The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

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I LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 29.

THE REVENUE.

The amount for the quarter ending this day
shows a demeans on the whole, as compared
with the eonesponcling period of last year,
of about 100,0001. On customs there is a decrease
of about 700,0001., on the item of miscellaneous
of 94,000/. ; and on excise of about 460.0001.
Against this, however, are placed the following in-
cream.* : On stamps, about 115,0001. ; taxes, about
20,0110/. ; become tax, about 410,0001. ; post-office,
20,11001. ; crown lands, 3,0001.

The acceent fur the year ending this day exhi-
bits an awe, as compered with the previous
year, of tgreards of 4,800,0001.

On excise there is an increase of nearly
1,380,0001. ; on stamps, about 280,0001. ; on taxes,
about 67,0301. ; on income tax 4,620,C)01. ;
on poet-office 115,000/.; on crown lauds nearly
8,0001. On the other hand, there is a
falling o 8 in customs of more than 1,400,000/. ; and
on miscelhumous of 245,0001.

The decrease on customs, both for the quarter
and the year, may be attributed almost entirely
to the remitted duties.

The decrease ou excise for the qnarter is only
apparent, and arises from the altered periods
of collecting the malt duties consequent
on the shortened term of credit. There
have been actually increases on the following
items :—Licenses to refreshment houses, &c. ;
paper, owing to a reeovor7 of the tnule fermi
temporary depression ; and spirits, from the addi-
tional rate of duty.
The increase ou excise for the vear is derived from
the shortening of the malt credit, which has rem-
li.ed 700,00 W., and improved receipts generally.
On stamps there is a general improvement, with
increased receipts from new duties.

The difference in the taxes, land and aseeneed,
arisen simply fnun the progress of the house duty.
The additional return for income tax is of course
referable to the enhanced rate of duty.
The large increase on the year may be explained
he the additional duty for the last financial year
twin.; collected in the first half of the year now
ending.

The post-office improvement arisen naturally
from the extension of correspondence.

IT is instructive to glance at the gradual aug-
mentation of that noble and royal army of martyrs
ho are now wandering over the face of the earth,
soml the victims of an antagonist tyranny by which
they have been overpowered, and some suffering
from their assertion under inauspicious circum-
stances of the " right divine of kings to govern
" wrong." Nor is it less lamentable to reflect
how populous has become this body of illustrious
gentlemen, each more or less directly pretending
to a throne, yet all not actually possessing so
much as • country between them. Between
the success of their aspirations to • crown and
proscription from their native land there seems to
be no alternative. This extreme oscillation in the
fate of legitimate princes is now, unhappily for
them, altogether in the latter direction. We are
almost afraid to attempt the enumeration of this
increasing fraternity of unfortunates ; but the
practical question for all benevolent minds is what
is to be done for them, and what is to become of
them 1 Italy has contributed to the brotherhood.
The Grand Duke of TUSCANY, the Grand Duke of
M.DENA, and the young Grand Duke of PAENA,
and the Spanish peninsula ; CH•RLEN, Count of
Motrevoitsr, and Don Joist of Roamer, the first
renouncing his pretensions and the second denying
the principles which formed, as it were, the title
to his pretensions. Wu have also had the Count
of SYRACUAL, prior to GARIBALDI'S descent on Sicily,
retiring into the position of a pretender. This is
• pretty good batch for one year's intrigue and
misgovernment. But other brothers in tribula-
tion are about to follow the throng. There is
Fes %cis IL, of the Two Sicilia, clinging with
frantic tenacity and desperate avidity to • mere
corner of his lost dominions, from which appa-
rently he is about to thy ; and near him the Poet,
destined, like ULYPEEN in the fable, to be devoured
last. It would really seem as though the
Italy of NAPOLEON Ill.'s conception were about
to receive its grotesque realisation. A con-
federation of Italian Sovereigns, of a verity, under
the honorary presidency of the Pore ! The Sove-
reigns are exiles, but that is no reason why their
emit...duration 'lua' not remain in force.
As union is said to be strength, theie
trious personages--likely soon to be reinforced by
new emtpires from several tottering thrones—
might do worse than form themselves into a com•
mon body, say, "The Holy Catholic and Apostolic
" D:vine Right Association of Pretenders (Li-
" noted)." Union we are greatly mistaken, the
f"-re of mutual myrnpathyamong this crowd of royal
exile. is already leading to sonic such combined ac-
tie:i mining them, under the shelter of all the magi-