The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

teet,"by laws, that his grand larc e;iy will involve
him and them in insurmountable difficult' es.

the accounts of the Revenue were made up
t 'light, and they give us no reason to say
that the gulph between the Income and
Expenditure is closing up. The whole de-
se nn the quarter, as compared to the cor-
rt,e;sitt4l4ing quarter of last year, is certainly
•lit—tng) only 3,6611., but while there is a great
;I-crease in the Taxes, 382,8881., arising from the
1-eeirieased per tentage, from which men cannot
I%'n
-t escape there is a decrease in the Customs
to the quarter, notwithstanding an increase in
Th!" rate of duties, of no less than 289,3481.
sae Excise shows an increase in the quarter of
48861/. We are also happy to say, that there is
small increase in the Postage of 19,000/. The
-teveral items of increase amount to 499,3671., and
h
several items of decrease to 503,0281., making
—we have said a decrease on the quarter
13. r 3;661/.
uhr e• account for the whole year is equally
favourable as an indication of our c0m1.,.
Zl:sYstem. The decrease of the Customs for
Cre Year is 856,991/. ; of the Postage, 545,000/.;
own Lands, 15,000/. ; total decrease, including
tel'aynient of advance, &c , is 1,663,2241. The
t
2celse duties have increased 431,020/., and the
1
ales;
'609,4711., making, with other things, the
•.' ;641
Increase of the year 1,138,584/. ; and
-gowin
'Atte, gon the whole year, notwithstanding .an
th -ease in the rate of taxation, a falling oftin
t. e revenue
of 524,6401. In other words, the
it" I revenue of 1840, was 45,196,8651., of 1841
s'enly 44,672,2251.
fort/ -or will the alteration in the Postage account
4
ss. The loss by that alteration in the
coal
4 "a 5545,000/ , which is much more than
an ••- ntcrbalanced by: the increase 111 the Excise
Taxes of nearly 1,100,000/. It can no longer
Ins Said that the revenue keeps up, and the fall
Oft in the Customs of 856,0001. in the year,
..:j)twithstanding an increase of 5 per cent. in the
'1111184:4ns duties, shows that the trade of England,
toe4l, ahlsPring of its greatness and superiority
• . tuta_-`l'er nations, is becoming weak, and decaying
1 the misbegotten legislation of avarice and
7-)rance.
It must be on this occasion remembered that
the corn duties have yielded about 1,200,000/. to
Bu Customs revenue in the course of this year.
th: should the ALMIGHTY bless us, of which
11e is at present a promise, with an abundant
8:
vest; much less corn will be imported in the
next Just year l'evenue year than in the one which has
. expired, and we may consequently andel.-
1,; worse, rather than better, prospects for the
• • affillue• -Although we are aware that a falling
: of 21 the revenue from a diminished importation
ten'tOrn. is at all tunes compensated, to some
ex-
by the increased consumption which is
thnnught about by that abundance which prevents
portation
this ez__ ; yet we are forced to conclude, from
.reurnstance, that a fixed duty on corn im-
liorted,
in the
0_ erent from a duty levied at the mill, as
Idea time, or all. the corn ground and
-"sullied in the
country, must always yield a
uncertainvery
_a and varying revenue. In very
jd nt seasons it will give nothing. If Mr.
1.• such seasons Plan
exported of giving a bounty on corn
in Proportionate to the duty, be adopted,
of „ the fixed duty will be a source
dist'xPense, not of revenue, and will add to the
I Oil* distresses of the Treasury. There is, however,
411'1 .4° chance
04%th. at present of having a fixed duty sub-
uted for
_aYs'ebe the sliding scale, and Sir ROBERT
'4-ttt Probably find next year, whatever
that his long and obstinate
!In se!, scale,
and the perseverance of his party,
barefEtee,l
the „__ kt he
the pockets of
VuoPle, Whom he and they are bound to pro-

We direct the attention of our readers to the
excellent speech of Lord SYDENHAM, delivered
at the opening of the first Parliament of the
United Provinces of Upper and Lower Ca-
nada, which will be found in another part of
The Sun. It is the only important communica-
tion brought by the Great Western, which ar-
rived on Sunday night at Bristol.

The accusations of bribery made by the jour-
nals, of both parties, are general and even awful.
At Nottingham, for example, the Whigs—at
Shrewsbury the Tories, are charged with unheard
of bribery. Never, it is said, was bribery so
extensive, so barefaced, and so profligate, as at
the present election. We fear there is too much
truth in the accusation, and we exonerate
neither party from the charge, though, we be-
lieve, that the most profligate bribery has been
on the side which boasts of most success.
Some considerations, however, arise from these
circumstances, worthy of attention. A House of
Commons, so collected, cannot command the re-
7t. and obedience of the people. They, par-
Acularly the unrepresented, who greedily believe
every tale which is to the disadvantage of the
present system, will conclude at once that a Le-
gislature, collected by such corrupt and base
means, is unworthy of all confidence. While the
bribers imagine, therefore, that they are achieving
a party triumph, they are sapping the authority
of the House of Commons. If ever the people
could be governed by such a system, the time is
now passed, and at present it would be as rational
to expect that they should honour FAUNTLEROY,
and respect GREENACRE, as honour and respect
a Legislature founded and constituted on the
basest and most open corruption.
It is, however, exclusively on the sup-
port of such a House of Commons, obtained by
such means, while he is opposed by the QUEEN,
and his party is hated by the bulk of the people,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL relies to carry on the
Government. That is, a hated minority is to go-
vern the hating majority. He has the parsons
and the country gentlemen on his side, we ad-
mit. He has the monopolists with him; but
they will only be able to govern society, and
subdue all things to their will, when the public
mind shall be so transformed that it shall wor-
ship GREENACRE and regard FAUNTLEROY as a
martyr.
Before he has got into office, the great leader
of three-fourths of the people, and the greatest
of all the organs of the Tories, the Times, has
declared against the monopolists. The world
will not regard its declaration as less sincere,
because it seems itself not to have been aware of
the bearings of what it said.
The Times had a long and elaborate article
yesterday, the drift of which was to prove that
the free-trade projects of Ministers have such a
powerful charm for the inhabitants of all the
towns in the empire, that they are only pre-
vented from embracing them, and returning an
overwhelming majority in favour of the Whigs,
by believing that the Whigs did not mean to
give them, or were unable to give them, the
measures they promised.
" Can anything," said that Journal, " in the
wide world be more clear, than that if the
people of England, more especially of the towns
of England, had but believed these representa-
tions, they must have returned, with one con-
sent, a long array of anti-monopolists' to the
new Parliament?"
" The drift," it concluded," ofall our observations
is this :—lf the people of all these commercial
towns had believed that Ministers were really
sincere—that they really meant to do, and would
do, what they promised—namely, to increase
the comfort, to promote the trade, and to unchain
the industry of the community,—then it would
clearly have been impossible for them to have
resisted such an offer, or to have spurned. from
them so great a boon." Cheap sugar, cheap tim-
ber, and cheap bread, enlarged trade, unchained
industry, increased comforts; these have, on the
showing of the Times, an irresistible claim on the
affections of the inhabitants of the towns. They
rejected them when proposed by the Whigs, ac-
cording to that journal, because they doubted
the sincerity of the offerers, but that will not make
them desire these things the less, nor regard
them as less beneficial, nor make them less
oppose the Minister, and the party which seize
the Government, on the principle of maintaining
all these monopolies. The Times did not, we
believe, mean to prove, but it certainly proved,
that the Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
which has no other support than a corrupt ma-
jority of the House of Commons obtained by
bribery, will be directly opposed to the wants
and wishes of the inhabitants of all the towns of

Le empire.

Sir ROBERT PEEL 15 enamoured with the
bread-tax ; Sir ROBERT PEEL headed the oppo-
sition to the Budget; Sir ROBERT PEEL moved
a vote of censure on Ministers for bringing for-
ward measures for reducing the Sugar duties,
which they could not carry. Sir ROBERT PEEL
has staked his Parliamentary reputation and his
political existence—if there be faith and honour
left in England—on refusing to lower the duties
on sugar, timber, and corn ; and the Times tells
us that these reductions have so great. a charm
for the inhabitants of towns, that they will do
almost anything to obtain them.
We shouldlike to know how Sir ROBERT PEEL,
in opposition to the inhabitants of towns, with a
damaged Parliament, and supported by a party
which will fall asunder as soon as they have the
spoils of office to divide and quarrel about, is to
govern the country ? Without a thorough
change in his policy—without adopting at least
the principles of the measures he has condemned,
when brought forward by the Whigs, it will be
impossible for him to govern for six months, in
spite of the QUEEN and the people.
We have already observed that no mal-ad-
ministration brought about our present distress.
The laws have been properly executed. The
policy of the Ministers, avoiding expense as
much as possible, has been judicious; but the
Corn-laws, the Timber-laws, the Sugar-laws, and
a number of other laws they have been obliged to
execute, arc execrable. The laws, then, should be
altered, not the Ministers changed. As no mal-
administration has brought on our difficulties,
so no mere change in the Administration will

remove them.
Will the accession of the Tories to office sti

the fears of the landlords? No, indeed. They
are born of their own injustice, and over their
convictions a change in the Ministry can have
no influence. Will it pacify the Dissenters, and
make them acquiesce in Church-rates and
the further exactions for the support of the
Church, to which Sir R. PEEL is pledged by his
votes and speeches? Will it hush all disturb-
ance in Ireland ? Far from it. Exasperation
will ensue, which the language of the Tory
journals is already justifying.
Will it put an end to the slumbering
between France and England ? Why, Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL, in his Tamworth oration, has stig-
matised the revolution of 1830 as the offspring
of physical force, and opposed to that moral
force of -which he fancies himself to be the head
and the organ. Three days have not yet elapsed
since the Times scolded Lord PALMERSTON for
censuring the French mode of treating the
Arabs but what is his indiscretion, if it were
compared to the indiscretion of the proximate
Prime Minister, who has denounced the princi-
ple of the French Government ?
The supposition that any change of the Exe-
cutive Government, without a change in the
laws, can restore England and Ireland to peace
and prosperity, is absolutely unwarranted. On
the contrary, that change seems likely to in-
crease our difficulties both at home and abroad.
The Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL is, in fact,
to be formed on a principle of injustice, denying
all measures of relief, and exciting, by its nature