The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-24 00:00:00

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of war purposes—in the future), while she is
in the very act of pocketting Savoy and

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, to commence with the favourite comedy
of LONDON ASSURANCE.
And TWICE KILLED.
Followed by A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

W THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELFHI
STEW
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

he Sa,voyards ! And to crown everything

Tins EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J.
L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billington, Mrs. Chatterley, Mrs. Bil-
lington, Miss Kate Kelly, and Laidlaw.
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for the triumph of NAPOLEON'S policy—to com-
plete our ignominious treatment to the very last de-
gree, we are expected meekly to hold our tongues,
to utter no word of complaint or remonstrance—
through a fear of our possibly offending his Imperial
Majesty ! This is positively, literally the argument
which has for weeks past been addressed to the
BRITISH HOUSE OF CoMMoNS by the Ministerial
Chiefs of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Government!

The House of Commons, moreover, is (marvellous
to relate) wonderfully compliant. The Ministry
that acts thus, that argues thus, that diplo-
matizes thus, that thus strangely regulates
the finances of the country—adding deficit to deficit,
and buying a one-sided free trade treaty for
£1,000,000 sterling, in order that the nation may
be mulcted (by a war tax) of £10,000,000 in a year
of peace that yet requires £30,000,000 in the way
of warlike expenditure—this amazing Cabinet
so acting, so arguing, so diplomatis.ing, and so re-
gulating our finances, carries everything before it
in the House of Commons by one large majority
after another. It was only, therefore, in the re-
gular order of things, that the 10d. income tax was
"agreed to" last night quietly, meekly, obsequiously
in Committee of Ways and Means, when, in due form,
the following memorable resolution was placed in
the hands of Mr. MASSEY by the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer :—" That towards rais-
ing the supply granted to her MAJESTY, there shall
be charged, collected, and paid, for one year, com-
mencing on tho 6th of April, 1860, for and in respect
of all property, profits, and gains, charged or charge-
able under the act passed in the 16th and 17th years
of her MAJESTY'S reign, chaper 34, for granting to
her MAJESTY duties on profits arising from pro-
perty, professions, trades, and offices, either by
assessment, contract of composition, or other-
wise, the following rates and duties, that is
to say : Upon any assessment on the an-
nual value or amount of any property,
profits, or gains (except property, profits, and
gains chargeable under schedule B of the said
act), the rate or duty of 10d. for every 20s. of the
annual value or amount of all such property, profits,
and gains respectively ; and for and in respect of
the occupation of lands, tenements, hereditaments,
and heritages chargeable under schedule-B of the
said act, the rate or duty of sd. in England, and of
:31,d. in Scotland and Ireland respectively, for
every 20s. of the annual value thereof." True
there was an amendment proposed, according
to previous announcement, by Sir HENRY WIL-
LOUGHBY—a moderate amendment enough, that in
this resolution, instead of 10d., 9d. should be
substituted. After a little pro forma discus-
sion, however, the amendment was negatived
in committee upon a division, there being for it
132, but against it 187—leaving in a house of
319 a clear majority of 55 for her MAJESTY'S
Government. Certainly matters are going on swim-
mingly—for the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. He
takes Savoy. He dictates to Italy. He has van-
quished in successive wars the best troops
of Russia and of Austria. And now in re-
gird to his intimate ally, England—how has he con-
trived to measure out his Machiavellian policy ? To
perfection, he has in a great measure gagged the
House of Commons, or at least the Ministerial side
of it. He has twirled Mr. COBDEN'S sagacity
round his thumb as effectually as if he
had been fingering a paper light for his
cigarette. By his immense armaments—his
imposing navy and his superb army of 600,000 men
flushed with victory—he constrains us (his allies)
to keep up in a time of profound peace warlike
armaments that cost us upon the year £30,000,000.
And having ingeniously contrived to increase
our deficit by another million through the
medium of a commercial treaty, that yields to
France almost exclusive advantages, he compels
us, at his autocratic bidding—to please him—to
buy his favour—to propitiate his smiles—he com-
pels us to drain the nation by a tenpenny income
tax by the most odious and unjust of all war
taxes, to drain the nation within the compass of
the halcyon year ensuing of £10,000,000. In the
presence of all which facts we are expected to
fling up our caps for • Mr. GLADSTONE as a
Master-Financier. " Can such things overcome
us "—not " like a summer cloud," but rather be
it said like the ominous darkening of a wintry storm
—" without our special wonder ?" Whatever our
emotions may be, however—we must hold our peace,
lest perchance our Imperial ally (having under his
supreme command that enormous steam fleet and that
vast army of 600,000 men) should possibly take offence
at the freedom of our language! Surely Lord JOIIN
RUSSET,L'S famous panegyric upon Lord PALMER-
STON must have avery different reading now-a-days.
Surely the words should run now—if they be
truthful—He is not the Minister of Russia, he is
not the Minister of Austria, he is not the _,4linister
of England—HE )S TIIE MINISTER or FRANCE!

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After which, THE JEALOUS WIFE. Messrs. Alfred
Wig-an, Toole, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Chat-
terfy.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paulßedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.

Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Mice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROY AL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
Carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.

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THIS EVENING the perlorrAances will commence with
"No. 49."

Followed by BLACK-EYED SUSAN.
After which, MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson and
Miss Clara St. Casse.
After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. Mesdames
Wyndham, Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, and Mr Charles
Young.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform
slice cemmences at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.-
MISS LYDIA THOMPSON has the honour to an-
nounce to the nobility, gentry, and the public, that her
BENEFIT, and Last Appearance but Four at the above
Theatre, will take place on MONDAY, March 28, when will
be performed
A BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. 11. T.
Craven, and Mr. C. Young.

After which (for the 102 d time), the successful Ballet farce,
MAGIC TOYS- Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss St. Casse,
To be followed by DIDO.
To conclude IVith (for this night only) OUR WIFE ; or,
The Rose of Amiens.

Tickets to'be had at the Box-office, and of Zlira Thompson,
6, Aro'le-street, Euston-road,

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING,
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell.
Mario Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghinans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critohfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
cautified, and constitute one of the moat unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

RCH 24, 111

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THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
49—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
48—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.05 ; very low.
WIND, Westerly; fresh, with dull weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1860.

The disturbance at Pestb, on the 15th ;of March,
which the Austrian authorities have endeavoured
to make light of, turns out to have been a serious
affair. The police and Austrian soldiers, as by
courtesy they are termed, certainly thought so.
They mustered in great numbers, and did not, of
course, fail in those brutalities which Austrian men
with muskets and bayonets in their hands arc ever
ready io perpetrate on the unarmed. Had the
students of Pesth been French Zouaves, these same
gentry would probably hare run for it till they
found themselves safe at Vienna. We have a right
to think so, for it is a maxim in the code of honour
that a man who can wound or kill another who is
notequally
armed is a poltroon and a coward. He
is
a brute,not a man.

Income
So then—we are saddled with a tenpenny
Tax, as Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget threatened.
The country has to pay down within the year a
round sum of £10,000,000 to please the French
EMPEROR, and to enable him to carry out effectu-
ally his policy of aggrandisement. Freedom of
speech is at the same time deprecated by her
MAJESTY'S Ministers—for fear anything might per-
chance be said by honest plain-speaking men like
Mr. ROEBUCK or Mr. HORSMAN—through a terror

lest words might be uttered by them that would

possibly give offence to his Imperial MAJEsTi at
the Tuileries ! Besides, have we not already allowed
Mr. COBDEN, as our Peace at any Price agent-on-the-
sly, to sell us for all those wonderful advantages (all
prospective, by the way—at the end of eighteen
t months—and then only to begin partially)—
have we not allowed the member for Rochdale,
dubbed years ago (prophetically) by Mr. CARLTLE,
t-•' the Political Bagman"—have we not allowed Mr.
it COBDEN to go over to Paris, and there, in
.• a confidential chat with the French EM-
PEROR, to huckster away our independence
of action, of speech, and of policy ? For the which
extraordinary privilege we had to yield up
£1,000,000 in the shape of remitted duties, thereby
wantonly increasing our already enormous deficit !
Siinultaieouely with which wise proceedings we
have—because of our Imperial ally, and for no
other earthly reason—to expend £30,000,000 upon
the year in keeping Up our naval and military
armaments!

The 15th of March is in Hungary the anniver-
sary of patriot blood. On that day the Hungarian
revolution began in 1848 ; and on that day all pa-
triotic Catholics, and, happily, that is the vast
majority of Catholics in Hungary, celebrate
requiems for the repose of the souls of those who
fell that year on the field of battle and on the
scaffold the WALL ACES of Arad and Pesth
being held in especial remembrance. We
who admit the superstition, from a religious point
of view, of such a service, can yet admire the senti-
ment which seeks for blessing to the souls of Tictims
who " cry from the altar before the throne " for
vengeance on their savage murderers. Vengeance
which seems imminent. And if we cannot believe
that the souls of patriots arc, in suffering, to be
mitigated only by priestly services here, we can
yet cordially sympathise with the tenderness for
the peace of such noble souls which is felt by these
honest believers in purgatory. But the Austrian
Government does believe with the young Catholics
of Pesth. More blind or benighted victims of
superstition are not to be found in the cabins of
Ireland, than on the throne of the Hapsburgs.
FRANCIS JOSEPH and his servants believe in the
efficacy of such services as the students desired
to celebrate. And yet these wretches, having
strangled and shot nobler men than themselves,
pursue them, according to their own belief, into
the world below, and having inflicted the ex-
treme of human penalties, desire to keep
under what they believe to be the penalties of a

It is a time of peace to us here in Europe. We
have no quarral with any European State, least of
all with our magnanimous ally on the other side of
the Channel. Yet to enable the French EMPEROR
his wily policy of annexation,.
to carry out
to please his Imperial Majesty, we are to pay a
war tax of £10,000,000 in this year of peace—
we are, in this year of peace, to expend
£30,000,000 in war expenditure—France doing no-
thing of the kind in the way of a similar
suicidal sacrifice upon the altar of friendship. So
much the reverse, indeed, that all France has to do
is to accept unlimited supplies from us of coal and
iron (very conveniently for the possible contingency

higher judge. The very superstition of the Austrian
administrators condemns them for almost sacre-
ligious barbarity. The living were not permitted
to :seek " the -repose" of the dead, because the
dead were patriots.
Our readers will peruse the account of the matter
with disgust. No doubt the " authorities" feared
a national demonstration. Everything of that kind
they desired to repress; yet even under the infernal
police laws of Austria there was no law which
which could prevent good Catholics proceeding in
mourning to a church to celebrate a requiem for
the repose of the dead. The students, however,
went from church to church only to be driven from
the gates by bayonets. At the Cathedral and even
at the Cemetery it was no better. The young men
restrained all the feelings of youth; and it appears
conducted themselves with admirable propriety.
Yet it would seem, that not less than 15
of them were wounded, and many arrested,
for doing nothing at all illegal. Of course
the people sympathised wholly with the students,
and all parties in Hungary will feel equally exas-
perated against their Austrian tyrants.

LATEST

NEW S.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

But what must be the condition of the Austrian
Empire when two of its largest provinces are in
suppressed rebellion against it ? Venetia is ready
to rise with its whole population—so is Hungary—
but Venetia and Hungary are absolutely unarmed.
Still neither country is now a part of Austria. She
possesses only the ground occupied by her cannon,
her soldiers, and her police. She is a dismembered
Empire de facto. It is not merely restless indivi-
duals here and there which trouble her; she is the
hated of entire populations. For all offensive pur-
poses she is powerless. CAvoult may well feel
confident that Austria will not move out of Venetia
—at present she has quite enough to do to move
in it. And, by the time she • may ever be able to
act, Piedmont will, we trust, have an army ,that
will make her think twice before she repeats on
the Mincio her folly at the Ticino: Europe must
.10w set its heart on a kingdom of Hungary, which
would be infinitely better than an empire of
Austria.

BERLIN, MARCH 24.
A special despatch of M. Thouvenel, addressed to

the French Ambassador at the German Courts, en-
deavours, by the peaceful assurances it contains, to
calm the apprehensions caused by the annexation

Several curious items are observable in the re-
cently published accounts of the receipts and the
expenditure of the Commissioners of Public Works
and Buildings. A few of the more remarkable are
worthy of some more particular enumeration. They
relate, these accounts, to the revenue and to the
disbursement of the moneys appertaining to•this
department within the compass of the financial
year ending on the 31st of March, 1859. So that
they are past by nearly one entire twelvemonth.
At the close of that financial year, it is satisfactory to
find that there remained a clear net balance in posses-
sion of the Board amounting to upwards of £529,300
—the expenditure having been merely £639,662
19s. 6d., whereas the receipts had amounted to as
much as £1,168,964 odd shillings. Upon a nearer
examination of the different items of expenditure,
it appears that—between the en d of March, 1858, and
the end of March, 1859—more than £47,000 were paid
for the maintenance and repair of the Royal Palaces ;
more than £lOO,OOO for the expenses of public
buildings; more than £90,000 for royal parks and
gardens; more than £87,000 for the new Houses
of Parliament ! It is a particularly pleasant re-
miniscence in regard to the last-mentioned disburse-
ment to note that £2,255 6s. Bd. are down " for
payment on account" of the great bell and the four
quarter bells of the clock-tower ! However capable
the Bull in the nursery-song about Cock Robin may
have been to toll that bell " because he could pull"
—it is, as yet at least, very different with JOIIN
BULL and his bell down yonder at Westminster.'
The national Bull, unhappily, can only in re-
gard to Big Ben contrive now and then
to pull the knot out of his purse-strings
for " the payment on account" every now and then
of agreeable little items like this, 0f.£2,255 Gs. Bd.
Glancing further down these tables of expenditure
for 1858-1859, we find more than £lOO,OOO set
apart for the Stationery-office; a little over £19,000
for additional offices for the War Department ;
upwards of £29,000 for district registries and the
London Court of Probate ; something over £5,357
for British Embassy-houses abroad. There are,
besides these sums—for Chelsea-bridge more than -
£B,OOO ; for the main drainage of the metropolis
more than £7,700; for the site of the new
public offices in Downing-street (as yet but a
dreary wilderness of potsherds and brickbats)
upwards of £11,000; for the Pimlico Im-
provements more than £lO,OOO ; for the general
record repository more than £7,000 ; and besides
other items of less note, as much as £64,508 2s. 6d.
for the new bridge at Westminster. Nobody will
grudge the munificent sum of more than £32,600
for improvements and additions to the British
Museum. And rejoicing as we do at the unrivalled
splendour and beauty of that exquisite and majestic
Reading-room, which is the palatial home and
' haunt of 80,000 readers, we marvel to find set apart
for it and the contiguous library no. more than
£9,446 Os. 11d. Conspicuous among the " special
accounts"—there is one item that loyal economists
will not be disposed for one instant to
quarrel with, viz., £5,559 15s. ld. for fitting
up the Chapel Royal and the State apartments
at St. James's Palace on the occasion of the mar-
' riage of the PRINCESS ROYAL, England's eldest
daughter. Rather after date—we have £9OO put
down for the funeral (! ) and tomb of the Duke of
WELLINGTON ; besides another sum of £7OO for
the Wellington Monument. Such are a few of the
more noticeable particulars gleaned from the last
published balance-sheet issued from the office of
' our English ./Edile.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Privy Coun-
cil on Monday next, the 26th inst., at three o'clock, at
Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
Princess Alice and Prince Alfred, honoured the performance
at the Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
In attendance were the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Cremorne,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Col. the llon. A. Hardinge.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have
arrived at their mansion, in Great Stanhope-street, from
Kimbolton Castle, where they have been receiving a suc-
cession of visitors for some time past.

The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have ar-
rived in town from Cbillingham Castle, Northumberland.
The Earl of Devon has taken a house in Berke-
ley-street, late the residence of the Dowager Lady Wham-
cliffs.

The Earl of Winchilsea has left the St. George's
Hotel.

The Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Vil-
liers have arrived in town from The Grove, Her ts.
Earl Granville left London yesterday for the
Continent.

Lord and Lady de Ros are expected in town in a
few das from
Lady
LordHuntingfield have left the St.
and
George's Hotel.
Lady Leconfield left town yesterday for Pet.
worth House, Sussex.
lady Charles -Wellesley is expected in town in
a few days from Torquay. lier ladyship has taken a resi-
dence in John-street, Berkeley-square.
Lady Louisa Cornwallis has arrived in Charles'.
street, from Linton-place, Kent.
Lady Margaret Beaumont has left town for
Brighton.
Colonel Biddulph and Mr. and Mrs. Beauclerk
have arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
Mr. George Bradley and Mr. John Austin, a de-
putation from theprincipal inhabitants of the town of Castle-
ford, in the west riding of Yorkshire, had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, to state reasons why in the
Bill fur the Representation of the People the town of Castle-
ford should form part of the borough of Pontefract. The
deputation was introduced by Mr, Milnes, M.P., and Mr.
Childers, M.P.

E SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY FEVENING„NARCH 24, 1860.

Montauban and staff landed here on the 16th, under
a salute, and left on the 17th for Hong Kong.

MANILLA, FEB, 9.
Large voluntary subscriptions have been made to
aid the war against• Morocco.