The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

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The King had cancelled the two last sentences of
death passed by the late courts-martial for trying the
insurgents in Baden.
The resignation of M. Patow, as President of the
province of Brandenburg, had been received.
The Kolner Zeitung of the 10th instant states that
a large meeting assembled in the Villa Colonna on
the Bth instant, to celebrate the anniversary of the
execution of M. R. Blum. The meeting was at-
tended by no less than 2,000 persons in mourning,
who chanted a requiem, and who were being
addressed by one of their number when the military
and police arrived, and cleared the room. Another
meeting was held in the Krausen-strasse. It was
dispersed, and the police attempted to arrest a man
who distinguished himself by an enormous red cock-
ade ; but the individal in question was rescued by
his friends, who fought the police in the room and in
the street.

• THE SPANISH BUDGET.
The Finance Minister of Spain brought forward
the Budget for 1850 on.the 3d inst. :
Senor Bravo Murillo commenced his financial
exposition by stating to the Fortes that the Govern-
ment submitted the Budget of 1850 to their delibera-
tion, in conformity with the 74th article of the
Constitution; and that the confidence of the Govern-
ment in the loyal and efficacious- support of the
Legislative bodies was so great, that it had not
hesitated bringing forward the estimates at the very
beginning of the session, in preference to other
important measures which it had prepared. He then
adverted to the transcendent importance of financial
matters, and said that " the present state of Spanish
finance could not be considered satisfactory ; that,
notwithstanding the sacrifices which have been im-
posed on the tax-payers, it had not yet been possible
to bring the receipts and expenses to a level, but that,
on the contrary, an inequality existed, which not
unfrequently embarrassed the action of the Govern-
ment and the march of the administpation." The
Government was penetrated with the necessity of
getting rid of this deficit—the more so as this state of
things might give occasion for disturbances and
commotions, from which Providence had hitherto
preserved them.
Senor Bravo Murillo avows himself a "practical
man" in economical matters. " Away from the field
of rash theories," he says, " reducing to their just
value certain doctrines of finance and political eco-
nomy, the experiment of which has cost dear to the
nations which have allowed themselves to be dragged
along by them," two ways present themselves for
equalizing the receipts and expenditure without im-
posing new taxes—viz , to improve the collection of
the imposts, and to reduce the public charges as far
as can be done without detriment to the public ser-
vice. With respect to the first, the Government had
introduced, and proposed to introduce, various re-
forms in the general administration of the finances;
and he must make especial mention of the tariff re-
form, " which, carried into effect in conformity with
the law voted in the last session, will receive opportune
improvements, as soon as experience duly enlightens
the Government respecting its results."
Retrenchment of expenditure had also considerably
engaged the attention of the Government, and, in
spite of the difficulties with which it has had to
struggle, it has carried out such reductions as its zeal
and convictions have dictated ; other measures of this
kind, of great importance, it proposed to effect next
year. Amongst the most notable reductions was that
in the army estimates from the sytem of the reserve
recently created. The Government would have
wished to have gone further in the way of re-
trenchment, but this was one of the points that
offered the greatest difficulties in its realization.
The impulse having, however, been given
in that direction, it As as to be hoped that the
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 Murillo next alluded to
various measures which the. Government meant to
submit to the Cortes, 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 149,036,912 reals for reproductive ex-
penses of the revenues, there remained an effective
amount of 1,147,020,274'rea15. 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 made 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 110,000,000 reals 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.
lie then submitted the following