The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

CIRCULATION OF THE LONDON MORNING PAPERS—THE
MORNING ADVERTISER.
THE recent Stamp Returns of the circulation of
the MORNING NEWSPAPERS in 1850, give the following
results :
MORNING ADVERTISER .. 49,849
Daily News • • • • • • .. .. 1.142,000
Morning Herald • • • • .. 1,139,000
Morning Chronicle • • .. „ 912,547
Morning Post .. .. • • „ 828,080
Omitting the " Times," it will be seen what a proud position the
MORNING ADVERTISER occupies compared with any of its
morning contemporaries. In the beginning of 1851 the MORNING
ADVERTISER was permanently enlarged to a double sheet, since
which time it has met with a measure of success, both as regards the
extent of its circulation and the number of its advertisements,
which has ne parallel in the annals of English Journalism. Were the
Stamp Returns to be given down to the present time, the relative
circulation of the MORNING ADVERTISER, to our four
morning
contemporaries, assuming that their circulation had undergone no
diminution, would be as follows :
MORNING ADVERTISER • • • • .• 2,075,000
Daily News ..., • 1,152,000
Morning Herald .. • • • • • • • • 1,109,000
• • 912,547
• • • • BlB
Morning Post..
Morning Chronicle • • • • • • • •
It only remains to be added that this vast addition to the circula-
tion of the MORNING ADVERTISER, obtained in less than twelve
months, is the result of its progress in all parts of the country, and
among all classes of society. and is to be regarded as the best tribute
that could be paid to its thorough independence of all parties and
Governments, and its earnest advocacy of the popular London cause.
Published every Morning, at 127, Fleet-street, .

INGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
0 min. after 1 I Evening 24 min attar
rans DAT —Morning
46 rain. after 1 I Evening 8 min after 2
To-frf oaaow—M °ruing

TEM WEATHER.—Sus Orsica,
THERMOMETER, IX TIM SHADE.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
32—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day, at noon.

riLNUARY

BA.ROMETEB, 29 91.
WrID S.W.—fine sunshiny weather.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLYsiours.-Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
HASTINGS—Wind S., gentle breeze—Partially cloudy.
SouTHAm:Frost—Wind N., strong breeze--partially cloudy.
For,sEarosE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze--overcast.
TtnvaxaDGE—Wind E., calm—partially cloudy.
GREENWICH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
STaOOD—Wind S.W., strong breeze--overcast.
,61VMDON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze--partially cloudy.
"LCIIESTER—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CA-4BRIDGE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Yaßmours—Wind W, gentle breeze—cloudless.
Hotxur....ap--Wind S.S.W., strong gale—rain.
LANces-rEß.—Wind S.E., strong breeze—snow.
Stur—Wind S.W., strong breeze—snow.
Sicarrocx—Wind S., storm—heavy rain.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Saturday morning at nine
o'clock
Giaskruck—Wind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Cs.r.Low—Wind S.W., hard wind—rain.
MULLINGAR— tr ind S.W., hard wind—heavy rain.
HASTMGS—Wind S. Wr., gentle breeze—rain.
FoLKEFrroxix—Wind S. W ~ gentle breeze—overcast.
Ttrmennacia—Wind W., calm— partially cloudy.
STROOD —Wind W., calm—cloudless.
LANCASTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

PORTRAITS
01

SOULT AND WELLINGTON,

WITH MEMOIRS AND PAC-SIMILES OF THEIR HAND-

WRITINGS.

low, in consideration of the alteration in the law,
which took place from and after the 10th October,
1850.
In the Assessed Taxes the deficiency on the year
is 796,2161., and on the quarter 737,1311.
The removal of the infamous tax on light
and air, however, at once accounts for
the falling off in both instances. The window-tax
produced nearly 1,800,0001. per:annum, and waa col-
lected half-yearly. It is true that a house-duty
was imposed in its place. Sir CEIARLES WOOD
could not make any concession with a good
grace. That unfair and unwarrantable impost,
which charges an increased duty on one description of
property, viz , on houses, from which every other
kind is exempt, has not, however, as yet, come into
course of collection, and therefore the whole of the
half-year's window-tax is practically abstracted
from this quarter without any substitute whatsoever.
The next item is certainly one of considerabl,e im-
portance, inasmuch as it indicates the condition of
the middle, as the Excise does of the working classes.
The :Property-tax shows a deficiency of 78,1141•
on the year, and of 50,774/. on the quarter! I This
last is truly formidable ; it would represent a l!alling
off in the incomes of professional men, merchants,
manufacturers, &c., of nearly 7,000,0001. sterling per
annum ; and it is the more formidable, inas-
much as the corresponding quarter of last
year itself showed a considerable falling off when
compared with that of 1849. We know that a very
general disgust prevails throughout the entire
country at the unfair and un equal operation
of this tax, which assesses at the same
rate the dividends of the fundholders and the pr eca-
rious earnings of the hard-working merchant, trader,
or professional man, who has not only to keep up an
appearance in society, but to keep up assurancras for
his family, and to lay by something for
old age or ill health. This tax will expire in three
months morel; let the chosen representatives of the
English people resolve that they will never renew it,
unless there be a more equitable apportionment of

the charge.
In the l'ost•office, thanks to the care and judgment
that has been exercised in that well-managed depart-
ment, and especially to the indefatigable exertions of
ROWLAND HILL, we find at last an improvement
on the year and quarter—of 244,0001. on the
former, and 94,0001. on the latter. This is
indeed cheering, and reflects the highest credit on all
concerned in producing that satisfactory result.
In the Crown Lands there is a deficiency of 10,0001.
on the year, and 20,0001. on the quarter. The Woods
and Forests want a thorough reform. If the
same care were taken that a private individual
bestows on his own affairs, a very different result,
indeed, would be perceptible. Look to this, Lord
SEYMOUR, or a strict account may be demanded of the
trust confided to your hands.
In the Miscellaneous there is a small falling off on
the year of 6,3111,, but an improvement on
the quarter of 10,183/. In the Extraordi-
nary items we find the deficiency in the imprest
and other moneys, which for the year is
48,037/. and for the quarter 14,7011, far more than
counterbalanced by the greater punctuality in the re-
payment of advances, which show an improvement
of 94,325/. on the year, and of 237,255/. on the
quarter !
On the whole, while the returns above referre dto
show no great cause for congratulation, neithE r do
they afford any reasonable grounds for despondency
either as to the condition or prospects of the
country.

Intelligence from the United States comes to us
just now under an appearance decidedly melo-
dramatic. Through the accounts yesterday received
from the opposite shores of the Atlantic, we are
enabled to witness the continued ovation of KOSSAJTH,
as it were, by the light of the conflagration at Wash-

ington. Every generous heart will be disposed to
rejoice at the former occurrence, and to lament the
calamity which has abandoned to the flames the
beautiful capitol of the North American Republic.

Under any circumstances, the breaking out of a ter-
rible fire like that said to have been raging
on the eve of Christmas at Washington
must be a matter of profound sorrow to

the spectator, whether the city thus destroyed be
the metropolis of a friendly power, or of one at the

very moment in arms against our own Governm en

Of all the casualties to which mankind are sttbjec

these are assuredly the ones which secure the most
immediate and the most unanimous sympathy. Even
when regarded in the remote ages of antiquity, they
excite the regrets of the more reflective scholars at
the destruction of the library of Alexandria, or the

burning of Rome by NERO, or that of the Temple of
Diana by EROSTRATIIS. During later times we have
witnessed the emotions with which the people of
Western Europe received information of the red uction
of Moscow to ashes; and when, but a few years since,
came news of a similar misfortune befalling the inha-
bitants of Hamburgh, we all remember how generous
was the munificence displayed towards the sufferers

by the mercantile classes of England, and more es-
pecially of London. It was as if the recollection of
the sufferings experienced by our ancestors about the
middle of the seventeenth century,'on the occasion of
the fire which desolated our own metropolis from Pud-

ding-lane
afterwards
peculiarly
l i Pie-corner, orn e
susceptibler , h ad
r n citizensw
n n ever
hearing
of any similar occurrence. We doubt not, there-
fore, that the melancholy intelligence from the
capital of the United States will be received through-
out the United Kingdom with genuine feelings of
commiseration.
The accounts relating to KOSSUTH are somewhat
more satisfactory than the foregoing. His reception
everywhere appears to have surpassed expectation.
As in England, he is welcomed in America by the
foremost of all the champions of the Liberal party on
the European continent. His eloquent voice is still,
we rejoice to learn, raised upon every available oppor-
tunity with a view to diffuse ideas eminently calcu-
lated to forward the cause of an elevated
and organized democracy. Listening to him,
the people of the United States will be
enabled to judge the more correctly as to what are the
real wishes and precise sentiments; cherished by the
European population. Happily the lull of the pre-
sent interval is thus employed by the leader of the
Hungarians in proclaiming to nations already
emancipated, nations as great„and powerful as Eng-
land and America, the hopes cherished by his coun-
trymen and,by the other oppressed nationalities. So
that the next signal for the liberation of con-
tinental Europe from the thraldom imposed upon it
by the despots of Germany, those most obsequious
satellites of the AUTOCRAT, may not come upon the
world unexpectedly or prematurely, or without suffi-
cient preparation!
It is a fortunate circumstance, meanwhile, that we
can call to our remembrance at this moment that an
alliance has been recently commenced between the
nations presided over respectively by the Councils of
St. James's and Washington—thanks to the senti-
ments expressed by the Hon. Mr. WALKER, to the
policy disclosed by Sir HENRY BULWNR, and to the
course long adopted in the administration of
Foreign
Affairs by the late Chief Secretary
orn
of that department,uet 0
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may be the conduct
it cannot, we feel assured, remain long a matter of
um
re
er
any interest to the community, seeing that the days
of the Whig Ministry—or, as we have already more
than once designated it, " the GREY Iniquity"—are
n
the people of this
Country, therefore, is directed rather to the question
of the successors than to that of the future policy of
the
present.
not as
Government.Thase curiosity
And as to the likelihood of
Lord PALsmasTori's re-instatement in office—and
that
pb
Secretary, but as
leader of the Foreign
Administration--we conceive that there
cannot remain much doubt with the generality of the
o n
agreeablyt have
more observant Liberals 'of the United Kingdom.
Satisfied that such will be the course of events before
many months
the elapsed,portents
r we t 8
n bearnf
friendlyin
between the
somewhat under-
standing
people of England and the
citizens of the United States
• Fortunately, too, we
t e
can, without extravagance, look forward to the
extension of that, alliance to the Republi-
can Government of France, as presided over
by the elected, first of 6,000,000, and then
egain of 7,500,000, Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
It is by this time tolerably well familiar
to the majo-
rity that the immediate cause of p Lord
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