The Press. — London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

.. .. OCTOBER 14 , 1854 THE PRESS. .... ... ..... _ ------ THE REVENUE. 1.-THE NET REVENUE. Quarter ended RaltYear ended ; Year ended A_ ,„..----t-..-...., . _L ...... , Oct. 10, 00.11, 1 Oct. 10, Oot. 10, I Ott. 10, Oct. 10, 1853. 1854. 1853. 1864. I 1853. 1854. £aIA A a a CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 1,730,173 1,74t,269 j 3,326.980 3,568,728 ' 7,066,715 6,998,567 TA XES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS 50,000 61,572 280.888 126,572 402,888 271,572 MISCELLANEOUS 57,688 36,947 1 111,020 101,215 I 191,940 155,797 ----- I-- ORDINARY REVENCE IMPIEST AND OTHER MONEYS REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES 683,519 275,371 1,079,559 609,707 2,037,412 1,341,479 TOTAL 15,319,908 ,15,870,096 30,008,511 30,086,406 86,706,831. 56,723.415 IL-COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. Quarter ended , lialt-Y4ur ended 1 Year ended Oct.lo, 1854. Oot. 10, 1854. Oct.lo, 1854. i lncrease. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. A £ A I A I CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 11,096 41,748 . 68,149 TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS MISCELLANEOUS 20,741 20,805 36,143 ORDINARY REVENUE IMPREST AND OTHER MONEYS REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES TOTAL 1,056,164 1506,078 1,895, 6 03 1,317,083 1 7,8113.827 I 1,787,247 i t ) k. 8550,188 £77, 1 )97 £10,680 Net Increase. Net Increase. I Net Increase. . - Quarter ended I Half• Year ended ; Year ended A „,..--..—t , Oct. 10, Oct 10, Oct. 10, Clot. --..N 10, 0 - O . '. 10, Oct. 10, 1853. 1854. 1853. 1864. 1853. 1854. .e 4 I A A a 4 CUSTOMS EXCISE. STAMPS 1,730,173 1,74.t,269 3,326.980 3,568,728 7,006,715 6,998,567 TAXES PHOPkRTY TAX POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS 50,000 61,572 250.888 126,572 402,888 271,572 MISCELLANEOUS 57,688 30,947 I 112,090 101,215 I 191,940 1 1 55,797 .-- ORDINARY REVEN LIE IMFMFST AND OTHER MONEYS REPATMEN'I B OF ADVANCES 689,519 975,971 1,079,559 689,707 2,037,412 1,341,479 TOTAL 15,319,908 ;15,870,096 30,008,311 30,080,408 86,706,837. 56,723.415 lII.—EXPENDITURE AND It Applied to Redemption of Deficiency Aflls issued in previous Quartqr £3,148,094 Applied to pay off Exchequer Bills issued in previous Quarter Applied to Supply Services— Out of the Consolidated Fund.... £0,100,975 Out of Exchequer Bonds Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended October 10, leb4, viz.:— Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Interest on Deficiency Bills 7,450 Binking Fund The Civil List Other Charges on Consolid. Fund 470,260 Advances for Public Works, &c 03,408 8,807,801 Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds remain ing unissued on October 10, 1864 Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli dated Fund for the past Quarter — Great Britain Ireland....s £134,363 8,506,140 :34363 £20,906,99 5 ECEIPTS. (From all Sources.) Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Connell. dated Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1834, viz., Great Britain Ireland £106,555 Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonda remain ing unissued on July 5, 1854 Income received in the Quarter ended October 10, 1854, as shown in Account I. Instalments received iu the Quarter for Exchequer Bonda issued Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the Quarter _ . iIP 416 418 . . Balance, in Deficiency, fir which Exchequer Bllla (Deficiency) will be lebned, but reducible by the Amount of the Slaking Fund (204,6700 for the Quarter to the sum of 2,103,9121. /20.90C,995 This balance-sheet exhibits some changes and extensions as compared with previous quarterly accounts of revenue and expenditure. The revenue received in Ireland is for the first time included in the accounts, which had hitherto been deficient by upwards of 4,000,0001. of net annual revenue. The account of the income and charge of the consolidated fund has, also, heretofore been a very partial and imperfect one. Instead of showing the application of the quarter's receipts from all sources, it has been limited to the receipts and charges of the consolidated fund in Great Britain, omitting the income and charges for Ireland, and suppressing altogether those receipts which may have been appropriated by Parliament to the payment of other public services than those charged permanently on the consolidated fund. The present and future accounts will show not only the receipts derived from the ordinary revenue. from imprest moneys, and from repayments, but will embrace all extraordinary receipts, whether derived from temporary or permanent loans, Exchequer Bills, or any other moneys applicable to the payment of public services. They will thus present a complete debtor and creditor statement of all public moneys received in each quarter, and of the appropriation of the same. Volitual an/1 Otntral. LORD J. RUSSELL being at Scarborough last week was waited on by the Mayor of the place and a depu tabon with an address of congratulation and compli ment, in which his lordship's labours in the cause of " civil and religious liberty" formed the main topic of eulogy. The noble President of the Council re plied : APSLICY nousr will be reopened to the public, by consent of the Duke of Wellington, during the winter months. A variety of improvements have taken place, and a large sum of money has been expended to render the objects worthy of remark and more visible than they formerly were. " I am very sensible of the kindness which has prompted you to address me on this my first visit to your ancient borough. The legislative measures which have contributed so largely in our day to the extension of the civil and reli gious liberties of the nation, and those which have in so great a degree promoted the material prosperity of all classes, have received my cordial support. But the en lightened vole° of the country and the favour of the Almighty gave to these measures the success for which we have all so much reason to be grateful. So long as lam allowed a part in the proceedinEs of Parliament my atten tion will be devoted to the task of domestic improvement. Progress is conservative of institutions, such ns oar own which are founded on the principle that the liberties of . be kingdom are the birthright of its people." LiA FREE LIBRARY AND MINDEUX is about to be established in Preston. THE OFFICE OF COMMODORE of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Berncastle, has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. lt. Hewitt, owner of the Gnat, a small but very fast sloop-rigged yacht, which carried off the purse of soverigns given by the Royal London Yacht Club last season. THE number of visitors to the Crystal Palace last week was 31,832; the receipts, 1.4011. is. SIR GEOROE Glair, the new Governor of the Cape cf Good Hope, sailed on Saturday last from Bristol for the important colony over which he is about to preside. His excellency was accompanied by Lady Grey, his private secretary, and some domestics, and embarked in the Seringapatam, a remarkably fine and fast sailing ship. Besides Sir George Grey and suite, the Setingapatan carried nut for Melbourne, to which ~ he proceeds after calling at the Cape, upwards of a hundreapassengers, a mail, and a mis cellaneous cargo. 971 THE NEW BEER BILL, and the part he had played in passing it, were referred to by Mr. Wilson Patten at the meeting of the Fylde Agricultural Society last week. He said, at the suggestion of a great body of parliamentary men, he had been in duced to bring in the bill, which he was afraid was not very popular in certain quarters; hut it was only an experiment, which he hoped would turn out for the general good of the country. He bad had great difficulty in carrying it through the house. A member could only bring in a bill en particular days, of which lie had to give previous notice upon the notice-paper of the House of Commons. He (Mr. Patten) had to sit up night after night until three o'clock in the morning before he could get leave to bring in his bill, and lie was never absent till lie did get it through the house. But what was the way in which that labour had been represented by certain parties ? A paper had lately been put Into his hand wherein it was stated that Mr. Wilson Patten introduced a bill into the house at two o'clock on the morning of the 15th of July, which was then read a first time, there being only tern members present; on the 18th of July, also at two o'clock in the morning, it passed a second reading before twelve members ; and on the 21st of Slily it went smoothly through a committee of some sixteen gentlemen at three o'clock in the morning, the third reading taking place on the 24th of July, before a scanty gathering at a morning sitting, Now, during the whole period that the bill was before the House of Commons, the whole 650 members knew everyday that the bill of which he had given notice had to come on ; and he had in his possession correspon dence showing that it was in the knowledge of every soul of them that such a bill was before the house; but because he had lost his nights' rest he was "shown up" as a member who had attempted to smuggle a bill through the House of Commons. He had taken that, the flit and earliest, opportunity of explaining bow matters really stood in regard to the bill in question ; and he could only say that it had been brought in entirely for the public good, and he hoped and trusted it would so turn out. If it did interfere with the rational recreation and real com fort of the public, he could assure them that he was not its friend, but its bitterest opponent. ("Hear," and cheers.) But he asked of the public to let them have a little experience of its working before they con demned it. (Hear, hear.) TAUNTON BOROUGH REGIRTRATION.—The tesuleof the revision of the list of voter§ for this boronfth proves a considerable gain to the Conservative party. The present revision, after giving every doubtful man to the Radicals, leaves a clear majority of twenty-one for the Conservative, namely . • 49 Radieelswhe were on the register of 1858-4 are now off the register of 1884.5. 80 Conservatives who were on the register of IN59•d are off the register of 1954.15. 19 Conservative gain. 44) New Conservative electors have been added to the register of 18.54-34 38 New Radical eleotois. e Conservative gain. 21 Total Conservative gain. TRP. FORFARRIHRE ELECTION took plane on Wed nesday, when Lord Duncan, formerly M.P. for Bath, was returned without opposition to fill the vacancy occasion by the death of Colonel Maule. THE Feome Eurcttow commences en Wednesday next, when the candidates will be nominated. Mr. Curling has resigned in favour of Lord Dungarvan. Mr. Nicoll *ill go to the poll. Mn. Heist was in Edinburgh on Tnesday, abd left on the following morning for London. He was too unwell to go anywhere, although better than he was a few weeks since. Tue. congregation of the parish church at Black burn have presented the Rev. E. A. Lang, curate of the late vicar, with a purse containing 200 guineas. THE GERMANIC MUSEUM IS intended to become a great national undertaking, and to be located Ott present) at Nuremberg. The Duke of Coburg nevertheless adheres to his former promise to lithe the museum brought to Coburg. where She extensive antiquarian collection of Coburg Cattle has been of late perfectly rearranged. His Royal Highness also intends to build a chapel and vault on the Olocken berg, near Coburg. rhe former will consist of one prim ipal and two lateral naves, and the latter is tube the mausolea of the Coburg family. Two NAVAL. LIEUTENANTS, mentioned with praise in Lord Raglan's despatches, have been promoted : by the Admiralty to the rank of commander. These officers are Lieutenant Derriman, who was appointed by Admiral Dundas to be his lordship's naval aide-de camp at the Alma, and Lieutenant F. A. Masse, who returned through the forest with Lord Raglitt's despatches, and thus enabled the Agamemnon to reach Ilttlaklavtt at the desired moment. Mettle nant Maxse%; promotieu will be to "brevet molar to be confirmed aR goon et be bee sorted hip •tllt+llk Vine of two years as a lieutenant. , —.woell ,i -~ IN