The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-17 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.

Last Week iof the Season.
THIS EVENING. MARCH 17,
014Wi4i,11 heart Por the BENEFIT of Mr. NEVILLE,
441iti. Ifrr tiihelb!:iFal Play of THE MOUNTAINEERS.-0c
li, NI whieLlthe, Ire'HKViun.k,A Nev.ille; Sadi, Mr. W.
Miss Martin.
1,"'• II ',,!:ArVE'S FRAILIIES.gnes Lubin, Mr. Rayner; Su
'lt) • •.+lllg
ClUde w•
Ith OBI; or, THREE FINGER'D JACK.

_
WEATHER.—Noox, MARCH 16.
)0111011,-.4,,,LLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET
'('Fklet:"'••• 50 ) Highest 5l 1 Lowest 46
"`P 30.22.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point ?.2 Deg

thi_ w
.... ATEn AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
minutes after 4 I Evening ... t 6 minutes after 4.

' Cbt ••7 U 1174 _
11 ribl-.,, LONDON!
SDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1842.
The
."Inluni:ation made by Sir ROBERT PEEL
.t last,
the A, 'a the Ilouse of Commons, announcing that
litl'se°4ll_llt4rY determination. of
.her
.MAJESTY to place
Itcx, inert 4. footing with her subjects in respect to the
Ilagis,°4lc tax, and subject her salary, as Chief
Lrat,„, to
the reduction propOsed for relievi.idige
timllccessities of the State, will be hailed with pride
Ivithsa,t.isfaction by all classes. Her MAJESTY rejects,
I (ugnit
usually al
ctted Y, the privileges and immunities
it1e4t.4,10 crowned heads, and seems anxious only
n° ratify ialY he
with her people. Such an example willh
thp Without due effect. It will excite all the brancre
Porno
of
Family, even King ERNEST, tclpaltiordveetts.
Why:t.of their incomes to relieve the
~Ilittalberiatleca, should they be exemptedp?ub While vast
industtious; hard-working artisans and small
itt the-vers are struggling for a bare subsistence, and
kiPpo sat"
tone paying their proportion of taxes to
tilose:lithei.Crown and the State,
.is it reasonable. that
~Itt least i,(,/ ,tve by their exertions should not contribute
.ett3eti tile same proportion ? The QUEEN says it is
thr„, ist,t4illet that all should pay, and shame be on those
t° fail
° Imitate her noble- conduct. The QUEEN
has 100,000/, and can well afford. to give
'ciztii4o--Year out of that sum for the exigencies of that
lace,4 4Wealth which furnishes her with such a princely.
Icll4l. e.
The other branches of the Royal Family. will
ti)
PaY only about 60C/. a-year each, and it the
lt,24°ltTri,l44l%vt nrefuses to accede to the plan of Sir
iTat out °f L, and submit to a reduction on his salary
°frail_ "le country, the rencely is very simple—cutly
Ith NT '"gether. It is, indeed, a disgrace to both Whig
Pe°,2 %)vernments, to have allowed this enemy of
w.-Lr of England to take from them yearly 22,0001,
tilittitai.lThe a foreign Sovereign, ho has no earthly
conduct of the QUEEN in this affair is above
It shows that she sympathises with her
C„:erilfild that she is determined to induce all those
'verj'aY
~vealth at the expense of the people, to come
Vetlitc c(l)(tilh'econtributlikeall other classes, to the re-
country.
-more -

44 i ' NN•e reflect upon the ne"cessar—y
'`‘lttitr,ll,e°„llle tax upon the trade
41Mit," !le more we feel satisfie commerocpeera of this
and
d thatpl
plan
un 1
ne xutsetnttsia; Alke
b'atlien of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S-
enforcing
upon to'•11-4,s1 the Tor Premier intends,bys.
I'4l iti,-rease the Present general distresus
from all
PatN,cf,%subject are pouring in Letters
upon
to a
pro•
jeet itttte country, all breathing hostility
frog .4.3xatkn which makes no distinctionbeatrwiseinegn
reol e„t(erived fro capital, and income
italioor''Tie Profits ofmenterprise, . and. the wages.. of
Vlu, did et), of one class of objectionists is this .
Otte h'ir 'ld oot Sir ROBERT PEEL begin with a mode-
ritiejr, allerty tax
, and try' first what that would pro-
LiriNr.
ed'\rearly all the expenses of Government are
t:titalir th-etectrioeftecbt property, therefore upon. it ought
of the State. are 11:17;Pe,ItY that wars are carried on ;Itthiast tanrumperidoes-;
that levied
i that fleets are equipped and
it Tti.risf'ns are
it.elfaree clf sole - = ; and that
kept up ; that diplomacy
Royalty
i 4, etTln grimace 1
pro-
or
rt qeelared by the possessors of p
taxaYti, t° be necessary.
oof . Begin,
whether or fum this costly property, .
• then,
able ed, and 0. . •
A 1- no one
a dq_ct...,
atg 1 uouta there still be. with
hlandthede
Pr'illort .141‘ it will object to a slight
gives him
14 the 1°44 to the stake which his income .
income tax,
tatol, t}ivelfltre o the country." Others agam con-
cise eial ii. at
then iquisition into the affairs of comm
tiSe "?Ple tO which the tax, as proposed, must give
I%ll°' :11,11 Ilin. an immense number of small traders
a h,cl : eolltrive Ititre4lhitim
eapitaLto support themselves honestly upon
Even the business of extensive..
hecoraa.4ts must stiffer by the real state of their affairs
I\low 111,_g gene by
known to their rivals in trade.
distressat but the distress of traders is meant by the
ef•
weaver of the country? What threw the Paisley
ttlrers; °llt et.ork, but the inability of the manufac
°bsery ° employ, heta And as Earl FITZWILLIAM w ,
i whated in the I
1, douse of Lords on Monday night
ta NI, ea 4 -e niore injust than to tax these persons,
qbverten.,lll) a deficiency in the revenue ?" So long
bas
--el't exacts a portion of indirect taxes, t

X. X. X. s. X. s.
150 0 0 0 410
200 50 2 10 6 0
300 150 7 10 9 0
500 350 17 10 15 0
1,000 850 42 10 30 0
10,000 9,850 492 10 300 0
50,000 49,850 2,492 10 1,500 0
This plan certainly deserves consideration. The
icheme of Sir ROBERT PEEL will not do, and it is
best betimes to look out for another.

The double debate on Tuesday on the Scotch Church

erminated, as we anticipated, in the total defeat of the

ion-Intrusionist party. The Government, after a long
tnd ominous silence, have at length spoken out in a way
that cannot fail to be understood by the dominant sec-
ion of the Kirk, and announced their firm determination
o enforce the law of the land against that new scheme of
tiscipline and persecution called the Veto Act. This
nmouncement will cheer and console nine clergymen who

cave been deposed or excommunicated for following the
lictates of their own conscience, and obeying the com-
mands of Scripture, as well as the laws of their country.

'he remarks of Sir R. PEEL on the state of the Scotch
!hurch are just and benevolent. No Minister under the
!rown is so well acquainted with the working of that

!xcelleat establishment: he distributed the Crown pa-
;ronage for a long series of years, and had ample oppor-
tunity of witnessing the blessed effects produced by
,he moral and religious teaching of the poorest but

nquestionably the most useful body of Clergymen in
;hristendom. It was impossible, therefore, he said,
Jr any man to lament more deeply than he did

ter present condition. " He had during the period
vevious to those unhappy dissensions contrived so to
:onduct his relations with the Church of Scotland, that
he whole tenour of his official career had been one of

uninterrupted harmony, and that recollection made him
'eel more deeply grieved at the occurrences which had
;ince taken place." Every friend to Scotland sympa-
lases with these benevolent feelings, when he contrasts

ter present •condition with that of former tim:s.
Daring that period," said Sir JAMES GRAHAM, " the
,y-stem exercised by honest and upright ministers had
►roduced the most salutary influence on the character,
norals, and habits of the people." What is her condi-

Lion now ? A state of actual warfare; the fa:her divided
tgainst the son, and the mother against the daughter ;
,ne-half of the holy ministers of religion at dire hosti-
ity with the other—the people allowed no rest—the pul-
pits desecrated by violent harangues, suited only to re-,
volutionary assemblies, and utterly disgraceful in a place
of worship ; many of the most venerable fathers of the

Jhureh deposed, or threatened with deposition, and the
people themselves instigated both by the example and
the precepts of their teachers to rebel against
the law of the land. Perhitps a more complete
.moral

Disorganisation was never exhibited
_in civilised corn-,
:nunity. And all for what ?--Not the good of the great
)(Ay of the Christian people, but the aggrandisement of
.i certain number of clergymen who, covering their own
love of power and dominion under the cloak of religion,
have thus thrown the wink of ScoCand into confusion.
We therefore rejoice that Ministers have come to the firm
determination how to act, and have left no hopes of suc-
cess to these revolutionary agitators. Their violence must be
repressed, and they must either obey the law, or walk
out of the State Church. The Government have not
taken up their ground without sulfizieut reason. The
sentiments of the Tories (excepting, always, the Duke of
ARGYLL and his nominee); of all men of Liberal prin-

ciples, and of all the writers in newspapers (with an ex-
ception only confirming the general rule), are decidedly
opposed to the heartless persecutors who deposed the
ministers of Strathbogie. It would be impossible, in the
whole history of polemical warfare, to find such wondrous
unanimity. The division of Tuesday is in unison with
public feeling. Sir R. PEEL, therefore, has only one course
to pursue. Let him enforce the law of the land with jus-
tice and mercy ; let him protect the persecuted, and
punish the guilty, and he will find himself supported by
all wise and good men in his holy purpose of restoring
peace and unity to the afflicted Church of Scotland.

A second conversation took place in the House of
Commons on Tuesday night, on the alleged scandalous con-
duct of the Protestant chaplain of Salford gaol towards
Roman Catholic prisoners. The chaplain, the Rev. Mr.

13.4.GmAw, in a letter to Sir R. PEEL, denied that he had
preached controversial sermons in the gaol, or that he
had insulted Roman Catholic prisoners on account of
their religion, or prevented them from being visited by
clergymen of the Romish Church. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE,
to whom the country is indebted for bringing this sub-
ject before it, read a letter in the House of Commons on
Tuesday night, from the Rev. Mr. M'CARTHY, a Roman
Catholic clergyman, to whose mural worth Mr. O'CoN-
NELL bore testimony, re-asserting every charge against
Mr. IL.OSHAW made by the Prisoners, and offering
to prove them on oath to the satisfaction
of a Committee of the House of Commons.
Now, without wishing to pronounce a decided opinion

upon this particular case, we think the attention of the
religious public may be very profitably directed to this
question. We regret to state, of our own kr.owledge,
that priests are over fond of preaching controversial
sermons, to the disedification of true piety and the ex-
tinction of Christian charity. We have known many
such priests of different creeds, and we always looked
upon them as the worst and foulest libellers of the
Gospel, and the veriest pests of a Christian community.
We know of no offence for the punishment of which we
would sooner revive the stocks and the whipping-post
than the preaching of a controversial sermon i❑ a gaol.

The French Journals still dwell upon our disasters in
Afthanistan, which they-predict are the forerunners of
the downfall of our empire in India. We have so often
heard such predictions that we care as little a'.out them
as we do about the Monk.of Dree's prophecy et' the swal-
lowing of London, and the inundation of France.
Our Gallic Contemporaries • may spare themselves
the trouble of further surmises. Our Indian Empire
would not be a jot less safe were every British soldier in
Afrghanistan on the other side of the Indus. It is not
in Cabool that our power in India can be stricken down,
although we are ready to admit that reverses there are
calculated to injure our commercial intercourse with the
whole of that region of Central Asia. But
our reverses even there are capaNe of being
repaired, and will be repaired in spite of all the predic-
tions of the French press. When we leave Cabool for
the last time, it will not be with a tarnished flag or a
sallied reputation. There will be no permanent occupa-
tion of the country on our part, We do not, and

V`k,';',, Aftit,W, • ,i" ----..._,4,, , 11' k .., 14
---...f. '7-,,C4"-,- m 0,, ~, ~,,,',,--iit i, . '"?-'-' e't.L.,‘"—
"---' ' • '''' ;', 1 c-- '
......._