The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

NOTICE
R. BAILLIE COCHR.ANE'S

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IS NOW READY AT ALL TILE LIIIRARIES.
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E. W., v►ho left her hotne on Wedue3day
Al• Morning t 7 'e 3d instant, is requested to r,turn.

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the said M. E. W. to til r.. 1. T. Russell, solicitor, 25, Crarbaune-
street, Letcester-equare, shall receive a REWARD at TEN POUNDs.
M. E. W. is about 20 years or ..ge, fair complexion, light hair, blue
eyes, .'ad has a slight scar ui her chin; he gl.t about 5 feet 3 inches,
and irielined to be stout.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
B. Wetista, Sele Lessee and Manager, Vid Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the Comedy of MITCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING. Don Pedro, Mr. Vandenhoff; Benedick, Mr. .T.
Wallack ; Dogberry, Mr. Keeley; Verges, Mr. Buckstone ; Beatrice,
Mrs. Nisbett ; Hero, Miss Jane Mordaunt.
! .After which the Force of SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.
Mr. Penni pother, Mr. Keeley ; Mrs. Pennipother, Mrs. Keeley ; Jane
Briggs, Miss P. Horton.
To conclude with ; the successfill and laughable Farce, called an
ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan
Sweetapple, Mrs. litzwilliam.
Due notice will be given of the appearancecrt Mr. and Mrs. KEAN._
The Boa-office will be open on Thursday, under the direction of
Mr. I. T. Archer.

Ai)ELI'HI.
t‘",ie dlreeticn .31 Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The
113 eterious Strr,nger, Madame Celeste.

After which A Tie .; Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr.
Carry Chick, Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Charles PusLer, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs.
Waters Rummer, Mrs. Frank Matthews.
To conclude with SWEEPHERRTS AND WIVES.

ftoYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Venn&
Sole Leksee. Mr. (Marie Ma•he,.s.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the Musical Drama, entitled THE SENTINEL.
After which, THE FOLLIES 01 A Is 1t3,11T.
To be foqowed by AN APPEAL TO 'NIL PUBLIC.
To conclude with THE At FAIR OF HONOUR.
Dres.i S.i.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, As. ; uatlery, is '470
lab-;,rice *,d ahy pArt rrt the honse.
All applications for rrivate Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron, 15,
New Bond-street.

YKINCESS'S THEAI
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the celebrated Opera of DON GIOVANNI.
after which, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST
To conclude with THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVER.

/i..STLF.Y•S ROYAL .&MPHITIIEATRZ.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
rider the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince .k.lbcrt, &c.
Triumphant success of the new Equestrian Spectacle of the Prophet,
which has been nightly received with enthusiasm, and pr on unced
by the public press to tri the m)st go.geou.s hippo-dramatic piece
Van' produced at the Amphitheatre.
Unparalleled Equestrian Feats.
TH ES EVENING,
Will be performed Fitzhall's grand Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
THE PROPHET, in which Mr. W. West will appear.
to be fistlowed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE. by the first Equestrian talent of the day.
To conclude with a favourite Farce.
Box-oftico open from Eleven till Font.
-take Manager, Mr. w. West.

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to my children—they shall, at least, bear an unsullied
name. GOD'S will be done. lam prepared to die."
ttesoiute in his own instance as to his choice between
an ignominious death upon the scaffold and the ab-
juration of his faith as a Christian, the Leader of the
Hungarians has still a tender solicitude for his
compatriots, the sharers of his expatriation.
Hence his appeal to England, through the
person of her statesman, Lord PALMERSTON.
After urgently entreating the speedy interposition
of the British Government, LOUIS KossuTu utters
this affecting adjuration—a demand which it

is im.

possible for us to read without our eyes swimming
with the dews of commiseration. "My Lord," he
exclaims in broken accents, "I am a man prepared
to face the worst, and can die with a free look at
Heaven, as I have lived. But lam also, my Lord a
husband, a son, and a father ; my poor true hearted
wife, my children, and my noble old mother are
wandering about Hungary. They will probably
soon fall into the hands of those Austrians who de-
light in torturing even feeble women, and with whom
the innocence of childhood is no protection against
persecutions. I conjure your Excellency, in the
name of the MOST than, to put a stop to these cruel-
ties by your powerful mediation, and especially to
accord to my wife and children an asylum on the
soil of the generous English people."
Since those melancholy words were written, the
forebodings of the unhappy KOSSUTH have been
lamentably realised, those women and those children
whom he holds so dear are in the power of his ruth-
less and infuriated antagonists. His " poor true-
hearted wife," his offspring yet but little removed
from the years of infancy, his " noble old mother,"
have been carried off to the Austrian capital, and
are now incarcerated in a dungeon of Vienna. Will
the English Government allow matters to remain in
their present position without due interference ? GOD
in Heaven forbid ! The aid of England, demanded by
the voice of the immortal KOSSUTH, is also required
by the principles of humanity, by the divine dogmas
of Christianity, and by the holy cause of Civilization.

The Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire appears to
have taken fright at the symptoms of insubordina-
tion apparent in the Protectionist camp. " Equal
;nation and cheap capital," if fully and fairly car.
vied out, will not by any means satisfy his querulous
associates. They have too long been in the enjoy-
ment of exclusive privileges. They have too lung
been accustomed to consider themselves a favoured
class, entitled to a servile tribute from the manufac
turing parishes, to be contented with any equitable
arrangement, having for its object a full and perfect
equalisation of the national burdens. The Hon.
Gentleman has accordingly been compelled to make
the amende honorable. He has declared that be is
" prepared at all times and under all circumstances
to maintain and to advance those great principles of
industrial polity which the Protectionist party upheld
in Parliament in the great struggle of 1846 ;" that
he " does not for a moment imagine, that he
has never for an instant pretended that any equitable
adjustment of the burdens peculiar to real property
can remedy the frightful position in which they (i. e.
the agriculturists) find themselves, or the still more
menacing position that is yawning beneath their feet ;
that it is necessary to have recourse to measures of
a much more considerable and stringent character ;"
and he winds up by stating that he " is not ashamed
to say that he is prepared to uphold and maintain the
constitutional preponderance of the land of England."
This, then, is Mr. DISRAELI'S idea of " equal taxa-
tion," that every burden bearing exclusively upon
land is to be removed, but the moment that the great
body of the people complain of the pressure of indi-
rect taxation, and show that under that iniquitous
system the industrious classes are compelled to con
tribute far more than their just proportion to the
National Exchequer, then he replies " that he is pre-
pared to uphold and maintain the constitutional
preponderance of the land of England." This is,
indeed, but a partial and one-sided view of the great
principle so boldly and distinctly enunciated at
Aylesbury. This is a view which the overtoiled
artisans and operatives of this mighty kingdom will
scarcely feel inclined to support. They are not yet
prepared to acknowledge their decided inferiority to
their agricultural brethren—they do not feel them.
selves to be surfs and silleini; who would willingly
labour for the benefit of their lords and masters, who
would gladly pay a tax on every loaf of bread
that they place before their children, as a willing
tribute to the "constitutional preponderance of the
land of England." Nothing less, however, will
content the Protectionists, and Mr. DISRAELI,
in order to retain bucolic support, has been obliged
to abjure the heresy to which he gave utterance, in a
convivial moment, before a select body of his own
constituents.
The equalisation of the land-tax, on the justice and
expediency of which the Honourable Gentleman ex-
patiated with such force and eloquence, has also been
thrown overboard. It was standing on rather ticklish
ground to advocate the propriety of raising addi-
tional funds from real property. However equitable,
however politic, it might be to carry out the true in-
tention of the Legislature, and to render an existing
tax really productive by assessing it fairly, in propor-
tion to the present value of the contributory property,
it would not advance the Protectionist doctrines,
or cast undue weight upon those who earn
their daily bread by their daily labour.
A. new scheme was, therefore, necessary fur obtaining
the surplus revenue essential to the establishment of
" a sinking fund," which is to be the great panacea
for the evils under whisk the nation is groaning.
The elaborate and brilliant argument at Aylesbury is,
therefore, slurred over with a rapid hand. The Hon.
Gentleman scarcely alludes to the subject of the
land-tax; he merely says :—" In some casual obser-
vations which I made elsewhere—which were much
misrepresented—l expressed an opinion that we
might obtain such a sinking fund through the
medium of the land, without the imposition of any
new tax, but on certain conditions to which I then
imperfectly referred—conditions which involved not
only that the land should have fiscal justice, but that
it should have salutary and legitimate protection.
But I shall not quarrel about the means so that
only I can obtain the end. The principle is the
thing, not the means by which we are to obtain it."
A new programme is, therefore, sketched out, and
ad valorem duties are to be placed "on all articles
of foreign import whatever ;" that is "the weapon,
the charmed weapon," with which the battle is to be
gained. That experiment has, however, been already
tried and proved a total failure. Five per cent,
additional was placed on every import duty, and the
result proved a bitter disappointment to the then Chan-
cellor of the Exdjiequer, and distinctly showed that
the limits of indirect taxation had already been
reached. The attempt to levy eight or ten per cent.
additional would completely change our commercial
relations with other nations, and even that would not
bo sufficient to meet the local charges which
the Honourable Gentleman would transfer from
the present payers to the Consolidated Fund.
We fear, therefore, that the "charmed weapon"
which is tendered to the agriculturists will not, like
the spear of BRADAMANTB, or the Excalibar of King
ARTHUR, be sufficiently potent to overthrow the
honest opposition that will undoubtedly be directed
sgainst a scheme so unjust in its operations, and so
inadequate to the object that is sought to be attaine d.
With respect to a "sinking fund," we cordiall;,7
approve of the principle, if the necessary means
could be obtained in a fair and equitable manner,

so that every man should contribute secundum