The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-01 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday it will be seen by
lour Parliomentary report, to which we beg to refer our
Preaders for a detailed statement of the proceedings which
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ktook place in both Houses, that the Royal Assent was
Mgiven by Commission to several Bills.
In the House of Commons, the CHANCELLOR of
f.'; the EXCHEQUER brought forward the " Budget."
!q. We have elsewhere noticed the Right Hon. Gentle-
-Oman's financial statement. The only other question of
rpmportance discussed was the Imprisonment for Debt
which, after three divisions on bringing up the
kreport, was ordered to be read a third time on Monday.
LiThc House adjourned at Half-past Two o'clock.

i'l The financial statement made last night by the
r!CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, on bringing for-
.lward the Budget, was such as the country was pre-
pared .to expect. No person could look for a large
Fsisurplus to be
,npplied to the remission of taxa-
Lion who reflected for a moment on the embarrassed
estate of trade for some time past, and the conse-
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luent diminution—though but a tetnporary one—
{-, .lof some of the principal sources of national re-
.l-." ;venue. Under these circumstances it is by no means
-.e
F_ :surprising that 4000001. should be the utmost that
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'can be safely relied on as a surplus, in the financial
~timatc of the current year. Snell „result is to he
L4regretted. It is a pause in that tide of prosperity which
i'had set in ; but it is nothing more. The national re-
Vl:sources arc not only uninyaircd, but will, we venture
eto peophesy, be enlarged and strengthened, by the
~•'trial which they are now snetaining. If enterprise has
t..;been checked, it may peiliaps have been pushed to the
l'.;extent of dangerous speculation ; and if the immediate
!.?result, however painful in the meantime, shall have the
eeffect—as we think it will—of introducing, greater
PV:'caution in mercantile afairs, as well as greater mode-
ration in the views of Inereentile men, we shall have
rig:lined a lesson of practical wisdom which can scarcely
Abe too dearly purchased.
(A For the particnlars of the 11:1:4,,et we mu et refer our
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readers to the brii4f but clear and straightforward state-
•inetet of the Right Hon. Gctuleman who opened it up
rt. the House. It is gratifying to find, from such
!•enthority, the corroboration of the important principle,
L 2 that two and two do not always make four in taxa-
rJtion—that the lightening of a tax, so far from being
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!--: hurtful, is beneficial to the revenue, by the increased
f7OIISUITIptiOII Which it creates, both of the article re-
elJieved and of others. We slab the principle were net
I..llnerely recognised in theory, but acted on a little more
-,!freely in practise.
Li ' The immense increase in the consumption of tea,
noticed by the CHANcl,:Li.ort of the EXCHZQUER is Valso worthy of remark—we should rather say a subject
P„;of congratulation—in another point of view, It ap-
Hpears to us an inevitable consequence ei the inerensinr,
taste for this innocent, nay v:holesome beverage,
tl
;:among the lower classes that the desire for intoxicat-
-I,ing liquors is on the decrease, and that the morals of
Leethose classes ere undergoing
y change—which
a salutar
If.,3,nay, in 7-dtt at least, be ascribed to a judicious remis-
e sion ot taxation,
~ Public feeling has long been strongly in favour of a
vl'..eptoposition, which has been repeatedly brought in
vain before Parliament, for giving free admission to al
thepublic buildings and institutions of the country,
re
,
Vi it is gratifying to find that this feeling
has at
t`4length made such an impression in that
quares ter that, Ntn all probability, another year will not elapse
before
these places are thrown open to the public. Lord
F7IBROVGIIANI and Lord lIATHERTON last evening
ilistrongly recommended that the public should have fe
access, not only to the National Gallery, the Towerer,
rand similar places under the control of the Govern-
meat, but also to the National Cathedrals of St.
: Paul's and Westminster. For many years, but more
I particularly since the people of this country had an
opportunity of seeing how foreign Governments
manage these matters, it has been considered a
ti disgrace to the Established Church, that the
•- national temples, built at the public execnec.
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