The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-04 00:00:00

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EvF.NIIIO,
Wlll be performed THE REIGNING FAVOURITE.
After which CHARLES KING.
To conclude with FRIEND WAGGLES.

.N.TLEY'S it,..)Y AI, Am? uITHEATRE.
f7nder the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Iligbxiess
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Ma:lager, Mr. W. Batty.
gxUaerdinary series of attractive novelties.
Last Nights preparatory to Easter.
Decided hit of Tom Thumb The Great.

List Weak of : George irilrcanr Siissk7annyWilliams who
will appear in one of their favourite afterpieces.
THIS EVENINO, .

The Grand new Spectacle of JOAN OF ARC ; or the Maid of Or-

leans, with new and costly costumes.

Together with Batty 's Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
To conclude with the laughable Farce of PORK CHOPS ; or a
Dream at Home, in which Mr. Cleorre Wild and Misa Fanny Wil-
ma will appear.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager. Mr. T. Thom;. on.

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE
Tais DAY —Morning 32 min. after 3 I Evening 47 min. after
Te-Monitow —Morning 3 min. after 4 I Evening 19 min. alter

THE WEATHER,.—Srx OFFICE, Arm-L. 4.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
st--highest since noon yesterday.
18—lowest this morning and during the night.
—this day, at ROOM
BAROMETER, 30'11.
WIND N.N.E.-line weather.

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DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday
morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.

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JIEDIGST OWN ( D maxi) _Nv in.(l 1,4
.w.,
breeze—
partially cloudy. gentle
PLYmount—Wind N.W., gentle br
Bittorrros—Wind S.W., c i esze—Partially cloudy.
IlAsTurGe—Wind W., enatlrge --übreevzeer—easte.rtially cloudy.
breeze—partially
. cloudy.
So LI T tWitPTON—Wind S.W., strong
FoLKEsrotm—Wind N., gentle breeze—lartiallyze—Partially cloudy.
partially cloudy.
'l' UNBIUDGE—Wind N.W., calm—
BAsEI OSTO Kg Wind N. IT., gentle breeze—partiallyov- cloudy.
GREENWICH—Wind N.W., strong breeze--overcast.
N.W., gen le cloudy.breeze—partiallyereut"
COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
CAMBRIDGE—Wind W., gentle bre-ze—overcast.
BIRMINGHAM —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloud
PETE ILBO RO II 0 X —Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially;
cloudy.
TAHMO UTM _Wind S.W., strong breeze—.rain.
oltinff-- Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
CoNwAir-- Wind N.E.„%entle breeze—cloudless.
Wind N. ~ gentle ! reeze—partially cloudy.
HoLyHEAD--
Ltvimpoot,--Wind N. W., genth, ; , ~,ze—cloudless.
YORK —Wind N.W., gentle breez —rain.
LaffoasTEß—Wind N., gentle breeze—principally clear.
Wurrast —Wind IC N. W., gentle breeze—foggy.
SnWind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Baarrocx—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Z ERWICK—W Ind W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy.

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LONDON, FRIDA.Y, APRIL 4, 1851.

In the House of Lords last night,
The Duke of RICHMOND presented
ma
ipastition from
the Town Council of Chichester, complaining
conduct of the Rev. Mr. KENRICK, thil incumbent
of the
Peter's, in that city, who had rein,ied torinat read the
othef obefurS xemiati
service over the body of a Dissrntiug Enin
plary character, and also over the body of a Woman who
had committed suicide while in a state of lunacy.
The Bishop of CHICHESTER could not extenuate the
conduct of the Rev. Gentleman.
After a few words from the Bishops of LONDON and
of EXETER, and from Lord BROUGHAM, the petition
was ordered to lie on the table.
Lord Baouosem moved the committal of the County
Courts Extension Bil.
The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the Bill, and pointed
out sevaritl objections to the proposed enactments.
.It was ultimately agreed that the Bill should be re-
committed pre forma, and ciiscusJ.4l on Monday.
Their Lordships then acljeurne '.
7 ~1„,,k In the Commons,
r AmaTEr moved nu address, praying her MAJESTY
M'into the
-.:: e
. 4.: •to appoint a Commie on to inquire, in India,
i' 0' ' '''' 'Operation and results of the exiNtirs+; laws touching the
government and management of th, '-rritories under the
&drainistration of the East India Company. In support

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of his motion the Hon. and Learned Gentleman entered
into a detailed statement of what he considered the
abuses of the Government of India.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL considered that an inquiry in
India would produce great excitement and mischief. If
an inquiry were necessary it had better be before a Com-
mittee of the House.

Mr. Ht mx considered inquiry necessary, but did not
approve of sending a Commission to India.
Sir JAMES HoGo defended the Court of Directors and
the East India Company.
The motion, which was supported by Mr. BRIGHT,
and opposed by Mr. MANGLES, was eventually withdrawn.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then".moved, in pursuance of the
resolution of last session, that the Rouse resolve itself
into a Committee to consider the mode of administering
the oath of abjuration to persons professing the Jewish
religion. The Noble Lord recapitulated the history of
the attempt of Baron ROTEISCIULD last year to take his
seat, and concluded by declaring that, in his judgment,
it was for acts and not opinions that Parliament ought
to legislate.
Sir ROBERT Irtotis reiterated his former objections
to the measure.
Mr. M. GIBBON considered the measure should have
been introduced earlier, and hoped that if it were again
rejected in another place, the Government would take
some decided step.
Mr. PLIIMPTRE and Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed, and
Mr. WEGG-PROSSER supported the motion, which on
a division was carried by 166 to 98.
The usual formalities having been gone through, a
Bill was introduced and read a first time, and ordered to
be read a second time on Friday week.
On the order of the day fur the committal of the
Designs Act Extension Bill,

Mi. ARLwRIGHT moved that it be deferred for six
months.

After a short discussion the amendment was nega-
tived by 132 to 42, and the Bill passed through Com-
mittee.

The Apprentices to Sea Service (Ireland) Bill, the
General Board of Health, and the Process and Practice
(Ireland) Bill were each read a second time.
The Marine Mutiny Bill and the Mutiny Bill were
read a third time and passed.
The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

After exhausting every pretext and subterfuge
that could be devised for procrastination, Sir
CHARLES WOOD is at length driven to extremities.
He must now " screw up his courage to the sticking
place ;" no further excuse or apology for delay is
available. The new Budget, the successor to that
melons production which was so unanimously re-
pudiated by all classes and parties throughout the
country, and so ignominiously rejected by the Par-
liament, must be produced this evening. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER must bring for ward an
entirely new financial scheme, one that will be more
just and politic, more equitable and expedient than
that which so strongly excited the public indignation,
that it was compelled to be withdrawn without de-
bate or discussion.
That most injudicious project contained three fatal
mistakes, any one of which was sufficient not
merely to render it unpalatable to the com-
munity, but to render any Cabinet unpopular
that could sanction such unwise and obnoxious pro-
positions. These were, first, the projected application
of by far the greater portion of the expected surplus
to the reduction of the national debt; secondly, the
transparent humbug respecting the pretended aboli-
tion of the window-tax, while it was to be retained
and perpetuated to two-thirds of the present amount,
with all its monstrous inequalities : and, thirdly, and
worst of all, the gross injustice of asking for a re-
newal of the income-tax in its present monstrous form,
without alteration or adjustment of any kind, and thus
making the precarious earnings of industry contribute
as highly to the national Exchequer, for the liquida-
tion of the national liabilities and the maintenance of
the national establishments, as the rents or dividends
of accumulated or realised property. Sir CHARLES
may have " come to a conclusion" that it should
be so, but he may rest assured that the
country has arrived at a very different de-
cision ; and obstinate as he may be, he will find that
it is absurd to make the Dame Partington attempt of
keeping back the tide of public opinion with his
financial brooms. He must necessarily give way,
and if he cannot do so with a good grace—if he do
not " swallow his leek" without threats or gri-
m aces, his sins will be visited on his Ministerial col-
leagues, and the entire Cabinet will be involved in
the destruction occasioned by bis recklessness and
incapacity.
Were it not that the income-tax will expire na-
turally to-morrow, we should probably have had
further delays, but the speedily approaching dissolu-
tion of that horrid monster, and the absolute impos-
sibity of prolonging its hateful existence by any
financial quackery, rendered it essential to bring the
subject under the consideration of the popular branch
of the Legislature without further procrastination. As it
is, we may congratulate the English people on the great
fact, that from and after the termination of the finan-
cial year on Saturday, the sth of April instant, the
country will be free from income-tax of any descrip-
tion, until a new Bill receive the Legislative sanction,
and pass into a law with the assent and approbation
of the three estates of the realm. Even this is some-
thing to rejoice at. Whatever change or modifica-
tion may take place must prove beneficial to those
who earn their daily bread by their physical or intel-
lectual labour, and who for the last nine years have
been most unfairly plundered under the guise and
sanction of law.

The equal taxation of every description of income,
without reference to the sources from which it may
be derived, is so unsound in principle, so unequal in
operation, that it would be a mere work of superero-
gation to offer any arguments on a point
that must apparently be obvious to the
meanest capacity, were it not that the British
Parliament bad deliberately adopted the iniquitous
system, and that a person, who unfortunately occupies
a position that gives a certain degree of weight to his
opinions on financial questions, had recently an-
nounced, the " conclusion" he had arrived at, in favour
of the present form. It becomes every man, then, to
pro
test earnestly and emphatically against its con-
tinuance. There are no causes in existence that
should induce us to consent to its renewal, for even
a limited period, without an equitable adjustment
ecxarhraiuesdteads
tshwthaes
a mere temporary makeshift to
being previously effected. In
replenish
Exchequer, which ha d wasted away under heavy de-
ficiences for several successive years. In 1845 it was
willingly renewed because the series of experiments
had been entered upon that eventually led to
theee-d
abolitiontrae of the bread-tax and the establishment
of f r
Principles. The country was enjoying a
transient gleam of sunshine ; the money marketwas easy,
cash abundant, and atlow rates of interest. Everything
was couleur de rose, all was activity and enterprise—
the people had no time to think on political subjects.
The matter therefore passed almost sub silentio, and
the impost was renewed without difficulty or dispute.
The impost was again renewed in 1848, without
discussion, but the same effect was produced from
very different causes than those in operation in 1845.
The nation had then passed through a commercial
crisis of no ordinary magnitude. There had been a
fearful pressure on persons even of the most un-
doubted solvency, and many first-class firms were
unable to weather the storm ; credit was almost ex-
tinct, the operations of industry paralysed. The na-

tional revenue participated in the general gloom; when
the working classes were without employment, they
could not indulge in their ordinary comforts, and
thus the produce of the indirect taxes was materially
reduced, and the national income was inadequate to
meet the national expenditure. It was not at such
a time, or under such circumstances, that fiscal
changes could be sanctioned, or that any portion of
the direct taxation of the country could be re-
linquished. No attempt, therefore, was made to ob-
tain a revision of the system—the people were con-
tented to resist the increase to .5 per cent. proposed
by the r
—RAIicELLog of the EXCHEQUER, which they did
successfully,
the unfair
and But that success was attributable to
partial assessment of the charge, rather
than to
I wa
anyt ...:.• • •
objection to its character as a direct im-
post.schedules D arid
of the
fact that incomes under
proposed to be taxed as
underwere
thhigehdleyciassivtehofaseiltuhreeEi
charge from 7d. schedules A and C, that led to
are now,
4d.T thoesc/i.repuemr cent.
to Is.
in
proposition to increase the
the pound, or from 2/. 18s.
from what they were at any
It is no longer pretended that'ht:vie etavxer,.very different
of the former periods,
timed only for a limited period, is to be con-
is well under,.
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