The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

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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."