The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

Itening 2ruit

LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1847.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

The Return of the net produce of the Revenue of
Great Britain, for the quarter ending sth April,
1847, is most satisfactory, exhibiting, as it does, an
increase on the year of 1,538,1681, and on the quarter
of 403,6321. Still more-satisfactory is it to know
that this increase is derived from perfectly legitimate
sources, and that it maybe taken as an index of the
prosperity of the country, and of the truth of those
principles of free trade which have been of late years
adopted by successive ministers. The total Customs
Revenue for the quarter amounts to 4,447,6731., and
for the year t 018,796,620/., showing an increase en the
quarter of 485,7551., and on the year of 1,132,0021,
and this without any aid from the duties on corn, which
formed a large item in the returns for the preceeding
quarter. This proves to demonstration, that a de-
crease of duty is always followed by an increase
of Revenue, and this position is still further demon-
strated by the return of the Revenue from the Excise.
Notwithstanding the abolition of some of the Excise
duties, and the reduction of many others, the Excise
Revenue for the quarter amounts to 1,652,8651., and
for the year to 12,547,6571., showing an increase on
the year of 661,572/., and on the quarter of 26,4071.
This increase is very satisfactory, as showing, that
notwithstanding the partial distress existing in
some districts of England, and affecting the
whole of Ireland, and the greater part of Scot-
land, the bulk of the population of the Empire,
are still enabled to indulge, to some extent,
in the use of those humble luxuries which
are subject to the duties of Excise. On Stamps
there is a decrease on the year of 32,6931.,
but an increase on the quarter of 131,4141.; the
amount for the year being 7,062,8281., and for the
quarter 1,817,282/. This may be considered as satis-
factory, inasmuch as the increase on the quarter is
the result of legitimate trading, while the decrease on
the year arises from the cessation of the railway

proportions. The sum received for Taxes amounts,
for the year, to 4,257,1581., and for the quarter to
130,8921., showing an increase on the year of
33,1191., and a decrease on the quarter of 15,250/.
On the Property-tax there is an increase of 69,1901.
on the quarter, and of 379,840/. on the year ; the total
amount fpr the quarter being 2,033,0721., and for the
year 5,464,5811. The Post-office revenue continues
steadily on the increase ; for the year it amounts to
820,000/., for the quarter to 219,000/., showing an
increase in the year of 52,0001., and on the quarter
of 4,000/. The revenue derived from Crown lands
shows vdecrease in the quarter of 8,000/., and on
the year of 18,0001., the total amount of revenue
derived from this source being for the year 112,0001.,
and for the quarter 37,000/. Under the head Mis-
cellaneous, we find an increase on the quarter of
1,071/., on the year of 129,273/. ; the total re-
venue derived from this source being for the
quarter 92,593/., and for the year 318,161/.
The total ordinary revenue for the year
amounts to 49,379,005/., and for the quarter to
10,430,377/., showing a net increase on the year cf
1,538,168/., and on the quarter of 403,632/. The
total charge (including 2,800,000/. advanced to Ire-
land, per Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 107) amounts for the
quarter to 10,992,6361. The surplus on the present
quarter is 628,7811., to which is to be added the sur-
plus of Revenue on the sth January, 1847, amounting
to 1,365,455/., making the total surplus of the Con-
solidated Fund, 1,994,236/.

Farewell—we trust a long farewell— has been
taken by the Afrancesados to all their greatness in
the Spanish capital. Queen ISABELLA. has given a
brilliant testimony of her disinclination to succumb
to the tyrannic influence of LOUIS PHILIPPE or of his
truckling Minister. Queen ISABELLA has done
more—she has evinced a capacity in ridding her
councils of unpatriotic interlopers beyond what could
have been at all anticipated, and calculated to enlist
for herself those popular affections which during her
girlhood have been so unhappily estranged. We
are disposed to congratulate the Spaniards upon the
course just adopted by their SOVEREIGiq, though it
were of course premature to commend the embryo
Cabinet for a liberality that is merely hinted and an
independence that is only supposititious. By a
gradual process of liberalization the Govern-
ment of Spain has risen from the slavish-
ness of Isruairz to the indefinite obse-
quiousness of SOTOMATOE, and has now passed
into the hands of the more generously disposed
PACIIECO. Whether the programme of the new
Administration has been merely coloured with de-
ceptive promises for the purpose of inveigling the
multitude into submission and confidence, or whether
the dazzling inuendoes of that programme are to be
actually realised, the lapse of a few months, probably
of a few weeks, will sufficiently testify. That such, an
abrupt secession from the Afraneesado policy should
inspire the Parisian organs of CHRISTINA and Gurzol
with a suspicion that Mr. BULWEE is at the bottom
of the whole transaction ; that they should con-
ceive in the first ebullition of their chagrin
that the English Ambassador at the Court of
Madrid has been the principal instigator in the ex-
pulsion of SOTOMATOR from authority, is but natural.
It is unnecessary, however, to observe that these sus-
picions are as visionary as they are splenetic.
In extricating herself from her recent thraldom—
from a thraldom that has increased frightfully from
IsionTrElisran—her
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banishment of ESPARTERO to the marriage of the
Administration. MAJESTY has signifi-
cantly shown her
of her unpropitiouas
partiahiity for a more constitu-
tional May these propitious au-
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youth be fulfilled and de-
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attempting to impart an air undueofisevl of•
to these temporary improvements and qsanimeslnrettanacde-
vantages. Whatever may be the immediate
quences of the late Ministerial changes, it is impossible
to forget for an instant that the threads of thee
destiny of Spain are still held in the grasp of Lours
PHILIPPE. If that monarch be not really, as Mrs.
MALAPROP says, like Cerberus, " three gentlemen in