The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

instituted to set aside the verdict, and the
result is known—the application was granted,
and the trial yesterday was tha consequence.

But we had in the meantime committed a new
offence in the sight of this too sensith e gentleman.
We bad written an article commenting on the pro-
ceedings—an article, as Mr. Justice ERLE truly re-
marked, " directed throughout to the defence of
journalism against the party by whom the verdict
that called it forth had been obtained," and for that
two distinct and separate actions were brought, in
one of which the Duke obtained a verdict for ls., while
in the other a verdict was given for the defendant.
It, however, appeared rather strange that the Duke
who, as Lord CAMPBELL yesterday declared, "could
not be charged with silently acquiescing in anything
that might be brought against him in his lifetime,"
passed sub silentio the statements affecting the
worthy REINHOLD, to which a justification could
have been pleaded. The omission of all relating to
that person was exceedingly ominous. We can now
account for that singular circumstance, the ex,.
emplary witness was yesterday not forthcoming.
He was non est inventus. " Abiit, excessit,
evasit, erupit." He had vanished, no one
knew whither He had sought safety in ignominous
flight. No CASIMIR was in attendance. There was
no REINHOLD on whom the able counsel
for the defence could test his powers of
cross-examination, and the case consequently
fell to the ground, notwithstanding the cunning
and, we regret to be obliged to say, somewhat disin-
genuous statement of Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS.
The Learned Gentleman persisted in reading the
article of 1830, although he well knew that he could
not prove its republication, and that consequently
it was not admissible in • evidence. He also
spoke of the proceedings that bad been instituted in
consequence of the article that appeared in The Sun
of the 28th of June, 1848, as proving that " Mr.
HARMER, the defendant, had been actuated by ma-
lice ;" and this, although well aware that Mr. RAE.
mer had no more control over this journal than he
had himself, and that the article in question had been
found to be" not libellous" in an action tried in Decem-
ber last before a constitutional Judge and an intel-
ligent and impartial jury. This appears to our judg-
ment to have constituted a suppressio veri, unbe-
coming Mr. CHAMBERS'S position as a leading ad-
vocate.

The matter has now terminated, and we hope for
ever. We trust that the Duke may profit by the
salutary, although rather unpleasant, lesson he
has received, and that he will henceforth
learn to discriminate between such publications
as those contained in our columns and in those of
the Dispatch, in the fair and honest discharge of
an important duty, and those that appeared in the
Satirist, of which he justly complained.
We have no ill•feeling against him ; we would
not think it worth our while to damage him, if wholly
in our power. We shall neither be his flatterers
nor his detractors ; nor shall we either be influenced
or deterred by unworthy motives, either in bringing
forward his name unnecessarily, or withholding it
when it appears to us the public welfare demands
especial notice. Such is the course we have always
pursued, and such is the path we ever mean to pursue,
without being affected by any feelings of fear or
prejudice, favour or affection.

Deputations have not yet ceased waiting upon the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yesterday the most
formidable of all in numbers, and one of the most in-
teresting in character, appeared before the Right
Honourable Baronet for the purpose of thrusting
once more upon his attention the advisability, or ra-
ther the imperative necessity, of repealing the ini-
quitous tax upon windows. Notwithstanding the
peremptory manner in which the majority of those
assembled gave utterance upon the occasion to their
peculiar sentiments, they could scarcely have been
blind to the truth of the observation uttered by Sir
CHAULES WOOD when he reminded them that he

could not possibly reveal his intentions in re-
gard to the window-tax upon that particular
opportunity. Eagerly as we should have been re-
joiced to listen to any such financial revelations, we
could not for a moment have anticipated that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would so far break
through the customary and commendable etiquette
which reserves the articulation of his views to a time
more suitable in every way to their importance.

Aware of the wisdom of such old established regula-
tions, it was rather too importunate to insist by
murmurs upon the premature declaration of his
policy, and to respond to the firm and states-
manlike refusal of the Right Honourable
Baronet by half-smothered yet still audible
cries of indignation. Our regret at these proceedings
is the more especially enhanced by the consideration
that throughout all yesterday there was perceptible
on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet a predisposi-
tion to disclose, if he could, the feelings entertained
by himself and his Ministerial colleagues in reference
to the impost which had so powerfully roused the
antagonism of the deputation. Had it been practi-
cable for Sir CHARLES WOOD to explain his intentions
without any further procrastination, we may rest
assured he would most infallibly have done so after
the very significant and emphatic intimation of the
Hon. Gentleman the Representative of Lambeth,that by
so doing he would spare himself the infliction of about
two hundred speeches. Supposing him to have been
unfettered by the bonds of usage and the laws of
official routine, we may feel convinced that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would have at once
unburdened his conscience to the deputation after that
very solemn and persuasive assurance. Doing
violence, however, to his own personal inclinations,
he was compelled to delay until the period of laying
his annual Budget before the Commons' House of
Parliament.

Happily, the time has very nearly gone by when

it might be regarded as essential to adduce
arguments in favour of the abolition of this
detestable tax upon windows. Discussion
in its regard has become in a great measure super-
fluous, the injustice of the impost being patent to
the apprehension more or less of the entire commu-
nity. Nothing further need be said, we opine, to the
bulk of the population to demonstrate the injurious
effects flowing from this particular method of taxation
—the taxation imposed upon the orifices admitting to
the habitations of a civilized people the free air and
the free light of heaven. Let us imagine to ourselves
the immediate consequences certain to result
from the abolition of the impost on windows
—if we would in a novel and striking manner
assure ourselves anew that such a proceeding would
in reality be an act of splendid beneficence. An
enormous additional demand for glass would be in-
evitable. The glazier and the carpenter, the brick-
layer and the house-decorator, would be called into
instant and continuous employment. The aspect of
our towns (a subordinate, but at the same time an
appreciable, benefit) would be obviously improved in
a way altogether beyond the reach, at this moment, of
the Commissioners. The cleanliness, the decency, and
the domestic comfort of the masses would be secured to
them most effectually ; and the provincial visitors to our
metropolis would not have so very often to lament
over the cadaverous and unwholesome appearance of
the citizens inhabiting our more crowded localities.
As for the latter, they would be compelled no longer
to respire a foul and pestilential atmosphere—venti-
lation being rendered at last a matter of possibility,
the sweet air and the blessed light created by OM-
NIPOTENCE for the satisfaction of the works of
his hands, and beyond them all for secur-
ing happiness to his earthly masterpiece—man
—being no longer rendered costly by an execrable
and unnatural taxation. Convinced of these things,
as the vast majority of the population has become, it
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Department. Demands for its repeal have been heard
usque ad nauseam within the walls of the Home
of Commons. But never before was the necessity of
this emendation so energetically forced upon the at-
tention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
through that Right Honourable Gentleman upon both
Houses of the British Legislature, es it was yester-
day by the deputation headed by the principal of the
sixteen metropolitan representatives. Exponents,
as the members of that deputation felt them-

selves to be, of the views entertained upon this subject
by the multitude at large, with a few jolter-headed
or self. interested exceptions—they were invested
with a more than ordinary influence as applicants
for the abandonment of an impost. That influence,
we are sanguine, may not have been altogether inef-
fectually employed. Within the compass of the pre-
sent session we hope to witness not only the oblitera-
tion of this cruel wrong to the country, but of one
almost equally pernicious and reprehensible. The
tax on advertisements, scarcely less than than on
windows, requires the revision of an enlightened and
conscientious Parliament. Considering, moreover, the
incitement to reform discoverable in the approach-
ing arrival in this country of so many foreign
visitors to the Exhibition, we may be permitted to
indulge the more confidently in anticipations which,
under other circumstances, might be regarded as
little more substantial than day-dreams. When it is
remembered that this concourse of observant
foreigners is calculated, even simply in anticipation, to
induce us to " put our house in order," according to
the old expression, it is but reasonable to expect that
the Legislature will aid the community in
preparing for the ordeal of such a vigi-
lant and appreciative examination. Scarcely
anything we can conceive to ourselves could be il.ore
disgraceful to our code of laws than the existence at
this epoch of the villanous and unjustifiable imposts
levied upon windows and upon advertisements. By
the former the poorer classes are shut out almost
wholly from the enjoyment of daylight and ventila-
tion. By the latter an auctioneer announcing the
sale of an estate worth 100,0001. pays no more duty
to the revenue than is extorted from a poor maid-of,
all-work asking for a beggarly situation—the same
amount being necessary for the advertising of a
sixpenny pamphlet as is required for the advertising
of MACAULAY'S History of England ! Such blemishes
as these in our system of taxation, intolerable at all
times, is altogether unendurable under existing cir-
cumstances, when our scheme of administration is
about to be severely scrutinised by intelligent tra-
vellers from all the civilized countries of Christendom.
The force of these considerations is recognized to the
full by the community—we are sanguine that their
recognition may extend also to the judgments of our
hereditary and representative Legislators.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Committee to whom the Dotation Bill has
been referred is almost unanimous in recommending
its rejection. Of the fifteen members of which it is
composed, two only are in favour of the measure. The
election of this Committee by the Bureaux presents
some curious results. M. DE MONTALEMBERT was
rejected in favour of M. CRETON, and M. GIRAUD,
one of " the great party of order," as the reactionaries
call themselves, but one who voted against the reso-
lution of M. ST. BEUVE, was beaten by M. BAc, a
Republican of the extreme Left. LEON FAUCHER,
DUMAS, in short, all the supporters of the PRESIDENT,
were unsuccessful. It is considered certain that the
measure will be rejected; not more than 241 votes
can be counted on in favour of it.

The Patrie has the following announcement :
" Letters addre!•sed to bankers of Paris by bankers of
Vienna announce that his Royal Highness the Count de
Chambord is dangerously ill."
The Legitimatist Union declares, on the contrary,
that the Count of CHANUORD is not at Vienna, but at
Venice, and that he is in good health.
The Assembly yesterday rejected M. JORET'S pro-
position for abolishing octroi duties.
Leave has been granted by the Assembly for the
prosecution of the Prince DE LA AIOSKOWA. M. DE
LA MOSKOWA has addressed a letter to the Patrie, in
which he says—
"l affirm, upon my honour, that I did not provoke M.
Ramond de la Croisette, as he declares, on account of the
exercise of his judicial functions, and that there was
nothiag premeditated in my conduct towards him. If
he had restricted himself to continuing against me the
system of inveterate war and of vexation useless to the
interests which he bad to defend, which he has for years
practised, I should not have considered that I had a
right to express to him my opinion of his con-
duct. But, oat of the circle of the necessities of
a cause and of the honest exercise of the pro-
fession of avoid, there are certain proceedings,
certain attacks of a personal character, which conscience
reproves, and which exceed the limit that a man of
honour can tolerate. I did not indulge in the exhibition
of passion and anger attributed to me. I whispered in
the ear of au enemy who had cruelly insulted me, two
words to which he did not choose to reply. The affair
took place with so much reserve and silence, that nobody
in the saloon could suppose what had passed. I have
said M. Ramond do la Croisette is my enemy, and it will
be seen why. In 1847, I placed in the hands of M. Boucly,
the Procureur du Roi, a complaint against him for facts
of an extremely grave character, which the necessities
of my personal defence will compel me to explain to the
committee. M. Ramoud can say whether, after an in-
quill into this charge, on which several witnesses were
examined, he was not summoned to appear before the
Procureur du Roi."

The Sieicle gives the following account of the dis-
covery of the intrigues of General LALUTTE :
It was said yesterday in the lobbies of the Assem-
bly, that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Bre-
mer, had discovered the threads of a little Legitimatist
conspiracy. This is what is rumoured:—General de
Lahitte, whilst in office, it is said, introduced into his
department a certain number of young men belonging to
aristocratical families. To these employ6s was entrusted,
to the exclusion of the others, the examination of dis-
patches or extracts, copies of which, according to their
importance, were communicated to high personages alto-
gether unconnected with the service of the department.
It was added that M. Drouyn de I'Huys, during his
short stay in office, had dismissed several of these em-
ployis in partibus iVidelium, but that a director in the
Ministry had kept them for his own service. M. Bre.
flier, it is said, has dismissed all the rest of these gentle-
men. In addition, grave facts are spoken of; which we
abstain from mentio❑ing until we receive better informa-
tioa. We repeat, that what we now relate is only based
on reports."
The Bourse was rather dull, and Government Secu-
rities declined slightly. The Five per Cents. opened at
96f. 85c, and closed at 96f. 55c. The Three per Cents.
closed at 57f. 95c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8751.;
Rotten, 675 f.; Havre, 2781. 75c.; Great Northern, 4761.
25c.; Avignon, 195 f.; Vierzon, 4101.; Basle, 158 f. 75c.;
Bordeaux, 4011. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 366 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 250 f. The New Loan, 96f. 40c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Fan. 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 91—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 161 A —Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of
France, 154—Paris and Rouen, 28—Paris and Strasbourg.
10%—Rouen and Havre, IPA—Tours and Nantes, 51%.