The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

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can be no doubt but that GeOrge-StrWii
piediate vicinity-would be benefited.' Tititiflueitt
fg,,howeverawhether, in obedience to 'tie I.4*s
aupply..apeLden?and, the particular establishments
iltreet.may not spring up in another,
acid thif, too, under the operation of a concentrative
`fords
.tendititerns exaggerate previously existing
• evils. An the results of similar parochial razzias -
which we Ceti call to mind testify to the utter
incilisien_cy, in.a comprehensive sense, of this way of
vvideViayyffiersmta
dealingzavii-li -homes known to the law as "
depreciatingbil tLht t It is not by way of need-
e incompetentof parochial
tolaw
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any general result. To ras fre this statement
is merely to affirm a truism. Vestries neither
take, nor can be expected to take, eonisarce of
t. ec
matters exterior to the ring f
parishes. The parish of Sf.Gilee gof their' e'ferespectiva
ay
the mole desirable as a place of rsesimdence if b"e3l"e4Ll-11:.
orderly" houses in the senB3 of the law be therein
abolished, and concentrated, let us assume,
in St.
George's, Bloomsbury ; bat whether thecon-
dition of London generally would be benefited by
any such change of venue is the question, or rather
it is hardly a question, iiiasmuch as the negative .
eesnonse is so &Among rabic. 'We are of (-pinion that
the time has almost, if not quite, arrived for speak-;
ing out r-ore plainly than has been llie custem in
respect of what convention insists on calling thi
"social evir—viewing it comprehensively, as states-
men should view an evil, and adopting general mea-
sures for its control and mitigation. No principle
of civil polity can be more generally acceded to in.-
the abstract than the one which imposes upon a civi-
lised executive the recognition of social vices and •
social wrongs. In the small circles of private life it.
may be well that individuals should not scrutinise
too narrowly each other's vices; and moreover, 1
social circles have at disposition a summary means
of redress. Ejectment is the normal consequence
of violating the precepts of social morality to any
abnormal extent. Society, in its largest sense of
a whole nation, has no such expedient at command;_
hence it becomes a bounden duty of every civilised
executive to recognise social maladies of whatever
kind, just as a surgeon recognises—with treatment,
and cure in view—a malignant ulcer orbeermlig
sore. In viewing under many of its aspect's the
subject of debate, we are by no means unconscious
of numerous and grave difficulties that will briatle
up in the path of any social legislator bold enough
to grapple with the enormous evils to which we
refer. The continental system of police is so diffe-
rent in its functions from our system; an English-
man's house is so practically his castle ; and the
license of free communication and free discussion is
so great, that any literal assumption of foreign
precedent and experience in the matter under band
would be purely impossible. D fficulties in the way
of accomplishing a result should, however, furnish
no plea for not aiming at it. Much mi.ght be effected
without a further exercise of supervision and scru-
tiny than is compatible with the degree of personal
liberty to which Englishmen have become accus-
tomed. Even were it certain that nothing in the
way of amelioration could be immediately brought
about by any measure of State interference, still,
practical affirmation of the principle that no existing
social vice or social malady should be studiously
ignored and kept out of sight to the intent of
making society appear better than it is, would be a
measure consonant with the soundest principles of
social government. To foster hypocrisy can never
be desirable, no matter what the subject or the cc-
casion. Now, it is gross hypocrisy—no better—to
affact that in respect of that particular class of sins
to which our observations point, the English public
is so much purer than the continental public, as the
advocates for non-intervention in this matter would
wish inferentially to make one believe. Such °Mc-
teflon of purity deceives nobody. The utmost to be
expected of it is the fostering of a sentiment so near
akin to selfishness that it approaches the character
of sin; the sentiment of complacency, namely, and
false tranquillity, that weak natures sometimes
realise to themselves; by keeping displeasing ob-
jects out of sight, though the reality of them is no
more questionable than the sun's presence at noon-
day.
HERALD.—We would not give much for the sum
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will realise
during his next financial year out of his extension of
the income tax to public charities. There is a feel-
ing growing up in the country which will not per.
mit him to confiscate the property of orphans and
widows, the sick, the needy, and the destitute, to
secure that augmented surplus which is to establish
his reputation with your profounder class of finan-
ciers as a safe Chancellor of the Exchequer. Did
we, through the pressure of some considerable deficit,
or the expectation of a year of difficulty, need so
unusual an augmentation, nobody would be con-
tent to look for it from such a sosree. To propose
to tax the aged and helpless dependents on an elee-
mosynary aid by no means too bountiful at the very
moment that he relieves from taxation incomes
varying from one to two hundred pounds a year, is
too culminating a point of absurdity to stand much
discussion. Neither Pitt nor Sir Robert Peel,
though both of them in times of much pressure
have had the credit of exhausting every resource of
taxation, seem to have thought of raising an income
out of the unassisted misery of the unfortunate
classes. The exemption of the poor from bearing
any share in the burden has been the fundamental
principle on which every income tax we have yet
had has been founded, and there is really no excuse
for the exception that is now proposed, except that
the impost, if based in fact on the wretched them=
selves, in appearance falls only on accumulated capi-
tal. With regard to the hospitals, for example, even
Mr. Gladstone's infinite power of sophistical ampli-
fication would be hard put to it to explain how any-
thing be extracts for the Government is not so much
extracted from each unhappy Lazarus praying aid
at their doors. 'We have not yet learn the art by
which we can withdraw so much from the sum that
can be spent in supporting beds or furnishing medi-
cines without our having so many less admissions of
in-patients and so much less attendance for out-
patients. Take away three or four thousands a year
from St. Bartholomew's or St. Thomas's Hospital,
and there can be but the result of tens of thousands
of poor and destitute sick connected with them hav-
ing so many less beds and so much less medicine
under distribution among them. It is possible
enough that in some cases the fiscal encroachment
on the charitable fund will be compensated by
the stricter economy and more effective management
which would be enforced by it. The notion is cap-
tivating, and there is this to be said in its favour,
that there are few of those bodies to whom it would
not be easy to suggest steps by which an improved
administration might not turn their funds to more
useful account. But Chancellors of the Exchequer
are not expected to frame their budgets with a view
to a reform of eleemosynary institutions, and the
518 inertia of a charitable corporation, if affected
for a moment by an influence of this kind, is too
natural a characteristic of such bodies to be so
affected long. The truth is that nothing can be said
in favour of this part of the Chancellor's Budget
that could not be much better said in favour of a
poll tax ; and with an expected surplus
an of halhf a
million on the incoming financial year,
development of industry and commerce which,
s t
o look
according to his own testimony, entitteltn
d vri
seems as
for a continually augmenting income,;
the lame
though the proposition described by M Henley as
hadaplan e
been
ao
includedt n g t
%brie
thebl Budget halt, and
less as any serious
part of it than as a conductor which attract to it the
opposition that, directed elsewhere,
might of
might have worse results. In any case we can have
no fear that the charities which have so long been
covering a multitude of sins will be repaid
this good
office by being sacrificed in the service
Present-
lug the country with a standing d of
ethe most remarkable blunder that has
of
charac-
terised the financial projects hat has
ever
of a eh
Exchequer. ancellor of the

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I HUNTED BY WOLVES.—An exciting incident,
says Galegitani, occurred three days ago to M.
Decheppe, adjoins, at Gimecourt (Meuse). He was return•
ing late at night from Pont-a-mousson on horseback, when,
while passing through the wood of Villotte, his attention
was attracted by a heavy breathing and a rustling which ac-
companied him as he proceeded. M. Decheppe looking
about, observed on ono side two luminous points in the
darkness, and on the other side a dark shadow which ad-
vanced alongside his horse. Ho then became aware that
ho was being followed by wolves. He at first put sputa tat
his horse, but reflected that the road was uneven, and that
should an accident happen his position would b.ecicrefoccr
cal, ho again slackened his pace. lie th7ratieoluw,
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be-
hind him, hut his companions were I
adapted their pace to his.
beasts were sometimes frighten.'d a,
b'ut the wol yes paid
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date his too faithful attendan_.,_ccourt. poring the (lan-
molested at his residoncoroat uini
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