Star.
London, England, 1830-04-07 00:00:00

The consummation of our triumph, however, was re-
served for this day.—lt is a matter of perfect notoriety
that on Monday night, or Tuesday morning, the official
statement of the " Revenue Account" was in the posses-
sion of all the favoured Morning Journalists—the Morn-
ing Journal, we believe, being the only ungracious ex-
ception—in time enough to admit of such comments as
they might feel disposed to make ; and yet the Times was
silent. The Morning Herald discussed the matter very
satisfactorily ; and the Chronicle gave a brief but intelli-
gible sketch of the results, as they affected the public in-
come. The Times alone was silent. He " had not space
for any examination of the items, or for any opinion as
to the probable cause of the increase or decrease." So he
said ; and so people who were not in the secret believed :
but we knew the more than " probable cause" of " the
increase" of his caution, and " the decrease" of his zeal,
in the service of Ministers. He had the fear of the Sran
before his eyes ; and, therefore, he prudently suspended
his judgment till our opinion was before the world. Had
we given him but the shadow of a pretext for lauding the
" powers that be" or laying " the flattering unction to
his soul," he would have proved that the decrease was a
positive benefit ; and that the affairs of the nation were
more prosperous and more flourishing than ever. But
he perceived that we were inexorable ; and he forthwith
set about the work of conversion in good earnest. So far
from hinting at beneficial results to the country, or exte-
nuating the errors of a system so profligate, and so ruin-
ous as that under the evils of which the people are now
groaning, the Times reiterates our sentiments, and ho-
nestly admits, that
" In looking over the several items of increase and diminution,
it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that the principal seat
of reduced revenue is that which indicates a diminished consump-
tion of almost i 0 per cent. in commodities taxable to the Excise.
This upon the face of it, is a decided proof qf en increase of
pores* among the people ; and if it could not. In some pert at least,
be accounted for by a severity of season, which daring/sal haif the
quarter threw various classes of industrious workmen out of bread,
it might pees for alproof that the berthas is not ski(fully apportioned,
an undue pressure being left upon the poor ; and the more so, be-
cause an improvement (though a small one) has occurred in
the receipts as well of the Post-office as the assessed taxes,
which branches of revenue are mainly supported by the upper and
middle orders of society. The fact, however, is, that although
much weight ought to be allowed to the suspension of many de.
saiptions of work during the late inclement winter, and to the
consequent abstinence of the unfortunate persons thus thrown out
of wages, from most of those comforts, the use of which had
hitherto gene towards swelling the receipts of the Excise -office, we
are still apprehensive that the taxes payable by the poor are not ju.
diciously or considerately levied, and that a commutation, to a
certain extent, might take place with much advantage to the bulk
of the people, and to the public income.

So much for our hopeful proselyte—the Times. We
must set about the reform of the apostate Globe some-
what more seriously, in due time and season. For the
present, we shall only observe that the attempt which
that trimmer has made to bolster up the credit of the Mi-
nister, is the most preposterous thing imaginable. In the
face of a document so unquestionable as the Revenue
Account, the Globe " begs the question" of the annual
decrease of the public imcome ; makes no mention what-
ever of the actual deficiency of 864,3491. on the year;
and simply announces a deficiency on the quarter of
" about a quarter of a million :"—and then, has the har-
dihood to refer to the trifling increase on the Customs, as
set off against the " falling off on the Excise.". Yes,
forsooth, " the falling off on the Excise is made up in
part by an increase of the Customs !"—when, in point
of fact, the decrease on the Excise amounts in the
quarter to 308,8891. and the " making up in part
consists of only eighty-one thousand pounds in the Cus-
toms, little more than one fourth of the defalcation. The
Courier—but we forbear : We will not insult either the
Times or the Globe, by instituting a comparison between
them, and any thing so despicably base as the Courier
must be, if we may trust to the detail of circumstances
which have been communicated to us. Of the truth of
the statement to which we allude, we cannot, however,
entertain a doubt ; and we must say that, is all our ex-
perience of the press, we never before heard of a transac-
tion so degrading to thine who could resort to such an
expedient in the hope of conciliating the favour of men
in office, by the violation of private confidence, and the
perversion of a harmless joke. The Courier will under-
stand us :—but we must add, that if we had been in the
situation of the parties implicated in that breach of confi-
dence, we should not have hesitated one moment in heap-
ing upon the heads of its perpetrators, that obloquy sad
irretrievable disgrace, which a disclosure of so vile ea ear
tifice could not fail to inflict.
In the discussion, as well within as without the walls of
Parliament, of Mr. IL GRANT'S measure for " removing
the civil disabilities under which the J a ws labour, it appease
to us that one consideration has been wholly lost of. If
it is, as the Otobe inserts, " to the emancipation elite
Catholics that the attempt to emancipate the Jews is at-
tributable," the very alhmies is calculated to cast a »-
preach upon the advocates of liberal opinion and imago
acomocience; —for it is clear that no measure, that hasysti