The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-16 00:00:00

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tint it has nothing to give away.
The Budget was the principal topic of the even-
ing. In a clear, plain, and straight-forward
manner, without any flummery or phrase-making,
the CHANCELLOROf the EXCHEQUER, having first
put the House into a Committee, made to the
House the annual financial statement. After
mentioning the income and expenditure for the
year, which expired in April, and after compli-
menting his predecessor for the great accuracy of
his estimates, which differed only 12,0001. from the
actual revenue, the Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded
to state the estimated expenditure for the year. In-
cluding an additional vote for the navy, to cover the
discrepancy between the number of men employed
and the sum already voted, 100,0001.—en additional
vote to carry into effect the recommendations of the
Military Commissioners, 75,0001.—f0r Canada,
350,0001.—and 150,000/. on account of the
expedition against China—the Right Hon.
Gentleman estimated the whole expenditure
of the year at 49,432,000/. The Income he esti-
mated at 46,700,000/. In this estimate the Right
Hon. Gentleman has made an allowance for
300,0001., as the sum which we may be obliged
to remit on duties on French commodities, in pur-
suance of the commercial treaty we are now nego-
tiating; and for the sum he wilLlose by reducing
the tax on post-coaches and chaises from .5/. ss.
and 4/. 10s, to 3/. on all such carriages, :a reduc-
tion which is called for to give a slight relief to the
suffering post-masters. The result is, that there will
be a deficiency in the revenue of 2,732,000/. The
Right Hon. Gentleman does not consider the defi-
ciency as temporary, for only two of the items of
expenditure are so,
be
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eludes that it must
by the imposition of additional burdens on
the people. The Right Honourable Gen-
tleman repudiates all loans and temporary ex-
pedients, and all taxes on new objects, and pur-
poses to increase the present Customs and Ex-
cise duties five per cent. and the Assessed Taxes
ten per cent. There is to be no increase in the
Stamp duties. The duties on Spirits—in order
to avoid any change in the differential protection
—are to be raised uniformly 4d. in the gallon.
The dutien on corn, as they are not raised for reve-
nue, are not to be increased, and the duties on
stage-coaches and licenses are not to be increased.
The produce of this increase the CHANCELLOR
estimated at about 2,300,000/., making the whole
revenue for the year 49,037,0001., which will still
leave a deficiency as compared to the expenditure.
But the Right Hon. Gentleman, not regarding the
demand for Canada and China as permanent, pur-
poses to take a vote of credit on account of them.
The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving
a resolution to increase the Custom duties 5 per
cent., to take place, as all the alterations are, from
and after the 15th of May, the time the Right
Hon. Gentleman was speaking.
Mr. HUME complimented the CHANCELLOR
for the manner in which he had made his state-
ment, but attacked several of the items of expendi-
ture, particularly the sum expended on account of
the tyranny exercised over Canada. He blamed
the present method of taxation for its inequality,
and for its pressing heaviest on the middle and
lower classes. He adverted at some length to the
unfair exemption of real property from the
legacy-duty, and concluded by moving as an amend-
ment, that the legacy-duty be extended to real pro-
perty, which he said would give the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER the two millions he wanted.
A little conversation took place as to the com-
petency of the Committee to entertain Mr.
HUME'S proposition. Mr. EWART supported it.
Colonel SIBTFIORP objected to the increase of ten
per cent. an the Assessed Taxes; and wished cham-
pagne to be more highly taxed.
Mr. GOULBURN agreed with Mr. HUME in
complimenting the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, but made a peevish, doubting speech, ex-
pressing an opinion that the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER would find that the consumption of
some articles would diminish, or that two and two,
in the Customs, did not make four. He agreed
that the Assessed Taxes would bear the additional
ten per cent., and offered no opposition to the
motion.
Mr. LABOUCHERE replied to Mr. GouLBURN,
and showed, from various circumstances, particu-
larly from the gradual increase of the revenue since
1830, that there was a great probability of the
revenue fully answering his Right Hon. Friend's
expectations.
Mr. WARBURTON complained of the Assessed
Taxes being increased in England, while Ireland
was wholly exempt from Assessed Taxes.
Sir R. PEEL generally approved of the proposed
plan for increasing the revenue, but took raw cotton
under his special protection, and pleaded for its
exemption from the increase of .5 per cent.
The Itight Hon. Gentleman was facetious on Mr.
WARBURTON, on there being no Assessed Taxes
in Ireland, and on the quarter of the empire whence
the Ministers derived their support. He was great
also on the Corn-laws, declaring that a system
which had not wholly crushed the native and
natural energies of the empire could not be so mis-
chievous as it had been described. The Right
Hon. Baronet talked on this subject, and on the
subject of public credit, more twaddle than we ever
before heard from him. He seems to think it an
advantage that the nation should be able to reduce
the interest on the public debt. It is clear that
when men in business cannot make above two or three
per cent. on their money, they will readily invest
it in the Funds ; when they can make 10 or 12 they
will not. The ;interest of the debt, therefore, can
only be reduced when trade is comparatively stag-
nant and profit very small. To this wretched state
Sir ROBERT, by panegyrising a low rate of inte-
rest, and by supporting the Corn-laws, seems in-
clined to bring the community ; and the contemp-
tible twaddle lie used in support of his opinion,
was worthy of the bad object we suppose him to
have had in view.
After a protracted debate, or rather conversation,
the Committee divided on Mr. HUME's amend-
ment, which was lost by 39 to 156. The resolu-
tion was agreed to.
A second division took place on the resolution
for augmenting the Excise duties 5 per eent., but
it was carried by 111 to 15. The remainder of the
resolutions were agreed to, it havincr been stated
that so agreeing to them bound no Member to Rs-
sent to the Bill for carrying them into effect.
Leave was given to bring in a Bill to alter the
Navigation Laws.
The County Constabulary Bill was committed
pro forma.
Mr. O'BRIEN'S motion for balloting to give no-
tices was negatived, and at Ten minutes before
One the House adjsurned till Monday.

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME
VESTRIS,
THIS EVENING, MAY 16,
Will be performed Colman's Comedy qf
JOHN BULL.

Sir Simon Rochdale, Air: FTKl;t7liews ; Frank Rochdale,
Mr. J. Vining ; Peregrine, Mr. Cooper ; Hon. Tom Shuffle-
ton, Mr. C. Mathews ; Job Thornberry, Mr. Bartley ; Den-
nis Brulg-raddery, Mr. Brougham; Day, Mr. Meadows; Lady
Caroline Braymore, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mary Thornberry, Mrs.
W. Lacy ; Mrs. Brulgruddery, Mrs. C. Jones.
To conclude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic,
Melodramatic, Fairy Extravaganza, in Three Parts, entitled
rnd founded on that popular Nursery Tale,
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.
The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining.,
Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C.
Jones, &c. &c.

Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles, bs. ; Second Price, 9.5. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, its.
Doors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Tickets and plat es for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of-
fice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had
upon application.
Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Andrews bookseller
167, New Bond-street.

The Tories are a gallant band, it must be ad-
mitted. They fight hard for their grub. No
Arabs were ever more adroit or more persevering
in plunder. Beat them in front, and before you
have time to face about they fall on your rear.
Plunder they must have ; without that they die,
and they leave no means untried to procure it.
The Post has the merit, we think, of discover-
ing a new method of procuring grist for the Tory
mill. It lays dcwn the principle that men are to
have civil rights in proportion as they are virtuous ;
it claims for the Tories, especially for such as are
Protestants, and more especially for such as are
Orangemen, a monopoly of virtue, and then the
conclusion follows, of course, that their opponents
must be excluded from civil privileges, or the
benefit of equal laws. He says in so many words
that the Roman Catholics must not have equal
privileges with the Protestant Tories, because they
are knaves.

It is not enough to exclude the Catholics, they
must also be insulted. They are kicked be-
cause they are worthless. Who decides this ?
Their enemies. The Post has found out, or fan-
cies, that the Catholic Emancipation Act was
passed to give immunity to the abuses of the An-
glican Chucr, and as immunity has not been ob-
tained, the Post jumps to the conclusion that all
Catholics are cheats, and must be treated accord-
ingly. It never inquires whether the fault be not
in the Church. It takes for granted that the I
Church is perfection, and because the Church is
not safe, the Catholics are to be treated as slaves
in the land of their fathers.
It is not for us to institute a comparison be-
tween the virtues of Protestantism and Popery,
but it is palpable that half the merit of the
former is due to the date of its birth,

It is a child of later civilization than Popery,
and is uncontaminated with the vices and crimes
of the dark ages. It came into being

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c 4),:, is to he ch:..:.!d s the
dark ages because it teaches the same religious
tenets which were then taught, let Protestantism
see that the vices and crimes of a still darker age
he not charged on it. Popery pretends to preserve
its doctrines unaltered—so does Protestantism, and
it an adherence to antiquity be a crime, what claim
can Protestantism have on our respect ?
But when the holier-than-thou Protestants
revile the Catholics as sinners, what facts can they
quote to justify their own arrogance ? Is there a
more heartless tyranny on record than that of the
Orangemen ? Is not meekness an utter stranger
to the whole crew ? Who can match the Protestant
parsons for injustice? The least of their errors is that
they have for years taken an income without per-
forming the duties for which it is given. Equally
vindictive towards their Protestant brethren and
their Catholic opponents, they have tortured both
Dissenters and Catholics The existence of a
great body of tyrannical penal laws, to secure power
to Protestantism, is a proof that the 2rotestants, as
such, whatever may be the amount of their arrogance,
have no claim to the noble attributes of justice and
charity. We, therefore, deny the right of the
Protestants to degrade and punish the Catholics
because the former are so much more virtuous than
the latter.

At the same time, we are not sorry to see this
principle of granting civil privileges to men accord-
ing to their virtues, laid down by the Tories. The
multitude will act on it. On this principle, what
do the Orange landlords of Ireland deserve ? They
have expelled widows and orphans from their
holdings ; they have rack-rented the cotters, and
expelled them for non-payment. A class of men
with less merit in the eyes of the conanunity is not
to be found ; and instead of civil privileges and
immunities, they deserve confiscation, stripes, and
banishment. Are the English landowners any
better ? The Corn-laws answer No. .‘ Those who
draw the sword, shall perish by the sword," says
an authority wilich they pretend to respect ; and
on the same ground it may be affirmed, that those
who plunder others, shall in turn be plundered.
The landowners, by means of a law, pick the
pockets of the poor ; and if they were to have the
privileges which their virtues require, their legs
would be in the stocks, and their hands in hand-
cuff's. What political privileges, too, do their
worthy allies, the Anglican clergy, deserve, if they
were meted out in proportion to virtue ? We must
leave the answer to our readers' imagination, merely
observing, that if professing one thing and doing
another—if knowing and pointing on the right path
to others, and taking the wrong themselves—if
prostituting the holiest sentiments to the most
selfish and most worthless purposes, deserve exclu-
sion from political power, the Anglican clergy
would have no part in the Constitution.

The subject at present uppermost in the minds of
all ranks of Frenchmen is the removal of the remains
of NAPOLEON to Paris. The Constitutionnel states
that when the news was communicated to the in-

mates of the Hotel des Invalides, all the mutilated
veterans shed tears of joy. " The feelings of
Marshal MoNcEY, the Governor," continues this
Journal, " were even more heightened than the
rest. This glorious news has rendered him
younger-looking by twenty-five years, and he, who
remained to the last moment faithful to the Great
Captain, whose fortunes he so nobly followed,
seems to be carried back to the times when he par-
ticipated in his glory." This is true of al-
most every veteran who fought the battles
of the Empire ; and great indeed is the
popularity of M. TRIERS, who is known to

have been the first to advise the KING to procure
for the ashes of the EMPEROR a resting place in
the bosom of his beloved France. Still the expe-
riment is one pregnant with danger. Already, in
1 the iridst of the first burst of the national joy,
something like a low murmur is heard at the men-
tion of employing a single frigate on so important a
mission. A first-rate ship of war, with her full
complement of guns on board, is already demanded
by public opinion. Some of the enthusiastic ad-
mirers of the EMPEROR have likewise taken alarm
at the exclusion of his ashes from clic vaults of St.
Denis, - where repose the dust of the other SOVE-
REIGNS of Prance. This is truly contemptible.
Who, with one spark of chivalrous feeling in
his nature would desire to see the ashes of the
' hero of France mingled with the common-place
dust of the Bourbon dynasty? To claim as an ho-
nour for NAPOLEON a final resting-place with
mere Kings by birthright, indicates a miserable
appreciation of the greatness and the glory of the
worlu-compeller. NAPOLEON'S dust should rest
alone. The pilgrim to his tomb ought not to have
his recollections of the deeds of the mighty dead
disturbed by the impertinent intrusion of the
escutcheons of the buried Bourbons. He whose
fame fills the world supplies abundant ashes for
one grave—for a grave in which other bones were
never known to be deposited. But the affair is in
good hands. M. TRIERS, who has devoted him-
self heart and soul to the accomplishment of the
translation of the remains of the EMPEROR in a
manner worthy of his fame, will, we are confident,

omit nothing to sanctify his own act in the eyes o:
posterity.

The Madrid Journals received are of the 7th
inst. On that day the Cortes, after a short de-
bate, resolved that there was no ground for pro-
ceeding against Count TORENO. We anticipated
such a result. It would be strange indeed to find
the Cortes engaged in the punishment of jobbing.
But, after all, Toil Eric) was only one of a firm of
jobbers, at the head of which more than two or
three voices have placed no less distinguished a
Ipersonage than the REGENT.
In the same sitting thanks were voted to the
army in Navarre for its gallant services. The Mi-
nister of WAR read a despa:ch from ESPARTERO,
stating that 300 Carlists had arrived at his head-
quarters, and laid down their arms, and that the
war in Arragon was fast drawing to a close.
The newly created loan is censured by the whole
independent press of Spain. They calculate that
not more than 25 per cent, of the stock issued will
fiJiv into the public Treasury.
The QUEEN had issued a Royal Decree, sup-
pressing a journal entitled the Revolution, on the
ground of its articles being subversive of social
order. The Five per Cents. were, on the 7th, at
28-1- for cash, and 291 at sixty days.
2 2

There is very little news of interest in the Paris
„Tournals of Thursday. From French Africa the
tellicence is satisfactory. The following sum-
ma..y of the latest accounts from that part of the
wou t.l is from the columns of the Moniteur :
Ala.nni:ng reports have been spread as to our army in
Africa, but they are totally false. Letters from Algiers
of the 4th ins•tant completely elucidate all that has passed.
Abd_el_Kader, lilvintr united all his tribes, has come down
upon the plain o.` klitidja, and inundat,d it with his cavalrys
The army has had to ,lontend with them on its right, on it.
left, and its rear, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th ult. It re-
pulsed them at all points, and caused then greater losses
than on any former occasion, while it never itself suffered
so little as in these combats, which are said to have been
extremely brilliant. The tro,aps are in perfect health, and
full of a' dour. The have been obliged to halt to obtain
some repose. to send away their wounded, and obtain pro-
visions. The Is st accounts announce that the army was
at the foot of th e Atlas, ready to cross the mountains, and
that the 'Princes were well, The Arab marauders who
scour the plain, and render all communication very diffi-
cult, are the only cause of the delay in the transmission of
intelligence; but we are able to affirm that all the ac-
counts hitherto • received are perfectly satisfactory, and that
everything pro' rises a happy and brilliant campaign.
In the Cha tuber of Deputies, on Thursday, the
Bill for granti ug twenty millions of francs to de-
fray the expen; es of the war in Africa came under
discussion. T, Il,r money was voted with extreme
reluctance. The Deputies are fond enough of mi-
litary glory, bust they don't like the cost. 'Unfor-
tunately there is nothi.og but blows to be got in
contest with people so po,lr as the Arabs.
The Cha'ainer, in a fit of half dudgeon, half
economy, refused to grant sai.
'vies to some Coun-
cillors of State SOULT Cabinet,
appointed by th,:'
and likewire the expense of fitting up apartments
for the Presiden. of the Court of Accounts. The
whole of
the saving thus effected to the nation
amounts to 50(1/. sterling. This is cheese-paring
economy with a vengeance I
We receive from Toulon some letters, which are not a
little curious. We subjoin a couple o 1
extracts:—
extracts
" GIBRALTAR, A ,PaIL 27. Abd-el-Kader is quietly re-
ceiving supplies of' arms, powder, &c., through the port
of Tetuan. \Vhe 3 ;the French Consul at Gibraltar is
spoken to on the 5 gbjt ct, be wraps himself tap in his robe
de ehambre, and
pij ,s 4 This is no concern of mine.' Our
Consul-General at Tan tiers is deaf ; our Vice- Consul at
Tetuan, who is r
shits his eyes, and the means of de-
struction to be
_ pk, e
y d against the French pass without
ob:;tacle. It rims t Ise confessed tie French Consuls in ge.
neral (with how )ur able exceptims) deserve little of that
respect felt: for them by foreigners. It is diffi-