The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—One of the most obvious benefits which
the nation has a right to expect and demand from the
Government, as the consequence of restored peace, is
relief from the burdens which were imposed in order
to meet the increased expenses occasioned by war—
especially if the treaty of peace secure the payment to
this country of a sum which, with the amount re-
ceived from the extraordinary impost, not only meets
the additional expenses incurred by the war, but also
the deficiency in the Exchequer arising from every
other cause of defalcation. This, then, is the
case we undertake to establish. If we suc-
ceed, all pretence for continuing the Income-tax
beyond the current year is removed. That most
iniquitous and obnoxious tax—the oppression and
annoyances of which have been denounced alike
strongly by the Tory and Whig journals—will have
received its death-blow. The 10th of October next
, will be the close of its infamous career. We take,
• then, for the purposes of our argument, Sir Robert
Peel's estimate of the deficiency for which, on the
11th of March last, when proposing the Income-tax,
he was called on to provide. Sir Robert Peel
theft took credit for " making a full and fair
statement" of the financial difficulties of the
country. Let the Right Hon. Baronet, however,
take the benefit of his own " full" exposition. The
deficiency was 7,502,000/. ; the estimated deficiency
for 1843, was 2,570,000/. ; the latter sum, of course
will, by the termination of tbe Chinese and Indian wars,
be very considerably reduced. Taking, however, this,
greatly overrated estimate of the expenditure for 1843,
the entire amount to be provided for is 10,720,0001.
a sum which is nearly covered by the five millions to
be paid by the Chinese Government, and the five mil-
lions which will be produced by the first year's
Income-tax. The reduction in the Army and
• Navy Estimates will, of course, be considerable.
The impulse given to trade and manufactures by
the opening of the Chinese markets to British
produce, and the consequent ability of the long-
unemployed manufacturing population of this coun-
try to purchase something like an adequate propor•
tion of the articles of general consumption, on which
the national revenue depends to a considerable
extent for its receipts—these obvious and indis-
putable sources of increase, with the certainty of a
large diminution in the estimates which will be required
for the naval and military services, will relieve the
Exchequer on the one hand, and replenish it on the
other. The deficiency is thus met—and the appre-
hension of a recurrence of such a state of things is re-
moved. We have only to advert to the strong assur-
ance given by the Duke of Wellington in the House
of Lords during the debates on the Income-tax Bill
in that assembly, to satisfy the country that nothing
more is necessary than for a strong demonstration of
public opinion to be made against this vexatious and
oppressive tax, to secure its Aandonment by the Go-
vernment at the close of its first year's operation :
" We are aware," said his Grace, speaking in the
name of the Government, " of the odious nature of
the -powers given to the Commissioners and others ap-
pointed to carry out its provisions, and to whom it
must be entrusted, and we reconcile it only to our-
selves by the strong necessity of the case. My Lords,
nothing but the necessity of the case—nothing but
the certainty that no other course could be taken which
would produce a revenue to enable us to meet the
difficulties of the country, or to take those measures
which may be necessary for its prosperity, could havr
induced us to propose such a measure to Parliament;
and, as I said before, it will not be continued one moment
longer than it is absoutely necessary."
In demanding, on behalf of the country, the aboli-
tion of this tax—the odious character of which is ad-
mitted by its proposers—we ask for nothing more
than the fulfilment of the pledge here given. The
Duke of Wellington in the Lords reiterates the lan-
guage of Sir Robert Peel in the Commons " Neces-
sity' —" strong necessity," impelled the Government
to have recourse to it : that necessity, happily, no
longer exists. We demand, and the country will en-
force, the pledge so clearly and fully given, that " the
tax shall not be continued one moment longer than is
absolutely necessary."
STANDARD.—The murder of Mr. Scully has
excited an extraordinary interest in Ireland. The
crime by itself is a shocking one, though, unhappily,
too familiar in the sister island to create the feelinc,
that this murder has created ; but the position of the°
victim was peculiar. Mr. Scully was a Roman Ca-
tholic and a Liberal in politics, the son of a dis-
tinguished member of the Irish bar, Mr. Denys
Scully, who about thirty years ago compiled a trea-
tise on the penal laws, once or twice successfully
prosecuted as a seditious libel, and which has
served as the brief of the Roman Catholic agitators
ever since. Mr. Scully also had, we believe, the ho-
nour to be nearly connected with Ireland's greatest
poet, Mr. Moore. According to all accounts, the
murdered gentleman was an amiable man, who as-
serted the rights of property and no more, and as-
serted these mbderately, and rather with a view to the
moral improvements of his tenantry than to any pecu-
niary gain ; lie sought, it is said, to clear his estate of
"bad characters," an effort which every landlord owes
to the country, but which, it will be remembered, was
furiously denounced in the cases of Lords Lorton,
Brandon, and other noblemen and gentlemen who
have exerted themselves for the improvement of Ireland.
The truth is, that the Roman Catholic clergy and
others have, for political and sectarian purposes,
laboured to establish the doctrine, that in any dispute
between landlord and tenant the landlord must be
always in the wrong—a doctrine which the ignorant
tenant will not be the last to receive, or the slowest
to act upon, through those conspiracies which the
priests, for the advancement of another branch of their
political and sectarian scheme have acquired and pro-
moted. The Protestant clergy and gentry were the
first victims ; but a war of poverty against wealth, or-
ganised and armed in conspiracy, would soon cease to
notice political or religious distinctions.

FURTHER LOSS OF LIFE AND
PROPERTY AT SEA.
On Sunday night last, at Strangford, during a
dreadful gale of wind from the south-west, a brig
belonging to Newcastle, named the Echo, commanded
by Mr. Evans, and a crew of seven persons, was
totally lost on the Cannon Rocks, near the north and
south light, and four of her unhappy freight met with
a watery grave. At Newhaven, on Monday morning
last, a vessel, supposed about 30 tons burden, was
found totally wrecked on the rocks under the cliff
westward of the harbour of this port. From the
name of " Manuel" being painted in white letters
on a quarter-board, which was washed ashore
in the course of the_morning' she is supposed to be a
French craft. All the crew are reported to have
perished with the vessel. By the barquVenus, which.
arrived at Antwerp on Tuesday last, the master re-
ports having passed on the morning of Friday, the
18th of last month, the wreck of a large vessel burnt
to the water's edge. He bore round it several times
for the purpose of discovering her name, but was
unable to do so. The wreck was in lat. about 49,
long. 8. Among the accounts received by the Great
Western steam-ship, which arrived at Liverpool. on N
Wednesday morning, were those dated assau, Oc-
tober 21, and New Orleans, November 8, detailing
the destruction of two vessels by fire; namely, the
Maid of Arkansas, a steamer, and an American ship,
the Ceres, Captain Cliffe, from Mobile to New York.
The Groat Western also brings tidings of the loss of
several other ships. The Trial, a fine three-masted
vessel, master's name Le Blanc, from Prince Edward's
Island for St. John's, Newfoundland, went on shore
on the night of the 3d of November, at Pompkit, near'
Antigouish, and became a total wreck. All hands,
amounting to 25 persons, perished. On the 18th of
the same month, the ship Eliza, belonging to London,
was driven by a furious gale on to the south-east end
of the island of Anticosti. About three hours after
she had struck she slid off the rocks into deep water,
and sank immediately. Two seamen, and a passenger
named Touton, were drowned ; the rest of the crew
reached the shore. On the 3d of the same month the
ship Mary, of Sydney, was totally lost near Manidieu.
The crew were saved. Amongst the other vessels
wrecked are the Shamrock, on the Barnegas Shoals ;
the Curlew, Captain Richie, of Argyle ; the barque
Resolution, of London ; the schooners George and
Empress, andthree others. The loss of the latter was
stated to be 70,0001.

SUPPOSED MURDER 1N NOTTS.
Three weeks ago, a young man of the name of
Millington, of Hohne Pierrepont, became suddenly
missing, and fears are entertained that he is mur-
dered. He was on the eve of marriage, and having
been at Nottingham to purchase articles for his wed-
ding, he called at Mrs. Richards', the Town Arms,
Trent Bridge, and had a glass or two of ale.
Mr. John Spencer, of Adbolton, a neighbour,
Was there, and sat a short time drinking with
him, and afterwards they parted at Mr. Spen-
cer's garden gate. No tidings have been heard
of Millington since, although every inquiry has
been made. We understand he was servant to the
Rev. J. J. Cleaver, who is taking every step possible
to trace out the mystery. A mat basket which he
carried has been found, and also his hat, the lining
having been torn out of it, which was found at Hover-
Ingham, on Friday morning The conviction is that
he has been robbed and thrown into the river. The
daily reports about him are truly mortifying —Notts
Review of yesterday.
PRIVENT i
SEASON.—A circumstance of
a novel kind points out, in a remarkable manner, the
long Aaard drought which has prevailed during
autumn, and which, indeed, has very
jr . The salmon cannot get up the tri-
utarres
.0, orth to the Spawning beds, for want
0i 4g‘r,::*.a di siapor ngly, they may .be seen in,
great
It' man in the deep pools of Allan, like stones
on the where they are regularly watched to
protict „ omthe attacks of poachers,—Stirling
ooArvol,