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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
ENTRIES FOR THE LIVERPOOL CUP.

The great Western, 4 yrs—Eagle's Plume 4
Lugar, 3 yrs—Mogador, 5 yrs—Dahcotah Chief, 3 yrs—
Chevreuil, 4 yrs—Primrose, 4 yrs—Sunnysidi., 4 yrs—
Burghley, 3 yrs—The Swallow, 5 yrs—Bon Mot, 3 yrs.
—Prince Charley, 4 yrs—Blucher, 4 yrs—Dough, 4
yrs—Ellerslie, 4 yrs—Boundless, 3 yrs—c by Vulcan,
out of Mansfield Lass, 3 yrs—Lamb's Wool, 4 yrs—
Melody, 3 yrs—Avenger, 6 yrs—Cawroush, 6 yrs—
Keleshe, 5 yrs—Garendon 6 yrs—The Dart, aged—c by
Bay Middleton, out of Lyndhurst's dam, 3 yrs—Joln
Cos,er, 4 yrs—Strychnine, 3 yrs—Montague, 3 yrs--.
Pavilion, 5 yrs—lnheritress, aged—Rowland, 3 yrs—
.Raby, 3 yrs—Ellerdsle, 5 yrs—Lady Meashana, 4 yrs—
Newcourt, aged—The Premier, 5 yrs—Tuscan, 4 yrs—
Crazy Lad, 4 yrs—Geraldine, 6 yrs—Swaledale, 3 yrs—
Maid of Motherwell, 5 yrs—Snuff-box, 4 yrs—Voyager,
4 yrs—Fireaway, aged—Ribaldry, 4 yrs—g by Mel-
bourne, out of Rosanna, 4 yrs—Henry of Exeter, 3 yrs—
W hizgig, 4 yrs—Wensleydale, 3 yi s —Syrup, 3 yrs—Por-
trait, aged—Sheraton, 6 yrs— Caurire, 3 yrs—Thringarth,
3 yrs—Shylock, 4 yrs—Joc o'Scot, 5 y rs —Cossack, 5 yrs—
Windermere, 3 yrs—f by Sir Hercules, out of Peeress, 3
yrs—Glendower,4yrs—Canezou,4 yrs—Abbot of Meaux,
3 yrs—Executor, 5 yrs—Clermont, 5 yrs—Lismahago,
3 yrs—Do-the-Boys, 3 yrs-LForsclosure, 5 yrs—Good
Boy, 4 yrs—Sponge, 4 yrs—Legerdemain, 3 yrs—Tor-
toise, 4 yrs—Miss Bunney, 3 yrs—Hornpipe, 4 yrs--
Blaze, 4 yrs—Bingham, 5 yrs—Loup Garou, 3 yrs—Es-
sedarius, 3 yrs—Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs—Distaffina, 4 yrs—
Mongrel, aged—Sauter la Coupe, 3 yrs—Clerk of the
Council, 4 yrs—Peep-o'-day Boy, 5 yrs—c by Verulam,
Whim, 3: yrs—The Admiral, 5 yrs—Sesostris, 4 yrs,—
Lola Montes, 4 yrs—Dacia, 4 yrs—lodine, 4 yrs-e-Taff-
rail, 4 yrs—Radulphug, 6 yrs--e by Sia Hercules, Em-
press, 3 yrs—Camphine, 4 yrs—Backbiter, 4 yrs—ain-
pyre, 5 yrs—Halo, 5 yrs—Fugleman, 4 yrs—Pantomime,
5 yrs—Ballinafad, 5 yrs—Yardley, aged—King of Kil-
dare, 4 yrs—Attraction, 4 yrs—Woolwich, 3 yrs—
Springy Jack, 4 yrs—The Flapper, 3 yrs—Projectile,
5 yrs—Planet, 5 yrs—Sagacity, 5 yrs—The Widow,
aged—Wanota, 5 yrs—Surplice, 4 yrs—Cotton Lord,
3 yrs—Tiresome, 3 yrs—Honeycomb, 3 yrs ; Tophana,
4 yrs—Westow, 3 yrs—Pelhana, 3 yrs—Athelstane,
4 yrs—Garrick, 3 yrs—Sylvan, 4 yrs—Flatcatcher,
4 yrs—Swiss Boy, 4 yrs.
ENTRIES FOR THE GREAT NORTHAMPTON-

Box AND Cox.
A Romance of Real Life.

Bedele hds., Mon., Thorp Perron; Wed , Blows Hall,
Hutton Moor; Fri., Tunstal-16.
Hurworth hds., Tues, Middleton One Row; Sat.,
Kennels, 10i.
Sir C. Constable's stag hds., Wed., Comiston-fell.
Mr. Hildyard's harrs, Mon., Carlton Guide Post; Fri.,
Aeltlarn Blue Bell-10i.
Harrogate beagles, Mon., Landhouse-green ; Fri.,
Burnt-gates- bar--10+.
Captain H. Lewis's harrs., Tues., Northallerton ; Fri.,
Low Silton-11.

THE QUAIITER'S REVENUE.

North Devon hds., Mon., Bratton Village; Wed.,
Newton Bridge; Sat., Knowle Water-10i.
_ Tiverton lids., Mon., Drayford Bridge, near Wi-
*ridge; Thurs., NV insford Village; Sat., Tarr Steps.
Mr. Mi_srgan's hds, Mon., Meriovle Bridge; Thurs.,
Long Cross.

Salkeld's hds., Mon., Causeway House; Thurs.,
flat's Close.

Wigton and Carlisle harrs.; Mon., Brackenthwaite;
Thurs., Gerod House; Sat., Barugh Syke-8.
Eamont harrs., Mou., Salkeld Dykes; Wed., Stainton ;
sat., Ousby-14
Mr. Phillips's hds., Tues., Shotover House; Sat.,
Woodcote Common-10i.
Mr. Fane's harrs., Mon., Quarterman'd Ground;
Wed., Wapsgrove; Sat., Ipsden Field.
Baron Rothschild's Stag hds., Wed., Mentmore;
Thurs., Liscomb Park-11.
Mr. Lowndes's hda., Tues., Swanbourae; Fri., Stock
Grove-11.

Cambridgeshire hds., Mon., White Wood; Wed.,
Shearhatch Wood; Fri., Caxton Gibbet-10i.
Durham Countxhds., Mon., Woodburn; Wed.,` Mains-
lorth ; Fri. litartozioi.
F. bd;.; Mot., "Itr cewa ter Hill; Fri., Perran Wharf.
Mr. Watson's hds., Mont, Saltwick village; Wed.,
Ulgham Grange Wood; Fri., Hartburn-10i.
Earl Fitzhardinge'a hds., Mon., Withingcon village;
Tues., Pewadown; Thur., West Wood; bat., Broad-
way-11.
Mr. Brand's hds., Mon., Three Houses; Friday, Digs-
well Hill.

Marham harrs., Mon., Methwold Cock; Tues., Felt-
well-11.

Suffolk hds., Tues., Rushbrooke Hall; Fri., Saxham
Hill.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

Her Majesty's stag hds., the first open day, at Brom-
hall Hut-11.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDA.Y.

The large entry for the Chester Cup having put a stop
to speculation, not a bet was made.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness walked this morn-
ing in the Home Park.
The younger branches of the Royal Family took their
usual walks and rides in the Park.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary took leave of her Majesty and
the Prince, and returned to Kew this morning, attended
by Lady Augusta Cadogan and the Baron Knesebeck.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
and Monsr. and Madame Van de Wey€r, left the Castle
this morning, for London.
The second of a series of dramatic representations
took place last night, at Windsor Castle, before her Ma-
jesty the Queen, his Royal 'Highness the Prince Albert,
their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the
Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, his Se-
rene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, their
Serene. Highnesses the Princesses Amelie and Elise of
Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, and a distinguished circle of
guests.
The Queen, accompanied by the Royal party, and
attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the House•
hold, entered the theatre at a few minutes past eight
o'clock, and the performances immediately commenced.
The following was the programme of the evening's en-
tertainment:—

By Command.
Her Majesty's Servants will perform, at Windsor Castle,
On Thursday, January 4, 1849,
A comic drama, in two acts, adapted from the French,
By Dion Bourcicault, entitled
USED UP.

Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart.... Mr. Charles Mathews.
Sir Adonis Leech ... ... ?!!.. Granby.

Honourable Tom Saville ... Mr. Bellingham.
Wurzel (a farmer) ..• Mr. F. Cooke.
John Ironbrace (a blacksmith) Mr. Howe.
Mr. Fennell (a lawyer)... ... Mr. Honnor.
James ... ... Mr. Clarke.

Mary ... ... ... Sirs. Jacob Barrow (late

Miss Julia Bennett.
Lady Clutterbuck Mrs. Ilumby.
After which, a Farce, in one Act, by John Maddison
Morton, entitlsd, _

John Box (a Journeyman Printer) ... Mr. Buekstone.
James Cox (a Journeyman Hatter) ... Mr. Harley.
Mrs. Bouncer (a Lodging-house-keeper) Mrs. Stanley.
Director ... ... Mr. Charles Kean.
Assistant-Director ... Mr. George Ellis.
The Theatre arranged, and the scenery painted, by Mr.
Thomas Grieve.

Upon leaving the Theatre, the Queen was pleased to
command that the expression of her Majesty's approval
of the exertions of the different performers should be
conveyed to the Director, Mr. Charles Kean.
Refreshments were served in the Throne room.
Her Majesty's Private Band was in attendance, and
performed in the intervals of the different pieces.
The company present were, 'her Majesty the Queen,
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, their Loyal Highnesses the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, their
Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelie and Elise of
Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, his Serene Highness the
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency Mon.
Van do Weyer and Madame Van de Weyer, his Ex-
cellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Viscountess Can-
ning, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Augusta Cadogan,
Lady Caroline Cocks, Honourable Miss Paget, the
Marchioness of Waterford, the Countess of Mansfield
and the two Ladies Murray, the Viscount Clilden, the
Lord and Lady Ruthven, the Lady Mary Berkeley, the
Dowager Lady and Miss Lyttleton, and Miss Carew,
Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, Colonel the Hon.
C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley,
the Lord in Waiting, the Groom in Waiting, the
Equerry in Waiting, Sir George and Lady Cowper and
Miss Cowper, General and Lady Isabella Wemyss,
General and Mrs Scott, Colonel and Mrs. Challoner,
the Baron Stockmar, General Bowes, Captain F. Sey-
mour, Mr. and Mrs. Meynell, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour,
Mrs. Crutchley, the Equerry in Waiting ou his Royal
I lighness Prince Albert, Baron Knesebeck, the lion. and
Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Dr. Meyer, Mr. Glover, the Com-
manding Officer and two Officers of the Second Life
Guards, the Commanding Officer and two Officers of the
Coldstream Guards, Miss Hilyard, Madame Roland de
la Lonsa, and Mdlle. Gruner.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Augusta
Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, returned to their resi-
dence at Kew yesterday from Windsor Castle.

SKATING IN THB HOME PARK AT WINDSOR.—
Immediately after luncheon on Wednesday last her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended
by the Lord and Lady in Waiting, Mr. G. E. and the
Hon. Mrs. Anson, and other members of the Royal
household, walked from Windsor Castle, and proceeded
through the Slopes to the Home Park, where the Prince
Consort, some of the ladies in the Royal suite, and others
in her Majesty's establishment, amused themselves for
some time, notwithstanding the severity of the weather,
in skating upon the piece orwater on the north side of
the footpath leading from Adelaide Lodge across the
park to hatchet. This piece of water, covering up-
wards of two acres in extent, and not more in any one
part than twelve inches in depth (it having been left by
the late high floods after they had subsided), was admi-
rably adapted for the enjoyment of the exercise of skat-
ing, without the risk of any serious accident occurring.
The most dangerous parts, however, were marked out
by branches of trees being spread over them, in order
that they might be avoided by the Prince Consort and
the Royal party. His Royal Highness performed some
very clever evolutions, cutting out several figures with
considerable skill.
ST. CLEMENT DANES BURIAL-GROUND.—It ap-
pears from the last quarterly report of King's College
Hospital that there is every prospect of the above burial-
ground being shortly closed as a place of interment, and
so afford an open space that will be most advantageous
to the densely-copulated district around it. The autho-
rities of the hospital have contributed greatly towards
promoting the health of the neighbourhood by purchas-
ing the ground adjoining the present institution, and by
the removal of the pigstyes and boiling houses in Cle-
ment's-lane, in the yard of which an open grating, com-
municating with the sewer, emitted a most offensive
smell, which, combined with the effluvium arising from
the boiling fat, was undoubtedly that complained of by
Mr. Walker in his evidence before the. Committee of
the House of Commons. This is now removed, and if
the efforts being made by the parish result successfully,
the closing of the ground will afford the greatest grati-
fication,'as indeed would the entire prohibition of burials
in populous places.
AYLESBURY, JAN. 3.—The Epiphany sessions for
this county took place on Tuesday last before Sir Tho-
mas Aubrey, Bart., chairman, and a full bench of magis-
trates, amongst whom were Lord Carington, the three
Members for the county, Sir 'l'. Fremantle, Dr. Lee, G.
Pigott, Esq., &c. The calendar contained the names of
above sixty prisoners, but most of the offences were of a
trivial nature. The site for a new lunatic asylum will
be fixed upon by the magistrates, and the question of
the propriety of building judge's lodgings will be dis-
cussed. It will be proposed that a special session should
be held in February, for the purpose of clearing the
gaol before the assizes.
A GOLDEN DISCOVERY.—At the recent sale of the
whose residence it was purchased by the
R
effects of the late Rev. Miles Barton, of iloole, among
otehv. m
erarr.tipelicice, sanofatoi
nqguteon,to se chest
removed. On ex,,mining the interior, Mr. Price was
surprised in finding secreted therein the sum of 2401,
which had evidently reposed in security for a long series
of years. The treasure was immediately returned to
the proper owners,—Liverpool Times.

TIMES.—As the revenue of this colliery is the only
one in this fart of the world which is rot rapidly siels-
ing, or scarcely propped up by the most extraordinary
and oppressive expedients, We presume it is lawful to
congratulate our readers upon the statement for the
quai ter just ends d. It still exhibits that steady im
provement which is the most natural and therefore most
healthful symptom that could be desired. The praet;sed
explorer of this table will at once recognise the figures
on which its mein gist and interest depend—the cetnpa-
r isms of the two quarters ending respectively January 5,
1848, and the same d Ly, 1849. The s. veral items of in-
c: ease on the ordinary revenue amount to 593,0051.,
the items of decrease to 150,390/., the balance being an
increase of 412,6151. on the quarter just ended. On
talcirg into account the increase of " Chine Money,"
" irnprest and other money," and "rr payment of ad-
vances," this improvement on the quarter becomes
686,827/.; but it is unnecessary to observe that these
extraordinary and accidental items, though they augment
the existing resources of the Exchequer, have no bear-
ing on the question of prosperity, for which this return
is usually consulted. As we have observed, on previous
occasions, the financial year beginning with April, 1847,
was too exceptional in its circumstances to be a proper
subject of comparison. It is fairer to go back a whole
year. On referring, then, to the qurrter ended Jan. 5,
1847, we find the present quarter falls short of it by
only 483,0471. We say only, because here again we
have to deal with an extraordinary year, 1846—a year
of excessive speculation and expenditure, between two
famines, but scarcely affected by their financial results.
To go into the several items, we come first to the
Customs. Here is an increase on the quarter to the
amount of 570,5331., and going further back to the
quarter ending January 5, 1847, an increase of
167,674/. It must, however, be remembered that
in the quarter just ended there has been a
revenue on the import of corn, of which we have
now seen the last. We can only hope. and we do hope,
that the general improvement of the Customs will next
year supply this deficiency. In the item of Excise the
quarter exhibits an increase of 6,279/. We believe there
would have been a decrease but for a change of account,
which has transferred to this department certain por-
tions of revenue hitherto collected by the Board of
Stamps and Taxes.. There has been an increase, it is
said, on the malt, paper, and soap dutiss, all of them
articles of necessity; a decrease in bricks, hops, and
sprits. A decrease on the consumption of spirits will
be deplored less than on the othor articles on the list.
Bricks are, more or less, a speculative expenditure, and
hops are beyond the reach of financial calculation.
The Excise, therefore, notwithstanding a virtual de-
cline, indicates increasing prosperity and comfort. The
downward course of speculation, and the change of
accounts we have already referred to, have pre-
pared the public for a decrease of 92,257/. on the
Stamps. The "Taxes," as usual are very stationary.
In the property-tax there is a decrease upon the
quarter, which suggests some gloomy reflections. We
observed the same fact last October. The quarterly de-
crease was then 25,755/. It is now 38,133/.—a sum
which represents several millions of annual income em-
barrassed or altogether extinguished. In the other
items there is no change worthy of notice, unless it be
necessary to observe that the Post-office and the Crown
lands are very little more productive than they were a
year ago. The ordinary revenue of the whole year 1848
exhibits an increase of 875,705/., the most observable
items being an increase of 914,0621. in the Customs of
the year, of 1,101,3941. in the Excise, and a decrease of
848,698/. in the Stamps. Those candid and intelligent
critics who wish to occupy their readers with the least
favourable view of the table before us will probably fix
on the yearly comparison, as if it were the most
interesting and important. A moment's consideration,
however, will detect that the first three quer-
quarters of last year are now a matter of history, and
have been sufficiently wept and bewailed in their own
proper time. To bring them up now is thrice to kill the
slain. The only inference that can properly be drawn
from a less favourable yearly comparison, in the face of
a more favourable quarterly comparison, is that we are
decidedly and palpably improving. It is so in fact. We
have been gradually improving the whole year. The
total ordinary revenue for the year ending January 5,
1848, was 47,616,878/.; for the year ending yesterday,
48,492,583/. Some extraordinary items swell the in-
crease to 1,533,9571. The monthly returns of the Board
of Trade are so largely abstracted and discussed in our
City intelligence that we need say but little in
this place. The tide which, after the long summer's
ebb, turned in our fav-our last October is now flowing
fast and full. For the month ending the sth
of December, there was an increase of exports,
compared with the corresponding month of the previous
year, to the value of 132,548/.; and there can be no
doubt from the reports daily arriving from the manufac-
turing districts that the month just ended will be found
to exhibit a still more decided result. The increase of
exports, as we noticed last month, has been chiefly in
cotton manufacture, and we beg most respectfully to call
the attention of a contemporary to the circumstence of
which ho last month confessed himself unaware, that the
greater part of the increase had been in the more ad-
vanced description of manufacture, as distinct from
cotton yarn. The next considerable increase is in
woollen manufactures, that on woollen yarn being com-
paratively slight. The chief decrease has been on iron,
s'eel, and machinery; betraying the miserable condition
of continental trade and manufactures. The increase in
the monthly imports balances that on the exports with
unusual closeness—a fact which indicates the safe and
cautious footing of our commerce at this moment, and
which seems to augur that our returning prosperity is
destined to a long and vigorous growth.
HERALD.—Wee give, in another part of our paper,
the usual Account of the Revenue, for the quarter, and
for the year, ending on the sth of January, 1849, com-
pared with those ended January 5, 1848. At the same
time, while we print the document just as we received
it, we are obliged to conclude, that, either we are exces-
sively dull of perception, or there is a blunder of a
million in one or two of the columns. The revenue
from the Excise is stated to have amounted, in the year
ended January 5, 1848, to 11,730,746/. In the year
just concluded, it is stated to have amounted to
12,832,140/. ; and this is set down as an increase of
101,394/. To us it would have appeared to be, an in-
crease of 1,101,394/. In like manner, in the total, the
income of the year is said to be 49,931,523/. In the
year ended January 5, 1848, it is stated to have been
48,397,566/. And then the increase for the year iscalled
533,957/. But if the above totals are correctly given,
the real increase must have been 1,533,9571. The general
result seems to us to be—

An increase on the year of ... 451,533,957
An increase on the quarter of ... 686,827
Nluch of this increase is found under the head of Cus-
toms, which head shows an advance of half a million in
the Michaelmas quarter, and another half million in the
quarter just ended. how much of this is to be attri-
buted to the corn duties now about to expire we cannot
at this moment determine. The departments of Stamps,
Post-office, and Property-tax, by their continued decline,
both on the year and on the quarter, show how much
the late depression of trade bas preyed on the sinews of
our internal commerce; and also, that the point of
actual prosperity has not yet been reached. Another
point of the case is also unsatisfactory. The surplus of
the Consolidated Fund, on the sth of January, 1848, was
882,548/. On the sth of January, 1849, it was only
560,5431. We begin 1849, then, with a smaller balance
at the banker's than we had in January, 1848, by no less
than 322,0051. We may probably return to the subject
in our next paper, when the error of a million above ad-
verted to shall have been cleared up.
CIIRONICLE.—AII thinking people, in the present
condition of the country, which varies, in our own de-
spite, with the fluctuating state of the Continent, will
loak with anxiety to the Quarterly Returns of the Re-
venue, that unerring criterion of our temporary decline
or prosperity. We publish to-day the official abstract
of the Net Revenue in the years and quarters ending
sth January, 1848, and sth January, 1849, from which
the comparative increase or decrease will appear. The
most important of the general results are these:—There
is an increase of the entire revenue for the whole year
of 533,9571., but considerably more than the whole
amount of this increment consists of China money, and
other extraordinary receipts. In the total ordinary re-
venue there is a decrease for the year to a small amount,
namely, 124,2951. As usual, some branches of the re-
venue have increased, whilst others have deer, ased.
The increase (for the year) is, in the Customs,
9 14,062/. ; in the Excise, 101,3941.; and under the head of
Crown lands, 4,0001. The decrease is, in the stamps,
543,698; in time taxes, 19,857/.; in the property-tax,
103,4361.; in the Post-office, 88,0001.; and " misci 1kne-
i13,760/. In comparing the quarters ending
January 5, 1848, and January 5, 1849, we find that
the increase and decrease were respectively in the same
items, with the exceptions of " taxes" and " miscellane-
ous," which have slightly increased during the last
quarter, and of " Crown lands," which show a decrease.
The decrease for the last quarter, as compared with the
quarter ending January 5, 1848, is—Stamps, 92,257/.;
Property-tax, 38,1331.; Post-office, 10,0001.; Crown
Lands, 10,0001. The increase is—Customs, 570,533/. ;
Excise, 6,279/.; Taxes, 6,230/.• Miscellaneous, 9,963/.
Deferring, for the present, all detailed comment on
the financial and commercial significance of these
deeply interesting statistics, we may, at least, . regard
them as affording, on the whole, encouraging evidence
of the stability of our resources, and the elasticity of our
industrial energies. While it would obviously be unwise
to view, with anything like elation, the financial results
of a year during which the total ordinary; revenue of the
country has actually declined, we cannot but congratu-
late the public on those symptoms of revival which tip-
pear in the comparison of tie last quarter with the cor-
responding period of the previous year; and we. gladly
recognise the superior importance and authenticityd;ixtothet
this portion of the year's experience, as an in
immediate future. It is certainly a cheering
►fact, that a
et ease in our
year whose commercial records disclose a e o
exports during seven consecutive months, has inflicted so
inconsiderable an injury on our aggreitgaatteermoridni:litajoryb,tseo-
venue, and has witnessed, towardsal
iprovement. It is sa-
tisfactory, a tendency to gradual
likvvvise, to serve,_ll_7filth the e
a('
presente Revenueturils
which appear simultaneously I
obiough the very trivial amount of increase on
Abstract
the Excise, tor the last quarter, somewhat qualifies the

COPPEE-1-101).$ES IN T7-tir*VENe
TEJTH CE N T-U -. ~..,
The coffee-hamses must not be dismissed with a
cursory mention. It might indeect-at that time, have
be not improperly called a most important political
stitution. No Parliament had sat !or years. The
cipal council of the city had ceased to speak the
sense of the citizens. Public meetings, harangues, reso-
lutions, and the rest of the modern machinery of agita-
tion had not yetcorne into fashion. Nothingresembling
the modern newspaper existed. In such circumstances,
the eoffee•houses were the chief organs through
which the public opinion of the metropoliS vented
itself. The first of these establishments had been set
I up in the time of the Commonwealth, by a Turkey
merchant, who had acquired among the Itinhornetere
a taste fur their favourite beverage. The convenience
of being able to make appointments in any part of the
to %%n,
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spo a sgsr e eveningati
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socially
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coffee-house
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middle
til a (,:nl aesws ess,
1 and to discuss it. Every coffee-house bad one or
' more orators to whose eloquence the crowd listened
with admiration, and who soon became, what the
journalists of our own time bane been called, a fourth
estate of the realm. The Court had long seen with
uneasiness the growth of this new power in the state.
An attempt had been made during Danhy's Adminis-
tration to close the cotf,:e• houses ; but teen of ell par-
ties missed their usual place: of resort so much that there
was an universal outcry. The Government did not ven-
ture, in opposition to a feeling so strong and general, to
enforce a regulation of which the legality might well be
questioned. Since that time, ten years bad elapsed,
and during those years the number and influence of
the coffee-houses had been constantly increasing.
Foreigners remarked that the coffee-house was
that which especially distinguished London from
all other cities; that the coffee-house was the Lon-
doner's home, and that those who wished to find a
gentleman commonly asked not whether he lived
in Fleet-street or Chancery-lane, but whether he
frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow. .Nobody
was excluded from those places who laid down
his penny at the bar. Yet every rank and profession,
and every shade of religious and political opinion, had
its own head-quarters. There were houses near St.
James's-park where fops congregated, their heads and
shoulders covered with black or flaxen wigs, not less
ample than those which are now worn by the Chan-
cellor and by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The wig came from Paris ; and so did the rest of the
fine gentleman's ornaments, his embroidered coat, his.
fringed gloves, and the tassel which upheld his panta-
loons. The conversation was in that dialect which, long
after it had ceased to be spoken in fashionable circles,
continued in the mouth of Lord Foppington, to excite
the mirth of theatres. The atmosphere was like that
of a perfumer's shop. Tobacco in any other form than
that of richly seated snuff was held in abomination. If
any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called
for a pipe, the sneers of the whole assembly and short
answers of the waiters soon convinced him that he had
better go some where else. Nor, indeed, would he have
had far to go, for, in general, the coffee-rooms reeked
with tobacco like a guard-room ; and strangers
sometimes expressed their surprise that so many
people should leave their own firesides to sit in the
midst of eternal fog and stench. Nowhere was the
smoking more constant than at Will's. That cele-
brated house, situated between Covent-garden and
Bow-street, was sacred to polite letters. There the
talk was about poetical justice and the unities of place
and time. There was a faction for Perrault and the
moderns, a faction for Boileau and the ancients. One
group debated whether " Paradise Lost" ought to have
been in rhyme. To another, an anxious poetaster
demonstrated that Venice Preserved ought to have
been hooted from the stage. Under no roof was a
greater variety of figures to be seen, earls in stars
and garters, clergymen in cassocks and bands, pert
templars, sheepish lads from the universities, trans-
lators and index makers in ragged coats of frieze. The
great press was to get near the chair where John
Dryden sate. In winter that chair was always in the
warmest nook, by the fire ; in summer, it stood
in the balcony. To bow to him, and to bear his
opinion of Racine's last tragedy, or of Bossa:s
treatise on epic poetry, was thought a privilege. A
pinch from his snuff-box was an honour sufficient to
turn the head of a young enthusiast. There were
coffee-houses where the first medical men might be
consulted. Doctor John Eadelifii., who, in the year
.1685, rase to • the largest practice in London,
came daily, at the hour when the Exchange
was full, from his house in Bow-street, then
a fashionable part of the capital, to Garraway's,
and was to be found surrounded by surgeons
and apothecaries at a particular table. There
were Puritan coffee-houses, where no oath -ms heard,
and where lank-haired men discussed election and
reprobation through their noses; Jew coffee-houses,
where dark-eyed money-changers from Venice and
from Amsterdam greeted each other ; and Popish
coffee-houses, where, as good Protestants believed,
Jesuits planned, over their cups, another great fire,
and cast silver bullets to shoot the king.—Macazday's
History of England.

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value of the fast), that a considerible proportion of t!;e
recent improv,ment in th,, Castums revenue has flurried
on those commodities of which an increased consumption
is uitialy indicative of the gern:ral well-being of
the people,

A
I NERTISEE.—Wo have much pleasure in calling
attention to the tabular returns of the quarter's revenue,
ending last night, which we publish in another part of
our pacer. They are much more favenr..!tle that the
mart sanguine ceuld have been 1,11 to expect—eite.h
more favourable than even the semi-official article which
appeared in a Sunday paper, represented them as likely
to be. That journal only prepared us for an increase of
500,0001. on the Customs: the increase is 570,5331. We
have also an increase on the Excise, smell, indeed, being
only 6,2794, but still any increase under such a head is
gratifying, especially when we were prepared fo, a d,-
crease. The only other items on which there is an
augmentation are—Chinese money, which product s
84,2841.; imprest
.and other moneys, 93.281/.; and re-
payment of advances, 66,647/. The total increase,
therefore, on the quarter is 837,2171.; but from this
has to be deducted a decrease of 150,3901, of which
92,257/. is under the head of Stamps, 38,1331. under
that of Property-tax, 10,00 a in the Post-office
department, and 10,000/. under the head of Crown
Lands. Deducting, then, this 150,3901. decrease from
the 837,217/. increase, we have a net augmentation on
the quarter's revenue, as compared with the correspond-
ing quarter of last year, of no less than 686,8274,—a
sum considering the circumstances through which the
country has had to pass, far exceeding anything which
could have been anticipated. What adds to the value of
this augmentation is, that nearly the. whole of the
amount is derived from the Customs and Excise, the
two departments of the public service which have
always been regarded as affording the best criterion of
the social condition of the masses. The increase on the
year is 533,957/, so that it will be seen it is only on the
latter part of the year that we can be said to have fairly
entered on that long-protracted course of commercial
and financial prosperity on which, we trust, we may now
confidently calculate.

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