Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

£41,090,494 Total £41,090,494
Compared with the returns of the previous week,
the above shows the following results :

Active circulation 2o,llo,3ss—lncrease
Bullion
Rest
Seven-day & other 712,770—Decrease
Bills
Public Deposits
Other Deposits 8—
Government Semi- t 10,808,591
rities
Other Securities 16,950,153
Notes unemployed 12,7.112965
Cash to liabilities,
per Mil
Bate of Interest

404,365
181,897
9,878
33,924
145,211
245,389

-Increase
-Decrease

•No change

-Increase
-Decrease

456,033
497,095

592—Increase

.. 2i per cent.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

The Returns of the Revenue for the last quarter
of the present year will be issued to-day.
• - The increase on the quarter, compared with the
last quarter of 1857, will be, nearly a million.
(It is scarcely fair, however, to compare last year
with the previous year; 1857 was a year of com-
mercial panic, and in a reveue point of view must
be regarded as exceptional. Comparing, therefore,
the last quarter of 1858 with the last quarter of
1856, we find only an increase of about £200,000.)
The increase of a million is made up mainly from
the following items :
The Customs will. show •an increase of about
£6oo,ooo—(if we compared the returns with the
last quarter of 1856, there would be a small de-
crease).
The Excise shows an increase of £lBO,OOO.
Considering the increase of the duty .on Irish
spirits, this augmentation is small.

The Stamps show an increase of £260,000,
derived mainly from the extension of the penny
receipt and cheque stamps, and from the increased
consumption of stamps for legal deeds in the new
Probate and Divorce Courts.

The Land and Assessed Taxes remain at about
the same figure,
The Income Tax shows a reduction of £300,000.
Though the actual decrease of the per-tentage of
the Income Tax has been small since 1857, yet
the arrears of the war Income Tax came in so
slowly that they contributed to swell the revenue
up to that year—thus fully, accounting for the
present decrease.
The Post Office shows an increase of £50,000.

The Oronrn Lando are about tho oamo.
The Miscellaneous Sources show an increase of
£200,000.
The last item —Miscellaneous Sources—shows
this quarter an increase of £700,000 compared
with the last quarter in 1856. This source of
revenue is governed by no general law ; it is
merely accidental. If we took, therefore, from the
present quarter this accidental increase of £700,000,
•and then compared it with the corresponding
quarter of 1856—the year before the panic—there
would be, on the ordinary sources of revenue, an
.aeturd decrease of £500,000.

LIGHT GOLD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—The present system of cutting light sove-
'reigns at the Banks, has long been a grievance to
mercantile men, especially to merchants engaged
in the corn trade, where gold forms a large medium
of circulation.

Why should not this be remedied ? It is a tax
pressing heavily on a few, while all others escape
from it. Everyone through whose hands a
overeign passes necessarily contributes more or
less .to the depreciation of the coin, while the
merchant, in whose hands gold accumulates, by
payments from his smaller constituents, has to put
up either with the loss of interest till he can get
rid of it to some creditor of his own, or must pay
it into his banker's, at a loss amounting often to
the interest for several days ; which, in the year,
with many houses, represents a considerable
amount.

In America, where, in this partichlar instance,
they seem to be " ahead" of us as to mercantile
Jaw, all gold (whether light or full weight) is
received at the 'Bank for its coinage value, the loss
being stood by government, and consequently
drawn from the pockets of all the depreciators
equally.
Why should not the same system be adopted in
this country ? Surely it would be a fairer, and
consequently a better one than the present.
The objection, that "sweating" the gold is
practised to a great extent in England, has been
often raised ; but I am not aware that any
statistics can be put forward to show that this
system of pilfering is moie prevalent here than
elsewhere ; nor do I exactly see the force of the
objection. The "sweaters ' are certainly not
those who now stand the loss on light gold; and,
except at a Bank, objections to taking gold that is
a little light are seldom used, unless in out-of-the-
way proportion to the-rest; though the anxiety
to get rid of gold as payment for freights, &c.,
payments of which notes might otherwise form a
considerable part, causes much annoyance.—
Yours, &c., A LIVERPOOL CLERK. I

THE PUBLIC CHARITIES OF LIVERPOOL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Will you be so kind as to allow me to
occupy a part of your paper with a suggestion ?
It is this —that your readers might do a great
service to the benevolent societies, and gratify
themselves not a little, if they would be so good
as to review the list of our public institutions at
the end of " Gore's Directory," and, after selecting
such as appear most entitled to support, *oula
send liberal contributions of money, apparel,
door will whatever else may be useful, to the several t or
surers whose names are given there. I-1 trea-
surers
unnecessary calling from door to a
e those true
much
general adoption of this hint sox
But, far better
friends, the volunteer collectors !
ha,,, that, it will, beyond doubt, largely augment
present mode of pro-
the gifts obtained by the
cedure (system, it hardly
is), which certainly
needs such a supplement, fo
who are r, however well it may
reach persons
subscribers already, it lets
the season of the year pass by when hearts and
in
hanends 'are most open, and it is only too effectual
suring the absence of subscriptions and dona-
tions from thouan of merchants, tradesmen,
and others, on every side, who are ready and able
to give much more than we are ever called
for.--4 am, on
)i sr, your very obedient servant,

R. A.. m.

-SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

JURA, FOR NEW YORK.

Messrs. D. and C. Maclver beg to inform skippers
that letters for consignees will be received at their office
until three o'clock this (Saturday) afternoon. 3