The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-28 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

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Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon ("lampreysß.V.
R. N. I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
R. 11 L. Bevan, F.sq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to Emptily a great national
want. viz., an asylum for the orpha, daughters of ~ailors iu
the Roy al Navy and Merchants '-ervice and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service and provides a home free of ex:;ense for former
inmates while out of -ituations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be expos, d to.
Tie Committee earnestly APPEAL for Cf)NTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the in. reasing applications through the
recent storms and loss t life at sea, and to enable them
even ualiy to obtain premises more commensurat, with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
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who may perish by war.
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This Hospital, ioundef in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of flee admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to• a large number of in-patients, and, in
Iddition VI this, the average number of attendance of the
lestitute sick has for P. con .iderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are 'capable of
co •tainiug several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.

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green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

1177:ffaallileenn:both par nts dead.
THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
111., home to iho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ha n 455 poor, firniefritydel ess,
years. youngn etreemaarlee
brief
:iveefr
de
erteaj
iciest
oe ill a rfoeraw
want of FUNDS and room, makir4.,, a total of 3,087, who have
—other dead, deserted by her father.
mother
both parents dead.
obfeur(ni thevAB et.
.:7o}at,gs. at;a4rvgeafeyinit3c, fallen,ahsoe
ins
,mbootthher
parentsdel dead.
A.. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
8. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. • •
C. 8., aged i 5,
H. S. aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents.
M.
H.,i1., aged d
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. B. aged 17,
M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents deid.
fallen,failen
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost childreo, from the age of a to 15, who
have been led astray from the path ,d virtue.
contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. iianiel Cooper, s 5, Queen •street, Chcaliside; or by Messrs
Barclay and W. Lorabard-grcet.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The Canadian Deputies just arrived in
this country have enjoyed an early opportunity of
publicly explaining the views of their countrymen
and the objects of their present mission. It is well
known that the scheme for a general Confederation
of the provinces of British North America, which at
first seemed to meet with unanimous approval on
the spot, and was cordially supported by the Impe-
rial Government, received a check at the late colonial
elections. New Brunswick returned candidates ad-
verse to the project, and the vote of that province,
in fact, was cast against the proposal. It is true
that the majority was not large in itself, and that
the entire population of the dissentient colony was
of slight numerical significance. Still, there was the
opposition established, and it was sufficient, if main-
tained, to defeat the whole scheme. The proposed
Union was impracticable if a single province stood
out. As soon, therefore, as the results of the New
Brunswick elections were known, the Canadian
Government decided promptly on a new course of
action. The Ministry completed the business of the
Session in Parliament, took the necessary votes of
credit, including £200,000 for colonial defences,
and then deputed two of their number to proceed to
England and confer with the Imperial Government
upon the views of the colonists, the attitude of New
Brunswick, and the prospects of the scheme. Ac-
cordingly Mr. Cartier, the Attorney-General for
Lower Canada, and Mr. Galt, the Finance Minister
of the province, have arrived in this country, and
the banquet at the Fishmongers'-hall on Wednesday
evening enabled them to speak their minds and dis-
close their desires. Of this opportunity they availed
themselves with uncompromising frankness and
courage. Mr. Cartier treats the whole question as
a question of interests, but he maintains that the
several interests involved are identical, and not
conflicting. Canada, he admits, desires a seaboard,
and looks upon the maritime provinces much as
Prussia looks upon Schleswig. No country is really
great, he says, without ships and commerce. The
Canadians have a boundless territory, and, compa-
ratively speaking, a numerous population, but they
lack that maritime element in their national con-
stitution which conduces so powerfully to the great-
ness of England. On the other hand, the maritime
provinces, though they have the sea at their service,
are circumscribed in territory, and are but thinly
inhabited. Link all together in a well-devised Con-
federation, and each province would gain the ad-
vantages of the other without losing its own. This
argument disposes of colonial interests. Then the
interest of the mother country would be equally
promoted at the same time. England has no wish
but to see her Colonies prosperous and strong, and
union is strength everywhere. Especially is it de-
sirable that Canada should neglect no element of
defensive power ; for the contingency which has
been discussed, both in the British Parliament and
the French Assembly forces itself upon our con-
sideration, and cannot possibly be overlooked. In
case of so deplorable an event as a war between
Great Britain and America, the Americans might be
expected to attack Canada, and Mr. Cartier grap-
ples boldly with the Auestion. He trusts the case
may never occur, and if it does, Canada, he says,
will be in the battle-field, and Canadians will ac-
cept the burden. They will look to this country
for support, but they will contribute to the common
work of defence as far as their means will allow,
and those means would be largely increased by a
Confederation of the provinces. The position of
Canada must be a trying one, for though the cause
of such a war must necessarily be Imperial, the
worst of its calamities would fall on the colonists.
Nevertheless, the colonists do not shrink from the
prospect. They have no desire to be annexed to
the United States, or become absorbed in the Ame-
rican Republic. " Such an idea," says Mr. Cartier,
"we view with horror." So, looking these chances
boldly in the face, Canadians come to this country
and discuss the obligations before them. They doh
not ask for more than they already possess ; on
to
contrary, they come, as Mr. Gait declared,.
show that if this Confederation be carried out they.
will be able to assume a greater responsibihat!
than that which has hitherto fallen on Canada."
Lastly, both Deputies were emphatic
assurances that no ulterior views of independenceln
or separation entered into this scheme for uniting
the North American provinces, and that it was not
for, the sake of standing alone or discarding their
allegiance that the Colonies wished to becomemcpoeret
powerful than they are. We are willing to accept
all these assurances, and we need
It i
hardly
leaan
lyadsdtto
that
we receive them with satisfaction._er
the
learn that our colonists are ex: conte ntecl uncl

British Crown, and that they understand the ad-
vantages of their position. 'We are complimented
by the value they put upon the connexion, and we
have not the least wish to see it impaired. We feel,
too, that a Confederation of Colonies thus situated
must be advantageons to all of them, and so plain,
indeed, does the fact appear that it hardly seems to
need argument. -But when Mr. Cartier informs us
that he and his colleague have come. here " in order
to impress upon the British Government the abso-
lute necessity of carrying out the scheme of Confe-
deration," we cannot but think that the truth would
be inculcated to better purpose on the people of
New Brunswick than on the Government of this
country. We cannot coerce the New Brunswickers
into a new political union, nor can we object to their
remaining in the position which they, have so long
occupied without complaint on our part or theirs.
We think the offer now made to them is a good one,
and that they do ill to refuse it; but if they profess
to be content as they are, it would be very hard for
us to interfere. The Confederation scheme is no
project of ours. It comes to us from the Colonies,
and it is for the Colonies to decide upon it. Be-
lieving it to be full of • promise, we have cordially
accepted it, and the colonists have been already ap-
prised that so far as the Imperial Government is
concerned its approval and good wishes are given.
But the work must he done on the other side of the
Atlantic ; it is only indirectly that it can be pro-
moted here. We should hope that the account given
of the New Brunswick elections is correct, and that
the accidents of a political contest, rather than any
deep convictions on the project of a Confederation,
determined the provincial vote. After all, even
upon the aggregate of polls, the majority against the
scheme was but 455—a slender balance enough to
sway the destinies of half a continent. We know
full well in this country how many elements enter
into a popular election, and how a mere local ques-
tion may influence a great political verdict. The
people of New Brunswick cannot be blind to the
advantages of Union, strength, and the prosperity
by which strength and Union would be followed.
That small local interests may clash with interests
of a higher kind is probable enough, and we have
already observed on former occasions that an oppo-
sition based on such considerations would meet
with no approval in this country. But all that we
can do is to make our opinions known. If the Ca-
nadian Deputies can establish to the satisfaction of
the Imperial Government the case which they have
so frankly stated, they will be able to return with
the assurance that we wish every success to the pro-
ject of Confederation, and that the ratification of
the Crown will not be wanting when the accord of
the provinces is complete. Such arguments, how-
ever, ought to be as cogent in New Brunswick as in
England, and that little colony should either re-
consider its decision, or show reasonable cause for
impeding so promising a scheme.
POST. --Never since Mr. Gladstone first under-
took the duties of a Financial Minister has he been
called upon to make his annual statement of the re-
venue and expenditure of the country under more
favourable circumstances than those under whichhe
addressed himself last evening to the House of Com-
mons. An unpractised and an uncouth speaker
would, with the materials at the disposal of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, have made, if not an
attractive statement, at least one which would have
commanded the attention of his hearers ; but in the
hands of so practised an orator as Mr. Gladstone it
is scarcely necessary to say those materials were
woven into a speech which was perhaps the most
attractive, and certainly the most instructive, that
has ever been addressed to the present House of
Commons. The last occasion on which it was pos-
sible that he could tinfoil a Budget to the present
House not unnaturally suggested to Mr. Gladstone
the propriety of furnishing it with a review of those
financial changes which have been effected since it
first met, and it must be confessed that the vista on
which he was enabled to direct the eyes of those
whom he addressed was such as no Minister of
Finance has ever before been able to look back
upon after so brief a period of time—an expendi-
ture considerably reduced, taxes largely remitted,
a revenue increasing in a progressive ratio, to an
extent which would be incredible were it not sub-
stantiated by the most conclusive statistics. Such
was. the substance of the review of the past with
which Mr. Gladstone prepared the House of Com-
mons for the acceptance of his schemes for the
future. Nor, indeed, is there any fact connected
with the commercial history of this country during
the past few years more extraordinary than the
steady growth in the reproductive powers of those
various sources from which our revenues are derived,
despite the attempts made by remission of taxation
to check the stream of supply. Dividing the last
quarter of a century into three periods, Mr. Glad-
stone, by way of illustrating this progressive deve-
lopment of what we may call the revenue-producing
powers of the country, showed that from the year
1840 to 1852 the revenue exhibited an average im-
provement of a little over £1,000,000 a year ;
during the period extending from 1853 to 18Z 9 the
average annual increase of revenue was £1,250,000 ;
and during the last period, namely, from 1859 to
the present time, this average annual increase in
the revenue had amounted to as much as £1,780,000.
With these figures before him it is not surprising
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have
taken occasion to pay an eloquent and well-merited
tribute to the memory of that man, so recently
taken from amongst us, to whose untiring exertions
in the cause of free trade these results are mainly to
be attributed. For the salient features of the
Budget the public were well prepared. It was
known that Mr. Gladstone had an enormous sur-
plus, and large remissions of taxation were looked
for as a matter of course. Nor have these expecta-
tions been ill-founded. The estimated expenditure
for the year 1865-66 has been furnished to Par-
liament as £66,139,000, and as the revenues for the
same period, assuming no alteration was made in
existing taxes, are calculated to produce £70,170,000,
an available surplus remains of £4,031,000.
This surplus the Chancellor of the Exchequer pro-
poses to dispose of in a manner which, except
from one class, we should say will meet with the
assent of the entire community. To direct taxation
the people of this country, and we may add of every
other, entertain an aversion so strong that it can
yield alone to supreme necessity. When the income
tax was imposed, now a good many years ago, hopes
—so strong as almost to amount to a distinct pledge
—were. held 'out that the obnoxious impost should
be levied for only a limited number of years. It is
easier, however, to impose a burden than to remove
it ; and the promise made by Sir Robert Peel has,
from the force of circumstances, never been kept.
But, next to abolishing a tax, the best thing is to
partially remit it ; and, whenever a surplus has been
at the disposal of a financial Minister, his first care
has always been to reduce the tax upon property.
And accordingly, out of his surplus of four millions,
Mr Gladstone gives £1,650,000 to the payers of
income tax. Last year the tax was reduced by
one penny. This year two pence are taken off, and
it consequently stands for the ensuing year at four-
pence in the pound. It would perhaps be too much
to hope that it will shortly, if ever, disappear ; but
it is some consolation to find that it has reached
proportions which certainly deprive it of much of
that oppressive character which has hitherto made
it so obnoxious. The loss to the revenue accruing
from this remission is probably over-estimated by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for with an in-
come tax so low as fourpence, it seems not unlikely
that the public will furnish more accurate returns
of their;lproperty than they have hitherto done.
Foremost amongst what have been termed war
taxes is the duty on tea, and a further remission of
sixpence per pound will give scarcely less
Teasatisfac-
tionis than the reduction of the income the essary of
and has long been in this country,
life, and, so far from being what it once was, a
ou
commodity solely within the reach of the -
n
lent, forms an article of daily
By the abandon-
ment of sixpence on consume
po
amongst the poorest
elss
tea, Gesa desnt ot
finsfinancial
-
lates that he will loss
se o p
year £1,860,000—a o
rl
which in the course of the
following one, judging from the experience of the
past, he believes will be compensated in part of in-
aThe tax on fire insurance he
creased consumption.
proposes
uniform rate of ls. 6d. on
proposes to impoosfe
property ; a change willwhich
all descriptions
unquestionably be -beneficial by removing the vexa-
inutr6aod,oeo.
£260,000 on
tious distinctions at present existing between the
duty on bonsai() proPewr till
landose stock
about
this change the revenue
the current year. A few unimportant changes have
been effected with regard to stamps, which will pro-
duce no sensible effect on the Exchequer. On
summing up the various losses which will accrue
from the above remission, there will still remain out
of the original surplus of four millions a balance of
about a quarter of a million, which Mr. Gladstone
proposes to retain in hand. The malt tax the
Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves untouched. We
will not on the present occasion consider the reasons
which he advanced for refusing to yield to the de-
mands of the agriculturists, as it is not unlikely
that the postponement of their claims will lead to
warm debate before the resolutions embodied in the
Blulget are approved of by the house. The most