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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853.

Government indeed obtained a victory early
this morning over the Opposition. A victory
that affords compensation for a dozen defeats—be
they defeats upon the Jew Bill, or upon the
Duty on Advertisements. For it must be re-
fnembered that the present triumph of Ministers
was a triumph gained in a House of no less than
575 Representatives. It was a triumph in which
252 voted for and 323 against the amendment,
leaving seventy-one as the magnificent majority in
favour of the proposition of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The division has, therefore, we
take it, been decisive—decisive of the fate of the
Budget, and, to a great extent also, of the desti-
nies of the Administration. In the upshot it

has proved precisely what could alone have

been anticipated : although the country could
scarcely have expected so considerable a num-
ber told off into the lobby in favour of the
Government. Still a majority--a majority rang-
ing as might happen from one to one hundred—
was a matter of certainty. It was inevitable, after
the avowals made in the course of the debate by
the Hon. Member for Montrose, and particularly
after the plain-speaking of another independent
representative—meaning by this, of course, no
other than the Hon. Member for the West Riding
of Yorkshire.' The language uttered by •Mr.
HUME, and afterwards by Mr. COBDEN, was un-
mistakeable. It was altogether as unmistakeable
as it was extraordinary. It was apart from rea-
son. It was apart from logic. It was apart even
from common sense. It announced, in fact, the
most egregious non sequitur that had perhaps
ever been whiipered within the walls of the
Imperial Legislature. It said—virtually—" The
proposal of a renewal of the Income Tax for
seven years, without regard to the difference of
men's fortunes, whether they chance to be fixed
or whether they chance to be precarious, is, to
our thinking, so atrocious and intolerable, so un-
just, and, therefore, lot us add, so unjustifiable,
that—we consider it our duty—to—give—the--
Budget—our—tut qualifi ed—approbati on I" That
we say was, virtually, the language of Mr. HUME.
It was afterwards virtually the language of Mr.
COBDEN. It intimated clearly enough what would
be the course pursued under the emergency
by the great body of the Financial Reform-
ers. The success of the Budget was secured.
Coming toe almost simultaneously with the
electioneering triumph at Athlone of the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General for
Ireland, the declarations made in this matter, and
in this manner, by the Representatives of Mon-
trose and the West Riding of Yorkshire—con-
firmed the good promise of the proximate advan-
tage about to be secured by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Through Mr. KEOGH, a large portion
of the Irish Brigade had been gained over to the
support of the Administration. Through Mr.
HUME the sticklers for retrenchment had been
prevented from inadvertently swelling the ranks
of the Opposition. Through Mr. COBDEN, the
Coalition had dissipated the pique, and by dissipat-
ing the pique, had commanded the support of the
professors and students of the politico-commercial
School of Manchester. Mr. GLADSTONE had not
counted without his host. He had contrived so
adroitly to blend the sweet with the bitter in the
inevitable cup of Taxation—that he had won
over to views such as they had hitherto detested
many of those who might reasonably have been
counted upon as his antagonists. The wormwood
of the Income Tax was mingled with the sac-
charine remission of two-thirds of the duty on
Advertisements. The gall was flavoured with
the honey. And—now that JOHN BULL has
confidingly ,c opened his mouth and shut his
eyes" to nee what Good Luck, in the person
of Mr. GLADSTONE would send him—all
has been swallowed. Henceforth it must be
borne in recollection that the draught has
been imbibed at the instigation of many of the
most redoubtable leaders of fiscal and financial
improvement. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
appeared before the Commons at the appointed
hour, as the QUEEN appeared before Fair ROSA-
moND, in one hand the bowl of the Budget, and
in the other the dagger of a Dissolution,. Par-
/Bent, in its " wisdom," has accepted the former
—without much regard, it would seem, as to the
consequences. It may be said to have already
dr.Ailed it to the dregs—meaning, of course, the
noxious tax upon Incomes, no matter whether
fixed or precarious. The fact is attested by that
majority of 71, in a House of 575, by which the
Legislative approbation has been decisively ac-
corded to the Financial statement of the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
even
Nothing ha; had influence in warning
some of the most staunch' Reformers in the Com-
mons from the almost unconditional acceptance of

a scheme imposing a war tax on the nation for
seven years prospectively during a period of pro-
found peace throughout Christendom. Nothing.
They appear to have been determined from the
first to offer that sacrifice ungrudgingly upon the
altar of the Coalition. And they have endea-
voured to cover the shame of their tergiv,Tsation
by dignifying their concession with the title of a
sacrifice of gratitude. They maintained that
there were so many good points in the Budget
that the bad might reasonably be overlooked.
Evidence of the most convincing and conclusive
character has been adduced in contradiction to
the presumed sagacity of their argument. But
all to no purpose. We might have exclaimed all
along, like the man in PLAUILTS--

"In pertusuin ingerinins dicta dolium

Insisting, as we have done from first to last, upon
the cruelty of the proposed seven years' Income
Tax—because we consider it to be unjustifiable
from the length of its renewal, and altogether
odious from the inequality of its assessment—we
have spoken upon this subject throughout under
the depressing influence of a deplorable presenti-
ment. A presentiment which has now been
rather speedily, not to say prematurely, fulfilled.
For, according to the division of this morning,
the Ministerial project of an Income Tax of seven
years' duration may be considered as accepted.
Luckily, however, that portion of the Budget
will yet have to be examined in detail under
Committee. Let us hope then that tardily,
but magnanimously, Mr. GLADSTONE may con-
sent to some rational modification. For this
there will be no lack of opportunities. There is
Mr. MICHELL'S ingenious proposition, for example,
still remaining to be brought under the scrutiny
of the Legislature : that Hon. Gentleman under-
taking to move in the Committee of Ways and
Means, " That for and in respect of any profession,
trade, or vocation, whether the same shall be
respectively exercised in the United Kingdom or
elsewhere, for every twenty shillings of the an-
nual value or amount thereof, above the yearly
profits of one hundred pounds, and under that of
five hundred pounds :

For two years from April 5, 1853 £0 0 5
And for two years from April 5, 1855 0 0 4
And for three years from April 5, 1857 0 0 3"
At least that amendment ought to be favour-
ably entertained, or something at any rate ap-
proaching to the nature of the proposition.
Otherwise—passed in its present form—the Income
Tax levied for seven years without any distinction
whatever being made between fixed and precarious
incomes in the mode of its assessment, will be
the curse of the nation and the disgrace of the
Government. Anything rather than the inflic-
tion as it is now suggested ! Modify this
portion of it, and we shall be prepared to
cry GOD speed to the Budget with the noisiest
of its eulogisers, and to commend, in no stinted
terms, the great administrative genius indisputably
displayed by the Right Hon. WILLIAM E. GLAD-
STONE in the responsible office of her Britannic
MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer.

If the Chancellor of the Exchequer persists in
taking the Stamp off Supplements, he is bound,
also, to take it wholly off Advertisements. His
avowed reason for relieving §ppplements was, that
the Advertising public might not, through the
limited size of a newspaper, lose the benefit of
the Is. which he remits of the present is. 6d.
duty on each Advertisement. If he is then really
concerned for the public in the matter, it must be
his object that Advertisements should so largely
increase that a vast proportion of the journals
should be in a position to publish them. He
cannot desire that one or two, or half-a-score even
of papers (including some country papers of large
circulation), should pocket nearly the whole profit,
of his Supplement remissions ; he would desire
that a host of newspapers in town and country
should find it their interest to give Supplements
from the vast influx of Advertisements. If, in-
deed, the number of Advertisements be not in-
creased twofold or threefold, his proposition
ought to be considered a failure. Now,
it is almost certain that the remission in
question will not have the desired effect. The
object is, of course, to increase the number of the
smaller advertisemeuts. When the charge amounts
to 10s., persons are not frequently deterred from
insertion by a single shilling. It is, however, per-
haps, from about that amount downwards that the
pressure of the duty acts most injuriously. Per-
sons of every class, from the scullery-maid to the
respectable clerk, wanting employment--apart-
ments wanted, or to let—single articles, more or,
less valuable, which persons wish to sell—parti-
cular qualities of goods to which a. tradesman
de-
sires to attract attention ci ; innumerable.
multitude of indescribablesonlit, for the Most
part, under the class on whi:o6,even. the 6d. duty
still left will be a heavy Ifereerstage. ' Mcleod,
the mischief is that any reduction merely leaves
the class most desirable to relieve the most heavily
taxed. The two or three lines of the poor servant
still pay as much as an advertisement in which a
ROBINS describes the beauties and advantages of
an estate worth hundreds of thousands.

But, in addition to this, by far the most
profitable mode of advertising is repeated adver-
tising. In nothing is it more true than in adver-
tising, that the most efficient mode of doing it, is
doing it well ; the advertisement which meets the
eye repeatedly is sure to be read at last. Occupa-
tion, oversight, listlessness even, and a hundred
causes may cause it to be unattended to at first,
while every reader of a paper has at some time perused
what has oftentimes stared him in the face ; hence
all the most practised in this department, are
rarely, indeed, satisfied with a tingle advertise-
ment. They make an agreement with the paper
for a certain number of insertions, at intervals,
or in succession, as suits their object. Now it is
obvious at once what a difference any duty, even
a low one, makes in such arrangements. The
printer could, of course, always gi ye his customer
some advantage from having to set -up the typo but
once ; but he cannot release him from the merci-
less duty; and that, in the case of a poor person, to
whom repeated advertisement might be every way
desirable, would be a very heavy tax. In its
bearing upon the public advantage, and upon the
filling of Supplements too, we are disposed to lay
quite as much stress upon frequent instead of
single insertions of Advertisements as upon ob-
taining them from new quarters;. We hope,
therefore, that Mr. GLADSTONE, Svho has shown
himself already so compliant on the 2+ per Cents.,
and in his Tariff of Licences, will be equally good
humoured about the paltry sixpence still retained
by him on Advertisements.

As to the Supplement Duty, extending the aboli-
tion of it to News Supplements, would, no doubt,
make it a much fairer thing; and we suppose it is
understood that the Hon. Gentlem,a,n is " to yield
to pressure" on that point. Still we must main-
tain that the defence of the penny stamp at all is
quite compromised by it. In all fairness there
can be but two elements by which an article con-
veyed by post can be taxed—price or weight. The
latter is the one chosen by the Post-office, for obvi-
ous and proper reasons. Were, indeed, price the re-
gulator of the stamp duty on printed papers, then,
clearly, if a fivepenny newspaper paid a penny stamp,
a penny newspaper ought to bo stamped, and go
post free, for one-fifth of a penny. Lord JOHN
and Mr. GLADSTONE would not like the people to
enjoy political knowledge on those terms. Ad-
hering, then, to charge by weight, it certainly ap-
pears the height of absurdity to transmit nearly
six oz. (the weight of the Times with a double
supplement), by post, and to charge as much for a
paper weighing, like The Suez or the Standard, but
au ounce or two. If it be said that the smaller
paper is welcome to increase its weight too, the
answer is twofold. First, that, for many reasons,
smaller papers will always be as much needed as
larger
ones ; and next, that if newspapers be
charged. only ld. for repeated transmission
through the post, up to the weight of six oz.,
why should not books and other printed matter be
sent at tho same rate ? Printed matter, of course,
as in America, ought
..toat country, there ought to
pay very much less than
writing ; but, as in that
be some reasonable scale of weights for the one as
well as for the other. Our
only hole is
that the
question is now so far opened that the whole
batch of discreditable taxes justly dew:mum:l as

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1853.

Taxes on Knowledge will soon be swept away
entirely. Taxes on mental purification and intel-
ligence must soon follow taxes on soap and cleanli-
ness. They are a thorough disgrace to an edu-
cating age. Why should not the harmless
sheet of news which everybody would read,
down to the village rustic, find its way, by
railway, van, carriers' cart, and every species of
conveyance, as freely and cheaply as the innumer-
able sixpenny and penny monthlies and weeklies
which manage, with wonderful promptitude, to
appear a day or two after publication in every
nook of the land ? Perhaps, however, it were
absurd indeed to dream of anything but education
in clerical strait-jackets, under a cabinet of Con-
servatism, Whiggism, and Puseyism, with a
scarcely perceptible tinge of Radicalism. Coali-
tions must do things at least by halves, and even
quarters.

MONEY MARKET AND COAL TERME,
INTELLIGENCE--(THIS D 'AY.)

CITY, TWO 0 CLC .OK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yest€ rcla:T 7 were
estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 2, 50( J Ame-
rican were taken for export and on sp ec' alation.
The market closed with more animation ; c( mipared
with Friday's rates prices of American ' were ex-
treme, other kinds without alteration. " The sales
comprised 6,000 American, 20 Pernam ant 1 Maran-
ham at 6;1d., 500 Egyptian at 60. to f id., 600
Egyptian at 6id. to Bd., 1,000 Surat at 3itl. to
4id., and 60 Sea Island at ls. Od. to 2s. 8d per lb.
Railway Shares were firmer.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Sbr. i raid.]

RAU:MAYS.

100

A draft of a bill brought into Parliar nenl for
regulating the weights used in sales of builioi i has
been published. The object is to legalise the w eight
ordinarily used, namely the troy ounce, a ad. other
denominations which are multiples or decil ma 1 parts
of such ounce, and the act provides that, i n future,
all contracts made and sales of gold, silver, .platina,
diamonds, and other precious stones, shall "be legal
if determined by the troy ounce, being the stan-
dard or unit of weight. Models of these, weights
are to be made and verified under the dir fiction of
the Treasury, and the contents of the we ights are
to be stamped thereon.

In an account of all gold, silver, ar copper
moneys of the realm, coined at the Mint d airing the
first three months of the present year, it appears
that there were no less than 4,335,3571. I Os. 7d. in
sovereigns and half-sovereigns 38,214/. :in florins,
42,3721. in shillings, and 12,078/. in sixpences.
The fourpenny and other silver pieces r epresented
92,8621. There was no copper coinage carried on.
In a letter addressed by H. Bellendeti Ker, Esq.,
to the Lord Chancellor, on the subject, of the cost
of registration of assurances, it is stated that the
expense would be about 15,000/. a-y ear, and that
a building of the size of Lincoln's-inn-Hall, divided
into three storeys, would be calculated to contain
all the necessary documents for the ilext 120 years.
The memorials usually run about au. eighth of the
length of the deeds, but in future, under a
general registration act, there would be an
abridgment of the documents. The average
expense foi registering the deed would be about
IL 55., but this would be diminished upon sums
under 1001. The stamps now are less onerous than
they were. At present the cost of registering a
deed of ordinary length in Middlesex is 21. 195.,
and if there is a. plan on the conveyance this is in-
creased to 41. la. Where the title is complex, from
251. to 501. is ofton paid. The usual charge for
searching a title by solicitors is at the rate of 6s.
Bd. per hour.

Aberdeen

There has been no change in the English Stocks
upon the majority in favour of the Budget, and
this is considered rather singular a circumstance,
looking at the corr,Ment predictions of those who
are friendly to the plan. It would seem that the
income tax is as unt )opular among capitalists as it
will be among the lawmbler classes affected by it.
Consols have been quoted 100/1. for Transfer, and
low, to 101 for Acs count. The New 3f per
Cents. have realised 1.03 k to 1038, and the 3 per
Cents. 100 to 1. Bank Stock has been firm at 227 to
228. East India Stock has realised 260-1- to 262 k,
and South Sea Stock has' been done at 1152. Ex-
chequer Bills are not higiller than par to ss. prem.
East India Bonds have be 255. to 285., the fall
of Saturday not being recovered. Several mem-
bers of the Stock Exchange are istill absent from
business.

25
25
St.
50

50
40
25
25
St.

Closing Prices
this day.

In the Foreign Market there has been a decline
in Greek Bonds which opened at 101 for the red,
and have since been done mt 10. Spanish 3 per
Cents. have been firmer at 24 it to 11, and the Cer-
tificates 6g. Mexican Bonds are quiet at 27* to
Peruvian 4 per Cents. have been marked 89, and
the Deferred 69. In Dutch 2 per Cents. there
have been numerous transactions at 651 to 661.
Therollowina is a translation of a letter from the
Spanish Ministere of Finance
Madrid, April 26, 1853.

50
25
100
St.

29 - 30

Ambg. Nottng. Bost.
& Eastu. Junct
Birmg. Wolyerh.
Stour Valley
Birkenhd. Lancsh. &
Cheshire Junct.
Do. Chesh. & Birk.,
£5O and £25 Cons.
Do., £2O
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian

"Sir,—The affair to which your communication of
the 16th instant refers, has been submitted to the Cortes
for discussion, as a project of law presented by my pre-
decessor.

6 - 64

10 -10 i

21 22 d
31 24(1
103 105
66i 67 1
24 244,
23 231

18i
100
100
all
all
all

Chester & Holyhead.
Cork and Bandon—.
Cork, Blackrock. and
Passage

DublinSEßelfast June.
Dundee Perth &Aber-
deen Junction
Do. New

4i— sipEa
8 -- 9

East Anglian (£25 L.
and E. & L. & D.)
Do. Do. (181. E. Ss H.)
Easte:n Counties
Eastern Union, Class
A. (late E. U. Sh.)
Do do

13i - 13A'
10/ -11 i

8
all
100
all

Do., B. and C
East Lancashire
East & West Ind. Dk

7 - 73
73 - 75

& Birming. June
Edinburgh & Glassrow
?Alin. and Peen'es
Edin. Pith. &Dundee
Glasgow & S. Western
Great Northern Stk
Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock

50 - 55
72 - 74

Great Southern and
Western (Ireland)
Great Western
Irish South-Eastern
iJaneaster & Carlisle
Do., Thirds
Laneash.& Yorkshire
Do., Fifths

all
113
100

" The Government not having the faculty to adopt
any resolution in an affair which regards exclusively the
Chambers, it is impossible for me to resolve this question
in the manner you desire.
"I take advantage of this opportunity to repeat my-
self your obedient servant,
(Signed) "MANUEL BERMUDEZ DE CASTRO.
"To Daniel Weisweiller, Esq."
The Railway Share Market is very firm, and with
rather an increased business doing. French shares
are supported.
The Gold Mine Shares are rather fluctuating.
Great Nugget do not rise upon the official an-
nouncement that the dividend will probably amount
to 33 per cent. Agua Fria Shares are rather lower.
The Land Companies Shares have been firm but
quiet, except Scottish Australian, which are better.
The Bank Shares are steady.

100
3i
16

50
St.
16
16

17t
all
10
100

St.
20
St.
15

100
100
100
100

Do.; Wst. Riding Un
Leeds Northern
_ .

Liv.Cil,by.&Southpt.
London & Blackwall
Loud. Tilb. & Stheud.
Loud. Brigt. & S. Cst.
London & N. Western
Do., Fifths
Do. 4:10 Sh.M. &B. C
London & S. Western
Do., £5O
Do., £4O

Londerry. a; Coleraine
Lndndrry. & Enuisk.
Manch. Shef. &Lineln
Do., Man.& Lin. Un j
'Midland

The railway meetings announced are the fo]
lowing :

Company. Date. Place.
London and South-Western May 19, 34, York-road,
Lambeth.

Do. Binning. & Derby
Midland G. West. (Ir.)
Do. Shares

Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire
Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg May 4, Paris.
Paris and Rotten May 3;PVis.
South Yorkshire May 12, London Tavern.
The sums called fer in May by,the various rail-
'Way coMpanies are, as follows •
• Amount.
Great North of Scotland, original 107 £27,686
Ditto ditto, Ist Preference :30,000
Great Southern and Western, Ireland, 4 per
cent Pref 56,250
Killarney Junction 15,000
Lake Constance and Basle 72,000
Maryport and Carlisle, 41 per cent., 121. 10s unknown
Norfolk Debenture Shares 101,340
West Flanders, 54 per cent. Pref 40,000

Newcastle & Carlisle,
Newmarket

Do. Bury Extension.
Newp. Aberg. &Hftd.
Newry & Enniskillen
Newry,Warrenpoint,'

-
and itestrevor
Norfolk
Do., New
Northu.Counties Un
North British
North Devon, No. 1
Do No. 2
~

Do., 4 A Deferred
Do., B Guaranteed
North Staffordshire
North Western
N. & S. Westrn. June
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverhampton
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury & Birmg
Do., L. & N. Westn
Guaranteed Stock
Shrewsby.& Hereford
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves do

all
all
63
all
100
all

Do Do. Oswestiy
Shropshire Union
Sou Devon
South Eastern
South Wales

IS. Yorksh.River Dun,
I Do.

'Stockton & Hartlepi
Thames Haven Dock

and Railway'
Vale of Neath

Waterfd. & Kilkenny
Waterford& Limerick
West Cornwall

1/.le
1
100
20
114
100

Wimbledon&Croydn
Woodford
York Newctl. &Berw.
Do. Extensions
Do. G. N. E. Purchase
York k N. Midland—,

32 - 34
61 - 66
88i -89? J
55 - 57'
131 -133 I

1101; —llll
92- —92 i
81
92 94
13i 14 p
80 80}
4; d
3 2 d
16 —l6k

9
2 -- 2f p
105 -- 106
119 A -- 120
2il -- 3 p
li-- 1i
90h -91 A
5 --
4 --
12 -- 13
19 -- 21
20/ --30 i
3i -- 3d
76 -- 7611
42 -- 441

50 - 52

P
31 3 d
2 31
81— 91
52 54

3k -- 21 (11
35 - 36'

42 d

52 - 53
98 - 100
62 - 63
64 - 66

£343,276
The proportion called by foreign companies is
112,000/., but the holdings of English proprietors
are not known.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the (Vidal List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced!Annuities lO3 113.- 100 j
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3,1 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto- 30 Years, Expire sil Jan., 1860 6 3-16
India Stock
India Bonds, £l000
Ditto, under £lOOO 23 9
South Sea Stock ....•................. ....... ..: 115?1
South Sea Old Annuities 991
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills 1:1d. June. March.
£lO00.
£5OO 5
Small 5

E PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazlia,n Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto New, 1852, 4hper Cent lOOl
Equador Bonds
Greek Bonds, Red

Ditto, Blue
9
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 27g
.Perus:an Bonds, 41 per Cent. B9
Peruvian Scrip 3i
Peruvian Deterred 3 per Cent.

Poi:,usuese Bonds, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 484
Spanish 3 per Cent., New Deterred 241
Di'cic for the Accounz, 244
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6 p c
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2} per Cent. 12 Guil. 661 5 64 6
Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates...
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols.... ...................................... 10043 „T
Ditto May Account lOO/

DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.--The Lord Mayor
last night entertained at dinner the judges, a certain
number of official dignitaries, and a few literary men.
There was, as usual, the average sprinkling of legal gran-
dees.. After the customary toasts (Mr. Ingersoll having
in one replied nobly for his own country), the Chief Baron
of the Exchequer proposed the Lord Mayor, and then
Mr. Justice Talfourd gave the health of Mr. Charles
Dickens, and in proposing it passed a just eulogy on
Mrs. Beecher Stowe, who was present. Mr. Dickens,
in reply, said some happy words of compliment about
Mrs. Stowe.
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The seventy-
third anniversary meeting of the friends of this society
was held yesterday, at Willis's Rooms ; the Marquis of
Cholmondeley presiding. The report of the committee
announced that during the year more than 23,000 copies
of the Scriptures had been circulated, and more would
have been distributed but for a want of funds. Since
its formation, the society had distributed the enormous
number of 578,638 copies of the Scriptures, both amongst
the land and naval forces of the country, and amongst
the seamen of the mercantile marine. The many agents
of the society had manifested their usual zeal in the
work of distribution, as shown in the result of their
labours. At Halifax,' Nova Scotia, 1,310 bibles and
were circulated in the past year. The agent
on the river Thames issued 954 copies; the Port of Hull
Society, 1,055 ;
at Plymouth 746 were issued ; at
Portsmouth, 829; at Liverpool, 2,823; 910 were issued
by the British and Foreign Sailors' Society ; 960 copies
at Dover ; 424 at Cardiff; Leeds, 379 ; Fahnouth, 296;
at Dartmouth, 270 ; Newcastle, 268 ; and Redruth,
323. The total cash receipts for the year amounted to
2,1011. 15s. lid., and the total payments were
2,1021. 18s. 9d., which, with a balance from last year,
left a present balance of 681. 3s. sd. The balance was,
however, merely nominal, as there was an outstanding
debt of 7861. for 10,000 Bibles, which the Committee
had felt it their duty to procure, in order to be prepared
for any demand for the supply of the military, in conse-
quence of the offer made to commanding officers. A
small effort on the part of the friends of the society
would speedily liquidate this claim. •

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