The Press.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

Out of Exchequer Bondu

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended October 10, 1554, viz.:—
Permanent Debt
Terminable Annuities
Interest on Deficiency Bills 7,450
Sinking Fund
The Civil List
Odic! Charges on Consolid. Fund 470,200
Advances for Public Works, kc 553,408
8,607,801
Balance of Instalments of Exchequer Bonds remain-
ing unissued on October 10, 1854
Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the past Quarter—
Great Britain

Inland . .4 .6114,363

194,363
120,908,99 D

This balance-sheet exhibits some changes and extensions as compared with previous quarterly accounts
of revenue and expenditure. The revenue received in Ireland is for the first time included in the accounts,
which had hitherto been deficient by upwards of 4,000,0001. of net annual revenue. The account of the
income and charge of the consolidated fund has, also, heretofore been a very partial and imperfect one.
Instead of showing the application of the quarter's receipts from all sources, it has been limited to the
receipts and charges of the consolidated fund in Great Britain, omitting the income and charges for Ireland,
and suppressing altogether those receipts which may have been appropriated by Parliament to the payment
of other public services than those charged permanently on the consolidated Nfld. The present and future
accounts will show not only the receipts derived from the ordinary revenue, from imprest moneys, and from
repayments, but will embrace all extraordinary receipts, whether derived from temporary or permanent
loans, Exchequer Bills, or any other moneys applicable to the payment of public services. They will thus
present a complete debtor; and creditor statement of all public moneys received in each quarter, and of the
appropriation of the same.

immix Hotter will be reopened to the public, by
consent of the Duke of Wellington, during the winter
months. A variety of improvements have taken
place, and a large sum of money has been expended
to render the objects worthy of remark and more
visible than they formerly were.
TRH OFFICE or COMMODORE of the Prince of
Wales Yacht Club, vacant by the retirement of Mr.
Berncastle, has been filled up by the appointment of
Mr. R. Hewitt, owner of the Gnat, a small but very
fast sloop-rigged yacht, which carried off the purse
of soverigns given by the Royal London Yacht Club
last season.
THE number of visitors to the Crystal Palace last
week was 31,832; the receipts, 1.4011. is.
SIR GEOROE GREY, the new Governor of the Cape
cf Good Hope, sailed on Saturday last from Bristol
for the important colony over which he is about to
preside. His excellency was accompanied by Lady
Grey, his private secretary, and some domestics, and
embarked in the Setingapntam, a remarkably fine
and fast sailing ship. Besides Sir George Grey and
suite, the Berirgnpatan carried out for Melbourne,
to which she proceeds after calling at the Cape,
upwards of a hundredpassengers, a mail, and a mis-
cellaneous cargo. +

971

THE NEW Berl BILL, and the part he had
played in passing it, were referred to by Mr. Wilson
Patten at the meeting of the Fylde Agricultural
Society last week. He said, at the suggestion of a
great body of parliamentary men, he bad been in-
duced to bring in the bill, which he was afraid Was
not very popular in certain quarters; but it was only
an experiment, which he hoped would turn out for
the general gad of the country. He bad bad great
difficulty in carrying it through the house. A
member could only bring in a bill en particular
days, of which he had to give previous notice upon
the notioe-paper of the House of Commons. He
(Mr. Patten) had to sit up night after night until
three o'clock in the morning before he could get
leave to bring in his bill, and he was never absent
till he did get it through the house. But what was
the way in which that labour had been represented
by certain parties ? A paper had lately been put
into his band wherein it was stated that Mr. Wilann
Patten introduced a bill into the house at two
o'clock on the morning of the 15th of July, which
was then read a first time, there being only tsin
members present; on the 18th of July, also at two
o'clock in the morning, it passed a second reading
before twelve members ; and on the 21st of July it
went smoothly through a committee of some sixteen
gentlemen at three o'clock in the morning, the third
reading taking place on the 24th of July, before a
scanty gathering at a morning sitting, Now, durifig
the whole period that the bill was before the House
of Commons, the whole 656 members knew every day
that the bill of which he had given notice had to
come on ; and he had in his possession correspon-
dence showing that it was in the knowledge of every
soul of them that such a bill was before the house;
but because he had lost his nights' rest he was
"shown up" as a member who had attempted to
funtozgle a bill through the House of Commons. He
had taken that, the first and earliest, opportunity.of
explaining how matters really stood in regard to
the bill in question ; and he could only say that it
had been brought in entirely for the public good, and
he hoped and trusted it would so turn out. if it did
interfere with the rational recreation and real com-
fort of the public, be could assure them that he was
not its friend, but its bitterest opponent. (" Ifeeti,"
and cheers.) But he asked of the pUblic to let them
have a little experience of its working before they con-
demned it. (Hear, hear.)
TAUNTON BOROUGH REGISTRATION.—The result of
the revision of the list of voters for this horongh
proves a considerable gain to the Conservative party.
The present revision, after giving every doubtful
man to the Radicals, leaves a clear majority of
titeitty-one for the Conservative, namely : . •
49 Radicals who were on the register of 11168.4 are
now off the register of 1864.5.
80 Conservatives who were on the register of 1833-4
are off the register of 1864.5.
19 Conservative gain.
40 New Conservative electors have been added to
the register of 1854-56
38 New Bodies! eleotota.

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2 Conservative gain.
21 Total Conservative gain.
TR/I FOREARSHIRE ELECTION took place on Wed-
nesday, when Lord Duncan, formerly M.P. for Bath,
was returned without opposition to fill the vacancy
occasion by the death of Colonel Mettle.
Ter none Etrettow coMmenees en Wednesday
next, when the candidates will be nominated. Mr.
Curling has resigned in favour of Lord Dungarvan.
Mr. Nicoll *ill go to the poll.
Mn. Hymn was In Edinburgh on Tuesday, abd
left on the following morning for London. Ile was
too unwell to go anywhere, although better than he
was a few weeks since.
THE congregation of the parish church at Black-
burn have presented the Rev. E. A. Lang, curate of
the late vicar, with a purse containing 200 guineas.
Tea GERIIAN/C MU3EUX is intended to become a
Feat national undertaking, and to be located cat
present) at Nuremberg. The Duke of Coburg
nevertheless adheres to his firmer promise to here
the museum brought to Coburg, where the extensive
antiquarian collection of Coburg Castle has been of
late perfectly rearranged. His Royal Highness also
intends to build a chapel and ♦ault on the Oloekbn-
berg, near Coburg. rhe former will consist of one
principal and two lateral naves, and the latter is Who
the mausolea of the Coburg family.


Two NAVAL LIEUTENANTS, mentioned with praise in
Lord Raglan's despatches, bare been promoted by
the Admiralty to the rank of commander. These
officers are Lieutenant Derriman, who woe appointed
by Admiral Dundee to be his lordship's naval aide-de-
camp at the Alma, and Lieutenant F. A. Masse, who
returned throngh the forest with Lord Raghtit's
despatches, and thus enabled the Agamemnon to
reach Balaklava at the dt sired moment. Lierfte-
nant Manse's promotion will be to "brevet rank"' to
be eonfirmed as soon at he hes surveil MS tiltne
of two years as a lieutenant.