The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

THE StIN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, IS4O.

lIIINNER to GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P., '
THE DINNER to GEORGE BYNG, Esq., in eom-
memoration of Fifty Years' uninterrupted services as Member
of Parliament for the County of Middlesex, takes place to-
morrow, WED NESDA Y, the I Ith inst, at Drury-lane Theatre.
Lord CHAS. JAMES FOX RUSSELL, M.P., Chairman.
Dinner on table at Six o'clock punctually.
'I he entrance for the dinner and for ladies to the boxes, will
be at the principal door of the Theatre in Brydges-street ; for
the private boxes, and for the gallery, in Little Russell-street.
Doors open at Five o'clock.
Tickets One Guinea each, may be had at No. 3, Cleveland-
row, St. James's. No money will be taken at the doors.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Erarnense sum's of the City Apprentice, which has attracted
crowded and delighted audiences.

THIS EVENING, MARCH 10.
Will be acted, a Historical Drama, depicting England in 1664,
Barbadoes in 166.8, Old London in 1666, with a representa-
tion of the Great Fire of London, entitled
THE CITY APPRENTICE; or, THE THREE LILIES.
Supported by the entire strength of the Company.
Aftcr which,
LORD DARNLEY.

Darnley, Mr. E. F. Saville.
Te conclude with
THE JERSEY GIRL; OR, THE RED ROBBERS.
Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, W. Smith, Mrs.
Vining, Miss Grant, Miss Martin, &c.

STRAND THEATRE.
AMBIDEXTROUS .PRESTIDIGITATION! ! !
MAGNIFICENT PARAPHERNALIA !! ! AWE-
THRILLING NECROMANCY!! ! OVERFLOWING!
WONDER-STRICKEN ! AND DELIGHTED AU-
DIENCES
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH, by his individual
and mind-astonishing performances, having congregated
crowded, astounded, and pleasure-electrified audiences, will
perform his wonderful feats of philosophical and necromantic
magic, on
THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Mmtcx 10,
And every evening during the week, concluding with the ori-
ginal and mysterious
GUN DELUSION.
Boxes, 2s. Bd., Second Price, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Second
Price Is. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Six—commencing at half-past Seven.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TCMORROW.
•Morning 39 minutes after 7 1 Evening 17 minutes after &

LONDON:
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1840.

In the Lords a considerable number of petitions, some
for Church Extension, some to exempt workhouses
from rates and taxes, some against, and some for, the
Non-intrusion principle, were presented.
The Churches Building Act Amendment Bill went
through a Committee, and the Horse-racing Bill was
read a third time.

...
The Marquis of NORMANBY called their Lordships'
attention to the petition from Newport in favour of
Frost, presented on Friday evening, and controverted
many of the statements then made relative to the num-
ber of persons who had signed it, and their respectabi-
lity. Their Lordships adjourned Twenty minutes be-
fore Six. .

The petitions presented to the Commons were also
numerous, and on various subjects.
On Lord NIORPETH moving the third reading of the
Irish Corporation Bill, Sir G. SINCLAIR opposed the
motion, and moved that the Bill be put off for six
months. He complained of the advance of the Catho
lies, and condemned the Bill, because it would strengthen
the Catholic I;lction. It was a Bill to make DANIEL
O'CONNELL, Esq. Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Mr. TENNENT supported the amendment, in doing
which he wished to read an ex:.ract of a newspaper, but
was called to order by the SPEAKER. An intercalated
discussion took place on this point, in which Sir R.
PEEL and Lord JOHN RUSSELL both agreed that the
rule, as laid down by the SPEAKER, would be too strin-
gent. The SPEAKER did nor. sustain his objection, and
Mr. TENNENT read his extract, to prove that the Bill

would throw the whole power of the town of Belfas
into the hands of Catholics.

Mr. SHAW deprecated the amendment being pressed
to a division as it would place him and his friends
in an invidious light before the Irish. He voted for
sending the Bill to the other House, not to pass it into
a law as it now stands. The Bill, on a division, was
read a third time by 182 to 34, and passed.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the second reading of
the Printed Papers Bill, the Bill for securing the right
o file House to publ'sh its papers.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN referred to his motion for a
Committee to inquire into what check should be placed
on printing papers, and suggested that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL should take that Committee out of his
hands. In order to prevent libels being circu-
lated in petitions presented to the House,
he meant to propose that no petition should be printed
till it had been read at the table and approved of by the
Speaker. As to reports, he would suggest that every
Committee should state whether there were any reason
why the report should not be generally published. He
would also pi opose that there should be a Committee of
publication, as there:now is of printing, to see that no-
thing wrong is published. He approved of selling the
papers. With respect to the Bill he thought the clause
concerning pending actions ought to be withdrawn, and
if it were not withdrawn in the Commons it would be
struck out elsewhere. Mr. WARBURTON approved of
the Bill, but disapproved of the check on publication,
particularly the Commitee which the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman proposed to establish.
Mr. HUME was quite rejoiced that Sir E. SUGDEN
approved of selling the papers.
_ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL concurred with Sir E.
SUGDEN as to taking precautions about printing the
papers, but not as to withdrawing the clause concern.
ing pending actions,
which
only he considered
broughtto forbe essen-
tial,as those actions had
vexa-
tious
.. purposes.

3ir.ROBERT INGLIS strongly objected to the Bill;
but it was read a second time without a division, and
ordered to be committed on Friday.
In answer to Mr. GISBORNE, Lord J. RUSSELL said
that the funds for sending out emigrants to Australia

were exhausted. but operations were not therefore sus-
pended.
In answer to Mr. HAWES, the Noble Lord stated
that the Church Courts Bill was postponed, till sonic
provision was made for Church discipline ; and that the
County Courts Bill was postponed at the request of
the LORD CHANCELLOR, till the Bankruptcy Commis-
sioners bad made their report.
In answer to Lord SANDON, Lord PALMERSTON
stated that he had given orders to lay Dr. BowalNG's
report on the table ; and that he understood from Lord
HOWARD that the Portuguese Government was willing
that a Commission should sit in London, to decide the
claims of British subjects on it.
On the question that the Speaker leave the Chair
to go into a Committee of Supply on the army esti-
mates, Mr. HUME condemned the extravagance of ex-
penditure, which began to increase in 1836, and had
since gone on increasing. The revenue was pro-
gressively increasing, and the net revenue of the last
year exceeded the average of the last seven years, but
the expenditure increased faster than the revenue.
The Hon. Member urged on the Government the ne-
cessity of satisfying the people by doing them justice,
and se removing the necessity for maintaining large
establishments at home.
Colonel SIBTHORP was surprised that Mr. HUME
found so many faults with Members, and yet would
take no steps to turn them out.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL defended the estimates as ne-
cessary to insure a system of relief for troops abroad,
and thought Mr. HUME should have made his objec-
jections to the increase of the army in last August,
when that was voted. The Noble Lord gave a brief
explanation of the present state of the negotiations as to
the Boundary question.
In the Committee Mr. MACAULAY moved the esti-
mates. The increase of the army would not give the
Government any increase of patronage. In Australia,
the dearth and increased price of provisions had been
so great, that the officers had been constrained to allow
the men 2d. a.day each wore pay. The Right Hon.
Gentleman entered into a multitude of details, and
concluded by moving a vote for 93,471 men, exclusive
of the force maintained by the East India Company.
Mr. HUME, after adverting to the number of men
which would be required at home, and professing his
liking to a standing army, moved that the vote
be reduced to 81,319, the number of men voted in
1837. After a brief discussion, the Committee di-
vided, and the original vote was carried by 100 to 8.
A little discussion afterwards took place on the
vate assigned to the rupee in paying soldiers-2s.
when the money is remitted to England, and 2s. 6d.
when paid in India. The East India Company propose
to pay the troops the same in all the Presidencies, which
will get over the anomaly. The House then resumed.
The Workhouse Bill and Prisons Act Amendment
Bill were forwarded a stage, and at One o'Clock the
House adjourned.

Some of our Contemporaries are speculating
with more ingenuity than discretion on the possible
imposition of new taxes, and inquiring, with more
malignity than uprightness, how, after twenty-five
years' peace, such a fresh demand can be necessary.
They jump at once to the conclusion that the
liberal policy pursued by the Whigs is the cause
of the increased expenditure, and they attribute the
proportionate scantiness of the revenue to Re-
form. We are not disinclined to examine

the question, and can at once state that we do not
adopt the conclusion of our Tory Contemporaries.
We agree with them in considering that it will
be a most calamitous circumstance, should our

people,oppressed as they now are with the weight of the
taxes imposed on them by the Government, be exposed
to still heavier burdens. Already the Government,
which is constituted to protect and to serve the
people, is compared to the heavy armour which, in-
tended to defend the warrior, wears him out and
destroys him by its weight. To increase the
burden while the masses are discontented will be

a hazardous experiment. To allow the revenue to
remain permanently below the expenditure would
be pregnant with danger. To make available re-
trenchment does not seem to be very practicable,
while large armaments are required, and warlike
operations must be provided for in North America
and in the Chinese seas. Undoubtedly all prac-
tical reductions should be made, but from the real
wants of the public service, joined with the demands
of our extensive commerce for protection, and the
necessity of being on our guard against secret or
avowed enemies, we do not see the possibility
of much reducing the public expenditure. There
are many indications which an observer may
notice, that the policy of England—not Whig or
Tory policy, but those general principles—aggran-
dizement abroad and coercion at home—which
have been followed by the statesmen of both
parties, has run its course ; and these circum-
stances, that the nation already feels oppressed by
the burden of taxation, that at present the revenue
does not equal the expenditure, and that there is
no hope of bringing down the expenditure to our
existing means, imply that the machinery of Go-
vernment is getting clogged, and will, before long,
come to a stand still. A judicious, but neither
factious nor party, investigation into the matter,
which is one of the main parts of the Condition-of-
England question, ought to be undertaken, and
our few remarks may be taken as hints, or con-

tributions, to those who may have the spirit an
wisdom to undertake it.

We do not infer, because Tyre, Carthage,
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may
have wisdom enough to avoid their errors. Never-
theless, when such has generally been the case—
when there is very little in the mode in which our
territory was extended to give us assurance of
permanency—when no one can tell, a priori,
why the fate of England should be different
from the fate of those once renowned empires,
every check, every approach to a stationary
condition, every symptom of retrograding, should
excite our watchfulness and stimulate our energies
to overcome it. Looking at the fall of other em-
pires, we regard the responsibility now cast on our
Statesmen as nothing less than awful ; and when
we find them wasting the public time with mere
factious disputes, while the masses are wholly
alienated from the Government, and the expendi-
ture exceeds the revenue, we cannot help our
fears preponderating over our hopes. It behoves the
thinking people of England to be on their guard,
and not to allow the national greatness and the
national safety to be sacrificed as were those
of Rome, Venice, and Genoa, to the
brawls of selfish factions.
The occasion of these reflections is the assertion
that new taxes are to he imposed in the twenty-fifth
year of peace, and the assertion of the Tories that the
Reform policy has created the necessity for impos-
ing them. But whatever else Reform may have
done, it has not extended the bounds of our empire.
The necessity for crossing the Indus, and pene-
ttating into Affghanistau, grew out of former con-
quests.
Now it is the vast extent of our empire,
combined with the heavy burdens permanently im-
posed on the country at former times to enlarge or
defend it, which is the great cause of all the pecuniary
demands made for the service of the Government,
and the Tories had quite as much hand in extending
the empire as the Whigs. The extent of our empire,
requiring an immense military and naval force to de-
fend it, and the heavy expense, or dead weight,
which the employment of such a force past times
entails on us now, is a source of expenditure to
which all others are trifling.
Of twenty-five years which have elapsed since
the peace, the Tories were in office fifteen, and we
have more than once directed public attention to the
admission of Sir R. PEEL, that the great reform
called Catholic Emancipation, to carry which into ef-
fect he was a most unwilling instrument, was inevi-
table. The progress of humanity, of sound political
knowledge, and the increase of population in Ireland,
rendered it impossible for the Goverment, though
then in the hands of the Tories, and armed with all
the power of an unreformed Parliament, to oppose
the demands of the Catholics for justice. The
Tories resisted as long as possible, and only gave
way to external pressure. Talk of the Whigs as com-
posed of squeezable materials, why the very heart
was then squeezed out of the Tory policy I That event
may, however, be assumed as an index to their
general conduct, which consisted in maintaining
abuses, in resisting useful reforms, and preventing
all ameliorations in the moral and political condi-
tion of the people as long as possible. The con-
sequence was that the Administration which suc-
ceeded them found it impossible to accomplish the
immense mass of reforms which time had made ne-
cessary. From this circumstance arose two foun-
tains of expense, for which the Tories are much
more to blame than the Whigs.
First, the Tory neglect of the Poor-laws, and
their resolute adherence to corporation abuses, com-
pelled official and costly inquiries into those
subjects in order to substantiate the necessity of
reform and suggest the means of effecting it. We

may extend the remark to various Commiss;ons for
Inquiry into the administration of the law for in-
quiring into the state of the factory population
and working of the Factory Act. In fine, the fifteen
years' resistance to reform by the Tories caused air
accumulation of abuses which they ought gradually
to have swept away, and which occasioned, alter their
retreat, a great expense. But secondly the impossi-
bility of achieving needful reforms, and perhaps
some injudiciousness in setting about the work, to-
' gether with the determined resistance which the
Tories made out of office as well as in office to every
such reform, have served very much to disappoint
and embitter the bulk of the population. Hence
for several years a great military force was ne-
cessarily kept up in Ireland, and though a
compromise between the parties has at length
allowed of an approximation to justice, and enabled
the Government to withdraw a large body of troops,
vet the same causes which formerly operated there
have continued to operate here, and the wide.
spread discontent in England compels a vast ex-
pense for troops, police, and all the costly instru-
ments of continued coercion. Next to the extent
of oar empire, the resistance to reform at home,
and the coercion supposed to be necessary in con-
sequence of too well-founded discontent, is the con-
tinual cause of our greatest public disbursements,
and keeps up the expenditure of the country. The
Tory policy and the exertions of the Tories are
solely to blame for that.
We may, perhaps, on some future occasion ad-
vert to Canada—the disturbances in which were
prepared by the neglect of the Tories ; to our
Corn-laws, which have much diminished the
income of the country, and severed our commercial
ties with other nations, decreasing the national
means, and augmenting the Government expenses,
and to other causes, why the national expenditure
has outgrown the income ; but we must now stop.
In conclusion, we again say that the present
financial condition of the country, combined with
the alienation of the people from the Government,
ought to awaken reflection and excite statesmen to
devise measures to increase the means of the country;
and diminish the home expenses of the Government.
The expenses caused by the extent of our empire can
scarcely be much curtailed. We know of no one
measure so likely to give satisfaction to the people,
and increase the national resources, so certain to
extend our trade, and diminish our charges, as the
total abolition of the taxes on food. They cut up
employment by the roots, they cause poverty and
discontent, and they impoverish the nation, while
the object of their supporters is to preserve that
superiority to. the owners of the soil which nature
has destined shall come to an end.

The letter which appears in The Sun of this
day, under the head of " Church Patronage in
Scotland," deserves the attention of those who are
anxious to settle this agitated question. It is the
second on the same subject which we have pub-
lished, both evidently written by men well ac-
quainted with public feeling and religious politics
in that part of the country. Though they come
from counties distant from each other in point
of locality, and still more distant in point
of religious and political feeling —we mean
Aberdeenshire and Lanarkshire—they agree on
this important point, that the Government would
play a most hazardous part in supporting the
CHALNIERS party against the great body of
Dissenters, and the great body also of Church-
men who are opposed to the plan proposed by
the men who at present rule almost undisturbed in
that nondescript body, the Commission of As-
sembly. The Perthshire election has confirmed
their statements to an extent which we
believe no Member of the Government
ever anticipated. The defeated candidate made
declarations with regard to the veto question
which were admitted by the great majority of the
Perthshire clergy to be " perfectly satisfactory (
and yet, according to the Edinburgh Evening Post,
which the Standard readily quotes, " marry of
them afterwards voted in favour of his opponent."
How can a Whig Government expect to conciliate
men like these ? They may pay court to the Go-
vernment on the question of patronage, and
make promises which, as the Perthshire elec-
tion shows, they never intended, to perform—
but what an absurdity to trust to them I
They want many things which they know they
never can get from the Whigs. They want Church
extension, the supreme control of education, the
supreme control also of Church patronage, and
the power of crushing the whole body of Dissenters,
the best supporters of the Government. If the
Government yield to them in the question of Non-
intrusion, this very party, on gaining their
point, will be their roost vind;ctive opponents,
and turn round upon them on every religious
and political question. And can the Government,
under such circumstances, look to support from the
Dissenters ? The Central Board has already an-
nounced that if Lord MELBOURNE and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL interfere in behalf of the Non-
intrusionists, they will alienate the affections of
their most zealous supporters in Scotland.
Of this, independent of the two excellent
letters which we have published, we had
no doubt, and we therefore trust the Non-
intrusionists will be made amenable to the law as
the Chartists have been, and that, if a measure for
Church Reform is introduced, it will be one which
will not gratify the opponents of Government—the
clique who would grasp the whole Church patron-
age of Scotland for their own selfish purposes, out
which will be extended to the great body of the
people. Though we have been disappointed in the
result of the Perthshire election, we rejoice at the
cause which has led to it, because it will teach
Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL a
salutary lesson. -

There is no news of any political interest in the Paris
Journals of Sunday. In the Chamber of Deputies on
Saturday, M. DtJGASE'S motion for inquiring into the
conduct of the Prefect of Ariege in ordering the sol-
diers to fire upon the people at Foix, when twelve per-
sons were killed and fifty wounded, was negatived with-
out a division. MM. TRIERS and REMITS AT took part
in the debate, and in their speeches evinced less sym-
pathy for the victims of so atrocious an exercise of mili-
tary power than their ultra liberal supporters had a right
to expect. But the Premier can recover the ground he
is in danger of losing by his vote upon this occasion by
advising the KING to issue, in the R3yal name, a
Commission of Inquiry relative to the massacre at
Foix. This is what he will not do, and yet no act
could more conduce to his own popularity, to which he
is not indifferent, and to the popularit:, of the KING,
with whom he has chosen to identify his political system.
The Chamber of Peers was occupied on Saturday
with the Factories' Bill.
The following is the only news from Spain in these
Journals :
" The Eco de Aragon of the 3d instant states that Es-
partero's head-quarters were on the Ist at Mayeas, a vil .
lage between Seg.ira and Muniesa, whilst the other Chris-
tino divisions were at the two last-mentioned places, and
at Pelon and Cortes. It was reported that the Carlist fort
of Aline. on the road to Cantavieja, bad been occupied by
the Christinos. Accounts from Huesca of the Ist instant
announce that Upper Aragon was in possession of a Cata-
lonian expedition of 3,000 men and 200 cavalry, and
that the Christino forces were too weak to impede their
progress."
Letters from Malta of the 26th February state that, on
the 22d, two French ships of the line and a brig had been
seen to pass the island, steering from the Levant. They
are the ships which left Toulon on the 12th.
The Consul of the Two Sicilies at Malta having caused
a notice to be served on two Maltese masters of ships to
appear before the tribunal of Catania. The Governor of
the island has suspended the notary, and dismissed the
officer who served the notice, and whose conduct is de-
clared in a proclamation of the same Governor to be ille-
gal and without example. It is thought that reparation
will be demanded of the Neapolitan Government.
The Armoricain (a Brest journal) says —" According
to recent orders of the Minister of Marine, the Magi-
cienne frigate is finally commissioned, under the com-
mand of Captain Roy, Aide-de-Camp to Admiral Du.
perre. It is said that it is destined for the Chinese seas,
to which the English are sending a considerable force.—
Le Commerce.
The Organs des Flanders has the following letter from
the Hague :—" If it has been said tkat the King would
renounce his marriage with the Countess d'Oultremont, it
a mistake. It would besides show a great want of know-
ledge of the King's character to believe that be would
ever abandon a resolution once taken. The honeymoon
will be passed at the Palace of Loo ; where orders, it
is said, have already been given to prepare for the recep-
tion of the Princess of Nassau, this being the title which
the King, it seems. intends to give his second wife."—La
Gazelle de France.
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