The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

The first
.on the list is Count VORNANO, Governor
of the Invalides, and the last is General PICARD,
who commands the 17th military division. There
are 164 brigadier-generals. On the list of the
reserve there are 77 generals of division and 168
brigadier-generals. The general staff comprises
35 colonels, 35 lieutenant-colonels, 109 majors
of cavalry, and 299 captains. The Commissariat,
created in the year 1817, and organised according
to an Imperial decree dated the 12th of June, 1856,
comprises 8 commissaries general inspectors, 26
military commissaries, 50 deputy commissaries of
the first class, 100 ditto of the second class, and 80
adjutants ; making altogether 264.
Nor is this all. We now learn that in order to
mistify the public the Bourse has been tampered with
in right Imperial style, in order to counteract the im-
pression produced, and soothe the irritable suscepti-
bility of the moneyed interest. But it will nota wail
long—a fall will follow—and then look out for
squalls. A panic is bad enough here, but over
the water it is far more disastrous, from the too
sensitive tenderness of an excitable temperament.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says—
" The influence to which I alluded yesterday was
again active at the Bourse to day, and produced a
further rise of lf. 40c. on the Three per Cent.
Rentes—a rise regarded as unnatural under exist-
ing circumstances."

It appears to be fast becoming the rule, and not
the exception, that Financial arrangements should
necessitate a series of novel and daring experiments.
Whether it be a Budget for India or a Budget for
England—the scheme submitted to the Legislature
for the better regulation of the balance of Income
and Expenditure, strives now (invariably), not as
heretofore after the old-fashioned merit of exceed-
ing simplicity, but rather, it should be said, after the
new-fangled and somewhat questionable advantage
of extraordinary elaboration. It has been thus, as
the country is but too well aware, with the com-
plex Budget unfolded to vier last month in a four
hours' speech by our accomplished Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It is thus now more recently in
the Budget for Hindostan, proposed, after due
deliberation, first of all in London and afterward's
(noised) at Calcutta by our unquestionably gifted
Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr. WILSON,
late England's wonder-inspiring" Calculating Boy"
at the Treasury. It must be admitted, however, at
once, in Mr. WILSON'S behalf, that complication of
some sort in his Budget (in the Indian Budget)
was something inevitable and unavoidable. A
Political Deluge had swept over our Indian Empire
immediately prior to Mr. WILSON'S arrival in Cal-
cutta. It was not so much that many of the old
landmarks had been removed in the confusion and
turmoil of the Sepoy Rebellion and its subse-
quent suppression. It was, as we have said, that
nothing less than a political deluge had passed over
the land, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin—the
old schemes of Government have been uprooted and
submerged—the Honourable the East India Com-
pany having expired and ceased to be among the
ruling powers of the earth, the proconsular fasces
being at length, in the fullness of time, transformed
into another of the many sceptres placed in the
grasp of our Constitutional Sovereign. Under this
new order of things Mr. WILSON has had
scarcely the possibility of going by any precedent.
He has had to begin in effect from the very begin-
ning. He has had to create a new system, and to
place that new system in accordance with the re-
quirements of the Asiatic empire, placed financially
under his governance. Recollect, too, that when
the Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer takes the
Revenue of Hindostan into consideration, he does
so with the coffers empty. It is not simply that
there is an enormous deficit—but that there is
rather before him (to call things by their right
names) an absolute bankruptcy. The task imposed
upon this eminent financier, therefore, is that of
building up anew an entire system of Finance in
India from its very foundations—up—to the tre-
foils of the parapet, to the apex of the loftiest
pinnacle. This is absolutely what Mr. WILSON
has been called upon to attempt, and this is pre-
cisely what he has with a bold hand resolutely
striven to accomplish. The enterprise was
hardly less of a miracle of ingenuity in
its way than the Palace of ALADDIN that
was raised in a single night by the Genius of the
Lamp, in the Arabian story. The late Secretary
of the Treasury, now an Indian Chancellor of the
Exchequer, has so far already nobly acquitted him•
self of his enormous and suddenly imposed respon-
sibilities that—there at any rate is his scheme, such
as it is, in its entirety before the British Parliament
for candid scrutiny and impartial consideration.
In due time, we doubt not, that consideration will
he candidly and impartially accorded to it.
Already, however, this passing tribute is at least
demanded from all sides and from all parties with-
out exception—a tribute earned by the unflagging
zt,al and indomitable resolution which have con-
ducted Mr. WILSON to the fabrication thus rapidly
of his Indian scheme of finance through a whirling
chaos of difficulties.

Mr. LINDSAY'S motion last night, seconded by
Mr. HORSFALL, and unopposed by Mr. MILNER
GIBSON, was, after some discussion, agreed to by
the House of Commons. It could hardly in fact
have been otherwise. It was simply to the effect
that an humble address should be presented to her
Majesty praying her Majesty to enter into nego-
tiations with the Emperor of the French, with the
view of making a treaty for the reciprocal abrogation
of all discriminating duties levied upon the vessels,
and their cargoes, of either of the two nations in the
ports of the other ; and for procuring such alterations
in the navigation laws of France as might tend to fa-
cilitate the commercial interccurse and strengthen
the friendly relations between the two countries,
between France and England. Nobody in their
senses of course could seriously object to any such
proceeding. For it was simply a recognition
of the universally accepted truth that " Fair
play is a jewel." All Mr. LINDSAY and the rest of
our great shipowners want is just in so many Words
—" A clear stage and pofavour." It is the same
reasonable demand, in fact, as that urged of late in
another way by our English paper manufac.
turers. When we talk of Free Trade we
mean Free Trade ; and we merely demand, in
justice and in honesty, that so called Free Trado
measures should, in point of fact, carry out in real
earnest and not in mere appearance Free Trade
principles. We cannot but think that a man so
astute as the French Emperor will weigh well in
his judgment, if only out of motives of self-interest,
otherwise of interest for France, the "inexorable
logic " of those " facts" tnd figures which were ad-
duced last evening, io the course of his very rabic;
speech, by Mr. LINDSAY, in bringing forward this
motion on the differential duties. Take, for example,
the astounding contrast drawn between the rate of
insurance in our shipping under the old Pro-
tection system and that which has become ap-
parent (and with such extraordinary rapidity)
since 4the abolition of the Navigation Laws.
Mr. LINDSAY puts the question thus plainly.
lie says-----" Under the protection system in the
yaneayrrelliia2l.lb,e fithie3 earliest period for which we had
ures with respect to ite operation, 1

there had cleared outwards from our ports 430,000
tons of British shipping ; and in the year 1810,
or 90 years later, there had cleared outwards
1,600,000 tons, showing an increase of 1,170,000
tons. Now," continues the hon. member, " con-
sidering that we had enjoyed throughout that
period the command of the whole carrying trade of
the seas, that was not a very considerable increase,
but might be fairly regarded as a very small one.
In the year 1820, under the operation of the
reciprocity system, there had cleared outwards from
our ports 1,670,000 tons of British shipping. We
abolished our navigation laws in the year 1849,
and in the year 1860 there had cleared outwards
of British shipping 4,700,000 tons, which gave an
increase of upwards of 3,000,000 tons as compared
with the year 1820. In the year 1838 the amount
of our shipping clearing outwards was 6,400,000
tons, or an increase of 1,700,000 tons as compared
with the year 1850; so that in these eight years of
free trade," Mr. LINDSAY exclaimed last night with
an allowable 2xultation, " there had been a greater
increase than during ninety years of a close pro-
tection." Those facts alone, with what NAPOLEON
himself has called their " inexorable logic," con-
stitute an almost irresistible inducement for
France to put an end to the old blundering
scheme of differential duties, and enter
resolutely upon the path which England has
already traversed so far with such astonishing ad-
vantages to herself. happily by the decision of
last night the first step has been taken by the
House of Commons. The sequel now rests, with
all its solemn responsibilities, in the hands of her
Britannic MAJESTY'S Government.

There must be more in the Reform Bill than we
had thought. The Opposition is disposing us to
rub our eyes a little. They are, we know, notwith-
standing all professions, really anti-Reformers.
Their bill last year was produced only as a neces-
sity of their situation ; they did not, they said, want
a Reform Bill, they were content with things as
they were; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S restlessness
had compelled them to bid their best terms; and,
not so bad were they, for Conzervatives, after all.
Still, at least, they weft then, and are now, opposed
to increasing popular power. When, therefore, we
find them straining every nerve to put off the
second reading of the Reform Bill till after Easter,
and when we also find noble lords asking for hos-
tile returns, and proposing to appoint a select com-
mittee to investigate the probable working of pro-
posed extensions of the franchise, all this looks like
an opinion, on the part of the opponents of Reform,
that the Bill does contain some considerable mea-
sure of that desideratum, Fas est ab hoste doceri ;
and though we have hitherto seen but an insignifi-
cant minimum of Reform in the bill, the movements of
the enemy would indicate that there must be a great
deal.

We know of but one counter supposition of our
logic, and that is, that even a minimum of Reform
will always encounter Conservative opposition ;
and, that party feeling is strong enough to prompt
one political section to reject, when proposed by
another, what is as near as it well can be to its
own proposals. There is much, we allow, in all
this. Still the Opposition would not admit its ap-
plication to them. The precise tactics of the Lords

show, also, that it is the extension of the suffrage

which is the grievance. If the introduction of the
fancy franchises, which Lord JOHN himself pro-
posed in 1854, and which, with slight modifica-
tions, Mr. DISRAELI proposed last year, were the
improvement desired, it would, of course, be easy
to add all these in committee; nor do we conceive
that any party would care to oppose them. A
lodger franchise seems to be approved by most,
and will probably find a place in the bill. Against
the others there is nothing to be said, but that they
could nearly all be included in the new franchises.
So nearly so that, for the sake of the few to be
added, it seems scarcely worth while to complicate

yet further the grounds of a right to vote.
It is equally hopeful that our great Conservative
morning contemporary is doing its best to get rid
of, or, at least, to spoil, the bill if it can. Now it is
that nobody wants it, which is, of course, a very
accurate expression of the opinion of one important
person not unconnected with Berkshire. Now it
is that the new electors are to swamp and dis-
franchise the old ones. Surely there must be some-
thing in Extensions of the Franchise which call
forth such alternate contempt and vaticination ;
the latter showing that the former is but ill-quired
fear. As to the dis-franchisement, which we are
pertinaciously told is involved in every en-franchise.
ment, we can hardly comprehend it, at least in a
free country. Have we, then, been increasing and
extending our liberties ever since the times of
CASTLEREAGH and SIDMOUTH, only to regard, with
a selfish envy and jealousy, all who rise to share
our privileges ? ,Do we really prize a vote
the less because many more can join
us in giving one ? Has all our zeal
for education and ed.ightenment come to
this, that instead of rejoicing that a hundred or a
thousand more of our neighbours are educated up
to the electoral mark, we are to go about trembling,
wailing, and deploring that, alas, we are now only
one of two thousand, when formerly we were one
of a thousand ? Away, we say, with such exclu-
siveness ! The more the merrier in merry Old
England. We enjoy the sight of a good shilling
day at the Crystal Palace ; it is a heartier affair
than the half-crown day. And we enjoy, too, a
good soul-stirring constituency at an election.
Not too large a one, as in a few boroughs--there
is a difference between a cheerful number and a
squeezing crowd—but enough to show that all
classes are welcome, all interested. Not like one
of the tame Arundels, Woodstocks, or Thetfords—
not one of the landlord-ridden counties—saunter-
ing to the poll to vote to, a superior's order.
Glancing again at the new bill, we should not,
ourselves, find out much to frighten Conservatives.
To us it would seem singularly innocuous. The
boroughs whose constituencies will be considerably
enlarged, already, nearly all of them, return Li-
berals, most of them advanced Liberals—and to
take counties, their new voters will be found, we
are persuaded, of the most manageable quality.
They will consist 3f just the classes whom the
country parish clergy have just led forth to holy
war, and most unholy defeat, in the Church-rate
petition battle. Blacksmiths, wheelwrights, vil-
lage shopkeepers, parish clerks, job-work farmers,
country cobblers, carriers:with a few retired trades-
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we can tell the Lords' Select Committee beforehand,
will be the chief of their new county constituents--
electors who will give the squires only larger regi-
ments, but equally well in hand, and equally ready
with thc present county electors to vote for those,
wham they must please, to live. ,

We repeat, therefore, that the opposition in the
Commons, the preparations in the Lords, and the
threats of the nries,give us a better opinion of the
Reform Bill than we should otherwise have. There
mud be some good in what is thus resisted or de-
nounced. May it prove so ?

The allowance on deposits has been raised by all
the joint-stock banks to 31 per cent. except the Landon and
Westminster, which allows `,T,q on sums of £;00 and
,up •
warns, and 2i only on 811.111: below £5OO. The discount
establishments have already increased their terms, the al-
lowance for money at call being per (Vitt., and, with
BCVela days' notice, 4.