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

LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1853.

The battle on the Budget has, at length, com-
menced, but, through an oversight, whether alto-
gether unexpected or occurring " accidentally
on purpose," we leave it to our readers to de-
termine, hostilities have been suspended until
Thursday next. The Chairman of Committees
was the Deus Ex Machiv.ll who produced the
temporary truce—who, like the beef-eater in the
Critic, "in the Queen's name commanded all
present to drop their swords and daggers." Ac-
cording to this high authority, " the standing
order, fixing Committees of Supply for Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays, should be adhered
to, as no notice to the contrary had been
given on Friday." It iwas admitted on all
sides that Wednesday would be a very inconve-
nient day for the discussion. Notice was ac-
cordingly given of a motion to suspend the
Standing Orders, so that the debate may be re-
sumed on Thursday, until which day the vigorous
champions on either side must curb their impetu-
ous spirits—the Hon. Gentleman the Member
for the WcA Riding having the privilege of
making the first onslaught on his opponents. The
omission of the formal notice which occasioned
this unnecessary adjournment, was, to say 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 injurious
to the Government interest, we have no doubt
that he would receive it. But, inasmuch as the
delay may enable the dispenser of " -Coe loaves
and fishes " to have many satisfactory iaterviews
with sundry hungry
expectants—inasmuch, as it
will enable the fortunate individuals in the enjoy-
ment of incomes (not sinecures) of between 1001.
and 1501. per annum to peruse the lengthy epistle
which the " Financial Wizard of the North,"
with unparalleled humility addressed to one of
themselves, proving that the proposed "extension
of, the area, of taxation" was an inestimable boon
to those who -would thenceforward, for the first
time,
iththe pleasihg visits of the
tyear,
in January and
july--:Ahe mistake marturn out, after all, not so
x
collector favoured
twice
i with
r every
very injurious to the administration of "All the
Talents," and the offence may, therefore, be re-
garded as comparatively venial. Accidents
will, unquestionably, happen, but such lucky
ones are certainly of rare occurrence. The
upset of the voters from the coach of Mr.
WELLER at the very place indicated
by the kind
Gentleman, who had previously deposited
a 201.
note in his hand, was also a • •
strange coincidence ;
but, of course, it could notbe
possibly deemed in-
tentional ! No one could venture on so bold an
assertion.

The debate was, with one great exception, of a
very insipid and commonplace character. The
greet gum 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 thilness, after some
ponderous attempts at wit, endeavoured to show
that " under some circunbstances" (!) 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 of 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 lEDIPUS 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,
Theu learning is most excellent."
And on such premises arrived at the conclu-
sion that the for '6unate 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 ofall persons possessed of more than 1501.
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 Joeg"—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
mot is

" 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
SILTDORP 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 lisLened 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.

A BD-171,-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 possiOle settlement (for a time) of . the
great difficulty causing all this apprehension.
Prince lIIENseiIiKoFF is said to have declared to
-the DIVAN that in the event of the French Ell-

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 Emperor 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 repres Fntative.
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 postpone.nent 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 7

the eagle pluming itself upon its astuteness, each
seems to be nevertheless 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 we shall hope to hear
no more yet awhile of these deplorable conten-
tions which for some years past, almost uninter-
ruptedly, have disgraced so many of the believers
in Christianity.

England, unhappily, has ceased during the last

_
r three centuries to take any direct interest if:s
conservation of those sacred regions v
two thousand years ago were sanctified
the footsteps AP3thi.
of the REDEEMER.
evinced upon this subject even by the
the
scendants of the Crusaders. Millions in
t
country look with indifference upon
the
the Shrine of the Nativity is guarded bfactt
Y is a
Hovers. Scarcely any among the • inhabit° to
the United. Kingdom observe with eliwti°ll
domination of the Osmanli over the (toful
holy soil of Palestine. We are differentb ,ovt
ated than our forefathers. Ours is an age °f .tto
men, and' not of Red-Cross Knights. Ours:tcf
epoch not of the predecessors of CHAuco;„,ot
the followers of BYRON and the imitators of rty
SON. We have our attention absorbed- 1)1 to
price of corn and the fluctuations in the C,Oi
market, by the roar of the steam-engin° 311-
flash of the electric telegraph. We 1)3,;':,e0
leisure for the indulgence of mere se" -d
even though it be that supreme sentiment tio
is associated With the sublime truths eivet,
Ithilow-phy. Therefore we leave to 'l'fitt
and to Austria, and to Russia, and t'oy l
key the privilege of settling amongst try
selves the conservation of the HolY 1,30
Time was when England would in this nOteri
assumed a marvellously different attitude.
..i
acting as she does, however, she is only get
her present destinies. Were we to latnelj'aoo
the circumstance, we should expect to dil!' 00
upon our heads the withering sneers of tmDier
of Manchester. Such is by no means our ',,to
tion. We have not the heart to give utterjalldi
the lamentation. For in doing so we 101'00
be derided as dreamers, and' our regrets -,011
simply be laughed to scorn, as the mandlit';r;ft°
of a visionary. Enough for us to refer bfritlO
the startling contrast between the past 3900'
Present. Enough for us to point out the ,
cance of this great social transformation, $.Ol
leave the question at issue to the wiscieulLp
Princes of Europe, and the will of the '-
Christianity.

HENRY of EXETER again ! The Chlirdliiso
danger of salvation, and, of course, HEN11;111i0t°
representative, like the Scotchman who
the Thames, shouts out " I will be
nobody shall help me !" The Anglo-1-'IV
Church has fallen overboard in the colony'
liamentary endowments threaten to sink h jfl¢Dj
pletely ; her friends in Canada and her
in England entreat her to throw eft. ~he
weight spontaneously, and to try her 07001'.1
ming powers ; the British House of no`,
has even flung her a life-buoy, but 4010
EXETER clutches at the cord. "No, net
day six months," he exclaims, when 1c,,-0111
hear as much of the Canada Clergy Bonier,' cel,
as we shall of Mr. GLADSTONE'S IIICOra"3,1- Dm
tion at this time seven years. The 13i51 1%,P,
by proving, at length, what everybody kne,oo;,
legal right of the Imperial Legislature t° oett'i
even internal Colonial Legislation ; 11°106:
overlooked one question not worth a 1,4
consideration, whether the undoubted rim:erci?
parent over his son could be prudentlYie-oet
In the same style within a year of one-anuof
-
as when the boy was a year or two old; tVoi
Noble Lords, however, were of OPinii.j°lloo
Colonies of full growth, like sons nearlY 45
,A
age, are rather difficult subjects to le
their will. The Bishop went on to -a
*Pc
little passage-at-arms with Sir WILLIAMOOIO,:e
WORTH. The profane Baronet, who, ac ifl
to DOD, has been so prominent a persfof Cod
Bishop's jurisdiction—once High-Sheer
wall, five years its Representative, now itsdic,slo.l
Lieutenant, besides retaining a kind of r 3 tor
,
heretical Gibraltar at Pencarrow—a
ctuallY 00°
the Bishop, in his place in the House 12'r co,
6iy
(a place, too, amongst Cabinet Ministers 1
sir
pest of his Diocese!" Too bad that of itow
Nvb
LIAM ; so many in England's fares of
back the Baronet. Therein lay the stingviie
Had it been uttered elsewhere than in a Prl3
place, Sir WILLIAM would have heard of
101'
the. Bishop's solicitor. The Right 4,11,1
has, however, his privileged pirtee alS° / rm. "-_A
must own he retorted meekly; he i„,..1.7,1" ;br
Sir WILLIAM'S legal knowledge. Sir WILTJA,,
asserted "that the law abhors a perpetnitYL„
in our ignovonce, might have quoted the P-a"-that tha
proverb. The Bishop, however, affirms 11'
parson and the KING are both perpetuities•e scil°
present parson of the parish, and the oeo $5113,,e
lived seven centuries ago, are one and tb
person." We are very sorry to own that 0
but too true. So far as HENRY of Hung ill
power in his Diocese it is strictly true• se til•
old maids are easier to get for that purr9oo
bachelors for monks), oratories, eonfes'il go
altar candles, and priestly mummeries of a'ottli
find their patron flesh-and-blood saint in the ego
ri
Bishop. Is not a Bishop the same Per3°livoe,
It is astonishing how strong is the familyj3isn,
of Bishops in all ages. We certainly thinka ,told
as well as parsons must be perpetuities,
have equally availed to demonstrate the le,
ranee of Sir WILLIAM. Very effective, I 2.11
ce
own, at all events, was the attack, thr°eir'sroe,
WILLIAM MOLESWORTH on the C°lls
Members of the Cabinet. " Sir W1L10,10,%1
WORTH went on to assert that he was a 'icple
"Lord ABERDEEN had described the Prip „reiso;
the new Cabinet to be Conservative Pr7l
" therefore Conservative progress and 1330";
are identical." Why, it was all but a sYfi forti
Unfortunately for us Liberals, the Bislic'nrt,,
that one in thirteen is only 7or per ce-01116
that, certainly, is about the utmost nri'regto
Radicalism which we expect from the.,;iolii
Cabinet. His Lordship still clings tenaci.-.1
the charge of sacrilege. "To take anYtitt l3;r1,
the service of GOD, and apply it to se°llooo,4
poses is sacrilege, a sin not only awfully dtsfro
but awfully punished." The question, atef
just now is, whether the Bishop and
Canadalt
/0.
persist in giving the land-money of Cann vig',l
be to GOD'S service), but first and chieflY to' 9'
Canadian parsons, whom the Canadial3°,,A
appear to hold for Divine beings. The 'cidge,.a,
consider themselves quite competent t°,J.TY"
what is sacrilege without the Bishop of 9"
o<e6
help. 1,01 the
The important feature of the. debate, 0 jot so
was Lord DErnv's inducing the Bishop t of e
Bill go into Committee Upon the stren
amendment which he intended to prePei:c ty
amendment was to secure as inviolab-
to
land or money now appropriated b tve •
Churches, and not merely to sustain/ es,
does, the claims of the present benefielareo g'
Lordship considers whatever has thus bc,i to l/o
to the Churches of England. and Scotiall'estateool4
sacredly private property as any of tll° lc° of
their Lordships. To maintain this right view cf
even hazard, if necessary, the dismember
the Empire. He maintained that it stab thathot'
local merely but of imperial importance, °l?
colony should not be permitted to deal " for fob
ever property had been vested in trustelot Plo
cal purposes—an amendment which was
rejected, even in the House of Left"
majority of 40.
bis
We must differ entirely from A boor e
ship. Ist. We cannot comprehen'
can 1),0,10
property created for public purposes odivl" ,03
sacred as private property. • All the lopertY!t
who have been beneficiares of such Prio'teniell
acknowledge to have acquired a life cot Iva ill
their share of it ; but if the Parliaiwc be'lle"tba
deemed such an appropriation a pe%-ti
one generation, deems it an evil in ',..,.1i05ee,t1,00
very foundation of the former Amt of rO4l if
the suppf sed public benefit—is gonew/.ith Aro
Act be not repealed, like a house the
foundation, it must tumble abonu its
the inmates. It will bury those 111
whom it was intended to benefit' co a $L•00
Lord DERBY acknowledges, it has be
Pee'-
so
of continual attack on one side and Voss' od
on the other for the last thirty Yelus. a or 1'1(7(0
a property can be as sacred as thc 1 r thotle,h
e eve
of their Lordships, whose title no onbi to,
e. . lio P
of calling in question, is inconceirt,l
is, that no money whatever applied,:,y. 1-I`o,llll
poses, not even charitable ,bequests'
°llt, 000
free from the jurisdiction cfr'r
less any foUndation created bY 'Far

41
GOD
3

T~TlNl11;

atliaMent compensates individuals only, not
Corporations. It jealously preserves to indivi-
duals the rights of private property ; of public
property it constitutes itself sole judge whether it
ought to be continued in its present form or not.
But thirdly, an 1 chiefly, -11 e think the support
of religion in a colony the most internal
and local of any of its concerns, and deem
it a serious insult to the colony to speak of
its Legislature as more sacrilegiously inclined,
more disposed to be wanton with the rights of the
Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches than the
English LegislatUre. Canadians will not submit
to be taught justice by us. They think they
know right from wrong, equity from spoliation, as
well as We do. They are out of leading-strings,
and will not re-fasten them on themselves. It is
most certain that Canada will persist in her de-
mand to the uttermost farthing. It will become
with her a point of honour, and justly so. She
will maintain that all endowments on her soil
are as much hers to deal with, as ours in
Britain are under the control of the British Par-
liament. She alone can best judge of their evil
or good working there, just as we can of ours here.
In a word, the alternative is the undignified yield-
ing of a High-Church faction in the House of
Lords, or the separation of Canada. Lord DERBY
is prepared for this ! He cannot, we trust, be
serious. Of course in a few years Canada separated
from its would be a Member of the Great Slave
RePublio.--would come under the Fugitive Slave
Law ; her present loyalty to our Crown would be
changed to a Republican and religious animosity--
the Worst animosity of all. Episcopacy, the cause
of the quarrel, would be utterly prostrated. Our
west India Islands would quickly follow, with all
°lir North American possessions, and what will
80011 be a colony almost rivalling the mother
country will be an irritated as well as an alienated
Possesion for a whole generation. If England
Watchfully abstain in future from everything not .
absolutely necessary to the Imperial connexion,
that connexion will grow up into a most cordial
and loyal federation, by which England and its
nfigpring may become the most powerful and
mutually beneficial Union on the face of the globe.
May no peddlings of faction blight this happy
future!