
Th powerful Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES. or a Hundred
Years Ago, by Madame Celeste, Miss Wdclgar, Messrs. Paul Bed-
ford, Honey, Emery, 0 Smith, &c.
To conclude with the Historical Drama of JACK SHEPPARD.
Jack, Mrs. Keeley ; Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedford.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE PRIMA DONNA. Principal characters
by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, and Cathcart; Miss Robertson,
and Miss Heath.
After width, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal charac-
ters by Messrs. C. Kean, W. Lacy, Ry-der, Meadows, J. Vining, and
Chester ; Misses Phillips, Robertson, Murray, and Charlotte Lecierq
To conclude with the Farce of THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER,
In which Ur. Wright will sustain his original character.

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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TEE WEATHER.—Surg OFFICE, OCTOBER 22.
THERMOMETER, LEI THE SHADE.
55—hig,hest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
56 —this day, at noon.
BAP.OMETRB, 29.81—going down rapidly.
WIND W.SW.—dull muggy weather; heavy rain in the
morning.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1852.

Mr. Hymn has spoken. Already, during the lapse
of the long vacation, the country has, at intervals,
been roused into attention by the successive voices of '
some among the chiefs of the national representatives.
in this manner Lord JOHN RIIMLL—the leader of
the Whigs—paid his tribute only the other day to
the cause of Democracy. In this manner Mr. BRIGHT
—the champion of the Manchester party—offered
some words of homage recently to the loyalty of Ire-
land, and to the fervour of Catholicism. In this man-
ner Mr. LUCAS—perhaps at this moment the most
conspicuous among the recruits who have lately taken
up their position in the van of the Irish Brigade--has
thrown dawn the gage of battle to his opponents, in
the haughty letter addressed to Sir CULLING EARD•
LET. Moreover, it was in this manner that Sir
James GReetem—the undisputed chieftain of those who
were once called Peelites, but now are more aptly de-
signated Liberal Conservatives—spread his banner to
the winds at Carlisle, and openly proclaimed the exact
tendency, as well as the precise character of hie most
fervently cherished principles. As if to demonstrate
the fact, that Ministers were no less active and vigi-
lant during the recess, the Right Hon. Gentleman,
the President of the Board of Trade, seized the ear-
liest opportunity that would present itself under the cir-
cumstances, by means of which Mr. HENLEY has
submitted to the judgment of the community, a sort of
supplementary manifesto to the one issued some time
back, from his retreat at Hughenden Manor, by the
Right Hon. Gentleman, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex.
CHEQUER. It is but reasonable, therefore, that while
the leaders of the various divisions in the Commons
ha•ve been thus addressing themselves directly to the
more watchful branches of the population, the Father
of the House should at last, himself, be heard by
those who recognize in him the most consistent, and
the most venerable of living Reformers.
Our satisfaction, we need scarcely say, is at all
times,
cordial when listening to
the pithy and sug-
gestive remarks addressed at intervals by JOSEPH
HUMS to the Liberal class of politicians throughout
the United Kingdo
Whatever may be the purport
of those remarks, we may, W
confident of this
at
leaya,t
by io their regard, rest perfeperfectly,
namely, that they are dic-
tated in every, syllable the purest motives, that
in other words, they are the utterance of a really con-
scientiousa ye s o
me
amongst
u. 3,Sometimes, it is true, there
Radical Reformers, who
differ in opinion from Mr. numa .b
always—under
any sod every circumstance, hovvevell; m
dissent from his'views—always we respectmeseucwe may
him-
There is that implicit reliance in the veteran
member
for .Monmose, that the most earnest, and not only the
most earnest, buL tie !Bost crochetty, advocate I
of Reform in the 'United Kingdom, must respect the
feelings which have guider] Lim to his conclusions.
Elsewhere, in cur impreesion of this evening, will he
observed a somewhat remarkable communication, in
the course of which Mr. HUME refers, in clear and
resolute terms, to the more imperative requirements
of the age in regard to reforms in the system of Na-
tional Representation. The principal aim of this com-
munication, as we understand it, is the deprecation of
any separate movement in favour of the Ballot—of
any distinct movement, that is to say, in favour of it,
apart from the comprehensive scheme of Parliamen-
tar r inn°7atjua ketit in view by the "Financi3l Es-

It is now very generally admitted that an equitable
adjustment of taxation is indispensable—that no Mi-
nistry can hope to retain office, unless determined to
place the fiscal affairs of the country upon a satisfac-
tory foundation. " Protection," in any shape or
form, has been virtually abandoned, and there is no
chance of any person with sufficient influence to
obtain a House, and avoid " a count out,"
making any effort to resuscitate a corn law
or to impose a duty on articles of primary
necessity. The stale pretext of the charge
being made for " purposes of revenue and not of
protection," is not available, nor will it be attempted.
Something, however, must be done. The Property
and Income-tax will expire on the sth of April
next, and it cannot possibly be renewed in its present
unequal and oppressive form. The subject cannot
possibly be evaded, but must be fairly grappled with.
The CLIANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER has promised
to give relief to the agriculturist. He is—so far as
the pledges of a private individual can be binding on
a Cabinet Minister—pledged to remove several griev-
ances to which he has on many occasions eloquently
directed the legislative attention ; and we believe that
there will
for b be
be will try to do so,tr ok
itheartyo,
norhpisaltpart
equivocation
none of the petty
which some of his predecessors obtained a painful
notoriety.

One of the subjects to which while in opposition
the Eight Honourable Gentleman repeatedly alluded,
was the unfair assessment of the Land-tax, and the enor-
mous burdens thereby imposed ou certain parts of the
country. According to its original constitution, no-
thing could be more equitable or impartial, and the
Act 4 Wm. & Mary, cap. 1, might at the present day
be selected as a model for an extended sys
system
dii%ct taxation. Property of ovary description—reel
or personal—was rendered liable to contribute its pro.
portion to the liquidation of the national liabilities,
and the maintenance of the National Establishments.
Eveni
if suffered to remain idle and unproductive,
through the caprice or timidity of its owner, it did
not thereby
escape the responsibility—being charge-
able with 20,3. per 1001. on the capitalized value.
It was to all intents and purposes a “Property " tax
of the most unexceptionable description.
It is singular that if
sana Actzii were now passed, simi-
lar to that of 4 Will, n
poundage rate of 45. in the poaurn3d-,
ognraanl lt granting
I aann d equalper
Bona' prcpeltr, i 4 would Produce about 52,000,0001,