The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-03 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

in the House of Commons, last night, Mr.
Hobhouse, after expressing his approbation of
the " sound, wise, and liberal views," which the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had displayed in
his financial statement for the year, stated that
the measures founded upon them had not satis-
fied the wishes of the country, which had been
led to expect a more considerable diminution of
taxes, and in .order that greater justice should be
done to the public, moved a resolution tending to
repeal the whole of the Window Tax. The de-
ficiency which this repeal would cause in the Re-
venue, he proposed should be made up by a differ-
ent application of the Austrian Loan from that
which was intended, and by taking in the esti-
mate one hundred and fifty thousand pounds for
the repairs.of Windsor Castle, which he had no
objection should be made,provided the King should
sell some of his other Palaces in order to defray
them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ably
vindicated the superiority of his plans; fairly
rdmitting that " he was aware that the pro-
positions which he brought forward on a former
evening were not calculated, in the ordinary
sense of the word, to be very popular ; but that
he knew he did his duty in not taking any course
but that which was calculated to uphold those
great principles which ought to regulate our
commerce, merely for the purpose of obtaining
a temporary popularity." He also assured the
House that by acting as he had done, he had
taken " the most efficient means for effecting, and
that at no distant period, still further reductions
of the public burdens." Of this he gave what
might be considered an immediate proof ; for
he announced that he had found the means of
effecting a fresh reduction of W:$0,000/. in the
public burthens, and of effecting it in a branch
where they might sometimes be found to occa-
sion a denial of justice. He meant the duties
on Law proceedings. They did not yield more
than 180,000/. per annum in England, and 20,0001.
in Ireland, and their place would be supplied,
not by a new tax, but by an expected improve-
ment of one hundred thousand pounds a year
in the produce of the Crown Lands, and
by a saving to the same amount in the col-
lection of the Revenue, in consequence of new
regulations which were about to be adopted.—
The House received this statement with loud
cheers ; and Mr. llobliouse, having pressed his
motion to a division, it was rejected by a majority
of 155 to 88. In the House of Peers Earl
Darnley wisely put off his motion on the state of
Ireland to the sth of next April. His reasons
for doing so were those which must have struck
every man of sense—the absence at the present
moment of those Lords who are. best acquainted
with the condition and wants of the sister coun- I
try, and the necessity of procuring additional in-
formation on a variety of points connected with
its welfare.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Sir Thomas Maitland's virtues, for the first
time, are rising all to ♦iew since his death, and
becoming the theme of :cost disinterested pa-
negyric at Corfu. His friends cannot say that
the good he did
" 14 interred with his bones."

" The world," the lonian Senate exclaims, with
oriental amplification, in its proclamation from
Corfu of the 25th Junuary—" the world is de-
" prived of that beneficent personage, and the
" public grief, which has already anticipated the
" melancholy notification, displayed the emotions
" of gratitude and affection in a spontaneous trihite
" to its lamented benefactor." Then follows the de-
cree of mourning and sorrow, one article of which
declares " thatall public business shall be suspend-
" ed for three days in the offices of the Govern-
" meat, the Courts of Justice, and before the
" Magistrates." This is a new mode of show-
ing public respect to the dead, by disturb-
ing the pursuits and avocations of the living—
something in the style of the ancients, who
immolated the trembling slaves on the bodies
of their deceased masters, and extended
the tyranny of the departed even beyond the
grave. Another article of this unique decree
orders a general mourning throughout the
Islands for a month ; and a closing one, that the
funeral exequies of the 11 igh Commissioner should
be celebrated for three suecessive days in the
churches of the Islands. This is all " a mockery
of woe," mere theatric grief, that has no place
within the heart. Sir Thomas Maitland's Go-
vernment was notoriously most unpopular through
the lonian Isles, and detested by the Greek in-
habitants. Far from mourning far his death, on
the first accounts having reached Corfu and the
other islands that he was 110 mDre, the priests
and people thronged to the churches to offer
thanks to Heaven for the happy deiverance.

The Greek Tragedy, in the present instance, has
been acted too far; the whole plot, and its
authors, are at once apparent ; and lugubrious as
it was intended to be, it brings no tears nor sor-
row in its train. Sir Frederick Adam, the pre-
sent Commissioner, has formed a Greek connex-
ion, and will probably pursue a different policy :
it is necessary ; we were losing our character fast
in the east of Europe, while Russia was specu-
lating with an ambitious aye ou all our errors and
misgovernment. The policy of this insatiate
Power never slumbers ; and Sir Thomas Mait-
land did nothing to conciliate attachment to this
country in that interesting quarter of Europe.