The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

We publi4l in another column the Customary
etatement of the revenue fpr the year and quarter.
ending yesterday, compared with that of the year
and corresponding quarter ending the sth of April,
1830. It will be seen that the amount of the reve-
nue for the year which has just expired is
45,759,114/., and that its amount in the 12 months
ending the sth of April, 1830, was 46,891,061/.;
thus leaving a deficiency on the whole year of
1,134,9471. The deficiency on the quarter ending
yesterday, as compared with the corresponding
quarter of last year, is proportionally more consider-
able. The cause or the deficiency in both cases is
to be found, not in any falling o6' in the resources of
the country, hut in the reduction of taxes; and the
same cause also explains the difference in the pro-
portions of deficit between the year and the quarter.
It will he observed, in looking at the tables, that
more than the whole of the deficiency of the revenue
occurs in the Excise, and that the loss in this branch
has been counterba►anced in some degree by an in-
crease in the Customs. Now it is only necessary
that we should recollec► the financial measures in-
troduced in the early part of last Session to account
for this falling off in the Blase. It will be remem-
bered that the beer duty, producing a revenue of
more thait ,000,000-1. a-year, was repealek—that
the leatheseduif; producing nearly 400,000/., was
likewise repealed,--Together with a small duty on
cider, producing about 30,000/.; making in all
shoo, 3,500,000/. Though the deficiency on the
year, therefore, had been greater, the reduction of
taxes would have accounted for it. But the whole
effect of the reduction was not felt in these duties
till after the October quarter, and consequently the
quarter ending the sth instant must have been ex-
pected to exhibit a larger falling off than any of the
anterior quarters of the present financial year, as
compared with the corresponding quarters of the
last. The deficiency of 740,3091. multiplied by
four would only give us 2,961,236/. as the loss on the
whole year, whereas, by the reduction of taxe,, it
might have been expected to amount to 3,500,0001.
The difference may therefore be regarded as the
measure of improvement in those branches of the
revenue which are still maintained; and this im-
provemer►t may be estimated at more than half a
Million. At the time of proposing the repeal of the
beer duties, it was calculated that the increase in
the consumption of malt, and consequently in
the revenue derived from the. tax on that article,
would to a certain extent compensate for the loss of
the revenue on beer. We have not the returns of
the malt drives for the last year before us,
but we believe that this anticipation has been fully
realized.. The revenue has improved even beyond
the calculations of the late Chancellor of the Exche-
quer detailed to the House of Commons on the 15th
of Mach, 1830. The Right Hon. Gentleman
stated that he expected to lose within the year
750,000/. on the repeal of the beer duty, which was
to take effect from the 10th of October, and
200,000/. on the repeal of the leather duty, which
was to commence from July, making in all 950,0001.
Pruceed'ng on the same data, the deficiency in the
quarter ending the sth of April should be, for beer
dirties 750,000/., and for leather duly 100,000/.,
making 550,000/. These two sums added together
make 1,500,000/., which might have ben expected
to be the amount of the deficiency in the present
veer as compared with the last. The real defi-
ciency being only 1,134,9471., shows an improve-
miqrt in the existing branches of the revenue of
more than half a million. This certainly affords an
encouragement for the reduction of taxes, though
the experiment might be dangerous if carried too
far. The falling-off in the Stamps and Assessed
Taxes is too inconsiderable to create any apyre-
hension or alarm.—Tee...

The Duke of Wellintiton's avowed hostility to
Parliamentary Reform, in any slotpe or in any de-
gree, must be a source of mortifying reflection to
thousands, who, exulting in the splendour of his
military career, cannot but grieve to see that
.splen-
dour tarnished try his Graces evident want of tact
and generalship as a Minister. For, supposing the
Duke sincere, as no doubt he is, in his hostility to
all. Reform, and in his alarms as to its danger, who,
w may ask, had so prominent a hand in accelerating
the crisis he so much deprecates as his Grace him-
self, by his ill-judged and untimely avowal of that
hostility at the commencement of the present Ses-
sion of Parliament ? and whe, next to the Duke
himself, have so much accelerated the arrival of the
great object of all their present groundless fears and
alarms as the other leaders of the same party, who
have, from titne to time, done all in their power to
prevent the smallest approach to any attempt at
healing, by aegrees, those wounds in the Consti-
tation which now call for a so much larger and more
ample remedy ? The Duke of Wellington, on
this one subject, at least, forms a striking instance
of the rare and extraordinary fact, that it is pos-
sible for a man, endowed with strong powers
of genius in one particular department, to pass
through the scenes of a long arid active life
without acquiring that knowledge of mankind, arid
of the real state of affairs, which one would think
must be almost forced upon him. This ignorance,
however, is not peculiar to his Grace's profession,
but often attaches even to lawyers, who, embarked
in a profession which might be imagined to give
them peculiar facilities, are often as ignorant of teal
life, and of the true stare of public concerns, as if
they were the veriest Monks that were ever buried
in a cloister. But the Duke of Wellington refuses
to learn experience even from himself. As far as
the former has yet advanced, his Grace's conduct
on the Reform question furnishes an exact parallel
to that on the not less celebrated one of Catholic
emancipation. Then, as now, the Duke saw nothing
but danger in the agitation of that question—
nothing but ruin in its concession. Yet what was
the result but that in a few short months the country
saw the Duke the proposer and the advocate of
this very measure so prophetically denounced, and
the Duke lived to see the measure passed, without
its having produced, by his own present adreiasion,
the smallest degree of danger or ruin whatever ? So
mud) for the Duke's political sagacity and foresight
—and so much fcr the reliance which the country
is crillsd upon to place upon a similar ebullition of
anxiety and alarm. We do not argue the matter in
this point of view so much with reference to any
vast importance which we attach to the Duke of
Wellington's opinion upon the subject, as from a
feelorg of regret at seeing a public man, who stands
so ',sombrero and eminent in the history of the age,
risking his high character in one department by
we. trig it in another. We should rejoice to see
the Duke of Wellington in advance, not in ari ear,
of the age. We should wish to see him one of the
first subjects of a free country—the friend, not the
enemy, of free institutions. But, if this cannot he
so, we would warn the most credulous among our
countrymen to attach no weight to the Duke's
alarms on the subject of Parliamentary Reform,
seeing how very lately his Grace's similar alarms en
that of Catholic Emancipation have been completely
falsified, and have vanished into air.—Morning
Herald.
In almost every society it is assumed as a matter
of ecturtts that the Reform proposed by Ministers
must •become law, and to this event most anti-
reformers, from their subdued tone of bee, seem to
be fully resigner .
produce but little The stories of Court intrigues
impression on the public, because
it is known that no men in their senses would ever
think. of running counter to
the feeling which per-
vades the whole British
nation, Whatever the in-
clinations of people about Court may be, even if
we had not the strongest assurances of his Majesty's
unshaken deter mination to support Lis present Minis•
ters, we might be sure that he has too much good
sense to expose the country to the dangers which
would necessarily result from a disappointment of
their Well-founded expectations. The people know,
too, that the boroughmongers are without sup.'
port—that no Minis ry cats be formed on the prin.
ciple d opposition to Reform, or, what is the
same aim!, a " bit and bit" Reform. The tirrre

has passed when a Reform, which should leave the '
power of the boroughmonger intact, would be ac-
cepted. Nothing less than the total annihilation of bo-
roughmongeritrg will now satisfy them: Thi instinct
of the people of England leads them to embrace and
cordially to support the course which prorniseste pry-
Serve order and tranquillity. Having once expressed
themselves in favour of Reform, they will take care by
their unanimity to extinguish in the evil-disposed
all hope of being able to disturb tranquillity. The
public man who sees this must be insane to think
of forming a Government of which the object is to
baulk the people. 'Many think that a dissolution
will yet be necessary. We confess we do not. The
specimens of public spirit at the elections which
nave lately taken place must satisfy the most fac-
tious that a dissolution would soon set matters right,.
and entail on them a fruitless expence.—Morning
Chronicle.

At a meeting of the Freeholders, Justices of the
Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the county
of lladdington, on Thursday last, Mr. Grant Suttie,
younger, of Balgone, " thought there would be but
one opinion in this meeting, that as the people of
Scotland were the most industrious, the best edu-
cated, the most religious and intelligent community
in gurope, so far from there being danger of their
being entrust"! with the elective franchise, if any
population ought to be entrusted with universal suf-
frage, it was that of Scotland." The same Paper
(7Ye Scotsman of Sltorday las►,) which ccn-
tams the report of Mr. Grant's speech, fur-
nishes accounts of outrages by - the mob in se-
veral towns of Scotland, not easily reconcileable
with the picture he gives us of the civilisation of
the lower orders of Scotchmen. Most of the towns
of Scotland were illuminated on Monday week on
account of the second reading of the Reform Bill.
In Dundee, the illumination is described as having
been splendid. The police, however, having in-
terfered (it is said unnecessarily) with a bonfire, at
a late hour in the evening, a riot commenced, and
the constables and police were assailed with showers
of stones, and driven off. In the course of the
skirmishes, however, forty of the crowd were seized
and put into the cells. Would it be believed that
this trifling affair led, next day, to the most serious
commotions, and to a complete victory of the mob
over the Civil Authorities ; and that it was even
necessary to send to a town more than twenty miles
distant for military aid ?
" On Tuesday the general impression was, that the
people about the fire had been unnecessarily interfered with,
and roughly treated without any adequate cause, and that
if they had been allowed another hour to burn out their
fire without interference, except to the extent of prevent-
ing additional fuel from being put on, the crowd would
have quietly dispersed. The Justices met early on
Tuesday, when the prisoners were brought before them,
and all discharged except three, who, it was said,
had been striking constables. It is a pity that the hail
which, we understand, several gentlemen offered to give
for these individuals, was not taken ; for their offence was
clearly bailable ; and, from the crowds which covered the
High-street during the greater part of the day, it might
have ht en anticipated that something serious would happen,
unless all the prisoners were liberated. These crowds
continued to increase till betwixt seven and eight o'clock,
when a fresh commotion began, to which no adequate
force could be opposed. About nine o'clock, a boat with
a barrel of tar in it was drawn up the Murray-gate, and
kindled below the piazzas of the gaol, whereby the Justices
and others in the Council-room ran some risk of being
suffocated by the spoke. The police office was then as-
sailed ; the door was burst open by means of a beam of
wood, used as a battering ram ; the Superintendent of
Police, and others who were in the office at the time,
made their escape by a back way ; the prisoners were re-
leased ; the police.office was sacked ; the Superintendent's
hooks, the greater part of the furniture, the benches of the
Court room, the watchmen's great coats, rattles, &c., were
thrown out into the lane, and burned in a heap before the
door. The town was completely in the hands of the mob.
The Earl of Airlie came to town in the morning, to per-
form his duty as Lord Lieutenant of the county. He ad-
dressed a crowd from the stair of the police office, but the
noise which prevailed prevented him from being heard.
He was pelted with the fragments of the clothes which
had been destroyed the previcus night. His Lordship
shook them off with a good-humoured and unconcerned
air; and his frank and noble bearing soon disarmed hos-

tility. He left the town in the course of the day, and
was loudly cheered by the crowds as he passed along
the streets in his carriage. In the mean time, an ex-
press had been sent to Perth for military, and a small
party of the 78th Highlanders arrived in town about mid-
day. By sun-set the High-street was covered with a
dense crowd ; but it appeared to be evident that no farther
attempt at commotion was contemplated. The mob were
satisfied with the achievements of the previous night.
Betwixt eleven and twelve o'clock the streets bad resumed
their usual appearance at such an hour. The police, who,
to avoid irritation, had been kept off the streets during the
evening, were sent about their ordinary avocations ; and
little or no fear, we think, need now be entertained of
farther disturbances."

It would be difficult, after perusing this account,
not to arrive at the conclusion, that the lower orders
of the Scotch in towns are far more ferocious than

the lower orders of the towns of England. The
actors in these outrages must hare formed a very
large poi don of the lower orders of Dundee, a large
and thriving city, and we must say our northern
neighbours have strange ideas of religion, intelli-
gence, and education, when they assign them to
persons capable of acting in this savage manner.
In fact, we see in all these doings the peculiarties
of a people recently subjected to the dominion of
law, and in whom the habits of times, when men
looked elsewhere for protection than to the law, are
not yet extinguished. In Edinburgh itself the rabble
seem to have conducted themselves very out-
rageously. The Caledonian Mercury of Thursday
laq, observes—
" After the specimen we have had on this occasion of
the character of an Edinburgh mob, we most heartily con-
cur in the sentiments of our correspondents, who deprecate,
as the greatest of possible evils, the repetition of an illu-
mination, either on the final passing of the Bill, or on any
future occasion. We have heard some persons foolish
en.►ugh (we are free to say so) to express an opinion unfa-
vounble to the Reform kill from the conduct of these
mobs t we ask, if there was a single individual among
them who will by the Bill be constituted an elector? As
little do we believe that these ragamuffins were instigated

by the Anti-Reformers to commit these outrages. The
troth is, they seem to have been actuated by the pure and
simpii love of mischief, and to have visited the friends and
foes of Reform with the most admirable impartiality. The
glaziers' apprentices, to be sure, had an interest in the
ba,iriess, which led theta to he most active partisans of
the row. In any future infliction,of the kind (if we should
be so unfortunate as to be visited with it), we would re-
commend the Magistrates, as a first step, to collect the
glaziers' boys throughout the town, and get them a night's
lodgiags in the Castle, from whose lofty eminence they
might feast their eyes with the blaze of light, without
being led into the temptation of providing occasion for the
exercise of their canine. The devastation committed in
Itti2o on Queen Caroline's acquittal is said to have been
about 700/. ; one of our contemporaries of yesterday sup-
poses that' the Ciiit Member's sinecure for one year would
more than repair all the m;schief done.' That is to say,
the the damage on the present is nearly four times as great
as it was oz the former occasion. We wish he could pre-
vail upon the City Member to relinquish his sinecure for
this year to discharge it, Perhaps the Town Council
might make it a condition with him, for the honour of
once more returning him to Parliament."
The Scotsman says—
" We have heard it repeatedly stated, and we know the
opinion is held by many, that Some persons hostile to Re-
form, pr some blackguards hired by them, (141 most of the
mischief, with a view of bringing odium upon the pro-
moters of the illumination. It is a fact that several per-
sons friendly to Reform had their windows smashed though
well lighted. We know that a bookseller's in Prince's-
stree*, Whose liberal opinions are no secret, and whose illu-
mination was of scanty, had his windows broken by two
stones and a leaden h 411.4 thrown against them with great
force. We know, too, on goo, 4 Amthority, that two young
gentlemen, about eighteen, heirs to gnn4 estate., and
Anti-Reformers, as well as their connections, were seen
by a person who kn.owa them, actively engaged in break-
ing „indows. Our readers will also remember the case
reported in our fast from the Poliee, of the near relation
of an Anti-Reform M.P., who was Ailed 101. for his feats

on that night."
She merely notice these =Runts as irreconeile-
able-with the high character given to the lower
ordcri of Scotebmen for their orderly behaviour. In
every (Nuntry'i.there
is a mob, and no one expects

examples or orderly behaviour from a mob. But
on all occasions Scotch mobs seem to act with more
savageness and ferocity than the mobs of other coon.
tries. These outbreakings would almost appear to
justify the declaration of bir William Rae, the la'c
Lord Ad:matte, that Scotchmen can never be as-
sembled in multitudes, without indulging in acts of
violence and bloodshed. We are far from wishing
to justify the individuals in Edinburgh, who fur.
niched a handle to the mob, by disregarding the
general feeling. At a Meeting of the Town
Council of Edinburgh, the Lord Provost very sen-
sibly observed—
" The Magistrates and Sheriff may have acted too cau-
tiously and slowly in what they had done, but they, con-
ceived, that after having issued a notice of a 4neral
illumination in the city, that no persons would bq so re.
itardless of public feeling and of their prochoatiorl, as to
per,ist in remainimr siagular, and lay themset' open to
the public indignation. He felt no pity for such sufferers,
and he was much surprised that the damage was not a
great deal mere."
Those who choose to indulge in the luxury of
singularity, must be content to pay for it. In all
countries a prudent man will, if possible, abstain
from running counter to the feeling of those among
whom he lives. In Scotland the despotism of the
multitude is more tyrannical, perhaps, than in any
country of Europe.—Morning Chronicle.

The statement of the revenue for the year and
quarter just concluded is given in another part of
our Paper. The Cus-oms present ,lan increase of
433,5651. on the year, and 194,804/. on the
quarter ; in all the other items there is a de-
creas-, but, with the exception of the Excise,
too inconsiderable to demand notice. The taxes,
however, present an increase of a 1,860/. of the
year. In the Excise there,- is a falling off of
1,371,220/. on the year, and 826,1631. on the
quarter ; sums larger, it will be observed, than the
total decrease in eit her instance, viz.-1.134,9.1 7/. on
the year, and 740,3091. on the quarter; and when
the very great reductions that have been effected in
this department are taken into account, so fir from
any feeling of despondency being entertained, there
will appear CAII,P for congratulation on the imprAting
state of the revenue. Fortuitous circumstances
may at times produce partial depression, but there
is an elasticity and vigour in the national resources
which nothing can ultimately affect, unless the rash
hand of innovation should be successful in its en-
deavours to destroy those happy institutions which
afford to the country the means of developing her
energies.—Morning Post.
When men violently overact their part, the com-
mon sense of mankind never fails to regard their
professions and conduct with suspicion. Braggarts
generally prove to be cowards in their hearts. These
whe seek and make occasions to proclaim to the
world that they know no fear, invariably turn out
to have been agitated all the while by the very ap-
prehensions which they have taken so much pains
to dissemble. The falsest boasts are ever the
loudest. In applying these remarks, which the uni-
form experience and observation of mankind have
converted into maxims, to tie conduct of his
Majesty's, Ministers, it would stem very safe to
conclude that they endure at the present moment
the painful consciousness of expiring power—
that they feel the ground sliding rapidly from
under their feet—that they know the'r Royal
Master to be really averse from the revolution
upon which they have pledged their political
existence—and that they have not even that un-
bounded confidence in popular support which they
so elaborately affect. We have been led to these
reflections by the proceedings at a dinner given the
day before yesterday by that eminently sagacious
person, the Lord Mayor of the city of London, for
the purpose apparently of gratifying his Majesty's
Ministers by providing for them a fitting audience,
to hear the eternal repetttiod of their assurance that
they enjoy the full confidence, and their revolution-
ary project the unqualified favour of the King, and
the reiterated expression of their secure reliance
upon the success of a measure especially patronised
by the Monarch and unanimously applauded by the
people. It is unnecessary to add any thing to what
we have repeatedly said as to the unconstitutional
character of these appeals to the personal convictions
of the Sovereign, or as to the indecent disrespect
which they imply towards the Mead of the State.
What is most worthy of attention in the transac-
tion is the feverish anxiety of Ministers, as exhi-
bited in their sedulous contrivances, to produce an
impre.sion upon the public mind which there is
abundant ground to believe erroneous, if we were
to reason merely from the anxiety evinced, and the
contris alices resorted to, in order to create it. We
have at this city dinner, to which no doubt they
repaired for the express purpose, first, the Duke of
Sussex, then Lord Brougham, then Earl Grey, and
last of all, Lord J. Russell ; protesting, as if the
contest had been who should protest the harde,t,
that in respect to the Reform Bill the King of Eng-
land is entirely of their way of thinking. Surely they
must have a large fund of credulity who can believe
any thing which is protested with so much industry
and emphasis. And wha', it becomes a matter of cu-
riosity to inquire, can be the use or purpose of thus
dragging into the orgies of the Mansion-house the
name, the opiniens, and the authority of the King ?
Do Lad Grey and his colleagues anticipate that
they will soon be placed in a similar position with
regard to William the Fourth to that in which the
Noble Earl once stood towards his excellent, con-
scientious, and patriotic father, George the Third ?
Arid are they now industriously preparing the public
mind, arid screwing up their own courage for the
emergency in which they may think it expedient, us
the Noble Earl thought on that memorable occasion,
to cast the odium which belonged to Ministers upon
the Sovereign ? Earl Grey, surely, of all living
Statesmen, ought to be the most cautious how he
pledges the name of the King. It must be taken
as a sinister omen when he is seen arming himself
fur a conflict in which the point at issue may once
more be, whether the Monarch deceived the
Minister or the Minister the Monarch. The
Keg cannot be fettered by any pledge to
promote the success of any particular mea-
sure until the period arrives for its receiving the
Royal Assent. Nor will the combined assertions of
the Duke of Sussex, Lord Brougham, Earl Grey,
and Lord John Russell—assertions not only on,
constitutional, but in the highest degree disrespectful,
indecent, and mischievous—suffice, in the estima-
tion of a loyal and reflecting people, to divest the
Sovereign of this valuable immunity, of this Royal
privilege, the value of which the personages above
mentioned so manifestly dread. As to the unanimous
concurrence of the nation, of which the revolutionists
make their secondary boast, we have fortunately the
means of appreciating it, and the testimony urn
which it res s. That the company at the Lord
Mayor's dinner were unanimous we have no doubt.
His Lordship would naturally think it his duty to
take care that it should be. so. That the rabble
who attend public meetings for the purpose of pre•
venting, by their clamour, any voice except that of
• 'evolutionists from being heard, are unanimous upon
t he subject, we also believe. But we shall be greatly
mistaken if Earl Grey and his colleagues do not
speedily learn, to their mortification and regret, that
neither the selected guests of Don Ky, nor the
rabble whose vociferations determine the result of
public meetings, constitute any adequate specimen
of the British nation.—Morning Post.
We give in another column the quarterly state-
ment of the revenue. It is, on the whole, much

more favourable, in every respect, than the public
had a right to expect. The total decrease on the
quarter is 70,0001. ; and on the year, 1,134,9471.
Such a statement would be alartning under ordi-
nary circumstances ; but, in endeavouring to discover
the cause of the deficiency, it must be remembered
that a foolish and most mischievous meaiure passed
both Houses of Parliament last year, which dimi,
nkhed the regular taxation of the country to the
amount of upwards of three millions sterling, and that
during the present quarter several taxes have been
!emitted, the Bills for which have not yet received
he sanction of the Legislature. Considering these

circumstances, the revenue both for the year, and the
qnarter just ended, is matter of great gratification.
Instead of a diminution of three millions in the ac-
Quint for the year, there is only a deficiency of some-
thing more than one, while in the quarter just ended,
notwithstanding the taxes of which no account has
been taken, and of the remission of which no doub
ought to be entertained, there is a deficiency of only.
740,0001. Considering all these matte's, we think
it must be apparent to every one, that a reduction of
taxrs operates, to a Meat extent, to an increase,
instead of a diminution, of the revenue; and that
the best Chancellor of the Exchequer whom the
country could see is one that would go the greatest '
lengths in the reduction of taxation. Lord Althorp
is fully persuaded of this truth, and proposed, as our
readers are aware, a Budget, than which none, so far
as it went, could be more just and beneficial; but he
was beaten,—or rather, he yielded too •easily to x
pitiful and interested opposition,—and its main
points were in consequence defeated. The revenue
statement for the present quarter is, however, a
proof of the sound principles on which that Budget
was framed ; and we would fain hope that when
the Reform Bill has passed, petitions, in equal
numbers to those in favour of the Reform Bill, will
pour in on behalf of an abolition, or reduction, of
taxes on the articles—particularly glass—specified
in it. The manufacture of the article alluded to is
so much impeded by the tax, and the visits of the
Excise, as to double its price !—Morning Advertiser.

ICOItWI CPI, April 2.
Wheat (per qr.) ... Ms. 735. 765. Beans (per qr.) —v.. 38. 44s
Barley.-- 32.5. 40s. 421. Pease, Grey...—........ 38s. 445.
Oats ........ 28s. 325. 345. Flour, fine (per sack) 535. 555.

CANTERBURY. April 2.
745. to 78s. —s. to —s.
Wis. to 755. —s. to —s.
38s. to 485....» Grinding.. 30s. to 365.
255. to 325. --s. to —s.
325. to 38s. . Old— 365. to 465.
38s. to hOs• Grey 0.••••••••••• 353.. to 40s.

,KETS —April
Wheat (bushel) ..91.9,1. 101.0 d.
Barley 6 5 0
Oats 2 9 3 0
Beans 6 5 0
Batter (Ib) —.-1 1 1 3
E.:gs (15) 0 1 0
Potatoes (peck) ...0 0 0 6