The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-22 00:00:00

4,700,000 E ; lirddthe _ _
far*, daddifes, el 10 eirmi-le &bent ins
ether ism of 4,1 Irt mud net be le&
(ellen that those easentens dlsmapensise between the
remise and the roe wen the emit se an
malpie, in which of 72,000,000 L wire in-
skid as :ipae. into the freeway mile the
astlisebel the law of the 311th Imes, 1841.
Ms nal therefore, between the emcee
Of ,Leary revenue and the total expenditure of
1•68 end 1847. shows that upon the two years
then was a gross ashisatien of 290,000,000 f., or, in
mend *ores, twelve minions starling.
Upon the budget of 1848, as it was submitted by,
the saber, of Loom-Putuire, there was again a'
delaiway at 55,006,000 E, or 2,250,0001. It was to
son balance them enemseire and prodigious heat.
fisioneies el the revenne—amountiag as we have mesa
to 4,700,0001. in 1848 ; 4,100,0001. in 1847 ; and
2,250,0001. in 1848 ; altogether to 11,0/o,oool—that
the loan of November, 1817, was negotiated by M.
donor. The amount of that loan was 230,000.000 E,
and it wee taken on the 10th Nov. (1847) by DI.
Now
of in a three par coat. stock at 75.26 per cont.
Now of this loan, as everybody remembers, some 12
or 14 per cent., amounting to shoat 18,000,000 E, had
been actuallj said by the subscribers whim the revo-
lution of February took place; and as a matter of
common justice the Provisional governineat felt them-
selves bound to relates the contractors hem a bargain
which they literally wild not fulfil ander the altered
airaimstances of France.
Upon the most favourable computation, therefore,
the Republic inherited a deficit in the finances of, at
all events, ten millions sterling.
The question then turns upon the measures which
have been adopted to diminish or to increase the
gravity of the crisis. What has been done P Have
the expenses been so effectually curtailed, or have
the resources of the exchequer been so effectually re-
plenished, that already no small progress has been
made towards the annihilation of the ugly sneer P
Let us see.
Nobody, in the first place, believes that the ordinary
means of the Minister of Finance have been aug-
mented since the Revolution. It is, in troth, no
longer a matter of opinion, but a matter of het, that
upon almost every division of the receipts these hes
been a falling off more or less important. 11, Bit-
LAULT reported to the Assembly on the 7th June lest
that up to that time the deficiency in the ravens, was
already 33.000,000 E, and would in all likelihood be
as much as 100,000,000 f. before the end of Eremite
of 1848. M. Glooncneux on the sth July gave a
still more ominous account, and did not hesitate to
suppose a defalcation upon the ordinary taxes of 1848
of 200,000,000 f.
There can be no danger, therefore, in treating as a
fact the positive declension of the revenue of 1848
very much below the iodinates drawn up by the
ministry of M. 0 01ZOS.
There will be still lee danger in concluding that if
the resources have not increased, it is abundantly
'pertain that the expenses have increased. There were
the Ateliers Nagionaux—the army of the Alpe and the
Garde Mobile—and the decrees which for a month
fell as thick as blackberries, dispensing credits and
dotatioos for the enrichment and the furtherance of
almost every class and every project under heaven.
At this moment the French executive have actually
seder arms upwards of 5e0,000 men, and the ex-
=it the Minister of War are said, on good an-
, to fell not far short of 2,000,000 f. a day.
Did is an armament prodigiously beyond the ant
of the budge-t- The estimates of tha
_mascot for the war department were 270,000,0001.,
is mese than' 30 per cent. of the outlay posi-
tively in progress. And then the army is only one
thing among many. All the rest,to be sure, are mere
Wm by comparison, and after we have reckoned up
the hospital grants of June—the credit for Parisian
hese building—the cost of emigration to Algiers—
** indite to various branches of distressed industry
—the cost of slave emancipation—and fifty other
Wogs with which the students of the Munitesor are
familiar—we shall edit find the drafts of the War-
cam to be the triton amongst the minnows—the
real spermaceti amidst a shoal of sprats. Here how-
ever her the list, and although the recital is long, and
many of the misted. contemptible, there an be no
dispute that the sum total comes oat in heroic pro-
portiWons.
e alluded the
to the exposition .of M.
GIOUDCH ' AITI of the 22nd July. If M. GOUDCHAUX
had been as candid on the subject of the anew of
expenditure as he was upon the sallied of the
defalcation et rani" his statement would have
approximated very closelyto the Shay of
an exact picture; ea the mew sloth we are
beholden to his he ealy half the troth. We swept
Abe leinele et M. GOMM= as to the
epee the eedbery MOM of 1848 at 200,100:407,
although it will tura ad to be nearer half as much
more. Now to this 200,000,000 f. we m
ph add the
additional expenditure which has been im upon
the estimates of the budget. Nobody in Pleb will
pet down this excess at hos than 600,000,000?.. The
meth therefore is limply that by fair gamine or foul
the Faeoh Finance Minister must put himself in pow
=dim of 800,000,000 f. (32,000,000() extra, if be im-
beds to me the end of the year without a deficit; and
Ihie, let us remember, is entirely independent of the
10,000,0001. of arrears from 1846 and 1847, provided
for by the loan of Nov. 1847, end which are still
aaredeemed, because the contract for that loan, as
we have seen, did not take effect beyond
one or two instalments.
Now, as far as we know, the following is a fair out-
line of the measures which have been taken to meet
this oneresens defalcation in the finances. There is
that the leas of 50,000,000 f. from the Bank of France,
Ma Treasury Bonds, obtained immediately after the
thelitation of the republic. There is then the forced
ems ement of 45 centimes on the Contributions
Dfresks,at first estimated to prodnoe 180,000,000 E, then
180,000,000 E, then 120,000,000 E, and now reckoned,
with truth, at 80,000,000?. After this comes
Leafs Prilllutat ilreitill°Ltrgesstalubturwwinll antot3°b:eoreillitfe?.
Is the herds place, there is the mood loan from the
Bank of Foment obtained or extorted by2d.Ductzitc.
The extent of Ids loan is 150,000,000 L, payable half
in 1848 and MV in 1849. The stock of the
sinking find bee boon given as security to the Bank.
Fifthly, Gams the loan of 200,000,000?. obtained in
August by M. OouDCHAUX in 5 per cent stock, at
a ruinous price, and half of which is due before the end
of this year. And there we come to an end. This,
then, is the recapitulation for 11348 :
Fled lose W Hank of Enna.
tkansd ditto
Noticed loan
211.000.000
45 orb on tam. 80.110.800
I pat cosi. an mortgages
Inationd roommate .... /.0.50‘0000.
Against this we must recapitulate the diminished
MOM of

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Total MO .

opal to about 26,000,0001. sterling.. its have
not included the booms tax in this statement, bemuse
its 'Minato adoption is still in suspense. It is esti-
mated to prodase 00,000,000 E
We are happy to say that OW share in this for-
midable istariflis is endued to describing it. How
it is to be met, and, still more, how it is to be our-
mounted,st r ecaLiblem which will tax the esittoys
and the of any government which
seemseither to have or willing to obey.

Thu loyal Higanehland gatberirratmßraissrasinsr on Fri-
day and
oy y
lastow it pd gaily tnll beneath royal
modes, with tie magailesat stretching
round, and on anobeied sun looking down, was yet
a spestwile saloalated to inspire sad reductions,
through the arociation ot contrast with other soma,

gra ‘,
representadve of a Glassman who struts bieLlathis
Queen, and the real Celt, with his worn frieze
jactst, walking along the dark winter road, carrying
a small, dirty sack, to receive his ration of meal from
a relief oommittse.
If we had used for our simile the caterpillar in-
stead of the grub, it might have led to the false in-
ference that our contrast of Highland life applies to
the same men in two different positions. But it was
not intended to do so ; for the men of holidays, and
gatherings, and tartan, are a totally different class
from those whose clamours in seasons of famine ex-
tract the money of the charitable. We know not
how far her MAJWITY at the Home-Secretary may have
suppoesd that the military array before them represented
Highland clansman in the old sense a:theta.= Bat
we know, for our own part, that the leaders con-
sisted in a great measure of English and Lowland
sporting gentlemen, whose pleasure it was to mask
(if each a tarn be applicable to a process of partial
denudation) themeless in tartan, while the warlike
clansmen were represented by certain valets, grooms,
and game-keepers, to whom abundance of tartan,
lochalsr axes, broadswords, and bsgpipn communi-
cated amy warlike and rebellion of sort of

airman is too near the Lowlands on the one hand,
and the snared solitudes of the deer forests on the
other, to admit of a large muster of native High-
landeirs. Hence, while those who came from a
tance wondered at the scantiness of the number pre-
sent, those who knew that they stood on the only
peopled spot of a district where you might travel
lbkty miles in almost any direction without seeing a
lease, were surprised by the largeness of the assem-
blage. Whom could the owners of these solitudes—
some of them among the most unpopular men in
llootland—obtain, to act the part of clansmen, but
their own personal atter.dants, most of them born south
et the Tweed?
The worthy gentleman who presided over the
pieties and hospitalities of the occasion gave his
aaditors a proper type of the character of the exhibi-
doe when he spoke of the little Prince of Wails with
his Highland dress as " altogether so well got up." It
was, indeed, a "get pp," and so far as personal
matters go we have seen as good and a far moms
numerous tartan gathering on the stage at
Drury-lane ; though, It mast be admitted, that, as to
the adjuncts, the sun of Friday was ill represented by
gas, and the side slips cannot supply the place of the
mountain ranges of Ben-abourd and Lochin-ye-gair,
or the forest of Ballochbnie.
We are curious to know how many oat of the
two hundred (or thereabouts), dressed in what
is commonly believed to be the Celtic national
dress, could speak a sentence in the Gaelic
tongue. This same costume, by courtesy called
Highland, is as unlike the garb of which
it professes to be the representative, as the
London man of fashion spending hie month of
deer-stalking at his lodge in the north is un-
like Roe -Rot or Locutim. The poverty of
a semi-barbarous people explains the secret of the
partial clothing of the old Celt. His representative
has, by connivance with certain ekilfel weavers, and
, accomplished tailors, and through the aid of abundant
jewellery and glittering cutlery, converted it into a
theatrical costume of wonderful variety, if not beauty.
We believe the quantity of clan tartans invented
within the put ten years exceeds all that had pew
*Wily been known to exist : they will, of opium,
Kate ran hence, if the fabric continue fashionable,
be believed to be as many thousand years old as any
writer on the costume of the clans or any audacious
draper may beplessed to amen.
In cossiderable contrast with this ornamental re-
tinue were the competitors for the prime, the runners
of races, the panne of the stone, the heavers of the
hemmer, and the upsetter. of the pole. Not one-
loadened, like their neighbours, with heaps of orna-
mental tartan, they approached, in scantiness of
clothieg and exposure of limb, somewhat too closely to
the appearance of the Athletes of old; and the wonder
was, how peculiarity of circumstance and some re-
candled the on-lookers to such expiates as in the
parks would first elicit the shish of scandalised
women, and next the interferes of the police. The
real competitors at these games ere generally few in
number—not above six we believe tried the raw Up
the hill, the most effective exhibition of strength and
agility at the Braemar gathering. Yet it is difficult
to estimate the mischief which these exhibitions, sup-
ported, as we believe they are, by reallaiell-meanmg
people, do to the great body of the hinders by
the force of example. The peculiarity the Celt is
that he is too fond of amusement and too impatient of
labour. The great problem is to induce him to work,
and his pe eiing friends only induce him to
play. He seedily undertakes momentary efforts of in-
tense modem, especially if they involve competition
itathWilti therefore he is ready at say time to
likes lolling, in the sun with the
rtiFieseizZarece or the wrestling match ; but
labour that can alone make a
pee* Ismemtable and respectable his soul loathe
With a pia bathing. His taste for amusement is
only apillpd yr hie veneration for tine clothes,
glittering truelmib sametial parade, and insignia of
dignity—so that Ss people who support these sportive
gatherings of ma " all plaided and plumed in their
tartan arra " stm doing their best to nourish those
defects of chuaalse which have made the Highlanders
a burden and a scandal to their industrious neigh-
bours.
We daresay this is all done in innocent ignorance;
but itis a matter in which those who know better should
give their counsel to these proprietors of Highland es-
tates, whether of native or southern origin, that they
may remain ignorant no more. We trust the day is not
far distant when people will look back with wonder
on the fact that in recent times—yea, far down in the
nineteenth century-there existed associations
for the preservation of barbarous manners
and the propagation of idleness and dis-
sipation. The new Lord of the Lewes is, we be-
lieve, an honourable exception to the thoughtless facility
with which the English proprietor. of Highland dis-
tricts have yielded to this system. The sagacious
Englishman who lately became owner of the wild dis-
trict of the old OlenflarrY country surrounding Loch
Quoich, affords another worthy example of a man
who, instead of spending his vast means on parade,
and flattering Celtic vanity or love of display, has en-
deavoured, not without hopeful prospects of 1M030314
to spread among them the severe but priceless virtues
of industry and forecasting prudence.

WE noticed in the .Frpross of the 16th of August
the defeat of a motion in the Town-council of Liver-
pool, having far its object the subjecting of the Liver-
pool dock estate to local taxation, and commented at
the time on what we believed to be the erroneous and
impolitic views of the advocates of that measure. On
the 13th instant, a motion, to rescind the pr-
vim vote of the °gond', and approve of an application
to parliament for a bill to render the docks liable to
taxation miscarried bye majority of three ; 28 voting
in its favour, and 26 against it. If the measure was
one of merely a load unbars, it would be. best left to
those i y interested, but, affecting as it does
the general commerce of the country and the interests
of the great manufacturing districts, which receive
through Liverpool their articles of manufacture and
consumption, an examination into the merits of the
controversy because an act duty.
The dinette in the Li council makes it ap-
parent that the merchant the tradesmen dames of
the pleas are in direct antagonism to each other on
thilerbint question. The commercial body are
aimed unanimous in their opposition to a project
whisk they believe to be pregnant with evil to the
best interests of LiverpooL The skepkese and
brim= bail it as an immediate means of Wining
the of local taxation under which, in common
with otherweight towns, they suffer.
Did we not know that parties labouring for the
attainment d a direct and immediate advantage often
overlook the more remote Orll which their moos.

mmt inTheoid IcevitsilyiUauee, it would be
difficult to scoount for the blin' duel which,

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premed atement, we have the kite. • w•
gkelDfe fey -sothlwe of-the heageteef-41te-steeeeehy eieotpotetweropi slid It drearyunNaPadis=ethshowda.da6
of Pleauktorice to UM& no tbal, of te" Not wider I. oostreet between the belielliereed-
by e of 117 or about lag its mearoeleered wings to the so. mei Iliejn
4.700.000/. I sad of 1847 we by a motionless grub. than between tbe kilted andisQ.—his.
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