The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

'ruder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The most successful and popular Theatre in London.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented a new grand Military Spectacle, which is now
exalting all Paris, entitled BONAPARTE LN EGYPT ; or, the
Battle of Aboukir.
To be followed by Fatty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena.
31. Pulaski and Madlle. Valentine will appear every evening dui'
log the week.
To conclude with THE WEATHERCOCK.
Tickets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till your daily.

Stage Manager, Mr. Leclercq.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins Day —Morning 42 rain. after 10 I Evening 19 min after 11
To-liteasow—Morning 48 min. after 11 I Evening 0 min after 0

THE WEATHER.--BUN OFFICE, APRIL 30.
TELICR3IO3IIITRX, azr THE SEAM
60—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day, at noon.

BasostErsit, 29.68.
WurD Veeterly— Morning, mild breeze and dull weather
t--,---__ At temoon, sunshine.

sta. DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
°'''t the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at :Nine O'clock
are arranged in order
morning.—The stations
order of latitude.
strong breeze—overcast.
11.613TINGa--Wind gentle breeze—rain.
SounitAntpron—vii;,?:,i,Vt, gentle breeze—rain.
Forausrorrn—Wind gentle breeze—rain.
TummuDGE,-wina sm", gentle breeze—overcast.
GREENWICHwind ,:etg.,ieeenttlreeel:•reeize— rain.
" Wt.r,egezee_ntlerabinre.eze—rain.
STILOOD—Wind
genti
SWOIDON—Wind
LEIGHTON—Wind S. rain.
d S.W °"m—tlartiall I d
COLCTIIESTEE.--...gen - C
cAmBREDGE.....Wind S.W., gmaireeZe......tain.
YARISOTEI—
TWind S.W., calm ve.reeze—rain.
wat—Wind S., gentle breeze....orast•
Dattr.m.-Yr01c...-Wind S., gentle bresZe2_9lt.
The returns from the following
the wind and weather on Widnesrayindicate the state of
o'clock : mom at nine
Lotnnwx—Wind S.W., calm—rain.
CARLow......Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
KnuaNGAß—virind S.W., strong breeze-..over
Poona—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
BESGHTONWiIId S• W., calm—partially ClOndy„
BERMINGHAM—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
HetrunAD—Wind S.S.W., strong breeze—rain.
LANCASTER—Wind S. gentle breeze—overcast.
Warmly—Wind S., strong breeze—partially Cloudy.
DARLINGTON—Wind S., strong breeze—partiallY cloudy;
SnAP—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
Bnarrocnc—Wind S., gentle breeze--rain.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1852.

Many and various are the speculations respecting
the " maiden Budget" of the new CHANCELLOR— and
the nearer the moment approaches for the gratifica-
tion of the public curiosity the more eager becomes
that curiosity. In the City and on the Stock Ex-
change business is all but suspended, none being
willing to enter into transactions which may be
materially
influenced by the forthcoming statement.
Itoutst
lal not merely the fate of the Ministry that hangs
- he 'wilt. A judicious and well-devised
tin •
ane
:hilly strength Scheme would unquestionably mate-
bly give tbere7 their influence, and possi-
while one runnin g
country
in a prolonged tenure of office ;
peroeun.ter to the popular feelings
ate their downfall, but
iwnovuolldve nthoet
enotnirley
disturbances, of which
it would be impossible to Teree the termination or to
calculate the consequences,
entertain any serious apprehensions do not, however,
anything in
the shape of " protective imposts', witillait
nakierar.be
the
epinionn
s ;
on the
spoken of
as in contemplation or under co
contrary, we are inelined to
that the
question will be practically set at
rest, and
that the legislation on the subject will be
event
deemed anal and conclusive, save in the

of some striking demonstrations by the people, when
thoroughly awakened to a lively sense of the enor-
mous evils of cheap and abundant food—the chances
whereof are so very remote that; they may
safely
be dismissed from the calculation, the qualification
being merely a "facon de parler" to soothe the
wounded feelings of the monopolists.
This course appears more than probable from the
number of electioneering addresses that have been
put forward by " Conservative Freetraders," or
" Liberal Conservatives," by whichever title they
please to be designated, who while they deprecate any
attempt to revive the corn-laws, profess themselves
willing to give a general support to the present Go-
vernment. It is certain that if the cry of " Protec-
tion" were raised, and that the appeal to the country
were founded on that principle, exciting angry pas-
sions that have long since been appeased, and pro-
voking " a war to the knife" between opposing
classes, the Ministerial party would be the chief suf-
ferers, and would be placed completely at the
mercy of their antagonists. We do not, however,
suspect Mr. DISRAELI will be guilty of such gross
folly and imbecility as such conduct would imply.
It is perfectly manifest that nothing can
as yet be known outside " the Cabinet" of the
nature or extent of the propositions that will be this
night submitted to the popular branch of the Legis-
lature. The vast importance of secrecy is too appa-
rent to suppose it possible that any person whose po-
sition entitles him to a previous knowledge of the
policy about to be enunciated could betray the con-
fidence of his colleagues by suffering such secrets to
ooze out, or even by giving the slightest hint as to the
Ministerial intentions. Nothing, therefore, can be
positively or authoritatively announced ; the specu-
lations and assertions can only be grounded on what
has already taken place, and every person who has
the industry to collect, and the acuteness to use judi-
ciously the materials, has an equal prospect of being
entitled to claim the title of "a true prophet," or of
what is as much out of the question, of secret and
exclusive intelligence.

The principal question appears to be, whether
the Right Honourable Gentleman will take ad-
vantage of the position in which he stands
to make no concession, to do literally no-
thing during the present session, merely applying
for a renewal of the income-tax for another year,
and indicating generally the present views of the
Government, without descending into details. This
has been designated by a Ministerial Contemporary as
a " prudent plan," and we have no doubt that
there are many timid politicians who would gladly
avail themselves of the many excuses there would be
for Ministers taking advantage of the favourable
opportunity ; but neither Lord DERBY or Mr. Dm-
RAELI belong to this class. They are more
likely to fall into error on the other side,
—rather to go too far than to halt in their pro-
gress. It is scarcely possible to suppose that, with
an available surplus of 3,000,000/. sterling, Mr.
DrsuaEu would emulate the do-nothing policy of his
predecessor, that he would consent to pursue a course
that heaped shame and disgrace upon the Whig Minis-
try, and led to their ultimate eviction from office. We
cannot for a moment suppose that he will not make
some attempt to render the income• tax more equi-
table, to free it from its most repulsive features.
He may do this without any very serious sacrifice
of revenue. One-third of the existing surplus,
a single million judiciously and properly applied,
would provide for a considerable modification of
Schedule D, so as to free, or at least greatly reduce,
the claim on professional incomes, on all those in fact
in the earning of which little or no capital is engaged.
It would also enable him to repeal the odious
advertisement duty, and to remove the charge of
confiscation to which the hop-tax lays us open.
Other minor concessions might also be
made, such as, perhaps, the charges on hair powder,
armorial bearings, dogs, and some of the least
productive of the assessed taxes. There would still
remain a considerable margin for future changes,
which be might indicate, although he might not feel
himself in a position to press their adoption on the
present House of Commons. An equalization of the
land-tax or poor-rate, or a transfer of many vexatious
local burdens to the Consolidated Fund, are matters to
which we may reasonably expect that some allusion
will be made. The malt-tax, too, will require notice,
but none of these latter subjects can be finally
disposed of previous to the dissolution. On
the whole, then, although we conceive that more will
be indicated than carried into execution, we yet be-
lieve that some important changes will be brought
into immediate operation—that it will not be alto-
gether a Budget of promises, but that there will be
at least a partial performance—that it will be rather
a "bold and comprehensive scheme" than "a
prudent," or, what we should call, a " timid plan."

A practical philanthropist, in the noblest sense of
the term, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY is among those
men now living who may with perfect truth, in the
fine old phrase, be said " to have deserved well of his
country." Discarding all ideas of self, doing vio-
lence to every dictate of personal convenience, setting
aside all the promptings of individual comfort, and
daring every imaginable evil consequence, such as
insult, disgust, and contagion—that brave and gentle-
hearted patrician has laboured during many long
and painful years to ameliorate the sufferings of the
poor. Not by agents—but individually. Not by
sitting upon Parliamentary Committees; not by
writing pamphlets in his library, leaning back at
intervals in his easy chair to round some period of
affected benevolence; not by subscribing to public
soup-kitchens~ not by sending out missionary expe-
ditions to Patagonia, or by overlooking the visible
squalor of those around him in sympathy for the re-
ported degradation of the Savage tribes of the anti-
podss. But (while aiding, it may be, enterprises
of a similar description) by going himself
into the midst of the wretchedness he aspires
to relieve, by threading those loathsome re-
gions he has so long yearned to cleanse, by examining
personally the depths of that abyss of misery he has
the glorious ambition to close for ever—penetrating
into scenes where a less earnest nature would have
shuddered to adventure, undeterred by the sight and
the stench of so many sickening abominations.
Nursed in the lap of laxury, his sensibilities have
nevertheless carried him into the dens of misfortune,
into the hovels of penury, into those revolting
cellars of the slums of London which are
nothing less than the moral sinks and cesspools
of the population. There was something eminently
touching in that declaration of his last night in the
House of Lords—" Our night of toil has been long,
but we trust that it is drawing to a close." Long,
indeed, it has been, and terrible in its protracted sad-
!en, that toil which has received encouragement
from no one more materially than from the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY. GOD grant, then, that it may in
reality be now " drawing to a close I" GOD grant
that the
the self-sacrifice, the total self-
abnegation of men like the Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
may, at length, be very speedily followed by
the fulfilment of
aspirations. those moat earnestly cherished
needs some recompense like this
to compensate for
the anguish experienced
in these terrible researches in the haunts of
crime and misery.
It requires the solace of
success to assuage the memory of such foul and horrid
revelations. GoD fe, grant, therefore,
GOD grant that we may
in
truthor say we again,
ap-
proaching what the Noble Earl be now fast
designated last
evening the hour of that
most happy consummation !
Yesterday, as will have been -
perceived from our
Parliamentary reports, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY
under the consideration
brought of the House of
Lords his promised resolutioThat the sanitary
state of the metropolis requires the immediate inter-
position Governnaent"
of her MAJESTY'S • In sub-
mitting this important
notice to the judgment of the
the Legislature, the
upper branch of Noble Lord
detailed some of those harrowing particulars with
which the public have been latterly becoming
familiarized. geferring to the insufficient drain-
age of the streets of our capital, he quoted
that fearful passage from the report, which stated—
" Now, besides the surface abominations, which any
one can speak to who has perambulated London, a
survey has been obtained of the subterranean works,
from which the appalling fact has been proved that,
owing to the bad construction of the sewers, there is
actually accumulated beneath and about the dwelling-
houses of the metropolis a mass of cesspool matter
which may be represented by a cube six inches deep,

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