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

INDIAN ARMY.

The following Officers have been appointed on the Staff
of the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie, now Commander
in Chief in Bengal :—Colonel the Hon. John Ramsey, his
Majesty's half-pay, to be Military Secretary; Capt. Alex-
ander IPLaghlan, Royal Artillei y ; Lieut. Lord Ramsey,
his Majesty's 26th Regiment; and Captain John Byrne,
his Majesty's 31st Regiment, to be Aides-de-Camp; As-
sistant-Surgeon D. Murray, M.D., his Majesty's 16th
Lancers, Surgeon.
The Governor in Council at Madras has directed that
Circulating or Lending Libraries, for the use of the Euro-
pean troops, be established at Fort St. George, St.
Thomas's Mount, Bangalore, Trichinopoly, Hyderabad,
Nagpoor, Bellary, Masulipatam, Cannamore, Poonamallee,
Vizagapatam, and Cuddalore.
The following General Order has been iasled by the
Commander-in-Chief at Madras, dated head-quarters,
Choultry Dec. 4, 1829 :—" The Commander-in-
Chief having, with great disgust, noticed a feminine prac-
tice adopted by some Officers of this service, of wearing
combs in their hair, And dangling fancy curls, unbecoming
the appearance of a soldier, desires that this practice may
be forthwith abolished, and a more male costume adopted."
Captain Wetherall, of the 13th Light Dragoons, has
been appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General to his
Majesty's Forces serving under the Madras Presidency,
vice Lieutenant-Colonel Wetherall, who resigns.

His Majesty's steam-packets are to proceed in
future no farther up the Mediterranean than Malta. The
steam-packet from Corfu is to meet them with the des-
patches, and she returns immediately to Gibraltar and
Cadiz, &c., and from thence to England. The Malta and
Gibraltar merchants complain loudly of the steam-packet
touching at Cadiz on her return to England, as the Consul
of that place has the power of detaining her 24 hours,
whether he may have official communications to make or
not, by which means the regular correspondence is inter
rupted. The steam-packet which arrived from Malta
yesterday, after a run of 51 days from Falmouth to Corfu
and back, was commanded by Lieut. BissErr, who was
the fast officer that directed a steam-vessel across the Bay
of Biscay, as it was this gentleman who was in charge of
the George the Fourth, which belonged to Sir J. MILLay
DOYLE in 1828, and was by Mr. BISSETT sold to tl •
French during the blockade of Cadiz, although, by an arti-
fice on the part of the Frencb? the contract of Bala was
plObt fraudulently broken.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1830.

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

The following is the Bulletin issued this day—
" Windsor Castle, June I.
" The KING has passed a quiet night. In other re-
spects his MAJESTY continues the same.
(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.

" MATTHEW J. TIERNEY."

The following are extracts from German and
other Papers :

NAPLES, MAT 11.—The veil is not yet wholly re-
moved that covers the negociations with the Pacha of
Egypt concerning Algiers, but we believe we may affirm
that the fact itself is undoubted, that a convention was
concluded at Alexandria between France and the Viceroy,
by which the former• bound itself to subdue the Barbary
States and deliver them up to the Viceroy, who, on his
part, engaged to maintain order and security on the north
coast of Africa. It seems that Russia took some share in
promoting this plan ; but it is probable that the opposi-
tion which the matter afterwards met with from the Porte
and England have delayed the publication of that document,
of which persons worthy of credit affirm they have seen
copies here and in Sicily, awl may even have made the
Pasha himself waver in the resolutions which he had
already taken.
The absence of the King and the loss of the Chevalier
de Medici are severely felt in our own country. To what
a degree, notwithstanding the diverse opinions of the poli
tical character of this statesman, his death is felt as a loss,
is evinced by the report which is generally spread, and
though wholly groundless shows the mistrust of national
jealousy, that the Spaniards poisoned the Minister.
VIENNA, MAY 21.—Metalliques 100 7-10 ; Four• per
Cents. 96i ; Bank Stock 1334*.
MUNICH, MAY 22.—The return of the King is ex-
pected with the more impatience, because it will be fol-
lowed by ►arious changes in the Administration of the af-
fairs of the kingdom. One thing in particular which is
universally desired is the new organization of the Courts
of Justice, of which the kingdom has so much need.
Lithographic copies of a plan have been sent to the Magis-
trates of the circles, upon which they are desired to give
their opinions. According to this plan the administration
and police will be taken from the Provincial Judges. Be•
sides the advantage of setting bands to arbitrary proceed-
ings, abuses such as we have witnessed will be impossible.
But there will be in districts, the extent of which will be
fixed, Commissioners, to whom be confided the Admi-
nistration and the Police, which have hitherto been wholly
neglected by the Provincial Judges. One of the effects of
such a change will certainly be that our high roads will be
at length planted with trees. The plantations, made by
the Provincial Judges, have been always so neglected, and
that in a few years the trees always perished.
CARLSRUHE, MAY 23. —Their Royal Highnesses the
Grand Duke and Duchess yesterday gave audience to the
Count de Seyasel d'Aix, Envoy Extraordinary from his
Majesty the King of Bavaria, who, in return for the mission
of General Von Stockholm from Baden, was commissioned
to present his Majesty's compliments of condolence on the
death of the Grand Duke Louis, told his congratulations
on the accession of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke
Leopold.
FRANKFORT, MAY 24.—Exchange on London, two
months, 151.
BERLIN, MAT 16.—His Majesty has addressed a
Cabinet Order to the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the
Preamble of which is as follows :

" The third Secular Celebration of the year in which
the Augsburgh Confession was presented—on account of
the high value of this Confession of Faith, which, after the
Holy Scriptures, is to be considered as the basis of the
Evangelic Church, and on account of its great influence on
the internal and external consolidation of it—will afford
professors of the Evangelic faith a welcome opportunity to
unite in manifesting their joy and gratitude at the blessings
of the Protestant faith, which they have hitherto enjoyed,
and to offer to God the expressions of their respect and
adoration. I have therefore resolved that this day (25th of
June) shall be religiously observed as in 1730, or on the
following Sunday, in all the Protestant congregations in
the kingdom. May the commemoration of the delivery of
this confession (founded on Scripture, and on the saving
truths revealed in it) of the faith of the Evangelic Christians,
which, after the lapse of three centuries, shows and will
show itself as authentic as it did at that time, and in the
spirit of which I myself most heartily join—contribute to
confirm and animate in the Evangelic Church the true
faith, to promote among its members unity in the Spirit,
and to encourage in all my Protestant subjects mew reso-
lutions of true piety, Christian charity, and tolerance !"
BUCHAREST, MAY 7.—ln the Russian cantonments and
garrisons in Bulgaria every thing is in a bustle. For some
weeks past there have been continual reviews and musters,
whence it is supposed that these troops will shortly depart.
Even at Varna, as we hear, the works to strengthen the
fortifications have been reared, and it is thought that that
important place will soon be given up to the Turks. In
the principalities, too, the Russians are preparing for their
departure ; but well-informed persons say that they will
leave garrisons to do duty together with the native troops,
the organisation of which proceeeds rapidly. It is affirmed
also, that a great part of the Russian troops will not return
to their old cantonments, but remain in Bessarabia, which
seems to be confirmed by the fact that large magazines are
forming in that province. Our trade with Bulgaria and
Rumelia does not increase, as we hoped it would, on the
return of peace; however, we expect an improvement after
the departure of the Russian troops.—Nuremberg Cor-
respondent, May 24.

There is an article in the last number of the
Edinburgh Review on the Coal Trade, which
places in the strongest point of view the hard-
ship and impolicy of the present Duty on Coals.
The importance of the article of fuel to the wants
of every family in the land, be it high or low, is
such, that it ranks, in truth, among the first ne-
cessaries of life ; and when we are paying in
London, and the southern parts of England, so
enormous prices for this necessary, it is well that
the public attention should be directed to the
means whereby its cost is so prodigiously en-
hanced. The Edinburgh Review has furnished
a list of the various exactions, whereby that
which the Coal-owner sells on an average for
1138., is ma& to cost the London consumer 525.
and upwards per chaldron, and has represented
the evils of these exactions so forcibly as to sa-
tisfy all reflecting persons, that the subject is one

that calls for the immediate interference of Go-
vernment.

The main grievance is the King's duty of six
shillings a chaldron on all coal carried coastwise
—a tax unjust in its principle, as affecting ex-
clusively the inhabitants of certain parts of the
kingdom—those inhabitants being the very per-
sons by whom coal is procured at the greatest
expense. The people in the coal districts pay
no duty whatever, whilst those who are obliged
to have it brought from a distance, are burthened
with freight, port charges, and a duty equivalent
to 50 per cent. ! In London the orphans' dues,
and other municipal impositions, amount to
4s. 92d. per chaldron, and the charges of deli-
very from a vessel lying below London Bridge,
and placing it in the consumer's cellar, are alto-
gether no less than 13s. 7d. per chaldron, being,
more than the whole cost up to the time of ship-
ment, and by one imposition and another the
sum of 345. 40. is added to the cost of each
chaldron of coals taken at the time of shipment.
At the outports the town dues are lighter, but
the cost is still enhanced to a most outrageous
extent.

If any Government duty ought to be levied,
it should certainly be at the pit's mouth so that
all consumers should be taxed alike. A duty of
a shilling per chaldron on all the coal consumed
in private houses would yield more than the
present partial duty of six shillings, with a
ge-
neral exemption of all coal used in manufacto-
ries. There might be difficulties in arranging
this latter exemption, but such difficulties are
rather a reason for abolishing the duty altoge-
ther, than for upholding it on its present iniqui-
tous footing. We believe the poverty and
wretchedness of the labourers in the southern
counties, and the consequent increase of Poor
Rates, to be greatly attributable to the compara-
tive scarcity of coal in those districts, and that
the tax upon fuel has an especially strong
tendency to depress the condition of the lower
classes whom other causes, such as the payment
of wages out of the Poors' Rates, at the same
time conspire to degrade.
The produce of the Coal Duty for 1828 was
936,0881., and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER might ask, how it is proposed that
such a loss of revenue should be made up. The
answer is, that the productiveness of a tax can
never excuse its injustice; and that the Coal
Tax is unjust in its operation is indisputable.
Its repeal would, besides directly relieving a
great branch of the Shipping interest, so much
improve the condition of at least one-half of our
population, that an increase in the consumption
of taxed articles would follow as a matter of
course, though this is a point of view in which,
it seems, the Government will never be brought
to regard a remission of taxes. But a sound
system of finance would deal with the question
in a very different manner. It would repeal the
Coal Duty, together with many other duties
almost equally mischievous, upon the simple
ground that the injury inflicted by them upon
the national industry, and their inconsistency
with the well-being of the people, are evils ex•
ceeding the advantages derived from the revenue
they furnish. The deficiency caused by such a
repeal must, if need be, supplied by a Property-
tax, a measure which, at least, will not be re-
pugnant to that equal justice whereby the Go,
vernment is bound to act in finance as in other
matters. To justify the existing taxes, because
the revenue cannot be dispensed with, is to act
so as "propter vitam vivendi perdere camas."