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

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
,--ylicu 'Tit F. ET.4•ICrSC TArfILS PT,AISTEAD.A.3I.
STAN DARD.—The Chancellor of Exchequer last
njght introduced the Budget,'in a-speech of considerable
length and of 'unexampled" clearness:.. It is wonderful
how plain a tile one can tell when his
_case happens to
be a goof one, and the news he has to'lell is likely to
prove pleasant. The financial statement W2S;' however,
deprived of much of its interest by anticipation. The
revenue accounts had forestalled its most agreeable:a:is-- i
closures-w-the known character of the Government fur
prudence and f.r a conteitipt• of " yap" reputation,
gave' wattling that there 'would be nothing strikin'g-
in the financial plans for the futttre. - The im-
portant facts developed in Mr. Goulburn's speech
are these.-----the revenue for tbe-year just oo:zed exceeded,
the, Right Honours ttl •G`entlemarea estimate. made
twelvemonths ago 1ar,700,000/. The expenditure of
the S'anse-year fell short of the expected, expenditure by
,%hott.-1,300,000/.- There facts, one and two—the
greett.,extess of revenue, and the great • reduction of
eXpense are no doubt gratifying ; btit the MC)st
eXtraordinary fact of all, is the appearance, of - a
Chancellor of the Exchequer wh) in so great a
degree underrates his prospects, and underrates
his retrenchments. Such a Minister is the most
surprising contrast to his predecessors in office, as
. for many years their practice has been to pro-
mise a great deal morn revenue, and a great deal
more retrenchment than they ever realised. Between
' " excess of revenue and defect of expenditure the surplus
'of revenue above expenditure last year amounts to
• 4,100,000/. Now, of this sum, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, like an honest and prudent man, takes at
once 2,700,000/., to make good a deficiency Of last
year to that extent, and. the balance of 1,400,0001.
he places safely in the Exchequer, to enable
the GovernMent to take a confident tone in its ap-
proaching negotiations with the Bank of England :
so much for the present year. For the year before us
Goulburn estimates "the revenue at 51,790,0001.,
- aboula, million less than the revenue of .'the year just
concluded, which was 52,835,124/. The expenditure
for the year before us he rates at 48,643,170/., leaving a
• surplus of 3,146,830 E, -viz.:—
Revenue
Eipenditure
Surplus „it
3,16,830
the estimated expenditure are included—
Chink arrears
TlArte-iendtlialf per Cent. dissentients ...
,Liquidatichis of an old guarantee loan to the
• • ,Sopt4,Sea Commpany

40,0,000
200,000

£239,000

L

1:83p,000

;Alt this;however, it is to be remembered, is included in
the expenditure of 469643,270 L , _
i
On the other side, there are to be sant reductions of
tAxation as follows.:— . i
Glass ' • £3p,000
. Vinegar . - • 1,000
.Currants - ' 90,006
Cuffee:...;..,' 50,000
ss: . i;4.L .. . . .... :..tt
=sane megrances.. • 10,000
,
W 001.,:..,.:; 1 ' 100,000
Or, in round numbers; somewhere about 400,0001..
,These .reductions are, however, obviou4ly contem-
plated in the estimate of produce of revenue, which is
-not nigrely 400,000/. loss than the produce of the pre-
sent year but 4100;0001: less. The anticipated surplus
-therefore, as between/ probable revenue and expen-
diture, will be a clear sum of 3,146;8301. Thero is,
• however, a large part of this sum to be acconnted
for by'Vauses not indicative of anything connected
with the regular sources of revenue. 769,9001. will
appear , orti_ the credit. side-:Of next year's ..epecltunt.
• on acedtint of the postliOnement of the dividends upon
the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., leaving the _actual sur-
plus from sources of permanent supply 2,376,930/. ',Mr.
Goulburn intimated that • the question of the sugar
duties would be taken' into consideration upon another
occasion ; and that he would, probably,'-propose areduc-
. ' troll to 10s: of the differential duty upon all foreign
Sugars, the produce of free and not ofslsve labour. We
have noroom to remark upon:the debate that followed
• this gratifying exposition ; nor is much< notice neces-
sary ; the Whigs and Radicals certainly cut no very
brilliant figure in the discussion.
GLOBE.—The contrast is remarkable between; the
oat-spoken style cif the Duke of Wellington and the ton-
committal style of. Sir Robert. Peel on the final breach
between Government and the East India Directors. IWe
say the find' breach ; for it now appe,ars.the differeices
are. of ionenwelvevinonths standing. Before we come
AO his Grace of Wellington's views; tin d; the instan-
tailebus chatter -confirmatory o the learned
"- monkey , who has' . seen the world," . and scram-
bled and ,climbed ``over Many 'more prominent
Points 'in the world's business: than he. has had any
trustworthy faculties, or has now any human memory_
for—before we come to what was said in the Lords
last night, we must just take a moment's notice of what
is said by the two " Kings of l3rentford" who divide
the Ministerial press between them. It is. perhaps un-
fair to treat the Standard and Werald as twain ; , for
they seem to have only one seo of ideas. as one set of
types .between them. But if not two, they are twice
too saucy to, be allowed with impunity qheir present
license. The style in which they presume to treat this
grave subject will draw punishment—to themselves Oom
their.readers--totheir. patrons—whose position can only
be covered by such audacities. The case of the Miniltry
will be prejudiced by the precipitate effrontery of their
organs. " The public," says the Evening Rein; I, "is still
wholly in the dark as to the grounds upon which the
Directors of the East India Company have thougli;t it
prudent to risk—we probably might say, to forfett,, by
an extreme exercise of it--their power of recalling tho
Governor-General." elyu, ,rep,e,st it," says the Morning
Staiilard, " the act "Ortheiiirectors is doomed ; end
.if the_ livisfuture:does . its duty, the ,pewee 'of lie
Directo'rs' to put .t.j*-liitefe'sts of the empire ,in
danger by the reeetiticar Of Such acts doomed with it."
These sort -of services' to Ministers hy their press
•re
rather too:like thoae of the ass in the fable, who struck
his hoof in his master's face to knock off a fly kora is
nose. For the juxta-poStlinite these, two semen es
(emanating evidently from the same servile spirit) oo
clearly , points at the infirmity of the case of Ministers
Wit now stands. ' T,he public is still, wholly in hei
'ditik as. to the ultimatto. grounds whiCh have out-
weighed all the reasons which rendered twenty-four pin-
tlemen, twenty of. whom we- ard-told by the Stanchird
eam-Conservatives,l.unwilling to-fly in the face of 'Mirds-
tek But ifthe public are in the dark• as te whit uti
In - 1
itely'debidea the 'Directors4 they are by no means- n-
re prepared to believe, by thezlethele aspect of their p e-
vioes conduct (as *ell as that 'of the nobleman wh m
they lime now peremptorily recalled), that it must h ve
been something strong and positive, and conclusive in
al,l„lWe *ads. It is not the fault of the Directors if
[
we,sire.te remain in ignorance of their guiding snotiv s.
It ,is aiot they who shrink from publicity,, or entrench -
thEillielves in politic reserves. Before they can be +-
deinnea, John Bull will assuredly insist they shall
firStlluil4e.l--and they court the trial. . In this postare
iir *Affairs one Would laic, thought it required' assurance
transcending that 4
of ccustomYd sycophancy to Irli-
no'uii6'e any Parlisniaits,ry. or pubh judgment, o
such judgment can be passed without tint the evidende;
an& the party which makeS itself`: the" Acchsing
party ,threugh the-Organ of his Grace the Duke !of
Wellington is, the party which possesses and with-
ITofcli:the ovithmcc. We are told by `Sir itOberi" Peel
that' tbe Goiernment most certainly were not taken by
surprise; they ha(l an opportunity of stating their views
to the Court of Directors, and most certainly' the Court
of Directors did give full and fair intimation to her
Majesty's Government previous to taking the measure."
We are fold by the Duke of Wellington -- " My
Jl,or.ls. though I beliek:e that this: is the first time
in• the hiStory of` `the Government of India that
this extreme measure has been resorted to by, the Court
of Directors, or carried into execution, or vi ill be carried
intnexectition, it hai More than once beeacalled into con-
templation; but the intention has been always recalled On
the remonstrance or advice of the Minister Of the day.
. And it is the fact, that it was in contemplation by these
very gentlemen, with reference to the same Governor•Ge-
rieral, in the course c,f the last twelve months. But th4y
. -were at that time prevailed upon to pass a resolution, and
to abandon the intended recal." With this prima fadie
evidence of calmness and circumspection on the part kif
~ the Directors, and with no' other -evidence as to their
• motives except the shrewd presumptions afforded by the
• . apparent absence of similar qualities on the part of the
- late. Governor-General, it is rather too much' even. for
the Duke of Wellington to expect Parliament or the
- public to. take
_his word for the discretion of Ministers,
orthe indiscretion of the Directors.
.D

REA.DFUL MURDER-IN CORN
WALL.
On Wednesday inquest was held- before Joseph
Ilamley, Esq.. coroner, and Mr. Gilbert Hamley, de-
puty-coroner, in the parish of Dawidstow, on view of the
''body of Charlotte Dymond, aged nineteen, years. • •
It -appe‘ired from the evidence that deceased,
companied by Matthew Weeks, left her mistress's
-1-(Mrs. Peters) house on the 14th instant; abOut four in
the. afternoon ; they were seen on the =Mrs going
• lowaftis Boughton Weeks returned to Mr. Peters's
•'house at nine o clock, and when questioned as to
where Charlotte was, he said he did not know. On
the fullowinn• morning his mistress told him to get up
and come and INlp her, for she was sure he had put
.rivray-qie maid, and he ought to have known better in
this busy time. ;He . was repeatedly asked what had
become of Charlotte, both by his mistress and some
• other persons ; but he said he knew nothing about her.
On the Tuesday.following, his mistress said,. I
telling me what has become of the
insist on your
irl." He then said, "If I must tell you, she went to
Brown
_Willy to CaitlS Spears h. ouse last Sunday, and
was going to Blissland the following()n day,
la.sri ay, as Mr. Leuxon
leevks
had got an easier place for her."
said to_Jolin. Stevens, another servant of Mrs. Peters,
" Can feu lend me needle
shirt ?" Stevens said,
and thread to sew on a
button to the collar of my.
"How came your shirt torn ? It o
is almost
a new
one." He said it was bad sewing. aSatiir-
day, Weeks met 'a- man named B ethson,
.who asked
• him what he had done with the girl, ,Weeks said, "I
- don't know where she is gone, but if -she is found
murdered, they will take up her mother for it,t
•-• for she said she would kill her if she came home,
• again." On the Sunday it was suspected that he had
'.toordered the girl, and Mrs. Peters sent Stevens
and her son to search the moors. They went to the
laoorti, and traced her patten marki_ for some time,
shortly lost them. On their return to Mrs.
Peters, they found 'Weeks had put on his best clothes,
and, run away. As be was leaving, Mrs. Peters said
",Mathew, how have you got your trousers in that
mess ? You have brushed them so much that the
'cloth is almost through." He said it was very dirty
last Sunday. She begged him to come back to dinner,
and he said he woud, but he has not been heard ,
"o` it
On the following day,, several people-
' *gm search for the deceased, and, on-going 091,m, a