The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-01 00:00:00

ROYAL. VICTORIA THEATRE.

Miss VINCENT has the honour to announce that HER BENS
FIT is axed for MONDAY, May 6, when will be periormed THE
TEMPEST.; or, The Enchanted Isle. Supported by Messrs. Osbal.
diston; Freer, blantx, -Miss Arden, Miss Vincent,-&c •- • :
After which, a New Musical Romance, entitled OUR LADY OF
THE WILLOW • or, The Wife with Two Heads. In which: Miss
Vincent and Mr. Osbaldiston will perform..
The Polka Dance, and other Entertainments:
To conclude, with THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindorr,-
Mr. Freer; Lothair, Mr. Nantz , Ravinia, Mrs. G. Lee • Claudine,
Miss Arden.

Tickets and Places to be had of Miss Vincerlt, daily, at the Theatre
and at her residence, Balhara.hill. Private Family Boxes, ,e 2 25.,
lls 6d ;and .£1 Is.

IJAVIDGE'S ROYAL SUESREY THEATRE
THIS EVENING, MAY 1,
Will be produced a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BRA.
GALDI; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company,
cud Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New. York.
After which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS. • Robin, the
Sca iegrace, Mrs. It. Honner.
To conclude with in entirely. New Drama, embracing -all the
strong effects of the celebraftd wOrk, entitled VVHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Corapanrwill perform. • •
To conclude with a Domestic Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME.

• - - - THEATRE .ROYAL, •ADELPHI.
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LAST WEEK, OF MALONE RAYMOND'S IRISH
-,ENTERTA IN M ENT.
Orb The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S Modern Miracles are
the'Wonder of London; he is nightly on his Mystic Throne crowned
,„.4 with the plaud is of admiring thousands. who exclaim, is hr
mortal 2" He will perform his extraordinary HAT DELUSION
(-1 I every Evening. This. wonderful Feat, which has created so great.
0-"-: a sensation, is performed with
tr. -• ANY GENTLEMAN'S HAT I !
and sh.wn to be perfectly empty before he pridnces from it a Fea..
ther Bedand the Gifts of Flora. •
I'2' • Dress Circle, 35.; .Pit. Is. 6d.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and
Private Boxes can ,be kcured at the 'I heatre, and of all the Agents..
NIS Second Price at Nine' o'cldck.
Xe Doers open at half.pagt Seven—the Wilard appears at Eight..

LOVE'S POLYPHONY, THIS EVENING.
MUSIGHALI, STORE-STREET.

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10 , • Crowded Houses.
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ENTEItTAINMENTS WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY,
1131 t . MAY ist, and 341. ' ' ' --
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_,____ Totel;Chimge each Evening. •
iv ' - •On WEDNESDAY;' LOVE'S MIRTH 'ln• MARVELS; with
,„‘ MINE HOST'S DILEMMAS, and other Entertainnionts.
1" On FRIDAY:LOVE:IN. ALL SHAPES; with. LOVE'S LA
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c. BOUR'S LOST, and'othei rinstertainments. .
,hl. Admission, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s 6d; Private Boxes to acoom=
s-, modate six, 15s. • Prixate Boxes to. accommodate eight, 11.
r. Doors open at' .Reif put Seven ; begin -at "Eight. 'Partictilars in
' ' small bills. ~,,, , , . . _, ,

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10141)al, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1-.18!14,

In thblratt.k. CorreNnAm moved
`. the second reading of • the Debtors' and Creditors
• Bill, and pointed :out the -,injurious effects. of 'the
= present-system, 'esPe-CialfY as regarded insolventsi '
• The• ;01 an....Ca Life =wit: hipriiied" Of the -13 and -
: thought nothii,
g •otild:WeiffnedioPirirstent
'than 'the
present "1tfW.T....14;444p44-m4;-4--',_.hOwever, that the. coin-:
•mitten Wolild lie 'deferred 'for dine,.
in orderli!at:go:-,40.1„;:,-.- _
cl-'ll4gllt,4ecelve.Aluer. considera-
. L.,-;";
The Bill. aTse' On'd , iderr" to
- meet tht "vie?'NS ;•Linien.
—ItANCELLOR, Lord 41
COTTENKAM, preffo:fiekkthatfit -ShOitid‘te- Q6mittcd on
that day fortnight: - •
Ragas was, done in
the House of Ler -- ; -), - ,
In the Commons,'' "On order -.4: theg ,
read 'for.' 'ttirtb§r" Loonsidiitiatieiv tha "Repoir.on
the Basipptoice.,:and-.Vewliiibi
RussELL. moved th 4 ',the "tepO4be.-furOr .e.OOkL
dered that day months:l: A lengthenedidisetission
-', took iilieef-and on;aAkiiipn: ere were for the.or.w..
• nal motiod- 06, and agaiPii it ; and the Report
was received:;
In answer.to'a question'. from Captain • PECHELL,
Mr. GonLnuirr .that• the greatest
,earf= had
f: been taken to expedite t4e return p oney ta.per-
• sons whose income' miffs-, under .160/. a-year, ,and
frmn,:whiiiieertain sums had been withheld under the
:.IncometatAet '_7l!ez delay had been chiefiy.eaused
by .the--Parties not coming forward to make:ill*
la a strange,-asSetdon on the;'-paftl4-we
cg. or the k*cazeuza,- as it is *ell knOwp
-, that- tlik*culties thrown feilreol:', by
the broveenraeutproxt:g wilbars
LfrOm fnereb•` i,,foi4ustice. isna '-of: :the
mostl4o;PONAigrieszneet'of this lai,:,Yet-iiie,;bt.l.N-
-sufferers
tlirO)W eh- [hi
,the sufferers, ' e•- me 4P
t:±TY - •
Mr -C Wat • ' '
• ' ISC!4P,Re4 a`ki:natTClii4;;Otic...g
la salecti.cotriaTiuee',fbjoiiistri unto
Duties:. upon the naliioniVitoiiiv:-.
Lord JOcaLrx asked MiAtidero`

on the part of the East India House; they had any
objection to lay before the House any papers re-
specting the recal of Lord ELLENBOROUGH ?
Mr. HOGG said he was net the organ of the
Directors, but expressed a hope, in consequence of
what, had occurred in the House of Lords, that the
House, and the public, would suspend their judgment
upon the course which the Court of Directors had
pursued.

Mr. HUME thought the Court had acted rightly,
and asked Sir itOBEET PEEL whether there would be
any objection to lay on the table the correspondence
which had taken place between the Government and
the Board on the subject ? -
Sir R. PEEL declined answering the question.
Mr. Fox MAULE moved for leave to bring in a Bill
to regulate the administration of oaths in the uni-
versities of Scotland. His object was to do away
with a system of tests which might have been justified
at the time they were adopted, but which, in the pre-
sent spirit of the age, were totally and entirely
obnoxious to the feelings of all men of liberal educa-
tion, which could be attended with no good effect to
the Established Church, but, on the contrary, was
calculated to pull down rather than to support that
venerable fabric.

Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the motion, because he
considered himself bound to maintain inviolate the
Presbyterian Church as established in Scotland.
- Mr. RUTHERFORD supported the motion, and de-
scribed the danger which would be the. certain con-
sequence of religious tests. They would, he said,
not only destroy the Church, but they would create a
sectarian Church, which would become a most in-
tolerable evil.

The LAD. ADVOCATE opposed the motion, and
after several -speeches, chiefly from Scotch Members,
the-House'dlvidect-When the numbers were—for the
motion 101 ; against it, 128.
The other business on the paper_ was then disposed
of,'4'ndihe douse adjourned, at Ealf-past One o'clock.

In ',adverting yesterday to the Budget of the
ClusicELLoni of the ExOrmiquEn, we gave him due
credit for tit fidelity With which he had redeemed
his promiie of bringing forward the customary
financial statement of the year on the appointed
evening, instead of withholding it (after a bad official
faihion of recent growth), by repeated postponements,
'to a much Mere advanced period-ofthe session. We
can now pay this additional tribiita:to the Right
Hon. Gentleirian's Ministerial punctuality and dis-
icretioe.lle f(:ectiiately recapitulated the estimate he
.had announced, in his statement of last year; with
regard to the Ivarieus items-of thapublic income and
-expenditure; and
__Was at no pains to slur over
lanyiif the element&-of-deduction which it was necee-
'airy to apply to the due appreciation of the results he
had, to communicate to the .House,- favourable as,
primii facie, these were. For this ,candour the public
are much beholdento_him; "and for ourselves, we can
tray, say that it -tells _with us to great advantage by
-the side of,thai.apecious )plausibility with. which his
'Right Hon. Leader and qhief.affects,.on.all occasions;
to have nothing to conceal ; • whereas the truth is, in
nine, cases out often, thiS pseudo ingenuousness
amounts merely to the fact—that he has nothing to
'communicate. i Mr: GOUILIkVILN, undoubtedly, went
'about hii figures_ and stated his case like a man of
business; openly and distinctly. So much; for
the Right =lion, 'Gentleman's statistics. As to the
scheme of fatiiiss finance which they developed—the
soundness of the economic -principles on which he
proposed,.-to existing duties and imposts, their re-
tention orthein modification—the amount of conces-
sions:whilth these-'modifications involved to the great
necessity of free, trade—;or the ground which the
whale statement
.afforded for any reasonable hope of
.the introduction into the councils of. Government of a
liberal and intelligent policy that shall appreciate the
cruelly degraded condition and the righteous
demands of- that portion of the community whose
--eiistence depends on the expansion and activity of the
. ;
M foaritet.r industrial labour, we must confess we are
utterly' disappointed with this Budget of 1844. Its
. •
exposition, moreover,. held out, even incidentally, no
hopes to domestic trade or the foreign commerce of
the country,- fcieretief froM thosafiscal shackles which
• cramp,. by. absurdly imposed, or excessive duties, their
just evolution in eoret bra:noshes,: and absolutely para-
lyze their energies in others. And, above all, it passed
over, unnoticed, unremembered as it were, the press-
ing domestic question of every hour, " What is to be
done towards the revision of our monetary system ?"
On the general statement of income or revenue,
and expenditure, it is clear that Mr. GOULBUItiI boasts
that, after paying of the balance of deficit of 1843
namely, 2,749,0004 he has, this ,year, an available
surplus of 1,400,0001. Now with the disposition of
2,749,000/.'we have quarrel. It may have been
much better thus. to pay; deficiency for 1843 out of
revenue ter 1844, than to extinguish it—for the pre-
sent only-7-by lean. ,Butr'we, ,cannot without a rant.-
mur witness his . appropriation of the •1,400,0001.
Altogether, Mr. WILLIAMS, .of Coventry, well
reminded.) Nth, there had been, with the income and
property-tarl amounting, alone, in this last year, to
4;loo,ooo4,:an.`aggregate of additional taxes during
the last four .years, of no less than 8;000,0001.- Well,•
with thiselastie public income, and this net balance
iii raven:. (after so, large is.demand upon it for the de-
ficiencies and delinquencies of its predecessor,) what
it that .1544,:: so ~careful ,for 1843,; -is -to ,do
fur us, unfortunates,' of .the present day IL It takes
eight- millions.; and it rernifir at. 400,COP1:, not quite
'So much? A liberal allowance' of bread; thia,'to all
the sack .absorbad into :the, geteases Exchequer. -Let
us upon what articles this 400,0001. is deledout.
.(jit.cofiiie, there: is ,to -be a total' reduction of
:6p,0001;,, which we hail with Mr. B4Ouisa as pro
tant# ititsun4ge, free trade; and together with the
:meditated discouragement of 'chicory, -we .trust it will
work .vi ell for thp ;general trade and The,unadalte-
kt4ed retp4tigipn of (toffee. But such fractional pates
?f- financial confectionery as a little 12,0001. on
the admirers. of sharp flavours—
:.and such glittering . beads.: for 'grown children who
...etin,"ba. cheated opt ot':their :just claims :for much
M§re.solid and, extensive, modification& of foolish im-
,posts, as 35,090/._ en glass; are downright Puerilities
fcr:bo intrpdoped ;into suChie statement by the Clue-
os.taoa of the .tostxquati-of Great Britain: dealing
with a'yetiitt fnoo,lne tif!d:2',ooQ,ooo/. Thelduetien of
.100;QP.W. on:marine:insurance is very good; -yet it is
provOking to find it not infinitely, better brat leeit
proportionate i.eductiotiof that bitteftax on prudence,
foresight, and ,frugality, the '?inty on fire insurances.
'1001,09.04., off the duty on foreign wool, we believe,
May, rank in point of utility with the reduction -on the
duty of ceffet. • But whilst Mr. GOCTIBUAN. was
• -.
ctlitowipg away 90,0004 from . his revenue -on cur-
rants,. why did not he throtv after ,it seine- of the
hundreds-AfthOnsincis. OfPelundi -which his coffers re-
froni..:the poor, levied on the corn that
shoul4- have liTodnOd'.tmCheaP' fleuri, ;Wherewith
puddings for the, -currants_ might .have been prepared.
by them reserve till another. epperttinity the
reMiiika'4lllhi?e to offer on the bad faith -eVinced by
itoutati.:Egiu,on the subject of the Income-tax,
.
And, on.the 66111'Se:it behoves. the contrlbuters to that
obnciiiefis and disgraceful' impost now to adopt, in
insisting- upon its repeal. • -

.Flom; this day 'forth it is most probable that the
t, of Parliamentary
pringipat Subjec discussion, during
the Yemlinder of the session,' will be- the currency
qitestion. It is' but natural that this should be
F4gr,. in frith, the:absorbing, ititerest—,-the 'domestic,
the urdversal' iinpertance—cif'onr 'monetary 'systems
and the Of' its` .bearinga.: upon every ,class and
!onclition of the empire, invests it with a character
:71Fh'attaelies' tot b other topic at: present especially
ti?4ng- attention. The recta' of: a Gover-
ndr-Cieneral•OP.riri
Atmetlea g
ndia, even, fades into insi -
i‘
t•f'e of this truly imperial question.
It involves thing:Liesss he consideration whether
qui:_presea'
ld
deziosona:.lenewnrgtalasienhte.hwxae.t
elars, and returning to p:ignoiirtn.,oittbes,.:.rmreesephni:tertsfioottatiu:-
hive fernOdly.'abandon44...nqde'r,',.the
.enactments of
the 'Lees/Attire-a
guarantfeA. for the
.eontinued piogres'sickn of
that
greatneli; and forita, permanent .consedidation. s.
.;Thies Ja,, guccinctiyi thelremendons issuee, involved
in the , of. the , Parliament's -.intervention
with the currency. Let us not be blind to
the alternative of its non-intervention.' Left 'to
itself;to pursue, the-- same course in which it
has already encountered shocks so frequent and
so disastrous,- that system must inevitably work
out to the fatal issue we have already indicated in

former articles, of panic, private bankruptcy, national
embarrassment, and commercial ruin just as it
would do under the active superintendence
_and
dirction of the most gifted enemy to British great-.
ness. This inevitable tendency to destruction in the
existing system we would earnestly impress on the
minds of that considerable portion of the community
who, though alive to the imperfections and the perils
of that system, are yet content to await their de-
velopment, rather than incur the risks which they
attribute to such a process of unsettlement and disor-
ganisation as they assume must be the effects of any
change in our monetary policy. How mischievous
this laissez faire philosophy in economic policy may
be, and how absurdly exaggerated are the fears upon
which it is based, we shall hereafter be enabled to de-
monstrate. It is carrying out too literally, and to
an extravagant application, the wise axiom of the
poet :

-" Better to bear the ills we have
Than fly to others which we know not of."

A man who should find himself in a fire-ship would
hardly push his respect for this axiom to the extent of
not cutting off the train, which he sees, by the index;
that the match already burning must otherwise ignite,
within a given number of seconds. It would be no
violent imputation on his philosophy or his good
sense to hazard the unknown fate—captivity, or escape,
for example—which may await him after securing the
craft he is in from annihilation, rather than to leave
a certain fate to burst upon him with all its horrors
of explosion and _ combustion, simply because
he is cognizant of the nature and the
presence of its elements. We are anxious
to deprecate this plausible plea for inaction
—this well sounding apology for, apathy or timidity
—as one of the most dangerous that men can indulge
in, in these times. It is nothing for parties to urge
their dislike to open, up and disturb the disastrous set-
tlement of a vast question, on the mere fact of that
assumed settlement having, taken place five-and-
twenty years ago, unless they can show that the
principles upon which their concurrence in so re-
opening it is asked is new, visionary, or purely theo-
retical. Failing to show this, they have admitted the
national mischief and prejudice produced by what
they call the "settlement" of the. question;. yet are
content so far tolail in their common duty to the pub-
lic weal,, as to stand aloof from all attempts to obviate
that prejudice, and to repair that mischief.
Now, the principles on which they. proceed, who
are at•this time, and fora some time past have been,
labouring to obtain from the Legislature an imme-
diate-revision of our existing monetary system, are,
as was observed last week by Mr. SperruswooDE, on
taking the chair at a meeting of the Protection of
Industry' Society, " as ancient as ARISTOTLE and
.PLAro." , So far from being visionary or purely
theoretical, they were adopted into the civil policy of
the most distinguished republics of Greece, and of
Rome herself (as shown by the very able author of .
" The Essay. on Money," Land. 1843) ; and they
were successfully incorporated into our own law and
usages in respect 'of currency, fiorn a period dating
before the. Conquest down to, the Revolution. This,
too, is the view announced by Mr. ENDERBY, in his
recent pamphlet on "The 'Distress of the Nation, its
Causes, and Remedies." Feeling the injurious ope-
ration of this repugnance. to " new principles," Mr.
ENDERBY admits, for the sake of the argument, the

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