The Press.
London, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

taut ant lastion.

Her Majesty and the Court have remained at
Windsor (tiling the week.
Her MAjesty, on New Year's-day, accompanied
by the whole of the Royal Family, witnessed in
the Riding-house the distribution of the annual
royal gifts. In the evening her Majesty gave a
concert in St. George's-hall, at which Mehul's
sacred drama of Joseph was performed by an
orchestra of nearly 140 executants. Mine. Clara
Novello, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Weiss were
the principal singers. The performance was con-
ducted by Mr. Anderson, the director of her Majesty's
private band. A new English version, with recita-
tives to connect the various scenes, and ren'ler the
whole available as an oratorio, was written expressly
for her Majesty by Mr. W. Bartholomew, the music
of the recitatives being composel by Mr. W. G.
Cusins.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred came to
London on Wednesday, and visited the Duchess of
Gloucester at Gloucester-house. Their Royal High-
nesses afterwards attended Mr. Faraday's lecture at
the Royal Institution, and then returned to Windsor.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the
Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Same Weimar,
and Prince Ernest of Leiningen have been on a visit
to her Majesty during the week.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to town on Thursday evening.

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Prince .Ernest of Lciningen took his departure
from Windsor on Wednesday, en route for the
Continent.

Prince Gustavus of Saxe-Weimar has arrived at
Windsor, on a visit to her Majesty.

The Duke of Richmond has left East Lodge,
Croodwood, for a few days. His grace is expected to
resurn to East Lodge early next week.
The Duke of Hamilton left town on Thursday,
for Nice.

The Duke of Newcastle arrived in town on Thurs-
day, from Windsor Castle.
The marriage of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., with
the Lady Emily Hay, is postponed until the 17th
inst. The Duchess of Wellington will celebrate the
event by a grand breakfast in the Waterloo Gallery
at A psley -house.
Mr. William Rose, brother of Major-General Sir
Hugh Rose, is about to form a matrimonial alliance
with the lion. Miss Thellusson, daughter of the
Lady Rendlesham, and sister of the Lady Wal •
siogham.
The Earl and Countess of Elgin have retunied to
Broom-hall, Fifeshire, from visiting the Earl of
Mansfield at Scone Palace, near Perth. The noble
earl was to be presented with the freedom of the
city of Glasgow yesterday, and entertained at a ban-
quet in the evening by the civic authorities.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Thurs-
day from Broadlands, and proceeded in the afternoon
to Windsor on a visit to the Queen.

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8 IC tIE PRESS.
—777.
THE REVENUE.
I.—THE NET REVENUE.
Quarter ended 1 Year ended
.._—_,
...._!--....„
• Dec. 31, ' Dee. 81, Dec. 31, Dee. 31,
4.1 1831. I 1633. 1 1851. ' 1833.
aI2 a ; a
4317,1012111 . 5,699,967 5,384,161 '20,382,421 11,291,711
EXCISE
STAMPS 1,766,769 1,633.369 1 6,939,77 16,993,148
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX
POST OFFICE 1117,284 2:13.272 I 1,307,231 1,171.419
CROWN LANDS . BO,OOO +.5,000 i 27 i ,57 2 i 2.0,316
MISCELL.ANEOIYS 178,177 313.317 777,209 1,193,097
TOTAL 6 • 11,519,726 .11,882,201 1 38,311,:P7 164,157,903
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IL—COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
• Quarter ended I Nine Months ended 1 Year ended
Dec. 31, 1853. Dee. 31, 1353. I Dec. 31, 1835.
.......-I—_—_,
.....---,---....
.....---_,----„
Increase. I Decrease. I Increase. Decrease. Increase.; Decrease.
a 1 8 I a a a a
CUSTOMS
EXCISE
OTANI'S
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX
POST OFFICE
CROWN LANDS
MISCELLANEOUS
TOTAL 72x,3-1 I 406.14. i 6 j 3.719,316 400,141 8,327,0 W 193.657
2321,473 I 13,2::1,1:1 c8,133,:.,96
Net Increase. Net Itterearle. Net Inert-we.

Quarter ended , Year ende.l
......-,--...„, ;
..............---.
Dec. 31, ' Dee. 31, Dec. 31, !
I)ee. 81,
•
S 1034. I 1033. 1 1831. ' 1835.
I X X ; A
13171710N11
EXCISE
STAMPS 1,766,769 1,638.3611 6,966,74 ', 6,093,148
TAXI'S
PROPERTY TAX
POST OFFICE 1111,284 2:13.272 i 1,307,234 1,171.119
.
CROWN LANDS 80,000 +.5,000 i 27 i ,572 i 2.0,318
77 VISCELLANEOUS 178,1 315,317 777,- ;;;) 1,1"3,007
TOTAL 6 14,510,726 .14,852,201 1 38,311,:/97 161,157,993

M.—EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS. (From all Sources.)

hut plus Balance beyond the Charge of the Coneoli• Amount applied out of the Net Income for the Quarter
dated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept.2o,lBd3, viz., ended l)ee. 31, 1855, to Redemption of I:lehequer
Great Britain
Ireland 1320,485 Net amount applied out of the consolidated Fund to
1320,MS supply Services in the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 14.55 14,Et80,590
Net Income received in the Quarter ended Dee. 31, Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
lOSS, as shown in Account I.
Amount received in the Quarter ended Dec. 31, led),
hi fill of Loan of 1116,000,(10i.
Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the
Quarter ended Dec. 31, Itith e06,(4
Amount received in the Quarter ending Dee. 31, lea,
in repayment of advances for public works, Sc

114,7 M

420,868,7Z0
Balance, being the deficiency on the 31st December,
1055, upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in ! Surplus
Great Britain, to meet the Dividends and other doted
charges payable in the Quarter to Idareh 31, viz.
IFSII, and for which Exchequer Bills (deficiency)
will be issued iu that Quarter 3,879,710
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t24,46(4,6i0

Dec. 31, lesl, viz.:—
Interest ,f the Permanent Debt gr,,231,F7G
Terminable Debt
Interest of Exchequer Bills (De-
ficiency)
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolid. Fund 303.141
Advances for Public Works, ttc 43t4.940
Loan to Sardinia 600,000
8,1 tz,:os
Balance beyond the Charge itY the l'obsoll-
Mmd for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 18611,

Great Britain

Ireland

t411,7A

Volitztai.

411,114

Ji24.20,4e0

or the monopoly of trade; but we strike to defend the
right—we spread our shield over the weak—we confront
the aggressors—we aim at just and generous ends, of
which our own best portion shall be that we hell•ed to
redeem the world from what threatened to be a destruc-
tive desolation.

MR. CRAWSHAY BAILEY, at the Tredegar Agricul-
tural Meeting in Monmouthsl.ire last week, declared
that he was a strenuous supporter of the war, and as
long as we had the support of our noble allies would
say never make peace without the Crimea and Bess
arabia :

They all cheered when the war was mentioned, and they
must not be afraid of the expenses. Our expenses for
last year had been ninety millions of money, but all the
taxes were not lost—it was only like taking money out of
one pocket and putting it into the other. At Newport,
for instance, they had had a regiment quartered iu the
town which spent more money than all the taxes levied
there. If they were determined to carry on the war they
must support it ; and whoever was Prime Minister, whether
Lord Palmerston or anybody else, he would support the
man who carried on the war with vigour. fie had always
been an independent member, and had occasionally sup-
ported Lord Derby, hut as for Lord Palmerston he would
always give him his hearty support while he continued to
carry on the war vigorously.

Mn. DE NT, M.P., at a soiree of the Kit aresborough
Literary Institution on Tuesday last, spoke of the
great social and literary progress made by England
of late years. He believed that even the war itself
had been a direct means of promoting edwation, by
showing the advantages possessed by soldiers who
could read and write over their less educated com-
rades. With respect to peace, Mr. Dent regarded
the statements of negotiations being actually in pro-
gress as mere rumours, .‘ because he believed that
P.ussia had not yet been sufficiently curbed to make
her submit to those terms upon which peace could
alone be secured." Mr. B. S. Collins, the president
of the institution, courteously concurred with the
view taken by Mr. Dent:—

'The responsibility (he said) rested with the executive,
whether to zontinue the star or to bring it to a close, but
he believed that, while on the oue hand the people of this
country would not permit the Premier, her he might
e; to mile reace upon teats rehi, b %ere not safe and