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• THE PRESS, OCTOBER 3 , 1857 . 963 credit of the Government or the War-office if they cannot THE REVENUE . devise some practical means b y which to disci p line and organise so much ardour. I should be sorry if we lost the occasion to show to Europe how England, when necessary, can start at once into a military nat ion without the t y ranny I.-THE NET REVENUE. of conscriptions, and without the ruinous extravagance of Quarter ended large standing armies. ( Cheers). . Year ended The blood of many a stout English yeoman must have ~..--5...,-.-... I ~,,...-....a.--...„ run cold in his veins when he read of the atrocious nts. Sept. 30, Sept. 30, Sept. 30, 1 Sept. 30. 1866. 1857. 1855. 1 ' 1837. nacres of Delhi and Cawnpore, and he must have panted ___ t --. to show, as his forefathers often d i d ' before, that there is no A 1! C I l CUSTOMS metal fora sword like the iron ploughshare. Of volunteers EXCISE in such a cause there can be no lack, If I were but ten STAMPS 5,446,000 5,41,000 , .17,88,77 a .17,619,000 years younger I would remember that I am the son of a TAXES 167,000 149,000 i 11,100,021 I 8,099,020 soldier, and would be a volunteer myself-(cheers)-and PROPERTY TAX even now, if I thought it possible that the young, the robust, POST . OFFICE 645.000 730,000 2,768,154 I 3030: 00 and the adventnrous needed an example from those whose ' MISCELLANEOUS 47,n57 60.644 383,1.67 I 277.04 vents, habits, and sta ion might be supposed to incline 150,343 • 2 , 9,135 1,120,631 1 1,147,981 them to refuse, I declare I should be among you to canvass, TOTAL- - ---• 19,V1, 42 9 18,682,269 71,344,967 71.178,681 not for votes, but for men, and should in)self lead them against the enemies of our race. (Cheers.) 11.-COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. But if volunteers are t I be of use they must have good sense as well as will. They must submit to the discipline and organisation of soldiers ; and, although I think it is Quarter ended Halflroar ended Year ended but a reasonable demand that when t [ley are collected from bept. 30,1637. Sept. 30, 1657. Sept. 30, 1e,57. the same neighbourhood they should be formed into the ~..----k.-.., „...---t..... s ame corps, because they would then encourage each other, „.----1-_-..„ Increase. Decrease Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. yet they must be aware that it would be wrong to ask for privileges which are incompatible with the present con s ti• A A A I i , 3 CUSTOMS tution of the British army, ard which, if granted, might EXCISE r 499,969 215,334 13,908 i create discontent and jealousy among the veterans of the STAMPS 18,394 professional service. Nor most we forget that, invaluable TAXES as the aid of volunteers would be upon special occasions PROPERTY TAX ' 415,699 336,910 and for /Invited periods to that arm-the cavalry-which I C lOS't v rl i t s our militia does not supply, yet for the regular reinforce. 7,203 MISCELLANEOUS7,2O3 ... .... 4. 4 08 113,095 meat of that army which for a long time India must require 49,068 -v.- we ought to look alone to the constitutional resource of the TOTAL 367,888 900,693 1,08903 93.0181 1.248.45 9 1197,194 Militia. ( Hear, hear.) s-,„--/ s ______....._.--/ The whole question of India must shortly command our 4389,100 81,166,401 91119,406 Net Decrease. Net Decrease. Net Decrease. Quarter ended 1 Year ended ~..--A--.—... .„....—...A.--...„, Sept. 30, Sept 30. Sept. 30, i Sept. 30. 1858. 1857. 1855. ' 1837. t 8 li A I A CUSTOMS EXCISE 81 AM PS 1r0,649 1,74 235 7,150,011. 1'7,3.6,!43I '7,3.6,!43 TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST, OFFICE 815.000 730.000 2,768,159 I 3080:00 CROWN LANDS 67,n57 60.644 5i3.3.1.67 I 277.04 MISCELLANEOUS 156,343 2 , 940 1,120,5 ,4 1 I 1,147,981 TOTAL The whole question of India must shortly command our most thoughtful consideration. We are not now getting up liscussinns between town and country. One object is uppermost in the minds of all—the preservation of our empire. ( Hear, hear.) The present is not the time, nor is this the place, to criticise the policy which has produced the revolt in India. I may, perhaps, be permitted to say that revolutions or revolts are never sudden. Those which appear to us to have been so had always given long previous, though it might be neglected, warnings. Revolts and revolutions are like the springing of mines. The ground must he hollowed, the barrels filled. the train laid, and the match fired ,before we can be startled by the explosion ; and therefore the man who tells us that a revolt which must have taken months. if not years, to organise no prudence could have foreseen, nr no ene •gy could have prevented, simply asks us to believe that policy is an accident and Government a farce. But the whole of that question it will he the ditty of Parliament to examine, not with the view of bringing the force of party to bear against individuals, wbo may have committed mere human errors of judg- ment—and, after all, the public itself is not free from blame for its long indifference to our Eastern empire— but for the purpose of obtaining knowledge and guidance for the future. (Cheers.) lII.—EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS. (From all Sources.) Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli dated Fund for the Quarter ended June .10,185", viz., . . Great Britain Ireland 401,572 Income received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1857, as shown in Account 1 Amount received in the Quarter ended Sept. 90, 1857, in, repayment of adviumea fur Public, Works, ac. , 401,863 Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended Sept, 30, 1857, to redemption of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) for the Quarter ended June 30, 1857 Amount applied out of the Income to supply Services in the Quarter ended Sept. 3!,, 1857 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept. Sn, 1-57, viz.:— Interest of the Permanent Debt .. £5.533,848 Terminable Debt 1,431 068 Interest of Exchequer Bills (De ficiency) The Civil List Other Charges on Coneolid Fund 834,611 Advances for Public Works, Ac. :;(.4A Sound Dues Compensation Sinking Fund 8,9011,97$ Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the xsoli• dated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1867, viz. Great Britain Ireland 997,5;8 INDIAN RELIEF FUND. The most liberal subscriptions continue to pour into the fund from all parts of the kingdom. Meet ings are held in every county, city, town, or hamlet, and a local subscription raised. The sum subscribed already exceeds 90,0001. Never was there a more general and spontaneous reply to a charitable appeal. The committee have published three resolutions, which, besides stating that aid and assistance will be offered to all who have suffered by the rebellion, " when without such aid they would be involved in pecuniary embarrassments," undertake to provide for the maintenance and education of children, the orphans and others, and to assist sufferers both in coming from or going to India. iThe Chancellor of the Exchequer attended a meeting at Kington on Monday, and addressed the assembly at some length upon the origin of this rebellion. The right hon. gentleman said that the proclamation of Nana Sahib showed the cause of the insurrection "to bo one of religion." He ad mitted that the cartridge measure gave an oppor tunity to the conspirators " to work upon the simple minds of the sepoys," but he denied that the " formi dable mutiny" had any origin in "misgovernment." The right hon. gentleman congratulated his hearers that the insurrection had been " exclusively confined to the army," end that " the native population " had shown " no desire to join the mutineets." In another portion of his speech the Chancellor, with singular consistency, observed:— It Is long since the people have been ruled by native princes, and it is merely a question with thorn whether the Government should be transferred from the English to the Alussulman invaders who preceded our rule. In conclusion, the right hon. baronet remarked that our Government of India, with 50,000 Europeans and 940,000 native troops, had for years past been " a most perilous experiment," and that when the native army " suddenly turned against us," it was " hardly to be wondered at that the state of things should become very dangerous." 0 hituarg. GENERAL SIR GEORGE H. F. BERKELEY, K.C.B• died at Richmond on Friday, the 25th instant, after a short illness, in bis 73rd year. The deceased general was the eldest son of the late Admiral Sir G. C. Berkeley, G.C.8., some time Lord Admiral of Portu gal, by Emily Charlotte, daughter of the late Lord Geort e Lennox, and was consequently first cousin to the present Elul Berkeley and to Earl Fitzhardinge. He was born in 1785, and entered the army in 1802 as cornet in the Royal Horse Guards Blue; be pro ceeded with the 35th Regiment of Foot to Sicily and Egypt, where he served during the whole campaign under Lieut.• General M. Frazer. He subsequently joined the British forces in the Peninsula under Lord Wellington, and served as assistant-adjutant.general. Among other engagements he was present at Busaco, Fuentes d•Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, and Nive, and received a cross and three clasps for his Peninsular services. He was subse quently engaged in the campaign in Flanders, and was present at Waterloo, and for his gallantry on that field received the order of St. Vladimir, 4th class, from the late Emperor of Russia, and was made a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1815. He was also a Knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal. In 1846 he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 35th Foot, now vacant by his decease, and attained the rank of general in the army in 1854. Adopting a dif ferent sort of political opinion from those maintained by the rest of his family, he was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under the Government of Lord Derby, from February to December,lBs2, and sat for Devonport during the last Parliament in the Conser vative interest. In 1815 he married Lucy, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Sir Thomas Sutton, Bart., by whom he has left a family of three sons, and a daughter married in 1938 to Lieut.-Colonel Randal Rumley. GENERAL SIR JOHN DOVETON, K.C.8., died at Vichy, in the south of France last week. This gallant offi cer was one of the oldest officers in the East India Company's service. He was a son of the late Sir t19,48A,704 William Webber Doveton (who was for upwards of thirty years in the civil service of the Hon. East India Company) by the only daugther of the late Mr. Anthony Beale, and cousin of the late Sir J. Doveton, G.C.B. He was born at St. Helena in 1783, and left Portsmouth for Madras at the early age of fifteen, u first cadet of cavalry, in June, 1798, was soon placed on the staff as aide-de camp to the late Marquis Wellesley, during his Goveroor•Generalship of India. He saw much active service in the several campaigns of 1799, 1803, and 1817, and at one time commanded a division of the Nizam's army. After having spent the best part of his life in India, he returned home on furlough in 1830, and in 1833 was nominated to the general staff of the Madras army, and appointed to command the centre division. He attained the rank of general in 1854, and for some years past had held the colonelcv of the sth Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry. For his Indian services he was made a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1838. THE REV. C. Wrmisms, 8.D., baa been elected Principal of Jesus College, Ozon, in the room of Dr. Fouckes, recently deceased. Ma. ALcoce, M.P., who attended the annual meeting of the Surrey Agricultural Association, in reply for the county members, made a few observa tions with regard to the army now raising for service in India :—" This was not the time'to find fault with the Government, which was now on its trial before the country ; but it must be acknowledged that the manner in which the -army in Lydia had been managed was not creditable. 'S hat would the Emperor Napoleon have done if he had only taken men of a particular height? Napoleon took men without regard to size, and gave them names to suit the particular departments in which he placed them. And why should they not do the same? A great country such as England required a great army, and though such an army necessarily implied additional expense, the additional expense would be more than compensated for by increased commerce and the security which was necessary for the promotion and extension of commerce." 410,488,701