The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-11 00:00:00

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WITH WHICH
THE "TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1838.

The Abstract of the Revenue, which will be found
in another part of The Sun, affords just matter of
congratulation to all who feel an interest in the pro-
sperity of their country. From this comparative view
pf the National Finances for the years 1837 and 1838,
it appears that in the latter year there is an increase
over the former of 741,0451., and that on the Quarter
ending the 10th October of the present year, there is
an increase over the corresponding quarter of last year
of 655,910/.

This aggregate increase is composed of the follow-
ing items, taken in the order in which they appear in
the tabular statement. The Quarter's increase in the
Customs is 33,155/.; in the Excise, 388,492/. ; in
the Stamps, 129,224/. ; in the Taxes, 19,953/. ;
in the Miscellaneous, 5,6751. ; in the Imprest,
22,417/., in addition to which there is the revenue de-
rived from Crov..n Lards, amounting to 65,000/. for
the half-year ending the 10th October.
The branches in which there is an increase on the
year are—Customs, 450,675/. ; Stamps, 174,922/. ;
Post-office, 45,257/. ; Crown Lands, 130,0001.; mis-
cellaneous, 146/. ; Imprest, &c., 165,718/.
The on'v branches in which there is a falling off on
the year .I'e—the Excise, 179,4501.; and Taxes,
There is also a trifling deficiency of 8,006/.
in the Post-offiee revenue for the last quarter.
We repeat that the state of the revenue as above de-
tailed is infinitely mole cheering than even the most
sanguine had any reason to anticipate, when the shock
which the commercial interests of the country lately
sustained is taken into consideration. That this im-
provement in the financial state of the country will give
any satisfaction to the factious carpers, who would
rather at any time see their country ruined than forego
their party objects, we do not suppose. Indeed we
see that the most acrimonious, though by far
the feeblest organ of the Tory Press, has already
attempted to deceive such of the public as look
into its columns, by a very disingenuous inference,
drawn from the slight falling off in the Excise on the
year. Grandmamma, in her usual tone of imbecile
peevishness, thus expresses herself on this subject :

"'There is one important fact embodied in the abstract
of the revenue just published—important, in, so far as it
illustrates the influence of Whig pr;neiples of government
on the condition of the labouring poor. There was, last
year,
a marked decline in the national income derived from
exciseable articles ; and this year, despite the slight im-
provement in other departments, there appears a further
decline in the Excise returns. Our financial documents
supply no other test so decisive as to the measure of the
poor man's enjoyments. The result before us is quite in
accordance with the genius of %Vhiggery. The march of
' Reform' has gradually and regularly lessened the labourer's
comforts."

Now, if this poor decrepid creature had had one grain
of sense in her old noddle, she must have perceived—
what any one less stupid than herself could not fail to
see—that according to her own reasoning—if we must
call it so—she is confuted ; for on this very
branch of revenue, which is an index of the state
of the labouring classes, there is on the last quarter
an increase of no less than 388,492/. ! The increase
on the quarter is therefore more than tw►ce as Great
as the decrease on the year : hut does the Whig Go-
vernment get any credit for this ? Oh, no, Grand-
mamma cunningly kept this part of the statement out
of view.
In th

e columns of this day will be found a full
report of the proceedings at a public meeting of the
Shareholders and Proprietors of the Great Western
Railway held at Bristol yesterday, for the purpose
of re-considering and adopting the postponed Di-
remora' Report presented at the general half-yearly
meeting held on the 15th of August. The meetine,
was well attended, and we are happy to add, the pro-
ceedings were conducted in a sensible and business-
like spirit. Most of the ruutours which had been
set afloat as to extravagance in the manage-
ment of the Railway, appeared to have died
the natural death of such inventioni,-; for
though the question of the broad gage re-
cr..ainAr open for further inquiry, there was no one to
propose a vote of censure either upon the Engineer or
the Directors for having adopted it. On the contrary,
both the Directors and the Engineer arc continued,
which triumphantly refutes the idea of their not enjoy-
ing the confidence of the great body of the Share-
holders. With respect to the meeting to be held at
Christmas, to decide upon the merits of the broad
gage, we do not consider that its appointment detracts
one iota from the high reputation of Mr. BRUNEL,
the able and efficient Engineer of the Company.
The Shareholders have a perfect right—a decidedly
deep interest, in sanctioning no proceeding—no plan
the superior efficacy of which they entertain the
shadow of a
doubt ; and they are greatly to be com-
mended for exercising all the vigilance of which they
are capable, for the purpose of having their line of
well and as cheaply as possible.
road constructed as
From all that we know and have been aide to learn
upon the subject, the broad gage is a very decided im-
provement in the construction of Railways which are
intended as the channels of a heavy traffic ; so much
so, indeed, that several eminent foreign engineers ate
of opinion that the principle—subject, of course, to
trifling modifications—is likely
to be soon adopted in all
lines whatsoever. But this point will be hest de-
termined by time and experience the umpires
to whose decision the Shareholders of the Great
Western Railway have very wisely and very prudently
left it. For ourselves we are happy to observe that
the calumnies which, for interested purposes, have been
set afloat about the Direction of this line, have ended,
as they desctved to end, in mere stnat—..

In our Police import our r,ader, „:11
ind a most atrotiow cast of a young gill,
enly is

years of age, who was decoyed into a low brothel in
Long-acre, and forcibly violated by some scoundrel in
the disguise of a gentleman, who, the more effectually
to accomplish his purpose, fastened her arms and legs
to the bed-post by a leathern strap . lined with wool,
with which he was furnished by the miscreant
procuress ! The whole details of the case are the most
revolting it is possible to conceive, and if we now
refer to them, it is only in the hope that the civil
authorities may be induced to take the matter up, and
make it the subject of a most minute and searching
investigation. From the circumstance of a leathern
strap having been resorted to, in order to prevent the
poor child making any effectual resistance, it is evi-
' dent that the keepers of these vile sinks of debauchery
have all the machinery of crime so dexterously ar-
ranged, that it is next to impossible that their victims
should escape their clutches. How many a helpless
infant—how many a simple-minded country girl—
may hive been ruined by means of the same
viilanous contrivance that was had recourse to 1
in the present instance I And this bare-faced atro-
city is committed in the very heart of London—in a
district more strictly w. !shed—or supposed to be
watched—by policemen, than any other ! But it may
be asked, how could these men have come to a know-
ledge of the fact—how could they have known what
was going forward in a private house in Long-acre ?
We answer, it should be made part of their daily and
nightly duty to keep an active, incessant watch on all
such private houses, for they are the hotbeds of all
sorts of crimes, and it is in them that children of
both sexes are trained up to commit every
species of depravity. .Is it to be endured,
that the keepers of these infernal establishments
shall be allowed to employ spies and agents to
decoy unsuspecting Os i►►to them ; shall pursue their
vocation in broad day-light, walking publicly abroad
with their decoy-ducks ; and no policeman—even
though he may be cognizant of the fact—dare to in-
terfere ? What parent—what relative—is safe, when
such practises are carried on with impunity ? We
constantly read in the Journals, of children being
missing from their homes, and we have little
or no doubt that the majority of them ate
kidnapped into some such den as the.. one in Long-
acre. We call upon the civil authorities to sift :li.,
affair to the bottom—nay more, to devise some means
for puttitig a prompt and effectual atop to the whole
system of brothels. The present law is clearly inope-
rative ; a more summon, method, therefore, must be
resorted to for their extirpation. They are abomina-
tions that call, trumpet-tongued, for a remedy.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 19th ult., an-
nounce preparations far the sailing of the combined
fleets of England, France and Turkey for Alexan-
dria, with a view to facilitate the signing of a new
amicable treaty between the SULTAN and the VICE-
ROY of Egypt. AHMED PASHA, who is said to he
charged with the negociation of the new treaty, is
authorised to propose a mutual disbanding of the
military and naval forcca of Turkey and Egypt ; and
in the event of the Vic E ROY'S agreeing to such an ar-
rangement, and to continuo the payment of the tribute,
the SULTAN will bestow upon him the Government
of Egypt and Syria for life, and insure the succes-
sion to all his honours and dignities to his son,
IBRAHIM PASHA, on the simple condition of ac-
knowledging himself the vassal of the Porte.
Letters have also been received from Alexandria,
dated the Bth ult., which State that MEHEMET ALI
has refused to recognize the New Commercial Treaty,
agreed upon by Great Britain and the Porte.

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all been re-
ceived. They bring the answer of the Federal Direc-
tory of Switzerland to the note of the Duke of MoN-
TEBELLO, agreed to by eighteen Cantons and a half.
The Cantons of St. Gall, Argau, Thurgau, and Basle
Country protested against it as not being conceived in a
sufficiently decided and warlike spirit :
" His Excellence the Duke de Montebello, Ambassador
from his Maje-ty the King of the French, having, on August
1, officially detnandel of the Federal Authorities an order
for Louis Napoleon Bcnaparte to quit the Helvetic territo-
ries, the Avoyer and Council of State of Lucerne, the Federal
Directory, have received orders from the High Dist to
answer as follows :

" When the Grand Councils of the Cantons were called
upon to deliberate on the demand of the Duke de Monte-
bello, their votes were divided on the position of Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte, and on the question of his nationality,
but not on the principle that a demand for the expulsion of
a Swiss citizen is inadmissible, as being contrary to the
independence of a sovereign state. Since Louis Napo-
leon Bonaparte has taking public steps for his removing
from the soil of the Coafederation, and the Federal Direc-
tory has taken measures to facilitate his object, any delibe-
ration of the Diet becomes useless. Faithful to the feel-
ings which for centuries have united her to France, Sait-
zerland cannot hinder herself from frankly expressing the
painful surprise caused her by the hostile demonstrations
made against her before the Diet had been assembled to deli-
berate definitiself on the demands addressed to it. Swit-
zerland desires, as much as France can do, that complica-
tions of the same niiture may not recur, and that nothing
may in future interrupt the harmony existing between two
countries so allied in their recollections of the pest and in
their interests. She indulges in the hope that she may see
promptly re-established and consolidated between the
French and Helvetic nations the relations of good neigh-
bourhood and ancient reciprocity of affection that formerly
existed.

" ' The Avoyer and Council of State of Lucerne, the Fe-
deral Directory, have the honour, &e.'"

France, we presume, will see the wisdom of being
satisfied with this answer. She has exhausted all her
diplomatic thunder to no effect, and for her only re-
maining alternative the Swiss are quite prepared. But
war, under such circumstances, is a game too desperate
to be seriously contemplated, did not the slightness of
the presumed prorociton render it, on the part of any
Power having any regard for the principles of inter-
national law, impossi.
With respect to the disputed ukase for aboli,l,;nb
the Polish dress, we find the following in the Con-
stetutiond

the Polish dress, has reached us, by which we lea
" Further informt-..ti,n respecting the ukase
nilartohliiitibsiotimnge
partisans of the Emperor Nieholas hat ing
mentioned
subject to him cluritig hreplied,
is stay at Kreuth, he
Szypoff conducts liiinse'f well. He promised me to de-
nation.cize Poland in ten years' time, and he is keel3ms
his sv.,rd: Travellers who have recently passed through
Poland confirm what we have stated as to the actual
existence of the doci,ment in question."
We subjoin an iliportant communication from Wal-
lachia, addressed to the Commerce:—
" BucniliEsT (WALLACIIIA), SEPT. 18.—We have r-
ceived from Constantinopl, intelligence of the highest im-
portance. The Antbas,adors of France aod England hat e
spoken to the Sultan in favour of our two principalities,
and represented to him the impolicy of the prorogation of
our Chamber of Deputies, ordered for the mere sake of
gratifying Russia, and engaged the Grand Seignor to au-
thorize the Chamber to ineet sgain, and proceed with its la
bourn. We await with the is chest anxiety the resolution of
the Divan, for if it acquiesces in the recommendation of the
Ambassadors, the E:tstern question may assume quite a dif-
ferent aspect. Believe me, the Ruesians,and tluirSovereign
in particular, are abhorred in Wallachia and Moldavia. An our sympathies are in favour of Eng-'and and France, and if
those two Powers are seriously inclined to check the en-
croachments of Rus.i 1, thy find in our country a
powerful co-operation. Oar population amounts to
5,000,000 of inhabitants, brave, and passionately fond of
independence. We can at a moment's notice, enter the
field with an army of 25,000 well-disciplined troops, who
have alruadY served in our militia, and our rich and fertile
territory affords all tie means required to support even a
very long war.
" Baron Ruck man is expected here to resume his post of'
Con,u!-Geriertai t t
!sahrptfl:7elodpii,p.,loamn:i diplomatist is
leg to sound
l b of
t.,,,g„,s to involve us in of all t,orit•.

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