The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 6.—The Handlcsblad contains
to-day (in two columns and a quarter) the commence- '
merit of an article on the " Finance of the Country—
the Transmarine Possessions." The following is the in-
troduction to the article :
" We have in two former numbers communicated
some general observations on the finances of the coun-
try, and the ruinous increase of the national expendi-
ture. If we consider the expenditure in connection ,
with the resources of the kingdom and the heavy debt
under which the State labours, it must be allowed
that the state of the finances of the kingdom
is very unfavourable, and that every moment's delay
in making vigorous efforts to place them on a
better footing, is a step nearer to a disastrous
bankruptcy. Independently of other considerations,
it must give an unfavourable idea of the finances
of the country, that the ways and means fur de-
fraying the expenditure of 1840 are estimated at
56,386,298f1., the expenditure being estimated at
56,378,600{1. ; the whole surplus, in a budget of nearly
60 millions, being the great sum of 9,698,60011. This
unfavourable result is still greater when we consider that
many items of expenditure are not precisely stated as
among the disbursements ; that not a single cent. is
allotted in the budget for the payment of the public
debt. But this result is again more unfavourable
when we look at the manifold incongruous items of re-
ceipts among the ways and means. It needs no proof
that the burdens of the nation are not lightened, that
the taxes, which, of late years, have been in-
creased to such an excessive degree, experience
no diminution either in the principal sum or
on the additional cents (opcenten), and that in re-
viewing the state of our finances we are to rejoice that
the burdens of the people of the Netherlands are not
again augmented. Among the ways and means for
1840 we find in the first a million as surplus receipts of
the preceding year, which we suppose the Government
would not have taken into account without being suit of
that million, though we think a specific statement desir-
able. But the happy result of the budget of 1840
by which we arc to reckon on a surplus of 7,690
florins, with a budget of nearly six millions, was not to
be obtained without plading in the ways and means the
great sum of 11,220,00011. from the revenue of our
Colonies,nar
which
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millions of florins is to be raised on account of the Co-
lonies, by which the heavy
debt
the debt
that
already
already
oppresses
the East will be so much increased, and the
responsibility of the kingdom for the payment of the
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accounts put
arrived,an endse forseveral since the last settlement. Before the time for doing
business
in integrals (24 and 5 per cent.), and the consequence
was that all descriptions are sensibly lower than yes-
terday. All foreign stock, especially Spanish, are very
dull. Since the last Coupon was cut off, this stock has
continually declined, and since yesterday the fall is little
less than 1 per cent. Coupons too have sensibly de-
clined.

Russian and Austrian very firm ; South American
offered.—Handlesblad, Nov. 6.

The Birmingham Journal states, that trade in
that town is almost, if not entirely, at a stand. If mat-
ters do not mend, it is said, there will be four or five
thousand workmen in Birmingham alone condemned to
Bd. to 6d.. per piece.
partial, if not total, idleness, in the course of a week or
two. The Kendal Mercury, in speaking of the condi-
tionit has
of the Carlisle cotton weavers, says the manufac-
turers have reduced wages from
The Blackburn Standard, although a Tory journal and
an advocate of the Corn-laws, is forced to admit, that
resenttoantohrie
anomalous
" bad as has been the trade for several weeks,
been getting still worse since last report, with the pros-
pectil l iit
explanation contrive o
ft
the
e furnishp
of a future decline. Alas, poor bewildered
politieal
Standarda n y
spin-
ners and manufacturers whocdoomzepaoravteirveiltys
eco-
nomy
state of thinv—" farmers prosperous,"
according to the Duke of 13; &,ingham, and "trade bad
Plausible l abuoswi b lwe
—getting still worse—with prospect of a future decline?"