The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-10 00:00:00

MOTHER SHIPTON ;

or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle.
Harlequin and Columbine (b la Watteau), Madame Celeste
and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Moreland; Scaramouch, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur-
lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer,
Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss
Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &c.

OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs.
G. Vining and. Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling.
A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called
YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs. F. Robson, Rogers,
Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall,
St. Casse, Castleton, Bromley, Maskell, and Mrs. Melfort.
After which, CRINOLINE,
Commence at half-past Seven.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

THIS EVENING, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD
THE THIRD, with Mr. W. Cooke's Splendid Equestrian
Illustrations. Richard, Mr. James Holloway.
After which, the choice SCENES of Equestrian Skill in
the ARENA.

To conclude with the irresistibly funny equestrian comic
pantomime, called PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK ; or,
Harlequin and the Magic Horseshoe, in which Mr. W. Cooke
will drive Eight Golden-footed Steeds attached to the re-
splendent Chariot of Gold.
Doors open at half-past six; commence at a quarter be-
fore seven o'clock. Rox-office open from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W.
Cooke, jun.
A Morning Performance every Saturday, at Two o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz. —Miss E. Pearee, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, and Miss Summers ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F.
longhmans, R. Grover, T. Raino, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, and P. Corrie ; Masters Austin, Ben-
nett, and Corri ; Mr. Sam Cowell and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, J. Harroway, R.A. ; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
c,sely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. In addition to
the usual Vocal Entertainment, the celebrated SPANISH
VIINSTRELS will appear in costume at Nine and Eleven
o'clock Every Evening, and sing some of their favourite selec-
tions.

HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

PUS DAT—Morn. 36 min. aft. I—Evening 1 min. aft. 2
To-Momtow—Morn. 25 min. aft. 2—Evening 49 min. aft. 2

lidE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
49 --tigheet since noon yesterday.
49 —lowest this morning and during the night.
50 —this day it noon.
BAROMETER, 29'47—a great fall ; now rising-29'53.
WiND—Morning, S.W. ; now W.N.W.—Light, with
fine clear sky and sunshiny weather.

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Ii.):DON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1857,

According to the great Ministerial organ, the
Russian War has proved, for the Allies, most
triumphant, and the Paris Peace most satisfac-
tory. Now that the second and concluding Con-
ferences have terminated, we are called upon to

sing Posans—rapturous and unconditional—to the
glory of Lord PALMERSTON and Lord PALMER-
STON'S Government. Because the Czatt has been
compelled, at the eleventh hour, to yield—what ?
Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents ! Russia re-
ceiving herself the little town of Komrat in lieu
of Tabak, which she reluctantly restores to Mol-
davia ! Because of this—because all access to
LakeYalpuck is denied to the AUTOCRAT—and be-
cause the Delta of the Danube again forms an
integral portion of the Turkish dominions—we
are told that everything has succeeded to admira-
tion. We are called upon, in the name of Bolgrad,
is the name of Tabak, in the name of the Danu
bian Delta, in the name of the Lake Yalpuck, in
the name of the Isle of Serpents—to rejoice
positively as though all further cause for
anxiety in regard to the perils of Rus-
sian domination in Europe were removed
" for ever and a day !" And yet pre-
ci 4ely at the time we are told all this, news
comes to us, by way of Constantinople, to the
effect that the SHAH of Persia has demanded the
assistance of the Russian AUTOCRAT ! And not
only that—but that already the Russians have
occupied certain islands in the Bay of Balkan,
or rather, we should presume from the descrip-
tion of them conveyed in the despatch, other
islands situated at the eastern extremity of the
Bay of Balchanskoi ! For the intelligence adds
to the mere mention of the recent occupancy of
these islands by the Muscovites the remark that
they are situated near that portion of the shores
of the Caspian which commands the territory of
Toorkomania. A description tallying with
that which might be given of the islands in the
Bay of Balchanskoi—but wholly inapplicable to
any in the more northern Bay of Balkan, a
bay contiguous to the barren regions of the
Desert of Kharasm rather than to the Turco-
man portion of Independent Tartary. How
ever this may be—there the doubly sinister an-
nouncement is : the announcement on the one
hand that the Shah of PERSIA has demanded the
assistance of the Russian AUTOCRAT, and on the
other, that the CZAR has already so far responded
to this demand as to cause his myrmidons iu the
Caspian Sea at once to seize upon a cluster of
islands suitable for the ulterior furtherance of any
hostile operations upon which Russia may, in the
fullness of time, and in the development of her
malign policy, be induced 'to adventure.
Honestly then, be it said, in the presence of
facts such as these—that we do not feel ourselves
justified in giving way to anything at all like
rapturouscognise
atonce, or u nconditional exultation. We re.
of course, the advantage secured
to Europe by those clauses of the treaty of Paris
wresting from the CZAR the privilege of access
to Lake Yalpuck, the right of dominion over the
Isle of Serpents, the benefit of a continued occu-
pancy of Tabak and of Bolgrad—making over to
his Imperial Majesty, in lieu of all this, a little patch
of territory three hundred versts in dimensions,
embracing within its limits the town of Komrat
already mentioned. So far—of course--so good.
So far, but not a bit further! For if by these
satisfactory arrangements the Allies have, as we

really believe they have, secured the future free-
doom of the navigation of the Danube—it might
iu reason be remembered at the same time that
they have by the self-same Treaty shut their owu

war fleets out effectually from the waters of the
Euxine ! It ought to be remembered, too, that

while Russia is ostensibly making peace with us
in one direction, she is virtually declaring war
against us, almost in the same breath, in another
And that, therefore, while we cannot in reason
but admire the patriotic, and, so far let us say,
even the heroic and energetic policy of Lord
PALMERSTON on the part of Turkey ! While we
cannot in justice do otherwise than admire the
energy recently evinced by the Noble Viscount in
shaking himself free once more from the Court
Bonds, the deadening trammels, the palsying
shackles of Germanism ! While we recognise,
while we cannot do otherwise than recognise with
unaffected delight, the nobility, the daring, and
the civism of the gallant principles enunciated by
our Prime Minister, not very many weeks from
the present time, in the city of Manchester—we
cannot at the same moment but regard the atti-
tude simultaneously assumed in regard to Herat
by the Cabinets of St. James's, of Teheran, and of
St. Petersburg, with feelings of profound, and, we
venture to add of perfectly justifiable, trepidation.
Trepidation, that is to say, lest the insidious
intrigues of the Russian AUTOCRAT at the Court
of the Shah of PERSIA may be allowed to
develope unimpeded, to become deepened, ex-
panded, and complicated, under the shelter of the
specious concessions made by Russia at the late
Paris Conferences.
No—the ashes of the late War are deceitful.
We are treading upon latent flames, the flames of
a new and more disastrous conflict, ready to break
out at the first emergency.

" Incedimus per ign es
Suppositos cineri doloso !"
And Lord PALMERSTON, of all men, ought to be
alive to the peril of the situation. To him
England will look for extrication from this new
and more formidable maze of difficulties. To his
patriotism, to his sagacity, to his diplomatic
astuteness, to his perfect mastery of the tricks
and artifices, of the chicane and the in-
trigues of statecraft, the country at large
will look with eager expectancy, if not
with a reliance all but implicit. Great as have
been his opportunities hitherto, they are entirely
surpassed by those now accumulating within his
grasp—opportunities such as must necessarily,
arid that, moreover, before much longer, enable
us, in regard to Russia, viewed in her relations
at once with Europe and with Asia, to repair the
errors, the follies, and the oversights of preceding
Governments. May their confidence be justified
—may their expectations be realised ! The CZAR
will then find assuredly that he has walked from
the Frying Pan of the Crimea into the Fire of
Khorassan.

The excitement on the subject of the iniquitous
Income Tax, or as it has justly been designated,
" the Income-tax robbery," still increases. Nay
more, it has reached Ireland, and that impassioned
race are not slow to give expression to their views
and feelings. Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Derry, Carlow,
and many other districts have already spoken out
plainly and intelligibly, and there seems but little
doubt that the agitation will become as brisk as
any ever attempted, should the Chancellor of the
Exchequer persevere in his " pettifogging quib-
ble," or refuse to discriminate between the certain
proceeds of accumulated and realised property,
and the precarious profits of industry.
Nor will this agitation now be limited
by locality, race, or party. English, Scotch, and
Irish will contend side by side, as they did on the
field of battle, against the monster grievance, and
Whig and Tory, Conservative and Radical, Pro-
tectionist (if any are still to be found) and Free-
trader will array themselves under the same
banner. No Ministry can withstand a "pressure
from without "so decided and incessant. The
question will be made one of the chief tests on
every hustings. No candidate can hope for suc-
cess unless fully prepared to pledge himself not
only against the " War Ninepence,' but for a
more equitable apportionment of the burden, so
that it may rest as nearly as possible on the
contributors according to their respective means.
An extraordinary unanimity has prevailed
amongst all classes as to the justice and expe-
diency of making the impost strictly "a Property

Tax." There may as yet be some difference with
regard to the details, but there is none as to the
principle. The general feeling appears to be in
accordance with the plan wepropounded many years
since of charging on the capitalised value of the
property, rather than on the temporary income.
If men choose to keep their capital idle, or to
accept a very small return, the Exchequer should

not suffer for their peculiar hobby.
servant who " buried his talent " was
not regarded with peculiar favour by his
Lord. It was those who engaged actively in the
concerns of every-day. life, who encountered a
certain degree of risk in increasing their resources,

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that received praise and reward. The faineant
who slumbered away existence, and hoarded his
money, was deprived of that which he had, which
was given to the most industrious of his fellow-
s ervan ts.

Another point on which there has been a simi-
lar agreement of all parties, has been in the desire
to maintain the national establishments, especially
the naval and military departments, in a high state
of efficiency. There is, in truth, no desire to
stint the Exchequer. The same feeling now pre-
vails that existed when Sir CHARLES WOOD at-
tempted to increase the tax, without remedying
its glaring defects. The community at
large concur in the opinion that a judi-
ciously and fairly assessed Property Tax is
the best tax for the nation—a charge on precari-
ous and fluctuating profits the worst. They are
well aware that a complete state of preparation
for war is true economy, not only because it is
eminently calculated to prevent hostilities, but
also in case they should arise, despite every pre-
caution,
because it is calculated to bring them
to a speedy conclusion without a serious expen-
diture of men or money. "Si vis pacem, para
bellum," is as true at the present day as during
the time of the ancient writer. It is essential
that what has been truly designated as " the
mawkish sentimentality of the Manchester school"

—a sentimentality that partly produced the late
Russian war, should be unequivocally repudiated
by the people.

Nor is there the slightest desire on the part of
the country to retrace its footsteps in the path of
unrestricted competition, or to make up for de-
ficiencies in the revenue by additional indirect
taxation. There are still many unwise and im-
politic taxes, the modification or abolition whereof
would be hailed with intense delight. Recently,

in " The Sun Budget," we pointed out some of
these imposts, which produce a considerable

amount of illicit traffic, and set many of our
fellow•subjects in organised opposition to the law
of the land. We need not expatiate on

the demoralising tendency of such a pro-

ceeding, or its unfairness to the fair trader.

There is but one way of abating the

social nuisance namely, such a reduction

of imposts as will render the trade and calling of
the smuggler, or illicit: distiller, unprofitable. By
such means the consumer and fair dealer may be
greatly benefited without any serious injury to