The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-15 00:00:00

TIIIS EVENING, Aran, 15,

An 1 dur"rig the Week, the Performances will commence with the
mantic( nt rpectscle entitled A3I AKOSA ; or, Scenes of Kafir
w,rfare ; with new and brilliant scenery, costumes, and appoint-
ments.
To be followed by an entire change in the ever-popnl tr Scones
in the CIRCLE, introducing the most accomplished Equestrian and
Uymnastic Artistes of the day.
To conclude with a Laughable FARCE. •
B ~..netiee open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

II ICH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tars DAT —Morning 43 min. after 5 Evening 2 min.aft. 6
To- Ifo :row—Morning 23 min. after 6 I Evening 50 min.aft. 6

THE WEATHER.—Sun OPTICS, APRIL 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
54—highest sinco noon yesterday.
39—lowest this morning and during the night.
49 this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30'21.
WIND, N.E.—Dull cloudy weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1853.

Another Ministerial defeat—the second during
the week—and on a fiscal subject ! The mantle
of Sir CHARLES Woon appears to have descended
with double power on Mr. GLADSTONE,. and unless
that Right Hon. Gentleman exhibit very unequi-
vocal evidence that he has profited by the salutary
—though rather unpleasant—lessons he has re-
ceived, the " joint-stock " Administration will
speedily have to submit to the operation of a
Legislative " winding-up." All the stereotyped
cant that had been used usque ad nauseam by the
most unpopular and incompetent Minister that
ever mismanaged the national finances, appears to
have been carefully preserved by the present occu
pant of the office, and brought out on every pos
sible occasion. He is not satisfied with enume.
rating the invariable, and, almost solitary argument
of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Halifax,
"that the tax" (no matter how inequitable or im-
politic) " produces so many thousands per annum
to the Exchequer, which he is certainly not pre-
pared to relinquish," but, in the exuberance of his
eloquence, launches forth into all the worn-out
and oft-refuted fallacies—as if they were as indis-
putable as proofs of Holy Writ. He is particu-
larly great on the "time" question. Everything
is either too early or too late. " Too early," if
the opinion of the House is demanded before he
has given expression to his views ; " too late," if
the financial arrangements have been concluded
and the votes on the Budget taken ; while any
introduction of the disagreeable topic during the
discussion on the financial scheme would be an
unpardonable crime--an offence of very serious
magnitude.
The Right Hon. Gentleman seems to be strongly
impressed with
(what we had supposed to be) the
exploded doctrine of the fiscal infallibility of the
Financial Minister the “right divine "of Chan-
reveßucellors of the Exchequer to deal with the national
e just as they t hpienokoperloper, and, that the
representatives of the
to register
more nor
less than political serfs bou;rd,e,
bated
degbister their
" ukases," and to accept With
deep humility" the boons, which in therth and
of their bounty, they condescend toP be.sttde
He even grew facetious on the point, and
suggested an additional saving— the sugefes-
tion was heartily cheer, l by the Hon-
ourable Gentleman, the Member for' Lambeth
—by the abolition of the situation lie now holds.
He intended to convey an intimation of what
appeared to him to be the "highly ludicrous
notion," that the office could be put in com-
mission ; the Board consisting of the framers of
amateur budgets—of all who are sufficiently bold
to question the ipse dixits of the financial would-
be autocrat. We confess, however, that the
proposition appears to be well If9rthy_of serious