The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-14 00:00:00

LIE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA

PORTSMOUTH, Friday Morning.

Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert arrived from
Antwerp and proceeded through to Osborne, with Prussian
standard at the main.

THE LINCOLN ELECTION.—After a severe contest
between the Conservative candidate, Mr. Bramley Moore,
and the Liberal candidate, Mr. Palmer, the former was re-
turned on Wednesday by a majority of 25. After the
declaration of the poll Mr. Palmer was received at the Ses-
sions-house with great enthusiasm. He congratulated the
inhabitants on the progress Liberal principles were making.
When he first came among them, he said, he was 300 be-
hind. Now his minority was reduced to 25. Mr. Bramley
Moore could not get a hearing. He was greeted with cries
of " Get a chair." Before the proceedings terminated he
was secretly taken through the city gaol and by back roads
to the inn, where happily he arrived in safety. In the
evening the mob broke the windows of the committee rooms
of both candidates. A struggle ensued between them and
the police, which was only terminated by the latter being
withdrawn. At the request of two or three of the inhabi-
tants the mob then quietly dispersed.

THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The usual weekly meeting
of the executive committee was held ( n Tuesday, at the
offices in Guildhall-chambers—Mr. Sydenham Nodes in
the chair. Mr. J. Wood, of Southwick, Shoreham, was
elected a member of the council. The pending elections for
Lincoln, Great Grimsby, and Gloucester were considered
by the committee, and directions given to promote the cause
of the ballot at each. It was reported from Oxfordshire
that the defeat of the Ministerial candidate, Sir H. H.
Dashwood, Bart., was caused by the advanced Liberals
withholding their votes from him, in accordance with the
policy recommended by the committee. A sub-committee
was appointed to confer with Mr. Berkeley, M.P., chair-
man of the society, and other Parliamentary friends, as to
the form in which the ballot question should be brought
before the House of Commons this session.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—A return
has been issued which shows the amount of the public in-
come and expend ture during the year ending on the 31st
of December, 1861. The income, omitting the shillings.
was as follows : Customs, £23,774,000 ; excise, £18361,000 ;
stamps, £8,488,170; taxes, (land and assessed) £3,119,000;
property tax, £9,962,000; pcst-office, £3,500,000; crown
lands (net), £293,478; miscellaneous, £1,306,201; total
revenue—£6B,6o3,Bsl. The expenditure was in excess of
this sum by £2,214,207, amounting in the aggregate to
£70,818,058. The expenditure on the National Debt, on
Exchequer Bills, &c., was £23,090,259. The charges on
the Consolidated Fund amounted to £2,564,623. and the
Supply services amounted to £42,162,875 ; the separate
services costing the following sums :—Army, £14,875,868 ;
navy (excluding packet service), £12,608,012; miscel-
laneous civil services, £8,052,788; salaries, &c., of revenue
departments, £4,697,967 ; Post-office packet service,
£1,091,778 ; China, naval and military operations
£780.000 ; extraordinary expenses of the late Russian war,
£53,430.

THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—A supplementary esti-
mate was issued yesterday of the sums required to provide
for the .probable excess upon the amount voted for the navy
for the reserve of the year 1861-2. The whole estimate
amounts to £364,388, being composed of the following sums
--glOO,OOO for wages of seamen and marines, £30,000 for
victuals for seamen and marines, and £234,338 for the
" army department," or, in other words, the expenses of
transporting troops.

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The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 25th January were £16,494
sterling, being £G,BIB more than in the corresponding week
of last year.