The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

REDUCTION IN GOVERNMENT
SALARIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—The situation of England at the present mo
ment, and the difficulties that exist in a commercial
point of view, demand of her Majesty's Government
the most serious and instant attention towards a

reduction in the expenditure, to meet existing evils
and to prevent the occurrence of events and disasters
similar to those which last year proved of such fatal
consequences to the Continent.
In forwarding you the annexed account of income
supposed to be received by persons holding office
under Government, I beg to make a few observations
on the same, and send you a scale of per-centage,
which I submit to your consideration for deduction,
and which the present state of the country demands
an inquiry into.
The mercantile part of the community feels it ex-
ceedingly difficult to meet the present taxation (which
to continue), without an increase in commercial pros-
perity, may be the means of causing an outbreak
similar to the late unfortunate disturbances in France,
and indeed throughout Europe ; for there are not
wanting in England those who are ready to excite
and provoke the disaffected (should there be the least
pretext) to similar acts of violence and rebellion.
I therefore propose and submit for your considera-
tion, to make a deduction from all in office under
Government, whether at home or abroad; and, in-
deed, all that are any way deriving incomes from
Government offices, either by way of per centage or
in diminution of salary, in proportion to the amount
received.
It therefore, in my opinion, behoves her Majesty's
Ministers in times like the present to give the matter
their serious and instant attention, and to strike at the
root of the evil before it be too late, and set the ex-
ample of retrenchment, and let the country see that
they (her Majesty's Ministers) are willing to make a
sacrifice equal to the community at large and propor-
tionate to the calls of the country.
Indeed the heavy taxation which the middling and
small tradesman are at present suffering under cannot
much longer be withstood; and that odious tax (on
income) is pressing with equal severity on the same
class of persons, which do not press in the same pro-
portions on the merchant or men who have sufficient
incomes out of business—the poorer class it cannot
reach ; it is therefore only the really industrious and
working man who feels it.

I truit this communication, which I send you in
good feeling, and with my best wishes for the prospe-
rity of Old England, will prove worthy your consi-
deration, if not wholly, in part ; and that we shall
shortly hear of much retrenchment in the Govern-
ment offices, that may be effected without material
injury to any one, and meeting at the same time the
wishes of the people, and without at all interfering
with the dignity of the Crown.

For all and every one holding office under her Majesty's
Government, at present salary of
£BO and under £lOO a reduction of 3 per ct. per ann.
100 If 200 „ 6 It
200
~ 300 8 ~
~
300 It 400
~ 10
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400 PI 600 12 t
600 Of SOO
/I 14 ~
800 „ 1,000
ft 16 If
1,000 PP 1,500
I/ 18 ~
1,500 „ 2,000
I/ 20 ~
~ 22 ff
2,000 „ 2,500
/I
2,500 „ 3,000 24
II
3,000 If 4,000
// 27 ~
4,000 „ 5,000 30 /I 5,000 /9
6,000 34
6,000 and' ft
all above PI 40
II
The above scale presents no impossibilities, and
would be the means of much real alleviation to the
present distress of the middle classes, wherein lies the
real struggle and dignity of the nation.
August 13, 1849. BRITANNICUS.

AN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE

DAUGHTERS OF HUNGARY.
TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Generous organ of the human mind, to thy
kind care I entrust my mite. The world may ask,
and call it vanity that hal induced the humble maiden
to depart from the strict tenor of her way, to proclaim
to the world the sufferings of her less favoured sister-
hood. But you, 0 Freedom's champion, I know will
pardon her, when she declares that the honour of her
sex, the voice of reason, the dictates of humanity,
command her to appeal to the daughters of men in
aid of the cause—that cause which the :Saviour of the
world has declared to be the most holy of holies—
the cause of the right and the just.
Daughters of Britannia! the voice of distress cries
aloud from afar. Listen, but for a moment, hark !
The cries of anguish rend the air ; they ascend even
to Heaven, and re-echo on the shores of Britain.
From whence come these cries, so unusual to our
ears? It must be the cry of the negro slave.
No, sisters, it is from the East—from the banks of
the Danube ; the land of the noble—the husbandman,
the happy shepherd ; the land that industry and the
great Creator has caused so abundantly to overflow
with milk and honey.
Why, then, these sad cries of distress ?

- -
Sisters, my heart sickens, my breast throbs, my
voice falters, the pen quivers in my hand ; but the
promptings of my inmost soul bid me proclaim, that
the laws—human, Divine, and nature's—have been
violated by the barbarous legions of the Heroes cf
the north. It is the death-shriek of the fairest
of the fair— the daughters of Hungary
sinking to the earth beneath the accursed lash of the
blood-stained knout, at the command of creatures
who call themselves the great and mighty of the
world. Sisters, it is the daughters of llungary, who
appeal to Heaven and man for vengeance.
This must be a tale! The gods forbid it ! What
mortal sin have they committed ?
Sisters, pity, it-is too true. Listen, the world
shall be their judge. The mother has given succour
to her child; the hand of the sister—that hand, none
so gentle—has administered to the wants of her dying
brother ; the new-made bride has obeyed the com-
mands of the altar and of God. There, these are
their crimes for which the aged mother, the gentle
sister, the tender wife—like our great Redeemer—
have been bound with bonds—their flesh has been
lacerated—their precious blood has been trampled in
the dust. But they have hope in their Father who
reigns in heaven.

Daughters of Britannia, your blood curdles, your
cheeks blush, your hearts are ready to burst, whilst
I proclaim the foul deeds of these monsters of the
universe. Arouse, then, ye happy nymphs of the
sea-girt isle! call on the sons of freedom, of Albion
—on our good Queen Victoria, the patroness
of mercy and humanity, whose sceptre waves with
the four winds of heaven, whose ear is ever open to
the cries of the afflicted and oppressed—call on her
to declare to those tigers of the human race, " Thus
far thou hast gone—thou shalt go no further !"
A D AUGH TER OF BRITANNIA.

THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LATE SAMUEL GIBSON,
THE NATURALIST.—III our notice of the death of this
remarkable man, we stated that, unless secured for the
Salford Borough Museum, it was probable that his
valuable collections, chiefly the fruit of his own indefa-
tigable zeal as a collector, would come to the hammer,
for the benefit of his widow and family. The catalogue
of these collections is so remarkable, that we make
a
eno
apology for calling public attention to it. Besid
good selection of works of authority on vatriuouls branches
of botany and other departments of natural
we find, among the the botanical lots, Gibsonh'isstoo),
wrn.
herbarium, containing a complete
p
seriesnt (save about 20
s ; an extremely
species) of the British flowering
valuable collection of British seeds, seed vessels, &c.,
mounted between plates of glass (in all about 1,000
'species); a very valuable collection of British ferns and
their allies (71 species, and about 700 specimens) ; a
choice collection of British mosses (346 specimens), very
neatly laid down ; another of 194 species ; a valuable
collection of lichens (204 species); and one of British
Jungermannim, &e. (75 species); a collection of British
Fuel and Algze (180 specimens); a unique collection of
dwarf British plants (426 specimens); and a choice series
of sections of British woods and plants, mounted for the
use of the microscope (about 130 species.)—Manchester
Examiner.

IMPORTANT TO SHIPOWNERS.-PLTMOUTU, AUG.
13.—Several passenger■ of the emigrant ship Colum-
bine, 1,000 tons burden, J. Cowent, master, made a
complaint to-day before the magistrates of her being
about to sail for New York without a surgeon on board.
It appeared that on the passage down Channel sickness
broke out on board, and three persons have died, and
three or four more are still ill of cholera. The passen-
gers have been turned over to her Majesty's ship Tyne,
22, in order that the Columbine may be cleansed and
fumigated. Mr. S. C. Johnson stated that he had writ-
ten to the owners for a surgeon to accompany the vessel,
but, although they ware not legally bound to provide
one, yet in this particular case he had no doubt one
would be allowed. With this understandiug the parties
left.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—A letter fl_ro,m,
burgh, dated the 31st of July, states:
lin having addressed a memorial to the LEPeror of Rus-
St.
Lady Peters-
burgh,
E :
sia, in which she stat(d that there
sailed four years ago from
was some possibility
that the expedition which
the
north-West
passage,
England, for the discovery of
under the command of her husband, Sir John Franklin,
and of which lligence had been received, had
Siberia or Nova Zembla,
been thrown onntolle:noteasts of'
ye instantly resolved to fit out an ex
his Imperial lk!
make strict search on these distant shores,
peditiou tc!
and for this purpose the Imperial Academy of Science
at St. r.tersburgb has been consulted as to the best
course it would be expedient to adopt."
6m JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—Accounts
from the Sandwich Islands, dated the 20th of May
announce that her Majesty's ships Pandora and braid
were anchored at those islands. It will be remembered
that they were, some time ago, instructed to search in
the Northern Pacific for the adventurous Polar navi-
gator, in order to render succour if such were required.
The potato crops in the vale of Duddon are more
prolific this season than for many years past, and the
disease, which was so destructive in former seasons, has,
up to the present time, nowhere made its appearance.—
Cumberland Pacquet.