The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

O
The General Commanding-in-Chief has been pleased
to approve of Captain the Hon. Granville Charles Corn-
wallis Eliot, of the Coldstream Guards, being appointed
an aide-de-camp to his father, his Excellency the Earl
of St. Germans, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, vice Capt.
Arthur Lennox Peel, of the 52d Light Infantry, re-
L thei Light
ships
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p aH arrivaligl lHighland
signed.
The ship Lady Clarke left Deptford on the 3d inst.
for Cork, to receive on board a portion of the service
companies of the 57th Regiment for conveyance to Corfu.
In-
fantry The
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awaiting
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Emerald Isle, Santipore, and Flora, which have been
chartered to convey the service co •
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talion to Corfu. companies of this .
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The 81st Regiment, from Dublin, has relieved the
71st at Kilkenny and adjacent stations, but the former
regiment has not yet been replaced in Dublin garrison.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
No. 99, GREAT IttfisELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY.
The Annual General Meeting of Proprietors will be held at the
Office of the Society, on THURSDAY, the 3d day of March next, at One
o'Clock precisely, at which Meeting five Directors, one Trustee, and
one Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors), will be elected.
Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a candidate for the office of
Director, Trustee, or Auditor, must send the name of such candidate
to the Secretary, at least fourteen days before the day of Meeting.
The Ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'Clock.
An election of an Auditor on the part of the Assured will also take
place on WEDNESDAY. the 2d day of March, between the hours of
Eleven and Two o'Clock. All persons Assured for the whole term
of life, and qualified to vote, are hereby referred to the conditions
indorsed on ther Policies, for information concerning the candidate
to be proposed.

GEORGE 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary.
February 10th, 1853.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
yafewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING, FEB,. 10,
win be performed the popular and highly successful Comedy of
MASKS AND FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain—by
Messrs. Benjamin Webster, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Parselle, and
Lambert ; .Nfrs. Stirling, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss F. Vining, and
Miss Rosa Benntht.
After which, ete
new and original Farce, called TO PARIS AND
BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS.
To conclude with the Farce of BOX and COX MARRIED and
SETTLED.

ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrla.
THI3 EVENING, I'm 10,

Nyill be performed the Comic Drama called A PHENOMENON
IN A. SMOCK•FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F.
Matthews, and Horncastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell.
After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza,
entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs.
F. Matthew!, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton ; Mada.ne Vestris,
Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis,
Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Itosina Wright will appear.
To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS.
Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Alleroft, 15, New
B.,nd-street.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
Tlll3 EVENING, FEB, 10,

Will be presented the powerful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or,
II acie Tom's Cabin—by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, 0. Smith, aad
Emery ; Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Keeley,
and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with the successful new Comic Pantomime, called
NELL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Merrie Monarch. Principal
Danseuse, Mdlle. Auriol ; Clown, Mr. Flearnore.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 10,

WIB be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by
Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID ; or, Dorothy's Fortune (as
played at Windsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal charac-
ters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harley, J. Vining, Ryder, F.
Cooke, Everett, and Chester ; Mrs. W. Lacy and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ-
mas Pantomime, entitled MARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR
STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the
Singing Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pan-
taloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Desborough.

ROYAL OLYMPIC: THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 10,

Will be presented LILIAN GERVAIS Supported by Messrs.
Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender, and
Clifton; Misses Anderton and H. Gordon.
After which, WANTED ONE THOUSAND SPIRITED YOUNG
MILLINERS FOR THE GOLD DIGGINGS.

To conclude with ROMEO AND JULIET; or, Harlequin Queen
Mab and the World of Dreams. Clown, Mr. Edwin Edwardes, with
his highly-trained Dogs.
Box-uflice open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. E. Chatterton.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Crowded Nightly to witness the Extraordinary Holiday Attractions.
LAST WEEK BUT FOUR of Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEMENT,
And positively the Last Week of the Grand Comic Pantomime.
In consequence of the numerous appltcations for the reproduction of
the superb Spectacle of MAZEPPA, or THE WILD HOR-E, Mr.
Batty has much pleasure in terminating his professional career
in acquiescing in the generally expressed desire of his patrons and
the public, and will produce the above Spectacle with all its origi-
nal splendour on the 13th February instant.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 10,
And during the Week the Curtain will rise at Seven o'clock, to
the 68th Representation of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
After which, new and splendid Scenes in the Circle, by French and
English Artistes.
To conclude with the Grand Comic Pantomime of FORTUNIO
AND HIS HORSE COMRADE ; or, Harlequin and the Seven
Gifted Men.
Doors open at Ralf-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven.
Box-ouice open daily from Eleven to Four. stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tnrs DAT --Morning 26 min. after 3 Evening 44 min.aft. 3
To-Moartow—Morning 2 min. after 4 Evening 20 min.aft. 4

.DAILY IVBAIIIER TABLE.

THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1853.

State of the wind and weather at each of the following
places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
HASTINGS—N.E., fresh breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—E., fresh breeze—overcast.
TUNBRIDGE—N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BASINGSTOKE—S. W., gentle breeze—scud, rain.
GREENWICH—E., gentle breeze—overcast.
SmooD—S.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
LEIGHTON—N.E., gentle breeze—cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—E., gentle breeze—cloudy.
The returns from the following places indicate the state
of the weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock :
Mn LLIN G AR— W. , gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
YARMOUTH—S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
LANCASTER—S., calm—foggy.
WHITBY— —Calm—foggy, frost, snow.
DARLINGTON—W., gentle breeze - overcast, frost, foggy,
SHAP—N., calm—principally clear.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, FEB, 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

37—highest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.

32—this day at noon,

BAROMETER, 20'1S—rising.
WIND, N.N.E.—Smart breeze, and dull weather, wiL
sleet.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1853.

Parliament resumes its sittings this evening
under more than usually important circumstances.
It was only very recently that we directed atten-
tion to the peculiarity of the internal situation of
Great Britain at the present juncture when the
destinies of the Empire are committed to the
keeping of a suddenly constituted and strangely
coalesced Administration. Possibly, it may not
be superfluous to recapitulate succinctly the prin-
cipal characteristics of that situation—now that
the nation may be said to stand more directly in
the presence of the Coalition Government. The
ABERDEEN Cabinet, to speak plainly upon a mat-
ter in regard to which there has hitherto
been so much confusion, finds itself surrounded
by difficulties of its own creation, and those diffi-
culties of more than ordinary magnitude. It
will have, first of all, to reconcile an almost incal-
culable number of interior differences. It will
have to sustain in a direct policy the various
opinions of the conflicting parties joined together
for the time being, as a sort of Make-shift Minis-
try. Besides this, it will require to exercise over
its councils an extraordinary amount of authority
in the way of prudential forethought, so as to
avoid, if possible, the peril of swelling the already
compact and formidable phalanx of the DERBYITE
Opposition. That Opposition, it is obvious, may
otherwise at any moment be transformed from a
minority into a majority, by combining the Inde-
pendent Liberals and the Irish Uripurchaseables
with the powerful body lead by Mr. DISRAELt—
the resolute and united body of the Tory Re-
formers. Upon some questions we cannot forget
that those same Tory Reformers would be enabled
to go to the country under more propitious colours,
under a more auspicious pretext, than their
banded antagonists—the Whig-Peelites. Such,
for example, as the Income-tax Question !
Whereas, if the Ministerial cards be only adroitly
played, the tables may be turned by the present
holders of office even at the eleventh hour before
the necessity of a dissolution—by staking the
fortunes of the Cabinet upon the prevention of the
enhancement of the House Tax, and by the reor-
ganising of the entire system of our so- called national
representation. Latterly, it has unhappily been
only too apparent that the prudent occupants of
Downing-street are prepared to rid themselves of
any immediate annoyance in the way of legislative
reform and of further retrenchment, by resorting
to the old and atrocious alternative which, to-
wards the close of the last century, plunged this
country into a war, which cost it a debt of
500,000,0001. sterling, a sanguinary struggle
originated by England, and one which, corn_
menced in the prostituted name of Liberty, closed
by binding, more firmly even than of yore,
in the iron bonds of Despotism the ravaged
re-ilms and prostrate peoples of the Conti-
nent.

The alternative submitted to themselves

in 1793 by the aristocratic monopolists of power
in Great Britain was simply this—Peace with
abuses to remove, and leisure for the Re-
formers, and an unavoidable necessity for
retrenchment, or—War with all these evils indefi-
nitely postponed. History tells us in letters of
, blood how the rulers of that ac,, resolved to pre-
tarkjerittter course in defiance of all the dictates
---or., 'e ity, in spite of all the promptings of
pi** in contempt of all the ills inevitable
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from a retarded civilisation. Again, the alterna-
tive appears to be now, in this year of Grace,
1853, submitted to themselves by the aristocratic
monopolists of power in the United Kingdom.
Otherwise, we should never hear so much of this
execrable and preposterous war-panic, at a period
when France and England are in a state of pro-
found tranquillity. Otherwise, we should not listen
to so much blustering about not merely the en-
hancement of our national defences, but about the
necessity of increasing our army by 20,000
or 30,000 men, when our neighbours across
the Channel have been decreasing theirs
by 30,000 or 40,000, and their navy by
2,000,000 francs, in their annual scale of mari-
time expenditure. Otherwise, moreover, we
should not witness the indecorous spectacle of two
Cabinet Ministers—one at Carlisle, the other at
Halifax—availing themselves of a hustings' audi-
ence to vituperate, in language of the most coarse
and scurrilous description, the elected chief
of 8, 000, 000 of Frenchmen. Everything, in-
deed, appears to intimate that the Govern-
ment of England is prepared to deprive
the real Reformers of anything like an oppor-
tunity for improvement, by plunging the nation
once more into an expensive, a perilous, and a
sanguinary contest, under the pretext of advancing
the cause of liberty and civilisation, but in reality
with a view to serve the interests of despotism
and retrogression.

Europe, meanwhile, presents to the view in
various quarters a gigantic conspiracy by way
of simultaneous preparation. Notwithstanding
that tranquillity has been again restored to the
majority of the races of Christendom, there are
visible here and there warning tokens that that
tranquillity, if interrupted forcibly by England,
may be the signal for a wide-spread convulsion,
such as even in our days shall have been altogether
unparalleled. Montenegro at war with Turkey,
has, moreover, precisely at this period, called
in the aid of the Austrian soldiers, under the
command of the Ban of Croatia, the renowned
and formidable JELLACHICH. Austria, mean-
while, though at heart the slave of the Russian
Autocrat, is lording it as haughtily as ever upon
those fair fields of Lombardy, where the volcanic
flame of insurrection has again flashed out from
the city of Milan, to the sound, if /hot at the
signal, of the oratorical thunders of the exiled
KOSSUTH. Switzerland, it is true, is no longer
ravaged by internecine contentions. Schleswig and
Holstein are no longer pitted against each other
in the name of the Danish Sovereign and of the
Germanic Confederation. Spain, relieved of
NARVAR; is no more threatened by per-
petual interruptions to the deliberative labours
of her Representative Legislature. Portugal,
rid at last of CABRAL, can find at least temporary
consolation from the councils of other patriotic
statesmen besides SALDANHA. There is a lull in
the lonian Islands. There is a momentary
cessation of intrigue at the Court of OTHo.
Naples is no longer frightened into quietude
by the lion - eyes and glittering blades of
the lazzaroni. Prussia, allowed for a while
to escape from the difficulty of the great
problem of national development, is coquetting al-
ternately with the Imperial Councils at Paris and
at Petersburg. Algeria has become in a manner
permanently tranquillised by the unconditional
submission of ABD-EL-KADER to his magnanimous
liberator—now that they have respectively " set-
tled down," the Emir at Broussa, and the Emperor
at the Tuileries. Egypt, again, is calmly extend-
ing the internal resources of her system of exotic
manufactures. Russia is stagnating in that stupen-
dous servitude which requires a standing army of
nearly 1, 000, 000 disciplined soldiers for its continu-
ance. Leaving Europe for a moment, and turning
our gaze towards the Western Hemisphere, we find
ae the present juncture the American Republic
restricting its warlike energies to the carrying out
of the American Japanese expedition ; while,
southwards, Mexico is overawed, and, north-
wards, Canada is cajoled into tranquillity. Eng-
land all the while finds her conquering arms called
again into action merely in two parts of her
enormous and scattered dominions, in Africa and
in Asia, against the Kafirs and against the Bur-
mese. At this critical interval it is that our
Ministers appear prepared to interrupt the per-
vading prosperity by fomenting the angry passions
lulled by thirty-eight years of peace into some-
thing like rational reconciliation. At this junc-
ture we hear two of the leading Members of the
Cabinet swelling the war-cry by abuse directed
against a neighbouring and friendly Govern-
ment. It is thus that 1853 is becoming
rapidly the counterpart of 1793—that our popu-
lation is being hurried into a blind hostility
against a race that should be regarded by us
rather with remorse than with hatred—a people
to whom we should proffer not angry words and
evil deeds, but an honourable and repentant repa-
ration. Formerly, in 1793, the alternative we
have already particularised was submitted to
themselves, as we have said, by the aristocratic
monopolists of power in England. Nowadays,
in 1853, in a more enlightened age, and a more
instructed generation, the alternative cannot be
thus comfortably decided upon—it must be drawn
from the obscurity of Ministerial Councils—it
must be an alternative to be decided between the
people and the Government.

The last remnant of Protection has expired, or
rather, like patients of whose recovery there was
no longer a hope, has been mercifully put out of
pain by its friends and well-wishers ! S tart not,
gentle reader—the deplorable fact is but too true.
The National Association for the Protection of
British Industry is no longer in existence, and
the fatal blow that consigned it to the tomb of
" all the CAPULETS," was inflicted by the parri-
cidal hands of Mr. G. F. YOUNG, its favourite
child, aided and abetted not only by his Grace of
RICHMOND, but also by, the consistent BALL, the
valorous CHOWLER, and the energetic ELLM AN.
One solitary voice was raised on behalf of the un-
happy victim—which had long exhibited but very
slight symptoms of vitality, barely sufficient to
avert a premature interment ; but even the re-
doubted IVENS, like Serjeant LENS, in the cele-
brated case in Term Reports, moved " very faintly,
and as if with no hope of success." The single
negative, or rather protest, however, effected no
diversion in favour of the afflicted sufferer. The fell
resolution was carried into execution, and " The Na-
tional Association for the Protection of British In-
dustry" no longer cumbereth the earth—nay, more,
and that was " the unkindest cut of all," the re-
solution for its immediate dissolution declared that
" the continuance of the Association would be in-
consistent with its character" (! ! I)—at the same
time announcing the termination of "the con-
test ;" a conclusion in which we suppose the 53
impracticables will fully concur, and that we may
accept the pledge thus given for future peace and
tranquillity on the subject of the taxes on human
food.

Something, indeed, was said anent the Asso-
ciation, Phcenix-like, arising from its ashes,
and " when the fitting time arrived" (alas for
the vague and indeterminate time of action) pre-
senting the " same bold front it had heretofore
maintained 1" This, however, as well as the
general professions of undying devotion to the
sacred cause of " Protection," and unflinching
confidence in the accuracy of the principles that
justified the levying a black mail on the rest of the
community, might be regarded as excuseable under
the circumstances. It was what DANIEL O'CON-
NELL was accustomed to denominate " Tallaght-
' hill talk," where persons attempted to take all the
grace from the concessions they were compelled to
make, and with excessive bombast to assure their
auditors that only for something nothing could in-
duce them to do as they were actually doing.
The leek was, however, swallowed—not a shred
or vestige was suffered to remain ; and we shall
exhibit the like indulgence for the pompous plati-
tudes, so energetically enunciated, that FLUELLEN
did to " the mighty valorous orts " of Ancient
PISTOL, while engaged in his unsavoury task.
We may be permitted to say, that if everything
was so strongly in favour of Protection, and that
its principles could be sustained by reason and
argument, the cessation of the struggle can scarcely
be accounted for. It was not by such conduct
that COBD.E.N. organised his forces under the Anti- ,

Corn-Law standard ; nor was any great reform
ever achieved by such strange apathy and excessive
pusillanimity. If the parties had such unqualified
confidence in the justice of their cause, they would
not have so hastily flung aside their " harness"
and abandoned the lists in which they had once
appeared as champions. The defection of others
would only have increased their energies and in-
duced them to make up for the desertion of the
" traitors" by additional activity on their own
part. It was, however, deemed expedient to act
differently, and it is not for those belonging to
the victorious party to question the prudence of
the course which induced the seceders to prefer an
inglorious peace to the maintenance of a hopeless
contest. And although we cannot very highly
estimate the chivalry evinced by the leaders, we
must confess that they have shown a greater de-
gree of common sense—a more valuable quality
than "chivalry" in these "piping times of peace"
—than we had given them credit for.
One remarkable feature of the proceedings was
the pertinacity with which the chief orators con-
tinued to ascribe the general prosperity, which
could not be denied, to every or any cause but the
true one. As Mr. SNODGRASS avowed that the
too apparent symptoms of inebriety arose " not
from the wine, but from the salmon," they disco-
vered sundry matters to which the mercantile and
manufacturing activity, the general employment
at remunerative prices by which every man able
and willing to labour is certain of obtaining " a
fair day's wages for a fair day's work," the dimi-
nution of the poor-rates, and other unmis-
takeable indications of the national 'wel-
fare might be attributed, and it is but simple
justice to say that great ingenuity was evinced by
the parties. The Australian and Californian dis-
coveries were, of course, turned to good account.
It could not be that matters so obvious would be
lost sight of, or overlooked. A little inquiry might,
however, have satisfied the parties that, up to this
moment, more gold has left England in conse-
quence of these discoveries then has yet arrived
from the " diggins." The results of the almost
miraculous quantities of specie collected, and in
course of collection from the auriferous soil, will
arrive in due time, and England will, un-
less some untoward accident should mar her
auspicious prospects, enjoy a greater degree of
prosperity than at any period recorded in her
annals. But that time is yet to arrive, and to
neither Australia nor California can we attribute
the superabundance of specie, and the easiness of
the money market. The suggestion, however,
was plausible, and, as RICHARD CARSTONE,
would say, " answers as well as anything else
for the time." The idea, however, that the
present prosperity was owing to the revolutionary
spirit that prevailed on the Continent in 1848—
was indeed a discovery that showed the sharp-
sightedness of the worthy Alderman by whom
it was made. Had his vision been assisted by the
" ROSSE " or the " CRAIG " telescope, he could
not have seen " farther into the millstone."

The quondam. Protectionists will now, however,
become the best Free-traders. BALL demnnded
" Free Trade in everything." CHOWLER declared
that it was " the bounden duty of Parliament to
carry that principle fully and fairly into effect;"
while ELLMAN added, " Let it " (i. e. Free
Trade), "be carried out fairly, and let us have it in
its full extent." Bravo, BALL ! Proceed, most
excellent CHOWLER. Be not discouraged—oh,
energetic ELLMAN ! We shall be good friends
yet. Arrayed under the same banner, and strug-
gling for the establishment of unrestricted compe-
tition in all its integrity, we tender our hearty
support to the new agitation, and are delighted to
witness the enlistment of such promising recruits.
Meanwhile peace to the manes of the deceased,
requiescat in pace. May no sacrilegious hand dis-
turb its ashes.

It has departed gracefully, " vanishing" like
the Cock-lane Ghost, "with an oderiferous twang,"
in the shape of a number of laudatory resolutions
in which everybody moved votes of thanks
couched in the most eulogistic terms to every
body else for incessant and valuable exertions in
favour of the cause, whose obsequies were in
course of celebration, and accepted on their own
account the praise so freely and lavishly bestowed.

North Lincolnshire, Halifax, and Manchester
have favoured us with a little whet for the grand
feast of debates on which we are now entering.
We must own that they impress upon us the con-
viction that our surmises of late have been cor-
rect, that as little as possible will be done this
session, that our strong Cabinet is to drive a
vigorous trade in good intentions, promises, and
dilatory expedients, and that everything depends
on the vigilance and determination of Reformers.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER, indeed, meeting the farmers
at the ordinary at Lincoln, with his colleague,
Mr. STANHOPE, appeared to have very serious
fears for the Conservatism of the Government—
his dread was, not that the Liberals and Radicals
would be Torified at all, but that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and Sir W. MOLESWORTH had converted
tees that
p ered our
people,fears
Lord ABERDEEN. We must confess
are all the other way. Goocod-
certainly, aro the Lincolnshire farmers. The
Athenians used to cut off their generals' heads if
they lost a battle, the Roman Senate to thank a
defeated Consul for not despairing of the Republic;
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and beneficial " epithets, when all contest about
anything but epithets was perfectly useless. It
would seem from the report of the meeting as if
the farmers were in a very cheerful mind (it was
after dinner), for they even said, " Hear, hear,"
when Mr. CHRISTOPHER descanted on the mischief
of a Government which could leave the Ballot an
open question. We doubt not, however, that the
majority of Lincolnshire farmers would still rote,
Ballot or no Ballot, for any of the " old and tried
farmers' friends."
On the subject of the Income Tax these meet-
ings give us some encouragement. Sir CHARLES
WOOD, indeed, was ominously silent about it at
Halifax. Still this may be interpreted as shame
for the past ; it would have been a most unfor-
tunate :thing to talk to Halifax manufacturers
(his colleague himself being a very large one) on
the impossibility of doing justice to trade in-
comes. Silence was discretion in regard to the
past at least, and even if Sir CHARLES does not
wish to amend for the future, his silence showed
very plainly his estimate of the opinion of his au-
dience—an opinion he cannot afford to disregard.
If, however, nothing was said at Halifax, no such
timidity was evinced at Lincoln and Manchester.
r greati
We can
may
e
begin to hope
Mr. STANHOPE laid stress on the measure of In-
come-tax equity proffered by the late Ministry,
and invited the attention of the farmers to it, as
one the merits of which they could fully appre-
ciate ; and at Manchester, Mr. BRIGHT paid a
handsome and well-deserved tribute to his politi-
cal antagonists, "for their bold deed in regard to
the Income Tax"—" for the country gentlemen of
England, themselves the owners of a vast propor-
tion of the fixed landed property of the country—
for them to come forward and support a proposi-
tion which made a distinction in the rate charged
on fixed property, and that on income derived from
trade and other precarious sources, was a step
which we ought not io lose sight of, and that we in
this district are bound to applaud." This is as it
ought to be, and when we find Lincoln and Man-
chester in harmony, and Mr. BRIGHT applauding
what *Mr. STANHOPE, the staunch Protectionist,
deemsoofficialal m well hd
ope
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gentlemen represent.
that Income-tax reform is sure. Thanks for that
without a question to the " boldness" of the
DERBY Ministry.
At Halifax, Sir C. WOOD declaimed against the
Ballot from the old story of France, as if he had
betted not 10,000/., but a hundred times that
sum, in favour of invasion. Now, we may fairly
ask the gentlemen who argue in this style which
side they will choose of the dilemma ? Either the
Ballot, which elected Louis NAPOLEON Emperor,
expressed the choice of the French people, or it
did not. If it did, is it not a breach of all inter.