The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-18 00:00:00

COLLECTION OF THE .REVENUE.

A return moved for in Parliament by Mr. Hor*
fall, giving au account of the Customs revenuel
shows the heavy charge for salaries and expenses
at some of the ports. At Cardiff the Customs
duties collected last year amounted. to £12,937,
and the expenses were £5,201; at Harwich the
amount received was £1,746,
and the expenses
£1,263. At Milford the duties collected produced
only £645, and the expenser3 were £1,337, and in
several other places the expenditure far exceeded
the receipts; in some parts of Scotland it was
ten times greater—at Wigtown £705, and the
receipt only £54. This may be unavoidable, but
it is a great burden upon the tax. The House Of
Commons has just voted £335,000 for poundage on
the collection of Inland Revenue; this return shows
what proportion of the commission the distributor
of stamps gets. At Lincoln this officer received
£1,009 last year; at Shrewsbury, £1,198; at other
towns still more, at Liverpool, £2,214. A large part
of the return is occupied with a statement of the
number of forms of documents used in the
Revenue Departments, and it is not a little surpris-
ing. In the Customs no less than 11,177,581 forms
were used in the last year. At Dublin, where the
Customs duties collected amounted to rather
more than million, 135,629 forms were used;
but at Bristol, where not quite a million and a
quarter were collected, no less than 239,679 forme
were used ; and at Liverpool, where the duties
collected are not four times those of Dublin, the
forms used were nearly 14 times as many. At 'Wig-
town, where the £54 were collected, 4,808 forms
were used; and at Campbeltown, where the collec-
tion amounted only to £l7, no less than 3,053 forms
were used. In the Inland Revenue Department
25,448,790 forms were used in the year, but this
includes receipts given on payment of the land,
assessed, and income taxes. In the two depart-
ments together Customs and Inland Revenue
(without the Post-office)-117,000 forms of docu-
ments on an average were used in every working
day in the year, 15,000 of them in internal manage'
meat, nearly 1,800 in communications with the,
Board of Trade and miscellaneous business, and
above 100,000 in transacting business with the
public.

DISCOVERY OF T P ATER AT THE
WARREN FARM WELL, BRIGHTON.

A'second edition of the Brighton Times, published
yesterday, says :—" The long-sought for water WO
appeared at the Warren Farm Well, much to the
exultation and delight of the persevering board Of
guardians. Early this morning the intelligen°
spread like wildfire throughout the town, and it 10
now the universal theme of rejoicing among the.
inhabitants. We despatched our special reporter to
ascertain the most correct and authentic information,
when it appeared that last night (Sunday) the men
on night duty, as usual, came up for refreshments.
On going down the shaft to resume work, the/9
were amazed to find that water to an abundant
degree had come at last. Their escape was most
providential. On measuring the depth of the water'
it was found to have risen to the height of 400 ft•
This has kept on increasing till, according to the last
account, it has reached 700 ft. We are credibly In-
formed that the water is still rising at the rate 0'
100 ft. per hour. The town is in ecstacT,
weekly expenditure has been at the rate of .£l°vi
The main depth of this celebrated well, is supposed
to be 1,282 ft. from the surface. Fr:om the aßeei:
mens of strata produced, at the board of guardian'
last Tuesday, and which are now lying before us,
the appearance of petrified wood and clay is really
discernible, and on testing this with fire, it has all
the appearance of a slatey substance mixed with go
or gunpowder."

ThE SUPPOSED MURDER OF A YOUICG
WOMAN IN THE REGENT'S-PARS

Last evening Mr. Brent, the deputy
cornier for
West Middlesex, and the jury empanelled on Mon-
day last, reassembled at the Buffalo's Heed Tavern,
Marylelvne•road, to resume an inquiry into the,
mysterious circumstances attending the death °I
Martha Hunton, aged 19, of Cuthb€,rt-street,
park, Paddington, whose body was found in the
Regent's Canal, with various marks of external
violence, on the 25th ult., as previously detailed
our columns.

Charles Stephenson, 16, Cuthbert-street,
park, deposed that he had known the deceased Or
the last two months, and had been in the habit o'r
meeting her at the theatre. He last saw her alife
on the evening preceding her death at the Maryle"
bone Theatre. They drank a little together, afte_,r,
leaving the theatre, at the Sailor publichouse, who'
she said to him " Lor, Charley, what a pretty rig
you have got ; let me try it on, will you." P',o
allowed her to place it on her finger, and when B'lA
got it on she said she could not get it off again, an
he then said " Never mind; don't make a botber
about it ; you had better keep it." He then wished
her good night, and parted. It was at that time
~
about a quarter-past 11. She appeared in excellent
spirits, but not quite sober.
The ring, which was of plain gold with a sing& le
red stone, was here produced by the beadle, an
identified „
by witness as the one he allowed her '-
keep.

Thomas Morgan deposed that he had no partictv
lar address at present. He followed the emPlO;
ment of a clerk. Knew deceased very well; the ifts;
time he saw her alive was about half-past one en the
morning of the 25th ultimo, which was scarcely
hour before her body was found in the canal, vgbeig
she called at the house of Mrs. Edwards, 12, Litt,-
Church-street, to see him. Directly he saw her
hd
told her that she had been drinking, and she replied
"If I have it is not at your expense." She appeare
to be very jealous of him at the time, and apparentl'e
,
of another girl whom she fancied he was cohabitl
with. She stayed there but a few minutes, olle
suddenly ran away in an excited and jealous stet
of mind. He immediately ran after her. Haoiv
lost sight of her he returned within five
afterwards. She had often threatened to con:oil
suicide.
A Mrs. Edwards, and a woman described ash a
servant, corroborated the last witness's evidence, 014
both testified to the jealous and excited state 05
deceased was in at the time of the interview t't
above stated. Mrs. Edwards was of opinion the
e
destruction.she wen awayt s
hwith a thed
threatenedintention tose
fe.
on former occasions.
•
Other evidence was adduced, but it threw no sa
ditional light upon the case.
The jury del'berated and returned an open were
diet, " That deceased 'was found drowned in th
e'"
Regent's Canal, but how she came into the Wt-ef
there was no evidence to show." commit self