The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING-, MARCH 22, 1842

Notwithstanding the opposition to be given to the
income tax in the House of Commons, we must inform
our readers that they must rely on themselves, more
than on the House of Commons. The gentlemen there,
ou 1;oth sideS; are accustomed to take away millions from
the people without the smallest regard to their rights and
their property. Clothe a measure of extortion with
the garb of financial necessity, say that it is
required fOr' the Government to take away the pro-
perty of the people to any extent, and straightway both
sides of the House shall vote that money must be taken
out of one man's pocket and put into another man's
pocket with as much nonchalance as they would deal a
pack of cards.

The too common prevalence in this country of that
most dreadful of human maladies, insanity, is an ex-
cuse, if any be wanted, for thus early returning to the
subject of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET'S Lunatic
Asylum Bill, upon which we offered a few ob-
servations in The Sun of Saturday. Other states
of suffering, however appalling, can never be
so terrible as this. The sickness of the heart
is hard to be borne, but the patient can hear
and compreled words of consolation and of hope—
can with the eye of faith catch glimpses of
bright worlds beyond the grave, when all help
is denied in this state of being. But what
is this to the closing of the windows of the mind
which admitted the light of reason upon the soul—
to the sad survey of the ruins of that noblest struc-
ture of God—the human intellect? What degree of suf-
fering can be compared with that in which the conscience
is haunted with visions of imaginary guilt, in which
the only creations of the fancy are images of duplicity,
cruelty and fear, in which the burning brain, racked
with pain and scorched with fire, retains no impression
but those of wretchedness, and in which all else is tumult
and distraction ? No, malady equal to this there is none.
It is of human visitations the most terrible, and the most
worthy of the ameliorating solicitude of the Legislature.
We, therefore, call upon those who are disposed to
support Lord G. SOMERSET'S Bill, to prevail upon
that well-intentioned Nobleman to replace it by
a much more extensive measure. Let him bring
forward a National Lunatic Asylums' Bill, and we shall
be ready to give it our best support. But we ob-
ject to any more partial legislation upon the
subject, because at the best it is but a patching up of
an evil which is universal, and which ought to be uni-
versally remedied.

The statesmen of both parties are destitute of all
notion of moral responsibility when they deal with the
property of the.people, and they lavish it on expeditions
into pestilential countries, or on gewgaws for palaces, with
as thorough a recklessness as ever a youthful spendthrift
wasted an unexpected inheritance. They seem to think that
the Legislature creates the property it is constituted to
protect, and that they may deal with the funds of hard
and toiling industry, that they may seize the profits of
ingenious exertion, and appropriate them by law to
what they are pleased to call the service of the State,
as if all the property of the people belonged to them.
Against this vast presumption, now carried to an
unusual length, the people have a good opportunity of pro-
testing. Let them, therefore, not rely exclusively on the
Opposition in Parliament, but meet and plainly tell the
House of Commons that it is constituted to protect their
property, not to plunder it, on any and every miserable
pretext. Sir ROBERT PEEL is only going a little fur-
ther than the Whigs went, and it is now for the people
atlarge to say whether they will be extensively plundered
by an income tax, or at once tell the Legislature that it
must begin to learn the hard lesson of respecting the
property of its constituents.

The Madrid papers are of the 12th inst.
According to advices from Girona, we learn that six
companies of the line are closely pursuing the Cabecilla
FELIP and his band, and that the Spanish brigands
who wounded the French Custom-house Officers near
Ceret, formed part of the troop of the factious chief, EL
Mum Auto.

The "Double Dealer," (the present soubriquet of Sir R.
PEEL,) assured his agricultural friends last night in the
House of Commons, that they need be under no alarm at
the effect of his proposed alteration concerning cattle.
Neither fat nor lean cattle, he said—neither dead nor
live cattle—we presume he ought to have added, neither
pickled nor fresh meat, would be brought,in underhis plan
so as to have any sensible effect on the price of meat. To
the working-classes, however, and to the community at
large, this alteration has been held forth as a great boon.
They have been told explicitly by the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet himself, and by his satellites, that the reduction of
price caused by the alterations in the tariff were to com-
pensate them for the income tax. Now he tells the land-
owners that the principal alteration he is to effect will
not reduce the price of cattle or at all injure the grazier.
It will therefore be of no use to the community. It is
thought a scandal to a lawyer to give

Accounts from Figueras mention that 400 musket s
60 sabres, nine horses, and the Cabecillas MUCHACHO
ZORRILLA, BEP DEL OLY, and BOQUICA, had entered by
San Lorenzo de Sardas.

The Constitucional of Barcelona complains of the
smuggling which is carried on by the French steamers.
It says, that, according to information obtained from
one of the passengers of the Phenecian, a considerable
quantity of prohibited goods were run ashore dur-
ing the night between Valencia and Alicante, and
that a similar landing was effected between the former and
our city. The Constitucional recommends most vigo-
rous measures to be employed, in order to put a stop to
the illicit traffic which is being carried on with such im-
punity.

" forked counsel,—
Take provoking gold on either hand ;"
but whit must be thought of the statesman who has one
ready-coined fib for the consumer or the producer, as
either may make a demand on his prolific mint? From
the commencement of the Session till last night Sir R.
PEEL has always had one tale for the landowners and
another for the consumers. He is quite a master of the
art of gulling, and appears to thrust his tongue in his
cheek as he knowingly turns from the Opposition to his
own friends with all the suavity and skill of a
We might laugh, perhaps, at this exhibition of the low e
vulgarity in the highest places as a joke, if its conse-
quences were less serious than the starvation of the peo-
ple and the ruin of the empire.

Amongst the very absurd rumours in circulation at
Barcelona, was one that Don Carlos had fled from
Bourges in order to gain Portugal.

There is a continued dearth of news in the French
Journals. The Government has postponed for another
session the settlement of the Sugar Question, to the ex-
treme vexation of the merchants of Havre engaged in
the Colonial trade.

Lord ABERDEEN'S version of his conversation with the
French Ambassador obtains no credit in France. Even
the most violent opponents of the Guizot Cabinet pro-
fess their adherence to the statement made by the Count
de ST.' AULAIRE. To the of the Algerine
conquests of France by England,lhey profess, however,
unbounded indifference.

We have heard a good deal in the House of Com-
mons, and out of the House of Commons, concerning
the opinion which other nations will form of our con-
duct at this important crisis of our history. Great
anxiety even has been displayed by the Premier himself,
that the people should demean themselves in a manner
worthy of their ancestors, and worthy of the reputation
England has acquired in Europe. Everything which
has been said in the French Papers of his grand oration
and of his propositions, has been re-produced in our own.
The public is sensibly alive to the opinion of the
cheated slaves of Louis PHILIPPE and the pedant.
GUIZOT ; it seems to wait with breathless eagerness to
learn what the fettered and humiliated Press of Ger-
many may say of our willingness to receive the heavy
yoke which the bread-taxers are preparing for us.
Some part of the public look with delight for the praise
which no doubt Prince METTERNICH'S organs, _laking
their cue from Sir It. PEEL, will be ready to pour forth
on the patriotism by which we sacrifice our liberties and
our property to secure the ascendancy of the aristo-
cracy ; but there is one great nation, and we may say
the germs of many great nations, whose opinions
ought to be very dear to us, and which appear, as far '
as we have observed, to have been overlooked.
What will the Republicans of the United States, sprung
with ourselves from a common stock, inheriting with us
a common literature, and speaking a common language,
say of our submission to the inquisitorial income tax ?
What will the people of Canada—what will those who
have gone to New Zealand and New Holland, to build
up_ free_ andinighty commonwealths—say to our setting
them the example of permitting the tax-gatherer to pry
into the books, and debts, and fees, and gains, of every
man in the community ? What will those, who bear the
name of. Englishmen in every part of the globe, say to
our terrible degeneracy, .should we for the paltry object
of placing a few hundred thousand pounds in the Ex..
chequer, consent to a law which is more tyrannical than
any system of taxation known to the people Of Europa,
whom we and they have always spoken of as no better
than slaves ? Talk of the peasant of Germany eating
ilArown bread, why, it would be better to eat the poorest
sustenance that ever nourished the human form, and live •
•free from the visits of the income taxer, than have in
conjunction with them the richest viands that ever graced
'the table of the Lord Mayer. Let us reflect then, not on
what the fettered and politically degraded inhabitants
of Europe, will say of our submission to a system as
tyrannical as that they live under, but let us reflect on
the scorn and contempt which our submission to an in•
qnisitorial income tax will call forth in the free minds of
our race allover the globe, In America they will point the
finger of contempt at an Englishman as the income- taxed
slave of a bread-taxer. In our colonies our countrymen
will view us with sorrow sacrificing that freedom they had
vainly hoped to inherit from us, and vievv'us with sorrow
preparing.the way for that complete subjugation of man
to despotic authority which has been in all ages the
curse of society.

The Journal du Havre, of the 18th, has the following
article i—" The resolution of the Chamber of Commerce has
been received by the town with great pleasure, and unanimously
approved. We could have wished that all other public bodies had
taken certain steps to complete this manifestation of the general
opinion. As soon as it was known on 'Change, the wish for a
public testimony of thanks was expressed in all quitters."
An address, signed by 135 mercantile houses, has been pre-
sented to the President and Members of the Chamber of Com-
merce, expressive of their approbation of the determination of
resigning, which the Chamber had come to on the postpone.
ment of the sugar question. The address severely blames the
conduct of the Ministry, and declares that, , " After their post-
tive and reiterated promises to put an end, during the present
year, to a situation intolerable for every interest; after the
solemn announcement made by the Minister of Finance in the
Chamber, that it was not possible to prolong the ruinous statu
quo, in which all were placed ; after the sanction given by the
Government to the Councils which it had consulted, an ad-
journment would be an act of effrontery, and a sacrifice by the
Ministry of the interests of the country to electioneering con-
siderations."— Constitutionel.

The Patriota of Madrid, of the 12th, speaks of the seizure
of several hundred muskets on board a vessel which was in
the Bay of Gibraltar, and which was supposed to be for the
Carlo-Christinos.

The Barcelona Journals of the 13th says—Among the absurd
reports current in that city, was that of the fligkit of Don
Carlos from Bourges, with the intention of going to Portugal.
—Le Commerce, 19th March.

- - - ----- --•
BOU USE—PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19.
.First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price Pric.. Pric..
r'reneh 5 per Centt. ... ... ..... 117 55 ... 117 60 ... 1.7 55 ... 117 61
3 per Cents BO 60 .., PC 65 .. 86 'S ... 8.. E 5
Loan
Latin,' x=nk I.ooot. St area 10t20 ...POI ...lOW ...IC2O
aeartan Bank.... - .......
184 ..
Belgian 5 per Cents.- . I(S -- .. 105% ... 105 .. 105!4 '
S per ertn:., 1840 MN -... 106, .. ... 106% .. 106 it
Dutch 2)4 er Cents.
i,,sison Act! ve -..
l'Assive 5% ... 5% ... 5h .. , 5%
New Deferred
Portugusse 5 per Cents.
veapoltian
ionnen . ' ' lO5 4.- 1054 ... 105 ... 106
HALL VV A 1 N4l A &ES
St. Germain
versnilic, eti • MO .. 352 50 .... 350 ... 350 '•
louon
°Hearts . .., 563,75 "... 563,75 ... 562150. ~. 562 Cm
S cisburgio Bale 242 50 ... 243 75 . 242 53 ::. 24316
DUTCH FUN 05.-.4IIUSTERDAM, MARCH IS,
Actual Debt, .2% per Cent hlonej, Bills.
52 524
Jitto.dittn 3 pet' cent, • i - 101% 112
A Inot t Syrniic,4).i per cont
Dittd, ditto, 31,4 por cent 761. 77
Commercial Company, 4,4 Per cent lsh% 157
Ditto (11435 and 11)37) 5 per cent.
Loan 1887, 5 per cent.
Exchange onLondon, Onemonth ... . .
.h, One manthTwomonthe "« l2 05
'' ' Hatnburg 35
Two months :.. .... . . 33 18%
Dutch. Papers, March 19.
tsta.4.7lA le P ()ND S—l2lltt.s Ir I i 1 a i , MARCH 19.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cant.
ROthschild's Loan, 5 per C,n t 102%
Loan ot Thirty Millions,; per Cent. .....
—..,---.....- ' '3per Cent. —

—Thirty.soven------- ...... 72%
.................. 103%
Loan of City, 1V32, 4 per Cent. ..................
Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent .............
82
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........ 8034
NationalSaciety. ......
Exchange on Londwa (short) ... ............
—Brussels Papers, March 19.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vramma, XARCH 12.
rtveper Ccats.Metallicues ....................... ..... 107%
Four per Cents.
Three pa' Cents.
......••... 76
Bank Shares ..... •••••••••••••••••••• .......... ••• •• 1617

PEEL'S proposition. If that notice be steadily followed Does he imagine that he can carry on the affairs of
up, and the Opposition work together as they ought, and the country against the will of the community, or that
we expect they will, it will be impossible, we believe, the people will submit to the dominion of one class, who,
for the ' Tories to carry their measures in face of in all the taxes they impose, take especial care of
public opinion. All kinds of arms should be used their own pockets" The aiew Cern-law—the eXerap7.
against Sir ROBERT, for he treats the -House of-Com- tion from the probate and legacy duty on landed property;
mons and the public with supreme contempt, and acts as the • proposed tax on trades, professions, and terminable
g the nation had no alternative but to submit to his des- I annuities are all glaring instances of partiality, for
potic will. which the electors will take signal vengeance the first
An exauiple was supplied, just before Lord J. Iltrssem. opportunity. Weze a general election to take place
.gave his notice, of Sir R. PEEL'S insolence. Mr. Fox next month,' the Tory Cabinet would in another month
MAULE very temperately and properly represented to after the meeting of Parliament cease to exist. Let the
Sir R. PEEL that the people of the north and the middle people, therefore, be only true to themselves, let them
parts of Scotland were very much interested, both in assemble in every city, town, and village, not to petition
his propositions to tax income and to abolish the prohi- (for the right in this instance is abolished) but to de-
bition Of cattle ; that those propositions, only published nounce the inquisitorial scheme. Let the few real repre-
to the world in London on Friday week, were not yet sentatives, of the people be faithful to their trust, and use
knoWn in Scotland, and before they were well known, every legitimate means in the louse to protract the de-
the Right lion. Baronet was carrying forward his reso- cision till after Easter, and then the voice of the nation will
lution to tax income, while he precluded the people be too strong for even this strong Cabinet, though supportd
from
even laying their complaints before Parliament.' by the 'Court; by the HouSe Of Peers, the Westlndia
Mr. MAULE, therefore, put it to the Right Hon. Baronet rest, and-the whole aristocratical force of the country,
. whether, under such circumstances, he would not 'To the Liberal Members all classes now look for protee-
delay his proceedings:" Oh, no," said the Right tion. 'This is no party question. It comes home to every
Hon. Baronet, in substance—a blind manner conceal- family, and Tory as well as Liberal electors will cheer
—•
ing most despotic act—" I shall, proceed, disregarding on the minority in fighting for, the good -cause. They
what these remote Scotsmen may think or say of my !tre the, more bound, to pursue this course, because the
proceedings, satisfied that lam doing what I ought, be- prayers of their constituents are rejected by the scheme
cause I, too, have received letters from Scotland, ex- of the wily Premier. These can only be heard
pressing great satisfaction with 'my measure." Why, the through their representatives, and should they fail to do
satisfaction of his friends would not be abated were he their- duty,,, the public will justly exclaim, " The
to wait till the people could learn what his measure is, representative system is a moekery ; our mouths are
and form their opinions of it, but he persists in hurrying shut by an order of the 'Collective Wisdom, and those
it forward, when he is told that 'those who are deeply sent to protect us are dumb dogs that cannot bark.'
W
interested, in it cannot yet possibly know its bearings. e; therefore; look forward to the proceedings in Par-
Very properly did Mr. MAULE throw on him the respon-
liament up to Thursday with no common interest. The
sibility; arid we hope that the men of. Scotland will make agitation has only commenced, and shame be to the
leaders who desert those they have sworn to protect.
Sir R. PEEL aware that, in designing to injure, he also
dares to insult them.