The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Atmospherical pressures have diminished at all stations sine,
yesterday, except on the west coast of France : the change has been
greatest in the northern portion of these islands, shewing a decrease
at Nairn of more than three-tenths of an inch. Barometrical read.
ings are still high : the difference between the greatest at Scarborough
and the least at Biarritz is nearly three-tenths. Temperature is
higher at stations in the N. and N.W. Easterly winds were fresh yester-
day in Ireland and on the Channel coast, increasing to a high wind at
places. This morning the wind is easterly and moderate in southern
and western districts, but in Scotland is light from the S.W. Mist is
reported from the N.E. coast and the Irish Channel. The weather is
generally fine over these islands and in the west of France.

No appointment to the vacant See of Peterborough,
it is said, will be made until the Queen's return from
Switzerland.

The performance of " Elijah" in Gloucester Cathedral.
on Wednesday, drew together a large audience. Dr.
Wesley seems to give better satisfaction as a conductor than
he has sometimes done. He took the times precisely
as Mendelssohn himself would have taken them ;
and the chorus and the band were well up to
the mark. Titiens, Santley, and Sims Reeves
again took the leading parts, and of course acquitted
theMselves magnificently. The collection for the charity
at the doors only amounted to £155155. sd. for both the morn-
ing and afternoon--a serious falling off; and this is thought
to be because the ladies no longer hold the plates. The
miscellaneous concert in the evening at the Shire Hall
again brought together a large audience.
The termination of the cab strike will take no one by
surprise. There was no unanimity among the cabmen
and cabowners, and no fund to support a strike. It was
so evidently unjust to pay the privileged men 3s. 6d. a
day while the unprivileged got nothing, that such an
arrangement could not stand, and so the attempt to win
over the first failed. There is now a talk of forming az
organisation and raising a fund, in ordef to conduct another
strike on a future and more favourable occasion. In the
meantime it is to be hoped that the cab-owners
will see the injustice and absurdity of visiting,
upon the public the alleged sins of the railway
companies—injustice because the wrong persons are
punished, absurdity because the extreme measure resorted
to had not the smallest effect upon the party which it was
sought to intimidate. It is to be hoped that the cab-drivers
will hesitate before they consent to make themselves
again the instruments of the cab-owners in a movement
from which the second alone would reap any benefit.
Both parties would do well to ask themselves if the coin•
panies have not as much right to impose a tax upon the
cab-owners using their stations as upon the booksellers and
the restaurateurs. Any way, it would be a ludicrous way
of resenting the impost if " unprivileged " booksellers and
hunsellers were to refuse to sell books and buns to the
public because refused admission to the railway stations.
Mr. Gladstone has sent to a gentleman in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester a statement with regard to
Liberal and Conservative finance, in reply to Mr. Hunt's
recent statement. He says that the Liberals left the
income tax in 1858 at 4d. in the pound. When they
came back to office in 1859 the expenditure of
1859-GO had been determined by the late (Derby)
Government, and he (Mr. Gladstone) had to meet
a deficit of about 4 millions. The history of the last
endeavour made by the Liberal party to reduce the public
expenditure commences with the year 1861. The two
previous years had seen the finances of the country dis-
turbed by the additions made to our armaments through
fear of French aggression and by the China war ;
and in 1861 a heavy charge was caused by the Trent
affair. But in 1861 the Government were able to
reduce the military and naval expenditure by about
one million and three quarters, and in 1862 by no
less than three millions and a half, compared with that of
1860 ; and their hands were strengthened, in effecting re-
ductidhs, by the result of the debate raised by Mr. Stans-
feld on the 3rd June, 1862, which committed Parliament
to still greater economy. Mr. Gladstone then proceeds to
shew how that policy was carried out. In 1862 the ex-
penditure, exclusive of the National Debt, was
£43,070,000; this was reduced steadily year by year until
in 1865 it was only £39,680,000. Since then it has been
steadily increased, and is now £43,730,000, or nearly
£700,000 more than it was before the Liberal reductions
began to take effect. This increase does not include the
cost of the Abyssinian war. Further, while during the
Liberal Administration the expenditure fell short of the
estimates every year, during the Conservative regime the
expenditure has exceeded the estimates. The surplus of
revenue over expenditure applied to the reduction of the
National Debt by the five Liberal budgets, 1862-6, was
£12,850,000. The deficit during the two years of Tory
budgets is £1,914,000, or, excluding the Abyssinian war,
£161,000. " From these facts," adds Mr. Gladstone, "it
follows that the policy of the Liberal arty has been to
reduce the public charges and to keep the expenditure
within the estimates ; and as a result to diminish the taxa-
tion of the country and the National Debt; that the
policy of the Tory Government, since they took office in
1866, has been to increase the public charges and to allow
the departments to spend more than their estimates ;
'and, as a tesult,:to. create eltficits, and to render the reduc,
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HER MAJESTY.

PARIS, Sept. 9.

Queen Victoria is expected here to-morrow
morning at half-past ten. Her Majesty will travel
under the strictest incognito, and will rest during
the day at the English Embassy.
Her Majesty will leave again for Cherbourg at
10 o'clock in the evening.

The Duke of Cambridge dined at the Enl'

bassy this evening.
The Queen will hold a Council on Monday nest
at Windsor Castle.