The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

TtIEAT RE-RON Al, HAY MARKET.
Lessee, Bnekstone,
THIS EVENING, SHE STOOPS TO CINQUER.
Tony. Mr. Buekstone ; Wes Hardcastle, Miss Louisa Angel ;
Mrs. Hardeastle, Mrs. Wilkins.

After which, an apropos Dramatic Sketch, introducing a
Panorama of the Tour of the Prince of Wales in the East.
To conclude with BORROWING A HUSBAND. Pamela
Miss Maria Harris. Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM OPEN, under
the Sole Management of Mr. FECHTE R.

THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with an Oridnal
Sketch, entitled A 6UDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore,
Garden, H. Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee.
After which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts, and Pr3logue, entitled THE
DUKE'S MOTTO, by Paul Feval and John Brougham.
The principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
sun ported by Messrs. G. Vining, J. Brougham, H. Widd_t:
combe, W. M'lntyre, F. Charles, Garden, Raymond, 14
Butler, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leclercq, Kate Terry,
E.
Lavenue, and Elsworthy.
Stage-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting_manager, Mr. H.
Barnett.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S '1414-IEATRE
Lessees, Messrs. Lindns and Vining
THIS EVENING the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Amy Sedgwlck. bliss Henderson, and Mrs. Simpson ; Messrs.
it. Roxby, G. Melville, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and
Cathcart.
After which, KILLING TIME. Mr. Gee. Vining, Mr. C
Seyton, and Miss Amy Sedgwick.
To conclude with a new whimsical Extravaganza, entitled
BEAUTIFUL HAIDER: ; or The Sea Nymph and the Sallee
Rovers. Misses M. Oliver. Helen Howard, Hudspeth, Hen-
derscn, and Murray -, Messr. C. Seyton, G. Belmore, Fitz-
James, Moreland, and Cockersill.

New Tar
ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPIII.--
Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE TRIAL OF TOMPKINS. J.
L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Sefton, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss
A. Seaman.
After which, at Mat o'clock, AURORA FLOYD. Miss
Avonia Jones, Miss R Simms, Mrs. Billington ; Mr. Benj.
Webster. Mr. Panl Bedford, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington,
Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1863.

Twopence off the Income-tax and Fivepence from
the Tea Duty well render last night's Budget wel-
come to every homestead in the land. The gist of
Mr. GLADSTONE'S new Financial Statement may

be regarded as given in those two most important
announcements. The rest of his nearly three hours'
oration was little more in fact than so much rheto-
rical: garniture to the intimation of those same
remissions. An estimated excess of income over
expenditure to the extent of but a trifle short
of £4,000,000 has afforded the Chancellor of
the Exchetine, it will now be seen, the op-
portunity of which he has for once happily
been not so slow in availing himself. Even
with our enormous disbursements, the right hon. gen-
tleman showed .that the prospective surplus for the
ensuing Thiantial•year wonld•not, According to any
reasonable caleulatiOri, be *short Of, at the very least,
£3,741,000. Hence the possibility not merely of a
choice between an appreciable diminution of the
income tax and a perceptible reduction of the war
duty upon tea, but—we
.hardly yet seem to have
fully realised the fall scope of the beneficence of this
double boon—for a dropping of a fraction of those

two heavy burdens simultaneously ! More ame-
liorations, even then, are vouchsafed to the coun-
try by our great financier in addition to
the two most important ones here specified at
the very outset of our remarks. But, valuable and
deeply interesting though several of these would

infallibly have been under ordinary circumstances—

they dwindle into comparative insignificance when
coupled with the announcement made last night,
alaiost in one and the same breath, by Mr. GLAD •
STONE, that the Income-tax will be henceforth 7d.
inq,ead of 9d. in the pound sterling ; and that the
duty upon tea will henceforth be at the one uniform
rate of one shilling !
When it is remembered that the remis-
sion of 2d. in the pound on the Income Tax
means nothing less than the foregoing by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer of £1,000,000 per
annum under that head—and that the dropping of
sd. upon tea is Equivalent to the abandonment of
£1,300,000 under that head—it will be perceived
at a glance that very nearly three millions sterling,
that exactly £2,900,000 sterling, are allowed to
slip out of the estimated surplus of £3,741,000.
Mr. GLADSTONE has undertaken, with the best
grace possible, to yield up all this, too, not
,as it were upon compulsion, but quite voluntarily and

at once. Moreover, in addition to this—his scheme

for the new Financial Year, as elaborately explained
by him last evening to the House of Commons in
Committee of Ways and Means, involves in it a

lesser, but still far from inconsiderable boon in the
shape of a distinct abolition of certain small charges
upon consumers, equivalent altogether annually to

a sum of £143,000. Beyond which and to complete
the whole catalogue of the new remissions resolved

-upon by our Financier there is his ingenious and
somewhat complex system of abatement in
the mode of levying the
income tax
upon minor incomes—a system of abatement,
resulting in the remission under the head
of those minor incomes, of a yearly sum of
mot less than £300,000 altogether. So that, com-
bining together in one total, the twopenny remission
'of the Income-tax, yielding £1,600,000, the five•
penny reduction of the tea duty sweeping off an-
other L 1,300,000, the abatement of the income-tax
on various incomes to the estimated extent of
£300,000, and the abolition of small charges
on commerce to the tune of £143,000, we
have a loss to the revenue for the ensu-
ing year of precisely £3,343,000. Recollect
however, that the estimated revenue for the finan-
cial year before us has aready been set down by ,
Mr. GrADSTONE at £71,490,000, whereas the esti-
mated expenditure he puts at £1,553,000 less than
that of last year, or in round numbers at £67,749,000,
substracting which total of expenditure from the
i• carkethately preceding total of revenue, we have, as
the very welcome quotient, the prospective surplus
• before specified, the surplus namely of £3,741,000.
Nor is even thi3all. By placing all charities and chari-
. table corporations henceforth within the operation of
the Income Tax, as Mr. GLADSTONE distinctly pro-
poses to place them, and by one or two other minor
imposts, he furthermore enhances that excess of in-
eome over expenditure by an additional £133,000!
Derivinn
0.7
as be calculates he shall, from the exten-
sion of the Income Tax to the charities and chari-
table corporation £75,000 out of that supplemen-
tary £133,000, the remaining £58,00
0 h e
,draws from his already announced modifications in
;•regant to tobieco. From an equalisation of the duty
• -on chicory, makic g it equivalent to that on
coffee- From the imposition of the same license
on clubs selling strong liquors that have now
to be taken, out by hotels and coffeehouses. From
, raising the duty paid by beer dealers, who having
..obtained a beer license through a spirit license, had
afterwards dropped the spirit license and continued

to sell beer at the reduced license! From granting
a guinea license to beer dealers for selling any

I
smaller quantity than two dozen bottles or 41
gallons! From subjecting carriers, travelling under
four miles an hour and conveying passengers, to
one-half the, duty now paid by stage carriages : and
from abolishing henceforth the exemption from
1 duty of excursion trains, commuting the pre-
sent payment upon railway trains of 6 per cent.
with exemptions into a payment of 31 per cent.
without exemptions ! Not taking into account his
parenthetical proposition, as one may call it, for
abolishing the exemptions from duty in favour of
charitable legacies in Ireland, with certain reserva-
tions, and for assimilating the law in Ireland in that
respect to the law in this country, Mr. GLAD-
STONE estimates, as we have said, the
dropping in of some £58,000 additional into
the Exchequer from the working of these ♦arious
sources of income. So that adding that to the
£75,000 drawn from the application of the income
tax to charities and charitable corporations, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer he finds himself
agreeably empowered to deal with a surplus not of
£3,741,000, but with a surplus enhanced by an
additional £133,000 to a total of £3,874,000.
Diminishing this by the abolition of the small
charges on commerce to the tune of £143,000; by
the abatement of the income tax on minor incomes
to the extent of £300,000; by the reduction of the
tea duty by no less an amount than £1,300,000;
and by the reduction of 2d. in the pound on the
general rate of income tax, involving a loss of fully
£1,600,000. Mr. GLADSTONE, through the operation
of his present Budget, proposes to remit £3,343,006
out of his estimated surplus, in the aggregate, of
£3,874,000. Showing still an undisturlel little
balance, even then, to the extent of £531,000. By
that residue he holds, however, with exemplary
tenacity. A million and a half from the beloved
income tax he is ready to forego. He consents to yield
up more than a ,million 'and_ a quirter in the shape
of tea duties. Concessions of a minor kind he is
prepared to make in sundry other directions with-
out any apparent qualm. But when all thus
has been said and done, eloquently said and
magnanimously done by Mr. GLADSTONE, there is
an odd half million still remaining in the " right',
balance, and to that he clings to the last pertina-
ciously. Nor will the nation begrudge that super-
fluous £631,000 to the calculations of its Financier
—associated as the thought of it will be with the
grateful reflection that henceforth the Income-tax
will be sevenpence instead of ninepence in the pound
sterling, and the tea duty one shilling instead of
one shilling and fivepence.

An important deputation waited on Earl RUSSELL
yesterday, consisting of the shippers and merchants
concerned in the Mexican trade, and the owner,
ship-broker, and underwriter interested in the
steamships Peterhoff and Sea Queen. The im-
portance of the interview was greatly increased by
the announcement of a singular fact. It appears
that Mr. ADAMS, the Minister of the United States
at this Court, has been granting permission for a
ship to proceed to Matamoras. This vessel, which
has received a special license to proceed safe from
interruption by American cruisers, is to carry sup-
plies of arms and ammunition to the Mexicans to
assist them in their war against France. The depu-
tation declared that in consequence of an attempt to
effect a policy of assurance that day at LLOYD'S
the certificate from Mr. ADAMS to Admiral
DUPONT had come to their knowledge.
In the course of the letter, Mr. ADAMS
states that he most cheerfully grants the
request of those who ask for his permission. He
avers that "it is not the intention of the United
States to interfere in any way with an honest
neutral trade, and it is deeply to be regretted that
the frauds which have been practised so extensively
in this country have contributed so much to throw
it under suspicion." Such language is a disgrace
to a man holding such a responsible position as
Mr. ADAMS. He does not deem it necessary to
explain why it is so much more honest to faJilitate
the transit of arms that are to to employed against
a country that is considered in friendly relations
with his own, than to import supplies to the Confe-
derates. When he goes farther and attempts to
invalidate the conduct and transactions of English
shipowners, he forgets that to apply such strong
epithets to others may induce some to retort the charge
upon himself. It is not consistent with straight-
forward conduct, nor in accordance with the rules
of fair play, to make one set of instructions for
public notice, and then covertly follow on a very
different track. Because the Federal Government,
at any cost, are resolved to exterminate the Confe-
derates, all nations that do not follow in their wake
and carry out their views are to be considered false
and faithless, and their subjects liable to every kind
of annoyance, insult, and spoliation. On the other
hand, as they wish to carry out a particular line of
action in Mexico, all things are changed in that
locality—a new code is to be drawn up, and a
different policy brought to bear on all engaged in
traffic for that .country: Mr, CRAWFORD called
attention to this circumstance in the strongest
meaner, and it is to be hoped that Lord RUSSELL
will pay due attention to this serious state-
ment, and act with something of his old
energy in dealing with this complicated question.
Mr. CRAWFORD also called Lord RUSSELL'S atten-
tion to the wrongs sustained by the captain and
officers of the Peterhoff, who are detained in New
York and not allowed to communicate with the
British Consul or the agents of the owners and
merchants. Lord RUSSELL expressed his surprise
at this intimation, remarking that they were not
criminals, or subject to criminal law. The imme-
diate object of the deputation was to secure an
assurance of protection from her MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment for the steamship Sea Queen, which is
now lying at Falmouth detained by the owners, who
ggeated as extremely
o ua
nl da send
await this decision. It was Suggested
probable that the Fceodmeprarlomagiseenttehehearheipw,
fictitious letters to
there would be a repetition of the same arbitrary
conduct which had taken place on hoard of the
Adela. Lord RUSSELL said he did not anticipate the
renewal of such acts, since Mr. SEWARD Ind
issued fresh instructions to the Federal officers,
through the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. HARDING,
on behalf of the shippers, explained the awkward
position in which they were placed ; their engage-
ments were binding, their goods were on board, but
the owners refused to allow the ship to proceed while
everything was so uncertain, and she was subject
to seizure. Lord RUSSELL promised to consider
the question, and while he is contemplating the
difficulties of the case he may have leisure and op
portunity to reflect upon the inconsistency of the
conduct of his friends the Federals. At the outset
of this protracted struggle he gave them every ad-
vantage, and allowed them every opportunity of
saying that the English Government was on their
side. Naw they. have adopted every means of
displaying ill-will and exercising their poWer in an
illegal manner over our vessels, thereby dishonourio g
the subjects of our SOVEREIGN and violating the
laws of nations in the most flagrant manner. It can
be but for a very little while longer that such
things can be calmly borne. Unless a total change
is made in the entire course of action pursued by

Federal officers of the Navy, they may rest assured
that they will have to render an account of their
conduct in a manner that they will not relish.
The day for deputations will be over, and the time
for issuing instructions will have gone by and give
place to that decided and definite line of action
which our country can always adopt when her in-
terests have been trifled with, and her honour
assailed. Lord RUSSELL'S faith in the good inten-
tions of his American allies must cease, or he him-
self will have to retire from office, so that at any cost
we may establish our position and assert our
rights.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

MADLLE. FERRARIS.

Mr. Mapleson commenced with great success last
evening, one of those distinctions of his season
which formed a feature of his programme. He pro-
duced a ballet—an entertainment which most of our
readers must remember, as forming, for so many
years, one of the attractions of Her Msjesty's
Theatre, and which, in his desire to restore the
house to its old rank and prosperity, he very natu-
rally, and wisely, has been prompted to have recourse
to. At the same time he has seen the necessity of
sustaining it with the highest talent, and accordingly
has inaugurated his experiment with that of Mdl]e.
Ferraris, who, we presume, upon all grounds, must
now be regarded as the premiere danseuse of the
day.

"La Farfatella"—as the new ballet is entitled—
is so obviously intended as a mere vehicle to display
her claims, that the highest praise we can bestow
upon it is, that it completely fulfils its end, La
Farfatella is a sportive wood nymph—a sort of
matured and developed Puck, whose solitude being
invaded by a silly nobleman whilst hunting, revenges
herself by puni3bing him with all manner of pretty
persecutions, and winds up, though really how—
•only the genius of ballet can explain, by making
her appearance at a carnival ball at the Grand
Opera at Naples, where she partakes in the festivi-
ties by dancing La Napelitaine. This subject,
however, wanting in deafness or in incident, has
the merit of at least supplying her with three
good opportunities sufficiently distinct to show
her variety as well as positive power. The first is
a Grand Pas in her woods, assisted by her sister
nymphs and an attendant genius—the second a
fancy dance and polka at the house of her noble
victim, entitled "La Bonquetiere"—arid the third
the national dance—at the Opera ball, with which
the subject comes to a conclusion. In the first of
these she manifests that to the great vigour and
exactness with which she won her early fame she has
added a refinement that vastly enhances her
old merits. In the second she displays a certain
piquant vivacity that is equally striking and de-
lightful; whilst into the third, she plunges with a
gay abandon—a wild and true enjoyment—that
attest her sense of character to be quite equal
to her other merits, In each of these exertions
Mdlle Ferraris won a triumph, and was rewarded
with the loudest demonstrations and a liberal floral
shower. Her summons also at the close was more
than usually emphatic, and, it is but right to add,
that her delighted looks and repeated acknowledg-
ments showed how entirely she shared the gratifi-
cation she had given. The scenery of the piece was
pleasing, and the music very agreeable.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

MADLLE. CARLOTTA PATTI.

Last evening might be called in a more general
sense than usual, "a grand sensation night" at this
favourite establishment. A sister of Madlle.
Patti was announced to appear in a concert, to
whom rumour had lately assigned even higher vocal
gifts and culture than distinguish our young idol.
At the same time our sympathies were awakened,
whilst our expectations were defined, by the
news that she was labouring under a
physical impediment which would prevent
her appearing on the stage, and so contesting the
dramatic triumphs of her remarkable pre-
cursor. Rumour usually exaggerates, being
mostly so much sound that is emitted by ex-
cited crowds, and which spreads, therefore, upon
principles that are more atmospheric than critical.
In this case, however, it has mingled no little truth
with vehemence, and we the more readily confess
the merit, seeing it comes to us from a quarter so un-
expected as America.
Though Mdlle. Carlotte Patti laboured under the
disadvantage of not appearing until half-past 11
o'clock, when the audience were wearied if not ex-
hausted by the performance of a serious opera—in
reversal of the prior and judicious arrangement, by
which she would have commenced the evening—her
first aria was quite sufficient to attest her extraor-
dinary powers—the " 0 Ince di quest' anima," made
so popular by Persiani—in which her vocalisation
proved to be as finished as that of her brilliant pre-
decessor, whilst her voice itself had qualities of a
far more unusual character. The latter fact, how-
ever, was more clearly attested in her succeeding
air from the" Z luberflote," the " Gli anqui d'inferno
in which she reached the famous F in alt, the
nighest.note,that has yet been .written—and delivered
all the staccato passages with an ease, a force, a
brightness, and a perfect truth of tune, that affirmed
all that had been uttered of her wonderful range and
pliancy. The duet " Quanto Amore" which she
shared with Signor Ronconi, scarcely presented
similar tests—but in the echo song by Eckert—
which her sister always selects for the singing
lesson in the Barbiere, She reached the
most exciting point of her trial by challeng-
ing a direct comparison with the great
favouite of the day—a venture which, it will suf
lice to say, whilst producing a strong impression,
did not tend to shake the verdict that had already
been pronounced. In cnclusion, we have only to say
that she has a very extensive and pliant voice, com-
bined with a remarkable amount of culture ; but it
is a question yet to be solved whether her power is
equal to her range, or she possesses the still higher
merit of awaking sympathy as well as wonder.
The opera that preceded her exertions was that of
"Norma," in which Madlle. Fricci made her first
appearance for the season, and also in its heroine; and,
thanks to her fresh and melodious voice, produced a
favourable impression. It is right to acknowledge
that her vocalisation has greatly improved since she
was last heard, which is an additional explanation
of the success that she achieved, but it is equally
right to remark that she has by no means yet
attained to the possession of that art and passion
that would qualify her to do justice to such a cha-
racter as the Druid Priestess.

WEDDING PRESENTS TO THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
OF WALES.—Yesterday the numbers visiting the
South Kensington Museum to inspect the wedding pre-
sents were 5,930, and, it being a students' day, the re-
ceipts from sixpenny fees amounted to £145 13s. About
700 persons per hour inspected the presents, while the
proces of reaching them occupied at least an h ,ur and
a half. It is expected that the exhibition will continue
opei‘nif\or some weeks.
Persigny and Billault have been examined
by the commission sent from London in the affair of the
Morning Chronicle. They positively deny all complicity
or engagement with that paper.
The Emperor Napoleon, attended by Lieutenant
Duperre, of his Staff, drove on Monday in a plain carriage
to the Western Railway, in the Rue St. Lazard, and there
paid for two tickets like any other traveller, and took his
seat in the carriage appropriated to smokers. He passed
unnoticed through the crowd and left the train at Rueil,
where he visited the tomb of Queen Hortense, in the church
of that village. He returned to Paris in the same simple
way.
Ini , consequence
l
oSfi rtPhHeLoT:
ruscite°oiriptitTS°llt fe:'sva Stewart chugarrssaddmae:f.prEoanitvc despatched rn:st me. paddlewheel steam
vessel Prospero to assist:the Australian mail ship, which is
off Start Foint with her propeller broken. The Frospero
measures 244 tons, and has engines of 144-horse power.
CONSECRATION OF A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH,—The Roman Catholic Church recent!)
erected in Hatton 'wall, dedicated to St. Peter, was yesterday
morning opened and consecrated by Cardinal 'Wiseman.
Pontifical high mass was celebrated by Dr. Morris,
Bishop of Troy," the sermon being preached by Dr.
DChilviiiseio'n"oEfisShcooptleonf dlrttls eat:\•,O.3 Apostolic,vaspoefr
ftohremedwith
Eastern
full orchestral accompaniments. After the service a collec-
tion was made in aid of the funds for carrying out the
church's work in the district. In the evening there were
vespers and benediction, with a sermon by the Rev. Canon
Oakley, IV,A,

April.