The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-06 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Micron.
THIS EVENING, Jura 6,
Will be presented THE GARDENER OF VERSAILLES. Cha-
racters by Messrs. Bedford and Sidney ; and E isses Beatrrnant and
Wharton.
.Ater which, THE MARBLE LOVER.
To be followed by MBA. WHITE.
To conclude with THE COBBLER. CONJUROR.
,tans, 55.; Boxes. 35.; Pit, 14. 6d; clattery, (M.; Private Box, s,
Z 1 Ils. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL A YIPHITFIEATILE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke.
TIUS EVENING, Jmor 6,
Will be presented the new Grand Historical MI itary spectacle, en-
titled THE COSSACKS ; or, Vive la France.
Followed by a series of Chef d'Oavres of Art, or Equitation DE
LA HAUTE ECOLE deve'oped in the 4,,nes in the CHICLE, the
whole arranged and conducted by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with RUSSIA AG SINS I TURKEY, NOW ON
TRIAL.

Box-otlice open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Open for the Season.

TRIA 1-WENING, JCLY G.

Will he repeated the entirely NEW and BRILLIANT PIECE
of FIREWORK on a gigantic scale, representing the British Lion
and Galtii Cock Trainoling on the Russian Eagle. All the numerous
awl-actions or the gardens as esti 41, Mehl ling the beautiful Panorama
or Chosen, by INnson—the extensive and interesting Menagerle—
Vocal and Instrumental Concert: Miss Poole. Miss Ranstord, and
Mr. Manvers, &c. Concluding:with the attack of the British Fleet
on Chnsan—Explosion of the Batteries and Ships, and final Grand
Display of Fireworks, by Southby. Feeding the animals, Half-past
Five. Concert, Half-past Sik. Fireworks, Quarter to Ten. Ad-
Mission to the whole, I s.

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Next, July 11th, 12'h,
and 13th, fIiREE Gl2 kNi, FE fES, ender the Patronage of his
Excellency Count ,vALEW:iikr, the ?Tench Ambassador, in ho-
nour of the cordial alliance between France and England.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON D.RIDGE.
" NIS DAY —Morning 45 mi mafter 9 I Evening 16 min.tft. 10
To•Moßaow—]horning 49 aiin.after 10 Evening 22 m.n.aft.lo

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFM, JULY 6.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE-
68— highest since noon yesterday.
55 —lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.70.
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, and cloudy.

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L9NDON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1854.

Additional victories are reported to have been
gained over the Russians, by the valiant Moslem,
both on the banks of the Danube and among the
mountains of Circassia. The victory in European
Turkey is said to have been won by MEHEMET
PACHA, the successor of the heroic and lamented
MussA PACHA. as Governor of Silistria—a triumph
achieved by him not far from the walls of that
fortress, over the rear-guard of the Muscovites,
25,000 in all, 2,500 of whom are said to have
fallen during the encounter. The victory in
Asiatic Turkey is stated to have been obtained by
SELIM Pacua—a triumph so complete, according
to yesterday's advices from Vienna, that the whole
Russian army is said to have been dispersed,
leaving thirteen guns and several stands of
colours, and the materiel of three camps, in the
hands of the victors—the defeat experienced
by General ANDRONIKOFF being described as alto-
gether overwhelming. The intelligence here re-
ferred to may possibly to some extent be exag-
gerated. It is, however, undeniable, that hitherto
the invading forces have only met everywhere
with discomfiture—in Lesser Wallachia and in the
Dobrudscha, in Bulgaria and in the Caucasus.
So that when it is intimated that the CZAR has
consented to withdraw his army within the boun-
daries of -Moldavia, simply out of complaisance to
Austria, people know very well how much to be-
lieve as to the retrograde movement being in any
respect, so to speak, voluntary. It is pretended
again that the AUTOCRAT has been induced to con-
centrate his forces around Jassy, more with
a view to
certain modifications in his scheme
of the campaign,
than from merely pruden-
tial considerations. Of course. We may credit
that also—if we
aside, as matters of no
sc Please! Setting albgother
account whatever, the
triumphs won by Turkey at Oltenitza and Citate
—the fruitless struggle made by the Russians at
Giurgevo, and the utterly futile s'
Of course, the
of Silis.tri;t
the impregnable.
Russian with-
drawal from Wallachia within
_ the frontier line er nue of
the adjacent Principality, is in no Way at all re-
luctant or involuntary. It has
uothin
w
more credulous sure of that—nothin:hat
ing
to do with the reiterated defeat of the inv ezr
army, with the death of General LUDERS nuaidd of
in-
General SCHILDERS, with the wounding of Prince
GORTSCHAKOFF and of Prince PASKIEWITCH, With
the terrible fact, that since the commenc•tment of
the, campaign no less than 25,000 Russian sol-
diers have been destroyed in the twin provinces,
either by battle or by pestilence—much less with
the approach of the British contingent by way of
Varna, and of the French contingent by way of
Adrianople. Now, supposing the events here
briefly enumerated to have nothing at all to do
with the fact of the retreat of the Muscovites
from Bucharest to Jassy, from Wallachia to Mol-
.davia, from the neighbourhood of the Danube to
that of the Pruth, from the boundaries of Bul-
garia towards those of Bessarabia—at any rate,
moving together as they do at precisely this very
juncture, theyconstitute, at the veryleas• t, the most
Startling and marvellous of coincidences. About as
curious a coincidence, by the way, as the fall of
Lours PHILIPPE, the late King of the French,
having been preceded by those revelationsin regard
to H. TESTE, of Ministerial corruption, in regard to
the capture of ABD-EL-KADER, of most unkingly
bad faith, in regard to the Spanish marriages
(brought about as they were), of falsehood, and
double-dealing absolutely infamous in a civilised So-
vereign. It were not more idle, we maintain, literally
not more idle, to assert that these crimes had nothing
whatever to do with the tumultuous rising of the
people of Paris in February,
w.rin reaerreentrcoegroade
movemente Retreat ofitthe
than
Rtousassiasenrst
that
dictated by no sense
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of weakness from recent defeats, and by no whole-
some fear of the formidable array presented to
the enemy by the allied armaments.
Obviously, therefore, the Russian army has
been driven back by the valour of the Turks, and
by a terror of the soldiers of France and England
now hastening to the head-quarters of the Otto-
man Commander-in-Chief. Prudence has obliged
the troops of the CZAR to fall back towards the
Prnth. Necessity must push back his frontiers
beyond the Pruth, beyond the Dniester, beyond
the Bug, to the current of the river Dnie-
per ! THIS is what must be secured by the
Allies, as the grand result of the war forced
upon them by the lawless aggression of the AUTO-
CRAT. Not the status quo ante bellum. In-
stead of that—the driving back of the Russian
frontiers to the river Dnieper. Finland may be
restored to Sweden—the Crimea and Circassia to
the Moslem—the Steppes of Ghirghiz and the
north-eastern shores of the Caspian to Tartary—
the Black Sea and the Danube may be opened to
the whole world's navigation, the barrier of trea-
ties being for ever removed from the Bosphorus
and the Dardanelles—but all will be still, com-
paratively speaking, of no avail towards the secur-
ing the future tranquillity of Europe, unless, in
addition to all this, neither the Pruth,
nor the Dniester, nor the Bug, but the
river Dnieper be appointed cnce more
one of the boundary lines of the Russian do-
minions. " Once more," we say. For it was so
once. It was so in 1689, on the accession of
PETER the Great. At the period named, from the
vicinity of Smolensk° to that of Ekaterinoslav,
the current of the Dnieper marked out in that di-
rection the frontier of the Russian Empire—the
line of demarcation being continued in a sweep
from that bend of the Dnieper to the bend iu the
Volga at Goradok. As the result of the pre-
sent war with the AurocitAr—more even almost
than the restoration of the Crimea, and of
Finland, and of Circassia to their original
owners, more even almost than the opening of the
Danube and of the Euxine to the world's naviga-
tion—the frontiers of the Russian Empire should
be driven back from the Pruth to the Dnieper.
More—because that advantage would involve the
others—not the others it ! Therefore to it the
aim of the campaign should, we conceive, be
chiefly directed. It should be the paramount
condition of any pacific arrangement. Insomuch
do we conceive this to be advisable, as epitomising
the whole purpose of the conflict adventured upon
by France and England, that we would, if a
watchword were desired for our diplomatists, we
would suggest as the most suitable and the most
significant—not the Danube, or the Crimea, or
the Bosphorus, not the Aral Sea, or the Euxine,
or Finland, or Circassia, but, as symbolising the
whole purpose of the war, the whole project of
the campaign, simply the name of the "DNIEPER,"

TIIE QUARTER'S REVEYUE.

" Ecce iterum Crispinus."

' Once more the Chancellor of the Exchequer has
presented the Revenue Returns for the year and
quarter ending the sth inst., and the people have
again an oppirtunity of forming their own opinions
respecting the state of the National Finances, on
evidence that cannot be controverted or denied.
The " facts and figures" contained in this im-
portant document are, so far as they go, conclu-
sive as to the actual bona fide receipts, and we are
enabled by comparing these receipts with the
corresponding quarters of former years, to form a
tolerably correct estimate of the state of trade,
and the amount of comforts enjoyed by the various
classes. It is true that the fiscal alterations that
have come into operation during the year, and
some of these beginning to develope themselves,
must to a certain extent be taken into ac-
count, and that plausible excuses may be
offered for some of the deficiences that
are so painfully perceptible at this moment. But
we cannot receive them as perfectly satisfactory,
or agree with the ABERDEEN organ, in thinking
that " for the revenue not to have fallen very
seriously under these attacks, is equivalent to a
great increase under other circumstances !" Nor
can we look upon it as "an agreeable state of
things," on which the country can be heartily or
at all congratulated. In our judgment they prove
that, notwithstanding all due allowances that can
fairly be made, the tide of prosperity that turned
last October is still rapidly ebbing, and, unfortu-
nately, we see nothing to induce us to anticipate
a favourable change, so long as the quasi Na-
tional Bank keeps on the screw, maintaining a
rate of interest so exorbitant as 5 per cent. on
first-class paper, and reducing the circulating me-
dium to an amount far beneath the requirements
of the industrial community.
We may now look to the results of this long
array of figures, and the various items of which
it is composed. And first we find that there is a
considerable deficiency on the year, and a still
larger one on the quarter, that on the year
amounting to 474,3691., of which 430,3761. be-
longs to what is termed the ordinary, and the re-
sidue, or 43,9931., to the extraordinary branches
of the revenue ; while on the quarter the total
deficiency is no less than 812,7891., of which
577,1441. is to be deducted from the ordinary,
and the balance, or 235,6457., from the extraor-
dinary items.

In the Customs we find that the deficiency of
the year is 450,5241., while that of the quarter is
367,4941. This is indeed a deplorable fall-
ing off, particularly when we remember that last
quarter there was also a decline of 106,8911., and
the preceding one of 96,8061. We must, however,
make allowance for the reduction in the Duties on
Tea and Sugar, and many minor articles which
were altogether struck out of the tariff. We
should also consider the effect of the failure of the
currant crop, and the increase in the first cost
price of tea occasioned by the Chinese insurrec-
tion, which prevented the natural and ordinary
consequences of the reduction from 2s. 2id. to
Is. 6d. of duty from being immediately percep-
tible. We must also remember that the corres-
ponding quarter of last year was one of unusual
prosperity—the increase in Customs over the
similar period of 1852 being no less than
441,1731. Under these circumstances we should
not, perphaps, greatly complain, although this
important branch of the Revenue has . not ex-
hibited its usual elasticity—so usual indeed, that
we have come to look for it as a matter of course.
In the Excise there is a deficiency on the year
and quarter of 435,3361. and 171,6091. respec-
tively. Last quarter the deficiency was 155,2311.,
and. the preceding 113,9701. In the allowances
to be made under this head, there are items to be
entered on each side or the account. On the one
side are the S.,ap Duties, which have been altoge-
ther abolished, to the extent of some 1,200,0001.,
while the increase of the price of tallow prevented
the benefit of the abolition from being fully re-
alised.
lOn the other hand, we have the increased
°Pith Duties in Scotland and Ireland, and the ad-
United
Kingdom. We should fancy these to be
tolerablyeallot Tax throughout the whole of the
se
l<
equivalents for the Soap Duties—
more especially as the quarter ending sth July is
therefore, arrive
tion of the Soap
Duties
year when a large p,ropor-
the working classes Lave
conclusion than that
at
noes were collected. M e can,
minimum rate is
e
of their ordinary comforts, and that the Bank
beginningtobeen deprived of many
The Stamps exhibit a fiasveaornuraiangbgle:;
yearthe
u items.arter ,
on Therethe
former an increase
of contrast
verynt
roapn ts preju-
dicially e j 1
tul o
e-
dicially the amount of their
48,07
61 ,
the latter of 30,4851., and this, notwithstanding
the the abolition of the Duties on Advertisements,
taisesmemutpss, and
d
the so-called reduction on Receipt
others, but which really produced
emuacdhedlafrrgoemr
returns than the higher rates previously attempted
to be enforced, but so frequently v
their unfairness. We have no doubt that when
the admirable measure of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, respecting the stamps on Bills of
Exchange shall receive the Legislative sanction,
there will be a much larger augmentation under
this head.
In the Assessed Taxes there have been defi-
ciencies of 33,9021. on the year, and 74,5561. on
the quarter. The Property] and Succession

Taxes, which are now taken together, show
improvements both on the year and quarter of
435,1651. and 48,567/. These may appear to be
satisfactory, but we regret to say that the facts
are very different. Not only is there the Suc-
cession Tax to be taken into account, but the ex-
tension of the burden to persons having incomes
exceeding 1001. per annum in the United King-
dom, and to all parties possessing 1001. per an-
num in Ireland, besides deductions that have
been made for the doubled Income Tax on sums
payable within the last quarter. The whole
greatly exceeding the beggarly sum of 48,5671.,
which, under the circumstances, may be con-
sidered as indicating a deplorable deficiency on
the quarter.
In the Post-office there is an improvement of
166,0001. on the year, and of 128,0001. on
the quarter. In the Crown Lands, on the other
hand, there is a deficiency of 132,8881. on the
year, and of 135,8881. on the quarter; and in
Miscellaneous the falling off is 26,9671. on the
year, and 34,649/. on the quarter.
Sc far for the ordinary items. As to the ex-
traordinary, we may briefly state that in the Im-
prest and other Moneys there is an increase on
the year of 58,477/., but a decrease on the quar-
ter of 117,0431.; while in the Repayments of Ad-
vances there is a deficiency on the year of
102,470/., and on the quarter of 118,602/.