The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-30 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS."
11 i =staining the results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.
THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
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The revenue account for the quarter may, on the
whole, be considered satisfactory. On main articles
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of consumption (duty-paying ardelus) there is an
increase. The Customs will show a decree=
on the quarter of about 300,0001., but
the corresponding quarter of the preceding'
year included the receipt of about 800,0001. for de-
ferred deliveries of tea, sugar, and coffee, in anti-1
cipation of the decrease of duty which took Whet
on April 1, 1837. Had it not been for this
transfer of duty from the preceding quarter,l
there would hare been an increase on the Customs'
of about 300,000!. The Excise will probably show
an increase of something like 120,0001. On Stamps
the increase is likely to amount to about 220,0001.,
probably owing to the Id. Stamp on Cheques, and
1 the Succession Duties.
Taxes exhibit scarcely any alteration. In tie
Property Tax there will, of coarse, be a &Iliac
i off—perhaps something like from twelve to thirteen
I. hundred thoniand pounds, which is not more than
might have been expected, considering that the cor-
responding quarter of Let year ineleded some war
of the war ninspence, and that the tax has this year
fallen from sevenpemse to flvepersoe.
The Post-office Revenue will skew an increase of
; t about 90,000!. on the quarter, owing possibly to
arrears, but no doubt partly to increased postal
1 communication.
In Crown Lands there is little or no variation, but
i ' this item, as also the Assessed Taxes, is almost
stationary from year to year.
Under the head of Miscellaneous, the increase is
11 from 70,0001. to 80,0001., arising from casual re-
ceipts.
The general result of the quarter will be a de-
crease of something like one million.
The amount for the year ending June 30 will not
11 thew such favourable results as that for the quarter,
but when it is considered that the year's account
iincludes the period of commercial distress in 1837,
this malt will occasion the lees surprise. The
' I decrease, we may rem& k, is wholly in the first
I • half-year ef the period.
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Tim filth in the 'Thames water is kept in perma-
nent suspension, within the Metropolitan boundaries,
by the action of the tidal eouffter-eurrents. The
stream from the uplands would carry it down ; the
flux of tide would carry it up ; and between the two
e antagonistic forces the stinking dirt is kept motion-
lees under our noses. A somewhat timbres phe-
nomenon may at present be observed in the HOW,
of Commons. Honourable members are agreed to
1 i a man that something mit be done for the purifies-
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tion of the river. But at whose expense? Mr.
Cox and other toadies of Metropolitan sonstituencies
protest that it alma sot be eine at the expense of
their constituents. Mr. Bucasunis and other
itoadies of provincial eenstiteencies protest that
it shall not be done at the expense of their con-
stituents. And so there is imminent danger that.
i 1 1 between the counteracting pressures of the provin-
cial end the metropolitan streams of tendency, in the
Homes of Commons, any measure for the purification
1 , I of the Thames will be kept floating in the same
place, " Eke the swan's down at full of tide, which
" neither way inclines," or like MAMOMIT'S ORIIM,
between earth and heaven, till the Greek Calends.
The Coins and RLACIDORKI as equally in the
wrong. The inhabitants of the Metropolis are at
once the chief omen of the Thames' putrescence,
and the thief sufferers from it, The larger pert of
the expense of cleansing the river ought in
equity to devolve upon them. But there
are sundry and divers reasons why the
whole burden should not be allowed to rest on
their shoulders. In the first place, London is the
Metropolis. It is visited annually by a large pro-
portion of the provincial population. Parliamentary
constitueOciee send us each year, in due season, their
Representstivee, their Delegetes to oppose and sup-
port private and peblie Bill', sad so forth. Again,
at the time of the " May meetings," the "serious
" public" throng our streets, " thick as the
" leaves in Yalembross." The Courts at West-
minster attract their annual quota. We need
may nothing of mere oommereial visitants 1
or pleasomeeekers. The fact is that, in
virtue of its being the Metropolis, three.
fourths of the provincial population have a
direct and palpable interest in keeping London in
sound sanitary condition. Again, the nasty coa-
-1 dition of the Thames is not the work of the dwellers
in London exclusively. The pestilential character
of the ilevial exhalations is the result of the dere.
II lopment of aorloas gases by the operation of the
miasmatiss hementatios. Niw the river water was
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subject to this fermentation long before the Thames
became the eseeposi that it now is. Those of us
who have the bed luck to be old enough to
- remember " the silvery Thames," mast also remem-
ber that the Thames water shipped aboard vessels
of the long voyage was eves thee subject at an early'