The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

in advocating a kind of Puseyite or learned des-
potism in Tory Journals, while they selfishly
urge the Legislature to attend to their pecuniary
advantages, they will perhaps make their calling
contemptible in the eyes of mankind, and pre-
vent themselves from obtaining their wishes.
Prudence, as well as patriotism—a regard to their
own interest, as well as a due sense of their own
usefulness, and what the country now requires,
ought to make them think less of themselves,
and more of the public. They should write less
about copyright, and more about freedom of
trade; so will they in the end find a Parliament
and a public trained and tutored by them, grate-
ful for their services, and willing to grant them
all which they can reasonably ask. If they must
have Mr. THESIGER for their reprepresentative
and advocate, at least let them caution him not
to bring forward the subject till the Legislature
can fitly entertain it; and let them not press
what seems their private concern on the public,
at a time when all the energies of the leaders
of society arc required to save it from great
disasters.

To institute a fair comparison between the
Revenue of 1840 and 1841, we must remember
that the Budget was brought forward, in 1840,
on the 15th of May; consequently, during up-
wards of four months in that year, the increased
rate of taxation then proposed was not paid.
Mr. BARING, as our readers will recollect, then
laid an additional per tentage on the Customs
and Excise duties of 5 per cent. Now, taking
the Customs' duties at 20,000,0001. (they are up-
wards of 19,800,0001.), 5 per cent. is exactly one
million sterling ; but as this 5 per cent.
was not levied on the four first months
of the year, the Customs revenue of the year
1841, ought to have exceeded that of 1840 by one
third of 1,000,0001., or 330,0001. The actual in-
crease, forced up as we have explained, is only
145,2451., whence it follows that the Customs re-
venue, instead of having increased as the Times
falsely represents it, is worse than the revenue of
1840 by 185,755/.
Of course, the same reasoning applies to the
Excise duties. The increase was first levied on
May 15, 1840. Taking them at 12,500,000/.,
the increase for the year at 5 per cent. is
625,000/., and for the four months, or one-third,
is 208,3001. The Excise duties in 1841 ought to
have been more than the ',Excise duties in 1840
by that sum, whereas, they were only greater
by 6,356/., whence it follows that
.the Excise
duties fell off in the year, even according to the
returns, of forced and almost extorted pay-
ments of 201,9441.

Let us further add, that had the population
increased in 1841, in the proportion of one-
tenth and four-tenths per cent., and the re-
venue increased in proportion to the popu-
lation, the increase of 1841 over that of 1840,
independently of the above considerations
should have been somewhere about 650,0001.,
whereas it is put down only at 506,0951., which
is another proof that the revenue is rapidly de-
clining, while the people are, suffering.
It is impossible to take these facts into our se-
rious consideration without being alarmed for
the state of the country, particularly as we learn
from the Morning Post that Ministers will re-
gard it as their first duty to bring the revenue
up to the expenditure, or increase the taxation;
while the same journal honestly confesses that the
monopolists who have seized the Government,
do not know how to deal with the national dis-
tress. It talks, indeed, of putting down manu-
factures, but it admits that the Tamworth quack,
after having :pocketed his fee for five months,
knows nothing about curing the national dis-
orders. He only knows how to make the people
pay for the noxious services of himself and his
fellow-monopolists.

The Paris Journals have all reached us, but
a letter which we elsewhere insert from our
Paris Correspondent, contains a summary of
what is most important in theirpoliticalcolumns.
The following are extracts from them :
The National states that the Royal Ordonnance for
the reduction of the army has been carried partially into
effect, and that on the Ist inst. each battalion in the
army was reduced by one company, the officers, &c.,
being distributed among the other companies.

The Sentinelle of Toulon has an account of a conflict
which took place in that town a few days ago between
some French soldiers and Spanish refugees, waiting their
departure for Africa, in which several on oth sides were
wounded, the Spaniards suffering most.
The young Spanish Plinces, sons of Don Carlos, and
Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria,. have arrived at Naples, from
Rome. The two former are lodged in the Royal Palace,
the latter has taken up his residence at an hotel.

The National states that tha man Bauer, who was
arrested a few days since, as we mentioned, had nothing
to do with Quenisset and his accomplices. He was
taken into custody, it says, in consequence of information
sent from Germany, and the only papers seized at his re-
sidence were several copies of a German Liberal Journal.

Rubini has returned from Madrid to Bordeaux. On
passing through Bayonne tho "Ring of Tenors" gave a
concert, and with his usual generosity handed over the
proceeds, more than 3,000 fr. to the Bureau de Bien-
faisance.

A few days since a woman at Elvange, in the Moselle,
who had just lost her daughter, fourteen years of age,
wed was waiting by the side of the coffin for it to be taken
to the cemetery, was so much affected by the sight of
the mourners when they came in, that she fell down awl
expired immediately. She has left five young children.
The new Prince of Monaco was, on the 27th ultimo,
solemnly invested, according to ancient customs, by the
King of Sardinia, with the fiefs of Menton and Rocca-
broma, and all their rights and appendages, as heir to
his late brother, Prince Honore V. Prince Florestan
did not appear in person, but was represented by Charles
Athanasius Rey, Chevalier de Villa Rey, Governor-
General, Colonel-General, and President of the Coun-
cil of State of Monaco, who bore the necessary
powers to receive the investiture and take the oaths in
the name of the Prince. The King was seated on his
throne, with the Duke of Savoy on his right, and the
Duke of Genoa on his left, the Prince de Savoy Carig-
nan and the hereditary Prince of Lucca being also at-
tendant. The King and the Printes were covered. On
the right of the throne were placed the Knights of the
Annunciada and the officers of the Crown. On the left
the Ministers and personages entitled to the grande en-
tree. Behind the throne were the Grand Chamberlain
and the Captain of the Guards on duty ; at the foot was
the King's Grand Equerry. On the right side was a
table with the book of the Holy Evangelists and the
Sword of Investiture. Opposite the throne were ranged
the officers of the Gardes du Corps, the Geneials who are
the King's Aides-de-Ctimp, the Quarterisiasters-General
of the Guard, and bahina them the COurt officers. The
Prince's proxy being introduced with the accustomed
formalities, and conducted to the foot of the throne near
the table, Count Gallina, First Secretary of State of the
Interior and of Finances, standing on the last step of the
throne, read the Act of Investiture. As he pronounced
the solemn formula, the King received the sword from
the hands of the Grand Equerry, delivered it into those
of the Prince de Monaco's representive, and then granted
him the honour of the accolade in testimony of fidelity.
This part of the ceremony being concluded, the Cheva-
lier do Villa Rey, kneeling before the King with his
hand on the Gospels, took the oath according to the
form as read by Count Gallina. The Act was then
signed by the Prince de Monaco's proxy, by the Knights
of the Order, the appointed witnesses, and by the Secre-
tary of State.

The wife of Boucheron, as we mentioned, has been
arrested on a charge of robbery. It appears that she
had been received by a woman named Livet, herself in
great poverty, and even receiving assistance from the
Bureau de Bienfaisance ; and that according to her own
account, she had taken a gown belonging to this woman,
and pledged itat the Mont-de-Piete. Part of the money
raised on it, she gave to her husband in prison, and the
ticket she gave to the woman Livet. The latter has
herself been arrested on a charge of mendicity, and un-
til she can appear in Court, the charge against the
woman Boucheron is postponed. The case would not
be worth mentioning did it not show in how low a class
some of the accomplices of Quenisset were placed.
A dinner in celebration or the birth of a Prince of
Wales took Otte at Wiesbaden on the 13th ult., when
the usual loyal toasts were drank on the occasion, Dr.
Swift, of her Majesty's Royal Rifles, being in the chair.
After passing the evening in the utmost hilarity, the
nyd Prince
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company separated, well satisfied with the wines and fare
provided by M. §chneider, of the Rose Hotel, which
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turned on the 18th ult., and that the Neva continued tobe covered with floating ice till the 20th. The bridge
bad been removed.