The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-11 00:00:00

" ANTICIPATORY BUDGET OF 1865.

" The credits to be opened for the Anticipatory Budget
of 1865 amount to about 82 millions ; but this sum cannot
fail to be reduced. In fact, owing to the strictness ruling
the arrangement of the expenditure, the total of the credits
anticipated in the Budget of 1865 will be found lessened,
at the end of the balance, by a sum estimated at 36 millions
at least, which will give rise to corresponding abate-
ments. (The total of preceding abatements has been—
in 1859, 52,439,932 f. ; in 1860, 48,544,882 f. ; in 1861,
39,097,435 f.; in 1862, 71,427,144 f.; and in 1863 this
amount will be 46 millions.) The increase which thiji
Budget will necessitate will therefore only in reality be 46
millions.

"Upon the other hand, the resources calculated upon for
the anticipatory Budget amount for 64,000,000 f. A surplus

will therefore result of 18,000,000 f., which may be carried to
the extraordinary Budget of 1866.

" The principal items of expenditure in the anticipatory
Budget of 1865 are—
" 1. For the Ministry of War :
"Entire effective force kept up in Mexico, in
Algeria, and at Rome
"N.B. The sum asked last year for this ser-
vice in the rectified Budget was 57,000,000 f.
" 2. For the Ministry of the Marine and the Colonies :
" Extraordinary armaments and administra-
tion of Cochin China ... ... 29,000,000
"N.B. The credit asked last year for the
Ministry of Marine and the Colonies was
52,000,000 f.
" 3. Ministry of Public Works
"N.B. The Ministry of Public Works was
only charged with a sum of 1,800,000 f. in the
rectified Budget of 1864.
" 4. Ministry of Finance :
" New Post-office

... 36,000,000

4,500,000

... 6,000,000

" Re-coinage of silver works in
forests, grassing mountains, &c. 3,000,000

" 5. Some further expenses for the Minis-
tries of the Interior, of Public Instruction, of
the
.Emperor's Household, and of the Fine
Arts, and for Algeria—together
" The revenue of the rectified Budget of
1865 arises principally :
" 1. From direct and indirect taxes, which
were calculated with great moderation in
the Budget voted 18 months ago. Their
total value will exceed
"2. From the annuity due by Mexico
"3. From a sum to be received from the com-
panies of Orleans and of Lyons
"4. From the payment of a credit reserved
for inundations ... _

9,000,000

2,600,000

... 31,000,000
25,000,000

3,000,000

" 5. From some other sources amounting to-
gether to ... ... ... ... ...

1,000,000

" ORDINARY BUDGET or 1866.

8,300,000

'• The ordinary Budget of 1866 contains no new burden
upon the taxpayers, and we have even ceased to include the
tax upon equipages and horses kept by private persons. By
your Majesty's order, a bill will be presented for the pur-
pose of including this tax in future in the departmental
budgets.
" Notwithstanding this diminution, the ordinary budget
of 1866 balances at present with a surplus of over a million,
and we have nevertheless been able to increase the amount
devoted to the Ministry of Marine by 2,500,000 f., and that
to the Ministry of Public Works by 1,500,000 f.
" EXTRAORDINARY BUDGET FOR 1866.

" The Extraordinary Budget for 1866 amounts in revenue