The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-06 00:00:00

John Paston and the members of his ftmily, .cud
cont4ining many curious anecdotes relating to
those turbulent aad sanguinary periods of our
history. Tl►e work was originally edited by Sir
John Fenn; but the present edition, in which
some of the more unimportant letters arc
abridged, is brought out under the careful super-
intendence of Mr. Ramsay.

AR4GO'S LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.

Whittaker, London, 1841.
A translation, by Mr. Walter Kelly, of a
series of Astronomical Lectures that were ori-
ginally delivered, by M. Arago, at the Royal
Observatory of Paris. The translation forms one
of the Numbers of the " Popular Library of
Modern Authors," and has been rendered with
laudable accuracy.

A LETTER TO LORD VJSCOUNT
D UNCA NNON.
My LOAD.--While I admit the right of the public
to the laud purchwel with the public money to form
the Regent's Park, I cannot but lament that your
Lordship does no' appear ro feel the absolate riccess:ty
of affording, and that at the earliest momert, to the
public large spaces • of land at the eastern end of Lon-
don. Your Lordship has acted in your pace in Paria-
went, that it is difficult to procure Ilud suitaLle for the
purpose, and the oLject of this !utter is to show that no
such difficulty in reality r xists. but that unless measures
are taken forthwith the difficulty seta be increased ten-
fel 1, in.conscqucoLe of the building nrtni,, by the next
Session.

Lrst it may be slid dist I am an interested wr:ter, I
do not suggest any site for the propose•i Eastern Perk.
I merely inform your Lordship of open land which 1
sin cognizant of in the locality, leaving it to your Ldrd-
ship to say which will benefit the district most.
LIST OF LAND NOT BUILT ON IN TOWER HAMLETS.

Bishop Bonner's FLA ACRES.
and adjoini,ig land 45
Cat and Mutton Field, &c, 5O
,Behind Pritchard's-place, near the above
:Jut ford-road, Hoxford
Land extenoing to Mile End from Gri•en-street, pas uJ
-
sing the Dtvowhirz-street S!aion of the Eastern
Counties Railway, and f!xtending eastward, form-
ing an entrance to the Park, opposite Crown-row,
Mile End-road
Land near Bethnal. Green-road 8
Land behind the present Workhouse, Bethnal Green 5
Land opposite and near Green-place, Green.crces ! 4
Various portions of lend under five r.cres

Tut 11
437
Thus you perceive, zny Lord, there is land ; and I
hay., only to implore your Lordship to pause deeply crc
you decide upon t eking upon yourself the responsibility
of delaying this measure of
.justice to Vic poor artizan of
the Tower Hamlets for another Session.
I am, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,,
A RESIDENT OF THE TOWER HAMLETS.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC; JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAFERS OF Tills DAY.
CHRONICLE.—Tbe Times cont,asts in a ton cof
apparent triumph the Whig Budget of 1841 with the last
Conservative Budget of 1830. The Conservatives, we
are told, lift a revenue of 50,430,000/. which their inca-
pab!e successors have contrived to se 'race to 48 310,0001.,
and thereupon is founded a tirade about " prodigious ni s
mat ageatent." Did it never emir to the write-, tha•
the tact that a reduction of upwards of 7,000,000/. in the
taxation of the country had been effeeted, with a less to
the revenue of only 2 200,000/., might be a proof f any
thing rather than financial mismanagement? True, the
revenue of t're country is less in /841 than it was in 1830,
but why? Did not the following list of taxes figure in
Mr. Goulburn'a Budget, which have bzen repealed by
subsequent Whig Administrations
Duty on coals and slats
-£9Ol 000
Candles
500,000
Rioted cottons...
House tax 1,200,000
Soap duty, reduced one-half
Postage, reduce I to Id.
To say nothing of the various minor taxes which have
been repealed or reduced, on tile, hemp, ilsurancea en
marine and farming stock and on farm-houses, clerks.
shopmen, tax-carts, paper, newspapers, and other articles?
The sum-total of taxes tskan off by Whig Govern-
meats in the ten years from 1831 to 1841, exclusive
of the loss snarained by the adoption of the penny
postage, amounts to £7,116623 ; deducing f.om
which £879,802, the amount of new taxes imposed.
we have for the total rest i.sion of taxation by the
Whigs the annual sum of £6.236,821, or, with the
postage, of uawprds of 7.200,000. Add this to the re-
venue stated in Mr. Baring's Budget, and the-s campare
it with that of his Conservative preiecessor. The " pro-
digious mismanagement" which hat continued " to reduce
our revenue 2,170,000/. per annum," now turns out, in
point of lac', to bats increased the tax-paying resources
of the country by upwards of 5 000,000/. Re-impose the
taxes which have been repealer', and the balance-sheet of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer w 11 1 nik a great deal
mare favourable, Any chili could tell this. But the
question now at iisue between the two great pat tics of Vie
.Sate: is very different. The question is, whether iow
taxes shall be imposeJ, not as a means of mcetirg the
recessary expences of the coui.try, but as a stilettos of
kt ening up the system by which the great bent of
cur population arc made to pay a h;gtier pr:c r th to
any other European nation for the nreassar'es of life, in
order to swell the incomes of a few lindowners, hire and
in the colonies. The Government, finding that the time
had come when tbis syste,n could no longer be, mri
ni bout closing the best markets in tLe world against the
produce of our industry, striking a fatal blow at our ex-
istence as a great manufacturing nation, and at the same
time reimposing upon the country a fresh burden of op-
pressive taxation, have di terminec', wisely and manf.sliy,
to adopt a new system, founded upon principles of r bpi rus
justice and advantage. The Tories, finding that the G.--
vernment had adopted the causa of commercial reform
have taken their stand as the champions of monopoly,
Disguise it as they like, the countrl• can see Viscount
Sanders's motion in no other light than as the gage of
battle thrown down by monopoly against free trade.

PARLI A MENTARY DI VISION.
(From the Potesand Proceedings of Mc Howe of Commun..)
MONDAY,' MAY 3.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.

In the Committee ---
Clause (That the Act shall not extend or apply to the Bo-
rough of Bolton) brought up, and read a first time :—Ques_
tion put, " That the Clause be read a second time :"
Committee divided :

MINORITY-AYES, 31.
Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Hodgson ;Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed
Blackburne, Warrineton Holmes, W.—Berwick-on'lweed
Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire Hughes, W. B —Carnarvon
Buller, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Ingestre, Viscount—Starr:,rdshire
Cresswell . Cresswell—Liverpool Knight, H. G.—Nottingh.oushir.
Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton Mackentie, W. F.—Peeblesshire
Darby, George—East Sussex Marslancl, Thomas—Stockport
Drummond, H. H.—Perthshire Parker, li. T.—Preston
Dugdale, W. S —Warwickshire Rae, Right Hon.:Sir Wm.—Bute
Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Riehards, Itichard—Merineth,h,
Egerton, Lord F. L.—Lancashire Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk
Gladstone, John N.—Walsall Stewart, John—Lymington
Godson, R.—Kidderminster Waddington, H. S.—West Suffhik
Goulburn, Right Ho:). H.—Cam. Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Lanca-
bridge University shire
Greene, T.•G.—Lancashire
Hale, B. I?.—Gloucestershire
Hawkes, Thomas—Dudley

TELLERS.
Bolling, W.—Bolton
Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield

NOES, 75.
Ingham . lig:rhea—South Shields
Jong, John -Carmarthenshire
Marsland, Henry—Stockport
Maule, Hon. Fox—Elgin Burghs
Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire
Morris, D.—Carmarthen
Muni; G. F.--:;irmingliam
O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry
Parker, John—Sliettield
Parnell, Sir H.- Dundee
Pease' Joseph—South Durham
Pechell, Captain—Brighton
Pigot, David Richard—Clonmell
Rundle, John—Tavistock
Rutherfurd, Rt. firm. A.—Leith
Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow
Scholetield, J.—Birmingham
Shell, Richard Lalor—Tipperaiv
Smith, J. A.—Chichester
Stanley, E. John—North Cheshire
Steuart, Robert—Haddin2ton, &c.
Struts, Edward—Derby
Stuart,] Lord J.—Ayr
Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co.
Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Thoroely,Thos.—Wolverhampton
Tufaell, Heury—Devonport
Wakicy, Thomas—Finsbut v
Walker, R.—Bury, Lancashire
Wallace, Rebert—Greenock
Warburton, H.—Bitdport
Ward, H. G.--Sheffield
Wilde, Mr. Scrjeant—Newark
Wood, G. W..—Kendal
Wyse, Thomas--Waterfora
Yates, J. Ashton -Carlow

TELLER&
Ainsworth, P.—Bolton
Philips, :Vlark—Manchoger