The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-10 00:00:00

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be Royal Navy is gone as courier to North America. It
is affirmed, that his despatches relate to the claims of in-
demnity which are still made by North America upon
Denmark, and which are mentioned in the Speech of the
President at the opening of the Session of Congress this
year. It is commonly reported, that proposals for an ar-
rangement have been made by North America, which pro-
bably aim at the cession of a colony, viz.—of St. Croix.
It is also said, that the Governor-General of the West
India Islacds, M. Von Schollen, who is on the point of
returning to his post, will go to North America, in order
to assist our Minister there in the negotiation and arrange-
rnent of the matter.

From the 6th to the 16th of April forty-four ships,
laden with corn, passed the Sound, of which twenty-one
Were bound to British ports, eight to Dutch, five to French,
and seven to Swedish and Norwegian ports.
For some days past we have had complete summer
weather with a heat of 17 to IS degrees.
Ws learn from Christiana th it the King Las prolonged
the session of the Storthing till the end of June.
IlAmßußa, MAT 4.—Funds are on the whole firmer.
Anglo. Spanish Cortes Bonds have been done at 22.

- End of May.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent 74
Anglo-Russian Loan 109%
Hamburg-Russian Loan 104%
Polish Bonds 1324
Austrian Bank Shares l'li3
Austrian Metalliques lOl%
New Austrian 4 per Cents sn
Anglo Neapolitan 95%
Falconets 90%
Greek, 1825 45%
--- 1824 48%
Spanish (Rentes Perpetuelles) Aguado 79%
Willinck
BRUSSELS, MAY 2.—M. Tielmans yesterday received
his dismissal from the office of Referendary, in the de-
partment of Foreign Affairs.
HAGUE, MAY 6.—The order of the day was the de-
bate on the Project of Law, fur reducing the members of
the Chamber of Accounts from sixteen to nine. After
some debate, it was adopted by 59 votes to 21. The
answer of the Government to the remarks of the Sections
on the Project of Law, for restraining the licentiousness
of the press, and also a new or amended Project of the
Law, have lately been received by the Chamber, and will
be shortly distributed among the members.
lhtto 961;
VIENNA, APRIL 2S.—Metalliques 102; Four per Cent.
Bank Shares 1352.

The following are extracts from Lisbon Ga'
zettes

LISBON, APRIL 27.—Letters from different parts of
Brazil, viz. Rio, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Maranham, lately
received at Oporto, state that on the 28th February, at
three quarters past seven in the evening, the President
of the province of Bahia had been assassinated in the
public square of that city, by a musket-shot fired at him
by a horseman. It is added that that city was in the
greatest state of confusion in consequence of the numerous
parties, and many assassinations had taken place. Some
letters from Bahia of 13th March, state that forty assassi-
nations had been committed in IFebruary.

We direct the attention of our readers to some
admirable remarks (which will be found in our
Spirit of the Public Journals) from the Times
of this morning on the subject of the Bishop of
LONDON'S Letter to the inhabitants of London
and 'Westminster. His Lordship, it seems, la-
ments exceedingly, that the Sabbath dinner par-
ties of great folks are invariably published in the
Papers. We can assure the Bishop, that the
publication of these somewhat irreverent ovations,
in nine cases out of ten, takes place at the express
desire of the parties themselves, by whom the
minute particulars are supplied, and liberally paid
for• It is evident, therefore, that so far from being
ashamed of their proceedings, they make it a
matter of boast. Has his Lordship himself
'lever attended any of these Sabbath dinner
Parties ?--Or has his Steward never entered the
Price of a dinner paragraph in the Morning
Post, in the list of his weekly charges ?

The only alteration by the new Stamp Act of
the taxes on literary undertakings is, as to
Great Britain, the reduction of the Duty on
Sheet Almanacs from ls. 3d. to 6d., and on
Book Almanacs from is. 3d. to ls., with pro-
Portionate abatement for Perpetual Almanacs ;
whilst, as to Ireland, the Duty on Book Alma-
nacs is to be raised from 9d. to ls. But although
a fitter opportunity never presented itself for a
repeal, or at least a large reduction in the War
Taxes on Newspapers and Advertisements,
which have been, contrary to all good faith, con-
tinued to the sixteenth year of peace, we are
now, it seems, to be doomed to pay them in
perpetuity ; and that the Press of Great Britain
may not be without a companion under its
t
urthem, the iron rod is to be applied also to
the Press of Ireland, and Irish Newspapers are
to Pay 4d. each instead of 2d., with the addition
of Is. to their Advertisement Duty of 2s. 6d.
If this be not in absolute contravention of the
_articles of Union, sure we are that no Irish Par-
liament could ever have been brought to sanction
a scheme which is both unreasonable and un-
Principled, and calculated to extinguish a large
Portion of the Irish Newspapers, which, in the
Present state of that country, are more than ordi-
narily essential to the public welfare.
But we, on this side of the Channel, are not
without good cause of complaint. We are to
continue subject to a direct Stamp Duty, equiva-
lent to 133 per cent. upon every Newspaper
Published, the cost of which is otherwise en-
hanced by indirect taxation, and especially by
the excise on paper. It is obvious that if a
Newspaper had no other profits than those
arising from its circulation, it would require that
circulation to be very extensive indeed to make
the undertaking worth entering into. The
Stamp Duties, however, as if it were not suf-
ficient to impede the circulation by a direct tax
of 133 per cent., interpose to prevent people
advertising in Newspapers, and though men's
necessities drive them, to a certain extent, to ad-
vertise at the present high prices, there can be
no doubt that the number of advertisements
would be infinitely augmented if the expence of
them could be more generally afforded.
The proof of this is contained in Mr. POULETT
TRomsoN's excellent speech of the 25th March
last, in which he shewed how considerably the
annual number of advertisements in Great Britain
fell short of those in the United States, solely
front over-taxation. There being no distinction
arising from the length or the nature of the ad-
vertisement, the hardship of this is the greater
in such instances as those of servants advertising
for places, short literary announcements, sales of
small estates, and miscellaneous articles, which
require frequent repetition, and in a variety of
other cases which, as must be apparent to every
one, cannot bear much expence. A large por-
tion of the public are thus deprived of the means
of making known their wants on moderate terms,
whilst the Press, with the exception of one or
two leading Journals, is prevented from making
such advantages by advertisements as to counter-
balance the pressure of the Newspaper Duty.
Great exertions, and large capitals have, indeed,