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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1862.

Colonel SYKES well deserves the usual courteous
epithet "gallant," for he has fought to the last for
his proteges, the Tuepings, even after their most
,natural defender has entirely given them up. At
first there did seem a little reason to believe that
these men were a great improvement on the Tartar-
governed Chinese. This seems to have been due to
the semi-religious character of the first movement.
'Their leaders received some Christian notions from
an American missionary ; they knew that these
came from the civilised West, and hence, contrary
to the common sentiment amongst Chinese, the one
which influenced them in dealing with Europeans
was a kind of deference to our priority in religious
knowledge. All this, however, has long vanished.
The leaders early set up for incarnations, or near
relations of the Supreme Being, and, in the literal
Dense, for brothers of JESUS CHRIST. The sweets
of power have had their usual effect, and no
missionary is now safe among them who does not
acknowledge, as the second article of his creed,
that the " Heavenly Ruler," HANG SOW CHUEN, is
worthy of divine honour. All accounts concur that
their course is now marked by devastation, pillage,
and bloodshed. The peaceful inhabitants quit the
the largest cities in millions as they approach, and
fire and sword Spare nothing. The Imperialists,
are, on their side, little or no better. Under pre-
tence that a city has yielded to tlee marauders, if
they obtain possession, they in turn plunder, burn,
and destroy what is left, till the site of a vast city
is discoverable only by blackened walls and rub-
bish. We have long persisted in absolute
neutrality between the Imperialists and their
opponents, but to permit the latter to attack
the former in the treaty cities, where we carry
on our commerce, would be sheer fatuity; Nem
intervention is a very safe doctrirge hel,e in the
West ; but to insist upon it :a favour of hosts of
murderous robbers, who 'set pretend to be divinely
commissioned ruler'4 Or deliverers of the country,
would be applying a principle intelligible only to
civilised m'Al, to hurdes of ruthless barbarians.
But neither Colonel SYKES nor any one else
oug!at now to have the least doubt of the real
character of the Chinese rebellion. If there be
One man in China who knows all about it, it must
be 'Mr. ROBERTS, the American missionary, whose
concert the " Heavenly King " was, who has just
beta residing among them for fifteen months, and
*ll° has at last fled to our protection, having seen
favourite servant lad butchered without provoca-
tion before his eyes, and being also in fear of his own
life. A tract from Mr. ROBERTS first turned this
now notorious convert's attention to Christianity.
He afterwards came to ROBERTS for instruction.
ROBERTS lost bight
of him for years till he heard
of him at the heaant
this movement, breaking idols
to pieces, and enforcing
obedience to the Ten Com-
mandments, proclaiming at the same time his own
inspiration; and now Roamers has been residing
a long time with him hoping to
get a little light
and reason into his head. What is his
verdict, after
such ample means of knowledge, and
still confess-
ing to, personally, kind treatment by 1141,10
sow
CHUEN. cc I believe him," he says, " to be a crazy
man ; entirely unfit to rule—without any organised
Governmert—nor is he, with his Coolie Kings,
capable of organizing a Government of equal
benefit to the people with even the old Imperial
Government." He further describes him as in-
solent in his temper, and causing any man or
woman who has at ail offended him to be
murdered at once without judge or jury. He
represents him as opposed to commerce, and having
actually murdered his own people for no other
"hue than that of trading in the city. His nil-

gious toleration he speaks awl a farce—amachinery
not for spreading Christianity, but for giving him
political power ; • he suVlsses all our TuDo4 Kings
and the POPE himself, making himself equal with
JESUS CHRIST, who, with GOD the Father., and this
crazy Man's own Son, constitute one Lord over
all
And no missionary is safe among them who
will not propagate these blasphemies.
The immediate cause of Mr. ROBERT'S own flight
tells its own tale. We are to bear in mind that he
is, afterall, more of a favourite at the Taeping Court
than any other man could possibly be, a not very
strong-minded, but undoubtedly sincere, zealous,
and worthy missionary. Yet even into his house a
brother of one of the " Coolie Kings" rushes one
day, seizes his pat servant boy, kills him with a
large sword, and then jumps on his head with
fiendish rage. He immediately after endeavours to
provoke Mr. ROBERTS to some act which should
serve as an excuse for murdering him also, throwing
the dregs of some tea into his face, shaking him,
and insulting him in every way. Mr. ROBERTS
was prudently quiet, and at the earliest opportu-
nity sought safety on board the Renard steamer,
whence he dates his letter. After this we cannot
need more evidence. The open acts of the mur-
derous bands associated as TAEPINGS we know full
well. We have now in addition evidence from the
very heart of the movement, and of the most re-
liable kind. Nothing remains, !therefore, so far as
we can see, but to drive them off by force of arms
from ail our treaty cities.

The cheering prospect of the Easter Holidays
will, perhaps, tend to expedite very pleasantly the
passing of the various resolutions of the Budget, as
announced by the right hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The noble Premier last evening inti-
mated quite plainly to the House the nature of the
alternative now put before it. if those resolutions
be passed on Thursday and reported on Friday—
then, in that case—immediately after they had been
passed, he (Lord PALMERSTON) would move on
Friday that the House adjourn until Monday, the
28th instant. But if, on the contrary, matters could
not be carried on thus glibly, in regard to the pass-
ing and reporting of the different Budget Resolu-
tions now requiring to be passed and reported before
Easter—then, in that case—the House would per-
force have to sit again on Monday next, and by
such an arrangement the holidays would be un-
happily, but unavoidably, so much shortened. Our
representatives now know perfectly well, therefore,
what it is precisely that they are expected to do
within the next forty-eight or seventy-two hours
—especially what it is they can easily do
to-morrow and the day afterwards—so as in the
first place to avoid that unnecessary sitting threat-
ened in a certain contingency for Monday next, and
in the next to secure to themselves the earliest
adjournment offered to them.

Now we take it altogether undeniable that the
task before the house in reference to the new
Budget is as simple as could be, That Budget—
however much it may be carped at by an Opposi-
sion that even while carping at it refrains altogether
from adventuring upon the faintest " show
of pulling it to pieces—must infallibly be allowed
to have already won its way through the house as
hardly any Budget has ever been known to win its
way there before. It affords no pretext in fact for
anything like actual opposition. It is a Budget
that upon the whole is accepted at once
upon all hands—and no wonder—as in the
highest degree satisfactory. If it fails to
rival the Budget of last year by sweeping away
any grinding impost, and so far relieving the
shoulders of the people of a modicum at least of the
weary weight of taxation, it at any rate is free
from the odious distinction of imposing some
burden in another shape, and differently placed
upon the back of sturdy old JOHN BULL, that
SINBAD among the Nations. Indeed, it was not
in reason to be looked for, that the very year after
the memorable financial twelvemonth, when Eng-
land was relieved of direct taxation to the tune of
£1,100,000, and of indirect taxation to the tune of
£1,300,000, the former through the dropped penn y
of the Income Tax, the latter through the total
abolition of the Paper Duties—it was not in reason,
we say, to be expected that the very year following
should witness the remission of further imposts
as a rapid sequel to that yielding up at once in
a single Budget of a round sum amounting
annually to £2,400,000. Yet:even here it must be
recollected that Mr. GLADSTONE, if he has shrunk
from rashly diminishing by further concessions of
this character any one among his ordinary sources
of revenue, has at least secured to his new Budget
the remarkable merit of getting rid at last, for
once and for all, of that perpetual theme of lamenta-
tion—the Duty upon Hops. Here the ebange,
introduced, however, by our financier into his
fiacal arrangement for 1862-63, has been one adven•
tured upon with admirable caution, and with the
most discreet and judicious exercise of adroitness—
the change adventured upon by Mr. GLADSTONE in
raegd
has well-considered
beenetho nesHidmoerpaenDa managed,
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Duties
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ties being one for their wise
mmtutataiy be b
on. Seeing hobw
thisny
merely superficial observers of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
Financial Policy that after all it amounts to a mere
shifting of burdens. The objection at the first
blush appears specious enough. But after a
moment's scrutiny it just vanishes into thin air. A
mere shifting of burdens As if that were no boon,
forsooth, to one who, like JOHN BULL, MUST
(there is no escape for him) " fardels
bear, to grunt and sweat under an uneasy load"—
of a National Debt amounting to between
£800,000,000 and £900,000,000 in all! A luckless
wight who is constrained annually, somehow or
another, to liquidate his enormous liabilities in in-
terest upon that debt, and in current expenses, to
the yearly extent of £70,000,000 sterling ! Why
the simple fact of the burden of the Hop Duties
being shifted from one shoulder to the other, receiv-
ing a new name and a new application in the shift-
ing—that simple fact of itself comes in its way at
last as an inexpressible relief. For years and years
past the Hop Duties have been galling and fretting
an important section of the:community almost be-
yond further endurance. One Chancellor of the
Exchequer after another had been wearied
with applications for the removal of this
tormenting grievance. One after another
they had declined to deal with the matter. Mr.
GLADSTONE has at last dealt with it. And who
shall say that he has not dealt with it judiciously ?
If the only good result had been the getting rid of
a clamour about a grievance that we had almost
become sick to death of hearing about, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer would, as the grandiose
phrase is, have deserved well of his country. But,
in his mode of dealing with the hop duties, in this
ingenious method he has now hit upon with a viow
to their harmless and effectual commutation—the
good he has secured to us is not alone of this purely
negative character. He has contrived a means not
only for putting an end to the wearisome clamour
raised every spring in his own antechambers, and
echoed more or less loudly and continuously every
session in the
Commons House of Parliament—but
beyond this he has swe
opt away the nuisance, with-
doing militating against the inte-
restsgEizveehseteeZ
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he takes from
on hand t° the other. Before
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