The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-26 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.

much reason to be satisfied
w
the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. ]Elie thestatement country
of
; ]Elie proposed reductions of duties are
judicious
that on silk especially. The reduc-
tion of this dutyt
will probably enable England
to compete, in any market 'in the world, with
the French or any other nation, in the silk ma-
nufacture. If the relief of this branch of our
trade could be extended, we would suggest to
the Chancellor the propriety of taking off
part of the duties from articles used in the
dyeing of silk. lye are also glad that the silk
goods of other countries are to be admitted into
this at certain duties. It will put a stop, in a
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great extent,, ton
smuggling that article. The
of the duty on spirits is
than nothing, and
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.of the, 5 tax India planters. The repeal
coals will make them,
rat;e per cent. cheaper. To him
who uses ten chaldrons in the course of the year,
the saving will be 3054, or about one penny a
day. We are also glad that wool is to be per-
mitted to be exported on payment of so trifling a
duty as one penny a pound ; it is getting rid of
the idea formerly entertained by the manu-
facturers, that we should not suffer the ex-
portation of any article the pecular growth
of England, except in a manufactured state.
_To us it al ways appeared that so long
as we exported any thing, no matter in what
state, as a matter of necessity, we must import
something from a foreign country which this
country cannot produce. Why should not the
farmer send his wool to France in return for wines
and fruits for his table, and silks arid other things
for the female part of his family: This was formerly
the case if wemay credit the accounts of the hospi-
table style in which our ancestors lived. By an-
cient accounts, it would appear, that they abounded
in all foreign productions—that is, in proportion
to the population which then existed. It is
excessive duties and prohibitions which impede
commerce, and which have the effect in the end,
of cramping hospitality to strangers and social
intercourse. What is it that causes the English
people to be the least hospitable to strangers of
any other people, and the least given to social in-
tercourse, but the high price, caused by high taxa-
tion, of the luxuries of the table ? Our ancestors
were renowned for their hospitality ; they had few
or no taxes—we are notorious for our niggard liness
—we are weighed down with taxes, especially on
those things which we wish to give our friend
when we invite him. We dislike the proposition
for giving half a million towards the building of
new Churches—this, we think, must arise from
the suggestions of some architects or builders,
who want jobs. There are already more Churches
than are filledi and such will remain the case till
the Clergy reform their manlier of reading the
Church Service, curtail it materially in its length,
and take as mach pains to plainly speak their
sermons, as an actor does to deliver the parts put
down for him in a play. This is, however,
easily accounted for ; for what encouragement is
there for a man, who, take it in general, can see •

no prospect of rising beyond a 1001. a year,
till he is old, and about to leave the world and
his unprovided family, and who cannot soar
beyond 1001. or 2001. a year, let him take
ever so much pains ? On the part of some of
the Opposition there was an objection made
to giving the King 300,0001. for two years, for
the purpose of improvements at Windsor Castle
—this we would give him cheerfully, for we would
much rather see a King employing his time in de-
corating his residences, and thus setting a good
example to his subjects of comfortable homes,
if he would only at the same time remain at
peace, than a King fond of war. Besides, the
cost of one is very different from that of the
other; 150,0001. a year spent by one, and the
bills paid, is very different from 150,000,0001. a
year spent by the other, and the payment of the
bills left to we know not whom to discharge.—
If a King will be content with amusing himself
on 150,0001. a year, we should say let him have
it by all means, and we would give it to him at
once ; we would not give it to Commissioners
to hand it to him, for that is accompanying the
gift with a sort of insult. But why not build the
King a new Palace near London, to which fo-
reigners and country people could have easy ac-
cess ? Why not give him at once a splendid
Palace at Shooter's-hill. He deserves a splendid
Palace for having the good sense to keep at peace,
when the Whigs were doing all they could to
goad him on to war. We wish that a million had
been voted him this year for the purpose of
building him a handsome residence, for such is
wanted in the vicinity of London. Handsome
palaces, and buildings, like St. Paul's and
Westminster Abbey, are the grand promoters of
internal commerce. In our metropolis we have
too few public buildings on a grand scale, which
is one reason that so few foreigners visit us in pro-
portion to the celebrity of the kingdom. But then
we should let people see national buildings for no-
thing—we would not be so mean as the clergy of
Westminster Abbey; at the door of entrance to the
Poet's Corner, a man is placed to demand of
those who are desirous of seeing that place the
sum of sixpence. It is such nipping levies as
these that displease foreigners, and possibly pre-
vent the spreading of the Protestant religion. It
is not long since that a friend came to visit us,
who had not been in London for ten years--
of course we went with him to that beautiful pile
of building, in which Addison gathered his
thoughts, when viewing the tombs of the
Great, which afterwards formed one of his
best papers in the Spectator; and at the Poets'
Corner door, we saw a man in black standing
to receive sixpence ! "Is this your goings on ?"
said our friend ; " is this the liberality of the
City of Westminster ? No wonder," he conti-
nued, " that there are so many Dissenters and
the part
of whenpeople see such a paltry spirit on
the Clergy."

LENT CIRCUITS.

Crown °Skit, Feb. 23.

DAYS AND PLACES APPOINTED FOR HOLDING THE LENT
ASSIZES, 1824, viz. :-
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
Sir Charles Abbott, Knight, Lord Chief Justice, and
31r. Baron Graham.
Buckinghamshire, Thursday, March 4, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire, Wednesday, March 10, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire, Saturday, March 13, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire Tuesday, March 16, at Cambridge.
Norfolk, Saturday, March 20, at Thetford.
Suffolk, Saturday, March 27, at Bury St. Edmund's.