The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-15 00:00:00

£25 16 8

On the other side there is to be reckoned the loss of,
the sixpence which Mr. Gladstone is so anxious to levy.
What would this amount to I We counted just now a
page of advertisements in the Manchester Guardian,
and found it to contain 98 advertisements ; or,
not quite 400 for the whole four pages. Now, we
would concede the probability that small advertisements
would increase in number proportionately, if the duty
were wholly repealed, and we will therefore suppose
that the second supplement might contain 600.
Well, the levy of sixpence on these 600 advertisements
would produce 151.
Clearly, therefore, if, by remitting the whole duty,
instead of only two-thirds of it, Mr. Gladstone can
so far encourage advertising as to force the Man-
chester Guardian and the Leeds Mercury to publish
double supplements weekly, he would lose 151. by the
surrendered advertisement duty, and gain 251. 16s. Bd.
by the supplement stamps and by the duty on paper.
It seems, therefore, quite clear that by this remission
the Exchequer would gain considerably. The only ex-
ception to be taken to this argument is that the remis-
sion might not produce the result we have supposed,
i.e., a large increase of the number of advertisements.
On this point, however, we believe that any man of ex-
perience could satisfy the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
No one who is at all acquainted with the wants of the
commercial world can entertain the least doubt that per-
fectly " free trade" in advertising would produce this
result—would lead to such an increase of business as
would oblige all the leading papers to publish double
supplements frequently.
If this view be correct— and we have no doubt that

it will bear a close scrutiny—when the Chancellor of the
Exchequer is showing great pertinacity in defending
the Treasury from Mr. Milner Gibson's attacks, when,
in truth, he would probably gain more than he would
lose by entirely conceding all that is asked of bim.

BR I risH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The preamble of this
company's bill has been declared proved in the Lords.
NEW MEXICAN TARIFF. —The synopsis published of
the New Mexican tariff, which is to go into operation,
as regards European vessels, on the Ist of October next,
seems to confirm the doubts already existing as to any
broad views on the subject being entertained by Santa
uAnna. The details, however, being loosely given, and
nib
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lingl
Sennatccompanied by any comment, it is impossible at pre-
sent form any precise view with regard to them.
TEE ESCAPE OF PATRICK OTIONOHOE.—The Free-
publishes letters from Sydney and Mel-
ber, he ese
of the Irishthe escape of Patrick O'Donohoe. one
convicts. On Sunday, the 19th of Decem-
in a storm, aPaie`ll from his district, crossed Bass's Straits
the 22d.
ton of his escape"
prelvioarrived on the Australian continent on
3f toeor
mileshis of arrival
the
h ein
the most distinguished to starting he wrote out a vindica-
d sent it by a sure hand to one of
members of the Legislative Conn-
h.A.each and indentions of Hob-
ustralia, on the 22d, he tra-
versedson's Bay, seeking
a ship bound for America.
he was received on board
eil.A
a vessel
the bound for a Span-
sage money, but the captain
went
captain 1901. pas-
For many days and nights he was, off
without
bargain.l
rest, and one day he travelled ninety-one miles streopu ori
the bush, subsisting on brackish water, withoutga
particle of food. On New Year's Day he went, dis-
guised, alongside the Great Britain, in -Robson's Bay, to
ascertain if he could get off by her. He Could not ac-
complish this, and he entered the city at night, clothed
in a sou'wester and blue shirt, tar-like, and storm-beaten.
He walked into a house which was kept by an Irishman,
where he received the tenderest welcome. Four armed
Irishman mounted guard at his door, and on the follow-
ing day he held a levee, at which it is stated the principal
1113 n of the town attended, armed for his defence. Five
hundred policemen and the Government sympathisers
are said to have known of the meeting. On the follow-
ing day he placed himself in communication with a few
trustworthy friends, and these few gentlemen had
O'Donohoe immediately removed to the country for
safety. They then entered into a subscription amongst
themselves for the purpose of chartering a small vessel
to take him to California. Three of the five gentlemen
who constituted the Committee of Safety subscribed 751.
each, and the remaining two (poor men, comparatively
speaking), subscribed 51. each, making the handsome
sum of 3251. All things having been arranged, O'Do-
nohoe was placed on board a small cutter that was osten-
sibly cleared out at the Sydney Customs for the Scull
Sea Islands, but, in reality, for San Francisco.