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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1.

Tree Revenue Returns for the year and quarter
ended yesterday will be found in another column.
We learc from them that there is a net increase on
the returns for the quarter, as compared with the
corresponding quarter of 1855, of 1,477,6451.; and a
net increase on the returns for the year ended 31st
)larch, 1856, as compered with those for the year
ended 31st March, 1855, of 4,497,6711. The returns
for the quarter show an increase under every head
of revenue, except Stamps and the Post-offios; those
for the year show a similar increase, except under the
heads Stamps, Taxes, and Post-office. The increase in
the Property Tax Returns is attributable, no doubt,
to the augmented percentage of that impost ; that
in the Customs and Excise must probably be as-
cribed mainly to the war taxes in those depart-
ments. It has also to be noted that in addition to
the increased returns of ordinary revenue, Govern-
ment have raised, during the quarter just ended,
nearly three millions and a half by the issue of
Exchequer Bills and Bonds, and have received a trifle
more than three millions and a half in instalments
of the Loan of 5,000,0001. There will also have to
be issued, in the coarse of the quarter which has
just commenced, Deficiency Bills to the amount of
about two millions and a half. This assuredly is no
very alarming state of our financial affairs at the close
of a two years' war. We cannot look for an imme-
diate abatement in the rates of war taxation; there
are outstanding bills still to be provided for, and our
military and naval establishment' cannot be reduced

from a war footing in a day. But it is a Milking
exemplification of the power and resources of Great
Britain, that a war which has exhausted Russia, and
made even Fllll2OO stagger, appears likely to impose
upon us burden scarcely greater than we have ere
now incurred to relieve an Irish famine—certainly

less than we voluntarily imposed open ourselves to
put down the slave trade and emancipate the =gross
in our colonise.

Tax interpellation of Lord PALYERATON by Mr.
Flamm, on the subject of the Peace, may be clas-
sified among what have been called " unrehearsed
ante Last night, as the massembliog of the
Howie of Commons, after the preliminary routine
which precedes serious business had been gone
through, there was a momentary pause. There
was an appearance of a desire to try whether some
more detailed information regarding the Peace than
was to be found in the curt notices of the Morsiteur
and Gruerfe could not be elicited. Bat no Cabinet
Minister was present. There was a general laugh,
and the House at once went into Committee of
Supply, although it was barely half-past four. Three
minutes had scarcely elapsed when Lord Per
nos entered the House, and was received with cheer-
ing and laughter. This appeared to Mr. Faucet a
good opportunity for playing off a little virtuous in-
dignatioo. Accordingly he threw out hints that pos-
sibly the PILIELLIR had waited at the door until after
the House had gone into committee, to avoid being
questioned; and soeoladed by moving that the Hones
do now report progress, to allow the noble lord, if he
saw proper, to make a statement. Lord PALMERSTON
met this onslaught with his usual playfulness; declared
that if his honourable Mead wished to be told officially
what unofficially he law already, he was ready to
enlighten him; repeated that the Treaty of Pesos had
been signed, bat that the stipulations were not to be
published before the ratifications had been exchanged,
expressed a hope that this might be dose in about
three weeks; spoke in warm though general terms of
the satisfactory character of the Treaty; affirmed
that the manner I. which the negotiaticas bad bees
carried on was calculated to cement the aliases
between' France and England; passed a glowing
eulogises on Leeds CLARENDON and COWLEY; and
ended by stating that be had nothing more to
nay. The House again laughed ; the Committee
resumed ; and nothing more was maid about the
matter. To parties unacquainted with the tone and'
temper of an English House of Commas, this any
look like trifling; hat it was not so. The Hoses
being aware that no real information mild be
elicited, did not waste time in attempting the im-
possible. Perhaps the pettiness of the balk of the
topics whisk occupied the attention of the House
daring the evening was quite as charseteriatie of an
English Legislature as the little episode we have
adverted to. In any other country it might have
been considered a breach of decorum for legislators to
be disputing about a charge of sixpence for admiesios
into a cathedral, and about the comparative eligibility
of flagged or gravel paths, while uncertainty pre-
vailed as to the stipulations of an European Peace.
Bet JOHN BULL is proverbially regardless of stage
effect. He transacts business in the intervals of ex-
citement without troubling his head about dignity.
And he is not the less alive to the great interests of
existence because he can find time in their pauses to
mind its trivial details. When the time cornea the
stipulations of the Treaty will be closely scanned;
bat till the time for discussing them mass, there is
ao :sawn why attention should not be paid to the
extortion of beadles and the maintenance of foot-
ways on which a man can walk with comfort.

Out of doors the postponement of revelations se•
westing the Peet* is endured as patiently as Is
Parliament. The Equanimity with white tab
RagNehmen passes from • belligerent to a pulls
state is as ea:opinion in national as is playa
broils. He can fight, and it is a matter if
indifference whether he fights or act. ad=
refused the offered terms of pesos the English people
would have carried on the war cheerfully. They are
told that Russia has given in—that she has conceded
the points in dispute—and they my, If it be as, thin
is no use in fighting any longer. Bat it would be a
great mistake to imagine that this external coolame
is the result of apathy, or that the English people
will be satisfied if the stipulations of the Treaty of
Peace should be found to fall short of what they
had In the meantime they are
resume their pacific avow_
not quite so demoastrative
_ other side of the Channel-
exuberant hilarity produced by
appears to be is a great snap
eo•fined to the official circles.
• fact that the proclamation
-••: of • reduction is the

Zbe Court.

Bank rate of discount should have been accompanied,
at Paris, yesterday by a fall in the Bente, notwith-
'tending all the enthusiasm a made to order."

Ose of the great prizes for pulpit oratory has been
thrown open to competition by the Rev. Mr. MEL-
vux's resiguatioa of "The Golden Lectureship."
The depths of the clerical mind have been stirred up.
Already there are several hundred applicants in
the field. One is a 'powerful orator; another is of
unquestionable orthodoxy; a third is an eminently
respectable man with a large family and empty
pockets: it would be a hopeless teak to attempt an
enumeration of the diversified recommendations of

the claimants. "The Golden Lectureship" is sur-
rounded by as many suitors as the legendary Lady
of " The Golden Leg." No wonder: the duties con-
sist :in preaching a weekly sermon on Tuesdays;
the reward Is something between 6001. and 7001.
a year.
We hope we are not insensible to the importance
of "the preaching of the word." At the same time
we must confess that to pay 6001. or 7001. a year for
the preaching of a weekly sermon, while many
of the best ministers of the Church preach as
often and toil throughout the week in addition,
in the discharge of parochial duties, is a sad
misapplication of money. " The Golden Lecture-
ship" is a Church luxury, and it is scarcely proper
to expend so much upon a luxury while there
is an inadequate provision for necessaries. This
Lectureship may take rank with the many Cathedral
of which have been suppressed as useless, and the
incomes of which are being applied to more practically
valuable objects.
"The Golden Lectureship" is a relic of a bygone state
of society. Like most lectureships, it was instituted
at a time when the knowledge of reading was not so
common, and when men were more dependent on
oral instruction. Lectureships were natural and
necessary in the missionary age of our Established
Church ; bat that age has passed away ; or if
there is still among u a field for missionary exer-
tion it is among very different classes of society from
those who are likely to be edified by the incumbent
of a" Golden Lectureship." When the lectureship
was founded it was attached to the Church of St.
Bartholomew, which was then the centre of a dense
mass of buildings, threaded by narrow and tortuous
alley.. A whole town of these edifices was swept
away to clear a site for ,the Bank of England;
others have been removed to afford space
for the extended Royal Exchange. The counting-
houses of merchants, who occupy them only during
the day, have taken the place of the dwellings of
poor and thrifty citizens. There is no local congre-
gation left for the preacher of the " Golden Lec-
ture;" nay more—the very church in which its
founder appointed the lecture to be preached ham
disappeared. Homeless, and without permanent
hearers, the well-paid lecturer is literally a preacher
in the wilderness; an anomaly—either destitute of a
congregation, or followed by the stimulus•seeking
hunters after fashionable preachers.
" The Golden Lectureship" is in the gift of one of
the great City Companies—we believe the Haber-
dashers. It will be well worthy the consideration of
this intelligent body, whether the money cannot be
better applied than it has been of late years. They
can have no difficulty in obtaining powers from Par-
liament to divide the income of the lectureship among
some of our underpaid and over-worked metropolitan
incumbencies. We do not ask them to denude them-
selves of the patronage: let them stipulate that the
alternate presentations to the livings, augmented by
shares of the income of the lectureship, shall be
vested in them. The patrons of more than one ad-
vowson would willingly enter into an arrangement
'so manifestly advantageous. By aotiog thus, the
Company will be giving real effect to the will of the
founder, who doubtless, had he lived in our day, would
have accommodated his foundation to the existing
wants of society.

WINDSOR, NoNDAT, Masai SI.

, .
The Queen and Primo, with the Princess Alice,
roil out on bombe& this tonneau. attended by the
Hoe. Eleanor Swaim Major-Oesual Buckley, sad Capt.
the Hos. D..dley de 800.

A depatatios from Illeiversity College, Leaden, respect-
iag Mr. Headlan's Medical Bill, bad ea Laurels, with Sir
George Grey yesterday at the Hons-ellee. The depatatie•
iteasisted of Wears. Grote sad Frederic Job, Wood, Mem-
ben of Cowed ; Professor Ellis, Des* of the Fsaalty el
Kedlaise ; Prefeeier Sbarpey aid Kr. Atidasea, Secretary.
. . .

• deputation of maltatira hod an latamiew with the
Chameller of the Eachmarr yesterday at his °Mehl resi
dence in Downing-street. They were introdsard by Mr.
Oeorp Saed•ra, M.P., and eassisted of Mr. Mono. (Ponta
Ina), Mr. Bryant (Newastraat), Hr. Noma (Matteis,-
ten, Beam), Mr. Brows (Cokhester), Kr. B. B. Wale sky
(Condos), Hr. Japp (Brantford), Mann. Thorpe, Gilstrap,
Pegg, Wan, asd Man.
A depntathau of ...dial men mumeted with Usiversity
College, lands., had an intomiew reterday with the
Bight Bon. W. Cowper, M.P., at the *Mee of the Osumi
Board of Health, Whitehall. The depstaties gossistod of
Mr. Brigham, Dr. Ham, Mr. W. B. Stewart, Dr. Quin,
Mr. Baker, Mr. Pates, Mr. Powell, Mr. Ashton, Mr. Jackine,
and Mr. W. Adana.

♦ deputation, enisistiag of 131, Mons Matte dem Mr.
Leeds Coins, Mr. J. Alezaader, Mr. Hoary Hants, Mr
hose longue, Kr. H. lionotto, sad Mr. &nines Samuel,
had yesterday as Interview with Sir George Grey.
Despatches from the Lord High Conniesiceer of the
leaks Islands, aad from the Governor of Malta, were n-
eared yesterday at the Colossialudlee.
Despatelses were seat last enable to the Governer of the
Cape of Good Hope.

It is rumoured that one of the rarest orders of the
Garter will be conferred spew Lord Palmerston;
and that Lord Clarendon will be raised is the rank
of margnis, in eossideration of the important en-
rims rendered by them is connexion with the peace
which has jest been proclaimed.

Hi. Royal Hi,ghomo the Doke of Cambridge ham
esaleated to reef& at the 67th ;aaalvereary dinner of the
Royal Literary Feed, which is axed to take place at Free-
masons' Hall oa the 7th of May.

The Dee d'Osena and suite have left the Claren-
don tor Paris.

The Mariptia and Marchloam of Wootraisator &ad
the Leaks °resumer us gess to Laos fora alien *err.
previously to JAL, op Weir reskiftee la Loaloa for the
•
mom

Th. Countess De Salim sod Miss De Belie have
arrived at CleridEa's Hotel from their ant, Hawley Court,
sear ll:bridge.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Franei. Stoner arrived
is tows yesterday from Steam, Heniey-ea-Tause.
The late Mr. Justice Tonna was celled to the bar
is 1795, sad UM the oMee of s•rjeaat for warty youa He
was elevated to the ►each la 1523. The vaeaat mat is the
Common Pleas will, it is supposed, be offered to Mr. Attor-
ney-Gess& Keogh, M.P.

As the law stands, the summated rate of income-
taz will cocainee till the 6th at April. 1868. The increased
duty wu greeted 0 darlag the war, and sun the 6th day
of April which shall Ira happen after the aspiration of ass
year fro the ratification of a detainee truly of puss."
This ratification, It was stated yesterday, will probably be
delayed for fon weeps—assaely, to the 28th of April. Tile
espiratioa of owl year frost that date will fall ea the 28th
of April, 1867, and the duty is souseqesatly to espies as the
6th of April, 1868. which. will be the Ant Bth of April that
will kappa& afterwards.

THE REVENUE.

No. L—AN ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRO-
DUCE OF THE REVENUE OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM, in the undermentioned periods, ended
March 31,1866, compared with the corresponding
periods of the preceding year.

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prepared cheerfully to fel
tiOnli, though they are no
as their friends on the of
Even in Francs the =libel
the conclusion of Peace an
mire factitious and co•tin
At lealt, it is a remarkable
of Peace and the Dammam