The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-15 00:00:00

Tli EA Tit YAL, MARKET.
Lem ee, kir. 3. B. B:13/Eltont.
•T 'rs EVT27.!ING neriormaiocs wl.l corstne.rae wtth
A DUKE' IN t)I VFICHLTIES. Mr 4. Stirling, Misa F.
Haytion, Era. Wilkins. Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. due%stone,
BTr. Compton. Mr.
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.

11E 'FRE - ROYAL LYCEUM,
Sois Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last Week of the Season.
TI Tis THE ,`JECRET.
Atter which, a new original comierlrama, written by Sami.
L„„ Esq., entitled MAC CARTHY MORE • or, Possession
Nine Lover, of the Law. John Drew, J. Johnston,' Forrester,
,i. Rouse, Medlin ; Misses Rawlings, Hudspeth, &c.
To conclude with THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Patrick
O'Brein, Mr. John Drew.

LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lessee and Manaffer, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THRICE MARRIED. Messrs. Shore,
Meadows, Garden, and Miss C. Leclercq.
V,Alowcd by HA ILT. T. Hamlet, Mr. FWhter. Sup-
ported by Messrs. Ryder, Hermann Vezin, Graham, Shore,
Meadows, ,Yre. ; Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, and Elsworthy.

EW TIOATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
-1-1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, TUE
PRESTIDIGITAIOR. Messrs. R. Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, &c.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss ET. Simms, Rm.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, TILE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. 1,. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss E. 4horne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Miss
Julia Daly, Mr. P. Bedford.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!
Westminster-road.
Proprietor ........C. Morton.
A Grand Selec
It
on
CORSARO, from Verdi's new Opera,
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(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 4 the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
DINNTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmens.
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.

SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Trat):'DAY.—Tylorning, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, 4h. 56m.
To-uonnow.-Morning, sh. 14m.—Afternoon, sh. aim.

ITHE WEATHER.—Surt ()macs, Arnm:l4, 1561.
THEEMOIKETEI4 IN THE SHADE.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
42—loweat this morning and during the night.
96—this day at noon.

BA.RomETER-30.30.
WlND—North-East—light; with fine weather.

APRIL 15.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
47—highest since noon yesterday.
40—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.334.
Wmp—North-Easterly—fresh ; with dull cold weather,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1861.

" To be, or not to be ?"—a moderate reduction of
the Income Tax, say from tenpence to ninepence,
or even eightpence—or an increase of the Income
Tax from the last year's rate of tenpence in the
pound to that round sum Mr. GLADSTONE was
hankering after last session, the sum his fingers
were burning to grasp at on the 10th of February,
1860—an Income Tax of A SHILLING!
" That is the Question !" That is the alterna-
tive. Those are the horns of the dilemma with
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have
to grapple this evening in the course of his Finan-
cial Statement. " The bane and antidote" are
both before him. There is a talk whispered about
at the clubs just now of a hocus-pocus juggling of
figures by our great National Accountant, a hocus,
pocus juggling of figures by which he will
manifest with something like the clearness of
two and two making four, that instead of hav-
ing another melancholy deficit to deal with, he
actually has somewhere about a million say a
million—to spare. Hence that delightful hypo-
thetical, almost, one might call it, purely suppo-
sitious ghost of a rumour afloat in some quar-
ters, that the Income Tax, in lieu of being in-
creased, will be—to however small an extent, say
to the extent of twopence, of a penny, of even a
halfpenny—modified. It is a beautiful, halcyon
vision. Let us indulge in it—if only for an hour
or two—if only to the bitter enhancement of our
after disappointment. But then, alas, there are those
dreadful returns for the past quarter, for the last Fi-
nancial Twelvemonth. There is that undeniable
declension in the Customs Revenue, there is that
falling off in the Income Tax returns, there is that
deplorable absence of those dear little unlooked for
-windfalls (like the paid up arrears from Spain)
that helped, upon the occasion of the last Budget, to
mitigate the horrors unfolded to view by the pre-
amble of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget Speech of 1860.
Those frightful revelations of an apparently
inevitable deficiency, amounting upon the whole to
something very nearly approaching, in round num-
bers, to Ten Millions sterling. That, we take it,
is about Mr. GLADSTONE'S strongest point in the
concoction of his financial statements. To
exaggerate the actual deficit into one of so wholly
appalling a magnitude, that when the more reason-
able probability comes out at last, just prior to the
explanation of his scheme of taxes for the year—
people aro dirpost,d somehow to forgive a deficit in
itself so comparatively moderate in its dimensions.
Contrasted with the imaginary deficit with which
the House has been frightened, in the first instance,
the real deficit, afterwards brought to light as a
modification of the other, a modification, the House
is NM by Mr. GLADSTONE himself, due entirely
and absolutely to his exceptional skill as a Financier
—contrasted with the imaginary deficit, we say
the real one eventually thus introduced to the
notice of the House comes quite as a relief in its
way. So that what seemed threatening in the first
instance, to be nothing less than distressing
and even (considering that we are at peace,
and that we are as an industrious race sin-
gularly prosperous) actually dreadful under the
Circumstances becomes, when the way has
been thus adroitly prepared for the disclosures,
something almost in itself delightful. Therefore
people, listening to Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget last
year, for example—shuddering at its commence-
ment, consoled "towards its conclusion—rose, under
the influence of the witchery and glamour of our
oratorical Financier, sighing to themselves with a
deluded sense of satisfaction—Not so Bad as
E
zpected ! Upon one only condition, however,
the
themselves
consent now, once more, to
yield
up unresisting slaves to the
wizardry
of Upon one the Master Rhetorician of the Age.
conaiti_ 0
national experience of
condition Illy,repeat, we . after last year's
his financial ahoy, its re-
sults and cense Tleneeupon one single condition
alone, after that, will the Rouse and the country
bow to Mr. GLAT)SToNFI's
enlus as a Financial
ithetorician—that condition
being the reduction,
by however smell a degree, of the abhorred and
detested Income Tax.

We now understand, perhaps as N;;11 as We shall
evor do, the real character of the sad affair at
Warsaw on the &h. Full accounts appear in the
French papers, and we have also the proclamation
ofPrince GORISCILUNIT subsequent to the military