The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-03-15 00:00:00

EP/TOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
- "The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges
the receipt of the second halves of Bank-notes for £l6O from
Z. A.' for Income-tax."
Mr. T. Taylor, of Aston Rowaiat, Oxon, has given
the sum of 000 to the town council of Wigan, Lancashire,
for the foundation of a free public library in that town.
Wedding cards in Denver consist of the "jack of
diamonds' and the "queen of hearts," with the names of
the contracting parties on each. If the bride's mother-in.
aw is living the ten of clubs is also enclosed.
The two parties of tourists conducted by Messrs.
Cook and Son, that left England for Palestine respectively
on 22nd January and Vebruary 12. numbering forty persons
In all, have arrived in safety at Jaffa
A leading morning contemporary quoted the other
day Birghain's celebrated work, the Antiquities of the
Christian Church, as Bingham's iniquitied of the Christian
Church.
An old lady was admiring Landseer's beautiful
picture called "Saved." "It's no wonder," she said "that
the poor child fainted after Milling that great dog out of the
water."
Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral, denouncing
the Irish University Bill as a concession to "godless'. educa-
tion. He calls on the clergy to petition Parliament against
the measure, and to get their representatives to oppose it.
Mr. Henry Brown, who recently presented £5,000
for the purpose of founding scholarships in connection with
the Bradford Grammar School, has given another thousand
pounds to assist promising boys in the junior department.
The petitions presented to the House of Commons on
Monday night against alteration of the Education Act
were 16e. Gus in favour of alteration...was presented from
Carmarthen.
Amongst the passengers who arrived at Liverpool on
Saturday night is the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Abyeirinia,
from New York, was Miss M. S. Rye. Ifiss Rye is now busily
engaged in msking her Spring arrangements for taking a
number of pauper children (orphans) to Canada this year.
A respectable farmer, named Rogers, residing near
Wrexham, met with a horrible death on Monday night,
Whilst walking on the Great Western Railway, he was
knocked down by a train which passed over him, killing him
at once and severely mutilating him.
A prominent apiarist, while arranging his beehives
recently, inadvertently turned one over. Snugly ensconced
in a fresco of poultices, he says to his friends, in septlchral
whispers, that the cost of raising bees far exceeds the plea-
sure and profit.
A large and influential meeting, presided over by
Mr. John George Adair, High Sheriff of County Donegal,
was held at Lift rd on Tuesday. Resolutions were adopted
In favour of the Government purchase of Irish railways.
The present system was pronounced to be unsatisfactory and
to retard the prosperity of the country.
The Dowager Marchioness of Lansdowne has pre.
slotted to the Crown a petition praying that she may he de-
clared entitled to the title, honour, and dignity of Baronets
Nairn in the peerage of Scotland. This petition has been
sent to the House of Lords, and referred to the Committee
for Privileges.
The Home Secretary, as the result of correspond.
emu originated by the Birkenhead licensed victuallers, has
decided that intoxicating liquors sold in qualitities lea, than
half a pint are not required to be measured aceording to
the imperial standard, but that all intoxicating liquors
sold in half a pint and upwards mast be sold in marked
measures.
A letter from Digne, Bastes-Alpes, states that a
terrible disaster Mistaken place in the pommune of Moraine.
An enormous block of stone detached itself from above the
second slate-quarry and completely destroyed 11 buildings,
which are now buried under the mass. The ruins cover •
large surface, and toe damage is estimated at 50,0001. For-
tunately no lives were lost. The Minister of the Interior
has sent a first succour of tao Cf.
Two of the best oarsmen on the Tyne, Thomas Win-
ship 0101 James Ley, rowed a skiff race 011 Monday morning
for £2eo. The come was from the High Level at Newcastle
to the Scotswood Siispensbn Bridge, a distsnce of three miles
and shall. Winship was the victor, reaching the goal about
four lengths first.
Louis Blanc delivered a telling epeech in the French
assenibly on Tuesday against the proposal before the Chaum.
her for constituting a IOrDI of Provolone' Government—a
task which he maintained belongs to the neat Assembly.
On Tuesday, after a long abeence, the Imperial
Prince end Princess of Germany returned to Berlin. They
were received at the railway station by the Emperor, the
Empress, and many official persons, and were lonely cheered
by a large crowd. The Imperial Prince appeared, it is said,
to loin goed health.
"We claim the honour," says the Mobile Regiger,
"of having started a new Interest in Japan Peas, arid we are
proud of it, for the Japan Pea is undoubtedly one of the
best things for our climate. It is easily raised, will grow on
almost any soil, and yields enormonele. As food for man
we think it has DO equal in the pea or bean way." What is
Ibis Japan Pea?
Mr. W. 0. Max., butcher. was killed on Monday
night at Acton ttatien. He was attempting to get int, a
Berth London train at the station while it was backing on
the platform, which it had over run, when he was jerked off
the foot rail and thrown under the wheels, which permed
over his head and one of legs, killing bin almost instau.
taneonsly.
His Highness the Maharajah Dlinleep Singh has
conceded to his tenants upon his large light land estates
in Suffolk, the entire right of killing rabbits, under certain
reetrictions, and to snare hares three months to the year—
viz, December, January. and February. The Maharajah
bus elso had a coureing party on his property, at which he
gave a silver cup, while he also had an excellent luncheon
sent from Elvedon Hall.
A strike of the London wheelwrights is threatened.
Resolutions have been passed by them, declaring that, having
memdrialized their employers for &reduction in the hours of
labour to et per week and an advance of 10 per cent. on
piece-work, and having bed due consideration for the in-
tocrtili of their employers by giving them three months to
emisider their request, they viewed with much regret the re-
luctance on the part of some of them to accede to the terms
proposed, and cumidered that they were justified lnpreestag
i led 'mod.

The latest Perils'lan novelty imported from Vienna is
dolls with spectacles.

His Royal Highness Prince Christian was among the
visitors to the House or Commons on Monday, and remained
until the dirmer hour.

A Gainan from Berlin has been for some time at
Panama butterfly huntingle first remittance was one
hundred pounds worth of butterflies.
Monday (the 10th) was the anniversary of Mazzini's
death, and MO celebrated by the Radicals in various Italian

The sum of £1,500 is now offered as a reward for the
apprehension of the perpetrators of the great forgeries In
London.. . . .

Another body from the wreck of the Northficet was
waahed ashore at Lydd on Monday, and Interred hi the
chin chyard in the course of the afternoon.

The Railway News states that the railway authori.
ties are counderiug the suhject of the reduction of speed
and Dumber of express trains between competing points.

Monday was the tenth anniversary of the wedding
of the Prince and Princeu of Wales, their Royal High-
nesses having been married on the 10th of March, 1863.
The Official Journal of Teheran publishes a sort of
manifesto to the Pennon nation, stating that a new era of
progress and introduction of European civilization is to
commence with Persia with the approaching visit of the Shah
to Europe.
Canon Bardsley, who wee reported to be hopelessly
11l a few weeks ago, is said to be decidedly better, lie (snow
able to sit up and even to walk across the room, while his
speech is also returning to him .

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Dr. Velpeau used to relate Oat on one of his visits
to IflCtel Dieu, having asked a patient how he did, the sick
man answered, " Ab, doctor, I am so ill that if anybody
came and told me 1 was dealt, I should not be astonished
at it "

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The Rork states that the Bishop of- Adelaide, in hie
sermon at the opening of the first " General Synod" of
Australia, expressed his approval of the admission of Dls.
'enters to Church pulpits.
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A singular anniversary will be celebrated at Berlin
on the 30th Inst., namely the fiftieth anniversary of Field-
Marshal Wrangel's promotion to the rank of general. Count
Wrangel got his lieutenancy on the 15th October, 1798, and
Is still an active officer of the army.
Mr. Roebuck has again been the guest of the even-
leg at a Cutlers' Festival at Sheffield. In the course of his
speech he denounced the strike in South Wales, and declared
that the instigators of it deserved the reprobation of the
country.
Bilis bare been printed which propose to amend the
laws relating to seduction (Ur. Charley), and to amend the
Act for the regulation of cathedrals, and to facilitate the
endowment of canonrtes by private benefaction (Mr. Beres•
ford Hope).
The promise is held out that the Albert Hall will
shortly be lit by the new light which is to supersede coal gas,
and be also available for heating purposes Some notion o
the cheapness of the new agent may be obtained from the fact
that the light of the Albert Hall is to cost but a pound a
night.
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-It will surprise many realers to know that the manu-
facture of valentines goes on all the year round; and even
now hundreds of persons, chiefly women and children, are
employed on the preparation of the valentines for 1874.
Those required for the Australian and colonial trade have to
be exported in July.

The first club on the English model is about to be
constituted in Berlin. The committee having secured the
support of a large number of wealthy inhabitants of the
fashionable quarter near the Thiergarten, have purchased a
home in the Koniggreitrerstrasse for the sum of about
£40,000.

Before a member has finished his speech in the
House of Commons, the greater part of it is of late not only
written out, but actually in type in more than one news-
paper office it was the case m particular with Mr. Wad-
stone's Education oration, and had he wished to know what
he said a )ard back, while he was speaking, he would at
once have been supplied with the means of reference.

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The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England has decided to place a sum of £3OO at the disposal
of the jourual committee of the society, to obtain a report
on the agricultural portion of the Vienna Exhibition, and
also on any special features of agriculture In the AuStro-
Hungarian Empire.
Sir Henry Rawlineon, at the Geographical Society's
meeting on Monday night, said he had that very morning
received a letter from Sir Bartle Frere, who stated that,
though the Sultan of Zanzibar had refused, owing to certain
religious influences which had been brought to bear upon
him, to have anything to do with the new treaty, we should,
be thought, be able to suppress the maritime slave trade
without his aid as well, 11 not better, than with it.

The Court of Session at Edinburgh decided on Satur•
day a curious case, in which James Russel, of Massachusetts,
and Jas Ditch Long, writer, of Glasgow. his mandatory,
sought an order to get possession of his child from its two
aunts in Glasgow. The Sheriff of Lanarkshire had found that
the case could not be competently raised before him; but
the Court of Session granted the prayer of the petitioner,
and ordered the child to be restored to the father, and found
the aunts liable in expenses.

A discovery has been made in an old adit level, at
Pwilyevrm Colliery, near Landore. The men were sinking a
new pit there, and in an old adit level, filled with rubbish,
came across two old wooden shovels, evidently used by the
millers hundreds of years ago. The handles of these shovels
are of ash, the blades of oak (still as hard as steel). There is
not a particle 01 iron even in the fastenings, and those
plementa of trade must have been left where now found at
least 200 years ago.
Germany has substantial towards for the inventors
of guns and instruments of deetructim but can the same
thing be said for the inventors of instruments of civiTaation?
The last days of Sonefelder, the inventor of lithography, an
art second only in importance to the Invention of typography,
were passed in obscurity and poverty. His descendants are
now in actual destitution, and a subscription has been opened
for their relief.

The Japanese Government propose to have an insti-
tution for the study of practical engineering, and have In-
structed their agents to procure. set of machinery and tools
simian all respects to that which the Crystal Palace Com-
pany loot autumn constructed, for the purposes of their ad-
mirable soh.' for practical engineering, under the super-
vision of Professor Wilson, as PancipaL
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a letter
to his Suffragans, calling attention to the work of the society
lately formed, under the auspices of the Church, for the
suppression of the vice of intemperance. His Grace ex-
presses • hope that the Bishops will employ such means as
they think best suited in order to bring this important sub-
ject under the notice of the clergy and laity of their re-
spective dioceses.
The Bonapartist journal L'Ordre announces that
Prince Louis Napoleon will go to the Exhibition at Vienna.
Ills Royal Highness was invited to the ceremony of inaugu-
ration by no autograph letter of the Eau arm of Austria,
but excused himself on account of the too recent death of
his august father. He has, however, accepted an invitation
of the Court of Vienna to the Exhibition itself.
The Court of Assizes at Constantine, A'gelia, has
commenced the trial of the Arab chiefs, the instigators and
prime movers in the insurrection of 1871, including Ali Ben
Cnerif, commander of the Legion of Honour, and El
Stokranl. The number of prisoners and witnesses anp.unts
to nearly WO. Several leading members of the Paris bar
have undertaken the defence of the chiefs.
A Parliamentary return, issued on Tuesday morn-
ing, of persons sentenced to death for the crime of murder,
other than infanticide, in England and Wales, in the year
1873, show, that there were 14 executions, 13 conditional
pardons, followed by sentence to penal servitude, two re.
privies on the ground of insanity, end one case of • convict
nutter sentence of death strangling himself In prison.
Amongst other things, the return shows that the Rev. J. S.
Watson is in Parkhurst Prison • Christiana Edmunds at
Broadmoor ; and Marguerite Dixbianc in Millbauk Prison.
At the last monthly meeting of the Liverpool School
Board the district education committee, on the report of the
ouperiatendent visitor, recommended the appointment of six
additional visitor., on the ground that there were 26 752
children in the town who seldom or never attended school,
while there was accommodation in existing schools for
is OM Mr. 'Lubbock said the present number of visitors
was twenty, but it was tound to be quite insufficient. The
recommendation was agreed to.

On Saturday morning, as Sir Richard Airey, who was
stioleg with Sir Edward Sullivan for a few days hunting,
was starting for the meet, his mare shied, and, as he was in
the act of shortening his stirrup leather, the spur touched
her flank, when she gave a violent plunge and threw him
heavily on hie back on the road. Mr. Chat,'cote of Dorkleg,
was soon in attendance, and Mr. Prescott Ilewstt arrived
from London about three o'clock, when it was found the
right collar bone was badly fractured, and the hip and back
severely contused ; but it is hoped without fracture. Ile is
very much shaken.
A case came before the Master of the Rolls on Satur-
day, in which a point was raised relative to the amount of
fees to be paid to counsel, An intricate suit, involving a
question of maritime law, had been argued before the Court
three days, and the fee given to the leading counsel for the
defendant was £75, and to the junior counsel £5O. The
taxing master had reduced these to £ 0 and £3O respectively
but Lord Romilly reversed this finding, and allowed the fees
on the ground that the subject was not one for the taxing
master's discretion.
The demand of Warwickshire miners for a rise of
10 per cent, has been refused, also the application of the
farm labourers for a rile of 20 per cent. Another great
spring strike is therefore considered imminent. The Union
offers to accept arbitration. At a meeting of labourers held
on Monday at Leamington, Mr. Arch in the chair, a letter
was read from the London Trades Council disowning the
reported attempt to form another union.
On Sunday evening, at the ceremony of the Forty
livers' Exposition of the Sacrament. in St. Michael's Roman
Catholic Church, Liverpool—the edifice being crowded—
some candles on the altar set Ore te the drapery, and in the
effort to extinguish the blaze, several candles were over.
turned A complete panic was created—women shrieking,
and mazy persons rushing to the doors Owing to the ens
treatim of the priests, and the flames having been ex-
tinguished without spreading beyond the altar, the recur-
rence of a fearful catastrophe similar to that in a Liverpool
Catholic Church, a few years back, or the still more terrible
one at Santiago, was prevented. The fire engines quickly
arrived. hut were not needed.
A cause celibre is announced for trial in the course of
a,few days before the Second Council of War in Paris, when
it is said that very startling revelations will he made respect.
leg the conduct of the francs-tireurs of the Marne. The
irregular corps stands charged with having c innnitted a
series of robberies, mur•lers, Ac., in the neighbourhood of
M ntndrail and Eperriay. At first the eccumtions were re-
garded as purely imatiluary, but the discovery of • number
of corpses in places pointed out be the peasantry induced the
authorities to institute a serious investigation, which has
elided lathe arrest of a number of fraues-tireurs.
The tn•mbt•ns of the Rochdale School Board met on
Sarurilay to consider the determinatiou of the town council
to stop the supplies until the hoard gives a promise not to
grant public money to schools managed only by religious
bodies. The board resolved, on the motion of Mr. Edmund
Ashworth, that the resolution of the town council was an
attempt to dictate the manner in which the hoard shall dis-
charge the responvitiliitiee devolved upon it by the rate-
payers, and the clerk was directed to call an "extraordinary
meeting" of the board for the purpose of instructing the
legal adviser to make an application to the Court of Queen's
Bench for a mandamus to compel the town council to honour
the precept.
The Rev, Joseph Angus states that of those who at-
tend the schools established by the London School Board 75
per cent. are charged an average of lid., 22 per cent ahitut
314. These charges include in every case school matsrials as
anti as education. " These facts," be sari, "should be
known.. "The eprestion they raise is." he adds, "shall we,
in the large schools we are about to build, colt', ue to supply
education at half the current rates? Is it not better to lilt
our board schools through the superiority of our education
and our compulsory powers, rather than by underselling
existing se hoots and then charging the loss to the rates?
I very child we educate at 111 a week will oost the ratepayer
and the Government 5d."
A meeting of shareholders of the Caledonian, North
British and Glasgow, and South-Western Railway Companies
wee held In Edinburgh, on Monday, Mr. Russell presiding.
Several resolutions were adopted to the effect that the meet-
ing entirely disapproved of the policy of the directors of the
three companies in promoting new schemes of a competitive
character, and pledged itself to use its utmost endeavours to
secure the withdrawal of the same and that the three
Scotch railways would never be in a satisfactory position
until an equitable arrangement Is come to or working the
c ,mprtitive Wattle. A committee was appointed to carry
out the resointion.
A fisherman VMS abut to throw hia net into the
Seine on Sunday near the Island of the Grande JAtte, at
Neuilly, when he permitted a corpse Rutting in the river,
hut retained by some drooping tiranches. An examination]
of the body showed that the deceased was a man of from
flity.five to sixty years of age, of tall stature, and elegantly
dressed. On him were two large wounds, made by a sharp
instrument, one on the forehead, and the other on the neck,
entirely severing the carotid artery. In the clothes were
found two Oben& of the Legion of Honour, a railway pass
between Parte arid Versailles, and two visiting cards bearing
the name of Conamatidant Pourtel, in the garrison of the last-
. 11.11041 city. The 'flier is supposed to have been murdered
• and rowed. The Governor of Paris, deeply concerned at
i this terrible result, has defrauded from the Prefect of the
Pollee a complete report on the circumstances of Ma whole
affair.

Laid month the value of unmannfactured tobacco
Imported was 4119,406 ; in the same month last year £.64,261.
The three sisters of Lieutenant Waghorn, the ori-
ginator of the Overland Route, are to reeetve a peution of
£25 each.

The following from a notice-board in a fashionable
London suburb Ls a commentary on itself This exceihnt
site foes church or • publicimuse in to let. Apply," dr
Some stathtics are published which show that the
amount of English caiiitsl invested in American securities
during the year 1672 was about 95.000,000 dols.
The census of Brazil is completed. The population
I. ten millions, including nearly two million bitlVtli, and
260,000 aborigine'.
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In the la.t six years sixty seven Roman Catholic
elementary schools have been added, to those previously
existing in the metropolis
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The-Gazette notifies the appointment of Sir James
Furauson to be Governor and C sumanday-m-chief of lciw
Zealand and its dependencies.
Salmon are coming into the London markets in great
abundance this spring, and for many seasons past spring
fish have not fetched no low a figure as during Vie last two
weeks

A proposal has been made for the eatabliehment of
an afternoon theatre in London for performance. every after-
noon for the convenience of country residents and such
Londoners as prefer afternoon air to night air.

The consumption of foreign eggs is still on the in-
crease. In the two months of the present year the value of
egg, Imported was £264,094, against £194597 of the preceding
year. Last month the value was as much as £147,8.

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The success which Mr. Bellew has met with in New
York has passed his most sauguhe expectations. Three
readings at Steinway Ball produced receipts amounting to
4,300 dobars—ESBo.
The Rev. Mr. Dunlop, of Dumfries would never
allow any of his congregation to sleep in church if his eye
caught them. One day he suddenly stopped his sermon, and
said, '1 doot some o' ye has taeu owEr mouy whey porridge
the day; sit up or 11l name ye out."

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee' resolu-
tions to the effect that the public•houses should beolosed at
nine o'clock p m. were unanimously adopted, and it WAS
agreed to ask the magistrates to grant an interview to
deputation from the meeting, to urge on them the views ex-
pressed.
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According to a Parliamentary paper net printed the
gross amount received from trustees and interest credited by
the National Debt Corr miuloners from the commencement,
on the loth of August, 1817, to the 20th of November last, Iva.
£110,2t.3,522 (,s 61 file interest was £59,1.5,751, Os 51. on
sec mint of friendly societies and sayings-banks.

A Parisian philospher has just vacated his fleshy
tabernacle, leaving the following testament It is my will
that any one of my relatives who shall presume to shed tears
at my loners.' shall be disinherited, lie who laughs most
heartily shall be sole heir.. All the bereaved kindred are
now under treatment, it may be presumed, with htughlng-
gas.

A Manchester paper states that Miss Brackenbnry,
having no re,atives, has left the whole of her large fortune
(excepting only a few small legacies to personal friends) to
public Institutions Many of the public Inathutim sin Man-
enester and the neighbourhood will again rejoice in her
bounty; one institution alone, an hospital, being named for
£lO 000. She has also bequeathed 0,000 to Durham
University.

A Californian lady lately gave employment to •
gorgeously clad and tremendously pig-tailed heathen Chinese,
and the entire family turned out to see the new girl work.
Re broke plates, smashed • lampghimney, spilt dish-water
on the fl.mr, and swore good English when he scalded his
fingers. Then, to her great disgust, the lady tonna that the
supposed exile from the Central Flowery Land was in reality,
an immigrant from the land of flowery potatoes, Ould
()Ireland.

An "International "Deputation, including the Duke
of Norfolk, the Earl of Denbigh, Lord St Asaph. Sir H.
Itedintield, and ten other English gentlemen, waited on the
Pope last week, and presented an address, which spoke of
the invasion of Rome as an execrable crime, and Italian
unity as a pretext for reducing the Church to a sate of
slavery—an attack made with Infernal astuteness and
violence.

A shocking accident occurred on Saturday morning
in the High Park Colliery, the property of Messrs. Barber,
Walker, and Co., at Gressley, twelve miles from Notthighsm.
At four o'clock two of the miners descended the pit to their
work. On the other colliers going down about two hour.
Inter, they found the two men Wog under a quantity of
"hind," which had fallen from the roof of the working upon
them. They were extricated as quickly as possible, hut were
guile dead. . . . .

In consequence of the high price of coals nearly 600
men in the employ of the Bolton Iron and Steel Company
have received notice to leave. Round coal, which 12 menthe
ago was obtainable at from es. to 7.. per ton, is now 205. o
21., and as the firm consume from 600 to SOO tons weekly,
they have for some time been working at a loss. Unless tile
price of coal is reducei, it is feared other works to Bolton
will stop.
A meeting of delegates of West Yorkshire colliers
was held In Leeds on Monday, when it was decided to reject
the offer by the masters of an advance of wages to the ex-
tent of 10 per cent., and to accept not less than 15 per cent.,
the meeting being of opinion that the colliers were fully en-
titled to an advabce of 20 per cent —The council of the South
Yorkshire Miners' Association also met on Monday at Barns-
ley, when it was resolved to refuse the 124 per cent, offered
by the masters, and to intimate to the employers that the
men would accept an advance of 16 per cent on the present
rate of wages.—The S oath Staffordshire colliers decided at
meeting held on Monday evening to demand an increase of
wages to the extent of ls. per day.

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On the Bth instant the financial year had three weeks
longer to run, and while the Budget estimate of revenue
for the twelve months was £71,625,000, the actual receipts
up to last Saturday were £70,130,66. The income from
Customs is alreaoy within half a million of the estimate
for the year ; the Excise, so far, has produced more than
£400,000 in excess of Mr. Lowe'. anticipations; stamps are
within £466,000 of the total; land tax anti house duty have
only £lto,ooo to come up to the Chancellor's estimate ; in-
come tax I. within 440 ; and miscellaneous receipts are
£121,030 in excess. The expenditure is now more than
live millions and a half atoning under the revenue. The
balance in the Bank of England on Saturday last was
£10,713,311.