The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

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invadedby any_of Sir Richard Mayne's detectives. It
was-sacred Against the inquisitive intrusions of the police.
W-hiy, then, -should the unfortunate Hungarian refugee'
have his every movement watched? Why should Tie
spies of the Government always have their, eye on him ? It
is because the exiled Magyar is one of the people, and is
the object of the special dread and aversion of -the
crowned .despots .of the Continent.
Royal .conspirators may concoct their schemes as freely
and 4,s frequently, as they choose. They will not be
watched,- nor moleited, nor surprised in any way. They
can do what they please in the work of plotting with
impunity. But a Kossuth and Mazzini cannot move an
inch withouthaving a detective at their heels. Their
steps are dogged, as if they only lived to be hated and
hunted by the myrmidons of the Government.
We do not, we are sure, mistake the character or feel-
ing of our countrymen when we say, that intelligence of
the way in which Kossuth has been treated bythe British
Government will stir every true-hearted bosom in the
land to its lowest depth. There is not a man in England
whose blood will not boil within him, and whose face
will not be crimsoned with a blush, when he is made
acquainted with the transactions of Thursday. England
degraded to the character of an Austrian. spy ! Deeper
degradation it would be impossible to imagine. There
is no lower depth than that. Further in a downward
direction it would be impossible to go. The Times libels
the people of England when it says, "Whatever punish-
ment the law may inflict on such a misdemeanour, pub-
lic opinion will not only ratify the sentence, but increase
the rigour of it by general aversion and contempt." The
Times, in thus speaking of the English nation, not only
libels that nation, but grossly outrage:l.ol the better and
more generous qualities of their nature •for Jere is no
feature more noble or more marked ;,althe
racter than its sympathies with the foreigner, who, has
fled from the blood-thirsty tyrants of his own country,-
to seek an asylum on the shores of Great Britain. ,
But it is not necessary that we should undertakc the
vindication of our countrymen from the foul calumnies
of the Times. The people will reply to those caluMnies
themselves. They did so months ago in a way which
that journal will never forget, when Kossuth was syste-
matically assailed and slandered in A manner which, had
no parallel in the history of the British press. The enor-
mous fall which Then took place in the circulation of
the Times was the most effective reply which could be
given io the representations made by that journal, to
the effect that the people of England approved of the
course which the Times adopted in reference to Kossuth.
After the above had been in the hands of the printer,
we received our report of the 'proceedings in the House
of Commons last evening, It will be seen that questions
were, put to Lord Palmerston on the subject, and that
the noble lord's answers were neither dignified nor satis-
factory. He would not, on the one hand, say that Kos-
suth was to. be held responsible for the arms and am-
munition which were found in the house alluded to;
neither would he acquit the Hungarian Chief. All that
the noble lord would say was, that the matter was un-
dergoing a strict investigation. We shall wait with no
small anxiety the result of the inquiry.

THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.

(Prom the Times.)

Brevity is the soul of wit. It is also the soul of
something that partakes of the nature of wit, Mit is
rather more substantial, and that is businesi. When
men are agreed upon doing a thing, and 'know that it
will be done, they don't waste many words about it ;
indeed they are afraid of talking about it, lest they should
inadvertently raise some obstacle. On Thursday night
Mr. Milner Gibson moved three resolutions, which he
affected still to treat, as he has treated, them on many
former occasions, as very much one and the same affair.
The second and third of these resolutions were stated in
language unusually argumentative, prolix, and even
rambling. They contain references of all sorts—to
public opinion, to lawsuits, to various Parlia-
mentary proceedings •on other questions, and so
on. The language, of the first resolution stands
in noble contrast_ :--" That the advertisement duty
ought: to be repealed." Here is no redun-
dance—no needless allusion to the march of the human
mind, to the progress of civilisation, to the claims of phi-
lanthropy or the Court of Exchequer. There is even a
brusqueness in the expression, only one seemingly need-
less elongation—the word " ought"-of which more
anon. Now, why this strange difference ? Are not
advertisements quite as copious and suggestive a subject
as paper and stamps ? The truth is that advertisements
were the only piece of real business in the string of re-
solutions. They were the nucleus, and paper and stamps
the mere coma and tail of the comet. They had been
' transacted and made safe. "As men on earnest busi
ness bent,'! the speakers said little enough about them,
and lavished their eloquence on the resolutions that
were not to be carried. The business part of the
affair was also put first.- In the natural order
the topics would have come paper, advertise-
ments, , stamps ; 'the material, the contents, the
circulation. This' was the order observed last
year, when there was no business done, and no prospect
of any. The question then lay between Mr. Milner Gib-
son and Mr. Disraeli, and the amount of understanding
they had come to upon it appears from the very uniform
fate of the three resolutions. The divisions were then as
follow :—Paper 195, against 107 ; advertisements 199,
against 100 ; stamp duties 181, against 116. Stamp
duties were then first horse, advertisements the last.
The latter was beaten two to one. However, towards
the end of the year, the unjust steward found it neces-
sary to make friends with the mammon of unrighteous-
ness, and opened an account with the Financial Re-
formers on advertisement duties. They hn.ve now re-
ceived him into their league, and the result is, that in-
stead of a long, adjourned debate, followed by a majority
of two to one against the repeal of the advertisement du-
ties, the affair has been settled after rather a short de-
bate in one evening, and by a division of 200 against
169, virtually in favour of their repeal. Last year only
100 could be found to vote for the measure. There is

the same roundness of figures this year, but it is exactly
double. The only difference between the two proposi-
tions respectively beaten last year and carried this is,

that, out of -deference to a lingering hesitation in the
Protectionist contingent, the word " ought" has been
imported into the resolution.
After the very marked difference made by the house
in its decisions upon the three resolutions, we presume
it is almost superfluous to return to those rejected. That
on the advertisement duty is the only one likely to
be mentioned- again in Parliament this year. There
can be no doubt that it is a most unfair duty,, and
most unfairly assessed. The uniformity of the charge
on the advertisement of a poor scullion wanting
a place, and a nobleman wishing to sell half a
county, or a company of speculators proposing to join
two oceans and cut two continents asunder, operates
as disadvantageously for us as it does or it can do
for the advertisers. It prevents us from charging the
smaller fry of advertisers as much as we should do, and
compels us even to refuse or, what is the same thing, to
postpone indefinitely whole pages of small advertise-
ments. Whether there will be the immense increase of
advertisements expected by Mr. Milner Gibson is a mat-
ter of speculation. He and those who think with him
take their opinions from America, which they consider,
with some degree of truth perhaps, the future of Eng-
land. Yet there does appear an almost essential, in-
effaceable difference between the habits and tastes of the
two countries. There, to judge from the papers, every-
body advertises everything. Indeed, there are many
dealers that advertise every article in succession, and
cannot receive a consignment of hams, or spades, or
cravats without advertising it. However, we do not
for a moment doubt that with the duty abolished there
will be much more advertising, and if it only discourages
other more offensive forms of publicity, that will be no
inconsiderable gain.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

'Front the London New Price Current of yesterday.)

SUGAR. —To day West India sugar was purchased with
reluctance for home consumption, and the rates accepted
were in some cases rather under those of Friday last for
grocery and refining sorts. Operations amounted to 317
hhds, &c., including in auction 58 hhds and 68 brls. Bar-
badoes which sold for ord to good yellow at 34s 6d to 37s
6d, and brown at 32s to 34s per cwt. For the week pur-
chases are 1140 hhds, &c.

REFINED.—To-day the market for refined sugar pre-
sented a quiet aspect, there is a better supply with sellers
of brown lumps, at 45s to 45s 6d, and low to fine
giocery 46s to 48s per cit. Crushed sugar is not
cheaper, but exporters are not much inclined to operate.
This afternoon the quantity of Mauritius sugar offered at
auction was 5,600 bags. There was a reluctance to
operate, and a small part only sold, still prices were sus-
tained ; low to mid yellow realising 34s to 35s 6d, good to
fine 36s to 36s 6d, and refining from 34s to 36s per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal
Sugar submitted to auction was 3,600 bags, and the chief
part sold at the full currency, low to good white Benares
at 35s to 38s, fine and superior grainy yellow 39s to 41.5.
Penang low to good soft yellow at 31s 6d to 33s 6d.
Madras went at, rather lower terms, soft brown at 27s to
29. 6d, and low *to good yellow 29s to 33s 6d per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day foreign Sugar met with little notice
for shipiwing or home consumption and prices have a down-
ward tendency for all sorts. A cargo of brown Bahia was
sold afloat at 20s per cwt,
RlCE.—Holders of East India are still desirous to sell,
and demand having limited both for the home and foreign
markets ; prices are depressed.
TEA.—Few purchases have been made in low to good
common congou this week, yet rates remain at 10-4 d to
10id for sound; Other sorts are held with firmness. 'Pub-
lic sales of tea are declared for Wednesday ; at present the
quantity is 7,886 packages.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE-APRIL 15.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Lord John Russell, from
Harlingen ; Flecka, Ghent ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Sarah,
do. ; Charlotte Caroline, Malta ; Faith, Africa Witto
Cornalis Zoomdenwith, Rotterdam ; Neptunus, Emden ;
Neptune, Hamburgh ; Sertum, Guernsey; City of Bou-
logne, Boulogne.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Ocean, f6r
Hanibirgh ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Rudolph, Elsineur, &c. ;
Flecka, Ghent ; Halls, Elsineur ; Akbar, Calcutta ; Pa-
-113.111a, Hobart Town ; Land o' Cakes, Canton and Hong
lung; Monarchy, Calcutta ; Desdemona, Melbourne ;
Foyle, Jersey and Guernsey ; Walter 3/orrice, Sydney ;
Niagara, Sydney ; Indemnity, Port Adelaide ; Ontaria,
Melbourne.

CLPARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Hindoo, for
Calcutta ; Hartley, - Port Philip ; Maria, Hamburgh;
Oliver Cromwell, Calcutta ; Olaveaga, Bilboa ; Salarnan-
deren, Christiania, &c. ; Navigation, Rouen ; Britannia,
Rostock ; Fame, Calais ; Princessßoyal, Hambnrgh ;
Cdoncordia, Rotterdam ;Triton, Ostend
~ Diana, Amster- am.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
•
The Surat, Liverpool to Calcutta, Dec. 15, lat. 25,
long. 23.
The Union, London to Hobart Town, out 103 days ;
and Confucius,, Canton to London, out 24 days, lat. 13 S.,
long. 97 E. ' ' • '