The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

less than what was realised last year, 201,2581.,
and receipts at their present rate 260,0001.
That is to say Bills, &c., £500,000
Deeds

Newspapers

Receipts

£1,580,000

As we have stated the Assessed land and Pro-
perty Taxes would be consolidated, so that the
next item would be the Post-office. Last year
2,767,201/. In 1856, 2,869,1521. was realised.
We are, therefore, fully justified in calculating
on 2,800,000/. from this source. While
Crown Lands, with anything of fair management,
will produce in place of 421,715/., 420,0001.
The miscellaneous realised in 1855.6, 1,158,147/.
We take it at a million. We have thus made
out our case, and we fearlessly put forward The
Sun Budget as one that would be alike beneficial
to the Government and to the People. Further
changes may be made in alleviating the indirect
taxation in a short time. At present we should
not ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to go
further, and we sincerely hope that his financial
scheme will bear comparison with the " Bud-
get of The Sun."

The learned Recorder of Hull, in his last and
most impressive charge to the Grand Jury, on the
opening of the Quarter Sessions for the present
Christmas, reprobated in very emphatic terms
what we raised our voice against long since, the
odious and disastrous system now notorious
throughout the land, as the system of the Ticket-
of-Leave. We are heartily rejoiced at this. We
hail mith peculiar satisfaction the protest now for-
, mally entered by Mr.Wkannslagainst the last great
sham of our Mock-Philanthropists. A protest
authoritatively pronounced by him in his high
judicial capacity as Recorder. One which we
earnestly hope to see enforced by him in his cha-
racter as M.P. for Midhurst, whenever any opportu-
nity may offer during the course of the ensuing
session in the popular branch of the Legis-
lature. At present we cannot do better
than reproduce here, verbatim et literatim,
the important passage (ipssissima verba) in Mr.
WARREN'S masterly address, in which the Ticket-
of-Leave System is thus sternly reprobated :
" From the first, as some of you may recollect, I
raised my voice here against the new and suddenly
introduced system now exciting universal con-
sternation—whether in its eld form, of ticket-of-
leave, in case of transportation, or licence to be
at large, under the new system of penal servitude
—and that system itself. lam here, however,
in a dutiful and respectful spirit, to administer
the law of the land, leaving it to the wisdom of
the Legislature to amend that law, where amend-
ment has been proved necessary. I do most
earnestly hope that the Legislature will, as soon
as possible, but as advisedly as possible, address
itself to this urgent necessity ; but certain plans
have been proposed, and by amiable and able men
too, for the purpose of meeting this necessity,
which appear to me fraught with danger, and at
variance with the 'cardinal principles of our
laws and constitution." Adding—" That of
which I should complain, in my judicial capacity
kere, administering justice among upwards of
ninety thousand of my fellow-subjects—but with-
out being at this moment aware of any specific
instance—is exactly this :—That, whereas, after
a careful trial, a satisfactory conviction, and
sworn proof of the prisoner's infamous antece-
dents, establishing him to be a desperate and
irreclaimable offender—l publicly and solemnly
sentence him to transportation or penal servitude,
for a given and considerable number of years, he
and his friends should be all the while, neverthe•
less, laughing in their sleeves, and knowing that,
in a year or two—perhaps a few months—he will
be at large again, and at his old occupation,
scandalising the administration of justice, and
encouraging crime to an inconceivable extent."
Irresistibly put this is, to our thinking—quite
irresistibly. Thole is no "getting over" an
anomaly so enormous ; and one which is now
(thanks to the learned Recorder of Hull) so
glaringly exposed. There are many other por-
tions of Mr. WARREN'S remarkable Address to
which we would also gladly direct the particular
attention of the more thoughtful class of obser-
vers—passages such
as those generously and elo-
quently eulogistic of the beautiful scheme of the
juvenile Reformatories—but we are so profound ly
solicitous that due regard should be had to what
we conceive to be the most important point in
this most important Charge, that we restrict our-
selves to the present brief, but, we believe, perfectly
sufficient commentary.
If, in his specious apology
for the new-fangled Ticket-of-Leave System, the
learned Recorder of Birmingham may be said to
have recently supplied
the bane to the argu-
ment—the learned
Recorder of Hull, in his
emphatic reprobation of that evil system, has
most assuredly, most effectually, and (for his
own sound judgment be it said) most honour-
ably furnished us with a ready and reliable
antidote.

At this time of year, when the wind wildly
whistles along our streets, and makes plain-
tive moan in our squares and alleys, causing
the foot passenger to look out for flying tiles and
falling chimney-pots, one can readily comprehend
the quaint, good-natured sympathy of the sailor,
who, in a spanking gale, exclaimed, " How I pities
them poor folks ashore !" Some of us, it is to
be hoped, are prompt to reciprocate it also. It
would be well, however, if the number were
larger, and the interest felt and expressed for our
countrymen whose business is on the great deep
took a more practical shape. A good deal no
doubt has been done to provide against shipwreck
along the coast. Thanks to the National Lifeboat
Institution, the number of lifeboats has of late
years been largely increased,
and ample provision
made for their effective use., Bat what has been
done in the way of insurinc a proper supply of
lifeboats on board our mercantile marine
and ships of passage ? The answer that
must be returned is any thing but satisfac-
tory or creditable to us as a humane and
mercantile people. To all intents and pur-
poses little or nothing. TI le law, it is true, re-
quires ships with more than line passengers to be
provided with lifebuoys and : lifeboats, but suffers
the owners of vessels carrying
a lesser complement
to do as they please in this r( )spect, which practi-
cally is nothing. Emigrant ah: ps are better looked
after, coming as they do uni ler the Passengers
Act, but while some discrel tionary powers are
entrusted to the emigration of ficer, neither in the
case of these ships nor any of Ler is there a recog-
nised standard according to vhicla such lifeboats
must be constructed.

The result is in few, if an y, vessels is there a
really efficient lifeboat service. In most cases there
is a deficiency of boat accomuu dation of any kind,
and where lifeboats are suppo sect to be provided,
the tubs bearing the name are generally found, on
an emergency, wholly unworthy ,of it. When was
there a wreck within the read 'e is remembrance
when the passengers and crew .had cause to con-
gratulate themselves on an ac' Lel:late number of
well-appointed boats of this des oription ? And in
the most notable instance of 81 ich provision, who