The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

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Majority against the Government 117
Neither of these calculations, however, can be ac,
cepted as in the smallest degree conclusive. They
are the deductions drawn by the mere wishes of par-
tizans. They represent not the position of parties
in the new House of Commons—but the
position in which they would gladly be found—the
one by the Opposition and the other by the Govern-
ment. Already we have shown that by a somewhat
reasonable calculation the 76 Liberal Conservatives
might be divided into two unequal portions—yield-
ing 16 to the Cabinet and 60 to the Opposition.
This, however, we have waived as so entirely matter
of conjecture (no matter how probable that conjecture
may be) that it cannot possibly be accepted as sada-
fact‘ery. The more reasonable system will be
to
separate the 76 " Deabtfals" into two equal divisions
of 38, to be respectively united to the Liberals and
the Derbyites. At least this is fair and reasonable on
the part of cae of the organs of the Opposition. Because
this most unprejudiced admit that out of the 76
LiTheral Conservatives a considerable majority must 1),-
fegund formally arrayed rgainst the Administration.
Of this there is no question. whatever amongst the
tin biassed. But this we v,iil not, in any way, require
in. cur calculation. We will demand merely a fair
d:vision ef the 76 L.:baral Conservatives. We will
apply merely a moiety and not a majority to the
Oppositioe, applying the other moiety to the
increase of the number of the supporters of the
\
GI ‘T.i,.ran-: ent. Aiding 38, therefore, to 309, we
sh all find 3=17 ea ‘,.L. oggregate of the Liberals ; and
ad ding 38',0 9.68 we shall find 306 as the aggregate
thereiore,
ci the Mioisterialists. The result stands,

siz aply thus :-
00p0sition
Goverment

347
••. ••• ..
306
...

Majority for the Opposiiion ... 41
In the foregoing it will be perceived, surely, that
our endeavour h;:s been to calculate the result
ie n with
all possible accuracy And fairness. This is suffictly
proven by the consequence of our deductions. In-
{he
stead of insisting, as we might without extravaance
g first
have insisted, upon the correctness of the
rough estimate, yielding a clear majority of eighty-
five against the Government, we have carefully
deducted 76 " doubtful" DA:ambers from the 653
i already returned, and by dividing these 76 equally
between the Ministerialists and the anti-Ministeriln
is ts, we have reduced the majority for the Oppositio
ft otn eighty-fire to FORTY.-ONE. Redueed though
it is to less than half its original dimensions, 1: is still
a majorit!,, gad a majority, moreover, sufficient for
all the purpoies of an Opposition. Against an
OPPeEition thus formidable it will be impossible
for any Cabinet, however chivalrous, to preserve its
alacrity with
.arly degree of independence. The
supporters of Lord D.VIIY. may, therefore, congrav
tulate themselves upon what they are pleased to call
the triumphal response given to the Ministerial gp-
peal to the country—Blackwood, the chief
among the organs of the Cabinet, may ex-
ult in eloquent terms, cs it actually does
in the course of the new number for the month of
August, singing a rapturous paean over the answer
given to Lord linunl by the electors ; but in spite
of all these shoats of victory from the upholders of
the Cabinet, it is manifest that the existing Govern-
ment cannot long survive the powerful majority ce-
cured to the Opposition.n

The draught report submitted by Mr. lineir for
the consideration of the Select Committee on the pro-
perty and income tar, is a document of no ordinary
importance, affording conclusive evidence of the in-
deatigable exertions of the veteran Reformer
overcome the difficulties that had discouraged so many
official financiers. He has boldly grappled with the
subject, entering in detail into every point that has
at any time been pu,; forward in support of the mon-
strous system so long sanctionod by the British Par-
liament. The fallacies have been unsparingly exposed,
and his views clearly and distinctlyso
put forward,
so as to be easily intelligible by every person of ordi-
nary comprehension. This is a great step in advance,
for fiscal and monetary reforms have hitherto been
retarded .by the obscurity in which they were in-
volved. The justice of the case was totally lost sight
o 4 in the thick and almost impenetrable mists raised
by interested parties, who endeavoured to maintain a
dense cloud through which the lights of xeason and of
inequitable than the equal taxa-
tionjustice could not be discerned)
It WAS frequently pointed out that nothing could
be more unfair or quitable
of every description
of income, no matter from
what sourcesderivedand whether permanent or for
limited periods, unalterable or precarious. The evils
were admitted, but it was said, you cannot obtain
anything perfectly unobjectionable, and therefore, as
you cannot expect to achieve perfection, you must b'
contented with the present system,
anomalies and absurdities. It waswith all its glaring
usual also for the
person whose especial duty it was to manage the
national revenue to endeavour to shift the burden
from his own shoulders to those of the objectors, and
to q whothe task
exposed the abuse to
liair:emethdyos?
although would more
pprroopvdeirreiey
have
ve fallen upon himself. Me• 13,
- - 1331Uhas,how-
he challenge, and. has produced a plan
ever, accepted t'
which, if not altogether unimpeachable, is.yet income
supr erior to that now in operation, and which
parably o
may well fm
the basis of future legislation.
~
subject the lion. Gentleman, for
In entering on the
• • the matter more distinctly un-
the purpose of bringing
three branches, viz.-Ist, On
der notice, divides it into
eg the income and pro-
the present mode of assessing
p mode of collecting the
perty-tax ; 2d, On the prcsen
Oen' mode of levying
same ; and 3d, whether any ° - •
Eau:table, can be
that tax, so as. to render it more _ . .
From this di-
adopted, and observations thereon.
• the two fist
vision, it may easily be conceived thai; - t,n,
branches explain the objl:ctions to the pleEet B:fs _
while the third indicates the nature of the propoeeu
remedies. This is nearly but not altogether the cope ;
for under the first bead a very important )(act ~I 3
put forward—viz., that with the single exceptioo cf
persons on low wvges or salazier, which have a cepie
tali9ed value below a certain amount necessarF for
aubsistenc?, "an the property in the United Eing-
doln, rod the capitalised incomes of the indus-
trious c'4lsee-, should be ass;is:sed at an uniform
and equal rate," and be folicws it UP by
e the propc-
s .$: _
.e.n, that "to levy 3 tax on Is small portion of the
owners of property of the country is inequitable
and dangerous," a proposi ion the truth
whereof NY a freely and willingly wrmit. The
question then will turn on the collateral
issue, and whether a man's labour not yet
Applied can be classed under that LeEad• We think
not ; and so far we differ from the Hon. Member for
Montrose, believing that labour should be totally

free and untaxed. In all other points we cordially
concur with the honourable Gentleman, whose views
are perfectly correct and unimpeachable so far as
property, justly so called, is concerned.
These principles are chiefly that the income should
be taxed, not according to the actual returns, but
according to the capitalized value, and
that no exception should be made from the charge
save that already referred to with respect to low
wages or salaries, and something, which is rather
hinted at or left open for consideration, as to pictures
and articles for the improvement of art. On the first
point the propriety and expediency of the suggested
modification is very clearly set forth. It is indeed
so monstrous that had it not received the Legislative
sanction on three occasions, in addition to the ad-
journments for two successive years, it would appear
to be a fighting against shadows to enter on the
question. It is too ridiculous to assert that the
owner of an annuity not worth more than three
or five years' purchase should be charged as highly as
one worth 33 years' purchase. Indeed, if the tax be
rendered permanent, as is almost certain to be the
case, the owner of a long annuity, which
would expire in the year 1860, would in
1859 be charged 7d. in the pound, or nearly
three per cent. on the capitalised value,
while
the proprietor of Consols would be charged only
ls. 9d., or little more than 1-12th per cent. 011 the
actual value of his property. As to the second
point, we strongly object to any exemption whatever on
realised property, whether productive or unproductive.
It leads to fraud in every form in which it is tole-
rated, and should be steadfastly avoided in any system,
intended to be permanent. Let labour then be free,
and every description of property taxed
nci
according to
its real value, and we shall arrive at the true
ples of fiscal science, which will be equally just and
politic.
THE FRENCH. REPUBIAIC.

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We have received the Paris journals of yester,.. _
The Moniteur has another article on the elections.
It says—
" The conduct of the Government in the elections
which are about to take place has been unanimously aPt
proved of by the populaticna—a sign of the fortunate
movement which. has taken _ place in public °Pi:ll°th
With rare exceptions, the journals of Paris and those of
the departments have proved the fact which ie so the
e-
assuring for the present, and so fecund as
regards t
future. In every normal situation expressing
cord of the country with the Government, there is an
ascendancy which silences zesittance, end leas Or.
When such a state of things is compared with that
which
th© ace
occurred in analogous circumstances, it is impoesible not
to be struck by the radical difference which eeparetee
as from the time still so near to us• The quarrels
of parties, the ecliit -(A. their dissensions, the violence
genius, the fever
P
of their conflicte—everything revealed resent, a profound
under
trcubht in eocial organizatien. A
the influence of a Conservative it en
T which exhausted the -vital force of the euuntrY ha'
truce
become calm; better days have reappeared. he
of passions and parries, the awaken 'g of public opinion,
turn! ghat an unexampled chent,telwiZt
:Liliendgdenource;
t:geairnentelaweluinoitteerrse,dtliittyluodf thhouselitlii:ss:s into this new field,
its origin; and h
tiff whice it
e Government remains faithful to
widens still more, if possible, the vast cirhle to
and alt
has given a reed;:zvces to a le men, who reAher
ll no sentiments
legitimate interests. Some incorrigib
I,eve nor understand their cotentry, in vain ends- sour to
rove the diseutsions of the 'past, to establish categories
amoeh,st eitizsns, to restrict their co-operation; the spirit
baffles their attempts. of the new times, and the patriotism of the Government,
Grief of the State were given by
all renks—the scat-
pts. The eight millions of votes to the
metions wNichhs.ve just eeen addreeted to him istued
fleet every breast. Franco fortes ono
,F.,01e and Mime
people, ;tad the Governmcat has the legitheato pride of
the circumetancee
This cemnitinity of views
representing it completely.
and efforts make§ at once the force and glory of the
Government. The coat eleeti°l3',
which sitteteliee them, the results they announce, ate a
a new' guarantee for the
rroof of 'this, intimate aucr'd,
fu are of our institutions."
We find a long and
in the Congtituticnnel on tbe
elections i:i England' This journal, which is the
organ of the Protectioniet party in France, admits
that in England the result of the elections has shown
that the Free-traders are in too large a msjority fey-
it to be possible for the ,Ministry to carry cut the
Prozect:onist principles which it proclaimed when in
oihn ; but it contends that the partizans of free
trade in this country have no ground for supposing
that the triumph of their friends in England will in
the slightest degree promote their own views here.
According to the Constitutionnel, the clams ss of persons
in Eogland whose pressure has establ►ieh free'-te
principles is decidedly opposed to therm in France.
The municipal council of Moulins has voted 10,000 r.
for the reception of the PRINCE PRESIDENT of the-
,Repuhlic, iu case, on his visit to the south, he should
pa3s through that city.
The Brest journals state that PRINCE JEROME has
arrival in the roa dstead,
sent o: dens by telegraph, that the honours due to his
rank shill only
be paid on his
end that iii be
town and port there shall be no gicial
dtraoustrai.lons.
It is stated by the Constitutionnel, that en the ap-
plication of 111. Rue;oUARD DE BUISSIERES, two of the
exiled eeeropresentativee of the Bas Rhin, M. veer,
and M. Bcca, have been pardoned, . RYA VILA M.
Boca has already returned to his family.
• The inint of Strasburgh, as well as those of Paris,
Bryfdeaur, and Lille, is to take part in the new copper
coinage.
The funds and railway shares experienCed an addis
font,' ',lse. The Pour-and• a-lialf per Cents. opened
at 103 E. 70e., and closed at 103 f. 85c.•' the Three per
Cents. chile(' at 73f. 50c. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,425 E ;.Rouen, 9381 t 75c.; Idavre, 375 f.; Great Northern,
662 f. 50c.; Avignon, 485 f.; Basle, 300 E; Paris and
Strasburg, 657 f. 50e.; Paris and Lyons, 765 f.; Great
Western, 625 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 606 f. 25c.; St.
'l)zler and Grey, 550 f.• the New Austrian Loan, 95 1-
BUSINESS DONE IN 'FOREiGN RAILWAYS AVI'II.E
LONDON STOCK EXCIIA'SGE, JULY 29.
Grand Junction of France, s%B—Paris and Lyons, 19te-
-1 Paris and Rouen, 37537 Paris and Strasbourg, 26%—
Western of France 10 ye.
toI —l—hehr----------------

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 24th have been received,
but they contain no political news of interest.
The Herald. announces the death of a professional
bull fighter named JIEMENEZ, more generally known
under the name of CANO, of the wounds which he
received in the last bull fight at Madrid, and makes
the following remarks upon it :--
"This is the third human victim who has been in the
space of three months sacrificed in the arena of the most
popular spectacle in Spain, a spectacle where all the
parts performed are equally dangerous, sinco out of the
three unfortunate men who have fallen, one was
, Banderill If o, anothiter
be consider d a Picador,
that these
and the
last an Egpada,
misfortunes have fallen on a class which
scarcely reckons more than fifty individuals in all Spain,
it is found that the accidents are in a greater proportion
than what would fall on an army in the field. In face
of such facts we will ask whether such a spectacle is
compatible with Christianity, and whether, when we
tolerate such things, we can without a blush proclaim
our rights to be considered as a religious nation, and if,
in short, instead of being a Christian and civilised
nation, we do not carry ourselves back to the time cf
the fall of the Roman empire, when the greatest plea-
sure of the people consisted in seeing men torn to picc,,s
by wild beasts, and gladiators fight and die to gratify a
people given up to sensual pleasures."

GERMANY.
The Deutsch Volkshall, under date of Stutgardt,
221, says—" The general subject of conversation
here is the distinguished reception given at Strasburg
by Prince Louis NAPOLEON to Lieutenant-General
DE SPITZENDERG, whom the KING had sent to com-
pliment him in his name, The General alWays occu-
pied the place of honour near the PRINCE, who con-
versed familiarly with him, a circumstance which was
more particularly remarked at the ball, and to this
may be added that General SPITZENDERG.iS the only
one of the foreign envoys who obtained the grand
cross of the Legion of Honour. All the people of
Wurtemberg are besides delighted at the welcome
they met with at Strasburg, and they have acquired
the conviction that Alsace, which was formerly
Socialist, is now devoted to the President."
September.
A decree of the Prince Regent of Baden prolongs
the regime of the state of war on his territories to Ist
Cologne Gazette,
says—" The
ar
yess Thes—e dt,
tTohtehe
ceeded from the delolnifetehraeusti
Minister. of the -Interior has just ad-
dressed of provinces a resolution to
id(l
st the billsthe will,
iircaht
c havehatripbreor-,
the effect that,
the people muss Le brought back
the representation
to th 3 principles ofinoimmuaukaei constitution,proposi ,
6
aotmeniffueent;illctonisstistteaTtieudn
will
imd that they must consequently old
be modified according
this resolution. that ties
to the neactss,ties of the new '
agricultural and com-
--e) cial iturttion of the country."
~...
gibe :Prussian Gazette
otoldtlic
raussi.k will open tbs Etstern Railway, exten7iinn,
from Bromberg. to Daotzic, on the BTh of August.'
Nile?, ALBERT of PllS:iiii has eri:hirke,d on heard a
, ft,,,, St. Petersbargh p •
steame& , . Prince AUGU",-TES of
it:r;erobere, Count MENSDORrE POUILLY t
I Le
Ambrssiidor, and M. DB MAIENDOIP
Austrian
and Du ROCELOW embarked on board the name ve,sei.
The " coalesced States," as they are called, which
ented in the Cengres at Darmqtqc't 413
we" rePT•es i f the Zll , • -'' —. q
is, the minor States o o ve.ein—eaused it to be
declared in the last sitting of the Customs' Congress
i at Berlin, that they will not consent to maintain the
i Zallyerein unless it shall consent to treat with, Atp The
,
I A letter .from Vicuna, of the 22d, "ys ."