The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

taining one reduction only—That of Is. per bushel on
malt. The Opposition pressed for further reductions,
which were strenuously resisted by the Tory Ministers,
but on a division on a motion for a repeal of the Malt
Tax they only escaped defeat by a majority of four.
They were subsequently beaten on two several motions
by the Opposition,—one for a reduction of salaries to the
Lords of the Admiralty ; the other for the abolition
of the sinecure office of • Joint Postmaster-General ; and
finally beaten into abandoning their Budget altogether,
and bringing forward a new one, containing the reduc-
tions of taxation above quoted. In the statement re-
ferred to, the merit of these reductions is given to the
Tory Government, who opposed them to the utmost,
and only adopted them after repeated defeats, when they
had no resource left but to adopt the measure of their
opponents, or resign office.
7th.—Tho reduction of the duty on British distilled
spirits in 1823 and in 1825, and on rum in 1824, and
on cider in 1825 and 1830, which altoether figure in
the list, to the amount of 2,250,000, must not be
taken as a reduction of taxation, but as a differential
duty against foreign spirits and cider, creating to that
amount a preference interest in favour of home-made
spirits and cider, and also in favour of colonial rum.
This, instead of a diminution, should in truth be con-
sidered as a protective tax to that amount.
Bth.—lf the public, therefore, allow for all these deduc-
tions, and for the new taxes imposed by the Tories in
1819, amounting to 3,200,0001.. per annum, and add
all the previous burdens with which the Tories have
oppressed the country for thirty-six years, it is plain
that the Tories have little merit left them on'appearing
before the tribunal of national judgment
Lastly.—lt is equally plain that if we allow the Tories
all the merit they claim for diminishing the public bur-

dens, there remains, even by the evidence of Tory
statements, still greater merit for the Reform Govern-
ment in taking on* the taxes as admitted by the Tory
list, but which list is at least 2,000,0001. under the
actual amount.
The amount of taxes taken off by the Reform Govern-
ment, as stated by the Tories, is 6,373,0001.
Now the real amount of taxes taken off was as follows :
1831. Customs duties on Coals, Coast- £
wise

State ditto
Wine, Barite., &e.

36,813
54,951

-- 1,060,961
Excise, Calicoes
Assessed Taxes 3,152
.832. Customs
.. 247,746

Excise, Candles 483,800
---: Stamps 7,234
Assessed Taxes 44,065
1833. Customs 349,147
Excise on Soap and Silks ... 809,000
Stamps
Assessed Taxes 419,145
1834. Customs duties 307,364
Excise ditto
Stathps
Houses and Windows
1835. Customs, Coffee .. 31,939
Flint Glass and Spirit Licenses lBB,OOO
1836. Customs 143,302
_ _

..._. .
Excise, Paper Duty, &c 572,500
Stamps, Newspapers, Race-horses 403,300
.839. Post-office

8,730,077

The taxes imposed were on Customs and Excise, and
Assessed Taxes. Taking the exaggerated statement of
the Tories, they amount to 3,249,0001., or about the same
amount as imposed by the Tories in 1819, without any
reduction whatever.

The Tory list states that the Public Debt was re-
duced from 801,000,0001, in 1821, to 757,000,000/. in
1831 :—we readily admit this, and the Tories were
easily enabled to do so by two circumstances : first, the
general peace of the world, and secondly the abundance
of money, rendering it easy to diminish the interests
of the National Debt, and to buy up stock bearing high
interest, to be refunded at low interest.
From 1831 to 1841, events unforeseen, and none of
which could possibly have been prevented, have arisen,
and have caused additional expenditure, and which ex-
penditure the Tories themselves in Parliament saw fully
as great a necessity for, as the Reform Government did.
Among these was the revolt in Canada, the China war,
the scarce harvests 1838 and 1839, causing a dimi-
nished use of other articles than food ; the commercial
crisis in America affecting the trade and especially the
Custom's revenue of England.
There is this fact, however, to be taken into account,
viz., that if the Reform Government had abided by the
proclamation of the Tories, viz., " that the latter
had not left it in the power of the former to make any
further reduction in the national taxation," then the
national revenue would at this day exceed the expendi-
ture to the amount of about six millions, notwithstand-
ing the extra expenditure caused by the revolt in Canada,
and the expedition to China, and also of the interest
of twenty millions sterling, which the Reform Govern-
ment and Parliament, to their immortal honour, have paid
for emancipating all the Colonial slaves. Nor must it
be forgotten that the Reform Ministry entered
upon the Government immediately after the last French
revolution, which was followed by the Belgian and Po-
lish revolution ; and that the Reform Ministry instead
of involving the country in war (as the Tories did after
the first French Revolution), have preserved the peace of
Europe from 1830 to 1841, during a period of great
difficulty and danger.
We may further state that the sliding scale of the
Corn Duties with which the Tories have saddled the
energies of the country, has defrauded the Treasury of,
and put into the pockets, not of the landlords and far-
mers, but of the jobbers in food, at least the amount of
2,000,0001. within the last two years.

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MR. HANDEL GEAR'S BENEFIT.—On
Thursday a concert was given at the Hanover-square
Rooms, for the benefit of Mr. Gear. It commenced with
a quartetto, in which Miss Bruce Wyatt, Mr. H. Gear,
Mr. Stretton, and Signor F. Lablache sang the delight-
ful air by Donisetti, " Chi mi frena" (Lucia di); after
which a fantasia.on the pianoforte, by Mdlle. Borchardt,
a child of ten years of age, with whose performance the
company were astonished and delighted. Mr. John
Parry sang " Fanny Grey" and " County Commissions,"
during which he kept the risible faculties of his audience
quite in activity. Being loudly encored in both, he. very
kindly added his " Italian Master and Scholar," and
"Wanted a Wife." Among the English compositions,
a ballad sang by Miss Adeline Cooper, the " Alpine
Shepherdess,"-composed expressly for her by Jagtterod,
attracted particular attention ; there was a softness and
sweetness of delivery which called forth repeated plan-
dits. In expressing our delight, we may mention that
it was in perfect unison with that of a delighted audience,
by whom She was loudly and enraptuously encored. Mr.
Clinton performed a fantasia brillante on the flute,
Mr. Wolf an aria on the violin, and Mdlle. Launitz on
the panoforte.
MARYLEBONE ELECTION.—In Paddington all
is bustle and activity. The canvass exhibits the immense
interest the people take in the approaching struggle.
Sir B. Hall polled in that district, when returned four
years since, 326 votes; Mr. E•w•art 280 ; the number of
voters registered being 995. The present register con-
tains 1,191 voters, of which number Sir B. Hall has po-
sitive promises up to last evening of 539 ; Sir Charles
Napier, 533; plumpers for Hall 8, tbr Napier 2. The dis-
qualifications by death, removal, &c., amount to 200. The
excellent arrangements made in that district will ensure
a majority over the Tory crew of upwards of 300. In-
deed, Mr. Cabbell's speech at Paddington:veen has so
entirely disgusted all good men, that this hitherto Tory
district will boldly, fearlessly, and heartily perform its
duty.
We have received from Loughborough the par-
ticulars of a case of extreme severity, by the Bench of
Magistrates sitting there, upon a poor man, for the
alleged offence of stealing two-penny worth of cabbage.
Though the man bore an" exemplary character, he was
conveyed to prison for three months, during which time
the county will have to support him, and the parish his
wife and numerous family.—Plymouth Journal.
A CORRUPT • VOTER.—A gentleman in pub-
lic company, commencing a song, was entreated by a
friend to desist. . You will never, said the latter, gain
anything by your voice. You are wrong, replied the
former, my voice as a voter, at the late election, gained,
me a round sum of money.

THE BRITANNIA STEAM-SHlP.—Captain
Cleland, the commander of this vessel, which, it will be
remembered, on her last passage home ran on the rocks
off the harbour off Halifax, but got off again with little
or no damage, has been presented by his passengers
with a gold chronometer, made by Barraiid and Lund,
as an expression of their high sense of his abilities and
attention during the voyage.
SIGNIFICANT INSCRIPTION.—In Chatham
churchyard is a stone with this upon it. A man had
buried two wives ; after stating the name and age of the
first, was the following :—" The Lord gave and the
Lord bath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord."
In a few years his second wife died ; and following her
name and age, is—" I called upon the Lord and he
heard me, and delivered me out of all my troubles.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A LADY.—A
Coroner's inquest was held on Thursday morning, at the Bedford
Arms, Tottenhantn-court-road, before Mr. Wakley, on the
body of Mrs. Ann Newham, aged 63 years. Mrs. Margaret
M'Queen, of 225, Tottenham-court-road, stated that she had
known the deceased for the last fourteen years. She was a
widow of independent property, and had resided with wit-
ness about sixteen months. The deceased had been suffering
from an attack of nerveus fever and depression of spirits for
the last fortnight, and had been attended daily by a medical
man. Witness saw her last alive about eight o'clock on
Monday evening. She then appeared to be in as good health
and spirits as she had been for some time previously, and told
witness she was going up stairs. Mr. Joseph Elwell, of 225,
Tottenham-court-road, grocer, stated that he went in search
of the deceased about half-past eight o'clock on Monday night.
After having gone all over the house, he went into the dust-
hole, where he found the deceased in a standing position, with
her head and arms immersed in a small cask of water. Wit-
ness immediately carried the deceased, who appeared to be
quite dead, into her bedroom, and sent for a surgeon, and ho
endeavoured in vain for more than two hours to restore anima-
tion. Verdict, Temporary insanity.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—A commission
of lunacy
was opened on Wednesday at Gray's Inn Coffee-
house, touching the sanity of William Pinckes, Esq., an elderly
rs who
gentleman, possessed of large landed property, and described as
of Breachwood-green, llertfordshire, and at present residing at
No. 24, Great Warner-street. The Cominis,ioners were
Messrs. Phillimore,
was described to be extremely in.
Winslowe, and Blunt. The subject
of the inquiy,
firm and suffering under a defect of the eyes, nearly
amounting to blindness, appears to have no relatives.
Having amassed considerable wealth in early life, he laid
it out in the purchase of land, but from the circumstance
of his being a foundling, the estates of which he is possessed
revert to the Crown should the writ be sustained. It is re-
sisted by a person named Arnold, who has for some years had
the management of Mr. Pinckes's money matters, and who
now, by virtue of a will, stands in the character of sole
executor. The investigation was reaumed on Thursday, but there
being a great number of witnesses to be called, the inquiry was,
again adjourned.