The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTTINGHAM SPRING RACES—WEDNESDAY.
The Forest Plate Handicap of 50 aim for all ages , winners
extra. T.Y.C.

Mr. J. Dawson's Confession, 3 yrs, Est 131 b (Whiteley) I
Mr. Flutter's Lady Derby, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Daley) 2
Mr. Thomas's Miss Dunstable, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Hardcastle) 3

Tyrant and Charmione also ran.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Lady Derby, 2to 1 agst Miss Dun-
stable, 5 to 1 each agst Confession and Tyrant.
Miss Dunstable led to the hill, where she gave way to
Confession, who won a close and exciting race by a neck.
The Selling Stakes of 5 soya each, with 20 soya added, for
all ages, with selling allowances. Half a mile. 7 subs.
Mr. Rayners's c by Newminster—Mouguliston, 2 yrs (to
be sold for £3O), sst 81b . . (Whiteley) 1
Mr. Saxon's Quaker, 4 yrs (L3O), 7st 121 b .. (Midgeley) 2
Mr. Lincoln's Duplicity, 3 yrs (L3O), 7st 71b .. (Taylor) 3
The following also ran:—Fallow Doe, Adamant, Salvia,
and Rose.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Duplicity, 6to 1 each agst Quaker
and Newminster colt.

The three placed ran in front throughout, the Newmins-
ter colt winning a splendid race by a head for Quaker, who
finished a neck in advance of the favourite. The others
ran close up.

The winner was sold for 82 sovs.
The Little John Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; for
two-yr-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Winners 51bs

extra. The second to save his stake. Half a mile. 17

subs.

Mr. Hawkeley's Paradox, Bst 71b (Gardiner) 1.
Captain Christie's Miss Swift, Bst 41b.... (G Fordham) 2
Mr. Rayner's Lass o' Gowrie, Bst 41b (Rayner) 3
The following also ran :—Wolsey, Dorritta, Flatcatcher
filly, and D'Orsay.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Lass o' Gowrie, 2to 1 agst Para-
dox, 6 to 1 agst Miss Swift.

After several failures Paradox got off slightly in front,
Lass o' Gowrie and D'Orsay being his immediate followers.
,Shortly after the favourite went in front, which position
she held to the stand, where she was joined by Paradox
and Miss Swift, the three finishing a good race home,
Paradox just winning by half a length, Miss Swift defeat-
ing the favourite in the last stride by a like distance;
Wolsey was a moderate fourth. •
The Great Annual Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, with 50
added, the second to save his stake; winners extra. Two
miles and a half, over eight flight of hurdles. 20 subs.
Captain Christie's
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Dane, syrs7,9lBots2tlb6lb(4Wigh.flinV,hailtee))
21
Mr.
Mr. Searle's Ingestre, 4 yrs, 9st 61b
The following also ran :—Bacephalus, Romeo, and
Norma.
Betting-3 to 1 each agst Dane and Conductor, 4to 1
agst Bucephalus, 5 to 1 agst Norma.
After clearing the first flight of hurdles Romeo took a
clear lead, follo'wed by Bncephalus, Dane, Norma, Ingestre,
'and Conductor in the order we have given them to the
'Mansfield turn, where Bucephalus took up the running and
led to the straight, where he was passed by The Dane,
who, in company with Ingestre, went in advance to the
Stand, where they were joined by Conductor, a geod race
home ending in favour of Captain Christie's horse by half
a length, Ingestre finishing a length from the second, the
others beaten off.

The Hunt Cup of 50 sous, given by the Gentlemen of the
Hunts, weights for age; winners extra. To be ridden
by gentlemen, professionals 71b extra. Two miles and a
half, over seven hurdles.
Mr. J. Mallet's Topsey, aged, 13st 131 b .. (Mr. Rogers) 1
Mr. Wilkias's Knuckle Duster, 12st 21b.... (T. Homes) 2
The following also ran :—Porester, Gay Lass, Charn-
wood, and Spiteful Dick.
Betting even on Topsey.
Knuckle Duster led up to the last flight of hurdles, when
Topsy went a-head in advance, and won in a canter.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
11 to 1 agst Master Bagot (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
6to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
10 to 1 agst Diophantus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn (taken)

IMPERIAL REVERSES.—When Louis Napoleon
put down the Red Republic he was, according to the priest
party, the "Saviour of Society." Now the Bishop of Poitiers
calls him Pontius Pilate. According to that Prelate he is
the Pilate of the Creed ; whereas only the other day the
French clergy regarded him as the pilot who weathered Oaf
storm—Punch.

OEN' ESN TG- GT, 1
DSE
NH OPERA,
CUnder the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Messrs. Henry Haigh,
',vie, miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ;
H. t ;orri, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle.
To conclude with a new Divertissement.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone.
THIS EVENING, the Deriorraanoes will eommrmee with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. The Leclercqs, &c.
After which, a new and original comedy, A DUKE IN
DIFFICULTIES. Mrs. Stirling, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr.
Euckstone, &c.

To conclude with THE HAPPIES r DAY OF MY LIFE,
Mr. Compton, 3irs. Wilkins, &c.

Commence at 7.4

POYA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
lo Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

TNIS EVENING, the Farce of SUSAN SMITH.
To be followed by DON CLESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Caesar, Mr. Pechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, Miss C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.
" To conclnde with a comic ballet, THE JOLLY MILLER.
M. Espinosa, Mr. Garden, &c.

REA7PIE- ROYAL LYCEUM
So:e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.

TIIIS EVENING the Butletta of THAT RASCAL,
JACK.

Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BUDGE NOTRr; DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
Alter which, the Lyceum Christmas Comte Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE •, or, The Rose without a Thorn, showin&
TAE VISION OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE•R
r7t. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde; Miss K. Belly, and Miss E.
•rhorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Ronoicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and ►C. Thorne.
Doors open at hall past B—Commence at 7.
Box-oitce open from 10 till O.
,fo charge for booking.
Privak boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, XL
Orchestra Stall-a, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is.;
Pit Stalls, 24. Pit, 18. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, Is ; Gallery, 6d.

Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.

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-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard.
partment Director, Mr. F. Jonghmsns.
The Comic De com E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard,prises F. Bell,Messr Ws.. 11. 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.
THIS DAY.—Morning, llh. 10m.—Afternoon, 11h. 48m.
To-stonuow.-Morning, Oh. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 24m.

-rut WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 7, 1861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
39—Lowest this morning and during the night.
52—this day aqnoon.

BAROMETER--30.13.
WlND—North—fresh, with fine weather.

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THE SUN•
LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1881.

The Church Rate Bill has passed through com-
mittee under a flag of truce—the hostile amend-
ments were made but to be withdrawn, and the
Solferino of Abolition is to be fought on the
third reading. It can hardly be doubted that the
liberal members will do their duty on this
occasion ; if so, the result is pretty certain to be
an increased majority. The Government must
see the necessity of doing their very best. They
have had already two defeats on divisions, and
a third without one ; they must, therefore, show
the Oppositon that the Liberal party is a great fact,
when it is challenged on liberal questions. Nothing
will do the Ministry now so much good as the head
of a great party, as to show that, notwithstanding
differences of opinion on minor details of administra-
tion, when the party unites on a general question,
it is clearly master of the field. We should say that
on the third reading Mr. BRAND should send out
" a double-thonged whip." The third reading should
be carried by a larger majority than the second,
and not, as it was last year, by a smaller
one. We do not remember that there is any
other subject this session likely to become
a fair test of the position of the two
great parties. And hence in the history of the
session the relative strength of each will be esti-
mated pretty much by the division lists on Church
Rate Abolition. The Government, if it wishes to
encourage its otvn supporters, and to reverse the
effect of the two or three small defeats we have
mentioned, cannot do better than make one of its
great efforts on the Question "that Sir JoHN
TRELAWNY'S Church Rate Abolition Bill be now
read a third time."

The debate added little to the views which can
now be taken of the whole subject. Amendments
to lay the rate on all property which had paid
Church Rates during the last seven years, to be
levied with the county rate; or to exempt Dis-
senters by " ticketing" them Non-conformists,
limiting at the same time the application of the
rate, were not likely to be received with more
favour than formerly ; and Mr. NEWDEGATE and
Mr. CROSS, who moved them respectively, seemed
to do so with the understanding that they were to
be withdrawn. It is perfectly useless to talk of
such compromises, or of any compromise now. A
little misunderstanding seemed to arise in the early
At of the debate respecting the position of
of the Methodists on this subject. Sir JOHN THE
LkV NY had petitions from fifteen thousand
Methodists against the :rate, called, forth by the
declarations of two Methodists, before the com
mittee of the House of Lords, that Methodists were
not hostile to it. Mr. HARDY replied that these
petitions were not from the old Wesleyan body.
The fact is that the Ecclesiastical Toryism of the
old Wesleyan ministers, which is always accom-
panied by political Toryism, has driven half the
members of the community into revolt ; and
the seceders declare themselves to be the
more genuine Methodists. They are, in
the eyes of indifferent persons, quite as
good Methodists as the old ones ; in the eyes
of liberal men, better Methodists. The old
Methodist ministers have a strong tendency to
fawn upon power. They are extremely illiterate,
and, being absolute rulers of their members, are
naturally jealous of every exercise of liberty.
Hence they use their people, 'who are even, as
a body, more illiterate than themselves, as tools
of their Toryism ; they form, indeed, the strength
of Toryism in lower life.
In this respect they
are a perfect contrast to the educated and en-
lightened Non-conformists, who are one of the
strongest regiments in the vanguard of the Liberal
army.

The effect of Mr. BRIGHT'S speech on the second
reading of the Bill was visible enough yesterday ;
and the hon. member, though he said nothing,
looked as if he thoroughly enjoyed the consterna-
tion with which several speakers adverted to his
remarks. We certainly, when reading them, could
nut perceive any thing unfair in Mr. BRIGHT'S argu-
ment or illustrations; that is, from him,as an avowed

Non-conformist. As Dissenters, he said, we object
to pay tribute to Church Supremacy ; and as being
Dissenters, with good reason, we especially object
to the supremacy of a Church which puts the cure
of souls up to sale at Garraway's ; and which
fosters such unaccountably diverse and strange
doctrines as those of the " Essays and Reviews"
and those of their predecessors, from which, indeed,
the Essays and Reviews are but the reaction—the
" Oxford Tracts for the Times." This was a fair a
fortiori argument in a Dissenter's mouth, and as it is
found to touch such a tender place, Lord ROBERT
CECIL may be quite sure he will have a great deal
more of the same kind when next Mr. BRIGHT
has to speak for an Abolition Bill.

It is not likely that the Bourbons of church
rates, Lord CECIL and MONTAGU, will listen to our
counsel. They will doubtless fall back on their
Gaeta in the Lords; but in the interest of their
Church we should advise them to haul down their
flag, with the understanding that the terrible
BRIGHT'S battery should cease its deadly fire. We
can hardly conceive anything more damaging to
the Church of England than that they should thus
furnish Dissenters with al opportunity and a pre.
text for raking up annually all the delinquencies
of Church officials, and for painting with no feeble
hand all the anomalies, irregularities, and abuses
which each twelvemonth will exemplify. Disben-
ters provoked by the Lords will not be very
scrupulous or delicate in the arguments they
employ.

Amongst the notices of motion for this evening
the eighth is certainly remarkable. Read it.
It is there upon the papers of the House, and
runs as follows :—" Major GAVIN—To ask the
Under-Secretary of State for War whether his
attention has been called to the case of ' THELWALL
V. YELVERTON ; ' and whether the name of Major
YELVERTON is to be retained in her MAJESTY'S
Army List." To such a query as that, there can be
but one answer, if not immediately from the Under-
Secretary of State, eventually from her MAJESTY'S

Government. It is due to our most gracious

Sovereign, it is due to every man in the QUEEN'S
army, to every officer and gentleman sworn to
fight under her colours, whenever occasion may
require, for the maintenance of the honour of the

Crown and of the country—it is due to VICTORIA,
to England, to every soldier of the United King-

dom, that the name of the Hon. WILLIAM
CHARLES YELVERTON, hitherto inscribed upon
the Army List as Captain and Brevet• Major
in the Royal Artillery, shall at once be struck off
that roll of the Royal Forces, as the name of one
now regarded throughout this land with unmiti-
gated scorn and abhorrence. It is not thus simply
by reason of the verdict given in against him in
the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, on Monday
evening, by a jury of his fellow countrymen. It
is not by reason of the fact that their verdict was
given absolutely in favour of the plaintiff in this
particular case of THELWALL V. YELVERTON. It is
because the defendant having prefixed to his name
the courtesy title of Honourable, holding the
rankAf an officer, wearing the garb of a gentle
man—has deliberately, elaborately, and systema-
tically, while speaking upon his solemn oath
in the witness box, in a British Court of Justice,
assumed the privilege of proclaiming him-
self to be, in very deed, and in one simple and
expressive word, a scoundrel. It is because
throughout this trial it was literally and actually
his object to prove himself a scoundrel. It is
because that was really and unmistakeably the
"case," his counsel had to argue and demon-
strate, namely, that this client was a scoundrel.

And so far, certainly, in showing this beyond

the reach of contradiction, they one and all of them
succeeded to their hearts' content—for there the man
stands before his country as he appeared in that
witness-box upon a pedestal of infamy—an object
of universal contempt and opprobrium. It is, in
other words, simply because while the plaintiff
obtained the verdict, the defendant nevertheless
proved his case completely, by demonstrating the
henceforth undeniable fact that he is a scoundrel,

that there cannot remain one instant's doubt but
that Major YELVERTON'S name must be struck off
the Army List. It will inevitably, we may be sure,
be struck off that List right summarily. That we may
leave with perfect confidence (regarding it already
virtually as un fait accompli) in the hands of the
illustrious chief of that army, his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief. Our only regret is that,
in striking the name of Major YELVERTON from
among the Brevet Majors of Artillery, the ceremony
of the erasure cannot be accompanied with some
peculiar and especial mark of ignominy.
The imperative necessity for this now disgraced
and execrated name being obliterated from the
catalogue of military officers and gentlemen holding
commissions as such under the Crown Corn
missions authenticated, recollect, by the sign
manual of the SOVEREIGN !—the imperative neces-
sity for this name being now summarily obli-
terated from the " Army List," may be
recognised, if nowhere else, in the masterly
summing up of the case on Monday by the Lord
Chief Justice MONAGHAN. Honour to that good
and upright judge for every word that fell from his
lips in. the course of his speech in summing up this
case of THELWALL V. YELVERTON ! The case itself
is epitomised with admirable skill in two tersely
expressed and widely contrasting arguments, placed
by him respectively in the mouths: of the plaintiff
and of the defendant. " You, Major YELVERTON,"
he makes the plaintiff say, " were previously the
lawful wedded husband of MARIA YELVERTON;
being her lawful wedded husband, YOu had no
right, authority, or power to cast her from you,
an outcast upon the world. You having not
that power, I, influenced by feelings of humanity,
took upon myself the responsibility of supply-
ing to that woman the care and protection
which in my conscience I believe was due
from you. I incur the risk in a court of justice of
exposing myself and my property to the heavy
expenses to which I will be liable should I fail in
this action. But still, so strong is the opinion that
I entertain of the truth and justice of the case of
this unfortunate woman, that I am prepared to incur
that risk in order that justice may be done to her
through you." Every syllable in this being an
indirect but most explicit panegyric upon Mr.
THELWALL, a gentleman whose honour throughout
this trial has never for an instant been impeached.
The defendant's case, on the contrary, says Judge
MONAGHAN, may be expressed as follows:—" Great
as my delinquencies have been, dishonourably as I
have acted, though I have acted the part that any
man with a particle of feeling should blush to have
exhibited in a public court of justice, yet that
woman was not my wife, she was my mistress—she
served my purpose, and I am justified, if not in the
Almighty God, in the eyes of the law, in casting
her upon the world, and therefore I am not respon•
sible for the debts that this gentleman chose, with
a full knowledge of the circumstances, to have
allowed her to incur." Having quoted these pas-
sages from the summing up of the case by the Lord
Chief Justice on INlonday, we may certainly say,
with some significance, "Look on this picture—and
on this !" As to the lady standing intermediately in
the trial, having the plaintiff, that true friend and

true gentleman, for her Champion—and the defen- 1
dant, that quasi " Honourable " and soi disant
officer and gentleman (her Husband !) for her
Antagonist, her Vilifier, and her Repudiator—as for
the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON, as we may now hence-
forth always designate her until she may come, in
the course of nature, to be the Viscountess AVON-
MORE what said the Lord Chief Justice
MONAGHAN " This girl," said his lordship, and the
words that follow will long ring in the popular
recollection like trumpet notes—here of sympathy
and admiration, there of horror and indignation—
" This girl," said his lordship alluding to the inter-
view which.took place in the Hospital of the convent
at Galata, where
_Major YELVERTON met Miss
LONSIVORTH, the latter arrayed in the sacred dress
of a Sister of Charity—" Tnis girl, who underwent
one of the most searching cross-examinations I ever
witnessed, and in whose conduct up to this
moment there does not appear to have been any-
thing that would be discreditable or improper in
auy woman, excited the admiration, love, and
affection of this man, as he tells us ; but, my
God ! should not the garb in which she appeared,
and the work of charity in which she was en-
gaged, have had some influence on this man, and
driven from his mind the idea which he says
he entertained at the time ! My God, gentle-
men ! all of us see in this city numbers of young
and beautiful women who are engaged in this
holy work of charity, and though men may enter-
tain different opinions as to the prudence and
propriety of a conventual life, there is not a man
among you who would be capable of offering an
insult to those young and devoted women, as they
go to and fro in their mission of charity, visiting
the haunts of suffering and misery." Enough,
however. There cannot remain two opinions as to
the necessity about which Major GAVIN is going to
ask the Under Secretary of War this evening—the
necessity for the erasure forthwith from the " Army
List" of the blackened name of Major YELVERTON.

How came the hop growers and their advocates
on Tuesday night to omit the most touching argu-
ment for their case ? Not one word was said by the
mover and seconder, or by even our imaginative
ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the beauty of
our hop gardens. Yet what has out-agriculture to
compare with the beauty of its hops. A field of
oat panicles trembling in the breeze is a pretty
sight, and soft and pleasing is the waving green,
or the waving brown ,„of a wheat field, bending
before the breeze in late summer or autumn ; but
what are they beside the festoons, and clusters, and
garlands of our high creeping hops, as, in every
fantastic variety of twist, bend, and curve, they
interlace among and between the poles which sup-
port them ? How was it that the yet young
Lord HOLMESDALE did not tell his opponents, if
they would not pass the resolution now, to
take all of them a trip to Farnham next
Autumn,—to see the hop-gardens for themselves—,
and then ask if they could again vote that the pro-
fane hands of the exciseman should meddle with
and pollute Engttifid'e most beautiful Georgics.
What else have we so like the " Married elms " of
Lombardy? What on which the eye of the Foreigner
would rest, more for its graceful and romantic
beauty than its utility. All our crops, uncon-
sciously to ourselves, delight our eyes partly through
the secret recollection we have of their value as food
—our hops are, themselves, " pleasant to the eyes,"
as well as" good for food." Nor will we disparage
them even in comparison with the produce of Italian
vines—for if the beautiful clusters of the grape
speak of mirth and cheerfulness, so the not less
beautiful clusters of the hop tell of the tonic
beverage, of whose soul-stirring virtues our
Scottish HORACE has sung so well.
If, however, we are forced to look upon our hops
simply as an article of production, we feel
that all the inspiration of the appeal for mercy is
gone at once. Cwts. of hops have nothing more
propitiatory to the eye or to the ear than bushels of
malt. " GLADSTONE spare those clusters," has
something in it—but " GLADSTONE spare those
1121bs."—Pshaw—all the tea, coffee, tobacco, and
snuff in the kingdom could say as much. So
strongly did the Anti-Hop-Duty advocates feel this
that they were fain to plead chiefly that hops were
the most gambling crop grown in England ! This,
indeed, the betting world did not need to be told.
The Derby does not more regularly transfer hun-
dreds and thousands to hands that probably, for the
more part never toil for what they gain or lose, than
does the amount of the Hop Duty perform the
same valuable service. Not that this service,
exactly, was pleaded as the ground of
exemption. Of course it was the sufferings
of those, who, if lucky, might by the
cultivation of hops get gold by the hatful, but who,
if unlucky, would lose at the same rate, which
formed the plea. But, then, the reply seemed to
be, " if hops be a gambling cultivation in :our
climate, why expose yourself to the hazard of the
loss ? You are not forced to grow hops. There is
other produce certain on the average of years to
pay fairly ; if you must have a field or two as a
kind of agricultural lottery ticket, why grumble
because Government taxes your lottery ? Govern-
ments are prone to get something by lotteries when
they allow them." Had Mr. DODSON bethought
himself of our gracefulness and beauty argu
ment, and launched it in reply to all the prose
of two Chancellors of the Exchequer, he would,
as old FULLER has it, " surely have gravelled him
therewith•"

There was indeed one BRIGHT argument—as
BRIGHT as other Brummagem wares—" Paper first,
then hops F' There is, to be sure, the fact that paper
is a question to the revenue of £1,300,000, and hops,
at the outside, of only the odd £300,000. Yes, says
JOHN BRIGHT, but it is worth the odd million to
humble the Lnrds ; come hop-tax, come shilling
income-tax, come any tax in what shape it will—
" Paper first." Help us, says Mr. BRIGHT, to
make a great hole in the revenue, and we will
help you to make a little one ; it will look like
nothing after our exploit. Well, in conclusion,
we have a little bit of advice to offer the repealers
of duties, whether on paper or on hops: It is this
hnmble and sage counsel—first earn your repeal.
England will no longer tolerate her enormous, as
well as unjust income-tax. Lessen that—get rid
of that; put your broad shoulders to Admiralty
and Dockyard Reform, and you may soon earn
enough, with advantage, not injury to our defences,
to repeal the Paper Duty and the Hop Duty, too.