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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7.

THE ERRORS DI THE
TABLE OFFICIAL REVOTIJE
.
The first step towards amendment is an open and
honest confession of a fault, and it affords us much
satisfaction to find that the Treasury have the can-
dour and manhood to admit they are wrong when
they find themselves so. The following letter will
place our readers in possession of the needful correc-
tions of the Revenue Table published in our pages
yesterday, and in the pages of our contemporaries,
from the official document itself:
" Sir C. THETZLYAN presents hie compliments to
the editor of the Daily News, and encloses a cor-
rected copy of the Comparative Statement of In-
crease and Decrease in the Account of the Revenue'
Not to the newspapers last night.
" The Post Office was returned on the year as a
decrease of 18,0001., instead of an increase of 82,0001.
—difference, 100,0001.
" The Miscellaneous was returned as a decrease of
17,3341., instead of a decrease of 117,3341.—making
also a difference of 100,0001., balancing with the
above error.
" The remainder of the account, including the
increase on the year, 1,313,0231., is correct.
"Treasury, Jen. 6, 1634."
Besides the pleasure that must arise from the
receipt of this frank letter of Sir Casaus TBEvE-
LTAN, the corrections which that letter contains give
usarance of the fact that the increase on the na-
tional revenue for the put year was no less a sum
than one million three hundred and fifteen thousand
nine hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling. This
increase, we cannot deny ourselves the satisfac
tion of repeating, appears, notwithstanding the
expected and explained decrease of 341,3291. on the

past quarter.
The corrected figures, forwarded to as with Sir C.
TREVELTAN'S letter, show do following facts:
Year ended Jan. 5, 1864.

Tacreu•. Decrees.
L 232.341
Castes"
Emile 213,
Stamp. —727
.... £223,976

Tws 50,559 ....
Property Tau
Poet o 142,868 .... --
Crown 1.6666 117,354

Total igillgy MUNN 1,044,137 £341,';23
lotions mil flew INSiimo . 246,024 ....
if obsess, 3118,091 ....

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Total balm £1,667,264 .... £341,329
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Our Tory contemporaries point with envious de-
traction to the decrease on the last three months. i
trying to ignore the proportionally far greater amount
of surplus on the twelve months; and that organ of
Russia, the Times, sets up a doleful whine about this
being the last surplus we shall see if we dare to risk
war by performing our duty. Luckily for our more
timid friends we may recall their attention to the fact
that the monetary prophecies of the Times are gene-
rally wrong. That journal not long ago told us all
the colonial gold-diggers would be starved to death
for want of food, and soon afterwards said we
at home should all be ruined by our overtrade
with Australia. Rut the diggers have plenty
of food, and we have secured a better year's trade
than was ever before known since England was
England. Let, then, no honest politician be
flurried, nor any nervous one be frightened, by the
croaking. of so exploded a prophet u he of
p.4.,,;,,r,h0u5e-souare. Of course the agents of the

great Bully of the North will frighten
all whom they can ; but questions of national
finance are things to be settled by facts and
figures, and not by appeals to the fears of the timid
or the cupidity of the dishonest. While England is
industrious, intelligent, and politically free, she will
be prosperous. Her prosperity is hued on the
possession of those very qualities, institutions, and
arrangements, which would be impossible if the
patron of the Times, CZAR NICHOLAS, could have his
own way in the manner the patrons of that journal
seek to secure it for him. We have opposed the
CZAR because the CZAR committed a burglary on the
lands of his neighbour, and is therefore morally
guilty of treason against the nations. But if that
sin was not enough to have secured our opposition
to his aggressions, we should have opposed him
because his success would be at once fatal to
a large branch of our trade, and eventually dan-
gerous to the whole of it—to say nothing about
the risk to the civilisation of all Western Europe.
As to the cost of a war, if our Russian adversary
will have us narrow the discussion to that one point,
we shall be ready to discuss it fully. It seems to us
that when a moral or political duty has to be done,
the part of an honest man or an honest nation is
to do it. There is a story told of a
man who saw his brother drowning in a pool,
but stood on the bank lamenting that he could not
save him without spoiling his clothes by the water.
Since the Times and Lord ABERDEEN together seem
really to have got us to the brink of a war by not
allowing proper steps to be taken against the CZAR
when the Pruth was first threatened, the twin Mar-
plots—minister and journalist, Russian both—would
now fain frighten as not "to spoil our clothes." All
Europe cries shame at the mean and cowardly plea,
and none the less loudly for the fact that
the sacrifices asked of us are far lees than
the friend of the CZAR would have us believe. Yee-
terday the Times paraded a list of 32 steamers built,
and 13 on the stocks nearly ready, as th 3 means of
action if war should come. But we have a greater
force than this. The Navy List enumerates 673
vessels of war of all classes and denominations us
belonging to this country. Where are the others not
named by the AIMS? They have all been paid for, are
armed or can be armed, and would readily be manned
if olScers of the Peu.aw class were put out of power.
We can only help the Turks at sea, but if
these ships were used properly and honestly, we
could sweep their invader, Ramis, off every sea on
the globe. We meld carry troops from the Bospho•
rum, to attack Sebastopol by land, and could batter
every Russian fortress on the shores of the Euzine,
until they were surrendered to the friends of the Cir-
camel= SCHMITZ. Whilst a portion of the English
am was being handled in this fashion in the East,
another portion of it might be mottling matters away
north at Oronstadt, and perhaps at St. Petersburg.
All this might be dew, be it remembered, by ships
now utterly idle and useless, bet paid for. Any
war in the /Lag by land would doubtless be amply
done by CHM PACHA, aided by French regiments.
Our Waimea Den the sea, and one coup de-main by
by the fleet under Admiral DONDAS months ago
would have stopped all likelihood of farther war.
Bat if duty still demands that we should strike a
heavy blow at the invadinilg Muscovifor ever tes, let uson n
ever
fear that oar balances wl vanish