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THE DEFICIENCY.

The estimated revenue, as I have already stated, is
53,349,0001. And therefore there is a deficiency upon the
estimate of revenue for the year 1854-5, as compared with
the estimate of expenditure, amounting to no less than
2,840,000/. That estimated excess of expenditure above
income does not represent the whole cost of the war. Had
it not been for the measures in which we are engaged, and
which we deemed necessary, for the honour and welfare of
the country, we should not only have been spared present-
ing to you that deficiency, but we should have been in a
condition to promise you a surplus. As compared with
the estimate of last year, the increase upon the army is
832,0001.; upon the navy, 1,253,0001.; upon the ordnance,
793,000/. ; upon the commissariat, 88,0001.; upon the
miscellaneous, 299,000/. There is a small diminution
upon the packet service of 8,0001., and an increase under
the head of military extraordinary expenses of 1,050,000/.
stated the cost of the expedition to the East—or, rather,
not the cost, but the sum we are about to ask of the house
on account of the cost—to be 1,250,0001. Last year there
was an expenditure of 200,0001. on account of the Kaffir
war. Therefore the balance under the head of military
extraordinary expenses is an increase of 1,050,000/. This
shows a total excess in the estimates of the present year
over last year of 4,307,0001. The estimate of expenditure
which I presented to you in April, 1853, was 52,183,0001.
The estimated revenue which I now look for, for the year
1864-5, is 53,319,0001. yo that if our expenditure, accord-
ing to estimate, had continued the same as it was twelve
months ago, instead of a deficiency of 2,840,0001., I should
have been able to present to you a surplus of 1,106,00 ?I.
The total difference on the account against the Exchequer
amounts to no less than 4,500,0001.

THE CONJUNCTURE.
The total sum for which we have to provide, without
taking the surplus into account at all, is 2,840,0001. Under
these circumstances, it will be for the committee to consi-
der In what manner this deficiency shall be made up.
(Hear, hear, hear.)
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DO NOT PROPOSE.
I trust that the committee will not consent to make up
any portion of this deficiency by interfering with those
reductions of taxation which have acquired the force of
law, although they have not yet taken actual effect.
(" Hear, hear," and eheem) I am well persuaded, what-
ever other course you may think it proper to adopt, you
will not retrace the steps you entered on last year, so far as
the present measures and the demands of the present exi-
gency are concerned. But, if money must be had, is it to
be had by increasing duties on other articles? If you are
determined not to repeal the laws of last year, and likewise
determined not to part with any income now, would ibe t
right at the present moment to increase the rates of duty
on articles of consumption in the branches of customs and
excise, or to replace those duties, or any of those duties,
which during some years you have abolished? I cannot
doubt the answer of the committee will be is the negative.
London, England, 1854-03-11

BIRTHS.
BENTINCK—On the 6th instant, at 48, Charles•street,Berkeley-
square, Mrs. George Cavendish Bentinak, of a son.
HARRIS—On the 9th instant, at Bayswater, the wife of Captain
Harris, Bengal army, of a son.
LINDSELL—On the Bth instant, at Fairfield, Biggleswade, the
lady of Major Unclean, H.M. 28th Regt., of a daughter.
London, England, 1854-03-11

REVENUE OF PAST YEAR.

On the 18th April last I ventured to estimate the income
of the country. The customs revenue was taken at
20,880,0001. The actual receipts (without allowance for
the reductions which have taken place) were 20,000,00()1.
The excise was estimated at 14,640,00.1, and has realised
15,107,0001. The stamps were estimated at 6,100,0001.,
and they have realised (notwithstanding the remissions
afforded under several heads) 6,960,0(X11. The assessed
taxes were estimated at 3,250,0001., and they have produced
3,178,0001. The income tax, which was estimated at
5,550,0001., produced 5,700,0001. The Post•ofce, estimated
at 900,0001, produced 1,082,0001. The Crown lands, esti-
mated at 390,0001., produced 391,0001. The miscellaneous
receipts, estimated at 320,0001., produced 503,0001. The
produce of old stores, estimated at 4600001., amounted to
481,000/.
The total amount of anticipated revenue during the
year had thus amounted to 52,990,0001. The real
product had been 54,025,0001., showing an increase
over the estimates of 1,035,0001.

EXPENDITURE OF THE PAST YEAR.

On the other hand, the expenditure for which the house
provided last session had not reached its utmost limit. The
expenditure was estimated at 52,183,00 W. The actual ex•
penditure for the current twelve months, although ma-
terially augmented by the measures connected with.pending
military operations, would amount to 51,171,000/., showing
the following result:—
Estimated expenditure
Actual

Diminution £1,012,000
ANTICIPATED SURPLUS.
So far as we are able to estimate the actual surplus of in-
come over expenditure for the year, which will be declared
when the balance is struck on the bth of April, I shall now
place that surplus at 2,844,00,11.
London, England, 1854-03-11

GREECE.

An Athens letter of the Ist inst. states that the
insurrection is extending in Thessaly. General
Kanyos has joined the insurgents. The English
and French Ambassadors have had a long audience
with the King. Sir J. Church has been appointed
general. The citadel of Arta has been taken by
assault. The Turks have been beaten in several
encounters with insurgents. Prevesa still held out.
On the 25th ult. Zamit Pacha left for Salonica,
with 4,000 men, to quell the insurrection. Her
Majesty's steamer Niger has left for Albania.
London, England, 1854-03-11

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAT.
Lord BRouonAm'presented a bill for the assimila-
tion of the Scotch bankruptcy laws to the English
in certain points—a bill which, he said, had met
with the full approval of all trading classes in Scot-
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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1854.

WHATEVER may be the errors of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and to say and do many things
which are unjustifiable is, perhaps, inevitable
in an active parliamentary life of forty years'
duration, there has been on the whole,
throughout his career, a certain dignity of
behaviour which is peculiar to those whose
feelings, not absorbed in the present hour,
yield to the " last infirmity of noble mind,"
and dare to dream of posterity. Though often
factious, his conduct has never been base;
though sometimes malignant, it has never
been mean. He has contrived, on the whole,
to combine an unscrupulous devotion to his
party with a certain historic career, which it
has been his personal object to pursue and
fulfil. In the exigency of the moment he has
not hesitated at an appropriation clause, or an
Edinburgh letter; but these, when they had
served their purpose, were thrown aside, and,
as he flattered himself, forgotten. They were
the manoeuvres of Brookes's, and the schemes
of Woburn Abbey. The personal policy of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was of a different order :
it connected his name with great principles,
great measures, and a great cause. It has
often been pursued without the sympathy—
sometimes even against the will—of his party.
He has advocated views on religious liberty
which many of his friends think unnecessarily
extreme ; he has proposed schemes of Par-
liamentary Reform against which some of his
followers have openly rebelled. Yet these are
the subjects which will transmit his name to
a future age, and will secure for him a place in
the history of that country of which he is
proud to be a son, and which, in turn, is
favoured by being the birthplace of the house
of Russell.

But the subject with which above all others
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has sought to identify
himself is that of Parliamentary Reform.
Measures which affect the disposition and
distribution of political power are the measures
which live in history. The reform of tariffs
and the revision of taxation are soon forgotten.
The franchise that is gained lasts for ever ;
the memory of the duty which is repealed
passes away with the generation which bore
the burden. Years hence, when the duties
on corn and sugar will be subjects for the
antiquary, Magna Charta and Habeas Corpus,
the Bill of Rights and the Reform Act of 1832,
will be fresh and dear in the memory of a
proud people. No one knows this better than
Lord Joss RUSSELL ; and, surrounded by the
intriguers of the hour, with whom he often
condescends to intrigue, still, in his innermost
self, he cherishes his historical position, and
looks forward to the day when some aristo-
cratic champion of public liberty may quote
his name in the House of Commons with the
same reverence as he now invokes the
London, England, 1854-03-11

RESULTS OF RECENT TAX REMISSIONS.

The total amount of the customs duties which we re-
pealed last year may be stated at 1,483,0001. But there
have been circumstances affecting the operations of the cus-
toms duties unfavourably, and what I must allude to parti-
cularly is to that branch of the revenue derived from
currants. That has been not merely diminished, but
almost annihilated. It yielded :
In 1851.2
In 1852-3
In 1853-4
Thus, this head of revenue has yielded not one-third of
what it afforded three years ago, not owing to the dimi-
nished disposition or ability of the people to consume the
article, but to the great diminution of supply by reason of
the blight which affected the vines in the east of Europe.
Then the measure with respect to the reduction of the tea
duty has been brought to bear under circumstances far from
favourable. When, however, we look at the exact state of
this head of customs revenue it stands thus :
Receipts from customs duties 1863.4
ditto in 1852.3
Showing an increase of 204,0001., notwithstand-
ing reductions in duty to the amount of 1,488,000
There is another article on which the duty was reduced
last year, and as to which the committee would like to
hear the result—l refer to the penny receipt and draft
stamp. A great deal of interest attached to this experi-
ment, and the result has proved satisfactory beyond all our
expectations. The state of the law produced by the change
of last year was indeed very difficult, and there are various
points in which it would be desirable to propose to the
house to amend it. But the state of the case as to figures
is as follows :—When we reduced the stamps upon re-
ceipts from a scale of duties fluctuating from between 3d. to
10s., to the uniform duty of Id., the estimated gross loss to
the revenue for the year stood at 155,0001. Half of that,
however, t ventured to assume would be recovered even
during the past year, and, therefore, I only charged myself
with the loss of 74,0001. But the change only took effect on
the 10th of October, and, therefore, I must divide this sum;
so that I had only to calculate on a loss to the revenue
under this head of 37,0001. Very great difficulty was found,
notwithstanding the utmost exertions, in supplying the
demand which sprung up for stamps, which bore no pro-
portion to the previous consumption; for under the old
law obedience was the exception, and disobedience the

SATURDAY,

rule ; whereas, under the new law, Jam happy to say that
obedience is the rule, and disobedience the exception.
(Hear, hear.) And notwithstanding the great reduction
made in the amount of the duty, for the six months com-
mencing the 10th of October and ending the /Ali of April
(so far as I can state), the receipt stamp duty has, instead
of falling off by 37,0001., actually increased by 38,0001.
(Hear, hear.) The actual receipt into the Exchequer
during that six months last year was 88,8981. ; the actual
estimated receipt during the current six months is 124,6371.
London, England, 1854-03-11

IILiBRIAGES.

BOLTON—DUFF—On the 17th of January, at Bombay, Hely
Frederic Bolton, Esq., 12th Regt. N. 1., to Eliza Jane, younger
daughter of Lieut.-Colonel D. G. Duff, Bombay Army.
COLLIER—CALMADY—On the 7th instant, at Wembury
Church, Devon, Wm. Fred. Collier, Esq., son of the late John
Collier, Esq., M.P. for Plymouth, to Cycill Christiana,
daughter of Charles B. Calmady, Esq., of Langdon-court, in
the same county.
PAGET—PAGET—On the 27th ult., at St. James's, Piccadilly,
Lieut.-Colonel Lord George Paget, M.P., 4th Light Dragoons,
youngest son of the Marquis of Anglesey, to Miss Agnes
Paget, daughter of the late Sir Arthur Paget, G.C.B.
YONGE—DUFF—On the 17th of January, at Bombay, Frederic
Longford Yonge, Esq., 16th Regt. N. 1., to Georgians Annie
Chalmers, elder daughter of Lieut.-Colonel D. G. Duff, Bom-
bay Army.
London, England, 1854-03-11

THE SEAT OF WAR.

With a Map of the Seat of War in the East, price Half•a-Crown,
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And numerous other Papers by distinguished Writers.
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STRAND.
ON Wednesday last a new farce, The Anonymous
Letter, from the pen of Mr. F. Talfourd, was layed
for the first time. The piece is slight in construc-
tion, and is akin to that school of burlesque in which
the author first distinguished himself. An old gen-
tleman learns from an anonymous correspondent that
his niece has eloped, and that she is disguised in
man's clothes. Mr. Hector O'Flash (humorously
played by Mr. Hodson) is mistaken for the young
lady ; and the fun of the piece, which is pushed to
extravagance, consists in the absurdity of the stalwart
Hibernian being taken for one of the female gender,
and made to appear in petticoats. The audience
were amused, and the curtain fell amidst applause.
The Corkonian Brothers is a burlesque upon The
Corsican Brothers. Thus we have an Irish jig in
place of the masked ball, boxing matches and single-
stick encounters instead of duels, and several ludi-
crous parodies, some of which were effectively sung.
The scene in which Tim Mulligan's ghost proceeded
to refresh itself with a glass of whisky and a pipe of
tobacco drew down shouts of laughter.
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OLYMPIC.

A VERY amusing farce, entitled To oblige Benson,
pleasantly adapted from a French original, was on
Monday last produced at this theatre. The plot
turns mainly upon the following incident. Mr.
Southdown, a mild, inoffensive, bucolic gentleman,
as his name imports, is persuaded to feign jealousy
of his wife, which leads to his believing his spouse
really faithless, and the most violent expressions of
bones fide rage on his part; this unexpected pro-
ceeding being, of course, founded upon a mistake,
which in the end is satisfactorily explained. The
piece is very strongly cast, and was played through-
out in a manner which fully justified the character
the management has acqwred for endeavouring to
render the acting of the plays produced as effective
and finished as possible, and the chief feature of the
performance. Mr. Robson as the hero, Mr. South-
down, fully availed himself of the opportunities the
pact affords for the display of that quaintness of
manner and intensity of feeling which are his chief
excellences, and was much applauded by the
audience. He was most ably supported by Mrs.
Stirling, and Messrs. Emery and Leslie. Miss
Wyndham played the little part of Mrs. Benson
almost to perfection. Study and experience, as we
have before had occasion to remark, are all this
lady requires to make herself a finished actress.
This little piece obtained a decided success, and will
no doubt have a good run.

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rising taste of the public. But this is in all respects
the most arduous undertaking in which he has yet
embarked. Unluckily the work appears when the
mind of the country is almost exclusively occupied
with the war, and the arts are the first to suffer in
any partial depression of prosperity arising from
such cause. But, as the claims of this really noble
and most attractive work to public favour become
known, we do not doubt that it will receive the sup-
port it so largely merits. When complete this
" gallery " will certainly possess sterling and per-
manent value. Of the six engravings issued three
&no from Osborne-house, two 'rota Windsor, and one
from Buckingham Palace. We quite concur iu the
truth of the statement made in Mr. Hall's pro-
spectus, that the work "is the most perfect, and at
the same time the cheapest, collection of tine line
engravings that has ever been issued in any countxy."
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LYCEUM..

Mn. CHARLES MATHEWS had his benefit on Wednes•
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but contributed by the managers of the other prin-
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