The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

STANDARD.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer last
night introduced the Budget, in a speech of considerable
length and of unexampled clearness. It is wonderful
how plain a tale one can tell when his case happens to
be a goof one, and the news he has to tell is likely to
prove pleasant. The financial statement was, however,
deprived of much of its interest by anticipation. The
revenue accounts had forestalled its most agreeable dis-
closures—the known character of the Government for
prudence and for a contempt of " clap trap" reputation,
gave warning that there would be nothing striking
in the financial plans for the future. The im-
portant facts developed in Mr. Goulburn's speech
are these—The revenue for the year just closed exceeded
the Right Honourable Gentleman's estimate made
twelve months ago by 2,700,0001. The expenditure of
the same year fell short of the expected expenditure by
about 1,300,0001. There facts, one and two—the'
great excess of revenue, and the great reduction of
expense are no doubt gratifying ; but the most
extraordinary fact of all, is the appearance of a
Chancellor of the Exchequer wh ) in so great a
deuce 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 more 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
4,100,0001. Now, of this sum, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, like an honest and prudent man, takes at
once 2,700,0001., 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
Mr. Goulburn estimates the revenue at 51,790,000/.,
about a 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/., viz.:—
Revenue £51,790,000

Expenditure

48,643,170

Surplus
In the estimated expenditure are included—
--

China arrears

400,000

Three-and-Half per Cent. dissentients 200,000
Liquidation of an old guarantee loan to the
South Sea Commpany £239,000

839,000
All this, however, it is to be remembered, is included in
the expenditure of 48,643,2702
On the other side, there are to be some reductions of
taxation as follows :

Glass
Vinegar 12,000
Currants 90.000
Coffee 50,000
Marine insurances
Wool lOO,OOO

Or, in round numbers, somewhere about 400,0001.
These reductions are, however, . obviously contem-
plated in the estimate of produce of revenue, which is
not merely 400,0001. less han the produce of the pre-
sent year but 1,100,000/. less. The anticipated surplus
therefore, as between probable revenue and expen-
diture, will be a clear sum of 3,146,8:301. There is,
however, a large part of this sum to be accounted
for by causes not indicative of anything connected
with the regular sources of revenue. 769,9001. will
appear on the credit side of next year's account.
on account of the postponement 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 a reduc-
tion to 10s. of the differential duty upon all foreign
sugars, the proince of free and not of slave labour. We
have no room 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. _ . .

GLOBL—The contrast is remarkable between the
out-spoken style of the Duke of Wellington and the non-
committal style of Sir Robert Peel on the final breach
between Government and the East India Directors. We
say the final
,breach ; for it now appears the differences
are of some twelve months standing. Before we come
to his Grace of Wellington's views, and the instan-
taneous chatter confirmatory of 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 Brentfurd" who divide
the Ministerial press between them. It is perhaps un-
fair to treat the Standard and Herald as twain ; for
they seem to have only one set of ideas as one set of
types between them. But if not two, they are twice
too saucy to be allowed with impunity their present
license. The style in which they presume to treat this
grave subject will draw punishment—to themselves from
their readers—to their patrons—whose position can only
be covered by such audacities. The case of the Ministry
will be prejudiced by the precipitate effrontery of their
organs. " The public," says the Evening Herald, "is still
wholly in the dark as to the grounds upon which the
Directors of the East India Company have thought it
prudent to risk—we probably might say, to forfeit, by
an extreme exercise of it—their power of recalling the
Governor-General." "We repeat it," says the Morning
Standard, "the act of the Directors is doomed ; and
if the Legislature does its duty, the power of the
Directors to put the interests of the empire in
danger by the reretition of such acts doomed with it."
These sort of services to Ministers by their press are
rather too like those of the ass in the fable, who struck
his hoof in his master's face to knock off a fly from his
nose. For the juxta-position of these two sentences
(emanating evidently from the same servile spirit) too
clearly points at the infirmity of the case of Ministers
as it now stands. The public is still wholly in the
dark as to the ultimate grounds which have out-
weighed all the reasons which rendered twenty-four gen-
tlemen, twenty of whom we are told by the Standard
are Conservatives, unwilling to fly in the face of Minis-
ters. But if the public are in the dark as to what ulti-
mately decided the Directors, they are by no means un-
prepared to belieye, by the whole aspect of their pre-
vious conduct (as well as that of the nobleman whom
they have now peremptorily recalled), that it must have
been something strong and positive, and conclusive in
all their minds. It is not the fault of the Directors if
we are to remain in ignorance of their guiding motives.
It is Not they who shrink from publicity, or entrench
themselves in politic reserves. Before they can be con-
demned, John Bull will assuredly insist they shall
first be tried—and they court the trial. In this posture
of affairs one would have thought it required assurance
transcending that of accustomed sycophancy to an-
nounce any Parliamentary or public judgment. No
such judgment can be passed without all the evidence;
and the party which makes itself the accusing
party rthrc,ugh the organ of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington is the party which possesses and with-
holds the evidence. We are told by Sir Robert k'eel
that " the Government most certainly were not taken by
surprise; they had 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 ate told by the Duke of Wellington " My
Lords, though I believe 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 will be carried
into execution, it has more than once been called 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-
neral, in the course of the last twelve months. But they
were at that time prevailed upon to pass a resolution, and
to abandon the intended recal." With this prima facie
evidence of calmness and circumspection on the part of
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,
or the indiscretion of the Directors.

DREADFUL MURDER IN CORN-

WALL.

On Wednesday an inquest was held before Joseph
Hamley, Esq., coroner, and Mr. Gilbert Hamley, de-
puty-coroner, in the parish of Davidstow, on view of the
body of Charlotte Dymond, aged nineteen years.
It appeared from the evidence that deceased, ac-
companied by Matthew Weeks, left her mistress's
(Mrs. Peters) house on the 14th instant, about four in
the afternoon ; they were seen on the moors going
towards Roughtor. 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 following morning his mistress told him to get up
and come and help her, for she was sure he had put
away the 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 saw nothing about her.
On the Tuesday following, his mistress said, I
insist on your telling me what litel become of the
girl." He then said, "If I must tell you, she went to
Brown Willy to Caius Spear's house last Sunday, and
was
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had
said to John Stevens, another servant of Mrs. Peters,
" Can you lend me a needle and thread to sew on a
button to the collar of my shirt ?" Stevens said,
bid? sewing.
"flow came your shirt tor
one." He said it was
Satur-
day, Weeks met a man named
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gone, but
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don't know where she isshe is found
• murdered, they will take up her mother for it,
for she said she would kill her if she
again." On the Sunday it was supeeted thatam ehehad
home
murdered the girl, and Mrs. Peters sent Stevens
and her son to search the moors. They went to the
moors, and traced her patten marks for some time,
but shortly lost them. On their return to Mrs.
Peters, they found Weeks had put on his best clothes,
and run away. As he was leaving, Mrs. Peters said
"Mathew, bow 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 would, but he has not been heard
of since. On the following day, several people