The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-08 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

The Quarterly Returns showing the net produce of the
public revenue, with the increase and decrease thereof, for
the quarter and year ending on the sth instant, were issued
on Thursday last. The items are as follow :

tome

Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Property Tax
Post Office

Crown Lands ....
Miscellaneous..••

Total Ord. Rev
Imprest and other
Moneys
Repayments of
Advances

Total Income ..
The Amount ap-
plied to Consoli-
dated Fund, ex-

April 5,
1853.

4,432,832
2,098,681
1,667,749
111,476
2,152,233
282,000
72,000
19,518

10,826,369
221,096

171,859

1,219,344

elusive of Ad-
vances
Ditto applied as
Advances
Do. as part of
Ways and Means
of Year

5,878,939
98,390

6,242,015

Total

111,219,344

ended

April l
ibM.

4,325,941
1,943,350
1,351,609

199,809
2,567,714
282,000
65,000
10,687

,045,700
276,91 G
111,072

111,433,088

Year

April 5,
1853.

[8,51i,189
13,385,498
8,429,025
3,194,271
5,593,043
1,045,000
252,000
271,514

148,683,540
714,718

1,114,548

April
1854.

18,871,332
13,473,872
8,494,988
3,241,701
6,975,677
1,104,000
395,888
187,544

8,799,614
158,098

4,534,478

L 1,433,088

150,612,808

[PARATIVE STATE'

Year ended
April 5, 1854.
-..
crease. I Dscrease.

103,970

108,970

1,724,062
034,309

1,398,601

51,997,862

:9,590,784
1,312,944

119,609,078

150,612,806

103,070
f Deduct
1 Decreas.

130,744,698
2,190,123

119,054,041

161,997,862

344,790

Incrse.
on the
Year.

213,744

106,891
166,231
8,050

60,787

344,790
f Deduct
I Decrease

{lncrease
on the
Quarter.

IT has been noticed that whereas the revenue for
the last quarter of last (financial) year was
11,244,5001., and the charge 7,885,2161., leaving a
surplus of 3,359,284/.; the revenue for the quarter
ended the sth inst. was 11,658,0621., and the charge
10,076,2871., leaving a surplus of only 1,581,7751.
The increase in the charge upon the quarter is to be
accounted for almost entirely by the payments made
to " non- commutors of certain stocks," which amount
to 1,999,3721.
AN ORDER IN Coutictr., announcing her Majesty's
approval of the proposal of the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners for fixing the number and salary of the
minor canons of Bristol Cathedral, appears in Tues-
day's Gazette. The number is reduced from six to
three, and the annual stipend of each is fixed at 1501.
THE STEAMER Glendower ran on shore near Mil-
ford in September last, when, owing to the prompt
assistance rendered through the instrumentality of
Sir Thomas Pasley and others, an enormous amount
of property was saved. The underwriters at Lloyd's,
to show their appreciation of these services, have pre-
sented a handsome and costly group of plate to be
distributed among the recipients. A large salver has
been presented to Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart; a
smaller salver to Lieutenant G. M. Alldridge, com-
mander of her Majesty's ship Asp; two cups, with
covers, to Mr. G. A. Macfarlane, second master of
the Asp, and to Mr. D. Hall ; and five snuff-
boxes to Messrs. Morgan, Yenning, Hill, Kin-
dersley, and Clerk, for their prompt aid upon the
occasion.

SATURDAY,

SENHOR CENTURINA has published aletterin Lisbon
commenting upon the remarks made at the dinner
given to Sir Charles Napier, in which he considers
the Portuguese navy was spoken of very slightingly
and untruly.
CARDINAL. WISEMAN was expected to leave Rome on
the 27th ult., on his route to England. His eminence
will make a short stay on his way home with his
sister, who has married an Italian nobleman, and
resides in the north of Italy. It is expected that the
cardinal will reach London in Easter week.
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF YOUNG
FEMALES held their annual festival at the London
Tavern on Wednesday. Lord Shaftesbury presided.
The report states that the society had efficiently em-
ployed the means hitherto placed at their command
in saving many young females from destruction, and
introducing them to a peaceful home, where they are
enjoying the blessings of a good education, and under-
going a preparation for honourable employment in
after life. Upwards of 000 children under fifteen years
of age have been saved from ruin since the commence-
ment of the society, and nearly 400 improper houses
have been suppressed. Fifty•six inmates are in the
asylum at the present time. In regard to the great
majority of the children, the society have every reason
to be encouraged ; there are few that have not done
well, fewer still that have done decidedly ill, and upon
the whole the educational training adopted has been
of a most satisfactory character. The subscriptions
of the evening amounted to 7201.
REPORTS from Shields and Sunderland state that
the strike of the seamen at those ports is at an end.
At Shields the resolution to break up the strike was
carried on Wednesday at a meeting of the seamen by
a large majority. An effort was made by the minority
to rally a party in favour of a continuance of the
strike, but it proved of no avail.
THE BUILDING OF NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE is
to commence in the ensuing month of May.
THE election for Governor and Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England for the year ensuing came
off on Tuesday, when John Gellibrand Hubbard,
Esq., was chosen Governor, and Thomas Matthias
Weguelin, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
THE SEIZURE OF Two WAR-STEAMERS in process of
completion by Mr. Pitcher, of Northtleet, for the
Emperor of all the Russian, has been effected by the
Customs officers. The steam-engines and boilers
were ready to be put on board. Mr. Pitcher, it
appears, insisted, as a condition of the contract,
that, as the work progressed, he should be paid by
instalments. The loss occasioned by the seizure
will consequently fall on the Russian Government.
The vessels are, it is stated, of first-class charac-
ter, and their building and equipment were super-
intended by three Russian engineers of high reputa•
tion, who, however, deemed it prudent to depart some
time ago for America.
A Subteruous BANQUET was given at the London
Tavern, on Thursday evening, in honour of the Earl
of Elgin and Kincardine, Governor-General of
Canada, and to celebrate the success of his lordship's
administration of the government of that colony.
The Right Hon. Lord J. Russell presided. A very
distinguished and numerous company attended on
the occasion, and after the dinner the galleries were
occupied by a party of ladies. The Chairman gave
the health of their distinguished guest, who had for
so many years presided over the Canadas as governor,
and having reviewed the former system of colonial po •
hey pursued by this country, contrasted it with the more
enlightened views of Lord Elgin, who had reconciled
all parties. To that policy, he maintained, was to be
attributed the prosperity of the Canadas. The Earl
of Elgin, in a lengthened speech, replied, and a
number of other speeches followed, among which
were those of the American Minister, the Hon.
Francis Hincks, Prime Minister of Canada, /a.
THE departure of the steamer Great Britain which
was advertised to leave Liverpool for Australia on the
13th inst., is deferred till the 29th.
THE persevering Lord of the Manor of Hampstead
has this year for the sixth time applied to Parliament
to alter his father's will to enable him to build over
his property at that place.
A TREASURY ORDER prohibiting the exportation of
saltpetre or brimstone to any port in Europe was
issued on Thursday.
A FURTHER REDUCTION OF TEA DUTIES tOOk effect
on Thursday last. A very large amount of business
was done in the Customs department.
Two ELECTIONS took place towards the close of
last week, both unopposed. On Friday the Earl of
I3ective was returned member for Westmorland in
the room of the late Alderman Thompson ; and on
Saturday the vacancy occasioned in North Durham
by the accession of Lord Seaham to the peerage was
filled up by the election of his brother, Lord Adolphus
Vane.
THERE is not much business doing in war risks at
Lloyd's, but the rates are advancing. Three guineas
is the premium asked for vessels to the colonies
and India out and home, and the same for vessels
out and home as far up the Baltic as Momel.

APRIL 8, 1854

THE DEATHS REGISTERED IN THE METROPOLITAN
DISTRICTS were in number 1,489. This considerably
exceeds the average, but the week being the thir-
teenth of the quarter contains a number of cases in
which coroners' inquests had been held, and whose
registration was consequently not completed at the
time. The births numbered 1,048, being 400 beyond
the average of nine years paSI.
THE PRESTON STRIKE FUND last week amounted
to nearly 2,2501. The open-air meetings of the un-
employed are now not so numerously attended, but
are still characterised by their wonted enthusiasm.
At a gathering held on Monday, at Fulwood, Mr.
Cowell again recommended arbitration as the best
expedient that could be resorted to for the amicable
settlement of this dispute. It was desirable it should
be settled, because so many were sufferers who had
nothing whatever to do with the affair. Mr. Grim-
shaw suggested the possibility of building, by proper
co-operation of the workmen, a new town containing
as many mills as the old one, but managed on a
ju.ter system, and to be called "New Regenerated
Preston." Before separating, the assembly pledged
themselves to continued firmness in the cause.
AN ADDRESS TO THE CROWN ON THE WAR WEIS voted
by the Court of Common Council on Thursday. In
this loyal manifesto the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons, in Common Council assembled, " assure
her Majesty of the cordial support of her faithful
and loyal subjects the citizens of London in prose-
cuting the war declared by her Majesty against Rus-
sia, in the confident belief that it is a just and neces-
sary measure to preserve the balance of power in
Europe, and in the earnest hope that it will lead to
an early and lasting peace."
RESPECTING the opening up of the River Murray,
it is mentioned in the last advices from Australia
that Captain Cadell had returned to Adelaide on the
29th of December from his second successful voyage,
and had set out on a third trip, which would be to
the junction of the Murray with the Darling. He
also expected to make a fourth voyage, as far as the
Wakool, before the close of the season, after which
it was his intention to proceed vid Melbourne to
Albury, Gundagai, and Seymour, for the purpose of
exploring the tributaries of the Murray by small
boats at the worst, or driest, period.
THE TREASURY have intimated that copper, pig
iron, bar iron, hemp, flax, pitch, tar, resin, turpen-
tine, and oakum may be exported without any bond
being given, but their lordships reserve to them-
selves the discretion of requiring bond hereafter on
the exportation of these articles, should they see
cause to do so.

MRS. CHISHOLM, whose unceasing exertions on
behalf of emigrants to the shores of Australia are so
well known, and whose care and vigilance have within
a. few years been the means of producing a total change
in the arrangements on board emigrant ships, took
her public farewell on Monday on board the Ballarat,
about to sail to Port Phillip, and in which she pro.
ceeds to join her husband, who also has been labouring
in the same good cause in the southern hemisphere.
The last band of emigrants which will sail from Eng-
land under the charge of Mrs. Chisholm is on board
the Ballarat, and will consequently have the great
advantage of her care and supervision during the
voyage.
ASSOCIATION IN AM OF THE WIVES AND FAMILIES
OF SOLDIERS ORDERED TO THE EAST.—At a meeting
of the directors of the Conservative Land Society a
resolution was unanimously passed by which the
mansion and grounds of St. Margaret's were placed
at the disposal of the committee in aid of the soldiers'
wives and families, to be used in any public way they
might think most advantageous to promote the in
terest of the charity. A reply has been received
from Lord Ingestre, chairman of the sub-committee
of the association, thanking the society for their
offer, with the intimation that the organisation of a
public entertainment in St. Margaret's-park would
be taken into consideration.
Parser CHOLAM MARRED and his son, the son
and grandson of the renowned Tippoo Saib, have ar-
rived in England by the Ripon. The prince has
never before been out of Calcutta. He is come
hither to endeavour to get his pension settled on his
grandson. He speaks English fluently. His phy-
siognomy is very peculiar, almost Jewish in appear-
ance. When he landed at Southampton, Prince
Cholam was dressed magnificently, his cloak being
something like a cardinal's, with inwoven gold. His
cap was also like that of a Catholic ecclesiastic high
in rank : in front is a star of glittering diamonds.
On one of his fingers was a ring with an immense
emerald set in it. At Malta he attended a review of
the British troops, and one of the first regiments he
saw exercised was the 33rd, which was at the taking
of Seringapatam, and from which his father, the
celebrated Tippoo, met his death. Immediately after
arriving he addressed letters "To the Eldest
Daughter of his Highness Prince Golam Mahomed,
at his house at Russapuglat, Calcutta," and "To
the Mosque of Dharumtalot, Calcutta." A Treasury
order VMS sent to Southampton to pass the princes
baggage through the Custom-house.