The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Arum 25,

Will be performed MASKS AND FACES ; or, Before and Behind
the Ctutain —by NieSbra. B Webster, L. Murray, Honey, P. Bedfozd,
and 0. Smith ; Mesdames Celeste, Woolgat, !cc.
.After which, A DtsPERATE GAME.
To be fullowed by THE PEET FY GIRLS OF STILSBERG.
To conclude with THE DANCING SCOTCH HAN.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
First Night of Macbeth.

THIS EVENING, APRIL 25,

!Pill be performed FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY
Characters by Messrs. 11. Farren and Morgan ; Mesolames Ander-
ton, Turner, and Bartlett.

After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. Supported by Mr. Farren
and Mrs. Phillips.
To be followed by (first time) MACBETH. Supported by Mr. F.
R,bson and Mrs. Phillips.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS, in which will be
danced Pop Goes the Weasel.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Continued and brilliant success of the New Spectacle.. F rst Night
of an entirely new Drama.
THIS EVENING, Apau. 25,
And daring the week, the performances will commence with the
increasingly popular spectacle of AMAKOSA; or, Scenes of Kafir
Warfare; with all its new and beautiful scenic. intresting dramatic,
and astonishing Equestrian effects. The purging Wood, the Leap
through Fire, and the terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed over the
Falls of the Umtata, nightly received with enthusiastic approbation.
To be followed by a novel and incomparable display of Equestrian
Achievements in the ticenes of the ARENA, supported by the most
accomplished Artistes of the day.
To conclude with a new Cemic Drama, entitled IN FOR A EIG ;
or, Life at the Diggings.
Bat-onice open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr.
W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DST —Morning 49 min. after 2 I Evening 11 min.aft. 3
To- Mormovf—Morning 32 Mill. after 3 Evening 54 min.aft. 3

THE WEATHER.—Strs OFFICE, APRIL 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
52 this day at noon.
BAROMETER, up to 29'94, now 29'88—yesterday it rose
half an inch.
WIND, S.W.—Smart breeze, and dirty, rainy weather.
Afternoon, fine.

APRIL 25.
50— highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.35—a fall of more than half 'tin lite.
since yesterday.
WIND, N.W. to N.N.W.--Stormy weather, with snow,
sleet, and rain.

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1853.

The real contest on the Budget will commence
this evening. Hitherto it has heen confined to
the sharpshooters and skirmishers of the "Fourth
Estate." But it will no longer be an affair of
outposts—the legislative corps on either side will
at length be compelled to take an active part in
the engagement, and the fate of the conflict, and
with it of the ABERDEEN-RITSSELL-MOLESWORTH Ad-
ministration, will depend on the result of the first
trial of strength between the belligerents, on the
division respecting the renewal of the Property
and Income Tax without change or modification,
and that not for three years, but for seven years
more. That there are good points in the Budget,
we freely and willingly admit, and for these
we are disposed to give every reasonable de-
gree of credit. But it is not because we
approve of the extension of the Probate and
Legacy Duties to real estate that we are
bound to sanction the monstrous iniquity—the
infamous injustice perpetrated on the industrious
classes, or to give an assent to its perpetuation—
for a renewal for seven years is to all intents and
purposes equivalent to a perpetuity. It is im-
possible for Mr. GLADSTONE to give any valid or
binding pledge as to what the Legislature
will do in 1860. The ' then Representatives
of the people may entertain fiscal opinions
of a very different character from those which he
now professes. They may not be so very willing
to sacrifice the rights of industry on the altar of
property, or to maintain a number of vexatious
imposts, in order that accumulated and realised
property, should be exempted from contributing
anything towards the liquidation of the National
liabilities or the maintenance of the National
Establishments. Many circumstances may arise
to render the redemption of the promise impos-
sible or inexpedient. The only points for con-
sideration, then, will whether the tax
should be at all renewed in its present form, at
least until some bona fide attempt had been made
to remove some of its glaring inequalities, and to
afford something like an approximation to justice.
2d. Whether the term for which it has been
demanded should not be limited to two, or, at
the outside, three years, so that the popular branch
of the Legislature should be enabled to exercise
its legitimate control over the fiscal and financial
policy of the nation.

On the first of these points, it would be a work
of supererogation to repeat the arguments which we
have so repeatedly, almost incessantly, put for-
ward, showing the very important differences be-
tween precarious and permanent incaif6s. Mr.
GLADSTONE is, or at least professes himself to be,
unable to recognise the distinction ; but we ven-
ture to assert that no other person of ordinary
ability who has been instructed in the primary
rules of COCKER could feel any difficulty on the
subject. As we announced on Saturday, " The
Times even vet observes, it is clear to every one else
what are precarious incomes, and what are not."
Now, Mr. D_lsriBttA.ELdt.
.recognised the distinction; and
had the
ofti
tvision been taken on that
portion
very
different
Budget,
of
from what it has
been, and
making a financial
statement might norntayhaovreeasdevolved upon Mr..
and o
jnoably
GLADSTONE. We
RUSSELL. dis-
even Lords ABERDEEN suppose
the
kinds
corned a distinction between th
suppose that
of income. We cannot fora moment sup?
these Noble Lords endeavoured to obtain ini dul
gence under false pretences, or that their
speeciesto-
which such frequent allusions have been
made were
delivered without any real intention of proposing
an equitable, or comparatively equitable, arrange_
meat of the vexed question. No, they gave their
own impressions at the time, but unfortunately
they have suffered themselves to be overruled by
the crotchets of GLADSTONE and WOOD (there is,
perhaps, not a third member of the Cabinet
who would abide, with such perverse ob-
stinacy, by the untenable proposition), and have,
therefore, shown themselves to be totally unfitted
for the stations they respectively occupy.
The notion that, because the number of those
who earn entirely industrial incomes are compara-

tively limited, that their contributions amount to
only one twenty-second part of the entire
proceeds of the tax, that the injustice may
e continued with impunity, is too ridiculous
to require contradiction. Nothing can sanctify
an injustice, and if the amount realised be so
small, it surely can bo the more easily
dealt with, or even abolished' altogether,
so as to permit industry to escape uninjured
from the nets of the Tax Collectors. That, how-
ever, is a principle which Mr. GLAnsTom—the
champion of the moneyocracy—will never con-
cede until reduced to the last extremity.
On the second point, as to the duration of the
Tax, we cannot perceive any valid grounds for
its extension beyond the terms hitherto granted.
It is not at a time when the people are demand-
ing a reduction of the duration of Par-
liament from seven to three 'years, in order that
the electors might exercise a more salutary
control over their representatives, that we should
extend the duration of the tax from three to seven
years, in order to increase the term of Ministerial
irresponsibility; or lessen the influence of the inde-
pendent Members. Mr. GLAnsToNE'sproject for the
cessation of the tax is practically nothing more
than an ingenious device to get it renewed for a
longer term, but we should scarcely think
that he could catch many votes on such a
very transparent and shallow artifice ; for
as he can give no security for the redemption
of his undertaking, we arelustified in considering
it as a very shallow artifice. If he could do so, we
should regard it as the greatest misfortune that
could happen to the nation.

Nearly three year-ago there appeared a most
remarkable article in the pages of the Westminster.,
Its authorship was attributed, with what reason
it would be difficult to decide, to one of the most
eminent writers of the present generation. It
referred to a subject so painful, so disastrous, so
vile, so odious, and degrading that but few men
have ever found courage to drag it into publicity
and bring it deliberately under national considera-
tion. Few ? Why, in the whole of France and
England put together there have been scarcely
more than four statists who have ventured boldly
upon its analysis. But, happily for the world,
those four men were men of heart and industry—
philosophers, in their way, and philanthropists.
There was JAMBS BEARD TALBOT,* with his ap-
palling narrative of the monster-evil, and its de-
plorable consequences. There was Dr. RYAN,t
with his mournful account of its progress in our
own metropolis. There was that brave-hearted
physician of Paris,* PARENT-DUCHATELET, with
those two dreadful volumes compiled by humane
researches extending over eight years devoted en-
tirely to the work of investigation. Lastly, there
was HENRY MAYHEW, § with his startling reve-
lations of the state of the poor in London, first
published through the columns of the Morning
Chronicle. The question has been whispered
about, once or twice, within the walls of Parlia-
ment. Yet, even there, even in that House of
Lords, where evidence is occasionally heard of
the most revolting character, in dubious cases of
imputed depravity—even there the question of
which we have spoken has been hushed up when
mentioned, as altogether too loathsome for even._
ameliorative or corrective examination. "Of all
the social problems which philosophy has to deal
with," says the writer of the remarkable paper
already alluded to, 11 " this is, we believe, the
darkest, the knottiest, and the saddest." Nay, as
we find observed almost immediately afterwards,
" Statesmen see the mighty evil lying on themain
pathway of the world, and with a groan of pity and
despair 'pass by on the other side.' " It is a leprous
blot upon the frame of society, which our rulers
have shrunk from touching, with a view to the
diminution of its virulence, for it is vain to dream
of its total eradication. Every one has, there-
fore, refrained from dealing with the question at
all—restrained from so doing by the terrible nature
of the truths which would have to be particular-
ised. Fortunately, the anonymous reviewer in
the Westminster had more daring than the rest of
the community, even than the mass of our publicists
and philosophers. To the high moral courage dis-
played in this matter by a nature of evidently
noble and beautiful benevolence, the nation is in-
debted for a treatise, as dreadful in its details as
it is purifying and elevating in its tendency. The
moral ulcer requiring to be healed, though in
every way loathsome and revolting, has not die-
mayei the heart of this philanthropist. The tale
he has to tell is terrible, no doubt ; but, through
all its aggregated horror, its influence is strangely
humanising.

Under its present title, the essay, reprinted
from the Westminster, is significantly presented
to the public as " The Great Sin of Great Cities."
Upon the occasion of its original appearance as a
contribution to that periodical, it was simply and
boldly designated by the one word—" Prostitu-
tion." Our purpose in referring to the present
reprint, is merely that of directing to it, most
earnestly, the attention of the more humane and
intelligent members of the population. It con-
veys in every sentence a moral that it were well
for the credit of humanity if cur Legislators
ultimately took into consideration. It re-
counts the miseries of those 50,000 wretched
victims of the infamous system of prostitution.
It inveighs against the cruelty of that popular in-
difference upon the subject which abandons so
many unfortunates to their evil fate without one
effort for their redemption or reclamation. It
were needless, at this moment, to enter more at
large into the painful analysis of the evil by this
uncompromising and undaunted reviewer—bravo
and gentle in his benevolence for here,
within the compass of a pamphlet, the
whole question is laid bare to the public gaze—
so that " all who run may read "—so that the
most squeamish amongst us cannot plead ignorance
in regard to the existence of this dread and
damning abomination.

* " Miseries of Prostitution." By James Beard Tal-
bot. London.
1 "Prostitution in London." By Dr. Ryan. London.
* "De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris." 2 tomes.
Par Parent-Duchatelet. Paris.
§ " Letters in the Morning Chronicle—Metropolitan
Poor." By Henry Mayhew. London.
II " The Great Sin of Great Cities. Being a reprint,
by Request, of an article entitled Prostitution.' From
the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review for July,
1850." Bvo., pp. 52. Chapman. London, 1853.

ARRANGEMENTS OP THE COURT.—We understand that
her Majesty, who is progressing most satisfactorily to-
wards perfect recovery, and who is expected to be able
to take a carriage airing in a day or two, will, with
Prince Albert and the Royal Family, prolong their so-
journ in the Isle of Wight, for which place the departure
of the Court continues fixed for Saturday next, until the
1 third week in May, and the Royal natal day will, it is
probable, be passed in comparative privacy; at the
Queen's marine residence. The Xing of Yianover, it is
understood, will stand sponsor in pe:son to the infant
Prince, who will receive the name of George, after the
last monarch of that name, Geo;
the King of Hanover. His 7% ge the Fourth, and of
11. o y a 1 Highness the Prince
of Prussia, one of the ir..:
.curate personal friends of the
-e-otsdam, and the Princess, have
Queen, who is now at
illustrious foreigners, to be
wpitk. other
pbreeesnenitnviattetdh,e
--..0yal christening, which will take: place
in the iniddle. of. June. The Court season, which will
commence about the Ist of June, th.ugh short, is ex-
pected to be brilliant.
RO.fAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tkanen have undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 22nd inst. :
Messrs. Thomas Forder, Winchester ; Edward William
Alexander, St. Helena ; William Cuthbert Blackett,
Durham; Thomas Henry Moxon, Brigg, Lincolnshire ;
Thomas Dixon, Bedford • Joseph Arthur, Shadwell ;
Samuel Joseph Bayfield, St. 'Thomas-street, Southwark ;
Edward Sword Morley, Blackburn, Lancashire • Jose
Maria de Mier, Santa Martha, New Grenada ; William
Edward Hedge Vaughan, Crewe, Cheshire ; and James
Tirlden Howard, Rochdale, Lancashire.
POETRY AND LITERATURE.
Edinburgh, author of the "Lays Profeessor Aytoun of
of th Scottish Cava-
liers," intends delivering in London, early in May, the
course of lectures on poetry and dramatic literature which
cLomTopleTt:Ed tTie Edinburgh,r, u
h e
AhiaEsm jounsltA
KE OF WELLINGTON.—
Upwards of 80,000/. h
memorial to the late
Dave been subscribed, towards a
ellin t
will be applied to the erection`of g on. The amount
in the shape of a school or collet,eab at..onal monument
the gratuitous, or nearly gra.tuitboup "..ring his name, for
children of officers in the army, -, education of orphan
Prince Albert, will lay the fr,,andatiois Royal Highness
building so soon as the necessary 4 arcane-st° of the new
made, and there is every Probability thYar
MZeastre
the'Queen will be Pr,"eseilt at the interesting ceremonial!

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWO 0 CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 500 Ame-
rican were taken for export. The market closed
heavily with a large supply of cotton offering. The
sales include 500 Egyptian, sfd. to 7d. ; 700 Surat,
3id. to 41d., and the remainder nearly all Ameri-
can. Railway Shares were steady and firm.
The Corn trade is steady to-day at last week's
prices.

The overland mail has been telegraphed, and the
next arrival there will probably be dates of the
middle or end of February from Australia, as the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's vessel, Shanghai, was to leave Sydney about
that time. Several vessels which left in January,
and are still due, had considerable sums in gold on
board. The Calcutta dates are March 19. The
exchange on London was at 2i. Trade at Bombay
was dull and money plentiful. The news from
China is very serious, and the insurgents are
stated to have taken Nankin.

The steamer Niagara brings information of an
easier money market at New York, and trade was in
a satisfactory state, being very active. Breadstuffs
were in demand, and there was a fair inquiry for
cotton. In freights there was no alteration.
Exchange 1091
The Lisbon mail brings accounts of the Ministry
being in a weak position. The exchange in London
was at 543/4. The discount on Lisbon Bank notes
was 2i.
The Honourable East India Company drew bills
from the Bth inst. to Saturday last, to the amount
of 57,8351. on the three Presidencies.
The funds are very firmly supported this morn-
ing, but with scarcely any dealings for time, as the
jobbers are anxious to await the further proceed-
ings in reference to the Budget. Money purchases
continue, and Consols have been done at 1001
for Transfer, and 1001 5 for Account. The New 31-
per Cents. have been marked 1031 to and the 3
per Cents. 100 to 5. Bank Stock has been steady
at 2263/4, and India Stock at 262. Exchequer Bills
of June are 4s. premium.
Mr. Weisweiller has sent a reclamation to the
present Finance Minister of Spain, Senor Bermudez
de Castro, on behalf of the Certificate holders.
Senor Bermudez de Castro, was formerly an ad-
vocate for the just rights of the. Coupon holders,
and, therefore, it is to be hoped, as Minister, he
will carry out his expressed opinions. Mr. Weis-
weiller will forward the Minister's answer as soon
as received.

In the Foreign Market, the feature is a further
sudden rise in Greek bonds, the " Red " being
preferred and as much as 10 and 11 have been
paid for them. Brazilian old bonds are worth
1001, Peruvian Deferred keep firm at 68, Equador
are steady at 61, and Mexican at 27i . Spanish
Certificates are supported at 6i to 7i. Portuguese
4 per Cents. are worth 40. Russian p per Cent.
bonds have been marked 120 to f.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :

Place.

Company. Date.
Dieppe and Fecamp April 29, Paris.
Grand Junction of France April 30, Paris.
Great Indian Peninsula April 27, 3, New Broad-s'
London and North-Western April 30, Euston Station.
Lyons and Mediterranean April 30, Paris.
Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire June 8, Manchester.
North of France April 30, Paris.
Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg May 4, Paris.
Paris and Ronen May 3, Paris.
Paris and Strasbourg April 28, Paris.
Sambre and Meuse April 30, Jardines.
Southern of France April 30, Paris.
South Yorkshire May 12, London Tavern.

The following note, dated the, 19th inst., has
been received from the Secretary of the Norfolk
Railway Company :
" I beg to acquaint you, for the information of the
Stock Exchange, that on the 25th inst., the following
shares of this company will be converted into stocks, bear-
ing the same rates or interest as the shares now bear,
viz, :

" The 5/. per cent. extension shares will be converted
into a Consolidated Si. per Cent. Extension Stock, 1846.
The '5l. 10s. per Cent. Preference Shares into a Con-
solidated Si. 10a. per Cent. Preference Stock,lB47.
"The 51. per Cent. Waveney Valley Shares into a
Consolidated 51. per Cent Waveney Valley Extension
Stock, 1847, and—

"The Shares of the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour
Company will also, on the same day be converted into
stocks bearing the same rate of interest, viz. :
" The 4 per Cent. Shares will be converted into a
Consolidated 41. per Cent. Stock, and the 6 per Cent.
Shares into a Consolidated:6l. per Cent. Stock.
Notice has been given (under date the 16th inst.)
to those English shareholders who have not yet
claimed the returns payable both on account of the
deposit and call upon the Deadre Valley shares,
and which have been payable since the month of
June, 1852, pursuant to former advertisements,
that they are requested to do so forthwith, as the
liquidators are desirous of making a further and
final distribution of the fund, and closing the ac-
counts of the company.
The Railway Share Market has been without
any alteration of moment, and with but little do-
ing.. French shares are steady.

'The Joint Stock Bank Shares are quiet, the
Land Companies' rather heavy, and the Gold Mines
firmer, especially the Agua Fria. The N ova
Scotia Copper have been as low as prem.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY,
( From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitios lOO -A
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities • 1034 4
India Stock 262
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills lid. June. March.
£lOOO.
£5OO
Small ..

48 7

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto for the Account lOO4
Ditto Small
Equador Bonds
Greek Bonds, Reduced ‘
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 4] per Cent lO4l
Spanish Bonds 3 per Cent - 48 8
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.. 24 3a•
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 7i 6i p a

Consols....
Ditto May kcconat

HALF-PAST TWO.
POI

MUSEUM OP PATENTED INVENTIONS.—A numerously
and influentially signed memorial has recently been
addressed from Manchester to the Board of Trade, pray-
ing the Government to give every facility in their power
towards furthering that portion of the surplus scheme
of the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851,
which relates to the establishment of a Museum of In-
ventions. The Board of Trade has informed the me-
morialists that it has forwarded the above memorial,
together with a similar one from the Bradford Chamber
of Commerce, to the Commissioners of Patents (within
whose province the subject more especially rest), accom-
panied by an expression of its sympathy with the object'
prayed for. Memorials to the same effect have been
addressed by the above towns and other to her Majesty's
Commissioners for the Exhibition.
THE BUDGET.—The principal feature of Mr. Glad-
stone's budget is its injustice to the landed interest. All
property in land is to be subject to a heavy tax when-
ever a death occurs, and the malt tax is not to be
touched. The injustice of the income tax in assessing
incomes from fixed and fluctuating sources at the same
rat% is to be continued, and the Times is bribed to silence
by a huge gift of 40,0001. a-year in the repeal of the
stamp on its supplements. The budget throughout is
crowded with injustice, as we shall show at length in
our next. It is the general belief that the budget and
the Ministry will fall together, if ministers have staked
their fate; upon it : it never can be accepted by the House
of Commons.—Herts Guardian.

THE RIBB IN WORKMEN'S WAGES. —On Saturday
afternoon a meeting of the miners of Northumberland
was held near Bedlington, with the object of asking fur
an advance of wages, and to adopt certain resolutions to
secure a better protection of their health and lives in the
mines. There is no doubt, from the flourishing state of
the coal trade, that any reasongtble demands will be
acceded to by the masters. The joiners of Sunderland
and the tailors of Hartlepool have heal digoil Strike.
The bricklayers of South Shields struck work for an
advance last week, 81Y1
they were - -;;;) plentiful is employment, that
..,early
all immediately engaged to work in
uunderland at the advanced wages-275, per week.
DRMOCRACIr RAMPANT.—First Juvenile Politician :
" Wall, say, hOw the beittiiiyofittS is in, what do you
spose they'll do V' @econd Juvenile rolitieitm (scorn.
fully) : " Do, you fool ? Why, 'nex Cuby and Canadee
take the Givano Islands, 'nex Hingland, and bring Hal-
bertll they'll do " First Juvenile Politician •
vatand Wietory over and show 'em at Barnum's—that's
yen
r_AmmTcrats for ever g
will ? Hooray ! 'De
plug, will ritertCcin paper.