The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

THE SUN,

quarter. This would be very satisfactory ifH
matters bad remained i;e statu quo ; but when we
consider that a large reduction in the sugar duties
took place only nine months since, a reduction which,
it was estimated, would occasion a loss to the revenue
amounting to more than 330,000/. per annum, the
result may be looked upon as truly astonishing, being
equivalent to an improvement of nearly half a million
sterling on that branch of the revenue, and that on a
very favourable quarter, which exhibited a marked
improvement on the corresponding quarters of the
five preceding years.
In the Excise: we might have looked for a percep-
tible falling off, when we consider that the duty on
bricks was totally abolished. The actual state of
affairs, however, shows a considerable increase both
on the year and quarter, that on the former being
332,311/., and on the latter 121,0631. The abolished
impost was calculated to produce more than 450,000/.
a year. It will, therefore, be seen that the index
which points out the amount of comforts enjoyed by
the working classes—and we may, perhaps, add the
amount of native productions—is steadily pointing to

"set fair."
The Stamp returns are scarcely less satisfactory.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that Sir
CUABLES WOOD took credit for a considerable reduc-
tion of, revenue that would, he declared, arise from
the more equitable adjustment of the changes in cer-
tain branches, amounting altogether to more than
half a miilion per annum. At the time we denounced
this statement as a discreditable " dodge," and de-
c ared that the new scale of duties would be fully as
productive to the Exchequer as those previously in
operation. This assertion is completely verified by the
fact that there is a small improvement on the
quarter of 9,8831. There is, undoubtedly, a loss on
the year under this head of 248,9051., but less than
one-sixth of that amount has occurred since the
change, while five-sixths occurred before the change
in the law.

The Assessed Taxes show the only falling off in any
important item on the quarter, there being 9,4471.
less produced than in the corresponding quarter of
last year. This may, however, be satisfactorily
accounted fur by the fact that there was an
increase on the last quarter of 25,2921.,
so that it may be considered that the falling off is
ascribable to greater punctuality of payment by the
parties liable. On the year there is an improvement
of 17,7521.
The Property-tax appears differently. There the
improvement is ou the quarter, to the extent of
20,3421., while the deficiency on the year is no less
than 62,8691. We trust that the firm and unyielding
determination of the community to adjust equitably
this iniquitous impost will render the returns more
correct in this branch than they have heretofore been.
The Post-office shows an improvement on the year
and quarter of 58,0001. and 41,000/. respectively.
The Crown lands remain without the slightest
alteration of any kind in either period,
while in the Aliscellaneous there is a de-
crease of 45,8441. on the year, and of 25,9861.
on the quarter.
In the extraordinary branches of revenue there is a
decrease on the year and quarter of 5,4021. and
39,9941., while there is an increase of Repayments of
Advances of 205,777/. on the year, and 50,5081. on
the quarter. On the whole, we congratulate our
readers on the most favourable balance-sheet which
we have witnessed for many years, and which affords
the most auspicious auguries as to the future pros-
perity of the country.

Elsewhere in our impression of this evening we pub.
lish a letter addressed to ourselves by the heroic defers
der of Komorn, that illustrious General whose name
and fame were the other day:so indecorously dragged
upon the carpet by Lord LYNDHURST. Having in
The Sun of the day following expressed our earnest
indignation at the course pursued towards this dis-
tinguished leader of the Hungarians by the Noble
Lord, we can only reiterate upon the matter those
sentiments which we have already articulated. It
will be seen from' the statement made by General
KLAPICA himself, that during the last twelve months
he has resided on the continent, and he might,
therefore, have reasonably calculated upon being
sheltered from the calumnious accusations actually
levelled against him by an ex-Chancellor in the
Upper House of the British Parliament. Even those
foreigners who are compelled by adversity to seek
refuge under the shadow of our Constitution should
be screened by their very misfortunes from the das-
tardly influences of misrepresentation. Much more
should such as are sojourning in exile else-
where than within the boundaries of the
United Kingdom be protected by the circum-
stances of their position from the malignity of
attacks, the cruelty of which is enhanced by their
being directed against the fallen and the banished.
Magnanimity towards a foe, however, happens to
be of all the virtues, the one least appreciated, and
consequently the least practised by the supporters of
the cause of Absolutism. Any one who ventures
to degenerate into an apologist of the Austrian
regime is doomed in the end to acquire all
those petty peculiarities which have: long cha-
racterised the adherents of the Viennese
Government, and which would appear unfortunately
to be so peculiarly infectious even among their agents
in the remotest parts of Christendom. Hence it has
come to pass that a Noble Lord in the British House
of Peers has so far become influenced by the evil
tendency of the interests intrusted to his advocacy as
to forget the consideration that should otherwise be
shown to every political unfortunate by citizens in
this free realm of England. Without pausing to in-
quire into the accuracy or inaccuracy of the in-
formation afforded to him by the individuals under-
taking to " cram" him with facts and figures,
Lord LYNDHURST, it will be observed, ventured
loudly to impugn the conduct of General Krertea. as
unworthy of one permitted to shelter himself, in an
evil day, under the aegis of our liberal institutions—
this accusation, remember, being made at a time when
the individual calumniated is sojourning not in Eng-
land, but on the Continent, not having resided in this
country for a period of twelve months, and refraining
scrupulously from an interference with the course of
events such as was here imputed to him by an English
Peer and ex-Chancellor. The glaring injustice of the
charge, we trust, will induce Lord LYNDHURST to
make the only reparation in his power, namely, a
public acknowledgment of it in the Upper House of
the Imperial Parliament. Until this has been done,
he will remain in the invidious position of one who
has wronged an unfortunate hero in the hour of cala-
mity, when secluding himself (away from the possi-
bility of harming the repute of England as the
home of the refugees of Europe) in that retirement
which is alone capable of assuaging the pangs of
exile and the recollections of disappointed patriotism.
Among all the valiant men and true, who drew their
swords in defence of the fatherland of the Hungarians,
not one was more deserving, one might reasonably
have imagined, of consideration than the brave and
dauntless captain who kept the national colours still
flying on the battlements of Komorn, when the gon-
falon of the great army had gone down on the
timorous submission of GORGEY to PASKEWITCH.
Yet he alone is selected, it would seem, for those
gratuitous misstatements, which are the more shame •
less as ;
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patriots like KLAPUA are to be the targets for the en-
venomed arrows of slander, arrows winged with
hatred, and directed against them by passion. Hap-
pily for the objects of attacks of this character, their
unblemished reputation is the truest shield from
injury, the weapons of calumny falling before it
harmless and blunted. Hence it will be perceived
that the denial put forward by General KLAPICe
in our columns displays none of that petulant
irritation which would be inconsistent with the valour
and purity of his conduct, not merely during the time
loriously under the rule of the
when he was fighting g
immortal Kossterg, but since that period of great
achievements, since the massacre in cold blood of so
many
h
ootfleciss brothers in arms and the dispersion of so
many
habitable globe. Let him remember this, however, in
his compatriots over the face of the
the midst of all these calumnies and misrepresenta-
tions, that he retains the warmest admiration of all
the lovers of liberty even in the seclusion of his exile,
apd the most cordial sympathy of that English people

LONDON,

who have learned to love as well as to respect the
Hungarians.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

'e have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and of yesterday.
In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, M. YVAN,
a member of the Mountain, was elected one of the
Secretaries.
General BEDEAU has addressed a long letter to the
journals exonerating himself from the charges brought
against him in the recently published letter by the
late Marshal BUGEAUD on the subject of his conduct
on the 24th Feb., 1848.
" Some conferences (says the Assemblee Nationale)
were held yesterday morning at the palace of the
Elyst7T. Amongst the persons present was M. 0.
Barrot." _ .

In the course of an article on the state of parties,
which appears in the Presse, M. EMILE DE GIRAR•
DIN thus describes the situation of his quondam pro-
tegi, N. LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE :
" The situation of M. L. N. Bonaparte is at present
that of a man employed on a railway, deaf and presump-
tuous, uselessly warned, and perceiving, when too late,
that he is caught and about to be ground to nothing be-
tween two trains rushing from opposite directions."
It is said that M. DE FALLOUX, who is acting in
complicity with the Emperor of AUSTRIA, is endea-
vouring to bring about a transaction between Louis
NAPOLEON and the Count DE CHAMBORD. MM.
GuizoT and MOLE are, it is said, in the plot.
A letter from Algiers, of the 30th ult., says :
" A rather serious affair has just taken place in the
Oued Sahel. A new chief, known under the name of
BON BAGHELA, having assembled a body of men
from among the Zaouaouas, the Tolbas, and the other
unsubmitting tribes on the southern slopes of the
Djurjura, attacked on the 19th the. Zaonia of Chel-
lata, and carried off 3,000 sheep and 300 oxen from
our chief Sr BEN ALI CHERIE. The latter, betrayed by
his people, was obliged to fly alone, and take refuge
in the camp of the Goum of observation, under the
orders of Lieutenant BEAUPRETRE. This success of
the Cherif is likely to have a disastrous influence on
our tribes, already acted on by intrigues. In order
to prevent any insurrectional movement, a small
column, under the order of the colonel-commandant
of the sub-division of Aumali, established itself among
the Beni Mancours, and immediately commenced
constructing a house of command fer BEN ALI
CHERIF. The last accounts from Aumali, dated the
27th, announce that the tribes which had abandoned
the young Marabout, on the attack of the 19th, had
just repulsed the Cherif BON BAGHELA, who, after
a combat which cost him 10 of his men, fled, and took
refuge among the Mzeldjas."
The Five per Cents. were done on the Boulevard
at 93f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APAIL 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 93/—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17% East Indian, 1514—Luxembourg, 134
—Ditto,:3N—Maria Antonia, 84—Northern of France, 143/4
Orleans and Bordeaux, 41A1— Rouen and Havre, 10%—
Sambre and Meuse, 4%.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the Ist have arrived.
The Minister on that day presented to the Cham-
ber of Deputies the project of law on the tariff, and
that for regulating the importation of iron.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL I.—Three per Cents. 35i ;
Five per Cents. 17i. Exchange on London, 51.

GERMANY.
Accounts from Dresden of the Ist state that in de-
ference to the representations of the English and
French Ministers, Austria has renounced her claim
to enter into the Confederation with all her states, and
the resumption of the sittings of the Frankfort Diet
may be expected.
The Governments of Saxe-Meiningen, Altenburg,
Coburg, Gota, 'Weimar' Reuss, Frankfort, Bremen,
Lubeck, and Baden, have notified their intention of
acceding to the Frankfort Diet.
It was thought that Austria, Bavaria, Saxony,
'Wurtemberg, and Electoral Hesse, would oppose
the plan.
Count TatlN's recal to Vienna is considered as the
commencement of an Austrian protest.
Accounts from Vienna of the 3d state that the dif-
ferences between Austria and Prussia are differences
of principle, inasmuch as Austria insists on Germany
being governed despotically, while Prussia is opposed
to Absolutism.
The King of GREECE has arrived at Hanover.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Copenhagen journals of the 21 ult. publish the
propositions which will be submitted to the Assembly
of Notables.
They declare the integrity of the Danish Monar-
chy under the same Government representation—fleet
and flag. The case of Lauenberg, however, is reserved
for future consideration.
The Duchies of Holstein and Lauenberg will re-
main part of the Germanic Confederation.
They will have their own Diets ; in all State ques-
tions they will be represented in the Council.
The Duchy of Schleswig will have its separate
Diet and Administration.
Certain institutions will belong to the two Duchies
of Schleswig and Holstein.