The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-12 00:00:00

TI-1E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 18.0.

peals to glory in Paris which would be ridiculed as
the grossest absurdity in London.

We see with great regret, but without much as-
:onishment, the state of the revenue as exhibited in
he tables elsewhere published. On the quarter, as

compared to the corresponding quarter of 1839,
there is a decrease in the Customs of 115,1291., on
the Excise of 196,9101., on the Post-office

284,0001. There is, however, an increase on the
Stamps of 51,6931., on the Taxes of 21,5241., on
the Crown-lands 5,000/, on Miscellaneous, 6,7281.

Thus the total increase on the quarter is, of the or-

dinary revenue, 84,9451., and the total decrease
596,0391., being a balance of decrease in the ordi-
nary revenue of 511,0941.
The decrease in the Post-office is caused by the
alteration in the law, and it is most satisfactory to
know that the increase in the number of letters is

great and continual, and promises, at no distant
day, to bring up the postage revenue to its amount
before the reduction, which will then be seen to be
an unmingled benefit for the public.
The decrease in the Excise, we are informed, is
mainly owing to the mode in which the Excise re-
venue is transmitted to the metropolis, namely, by
bills at certain dates. Now, it happened last quar-
ter that the excisemen in the different districts did

not go their rounds, we are informed, quite so
soon as usual, and the consequence is, that many
of their bills transmitted to London, which ought
to have fallen due before quarter-day, do not fall
due till after it, and, not being realized, are not in-
cluded in the accounts of the present quarter. We
have heard them estimated at upwards of 400,0001.,
and they will swell the next quarter by that amount
more than it ought to be.
With respect to the deficiency of the Customs,
that is mainly caused by the sugar duties. The
whole deficiency of the Customs on the quarter is
115,1291., while the deficiency in the sugar duties
is no less than 192,425/. So that on some other
branches of the Customs there must have been an
increase of 77,2961. This is the effect of short

crops of sugar and the enormous duties which
preclude the importaticn of sugar from any
other than our own limited colonies. Sugar is
now a necessary of life, and the discriminating
sugar dues, levied for the benefit of the West
India land-owners, are now crippling the resources
of the State.
We should, however, be insincere and unjust if

we were not to advert to the fact that since Octo-

ber, 1839, there has been a great increase in the
rate of taxation. On May 15th, as our readers will
remember, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
brought forward the Budget, and from that day '
forward levied an additional duty of 4d. per gallon ,
on all spirits, 5 per cent. on all Customs and
Excise duties, and 10 per cent. on the Taxes. The
Stamps, on which there is a large increase this
quarter, and indeed a successive increase on every
quarter, are not augmented. The CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER explained to the House that he
expected the increase of 5 per cent. on the Customs
and Excise duties would yield in the year 1,426,0001.,
the increase on spirits 484,0001., on the assessed
taxes 276,0001., and by the new survey he expect-
ed to get 150,000/. more, making a total of
2,336,0001., which he calculated the increase of
taxation would yield in the year. If we were to
divide this by four, we should have 584,0001., as
the proportionate expected increase in this quarter.
But, on looking at the table, it will be seen that the
amount of taxes paid in the winter and summer
quarters, is five times as much as the taxes paid in
the present quarter ; instead therefore, of taking the
fourth ?att. of 276,000/. or 69,0001. for the expected
increase of the taxes in this quarter tee_ m ust :'only
take the proportionate increase on 300,0001., which
will be about 24,000/. 'We therefore set down the
calculated increase this quarter at 593,0001.,
whereas there is a deficiency of 511,0941., which,
added to the expected increase, makes a sum of
1,104,094/. on the quarter below the CHANCEL•
LOR'S calculations.
We must, however, deduct from this deficiency
the Excise duties held in bills, which will swell '
the next quarter say 400,000/., and we ought to
deduct the 284,000/. decrease in the Post-office,
as that is a reduction
.of taxation ; and, making
these reductions, we arrive at the sum of
420,0941. which this quarter is worse than the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S anticipations•
We trust that this may not be taken as an index to
the whole year, but if it may, it will be incumbent on
the Government boldly to meet the difficulty, to
revise our fiscal code, and to release our trade from
the trammels with which some selfish, sordid classes
have bound it. _ _ _

We are not, we will own, without our misgivings.
Our revenue has scarcely yet felt the interruption
to which our trade is now liable by the new state
of our foreign relations in the East ; nor has the
Excise felt in all its force the diminished consump-
tion of spirituous liquors. The harvest is generally
described as abundant and excellent, and at pre-
sent there is no probability of any importation of
corn from abroad to increase the revenue, or any
exportation to pay for it. In ordinary cir-
cumstances we should augur favourably for the
revenue from an abundant harvest, but the Corn-
laws have diminished the manufacturers' power to
purchase. .They can get nothing more, and they
can give nothing more, to the agriculturists than at
present. On the contrary, if the harvests be abun-
dant the price of agricultural produce will fall, and
the agriculturist will be obliged to give more to the
manufacturer for the same quantity of cottons and
silks. The Corn-laws, by cutting off foreign
trade, have dried up the sources of increas-
ing wealth in the manufacturing and com-
mercial districts ; and, therefore, the agriculturists
must be contented with what they now receive
from the manufacturers. When prices have fallen
very considerably, and a stimulus has again been
given to trade, the effect of the abundant harvest
will be felt in the revenue, but that will not be for
many months ; and in the meat-Anne the revenue
will, we are afraid, decline from declining prices.
The abundant harvest under ordinary circum-
stances would promote consumption and en-
joyment, and an increase of the revenue will not
immediately have any such effect.
The bad harvests for two or three years back
seem now to have done their work. In 1838, men
could struggle against the calamity, for they had
something to fall back on. In 1839, they were
not reduced to the extreme of destitution ; but the
early part of 1840, before the harvest had been
gathered, has seen them in very great distress ; and
now, if not before, the revenue begins to feel the
bitter effect of laws restricting the supply of food.
On the amount of that, it is clear the number of the
people and their well-being depend. On then
numbers depend the amount of money in circula-
tion, the quantity of trade, the enterprises
undertaken, and all the other phenomena which make
.tTo curtail the supply of
food is
therefore
'rsPu
to shrike
at the root of all prospe-
rityti) national lo
; and that such is the effect of the Corn-laws
the revenue is now declaring.
If there was prosperity in the agricultural, dis-
tricts, compensation for the we might find some
misery which is inflicted en the rest of the commu-
nity by stinting the supply of food, and some hope
of the revenue increasing ; but the accounts which
we receive from the agricultural districts speak of
much distress and clime. For example, at a meeting
of the Sussex Magistrates, held at Lewes on Friday

week, it was resolved to introduce the rural police into I
the eastern division of that county on account of the
increase of crime. At that meeting it was stated
by Sir CHARLES LAMB that the people were in
want of employment, and he recommended the
Magistrates to try and employ them before they
punished them. His benevolent views, however,
did not prevail, and the gendarmerie was intro-
duced into Sussex. The agricultural districts are,
in fact, overrun with distress and crime. With laws
to starve the people, and gendarmerie to appre-
hend and punish them, what better, we should
like to know, is England, 25 years after the battle
, of Waterloo, than was France under BONAPARTE'?

A Roman Catholic Journal, published weekly
in the metropolis, called the Tablet, speaks of the
uarterly Review on Mr. CAR-
with unqualified praise. It says—
aLryt iLc
si in
htahretis2

" To sum up briefly our judgment of the article, we
may say, that making allowance for some mistakes of
the kind we have mentioned, and the personal opinions
of the writer on polities, and a few !lame sneers at
Popery, which are clumsily dragged in, as if for the pur-
pose of proving that the writer is no Catholic, it is (and
we can give it no higher praise) just such an examina-
tion and refutation of Mr. Carlyle's errors as ought. to
have proceeded from a Catholic pen. It is powerful in
lan4uage, profound in thought, and excellent in spirit.'
This is quite as it should be. That article was
written in a true Papal spirit, and the opinions pro-
perly find an echo in a Papal Journal. The
evidence of the close alliance between 'the Church
of England, which is betraying Protestantism, and
the worst parts of the Papacy is complete ; beast
and soul our priests are given to the Papacy. They
have no other refuge.; Inquire, they dare not ; rest
in their own dogmas, they cannot ; and they must
therefore flee to an infallible Church. Between that
and complete religious freedom, implying the aboli-
tion of all State Churches, there is no middle course.
The Church of England will be a State Church,
with settled and fixed articles, and tries to hold back
society to the decrees fixed for its own regulation.
But to deprive others of the right of private judg-
ment is to deprive itself of the right of departing
from the infallibility of the POPE, and accord-
ingly the Priesthood are zealously working their
way back to Rome. They will get thither, but
they will never carry the people nor the revenues
of the Church with them.

We copy the fellovring interesting Memoir
of an old Tory from a weekly Tory paper, the

Britannia

The will of the Right Honourable Charles George
Baron Arden, of Xrden, deceased, has just teen proved
in the Prerogative Court, by the Right Hon. Margaretta
Elizabeth, Dowager Baroness Arden, the relict of the
deceased, and the Rir,lit Hon. George James Baron
Arden (now Lord Arden) heretofore James Perceval, the
executors. The personal property alone has ben sworn
under the value of 800,0001. The stamp or probate duty
alone was 10,5001., independent oe the legacy duty, which
will amount to 70,0001. or 80,0001. more. The whole of
his property, with the exception of a few trifling legacies
to servants, has been bequeathed to his widow and
children. The will is dated in March, 1826 (the first
codicil in 1834, and the last codicil in 1840). The
deceased Baron lived to attain the great age of 84 years.
He was brother_ to the late Mr. Pereeval, who was shot
by Bellingham, in the lobby of the House of Commons,
when Prime Minister. The Registrarship of the High
Court of Admiralty became vacant when his Lordship
was an infant of some few months old, and it was actually
given to, and retained for him, until be was capable of
officiating, the office being performed by deputy. In
time of war the emoluments arising from his situation
amounted to between 20,0001. and 30,0001. a year. Ile
held the same for upwards of 80 scars. He was ap-
pointed Master of the Mint in 1801, and a Lord of the
Bedchamber to George 111. in 1604.

No wonder that his Lordship left 800,0001. of
personal property ! He was indeed born with a
silver spoon in his mouth. Thirty thousand a
year for an infant Tory was, no doubt, a good
bribe, and made him faithful to his party for life.
But this is only one instance, out. of ten thousand,
proving by what means these public robbers gained
adherents, and filled their own pockets. The
Marquis of CAMDEN, just deceased, was another
instance. He received some 12,0001. annually for

many years for doing nothing, but, being a man
of probity, and ashamed to rob the public in such a
barefaced way, he resigned his pension. Lord
GRENVILLE kept his till the day of his
death, and many others did the same, and something
more, leaving the reversion to their children. The
Church, the Army, the Navy, and in fact every
public department,. were kept up at an enormous
expense, to provide for the aristocrats and their pro-
tegees ; and while Bishops and Lords were
amassing immense wealth the taxes were
time a debt was con-
itnraccreteadsedto, aannd aamt otuhnet same
eeard of in ancient or
modern times. Notwithstanding all this, notwith-
standing the enormous burden which oppresses the
middle and lower classes, not
a few of the blind
multitude still cry out for more Church and more

Toryism, and would bring back those days of extrava-
gance and misrule which have entailed on them and
their children so many sufferings. While the Baron
ARDEN amassed 800,0001., the public contracted
a debt something like 800,000,000/. Can there
be a better proof of the blessings of Toryisin ?

BRUSSELS, OCT. 10.—The King arrived yeFterday,
a little before 8 o'clock, at the Palace at Laeken. It
is said, but we do not know whether the report is well-
founded, that King William had the intention to trans-
fer the Crown of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to
his second son, Prince Frederick, by virtue of a power
which he reserved to himself in 1815, but that Prince
refused it. Notwithstanding the denials in the Jour-
nals, people persist in saying that this Prince, who has
already resigned all the public offices which he held,
will not remain in Holland, but will settle at Berlin, at
the Court of his brother-in-law the King of Prussia,
who about a fortnight ago gave him the commission of
Lieut.-General in the Prussian army,