The Sun. — 1857-02-12 (London, England)

GLA.DSTONE'S Act of 1853. This is the only possible way in which he can vindicate his reputation from the stain of the " pettifogging quibble," and prove that he did not seek to take advantage of a mere oversight, which any man in  ,rivate life would be ashamed to avail hioa4elf of.  The Times now tells u', with an affectation of gracious condescension, that it " believes that the  just wishes of the public are to be gratified, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will announce to-morrow that he is prepared to relinquish the 9d. (!) in the pound of extra Income Tax, which was imposed to meet the exigencies of the war I" " Thank you for nothing, said the Gallipot." We are not indebted either to Sir G. C. Limns, or to his trusty henchman of Printing-house-square, for the concession. had we adopted the disinterested advice of the leading journal, and considered it " scarcely worth while to talk very strongly about  the Income Tax before we knew the extent of the *necessary evil, and how much money was wanted," or believed that "it was equally useless to protest against any tax that happened to be galling us," we shotild have been complimented by Sir G. C. LEWIS, and permitted to pay the full 16d. in the pound, which would doubtless have been applied to pay off a portion of the public debt, or in some other way exceedingly gratifying to the Moneyocracy. But the People, thoroughly aroused, took the matter into their own hands. They would not believe that " the oscillations of the needle of the War Income Tax were beginning to yield to the strong attraction of 1858, and to show evident signs of settling down at that point in the compass." They thought it well worth their while to fight  against what they were assured was their inevit  able destiny. And thus, having pnt forth their mighty and irresistible power, and given the  Chancellor of the Exchequer a hint almost as significant as that given to the intruding Irishman,  who was " kicked down stairs," they have reversed their destiny, and obtained an adequate  reward for their exertions.  We again tell the Times, and its patron and friend, that the extra war tax is not 9d., but 1 ld. But for the legislative mistake in adopting the word ratification of the Treaty, in place of conclusion of the Wax, the tax would be but sd. in the pound, and that is all that the people will con Either the sword ought not to be drawn at all, or, being drawn, it ought to be " driven home," instead of being employed for the wanton effusion of human blood, and the wanton waste of human lives. If the Peace of the World is violated— that violation of the Peace of the World, with a view to its future consummation, ought, in reason, in truth, in justice, in humanity, to be avenged. So should it be with regard to Persia. So should it have been with regard to Russia. So had it been. in regard to Russia, we should never have heard of the stabbing of the wounded in the Crimea, of the murder of the boat's crew at Hango-Udd, of the cold-blooded butchery of the Turkish sailors at Sinope. All that can be learnt now in reference to the doings of our seamen and of our soldiers in the Persian Gulf, since the seizure of Karrak and the capture of Bushire, is that they are doing—nothing I At the most that the British squadron has been pottering about somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Persian fort of Mohammarah, near the mouths of the Shattal-Arab. Meanwhile, the Saes, declaring a Holy War against his English assailants, and mustering his forces with "hot haste" in the interior of his empire ! Are we ever thus to have the horrors of war aggravated by needless delays and procrastinations ? Are we ever henceforth to have the atrocity of war enhanced by beginning it with the announcement to the foe that we do not intend to bring down upon them either harm or humiliation ?  The documents we published on Saturday must satisfy :All who took the trouble to examine them that, even in the affair of the Arrow, the British autly.irities were legally as morally right. We did apprehend at first that there might have been technical error, though the broad facts of the case  i‘ Feb. 11.