The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

TilE SUN, -LOS ')ON. TUESDAY 2, VE Nil, AUGUST 12, 1862.

butl:augh, joke, and be one, for the occasion, i❑
merriment with everybody, bow different would be
their acceptance with the country and with the
House of Commons teo. The high merits of Mr.
COBDEN and and Mr. GLADSTONE are, doubtless,
thoroughly appreciated by all intelligent English•
men ; yet they will like a merry Premier, who
saddles them with £70,000,000 a-year, just as they
would like the •` Merry Monarch," who was always
in debt, and that for anything but the defences of
his country. COBDEN and GLADSTONE are right,
they say, but we like the merry old lord, and keep
him we must, let him coat us what he may.

Mr. DISRAELI, then, has, as we believe, lost all
at Sheffield. The ovation there, so promptly ex-
temporised—so promptly accepted—so heartily
and cheerily gone thr.ftugh by the Premier, wi;l
give its colour to the recess of the noble lord. The
lectures will be forgotten—the enthusiasm of the
populace and their masters, and the heartiness with
which it was met will be remembered. Every-
where the Premier will be applauded; and he
has only not to let his head get turned,
as it once was with the hundred majority, and all
the arts of the members for Bucks will be unable
to throw him from the saddle. Very uneasy Mr.
DISRAELI always is in Opposition, but he cannot
muster his own party to upset a man so useful
to them as Lord •
PALMERSTON, and at the same
time so acceptable to the people.

We ought not, however, while noticing the
non-political causes of Lord PALMERSTON'S gene-
ral acceptance to omit, that his Foreign policy
is assuredly as gratifying to the people generally,
as that of Mr. DISRAELI is odious. The English
public will never endure a man whose best bid
for office is antagonism to the Unity of Italy,
and attachment to the temporal Rule of the
POPE. They regard Lord PALMERSTON as the
exponent of their sympathies with Roman and
Italian rights, and resent the transparent cunning
of bidding for the support of Irish Priests by
sacrificing the liberties of the Catholics of Rome,
and for that of the Radicals by proffers of
economy which he and his certainly did not prac-
tise while they were in office. Mr. DISRAELI
must comfort himself, for the holidays, with
bestowing green-coat honours on prize peasants.

It is earnestly to be hoped that England and
Canada may, without any unnecessary delay in the
way of idle discussion, come to some satisfactory
understanding as to what has latterly been threat-
ening to foster between them something very much
like an estrangement. How best to insure the
safety of Canada from invasion ? " That is the
Question!" And it is a question surely that admits
of being answered, without very much difficulty,
and to the satisfaction alike of the Canadian Govern-
ment and of the Imperial Government at home.
The latter does not, of course, look to the Canadians
themselves, numbering in all merely from 2,000.000
to 3,000,000, to fortify every weak point on a
boundary line extending along a distance of some
600 miles altogether. Neither does it expect the
Canadians unassisted to secure themselves from the
possibility of any sudden danger in the shape of
invasion from a race of Anglo-American democrats,
numbering not, like the Canadians, from 2,000,000
to 3,000,000, but, at a very moderate computation,
from 20,000,000 ro 30,000,000! It would be as absurd
for the imperial government here at home to look
to the Canadian government for the accomplish-
ment of all these marvels, or rather let us call them
plainly so at once, all these impossibilities—as it
would be absurd for Canada to look to England to
do alone in this matter what Canada and England
ought in reason to do together. The defence
of the southern frontier-line of Canada
ought to be looked to by the local and Imperial
Government together. In carrying out that abso-
lutely essential enterprise, there ought to be a ra-
tional reciprocation of efforts and of responsibilities.
To apply the phrase not irreverently, when
dwindled down from the infinite to the finite—as
Christian philosophers have said, Aide toi et Dieu
t'aidera, so might England now echo a kindred
thought to the Canadians. If only Canada will but
acquit herself of the manifest duty devolving upon
her, she will find no lack of reasonable assist-
ance from England in carrying out the design
for the completion of the great work of defence
already partially accomplished by Nature) along
her southern boundary. Mr. COBDEN, we will
admit, appeared to us very considerably to have
exaggerated, the other day, the extent to which
annually, for a season along those frontiers—

" Winter barricades the realms of frost 1"

Still, to an extraordinary extent, during four or
five months the work of defence is thus already, for
the most part, naturally accomplished. All that
England and Canada, together, will have to see to,
between thew, for the completion of the work, will
apply almost wholly to the remaining part of
each twelvemonth. Annually there will come
therefore that welcome relaxation of the har-
monized efforts we are all looking now to see com-
menced in veritable earnest_ Let the Canadians,
to this good end, just to begin with, take a hint
from our Rifle Volunteers!

The Earl and Countess Russell, family, and
suite, arrived at Kingstown, per the Ulster, at 6 o'clock on
Saturday evening, and proceeded to Breslin's Marine Hotel,
Bray, where they purpose sojourning for some weeks. The
noble earl received despatches on Sunday morning from the
Foreign-office.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have
left town for Germany.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
town for their seat, Brocklesby Park, Ulceby, Lincolnshire.
The Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, M.P., and
Lady Theresa Lewis and Miss Lister leave town to-day fur
Harpton Court, Radnorshire.
The Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs.
Cowper leave town on Thursday for Walmer Castle, on a
visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston.
Mr. Sanford, United States Minister to Brussels,
has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from New York.
Mr. Gladstone has aceepted an invitation to
visit Newcastle and attend a banquet provided by the in•
habitants. He has named, as the most convenient day for
his visit, the 7th of October next.
A TIME OF TAXATION.—The 2d of August hav-
ing been fixed as the intended con.menct meat of the new
era of taxation in the Federal States, the papers have been
filling whole pages with the Tariff and Tax Acts—laws
which they declare will give the Federal Government "an
income that will be abundant for all its wants." The tariff
comprises about a thousand items, imposing a pt nalty for
buying anything in the cheapest market—an ed valorem
penalty of 35, 40, 50 per cent., or a specific penalty ranging
from a few cents to some thousands. " The Internal Tax
Act," says the Tribune, will tax almost every article in use.
Besides such ordinary taxation as income-tax (3 per cent.,
rising to 5 per cent. on incomes above 10,000 dais.), stamp
duties, and legacy duties,
the list includes roanufac urers of
every kind, and, in fact, all sorts of things that can be eaten,
drunk, worn, used, or employed —advertisements, bowling.
alleys, cattle slaughtered, coals, jewellery, telegraphic de-
spatches, umbrellas, licences to act as doctors, photogra-
phers, jugglers, lawy era, &c., or to keep shows or
"theatres," 3 per cent. on the gross passenger receipts of
railways and toll bridges, 1 per cent. on the gross receipts
of insurance companies, 3 per eent. on the gross receipts of
steamboa's, a dollar on a passage ticket to a foreign port if
the fare exceeds 30 dols. Newspapers "are not to be re •
garded as manufacture, or subjected to a rate of duty."
GROWLING AND GRUMBLING.-4• Growling" is
supposed to be the sign of a
good officer. "Grumbling" is
taken for granted on the part of a British soldier as a
necessary of his existence. These camel-like propensities
are so strong that the press is sometimes resorted to as a
safety-valve. But we really cannot feel for the new griev-
ance in the abstract. What's in a feather. Why should
paymasters be grieved to the heart because they are not
permitted to put leathers in their cocked hats? The mili-
tary storekeepers wear feathers. Why should net the pay-
have only such things to grumble about I—iirmy and
race paymasters must be if they
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