The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Last night produced, as usual, the statement
of the Revenue for the year just terminated, and
of that which terminated in January, 1829, for
the sake of comparison. To be brief, there has
been a decrease,—a decrease in the greater part
of the articles ; but that decrease has been
smaller than we could have conceived or expects
ed. considering the clamours that have been
rai-ed, of ruined' trade, commerce, and agricul-
ture. Upon the whole year, it is one million
me hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds.—
It is to he observed also, that the decrease
pulls up," if we may use the expression,—it
gees not augment through the several corre-
eponding quarters, hut diminishes. For example,
the inferiority of the first quarter ending April,
1829, to that of April, 1828, is 535,9631.—
Had this decrease pervaded the several quarters
of the whole year, we should have a general de-
ficiency of upwards of two millions; but the de-
ficiency of the quarter just ended, below that of
January, 1829, is only 332,786/.; and we ob-
serve that, in the important article of customs,
thus (palter even exceeds that of the correspond-
quarter of last year : so that, in truth, the
year just ended, instead of declining, has been
apie-oaching nearer and nearer to the year before.
To account, also, for some of the decrease of the
quarter ending January 5, 1830, as compared
with that of January, 1829, or to reedier it less
distressing, it should be recollected that the in-
come of the quarter ending January last year ex-
hibited a very large increase over that of 1828.
Tee quarter's revenue of the latter was only
12,326,079 i., that of the former was, as seen in
the tahle, 13,022,300/., making a difference of
686,`221/. Substitute the quarter ending Ja-
nuary, 1828, for the corresponding quarter of
last year, and we should have an improvement of
353,4:35/., instead of a deficiency of 332,7861.,
tm the present quarter.—Times.
We lay before our readers the Accounts of
the Quarter ended sth January. It exhibits a
decrease as compared with the corresponding
quarter of last year of 332,7861. On the Cus-
toms there has been an increase of 62,6541.—
(in the other branches a decrease. The year
ended sth ,Inninny, 1830, compared with the
year ended sth January, 1829, is 1,165,4491.
On every branch there is a decrease, except the
taxes, on which there is a slight increase of
47,26-11. On die Excise it is not considerable,
amounthig to 950,6541. With an increasing
population, a stationary revenue is alone a falling
off ; and as our population has increased consi-
dereldy during the last four or five years, while
the Revenue has not increase], the community,
as. a whole, have necessarily deteriorated some-
what. With the habits of the people of this
country, if' the population should not have con-
tinued to increase of late years, this would still
indicate privation, for a population like ours can
only be kept stationary by suffering. One of the
branches of the Quarter on which there is a con-
eiderable decrease is Stamps, 60,057/. Yet we
are told that more than usual pains have been
taken to swell this branch. According to a con-
temporary (the Standard), " It has hitherto
been customary for the Law List, which is made
up from the names of those professional gentle-
men who have renewed their certificates, to be
published about the middle of February, so that
consequently the fees were paid at the commence-
ment of the month, and of course came into the
April quarter. This year, however, notices were
scent round to the profession, that the List would
he completed on the Ist inst., and the Licenses,
accordingly, were in time to swell the accounts that
will ha published to-morrow. When it is recol-
lected that every London attorney pays twelve
guineas, it will be seen that no inconsiderable
sum has been borrowed by this means from the
April quarter." We have no doubt that when
teeplanations are given, it will also turn out that
tioniething or other which ought to have come
into this quarter, has been delayed. There is, we
believe, a constant anxiety to swell the quarter
as much as possible ; and we do not, therefore,
attach much importance either way to these state-
ments. We see nothing to afford room for
despondency. At the same time we see enough
to demand from all who possess influence, the
utmost exertions to effect some alleviation of the
burdens which press so heavily upon the people
of this country. We trust the idea of enriching
a nation by depreciating the currency, is now
abandoned for ever. We have already suffered
too much from this nostrum. We cannot allow
this occasion to pass without expressing our
earueet hope that this country and America will
at length abandon the policy from which both
have suffered, In the almost boundless regions
of the United States, what scope for the pro-
duction of valuable returns for the manufactures
of England ! Immense sums which might have
been beneficially expended in extending the cul-
tivation of the soil, have been sunk in manu-
facturing establishments in New England that
ial(' no dividends, This money may be con-
,.
entered as fairly thrown away. We rejoice to
licar that the present Executive of the United
States entertain the most friendly disposition to-
wards England ; and we trust that this disposi-
tion will he fairly met on our part. Why should
there not he the best disposition between the
two nations, which have so many reasons for
being on the best terms with each other ?
.Morning Chronicle.

In another part of our columns will be found
the Official Returns of the Stale of the Revenue.
It will be seen that the present quarter's Reve-
nue has fallen off, as compared with the corres-
ponding quarter of the last year—the total
amount of the former being 13,022,300/, anti
that of the latter only 12,689,514/., leaving a
decrease of 332,7861, It is said that the actual
decre:Ae is much more, but the deficiency has
been in part supplied by a sum of
in 500,000/.
plid up by the East India Company the way
Of anticipation. If this report be true, which
we do opt vouch for, the decrease would be great
indeed. islm it is, even on the face of the official
documents, there is evidence enough of the de-
clining prosperity of the country. The
,net
produce of the Revenue for the year ending
January 5, 1829, was 48,305,3221., while that
for the year ending January 5, 1830, is only
47,139,8731., leaving a decrease of 1,165,4991.
Thus the deficiency of the whole year, coin-
pared with the preceding one, is considerably
above one million. There is no doubt that
great exertions had been made to swell the ac-
counts of the present quarter, to prevent, at this
difficult and delicate crisis, the exhibition of a
more alarming deficit. Extraordinary means
have been used to enforce the payment of the
assessed taxes some months before the usual
time, notwithstanding which there is a falling off
under this head of Revenue, as compared with
that of the corresponding quarter, of 9,3201.
Under the head of Post-office the decrease has
been 20,0001.; which is a circumstance that
strongly proves the stagnation of business. The

Standard states that . among other branches of
die Revenue which have been anticipated may be
mentioned Attorneys' certificates. The fees upon
these cert ificatesused to come into the April quar-
ter, not being paid until the beginning of Febru-
ary. This year, it is stated, notices were sent round
to the profession that the Law List, which is
made up from the names of those professional
gentlemen who have renewed their certificates,
would be completed on the first of January, and
the licences that would otherwise have contri-
buted to the April quarter were its time to aug-
ment the returns of the present one. The only
item of Revenue which shows an increase in
the present quarter is that of Customs, in which
the atnimentation is 62,654/., hut in which there
•would have been a deficiency, if what is reported
allout the East India Company's duties be true.
The decrease on the Excise in the present quar-
ter amounts to the large sum of 154,30 G/. No-
thing can be more indicative of the poverty of
the working classes, whose consumption of ex-
cisable articles is thus proved to be considerably
diminished on the whole, notwithstanding the
prevalent fascination of cheap gin. The Stamps
have fallen off' to the amount of 60,0571.—
while under the head of Miscellaneous there is
a decrease of 151,7571., compared with the cor-
responding quarter. Those Journalists who
always take the increase of the Revenue as an
infallible test of a continuing, if not an increas-
ing, prosperity, are precluded by their own line
of argument from denying that a decrease in the
Revenue is as conclusive evidence of national
adversity. The late hour at which we have an
opportunity of taking a cursory glance at the
Returns prevents us from making further ob-
servations upon them at present, except to point
the attention of our readers to the circumstance,
that the decline in the Customs for the whole
year, as compared with the preceding one, is up-
wards of 100,0001. ; and the deficiency in the
Excise for the same period very little short of a
million, being 950,6521.—a decrease which can-
not be accounted for but on the supposition
that we have already mentioned.—Morning
Herald.

We this day lay before the Public the Official
Abstracts of the produce of the Revenue for the
Year and Quarter which terminated yesterday,
compared with tl►e net produce of the Revenue
for the Year and Quatter which ended on the
sth of January, 1829. We regret that these
documents do not place the state of the national
finances in so favourable a light as we could
have desired, and were at one time inclined to
expect. Neither on the other hand, however, do
they afford any just grounds for despondency or
dismay. The languor which has for a consider-
able period prevailed in many important branches
of the national industry could scarcely fail to pro-
duce a correspondent diminution in the proceeds
Dl' the pUblic revenue. Some decline in the
receipts of the year and quarter was therefore
naturally to be expected, and the statements now
before us chew that its actual extent is too
inconsiderable to afford ground for any serious
apprehension. These statements will, we fore-
see, afford to some persons a pretence for de-
claiming upon the decay and ruin of the coun-
try ; nor is it improbable that these persons will
be the same who for several months have taken
the most gloomy view of the state of British
co►mnerce and industry, although nothing can be
more clear, if the opinions they have been in the
habit of expressing upon the latter subject were
sincere, tha❑ that they ought to derive topics of
consolation rather than dismay from the actual
state of the Revenue—to manifest surprise and
joy that it is so good, rather than disappoint-
ment that it is not better. The total deficiency
in this year, as compared with the last, is
1,165,4491., the falling off under the head of
Excise alone, being 950,6521. In the Quarter,
the failure, in comparison with the corresponding
Quarter of last year, is 322,7861., nearly the
half of which amount comes under the head
of Miscellaneous, a branch of revenue de-
pending almost wholly upon accidental causes,
and affording therefore no criterion of national
welfare. The failure in the Excise for the
Quarter is only 60,057/. From the facts thus
presented to us of a diminution in that depart-
ment of the Revenue which is the most im-
portant of all as a criterion of the general pro-
sperity, and of the comforts and enjoyments of
the great mass of the people, amounting in the
whole year to 950,6521., while in the last
Quarter it has fallen off no more than 60,0001.,
it may, we think, very fairly be inferred that the
commerce and manufactures of the country have
been in a state of greater activity, that the great
bulk of the people have had more constant em-
ployment, and greater means of consumption
and enjoyment during the last three months
than during the preceding nine. If we cannot
congratulate the nation on its advancing prospe•
rity, it is at least consolatory to find that
it does not retrograde with accelerated, or
even with continued rapidity. If we ex-
tend our view over a longer period than the
last two years, and compare the Revenue
of the years and quarters which ended respec-
tively on the sth of January 1828 and 1830,
the comparison will then indeed no longer be
disheartening, but on the contrary highly cheer-
ing and satisfactory. The Revenue of the year
just ended is greater than that of the year which
terminated on the sth of January, 1828, by
495,1981. ; that of the quarter, greater than the
corresponding quarter of that year, by 353,435/.
We now refer our readers to the detailed Official
Statements which aprear in another part of o►►r
Paper, repeating, that however we may regret the
fact.- they present, they do not afford the least
ground for despondency or apprehension. The
liability to vicissitudes is an inseparable attendant
upon varied, complicated, and extensive coin-
mace. This is one of the inconveniences to
which, as a great commercial and manufacturing
people, we must be compelled to submit. lint
so far as we may form any judgment from the
documents now before us, it is certain that this
evif does not in the present instance press very
heavily upon us.---Morning Post.

FEROCIOUS ATTACK BY A LEOPARD IN
Tint Ti Ea.—On Saturday morning a young man, named
CaoNint, went into the yard in the Tower, round which
the cages of the beasts are placed, for the purpose of re-
moving the bones which had been swept nut of the cages
after the beasts had been fed, and had been employed only a
few wends in putting them in a basket, when on raising
his head, he pemeeived one of the leopards push back the
door of his cage with its paw, the keeper having neglect-
ed to bolt it. Before CRONE ir could stir many paces or
raise the least alarm, the infuriated beast sprang towards
him,. The poor fellow end •avoured to Lind shelter behind
some ti I ribq, when the kopard pounced u i..on him, and stick.
ing hia immense clews og. either side of his neck, grasped
the hack of his neck with his tusks, and kept a f ist hold.
Caw:: calle:1 out for assistance, and reaching out his
baud, endeavoured to force open the keeper's room door,
but it as lam tOllcti. The keepers at length came to his
assistance, and endeavoured to entice the beast away, but
finding they could not succeed, they stunned the animal by
giving biro some tremendous blows on the head w ith a large
fowling-piece. CaolleV's neck and shoulders were se-
riously iajured, and he now remains in Guy's Hospital,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION.HOUSE.

The I.ORD MAYOR said yesterday, with regard to
numerous attacks made upon him relative to the
state of the streets,—" I find my situation, as Chief
Magistrate, exposes me as a butt to be shot at by
every fellow who can fire paper bullets. I am
written to and assailed, as if it were my fault that
the streets are in an ill condition. It seems to be
expected of me that I ought to send regiments of
men to sweep the streets clean from one end or the
city to the other. Now I have no such power : I
have nothing to do with it. The communications
are all anonymous, but they are extremely harassing.
The'persons to whom it is proper to apply are the
Commissioners of the Court of Sewers. They
make the Contracts, and the arrangements for the
cleansing the streets, and have ample powers for
punishing in case of neglect, and those powers they
exercise at a regular court called a Court of Sewers.
One or two of the Common Councilmen in each
ward are Commissioners. The filet is; I believe,
that there is not now so high u price given for what
can be got from the streets as formerly, and the
contractors do not remove it until it suits their con-
venience. Besides, snow is at no time a marketable
commodity."
Mr. nobler believed they considered it was not
within their contract to remove snow.

One of the parish officers of Bishopsgate stated,
that in consequence of the state of the streets, they
had ordered out all paupers who could wield a broom
to assist the contractors. If other parishes would
act in a similar manner the streets of the city would
soon be in a passable condition.
We are informed that the contracting scavengers
engage to sweep all their districts twice every week,
and that they seldom, if ever, perform more than
half of that contract, being satisfied to let the mud
and filth accumulate in immense quantities, and then
make a single job of it each week. Thus passen-
e'ers are often covered from head to foot, although
they walk close to the shop-windows. 'f he Com-
missioners of Sewers, however, by whom, no doubt,
complaints of this kind would be most strictly at-
tended to, sit generally on Tuesdays at Guildhall,
where all who object to the present state of the
streets ought to send communications. Every de-
puty of a ward is in the commission, and the inhabi-
tants who arc annoyed by the neglect should apply
to their representatives; and whoever it is proved
that a contractor has omitted to perform his con-
tract, he may be lined on application to the Com-
missioners generally, who stale that the inhabitants,
who have the best means, must take upon them-
selves to watch, and by themselves, or their ser-
vants, enforce the due execution of the contract.