The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-12 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
llarrison Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, to commence with RUY BLAS : Miss
Louisa Fyne, Miss Susa, Pyne, Miss Thiriwall. and Madame
Laura Baxter ; Messrs. Santley, Patey, Lyall, AynsleyCooke,
E. Dussek, and W. llarrison.
Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.
After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en-
titled HARLEQUIN BEAUTY AND TIIE BEAST.
Doors open at hall-past 6—Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL,DRURY-LANE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVEN ING, the Combo Drama of THE NEXT OF

After which, the Grand Pantomime of LITTLE GO DDY
TWO SHOES.

Commence at '.

THEAT R E-R Y AL, HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will be performed
nU It AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothcrn.
After which, a new and original Extravaganza, entitled
RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA; or, The Happy
Valley. Rasselas, Miss Louise Keeley.
Concluding with MRS. WHITE.

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTEK.
THIS EVENING (MONDAY), January 12th, and every
evening during the week, to commence with an Oriz,insl
Sketch, entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Miss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New lionlanti
Dramri, in Three Acts, and Pr)iogue, entitled TILL
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by
-sefiddi-
sunported by Messrs. G. Vining, Raymond, H.
J. Brougham'
combe, W. M'lntyre, P. Charles, Garden, Kate Terry, E.
Butler, Dawson; Misses Carlotta Leelereq'
Lavenue, and Elsworthy. 'Wed and will
Mr. Phelps and Mr. W. Montgomery are enga ,
shortly appear.
Doors open at half-past Six periormanca to commence
at Seven. Private Boxes, 2 'l2B. 6d., and £2 2s. Places
Dress Circle, 55. ed.; Upper
re,ristered. Stalls, 65. - •
Circle, 4s. 6d. Pricers a2t:d.do.
doors
—leStalls,
6115T.0; half-price 55.0 x
Upper Circle, 4e.; Pill tilt 5. The public are entreated to
office open daily
take notice that I,7charge is made to the occupants of boxes,
box places,
or stalls, either for playbills or for the sale keep-
ing of hats and cloaks and that the attendants in all parts
of the house are forbidden to receive anygratuities whatever.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ID OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
Lessee and Manager, Mr Uncial.

THIS EVENING, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. IL
3larston, Mr. Wallace ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M.
Oliver. and Mrs. B. White.

After which, the New Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME,
R I QUET WITH THE TUFT; or, Harlequin and Mother
Shipton." Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. Se ton, Misses Gray and
11 udspeth, Mr. Milano, Mr. R. Power, Miss A. Collinson, and
Mr. Raiford.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
-A- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE LI TLE THE A SURE. Mr
Billington, Mr. R. Phillips, and Miss Marie Wilton.
After which, A TICKET OF LEAVE ; Messrs. J. L.Toole,
P. Bedford, and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with " GEORGE DE BARNWELL :
or, Harlequin Folly in the Realms of Fancy." Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Seaman ; Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bed-
ford, i_ilsephenson, C. J. Smith. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ;
l..olunibine, Miss Caroline Adams ; Clown, Mr. W. Hildyard ;
t'a ntaloon, Mr. J. Paulo. The celebrated Arthur and
le rtrand.

Commence at 7.

The WEATHER.--Sun Office, Jan. 11, 1863,

COVENT- plus of, we will suppose (not unreasonably let us
I
hope), a substantial total of £4,000,000 ? It is ano-

ther only of the more agreeable kind of dilemmas in
which a Chancellot of Exchequer (always in
dilemmas of some sort, good, bad, or indifferent)
gladly groans to find himself! What remissions
will he make under these pleasant contingencies ?
And how Is ill he make them ? While Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S plans are yet determining, in his
mind, in his own heart, and judgment, and
conscience, it is allowable, and at the same time can
hardly be either idle or impertinent, to conjecture
by anticipation.
There are those cruel war duties still levied,
pertinaciously upon tea and suagadr,
thanks
sg
betheseto
years for England (happily and
heaven !) of peacoe.Dawtiieths that,sueh a surplus upon tea a
alone'
might might readily enough
are talking of in hand—be dropped at once
to the extent of an annual million and
a half. Mr. GLADSTONE has done so much of late
years for the increase of the comforts of all th e
wine-bibbers in this community that, iflonly by way
of compensation to the genius of sobriety, he might
facilitate the access now of poor and rich alike, but
especially of the hard-working poor, to "the cup
that cheers but not inebriates." There is then,
we repeat, a possible, nay, we will venture to
express it a probable diminution of the tea
duty at any rate, to the extent of an annual sum of
£1,500,000. The war duty on sugar might, in some
way also, be modified. And as affording another
and a very considerable section of the industrious
classes in this country the opportunity of more
readily smoking the calumet of peace in celebration
of the peace, the Chancellor of the Exchequer may
even find it in his heart to lower the import duty
upon tobacco—doing this even, we might suggest
to him, to the material advantage of the revenue.
Above all there is the abhorred, and with many,
we fear, the almost accursed Income-tax. Levied
during this last year at the rate of three and
three-quarters per cent., or ninepence in the pound
sterling, upon the incomes of the population, it has
yielded, rather surprisingly, a sum of upwards of
£11,000,000 altogether. Surprisingly, we say,
because in the calculations made for some years
past in regard to the proceeds of the Income-tax,
that Tax is well known upon the average to yield
for every penny £1,100,000 or thereabouts. Conse-
quently ninepence in the pound would at this rate
ordinarily pour into the Exchequer £9,900,000, or as
near as possible £10,000,000 altogether. This year
it has produced, however, as we have said, more than
£11,000,000, probably from the circumstance of
certain hitherto unpaid arrears dropping in. How-
ever this may be—there is the fact—and there, in con-
nection with that fact, comes back to us the all wel-
come reflection that now at length Mr. GLADSTONE
has before him a portion at least of his long looked-
for and, for some time past, almost despaired of
opportunity. He may ease the boot precisely
where it most sorely pinches the goutiest member
of poor burly old overburdened JOHN BULL. Re-
mit the War Tax among War Taxes, this Income
Tax in toto (meaning no pun)—he cannot be ex-
pected to do, of course. But modify it—allay the
cruelty of it—he may very readily now do, if he so
pleases. Dropping twopence from the ninepenny
rate at present imposed upon the community, he
would relieve the nation at once to the extent of
about two millions sterling. A ninepenny Income
Tax still securing a goodly sum to the Exchequer
of nearly £8,000,000 altogether. Before the
momentous evening can arrive when the House of
Commons shall again have mustered in unusual num-
bers to listen to the great annual oratorical display
of our Arch Financier, let Mr. GLADSTONE " think
well on 't," and that betimes. All his shortcomings
of late years—and they have been numerous, Heaven
knows, in regard to the revision of the Income Tax,
if in regard to nothing else—may at length, if he
but wills it, be swept out of view and forgotten.
In which event—though we affect not in any way
to be numbered amongst his more infatuated ad-
mirers—none would rejoice more he artily than
ourselves.

The Scotia brings us news which completes the

American year. The details both military and

political are of some interest, but we cannot see in
them, as some do, anything indicating an approach
to the termination of this monster war. It is singu-
lar that we receive at the same time a solemn long-
worded proclamation of JEFFERSON DAVIS against
General BUTLER and all his commissioned officers,
and the announcement that General BANKS has
arrived at New Orleans to supersede BUTLER, and,
doubtless, to inaugurate a better reign over New
Orleans and Louisiana. The proclamation of DAVIS
is one of the weakest things we have yet seen issued
by that able man. Its principle is retaliation for
injuries to rebel citizens of New Orleans, the proof
of which must be very imperfect, while to resort to
vengence on other innocent persons is a precedent
equally bad and futile. It can but embitter the war
without doing anything towards expediting its
termination. With one consent in England we have
reprobated some acts of General BUTLER; but the
one which excited such indignation here was ex-
plained in a very different sense to that in which it
was at first understood. Let, however, any of our
readers turn to the undeceiving accounts of
New Orleans, furnished by the invaluable,
because impartial, as well as graphic pen
of the Times' late correspondent from America, Dr.
RUSSELL, in his book recently published, and he
will see that Gen. BUTLER has had to keep in order
what was little better than a rebel Sodom. Dr.
RUSSELL, we must confess, opened our eyes to the
meaning of the New Orleans bitterness against
BUTLER, and we cannot believe it to have, in the
main, any other source than that of ruffianism and
rascality finding itself suddenly brought face to
face with a sharp but half-humorous fellow who
would " stand no nonsense."
In all probability BUTLER was very fond of the tit-
for-tat sort of school-girl treatment of the unmanage-
ables whom he had to control. His reported pro-
ceedings have, therefore, too much of the air of
smartness for the doings of a public administrator.
" be even with you, and have the laugh on my
side," seemed to be his motto. A rather undignified
one for a General governing by martial law and
commanding the army of the Gulf. Yet it is re-
markable that even the letters of complainauts
which have reached us from New Orleans have be-
trayed that the individuals who smarted under
BUTLER had endeavoured first to make him
smart, all they could. In
tribution wanted dignity,many cases his re-
tribution or wee
but, by the informant's- too severe,
(mu ehw • -
d the
case was it unprovoked. The new in no
Goeneirng,
old one met as old friends. Prom the ant eacnedents
of BANKS, whom we knew before as Speaker in the
House of Representatives, and as a General since the
war, there is no reason to expect anything from
him of the undignified irritation and " tit for-tat'
policy of BUTLER. His proclamation, on taking
the command, is couched in conciliatory language;
all possible respect to private rights and feelings is
promised, and half his remarks are devoted to rea-
soning with the people. He adopts, of course, the
Washington view, and shows that the vast Valley
of the Mississippi will never consent to be deprived