The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-06 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

The Quarter's Revenue for the year ending
1829 was made up last night, and exhibits a
deficiency of 332,7861.—making the decrease on
the whole year of 1,165,4491. This deficiency
is not more than was expected under all the
circumstances of the country. The Customs
show an improvement of 62,6541.; on every other
item there is a decrease. In the Excise there
is a deficiency of 154,3061; on Stamps 60,057/. ;
Post Office 20,000/. ; Taxes 9,320/. ; Miscel-
laneous 151,7571.

But though the decrease in this year is more
than a million, as compared with 1828, the
Revenue is half a million greater than in the year
1827, so that. the falling off is not so great by
half a million, taking both years into account,
The greatest deficiency on the last year is in the
Excise, being nearly one million, and as that is
the surest test of public comfort generally, the
defalcation is the more to be regretted.
With respect to what an Evening Paper (the
Standard) stated about the certificates of the
Attornies being anticipated, we are assured that
there is not one word of truth in it. If any
exertions have been made to swell the amount
of the present Quarter, it is no more than what
is done at the end of every Quarter, and under
every Administration, whether Whig, Tory, or
Liberal. It is natural for all men to put the best
face they can upon their transactions, and Minis-
ters have the same right.
On the whole, we are decidedly of opinion
that if a reduction were made in certain articles,
which are now taxed beyond all reason, the
people would be relieved, and the Revenue
materially benefitted. Let the Assessed Taxes
—the Malt and Beer Duties—the very
impolitic and oppressive tax on Stamps
be modified, and the Government will
soon have reason to congratulate the country on
returning prosperity. Excessive taxation always
defeats its purpose—and no country has had
more experience of this truth than England.

German Papers have been received this morn-
ing to the 30th December. They contain no
actual news, but give some further particulars
of the partial evacuation of' Adrianople by the
Russians :

PERA, NOV. 27.

Yesterday we received positive information of the
departure of the Russian head-quarters kom Adria-
nople. Count Diebitsch has transferred them to
Bourgas, and intends to remain there till the fine
season. Some persons, however, say he will imme-
diately embark for Odessa, and then proceed to St.
Petersburg!). On the departure of the Russian
troops from Adrianople, many of the Christian fa--
milks. accompanied them, intending to settle in
Russia. In general a fear of reaction has seized the
whole population of Rumelia, and _it is strange to
see the inhabitants, in general the most peaceable
subjects in the world, make preparations which indi-
cate a desperate resistance in case the Turkish
Governors on their return should bring their
usual spirit of persecution and oppression. Every
one looks out his concealed weapons, and distributes
them among those dependent on him. Old men,
women, and children arm themselves with swords
and daggers. The men able to bear arms have
wholly given themselves up to the direction of that
secret society, of which I have before spoken. The
Ottoman Authorities are much embarrassed by this
dangerous spirit, and for this reason the Pacha of
Scutari, who is famous for his severity, has received
positive orders to return to Albania, and Alisch
Pacha, with the regular troops, to occupy
Adrianople, positive injunctions being given him
to enforce the strictest discipline, and to avoid
exciting discontent by arbitrary measures. It is
with reason supposed, that Count Diebitsch has in-
duced the Porte to take these steps, for he assured

the principal inhabitants of Adrianople, that the
Pacha of Scutari would not occupy their city,. and
they would have no persecution to fear if they ob-
served their duty as subjects, and obedience to the
Sultan their Sovereign. The excesses, which are
otherwise not uncommon on the departure of a vic-
torious army, were checked by a proclamation issued
in the name of the Commander-in-Chief, in which
every one who should disturb the public tranquillity
was threatened with death. This had the desired
effect, not the slightest disorder having occurred
when the troops marched out. The number of
Russian troops left at Adrianople for the protection
of the sick, is stated at 6,000 men. The accounts
from Asia Minor, respecting the disposition of the
inhabitants, are still unfavourable, though insurrec-
tion is quelled. The Sultan hopes however to re-
store tranquility to those provinces, by reinstating
Kutsclitik Mehmed Aga Kara Osman in his pos-
sessions. He is already gone to Magnesia.

VIENNA, Dac. 24.---111etalliques, 1021; Four per
Cents. 94k; Bank Shares, 1,260.
ODESSA, DEC. 11.

Jussuf pacha, of Varna, is still here. He hie,
visited the Turkish Ambassador, Halil P►.cha
who is here, on quarantine, and had a long confe_
rence with him. It seems to be in consequence ( f
this conference that the son of Jussuf Paella, who is
a Bimbaschi in the service of the Sultan, has em-
barked in one of the Turkish frigates that brought
the Turkish legation, and has sailed in it tolhe
Bosphorus. Our Governor-General, Count Wo-
ronzow, immediately on the arrival of the Ambas-
sadors, sent to St. Petersburgh for instructions re-
specting the mode of their journey to that capital,
but he has not yet received them.
The cold, which hiss set in this year six weeks
earlier than usual, has so tilled the road with ice
that the navigation is wholly suspended till milder
weather.

It is not the least sin of the Mad Doctors
that they have brought discredit on a profession
which, when its offices are discharged with pu-
rity and humanity, is perhaps the best and the
most ennobling of all human occupations. We
know few characters more worthy of high re-
spect, and more useful, than that of the Physi-
cian, who has formed to himself a high idea of
the nature and duties of his profession, and has
the constancy and daring to adhere to the exalted
standard he has chosen. But we hardly know
whether the craven who, amidst so many calls
upon his honour, his pity, and his good taste,
can decline from that standard, is more worthy
of our pity or our indignation. These obser-
vations are suggested to us by the letter of Dr.
KNIGHT, inserted in our Paper of yesterday,
who very naturally feels indignant at being
classed with the Mad Doctors—the creatures
" past praying for"—who can condescend to
the cruel and disgusting practices of "Jigging
madmen." We can, however, assure that learned
Doctor, that it is far from our intention to in-
clude him, and persons who, like him, are aware
of the sacred trust reposed in them, in our stric-
tures, too justly general. The public will, no
doubt, make great and honourable distinctions.
The evidence before the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, taken at three distinct periods, will
sufficiently attest our justice, and even our
lenity. Let our readers look into that evidence
and see whether the brutal indifference, cold cal-
culation, and horrible cruelty of the Mad Doctors
be exceeded by the wildness or ferocity of their

victims.
" There be some here with more than madness foul ;
" Some who do still goad on the o'er labour'd mind,
" And dim the little light that's left bellied
" With needless torture, as their tyrant will
" Is wound up to the lust of cluing ill."

But to leave generalities, and descend to
facts, let us ask Dr. KNIGHT if he ever heard
of a WHITE HOUSE at Bethnal-green ? Let us
ask him also whether a Physician, attending
such an establishment, he not entitled to the
name of " Mad Doctor ?" and whether the
term ought to he softened in its application to a
Doctor NN ho admitted that he had there visited
five hundred patients twice a week only ;—that
his visit was one of an hour, or an hour and a
half's duration, that is one minute for five
patients ; that he considered his visit duly paid
when he walked round the house and saw all
the sitting rooms, omitting generally the sleeping
rooms, and always the infirmary ; that in these walks
he has occasionally pointed out a patient to
the Apothecary, and desired such and such a
treatment to be adopted (after, we must suppose,
one-fifth of a minute's consideration) ; that he
knew and authorised the violent, the epileptic,
and paralytic patients, likewise the wet patients,
z. e. those who were, or were said to be, insen-
sible to the calls of nature, to be chained down
to their cribs in their own filth from Saturday
night to Monday morning, in order, as he says,
to give them one day's rest in the week ; or, as
the Gentlemen of the Committee of the House
of Commons evidently supposed, that the
keepers might have a holiday ! ! ! These things,
and even worse, have been committed, as it
were but yesterday,—in London, the centre of
civilization,—in England, where we profess to
believe the doctrines of Christianity, and where
we have been told, from high authority, the
Christian religion forms part of the law of the
land,—the perpetrators yet unpunished, and the
system, and the White House, permitted to
remain.

blow that may bring the queition to issue, and
at all events remains firm to the determination
expressed in his name by the Marquis de BAR-
BACENA, previous to sailing from Portsmouth
—" never to come to terms with the Usurper."
It has been generalfy understood that our
Government has been for some time waiting au-
thentic intelligence of the course intended to be
adopted by Don PEDRO, and that the lattel
had deferred the communication of such intelli-
gence until the arrival of his daughter with the
Marquis de BARBACENA, through whom so
many negotiations have lately been carried on
in Europe. Before the meeting of Parliament,
therefore, there can be little doubt that Lord
ABERDEEN will be prepared to state distinctly
the line of policy to be adopted by Great
Britain ; and the whole suhject will probably be
discussed, if not earlier, on Mr. DAVENPORT'S
motion, notice of which was given last Session,
" for inquiry into the conduct of his Majesty's
Government respecting Portuguese affairs."
The principle of non-interference with the
internal concerns of Foreign States is a most
excellent maxim ; and happy would it have been
for Great Britain if she had observed it in times
past, instead of squandering away her resources for
the maintenamee of ancient Governments, which
their subjects had endeavoured to throw off. Mr.
Fox and his friends asserted the duty of non-
interference unsuccessfully for years and years ;
it was, however, set at nought by the zeal of the
Tories for the French war ; the national honour
was said to be concerned in the constancy of the
support of Great Britain to the legitimate rights
of the Bourbons ; the war was persisted in ; the
Usurper was finally subdued ; and at the end of
twenty-five years John Bull rested from his
labours to enjoy his triumph, overwhelmed with
glory, and with eight hundred millions of debt.
In the fifteenth year of our repose we are
again appealed to, to assist the cause of legi-
timacy against usurpation, and non-interference
is again asserted as the answer we should give to
such appeal ; is maintained the most stre-
nuously by the veiry party who up to this time
have been loudly arguing its violation. This,
however, is not surprising, because in the case of
Portugal, the cause of legitimacy is associated
with that of constitutional government ; whilst
usurpation identifies itself with that spirit of
oppression and intolerance, which desires to
govern nations, not for their own benefit, but
for that of their rulers, and is felt in common by
all tyrants, bigots, and aristocrats in all parts of
the world.
Though we think the maxim of non-inter-
ference comes with a very bad grace out
of the mouths of the Tories and professed
Pittites, we should certainly not recommend
its violation in favour of Portugal, without
better reasons being given for it than we have
yet heard. It is, however, much to be regret-
ted that such opir.ions should prevail, as are
common on the Continent, regarding the relapse
of Great Britain into that mean and miserable
subserviency to the Holy Alliance policy, from
which Mr. CANNING so happily released her.
It is most unfortunate that we should have in-
terfered once, virtually for the protection of the
Portuguese Constitution ; that the Regent and
defender of that Constitution should have been
chosen with our sanction ; that he should have
been bound by promises made in England to
our SOVEREIGN and his Ministers, to observe
the existing institutions—should have gone to
Lisbon escorted by British ships, and been re-
ceived on his landing by British troops—and,
finally, that he should have sworn before the
British Ambassador fidelity to his legitimate
Sovereign, and to the Constitution. It is to
be lamented, we say, that all these circumstances
should have excited an impression that Great
Britain has faithlessly and ungenerously with-
drawn her protection from Portugal, at the very
time when it was the most needed.
The affair of Terceira has never yet been ex-
plained ; nor can it, we fear, be elucidated very
satisfactorily. The sense of Parliament has,
however, been too decidedly expressed upon it,
to admit the possibility of the repetition of such
an occurrence. The insular part of the Portu-
guese monarchy belongs de facto, as well
as de jure, to Donna MARIA ; and the
inhabitants of the Azores never having per-
mitted Don MIGUEL to establish his autho-

rity among them, no countenance can, un-
der any pretence, be given to ally attempt
of Don MIGUEL to prevent communication with
these Islands in the name of their lawful Sove-
reign. If effectual succour be speedily sent to
Terceira, as is reported, there is little doubt that
Don MIGUEL will soon cease to have adherents
in tfie Islands, and that the whole of them will,
with little difficulty, be made perfectly inde-
pendent of his power. If this should be effected,
the influence upon Portugal will naturally be
great and important ; for it will add both strength
and spirits to those numerous and respectable

The reception of the young Queen of Pon- I classes in that unhappy country, who, by force
'FUGAL by her father with all the honours I alone, have become the subjects of the Usurper.
usually paid to crowned heads, assigning her If Don PEDRO'S efforts be not directly seconded
a separate establishment, and causing her to by Great Britain, they should at least not be
hold a Court to receive the Ministers of Foreign refused the sanction of British approbation ; and
Powers, coupled with the alleged equipment of it is to be hoped that, when Parliament meets,
a squadron to carry succours to Terceira, are something may fall from our Ministry, that may
indications of the affairs of Portugal being likely at all events dicountenance the notion, that Don
soon to occupy again some share of attention. MIGUEL has succeeded in insinuating himself
The EMPEROR appears inclined to strike some .nto its good graces. Such rumours, we are

sure, are utterly false and calumnious ; but it is
high time for them to be authoritatively extin-
guished.

We received by Express late this afternoon
she Paris Papers of Monday, but they contain
:10 news of interest, further than what we have
received by the German Papers.

There was an extraordinary movement on
'Change in the Funds, owing, it was said, to a
Company, which was against the New Loan, hav-
ing thrown a great quantity of Stock on the Market,
which produced a fall in the Rentes.