The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-01 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, eCTol3Eft 1, 1855.

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30, 1855.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue and other Iteceirr
the corresponc

s of the
Ling periods

ited Kingdom, in the undermentioned periods, ended Sept. 30, 1855, compared with
of the preceding year.

QUARTERS ENDED 1 YEAR QUARTERS ENDED •YEAR .
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Dec. 31, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, ; Sept. 30, I-Dec. 31, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Sept. 30, ' '
1854
-1855 : 1855 '1855 I 1855 1853 1854 1854 1854 1854
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X£££!£ £ ' £ £ £
£
CUSTOMS
EXCISE 4,391,582 2,738,465 4,813,568 4,946,776 ' 16,710,391 4,234,431 2,319,101 3,978,299 5,212,782 1,5,744,313 EXCISE.
STA MP5........ .. .. ........ .... .... 1,786,769 1,865,314 1,828,300 I 1,604,165 ! 7,084,548 '1,782,058 1,721,151 1,773,358 1,707,509 6,984,076 STAMPS.
TAXES. ..• 1,270,408 216,854 1,316,400 I 111,374. 2,915,036 1,395,797 109,095 1,5!i5,304 133,577 3,153,773 TAXES.
PROPERTY TAX ........ .............. 826 589 5,9,6,637 2,177 889 ! 4,538,646; 11,449,761 425,615 2,018,588 1,1:16,355 2,545,656 6,965,614 PROPERTY TAX.
POST-OFFICE
I CROWN LANDS
1 MISCELLANEOUS ...... •• • • ... . • ...... 178,177 243,361 • 325,772 I 188,557 : 935,867 340,996 284,042 160,326 154,594 • 940 658 MISCELLANEOUS.
I
ORDINARY REVENUE .. • • • • • • .• .. .. • • • . • . ORDINARY REVENUE.
;
IMPREST AND 07 HER MONEYS
I .. •• . .: • • • • IMPREST AND OTHER MONEYS.
REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES
• • I .. .. . • .. . • REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES.
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-- ----! •
TOTALS
IL-INCREASE and DECREASE in the Quarter and'
IL-INCREASE and DECREASE in the Quarter and
1855. Half-year ended Sept. 30, 1855. Year ended Sept. 30, 1855. Year ended Sept. 30, 1855, and in the Six
Year ended Sept. 30, 1855 ; and in the Six
Months of the Financial Year ended Sept. 30, Quarter ended Sept. 30,
Months of the Financial Year ended Sept. 30,
1855, as compared with the corresponding pe-1855, as compared with the corresponding pe-
riods of the preceding year. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. rinds of the preceding year.
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X X £ A £ £
CUiTOMS 364,423 • • •• 608,444 .... 1,290,787 •••• CUSTOMS.
EXCISE •• .. 266,005 369,263 .... 965,778 .... . EXCISE.
STAMPS . ' ......... •• .. • • •• • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • • •••• 103,314 • • • • 48,402 100,472 ••
• .. STAMFS.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX 1,993,590 •• • • 2,195,124- • - • .... 6,484,147 .... PROPERTY TAX.
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POST-OFFICE
MISCELLANEOUS - - •• .• 4,791 MISCELLANEOUS.
ORDINARY REV FNUF .. • • • • 0
• • .. • • .. • • -
... •
ORDINARY REVENUE.
IMPREST AND OTHER MONEYS
•••• .• • • •. • . •• - •„• • ... IMPREST AND OTHER MONEYS. •
REPA.YAIENTS OF ADVANCES .... .... • • .. •• • • .... .... REPAYMENTS OF ADVANCES.
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TOTALS ..
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£t,924,124
Net Ineream3,

£2,929,69T
iet Increate.

£3,344,781
Net Increas

lII.—Au Account showing the Net Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended Sept. 3q, 1855; .the Application of the same, and the Charge of the
Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Deficiency upon such Charge.

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
June 30, 1855, viz.:

Amount applied out of the Net Income for the Quarter ended Sept. 39, 1855, to re-
demption of Exchequer kills (Deficiency) for the Quarter ended June 30, 1855 ..
Amount applied to redemption of Ways and Means Bills issued in the Quarter ended
June 30, 1855

Great Britain £

Ireland

390,907

Amount applied to Supply Services in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1855 :
Out of the Consolidated Fund £14,024,940
Out of Exchequer Bills (Ways and Means)

Net Income received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1855, as shown in Account T.

17,431,465

Amount received in part of Loan of £16,000,000 ••• • ••

5,668,000

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept. 36, 1855, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent Debt ' £5,582,596
Terminable Debt 1,397,412
Interest of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency)
Ditto ( Ways and Means)
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund 327,307
Advances for Public Works, &c...

Amount of Exchequer Bills (Supply) issued in the Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1855 to the
Commissioner. for the Reduction of the National Debt, to redeem Ways and Means
Bill held by them ....... • • • ...... • • .. • • • • • ....... • • • • • • • •

2,700,000

Amount received in the Quarter ending Sept. 30, 1855, in repayment of Advances for
Public Works, &c.

209,444

26,3,9,816

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended
Sept. 30, 1855, viz. :
Great Britain .... • • . ..... .... • • •• •• ..
Ireland ..................

Balance, being the deficiency upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Great Britain,
to meet the Dividends and Charges payable in the Quarter to September 30, 1155,
and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be issued in that Quarter

853,442

27.253 28

into the Redan. The English were carefully excluded
from the town, the French soldiers being allowed all
the pillage. This, however, was not valuable, as they
had had plenty of time to remove portable things. I
met hundreds of French soldiers carrying out chairs,
tables, and such like things. The Redan was a mere
heap of ruins inside, from our fire and the explosions.
It was not so strong as .the Malakhoff. With diffi-
culty I rode through it, and went to the dockyard
in the rear, passing on my way a large range of bar-
racks, all knocked to pieces by ourimortar shells. The
dockyard is very spacious, and the docks perfect, open-
ing Trom the military harbour where there is a long
wharf, alongside of which ships of any size may be
brought. There are three docks in row, opening rear-
ward into a large basin, and again from it three other
docks, all built of a kind of granite ; in one was the
smouldering remains of a steamer, machinery only left ;
in another, the remains of a ship's boat. Whilst I was
there, a flag of truce was flying, and a Russian steamer
CAMO across to carry away wounded men. In the dock-
yard an immense range of buildings had been converted
into hospitals, and that morning it was found they were
full of dead and wounded men, who certainly had had no
food since the Bth—this was on the 10th. 1 went into one
building, and, hardened as I am by the scenes of this
war, I never saw anything to compare to this. There
were some 70 or 80 there, most of them dead—and the
living unable to Move from the putrefying bodies around.
The smell was horrible and quite overpowered me. The
wounded were carefully nursed on board the steamer and
some barges—fine robust fellows, who bore their suffer-
ings with the greatest fortitude or apathy.
I could not go into the city ; the military harbour di-
vides the Government buildings, &c., from the town pro-
per. I rode back by the French right; and so thick were
the dead Russians near the parapets that with difficulty
I could get along without my horse treading upon them.
Hundreds had been buried already, and great numbers
remained—all fine men. The French dead were being
collected, identified, and interred by themselves.
The English loss is about 153 officers killed and
wounded, and 2,300 men killed, wounded, and missing.
This is an approximation. The French loss is of course
infinitely greater ; and the Russians added to it I think
would make not less than 20,000 men killed and wounded
on that day. Surely such a holocaust will have some
effect in shortening this horrid war.
I observed, in the suburb around the dockyard, all the
streets were barricaded, and armed with small car-
ronades, the ammunition all ready ; but they had not
been used. These defences converged towards the dock-
yard, and were evidently meant to cover the retreat
had they been very much pressed ; but their getting
away in the night obviated that.

September 14—Since writing this letter I have made
a journey into the city. The French have possession of
it, and the English of the dockyard and Karabelnaia
suburb. I rode through the French works on the ex-
treme left, and into the Russian defences. These are ex-
tremely strong, double lines; and here the French met
the same fate on the Bth that we did at the Radom. I rode
through the Quarantine defences. The large fort of that
name is a heap of ruins, and down to Fort Alexander,
which is at the entrance to the harbour opposite Fort
Constantine. The number of heavy guns in all their
works is surprising. The day previous some Russian
guns had been turned on the steamers with such effect
that the next morning all were sunk, and now not one
vessel of war of all their fleet remains. I can give you
no idea of the state of the town. It is one vast heap of
ruins. The greater portion had been completely destroyed
by the French firs, and the remaining buildings so well
burnt by the enemy, that I don't think there are half a
dozen houses remaining perfect. Fort Nicholae, which
is built of hard limestone, had resisted the attempts to
burn it. The streets are spacious, with gardens, statues,
&c. ; and though the taste shown is rerhaps not the
best, yet the natural position is so splendid that it has
a most imposing appearance. All the streets of the
town are barricaded as in the suburb. There was abuns
dance of ammunition everywhere ; and in one arsenal are
above 1,300 new guns, and hundreds of ship anchors. I
hear that 1,000 dead Russians were removed from the
dockyard buildings, and buried by us. The enemy ap-
pear to be at work on the north side. No one knows
what will be the next move. I suppose it will depend
on the movements of the enemy. " T. P,„

We read in the .3loniteur de la Flotte

"I write in the open air, exchanging now and then a
word with persqns passing by, which accounts for the un.
connected style of my letter. I came here to visit an aide- i
de-camp of the Governor of Sebastopol, whom I found
writing to his family close to the ruined docks of Sebas-
topol, and surrounded by a regular bazaar of articles of
every description, collected there by our men. He was
comfortably seated in an arm chair a la Voltaire, and
writing on a music stand, the shaft of which was broken
by a cannon ball. He offered me the verso of the stand,
and I set about writing my epistle, which is no longer
dated before, but in, Sebastopol. We are beginning to
instal ourselves in the city, the ruins of which will be
soon removed. The establishment of an administration
of the port, and the appointment of a naval commander,
are spoken of, and no time will be lost in clearing the
channel by means of the diving apparatus sent out from
England and France. Our military and maritime admi-
nistrations will hero take up their winter quarters. It is
now the turn of the Russians to enjoy themselves in the
open air. They are, to be sure, so skilful in digging the
earth that they will soon make out quarters for themselves
in the fields. The English covered themselves with glory
in theattack on the Redan. When they met the Russians
with the bayonet a backing movement was observable
in the ranks of the Muscovites similar to that of a gun
which has received a double charge. Then masses of
fresh troops continually came up and assailed the heroic
English. One of the officers of the brigade that stormed
the Redan made a remark which may account for the
serious loss sustained by our allies in this last affair. He
observed that no sooner had our soldiers entered the Ma-
lakhoff than our engineers and artillerymen, who had
come prepared for the purpose, immediately turned the
guns of the work upon the Russians, closed up the gaps,
established parapets with earth bags, and, in short, placed
the position in a state of defence. All this was done
with incredible promptitude, and saved the lives of many.
The Russians clearly saw that they could not retake
the Malakhoff, for at every attack they were repulsed
with immense loss, and each time they returned to the
charge our position was stronger. The same course was
not adopted for the defence of the Redan, which our
allies were accordingly obliged to evacuate ; but I can
assure you that the movement they effected at that mo-
ment was that of a troop of lions, and that the Russians
took good care not to follow them. Admiral Bruat has
issued the following orders of the day :
" Sept. 9.—The Vice-Admiral Commanding-in-Chief
addresses his congratulations to the commanders, officers,
and crews of the Cassini, Sesostris, Palinure, and Tenare,
for the activity those bomb-vessels have displayed since
their arrival in the Black Sea, and for the remarkable
precision of the very brisk fire they kept up upon the
Quarantine Bastion on the Bth of September. They haie
justified the confidence of the General-in-Chief, who
thought, with reason, that their co-operation would be

X
3,306,433

1,740,000

14,024,840

7,361,400

320,585