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London, England, 1825-03-23 00:00:00

FINANCES OF MEXICO:

We have received the official rort of the state of the Mexican
finances, read in the Congress on the 4th of Janusry by the M.
nister of the Department, Don Jose Ignacio Estera. The Report
is divided into four parts: the first relates to the condition of the
Treasury before his Administration; the second to its present con-
dition ; the third to the condition in which it ought to be; and the
fourth to the means of attaining that object. The Minister begins
by complaining of the great ditficultißs to be overcome in arriving
at a correct knowledge of the state of the revenue. These obstacles
have arisen from the revolution, of which the inevitable consequences
have been the destruction of public documents, and a general con-
fusion in the exhibition of the public accounts, accompanied with
studied complexities and suppresaiur.s, for the purpose of concealing
fraud and peculation.. A detailed statement IS then given of the
different btanchea of the public revenue from sources, of which
the following is an abstract :
GROSS FROCEEDS OF TUE GENERAL REVENU! OF THE

MEXICAN FEDERATION.

Duties on Import and Export - - -
Duties on introduction into consumption (peaches
de internacion) .
• - Anse Re-enue from Tobacco, including the pure sod
manufacture - .
Revenue from Gunpowder - .. -
Alcabala on Tobacco in the countries where it is pro-
duced . - - -
Fogs - - - - .
Lottery . . - . .
Salt Works . - . -
From the territories of the Federation - -
National Property, property of the Compassionate
Fund of Californias, of Temporalities, and the
Inquisition - -
Tenths in the eight Cathedrals of the Nation -
Rents of the See of Mexico - - -
Ditto from the dignity of Treasurer - -
Contingent of the States - . -
A retie - - - -
Tolls - - - - .
Mint - - -
Sums due from debtors to the Salt Revenue, expected
to he recovered - . .
Foreign Loan - - . -

2,733,993
1,618,228
1,029,671
178,54;
39.784
342,533
95.833
68,38.1
16,147

4111,692
529,989
KIND
8,194
2,285,877
169.66 E
47,99:

35.574.
1,317,543

Dollars 10,699,60 S

Next follows the
GENERAL. ABSTRACT OF EXPENDITCRE.
Expenses of Adminia:ration of the Taxes . - 618.900
Pay of the Officers - - - 301,267
-
Estimate cf the 3linistry of Foreign and Internal At-
tain. - - - - - . - 105.733
Dii to of the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Af.
fairs - - - 77.220
Ditto of War for the !And Force - . 12,090,000
Ditto for the Marine - . - - 2,931.535
Ditto of Finance . . . - - 1,00,10
Arrears to be paid in ins - - - 80,804

Dollars 17,988.674
Gross Produce of the Revenue 10,690,608
Deficit • 7,298,0%
Under the fourth head of his Report the Minister considers the
means of supplying the large deficit eanib ted by the preceding ac-
counts. Nothing, he sa".:, would be more easy than to resort to
the obvious expedient of new taxes to raise the receipts to the level
of the expenditure. The condition of the contributors, their im-
poverisiimer.t sifter the struggle which they have for many years sus-
tained, prevent him, however, front proposing any expedient of
shi, sot, wbe resources which can be derived from the present
andhe enniee.., which he turns his
-7 that he is..
branches or the revenue, and reC:ving some
changing the system, or ineommum;e: !he honest and peace...!
citizen, will be sufficient. The first objecteof
n, which
old ones, without
attention is the monopoly of tobacco,
disgusted in considering in its decline and abandonment one the
richest branches of the revenue, which might have delivered tin:
Government from many of its difficulties. He prostwes a zealous
union of the different States in preventing frauds which have nearly
annihilated a branch of revenue which formerly produced 4,447,001
dollars.

The Report concludes, after anticipating some objections which
might be raised on account of the separate rights of the States of
the Federation, by stating that he hail performed the duty which
was imposed upon him by the fourth division of his subject, b♦
pointing out the possibility of covering the deficit which the exposé
demonstrated without odious direct contrittutions, or the imposition
of unknown indirect ones—" The re-establishment of the ancient
monopoly of tobacco on its ancient level," says the Minister, " that
of the duties on gold and silver in ingots, and of those on coinage,
and the supprection of some of the maritime coatoms, which, as
they are part of the general revenue, cannot be opposed to the into-
rests of the States, suffice to fulfil that object.

Letters from Leghorn, Trieste, and Ancona state, in a
positive manner. that Patras was delivered up to the Greeks
on the Gth of February, on certain conditions, which are
however not stated.

Letters have arrived at Paris from Port-au-Prinee, dated
214 h Jan. The Government had completed the necessary
measures for placing the island of Hayti in a state of de-
fence. It persists in the resolution to resist all external
aggression ' • but the fears that had been entertained of an
expedition from France appear to have dissipated, and it
is thought that the French liovernment will be sufficiently
aware of its true interests to renew the negociatiuns which
were taken off last year.

The Etoife of I.lfonday gives the following story, on the
faith of a correspondent a Cambray. We look at the re.
lotion with some suspicion, as it has occurred, we think,
rather too opportunely to forward the passing of the law of
sacrilege which is now before the French Chamber of
Deputies :—" A most afflicting scene, which has 611 ed the
inhabitants of the Chateau with consternation, took place in
the evening of the 1 tth instant. The clergyman, returning
in procession after carrying the Viaticum to a sick person in
the suburb, a person rushed out of a public-house, and fell
on the ecclesiastic to strike him; but the cowl instantly
seized him, and but for the intervention of the local autho-
rities, who immediately pnt him to prison, be would info,=
libly have been the victim of his abominable action. Re
could not touch the sacred vessel, which the clergronagi
carried wrapped up in a viil, but he threw down the Sa
of it, surmounted by a cross, which was broken.
the consecrated wafers were saved, the priest baviasilit=
the precaution to cover the vessel with bile hsaL •
%dist
Yesterday morning, soon after eight ei. .4, .
out in the lower
_part of the haat* gloigr. e
carpenter, near- Ilockheatit on the woe -4
wh:zh consumed the lowie part before it WU

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