The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.
Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo.
THE WARD OF THORPE' COMBE
By the Author of
" The Widow Burnaby," " One Fault," &c.
Richard! Bentley, New Burlington street.

/HEINE, BROTHERS, having remitted during
a short time
' 18,0001., 9,0004 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c.,

TO LONDON;
3,6001., 8001., and 7001., to EDINBURGH ;
3,6001. to DUBLIN ; 3,6001. to BEVERLEY;
3,6001. to HALIFAX (Yorkshire);
1,2001. to PORTLEAVEN HARBOUR ;
9001., 7001., 700/. and 6001. to LIVERPOOL;
9001. to NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE; 9001. to HULL;

900/. and 600/. to MANCHESTER ;
7011/. to EAST RETFORD (Nottinghamshire);
600/. to BIDEFORD; 6001. to CORK ; and
6001. to BRADFORD;
They shall be glad to remit many Dividends of the net
Money Distribution to England, Ireland., and Scotland.
Direct fur Prospectus and Particulars, without delay
,either to HEINE BROTHERS, at.- lIAMBURGH,
•r to HEINE BROTHERS, at LIJ3::"C.Z.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN,
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VES'fRIS.
THIS EVENING, APRIL 12,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. GROGAN,
Wilt he repeated, in Two Acts, with additions, Milton's Masque o.
COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison; First Bacchante, Madame
Vestris; the Lady, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin.
Ing ; Syrens, Madame Vestris and Miss Rainforth ; Cupid, Miss
Dowtori • Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth.
'After which the Farce of MY WIFE MOTHER.
After which will be repeated the' Grand Ro:nantic Fairy Extrava-
ganza, entitled THE wIIITE CAT...7Wwoupcnatyme ing of
Neverminihrmarnia), Mr. J. Liam' ; •Princes Paragon, Pr,cions' and
Placid (his three sons . by Madame V.:iris, Miss Murray, and Miss
Lee; Jingo, Mr. Harlvy ; t a White Cat, Miss Marshall.
Doors open at half-past rix, and the Performances begin at Seven.
Dress Boxes 75., Seeond Price Os. 6,1 ; First and Second Circles 56.•
Second Price 'is. 6d. ; Pit :is., Seeond Price ; Gallery Is. Tickets'
and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Gro nleaLatlcle Box-of-
lice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may
Andrewsur. Book.
seller, seller, 167, New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Amazing increase of attraetion.—The incredible miracles of Mon-
mieur Goutre. All the matchless wonders of Astley and Ducrow
by Batty's unrivalled English and Foreign Artistes, and the sur.
prising Performances of Mr. Batty's sagacions Elephant.
THIS EVENING. APRIL 12,
Will bo performed the Grand New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled
THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOOKOISII LOVER,
AND HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery,
Costume, and Appointments • a Double Company, Equestrian and
Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in the World.
Ater which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever
hcfa,e witnessel„ THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing
Mr. 14 &TTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu-
merous and matchless Cream-coloured Horses, Awialusian Chargers,
Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Moneys, and the must
talented Vaulters, Riders, Gyrana-sties, and Contortionists in the
Kingdom; likewise, the Hindostan Revelries of the Rajah's Ele-
phant

Toconcluie with JOCKO, THE BRAZILIAN APE.—Jocko,
by Mone. Gouffe.

THE WEATHER.—iNooN, APRIL 11.
R,IYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Thermometer... 07 1 Highest 46 i Lowest 31
Barometer 30.26.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.
Morning. 32 minutes after 2 I Evening 51 minutes after 2,

LONDON
TUESDAY MORNEV, APRIL 12, 1242.

After a short debate, last night, Mr. THOMAS DUN-
coxnes motion, to bring up a petition against the in-
come tax, was lost by only a majority of one. That is tanta-
mount to defeating Sir R. PEEL. Of course all the
Ministers and all the placemen voted for his pro-
position:l arbitrarily- to reject the petitions of the
people, and they ought, according to the logic
of the Tory press, when the Whigs were in office, to
'be subtracted from his majority. Supposing that they
amounted to 20, Sir ROBERT, PEEL and his friends were
virtually left in a minority. of 10, in a House of 418 inde-
pendent Members. • The numbers were 221 and 222, and
subtracting 20 front the latter for the Ministers and
their subs., the Tories were 19 fewer than their oppo-
nents. That is, in fact, a great victory achieved in
the cause of the people. Honour to the independent
Member for Finsbury ! We are happy to see that this
contest is to be renewed. Mr. COOPER gave notice that
he would to-day present a petition on the income-tax.
3lr. T. DUNCOMBE told Sir ROBERT PEEL that he would
have to fight the same battle day after clay, and day after
day will business be delayed, and Sir ROBERT PEEL
disgraced. "It was his intention," said. Mr. T. DUN-
COMB; "to do everything in his power to break
•down, if possible, the unconstitutional barrier which
Wad been interpesed between the people and their in-
2A:enable right to petition the House against a tax." He
will remove that barr:er, and Sir H. PEEL will find that
his cunning and his arbitrary proceedings have only
roused against him the straightforward honesty of the
people.

In the" speech which In, delivered in defence of abro-
gating the I.:gilt to petition, he talked of cases "of int-
miment war::, in which it would be absolutely necessary
to raise immediate supplies for the public service." But
when did such cases arise anti find the people backward
in supporting the Government? In 1798 the wants of the
Government were partly supplied by a voluntary loan.
His remark shows the impropricty•of his whole measure,
He brings forward, in time of 'quietness, when there is
anything but enthusiasm abroad in favour of the Go-
vernment, a scheme of faxAtion which requires, accord-
ing to his statement, the imminent danger of war, to
justify the practise he is obliged to have recourse to, in
order to get it passed. He stands self-condemned.
The result must be to secure for the people the right to
petition against the income tax, and as Sir ROBERT
PEEL says, that they are in love with it, that they wish to
have an inquisition into their private affairs, we trust
that they will, by numerous petitions, undeceive him,
aud convince him that he never in his 1 ife made a more
glaring mistake.

Society is in commotion:— Whatever may be said by
the Tory journals, it is agitated to its very core. Ere-
while we heard only of Chartists and Anti-Corn Leaguers,
with now and then a canting note from Exeter Hall, a
little Anti-Roman Catholic brawling from Sunday pul-
pits, and a little mutual whining of the Churchites and
the Puseyites. None of that agitation is stilled or
lessened, it is only obscured and lost amidst the greater
agitation about pecuniary and personal matter which
pervades the land from Inverness to Cornwall.
The Chartists, partly merged in the complete suffrage
society, far from' diminishing, are increasing their
exertions, with a growing prospect of success. Mr.
STU ROE and his friends are warmly taken up by
nearly half the provincial papers of England and Scot-
land. The other part of the Chartists, encouraged by
Sir R. PEEL, having " entered the wedge" into cur in-
stitutions, are more strenuous than ever ; and, though
they have lost in numbers, they have not abated in
energy. The Corn-law League has received for the moment
a new direction ; its power has been wonderfully in-
creased, and its arguments driven home by the concession
of many of its principles, and by the proposition of an
income tax to maintain the corn and sugar monopolies.
But, while all that was before agitated is now more
vehemently agitated than ever, a great many new
elements of agitation have been added. The agricultu-
rists are everywhere in motion. So agitated the com-
munity has net been since the period of the Reform Bill,
and for thus disturbing all the interests of the empire,
never again, wo believe, to settle down into quietness
till great changes have been effected- the Conserva-
tives—how unworthy of the name !—have to thank
themselves, and to thank their great Leader.
lie wanted power, and they wanted places. Instead,
therefore, of patriotically meeting the proposition of the
Whigs to increase the revenue by extending trade, and
abating certain. monopolies ; instead of wisely meeting
the wants and the demands of the age ; making some
little sacrifices in time, and modifying, if they did not
exactly like, the Whig measures, the Conservatives,
with the most blind greediness and ambition, profited by
the opportunity to unite the selfishmonopol;.sts in one
great league against till improver 'lent, and succeeded in
turning out the Whigs. A continually declining trade,
and a not increasing revenue—in spite of the Chinese
booty—during the nine months the Tories have been in
o ce, have adde greatly to the embarrassment of the
Government and the distress of the people,
Of that vast mischief Sir Rointra PEEL was the prin-
cipal author. Revolutionists wol bless him—of the Con-
servatives he has been the organ,and they have no right
to cum him. Sensible of part of the mischief he pro-
moted, and thinking at the same time wholly of the
Government ; concluding, that if it were strong and
powerful, society would be prosperous—for, in his theory
Government and society are identical—he has now made
a desperate plunge at the property of the people. He
has propoeed an income tax, and redisibuted the tariff.
lie has, to a certain extent, of his own will, made a new
distribution of the property of the people. He has
juggled with the interests of th•• timber merchants, the
farmers, the glovers, and the leather dealers ; and he
has at once broken up all the tipper strata of society,
that were before compact and united, to a considerable
degree, in order to keep the meeses below them quiet.
thBinceate tax and his tariff, the one the suggestion of
his despair, the other the consequence of principles which
he has denied, but which were more powerful
than the strong Government of Sir ROBERT PEEL,
ate the opening of two great leaks into the aristocracy,
-which are already letting in the oozing waters of the
vast surrounding, levelling, and absorbing dcn'oeracy. •
• - '• • Such is already the work of Sir R. PE/ a. The com •

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