The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 2G, 1 85 3.

The battle on the Budget has, at lenglbt, com-
menced, but, through an oversight, whethm)r alto-
Qether unexpected or occurring accidl• entally
on purpose," we leave it to our readers to de-
termine, hostilities have been suspended until
Thursday next. The Chairman of Coma nittees
was the Deus Ex Machina who produc ed the
temporary truce—who, like the beef-eater in the
"in the Queen's name common ded all
present to drop their swords and daggers..." Ac-
cording to this high authority, " the at; finding
order, fixing Committees of Supply for M:o.ndays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, should be a( lhered
to, as no notice to the contrary ha d been
given on Friday." It was admitted on all
sides that Wednesday would be a very i nconve-
nient day for the discussion.. Notice was ac-
cordingly given of a motion to suspe: ntl the
Standing Orders, so that the debate may' :be re-
sumed ou Thursday, until which day the lig •orous
champions on either side must curb their irr ipetu-
ous spirits—the Hon. Gentleman the /Vlf.)mber
for the West Riding having the privira ge of
making the first onslaught on his opponents.. The
omission of the formal notice which occae ioned
this unnecessary adjournment, was, to Ku the
least of it, one of a very stupid character —for
which the party responsible is deserving of ;severe
censure—and if the adjournment were injt irious
to the Government interest, we have no doubt
that he-would receive it. But, inasmuc'a. a s the
delay may enable the dispenser of " -Cif° :loaves
and fishes " to have many satisfactory int(.lr views
with sundry hungry expectants—inasmuch, as it
will enable the fortunate individuals in the e njoy-
ment of incomes (not sinecures) of beV•Teeir 100/.
and 1501. per annum to peruse the lengthy el ?Ise()
which the " Financial Wizard of the Na rth,"
with unparalleled humility addressed to one of
themselves, proving that the proposed "ext ;elusion
of the area of taxation" was an inestimabl a boon
to those who would thenceforward, for th e first
time, be favoured with the pleasing visits 0.-f the
tax collector twice in every year, in Janua ty and
July—the mistake may turn out, after all, 71..Dt so
very injurious to the administration of ".A 11 the
Talents," and the offence may, therefore, .63 re-
garded as comparatively venial. Ace :klents
will, unquestionably, happen, but such lucky
ones are certainly of rare occurrence.
The
Li
nE R
hisat 3.thean veryhand,
w a place
also
:see indicateda strange
i n
et
ihe:
upset of the voters from the coach of Mr.
WEL
Gentleman, who had previously deposited ; 201.
note
icined;
but, of course, it could not possibly be deem ed in-
tentional ! No one could venture on so beder
an
assertion.

The debate was, with one great exception,' of a
very insipid and commonplace character. The
great guns cautiously abstained from taking: any

part in the proceedings. Sir E. BULWER LYTTON
brought forward his amendment with considerable
vigour and animation. He clearly and forcibly
pointed out the injustice and impolicy of the tax,
adducing the most conclusive arguments against
its renewal without some mitigation in the ine-
qualities of the assessment, and was rewarded
with the attention and approbation of the
House. It was very different, however,
when Mr. EVELYN DENISON arose, when the
Hon. Gentleman, appearing almost as an in-
carnation of the genius of dulness, after some
ponderous attempts at wit, endeavoured to show
that " under some circumstances" (.9 trades stood
in a better position even than land. " Suppose,"
said he, with a smile of triumph, as if about to
give utterance to a very profound remark—" sup-
pose that either by external violence or internal
commotion the owners Qf land and those engaged
in trading should be disturbed in the possession
of their property, which would then be the more
valuable—the mete land, in which he might lose
all right, or the skill and industry which might be
inherent in him?"

He, however, as if there were no Al DIP pre-
sent to solve the doubtful problem, offered a solu-
tion in the words of the old nursery rhyme—
" When house and land are gone and spent,
Then learning is most excellent."
And on such premises arrived at the conclu-
sion that the fortunate individuals assessed under
Schedule D had cause for rejoicing rather than
complaint, that they were really and truly the
favoured persons whose happy lots -were to be
envied by the ill-treated possessors of accumulated
property—real or personal. We commend an-
other adage to Mr. DENISON'S consideration,
which may help him to a new argument for the
exemption of all persons possessed of more than 15 0/.
per annum, and casting the entire burden on the
class who, in the event of a general destruction
of the rights of property, may resort to mendi-
cancy for a livelihood. " GOD help the rich—the
poor can beg"—was the sympathetic remark
of some satirical genius of the olden time,
and it only requires an acute logician like Mr.
DENISON, to show that the lucrative profession of
mendicancy should be saddled with the entire
amount of the national burdens.

Mr. HUME made another and very pitiable ex-
hibition. He pointed out the grievous injustice of
the impost clearly and distinctly. He exhibited
the glaring impolicy of the proposition under con-
sideration in the strongest light, and then—having
denounced it in the most unequivocal terms—de-
clared his intention of voting for it ! ! He even
gave his own plan—which contrasted so strongly
with that of the Financial Minister—but still
abandoned the principle that commanded general
approbation for the other that was almost univer-
sally deprecated. He might have adopted as his
motto—

" Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor."
Never since the memorable occasion when he pro-
fessed his determination "to vote black white,"
in order to keep his protegees in office, has the
veteran Reformer appeared at so great a dis-
advantage. It was positively a relief when
SIBTHORP rose to charm the House with
his eloquence. Others followed—many anxi-
ous to give valid reasons for their intended
votes, and others to excuse the tergiversation, on
the grounds of the goodness of the other points of
the Budget. The former class were listened to
with respect, the latter with ill-disguised disgust.
It was a positive relief when Mr. COBDEN proposed
the adjournment of the debate. Something better
will, we hope, be elicited on Thursday ; something
of the nature of the grounds on which the nation is
to be saddled with the burden for seven years -more,
or the only alternative—its ignominious rejec-
tion. Consistency would seem to demand one or
the other ; but, unfortunately, that is a virtue
which we can no longer look for in public men.

ABD-UL-MEDJID may yet retard the downfal of
European Turkey, and the inevitable dismember-
ment of that portion of his dominions. A gleam
of hope has flashed within the past few hours to
Paris, by telegraphic agency, from the Council
Chambers of Constantinople. A prospect is held
out of the possible settlement (for a time) of the
great difficulty causing all this apprehension.
Prince MENSCHIKOFF is said to have declared to
the DIVAN that in the event of the French Em-
PEROR consenting to withdraw his fleet from the
Greek waters, he would be prepared, as the repre-
sentative of the AUTOCRAT, to open negotiations
relative to the Holy Places.. The intimation is
in keeping with all the previous acts of that Rus-
sian Ambassador. 'He appears to be re-
solved, to the last, to carry matters off
with a high hand, whether in his communication
with the Ottoman Porte or with the Court of the
Tuileries. Query, however, in the present in-
stance, whether his Highness is not counting
somewhat without his host in insisting so peremp-
torily on' this concession from NAPOLEON prior even
to the commencement of any negotiation ? The
Monarch who spoke the other day with such se-
verity to the Envoy from one of the neighbouring
Sovereigns, in reference to an apparently trivial
breach of good faith, or, as it might be termed,
a seemingly frivolous forgetfulness of etiquette,
cannot well be supposed to have any great apti-
tude for bending his will to the inclinations of
his " dear brother," the Fmperor NICHOLAS.
If there be any one trait in the French Em-
peror's character more marked than an-
other, it is that of unflinching and indomi-
table resolution what his enemies would call
a dogged and stubborn obstinacy. It has
carried him over scarcely calculable obstacles to
the Throne, and the Crown, and the Sceptre of
CHARLEMAGNE. It has withstood the depressing
influences of six years' captivity—of many wan-
derings—of prolonged banishment. It has sup-
ported his hopes in exile; it has strengthened his
authority in power ; it has enabled him, in fact,
to triumph over the united difficulties of faction
and conspiracy—rendering his temperament im-
pervious to the daggers of irony and the poisoned
shafts of ridicule. Aware of all this—for they are
emblazoned in the facts already engraved upon
the tablets of History—the world at large cannot
reasonably expect that at this the eleventh
hour of his career, the Third NAPOLEON
is about to do violence to his whole nature
by throwing aside one of his most remarka-
ble characteristics. It is not probable that
a Prince, who has never yielded, will become pliant
in regard to one of his most fondly-cherished as-
pirations—pliant, we mean, by consenting to their
abandonment. Therefore, we repeat; it does ap-
pear to us rather unlikely that the CZAR will be
permitted to carry matters with so high a hand
through the domineering medium of his truly
autocratic repro_ entative.

Whatever be the course pursued by the di-
plomatists in regard to the settlement of this
difficulty of the guardianship of the Holy Places,
there can now be little doubt but that it will
lead to the indefinite postponement of the ruin of
Turkey, to the procrastination of its ultimately
inevitable dismemberment. An inkling of this
certainty is being every day rendered more and
more apparent. With the display of exceeding
hauteur, there is evident on the part of the dif-
ferent Courts of Christendom the most amiable
disposition to concede,, in order to bring about
something like a satisfactory arrangement. The
bear and the eagle are, in fact, at this moment on
the horns, not of a dilemma but of the Crescent.
The bear hugging itself with great satisfaction, and
the eagle pluming itself upon its astuteness, each
seems to benevertheless wonderfully well disposed, if
not to solve the problem of squaring the circle,
at any rate to attempt the solution of one scarcely
less bewildering in its character, namely, that of
making all square with the half of the circle,
namely, that same wonderful ensign of Mahome-
tanism. Indeed, the latest intelligence received
from the Sublime Porte is encouragingly, to the
effect that affairs in that quarter are rapidly assum-
ing a very favourable aspect—a highly satisfactory
impetus having been applied to the machinery of
negotiation. Before long wo shall hope to hear

no more yet awhile of these deplorable conten-
..

;ions which for some years past, almost uninter-

ruptedly, have disgraced so many of the believers

in Christianity.

England, Unhappily, has:ceased during the last

three centuries to take any direct interest in tile
.
conservation of those sacred regions which n
two thousand years ago were sanctified"' i 5
the footsteps of the REDEEMER. ApathY de,
evinced upon this subject even by the ~;,
scendants of the Crusaders. Millions in ''''t
country look with indifference upon the fact th 3
the Shrine of the Nativity is guarded by 1:7111)ei
lievers. Scarcely any among the inhabitants of
the United Kingdom observe with emotion. the
domination of the Osmanli over the awful 9'l'
holy soil of Palestine. We are differently situ'
ated than our forefathers. Ours is an age of 13°11);
men, and not of Red-Cross Knights. Ours is tof
epoch not of the predecessors of CHAUCER, bet
the followers of BYRON and the imitators of TVaire
sox. We have our attention absorbed by tii
price of corn and the fluctuations in the oottc'ii
market, by the roar of the steam-engine and the
flash of the electric telegraph. We have no
leisure for the indulgence of mere sentiment'
l
even though it be that supreme sentiment wilic j
is associated with the sublime truths of ethic
'
philosophy. Therefore we leave to Frallee'
and to Austria, and to Russia, and to liiii:
key the privilege of settling amongst they
selves the conservation of the Holy 1-411';;
Time was when England would in this matter 113/"0
assumed a marvelously. different attitude. '
acting as she does, however, she is only fulfillil
her present destinies. Were we to lament 011
the circumstance, we should expect to draw do,
e
;
upon our heads the withering sneers of the 01
of Manchester. Such is by no means our intell
:'
tion. We have not the heart to give utterance to
if
the lamentation. For in doing so we would °I1:113
be derided as dreamers, and our regrets w°
t 5
simply be laughed to scorn, as the maudlin refire
v
of a visionary. Enough for us to refer briefly be
the startling contrast between the Past and t
Present. Enough for us to point out the signit*o
cance of this great social transformation, and,
leave the question at issue to the wisdom of wof
Princes of Europe, and the will of the GO -.
Christianity.

HENRY Of EXETER again ! The Church is
her
danger of salvation, and, of course, HENRY as 11r
0
representative, like the Scotchman who fell hied,
the Thames, shouts out " I will be drown,o
nobody shall help me !" The Anglo-Cana"h.4
Church has fallen overboard in the colony ; 11°.;
liamentary endowments threaten to sink her e°1:11;
pletely ; her friends in Canada and her frielloi
in England entreat her to throw off the f 3.,
weight spontaneously, and to try her own ati
ming powers ; the British House of Corasiceic
has even flung her a life-buoy, but HENeoiy
EXETER clutches at the cord. "No, not till n
day six months," he exclaims, when we
hear as much of the Canada Clergy Reserves A 4,
as we shall of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Income Tax ees",
tion at this time seven years. The Bishop bePiie
by proving, at length, what everybody knew--isei
legal right of the Imperial Legislature to con
even internal Colonial Legislation ; he were ,0
overlooked one question not worth a Bishlo
consideration, whether the undoubted rights e,
ed
parent over his son could be prudently exerclso
in the same style within a year of one-and-twel;e;
as when the boy was a year or two old.
Noble Lords, however, were of opinion vmd
Colonies of full growth, like sons nearly emn_.4e.
age, are rather difficult subjects to hold agu't
their will. The Bishop went on to, a ple3'o.
little passage-at-arms with Sir WILLIAM IVlct,g
WORTH. The profane Baronet, who, accerutio
to DOD, has been so prominent a person in
or
Bishop's jurisdiction—once High-Sheriff of Ceti,
wall, five years its Representative, now its DeP1:101
Lieutenant, besides retaining a kind of radial 4
heretical Gibraltar at Pencarrow—actually ter°oo
the Bishop, in his place in the House of Coulty
(a place, too, amongst Cabinet Ministers),
_ago,
pest of his Diocese!" Too bad that of Sir "iiyi
LIAM ; so many in England's far West 10 it„
back the Baronet. Therein lay the sting
Had it been uttered elsewhere than in a pi-117.1-00
place, Sir WILLIAM would have heard of it log
the Bishop's solicitor. The Right Rev.
clB'
has, however, his privileged place also ; sumekeil
must own he retorted meekly; he merely '317, bad
Sir WILLIAM'S legal knowledge. Sir WiLlO.l.ir
asserted "that the law abhors a perpetuity."
er
in our ignorance, might have quoted the same lerlie
proverb. The Bishop, however, affirms that4o
parson and the KING are both perpetuities. " 'Do
present parson of the parish, and the one e
lived' seven centuries ago, are one and the s'"•-•
•
person." We are very sorry to own that tlos 0
but too true. So far as HENRY of FACETED hot
power in his Diocese it is strictly true. Nuns ~.0
old maids are easier to get for that purpose TS.
bachelors for monks), oratories, confessio7s;
altar candles, and priestly mummeries of all se hi
find their patron flesh-and-blood saint in the I
Bishop. Is not a Bishop the same persona 'O3
It is astonishing how strong is the family liken
of Bishops in all ages. We certainly think BisileiLl
as well as parsons must be perpetuities, and l'lecroo.
have equally availed to demonstrate the legal ivot
ranee' of Sir WILLIAM. Very effective, Nve
_own, at all events, was the attack, through ife
WILLIAM MOLESWORTH on the Conservaot
Members of the Cabinet. " Sir WILLIAM M° 1"
WORTH went on to assert that he was a Rad° of
" Lord ABERDEEN had described the prineirle .
the new Cabinet to be Conservative progrelo
" therefore Conservative progress and Radiesi,o3,
are identical." Why, it was all but a syllegi s 1
Got
Unfortunately for us Liberals, the Bishop fora el
i p
that one in thirteen is only 7or 8 per cent/ of
that, certainly, is about the utmost amonnesept
Radicalism which we expect from the pri, tg
Cabinet. His Lordship still clings tenaciouskYoo
the charge of sacrilege. "To take anything frtir
the service of GOD, and apply it to secular lej,
poses is sacrilege, a sin not only awfully denouncer'
but awfully punished." The question, helfe'r to
just now is, whether the Bishop and others sr: or
persist in giving the land-money of Canada (it ;lo-
be to GOD'S service), but first and chiefly to -o'ilot
Canadian parsons, whom the Canadians 6:),.,05
appear to hold for Divine beings. The Canaell'of
consider themselves quite competent to judge
what is sacrilege without the Bishop of BO'
help.
The important feature of the debate, hew-
t• bo
was Lord DERBY'S inducing the Bishop to let
Bill go into Committee upon the strength m,OO
amendment which he intended to propose. dia
amendment was to secure as inviolable all the
land or money now appropriated t 0 bill
Churches, and not merely to sustain, as tile ffil
does, the claims of the present beneficiares. o
Lordship considers whatever has thus been gie 0
to the Churches of England and Scotland to be of
sacredly private property as any of the estate
O 0
their Lordships. To maintain this right he sc' of
even hazard, if necessary, the dismemberment of
the Empire. He maintained that it was me the
local merely but of imperial importance, that DO'
colony should not be permitted to deal with wieri..
ever property bad been vested in trustees for epjlt
cal purposes—an amendment which was last II a
rejected, even in the House of Lords, I)/

majority of 40.
We must differ entirely from his
h e 0,09
ship. Ist. We cannot comprehend 10W
property created for public purposes call atiaP
sacred as private property. All the
who have been beneficiares of such proPervl
acknowledge to have acquired a life inter° hich
their share of it ; but if the Parliament, s'fi' th iri
e
one such an appropriation a public hePet Vie
one generation, deems it an evil in the 'lei
very foundation of the termer Act of Parlialf the
the supposed public benefit--is gone, and bad
Act be not repealed, like a house with a
foundation, it must tumble about the
roio
the inmates. It will bury those in its
whom it was intended to benefit. 2clbject
Lord DEBBY acknowledges, it has been ass such
of continual attack on one side and °lit Oil
on the other for the last thirty years. 11°"„,opel
tho-e
a property can be as sacred as the land °r %cflit •
of their Lordships, whose title no one ever 10
of calling in question, is inconceivable. The 0
. or,
c
is, that no money whatever applied to pi,b blie P
poses, not even charitable bequests, can 01)1'
free from the jurisdiction of Parliament,
less any foundation created by Parlienlen

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