The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

TEEA TRE-ROY AL, HAYMARKET,
Lealee. Mr. J. B. Backetonr.

THIS EVENING, the performamses will oommenae with
A DUKE IN DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr, Buckstoue,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Jct.
Alter which, will be revived, with entirely new scenery
and effects, and all the original music by the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Soia Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE,
Two New Dramas.—Reappearance of Mr. John Drew, and

6th appearance-61 Miss Matilda Heron,

THIS EVENING, THE TWO GREGORIES.

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After which, a new original comic drama, written by Sami.
Lover, Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE ' • or, Possession
Nine Points of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston, Forrester,
J. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &a
To conclude with a new drama, NEW YEAR'S EVE ; or,
The Belle of the Season. Messrs. H. Neville, Villiers, Jas.
Johnstone, J. Rouse ; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Matilda Heron,
Miss Willard, &c.

OYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclereq.
Followed by HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Fechter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, IC. ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Great Attraction for the Easter Holidays.-6th appearance
this season of Mr. B. Webster and Miss Julia Daly.
THIS EVENING, a new drama' (2d time) MAGLIORE,
PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, dtc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss El. Simms, dm
After which. OUR GAL. Miss Julia Daly, Mr. Romer,
Mr. Ebnrne, and Mr. Warde.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor........ C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,
(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
M'NTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tale 7 DAY.—Morning, 11h. 56m.—Afternoon, —h. —m.
TO-MORROW.-Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m.

THIC WEATHER.—Scx OFFICE, APRIL 6, 161.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
52—highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowestlthis morning and during the sight,
47—this day at noon.
Bano3trrzn-30.20 ; rising rapidly.
WlND—South-Easterly—light; with cloudy weather.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1861.

Mr. GLADSTONE'S next Budget ! " Ay, there's
the rub." And it is one, we may say which is certain
enough to be administered by a harsh and pitiless
hand upon aback sadly overburdened, upon the back
of honest JOHN BULL, upon those sturdy shoulders
flayed long since beneath the weight of many heavy
and shifting taxes, and now actually raw under
the grinding influence of the disastrous financial
policy of her MAJESTY'S present Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
A very few days more now and we shall know
the worst through the medium of Mr. GLADSTONE'S
new Financial Statement. We shall have a grand
speech quite as a matter of course—a speech of
several hours duration—delivered with an exqui-
site voice, with the most graceful gesticu-
lation, with all the most seductive oratorical
arts that can be brought together by the consum-
mate skill of the most accomplished of living
rhetoricians. The Budget speech of 1861, like the
Budget speech of 1860, will, as reported from the
Gallery, fill as usual many closely printed columns
of the daily newspapers. It will be thickly sown
with numerals, symbolizing a great mass of
elaborate and intricate calculations. It will be
interspersed with all the customary marks of par-
liamentary applause " Hear, hear," " Cheers,"
" Loud cheers," " Cheers and laughter." Actually
"laughter"—for Mr. GLADSTONE can contrive
to be very funny, even when he is most
dreadful. If he were a dentist we may
presume he would extract a laugh from a victim
of the toothache, at the very moment, too, when
fitting on the carious " double," the grim forceps
previously concealed under his wristband. How-
ever, this might be in that wild contingency—it is
at any rate, matter of certainty with us, from a
frightful experience—in referring to which experi-
ence one has to go no further back than the Budget
oration of last year—Mr. GLADSTONE, while slip-
ping JOHN BULL'S thumb into that old familiar
stall of the thumbscrew, while insinuating poor
JOHN'S broad foot into that boot of torture, typified
in the " Scavenger's Daughter" of the Inquisition—
Mr. GLADSTONE, we say, while doing this can
absolutely tickle his fated victim into laughter—
into laughing, as the wits of ANNE'S time used to
say "consumedly," as old HOMER had it cen-
t--

,uries back, " inextinguishably." How droll he
was only last spring—ce cher Monsieur GLAD-
STOW And then as an inevitable close to
this grand annual display of his enormous
folly as a Financier, and of his immense but
utterly useless abilities (when so applied) as a
Rhetorician,we read at the close of his rhodomontade
peroration, we are fated every year to read at the
end of his amazing Speech, "The right honourable
gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and pro-
tracted cheering." Upon the following day every-
one is talking, also quite as a matter of course,
about GLADSTONE'S eloquent speech—finest he's
ever delivered—in magnificent voice last night (as
though he were an opera singer, instead of a
Statesman and a financier)—what sharp hits, too,
those at DIZZY—And all the while—
"0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gie its
To see eurseig as ithers see us .

A week afterwards and there appears across the
counter of Mr. RIDGWAY, the great pamphlet
publisher of Piccadilly, or from the esta-
blishment of some other favoured pub-
lisher and bookseller, a revised report
in the form of a thickish brochure, a revised and
authorised report corrected by Mr. GLADSTONE
himself of his last great Budget Speech in bring-
ing forward his new Financial Statement. And
so the ball rolls. And so—•vive la Bagatelle. Now
in all this from first to last, the public at large, the
Public both
in the House of Commons and
out of the
House of Commons, we cannot
but regard
" acting very much as the
sheep do—grege •
make a bell_watZusiy. They say if you can only
leap over an outstretched
walking stick in
the highway—every separate
sheep in the flock,
though the walking_etiering afterwards, al
be withdrawn imme-
diately the bellwether has
•pa9sed, will, fir certain,
leap, at the same identical
t the same two or
three feet into the air over—now
:0".
Now, it
is the fashion, upon any and "every possible
occasion, to talk loudly and blatantly °I. Mr
GLADSTONE'S vcondei ful eloquence, of his extraor
dinary oratorical powers in bringing forward his
financial statement. The bare idea of eloquence
the bare idea of oratory in a Budget Speech is in
itself just simply in one word preposterous
'To be eloquent, to be oratorical, in the

true sense of the word while hammer-
ing out an enormous mass of calculations,
would set at defiance the rhetorical capabilities of
a CHATHAM or a BOLINGBROKE, of a CICERO or of
a DEMOSTHENES. Clear, a great orator may be,
cogent, lucid he may be, in his financial statement :
but to bring forward a Budget, and, while doing
so, to be pouring forth for four or five consecutive
hours a strain of surpassing eloquence, of
sonorous and bewitching oratory, is just, in
one word a word of Oriental slang,
that it only requires Mr. GLADSTONE to use
once to render, in the estimation of some
people, immediately and for ever afterwards classic
—is just, in one brief monosyllable—Bosh. Why, it
is only necessary to bear in mind that the very
last of these great Budget speeches of our preter-
naturally gifted Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Budget speech of 1860—the greatest of all his
Financial Statements as it was declared to be at
the time, the greatest of all his Financial Blunders
as it has since then proved to be beyond a doubt
--it is only necessary, we say, upon this head,
to look back to that last boasted masterpiece
in evidence of his pre-eminent powers as a
rhetorician. We heard him delivering that
speech, and he was certainly, as we have
already observed is so often remarked in his
regard, in " magnificent voice"—a voice so clear
and silvery, and bell-like--" so musical, so melan-
choly"—(notwithstanding the dreadful condition
very shortly before then of his larynx, uvula, bron-
chial tubes, and all the rest of the marvellous me-
chanism of that wonderful organ)—he was " in
magnificent voice"—a sort of talking SIMs REEVES.
He had the ear of the House, as he always has,
completely. He was there speaking for several hours
together—to every one's consciousness then listening
to him—about the most gifted living orator address-
ing the grandest deliberative assembly in Christen-
dom. But for the eloquence, for the oratory of that
great Budget Speech ! Why the bulk of it, as every
one will distinctly recollect who heard it, the mass
of it was—unavoidably was, was by sheer neces-
sity—arithmetical, the utterance of numerals, the
winding out of a long and intricate coil of cal-
culations. " Sir, When I take this into account,"
one heard him say, " Sir, when I take this into
account, I find the result not as might have
been conjectured, three thousand five hundred and
sixty-two pound seven, but—let the House mark
this, for it is a matter of supreme importance, under
the circumstances—nine thousand four hundred
and twenty-three pounds ten shillings and seven-
pence halfpenny." And so on for four or five
mortal hours at a stretch—the House cheering—
Mr. GLADSTONE drinking at intervals from a mys-
terious little bottle, especially provided for the pur-
pose, instead of sucking the M.P.'s customary orange
—and crowds of people all the while persuading
themselves into the notion, as they listened to that
wonderful Budget Speech, that as a rhetorical
display it could not possibly have been sur-
passed by DEMOSTHENES.
For the luxury of having a great and graceful
rhetorician as our Chancellor of the Exchequer
we have to pay now—as we all very well know—
we have to pay now inadequately an appalling
sum every year in the shape of taxes ; and we have
to find at the end of the financial year, when all is
spent and gone, an increasing Deficit. For example
now, this year it is estimated that the country's
income may be set down at £72,260,000,
and that the country's expenditure may be stated
at L 73,546,000, showing, consequently, a distinct
and readily comprehensible deficit of £1,286,000.
Looking more closely into the accounts of the
nation it turns out, however, that instead of it (the
nation) being, according to the first roseate
statement with (a bloom upon it) -an income of
£72,260,000, it (the nation) will find that it has an
income of nearly [we are becoming surely quite
as eloquent as Mr. GLADSTONE!] £70,213,674—
so that instead of having a deficit to deal
with of merely £1,286,000 we shall have to
make up a deficiency of nearly two millions more
(1,976,000), in other words, we shall have to take
into consderation a gross deficit upon the financia
year of £3,263,000 ! This!—after all Mr. GLAD

STONE'S delicious fanfaronade last year about the
nation riding in paper coaches (we presume on the
Road to Ruin), drinking claret instead of old-

fashioned humming ale, entering into eternal bones
of amity with our Arcadian neighbour on t'other side
of the Channel, and, in fact, going the best way to
work to beat our swords into plough-shares and our
spears (say those of our lancers) into reaping hooks,
and settling down blissfully, for ever and a day, in
the extatic condition of the Flying Island, peopled
by its One-eyed Philosophers. Mr. GLADSTONE, in
fact, last year piped for Arcadia; and, as a matter
of course, we have had to pay for our whistle. Last

year we had the Income Tax for one year—just for
one year only—at tenpence. This year it is thrown
out already as a sinister hint betimes—a feeler deli-

cately thrust forth through an affected at-
tack upon Mr. GLADSTONE -it is absolutely

thrown out as a casual suggestion that, instead of

any longer mincing the matter by resolving upon

an income tax for a single twelvemonth, we should

regulate our financial system boldly, without any

further nonsense in the way of hesitation, and

saddle ourselves for at least three years in a lump,
for these next three years, with the reimposition of

the Tea and Sugar Duties, and the perpetuation in

the same way, for the period here prescribed, of the
abhorred tax upon incomes. The latter (we are left to
conjecture) to be increased of course, in consideration
of the increasing deficit, from an income tax of ten-

pence to one of a good round " splendid shilling."
But will the country tolerate all this P—will the house

consent to swallow it ?—this wonderful new Bolus
of a Budget to be gilded over-as usual with the elo-
quence of that Paragon of an Orator/ that Dunce
of a Financier our great Chancellor of the
Exchequer ? We doubt it. The Bolus is too
nauseous—the worthlessness of the gilding has
become at last too transparent.

IWhy utter a note of warning when no symptom
of danger appears ? Just because it is then too
late. It may seem to unreflecting persons quite
gratuitous to throw in a word just now about ear-
dinia—Sardinia itself, the island we mean, with
its harbour of La Maddalena, which Lord NELSON
pronounced to be, for naval purposes, worth fifty
Maltas. But who, it will be asked, says a word
about transferring Sardinia with its harbour from
Italy to any other Power ? And who, we ask in
reply, said a word about transferring Savoy and
Nice to any other Power for several months before
they were handed over to the Emperor of FRANCE ?
On the contrary, was there not, firstly, a public
talk about the transference ; secondly, a series of
explanations assuring to England and to Europe ;
thirdly, an entire cessation of even rumours on
the subject ; and fourthly, after both
together had deceived our Ministers into
deceiving the House of Commons, had we not the
last rumours of what proved to be then facts and
not mere rumours.

We are now, as we have some fear, in the third
of these stages in regard to Sardinia. We have
Iliad the public talk and the denials and the ex-
planations, we have now the lull before the btirsting
of the—plot. We do not affirm that it is so. Pretty