The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-01 00:00:00

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Manager, Mr. T. Payne.
TH.S EVENING,
THE OLD CIMMODIItF.
By items, J. Neville, Herbert, Clarke • Mrs Woollidge, and Miss
I. Adams.
After which,

OP AGE TO-MORROW.
By 3 tents. Nev Lie, Kinloch, Herbert ; Mrs. Woolidge, Bliss Gran-
tham, and Miss Cuthbert,
Followed by, first time, an original Purleseine, by L. Buckingham,

Esq., entitb;,i

BELPHEGOE.
Belphegor, Miss Cuthbert ; Rev, Mr. .Clarke O'Mugaway, Mr.
Herbert; Tommy, Master W. Firiolin:
,Madeline, Mr. H. J. Turner; Marietta, :Kiss Thirlwall ;
Araminta, Mrs. Viroollidge.
Ballet, by Mdle. •Niar'e Charles and full Corps,
To conclude with
INS AND OUTS.
In le kich Mr. Morrie will make his first appcaranen here; Messrs

J. Howard, Herbert, and Ifiss'idaras, &c.
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ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
(Ninth Week!) Sbakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD,
with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. Death of White
Surrey, Battle of Bosworth Field, !cc. Splendid Tableau of the mor-
tal conlict.

After which,
The AMESEMENTS in the ARENA.
To conclude with a variety of Entertainments.
Commence at Seven. Box-offtce open from Eleven till Four. Stage
an er .31r. W. West. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

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LOl%. t DON, WEDNETh
OCTOBER 1, 1056.
Thet Revenue Returns for the year, half-year,
and cp aarter are once more before bound to say that they are
quitere us, and we are
favourable as as we co
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old have anticipated,
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yet co eup to the estimate of the they
do not
a
the E: tchequer. That learned Pundit, in l,•
eu°l; of
last
year's Budget, calculated on obtaining 5,300,0001
from new taxation. He has obtained 3,211,7081
and was therefore only 2,088,2921. in excess .0{
the actual results—no trifling sum in itself, but
nothing to a financier who fancies that there are
no limdts to taxation, and that every additional
impost must necessarily bring a corresponding in-
crease to the exchequer. We have, however, re-
peatedly explained the fallacy of such conclusions.
In fiscal matters it by no means follows that 2
added to 2 will amount to 4, or that if 2 be sub-
tracted from 4 there will not be far more than 2
remaining.

It is but justice to Sir G. C. LEWIS to state
that ho was following in the wake of a Minister
who was labouring under the delusion that he
could provide for all the extraordinary expenses
of the war from actual revenue, and that no por-
tion thereof should fall on posterity, for whose
benefit it was mainly, if not altogether, under-
taken. Mr. GLADSTONE had doubled the Income
Tax. Sir G. C. LEWIS added 2d. in the pound,
or 16s. Bd. per' cent.- The former expected to
obtain more than six millions and a half by the
duplication; the latter hoped to add two
millions more by the additional 2d. Mr.
GLADSTONE raised the Malt Duties, which
Sir G. C. LEWIS could not therefore touch ;
but he endeavoured to extract 1,200,0001.
from " the corn of the tropics " in addition to
700,000/. previously put on by the Aberdeenite
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and 1,000,0001.
from Scotch and Irish spirits in addition to the
450,000/. which Mr. GLADSTONE hoped to obtain.
One penny per lb. on coffee was also expected to
yield 150,0001., and 33. per lb. on tea 750,000/.
more. The total anticipated increase for the two
years wainoless than 15,157,0001., of which nearly
four-fifths have been obtained ; that is to say, in
the year ending 30th Sept., 1855, 8,344,7811.,
and in the present year 3,211,708/. ; making
altogether 11,556,48 W., or 3 little over eleven
millions and a half in round numbers—the defi-
ciency being about 3,100,000/.
As to the particular heads or items, we find that,
there is in the Customs an increase
on the year or
250,8581., on the half-year of 9,272/., but a
decrease on the quarter of 37 1 ai
4• Tea, not-
withstanding the additional 3d.
Per lb , has
yielded 142,0001., and sugar,
deapi±©
the. addi-
tional 3s. per cwt., estimated to produce in
the
year 1,200,0001., 177,000/. less ; le _
the
articles that were permitted to remain withoutl
alteration showed a considerable increase that
nearly made up for the deficiency in the matters
from which such large additions to the charge
Pere expected to produce.
In the Excir,, there is an. increase in the year

of 473,6081., on the hal,year of 550,62 G/., and
on the quarter of 309,0001. This comes partially
from the increase of the Spirit Duties, estimated
to produce 1,000,000/. sterling. There has
been a drawback of more than 200,0001. paid on
acc'iunt of stocks of malt on hand at the termi-
nation of the enhanced duty.
In Stamps there is a decrease on the year of
79,5241., but an increase on the half-year of
104,0311., and of 117,9261. on the quarter.
This is but a beggarly account for the legacy and
isuccession duties from which Mr. GLADSTONE
anticipated such large results. In Taxes there
'is an increase on the year of 39,5271., a decrease
of Si. (!) on the half-year, and an increase of
3,000/. on the quarter. The accounts under this
head, however, generally depend on the stringency
of collection.

The Property Tax alone verifies the estimates.
The addition on the year is 2,275,126/., on the
half-year 869,373/., and on the quarter 752,378/.2
the total amount received during the year
(15,940,3311.) closely approximating to the six-
teen millions, which it was deemed Uto-
pian to anticipate. If the assessment were
only rendered more equitable, this would
be the best tax that could be levied. As it is,
it is the most demoralising in the black list.
The Post-office has an increase on the year of
59,0581., a decrease on the half year of 9,0001.,

and no change whatever on the quarter. Some
of our contemporaries have considered the in-
crease due to the postage on newspapers. We
have, however, not sufficient evidence to warrant
the conclusion to the full extent ; but even were
it so, it would not make up for the stamp duty
relinquished by the Financial Minister during the
most serious operations of the war.

The remaining items are of comparatively
trivial importance. In Crown Lands there is an
increase of 8,3411. on the year, of 2,341/. on the
half year, and of 1,3411. on the quarter, while in
Miscellaneous there is an increase of 184,714/.,
but a decrease of 37,567/. on the half year, and
32,2141. en the quarter.
Such are the results of these witnesses to the
elasticity of our national resources.

As we have already stated, they are quite as
good as we had anticipated, but nothing on
which either Mr. GLADSTONE, • Sir G. C. Lnwrs,
or the people can greatly pride themselves. They
prove that we still possess the sinews of war, and
that we may turn out very troublesome cus-
tomers to any who choose to attack us. The
Scottish motto, " Nemo me impune laeessit," may
be profitably considered by some parties of Im-
perial dignity.

It is at once curious and instructive to note
how it actually came to pass that power in the
very moment, so to speak, of complete victory,
at the very climax, as it were, of certain posses-
sion, slipped away in Spain from the grasp of
ESPARTERO, as it had done previously in France
from that of LAMARTINE. The spirit of patriotism
in each instance was altogether too credulous and
and self-sacrificing. Both the Spanish Dictator
and the Gallic Dictator proved, under the pres-
sure of a great emergency, too gentle and genial
in the midst of intrigues, demanding at the hands
of an actual ruler the most rigorous promptitude
and the most stern and pitiless decision. It was
the blunder of LAMARTINE to believe in, and asso-
ciate himself with, IMRE. ROLLIN ; as it has
more recently been the blunder of ESPARTERO to
do the like by O'DorrxEm.. The only difference
between the destroyers of the political authority
and prestige of ESPARTERO and LAMARTINE being,
that while both LEDRU RoLizsz and O'DoNNma,
were in, extremes as adventurers in statecraft (the
one representing the exaggeration of democracy,
the other the exaggeration of absolutism), the
latter crowned his policy with success, and the
former with complete, entire discomfiture. Each
infamous in the eyes of Europe—the one in
triumph, the other in defeat. Alike objects of
execration to every dispassionate observer through-
out Christendom. LEDRII ROLLIN for having
rendered altogether impracticable the beautiful
day-dream of a Poet-Philanthropist, by intrigues
resulting iu the bloodiest civil conflict of modern
times—that of June, 1848—a combat during
which, literally and actually, the sacred emblem
of Peace, the Palm-branch borne through the
roaring streets of the French capital by the
anointed hands of DENIS AFFRE, the good
Archbishop of Paris, was bathed in the blood
of a martyred Patriot and Pacificator !
O'DONNELL, hardly less criminal than his
prototype ROLLIN, by reason of his having
dissipated the hopes of anything like Constitu•
tionalSpanish Regeneration through the medium of
the late wanton butchery in the streets of Madrid,
a carnage deliberately planned in cold blood, as
an ezeuse for a sudden and total change in the
actual system of the Monarchical G)vernment.
Whereas, however, LEDRu ROLLIN fell with the
ginuialtillebssuvt itc:leiin of his intrigues (guiltless at least
fatal toleration of the arch-con-
spirator), O'DoNivr2LL triumphed by means of the
sacrifice of his confiding and so far culpable
colleague--a colleague as blanaeless(otherwisu) and
as unfortunate even as ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.
Nevertheless, out of the two lamentable catastro-
phes here alluded to, out of the downfall of the
Spanish Dictator of Three Years, as previously
out of the downfall of the Gallic Dictator of
Three Mouths, and as invariably out
of
every
great calamity recorded upon the chequered page
of history, annals darkened and illumined alter-
nately by so much Crime and so much Glory_
good is so far derived from evil that a dread
example is presented in each case as a perpetual
warning to the future possessors of supreme
power, whether as soldiers or as statesmen. If
that Warning shall teach a salutary lesson here-
after in but one solitary instance, not in vain will
the baubles of supreme authority have slipped
from the grasp successively of ALPHONSE DE LA
MARTINE and BALDOMERO ESPARTERO.