The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNINCr, MARC 1-1 18, 1842

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THEATRE,ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH IC
•
Will be performed a Play in Five Acts, called GISIPPUS.—Titus
()Mifflin; Fulvius, Mr. Anderson; Gisippus, Mr. Macready ; Medon,
Mr. Graham; Pheax, Mr Elton; Cheremes, Mr. Hudson; Lycias,
Mr G. Bennett; Norban, Miss E. Phillips; Sophronia, Miss Helen
Faucit ; Hero, Miss "t urpia.
To conclude with THE: POOR SOLDlER.—Captain Fitzroy, Mr.
EL Philips;' Patrick, Miss P. Horton; Norah, Miss Poole.
Doors open at half-past-Six, and the Peslormances begin at Seven,
Boxes 55., Second Price -2s. Cd. ; Pit 36 , Jecond Price 2s ; Lower
Gallery Is. Id., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price td

These remarks apply
to Lord BROUGHAM'S observa-
tions as well as Sir ROBERT PEEL'S, but there is
one case quoted by the Noble Lord which the Right
Hon. Baronet did not refer to. The duty on kelp, said
Lord BROUGHAM, was lowered very nearly one-half; the
revenue at once fell off, and has never since recovered
to more than one-half of its former amount. But con-
temporaneously with the reduction of the duty on kelp,
chemistry suggested a cheap means of obtaining alkali
from common salt; inconsequence of which kelp became
less in demand, and the manufacture has gone to decay.
The loss to the revenue in this case was less occasioned
by the reduction of the duty than the substitution of the
soda obtained from salt for the soda obtained from kelp.
But the most important fact in reference to the argu-
ment, that well devised reduction will not tend to in-
creased consumption and augment the revenue, is that
the cases, quoted by both Sir Ronmr PEEL and Lord
BROUGHAM, took place while the Corn-laws prevented
an increase of consumption. The people have been com-
pelled to give much for bread, and have consequently
had less to spend on other things. Eighteen hundred
and twenty-five, when the wine duty was reduced, was
a year of prosperity, immediately followed by great
reverses, from which the country did not recover till
1833 or 1834. Then, again, we had abundant harvests ;
and they were then only abundant, because the people
had been kept down and starved down, in the years
of privation, to the level of the supply obtained from
our own soil. To make taxes on wine, on brandy,
or tobacco yield a large increase, it is essential that the
people have plenty of cheap food. Through the whole
of the period since 1825, that was only the case between
1833 and 1837 ; but had there been also a free trade in
corn, and an abundance of food from 1825 to the present
day, there can be no doubt that the revenue raised from
wine and tobacco would have been, like the revenue raised
from coffee, much larger than the reductions which were
made in the duty. We affirm, therefore, that the causes
quoted by Lord BROUGHAM and Sir R. PEEL to prove
the insufficiency of lowering duties to increase the reve-
nue, and to make out a necessity for imposing an in-
come tax are wholly inadequate to justify any such con-
clusion. The abolition of the Corn-laws, stimulating
the increase of population, and a due revision of the
tariff would supply all the wants of the State next year,
if not this; and for this year a loan might make the
revenue equal the expenditure.
We have already made our comments on Lord
BROUGHAM'S opinions respecting an increased rate of
payment on large incomes, and need not at present re-
peat them. Ilis Lordship pushed his opinions last night
to an extreme, and had the approbation of their Lord-
ships. We have only, in conclusion, to express our re-
gret that we are compelled to differ from Lord
BROUGHAM; but having good grounds for our me victions,
we cannot resign them on this very important qu:stion,
in deference even to his high authority.

The Scotch Church, said one of the Non-Intrusionist
clergy in a late harangue, forms at present " a subject
of deep interest in heaven and hell," and viewing it in
that light we may therefore be excused for obtruding it
so often on our English readers. On which sick the
Father of Lies takes his place our reverend informant
did not say, but judging from the wicked commotion
raised in Scotland, the falsehoods put forth by the
clerical agitators, and the deep injury already
inflicted on a glorious National Establishment,
we can • only come to the conclusion that the
old enemy of mankind is not an idle spectator.
On looking at the division, we find that all the Scotch
Members (except one or two) who voted for non-intru-
sion, belong to the Liberal side of the House, arc generally
the advocates for freedom of conscience and independent
principles, and might therefore naturally expect to be
supported by journals professing the same politics. The
Sun, however, from the commencement of the agitation,
denounced the scheme as pregnant with mischief, it has
persevered in that course to the last, and the dis-
tressed state of the people of Scotland .at the pre-

sent moment furnishes only an additional inducemen

to hold to our original opinion, though at the expenso
of differing from our Liberal friends, and joining with
men to whom we have been long opposed. On looking
at the question in every possible light, no other con-
clusion tan be come to, than that the veto scheme would
either break down, from its violence, or destroy inde-
pendence of character and religious liberty in Scotland.
Our reasons are these—the right to vote for a Minister
is defined by the Church Courts, and the Church Courts
alone. Neither Parliament nor People are allowed any
share in settling this Ecclesiastical charter. The vote is

to be exercised only by those who enjoy Church privi-
leges ; in other words, those who are subservient to the
dominant section of the Kirk. When it suits their pur-
pose they will debar from the table of the Lord, all who
bury their dead on Sunday, 'all who travel by railway on
that day, er have shares in the line; all who are in favour
of patronage, who delight in music and dancing, enjoy
themselves at fairs and festivals, who neglect family wor-
ship morn and evening, or who in any way controvert the
code of ecclesiastical laws which these despots say
they are enjoined by the highest authority to enforce.
All such persons, therefore, will be disfranchised, and as
is the case of several parishes in ;the North, not one in
a hundred will be allowed to vote ; nay, what is more,
they will be excommunicated from the Established
Church. This is no imaginary list of offences/ Have
not clergymen repeatedly called upon heads of families
to deal with those under their charge for acts which
are forbidden neither by law nor gospel, and can
these fathers believe that they will escape dealing from
the heads of the Church if they disobey ? We are
therefore astonished to find men like Mr. P. M.
STEWART, Mr. BANNERMAN, and Sir CHARLES NAPIER,
voting for a priestly scheme, which, if carried into effect,
would confer more unbridled power on the Vetoists than
was ever possessed by even any ecclesiastical body.
Political tyranny is bad, but priestly tyranny is in-
sufferable. It discards all earthly authority, it presumes
to rule by power delegated from the ALMIGHTY, and
inflicts punishments and cruelties which the most power-
ful and despotic Government would not dare to carry
into effect. The people of Scotland, however, are not

to be deceived. They will think twice before they
hrust their necks under this iron yoke.

We deeply regret to see so much of the time of the
House of Commons wasted in personal alteicaticnis
about the respective enormities of factory and agricul-
tural tyrants. On the part of Mr. FERRAND and his
friends, they are got up for the purpose of distracting
public attention from the enormity of the Corn-
laws. They expect that under cover of the clouds
of smoke nightly raised by .the Honourable Member
for Knaresborough in the House, the modified
Starvation Bill of the Income Tax Premier will
pass without further opposition. Such tricks can-
nottiie nagnsde r
ivne their
rop purpose.ort
toion
theirT peopleconte ltl awakero rsu
such
oi
paltry devices will be their indignation against their
Tory oppressors.

From Madrid the intelligence is of the Bth inst.
Spain was then tranquil, but it was reported that a coup
de main was to be attempted on Tarifa, and that an in-
surrection was to break out in the Sierra de Rondu,
through the machinations of a Christina junta at Gibraltar.
The rebels in the Sierra de Honda were surrounded
by the Queen's troops, and there was to chance of their
escaping.

Madrid Bourse of the Bth.—Fives at 281, to 29 at dif
ferent dates ; no business done for cash.

The French Journals generally praise Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S pl.tn of an Income Tax ; and that our opposition
to that impost is not of a factious kind, the Right Hon.
Baronet himself would admit, were he to take the trouble
to examine how .carefully our Foreign Summary em-
bodies the opinions of the Paris press in favour of it.
But while we insert them in a spirit of impartiality,
truth obliges us to acknowledge that we do not attach to
them the slightest importance. The social state of Eng-
land is utterly misunderstood by the French press. The
habits of their people are so different from ours, that
what to them would be no hardship at all, would be
to us an intolerable grievance. A Frenchman lives in
publ:e, an Englishman's home is his fireside in the
midst of his family. Talkativeness is the characteristic I

which may explain why the consumption of wine, even
at the enormous duty, has not been more increased, that

the imposition of the same duty on wine not worth 10/.
a hogshead and on the choicest Burgundy and Cham-
pagne, worth 501. or 604, is utterly subversive of all
principle, and excludes all the low priced wines from the
English market. It, deprives the middle classes of the
gratification of using:them. We are of opinion, there-
fore, that Sir ROBERT PEEL did not give a fair view of
the wine duty, and that it does not justify the general
conclusion he quoted it to prove.
The Bight Hon. Baronet, somewhat after the same
fashion; quoted the effect of the reduction of the duty on
coffee in. 1824, but he omitted the more striking etfect
of a previous reduction of the duty on that article.
" In 1807," says Mr. APCulloch, " the duty was Is. Bd.
per lb., _ and the quantity entered
~for home consumption
amounted to 1,170,164 lbs., yielding a revenue- -of-161,245Z_
In 1808, the duty was reduced from Is. Bd. to 7d„ •arr.l in
1809 there were no fewer than 9,251,837 lbs. entered for
home consumption, yielding, notwishstanding the reduction
of duty, a revenue of 245,8561."

Notwithstanding a temporary declension, owing to
an increase of duty in 1819, the quantity consumed has
gone on steadily increasing, and the duty amounted, in
1836, to 691,0001., or four times as much as the ls. Bd.
duty yielded in 1807. This instance is quite contrary to
the instances quoted by Sir ROBEitT PEEL, and leads
to an opposite conclusion.

of the one ; reserve, amounting almost to the appearance
of, sullenness, of the other. The ono boasts of
his aff,tirs, and is never better pleased than
when people talk about theni ; the other carefully con-
ceals the exact state of his from his relatives, neigh-
bours, and even the junior memberS of his own family.
The emancipation of women from the folds of the
veil and the restraints of the Harem would not more
shock public opinion in Turkey and Persia than the
operation of a law in England which would lay bare to
society the private aNirs, in the mere matter of income,
of its relpecti've mombers. This is an objection to the
income-tax which the. French journalists cannot under-
stand, and which at once upsets all their fine theories
of taxation. The genius of a people is the first thing to.
be studied by a prudent Government. Of the genius of
our people French journalists in general are as igno-
rant as new-born babes.

There is no political news of any moment in the
French papers. Lord COWLEY, we see, has long inter-
views with M. GUIZOT, no doubt for the purpose of ex-
plaining away Lord ABERDEEN'S blunders, of which the
country has already had an abundant harvest, considering
the short season which he has succeeded Lord PALMER.,
STON in office.

BOURSE-PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 15.

/tut Highest Lowest last
Price Price. Pried. Price.
?ranch 5 ner Cent, ll7 55 ... 117 55 ... 117 40 ... 117 45
4 per Cents. ......
;.1 per cent, ...... 80 60 Se 65 ... 80 60 ... Sr) 65
-I,rk or ?lance
1 ..i it tie Bna a 1.0001. St anis 11r20 ...11:20 . .....1020 ...10.2.,i
5,0001. Shares 5087 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50 ...5047 50
delitian Bank
1811
Belgian 5 per Cents. ...
S eer Cen 184
t:., 0 1064 ... 10W¢ ... 1064 ... 106%
.Iwirsh Active :-'5% ... 25% ... 25 ... ,54
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Neapuiltan lO6 :.0 ... !36 30 ... 106 20 ....06 20
noroan
RAILWAY SHARBh.
Versailles. K. 8 350 ... 350 ... 342 50 ... 342 50
L.B 2lB 75 ... 218 75 .. 215 ... 215
Rouen ..... 526 25 ... 526 :6 ... 526 25 ... 521 25
~riemak
S rasburg to Bate 244 15 ... 243 75 . 242 Si; ... 243 75
Bm...tsiAel 11,UNDS—Ba0assas, MARCH 14.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
.._

Rothschild%i.eau, 5 per C•nt 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 'la
3per Cent.
72%
(1'640) 103%
Loan of City, 4 per Cent. ...........
- 9

.I'hirty.seven

Society of Ci)inmwr.ce,4 ti per Cent •B3

Bank of Belgium, 5 pie eint
NationalSfaciety. ... —
Exchange on Londem (shot t) —
—Brussels Papers. March 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDB....VIENNA, MAncit 8,
five per Coats. Metulliquer. . 1073,
Emu. per Cents.
Three pr Cents.
Bank Shares

THE EARTHQUAKE.—The commotion occasioned on
Wednesday in many parts of London by the prophecied
earthquake, which was announced " to come off" yester-
day, was truly extraordinary'. The Gravesend steam-boats
were crowded at an early hour withlfugitives; the railways
ditto ; and hundreds of Irishmen located in the imma-
culate neighbourhoods of Saffron-hill and St. Giles's,—
were seized with a sudden desire to quit their town-
houses, and visit their estates in Tipperary, Connemara,
anti elsewhere ! Nor was the commotion less evident
in the Courts of Law, for many gentlemen of the long
robe, struck with a natural f, cling of remorse for their
professional iniquities (whose name is Legion) and well
aware that, in the event of the prediction being realised.
they would one and all be despatched to that mysterious
region appointed for all lawyers, were seen wringing
their hands, and heaping " sackcloth and ashes" on
their wigs ! On the Stock Exchange, the Bulls and
Bears displayed—and for similar reasons—equal dis-
comfiture ; anti we are credibly informed that two emi-
nent Publishers remained throughout the day in an awful
s .ate of remorse and consternation, for reasons which must
be sufficiently obvious to every author. It is gratifying—
however improbable the assertion—to be able to add
that the majority of the London tradesmen were seized
with a decided fit of honesty ; and that the West end
tailors, to a man, refrained from dunning ! !

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