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THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1864.

N°. 22,392.

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THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING MARCH 31, 1861.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of 1
with the Correl

the United Kingdom, in the undermentioned Periods, onded March 31, 1864, compared
sponding Periods of the Preceding Year.

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
e-- - ,1/4.--- ended e 'l/4--- -- ended
June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, March 31,
1861 1863 1863 1864 1864 1862 1862 I 1862 1863 1863
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X £
£
£ £ £ X £ £ £
CUSTOMS 5,857,000 5,872,000 5,970,000 5,533,000 23,202,009 5,791,0 r 0 6,201,000 6,320,000 5,722,000 24,034,000 CUSTOMS.
EXCISE - 4,000,000 4,665,000 17,155,000 EXCISE.
STAMPF, 2,394,000 2,19 i ,000 2,293,000 ' 2,439,' 00 9,317,000. 2,253,000 2,180,000 2,187,000 2,374,000 8,994,000 STAMPS.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX 2,918,000 866,000 2,132,000 3, i 68,000 9,084,0( 0 2,772,000 974,000 .2,931,000 3,890,000 10,557,000 PROPERTY TAX.
POST OFFICE
CROWN LANDS 68,500 68,000 87,000 B',"O° 305,000 63,000 67,000 86,000 79,00 ) 300, 00 CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS
---
TOTALS 18,490,204 14,411,504 18,318,166 18,989,089 70,208,983 18,409,904 ' 14,600,983 18,374,928 19,213,746 70,603,561 TOTALS.
No 11.-Increase and Decrease in the Periods ended March 31 1864 as compared with the Corresponding Periods of
, ,

No. ll.—lncrease and Decrease in the Periods ended March 31, 186,
the Preceding Year.

ro THE BOvDHOLDERS 01' THE ATLANTIC AND
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS.
PAYABLE IN LONDON.
801,0'0 dollars (LlBO,OOO New York Division—Dne in 1881.
1,000,030 dollars (£225,000) Pennsylvania Division.—Due in
1882.
Secured by a Registered Mortgage, constituting a lien on
the income and all corporate rights. privileges, lands, fran-
chises, plant and pronerty ot the Pennsylvania and New York
divisions of the Railway.
The Bonds are redeemable in New York or in London at
4s. 6d. per dollar, and are transferable irhout stamp or en-
do, sement ; 4 per cent. of the gross amount will be dawn
yearly hatily. commencing in 1865, to be pa d off at par
London ; Interest Coupons are attached to theßonds,
able semi-ann-ally, ,t the Consolidated !'ank in London, at
the fixed rate of 4s. to the dollar.
The Bonds will be issued at 7e. viz. :
Bonds of 100 dole. at £' 5 155., with interest frim April, 1,1861.
„ 500 „ £78155., „ If
LO,') „ £157108., „
The Coupons represent t 4 per annum on each bond of
1,000 dollars (f 225), or nearly 9 per cent.
The privilege of subscribing will remain open until the 6th
of April for thepresent bondholders, either directly or through
their brokers.
The terms of issue are as follows :-
5 percent. on application, being £ll 5 0 per Bond of 1,0:0 dol.
10 „ al otment „ 22 0 0
15 s, 2d May „ 33 15 0
20 „ 16th May ~ 45 0 0
20 ~ Ist June „ 45 0 0 ~

Quarter ended March 31, 1861. Year ended March 31,1861.
Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. _ Increase. Decrease.
£ £ £ i £ £ £
CUSTOMS .. 189,000 .. • • 802,000 CUSTOMS.
462,000 .. .. •• 1,012,000 •• EXCISE.
EXCISE 65,000 .. .. •• 323,000 .. STAMPS.
STAMPS lO,OOO .. .. 68,000 TAXES.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX 72.2,000 .. . • 1,483,000.. PROPERTY TAX.
• • •• 160,000. .. POST OFFICE.
POST
CROWN LANDS - • • CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS 136,843 .. . 282,402 IitTsCELLAIsTEOUS.
TOTALS I 686,313 911,030 3 . • • 1,890,402 2,285,000 TOTALS.
~ ..........—.--„____—_ ........ ~._____........._,,_______ —.,

Net Deerea5e.....X221,657

ret Decrease'

Net Decreatie....X39l,l

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended Dec. 31, 1863, viz.:--

Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended March 31, 1861, in
redemption of Exchequer Deficiency Bills for Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1863
Total Deficiency
Deduct—Redeethed by Sinking Fund

Great Britain
Ireland

978,219

£157 10 0
Subscribers have the option of paying the instements in
advan e, and will be allowed a discount of 6 per cent. per an-
num on such pre-payments.
After allotment Scrip Certifi ates will be issued to "bearer."
These Certificates will be exchanged tor Bonds to " bearer"
on payment of the final instalment,
The early completion of the works of this zreat Railway
Justifies the Company in making this additional issue of
Bonds, following the financial policy a iopted at the outset,
of issuinesecurities to the public only after the actual pro-
gress of the Railway ha- secured the necessary income for
oviding, the interest. There will remain only the Second
Mortgage of the Ohio diviipon, to be disposed of heres.fter.
when the total of the Bonded Debt will be only £6,000 per

Income received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1864, as shown in Account I. 18,9 9," 89

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1864, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent Debt £5,835,562
Terminable Debt 872,581
Principal of Exchequer Bills
Interest of Exchequer Bills
Interest of Deficiency Bills
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund
Advances for Public Works, &c.
Sinking Fund

Amount raised per Act 25-28 Vict., cap. 78, on account of Fortifications, &c.....

200,000

Amount received in the Quarter ended March 31, 1864, in repayment of Advances
for Public Works, 4zo. _

323,680

101,223
679,760
428,151
655,653

£2 ,490,988

Balance, being the Deficiency on March 31, 1864, upon the charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges,
payable in the Quarter to June 30, 1861, and for which Exchequer Biils
(Deficiency) will be issued in that Quarter

Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended March 31, 1864, viz.:—
Great Britain
Ireland

722,330

£21,213,3,8

mile. "
Porno of appreation may be obtained of the Bankers ; or
at the Offices of the Company.
Offices of the
2 Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company,
, Old Broad-street, London, B. way
March 23, 1861.

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No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended March 31, 1864; 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.

£631,768

Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended
March 31, 1864

Gef
EW S PAPE it
making of Whittington's fortune! is "
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Coventry" ie the title of a sketch of the cares r K-4
belle, whose triumphs were as brief as they e •;i:00041S--1:„
" An Entertainmere gives a laughable accoun eteey
;rising speculation,which failed to meet with t Eee ,
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the Dean of Canterbury proceeds with his "Lett srs from
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"Year at the Shore," so that there is plenty of geed and
varied reading. Added to thaesreeplbsra:etcr
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" Personal Recollections," continues his "Even-
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and :Dr. Rogers, LL.D., discusses our Coil Fields, Ho
must consequently be a very captious Of, discontented
mortal who cannot find something to attract and interest
him in such a table of contents.
THE MUSICAL MONTHLY.—The number for
April is, of course, well supplied with articles
touching the approaching festival at StratrJrdA
upon-Avon. The' presentation piece for the pianoforte is
entitled "A Shaksp:rian Fantasia," in which the well-
known airs sung by Ariel in "The Tempest" are intro-
duced. The introduction is fall and telling, but the airs
have been rather ineffectively handled. There is a
thinness about the adaptation, and a great want
of dash and brilliancy 'in the variations. Although
it will not supersede the pieces on the same air&
already published, it will find 'favour in,the eyes of .thoPA
whd are looking out for aneasy piece suitable for the at,..
proachingefestivlty. The magazine is just the sort of thing
wanted by the pudic; but some sucb.pieces as those played
by Madame Goddard, Madame Oury, dee, must be given to
make it popular with the lovers of music. •
LE FOLLET.—This month's number of this ele.
gent little publication is unusually attractive. .
The plates are brilliant, and if the fashions here
set forth are followed, the dresses of the ladies
this ' season will be truly Splendid. There is here the '
usual intelligence communicated with respect to the
latest novelties, the Most striking changes, &et., in cos-
tume; besideti which, a variety of high amusing reading is
met with in this periodical, and also a description of the
operas, theatres, &c., so that for a fashionable reader nothing
is left out of the repertoire of its contents that can possibly

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The critic enters very fully into the distinctive features of
Mr Thackeray's style, and the merits of his various works.
He is far from bestowing unqualified approval or admiration
on all, and his article is, indeed, one of the most judicious
which has appeared since Thackeray's death. Nevertheless
he accords, as all must do, high:praise to him as one who will
always retain a foremost place among our literary chieftains.
Mr. Gardiner's " History of James I." is discussed, and
the historian appears to have formed no favourable opinion
of our Scottish king. "His body, his mind, and
his heart appear alike to have been wanting in that central
force by which the human framo and the human intellest
are at the same time invigorated and controlled." "French
Life" is the title of a very pleasant and lively paper, which
introduces us into the privacy of a Parisian apparte2nent,
and tells us little secrets about the domestics arrangements
which invest a gay French establishment with an air of do-
incstie comfort. " Our Private Play" is the narrative of
the wttndere worked by some private theatricals. The
sr,atial virtues and qualifications of our matter-of-fact
nineteenth century are treated of, and a comparison insti-
tuted with its predecessors—no very original subject. " A
Campaigner at Home" is worth reading, and " The Story
of Two Wives" tells a not impossible social tragedy. The
list at tide discusses a question which comes very forcibly
home to most of us—" Row may a Peace Income Tax be
Supplanted ?" •

ST. JAMES'S.—`' The Min in Chains" continues
to be the most. prominent feature in this mtgazice,
and chiefly devotes itself in this instalment to the
fortunes of Silvester Langdale. J. Seoffern con
tributes a paper on " V-,mpyres." reminding us of
some of the hernbie weird sl3w•rs.i'ion4 the used
to be current on the subject. We have also an interesting
aceount of the "Silver Mines of Freiberg in Sexony," and
the first part of a new version ot the old romance, whoa
hero and heroine are the dreaming poet and the beautiful
Scottish Queen, a nen alive in this instance penned more in
accordance with the views ot Miss Strickland than of Mr.
Froude. ‘ Bertie Bray " is continued in the regular
novelist fashion, and neither brother nor sister are con-
ducting themselves in the most honourable fashion. It is a
story of London fashionable life, heartless beauties and their
devoted admirers, old husbands and young wives, charming
toilettes and sour elderly maidens, and consequently will find
plenty of readers and admirers. " Lascelles Wraxall"
initiates us into the mysteries that lie hidden beneath the
cork of a champagne bottle, and Lieut. Warneford draws a
vivid picture of the horrors of being " Abandoned at Sea."
There is a very amusing little sketch entitled d Our Mys-
terious Subscriber," which narrates how the writer, a
young', litterateur, was raised to the seventh heaven of
delight by an appointment to the editorial stuff
of the Puddleton Gazette. On arriving at the scene
of his labours he made the acquaintance of the
owner and projector of the paper—a new journal that
was to take the world by storm. On the eve of its first ap-
pearance, however, the printers made an inopportune de-
mand for candles, the grocer refused an extension of credit,
the new-comer had 3id. in his pocket, and the proprietor of
the Puddleton Gazette not a sou, From this dilemma they
were happily rescued by the advent of their first subscriber,
who paid his quarter's subscription in advance. Such good
luck does not, we fear, often fall to the lot of mortals.
LE CORRESPONDANT, Mars 1864. Ch. Douniol.
—A more than ordinarily attractive number of Le
Correspondant has here made its appearance. Upon
the opening paper we took occasion yesterday to
comment in our leading columns—meaning the
remarkable paper by the Cte. de Falloux (de
l'Acad. Fr.) entitled " Introduction aux lettres de P. Laoor-
daire," these letters representing one half of the
correspondence between Madame Swetchin and the great
Dominican. Besides this—Rio descants here (upon the eve of
the tercentenary) upon " La Religion de Shakspere"—Leon
Lagrange has a most appropriate criticism upon the works
and the career of the French Rubens Eugene Delacroix—
and, at the tail of several other excellent contributions, per-
haps the most remarkable of these being the one by the
Abbe Meignan, upon another phase of La Crise Religieuse
—Leon Lavedan rapidly, with a pencil of caustic, sketches
down the priucipal events of the month, burning perhaps
he most fiercely of all into his tablets the, now notorious
.ncident about the member for Halifax.

be missed.

CASSELL'SPUBLICATIONs.—The different monthly
parts of the works now publishing by Messrr Casson,
Petter, and Galpin are here again before us, and bear
unmistakable evidence of the energy and enter-
prise of the firm. " The Illustrated Shakspere"
will, when completed, form a splendid volume, both from
the variety and excellence of the illustrations and the suprt-
riority of its paper and letterpress. " Pilgrims Progress"
is another commendable production, and our dear old
friend "Robinson Crusoe" is still being submitted to the
public in a manner hitherto =attempted. " The Illustrated
History of England," "The Popular Educator," 'The
History of England," and "Popular Natural History" are
all worthy of high commendation.
THE BOY'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE contains a
variety of light reading, which will be found both highly
entertaining and instructive.
THE BOY'S OWN MAGAZINE this month is brim
full of facts, fiction, history, and adventure.
THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE
abounds with useful and entertaining articles. It is one of
the cheapest and best magazines published.
THE QUARTERLY BRITISH POSTAL GUIDE has
just been published by command of the Postmaster Gencrul,

Naval and Military Intelligence

THE NAVY.

Arrangements
,have been for some time in progress at
Chatham dockyard 'for the adoption of the new system of
accounts connected with the building of new vessels, the
repairs of those requiring "conversion " or altoration, sand
the charge for labour in each department, the whole of
which have been arranged under the immediate supc,in-
tendence of Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., one of the Lords of the
Admiralty. Under the direetion of a curepetent stall of
cleiks and assistants from the Storekeeper-Giiitars de-
p wine:A a complete stock-taking of the whole of the mate-
riel, of every kind, in Chatham Dockyard will be commenced
this morning, and periodical returns afterwards forwarded
to the Admiralty. Under the auspices of Mr. Sta.nsield,
and mainly, if not certainly, through his cr.,2e,ions, the
doe': yard accounts will from April 1 be placed on a basis
which will enable them to be compared favourably with the
accounts of the best private shipbuilding establishments in
the country. In future the percentage charges for the
different descriptions of work will be eliminated, and all
labour not employed on manufacturing operations will be
charged, pro rata, on the ships. It is, however, in the im-
portant item.of labour, which has hitherto defied all the
attempts made to properly apportion the charges under that
head, that the greatest alterations will be made at Chatham.
This will be effected by what are termed labour charts, in
which the fullest explanation will be periodically given, of
the nsture, variety, and amount of labour employed on any
given vessel, or other undertaking, its relative and actual
cost. These labour charts will be laid before the House of
Commons, which will thus have the opportunity of ascer-
taining the amount expended for labour, as attested by the
I accounts.

MAcmILL&N.—Tae story of " The Hillyars and
2 Burtons" proceeds with undiniinished -interest,
Ld troubles seem to be thickening round. most of

the act i ors n it. Go-.lr4e Hillyar and G„rty arrive
in London, and nuke their appeal'ance at his
father's country seat, but although Gerty's first introduc-
tion, to the sturdy old baronet is a great success, the bloom
has begun to fade off the poor silly little beauty's simple
life, and her influence over her gloomy, passionate husband
is already waning. Too Burtons are becoming more and
more mixed up with the Mayers, and the mysterious
trouble hanging over Reuben grows darker and nearer.
" Our Sleep and Dreams" is a pleasantly written essay on
a very old subject of debate and discussion. The writer
cites some instances in which t4se world of dreams has exer-
cised a beneficial influence in the world of realities. " ror-
tini is said to have composed his Davii's Sonata from the:
inspiration of a dream in which the devil appeared to him
and challenged him to a trial of skill on his own fiddle.
Coleridge declares that he composed his splendid poetical
fragment of liable Kenn when asleep. Condorcet relates
that more than once having retired to bed, jaded with
intricate Calculations which he had left unfinished,
he completed them in his dreams. Franklin states
that ha sometimes saw the bearing of political
events more clearly during sleep than he had done when
awake. Dr. Gregory mentions that thoughts sometimes
occurred to him in dreams which were so good that he used
them in his college lectures. Sir Benjamin Brodie tells us
of a friend who had more than once invented en apparatus
for an experiment he wished to make in a dream, and of
another who had solved mathematical problems when asleep
which had based him when awake." The usual " Letter
from Competition Wallah" deals this month with a very
difficult and momentous topic—Christianity in India. The
writer faces the question boldly, and after confessing the
unsatisfactory state of the religion of the liindoos, he pro-
ceeds to inquire why it is that, " with all the advantages of
civilisation and domination, we have hitherto succeeded in
converting to our creed only one in 10,000 of the subject
people." The reasons he gives are so numerous and so
formidable that the most sanguine missionary might well
droop discouraged ; but there are good influences at work
as well as bad, and we may trust that the acknowledged
declension of the old Rindoo worship before the light of
knowledge and civilisation may be only the forerunner of
the substitution of a purer faith. " Two Months in Rome,"
and " A Gossip Over My Portfolio," are both worth read-
ing ; but many readers will tarn with more interest to the
reprint of some correspondence between Coleridge and
William Godwin, in which the post gives full vent to his
metaphysical speculations in addressing a friend of such
congenial tastes and abilities.
TEMPLE BAR.—" The Doctor's Wife" is con-
tinued at some length, and in this instalment mat-
tera progress most unfavourably as regards the
future welfare and peace of the young couple. The
story is most naturally told, and this constitutes its
chief attraction, for the hero and heroine are alike provok-
ing in their opposite extremes—lsabel with her absurd
notions of romance, and George with his very hum-drum
ideas, Such characters do, however, constantly consort
and attempt to fight the battle of life together. The result
is one of those disastrous failures which furnish the stage
with themes for tragedy, and bestow endless opportunities
for the novelist to expatiate upon. "The Streets of the
World" this time describes Berlin, Unter-den-linden. The
sketch is not a very flattering one. " Rest and be Thank-
ful" are spirited verses. "Maid V. Mistress" is an article
that is well worthy of perusal. It traces the origin of the
fault which militates against the well-doing of so many
servant maids to their faulty bringing up at home, where
their hard working, half-starved mothers sacrifice every-
thing to turn out their daughters "smart." Much may be
gathered from this sketch of the troubles that besot domes-
' tic life in the shape of saucy and incompetent assistants.
"Broken to Harness" is continued in the same animated
manner as before. " The Ball-season in Paris" is an en-
tertaining little sketch of the doings in that gay capital.
The number of balls that take place, the numerous visitors
who throng to the festivities, and the amount which all this
quietly costs, are set down for those who seek such infor-
mation to con by rote, and they will doubtless be greatly
edified by the astonishing calculations and astounding re-
llttstpraatritonosf toitsthaitstz-
velations that aro made.
LONDON SOCIETY T
gzzine still• form a considerablehe i
tions. They aro numerous and effective, and often
display both taste and talent. A new series of
papers commences in this number, and with promise of
interest. It is called "The London Opera Direetors,,,
and proposes to give As anecdotic memoirs of the most re-
markable men who have been connected with operatic
management, together with recollections of the chief
singers
and composers who flourished during their reigns. This
first part chronicles the management. fortunes, and raider•
tunes of no less a personage than Handel, the results of
whose operatic career are thus summed up :-0 During his
unfortunate struggle against Porpora and the world of
fashion he had lost his health, he had lost all the money he
had made during 20 years of labour, and he had to start
anew, at the age of 56, having nothing left but his glorious
reputation." "The Merchant Princes of England" are
continued in due course, and we have the story of the
famous Sir Richard Whittington. Lovers of the antique
will be gratified to learn that the biographer is clearly
of opinion that a cat was in some way connected with the

The screw steam gunvessel Ranger, 5, Commander Gor-
don, at Plymouth, bound for the West Coast of Africa, got
up steam on Wednesday, but continued in the Sound up to
yesterday afternoon.
The screw steamship Nile, 78, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir
Alex. Milne, 1i.C.8„ is hourly expected at Plymouth.
The screw steamship Royal George, 78, went outside
Plymouth breakwater yesterday to try her engines and
machinery, under the inspection of Capt. ElTtonstone, of
the Steam Reserve. To-day she will be commissioned and
manned by the officers and crew of the Ajax.
The United States gunvessel Kearsage yesterday dis.
charged her powder-5 tons—at the powder-buoy off Wool-
wich Arsenal, in charge of the shipping agent, and pro-
ceeded to the Victoria docks, to make good certain damages
sustained during the late gale in the channel. She will be
thoroughly overhauled, will be supplied with a new top-
mast and have her bottom cleaned. She is manned at all
quarters with a most formidable armament of six powerful
11-inch guns, weighing 6 tons, to carry a 2001 b shot each,
so as to maintain a steady fire from every part of the ship.
The Kearsage is last from Dover, where she was an object
of much attraction, and was visited by a large number of

persons.
Mr. Tomlin, one of the Admiralty clerks, who has been
engaged during the past 17 years in the office of the Com-
modore Superintendent of the Dookyard at Woolwich, is
ordered to enter on the duties of the Auditor's office this
morning, in order to check the expenditure of the establish.
ment, and to carry out a more orderly return of accounts
for the inspection of the Admiralty Board.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miralty Board :—W. IL Monckton, midshipman, to the
Aurora—W. Skipworth, midshipman, to the Black prit.cq
—and Henry Smiles, nominated to a naval cadetship,