The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The Copenhagen journals of the 12th publish 3
circular of the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the diplomatic agents of Denmark, dated so far
back as the 9th May. This document enters into
an elaborate review of the motives on which the
opposition in the Diet voted against the Royal
message of the Bth October last, definitively fixing
the succession to the throne, in accordance with'
the treaty of London— a vote which it will he
remembered led to the dissolution of the Diet;
According to the Minister, the opposition as well
as the government and all the Danish nation,
approved highly of the selection of the Prince Chris-
tian of Glucksburg and his male descendants by his
wife the Princess of Hesse, as successors to the throne;
but that it thought that the messsage went beyond
the treaty of London in enacting that the sane
order of succession should be observed in all the
States submitted to the sceptre of his Majesty e°
well as to Denmark Proper—and that the order
of succession for these States established in 1665
should be abrogated. But the Minister announces
the intention of the Government of persisting in
all the clauses of the Royal message, because, b°
says, it is convinced that they will not only be ad'
vantageous to the country, but that they are,
necessary for the full execution of the treaty 0'
London. He directs his agents to explain t°
foreign governments the views of the opposition,
and to inform them of the determination of the
Government ; and he concludes by stating that
the governments will see, from them, the cause 0'
the delay, which, to the great regret of the Danish,
Government, has taken place in°the execution 0
the said treaty.

ENTIRE ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON

ADVERTISEMENT&

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
It will be seen from our Parliamentary report, that
the information was correct which we exclusively gave
in our paper of yesterday, relative to the intention °f
Mr. Gladstone to agree to the entire repeal of the 34'
vertisement duty, provided the house would enable hiln
to throw out the bill of Lord Robert Grosvenor f°t
abolishing the duty on attorneys' certificates. Before
the house divided on the second reading of that bill, the
right hon. gentleman stated, in terms as explicit e 6
could be desired, that, in the event of the house rejecting
the measure, he would, seeing the strong feeling which
existed in the country on the subject, acquiesce in to,
entire remission of the advertisement duty. We 0,1;
therefore consider that remission as a fact virtuaKT
accomplished.

(Front the Daily News.)
Mr. Gladstone, like a wise tactician, is no longer ie;
clined to force down the throats of an unwilling publit
and an adverse House of Commons his opinion 0,101
the advertisement tax. He has a hundred and O'
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thousand pounds surplus, at any rate,. in hand ; 01.
though he would rather keep it all, he declares hiinow
not unwilling to surrender the beggarly 80,0001. he
posed to get by taxing the advertiser, or, in PP'
terms, by checking publicity and preventing the extee;
sion of trade. He admits that the House of Cornwell
"has expre3s3d a strong desire for the repeal of the au.
vertisement duty "—a very modest way of charaeterisl
the divisions in favour of repealing that duty
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declares that the Government, having to choose whel,
they shall give up the tax on attorneys or the tax on po„.
licity, they prefer relievipg the press to giving 80,00v0."
a-year to the lawyers. This decision will be pOptil
throughout the country. The agitation of Mr. Milner
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Gibson on the subject of the press has contributed larg; to the growth of public opinion respecting the
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laws ; and the great injustice of the treble tax on ner
papers is now very generally condemned. Men Bedthat to keep three taxes one one article is unfair ;no
when that one article ha ens to be a newspaper—thB
chief engine of modern popular enlightenment—the jar
pression that some change should be made takes very
deep root. The Newspaper Stamp the Paper Duty'and the.-t lvertisement Tax, are now very -generall,
regarded. in their true light, and the removal of °_,...11°
of these three imposts—the striking off of one clog
from the Press will be hailed by the country at large
as an equitable, wise, and proper step taken by th,:
Ministry. The reduction of the tax from is.
6d. on each advertisement was advocated upon the
principle that by such reduction no loss of revenue won,
arise. The increase of advertisements, the incroo;
consumption of newspaper stamps and f excise poYil',,
paper, would, it was shown, have made up the deficleol
created by the reduction of the direct advertisenlet
duty. But, as Mr. Gladstone now points out clearly
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enough, he has at any rate some 150,000/. to dispose of
and as the real question left for the House of Comnioll:i
and the Cabinet to settle—between contending all.
powerful claimants—was whether the pressure of tu:,
Attorneys' licence should be lessened, or the tax c'"
publicity be wholly removed—there could be no Nolo
for doubt which should be done. All trade licences are
bad in principle. As means of raising money, they 10"
long to a mischievous and theoretically exploded system
of finance. But until all of them can be removed, t 0
reduce the tax on one class of licences would only be t°
render still more irksome and unjust all those left WI.
touched.

Mr. Gladstone's decision to abolish the advertisement
tax is therefore exactly the one to be expected from.;
wise and judicious minister, and the hearty spirit v+3,
which the house accepted his resolve was shown by W 0
very significant division that followed soon after he had
made his statement. It now only remains for the House
of Commons to pass the needful bill repealing the adver'
tisement tax, and all parties concerned will find amPl6
materials for satisfaction in the results that must display
themselves. Trade will obtain new powers of extension
through greater facilities of publicity, whilst the neva"
paper press will have to thank a free-trade Ministry fnt
the removal of a shackle put upon it in those gloomy
days when tyrannical governments were fertile in scheme
for checking the growth of a free newspaper press.

_
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday, July 20,—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain J-•
K. Joy, which left this port on Monday with the con'
tract mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib-
raltar, returned this morning about 5 o'clock, in eons& quence of having sustained a damage to one of the
engines, which rendered it impossible to use more than
one of them in propelling the vessel. The accident
occurred on Tuesday, when about 50 miles to the west-
ward of Land's End, and Captain Joy judged it expedient
to retrace his course to Southampton in order to get the
necessary repairs properly effected. Captain Engledue,
the superintendent of the Company, on the arrival of the
Tagus at Southampton, ordered the City of London,
Captain Cargill, to be immediately dispatched, and the
mails, passengers, and cargo were at once transferred
to that ship. So great was the expedition used in
performing this operation that the City of London was
ready for sea at 11 a.m., and started for her destination
shortly after that time, to prosecute the voyage unsue-
cessfully undertaken by the Tagus. The latter vessel, it
is expected, will take the place of the City of London on
the Constantinople line, and the adjustment of the ma"
chinery will probably be accomplished in time to enable
the vessel to start within a day or twa of the ar
pointed time—viz., the 27th inst. The Peninsular,
Oriental Company's steam-ship Indus, Captain John
Soy, took her departure at 3 p.m. to-day for Gibraltar,
Malta, and Alexandria, with the usual semi-monthly
mails for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, India, China,
and the Eastern Archipelago. The Indus had about 50
passengers, a full general cargo, and the followingspecie
on freight :—For Malta, 2,0801. in gold ; Alexandria,
15,0001: in gold; Bombay, 23,0001. in silver ; Madras,
3001. in silver; Calcutta, 5,000/. in silver; Penang, 2,0001. •
in silver ;.Singapore, 30,000/. in silver and 3001. in gold;
Hong Kong, 15,200/, in silver and 10,0001. in gold;
Canton, 6,500/. in silver • Shanghai, 5501. in silver ;--;
the total being 109,936/. The United States wail
steam-ship Washington, Capt. E. M. Fitch, also sane,.
this afternoon for New York, with the British, French,
and German mails, upwards of 150 passengers, and n
very full and valuable cargo of continental merchandise
shipped from Bremen and Havre. The General Serer
Steam-shipping Company's ship Queen of the South,
Captain Norman, which left Calcutta for Plymouth and
Southampton on the 14th of May, and would call at
Madras, Ceylon, Mauritius, the Cape, and St. Vincent,
is shortly expected at Plymouth and Southampton.
The Queen of the South has a full cargo, the chief items
of which are 83 bales and 63 cases of raw silks, 4L49
chests of indigo, 2,237 packages of saltpetre, &c. Tue
Mauritius, belonging to the same company, is now over-
due, in consequence of her machinery being out ° order, but is daily expected.
BREAK DOWN OF THE TAGUS.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Tag-us, which left South'
ampton at 3 p.m. on Monday with the Peninsular
broke down near the Start, and returned to SouthanT:
ton at 5 a.m. yesterday. By 11 a.m. the mails, passe"
gers, and cargo were transhipped on board the above-
named named company's chartered steamer the City of London'
and the latter had steamed out of the port. The G-113:43.
tar portion of the mail from the steamer Tagus was
on board the Indus which left Southampton yesterday
with the Indian mail.