The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

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we cannot see why his abhorrence ofq,o JoBW, Lord
lead him to approve of a worse that
The country is in distress, and Lord Jo
proposed to relieve it, and increase thl rc
by lowering the rate of certain customs' duties. m
with the matter how you will," said Mr. Rom.
substance, " the money to be raised must still corn
the people, and I do not see how their advantage it
to be consulted by raising that revenue from int
than direct taxation." To us it is clear that, by _
J. RUSSELL'S plan, the State would get no inereas,
revenue, unless trade flourished and consumpt

increased. It is essential to the success of ti

plan that the people prosper. —To levy it will i
quire no new machinery. But the direct taxation pr(

posed by Sir R. PEEL limits the enjoyment of the people
in proportion to its amount, and the Exchequer may, by
that means, be filled while the people ar© ruined. It
requires, too, a host of new officials. We do
not say that indirect is always to be preferred to
direct taxation, but Lord Joirx RESSELL''s plan Waa
to increase the revenue by increasing the co.nsumption
of the people. Sir R. PEEL'S plan is to increa we it by
taking from their means of enjoyment. Mr. lit lunucit
voted to tax the electors of Bath 7d. per pound on ` their
incomes, for which they will get nothing whatever '. but
the pleasure of paying it. Admitting that Mr. R, VX.
BUCK'S speech was clever, we never heard one which i vis
more like special pleading in a causo which was felt to ''se
essentially bad.

1 Since the tariff question has been mooted, we Alava'
convicted the Corn-law, by the complaints of the aLl3i—
culturists, of plundering the consumers to a greater e.t."
tent than ever was ascribed to it by Messrs. IlumE,".
APGREGOR, and BOWRING. We have now another proof
of the same fact. A new weekly publication, called the
Church and State Gazette, is extremely anxious to de-
monstrate that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Corn Bill and his
tariff will confer immense advantages on the public. It
says, " Surely no one will deny that the new Corn-law
will reduce the price of bread one penny in every quay-,
tern loaf. A man, his wife, and three children will eat.
with their servant, one quartorn loaf and a half per diem,,.
or 547 loaves per annum—say 500 loaves. Then the•
new law will save him 500 pennies each year. This
will save him 21. ls. Bd. No one will call this exagge-
rated."

Now the utmost reduction of the duty is about 10 per

cent., and that reduction, according to this writer,
will save every man with a family of three children,
21. Is. Bd. per year. If this he not an exaggeration,
it follows, as clear as daylight, that the reduction
of the other nine-tenths of the duty would save him
lg. 15s. But the quartern loaf, or rather the four-

pound loaf; does not cost more than 10d., and on this
mode of reasoning, it would then be got for nothing.
The statement is, therefore, a palpable error, committed;
by this pseudo religious publication, in order to gull the
public. Sir IL PEEL'S Corn-law will not lower the
quartern loaf one penny.
At the same time, we quote the testimony of this and
other Tory Journals to the fact, that the proposed alter-
ations in the Corn-laws and the tariff will redtice the
price of provisions, and that this reduction is a public
benefit, with great pleasure. It is of great public im-
portance. The exaggeration does not alter the principle
which the Church and State Gazette establishes—namely.
that the Corn and Provision-laws, as at pre.
sent existing, raise prices, and take away pro-
perty from all the consumers of bread wad.
meat. The Gazette, and the whole body of the
Tories, exult and boast of the great advantage of thee
small reduction, but why stop short at a little good—why •
not abolish, instead of reducing the evil? While they
admit that they take ten pounds from every family un-
righteously, and boast of restoring one, what can they
say in defence of continuing to take the other nine? For
pious people, pretending to be the guardians of the na-
tion, to acknowledge that they by means of law steal ten
pounds from every family, and to boast of restoring one,
is unquestionably the greatest piece of impudence we
have yet known the pseudo godly tribe to be guilty of. The
whole of the Church and State party continually claim
for themselves greater purity of morals than is possessed
by other men : if such be true, we wonder how society
can exist, for all other men must be, at the very least.
most impudent and most consummate scoundrels.

THE CONTRADICTORY MINISTRY.—The present is ta.
wonderful Administration. It came into power as the•
farmers' friend ; it has partly filched away their beloved.
Corn-law, and their cattle prohibition, and has become
the farmers' enemy. They say it has cheated them. It
appealed, b'y its Income-tax, to the Chartists, and it was
supposed, for the moment, to be the Chartists' friend.
Now it is found out: that an Income-tax is intended to
prepare for putting down freedom in France, and, if
possible, in the 'United States, and the Chartists leek at
k it even more askance than the farmers. " how," they
say, " could we be such fools us to believe that the I)uke
of Wellington, an old soldier, and the Tory Peel, could
sincerely mean to benefit and exalt the worlung classes ?
Both are great by our slavery, but fair words betrayed
• us, for a moment, into believing that they were our
t friends." This Administration is now upholding the
system of flogging, which degrades both army and navy;
and yet its parasites call it the sailors' friend. As it
has turned against the farmers, as the Chartists have
detected it, we hope its assumed character towards the
navy may not indicate that it is to destroy the main arm
of our security, as it has betrayed and deceived the other
interests to which it has pretended to be a friend.
SALTED PROVISIONS.—A return has just been laid
on the table of the House of Commons of the salted'.
beef and salted pork imported into. an-1 exported from.
the United kingdom from sth of January, 1834, to sth:.
of January, 1842, &c. Since 1834 the importation has suet-
cessively increased from 4,155 cwt. of salted beef, ill
1834, to 42,956 cwt. in 1841; from 3,730 cwt. of salted:
pork, in 1834, to 45,317 cwt. in 1841. There were re-..
exported, in 1834—beef, 3,048 cwt.; pork, 31,331 cwt. ;
and, in 1841—beef, 32,306 cwt. ; pork, 29,367 cwt.,
There remained, therefore, for consumption, in the year
1841, beef, 10,650 cwt. ; pork, 15,950 cwt. The port
from whence the salted provisions is principally imported
into England is Hamburgh. The exports have gone
chiefly to British possessions in India, and to Bri-
tish settlements in Australia and New Zealand.
Our North American colonies, whence we might
have expected a supply, and which, in the first year,
sent 1,593 cwt. of beef, was supplied from England in
1842 with 6,472 cwt. of beef, and 2,384 cwt, of pork.
The grrater part of that probably went to Newfoundland,.
Inuit seems a most false and mistaken policy to encou-
rage the colonists in cutting timber, and make them
neglect the breeding and feeding of cattle. An inference
unfavourable to our restrictive policy altogether may be
drawn from the return, since it proves that a considerable
supply of provisions is in fact obtained for an increasing
people, in spite of the Corn-law ; but it has brought
that supply to us in the condensed, and, so to speak,
manufactured form of meat, instead of our obtaining it
in the shape of grain. The true policy of England is
the reverse of that of Sir E. Peel, who is about to encou-
rage the importation of the inferior grains, :trid of meat
and cattle, when, as we must imrort food, the best kind of
importation is the most valuable grain, namely, wheat.

THE ROYAL NAVY.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 18.—The following has just been issued :
"Memorandum--. The rating of leading stoker' having
been added to the establishments of her Majesty's steam-vessels,
by order in Council of the 2d of February, 1842, the command-
ing officers of all such vessels are hereby acquainted that the
object of this rating is to improve the practice of 'stoking,' to
which too little importance has been hitherto attached, so as to
combine, with the greatest possible efficiency in the raising and
maintaining of the steam, the utmost economy in fuel, whether
considered as a constant and heavy item of expense, or as
affecting the resources of her Majesty's steam-vessels in this
important particular. With this view their Lordships are
pleased to direct that the commanding officers shall be at
liberty to recommend to them, for such rating such stokers as
they shall have good reason to consider eserving of, and qua-
lified for, the situation, on account of their steady conduct, ex-
perience in this particular business, and superior ability in con•
duet ing it. Their Lordships strictly forbid any such recom-
mendation until men can be obtained possessing the qualifica-
hone above mentioned; and if, on trial, any man so rated be
found unfit to fill the situation, either on account of character
oi ability. he is to be disrated, and a report thereof made for
their Lordships' information.
The ieading stokers are to be under the immediate direc-
tion of the engineers of the respective watches, and to he respon-
sible, during the watches, for the due performance of the duty
committed to their charge. Their names, characters (especi-
ally as to sobriety), and qualifications, are to be inserted im-
mediately under under the engineers, in every monthly report.
of the engines, &c.
" The number of leading stokers in each vessel's establish-
ment being the same as that of the engineers, their Lordships
recommend to the commanding officers so to arrange the several
watches as to create an emulation in the performance of this
very essential duty ; and special mention is to be made, in the
reports, of any leading stokers who may display peculiar zeal
and ability in carrying out the desired improvement in this
department of the service, with a view to their future employ.
ment in preference to others.
" A list of leading stokers will be kept in this department
and at Woolwich Dockyard, containing an account of their ser-
vices, character, qualifications, &c. ; and when a steam-vessel
is paid off, the leading stokers, if of good character, may be
indas supernumeraries on the books of
the ta'Aisla7y, it,or future employment, as is now the
case we
who are borne
on the books of the guard-ships for that purpose."
reWiillthiai certain 'etr ht and
de
other classes of petty officers,

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester-
day at a rehearsal at the Hanocer-square-rooms of tho Concert
of Ancient Alusic.

Forsaken by those we trusted—hearing nothing t'u
eulogium on our opponents—almost deserted,we are afraW. 6
by the people themselves—we cannot and will not do -
spair. Our cause suffers because the Members of the
House of Commons have no other alternative iname-.
diately offered them than the scheme of Sir It. PEEL, or,
that of Lord JouN RUSSELL, and those who do not ap-
prove of the one embrace the other. All agree in this,
that the Government must have, and must speul more
money. In that we do not agree. The expenditure of
the Government is ruining the people, and the -Legisla-
ture forgets its primary duty when, for the sake of pre-
serving the former, it inflicts an irreparable injury on the
latter. The present condition of the people, we beg to
tell both Whigs and Tories, speaks in tones of deep
misery against any and every increase of taxation].