The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

quarter is 441,060 L, we arViair that 4/6i Castrato
revenue, trade, and tit* maaAore of artiphi
iag Customs dad" am all tlasiviag.
The guise is sot so faa'itail. All ;otivirajle
imposed under this ibidhome. into in
in
this quarter. They wate missal .by
OWNS to yield 4,460,000 k is the year the actual in-
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creme us imam - -
mom on the quarter only 211,2811. To answer his
expectations the lithe 0544.1 a. ;113M l"` aSrJ7
500,0001. Wes the Exams mains ile
consnaiption of malt fall off in lid's', faded Jan. 5,
1565, to 36,812,727 bushels, from 4153,178 bushels
in the presiding year. If the whole et the decline took
play after the duty was raked to 45., it would make
a sum of 1,054,0001., which would explain the non-
productiveness of the new Excise dative. There was
in the year, too, a slight falling off in the weight of
the piper paying duty. The Massed rats of the
duty, thersixe, has not answered as a financial ope-
ration. It has probably even soon:aged smuggling
loom than it has lessened consumption.
_ _

The Property Tax has Melded in the quarter
6,740,7081.; but a glance at the tables informs u
that this tax is levied chiefly in the quarters ending
**Weber and March, and we cannot infer the
wand yield from the yield is the present quarter.
la Mambo 1864, Mr. itharoirrorx, including the
miditiosel half year he then proposed to levy,
asli■atsd the 'produce of the tax is the year at
8,582,0004.; but as he afterwards, in May, added
the other half, calculated at 3,307,0001., the tax
ought in the year to have yielded 12,889,0001. Its
actual produce, however, is 10,515,3691. If we were
not aware, therefore, that, large as the sum collected
nada this head in the last quarter was, much
more is yet to be collected, and that terminating the
quarter live days earlier than usual has been sensibly
felt in this tax, we should infer that it had disap-
pointed expectations. We believe, however, that
this is not the case, and the large increase in the
quarter, 3,798,8121., as compared to the corresponding
quarter last year, is a warrant that the tax will be u
productive as was anticipated.
It is pleasant to find the Post-once showing a con-
tinual increase, notwithstanding the increasing ser-
vice it readers to the public. At the same time, it
most be noticed that this department, like other
revenue departments, is becoming more expensive,
and will cost this year 113,5281. more than last. In
like manner, the Inland Revenue department, which
includes the Rules, will oat 221,3071. more than last
year, and a part of this is caused by an increase in the
ant of the revenue polio* of Ireland, though the larger
part is the result of the increased poundage received
by the tax collectors-116,0004, on the increased
amount of taxation. But the Cuban' department will
oat a trifle Lass-I,7oo4—then last year. The whole
increased eat of the revenue departments in 1866,
above 1854, will be 338,7611. ; and it is worth con-
sideration, when war is waggery, whether the
expense of these several departments could not be
curtailed. The stamps, in which there was a reduc-
tion in 1864, show an increase in the year already
asissi, aid an increase in the quarter of 64,9444
This bespeaks an activity in trade, if not an improve-
ment in the mode of levying the duty. The eseermed
lesee, too, suffered a reduction in 1864—the effect of
Ma law passed in the previous year—and the slight
=Wain they show on the year, while there is an
imeresse Is the quarter of 95,6951., has in it nothing
extraordinary. These two items, however, are the
bast important, as they underwent the least change,
sad show the least alteration of all the great sources
of revenue.

It remains to remark that, including in the ways
and means of the quarter, 1,000,0001. Exchequer
Bills issued in the last quarter, and the sum
raised by Exchequer Bonds, the expenditure
has exceeded the revenue by 5,495,6151.; bat
the late CRARCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mica
Wed that at this period he would be in smear
a little more than 4,000,0001. In this moles, thaw
kie.there is nothing which has not been in a great
swore foreseen, and for which the morning revenue
will not to a great degree provide. To provide for
the whole of the expenditure of the finan-
cial year now beginning, Sir GEORGE LEWIS
will, immediately after Easter, bring forward his
budget. Let him remember that the people
will pay the taxes with more cheerfalneu and more
punctuality if the Executive will apply the wag
carefully to the honour of the coantry, not eqvanier
it away, purchasing only contumely and disgMem.
The industry of the people and their resources am
isettanally increasing : they are ready, and willing,
and able to provide an ample revenue for all purposes ;
bat they require the Government energetically to
fulfil its duty, and give them back in reputation and
metal service the worth of the many millions it an-
madly expends.—Daily News.

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