The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1863.

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING SEPT. 30, 1863.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the United ]
with the Corresponding Pa

:ingdorn, in the undermentioned Periods, ended Sept. 30, 1863, compared
Year.
iods of the Preceding

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
,-.--- ------- ,1/4---- -----, ended e
Dec. 31, March 31, 1 June 30, Sept. 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, Jane 30, Sept. 30, Sept. 30,
1862 180 1863 1863 1863 1861 1862 1862 1862 1862
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£ X l
£ £ £ ££ £ X £
CUSTOMS r 791 0,0
0,320,000 5,722,000 5,857,000 5,872,000 23,721,000 6,147,000 5,724,000 .), , „,_ 6,201,000 23,363,000 CUSTOMS.
EXCISE
STAMPS 2,187,000 2,374,i .00 2,394,000 2,191,000 9,146,000 2,008,000 2,293,945 2,25.2,000 2,1/.0,000
~ci 000 166,000 8,824,945 STAMPS.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX 2,931,000 3,890,000 2,918,000 866,000 10,605,000 2,359,000 4,427,000 2,77`," 974,000 10,532,000 PROPERTY TAX.
POST OFFICE
5,,,,000
CROWN LANDS 86,000 70,000 68,500 68,000 301,500 32,000 77,521 6 67,000 , 296,521 CROWN LANDS.
MISCELLANEOUS
TOTALS 18,378,..128 119,213546 18,490,204 14,411,504 I 70,491,332 17,063,039 19,606,614 13,409,904 14,600,983 1 69,685,540 TOTALS.

the Corresponding Periods of
No. ll.—lncrease and Decrease in the Periods ended September 30, 1863, as compared With

the freceding Year.

:
Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863. Half-Year ended Sept. 30, 1883. Yearncr eas ended
Increase. Decrease. Increase, Decrease.
Decrease. Increase. Sept. 30, 1863
£ X £ X £ £
CUSTOMS 329,000 •• 263,000 •• 92,000 CUSTOMS.
EXCISE 318,000 • • 163,000 438,000 EXCISE.
STAMPS ll,OOO • • 152,000. •• 321,055 •• STAMPS.
TAXES
PROPERTY TAX lOB,OOO. 38,000 73,000 • • PROPERTY TAX.
POST OFFICE
•• 200,000 • • POST OFFICE.
CROWN LANDS
MISCELLANEOUS • • 102,479 •• • 12479 7 706,808 , • • MISCELLANEOUS.
TOTALS 350,000 539,479
.. • 1,338,842 ( 344,600 • 453,679 ,i—___________
530,000 TOTALS.
..,

Net Decrease ....X189,479 Net Decrease £109,179

Net Increag • • • .X 808,842

No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863 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 Bala
June 30, nce blBeyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended 63, viz.

Amount applied out of the lucerne for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1E63, in
redemption of Exchequer DeficlencY Bills for Quarter ended June 30, 1863

1,076,035

Great Britain
Irelaud

Amount applied out of the Inca to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended
Sept. 30, 1863 .............................. . ............... 9,166,121

971,21 S

Income received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863, as shown In Account I 11,411,504

Amount raised per Act 25-26 Viet., cap. 78, on account of Fortifications, &c..... 450,000

Amount received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863, in repayment of Advances
for Public Works, &o.

338,086

£16,170,808

Balance, being the Deficiency on Sept. 20,1863, upon the charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges,
payable in the Quarter to Dec. 31, 1863, and for which Exchequer Bille
(Defictenoy) will bu issued in that Quarter 2,273,640

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for ,the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1863, viz.:—
Interest of the Permaneab Debt £5,499,166
Terminable Debt .... .•B
ills
interest of Exchequer ,8 84,601
Interest of Deficiency .151"
The Civil List ......... ;;I
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund
AsitainngeesFfuoardPu.lliSic
63,378
..0 Works,
.....
•••••
•• • 289,816

418,444448

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of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
Surpelaudseßdaslaenpeet.
3b07108n63d, the harge
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Great Britain ..............................................
Ireland ................. .

7,444,682

MAGAZINE DAY,

BUILDING GROUND, Milk-street, Cheapside.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Committee
for Letting' the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall, on
WEDNESDAY, the 14th October next, at I o'clock Lrecisely,
to RECEIVE PROPOSALS for a BUILDING LEASE for
80 Years of a piece of Ground on the East side of Milk-street,
Cheapside, in the City of London.
A Plan of the Ground may be seen and Forms of Tender
obtained, upon application at the Office of the City Architect,

457,580

FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller.
Guildhall, Sept. 24, 1863.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

ON AND AFTER IsT OCTOBER,
ADDITIONAL TRAINS
Will run between Paddington and the City, calling at every
Station.
THROUGH TRAINS will also run to and from the Great
Northern and Great Western Railways.
The Metropolitan Company's NEW CARRIAGES,
LIGHTED WITH GA.S, will be ready in a few days.
MYLES FENTON, General Manager.
Paddington, Sept. 28, 1803.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

- Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue.... 422,401

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuraw es granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amennt Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

- - OrricEs :
LONDON N, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
f t
„ West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-malL

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds ........£500,0'10,
Accumulated Funds in band over 1 OOO,OOO.

Chairman in Liverpool
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.

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The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is again fully mbintamed.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £95,107 10s.
5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa-
rately, £11,097 16s. 10d.
LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO.OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
This portion of the Company's business has been carefully
watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
future to the participating life assurer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for assurance *mounts to £143,28 I. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
In Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London:

BLACKWOOD.—A new tale is commenced in this
number, called " Tony Butler." It promises to illus-
trate some peculiar shades of character with great
nicety and exactness. We have a variety of diffe-
rent personages introduced. There is, first of all,
the widow Butler, who is rather a stern dame, for
all her seclusion and apparent unwillingness to obtrude on
the society of her then superiors in society. Tony, the hero,
is nothing very wonderful as yet ; but he at least appears
conscious of his defects, for he often bitterly laments his
ignorance and the inability he feels to repair his want of
knowledge and cultivation. There is " a very fine gentle-
man, indeed," who comes down to overwhelm the rustics
with his town impertinence and insufferable assumption,
and his infatuated adorer, a younger son of the great house
he visits, who copies his airs at second-hand, and com-
mences on poor Tony, who wisely beats a retreat. This
narrative will probably introduce us to some curious
sketches of life and manners in its continuous course.
" Caxtoniana" is concluded in this month's instalment. It
has now been going on for some time, and has furnished in
its course ample opportunity for the speculation of the philo-
sophic mind in its abstruse subjects, while its lighter pic-
tures have represented society under many brilliant aspects-
Altogether, this series of essays will doubtless prove a popu-
lar one, and be taken up to beguile the leisure hour, or to
occupy the studious moments of the general reader, who
wishes to have something between deep reading and ro-
mance. " Sheridan Knowles" is the title of a paper that
presents us with a very fair sketch of the peculiarities of
that well-known dramatic writer. It is truly stated that
not the partiality of a friend, or the partisanship of a bio-
grapher, can induce one to repreSent the "dramatic works
of Sheridan Knowles as having any title to a permanent
place in the literature of England." This is very correct
criticism, and so also is the judgment presently expressed
regarding the plays, which at all events have made his
name famous in this generation. A plain, unvarnished
testimony to a man's merits is of more worth and weight
than a whole tissue of fulsome adulation, that disgusts
friends, and makes foes doubly intolerant. Amongst
his good qualities are ranked Sheridan Knowles's
industry and perseverance; and most fittingly does
his critic take leave of him in these words;—
"Peace be with him ; earnestly, vigorously, not altogether
unsuccessfully did our dramatist work at his calling. If we
cannot crown him with immortal laurel, we part from him
with kindly thoughts and honest respect for his memory."
" The Perpetual Curate," is not so interesting as usual in
this number, the fortunes of Frank are dropped for the
time to take up the course of the brilliant but erratic Gerald.
On the principle that one trouble drives another out of our
heads, this precipitate journey of the Curate may be of ser-
vice to him, for he finds his brother's household even more
perplexed and unhappy than his own solitary existence had
of late become. One of the most interesting articles is that
entitled " Harrow School." It is a most interesting
paper, and may furnish information to many readers, with
which they were doubtless before unacquainted. John
Lyon, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, set up a grammar
school in his native parish. The intentions of this honest
yeoman were that a liberal education should be imparted
to the scholars of his institution, but it is said here his most
sanguine hopes could hardly have foreshadowed the day when
it should be thronged by the young aristocracy of England.
Then follows a long account of the changes that have taken
place in the school as to size and arrangements since those
early days when it was first planned. The account winds
up with the just remark that if a boy is not happy at Har-
row it must be his own fault. A very impressive pas-
sage refers to the erection of the " Crimean Aisle as the
tribute of old schoolfellows and friends, to the memory of
those who fell in the Russian war." The six stained win-
dows bear underneath the names and rank of those 22 Har-
row men, who fought their last fight there. Of them it
was said in Dr. Yaughan's address, when the first stone
was laid by Sir F. Williams, of Kars, "Their bodies are
buried in a far land, bat their names live in their old school
for evermore." We meet with some verses on the sugges-
tive subject of "Amen, in the Cathedral, St. Andrews."
They are appropriately written, and breathe throughout a
spirit of melancholy and an earnest faith that are fitted to
the subject. A long article on "Gold, and Social Politics,"
concludes this number. It enters at length into the ques-
tion in its various bearings, and expresses a conviction that
the " Gold Discoveries" have conferred a boon upon the
world, and specially mitigated the effects of the cotton
famine.

FRABER.—The existing relations between Eng-
land and America are the subject of a lengthened
and thoughtful paper. The writer goes thoroughly
into the merits of the case, and examines the argu-
ments brought forward on behalf of each side,
arriving at last at the conclusion that we :should
" be perfectly neutral, be civil to each party, and sympa-
thise fully with neither." To this state of mind he appears
to have brought himself, and there is much truth and sense
in what ho says, though we cannot coincide in all his opi-
nions. For instance, he says, that if we admit the prin-
ciple that whenever a large body of men chose to withdraw
we not only give the South a right to
a given Government they
havethem sea
rlvi
gehs t ftroomdotshoe, control of
repudiate the North, but we give New York city a right to
secede from the State of New York, or Westminster from
London. The cases are entirely distinct, and the United
States by their very name are a band of equal Confederates
not governed and governors. It is certainly consistent
with reason and justice that an association so formed can
be disbanded at the will of the contracting parties. The
North, he says, stands on solid ground when fighting for
the enforcement of the Constitution, and there is an end of
all transactions between man and man if express agreements
are not to be enforced. On 'such reasoning we might as
well say that every proposal to dissolve a civil partnership
should be resisted by law I The case is more truly stated
in a sentence quoted by the writer himself from a speech
made by a member of the American Senate 20 years ago
—" The Constitution is a contract in which the States
appeared as sovereigns. Now, whenever a contract is made
between parties who have no common superior, each re-
tains the right of deciding for itself on the extent of its
obligations." Nevertheless, the author, although decidedly
not Southern in hie sympathies, points out very clearly
the errors and mistakes of the Federals, and he certainly
aims at impartiality and equity in this essay. The into-
resting story of " Late Laurels" is continued, and shows
us Vile romance of the honeymoon swiftly waning. The
young bride's moat noticeable qualities are a love of ad-
miration and a passion for dress, and, as her husband has
never reached that stage of *aim ih which love hi

£18,444,448

owl, his disenchantment is painfully rapid. An article
on tg England and her Colonies," follows almost too closely
upon the essay on England and America," but it is
worth reading, although scarcely doing justice to the
loyaity of our Canadian kinsmen to the mother country.

The scientific reader will be attracted by a paper by Pro-
fessor William King on certain phenomena of the Atlantic,
and his instructions are not without a practical end, as he
especially considers the proposed telegraphic communica-
tion and Newfoundland. The " Sketcher
tini°nthe Ardennes and Moselle land" is the title of a plea-
sant paper describing the wanderings of a party of tourists
in the forest consecrated to poetic memories. The London
Recluse Continues his "recreations," or rather reflections,
and while en essay on the second part of " Goethe's Faust"
suppliesthe wants of the literary reader, an essay on the
present state of Russia addresses itself to the politician,
who has certainly the lion's share in the current number of
Fraser.
_ _

UNITED SERVICE.—In the United Service
we have an interesting account of the meeting of
the British Association which was recently held at
Newcastle-on-Tyne. Of course this report is only
an outline of the proceedings, but great care and
discrimination have been exercised in selecting the
chief topics discussed. Foremost among these may be con-
sidered Sir William Armstrong's exposure of the trade
frauds (for such they really are) of the coal owners, who,
he avers, Cause millions of tons of small coal to be burned
annually at the pit's mouth, in order to keep up the price of
screened coals. Due attention is paid to his remarks on
gunnery and projectiles, but on this subject the public have
already heard much, and are likely to hear much more.
Mr. panner's remarks on the progress of iron ship .building
on the Tyne and Toes from 1842, show how rapidly the
science of iron shipbuilding has advanced, and prove, in spite
of
evil prognostications, that water carriage can still com-
pete successfully with railroads in the conveyance of coals
from the north to London. Since the first introduction of
steam colliers great improvements have taken place in their
construction. The screw collier James Dixon frequently
receives 1,200 tons of coals in four hours, makes her passage
32 hours there, by means of the hydraulic
to London in
machinery,
she discharges her cargo in 10 hours, returns
in 32 hours, and thus completes ber voyage in 78 hours.
This screw collier made 57 voyages to London in one year,
and in that year delivered 62,842 tons of coal, with a crew
of only 21 persons. To accomplish this work on the old
system, with sailing colliers, would have required 16 ships
and 144 hands to man them." Mr. Scott Russell
very sensiblY deprecates anything like a feeling
of rivalry
between the Admiralty and private
yards.
11, maintains that the private yards and the Ad-
miralty dockyards ought alike to be considered the property
of the te country, and that, therefore, Government should
keep all the Viva. yards employed to a small but regular
extent, so that, in cases of emergency, they would possess
an enormous shipbuilding power. The extracts from Mr.
Glaisher's and Captain Grant's papers are highly interest-
ing. In the first Part of a memoir of General Wolfe, we
are carried back to a period in the history of our army,
which, for the credit of the service, we would gladly have
buried in oblivion. We refer to th© atrocities of the Duke
of Cumberland at Culloden ; and the fact that the hero of
Quebec participated in these butcheries, or at least was pre-
sent at them, detracts much from the romance with which
his name has always been clothed. But the state of the
British
array during the reign of the first and second
Georges was most deplorable; and Chevalier Wogen charac-
terised it as a bosTY " where the least pretensions to learn-
ing, to piety, or to common morals, would endanger the
owner of being cashiered." Under the head of " Curiosities
of Naval Literature. we have a sketch of English charac-
ter in ancient times, the origin of the broad arrow to desig-
nate Government Property, and other antiquarian
matters. A chapter on our "Active Admirals" fur-
nishes a history of the British navy from the early
days of Queen Bess down to the present iron
age. In a paper on the proposed American fortifications
and their influence on our colonies in North America, the
forts already erected, and about to be constructed on the
northern boundary of the United States, are duly described.
11 After showing how they will bear upon Canada, the writer
concludes with a piece of advice which is too sound to be
acted upon by a Whig Administration or to be heeded by
our present Foreign Secretary. He urges that before winter
sets in we should send out all the gunboats that can be
spared, so that they may be ready to occupy the lakes at
the breaking up of the ice next spring, for it is well known
that whoever has command of the lakes commands Canada.
This is perfectly correct, beet our Government is breaking
up gunboats which would do well enough to protect the
lakes until others could replace them. " Greenwich Cha-
racters" are continued in the usual style, and the first in-
stalment of a paper on " Gambia Colony and the Civil
War" and another on " The Polish, Question" conclude
the number.
COENHILL.--41 The Small House at Allington" is
more exciting than usual in this number. First of
all, Crosbie's lugubrious wedding is about to come
off, and he is proportionately wretched. Lily Dale
is already avenged in the position of her wretched
suitor. Lily's bedside is p prophetic picture of
happier days for the unfortunate little household. Mrs
Lupex creates another disturbance in Burton-crescent, and
of course Cradell is as ridiculous as ever. "Sea Fights,
Ancient and Modern," is a very appropriate article at this
present juncture. Its object is to "give a popular account
of the chief forms that fighting at sea has assumed amongst
the most important nations of the world." The writer
gives us a consolatory idea that change has always existed
in naval things, "but that the genius of the sea races has
never been affected by it." This is very true, but the
intelligence thus imparted is rendered doubly welcome from
the fact that it is often the fashion to decry the prowess of
our country at the present day, and to augur sinister
events as likely to occur if war is declared. This is the
right way of treating the question. "Is steam a more
potent source in nature than genius, or iron harder than
the pluck of the British tar." "The House of Commons
from the Ladies' Gallery" is an amusing sketch. The
effect of the narration is a little marred by the extravagant
style of some of the remarks. Mr. Gladstone, who was the
hero of the night's debate, is extolled to the echo, and
indeed, when he was heard, it appeared to the listeners
that no one else should speak after him. Apart from this
extraordinary style of encomium, the rest of the sketch is
amusing and will please many. " Out of the World" con-
cludes in a most melancholy manner. The story furnishes a
moral to those who, like lloratia, make misery by their
wretched conduct. Too late she finds out the krone-
diable mistake that she has made, but mortals may not
undo the past or condone with Providence for the sins they