The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

IN CALIfORICIA,

f HANACT3/68 IN THAI THIRD ♦TD FOURTH ELEMENTS:

Tlerhert, Miss V. llabbart ; Franco, Mr. S. .Artaud ; The Black
• '.;ht
▪ 6hott, Henry, 7.11er, Drayne, Lc. ; the Princess EYsline, Miss E.
; Leda. Rafter ; Go-dah, Mr. C. Fisher.

THE SICILIAN_ VINEYARD. -
A TERRIFIC COMBAT
DETWIRBX AYIBMAT AND THI 511ILD lIXIDET.
21.ENIZ,NT THE FOURTH-AIR.
TIIE PALACE Or RAINBOW'S!
HALL OF THE HUNDRED KNIGHTS.

The Triumphal Eiitry of Herbert and Princess Eyeline In

A CAR DTZAWY BY REAL HORSES.
GRAND MILITARY BAND,
AND GORGEOUS PROCESSION!

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
Mr. B. Weßster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
, His

be performed MITCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedlek,
Mr. C. Kenn; Beatrice, Mrs. C. Kean.
To repelinie with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the
newest fleprovemente.
Cedric tho Saxon, )14. J. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bore Gilbert, Mr.
• Sen 7 Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mu. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck-
ssohe ; Tiaac of York, Mr. Keeley ; Robin Hood, Mrs. litzwillitm ;
'Rebecca, Mies P. 'Torten.
s• The liox-ofllze is under the afection of Mr. I. T. Archer.

• THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EV EN'ING,
Will be perfOrmed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S
..Dra:AY. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Writ, P. Bed-
ford , O. Smith, Madame Celeste, and alias E. Chaplin.
. ' be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled
P-LAYING FIRS I' FIDDLE; or, Follow my Leader Principal
Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Mize
Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
Atter which MY PRECIOUS ILETSY. Characters by Messrs.
Wright, Bedford, WArrell; Miss narding, and Mrs. F. Matthews.
To eonelule with TOM NODDY'S SECRET.

ROYAL LTCEEM THEATRE.
THIS ETENING
B ill be repeated (9th time) a Lyrical. Comical Pastoral, entitled
CYMON. and IPIIIGENIA, al'Srwl from the text of David Garrick.
Characters by MsAsri. C. Mathews, Harley, F. Matthews, R. ltoxby
d F. Cooke ; Mire St. Georße, Miss Kenworthy, Miss Dickinson,
Mrs. ilumby, Miss Oliver, Miss Manners. and Miss Martindale.
To be followed by THE ISLAND OF
To conclude TWO IN THE MORNING.
All applications for Private Loxes must be lead* to Mr. Aileron
15,•New Eond-street.

• PRINCESS'S =EATItE.
,• , . THIS ILIING
, 'FM bkperfeirmed a new comic Opera, entitled THE PALLET OF
-sN't)ORRE. . Sterltan, Mr. Allen: Tetelcde Bois, Mr. G. Barker;
Jitoque3 :sincere, Mr. Weiss : Le Joyeux, Mr. W. Harrison ; Geor,
ilmtte, M'ulite. Illau ; and Rime de Mai, Miss Louisa Pyne.
‘fte. which a New Grand .Talc Enchantment, with splendid
'''enel*Y. Costumes, and Appointments; estensiva Machinery, &C.,
tilt:tied

, •
TILE QUEER OF THE ROSES; or, The Sorcerer of Candahar.
Piincipal characters by Messrs. Hy der, Ferman, Honey, .Craven ;
Miss Louisa. Howird, Miss Saunders, end Miss VillarS.

~ . ISTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
New and Magnificent Spectacle Triumphantly Successful.
SeeTid Week of the Easter Holiday Entertainments, unequalled for
Novelty and Attraction.
That wonder of the world, Young Ilernanaez, having been received
.-:1 the istmost enthusiasm, will have the honour of appearing for
a few nights longer, previous to his departure for Paris.
TitlS EVENING
The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with
I,itzi,sll's new gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle of Enchantmeat,
entitled
TfiE FOUR SONS OF AYMON ; or The Days of Charlemagne.
~r,,duced with great splendour, and introducing the beautiful Stud
,7 Horses, Living Camel of the Desert, Zebra, and all the vast
resources of the Estahltatment.

To he succeeded by an uneeitialled Enuestriaft Feats in the Arena.
To conclude with a FAVOURITE FARCE.
r,d!,3 Arrl Gentlemen taught the Polite Art of Riding. Horses
broke for the Field or Road by It. Smith.
Box-office open From Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIT7s DAy sfornitig 38 min. after 12 Evening 58 mia. after 12
..r.lO-Afithaiww-- :Veining 18 min. after 1 1 Evening 3/ min. after 1

,THE ME:IV:aIt.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 10.
TIIERNOMETER, Llwest, 41; Highest, 54; Noon, 57,
BAROMETER, 29.52.
breezz and fine sunshiny weather.

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. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1850.

Puxeipas's Inunourous version of the saying
that an EngliAman!'s house is his castle was about
the bitterest sarcasm with which •he could possibly
have enlivened his admirable speech last evening,
against the continued imposs levied upon light and
ventilation. According to the' satirical suggestion of
the nble Lord the Itepresentative of Bath, we are
left to conjecture with him that the true definition of
the remark amounts to this, that English houses re.;
semble the castles of old, being " dark habitations, with
as few s indows as possible." Howbeit, although neither
irony nor logic, neither statistical arguments
nor sana!ive adjurations could, secure to the noble as-
sei/ant' of the 'window-tax. a .majority ..aver his an-

tagonists, the reasonableness of his motion, the
incontrovertible accurrcy of his statements, the force
appeal uttered in the name ( f common sense, of
humanity, and of rational economy, enabled him to
force a division inch as amounted to the virtual de-
feat of the Government. A glance at the close of last
night's proceedings in the Commons House of Par-
liament will show this sufficiently well—a miserable
three being the gross amount of the Ministerial ma-
jority, 77 voting for, and 80 against the pro-
position for the discontinuance of the tax upon
windows. Nothing further, certainly, was re-
quired to satisfy the community that of all
classes of politicians the Whigs, when entrusted
with the reins of administration, are the most
timorous and the least inclined to adventure upon any
scheme of amelioration. Nevertheless, if anything
had been desired to demonstrate this deplorable
fact so vividly as to place it for ever beyond the reach
of incredulity, such would indisputably have been
accomplished by the paltry proceedings of her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers yesterday.
Let it not be forgotten that the injustice of the
window-tax, the tax against which Lord DUN CAN has
long been directing the influence of his most laudable

and strenuous consistency, is notorious throughout
the length and breadth of the United Kingdom ;
so notorious in truth as to be admitted, directly or
indirectly admitted, by almost every administrative
authority, and certainly by every philosophic writer
who :is looked up to as a political economist. Sir
ROBERT PEEL, in 1845, only evaded the motion made
against the window-tax by Lord DUNCAN, by de-
claring his readiness to take the matter into consider-
ation on some subsequent occasion—thereby avowing
plainly enough that the impost was one which ad-
mitted of ultimate abolition. Again, in 1848, on the
introduction of a similar motion by the same distin-
guished Reformer, it was explicitly confessed by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself that the proposal was
only rejected by her MAJESTY'S advisers in conse-
quence of the then deficiency in the finances of the
country, the argument, as far as argument could be
adduced, being wholly in favour of the suggested re-
mission. Not only, moreover, has the justice of the
demand, again and yet again brought under the con-
sideration of the Legislature by the Noble Representa-
tive of the city of Bath, been thus openly recognised
by the present Premier and his illustrious predecessor,
but others among the minor administrators
of the affairs of England, colleagues of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, have energetically insisted
upon the remission of an impost in all respects so
peculiarly iniquitous. The Noble Lord the
,Repre-
sentative of Plymouth, at present presiding over the
Board of Sanitary Commissioners, as far back as
1845 enlarged upon 'the advantages accruing from
the unrestricted admission of light into the dwelling-
houses of the population, or rather, we should say,
insisted upon the necessity existing for an arrange-
ment of this description. Previously, that is to say
in 1842, the removal of the window-tax
had been earnestly demanded by the Noble
Marquis, the present English Ambassador to the
French Republic. All these opinions being in ac-
cordance with the views entertained by men dis-
tinguished in science, whether as political economists,
physicians, or abstract philosophers. M• QUETELET
and M. DUPUYTTLEN, Mr. Coarse and Mr. CHAD•
`vices, Dr. ARNOTT and Professor ALISON,:Dt.:SOUTII.•
WOOD SMITH and Mr. TOYNBEE—aII coincided in the
necessity of ample light and ample ventilation,
neither being attainable without the previous
abolition of the tax upon' windows. And
concurrent with those were the opinions
expressed by two illustrious philosophers of a previ-
ous generation : DAVID HUME condemning the tax
very energetically, while declaring all poll-taxes ,
whatsoever to be not only arbitrary but dangerous ;
while ADAM SMITH, the great founder and originator
of the science of political economy, pronounced the
window-tax to be altogether unjustifiable, if on no
other account, on account of its egregious inequality.
Nevertheless, while the iniquitous character
of the impost is thus apparent to the
narrowest capacity, while its unjust and pernicious
effect upon the health and resources of the commu-
nity have been protested against by all these dis-
tinguished and competent authorities, while the Whig
administrators themselves are incapable of concealing
their own recognition of the cruelty of this very dis-
advantageous system—they yet, in the teeth of all
irony and of all argument, of all reason and of all hu-
manity, cling to the window-tax with their old
m-lancholy and narrow-minded tenacity. " No,"

saith the Chancellor of the Exchequer, " 1,800,000/.
(that being in round numbers the estimated proceeds
of the impost) can't be spired so easily ! 1,800,0001.
quotha ! No, no ; the window-tax is all very bad,
no doubt, but we can't consent to the abolition of the
window. tax, a tax yielding us annually very nearly
two millions sterling! Why, where on earth are we

to make up such a deficit as that ? No doubt it
seems very bard upon the people, the poorer classes
especially, to place them in the pleasant alternative
of paying through the nose into the Exchequer,
or of living in physical as well as in moral and in-
tellectual darkness; we're very sorry for them, you
know, very—but don't you see that you might just
as well ask a piaceman, in place, for his salary, as a
Chancellor of the Exchequer to lop off, 'at one fell
swoop,' 1,800,000/.1" Such is the gist of the Minis-
terial opposition to the window-tax now-a•days. Was
ever anything so barefaced ? They dedicate so much
of their unexpected surplus to the liquidation of
the national debt ; they throw so much
in.tbe shape of brick-dust into our eyes just to blind
us to their unconscionable maladministration ; and

they squander withal one million annually on the sup-
port of that great maritime swindle, done, Stiggins-
like, under the garb of morality, the African
squadron ! Why, if we had some bold financial Ad-
ministrator—no Whig, mind, but a statesman with a
soul and an ambition, a ruler at once brave and pa-
triotic—we should see the 1,800,0001. produced by
the window-tax abandoned soon enough, and without
any inconvenience whatever. Yet how, some may
ask, could this be accomplished ? How ? Look at
this perfectly useless and ,lamentable blockade of the
slave-coast of Africa, swallowing up an annual mil-

lion ! Look at the remission of the humbugging
brick-dust duty ! And look at that portion of the
surplus devoted to the liquidation of the national
debt! Had the Whigs clubbed these three
things together, they could readily, and
without inconvenience, have yielded to the
pressure of a great necessity, the necessity
gradually growing imperative for the abo-
lition of the tax upon windows. But " one might as
well do anything most hard" as try to extort the
boon of a large and wholesome reform from the grasp-
ing timidity of a Whig Government.

The Solicitor-General again brought forward, last
night, the supplemental Bill for facilitating the sale
of encumbered estates in Ireland. Its true intent
and meaning is at length understood, and it was ac-
cordingly read a first time with the unanimous assent
of the House. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman the
Member for Portarlington withdrew, for the time
being at least, .the opposition which he, no doubt
horiestly and conscientiously, offered on its first intro-
duction. It will now receive the mature and atten-
tive consideration which the vast importance of the
principle so eminently deserves. Is we have already
shown, it is calculated to bring capital into Ireland, or
rather to enable the parties who may become purchasers
of encumbered estates in Ireland, to make the capital
which they may invest in real property available fur
the purpo_se of improving their newly-acquired lands,
and fully developing all their capabilities. Full and
remunerative employment will be provided for the
labouring populati on in the districts that may be so
fortunate as to corn e within the scope of the new Act,
and the fxst great want of Ireland will thus be sup-
plied in laose favou red localities. But why, we again
ask—why I,hould it be so limited and restricted in
its operatic/ i ; and why should the existing proprietary
of Ireland be deprived
up Participationonth os
those
ow thhoe
mpraiy-
vileges abo' it to
e conferred all
chocie to di 4place the ancient owners of the inheritances
which bail • descended to them through a long line of
ancestors. The (‘ bounty " (as Mr. C. H. BowEN
happily de,t-i, 4rated it) thus granted is calculated to
inflict terioa s injury upon a class already sufficiently
damnified t
the recent legislation for Ireland. When
must properties, which
an artifi.:.is I value is given to certain
market pricer, all
others mu at be depreciated in an inverse ratio. NI
such semi cities
en
mat enhance their
brancere ; no loans can be obtained except through
are given to a new body of incum-

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