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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6.

Two remarkable documents appear in our co:muns
this day—one the offspring of despotism, vicious and
gloomy; the other begotten of freedom, buoyant and
cheerful. The first is the address of the Cz.ut to the
fanaticism of his people, pointing to his burglarious
designs upon a neighbour; the second is the Balance
Sheet of Great Britain for the year and quartet
ending last evening, July the 3tli, showing what the
honest industry of a manly people can accomplish
under the influence of free commerce. This "Ab.
street of the Net Revenue of Great Britain" tells a
very remarkable story, as will be seen by its figures
given in the opposite page. The happy results
of Free Trade are still in course of steady growth.
Out of the ten lines which describe the sources of
our national income, and tell their amount, we
have only two with entries under the heading of
decrease, and these entries both of trilling
amount. All the other eight exhibit for the
quarter a very large measure of improvement. 'they
Lay be thus marshalled in columns :
X 111,173
1)2,101
.}g,:i•?o
6,776

DLcreaEc.

Customs

Excise

Stamps

Taxes . .

Property tax
Post-Office. ..
Crown lands
Miscellaneous
Imprest monks
Repayments of ad-
vances

.£3,964

21,000
140,888

44,071

2(17,921

111,652

Deducting the 3,9614 deficiency under Property
Tax, and the larger item that comes under the bead-
ing of Miscellaneous, we have the remarkable fact of
an increase on the quarter's revenue of no less
a sum than 1,146,6:;8/. This large total is
doubly welcome when we come to note carefully the
sources whence it is derived, and to remember the
indications thence arising. First, we have
a sum approaching half an extra million,
derived from Customs, and telling a story
of increased power of consumption by the
people of tea, sugar, and other foreign products.
Next, we have the still more certain indication of a
comfortable population—an extended demand for
exciseable articles. The growth of revenue under
this heading is seen to amount to something over a
third of a million sterling on tho three months!
Notwithstanding the pending change in our
Stamp law—for pending changes always check
consumption—we see the activity of business
indicated by an increased revenue on Stamps to the
tune of 48,322/. ; the Post-office, the Crown lands,
and " Repayments" coming in to make up the re-
markable and eminently satisfactory sum total. So
much for the quarter. _ _

On the year ending yesterday we find a similar
result, told in equally satisfactory though different
figures. For the twelve months the headings pre-
serve the relation of eight for increase, and only two
for the reverse. The figures stand thus:

Customs..

Excise....
Stamps

Property-tax
Poet-office
Crown-lands

Imprest monies
Repayments of Ad-
vances

Increase. Decrease.
4.57,112

.t 531,195
474,487

31,343
225,169
25,000
172,888

143,066

163,783

479,583

After all the ameliorations of our fiscal sys-
tem, to find the National Exchequer flourish.
ing after this fashion surely encourages men of
all parties,—but especially the Reformers to whose
exertions all these changes are due,—to persist
in their wise determination not to rest until our sys-
tem of taxation is so adjusted as to press as lightly as
possible on the energies of industrious people, whilst
supplying all that may be really needful for the
national service, or really necessary for the honour
and dignity of the country. The total surplus on
the year approaches two millions sterling !
This English Balance Sheet may well be taken to
illustrate the results sure to follow the steps of a
nation that grows up in intelligence, industry, and
freedom. Where men are permitted full scope for
their industry and safe enjoyment of its fruits,
national wealth is sure to accumulate, and national
spirit and power to increase. On the other hand, where
men are serfs and in ignorance, we see them
made the ignorant tools of irresponsible despotism.
In place of winning wealth, intelligence, and
independence for themselves, demands for their
obedience and appeals to their fanaticism are seen
to be only forerunners of the outpour of evil
passions, the shedding of blood, and the spoliation of
provinces unhappy enough to become the objects of
that insatiable greed which impels tyrants to the
ruin of others—and (happily) oftentimes to the ruin
of themselves also.

Tue. Manifesto of the Emperor Ntclicouis, which
we this day publish with less surprise than regret,
affects to proclaim against the Ottoman Empire a
religious war. As far as the impious invocation of
the name of the MOST HIGH, and the impudent pre-
tence of zeal on behalf of fellow-worshippers at the
Holy Shrines, are concerned, it is the summons to a
new crusade. It is an appeal, direct and un-
disguised, to the fanaticism of a bigoted
priesthood and as ignorant population. There
is throughout a studied disclaimer of political
motives and of national views. " Russia does not
Desk conquests or require them;" as if the whole

h;.tory of Muscovite power were not one continuous
strt of forcible and fraudulent acquisitions. But
the mask of sectarian fervour is too clumsily worn to
lade the real features of ambition. With shame-
toe effrontery the Cz tit calls Gnu to witness that he
e goes forth to battle for the orthodox faith," and
pretends to believe that the special interposition of the
Mi eitruto and the Juer will attend his murderous
news. But while he fails to note a single instance
in which the rights of Christians have recently been
infringed, or the semblance of an excuse afforded for
roieng the reproach of persecution by the Ottomans,
the teal aim and purpose of this long-meditated war
of :tzgreseion is °betrayed is the avowal that the
of the Danube are forthwith to be overrun
11 Cataack hordes.
Ihe people of Moldavia and Wellachia shudder at
the approach of these ravenous invaders; for they
1,;; ,a them linhoppily too well. three years bate
si_tt Lily claimed since a corps amounting to several
thousands of them were, with an equal number of the
Turli-h troops, quartered at Bucharest and Jassy, in
order to repress certain revolutionary movements
there. which, if saeceraful, it was apprehended might
poesibiy prove contagious. The contrast between the
demeanour of the two armies has teen vividly de-
scribed by an eye-witness, who visited these countries
in 1.50, and who has since given to the English public
the impressions then made upon him. The endless
exactions of the Russian officers, and the brutalities
of their ill-fed and ill-appointed soldiery, were
strikir;ly contrasted with the decent and orderly
demeanour of the Turkish regiments; and, not-
withstanding the so much vaunted sympathy
of creed, it was plain to this Englisk observer
that the Christian inhabitants of the Priucipali-
tits regarded the Mahometan troops of their sovereign
without tear or aversion, while they looked upon the
Itu-sian army of occupation with sentiments of
hatred and disgust. As for the pretence of Musco-
vite protectiou being necessary in Moldavia or Wal-
lachia to secure the religious freedom of the people,
it may be enough to recall the oft-repeated fact that
in neither of the provinces north of the Danube is a
Mosque to be seen ; and that with the ex-
ception of a few families officially or otherwise
emcee:id with the Government, Islamism may
literally be said to have no existence there.
Churches and monasteries everywhere abound. The
metropolitan prelate is chosen from amongst his own
clergy, and receives his investiture from the I losvo-
ta,--himself a member of the Greek church,—who
wields his vice-regal sword in the name, and under the
sanction of the StLTAN. Such is the community
upon whom Itus‘ia now prepares, in the first in-
stance, to impose the yoke of her blasphemous and
rapacious " protection.**
But a careful perusal of the Peterhoff Manifesto
will show, as we have long suspected, that Russia's
designs arc not limited to the northern bank of the
Danulte. There lies between that noble stream and
the lofty ranges of the Balkan the rich and
porn:one plain of Bulgaria—a prize more fondly
coveted by the Scythian spoiler than the Woodland
country of the Ifospodars. This is obviously in-
cluded in the words of menace and invasion made
use of in the Imperial Declaration of War; and there
is no use in disguising the facilities which General
Guareitatiove would have in thus extending his
aggressive operations beyond the ricer. A
Russian army has not for many years
been seen in Bulgaria. The exactions and
oppressions of Psi --'9 are well-nigh forgotten.
The Turkish population, though far outnumbered by
the Christian, is there sufficiently numerous to keep
alive feelings of jealousy and strife. Above all it is in
Bulgaria that the secret agency of Russia has for
years been most actively at work to corrupt the'
Greek priesthood,—with what effect events may
speedily show. With the exception of Schumla
and Verna, which are so situated as to
command the passes of the Balkan rather
than to protect the province from attack
on the side of the Danube, there are no places capa-
ble of sustaining a protracted siege ; and it may be
more than doubted whether the utmost amount of
force which OMER PACLIA can be expected to bring
into the field during the next three months, could be
fairly or prudently matched against forces so great
as those which may be expected to follow the banner
of the Muscovite invader.

It is, then, upon the shores of the Danube—not
on those of the Bosphorus—that the pride and rapa-
city of Russia may be checked by the timely inter-
position of more powerful arms than those which the
Porte, unassisted, can supply. We have never be-
lieved that Constantinople was in any danger from
the romp tle main, which for some time has ceased to
be possible, but in the quarter we have in-
dicated the danger is imminent and palpable.
So likewise is that upon the side of Montenegro,
where similar intrigues have unblushingly been car-
ried on by the Court of St. Petersburg up to the
most recent period. We should like to know what
those statesmen and journalists who the last few
months were occupied with invectives against the
Porte for endeavouring to crush the results
of such intrigues, and who within the last
few weeks were still full of flatteries of the
Emperor NICHOLAS—that illustrious potentate by
whose wisdom and moderation conservative order
has been chiefly restored throughout Europe, and
political progress everywhere thrust down into dark-
ness and silence—we should like, we my, to hear
what those parasites have now to say for the idol
of their abject worship,—the ruthless Chief who, in
the name of ALMIGHTY GOD, is now preparing to
let loose on Europe all the horrors and miseries
of an unholy and most selfish war.

•
THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1853
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ovite power were not one continuous , AN ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN, D
ble and fraudulent acquisitions. But' IN Tilt YZAILS AND QUANTSBAI lINDND Jinx 6, 1832, AND 1853.
tarian teriour is too clumsily worn to I -
Quarters ended Year '' Quarters ended Year .1 Year ended July 6, Quarter/masa July 3,
restates of ambition. With shame- 1 ... -
/wed ' I ended , 1533. 1833.
he tz ilt calls 6ini to witness that he 1 Oat. 111, I Jan. 5, Apra 5, July S, Julys, Det. 111, 1 Jan. 4, 1 April 3, July 5, , Jule s, , ..--.--..--, .-- -
111.61. 1852. I 1632. 1632. 1652. .1 1832. i 1653. I 11453. 1853. I 1833. I
lnereave. ; Deere me. Inc:ream. ! Deere:me. /I
bottle for the orthodox faith," and j ,,-, -
4531073, 4,539,412! 4,615,025 4,501,161 19,011,774 3,436,6091 4,541,3341 4,132,832 4.463,47, 18,854,361, : 57.412 441.17 i --
Si
eye that the special interposition of the' Ec:1d.11"1......---•.----- ..... --
------ ...... ------------- 4,139,4154 3,552,970 2,070,064 3,443,5144 13,20404 4.303,753 3,339.616^ 2,09,592, 3,795,61; 13,737 399 ' 631,1 95, 332,101"
the J l'..T will attend his murderous ramp ----- ---------------- 1,432,56 i, 1.427,45 1A11985 1,42 *IV 6,002 A re' 1,321021! 1,615029; 1 A 37 7491 1675 14.11 6,477,3471 474871 48,312 ..... is
Taus ..... ...„...„.- ...... ..... ....»._._._.. 2654231 41..5,922, 2n3,..46 1,303,707 I 4149,7011 -159,21*,, 1,419,613' '111:474.1 l'ADl,4s3 3,291,0471 51:3451 6,174.
ile he fails to note a single instance rrueertyria . 1.870.13e 381%03 ij 2,068,827 1,016,99i1 4363,919 , 1,913,681; 468,3361 2,152,1331 10.51,017 4311111.6791 225,16V1 1 1,961 b'
hts of Christians have recently been PTV, 'grim& - ---- •....... •-- 306,00411 246,0101 14,000 230;410 1,041,006 1 261,046. 272,000 :51,110111 231,000 1,040,09,1 25,0001 21,030 N
40,006 40,006, 110,0001 60,000, 210,t0u 4,0M1 60,001 72,000. 1. o,b6b 8112,666 I 17206 a .. . 110,833, .•
. ~,
e semblance of an excuse afforded for ut‘enßll6.l •
•143,06
I _
'uach of persecution by the Ottomans, 1,„,p,,,,„,„„Tlal"?'"1""m 13,317,101 11,419,41 k 111,1115,662' 12,6.3.;,931 46,J0,396 , tsata,saa 11014,04 10,44,369 i 15,520,037 /9,376,11.41 -11,450,054 j 200,456 j Loto,sa,! 113,614 _
111,331 117,3131 140,411, 212,658, 585,..04 . 157,994: 141,936 221,09. I 25.5,759, 23/3,4. 163,7651 ' 44.071, ..... 11
A purpo.c of this 9006 meditated war Igel.Ymnit'u4 Ads: sees -- - ----. 165,236 372,371 14,6061 216,6521 612,a56 I 234,042 491,993' 171.539, 424.57:. 1,322,4459 479.383 j 20:___,
Total _______ , _
Total Incase
a 'betrayed is the avowal that the - 13,00444. 11,900,133: 11.174,731 13,031,733' 19,73.4165 , 11615 ..18 12,093,111111,2.9.3441 14,201.449; SI ,G 59,442 1.03;02 200,498 1,202.2521 115,616 u
The Amount aptided 100 m. Fund, ese:sels4l46 J Di. 200,495 lserease . D.C15,616 Decrease
e Danube are forthwith to be overrun Adv.olcs. .. -. 8,794,247 7,356,212 4695,165 7,620,954 29,111,64 j 8 445 711 7 1147 1431 3,676,93'1 3 219 9331 27 209 7331
Ditto applie.l as Advances
des. -
.-
' --..
I.
Ihh applied as p,..rtof theiraysilMOMMSl26llllMW 4325,825 quarter. a
f.loldavia and Wol!achia shudder at -"- I ' t
Total .......„„ ..... ....... .........., 111,600,140 11,94.41,333 j 11,174,731, 13,034,7331 49,756,485 ] 14046,618112.1.44111' 11,219,144 14,291,369, 54659,442 !
If these ravenous invaders ; for they
The INCOME sad CHARGE of the CONSOLIDATEI) FUND, Is the graerrass ended JULY 11, 1832, and 1853.
happily too well. three years havel
111coNii. 1832. 1533. !I CHA2O2. 1551. 1651.
il since a corps amounting to several ('uMO
.. ..- .. _ _ _... _. . .. . .-....___._. _ -....-. Z 1514231 /4,9519.4 .1 Perntanent Debt .... x3,7.3,6:14 .0:3,721,2.315 -
Mal were, with an equal number of the Elriaz ----...-...................--...............-----.............. 3,452,902 3,604,041 Terminalde Annuitks 565,037 372,173 41
1A73,14i :1 Dito est on Lacheguer4lll., Waal tamed the Chemin do Cessolt- f.
, quartered at Bucharest and Jassy, in Taxes - -. 1,144,707 1,510.43 'I Jana Fund
1,051,027 r' Rinkinc Fund
ss certain revolutionary movements itaaP=Taa ..... ••••-•-•--- -- ............ ----------- 12515,961
241,000 - The Ciail List .„ 1 99,176 99,407 i
f successful, it was apprehended might T.:,71.1-ant - ..... . .-...- m.ies soo,siis i. Other Mimeos the Onsonosed fend
.-..... ..... .-. 202,150 90,537 ; Far Aileatices SANS i 999,027
contagious. '1 he contrast between the Imprest and other Stoners.. _.. 35,515 61,141 ', Tote:Clump - g7,55,553 6,304,719 I
Produce of the Sale ot Old S:orea ........... -..........--..-......... ... 15.069 195,6.6 ," Ste Surpkar 5,711,550 6,144,662 1
the two arms has teen vividly de- Repaymants fa Ad, AM CI ..... ..... ..... ............. ............ .................. 216,652 421,5,73 '1
ye-witness, who visited t hove countries ” -- ----•.' itts,tssaas ct4.3214380 1
a:13,081.20S 1114,129.360 ~ I
ho has since given to the English public To Cash broesht to this Account to ray on' Di fteteccy BMA-- .......... 24.10,44/0 h 300.040 Die Amount et Eichetrier Dills leaved to meat the Charge of the Con.
Is then made upon him. 'I he endless -- aolladed Fund In the Qulrter ending 54 April, 1453 ... 1 11,407,512
TV amount issued in the Quarter coded July 5,1145, in part of the sums
I
le ltussian officers, and the brutalities j panel by Parkin
of tie Cone
Fund for Supply Services 7,9:2,407
.d and ill-appointed soldiery, were I Bar slue Conaolidattd Fund
The prehe.le amount of Licl.iquerElla requited to meet the Charge on 6,164,e62
trasted with the decent and orderly Its comotiasted Fund on St h July, 1833
r the Turkish regiments; and, not- £13,054,205 114,329,910 11 j 3,205,557

congress of sovereigns is the last assembly in the
world from which to expect the settlement of a
delicate and difficult business. Of course it is well
understood that the work is done by diplomatists,
but the sovereigns must meet, dine, and dance at the
court or capital. We have only to look at the cha-
racter and relations of the leading sovereigns of
Europe to perceive that even if all bad not taken part
in the present quarrel their meeting would be out of
the qaestion.
The announcement that on the 25th ult. 12,000
Russians had entered Jassy, and vrhich has not yet quite
disappeared from the columns of our contemporaries,
originated with the Lloyd of Vienna. It is contro-
-1 dieted by the Austrian government.
A letter from Vienna of June 30, in the Journal
de Franefort, says : " Communications from Odessa
state that trade is completely stagnant, from the ap-
prehension felt of seeing the port suddenly closed,
and all exportation and importation of goods being
rendered impossible. The news from the Danubian
principalities are just as discouraging; no one has
any confidence in the future, and at Jassy and Galata
the foreign firms are getting in their capital."
Oa the 2nd inst. Count Gyulai embarked at
Stettin for St. Petersburg. The official Austrian
Correspondence of the Ist has an article tending
to divest Count Gyulai's visit of all political import-
ance, and representing it as a mere compliance with
an invitation to visit the camp near St. Petersburg.
The Nourelliste of Hamburg contains the fol-
lowing from St. Petersburg of the 25th ult.:
" The Emperor has not only inspected Cronstadt,
but he has also gone to see the forts of Risbarch and
Cromehlot. His Majesty testified to General Mu-
low and to the other officers his satisfaction at
the rapidity with which the works are being exe-
cuted. Numerous promotions have taken place in the
fleet."

The Indus, which arrived at Southampton yester-
day, reports that at Alexandria on the 22nd ult. the
Egyptians were preparing their squadron for sea,
and their contingency of troops was concentrating at
Alexandria. The squadron consisted of one line-ot-
battle ship (100 guns), three 60-gun frigates, four
corvettes, four steamers. The troops were reported
to be about 25,000 men.