The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-23 00:00:00

has been surrendered. Tt is true : but of taxes which
it had become physically impossible for the nation any
longer -to bear and: from a sum-total; of which, what
remains is, according to the present value of money,
fully equal to the whole mass of our taxation, when it
stood, .nominally, one.third higher. Let,- then, the
new Parliament follow the steps of that blessed Par-
liament which forced the abolition of the inconie-tax.
Ministers all swore that its repeal was impossible—
that the country would be ruined without the palla
ilium of the, income-tax ---that no public establishment
could be reduced by a single button ; and that if the
wicked attempt should be persisted in, why, God-a-
mercy, they would all
." go out of office !" But the
Rouse of Commons were more obstinate than his
Majesty's advisers. They actually abolished the tax,
and what followed ? Why, positively, that the coun-
try breathed with more freedom than before, and
that many buttons, with much embroidery, were con-
fiscated ; while the negative consequence was, that the
Ministers did not resign, and are even suspected to be
most of them still in office.. Then we repeat, let
Par-
liament follow the good precedent—let them find re-
peal, and Government will find reduction ; the inarm=
factures, commerce, .and agriculture of England, may
yet-recover their prosperity, and the working people,
whether journeyman or peasant, cease to be among
the wretched of the human race.— Times.
From the manner in which the Military are some-
times allowed to conduct themselves towards peaceable
citizens, one cannot help drawing the conclusion that
one great object of their superior officers is to render
the soldiers and the -people the most bitter enemies.
Instances like -that which occurred at Buekingham-
gate lately are not at all tinfrequent, yet we never hear
of any measures being taken to repress such conduct.
Files of soldiers, too, may be seen almost any day,
passing along the footpath; and particularly where it is
narrow, forcing foot pasSengers, women as well as men,
to descend into the carriage-way, and run the risk of
being trodden under fot ; and according to accounts
from Manchester, the regular troops sent out to that
town have been almost the sole disturbers of the pub-
lic tranquillity. Manchester now exhibits the singu-
lar phenomenon of police officers being placed on the
Parade to watch. the Military and keep them in order.
This system of exciting hostility between the civil mad
military classes may do very well for despotic
:Govern-
ments ; Itiissia has long adopted it. The military
there are taught to look upon themselves as a privi-
leged Class, and to treat with eontempt, and often in-
dignity, those who have not learned the use of arms.
During the despotie reign of Buonaparte, the French
soldiers imbibed the same sentiments. Pekin was
the only appellation which they deigned to apply to a
peaceable citizen, and the aim of superiority assumed
by the men as well as officers, and encouraged by their
superiors, evinced the predpminance of the Military,
and the degraded condition of all other classes.. 1, We:
sincerely trust that such will never be the,case inEng-
land. We 'owe' much of our liberty to the subjec7
tiou of the Military to .the Civil poWer. German
caps and coats, and every variety of continental
forms' ' may be introduced into the Army without in';.
jury ; but if with these are introduced also the habits
iand discipline of the troops of despotism, we should
'soon
have the great body of the people arrayed
against the soldiers, and ready, on every occiciion in
Which they came in contact, to excite the most :;eriiiiis
disturbances. The real friends of their country, and
those 'particularly who have the power, ought to seize
every opportunity of discouraging
such a spirit in the
Army. The liberty of any country cannot be long
secure, if the troops arc intimated by sentiments boa-
tile to those of the community.—Morning Herald.

THE BETHNAL-GREEN RIOTS.

APPOINTMENT OF THE HORSE PATROL.

Yesterday morning the orders of the Secretary of State,
to the Magistrates of Worship-street Police Office, to
establish a party of horse patrol, to be under the jurisdic-
tion of their Worships. was carried into effect, and a party
of strong able-bodied men, who bave held sitwitions in
:the army, were appointed, and at twelve o'clock they
mounted, and went on duty, accoutred with cutlasses,
piStobt' awl blunderbusses. These men were to remain in
'active duty till five o'clock in the morning, and will be
in constant tiommunication with forty of the dismounted
patrol, who were also sent upon duty by order of the Right
Honourable Secretary. The dismounted are divided into
parties, and are stationed at the follbwing posts, viz.:
Cambridge Heath Gate, Mile-end Gate, Whitechapel
Church, London Apprentice Gate, and near the Regent's
Canal, in the Mile-end-road.
This body of men will also remain on duty till five
o'clock in the morning, when tbey will go off, and com-
municate with the Magistrates of Worship-street.
Yesterday being market day at Smithfield, the gang
were on the look out fur beasts, and we hear, that as early
itN six yesterday morning, two bullocks were taken from a
drove, and are now in the hands of the gang. However,
we have no doubt but that the officers will prevent them
from pursuing their outrages.
On Wednesday a bullock was rescued from them in. the
Kingsland-road, and after being secured in Clement's barn
till the gang had dispersed, it was conveyed home to its
owner, Mr. Alexander,
,in Whiteehapel Market.
It having been reported, that Mr. Sykes, the proprie-
tor of the ham and beef shop, in Winchester-street, Hare-
street-fields, had died yesterday morning, in the London
Hospital, of the dreadful injuries he received from the
gang, we went there, and are happy to say he is still alive.

It seems that Mr. Sykes had only set up in business a
few days, when about eight o'clock in the evening, about
twenty fellows cage round his shop, armed with sticks; '
he suspected they intended an attack, and for security got
behind the counter, when the whole, gang came in, and
seizing a buttock of beef and a ham, ran out of the shop.
He endeavoured to prevent them, by putting out his arm,
when one of them took up a hatchet or hammer, and with
a tremendous blow struck him over the arm, which broke
it in a dreadful manner it has been since amputated, and
he now lies in a very bad state. The gang then went into
a baker's shop, and helped themselves to bread, and after-
waxds adjourned to the brick.field, and ate the provisions in
a very short time. It would be too tedious to state the
numerous outrage* that have been committed by this gang,
bat there is reason now to bope, that the establishment of
the horse patrol, and the conviction, on Thursday, of
three of them at the Old Bailey, for attacking; and robbing
Mr. Fuller, will be the means of routing them altogether
from the parhih.

Letters from Havre state that the sea has destroyed
hart of the northern jetty. Great ravages had been
committed on the shore by the winds, which were still
blowing with great violence ; the fruit bad been almost
dl (I'''sr(led, and trees of great magnitude torn up by
°I"" ta. l' Fears were entertained for the vessels
an ying in port.

Augther
instance of religious fanaticism has
recently
occurred at Nitrilla, in Italy, where a father has de-
strayed his three children, to obtain for them an earlier
admission into Paradise. There appears to have been
nothing in the conduct of the father to excite a suspi-
cion of his sanity, Anil the atrocious act would seem
to have sprung entirely from religious phrenzy.