The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

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IVELIC IN 0013 AND EXPENDITURE.

This zieraing was issued an amount of the public
keen* and expenditure in the years ending March 31, 1867
sad 1868. The total Moans from Customs sad Emile ems
in 1857, 41,782,3021.; in 18.58, 41,186,3571.; from Nampa, at
at.
la 1857, 7,396,6851.; la 1358, 7,470,6171.; from as-
soma sad lead tams in 1857, 3,114,4431.; is 1868, ..01-
8,160.762 k; from property and income tax ia 1867,
16,050,6701. ;hi 1866, 11,398,4351.; from the Poet-aloe in 4'
1867, 2,909,1311.; is 1858, 3,018,113/4 from mows leads la 91
1857, 443,4781. ; la 1838, 417,9091. ; hors ether t
ordinary revenue and other resources in 1867,
1,006,174141 a 1858, 1,598,8871. The total income's 1867 was
72.794,81116., sad the total ordinary expenditure 78.042,7501.,
the excess el expeditors over Meows Wag 3447.8061.
The tslel imam isless 68,257,0901, an total 0181' W-
orry sapsedlowe 70,612,5331, the exam of expenditure i
Mai 2,365,4631.
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M. do Is RoaciAre hp Marry, alptain in the
imperial wry, has retuned from hie mission to
Stella sad flt. Petersburg. At Berlin, it is raid, he re-
ceived tram the Rises Regent the Cross of Commander of
the Pruden Regis. What he has obtained is the Roast=
capital I stoma say; but that he had a private
Interview with the Czar, and that he le setting
sat hellebore positively *fame& In the diplomatic circles
It is not ambled that his Woks to Prussia as well se to
Plaintent and'intimately relating to the important
Serbs edam mescal.—Pert correspondent of Tunes.

A telegram from Berlin mentions the death on
Thursday of the wall•known suthoroso Mdms. Bettina
Arnim.

The coursing fixtures for next week are—Long-
ford (Derbyshire) on Teseday and IVedeaday; Southport
(0) ou Wednesday, de.; Cothleatose (0) Red Airdrie en
Thursday sad Friday, and Kyle Club (Anchitilsch)
Champion Collar on Friday and Saturday.
SALMON.—The season in the salmon fisheries of
the river has commenced well. Abundance of 6ne flab hays
already found their way into L6B market front King Garth
and the other fisheries • eighteen came Into Carlisle for sale
from King Garth yeate;day. Major Jackson, of Warwick
Hall. lam had some good sport with the red, sad the
veteran Waits:elan, John Roberts, had an hour's struggle ea
the Crosby Rocks with a monarch of the stream, which, es
suecumbing to his skill, proved to he Nibs. weight.—Corlisk
Patna.

Tut Costner WILHLLte.—The sentence of death
pissed on thin unhappy man has been commuted into peril
serritule for life—• commutation which seems to have Kruk
him with dismay sad eporebensioa; and In a letter to his
Knowing wife tells her that he thinks even death would
have been sweeter than his living an everlasting reparation
from her and their children. hire Wilhelm will we believe
My her hat visit to het husband this day. She is still re-
riding at the house of the generous Mr. Southern, the Black
Buil inn, Kirkdale and had it not been for the very great
bade.. of this individual and a few casual contributions
from charitable Know., she must inevitably have had phial-
hag want added to her greet sorrow. As it is her oro.peota
are dismal indeed. Apparently, but we hope not definitively,
abandoned by her relative., Lad on the eve of confiosagisit,
It is hardly likely that a stranger like Mr. Southern can eta-
duns to fled her • horse; and under there circumstances IN
bare teem requested to make an appeal to the generosity of
the peblio on behalf of this deeply unfortunate =MC
Lissrpeol Mercury.
Tnies os OLD.—The melancholy sunshine came
flooltag into the room, and with it dozen ere ilketions that
bed lain mimeo for twenty yes... Surely this was the !MO
amain. that used to gild up the walls of the church at
bona% twenty years ego; when be, • loan hungry little bey
—used to sit there with his mother on timidly afternoons,
dozing, drowsing, dreaming, with an eye on pretty little
Betsy Brown, and dcsigna to win her heart with
Use present of a halfpenny—when he 'honk' get
one. The gentle air that blew In at the window,
it wafted him back to the buttercup and daisy day.; to Sett-
ing with a crooked pin under the little old bridge; to solitary
rumbles after achooltime, when nobody would ploy with him.
It brought back the scout of the wall-flower, that grew in
mother's garden trend they smelled like no other wall-
flower. in the world); and once more he stood picking
eosziet-brana into • big yellow dish ; and It was a
sunny Sunday morning, and the bells began to
nag. And how that old mother of his would come
into there retrospection. Standing at the door again' fu
that mighty bonnet with the bow a-cop—glorious in a red
and yellow cotton gown that had been worn to tatters years
and years ago; cutting brawl-and-butter by the light of •
winter fire; oilskin her droning old *wig of Lord Bateman
to blea as be sat there in • night-cap and the scarlet fever ;
stealing up to hie bed at night to give him • kiss; or to
plum a surprising pair of new boots on his pillow, to greet
MI when ha awoke. Thee, and fifty other
homely ertate, returned to him, softened by the far
distance of twenty years; and so plainly did they show in
the autumn sunshine, so:distinctly did the old life move in
them again, inspired by the breath of that soft wind, that
the moat trifling detail. became deer, end he wen aware of
every sound. He beard the rushing of the river over its
stony bed as distinctly es If is were actually fishing there
again with his crooked plais; Its saw the king-fisher corns
down aid perch en • brad which floated with the
venom ; be hears farmer White's sews lowing in the meadow
beyond, end the reedit rustled and waved, and dipped their
fleg• lazily into the water. Hon I hum! That wes the
droning of the schnolmom ; and there was Johnny Wigget
asleep span, with his heed on the long inky desk, and the
Inn kindling his red hair into a Same.—" Under • Clond,"
in the Weevers Gad. _ _

MORO COURTrOtS KTND.—WO arc afraid
that the good old cartom of cetachipleg servants on the
teat heads sod particulars of Sunday sermons I. ail but
towered in these degeners.e dap. In the olden times
of eateekans, it was customary for the good man
to insist *pea lilt only the text being brought
bow, bait large pertiles of the discourse, for the
edfgasllsaef all awl minify who bad been detained from
the awning. Occasionally he met with a rebuff from
some eressieee scamp, who shirked the querion in
of ewer, as in
...the ffflowlop.—Master

wheat sae the teat the de),? Jock I 'diens ken:
Ia se owes ling o'gaen in. Neater What wee the
tiosclueloa ? Jock I dines ken I tam not dm he
wee dant" Muter: What did be say about the
Initiate el, then ? Jock I Mona ken ; I elerptt e
the tin.. This may be 'nymphal, bat the following is
het •—• poacher, sot a hundred miles from Hstriek, having
bean intomped in hie Memo by the bawling entrance of
a "Itoolurtre trall*" wa :64bealcaodttecl.as'iirding td?olohe,renehwe
i=sair:Dedwarlite Wood if Ids diecourso ea if nothing had
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