The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-04 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
The most prosperous Theatre in I ondon.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 4,
In consequence of its amazing success,
WIII he performed the most interesting New Domestic Drama, in
Three Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, THE
LONE CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HlGHWAY.—Characters
by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveney, Messrs. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard-
ner, Seaman, &c.
After which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, &c., ALADDIN ;
OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the
Princess, Mr .E. F. Saville; Widow Musts ha, Mrs. Griffith .
To conclude with a New Drams, entitled THE HOLSTEIN HUS.
SAR; WI, THE GRANADIER GU ARD —Frederick, Mr. Sea-
xn..n ; Klaus Olmutz, Mr. Gardner; Stultz, Mr. Paul; Minna, Miss
Coveney; Galas. Mrs. Griffiths,

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THE WEATHER.—Noon, APRIL 2.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 42 Highest 44 Lowest 33
Barometer 29.71.—Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 42 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning IS minutes after 8. i Evening 2 minutes after 9.

unjust to tax all different professions and trades
at the same rate, without regard to the time
during which a man is likely to last, and without
regard to the expense to which he is put to enable
him to work, as to tax an annuity, which expires
in a few years, at the same rate as an estate
which is of perpetual and increasing value.
If it be said, that in the payment of different
trades and professions regard is had to these
circumstances, and those persons who are worn
out the soonest are paid the best, that may be
admitted, and we should have nothing to object
to if the impost were perpetual. Then these
trades and professions would be regulated ac-
cordingly. But Sir ROBERT PEEL'S income tax
is to be levied for only three years or five years
and it will, in that time, take as much
from the incomes of those who are able
to work only ten years, as from those
who are able to work twenty. With an equal
income of 5001. a year each, the former will be
able to gain in his life 5,000/., arid the latter
10,0001., which may be assumed to be the mea-
sure of the advantage or protection they receive
troin the State, but while one gains only 5,000/.,
and the other 10,000/., each will have to pay the
same sum to the State. The short period for
which Sir R. PEEL proposes to levy the tax
obviously aggravates, as Colonel THOAIPSON has
observed, all its inequalities. Nominally it is an
equal tax—actually it is the most unequal, as well
as the most inquisitorial, that ever was proposed.
Several projects have been suggested to reduce
its inequalities, but it is not possible to make it
otherwise than inquisitorial. In fact, the more
numerous the exemptions, the greater necessity
there will be for inquiries. There is no means of
making such a law equal, just, or palatable. The
project to impose it on us must be resisted in toto.
We, trust, therefore, that the Members for
Manchester and Edinburgh, who have been
Called on by their constituents, and the Mem-
bers for other places, who are thoroughly con-
vinced that there is no other necessity for this
tax than that created by the Corn-laws, that it
is a great infringement of liberty—is unequal
and unjust—will, in spite of a majority of mono-
polists, delay and impede, if they cannot defeat
Sir R. PEEL'S tyrannical, demoralising, and Ma-
chiavellian scheme by all the means which the
privileges of Parliament allow. They will yet
be supported, we believe, by the country, and
we are sure they will be honoured by posterity
for making great sacrifices and great exertions
from a sense of duty.

The House of Commons meet again to-day, for
the dispatch of business, when not a few of the
Members will find great relief in escaping from the
angry growling of their constituents, and taking
shelter under their Tory leader. The Easter holi-
days have afforded them no enjoyment. Some
have been tormented with the upbraidings
of their own guilty consciences, others like Sir E.
KNATCHBULL and Sir THOMAS ACLAND have been
harassed by deputations from woe-be-gone farmers
and graziers, and a third party have remained in
town, or directed their steps along every
road, except that which leads to " sweet
home." Like an assembly of old, celebrated by
the immortal poet, they will congregate in great num-
b( rs with down-cast looks, or eying their leader
askance, reproach him for their woful plight, till
taking courage from despair, he calls upom them in
no pleasing mood to rouse themselves like men for
another great struggle. And a great struggle
it will be if the speakers do their duty. All accounts
confirm the fact that the greatest dissatisfaction pre-
vails throughout the country, that men of every shade
of politics, the supporters of the Government but a
short month ago, as well as their determined oppo-
nents, are resolved to resist the new scheme as a
whole, and that unless their representatives take
the same view of the question, and also act up to their
views, many of them will be called upon to resign
their stewardships. This is the proper course to
pursue. Let the constituencies throughout the
country, Tory as well as Whig, assemble
without delay, for the purpose of stating
their objections, pointing out the duty of their re-
presentatives ; and at the same time announcing, that
those who disregard their appeal are no longer en-
titled to their support and confidence. The Liberal
Members, in general, will require no such impulse, but
still there are waverers among them; some of the
old Whig school, and some also of the Ultra-Radical
section, who seem more anxious to pay court to the
PREMIER, and to receive his fulsome praises, than to
earn the gratitude of the electors who placed in them
implicit confidence. These men, therefore, must be
urged on by fear, if by no other means, to follow a
leader who is pledged to resist the obnoxious
measures at every step. Lord JOHN RUSSELL
announced his resolution before the adjournment, and
every post that has arrived during the holidays must
have more and more confirmed him in his purpose to
defeat by all constitutional means a scheme of taxation
unknown in a time of peace, unequal in its opera-
tion, harassing to every class except the owners
of real property, injurious to trade and commerce,
and calculated to clog or destroy the great springs of
national industry. Since the struggle for Parlia-
mentary Reform, no such occasion has occurred for
the united and vigorous exertions of the great body
of the people, and we confidently trust that they will
not be found wanting.

The Committee of the SCOTT Monument announce,
we perceive, a deficiency—to the amount of one
thousand eight hundred pounds—in the funds neces-
sary for erecting this great public Cenotaph. Above
eleven thousand pounds have been subscribed; but in
order to complete the Gothic Tower and Marble
Statue in the style in which every admirer of the
illustrious poet and novelist would wish that they should
be completed, it is necessary that eighteen hundred
pounds more should be collected. This additional sum
will, we have no doubt, be easily made up, for who is there
within the circuit of the three kingdoms, that does
not feel an affectionate regard for the memory of
SCOTT—the generous—the social—the high-hearted
—and, what is more to his praise, the friend of uni-
versal humanity ? For, be it remembered, the author
of " Waverley" does not appeal merely to the sym-
pathies of Scotchmen. His genius takes a far more
comprehensive range. It is as cosmopolitan in its
character as SHAKSPEARE'S, and not less cordial and
magnanimous. However sectarian SCOTT may have
been in politics, in his literary capacity he was
catholic to an extent of which we have few
examples. Men of all creeds and all classes met with
fair play in his pages. The rough, home-spun, well-
wearing virtues of the peasant, were there as warmly
insisted on, as the more refined sensibilities of the
Peer ; and vice denounced with uniform indignation,
even though it might take up its abode in a palace,
and wear the crown of Royalty. Hence it is that the
writings of SCOTT are known and admired wherever
the English language is spoken ; and that the pro-
posal to erect a Monument to his memory in the
magnificent city which he so loved in life, has been
received with acclamation throughout the three king-
doms. Were twice, or even thrice two thousand
pounds required for the completion of this great na-
tional undertakingoure are we that it might be col-
lected without difficulty.

The policy of Great Britain, foreign and domestic,
excites just now great interest in Paris. Again it is
discovered that we are at loggerheads with Russia at
Constantinople, and that we find in her rivalry a
greater source of real uneasiness than in the hostility
of the inhabitants of Affghanistan and the continu-
ance of the war with China. The Constitutionnel
and the Siecle have both long articles upon
this subject. The former refers to the misadven-
faces of Bishop ALEXANDER, in Jerusalem, who,
It :tfLan'lrms,. was not sent to make conversions to Pro-
ism, but to engage in English propagandism.
It was this that is said to have alarmed the Porte.
An the .deep intrigues which brought about the
Treaty of the 15th of July, are represented as
having no other object on the part of England
than to obtain a predominance in Asia Minor.
Without a predominance in Egypt or Syria,
the Constitutionnel contends that England has no key
to her possessions in India. Russsia, however,
thwarts her policy by her intrigues in the Divan.;
but, should she fail, then France is advised to inter-
fere. In fact, this Journal assumes for France the
sole guardianship of the Turkish empfre. She is
to make war, if necessary, to maintain the inte-
grity of the Turkish empire against England

on the one side, and Russia on the other. It
seems that England and Russia have agreed to a
partition of the empire, and are only quarrelling about
the division of the spoil. Russia is offended because
England seizes upon Syria, before an opportunity is
afforded her of clutching Constantinople.

ISuch are the statements in the Constitutionnel and
the Siecle, which we need hardly tell our readers are
sheer assumptions of dreams for facts. Bishop ALEX-
ANDER'S mission to Jerusalem was purely a religious
one projected by a knot of fanatics in Prussia,
and adopted by another knot of fanatics in England.
The establishment of a Protestant Church at Jeru-
salem is an old hobby of the Protestants of the West,
and the important services rendered by England
to the Porte, by driving MEHEMET Au out of
Syria, was deemed by the Protestant prelates
of England and Prussia, an excellent opportunity
for realising this devotional object. With this view
the late Government consented to the wish of the pre-
lates, and instructed Lord PoNsoxur to solicit a firman
from the Porte to erect a church at Jerusalem. The
heads of the Greek and Armenian Churches were
consulted by the Divan, and, in the true sectarian
spirit of rival creeds, opposed the granting of the re-
quired firman. When religious objections were found
not strong enough, the Patriarchs invoked political
ones ; which, of course, Russia secretly supported
with all her influence. The King of PaussfA, how-
ever, was so intent on the conversion of the Druses,
Maronites, and Jews of Judea, that he forwarded a
plan to England for sending out a Bishop with or
without a Church, offering to defray half the expense
of the mission. The fanatics upon this raised a cla-
mour for immediately appointing a Bishop, to which
the Government weakly, and contrary to its better
judgment, yielded. A Bishop was consecrated, a
roving commission was made out for him by the
Archbishop of CANTXRBURY, and he was shipped off
to Syria, to be stoned or idolized, according to the
current mood of the good inhabitants of the Holy City.
This is the true account of the appointment of
Bishop ALEXANDER. As to British interest in
Turkey, it is identical with that of France, if the
latter look only to consolidation of the Ottoman
Empire. Our interference in Syria has no other ob-
ject than to establish firmly the authority of the
Porte over that province instead of leaving it, after
the blood and treasure it has cost us, a prey to dis-
affection, ready to be re-occupied at any moment by
the Viceroy of EGYPT.

It is rarely that we find a correct view of a ques-
tion of politics, purely English, in a French news-
paper. Nothing is so common among French Jour-
nalists as ignorance of all that constitutes the charac-
teristics of the English people, and the peculiarities
of their domestic politics. In all, therefore,
that they have written upon the Tory income
tax, we find only a few relevant sentences
in the Courrier Francais. This Journal predicts
that the tax will pass, but that it will prove
the downfall of the Tory Cabinet. If the first
part of this prediction prove correct, there can
be no doubt of the second. In forcing on the income
tax Sir ROBERT PEEL is digging the grave of English
Toryism. May he live to read its epitaph.
But the Courrier Francais rightly says, that
it is the inquisitorial nature of the income
tax, rather than its amount, that offends
the English people. This sentence shows some ac-
quaintance with English habits little understood in
France. The worst feature in the income tax is its
prying inquisitorially into the individual circum-
stances of a people peculiarly sensitive respecting
any attempt to exact a knowledge of their private
habits or their means of living. The non-
violation of this principle in the character
of the English people has, from the earliest
times formed the study of English jurists. It is that
which prevented the establishment of the passport
system among us, and which made it a fundamental
principle in our Criminal Code that every offender is
to be regarded as innocent till he is proven before a
Court of Justice, out of the mouths of witnesses, or by
his own voluntary and publicly repeated confession to
be guilty. Were there, then, no other objection to an
income tax than that it violates the privacy of social
life in England, it could not stand, nor could a Cabinet
advocating it.

The following summary of the latest news from the
Spanish capital is from a Madrid letter of the 24th
ult..—

• There is good reason for believing that the negotia-
tions fur a commercial treaty betwoen Great Britain and
Spain are not in a very forward state ; indeed, we are
not over anxious for it, only aiming at obtaining from
the Regency Government the admission of our manufac-
tured cotton goods on payment of moderate import duties,
and we shall certainly carry the point in this respect.
Messrs. Ardouin and Ricardo have caused it to be sig-
nified to Government that they will only hand over the
bonds (amounting to 500,000,000 of reals) they hold,
upon being paid the 27,5001. sterling they claim, as ba-
lance of account, and obtaining an official acknowledg-
ment of the correctness of the said account*, which the
Minister of France, properly enough, is not disposed to
issue.

It is shown, in the Report drawn up and presented
by the Palace Intendant, Heros, to M. Arguelles, her
.Majesty's guardian, on the state in which he found
the whole Royal patrimony, that the Queen's mo-
ther received out of her daughter's annual income,
from 1833 to 1840, no less than 37,122,378 reels, or
about 390,000 l sterling, for what she was pleased
to call " secret purse money"— besides selling to
her youthful daughter, at her own price, the flock of
sheep (merino ones), 28,000 in number, which was, and
is, a losing concern. M. Heros distinctly asserts that it
is not known what became of most of the Crown
jewels, as well as of the documents showing the
partitions that had been made of the late King's
property among his daughters, though it is known
to have been drawn up. He next gives a very de-
tailed and curious account of the different loyal domains,
the improvements now making, &c., as well as of the
present household expenses at the palace, from which
latter I select the following items during five months
Personal expenses of her Majesty and sister, 125,091
raals ; household expenses, 746,743 reels ; stable charges,
214.585 reels.

The whole of the Paris Journals have reached us.
They are, for the most part occupied with comments
upon British politics, which we have noticed else-
where. The proposed new export duty on coals has
quite delighted the miners of France, Belgium, and
Spain. They remark, and in our opinion
quite correctly, that the additional duty will
give such an impulse to foreign coal miners as
in three or four years to destroy our export coal trade
altogether. The more republican the journals are
the more they are delighted with such a prospect.

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