The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

QUARTERLY REVENUE ACCOUNT.

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The revenue account for the quarter ending
on Saturday shows a total' increase of about
£5,000,000, as compared with the' corresponding
quarter of last year. Out of this, sum -about
£130,000 is derived from malt spirits and paper;
about £3,500,000 are' yielded by theincoine-tax,
owing to the.increased rate ; and there are small
increases under the heads of stamps, post-office,
and 'miscellaneous items. There is a decrease
of about .£366,000 on customs, arising from
the operation of the commercial treaty
with France. The year's account exhibits
;an increase of £340,000 on customs. This would
have been 'even larger but for the special cause of
decrease referred to above. The increase is
,derived from rum, tea; tobacco, and currants.
On excise there' is an , increase of nearly
£2,400,000 proceeding from almost every item—
'malt, . spirits, piper, and hops showing the
largest' increase. On the year the- increase in
income tax will be nearly three millions.
Stamp tax and post-office also yield an
increase. The total account' for the year
gives an increase of about five and a-half millions.
The only item experiencing a decrease is that en-
titled miscellaneous; which last year included a
large .sum. for the sale of old surplus stores after
the Crimean war.

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

After Easter the St. James's Hall will he for some
time in the possession of concert-givers every night. '
The Christy Minstrels are fulfilling a farewell season
at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street.

We understand that a trial night, for new compo-
sitions, will he held .by the Philharmonic Society in the
course of next week.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul this day resume their
entertainments, with new songs and characters, at the
St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, for a brief farewell season.
The anniversary dinner of the Artist!? General Belie-
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volent Institution took place on Satarday evening, at the
Freemasons' Tavern ; Mr. Gladstone in the chair.
" PALMERSTON UNMASKED is the significant title
of a-pamphlet which has just appeared at Berlin; where
Mr. David Urquhart seems to be forming a sect.
On- Monday, says the Theatrical Lounger of the:
Illustrated nines, one•of the worst farces ever seen, and
yet, we regret to say, embodying to their degradation
the talent of some of our best artists, was produced at
the Adelpbi.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The programme for the
season of 1860, if it cannot be said to boast any very
startling novelty, is yet fall of evidence that' Mr. Gye
has not relaxed in the efforts, which have hitherto been

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attended with` such suCcess, lia .give to his tious
representation of the lyric diam'a, as complete as possible

in every respect.

The Directors of the Scottish Temperance League,'
some months ago, offered a prize of £lOO. for "the best
temperance taw, illustrative of the injurious effects of
intoxicating drinks, the advantages of personal abstinence,
and.th.e demoralising . uperatisau..of the.. liquor ..trulto:!,
This prize "has just been :a-warded to Mrs. Wood's tale,
Danesbury House."

M.-Louis Blanc will deliver his first lecture in Eng-
land befpre the St, Jobp's Wood Literary and cilen~ific
Society, at the Assembly Rooms, Eyre Arms, on, "The
Mysterious Personages and Agencies in France towards
the End of the Eighteenth Century." 'The syllabus
promises a most interesting lecture, and the reputation
Of the lecturer cannot fail to attract .a numerous audience.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—MddIe. Piccolomini's series of
twelve conceits commence to-day,. and continue daily
during Passion and. Easter weeks, on Good Friday, and
the Easter holidays ; although the early -clays of Passion
week will, no doillat, be preferred by• season ticket-
holders, and many others who may desire to listen to
the fascinating favourite of the public in More quiet than
can be the ease on days which Are so very crowded.

' Next week will, be Passion Week, when the usual
undramatic entertainments takes place in theatres. Mr.
Adams, that perennial astronomer, comes with his
orrery ; -and there are monster - OnicertS as 11mA—A

novelty will be found at the Haymarket, where, from
eight till ten, Miss Amy Sedgwick will give readings
trim Shakspeare, Byron, Hood, and Tennyson, and.
deliver anode on the rifle corps movement, written for
her by Mr. Tom Taylor.
The benefit in aid.of the funds of the Roval Dramatic
College, which has been announced for some time past,
took place on Friday night at Covent-garden Theatre,
which Mr. Gye, in a most liberal spirit placed at the
disposal of the council, and it is next to impassible to
imagine a more successful 'affair. The house was crammed
in every pant, and hundreds were turned away from the
doors unable.to obtain admission.

Mr. T. Mason Jones, the young orator, whose orations
on Burke, Grattan, Milton, &c., at Willis's Rooms last
season, caused a marked sensation, has been lecturing in
the provinces with remarkable success. He has added
to his repertoire an oration on the late Lord Afacaulav,
which was delivered at the Free-trade Hall, Manchester,
a few evenings ago, to an enthusiastic and crowded
audience of more than 4,000 persons. The Manchester
press is loud in its eulogiums.
Mr. John Payne Collier, the Shakspearian critic and
commentator, is, it appears, " a brother of the craft."
The Freemasons' Magazine, therefore, appropriately
Conies to the rescue of a brother in distress, and contains
a most elaborate defence of him against the attacks of
Kr. Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armitage Hamilton, an
employe' a the MS. department of the British Museum,
who charges the veteran critic with nothing leis than
literary forgery.
WORIcM BURNFP AT ALABAMA.—The'

gotitgoniOry (Alabama) Mail says,—" At four o'clock
yesterday afternoon, b y previous arrangement, there
was a burning of the works of the notdrious English
Abolitionist; Spurgeon, at the bookstore of Mr; B. B:
Davis, Market-street. Mr. Davis prepared a good fire
Of pine sticks in the rear of his store, and in the presence
of several gentlemen—some of them true Baptist—about
eixty volumes of Spurgeon were reduced to smoke And
ashes:" '
Paul Mendelssohn, brother of the late composer, and
one of the leading hankers of Berlin, has addressed a
letter to the editors of various German papers, which
ipray riot be devoid of interest to the Etiglieh friends of
his deceased relative. Intending to publish a collection.
Of that relative's letters,.he invites the holders of such
recious manuscripts to permit him the use of all in
their possession. Herr Droysen, the famous historian,
as offered to undertake the editing of the forthcoming
pork.
Jules Gerard tells us that, after several expeditions
against the lions of Algeria, he could pronounce ohthe
age and numbers as well as on the nature of his game,
by a careful inspection of their .spoor. ' Snch a faculty
the geologist needs who goes in quest of the " first
traces of life ;" for, as the track of the living animal
may be followed long after it has disappeared from sight,
so may the footprints and impressions of the earliest
inhabitants of our planet be detected on the rocks, while
every other.record of their existence has passed away.
M,, Aerease has recently explained to the cerele in ,
paris a whiilesate method of making oil-pictures, founded
Upon a facility with which oil-colours pass through fine
tissues. After paintini over the parts of a piece of
stretched muslin through .which he wishes the valour to
pass, he renders the rest of the tissue impervious by a
solution of gelatine thiekened with zinc-white. By
arranging a separate piece' of muslin for each culotte' or
tone, he obtains an effect like successive printings from
lithographic plates; and the pictures so produced can be
touched up and finished with a brush.
The men hated each other, You hate,' no doubt,
remarked in your experience of life, that when men do
hate each other, about a woman, or some other cause,
the 'reel reason is never assigned. ' You say, "The &in-
duct of such and such a man to his grandmotherbis
behaviour in selling that. horse to Benson—his maner of
brushing his hair down the middle "—or what you will,
"makes, him so offensive to me that, I can't endure
him." His verses are, therefore, mediocre; his speeches
in Parliament are utter failures; his practice at
the bar is dwindling every year; his powers (always
small) are utterly leaving him, and he is repeating- his
confounded jokes:until they are quite nauseate.. Whre
only about myself, and within these three days, I read
3 nice little article written in sorrow, you know, not
irritii-te-Fs"-- by our eminent confre're--Winitis, deploring
the decay of,' &c., &c. And Wiggins's little article
which was not found suitable for a certain Magazine ?
Aliens dent ! , The drunkard says the pickled salmon
gave him the headache ; the man who hates us gives a
reason, but not the reasthi.—Thackensse
At the top sits Fame kicking her heels, carrying her
trumpet mincingly, making sometimes a feint to put it
to -her lips and sound it, more frequently looking down
superciliously with eyes half closed, and pretending to
be unaware of the panting wretch toiling up the -Weary
rungs beneath. Some swarm upthis ladder like boys up
a pole, hand over hand, a good grip with the knees, a
confident, saucy, upward look. Others stop in inedio,
look round, sigh, or are satisfied, and gravely descend to
refresh themselves with bread and cheese for life. . Some
stegger up, wildly, and tumbling off; are bOrne, Mai-
lated, to the hospital accident-ward to die-. Others
there are who indeed obtain the ladder's summit, but are
doomed to always crawl up and down the degrees. These
are the unfortunates who carry hods to those matter
cram the' boy-senator for his maiden
bricklayers 'Who have bounded up the ladder sy,ieh airy,
strides, or, better still, have bees born at the top of 14
pump or the tubular bridge,
ladder. Poor hodmen! they make dictionaries, draw
sets of Parliament,
*ech, farm Phidias' rough _clay_ sketch into a„hapalif,.
shade witlandian ink 4e,rdaimecies,
er's foot, and -
some there are
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glol itnmarbleo.draughtssleirefjoabortus
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Some, the few,
the lelicitoris, who reach the summit, breathless' but
tlisaa.
umph ant, beldly bidding fame. him herloudest blast.