The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

The accounts for the complete financial year, ended the
31st of March, 1860, were published yeFterdav :
The total income amounted to 4371.089,668, the
expenditure to £69,502,289. leaving an excess of
income amounting to X 1,587,379. The details of
income are as follows :—Customs. £'24,460,901; exci.
£20,361,000 ; stamps, £8,043,598 ; taxes (land and
assessed), £3,232,000; propertc tax, £9,396,105; Post-
office, £3,310,000; Crown lauds (net), £2284,479; mis•
collaneous, £1,891,584.
The expenditure is accounted for as follows : —lnter est
and management of the permanent debt.- £23,765.829;
unclaimed dividends paid, L 114.681 ; - terminable an-
nuities, £4.320,384 ; interest of Exchequer bonds, -1854 ,
and 1855, £135,000 ; interest of Eichequer bills, supply,
£301,048; ditto, deficiency, 5.1,780.

The total of these sums is ;t28,638,725. After which
wa have • " Charges on the Consolidated Fund," in all
£1,964,394, or in detail as follow:—Civil list, £403,260;
annuities. and pensions. £350,713: salaries and. allow-
ances, £157,602 ; diplomatic salaries and pensions,
£163,061 ; courts of justice. £712,417 ; miscellaneous
charges on the Consolidated Fund, £177,339.
. The total of the supply. services. was £38.899,169;
explained thus :—Arrny, £14,057,186; navy, including
packet service, £11,823,859 ; miscellaneous civil services,
17,721.518 ; salaries, &c.. of revenue departments,
£4,438,548 ; operations in China, £858,057.

AELANCHOLY CASE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION.

On Saturday an inquest was held by James Lewis,
Esq., coroner, at the King's Head Inn, Rochester,
touching the death of Louisa Jones, housekeeper to R.
Clements, Esq.,- who destroyed herielf on Saturday
morning by taking a quantity of oxalic acid.

The first witness tilled eras Frances Tont!sins, who
said that the deceased was her fellow-servant at Mr.
Clements'. She was the housekeeper. Witness had
lived with her in Mr. Clement's service two years.
She appeared all right at breakfast time in the morn-
ing. They slept together, and the last time she ssw
her was about half-past ten, and in half an
hour afterwards she rang her bell, when she went
up stairs and found deceased outside the bed in her
clothes.' She said she was dying. She called out for
her roaster, who went in' with witness. She repeated
that she was dying, and said " that fellow," the only
words she had power to utter. Her master sent witßess
for Mr. Bell, surgeon, who came very shortly after.
She then said she had taken something, and that the
shop-boy had fetched it ;it was in two packets. She
died a few minutes after Mr. Bell came. She was not
a cheerful person, and had spoken of "that fellow,"
meaning a young man with whom she had kept com-
pany, who she said had not used her well, although
he had kept company with her thirteen years, but he
now slighted her. Witness believed he had never pro-
mised her marriage. She last spoke of it the day before
the fatal act, and appeared deeply grieved at his neglect.
She was in her' 30th year.
. .• • _

Thomas. George, aged 15, said he was shophoy to Mr.
Clements. On that morning deceased sent him. for a
pennyworth of essence of almonds, and twopcnnyworth
of oxalic acid from Mr. Hewitt, the chemist. The one
he got in two packets, and the other in a bottle. The
former was purchased for pastry, the latter she said she
wanted for cleaning copper. He had often got it for
her. They were each labelled " poison." Witness
usually got only half the quantity of oxalic acid, bat
deceased said she perhaps should not have halfpence
next time.

The COroner•then read a letter which had been found
on the person of the deceased, referring to the circum-
stances which had led to her untimely end, and saying
that James Dunstall was the cause of it, and if she had
been like some other females there might have been
some grounds for his conduct towards her.
Mr. William Pell, surgeon, said that in consequence
of an urgent message from Mr. Clements, he went to
that gentleman's house with the messenger. IR found
the deceased lying on the bed, and pulseless. She had
been violently sick and purged. He suspected she had
taken poisons and asked her what she had taken. She
seemed at first unable to reply, and at length she said
" the boy." He left her on the floor while he went to
procure restoratives, and where ho found her dead on
his return. Mr. Bell said it was a very acrid poison,
and that half .an ounce was more than sufficimt to
cause death.

Frances Tomkins was recalled. She was shown the
letter found on deceased, which she identified as being
the writing of her fellow servant.
The Jury returned a verdict, "That deceased
destroyed herself while labouring under a fit of tem-
porary insanity." The inquiry caused a very painful
sensation in the city.

CaPtain John Vine Hall was on Saturday appointed
commander of the Great Eastern. Captain Hall was
fornierly in the service of the General Screw Steam
Shipping Company, and in command of their steamers
the Crcfttis and Golden Fleece.

‘ What are you doing, my son ?" asked a father of his
boy Billy. " Smoking sweet fern cigar, father—l made
it." " Throw it away this minute ; don't you know that
a boy that-smokes sweet fern will smoke tobacco, and if
he smokes tobacco he will drink rum, and if drinks rum
he will lie, and if he lies he will steal, and if he steals he
will commit murder, and if he murders he Will be hun,o. "
• Tat SALE OF THE OPERA COLONNADE HOTEL. On
Wednesday the Opera Colonnade Hotel, formerly known
as'"Feuillade's," Charles-street, St. James's, and which,
nipetition,
for some time past, has been conducted by a public
company, under the title of the " Opera Colonnade
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Bellingham.c(v The
auctioneer stated that the directors of the company had
expended nearly £30,000 upon the property. After a
brisk competition, the lease and goodwill were knocked
down for £7,500.
MR. JOHN HEENAN AND THE CHARPIONsHip.--.
John Heenan (the Benicia Boy) has addressed a letter to
the Times, in which be says, that ho should deserve to
be called a baby if, after having come so far and not
having got a settlement, he should be willing to relin-
quish his purpose for a few good-natured pats on the
hack and being told he was a fine fellow. In reply to
the remarks of anonymous writers, who ask if he is not
ashamed to come over here to whip a little man like
Sayers, Heenan says :—" All I have to say to that is,
that, under ordinary circumstances, I would not think
of sending a challenge to a man of Savers' size, but Eng-
land thinks him big enough to defend the belt. I want
it, and I cannot get it except through him." A letter
to Bella Life is published, in which Keenan applies for
a new meeting with Sayers.