The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

JAN LTAAY 6, 1852,

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JAN. 5, 1852.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1851, and sth of January, 1852, showing
the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Year ended Jan. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 5
r- A____ - ended , A , ended
April 5, jab,-----A-________
1850 1850 1850 1851 1851 1851 1851 1851 1852 1852 Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
,933,549 ~tamps. ••• • • .• • .
5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5, April 5, • July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5,
!
1 . X X X - -------
-
Property Tax• • - - ' - '
X X X
Customs ..... ••••• • • • • 4,.32,584 4,333,708 5,251,883 4,596,705 18,614,880 4,548,266 ! 4,318,218 5,335,073 4,559,512 18,761,069 Customs .. . . 146,189 •• • • •• • • 37,193
Excise •• • ........ •••• • • 1,859,473 3,325,215 4,103,343 3,715,920 13,003,961 1,980,536 3,419,810 4,139,854 3,552,970 13,093,179 Excise - - .... 89,209 •• •• I •• - ; 162,950
Stamps . .... ..... . .... 1,538,125 1,590,767 1,507,098 1,459,721 6,095,641 1,548,003 1,525,492 1,432,564 1,427,485 6.... 162,092 .... 32,236
Taxes 177,231 2,073,281 186,613 1,923,053 4,360,178 167,784 2,045,231 165,025 1,185,922 3,563,962 Taxes .............
Property Tax.. --- .. 2,069,608 1,026,835 1,867,864 418,730 5,383,037 2,089,950 976,881 1,870,136 367,856 5,304,923.... 796 216 •• • • 737,131
- •• i 8,114 .... 50,774
Post-office •• . ..... - .... 231,000 210,000 227,000 152,000 820,000 272,000 240,000 306,000 246,000 1,064,000 Post-office' 244,000 .... 94,000
Crown Lands ••••• • • • .. 40,000 40,060 20,000 60,000 160,000 40,000 ' 30,000 40,000 40,000 150,000 Crown Lands -
.. ••
• 10,000 .... 20,000
Miscellaneous ••- - - 47,960 81,474 28,727 20,391 178,552 21,974 91,211 23,452 30,574 172,241 3liscellaneous ••• . -
Deduct 7 ,
Total ...... • • 519,732938 11,010520,773703
• • • . 6,311 10,183 •• ••
- ---- ---- - ------;
Total Ordinary Revenue 10,395,981 12,681,290 13,192,458 12,346,520 48,616,249 ' 10,668,518 12,646,873 ,13,317,104 ,11,410,419 48,042,914 Total .
13:714:18
314014,,413883
11:4540:5854
Imprest Moneys, &c... 301,759 135,827 121,615 132,246 691,447 261,765 139,770 124,330 I 117,545 643,410 Imprest Moneys, &c. 43,037
Repayments ofAdvances 91,4001 188,289 293,813 135116 708,618 141,903 123,409 . 165,255 I 372,371 802,943 Repaymts of Adrncs . 94**,3.2.5 •• • • 237,255
Deduct •• ..
--- I ----- -------,
- -• ------.1 _
Total Income .. 10,789,140 13,005,406 13,607,886 12,613,882 50,016,314 111,042,191 12,910,052 13,606,689 11,1.'00,335 49,489,267 1
Increase... }
' _________ . -------
-- - 1
Amount applied to Con-
solidated Fund* .. .. .. 5,967,003 8,200,639 8,779,169 7,655,164 30,601,980 5,868,205 7,975,091 8,794,247 7.358,212 29,995,755 Increase S''"" ' 2"
Ditto, as Advances .•• • • 296,337 291,823 421394 199,204 1,207,743 , 429,684 364,748 286,617 .313,643 1,394,692
Ditto, as part of Ways & I Decrease. -
•••• Decrease
Aleans of the Year - - 4,725,795 4,512,944 4,407,333 4,760,514 18,206,586 1 4,, a 4,302 4,51,0,213 4,525,825 4,228,480 18,098,820 on 527,017 on the 713,547
-____-' the Year.
----------- -I
11 0-2 191 12
Total • •...110,789,140 13,005,406 13,607,886 12,613,882 i 50,016,314 ,4 , >910,052 13,6013,689 ,11,900,335 49,489,267 1 Quarter.
i 1
* Expn.“41.,,,, nr A ,1„,,,,,,,..

Exclusive of

if Advances,

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1851, and the sth January, 1852.

Quarters ended Jan. 5. ( Quarters ended Jan. 5.
e"---------------, p...----------
1851 1852 CHARGE. 1851 1852
INCOME.
X. X. Permanent Debt ... •••. • .• ... „ „ •
......
............. • • • • • • • • • • • .
..
Customs •••••••• • • • • • • • ............ 4,596,705 4,578,217 Terminable Annuities •••• • • • ..... ..., . •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •
3,727,054 3.563,322 Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ........................... 577:687 569,558
Excise • • • • ..... • • - • • • • - • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • •
Stamps •••• • • • 1,459,721 1,427,485 Sinking Fund
Taxes .• • • 1,923,033 1,185.922 The Civil List ••••••• • • • • • •
Property Tax •
Post-ottice ••••. . • • ..... ••• • ••
..••..•• ••.. 158,204 313,643
Crown Lands • • .. • . .
Miscellaneous . . ••
• . ............ 8,117,865 7,840,140
Imprest and other Moneys ..... ..... 34,077 38,841 The 4,507,151 4,159,915
Produce of the sale of Old Stores .. 98,169 78,708
12,625,016 12,000,055
Repayments of Advances . • •
11,929,392
To Cash brought to this Account, being The Surplus Revenue at
' oth Oct, 1851, after providing for the charge of that Quarter was ............. ..... .• 259,108
Savings on Account of Annuities To which is to be added the Surplus of the Consolidated Fund above stated in the present Quarter . ... •• .. .... 4,159,915
and Pensions, Salaries and Allow-
ances and Diplomatic Services, from The Amount issued in the Quarter ended sth Jan., 1452, in part of Sums granted by Parliament out of the 4,419,023
sth July, 1838, to bth Jan., 18b0 .. •• .. 70,663 Consolidated Fund for Supply Services .. ... •
.• • •
•• • • •• • • • • • •• • •
The Surplus of Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the Consolidated Fund, and for the payment of
12,625,016 12,000,055 ± Supply Services in Great Britain, on the Quarter ended sth January, 1852 .. •• • • ....... .
imem...0=1•11........11.1. . '• 1

he has done since July last, there is no saying
where we may, before long, see him. Who could
believe that the Earl of Derby of to-day is the
same person as the Lord Stanley of 1828 ?—the
Noble Lord who, about that period, wrote those
" Commentaries on the Miracles of our Lord," which
were so universally admired for the evangelical
tone by which they were pervaded throughout, as
well as for the beauties and, in some instances, the
brilliancies of their style ? With regard to the state
of affairs between Lord John Russell and Lord Pal-
merston, we can state with confidence, that the alie-
nation between the two Noble Lords, increases every
hour. We say advisedly, that the disclosures which
will be made on the meeting of Parliament, will be
much more damaging to the Premier, than the public
have yet been led to anticipate. Lord Palmerston
literally pants for the re-assembling of the Legisla-
ture. Lord John Russell, on the other hand, dreads
the advent of the first day of the session. And with-
out pretending to know all, we happen to know enough
to justify us in affirming, that never had a Minister
of the Crown greater cause to regard a coming dis-
cussion with fear and trembling, than has the Whig
Premier the discussion of the matters at issue between
himself and the late Foreign Secretary.

THE MINISTRY.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Every quid-nunc has had his conjecture as to the
causes of the retirement or dismissal of Lord Palmer-
ston, and almost every one of the metropolitan jour-
nals has put forward its statement of alleged or quasi
facts in relation to the event. All these statements
have been coloured heretofore with regard to the pre-
judices of the parties by whom they have been circu-
lated. Some organs of public or of private opinion
will have it that the Court and the Premier were in-
dignant at the replies given by the Foreign Secretary
to the metropolitan addresses respecting M. Kossuth ;
others, again, professing to be possessed of all the facts
of the case, insist that an intrigue of the Greys—or of
the whole Family Party—had driven from power
elmost the only antaagonist to a complete Cabinet
clique of " the cousins '." others, equally oracular in
their pretensions to be thoroughly correct, insist that
the Kossuth—i. e ' the democratic leanings of Vis-
count Palmerston had nothing to do with the matter
—nay, they have alleged, " without fear of contra-
diction," that the Absolutist tendencies of the Noble
Viscount formed the stumbling-block over which he
fell; and thus the public have been left to
choose betweea the most opposite motives—between
reasons the most antagonistic—as to that which
is the most likely to prove the fact when all the de-
tails are brought before the Legislature; for before
Parliament the whole case must be placed, in what-
ever shape the members of the present Whig-Radical
Administration shall meet it—whether as a re-con-
structed or patched-up Cabinet, or as a feeble and
weakly opposition. We, however, happen to have
possession, from undoubted authority, of all the facts
in connexion with the recent event, and we shall pro-
ceed to detail them without any current note or com-
ment, adhering closely to the narrative of the events
as they occurred. W e shall thus afford to our readers
the best possible means of deducing their own conclu-
sions. Before the Cabinet differences respecting the
Finsbury-Kossnth affair had been arranged with his
colleagues and in higher quarters by Lord Palmer-
ston, Count Walesa ki called on the Noble ex-Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, and communicated to him
the fact of the coup d'etat which had been accom-
plished by the Prince President, together with the
reasons by which Louis Napoleon considered
himself compelled to take the steps which he had
adopted. Lord Palmerston on that occasion, as
the result of the interview, approved of the course
adopted by the French President, considering that the
reasons assigned for it by Count Walewski were suffi-
ciently to justify it. These facts having been made
known to Lord John Russell, the Premier sent a
written remonstrance to Lord Palmerston, complain-
ing that the Foreign Secretary had taken a step so
important as that of an approval of the env d'etat of
Louis Napoleon, without consulting his colleagues,
whom he thus committed to it. The reply of Lord
Palmerston to this written remonstrance was, that his
interview with Count Walewski had been a private
conversation, and that neither its terms nor the result
committed the Government to any particular course
of action, and that the British Executive might, if it
pleased, go to war with France even then without
violating any official pledge given by him—that Count
Walewski had proved to him, by unquestionable docu-
ments that Louis Napoleon would have been arrested
in a few days by the opposite party in the Assembly
(who had prepared their coup d'etat), and would have
been shut up in Vincennes, had he not struck the first
blow—which he had thus been compelled to strike.
Thus far Lord Palmerston approved of the course
adopted by the President; but, he urged, he had not
then been made acquainted with the arrests, the
fighting, and the other circumstances which had im-
mediately followed the new state of affairs, and, there-
fore, he did not think it necessary to consult formally
his colleagues as to circumstances which had only
been initiated. Moreover, he did not consider it ne-
cessary for a Secretary of State—the acknowledged
head of a department—to consult bis colleagues as to
every transaction which came properly and positively
under his administration. This reply to the Premier
Lord Palmerston considered would be thoroughly sa-
tisfactory, and he rather expected the =vide
honourable; but to his amazement he received
a demand for the transmission of his seals
of office to the First Minister of the Crown.
On Monday, the 22d ult., the Cabinet met. The
members of the Administration were up to that time
perfectly ignorant of the above-mentioned occur-
rences, and it was then they were first informed of
the fact that Lord Palmerston was no longer in office.
As his dismissal was a fait accompli, there, of course,
was not any opportunity for discussion, or for an
attempt at reconciliation. After the Council the
Premier proceeded to Windsor Castle, and commu-
nicated the fact of the Noble Lord's dismissal. We
leave the public to judge with what feelings the an-
nouncement was received. Four letters were subse-
quently addressed to Lord Palmerston by four of his
recent colleagues. Three of these were from parties
who had been considered to be inimical to the general
policy of the noble viscount; therefore, whether or
not they were passing acts of courtesy, the more
called for because they were the less to be expected
on ordinary grounds, we submit to public opinion.
All the facts are now before our readers.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Lord John Russell proceeded yesterday to Windsor
to have an audience of her Majesty. There can be
no doubt as to the object of the Premier's visit to his
Sovereign. It is to report the present position of his
Ministry, and to lay before her Majesty the steps he
has taken, not only to fill up existing vacancies, but
those also which he knows to be impending. The
parties to whom the Noble Lord has made advances,
"a great accession
of‘ re
v
are those whom we were the first to indicate as the
‘orninn
men" whoo
thex‘
werehi
gt o
Gborinergnment . The Duke I
of Newcastle and Mr. Cardwell, were the first parties
nstggt h'' t
to whom the Premier paid court, and they, we have
good reason to believe, led him to understand, that
before any negotiations could be entered into with
them, Sir James Graham should also be invited to take
office. Whether or not the Netherby Baronet has
consented to cast in his lot with the rapidly dissol-
ving Whig Cabinet, we are not in a position to state
with confidence. Of one of two things, however, we
feel perfectly assured. Either Sir James Graham
will not take office under Lord John, on such
terms as the Noble Lord can acquiesce in ; or if he
do, the two will not go on harmoniously for one
brief fortnight together. It is a fact which well
deserves the serious consideration of this Protestant
country, that all the men, from the Duke of New-
castle downwards, to whom the Premier has made ad•
vances to join his Ministry, are men remarkable for
their pro-Popish principles. Some of them are, in-
deed, se deeply tinged with Tractarianism, as to be
on the verge of Popery. They are, besides, persons
who belong to the Conservative party in their political
viewe—a tact which may afford a fair idea of what
sort of a measure the forthcoming Reform Bill will
be. It is an instructive fact, that amid all the Mi-
nisterial changes which have taken, or are known to
be on the eve of takie place, not one whisper is
i
heard respect the g
beingrespecting probability of the Earl of Derby
sent for by the Queen. And it is ano less im-
portant fact, that the Protestant portion of the Con-
servative party have no wish that the Noble Earl
should be commissioned by her
Majestyv to form a
new Administration. This may appear strange to
those who are not conversant with the circumstances
of the case. The truth ie, that since the month of
May last, when Lord Derby received her Majesty's
commands to construct a new Cabinet, he has drunk
/Deny mer of our statesmen, into the spirit
of Puseyisra; and if he only make as great pro-
gress towards Rome in the next six months, as

a seeming decrease of nearly three-fourths of a mil-
lion on the quarter ; but it must be borne in mind
that the decrease is only apparent—for the whole
amount of it arises under the head of Taxes, and is
simply attributable to the fact that the window duty
has been discontinued before it was possible to orga-
nize efficient arrangements for the assessment and col-
lection of the inhabited house-tax, which was substi-
tuted last session in lieu of that impost. The window
duty was formerly collected in the July and January
quarters ; but during the three months now expired,
the revenue has not had the benefit either of that
tax or of the new one which the Legislature has
imposed in its stead. It will be seen, therefore, that
the 700,0001. and upwards of decrease on the quarter
is purely nominal—a mere matter of account-keep-
ing, which will be set right on the appearance of
the April returns. Under all the other heads the re-
sults are most satisfactory, both as regards the
quarter and the year. In the Customs there is a
trifling decrease of 37,1931. on the quarter, but there
is an increase of four times that amount (146,1891.)
on the year—a fact the significance of which will be
at once felt when it is remembered that several reduc-
tions have taken place in the tariff. In the Excise
there is a decrease of 162,950/. on the quarter—
ar

___sing principally from the fact that, in the corre-
sponding period of last year, two instalments of Hop
Duty were paid under somewhat special circum-
stances. The absence, during the quarter just ended,
of this accidental addition to the return of course
produces an apparent diminution. On the year, how-
ever, the Excise exhibits an increase of 89,2091. The
Stamps show a decrease on the quarter of 32,2361.—
and on the year of 162,0921. We need hardly say
that both these fallings-off arise entirely from
the operation of the reduced scale of Stamp
Duties introduced in 1850. Moreover, in the
closing quarter of that year—which now enters
into comparison with the three months just expired—
there was an unusually large consumption of stamps,
because the preparation of numberless deeds and in-
struments had been postponed until after the 10th of
October, 1850, so as to bring them under the new
and reduced rates of duty. As regards the decrease
of 737,1311. on the quarter, and of 796,2161. on the
year, under the head of Taxes, we have already ex-
plained that it arises from the repeal of the Window
Duty, and the delay of the collection of the Inhabited
Home-tax. In the Property-tax there is a small fall-
ing-off of 50,7741. on the quarter, and of 78,1141. on
the year. These sums, when compared with the magni-
tude of the impost in question, are exceedingly.trifling ;
and the fact may easily arise from accidental causes. It
may be well, however, to point out that it is impossi-
ble, from the very nature of the Property-tax, that any
increased assessments in respect of profits on trade
during the last year or eighteen months should
yet appear on the face of the Revenue Returns. The
basis of assessment in the average amount of annual
income during the three years preceding each month
of April, It is clear, therefore, that the Revenue
returns for 1851 can only bear very partial traces of
the general prosperity even of the preceding year—
whilst they are altogether uninfluenced by the state
of trade and industry during the last nine months.
This very obvious consideration is worth the attention
of those who may endeavour to find, in this portion of
the present return, some support for the theory of na-
tional ruin and distress. In the Post-office there is a
very gratifying increase of 94,000/. on the quarter,
and of 244,0001. on the year. The steady progress of
this branch of the revenue is one of the most encou-
raging features of the present time—testifying as it
does, in the strongest manner, to the development, not
only of the material, but also of the moral and in-
tellectual civilisation of the community. Under the
heads of Crown Lands and Miscellaneous, there is
no change calling for remark. The general results
of the whole return are a decrease of 713,5471. on the
quarter, and of 527,0471. on the year ; but, as we
have already shown, these diminutions are nominal,
and arise from circumstances altogether irrespective
of the real productiveness of the revenue. On the
whole, the document before us furnishes the most sa-
tisfactory evidence of the general well-being of the
country, and of the perfect success of our recent
commercial and fiscal legislation. We entered upon
that system in the expectation of obtaining increased
revenue from diminished rates of taxation ; and the
return which we publish this morning is but one
proof among many of the soundness of the principles
and the correctness of the calculations, on which our
policy was based.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
TIMES.—The Quarterly Returns of the Revenue
continue to indicate prosperity, the decrease, such as
year,
less a
rb,
e de 9cr3ela. it is, generally admitting of a satisfactory explana-
tion. The receipts from the Customs for the quarter
are
the same quarter
last
considerably less than
was to be anticipated from the further drop in the
sugar duties last July. In the Excise there is a de-
crease of 162,9501., of which it is sufficient to say,
that in the quarter with which the comparison is made
the receipts were largely swelled by the arrears of
sethabneitnhgose of
hop duty, and the good malting season of 1850. In
the Stamps the decrease is 32,2361., which, again, is
much less than might have been expected from the
accumulation of stamps thrown into the correspond-
ing quarter last year, which was the first under the
reduced scale of duties. In the Assessed Taxes the
decrease is 737,1311. In the corresponding quarter
there was due, and in great part collected
about 900,0001. of window duties. Their sub-
stitute, the inhabited house-tax, which for
the future will be payable in the quarter end-
ing January 5, is scarcely yet in course of collection,
having in many instances only just been assessed.
In the Property-tax there is a decrease of 50,774/
We confess ourselves unable to offer any satisfactory
solution of this fact, especially as we had to notice a
decrease of 30,6641. in the same quarter last year.
Possibly the reduction of rents and the alteration
conceded last session in the assessment of tenant-
farmers may have something to do with it. I. the
Post-office there is set down an increase of 94,0001.,
the highest, we should think, that ever occurred in
one quarter. In the Crown Lands there is a decrease
of 20,0001., and in miscellaneous receipts an increase
of 10,183/. On a comparison of these figures it ap-
pears that the net decrease on the ordinary revenue
of the quarter is 936,1011. Such a figure, of course,
will be eagerly laid hold of by those honest and sa-
gacious financiers who call a decrease a calamity what-
ever its causes, whether from the pressure of distress
or the reduction of taxes. it is scarcely necessary for
us to tell our readers that it is no misfortune to pay
less taxes, and that, so long as we suffer no diminu-
tion of our comforts, what the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer loses we gain. On taking into account imprest
moneys, and a very extensive repayment of advances,
the decrease on the quarter's revenue becomes only
713,547/. As the principal causes of decrease have a
peculiar bearing on the quarter, the returns for the
year exhibit a somewhat different result. In the Cus-
toms of the year there is an increase of 146,189/. ; in
the Excise, 89,2091. In the Stamps the decrease is
162,0921. in the comparison with the previous year,
and 431,926/. in the comparison with the year before
that. In the Assessed Taxes of the year the decrease
is 790,216/, being little more than that on the quarter.
The annual receipts of the Property-tax are less by
78,1141. than in the previous year, which, in its turn,
showed a decrease of 25,122/. The Post-office is
evidently the department that has reaped the chief
fruits of the Great Exhibition, the increase for the
year being 244,0001. As one of the great facts of
this wonderful year this is remarkable enough, but
the Post-office, including the foreign packet service,
has long ceased to be a source of revenue to the
country. The net decrease on the total ordinary
revenue is 573,3351., and, taking into account the
extraordinary items, 527,0471. Half-a-million, then,
is the whole amount of our annual loss, after the
extensive reductions enacted or coming into opera-
tion last year. To this must be added what does
not appear in the return before us—for this state-
ment refers only to the revenue and the Consolidated
Fund—the gratifying fact that next April there will
probably be a surplus of income over expenditure ex-
ceeding three millions and a half. Such a surplus
might arise from increased revenue or de-
creased expenditure, practically arises from
the latter and more agreeable cause. How
far it Will be ultimately made good, and applied
to the reduction of the debt, is a question which it
will be difficult to answer till the termination of the
war at the Cape. On the slightest examination, then,
it appears that the state of the revenue is as indica-
tive of prosperity as if it exhibited a positive in-
crease without any fiscal reductions. Of that pros-
perity there is from other sources an abundance of
proof. The copious reports we gave yesterday from
the manufacturing districts, from Manchester, Bir-
mingham, Nottingham, Belfast ; and those from
Liverpool, which occur in our City Intelligence of
this morning, all conspire to_ show a steady and safe
improvement in all branches of manufacture,
I in
trade, and in shipping, during the past year. t is
true that, like our agriculturists, our shipowners and
our manufacturers have to contend With the compa-
ratively low price of foreign competition. On the
stimulus, however, of an increasing demand, they
show a proper alacrity in accommodating themselves
to their novel position. With h
e
--eaper ships there
comes in a new race of shipowners, and capital pours
in from new quarters. The shipyards are busy.
Screw-steamers are rapidly superseding sailing vessels
for the shorter voyages. As an example of British
enterprise, it was yesterday related in the report from
Nottingham that the stoaingers of that city, finding
themselves beaten by the low Wages of Saxony, set
to work, sent men who explored the resources of
the foe, and, by the help of Chevalier Claussen's
circular machines, have actually succeeded in beating
the Saxon fabrics out of the British market. It is by
such methods that England has risen, and will con-
tinue to rise, not by succumbing to the first shock of
adversity and the first bout of foreign competition. The
trade of this country has'always been, and always must
be, liable to vicissitudes from fluctuating supplies of
material, from political events at
.home and abroad,
and even from ephemeral discussions. The alterna-
tions of the storm and the calm extend to all classes.
The greater part of mankind suffer these vicissitudes,
and see in them the natural and appointed colour of
each individual lot. They see in them only a reason
for continually increasing exertion. It is only the
dream of a few, the presumption of a class, and the
folly of an age, that the Legislature is to exempt any
department of industry from the common lot of men,
and therefore deprive it of the universal inducement to
invention and labour.
CHRONICLE.—The Returns of the Quarter's
Revenue, which we elsewhere publish, will be deemed
highly favourable, except by those superficial ob-
servers who merely glance at the final figures of the
comparative columns. It may be true that there is

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 5.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home-
park this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Royal Children, took their usual walking and pony
exercise.
The Countess de Neuilly and the Duchess of Orleans
visited her Majesty to-day.

Lor John Russell left his residence, Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond-park, yesterday afternoon, for
Windsor Castle.
The Right lion. Henry Labouchere has arrived at
Liverpool.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial•office
yesterday from the Governor of Canada, and the
Governors of the other North American provinces.
Dispatches were also received from the Governor of
Gibraltar.

STATE or TEADE.—Ia the manufacturing districts
the closing of the old year and the beginning of the new has
tended to limit transactions, but the prospects for future
business, in 1852, are generally considered encouraging. At
Manchester, 'without any great activity, trade continues in
a healthy state, and prices, especially for yarns, are rather
firmer than in the previous week. The factories are all run-
ning full time, and a heavy production is going on, for a por-
tion of which there are contracts, and for the current descrip-
tions of goods there is a steady demand at full prices. At
Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester there is an improved
feeling, and a general impression that there will be an active
spring trade. For America, Canada, and the West Indies
there are already considerable orders in course of execution._
The usual quarterly settlement of accounts for the trade of
Birmingham and the neighbouring districts has necessatrily
prevented the transaction of any extensive business, butthis
does not interfere with the employment
Glasses, which continues generally steady. lOW
ACCIDENT TO THE MONTROSE STEAMERO,--50
the
ails
of the Operative
AlirToN, MONDAY EVENING.—The cause of tue no
of the Montrose steam-ship with the Peninsula! 213 ls has
just been ascertained. It appears that on the nalg,htaolf the
and c St. Vin-
24th ult., when on her outward voyage,
but having
erepAorm, she
cent Light bearing S. 12 miles, in a very slive .
broke her main shaft close to the starboard 91w !
witn one wheel
secured the starboard wheel, she succeeded
out three hours
and sails all set, in reaching Cadiz in
ment steameeernitO
where she will undergo the necessGareyyxertrnepsatieraserTdhuee
fro:
pany's agent at Cadiz applied for a next
and, under
convey the mails to Gibraltar. The
.11
Burney,
the Peninsula is the Iberia, Cap
SUBMARINE TELE-
ordinary circumstances, will -ne here about the 13th inst.
THE RECENT GALE.---TOH
,4 the gale
GRAIII IN DANGISII.—DU—During heavy from the
g, a large Rus-
sianit; Ltan master, bound to
north on Saturday night and Sunday mornin
gbeeat down channel
schooner, called the Robert,
Cadiz from Shields, in endeSoeuri
ale 91
was obliged to bring
'11).1 drifted,g when increased in severity,
and eventually the vessel en her anchor got hold
of what the captain believes
have been the submarine
telegraph. She then hehld of th on for to
some time, but her chain
not having the strength e electric cable, a fortunate
h lo
circumstance, perhaps' The st her anchor and mooring, and
went again drifting. 1 . Faster succeeded in getting her
into the Downs, and receiving assistance from the boatmen,
she was brought to a secure anchorage. As far as we have
been enabled to learn, there does not appear to have been
any
.interruption in working the telegraph, as a message was
received through yesterday morning at eight o'clock. A few
days, however,
will suffice to show whether the outer casing
has been so far damaged as to admit the water to the wires,
which would seriously influence them.
His Excellency M. Van de Wwith
eyer, his lady,
left town for Antwerp, on Sunday
morning hut, by the
§tgarg DWI% CV, capt;44 jmison.