The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-30 00:00:00

THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
RIGHT years. _ . _

The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eve
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform T WICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 30.

THEICIWOMZTER, IN THE SHADE.
78—highest since soon yesterday.
63—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BARomrrzß-29•97—falling.
WIND, Northerly; light, with dull weather.

Hidll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, Ih. 49m.—Afternoon, 2h. 14m.
To-Mmutow-Morning, 2h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m.

Symptoms of the " early closing movement"
. begin to develope themselves already. Last night
two of the great guns of this nondescript session
have been fired off the lists for competitive
tours ! The precious London Corporation'Re-
form ? Bill ! has met the fate of its more virtuous
predecessors by being quietly withdrawn. Then
the total Abolition of Church Rates Bill is put off
for three months.

Nobody is inclined to quarrel with that—no, not
even Mr. NEWDEGATE ! But the total, aye, and
uneompensated abolition of that odious impost will
be carried in the fulness of time, and the Church
battlements become stronger than ever, because
they will not depend on any adventitious aid, nor
draw their support from spoliation of property, nor
be deemed repugnant to conscience, and cease to be
a byeword and a scandal.

It now turns out that the tub thrown to the
whale in the Moniteur of Thursday morning was
just what we expected. There is to be a seeming
reduction in the French Navy by paying off the
the ships now in Commission on their return from
foreign stations, such as China, the West Indies,
&c. Why such a reduction would have taken
place in the ordinary course of business, just
as we pay off our ships after having been
abroad for four or five years. But to call that re-
duction is to throw dust in the nation's eyes, and
trifle with their credulity ! It would appear from
the correspondent of the Morning Post—not a bad
judge of the secret doings in France, that the
French people are not only delighted at the
gigantic progress making in the French arsenals,
but they are actually proud of it ! Well, be it so.
Every one thinks his own toy the best, and why
should we begrudge to our neighbours the pleasure
of taking a natural and even a national delight in
the splendid toys they are willing (?) to pay for ?
No: let the French dream on, and indulge in
" The rupture of the victory !"

which is yet to come off at the expense of

66 The flag that braved a thousand years

The battle and the breeze I" -
NAPOLEON' may build as many ships as he pleases,
and case them with iron to his heart's content, but
let him bear one thing in mind—he cannot build the
true hearts of oak which alone give vitality and
vigour to the Naval arm of Old England.

The discussion last evening in the House of
Commons upon Mr. HORSMAN'S patriotic and well-
timed motion will be pleasant reading, we warrant,
to every loyal Englishman in the land. Not
one of the eminent men who spoke last night in
the course of that
,discussion but inferred, directly
or indirectly, by his every syllable the neces-
sity upon which we are all rapidly becoming
perfectly well agreed—the great and paramount
necessity of perfecting as far as in us lies, and as
speedily as may be, no matter at what cost, our de-
fensive armaments. It matters comparatively no-
thing in itself that the resolution of the right hon.
gentleman the member for Stroud was eventually
negatived by a clear majority of 87, in a house of 237
—7O voting for, and as many as 167 againstthat reso-
lution. Mr,RORSMAN's intention was gained, though
his resolution was lost—the motion served its purpose
to the full by being the peg upon which was hung
yesterday's important,
and, as we cannot but re-
gard it, eminently satisfactory amid peculiarly
inspiriting discussion. Conspicuous among those
who spoke last evening directly to the
point was Sir JOHN pARINGTON, the re-
organiser of the Royal Navy of England '
The right hon. baronet insisted With peculiar force
upon the absurdity of contenting ourselves with
relying upon the integrity of any allianel
upon the
good faith an d magnan imityof any foreign Sovereign,
lie concurred, moreover, cordially in that portion of
the rk -solution before the house which reprehendrd
the p. ractice of spending money upon our
works of defence by driblets, instead of
undertakit, those works as they ought in
reason to b, I undertaken, upon a grand scale—
npon a scale CI. Inmensurate with the very grandeur
of the empire to be conserved, upon plans
combining, withy n them the three chief re-
quisites —'rapidit, munificence, ani eompre-
hensivenesk! Perin, fps the most remarkable
speech gati, ere(' ye 'erday, however, throughout
the whole of this disc assjon was the one with which
Mi.. COBDEN inaugurated la.s return to the House of
Coil nos, after two ye ars absence, as the hon. mem-
ber ftj.r Rochdale—it mit Tht have been, as we all know,
(had he so pleased) as a Minister of the Crown, the

Right Honourable, one of her MAJESTY'S Privy '
Councillors. By his bold and admirable speech of
last evening, upon our National Defences, Mr. COB-
DEN vindicated his capacity to assume high place at
the Privy Council board of his SOVEREIGN. One
fragment alone from the speech of the member for
Rochdale will be sufficient to justify this assertion.
"France," observed Mr. COBDEN, " was undoubtedly
a great country, with an extensive seaboard, and
she was therefore entitled to maintain a large navy,
but it did not follow that she should wish to have as
large a navy as ours. Indeed, she ought not to
have so large a navy. Nay, more than that—
if he saw any disposition on her part to have as
large a navy as ours, and especially if she did not
yield to a fair explanation, then he should suspect
some sinister design. He would tell the house
candidly that if it came to a rivalry between
the two countries, and if France refused to
listen to explanations, he would as cheerfully vote
£500,000,000 as £5,000,000 to maintain our mari-
time superiority." We shall not forget those words
of Mr. COBDEN'S. They are worthy of him—they
are worthy of a true-born Englishman.

Moralists have reminded us from the days of
SOLOMON "how short-lived are human pleasures,"
but of all pleasures, compared with the cost, that
of being a member of the British House of Com-
mons will now serve for a text to our monitors.
" See yonder gentleman. He is a member for -,
member of the first representative assembly in the
world." Yes, he was yesterday ; but an election
committee sat in solemn inquest on his proceedings
or those of his agents ; it has made its report, and
forthwith the place that once knew him knows him
no more, the M.P. is struck from his name, he be-
comes as one of us, and well for him if the brand
of bribery do not take the place of the coveted
initials. It is the descent from Solferino to Villa-
franca. The victor of the hard-fought borough
contest retreats to his own house with the honour
of that contest only, or rather with a position
lowered by his previous triumph.

Two Liberals figure as the first of the cashiered.
Mr. BRIGHT'S brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. HENRY
LEATHAM, at Wakefield, and Mr. E. W. H.
SCHENLEY, at Dartmouth, are the first to lose
their epaulettes. Four of the thirteen who helped
to displace the late Ministry now follow them,
and two others followed them yesterday, into yet
more private life than those whom they displaced.
Not that the minority on that division may yet
venture to boast. In nothing are the deserts of
the two parties more equally balanced than in
the matter of electoral corruption. Both sides
may very likely receive ultimately the same
measure of punishment from the judgments of
committees, and it is notorious that the with-
drawn petitions are generally " arrangements " be-
tween the hostile parties. Nor has any device been
yet discovered by which such arrangements can be
prevented. If the committee, or the House itself,
should no longer permit petitions to be withdrawn,
who could compel 'reluctant petitioners to produce
the evidence which would unseat the member who,
by a bargain with the other party, is to be left in
possession of his seat ? There is no prey ention of
such well-understood withdrawals, but the one
measure which would cut up, root and branch, the
bribery which gave rise to the petition. We believe
that these compromises generally indicate the
greatest depth of corruption on both sides. The
winners and the losers have so equally com-
mitted themselves, as we understand for in-
stance, to be the case at Norwich, that either could
gain easily a decision against the other; hence the
suggestion, " let us save ourselves the expense and
exposure, and by one member resigning, and an
unopposed election, let it be one and one." In the
cases yet decided it is remarkable that the petitions
do not pray for the seating of the opposing candi-
date, though the majorities were, in both cases,
very small indeed. The inference seems in-
evitable.

Both the deposed Senators are acquitted of guilty
knowledge, although one furnished forty•five £2O
notes to obtain a majority of seven in the petty
borough of Dartmouth, and the other £l,lOO to
gain one of three, in the larger, but certainly not
less corrupt borough of Wakefield. Mr. LEATHAM
also was so constantly in and out of the real com-
mittee room, when the election work was transacted,
that we must assume most marvellous simplicity
on his part, if he had no idea of what was being
done with the large sum beyond the legal expenses
which he had to pay. It must be owned, however,
that parties at elections are not personally vindic-
tive. They want merely to win. If beaten, they
are satisfied with beating their opponent in return,
but there is nothing Asiatic in them. To conquer,
not to torture their opponents, is their only object ;
indeed they would rather not bring legal penalties
on the heads of others, at whom it cost them some
squeaks of conscience to throw the first stone.
Hence, no doubt, the lenient measure commonly
dealt to the fallen ex-member.

The revelations of the committees thus far fur-
nish the usual amount of startling or amusing facts
and inventions. At Wakefield, where very large
sums were given, such as £lO, £25, £35, and much
more demanded, notes of hand and bills of sale were
signed by the receivers, with the understanding
that they should never be enforced. What is
most remarkable is that they never were,
though several of the receivers voted afterwards
for the opposite party. Indeed, such money seems
to vanish quickly. One Mistress Jackson, for in-
stance, who had come down in her terms from £5O
to £35 as the fee for using her eloquence in favour
of Leatham, could not prevail on her husband not
to vote for Charlesworth ; and when asked about
the " sugar," as such money seems to be termed in
the West Riding, she replied—" The sugar had
melted long ago." Another lady received £25,
because " then it would be impossible to say it had
been given to her husband ;" but as this was only
half the fair value of a vote in the husband's esti-
mate, he did what he thought equitable, by doing
half what he was asked—he did not vote for
Charlesworth, but neither did he vote at all. What
became of the " sugar" in this case we are not
told.

At Huddersfield votes are purchased by buying
pigs at a profit of £lO to the seller. At Ashburton,
by paying large debts ; but then the Ashburton
was a case of all others presenting the strongest
temptation. The Tory candidate, according to the
evidence, had purchased a vote or two, and the
numbers then stood ninety to ninety. One vote
would decide, but that one vote could only be forth-
coming by the payment of a debt of altogether
£134. The sheriffs' myrmidons were watching the
polling
booth till within a few minutes of four-
o'clock, and still the voter dared not appear—iF.-
deed, had he done
ohecoualdtrniaolt
forh :toial
avlevoote.d.
This, of course, was tsoc, strong
virtue. The debt was paid, and the debt-free
elector proved himself a free and independent
elector, not by voting oil the side for which he
had always voted before, but, as became him, on
the side of gratitude to Benefactors. We refrain
from comments just now. It is obvious, however,
that Mr. BERKELEY will not want illUstrations
next session from the records of the House itself.
The worst is that impressions are evanescent, and

that he may findl all forgotten after the shooting
season, and the roast beef and plum-pudding of
Christmas.

The aggregate of the information obtained
through the opefation of the Income-tax possesses
a peculiar intereot if only as the result of an
agonizing guage oaf the wealth scattered over the
United Kingdom. ..1-t appears from the return or-
dered upon the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE of
Brandon, a return ree.:ently placed in obedience to
that order upon the table of the Upper House of
Parliament, that the grand total amount of pro-
perty assessed under all the five schedules of the
Income-tax reaches the enormous sum of
X 327,146,845. Of this extraordinary aggregate,
Ireland claims £22,863,099 as her assessment, and
Scotland £29,558,899 as hers—England and Wales
carrying off the lions share to the marvellous tune
of £274,724,847. Upon a further analysis of these
remarkable statistics, it appears that the last men-
tioned sum total, namely, the aggregate amount of
the English and Welsh assessment is unequally
apportioned thus : under schedule A, £109,978,265
—under schedule B, £42,777,237—under sche-
dule C, £2B,oB3,ol7—under schedule D, £77,503,022
and under schedule E, £16,383,306. The assess-
ment under these five sections, namely, that under
Schedule A in Englacd and Wales, being again
thus subdivided—X42,6B4,s77 in land, £47,438,766
in messuages, £209,960 in tithes, £203,479 in
manors, £366,801 in quarries £3,485,150 in
mines, £1,249,531 in ironworks, £17,959 in
fisheries, £802,765 incanals, £10,450,401 in
railroads, and £844,060 in gas-works—the re-
maining £1,378,653 being miscellaneous. The
wealth of the United Kingdom is thus weighed in
the balance. From the reliable figures brought
together opportunely enough in this singular Par-
liamentary return, we may appreciate at a glance
the money value alone of what it is we have to
defend against the risk of spoliation. Through the
few leaves of this " return" we may understand at
once how far it is worth while multiplying our
defences, whether by land or by sea. It is, of
course, the very lowest plea that could be adduced
—a simply material reason for reorganising our de-
fensive armaments. Yet it is a plea nevertheless,
and one in its way sufficiently forcible, and instantly
and universally comprehensible. We have besides
our wealth, our sacred, political, social and reli-
gious liberties to guard from subjugation we have
to shield our hearths and families, the Crown and
the Constitution. But remembering, apart from
these paramount considerations, that in reorganising
the extent and character of our military and
maritime armaments we have to do battle first

of all with those very stubborn obstructives the
political economists—it is fortunate that we can
bring to bear against the shallow arguments of
thrift in our apparently warlike but in reality
pacific expenditure the irresistible counter-argu-
ments derivable from these returns in regard of the
Income-tax revelations. The mere money value of
the property alone to be defended from the
pillage of the invader, makes in the United
Kingdom, as we have seen, that stupendous

total of more than £327,000,000 sterling. Thb
assessment in England and Wales alone
—an assessment made, as already observed, upon
property very nearly amounting to a grand total
of £27s,ooo,ooo—yielding a net amount of income
tax, for the year last passed, the year ending on
the sth of April, 1858, under all the five schedules,
of £6,682,999. The amount under the first
schedule being £2,965,528 ; under the second,
£383,595 ; under the third, £819,088 ; under the
fourth, 72,064,444 ; and under the fifth, or schedule
E, £450,344. It requires but a momentary glance

at this timely Parliamentary return to convince us

how fully it is worth while, under the most sordid
pecuniary point of view, to reorgauise, as proposed,
our defensive armaments.

THE SOUTH-WESTERN DIVIDEND.

MONET MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return completed to the
27th July exhibits very few changes of importance.
The bullion, however, has been diminished by
about a quarter of a million sterling, owing to the
remittances to the Continent, and the limited sup-
plies from Australia. In the Reserve of Notes,
there is a small falling off, and the Other Securi-
ties, owing to the increased demand for money,
show an augmentation. There is also a small in-
crease in the Public Deposits, and a decrease in
the Private Balances, while the Active Circulation
shows a contraction of about a quarter of a million
sterling. The various items, and the changes they
present, will be seen in the subjoined table :

Active Circulation .. .. .. Z 21,841,015
Decrease .. .. • • • • 223,825
Bullion .. .. .. .. .. 17,462,600
Decrease .. .. • • • • 236,927
Rest •• •• •• •• .. 3,320,208
Increase .. .. .. .. 11,988
Public Deposits .. .. .. 5,018,456
Increase .. .. . • • • 35,884
Other Deposits .. .. .. 14,907,777
Decrease •• •• •• •• 25,218
Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 818,220
Decrease .. .. . • • • 39,799
Government Securities .. .. 11,170,680
Decrease .. .. .. .. 100,000
Other Securities .. .. .. 17,350,396
Increase .. .. .. .. 95,957
Notes Unemployed .. .. .. 9,472,680
Decrease .. .. .. .. 16,370

The demand for money to-day has been steady
at previous rates. In consequence of the large
supplies available, the terms continue moderate,
and the inquiry, although it has lately increased,
has failed to impart much activity to the market.
At the Bank of England the applications are very
moderate.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
the rates on Amsterdam and Hamburg were rather
higher.

At the Bank of England yesterday there were
no bullion operations of importance. Nearly the
whole of the £218,000 by the City of Baltimore
has been taken for the continent. •

To-day a call of £3 per share, or £48,312, becomes
due on the Lancaster and Preston Junction Rail-
way shares.

Accounts from Liverpool report that the cotton
market yesterday closed steadily, and prices were
without material alteration.

A heavy tone has pervaded the market for Eng-
lish Securities to-day, the few transactions re-
corded showing a slight preponderance of sales.
Consols have, therefore, receded to 942 if for
money, and to 941 for account. The Indian
Loan still exercises an unfavourable influence.
Bank Stock is firm at 223 ; the New Threes and
the Reduced are 95 to 951 ; the 5 per Cent. Annui-
ties are flat, at 110; and Exchequer Bills, at 28s.
prem. India Loan Debentures, 1859, have ad-
vanced to 94 1; and the Scrip is firm, at 94i.
The transactions in Foreign Securities have been
of a very restricted character, but prices, in some
instances, are rather firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 80 to 82 ; ditto New, 69 to 71 ; Portuguese 3
per Cents. have advanced to 44 45 ; Peruvian 41
per Cents. are steady at 89 to 90 ; Spanish, at 44
and the Deferred at 321; Belgian 43. per Cents. are
flat at 97.?--;

The transactions in the Railway Share Mark?t,
to-day, have been exceedingly limited, and in most
instances prices have shown a further downward
tendency. Eastern Counties and Midlands have
declined ss. ; North Western and South Western
10s. ; South Eastern 15s. ; and Great Western and
North Eastern (Berwick), £l.

The foreign and colonial lines are inactive.
Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares have improved to
103, and the New Shares to 101. East Indian are
at 97+ 9711; Grand Trunk of Canada at 3.21 33 ;
and Great Western of Canada at 141.14 g-.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
exceedingly dull. London Chartered of Austsalia
have improved ss. Ottoman Bank, ss. Union of
Australia and Electric Telegraph were at about
previous rates.

BRITISR FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9sk 5
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ' 94 i a
€,Nv 2 per Cent. Annuities
5 per Cent. Annuities llO
India Stock
Ditto Debentures, 1858 —
Ditto, 1859
Ditto Loan Scrip
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Dittr) under £l,OOO
onsols for Account (Aug. 9)
• xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, I}d .. 28

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
l'eruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1353, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. 97/
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94a i
Ditto Account .. 94! i

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1859.