The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN,

movement would continue. In the meantime the
Government was under the necessity of proposing the
deduction of a month's pay from the civil employes
in active service, and from the military who were not
in active military service, and of two months from
the passive classes generally, as also of two months
from the arrears due to the active classes, and four
months from the arrears due to the passive classes;
but these deductions did not in any way involve the
loss of the rights of the parties interested. They
preserved their right to these payments, and would
merely not receive them in 1850, which amounted to
a postponement of payment. Future measures would
be taken for the due reduction of the estimates of
the passive classes, by giving employment to the
cesantes, and other dispositions, to attain which the
Government had named a commission to examine the
subject.
It would be found that under some branches of the
service the expenses had increased ; but this was not
to be wondered at, as, when the products of the reve-
nues increased, their reproductive expenses increased
in proportion. Senor Bravo Alurillo next alluded to
various measures which the Government meant to
submit to the Cortese by which the finances in general
would be benefited, if not directly so—such as the law
of accounts and the regulation of the supreme tribunal
of accounts. The total estimated revenue for 1850
had been taken at 1,296 millions of reals, from which
deducting 7_49,036,912 reels for reproductive ex-
penses of the revenue s, there remained an effective
amount of 1,147,020,274 reels. The estimated ordinary
expenditure of the same year had been fixed at
1,146,907,536 reels, and there was also an extra-
ordinary expenditure of 80,000,000 of reels, as below
expressed. The budget had been drawn up in a new
form, by which the obligations of each Ministry ap-
peared classified in chapters and articles, &c., and it
was intended that the estimates of 1850 should remain
open till July, 1851, so that any arrears not paid off
on the Ist of January might be paid with such re-
sources as might be realised, belonging to the same
period; the accounts would then be naade,up. The
arrears due for taxes to the end of 1849 had there-
fore not been included in the budget of 1850, the
obligations of which were to be met exclusively with
the current revenues of the same. However, it was
not possible that all obligations undischarged in
that period (1849) could be so met, and the Govern-
ment proposed to place a portion of them (i. e. ex,
penses of 1849), which it considered indispensable to
pay off, in the estimates for 1850. It amounted to
23,920,744 reels, which added to 27,587,481 reals
for the War-office, in case the army of reserve should
require to be kept under arms, and 15,491,775 reels
set down as required for the navy estimates, made up
the extraordinary estimate of 60,000,000 reels above
mentioned.

The arrangement respecting the clergy being still
pending with the Holy See, no alteration had been
made under that head; the Government had taken
measures to have the law for the dotation of the
clergy carried out in all its integrity.
Senor Bravo Murillo concluded by expressing a
confident expectation that the state of the finances
would progressively improve, considering the present
financial difficulties as owing chiefly to accidental and
transitory causes—as the prolonged duration of the
war in Catalonia, the delay in carrying out the Tariff
Bill ; the extraordinary charge of the 100 millions of
the forced loan, and other circumstances, which had
reduced the receipts of the Treasury and increased its
outgoings, and, therefore, when the one and the other
cause had ceased to operate, it was reasonable to ex-
pect that the state of affairs would improve under the
successive developments of the revenue and the gra-
dual diminution of expenditure, if Spain continued to
possess the peace and order which she now enjoyed.
He then submitted the following
" PROJECT OF LAW.

" Art. 1. The ordinary expenses of the state during
the year 1850 are fixed at 1,146,907,536 reals' distri-
buted in the chapters and articles expressed in the
statement marked with the letter A, with the deduc-
tions expressed therein, assigning to the Government
for their payment the corresponding credits.
" Art. 2. These credits shall be attended to with
the products of all the revenues and contributions for
the above-mentioned year, comprised and computed in
the statement marked with the letter B, amounting to
1,147,029,274 reals, after having deducted 149,056,812
reals for reproductive expenses of the same.
" Art. 3. The Government is authorised to open, in
case of necessity, on the receipts of 1850, an extra-
ordinary credit to the amount of 60,000,000 reals,
with special destination to the payment of the ex-
penses estimated in the statement, indicated with the
letter C. .

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" Art. 4. The receipts corresponding to 1850 shall
not be capable of being applied to cover any other
obligations than those comprised in the budget of
expenditure of the same year.
'• Art. i. The receipts which are realised during
the said period, for arrears gnii taxes of former
years, shall have special application to the payment
of the obligations of the present year which should
not be paid off at the end of December next.
" Art. 6. A surcharge, not exceeding 4 per cent.
on the amount, shall continue to be imposed on the

quota of each town, &c., for the contribution on im-
moveable property, cultivation and cattle, as disposed
by the law of 23d May, 1845, in order to cover the
expenses of collection, transmittance, and delivery of
funds in the depots of the Treasury.
" JUAN BRAVO MURILLO.
" Madrid, Nov. 2, 1849."
A.

GENERAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITUNB FOR THE YEAR
1850.

Sections.

1. Royal Family
2. Legislative bodies
3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Beals.

45,900,000
1,161,870
11,555,371

4. Ditto Grace and itustice 18,508,831
5. Ditto War
6. Ditto Marina
7. Ditto Home Department
8. Ditto, Commerce, &c.
9. Ditto Finance 125,072,410

10. Passive Classes
11. Re-payments, arrears and pay-
ments, charged on the products
of the revenues
12. Charges of justice .. 16,825,680
13. Public debt 100,136,957
14. Secular clergy and nuns in cloister 154,734,603

Deduct from this total for the reasons
explained below

1,197,602,193

50,694,60'

Total net expenditure . 1,146,907,556
The above reduction proceeds:-
1. From one payment of the twelve
which are credited to the employes
dependent on all the Ministries,
who were subjected by royal de-
cree, of June, 1848, to the forced
donation of another payment, the
which they will cease to receive
in the approaching year, 1850,
though they will be credited in
individual accounts, as a credit
which they have and is acknow-
ledged as against the State
2. From two months' payment, which
will cease to be paid to the passive
classes in the terms, and under the
same conditions
3. From two months' ditto to the cre-
ditors for arrears due to active
employes, who are deceased or
have passed to the passive class
4. Finally, from four months ditto to
the creditors for arrears due to the
passive classes

13,100,045

22,812,425

1,840,648

Total..

13,041,584

5Q694,557

" GENERAL ESTIMATE OF RECEIPTS FOR. 1850.
Gross Revenue. Net Revenue.
Reels. Reals.
Direct Taxes 333,780,000 ... 333,780,000
Indirect ditto 180,500,000 ... 180,500,000
Customs
Government Monopolies 300,900.000 239,597,342
National Property
Lottery
Bull of Cruzada 15,000,000 ... 14,343,000
Excess of Colonial Re-
venue 71,500,000 ...
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Home Department
Commerce, &c.
War Department .. 162,400 ...
Marine ditto

71,500,000

380,000
19,418,390
23,443,000
162,400
620,582

Total 1,296,065,186 ... 1,147.028,275

" The " Reproductive' Expenses" which make up
this difference are as follows :—Direction of Customs,
200,000 reals ; ditto of Government Monopolies,
61,302,658 reals; ditto National Property, 12,922,814
reals ; ditto Lottery, (prizes, &c.), 54,227,000 reals ;
Bull of Cruzada, 657,000 reals ; Home Department
(Post-office, &c.), 17,271, 610 reals ; ditto Commerce,
&c., 2,240,750 reals ; ditto Marine, 213,079 reals ;
making a total of 149,036,911 reals.
C.

" ESTIMATE OF EXTRAORDINARY EXPENDITURE FOR
1850. Beals.

Matters pending at the end of 1849 23,920,744
Ministry of War 37,587,481
Ditto Marine

80,000,000

As these sums would only be totally re-
quired in case the whole reserve were put
under arms in the beginning of 1850,
and the whole amount under the Marine
Department expended, it may be reason-
ably expected that the whole amount will
not bo required, deduct consequently as
estimated net to be required in 1850 20,000,000

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Net extraordinary estimate .................. 60,000,000

Lieutenant Tiosken had an, interview with Ear;
Grey yesterday. Captai n etherall had also an in
terview with the Noble Earl, at the Colonial-office.