The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-02 00:00:00

qualification from 40s. to 101., and to accompany
this measure with an admission of the. Catholics
to the privileges of the Constitution. With re-
spect to the raising of the qualification,it can only
be altered with advantage. The people, at pre-
, sent, are driven like cattle to the place of elec-
tion, so that the alteration will neither add to, nor
detract from, their independence. On the other
4iand, the raising the qualification will take from
landlords the temptation which besets them at
present, to sacrifice beneficial cultivation of their
lands to the command of political influence. The
alteration may not raise materially the size of
farms, where there is want of capital, but, at all
events, it will not make farms smaller than they
might otherwise be, which the forty-shilling free-
hold must in many instances have clone.

[THE TIMES.]
We feel disposed to spend a few words more
upon the financial statement of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. The matter is not of great in-
terest, because there is really but little done.—
It is remarkable to see a people thriving, as we
really are thriving, by native vigour and energy,
under nearly the war burden of taxes. The al-
leviation proposed this year amounts to no more
than a million and a half upon an expenditure of
upwards of fifty-six millions : that is to say, the
industry of the people havitig %tabled Govern-
went to realize a greater revenue upon it than
had been estimated, that excess and something
more will be remitted to us in taxes : 'we shall
not be called upon to raise the excess again.—
The articles which have been relieved from
impost are many of them of so trifling a
nature, that the relief in those cases must
be partial. " Four-wheeled carriages, drawn
" by ponies, 8571. ; Mule. carrying ore, 1371."
We are less thankful for the removal of
such taxes, than we are indignant that they should
have been laid on. Were children's go-carts and
rocking-horses taxed during the late %Oar ? If so,
it is cruel to suffer those taxes to continue, while
others like them are withdrawn. The relief
granted in the case of the Assessed Taxes is pro-
per, no doubt; but it affects only those who are
on the confines of pauperism--the occupants of
houses under 101. rent, and with seven windows or
less. Those classes who would have employed the
money remitted to them from the assessed taxes in
objects of enterprise and speculation, are suffered
, to remain where they were. It is also with real
regret that we observe that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer calculates upon a greater revenue in
the year 1827 than at present. If the revenue
be thus great, the taxes of which it is composed
can neither be light nor few, nor the establish-
ments which are to consume them so curtailed as
to be strictly appropriate to a state of peace.

[MORNING rosT.]
The old hacknied subject of what is called
Catholic Emancipation, placed in the new bands
of Sir Francis Burdett, was again brought be-
fore the House of Commons last night, when,
after a long debate, leave was obtained to bring
in anew the old Bill. The majority, however,
by which the question was carried, was so very
trifling, that there is every reason to expect the
Bill will be thrown out on the second reading,
for which stage of it the main di3cussion is re-
served. But, be this as it may, we are satisfied
it will not be suffered to pass into a law ; for,
should it even pass the House of Commons, its
rejection by the Lords is considered positively
certain. The debate lasted till half-past three
this morning, when the House thus divided—
for the Motion, 247; against it, 234—Majority
only 13.