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

OCTOBER 14, 1854 THE PRESS. THE REVENUE. 1.-THE NET REVENUE. Quarter ended 1 Hal6Year ended I; Year ended .L._ , • „...--t„ . . ....--....1._—_, Oct. 10, Oct.lo, 1 Oct. 10, Oct.. 10, I Oct. 10, Oct. 10, 1853. 1554. 1853. 1654. 1 1833. 1654. A A A A a a CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 1,736,173 1,71e,269 3,520.980 3,568,728 7,066,715 0 , 338 , 567 PAXES ROPERTY TAX YOST OFFICE 236,00u 344, 0 00 487,000 723,000 1,041,000 1,1180,000 CROWN LANDS 50,000 81,572 250.888 126,572 402,888 271,572 MISCELLANEOUS 57,688 36,947 1 122 , 020 101,215 I 191,910 155,797 --- ORDINARY llEVENiJE 1 53,926,071 54,613,168 IMPRF.ST AND OTHER MONEYS REPAYMENTS OP ADVANCES ....4 582,519 275,371 1,079,469 689,707 2,037,412 1 1,341,472 TOTAL 15,319,908 43,870,096 30,608,511 30,086,408 66,706,834 56,723,415 11-COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. - 1 Quarter ended 1141(474x ended I Year ended Oct.lo, 1854. Oct. 10, 1854. Oct. 10, 1854. L _ _i_ -.. ..--, L --, ~ [ Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. a 4 A 4 £ £ CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 12,090 41,748 68,149 TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS MISCELLANEOUS 20,741 20,805 36,143 ORDINARY REVENUE 1056,266 183,387 1,395,880 741,623 1,:78,404 1,091,307 IMPRF.ST AND OTHER MONEYS REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES TOTAL • 1,056,266 508,078 1,895, 4 80 1,317,683 `I 1,803.827 1,787,247 £550,188 £17,897 I 213.580 Net Increase. Net Increase. Net Increase. 111.-EXPENDITURE AND it] Applied to Itedemption of Deficiency Bills issued in previous Quarter Applied to pay off Exchequer Bills issued in previous Quarter Applied to Supply Services— Out of the Consolidated Fund.... W 0,911 8,508,140 ECEIPTS. (From all Sources.) Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Conso lt• dated Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1834, vie., Great Britain Ireland £166,555 Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds remain ing unissued on July 1, 1854 Income received In the Quarter ended October 10, Isb4, as shown in Account I. Instalments received in the Quarter for Exchequer Bonds issued Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the Quarter A1P,416,41S Balance, in Deficiency, for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be teemed, but reducible by the Amount of the Sinking Fund (204,6700 for the Quarter to the sum of 2,195,3121. /20.90t,995 Out of Exchequer Bondu Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended October 10, 1554, viz.:— Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Interest on Deficiency Bills 7,450 Sinking Fund The Civil List Odic! Charges on Consolid. Fund 470,200 Advances for Public Works, kc 553,408 8,607,801 Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds remain ing unissued on October 10, 1854 Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli dated Fund for the past Quarter — Great Britain Inland . . 4 .6114,363 194,363 120,908,99 D 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 Nfld. 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. immix Hotter 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. TRH OFFICE or COMMODORE of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club, vacant by the retirement of Mr. Berncastle, has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. R. 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 GREY, 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 Setingapntam, a remarkably fine and fast sailing ship. Besides Sir George Grey and suite, the Berirgnpatan carried out for Melbourne, to which she proceeds after calling at the Cape, upwards of a hundredpassengers, a mail, and a mis cellaneous cargo. + 971 THE NEW Berl 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 bad been in duced to bring in the bill, which he was afraid Was not very popular in certain quarters; but it was only an experiment, which he hoped would turn out for the general gad of the country. He bad bad great difficulty in carrying it through the house. A member could only bring in a bill en particular days, of which he had to give previous notice upon the notioe-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 he was never absent till he 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 band wherein it was stated that Mr. Wilann 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 tsin 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 July 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, durifig the whole period that the bill was before the House of Commons, the whole 656 members knew every day 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 funtozgle a bill through the House of Commons. He had taken that, the first and earliest, opportunity.of explaining how 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, be could assure them that he was not its friend, but its bitterest opponent. (" Ifeeti," 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 REGISTRATION.—The result of the revision of the list of voters for this horongh proves a considerable gain to the Conservative party. The present revision, after giving every doubtful man to the Radicals, leaves a clear majority of titeitty-one for the Conservative, namely : . • 49 Radicals who were on the register of 11168.4 are now off the register of 1864.5. 80 Conservatives who were on the register of 1833-4 are off the register of 1864.5. 19 Conservative gain. 40 New Conservative electors have been added to the register of 1854-56 38 New Bodies! eleotota. +~ ~ ". 2 Conservative gain. 21 Total Conservative gain. TR/I FOREARSHIRE ELECTION took place 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 Mettle. Ter none Etrettow coMmenees 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. Hymn was In Edinburgh on Tuesday, abd left on the following morning for London. Ile was too unwell to go anywhere, although better than he was a few weeks since. THE 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. Tea GERIIAN/C MU3EUX is intended to become a Feat national undertaking, and to be located cat present) at Nuremberg. The Duke of Coburg nevertheless adheres to his firmer promise to here the museum brought to Coburg, where the extensive antiquarian collection of Coburg Castle has been of late perfectly rearranged. His Royal Highness also intends to build a chapel and ♦ault on the Oloekbn berg, near Coburg. rhe former will consist of one principal and two lateral naves, and the latter is Who the mausolea of the Coburg family. Two NAVAL LIEUTENANTS, mentioned with praise in Lord Raglan's despatches, bare been promoted by the Admiralty to the rank of commander. These officers are Lieutenant Derriman, who woe appointed by Admiral Dundee to be his lordship's naval aide-de camp at the Alma, and Lieutenant F. A. Masse, who returned throngh the forest with Lord Raghtit's despatches, and thus enabled the Agamemnon to reach Balaklava at the dt sired moment. Lierfte nant Manse's promotion will be to "brevet rank"' to be eonfirmed as soon at he hes surveil MS tiltne of two years as a lieutenant. Valitual ant fentral. LORD J. Russm, being at Scarborough last week was waited on by the Mayor of the place and a depu tation with an address of congratulation and compli matt, 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 : " 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 No 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 pro3perity of all classes, have received my cordial support. Ant the en lightened voice 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. Prozress is conservative of institutions, such es one own which are founded on the principle that the liberties of . be kingdom are the birthright of its people." ILIA FREE LIBRARY AND MUS/CUX .is about to be established in Preston. , I