The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-15 00:00:00

CORNER.
Concluding with NUABER. ONE ROUND THE

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Memos 15,
Will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama
in fiva tasleaua, With new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., sew
draws and appointments, called TLIE rdutir OF GOLD; or,
1118 LOST SHIP AND TUB 'WILD FLOWER OF 3(gXECO.
Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford,
Itaditme Celeste, &c.

To conclude with THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Characters by
Messrs. B; Webster. Ugh Murray. Parselle, and Keeley ; Mrs. L.
Murray, Misses Woolgar, Faulty Aaskell, and Laidlaw, and 3irs.
Keeley.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THE tTRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 15,
Will be performed TO ORLI4E BENSON. Supported by Messrs.
Emery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling an 1 Miss Wyndham.
After which, TfiK BEN'CIIf. 'II3ER. Principal characters by
Messrs. Alfred Wigan, and F. Robson ; and Sirs. Wigan and Miss
Marston.
To b 3 folllwel by 'THE FIRiT NIGUT. Characters by Messrs.
A,ffed Wig.m, Leslie, Franks, flarwood Cooper, anl Vincent ; Miss
P. Horton, and Miss Wyndham.

STRAND THEATRE.

Soie Lasses, Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs

THIS, EVENING, Mama 15,
Will be performed LA SONNAM HULA.
To be followed by 'rHE OHNIBcrs. Pat Rooney, Mr. Hodsoa.
After which, THE BLIYE JACKETS.
To conclude with Till CORKOIIAN 3Ft )THERE. Paddy and
Tim Mulligan (the Brothers), Mr. G. Hodson. '
Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, ls. 6d; Gallery, rd.; Private Boxes,
It.. 11e. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
THIS EVENING, MIAMI 15,
And daring the week, will be presented the new, grand, and
romantic spactacle entitled THE ,V,3013 ',I AA'S FLORAE; or, The
False Knight--the Woolfmin's iio ^se by the pet steed, Beauty,
expressly trained by NEI% %Valiant Cooke.
Afte.r which, the taco nparable -4cenes of the ARENA..
t' coti3ta wi 1.112. D ynestie Drain tof TtlE tV iI TE A.R .
Roc-eft:a ope t fro u E even till t:. Acaze tit.t.;e:, Mr. 4V.
West. •

WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T tr 4 DAY —Mornin 34 ,nin.after 2 I
Evening 52 rain.afc,. 2
10-Moaaow—Corning 6 :nin.after 3 li:venin422 tain.aft. 3

If—as we proved in our impression of Friday
—the income tax be the most cheaply and the
most easily collected of any fiscal charge ; if, after
providing for the primary expenses of the esta-
blishment and the various collectors, every shil-
ling levied upon the parties ultimately liable finds
its way into the national Exchequer, and that,
as stated by Mr. GLADSTONE, " we could collect
the larger amount at the same cost as the smaller"
—it follows, almost as a matter of course, that it
must be the most beneficial impost for the com-
munity in general. We might, indeed, rest the
case on the simple fact, that the mere saving, easily
attainable by the substitution of direct for indirect
taxation, would 2.1T1CA33:1.41, oa the bare AY/10DRR of
collection and the amount of profit on that expense,
to four millions sterling. But that indicates but
a small portion of the actual benefit ; for we
must also take into our consideration the fact
that the original importer or manufacturer looks
for gain on every farthing he has been obliged to
advance. He calculates his percentage not only
on the first cost of the commodity, but also on the
duties which he must pay. The tax, then, is at
once enhanced to the wholesale dealer by some 10.
or 15 per cent. on its amount, while he is also
charged for the trouble and expense occasioned by
the Customs or Excise regulations that, although
exceedingly vexatious, must be enforced in order
to prevent fraud on the revenue.
,Another whole-
sale house, of less wealth and more limited deal-
ings,
providing for the wants of a district in place
of the entire kingdom, deals with the first pur-
chaser, and repays him not merely the 10 or 15 per
cent., which he himself has paid, but also a profit
of tea or fifteen per cent. thereon. Thus the circle
spreads. Each of the six or seven intermediate
hands through which the article finds its way, until
disposed of by the retailer, gaining a profit on the
duty and on the profit on the duty paid to his imme-
diate predecessor. The aggregate of these charges
eventually falls on the consumer, and it is by uo
means an exaggeration to state that, by means of •
theme several additions, the price of the article is
enhanced not only by the tax payable to Govern-
ment, but by some 30 or 40 per cent. on the
amount of that tax.
S nne conception may be formed of the magni-
tude of this item when we consider that the Cus-
cruelties inflicted, by the EMPEROR'S orders, on toms and Excise, on which it chiefly falls,
their nuns at Minsk. In a word, the only Chris- produced shrine, the past year no less than
tianity NICHOLAS cares to support is that section 35,770,0001., and estimating the loss thereon
of the Greek Church of which, in Russia, he has a the lowest amount, or 30 per cent.—it would
constituted himself the head. All besiles who amount to no less than 10,731,0001., which,
bear the name of Christians, whether Catho- added to the 4,000,0001. to be saved in the mere
lic or Protestant, are proscribed, persecuted, expense of collection, gives 14,731,000/. as the
and suppressed, and the Bible itself with actual saving to the nation, or rather to the par-
them,
to the extent of his influence. In no ties ultimately liable, by the substitution of direct
single point does NICHOLAS, Char of Russia, for indirect imposts. It is surely worth while to
surpass the renowned Dike of TUSCANY, make some effort to retain nearly fifteen millions
unless it be indeed in hypocrisy. The latter is, ; iii the pockets of the people, to say nothing of the
at least, believed to be an honest bigot, and cares stimulus which it would give our foreign trade,
more about his religion than his power ; but the when it was, indeed, rendered free by the removal
CZAR'S bigotry is sheer policy and ambition ; a o: every charge and every restriction, and the im-
mask to prev,ut reeegaitieu while robbing his peovements that might be effected in our manufac-
neighbour's house ; a watchword, unmeaning to tuxes, when the experimeatson alarge scale, by which
himself, to arouse the fanaticism of the superstiti- the valueof suggestions arty be testedandas2ertained
ous hordes whom he Ins at once blinded by his would no longer be prohibited or retarded by the
priesthood and the light of the Word of Goo. • Eeeiso regulations. However onerous the direct
Look on this piceeira ;led on that. No assecie- : charges might be considered in the first instance,
te6u for roligieae purpose; is permitted in. Russia. the burden would speedily be disregarded when
'n Turkey the freest scope is alhe,val by the MII3- ; the ex'qterdiaery general prosperity arising from
sutras.*
to
Greek church
religious entererise—the, priests the change was perceptible, and increased comforts
of the
riceek churclathemselves, under the insti- were combined with greatly diminished expendi-
giti°4 fcoqueutly of Kai-rise being the only rser- t ire. It would indeed .be impossible within the
secutore,. and that of their brethren, for becoming limits necessarily assigned to a public journalist
Protestants. In ,
allowed,Russia) printing press is ,to set forth even a tithe of the advantages that
printing tti bible, and no one may would speedily be brought to light.
distribute
the S,eriptares in the Rassian There is, however, one serious obstacle —one
ieneasag,.or aehn, hr the Je \vs ; and the ' ieipeclimeat—that prevents the attainment of these
Bible Societe
to
which. ALEXANDER has blessings. The present system of assessment, the
subscribed, J'Xicßot,sgappie3sed on corning to the e ua,l taxation of all incomes, without reference
throne ! In Ttirkeye on the
contrary, thousands of to the source from whence they may be derived,
copies are printed yesely. Bible presses exist at or their parmatieusy or certainty, so deeply taints
Constantinople, Bucharest, and other large towns; the entire impost with gross and palpable injus-
the Scriptures are printed in every oriental tice, that what would otherwise he hailed as the
tongue, laclusling the Turkish, and there are forty meet eligible tax is that which the most str eau-
depots for the native agents engaged in their cir- 013 exertions are tusking to get rid of. It is not
culation ! Again, as to Missions.
-NICHOLAS has
.Isom au. " ignorant inapetienee of taxation" that
suppressed several Protestant Missions employed Vie tniddle classe; cemelaie of the charge—it is
"
not in proselytising his Orthodox Greek Chris- not because they are uawilline to Contribute their
the heathens of T. tians," but in converting artery dal preeortioa to the liquilatioa of the national
and Siberia, and the Massubnans too, is his 1 ibilitiee or the ineinteneeice of the national
dominions. All the same to him; be put them e.;',tblisli ne its, tine they objet to the burden,
down after they had laboured some of them aed chit curses b 10111 and deep attend the
laws which for-
usefully for twenty years, revivingcs.lectere in their progress. Far from it. It is
bade heathens in his dominions to be converted beet:lse they perceive bat toe clearly the unfair-
- Orthodox Greek priests ! 0-
and baptised, except by Ortlne_ I's eel ztctuil " ia,3l;ll',lty" of the charge—that
the utmost ,
Turkey, on the contrary, has given --3yfeel ta3n;3,v); to be victiinise•l by legisla-
liberty to all cusses of missionaries, and in all ti)a, excaseliaely unfair to them as a distinct
parts of her dominions, both in Europe and Asia,
and the missions, those of America especially, This unfeirreess wts aekeeseledged by almost •
have been active and successful. In a word, ev icy public 11t 1. Tee heelers in
Russia; of late years, has been in every weynarrow- l) lieuees Of Perll:l.nstlG, Goals A.BER.D&SNT and
lug the religious libertiesof its subjects, while Tur- 'Jour a'll-43:Ecre essra thin hintel at the propriety
key,.cordially embracing the counsels of Sir STRAT- of obteiaine 1 eseiltthle aljeileneat if the di s-
Foangieretreter,hasbeenasextensively increasing the 'pate. Tee firetacial Meuister of the aeoesitiea ha d
liberties-Of hers. Indeed it should be distinctly un- n merely rsa,t:ieha`, brougli t
cierßtoOd that iu turkeyi for some time past, there foretard proposition; foe' its amedioration—whiCh ,

CITE WEATIIER.—Ses Omen, Mama 15.
THEEDMIINTER, IN THE SHADE.
58 —highest since noon yesterday.
44 —lowest this morning and during the night.
57 —this day at noon.

14801LETER, 30'26—a sudden rise of a quarter of an inch .
WIND, S.W. to W.S W.—Light breeze, and cloudy.