The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

FOURTH EDITION

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 8 O'CLOCK.

THE BUDGET.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in conti.
nuation, said—lt had been represented to the Government
that a change would be beneficial in the way of levying the
duty on corn, but he was opposed to any alteration in the
mode at present in existence. He proposed a change in
the duty on licenses to sell tea in the rural
hstriets from lls. 6d. to 2s. 6d., which would occasion a
loss to th., revenue of £10,0..0. The duty on hawkers'
licences having two horses would be reduced to £4. He next
proposed to equalize the stamp duties payable on entry in the
ecclesiastical benefices under £3OO to about £5, still fur-
ther diminishing gradually. The duties on proxies for
voting at joint stock companies, he proposed to reduce
from 6d. to ld., and there would be a reduction
of the duty on letters of attorney for recovering money.
He proposed to legalise the operations on marine insur-
ances on the payment of a shilling stamr, and also
to extend to magistrates further powers with respect
to the licensing of refreshment houses. He did
not intend to deal with the taxation of charities, but
inquiries were making with respect to future action. With
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sttoe theu df
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consideration.he surpl n
At present there wass he thought the sugar
a classified duty on sugar, bat that mode he considered
not the most beneficial system. There were other circum-
stances which induced him to devote the largest portion
of the surplus to the reduction of the duty derivable
from sugar. (Hear, hear.) There were three or four ways
of dealing with the subject, but after great consideration
he had come to the conclusion that the most beneficial way
of proceeding was to adopt that which would least
interfere with the natural course of trade. (Hear, hear.)
The present duty on sugar is distributed into four classes.
The change he proposed was that instead of the present
duty derivable on refined sugar, which was 18s 4d, he
proposed a duty of 12s 10d. Upon second class sugar,
which at present paid 16s, he proposed for the future it
should be lls Bd. Third class, which at present paid
13s 10J, he proposed should be lOs 61 The fourth
class, which at present paid 12s. Bd., would for the future
pay 9s. 4d., and he also proposed the creation of a new
class under which sugar not under Dutch number 6 should
be admitted upon the payment of a duty of 82. 2d. These
reductions would reduce the sugar ls. per cwt, lower than

it had ever been. This alteration would cause a great
diminution in the revenue, and the surplus would be re-
duced to £1,250,000. Addressing himself to the malt tax,
he asked the house if they would allow him to appropriate
the remainder of the surplus to that object. The honour-
able gentleman proceeded with great miuuteness to deal
with the arguments for and against such a proposition,
and said the Government had come to the conclusion not
to devote any of the surplus to the reduction of the
malt tax. Having given a short review of the im-
position of the income tax, the hon. gentleman proceeded
to comment on the rough and uneven manner in which it
acted. The relief given last year was important, but the
tax in his opinion still pressed heavily upon small
and non-elastic incomes, and on every occasion it
was but justice that when the finances of the country ad-
mitted, that tax, which was of such immense importance
in times of pressure, should always stand promi-
nently forward when reduction of taxation was
under consideration. (Hear, hear.) His belief was, from
long experience, that the existence of the income tax as a
permanent tax was inconsistent with the achievement of a
judicious publio economy. The proposition he had to make to
the house was to take a penny in the pound off the income
tax—(hear, hear)—which would make the tax payable
of 64. in the pound. Adverting to the fire insurance
duty, the hon. gentleman said the Government would
not think of any large reduction of that duty, and he hoped
the committee would not ask that such should be made in
preference to the reductions he had already annneunced.
What we proposed was to reduce the present fire
insurance upon stock in trade from 3s. to one-half its pre-
sent amount, ♦iz., Is. 6d, The total remission
of duty was £3,640,000, which left a balance
in favour of the £238,000. The hon. gentleman then, after
a few other remarks, resumed his seat—his statement,
which was listened to with the greatest attention, having
occupied exactly three hours.

GENERAL GARIBALDI,

GARIBALDI'S VISIT TO LONDON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Allow us to inform the public through
your columns that Garibaldi's arrival is positively
fixed for Monday next, at Nine Elms station, at
2.20 p.m.—We are, sir, yours respectfully,
JOHN RICHARDSON, Hon.
JOHN It, TAYLOR, 1t Secs.
London Tavern, April 6.

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
The following is the official programme of the

proceedings on the arrival of Garibaldi in London
on Monday next, adopted by the various committees
last evening :

General Garibaldi, who will arrive at the Nine Elms
station of the South-Western Railway at half-past two
o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, April 11, will be there .
received by the City, Italian, and Working Men's Cem-
mittees, and conducted to a platform prepared for the
occasion. He will then be presented with addresses by
deputations from the three committees, after which he will
enter a carriage provided for the occasion by his Grace the
Duke of Sutherland. In the meantime the procession will
be formed in the Wandsworth-road, and will march put
the carriage containing the general, which, with the other
carriages containing his friends and the members of the
committees, will then fall into the rear. The procession
will then take the following route :—From Wandsworth-
road into Miles-street, through Bond-street into New
Bridge-street, and thence along Tipper Kennington-lane,
Kennington-road, Westminster-bridge-road, Westminster-
bridge, Parliament-street, Charing-cross, and Pall-mall,
to Stafford House, arriving at which Garibaldi will then
alight, and be received by the Duke of Sutherland. The
procession will then pass by the east side of Stafford House
into St. James's-park, where it will break up.
All organised bodies taking part in the procession will be
expected to be on the ground by hall-past two o'clock at
the latest, and will be marshalled into place by properly
appointed persons in the order of their arrival.

On the arrival of the train containing the general the
band stationed on the platform will play the Garibaldi
Hymn.

Admission to the station and platform can be obtained
only by tickets. Two tickets will be issued, on applica-
tion, to any subscriber to the Demonstration and Testimo-
nial Fund of one guinea up to Friday night inclusive, and
after that date up to Monday morning, twelve o'clock, ono
ticket only to every subscriber of one guinea. A certain
number of tickets will be reserved for the members of the
committees. Tickets may be obtained of the secretaries of
the City Committee, at the London Tavern, or at 30,
Bishopsgate-street; or of the Secretary of the Working
Men's Committee, at the office of the 13echive newspaper,
10, Bolt-coUrt, Fleet-street.
By order of the committees.
JOHN RICHARDSON,
JOHN ROBERT TAYLOR,
Hon. Secretaries of City Committee.
ROBERT HARTWELL.
Hon. Secretary of Working Men's Committee.
April 6.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mrs. Gladstone entertained the Marquis and
Marchioness of Clanricarde, Count Strzlecki, Baron Meyer
de Rothschild, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily
Peel, the Attorney-General and Lady Laura Palmer, Hon.
Henry Brand, M.P., and Mrs. Brand, Lord Frederick
Cavendish, Hon. Lucy Lyttelten, Mr. Stansfeld, &c., at
dinner last evening, at their residence, on Carlton-house-
terrace. Mrs. Gladstone subsequently had an assembly.
Mr. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Under Secre-
tarybCohue elo.
A ET
of State for the Colonies, has been appointed a
Majesty'smem-
besrofrheßrTy
Most
OBVIOUS Honourable
soEuQrattlelni Privy
SEQUITUR.—The Council.
A condemnation of Mazzini by the French tribunals
is considered at Vienna to be a blow directed against the
English Government. Indeed the thing looks now ea-
tremely piquant. By the French law Mazzini is now a
convicted criminal, from which fact no other logical: de-
duction can be drawn but that the greater admirer of the
convicted culprit, Mr. Stansfeld, must needs share in this
conviction ; and as Lord Palmerston has taken this friend
of Mazzini under his protecting wing, Idefy any body to
prove the contrary to this clear and logical sequence.—
Austrian Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary.
So VERY LIKELY !—The resignation of Mr. Stans-
feld, says the Parisian correspondent of one of our
morning contemporaries, has been a prominent topic of con-
versation to-day, and the general impression seems to Le
that the hon. Member's withdrawal in extremes will not con-
tribute to avert the fate which hangs over the Cabinet. The
btansfeld- Mazzini business was but a small item in
.a large
account, the last feather which turned the scale against the
overladen Ministerial camel. It is not thought like') that
the Cabinet will be able to weather the " Conference," and
that their singular proposal to dispense with a basis and an
armistice will compel them to fight with
,out a leg to stand
on. Indeed, &report was current this afternoon that, in a
fit of extraordinary consciousnessof what awaits them,
• t d popular just
we Majesty's advisers had anttetpa e
.j we
and
the verdict of Parliament by spontaneously reslgntng ; and
although the report was nut confirmed, yet it obtained a
degree of currency sufficient to show how thoroughly the
public are fully prepared for a change in the occupants of
the Treasury bench.
The course of exchange at New York on London lorbille ct
60 days' sight is 1772 to 1781 per cent., and the premium on
mold is about 63; percent. At theae rates there is no prott
on' the importation:of gold from the 'Crated States.