The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-10 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1829.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

We have great satisfaction in stating, that it
is confidently expected at the Treasury, that the
Revenue for the current Quarter will show a
considerable increase, as compared with the cor-
responding Quarter of last year. Up to two
o'clock this day, all the different branches of the
Revenue exhibited an increase, with the excep-
tion of the Excise, in which department there
is a considerable decrease. The accounts will
not be made up until a late hour this evening,
but it is expected that the total increase on the
Quarter will be about Two Hundred Thousand
Pounds.

A Cabinet Council will be held at the Foreign
Office to-morrow (Sunday) at two o'clock ; the
summonses for which, as well as for a Privy
Council at Windsor on Monday next, were issued
this morning.

The private letters from Rio Janeiro, though
not of a later date than those last received, are
still of interest, and state that the copper coinage
is still going on. The Mint advertised on the
3d of July for an additional quantity of sheet
copper to be cut into coins, and so great was the
depreciation of the paper currency that even
copper coins bore a premium of 30 to 32 per
cent. Mr. TUDOR, American Charge d'Affaires,
was on his return to the United States. A new
Loan was also on the tapis, and was to be con-
tracted for in Europe, as they had not the means
there to carry it into effect. The object of the
above Loan was to reduce the paper currency.

The Chronicle of this morning says, " We
have just heard that it is rumoured, that Go-
vernment are in possession of some important
intelligence from the East, which has not been
officially communicated ; but one part of which,
we have reason to believe, is, that the English
and French Ambassadors, in conformity with
their instructions, have demurred to some of the
conditions proposed by Russia, and ultimately
signed and presented a joint protest against them.
We give this as we have received it, having had
no opportunity of authenticating it." We gave
the same information yesterday, and have ho
doubt that the Russians will be rather startled at
the instructions sent off yesterday to Mr. GOR-
DON and Admiral MALCOLM.

At the Corporation dinner, given on Thurs-
day last at Bath, Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE,
in returning thanks trusted that he should be
excused, if he stated that he never stood before
his constituents at any moment of his life with
more confidence than he did on that occasion
—a confidence arising from the conviction in his
own breast that, by voting for the emancipation
of the Catholics, he had done that which his
honest judgment told him was the best for his
country. Want of consistency was not the term
of reproach to hurl at him who had pledged
himself over and over again to do that which he
deemed most conducive to the public good, and
he could lay his band upon his heart, and say
that, under circumstances the most trying, he bad
never swerved from that rule. " I have given
by that vote," said Sir IttomA s, " a nominal
power to the Catholics, but I have- destroyed

the essence—for I have virtually taken
away the elective franchise of Ireland. I saw
that while this question remained unsettled more

than half the talent, the wealth, and the influ-
ence of the Aristocracy and of the country at
Lirge was arrayed against the_Government. By
that vote I have sown the seeds of unanimity
and peace among you. By that vote, then, I
have adhered to my solemn pledge of always
voting, according to the honest conviction of
my own heart, for that which will most
effectually tend to the public good. I therefore

have been consistent, for I have not shrunk from
voting as I did, after all that I had said and
done before. I have gratitude to the back-bone,
and I thank you most heartily for the kindness
and cordiality with which I have been received
among you."

This speech was delivered with an energy sur-
passing the Hon. Baronet's usually energetic
manner, and was received with tremendous ap-
plause, mingled with partial hissing from the
lower end of the room, which was alternately re-
newed until stopped by the appropriate Glee of
" When the stormy winds do blow."

The defence attempted to be set up for the
Duke of NEWCASTLE'S treatment of his tenants
—that he did no more than the law warranted
him—implies the most abominable disregard of
those moral principles which every good man
considers far more sacred than any system of
mere municipal law. If a landlord has a legal
right to eject his tenants for refusing to be made
the passive instruments of political corruption,
is that any justification for turning them out of
their houses and shops, in which many of them
had grown old, with as little regard of the con-
sequences to these poor people as the most hard-
hearted slave-master could possibly exhibit ?
Does this conduct show any practical respect for
the precepts of that religion, of the necessity of
upholding which we hear so much from the Duke
of NEWCASTLE, and his mouth•piece, Mr.
SADLER ? Does the Patron of Newark give
us any personal example of that long suffering—
that tenderness of heart—that merciful clisposi-

tion, which we are entitled to expect from one
who attributes all our national evils to the decay of
genuine Christianity amongst us ? The answer
will be given by the houselesd families at Newark.

It is a common observation, that those who
talk most do least ; and this late instance is a
strong proof of the hypocrisy of the Ultra-Tory
faction, when they pretend to feel a sympathy
with the distresses of the people. Is it not most
barefaced that the men who talk of the misery of
the labourers and artisans, as if they were about
to lead them to a revolt, are the same who resist,
tooth and nail, any measure tending to cheapen
corn—any reduction of the import duties on ar-
ticles of consumption—any thing, in short, which,
at the expence of a few monopolists, might place
some of the comforts of life within the reach of
the poor ? But it is too obvious that this faction
looks merely to its own sordid interest—that its

patriotism, like its Christianity, is a mere name
to cover the spirit of oppression which it exercises
when opportunity offers, in a manner equally re-
gardless of decency and public.,opinion.
Is it not monstrous to suppose that the Go-
vernment will ever be effectually thwarted by such
a faction as this ? That the common sense of
the people of England can be so far blinded by
Mr. SADLER'S sophistries, as not to see the real
meaning of him and his patron ? Let the Duke
of WELLINGTON but go on acting on the " ac-
cursed system of liberalism," which his Grace of
NEWCASTLE tells us Lord LIVERI9OL intro-
duced, and Mr. CANNING fixed firmly in British
Councils, and he may regard the politicians of
the ELDON school as .the slugs which are happily
unable to stop the wheel of social improvement,
though they continue clinging to it till they are
finally crushed in its progress.