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. 441 1TriM PL.1 " 1 " 1 " ..- " - _- 326 THE PRESS. THE REVENUE. 1.-THE NET REVENUE. Quarter ended I Year ended March 31, March 81, March 31, March 31, 1854. 1855. I 1854. I 1855. A 4 4 (1 USTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 1,022,827 1,677,771 6,789,385 8,965,516 TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE 247,000 292,922 1,009,000 1,299,156 CROWN LANDS 65,000 66,000 395,888 272,572 MISCELLANEOUS 2E44,520 240,411 1,107,004 731,578 TOTAL IL-COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. Quarter ended Year ended March 31, 1855. March 31, 1855. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. 4 4 A CUSTOMS EXCISE STAMPS 64,944 TAXES PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE 45,922 CROWN LAN DS MISCELLANEOUS 44,109 375,426 TOTAL 4,128,417 I 44,109 6,916,924 601,300 .44,384,308 06,312,624 Net Increase. Net Increase. ECEIPTS. (From all Sources.) Amount applied out of the net income for the quarter ended March 91,1855, to Redemption of Exchequer Bills (deficiency) for the quamer ended Jan. 5,1855..11,519,534 Net amount applied to supply services in the quarter ended March 81,1855 : Out of the Consolidated Fund 110,008,259 Out of Exchequer Bonds Out of Exchequer Bills (Ways and Means 11,664,627 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1555, viz.:— Interest of the Permanent Debt .. 15,602,431 Terminable Debt Interest on Deficiency Bills 124 The Civil Liat Other Charges on Consolid. Fund 315,108 Advances for Public Works, 215,530 7,577,903 Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli dated Fund for the quarter ended March 31, 1855, viz. Great Britain Ireland 72,832 £20,834,896 ated, I have seen none whom I admired more than our distinguished countryman, Lord Aberdeen. (Cheers and hisses.) I admire him for the singleness of his ends, admire him for the thorough liberality of every sentiment he entertains in every question affecting the moral, the social, and the political advancement of this great people ; but, above all, 1 admire him for what is perhaps the rarest virtue in a popular Government, for that incomparable love of justice, of truth, and of moderation which never allows his language to partake, for the sake of passing popularity, of the passions and prejudices of the hour ; and I tell you it will be ill for the English people when this is a virtue which they do not know how to honour. (Applause.) Well, feeling thus towards Lord Aberdeen, and feeling thus towards the Government constituted under him, I need hardly add that it has been a great pain to me to be separa ted from him and from several of his colleagues. Not only would it have been painful, but it would have been re pugnant to my own knowledge of the fact if that separa tion had taken place under circumstances which could imply any assent to the popular delusion that the policy of that Government was more the policy of one section, and not of the whole. But when the noble viscount who is now at the head of the Government, I mean Lord Palnierston, received the commission from the sovereign to form a new Government, and did me the high honour of asking that I should continue to render whatever assistance I might be able to give as a member of the House of Lords in his Government, I felt 1 had no valid reason to refuse ; and in this opinion I was strengthened and confirmed by the advice and opinion of Lord Aberdeen. (Hear, hear.) I had had the high honour of being a colleague of that noble viscount during two years. I had seen his upright and honorable conduct as a member of Lord Aberdeen's Admi nistration, and I never saw grounds which could lead me for an instant to suppose that a policy to which he had been a party as a member of one Government he would alter or repudiate as head of another. On the contrary, I felt the fullest conviction that in the hands of my noble friend, Lord Clarendon, under Lord Palmerston as well as under Lord Aberdeen, the foreign policy of this country would be conducted with justice, firmness, and moderation. THE MEDALS for distinguished service in the field were forwarded to the Crimea, in the past week. The medal is silver, with 1.6 red ribbon and blue centre. The relatives of those men who have died since their service *lll receive thein. SATURDAY, Obituarg. Vfscoutrr BOYNE, whose name revives important political reminiscences, died on the 30th ult. at his town residence. The deceased peer, Gustavus Hamilton, in the peerage of Ireland, was son of the fifth holder of the title, and was born in 1777. He succeeded his father in 1816, and married, at an early age, the daughter of Benjamin Baugh, Esq., through whom he inherited some property in the county of Salop. He is succeeded in the title and estates by his son Frederick, horn in 1797. The title was conferred upon the first viscount, General Hamilton, for services rendered to the cause of William 111., for whom he raised no less than six regiments, two of which now hear the title of "Inniskillinge "—one of the Inniskillinge Dragoons, and the other the 27th Inniskillinge Foot. The first Lord Boyne particularly distinguished himself at the siege of Derry and the battle of the Boyne, for which services, in addition to title, he received a large por tion of confiscated property. We regret to announce the loss of ore of our most accomplished architects, in the premature decease, on the 27th ult., at the early age of forty-three, of It. C. CARPENTER, ESQ., distinguished by the success with which he has prosecuted that revival of Gothic archi tecture which forms so characteristic a feature of the present generation. Of his original works, the prin cipal already executed was the college of St. John, at Hurstpierpoint, near Brighton, founded by the Rev. N. Woodard, for the education of the sons of the middle classes. The designs for Mr. Woodard's upper-class college, at Lancing, were already pre pared. Of the numerous churches which Mr. Car penter erected, we need only refer to St. Paul's, Brighton, All Saints, in the same town, and St. Mary Magdalene, in Munster-square, London ; while, among many others, the restoration of the magnificent minster at Sherborne attests his skill in that depart ment of the ecclesiastical architect's profession. The death of Mas. Nicol., formerly Miss Bronti, who, under the nom de plume of Currer Bell estab lished a lasting reputation by the publication of "Jane Eyre," is announced by the Manchester Guar. dian. The deceased lady, who was the last survivor of a family of six, died on Saturday last, at her father's house, at aworth, Yorkshire. MR. WALLACE, the veteran reformer, and formerly member for Greenock, died at his residence, Seatield• cottage, near Greenock, early on the morning of Sunday last, at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. Wallace was son of the late Mr. John Wallace, of Cessnock, in Ayrshire, who carried on business in Glasgow as a West India merchant. He was edu cated and passed the early portion of his life in Glasgow, and subsequently became a partner of the West India firm of Wallace, Hunter, and Co., in Greenock. Mr. Wallace succeeded to the estate of Kelly, which he inherited from his father. He was the first member for Greenock in the reformed Par liament, and his constituents returned him at four successive elections free of expense, and all but unanimously. He entered Parliament in 1833, and quitted it, after thirteen years' faithful and laborious servitude, in 1845. It was his exertions in con nection with the reform of Post-office abuses, and in procuring penny postage, which especially entitle him to notice. He laboured long and assiduously in this cause, and while doing so Mr. R. Hill stepped in with his scheme of penny postage. That gentle man frankly admitted that Mr. Wallace's exposures led him to take up the subject ; and that it was his indomitable and persevering energy in and out of Parliament which obtained the measure of penny postage for the country. MR. JOHN BORDER, of Parliament-street, so well known to the legal profession and to the Church, died at his residence at Norwood, on Tuesday. Mr. Burder was secretary to twenty-five of the English bishops, and had an immense amount of the eccle siastical business of the country upon his hands. THE HEAT IN AUSTRALIA, according to the last ad vices, had been for many days unparalleled since the establishment of the colony. The thermometer had constantly ranged night and day, in the shade, from 80 to 120 degrees, according to situation ; and from 130 to 150 degrees in the sun. Many cases of sun stroke occurred, death being the result in some in stances. Apples were also exhibited as having been roasted on the trees from the fierce rays of the sun as perfectly as though they had been in an oven. THE Wanderer of Vienna relates the following anec dote :—" A Jewish banker, of Frankfort, while proceeding to Vienna by railway, not long since, fell into conversation with a gentleman of very pleasing manners, who was in the same carriage with him, and so delighted was the banker with his new acquaintance that he offered to give him a letter of recommendation to his daughter, who was well married in Vienna, and might be of se - rvice to him. The gentleman thanked him, and, with a smile, said—' I also have one of my daughters married at Vienna, and she has made a very tolerable match.' Pray, may I presume, said the banker, to ask the name of her husband?' It is the Emperor of Austria,' was the answer, the gentleman being Prime Maximilian of Bavaria." 111.-EXPENDITURE AND R: Burping Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli dated Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 6,1835, viz., Brest Britain IralLud 4469,993 3 1469 ,99 _ _ Balance of amount received for Exchequer Bonds ap propriated by Parliament to supply services re maining in the Exchequer on Jan. 5, 1855 250,468 Net Income received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1855, as shown in Account I. Amount received in the Quarter ending March 31, 1855, for Exchequer Bonds issued ♦mount of Exchequer Bills (Ways and Means) issued in the quarter ending March 91, 1855 Amount received in the quarter ending March 31,1855, in repayment of advances for public works, Sc 407,902 A 17,399,281 Balance, being the deficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain, and for which Exchequer Bills (deficiency) will be issued 189,644 3,495,61 S £20,991,896 THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AT GLASGOW. THE installation of the Duke of Argyll as Lord Rector of Glasgow University took place on the 29th ult., in the hall of the University, in the presence of the Lord Rector, the Very Rev. the Principal and Professors, the Rector's assessors, the students of the University, and a brilliant assemblage of ladies. The duke then delivered his inaugural address. The greater portion of his speech was taken up with sub jects of academic interest, and particularly with the new scheme for regulating the patronage of the East Indian civil service. His grace afterwards made some allusions to the political combinations and the public men with whom he has been acting during the last two years : 1 entered official life at a time when many of the old di visions of party had become obliterated, not from the sacri fice of any principle of individuals, but from the exhaustion and disappearance of those great questions of public policy on which they had formerly arisen, and I became a member of a Government which included in itself some members who had never acted together before in public life, and many more who had been opposed for a long series of years ; and I can truthfully declare here that during those two years I never saw—whatever may be the supposi• tion out of doors—during those two years I never saw the smallest symptom of the appearance of any of the old divisions of party. Whatever differences arose were not in any degree parallel to those divisions, nor partook of the old traditions of party differences. Not only did I derive satisfaction from this, but also from another circumstance. Those years have been, as you all know, years of difficulty and of danger. There have been internal difficulties and external diffl cables to a considerable extent, which you all know broke up that Government, and have ended in the dissolution of many of its principal elements. During that period I have seen something of the working of the great public men of the country, and I can sincerely say I believe them actuated—l am not specially ranked t o any statesman—actuated by the highest and purest motives ; and you may depend on it, when you put the best construc tion on their conduct, it is not only one the most generous, but the most just, and the nearest to the truth. And 1 should be most untrue to my own feelings and oonvictions if I did not say, what yon as Scotchmen w►ll be glad to hear, whatever may be the bias of your own political opinons, that among the public men with whom I have been semi P