The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

E OVAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION.
The ANNUAL GENERAL TiIEETLNG of this Institution
will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on
TUESDAY NEXT, the 18th inst., at Two o'clock precisely
The Right lion. The LORD MAYOR in the Chair.
RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary.
11, John-street, Adelphi, March 12.

MR. and. SIRS. CHARLES DEAN will
APPEAR at the Theatre-Royal Drury-lane, T
lIIS
Evjai,UNG (FRIDAY), March 14, in LOUIS XI.
On Saturday, 15th, The Wife's Secret ; and ou Monday,
17th, Othello.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
CO VENT GA ItI) EN,

tinier the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W

Harrison.

THIS EVENING, THE LILY OF KILLARNEY.
Misses Louisa Fyne, Susan Pyne, Jessie M`Lean, and
Topham ; Messrs. Santley, H. Haigh, E. Dussek, C. Lyall,
I'atey, Wallworth, and Mr. W. Harrison.
To conclude with HARLEQUIN GULLIVER; or, Giants
and Dwarfs. Messrs. W. H., F., and 11. Payne, H., E., and
S. Lauri, and Miss Jenny Lauri.
Conductor, Mr. AI, FR ED ME I, LON.
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE-R) fk 1., HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN
COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard,
Mr. Buckstone.
After which (th time) a Household Picture, under Two
Lights, entitled THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Howe,
Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, ,tc.
To conclude with FAMILY JARS.
UtliiiroellCe A 7

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
1 manager- -Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, 104th time of the new and original Drama
entitl,A, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund lal-
Coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
After which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD ; or, The Fairies of
the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrcck. Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Chas. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as uh,ual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7. Box-office ‘)pen daily from 11 tills.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Barris.
TBIS EVENING, CASH V. CUPID. Mr. Widdicomb,
Mr. ; ihcre, Miss Maria Harris, .tc.
At' ter which, a Eight o'clock, OTHELLO. lago, Mr.
Feet der ; Othellot , Mr. Ryder.

NIB THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.--
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
TICS EVENING, THE CENSUS. Mr. J. L. Toole.
After which, THE LIFE OF AN ACTRESS. Mr. and
Mrs. Dion Boucicault, Messrs. Emery, J. L. Toole, Billington,
Stuart, Eburne, Sefton, Powell, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billington,
Mrs. Marian/I, Mrs. H. Lewis, Miss Laidlaw.
To imnclude with THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER.
Messrs.. .J. L, Toole, P. Bedford , Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly,
Laidlaw„ Mrs. H. Marston. Commence at 7.

VEW ROYALTY THEATRE,
11 Dean-street, Oxford-street.
EVENING, GOOD FOR NOTHING.;
Followed by MONSIEUR JACQUES. Mr. Ben Barnett.
A. Ballet Divertissement.
After which, the succesful Opera Buffo, entitled LE MARI-
AGE AUX LANTERN ES. Mr. John Morgan, Mesdames
Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
Commence at half-past 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Continued and Triumphant success of the stupendous Per-
forming Elephants, whose wondrous feats on the stage,
and afterwards in the circle, have created the most genuine
enthusiasm.
THIS EVENING, the Grand Eastern Spectacle of THE
RAJAH OF NAGPORE, with new and splendid dresses,
Ferne, and decorations, introducing Mr. Bell's trained Ele-
p ryhants, acknowledged by the Press and the Public to be the
most wonderful animals ever exhibited.
To be followed by brilliant and daring feats of Horse-
manship by the Troupe of Foreign Equestrians.
Concludity, with a new Ballet of Action, introducinc, Mr.
Harry Croueste, the Misses Gunnis, and the whole of the
Corps de Ballet.

Stage Manager, Mr. W. Searle.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE
ARTS GALLERY.
VICTOR JULIEN, "THE FLYING MAN,"
at half-past Nine, in new and extraordinary feats.
Grand Selections from "La Sonnambula," " Dinorah,"
and " La Circassienne, " by Wine. Negri, Mr. Greene, Mr.
Herbert, and full Chorus, at Ten o'clock.
Last Week of
"THE ENCHANTED HASH,"
By Mr. Marshall, at a quarter-past Ten, performed 70 nights.
Comic—Mr. Randall, Mr. Frederick French, Mr. J. G.
Foreie, Mr. Marshall, and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, ed. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
EVERY EVENING.
HENRI and PFAU, Flying Trapezp intree.id Double Feats on the
-

Two Operatic Selections alternately from " Ernani,"
" Macbeth," "Il Trovatore," "La Traviata," "La Circas-
sienne," &c., by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, C. Greville, and Albert. Full Band and
Chorus—(Conductor —Mr. F. Jongbmans.) Violin Solos—
Mr.Viotti Collins, and other Vocal and Instrumental attrac-
tions. The Comic portion by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs.
ftrri Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall,
and W. Randall.
Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

A Grand Morning Entertainment EVERY TREKS-
PAY, at Two, HENRI and PFAU and the whole of the
company, appear.

NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DA Y.—Morning, 12b. 40m.—Afternoon, lh. 3m.
To-tionnoW.-Morning, lh. 23m.—Afternoon, lh. 42m.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 14, 1862,

THEUMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
28-lowest tnis morning and during the night.
42—this day at soon.
BAnommEn-30.20.
wow—North-Westerly ; light, with dull weather,

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THE SUN•
LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1862.

Mr. BRIGHT gives us the notion, only too fre.
qtaently, of a strong man beating the air. His
recent letter to the Chairman of the Anti-Income
Tax meeting at Birmingham is a most timely re-
rainder--L.quite unintentional on his part—of his
egregious shortcomings as a Financial Reformer.
He enveighs, as, indeed, well he may, against the
profligate annual expenditure of the public moneys
nowadays under the aegis of the Free Trade system,
and under the nominal influence of the new fangled
ideas, as to the advantages of an economic adminis-
tration. The expenditure, he reminds us, is now
actually twenty millions over and above what it
was when he entered Parliament. That is to say,
within a period of more than twenty years, it has
advanced from an aggregate of £50,000,000 or
thereabouts to one of £70,000,000. The con-
tinuance of the obnoxious Income-tax is,
of course, the subject matter of the re-
markable epistle containing these impressive,
almost impassioned, but utterly futile, lamenta-
tions on the national disbursements from year to
year from our perpetually and constantly re-
plenished but continually drained and exhausted
exchequer. That impost—an impost proverbially ini-
quitous, inquisitorial, and unjust—was originally
ietrodueed into oar reorganised revenue—rather,
it should be said, more strictly speaking, it was re-
introduced at a period of considerable emergency
by Sir ROBERT PEEL with a view to the rehabilita-
tion of our then
delapidated Finances. Up to that
time—up to the period of its revival as a source of
revenue by Sir ROBERT PEEL—the Ineome-tax had
come to be reg,tr4e4
by usage as distinctly a War
Tax. It was adopted however, very reasonably and
judicio„sly adopted, by Sir
ROBERT as an expedient
.applicable to a period of profound peace—as a
temporary expedient, under Shelter of which the
principle of Free-trade might be safely
introduced—
might be introduced, that is to say, Without any
jeopardy of Its introduction leading to an
other-
wiseencl.,
apparently inevitable series of financial
barrassments. So introduced, so re-introdue
the Income Tax,
by yielding our Financier an
ample revenue diroetly, admitted of his
gradually,
nil;—aftar a brief intcrval of cautious experiments
in the way of concession after concession—admitted
of rapidly getting rid of, one after another, of our in-
direct taxes. The great fin uncial scheme of innova-
tion inaugurated by Sir ROBERT PEEL, has, since
his fall from power, and subsequently also, during a
yet longer, and a far mare momentous interval,
'since his lamented demise, been persis-
tently and consistently perpetuated. States-
la" of all classes and of all parties, Whig