The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

out of the pockets of the English people for the
luxury of a War Budget—raising on the Income
Tax £10,000,000, and expending on the
Army and Navy £30,000,000 ! How else,
however, pay the required £70,000,000 upon
the year ? How ? Certainly not by unnecessarily
diminishing our ordinary revenue in the time of a
gigantic deficit ! Certainly not by imposing in a
time of peace (and, forsooth, in the name of
peace !) a war tax like this cruel income-
tax, amounting to tenpence in the £l, or to
a total upon the year of £10,000,000 ! If we needs
must have this war-tax at all in a time of peace, why
not continue it at 5d., instead of imposing it at 10d.
in the 1 ?—raising by a LOAN (that would spread
the burthen upon the future) the additional
amount that might be required to make up
this frightful deficiency—a LOAN yielding some
£4,000,000 or £5,000,000 ? These are the vitally
important questions that -will have to be answered
in the House of Commons upon Thursday or Friday
night, or, more probably, early on Saturday morn-
.ng, by the result of the Division !

LATEST

NEW 6.

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

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.

The Weiner Zeitung of today says :—" We learn
that the question concerning the capability to pos-
sess landed property by Joys of those provinces not
mentioned in yesterday's Imperial Decree, is re-
served for decision by the future representatives of
the country."

Nedit Mobilior .. 747 50
Do. Account .....

Spanish Tlueos
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

ROME, TUESDAY•

M. Thouvenel's dispatch of the 12th was pre-
sented two days ago by the Duke of Grammont
to the Holy Father. The Secretary of the Roman
States has in his reply eolfined himself to stating
that immediately upon receiving the orders of the
Sovereign Pontiff he will place the Nuncio at Paris
in a position to communicate the intentions of the
Papal Goverment. The nost influential members
of the Holy College affirm that the Pope holds in
readiness a motu proprio, already signed, realising
the promises of Gaeta, but that before promulgating
this motu proprio Pius demands that the patri-
mony of St. Peter shall be guaranteed to him.

AMERICA.

The following telegram has been received all

Mr. Reuter's office

BERLIN, TUESDAY, FEB. 21.
The New Prussian Gazette says:—

QUEENSTOWN, FEB. 22.

The Montreal Ocean Mail steamer North Ame-
rican, Captain Aiton, from Portland, on the 11th
inst., has arrived. She landed the English and
Scotch mails.

" We learn that a proposal of the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg for the assembling of a Conference of
the five great Powers has been forwarded to Paris,
and that Prussia has joired in the proposal."

The North Briton arrived out on the Bth inst.,
having picked up the crew of the brig Eliza
Grieves, which had been wrecked.
The barque Emily, which was recently brought
to New York as a slaver, escaped and sailed for
the African coast.
The Chamber of Commerce has memorialised
Congress, soliciting mediation between France,
England, and China.
A heavy gale raged yesterday in New York.
Both bridges to Jersey were demolished, and the
city ferry was unroofed.
The Catholic Orphan Asylum was destroyed ;
large factory was broken ; and 100 other buildings
in the neighbourhood were damaged, Twenty-
four vessels were more or less damaged. No loss
of life reported.
Advices from Bogota state that the Catholic
clergy had collected many bibles which had been
distributed by the London Bible Society. The bibles
were burnt in the public square.

MADRID, FEB. 21.
The following official bulletin from the army in
Africa has been published :
" The Moors having prepared to cannonade
Melilla, Brigadier Buceta, then convalescent, at-
tacked and carried their positions. The Spanish
loss was 31 men. Brigadier Buceta re-entered
Melilla more indisposed than before, and confided
the command to the Colonel. The Moors, being
very numerous, recaptured their positions, but
Brigadier Buceta returned, and again carried them,
with the loss of 182 men."

VIENNA, FEB. 21.

An Imperial decree of to-day concedes to the
Jews of Lower Austria, Moravia, Silesia, Hungary,
the Viovodina, and the Banat, Croatia, Sclavonia,
Dalmatia, and the littoral districts, the right of
possessing real property. They cannot, however,
exercise the rights of patronage, jurisdiction, or
scholastic representation attached to such pos-
session. They may become agricultural proprietors
if, in compliance with the law, they are domiciled
upon their establishments, and cultivate the land
themselves. In Galicia, the Bukowina, and Cracow
the rights enjoyed by Christians connected with
the possession of real property are granted to
those Jews who have been educated at the colleges,
or at commercial, nautical, or mining academies, or
officers in the army.
Other Jews may at present only acquire such
real property as was permitted by the law before
1848, and may farm landed property belonging to
the Crown, but not real. roperty of the kind styled
Russkal farms.

Fifty houses had been burnt at Valparaiso.
Great indignation was manifested at Buenos
Ayres in consequence of the Briti h squadron
attacking the steamer on board which General
Lopez embarked for Paraguay. The steamer backed
her engines and got ashore. General Lopez re-
turned to Buenos Ayres.
The Nova Scotian Cabinet had resigned. A new
Ministry had been formed under Mr. Wm. Young.
The following will probably be the new Govern-
ment :—Hon. Wm. Young, Loader of the Govern-
ment (without office) ; Hon. Joseph Howe, Provin-
cial Secretary ; Hon. Adam Archibald, Attorney-
General. Other offices yet unknown.
The house was adjourned for a month.
NEW YORK, FEB. 10.
Stocks rather higher. Exchange and money un-
altered. Cotton a shade better. Sales, 1,600 bales.
Middling Upland, 11 c. Corn quiet. Provisions
unchanged. Sugar firm. Freight unaltered.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 7.
Cotton, I higher. Sales, 10,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 8.
Cotton market stiffer, but no quotable change
since yesterday. Sales 20,000 ; freight to Liver-
pool 9-16 d., cash.

ROME, FEB. 18 (via MARSEILLES,)

Twenty-five English Catholic deputies have pre-
sented to tbo Pepe a protest from the faithful,
which has afforded great consolation to the Holy

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NEW YORK, FEB. 1

Cotton unchanged.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 10.

Sales of cotton to-day 10,000 bales, market arm.
Receipts of the week 85,000 bales; receipts ahead
of last year 518,000 bales. Freights unchanged.
Sterling exchange, 7 to 8/ premium.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—We are requested to
state that the essays intended for the adjudication of Lord
Brougham, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Earl of Shaf-
tesbury, must bo sent in to the Rev. Dr. Emerton, Han-
well College, Middlesex.

His Excellency the Netherlands Minister has
returnrrl to town from a vimit to thy Duke, and Ducht:6,s of
Beaufort at Badminton, and to Lord and Lady Llanover at
Llanover, South Wales.
Lady Trevelyan and Miss Trevelyan have left
Farranee's Hotel for Southampton, to embark for India to
join Sir Charles Trevelyan at Madras.

The Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Estcourt was pre-
vented from attending- the House of Commons on Monday
night by indisposition.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—
Tier Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, her
Royal Highness the Princess Alice, and her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena, attended by the Countess of
Desert, Lord De Tabley, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and the
Hon. Dudley de Ros, honoured the performances last even-
ing with their presence. The opera selected was " Dino-
rah," preceded by "Romance," and concluding with the
fairy rifle scene from the pantomime of " Puss in Boots."

ITALIAN OPERA.—The hundred tongues of rumour
are loudly asserting all over the town that Mr. E. T.
Smith has positively taken her Majesty's Theatre
for the approaching season. We have reason to know
that this is not yet the case, although the report
is by no means unfounded, negotiations having
already arrived at a very advanced stage. "It is on—all
but the heel," as Baron Pompolino says of Cinderella's
fairy slipper. In the meantime we are certain that Mr. E.
T. Smith will again take the field with Italian opera.

WEN I)—A little girl, showing her little cousin,
about four years old, a star, said, " That star you see up
there is bigger than this world." " No, it aint," said he.
" Yea, it is." " Then, why don't it keep the rain off ?"
We have reason to believe that Lord Palmerston
has submitted the name of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan to the
Queen as the new Bishop of Rochester. Dr. Vaughan was
lately Master of Harrow.

We understand that a requisition is in e3urse of
signature to Mr. Cubitt, of Denbies, near Croydon, request-
ing him to stand for West Surrey, in the Conservative
interest.

VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORFS.—The patriotic ex-
ample of Mr. Charles Ratcliff, of Birmingham, who has
raised and extirely equipped a company of 100 men at his
sole expense, has been followed by Lady Rolle, who has
offered to defray the whole of the cost of a company of 60
men from Budleigh, Salterton, and neighbourhood.
THE " INTERNATIONAL " PRIZE FIGHT.—At the
Isle of Ely sessions, the chief constable, in his report to the
magistrates, observed—" A prize fight for the so-called
championship of England is advertised to take place.on. the
16th of April, between an Englishman and an American.
These disgraceful exhibitions could hardly take place in this
locality if the directors of the railway were to follow the ex-
ample of the South-Eastern directors and refuse the comba-
tants and their friends special trains." The chief constable
also, addressing the magistrates, said he should like steps
to be taken to prevent the belligerents visiting the isle.
During the last five years, he added, the local police expenses
incurred solely on account of prize fights had been in 1855,
£3 lls. Ild. ; 1856, £6 le. 6d. ; 1857, £5 Se. 3d. ; 1858,
£3 7s. 4d. ; 1859, £3 Is. sd.—making a total of £2llos. sd.
The locality selected for the approaching fight is ai the
junction of three counties, near Littleport, and he suggested
that a letter should be written to the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway asking them not to grant a special train.
for the purpose of conveying the parties down. It was re-
solved that this should be done.

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to the American whale fishery for 1859, the Peterhead Sen-
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1,707,9291 b. This shows that the export of oil in 1859
largely exceeds that of 1858, while that of whale has been
light. As regards prices, the average of whale oil was, in
1858, 2s. 3d. ; and in 1859, 2s. Old. per gallon. During' the
same periods the prices in this country were respectively
9s. 9d. and 2s. od. per gallon. In America sperm oil, in
1858, was ss. sd. ; and in 1859, ss. Bd. per gallon, against
7s. to Ss. in this country. There is a steady and increasing
demand for sperm oil, we are informed, both in America
and Europe, and it is calculated that the price will go on
increasing.
A FRENCH COMPLIMENT TO MR. GLADSTONE.—
Never in the course of Mr. Gladstone's brilliant career was
he so well inspired as on this occasion. Everybody will
be struck at the largeness with which ho comprehends and
practically applies the principle of commercial liberty
adopted by England, as one of the foundations of her home
and foreign policy. In presence of a considerable deficit
Mr. Gladstone does not hesitate to propose new reductions
industry,
utlslter3s,a, giving activity to
oof
nationald ijes
crease other taxes,
boldness of the financier is not less remarkable than the
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Then-
brilliancy of the Parliamentary orator,—Moniteur,

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1i 60.

firm owing to the division on Mr. Disraeli's amend-
ment and the majority of 63 given to the English
Cabinet. Threes, after having been done at 67f
85c, improved to 67f 95c. Mobilier varied from
742 f 50e to 747 f 50e—Austrian, 498 f 75c to 501 f
25c—Lombard, 543 f 75e to 542f—Lyons, 882 f 50c
to 883 f 75c—Orleans, 1,360 f to 1,362 f 50c.
The following are the last quotations :-
41 per Cents. 97 85 Credit Foncier.... 740
Do. end month 97 90 I Belo-ian 44-
3 per Cents 6B Piedmontese (5) ..
Do. end month 6B Roman
Bank Shares 280.5 Austrian

80 2,5

77 N
45 -
43 75

Cash. Account.
Orleans -
Northern 917 50 .. 918 75
New ditto B3O .. 832 50
Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 .. 887 50
Geneva 493 75 .. 500
Southern
Western 5BO .. SSO
Eastern

SArdiniaa 398 75 .. 400
Austrian
Lombard