The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-15 00:00:00

Dn.

Capital
Reserve fund

91 250" 000
... 12,980,750 14

Reserve immobiliere
45
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks
Do. to order (Post bills)
073004870200 i,
660470015500
.......:i
Bills payable at sight 13,131,001 ---
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 74,589,499 71,
Various accounts-current
Do. branch banks 29,610,612 1
Dividends to be paid 442,864 2°
Discount, interest, and expenses
Commission on deposits
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Sundries 2,412,438 43

1,003,193,409 08
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France,
Count D'ARGOIII%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, May 15.—Wind this day at Noon, E. ; 231°'
derate breeze, and fine, clear, dry weather.
A •
PENZANCE, May 13.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived
Stromboli, from a cruize, and sailed for Plymouth.
SALCOMBE, May 14.—Wind, E.N.E. Sailed—Eraers
for Antigua.
PLYMOUTH, May 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—William
Bromham, from Sierra Leone, and sailed for Plymouth;
Edinburgh Castle, Jersey, for Swansea, to stop a leak;
Maria Key, London, for Rio Janeiro ; W. S. Belleisle,
Baltic ; Tordenskiold (Danish brig), Copenhagen, for St'
Thomas.

PORTSMOUTH, May 14.—Wind, S. to W. Arrived-:-
Guilia, from Mazatlan, for Hamburgh. Sailed Ken&
worth (transport, No. 40), for the Mediterranean ; Ariadn°,
Elsinore. Off Port—Garland, Antwerp, for Montreal.
OFF DOVER, May 13.—Brougham, from Hartlepool, for
Malta.
COWES, May 14.—Wind, light and variable. Arrived"'
Enigheden, from Christiania.
WEYMOUTH, May 14.—Wind, W. Arrived—Hamburgh
Packet, for Rio Grande, with damage, having been in COI.
lision with the Lady Louisa, which put back for London,
with bows stove, and other damage.
FALMOUTH, May 13.—Wind, N. Arrived—Berth 011
Maria, from Galatz ; Amslet, Constantinople. Sailed;
Kleine, for Gibraltar. Off Port—ltuna, from Callao, and
sailed for London ; Hydra, Rio Grande, and sailed 10r
Antwerp; John Graham, Constantinople.
SCILLY, May 12.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Eliza and
Ann, from London, for Ballina.
BRISTOL, May 13.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Nanny
Treat, from Havannah. Sailed—Monarch, for Tobago.
SWANSEA, May 13.—Wind, N. Sailed—Louis Nal,°•
leon, for Sydney, N.S.W.; Schowen, Shanghai ; Sully,
Singapore ; Home, Barcelona.
DOUGLAS, 1.M., May 12.—Wind, N.W.
mony,
COPENHAGEN, May 9.—The sloop Johanne, from Strg'
sund to this port, was stranded on the west coast of Salt'
holm 6th May, and abandoned.
ROTTERDAM, May 12.—Part of the cargo (pig iron) of
the schooner wrecked in the Oester has been landed 6"
Goerce, and amongst it a brand-iron marked "W. Withaull
Ronne, Burnholm." May 1--The Danish barque, Richer°
Combe, of Elbing (wheat laden), got aground off the south
end of this isle May 5, but was assisted afloat after throw.'
ing part of cargo overboard, and proceeded.
LIVERPOOL, May 10.—A barque was seen ashore 13th
April on the Middle Ground, Bahama Banks, with a white
signal with blue border, and letter 0 in the centre.
STOCKHOLM, May B.—The British fleet was cruising o'
Gothland yesterday evening. Those remaining at Elfsnalr
ben sailed thence yesterday evening. The Jenny, froT
this port, with iron, has been in contact with an Engliso
steam-frigate, and sunk; crew saved. The Fanchon, of
this port, was stranded on Sandon April 22, and is a wreck.
Another vessel was on shore on Faron at the same time.
ELSINORE, May 11.—The Holyrood (transport), from
Sheerness, arrived in the roadstead, May 9, and proceeded
for the Baltic. 11.M.'s steamer Penelope, with a water
tank in tow, was passed, May 9, in lat. 56 N., long. 6 E.,
by the Penelope (transport), arrived here.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.30 a.m.
Wind, N.N.W. ; mild, and fine.
Arrived—The Peltona, from Bombay ; the Siofna and
Strive, Alexandria.

Sailed—The Tar, for Aden ; the Wyoming, Philadelphia;
Carpentaria, Melbourne; Emma, Lisbon; Tyr, Christi-
ania ; and Hortense, Antwerp.
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.33 a.in•
Wind, Easterly; tide, low water; weather, fine.
Arrived, 14th—Fury, from Dantzic ; Rival, Mauritius;
Salvadios, Singapore.
15th —Wave, Nedemblick ; Trident (s.), Hamburg
Maria Christina (s.), Santander; Ravensbourne (s.), An.t.
werp ; Fyenoord (s ), Rotterdam. ; City of Paris, Boulogne'
Sailed—Halding, for Rio Janeiro.
DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.na•
Wind, N.N.E., very fine.
Anchored—Erin, from Cork for London.
Sailed—Clara and Ovega, both for the river.

A SCHEDULED MAIV'S VIEW OF TBO

JVAR AND THE NEW TAXES.

TO TIM EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—We of the middle classes are much indebted to
you for the expression of views very current among us.
All the sophistry of Mr. Gladstone last session failed to
convince us, as it failed to convince you, that to td
equally the fruits of industry and the proceeds of realised
property is anything but a gross injustice. We sob'
witted, because we could not help it, and wished to be'
lieve that the days of the injustice were at least flatly
bered. Still, though we endured it, it was but the en-
durance of a blister ; and our irritation was increased
at finding that when the legacy duties were applied to
real property it was let off with about half of one of the
duties, and the other, the probate duty, was retained
upon personal property alone. Yet, sir, when war taire
were to be raised, it was, if you will pardon such a
phrase, where the raw was already established that the
first stroke and the second stroke too were laid on. Our
financial charioteer gave us first a stinging twinge on the
tender part, with the hint that if we took that without
kicking we should be spared for the rest of the year;
but finding we only winced a little and went on quietly,
down he comes upon us quickly with another, and
doubles the most odious of our imposts.
Not a word meanwhile about equal probate duties on
real property, not a word of equal legacy duties, not a
word of a temporary loan guaranteed on the large amount
which such merely equitable taxes must bring in. No;
the iniquitous schedule D must be doubled outright to
irritate the middle classes, and beer taxed to tease the
working man, while even the ladies were to be provoked
with an attack through their grocers' bills. For all this
I fear you suggest the natural reason. We have a Corr
tinental Ministry—a Russian, Prussian, and Austrian
Ministry—a Ministry in connection with a Court inevi-
tably of German sympathies, and but too reluctant to
embarrass Austria and its circle of Courts, detested, as
they are by the people of this country, as the most eon'
temptible set of promise-breaking despots under
heaven. We cannot comprehend that men, who bad
in their hands the infamous secret correspondence, cow'
have believed for a moment the protestations of Nicholas
and Nesselrode last year. We rather think they were
unwilling to stay his ambition at the cost of humbling
his pride, and that we are now involved in war because
they would not openly denounce his proceedings last
spring. He himself knew that weakness which bicf
Danubian defeats and his skulking navy have displayed
ever since he came in contact with Turks, Englishmeo,
and Frenchmen, and he would never have dared to move
a soldier across the Pruth had we but had a Premier
whom he could not coax and wheedle.
But even now, sir, we shall not complain of our
unequal taxation, if we get an honest equivalent for it.._
If it turn out that Russia is to be really humbled, that
our fleets and armies have orders to destroy withoiltf
mercy everything military belonging to the enemy
Europe ; if for our ten millions we see her Black S°:.
and Baltic forts and navies destroyed, her troops
pelled the Principalities, the mouths of the Danube
utterly taken from her, her
unrighteous treaties throWa
into the fire, and, in addition, most of us would like
Bessarabia joined to the Principalities, the Crimea
ch
Turkey, and Finland to Sweden ; if we can see tie
things as these, why we shall not be nice about a
money. Our fear is, sir, and it is well Ministers slioul
know it, that after having laid on taxes in the r0i.7..
hopingoffensive manner, they will then prosecute the war 1°,,,f
bearingly to the foe • and, hopin we shall be uoea;
under our ill-adjusted burdens, take advantage of h
or
ing made the war plaguy to us to get the best terms
the great protector of European despots.
Let them not, however, calculate too confidentilj.
we may see fit to demand a Cabinet purified from --
sian influence, and a Premier who will not care so. much
for German Courts as for the people of Great Britain ;
and if the harvest should he as bountiful and as early.
as
it now appears likely to be, Providence will soeorn. ga_Lvst:
us a remission of natural taxation which will, p.
more than counterbalance the unjust artificial iniklrso
of Mr. Gladstone and his chief. We may notstoleast
moneyeasily frightened then as they suppose ; moneyto
bear the burden.--I am, air your obedient sery
will be easier, trade brisker, and all of us better able

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