The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

THE REVENUE RETURNS.

(Front lite Times.)
Each succeeding quarterly return of the revenue
gives ocession for utterer( the same verdict congratulatioo.
Sines the present qaarter is that which Immediately pm.
cedes the Inandall statement. the ratan is more than
usually interesting, as affording the means of predicting
with tolerable accuracy the tenour of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's iddrem. It is natnal to denim totals and m-
auler, so we may my at owe that the gran produce of the
roves= for the year ending March 31, 1865, wee no leas
than 70,3144361., split= 70,208,9631. for the . year preoed-
tag, sod that this amount has been raised in spite
of the large =million of taxation which was
made last year. The different heads of trusties
show the means which have achieved this result. In
spite of • »dual= amounting to more than 1,300,0001.
last year, the onstems fee the year ending yester-
day amount to 22,572,0001, against 23,232,0001. for the
you before. The excise, which is • still better test of the
general well-being of the people, =a risen from 18,207,0001
to 19,668,0001., and thus by itself puts ea isereened sum of
1,361,0001. into the national purse. Stamp are buoyant ;
taxes also show en increase. The Property tax yields woo.
aerially, sad It is • sign of the advent:4e( wealth of the
country that whereas the estimate need to be • million der-
UV for every =nay of the tax, • sixpenny tax now
producer 7,958,0004 When it is remembered that the
whole moss of the labouring classes, the animas.
and area the very small tradesmen are free from this
Impost, and that it only affect" • comparatively small ae-
ries of the eoemenity, the min of nearly eight millions
produced by a tax of sixpence in the pound be certainly an
astooishing resell. Another sad still more gratifying
Proof of the programs of the country is afforded by the
returns of the Post-office, which have risen is • dog= year
from 3,810,000 i. to 4,100,0004 What en edemas in know-
ledge, 'lnterlines, and gawks! hippies= is indicated by
these figures All bat • small ponies is collected in
pennies affixed to letters sent within the limits
of the Untied Kingdom, but on the foods of the
Poet-061a is 'barged the cost of transmitting letters
to every part of the globe by means of subsidies to the
various lines of ocean steamers. Yea, even with this heavy
burden,fwhich makes, as it were, the Inland latter-writer
pay for the correspondence of ' him who seed totters to
India or the colonies, the Postefflee gives a considerable
surplus to the conetry. The total result of the year is that
there lea decrease of 660,0001. oe the =edam", coned by the
diminution in the sugar duties; an increase of 1,351,0001. on
the excise, a demean of 1,128,0001 from the lowering of the
property-tax, an increase of 290,0001. on the Poet-offlos
through the rapid growth of the national prosperity end
eullghtenmest.
This statement earkikely give. ground for cheerful antici-
pation" with regard to the forthcoming budget. Last year
YG Gleristorms estimatel the revenue at the year 1864.65
let 19,860,0001., and the total expenditure at 66,890,0004.
leaving a surplus of 2,570,0001. With this surplus he
dealt by reducing the sugar duties, taking off • penny in
the property tax, and lowering the Ere Insurance duty. The
effect of thin abandonment of revenue was to reduce the
warping from 2,570,0001. to 238,00 W., and if the country
had rumba stationary the revenue for the year would
ban been • little above sixtyeevea millions. Snob, how-
ever, has been its elasticity, owing to the genera pro-
sperity and the absence of any commotion on the eon.
ties= of Europe, that the total revenue is actually
70,31.3,4361. Ni. Gladstone last year stated that the
average rheum al the revenue for the preceding ten or
two yeses bed been from a million to twelve hundred
thoomod posed' • year—that is, the national income would
have increased at that rate if no financial changes had been
made. Bat this estimate seems now likely to be exceeded.
The re of the country is growing, and is likely to
grow, at a greater rate than dude, that period of ware and
rumours of wan—the ten years from 1853 to 1863. If the
country will continue to preserve its neutral and peaceful
attitude, will resist the instigation of alarmists to excessive
armaments, and of busy =atom= to • meddlesome policy,
relief from financial burdens will come through a double
operation—through the deenarreof the national expenditure,
and through the steady advance of the revenue by means of
the increasing comforts of • prosperous people.

Sazious Accumar TO Mn. HZNItY HoLas
An waded of • very serious obaracter occurred to Mg.
Henry HOll/11/2 a PAUSE 01 the firm of the Mmes. Hoare,
bankers, Loam, ea Tbenday kat, while riding upon the
Great Eastern lice by the rooming tan from Loudon to
Cambridge. The ecaiderit took place just as the train
emerged out of the &idiom Eod tunnel. It appears that
Mr. Roue injudiciously put his bead out of the carriage
wiedow while In the tunnel, which came In contact with
as of the telegraph poste, taming coricassion of the bait.
Mr. Hoare was seen by a fellow prismagre in • stooping
posture, leaning over the earriap dear ia • senseless oda*
and upon the arrival of the train at Cheeterford every at-
tention was paid to the Wand gentleman, who wee con-
voyed to Wbitilmford,mod there medical aid was at ogee
procured. The resident surgeon was seat for, sad de.
spatchat forwarded to London for other medical assistasee ;
and we are happy to hem that yesterday (Friday) morning
easciousases had returned. and that Mr. Hoare is in a fair
way A recovey.—Cambridge Independent.
AORICITLTIMLL PIIZIIB. —WO are happy to an-
nounce the elms list in agriculture of the University of
Ediehumb for On session 18114.5, beanie, besides the ,
merely dun whisk it riserds, there are prizes
included in It which are gives by the Highland sod Agri-
cultural Society. The followbg are the men who have
this smoke takes haseare :a4. Is ordieary dam OXIlaillfi•
boss Sind dais °satiated's) :—Obrietiaa Carl Jambes%
Damara ; Patrick Gaorimthsigie, Scotland ; (mooed ekes
certifieake), John Brown Kassay, Boothia ; Comm Heat
Walton,Werwialtabire. 11. Highland aegisty Prins of 61.
and 41., fa be give is boob :—tat pens, Christian Cad
Jacobsen : Sad, Petri* Camp Craig erd ilia be
say that Mr. Jacobsen bad already distiagnishal limn al
the Emil Agricultural College, ariammar. whose &dig
the pad two years he has bees • succaudal Ambit—
Gardeners' Chronick.
CRYSTAL Pairea.—Oaa SWILUNO DLL —tax-
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