The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-19 00:00:00

up with our pound of sours t Though we are to be
plunged chin-deep in taxation—though a burden is to be
placed on our shoulders, such as might break the back
of Atlas—still we have the proud consolation of know-
ing, that we are to have turtle and turbot cheap ! Yes,
when we have no longer money to buy them with, then
turtle and turbot are to be placed within our reach—un-
der our very nose ! `ti after this, shall venture to
impugn the sagacity of Sir Robert Peel as a Finance-
Minister ?

COLONIAL ASSES.—The instant Sir Robert Peel al-
luded last night to the Duty on " Colonial Asses," a loud
bray was set up by his Tory supporters on the Trea-
sury benches, who evidently feared—as the Right Hon.
Baronet was in one of his taxing moods that he
was going to shift the duty from foreign to domestic
asses, in which case they, of course, would have been
among the chief sufferers, for who can doubt the length
of a Tory's ears ?

In consequence of the Duty being lowered on Colonial
Asses, a prodigious importation of Tories is expected
from the West Indies, and elsewhere.
THE ELECTRICAL EEL.—The Tamworth Quack, so
notorious for his - slippery qualities, is, we understand,
known at the Clubs by the name of the " Electrical Eel,"
in allusion, of course, to the manner in which he has
electrified John Bull by his Income Tax.

PROPOSED NEW TAX.—AS Sir Robert Peel is resolved
to lay on fresh taxes, we recommend to his considera-
tion the propriety of taxing Parliamentary Speeches,
which would be a great boon to the country, for it would
amount to a positive prohibition of superfluous oratory,
and so save much valuable time.

SABBATH DESECRATION.—TIIO total number of per-
sons who passed along the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way• on the commencement of the Sunday trains was 878.
The time occupied in r.mning from one terminus to the
other was about two hours, and the arrangements were
such as to insure the most strict order and propriety of con-
duct. What a dreadful rattling, and whipping, and shouting,
there would have been had this large number been con-
veyed by coaches ! They would have required at least
•25 coaches and 400 horses, allowing each relay to run
two stages, 50 drivers and guards, 100 ostlers, and
the goodly company would have consumed at least
150 bottles of whiskey—making the total num-
ber of men and horses employed, at least, 500,
and by steam 20 men did all the work. The
coaches, too, must have interfered with the hours of
divine service, while all the steam travellers were at
liberty to attend church forenoon and afternoon. We
leave impartial persons to judge whether steam has not
contributed more to the observance of the Sabbath than
all the Agnewites together.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
QUARTER TO THREE.
The speech of Sir Robert Peel is being canvassed in the
City to-day, to the exclusion of almost all other business. The
determination therein expressed to persist in the income tax
meets with much opposition.
The English Stocks remain firm, with but little business,
Consols being 89% 34 for Money, and b9B 90 for the Ac-
count.; Bank Stoc4, 109 to 170 ; Exchequer Bills, 29 to 31
prem.

Nothing doing in the Foreign Market, and the quotations
are nut so high as yesterday. Mexican, 411/2 ; Colombian,
26 to 264, Portuguese Five per Cents., 344 ; Spanish, '25
to 25k.
A slight improvement has taken place in shares, although
the purchases have been but trifling. York and Midlatiii,
944 95; the New Shares, 32 ; Great North of England, 88 ;
Great Western, 914 ; Brighton, 363 1/2.
A most disgraceful transaction has lately occurred in the
Foreign Stock Exchange. A party purchased a numher of
those Spanish Coupons which are about to be capitalized,
but the individual of whom they were bought surreptitiously
introduced a quantity which are excluded from the decree, and
now refuses either to exchange them, or take them back.
Application has been made to the Committee on the subject,
I,rho.ha e not yet given a decision.