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London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR. MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.) I
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,l BENTLEY. the
''''."..l, dby the Countess Vawlerstraten and M ijor de Bentley opens this month with a memoir of one of THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5 1847. on
. Moerkerke, left Buelzio4hata Palace at a quarter past 1 the greatest and the most ill-used of English nalial _-......-,-_ also
,
fine o'clock yesterday morning, in one of the Queen's commanders, to whose merits the present age has ren- No. 1.-An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 184 G, and sth of J:ily, 1.,"17, showing the tion
carriages and four for Wcolwicb, to embark on board year
dered a tardy justice-the Earl of Dundonald. Dr. lncrease or Decrease on each head thereof.
the Garland for Ostend. The Queen and Prince Albert, W. C. Taor, the author of the memoir, says that, more
attonded by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal , QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR , Yc,ar ended July 5. Quarter ended July 5. Of 1:,
Household in Waiting, took leave of their august visi• "unfortunately for his fame, Lord Cochrane wished
r- - ----, ended r- - A----- -- ---, ended ' , - --A-- --, is 4'
to add senatorial dignity to his professional honours," Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5 July 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, , April 5, July 5, July 5, I
Lora at the garden entrance of :he Palace. 1845 1846 1846 1846 1846 1846 1847 I 1547 1841 1847 I Increase. ! Decrease. Increase. Decrease. the
Their Miiesties the King and Queen of the Belgians and after recording his return to Westminster thus - - - - - - ;-- --- - _ high'
visited and took leave of her Royal Hi,,,hness the Duchess
, proceeds :- , x x 1_ __
x 1 £
Customs •• •••••• •• • • - 4,848,363 4,354 789 3 961 918 4,523,391 17,638,4G1 5,310,835 4,514,721 4 447 673 4,519,119 18,792,348 Customs ..... ••• • .. 1,103,887 ~ ,_ •
£ x dere(
*f Gloucester on Sunday, at Gloucc‘ster House • and "In 1809 he performed his last great achievement in
Exci,le ••••••••••• •• • •• • •• I 3.955,106 3,338,537 1:626:458 3104,711 12,025,112 4,181,926 ViOS, ILI 5 1,652,865 3,991 052 12,733,998 , Excise
. , •• • •
708,886 •• • • 186,341 4,272 press
their Royal ilighoe,s the Duke and Duchess of 'Cam- the service of his country- the destruction of the French Stamps ... 'I • -
, 1,780,1,5 1,792,402 1,685,868 1,730,495 6,988,940 •1,1/4,364 1,740,687 1,817,282 1,869,464 7,201,797 Stamps .•••••••••• •• •• • 212,857 .... 138,969 __
- defal
bridge, at Cambridge House. shipping in the Basque Roads. Ten ship; of the Ene, Taxes .. I 201,279 1,876,951 14%142 2,006,427 4,229, 29 202,940 1,909,899 130,892 2,0 i 5,001 4,315,732 Taxes -•.•••• • • • - • • 95,833 it is 1
68,574 _
•.0 . Property Tax .... .. •• • • '• • •
1 823 883 386 985 1 963 882 I 009 162 5,133,912 1,972,128 450 219 2 033 072 1,936,517 5,91,(135 l'ropertv 1t 360,000
• - • • • 303,024 , ....
The Queen and prince Albert, attended by the Royal and some frigates, lay in these roads, protected by t r Post-0ffiee............. '209,000 189,000 '215,000 '18'1:000 79. 4,000 217,000 203,000 '219'000 215,000 854,000 , Post-otlice 27,35 - was 1
Crown Lands .... .. .... 30,000 25,000 45,000 - 60,000 1 .... 34,000
suite, left town, at half-past ten o'clock yesterday midable batteries and a dangerous shoal, which extended 100,000 45,000 30,000 37,000 • • 112,000 , Crown Lands 12,000 .... - the t
mur.ling, for Cambridge. between them and the English blockading squadron, Miscellaneous ........ 15,102 68,612 91,522 18,001 193,237 177,910 29,657 92,593 7,461
230277.,664241 ,
CMhisince.ll:::enoelyis......i • r 114,381 .... •• • • ___
1 •• .. 10,540 was 1
The -Royal party occupied three open carriages and commanded by Admiral Gambier. Lord Cochrane - - - -,
Total Ordinary' Revenue 12 862 903 12 031 670 9 735 790 12,573,187 47,'1103,561 13,889,103 12,486,338 10,430,377 13,013,614 49,819,432 : 7,6.1.5...871 .... 455,239 14,812 Chin
four. In the first carriage were her Majesty the Queen formed a bold plan for the destruction of this squadron, China Money.... , I 450,000 '300:859 ' ' 440,000 1,190,859 227,644 .. ~ .. Total
963,215 .• . 440,000 Cher
his Royal Highness Prit.ce Albert, the Mistress of the and communicated it to the admiral. He was, in con Imprest Moneys, &C.. ••
••
24,591 64,034 5•2•,909 73,939 215,523 33,815 31,884 53,859 88,632 203,190 , Imprest 3loneys,&e. •• • • 7,333 14,69.3 - becor
Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Lady in seqeence, sent to join Lord Gambier, and under him to Repayments °advances, 473,381 404,179 456,473 111,607 1,446,140 199,882 302,449 164,568 137,944 804,843 , Reptunnts of Adyncs. •• • • 641,297 26,337 - we at
Waiting, the Countess of Desert. In the second car- take command of the attack which he had projected. - now
Total Income* •• 13,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,172 13,198,733 50,056,083 '14,330,444 12,820,671 10,643,804 13,240,190 1 51,060,109 I Total ...... .. 2,615,871 1,611,845 496,269 454,812
riage were the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Fire•ships and explosion-vessels having been prepared, __________ _ ___ _ ! , congi
-Marquis of Abercorn ; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl Lord Cochrane, with his gallant crew, led the way, and Amount applied to con.' Deduct . Deduct whicl
of Morton ; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Buckley ; the boom by which the enemy was protected was broken solidated Fund .. 8 869 973 7 859 997 5 468 355 8 476 134 30,674,439 j 7,617,435 8 615 898 3 207 608 9 912 813 29 353 754
Ditto as k.dranees '550,000 '615'077 'l4o'ooo ' 91,501 1,396,576 472,500 '837'500 2,94400 1,724,311 5)74:311 I,
and the Equerry io Waiting to Prince Albert, Lieut.- by the Mediator. The fire-ships immediately rushed Ditto, 'as Ways & Means I, Decrease.
Colonel Seymour. In the third carriage were Mr. through the opening, and were piloted into the midst of of the Year.. I 4,391,407 4,325,724 4,636,817 4,631,098 17,985,046 , 6,260,509 , 3,367,273 5,461,196 7,113,6)8 22,202,676 i , 1,004,026/ on 41,4571. on the
Georee Edward Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. the French anchorage, in spite of a furious cannonade - -
1,611,845 [D:erre:cc .454'812 [
Increase
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COURT CIRCULAR.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
d by the Countess Yaw lerstraten and M ijor de
Moerkerke, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter past
fine o'clock yesterday morning, in one of the Queen's
carriages and four for Wcolvvich, to embark on board
the Garland for Ostend. The Queen and Prince Albert,
attonded by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal
Household in Waiting, took leave of their august visi-
tors at the garden entrance of :he Palace.
Their Miiesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
visited and took leave of her Royal Highness the Duchess
•f Gloucester on Sunday, at Gloucester House ; and
their Royal llighne: s. s the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, at Cambridge House.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal
suite, left town, at half-past ten o'clock yesterday
mur.ling,, for Cambridge.
The Royal party occupied three open carriages and
four. In the first carriage were her Majesty the Queen
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Mistress of the
Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Lady in
Waiting, the Countess of Desert. In the second car-
riage were the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the
Marquis of Abercorn ; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl
of Morton ; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Buckley ;
and the Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert, Lieut.-
Colonel Seymour. In the third carriage were Mr.
George Edward Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Major-General Bowles, and Dr. Meyer.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were conducted
to their carriage by the Hon. Misses Murray and Mac-
donald, Maids of Honour in waiting, and Sir Edward
Bowater, Groom in waiting.
A party of Lancers farmed the escort from Bucking-
ham Palace to the Tottenham station of the Eastern
Counties Railway.
'His Royal Highness the Hereditary Duke of Saxe
Weimar, attended by Count de Beust, left Marlborough
House, at half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning, for
Cambridge.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Saxe Weimar, and attended by her suite, left Marlbo-
rough House at twelve o'clock yesterday for her resi-
dence. Bushy House, Bushy Park. The Countess of
Assenburg was in attendance on the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar.
His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Sunday at
Marlborough House.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President), left
town yesterday for Cambridge.
Mr. Glyn had an interview with the Right Hon. Ed-
ward Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners
of Hallways, in Great George-street.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.)
BENTLEY.
Bentley opens this month with a memoir of one of
the greatest and the most ill-used of English nalial
commanders, to whose merits the present age has ren-
dered a tardy justice—the Earl of Dundonald. Dr.
W. C. Taylor, the author of the memoir, says that,
" unfortunately for his fame, Lord Cochrane wished
to add senatorial dignity to his professional honours,"
and after recording his return to Westminster thus
proceeds :
" In /809 he performed his last great achievement in
the service of his country—the destruction. of the French
shipping in the Baique Roads. Ten ship; of the Lne,
and some frigates, lay in these roads, protected by for-
midable batteries and a dangerous shoal, which extended
between them and the English blockading squadron,
commanded by Admiral Gambier. Lord Cochrane
formed a bold plan for the destruction of this squadron,
and communicated it to the admiral. He was, in con•
sequence, sent to join Lord Gambier, and under him to
take command of the attack which he had projected.
Fire.ships and explosion-vessels having been prepared,
Lord Cochrane, with his gallant crew, led the way, and
the boom by which the enemy was protected was broken
by the Mediator. The fire-ships immediately rushed
through the opening, and were piloted into the midst of
the French anchorage, in spite of a furious cannonade
and discharge of shells from the batteries. Though some
of the ships mistook their course, and others exploded
too soon, the greatest alarm was produced in the French
fleet. Three ships of the line and a frigate of fifty-six
guns were burned ; another ship of the line was so
injured that she sunk a few days after; and seven others
were driven on shore. The whole loss occasioned to the
conquerors was only ten men killed and thirty. five
wounded. For this exploit Lord Cochrane justly re-
ceived the dignity of Knight of the Bath, an honour
more rarely accorded then than it is now.
" Lord Gambier had from the very first opposed this
enterprise, and he was much annoyed that the conduct
of it was entrusted to Lord Cochrane, a stranger to his
squadron. He did not, therefore, second the attack as
heartily as he should have done, and he lost the oppor-
tunity
of capturing or destroying the seven ships that
had run ashore. Lord Cochrane, therefore, expressed
his determination to oppose the vote of thanks to Lord
Gambier when it should be proposed in Parliament. As
Cochrane was in opposition, and Gambier a great favou-
rite with the Administration, party spirit was mixed
with the question, and Gambier demanded a court-
martial. After a long investigation he was acquitted ;
but the verdict of the court was not ratified by the
country. Lord Cochrane was regarded with manifest
dislike by the Ministry, and he reciprocated the un-
friendly feeling with interest. Instead of entering into
this controversy, we shall content ourselves with quoting
the opinion of Napolen Buonaparte, whom no one can
suspect of partiality. Cochrane,' he said, might and
would have taken the whole fleet, and carried it out with
him, had his admiral supported him as he ought to have
done. For, in consequence of the signal made by
L Allemand to the ships to do the best in their power to
save themselves, sauce qui pent, in fact they became
panic•struck, and cut their cables. The terror of the
bnitots (fire-ships) was such, that they actually threw
their powder overboard, so that they could have offered
very little resistance. The French admiral was an im-
becilic, but yours was just as bad. I assure you that if
Cochrane had been supported he would have taken
every one of the ships.'"
He then says, that in the affair of Cochrane
'Johnstone, and others, " Ministerial vengeance found
an opportunity to vent itself upon Lord Cochrane ;"
but Ministerial vengeance would have been impotent
had _Ministerial vengeance stood alone against him;
but Ministerial vengeance was edged on and backed
' up by saintly hate. The imbecille Gambier, more wise
in his generation than poor Byng (who was mur-
dered by the court-martial that acquitted Gambier, if
the logic of George 111. in the case of Dr. Dodd be
correct), Gambier had the cunning early in life to
attach himself to the saintly clique, which, during
the latter years of the reign of George
111. sold its aid to the Ministry at the
highest possible price, and it was by its bitter and
malignant hatred that the brave Cochrane was sacri-
ficed as a peace offering to the wounded vanity of the
pious imbecile who envied, but dared not imitate his
achievements. " Captain Spike" is continued, and in
the present chapter Spike captures Mulford and his
companions, who are endeavouring to escape from
the wreck, and removing Jack Tier and Rose, with
her female companions, on board the Swash, lands
Mulford on a coral rock in the midst of the gulf, and
leaves him there, without food or water, to perish.
Horace Twiss furnishes a pleasant memoir of Mrs.
Mathews, which is illustrated by a portrait—and
Maxwell continues his story of " Brian O'Linn."
The best article in the number is the last. " How Mr.
Straggles went cheap to Ascot." It is from the pen
of Albert Smith, who in this sketch has beat Dickens
at his own weapons. We omitted to mention in our
notice of the opening paper, the " Memoir of the
Earl of Dundonald," that it is illustrated by a life-
like portrait, engraved from a painting by James
Ramsay.

10,245,172
Exclusive

13,198,733
of 960,0001.

150,056,083 I
received in Ai

14,350,444 12,820,671
nil Quarter, and 5,510,

[11,608,804 1
,6321. recelvi

18,750,822 57,530,741
iu July Quarter, 1847.

', on Loan of 8,000,000%.

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1846, and the sth July, 1817.
Quarters ended July 5. Quarters ended July 5.
--- 1 ~...----•-----•--..
INCOME. t 1846 1847 CHARGE. 1846 1847
£. £. £. .Z.
Customs • •
Excise .. 3,117,181 3,305,528 Terminable Annuities . 609,120
Stamps ........ • .....
Taxes
Property Tax .
Post-office •••••••. • • • • • • • ........ • • 181,000 215,000 Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund .... ••.••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... ••• • • 370,584 520,941
Crown Land 5.......................... • • •• • • For Advances, including 1,724,0001. in the present Quarter to Ireland, per Act 9 and 10 Vie, cap. 107 •••. • • .. 91,501 1,864,311
Miscellaneous • • • • • • • • • • • •
China Money •• • • 440,000 .... Total Charge . ••.••...... .. .. .. 7,425,651 9,531,581
Imprest and other Moneys ••••• • • • • • 73,939 88,632 The Surplus ...............................................5,785,552 9,233,717
Repayments of Advances . -
13,211,203 18,765,298
13,211,203 13,254,666
To Cash, being the Further Instal- Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, April 5, and paid off out of the
meets of Loan of 8,000,000/. ••• • • • •• • • 5,510,632 produce of that Fund, July 5, 1847, after deducting 550,000/. paid out of the Sinking Fund ................ •• • • 2,916,960
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1847, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the
13,211,203 18,765,298 Consolidated Fund, for Supply Services.. ••• • • •
The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended sth July, 1847 ........................................ 9,233,717 2,120,049
The probable Amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended
1 July 5, 1847 ... ..... ............... ..... ........................ ... • .... ... .................... 796,941
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sentry characterises each ; but the spirit by which
the two writers have been actuated is singularly
different. What " Peter Priggins " was to Oxford,
this " Trinity Man" promises to be to Cambridge ; but
the contributor tc the New Monthly was a staunch
upholder of the Church of England, while the con-
tributor to Dolman is an avowed seceder from that
Church to the Church of the Roman Catholics.
Nevertheless there is no acerbity in his revelations ;
indeed, his portrait of his college tutor, Dr. Hamlet,
is most fascinating, and is, in its manner, filled with
affectionate remembrances. We anticipate many
glimpses in the mysteries of—no, not of the prison-
ho 113 e, but—of the University. When a Cantab of mani-
festly high spirits and of earnest conviction withdraws
at an early period of life from the religion which he has
been taught to regard as the orthodox road to salva-
tion, and becomes a cordial writer in the organ of the
faith to which he has passed over, there is, surely,
very considerable probability of a few marvellous dis-
closures as to the habits and dispositions of the com-
munity amongst which he was an unit, but of which
he is evidently disposed to speak now as of the dwel-
lers in moral darkness and the believers in a theolo-
gical error. We shall scrutinise the serial as it appears
in piecemeal chapters. Another serial, but of a
marvellously opposite character, is commenced in the
July number, namely, " Sketches of Irish Agitators.'
Although the first is devoted to a biographical notice
of Patrick Costelloe, it is quite certain that the great
name of Daniel O'Connell—the name above all other
agitators, and assuredly above all other Irish agita-
tors—must recur repeatedly. It does. An interest-
ing anecdote about the Liberator when an advocate
will be found in this article. Of Patrick Cos-
telloe himself it is impossible for the general
reader not to think admiringly when he is told
that Mr. Costelloe, though now closing his 60th year,
"is the living personification of Irish devilry."
" Exeter Hall ; its Patrons and Dupes" is a bitter
satire from the pen of the Editor. The contribution
by Scott Nasmyth Stokes upon " The Authorised
Version as a Test of Truth" is laboriously learned,
and will be perused with deep interest by Protestants
as well as by. Roman Catholics. The Editor in his
remarkable chapters upon the last days of the " Penal
Laws" is plunged into the very midst of
the Gordon riots, where from forty thousand
to eighty thousand of the rabble under Lord
George Gordon besiege the Houses of Parliament,
kick Lord Bathurst " like a football," tear the gown
of the Bishop of Lincoln to ribbons, and compel him
to fly ignominiously over the tiles. The descriptions
are brilliant, but are deplorably painful, showing as
they do the brutalities resulting from fanaticism.

contributors, but not Pollux, and there is Harry
Hieover, too, as smart and:gossiping as ever, and Oxo-
nian and the Old Fly. For its class the Sporting
Review is meritorious :

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The Quarterly Return of the Revenue is
very different from an oracle which men visit in dark-
ress and uncertainty, and then expect to be astonished
with an announcement quite new and distinct. It can
do very little more than check or verify estimates which
have already been matters of safe and approximate cal-
culation. Given the fornier returns, the recent fiscal
alternations, and the state of public and commercial affairs,
and the problem is easy enough. The next quarter's
revenue follows almost as a matter of course. There is
little in the present return that might not be accounted
for. It has its favourable and its unfavourable features.
On the whole, however, -vve think that no sifting will
divest it of a rather encouraging appearance. To what-
ever cause it may be traced, the fact of an increasing
revenue—the fact of increase on the ordinary: sources
of revenue amounting to more than two millions and a
half on the year, and nearly half a million on the quarter
—will be hailed with satisfaction at a time when we
have been obliged to add largely to our debt. On the
quarter's Customs there has been a very slight decrease,
which is all the more noticeable because there has lately
been a very considerable increase, amounting to more
than a million on the twelvemonth. The fact admits of
too ready an explanation to cause any anxiety. Our
chief imports lately have been grain and flour, which
bring nothing to the Customs. The high price of
freights and the diversion of capital and ships to the
corn trade, havo stood in the way of our regular
commerce ; to which it may be added, that possibly
the dearth of food, the contraction of manufacture,
and the diminished export of cotton goods, have re-
duced the consumption of tea, sugar, and coffee, and
such foreign produce, in the manufacturing districts. In
the Excise there is an increase of more than seven hun-
dred thousand on the year, and a not quite proportionate
sum on the quarter. With an unparalleled expenditure
by railway companies, paid in great measure in weekly
wages, and millions diffused by Government with no
very careful hand, it is only wonderful the consumption
of exciseable commodities has not increased more.
Excise is the measure of private expenditure. That has
risen lately even to a hurtful amount. The slight but
regular increase on stamps, taxes, and property-tax,
testifies to the stability of our commercial system, in
spite of much that is calculated to shake and unsettle it.
As to the loans and China money, they must speak for
themselves. The latter mine appears to be finally
worked out. The former has only just been opened.
The return is, at least, quite as favourable as we could
expect. Nay, more was not to be wished for. While
we cannot export, why should we force our imports? If
we cannot get labour and material for manufacture, why
encourage an importation, which would put us in debt to
all nations? No. We are not really prosperous just now,
and it little avails to set up the appearance of prosperity.
A great increase of revenue in the midst of dearth and
diminished exports cannot be sound. Rather let us be
content with a moderate increase, which may encourage
the public hopes without exciting any too curious in-
quiries, and which seems rather the fulfilment of a
general law of progress than of any accidental or
ephemeral causes.
CHRONICLE.—The revenue accounts, published this
morning, exhibit a most flattering view of the financial
condition of the country, as far as income is concerned.
The increase upon the income of the year is no less than
1,004,0261., and upon the quarter 41,457/. Large as
are the sums of the net increase, especially that on the
revenue of the year, they,by no means fairly represent the
full increase, as far as it indicates the state of the com-
merce of the country, as well as of the internal con-
sumption of commodities during the year. In the ac-
counts for the year every item which can be taken as
representing either increased trade, increased wealth, or
increased consumption, has yielded a much larger
,in-
come than last year, while it is those of an accidental
character on which alone any deficiency has arisen.
The Customs, Excise, Stamps, Taxes, Property-tax, and
Post-office, which are the great general indices of the
progress of trade, wealth, and domestic comforts, show
an increase of no less than 2,489,4871.; while in monies
received from China, for imprest and other purposes,
and for the repayment of advances, the deficiency in the
present year amounts to 1,611,8454 in reduction of the
total increase. A similar observation applies to the
quarter, except that the increase is not so large in pro-
portion on each of the items, with the exception of the
Post-office, and that in the Customs there is a very slight
decrease. That there should be so slight a decrease in
the amount received during the last quarter from
the Customs as 4,2721.—when we consider the de-
rangement in the state of the money market, and
the extent to which business in all branches has
been contracted, in consequence of the desire which has
been universally manifested to reduce liabilities to the
lowest point—is, we must confess, a most agreeable sur-
prise. Nor, indeed, could any one be prepared for so
favourable a general result in these accounts, especially
us regards the Customs and Excise, when the deplorable
condition of the manufacturing districts during the last
six months is referred to. It is true that, as a set off to
this, not only have the railway calls exceeded 20,000,000/.
during that period, a large portion of which has been
expended • but the enormous amount of Government
money which has been given to Ireland has caused a
consumption of sugar and other commodities, contribut-
ing largely to revenue, greater than was ever known in
that country on any former occasion. But if there be
one view more striking than another:which these accounts
force upon us, it is the extraordinary success which,
even in a fiscal light, has attended those reforms in our
commercial legislation, and the reductions in our tariff,
which have been so freely made during the last few
years, and especially in the spring of 1846. These
accounts comprise the first entire year of the low duties
under the last reduction of the tariff, and, compared with
an entire year of receipts prior to that reduction,
they show the extraordinary increase already men-
tioned ; and, what is more remarkable still, the
year ending the sth of July, 1846, was one in which
all branches of manufacturing employment were
active to an extraordinary degree, and when all hands
were well employed ; while during the last year, it is
notorious that there has been a great deficiency of em-
ployment in some of the main branches of our trade.
The contrast of the two years in this respect only ren-
ders the triumph of free-trade principles more marked and
decided. The profits arising from our fiscal reforms '
have more than compensated by a million sterling the
cessation of the China ransom moneys, and other re-
ceipts of an accidental kind. Thus, although our
Treasury is no longer enriched by direct payments from
the Chinese Government, yet we are reaping the ad-
vantages of an enlarged commerce and an increased
revenue, as part of the fruits of an honourable peace.
There is surely much in these reflections that should
encourage a Government to persevere in the same course,
and to make, as a means of ultimately increasing our in-
come, extendiug our trade, and adding to the general
comforts of the community, a large reduction of the tea
duties. All experience points to this experiment as
being a safe policy in every view which can be taken of
it. It is impossible, however, to dismiss this subject
without referring particularly to the great extent to
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is indebted for
this large income to the important measure with respect
to the sugar duties passed in the autumn of last year.
No fiscal reform has ever been attended with such imme-
diate and striking results, which, however, were so plain
and so certain, that it is now only a wonder they were
resisted so long.
ADVERTISER.—The returns of the
q wore 0
venue are highly satisfactory—a greatiredueual
stances in
than could have been expected in the cm rter's r:-
which the country has been placed for s 9
Id be a serious e months past.
It was generally feared that there wroeuesbly
surprised to
de-
falcation; tho country will beheaeg is an increase. The
find that, on the contrary,
but under the Cir-
augmentation, it is true, isn?ttlarr e•
cumstances it is most gratifyingheeins,toegxfic'nedothtawtot,htehreereisisanayn
increase at all. In allt it
as compared with the cor-
respondingincrease on the _
quarter,quarteroflastuyiescaerilanTehoues.twoTehxecedpetfilocnitst
are the Customs and the
however, is very slight on either head. On the Customs
it is 4,2724 and on the Miscellaneous it is 10,540/.
Under both beads, however, we have an increase on the
year. On the Customs, the increase on the year, as
compared with the year ending the sth of July, 1846, is
no less than 1,103,3481., and on the Miscellaneous it is
114,384/. In the Excise—one of the best tests of the
prosperity of the country—the augmentation on the
quarter is 186,3411., while on the year it is 708,8861.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY.
An important change in the premiership for the July
Stakes, a further and marked improvement in Stultz,
The Questionable, and Tantivy, for the Goodwood
Stakes, and in Eryx and Fitz Emilius for the Goodwood
Cup, were the only "movements" yesterday; the general
betting was decidedly fiat.
Closing quotations:—
JULY STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Colonel Peel's Teetotum
7 to 4 agst Mr. Payne's Woodcraft
5 and 6 to 4 laid on the two favourites agst the field.
LIVERPOOL STAKES.
8 to I agst Mr. B. Green's The Conjuror
8 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Lightning
10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Pic Vic
12 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress
13 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Plaudit
15 to I agt:t Mr. Meiklam's Quadruped
20 to 1 agst Mr. Skerrett's Romance
The Acceptances remain as we gave them yesterday.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Stultz
10 to 1 agat Mr. Sainsbury's The Questionable
12 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Milliner
14 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Vampyre
16 to 1 agst Mr. Elwes's Miss Ells
20 to 1 agst Mr. Baker's Plover
20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Lothario
30 to 1 agat Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken freely
GOODWOOD CUP.
3 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Hero
6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Auniont's Fitz• Emilius
14 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First
Offers to take 20 to 1 about Cossack.
ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken
10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Hart—t. 11 to 1
11 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Farmer's Daughter
20 to I agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx—taken
2000 to 40 agst Mr. L. Fox's Executor—taken
DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Assault
25 to I agat Mr. B. Green's Flatcateber—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Edie Ochiltree—taken to 2501.
40 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Beverlac—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glendower—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Stinger—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Swiss Boy—taken
CARLISLE RACES.—Eryx's weight for the Cumberland
Plate was Est 121 b, inclusive of the penalty of 91bs.
CARLISLE RACES.—FEIDAY.
The Lottery Stakes (handicap) of 10 sovs. each, p. p., with
40 added; the second to save his stake; winners of handl-
. caps subsequent to the declaration of weights, of 200 soya.
or upwards 61b, of two that value 91b extra; the winner
of the Derby 91b extra; to start at the Style turn, and
go once round (about a mile and three quarters). (13
Subs.)
Mr. S. L. Fox's br Ir Psalmsinger, by Physician, 5 yrs,
7st 121 b (W Oates) 1
Lord Eglinton's br m Plaudit, 5 yrs, Bst 21b
Mr. O'Brien's br f The Emerald Isle, 3 yrs, sst 61b 3
Plaudit took the lead, followed by Emerald Isle. They
ran thus to the distance, where Psalmsinger passed Emerald
Isle, and gained gradually on the inside of the mare to within
twelve strides of home, which the rider of Plaudit not seeing,
Psalmsinger won by a neck, it being too late for Plaudit to
ersevere.
he Carlisle Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 30 added ; two
year old colts, 6st 71b, fillies, 6st 31b, three year old colts,
Sat 71b, fillies, Bst 31b ; winners once in the present year
Mb, twice 51b, thrice 71b extra; from the Style• turn in.
(4 Subs.)
Mr. Taylor's br c George Hudson, 3 yrs ........(Holmes) 1
Mr. B. Green's br f Miss Margrave, 2 yrs 2
Mr. Rait's br f Cybele, 2 yrs
Betting—Even on George Hudson, and 6 to 4 agst Miss
Margrave.
. Miss Margrave and Cybele took the lead, and ran neck
and neck to the distance, where George Hudson passed them,
and won easy.
11er Majesty's Plate of 100 gs., for horses of all ages ; three
Yrs old, ist 51b ; four, Bst 91b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and aged,
9st 71b. Heats, twice round.
...aar. Stehenson's b c Sheraton, 4 agedmpson) 1 0 1
•,71'. Robertson's b g Tom Tough, (lt b)
.121. r. IL Johnstone's br g Rough-and-Ready, 5 yrs 2 0 2
Mr. Harrison's ch f Lady Malone, 4 yrs 0 0 3
Mr, O'Brien's hr f Emerald Isle, 3 yrs
„ First heat—Emerald Isle took the lead till about 100 yards
40n1 home, when he was passed by Sheraton and Rough-
and-Ready, between whom a splendid race ensued, Sheraton
*winning by a head. Second heat—Tom Tough and Eme-
rald Isle went at a tremndous pace all the way, Tom Tough
winning easy. Third heat—Sheraton and Rough-and-Ready
made play alternately, Sheraton winning by two lengths.
„
hu Shakspere Stakes of 5 sow. each, p. p., with 20 added by
Mr. Daly, the lessee of the Carlisle Theatre ; three yrs olds
Sat; four, 9st • five, 9st 61b ; six and aged, 9st 81b ;
mares and geldings al:owed 31b ; the winner to be sold for
200 sovs. ; if entered to be cold for 150 sovs. allowed 71b ;
100 sovs. 141 b ; 80 sovs. 181 b ; and 50 soya. 211 b. Heats,
once round. (8 Subs.)
lN_ilae_rt 5 Merry 's b m Marian Ramsay, by Ph y-
en yrs, (100,, - (Holmes) 0 1 3 0 1
%r• Pedley's ch c tenets, 3 yrs (100 sovs) 1 0 2 2 2
‘,Dlr. Dawson's bm Bretwalda,s yrs (50 sovs) 0 0 1 0 3
tr r. Meiklam's br c Daring, 3 yrs (30 sows) 3 2 dr
Mtral.Johnstone's b h Milden, 5 yrs (80 sovs) 0 0 dr
M. J. Scott's b f The Alderman's Daughter 2 dr
First heat—A good race with the first three. Won by
half a length. Second heat—Marian Ramsay took the lead,
kept it all the way, and won easy. Third heat—A good
race with the first three ; won by a head. Fourth heat—
Marian Ramsay took the lead to the distance, where Bret-
Zl,Slda challenged her, and a splendid race ended in a dead
4011 t. Fifth heat—A fine race ; won by a neck.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.
ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY.
Ilalldieflp Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, and only 5 if de-
clared, &c. (14 Subs.)
Lo:d Exeter's Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b —Mr. R. Stephen-
son's Keeley, 6 yrs, Bst 51b—Col. Peel's Oregon, 3 yrs, 7st 81b
--Mr.Peier's Black Cat, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Lord Exeter's Circas-
sian Maid, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr. Sanford's Kimblesworth, 3
Y.r.% 6st 121b—Mr. Cheshire's Ellen Horne, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
Mr. W. H. Robells's Mogulistan, 3 yrs, 6st 101b—Col. Peel's
Vert Vert, 3 yrs Est 101b—Mr. Wigram's Phlio, 3 yrs, sst
131 b. Four paid.
THE JULY STAKEs.—Kangaroo, Festus, Nil Desperandum,
Mr. Etwall's colt, Lord Lensdale's two, Red Doe, Dick
Turpin, Comet, Amy, and Dacia, are scratched.

DOUGLAS JERROLD.

Anxiously did we look forward to the appearance
of the July number of this magazine, and sorely have
we been disappointed. Notwithstanding the fair
promises of last month, Juniper Hedgehog has not
yet made his appearance. " Drat that cabman,
where can he be staying." We have, however, en
revanche an admirable " Voice from the Crowd in a
Steam-boat," by Angus B. Reach, from which we
extract the following, which we commend to the
earnest attention of the Corporation of London in
general, and of Sir Peter Laurie in particular :
" In the cold days of early spring—when east wind
and drenching sleet and rain come -lashing down our
London streets—and when nobody will dare the icy
blasts of the river who has got a shilling to pay for a
cab, or twopence for an omnibus, or who is provided
with a couple of useable legs to walk withal—when the
steamers ply up and down, dripping and deserted things
one shapeless mass of oil-skins at the wheel, another
on the paddle-box—then it is that the Corporation of
London suddenly wake up to the danger of over-crowded
and too-fast-driven boats. An enthusiastic discussion
accordingly takes place in the Common Council or the
Court of Aldermen, and a code of bye-laws of terrific
severity is forthwith drawn up and established, menacing
with horrible pains and penalties the reckless skippers
who shall dare to contravene them. The whole proceed-
ing looks severe and determined. Nervous people nod
their heads approvingly, and say, All right now—the
Lord Mayor has taken the thing up in a proper spirit.
These fellows won't be overloading their boats again in
a hurry.' Alas—deluded folks I Wait a bit. Blazing
summer comes—and sweltering London rushes on the
river. Where are the City bye-laws then? Where are
the informers who were to work them—where the stipu-
lations allotting to each passenger a certain cubic space
upon the deck? Gone—melted with the hot weather—
leaving the City statute-book a tabula rasa for the in-
scription of the same farce at the commencement of the
next mayoralty. And yet, Heaven knows, if the nuisance
be still uncorrected, it h not for want of nuisance •
mongers and grievance-hunters in the community. Only
these gentlemen are eternally catching wrong sows by
the ear. They are the cranes who wage war with the
pigmies. A parcel of ragged urchins playing pitch-and-
toss with dilapidated buttons in an alley—an advertising
van or two ; not half such an obstacle in a crowded
thoroughfare as a sheriffs broad-wheeled waggon, and
not a tithe so ugly in its gaudiness as that worshipful
functionary's official coach—a dozen or two of emanci-
pated mechanics and maids-of-all-work enjoying them-
selves in the merry go-rounds at the foot of Primrose-
hill ; or a knot of hard-working, honest men, scouring
their skins in a cheap bath and washhouse—such are the
objects which the nuisance-mongers—or rather the
superlative nuisance-monger— of the day delights to
show his vigilance in rooting up and exhibiting to the
gaze of a world—by no means so very much scandalised
at the spectacle. Sir Peter Laurie is—as everybody
knows—a pestilent busybody, always deep in some
mare's nest or other, and yet occasionally making a
blundering step—more by chance than anything else—in
the right direction. Now, here is a chance for him.
Let him take to the steam-boat nuisance. He flatters
himself that he has put down suicide ; let him try his
hand at putting down a system which may result in
occasioning as many deaths in a moment as the mania
for self-slaughter does in a twelvemonth. Let him for-
sake Primrose-hill on the Sunday afternoons, and take
his stand on Hungerford-bridge—let him observe the
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flesh—let him see all this, and let him remember, that
all this is perpetrated in defiance of the magnates of the
City, and their solemnly recorded regulations—let him
observe that the interpretation put upon the City bye-
laws seems to be that they are laws for the City to give
the go-by to, and if, out of such materials, he cannot
erect a grievance of the first magnitude—cannot carve a
nuisance of the first water—then will I be content to be
en board the first steamer which pitches its living masses
head over heels, to drown in Thames water, and to rot
in Thames mud."
" The Dreamer and the:Worker," which is now ac-
knowledged to be from the pen of the author of
" Orion," Mr. R. H. Horne, is continued, but the
story makes but little progress. Paul Bell gives us a
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adventures of the hero of the Spafields riots, during
the time which elapsed between his escape from the
constables on the 2d December, 1816, and his arrival
in America. This promises to be a valuable contribu-
tion to the materials gradually accumulating for a
history of the Regency. " Club Crotchets and Cheap
Comforts" contain hints well worthy the attention of
the managers of the Whittington Club ; and the
" Converted Man" is, we fear, an overtrue picture of
what too often takes place in society. Notwithstand-
ing the absence of Juniper Hedgehog, this is a
good number of Douglas Jerrold.

THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. Nos. XIX. and
XX. By Charles Lever.
After nineteen months have elapsed since the
commencement of this tale of the time of the
Union, it is concluded. At the outset of the
narrative we were peculiarly gratified with the
promise of a fiction of unusual brilliancy from the
usually brilliant pen of Harry Lorrequer. Now that
we have read " The Knight of Gwynne" down. to
"The End," we cannot but protest our disappoint-
ment. There is no excuse whatever for the rambling,
careless, book-making, style of the latter portion of
the work, for Mr. Lever had originally grouped to-
gether materials of extraordinary excellence for the
composition of a novel. The time chosen was one
fraught with a strange and national interest; the cha-
racters outlined were bold, original, and attractive.
There was the boldest, the most original, and the
most attractive of all the sketchy portraitures by
Lever—we mean, of course, Bagenal Daly; yet
Bagenal Daly disappears at a comparatively early
moment in the story, and is only introduced just at
the conclusion, in the midst of a preposterous bustle,
and when th 3 traits of his character are lost in the con-
fusion of departure. There was the knight himself;
he is abruptly carried off, as the saying is, " neck and
crop "to Egypt. There was the old butler; he is
utterly forgotten in the closing numbers. There was
Gwynne Abbey ; it is entirely lost sight of.
There was young Darcy ; he is hurried out of the
way as though he were an illegitimate child, or an
irreclaimable felon. There is honest Tom Gluson ;
he is only whispered about in the letter-press, his for-
tunes are only told with any distinctness in the in-
imitable etchings by Phiz ; indeed the double num-
ber before us is mainly attractive from the four
capital illustrations by the first of all the serial
artists. The frontispiece represents Erin sur-
rounded by a swarm of mannikins showing Ire-
land as she might be, " Great, glorious, and
free"—great in the development of her resources, glo-
rious in the happiness of her people, free from po-
verty, misery, and anarchy. The title-page is still
better, showing the dilemmas resulting from the
Union. Altogether we are gratified at the conclusion
of the least successful of Mr. Lever's productions,
though we are disappointed at its being the least
successful.

, ERRATUM.—A. Correspondent is informed that the
aorses for the Cumberland Plate were, by an oversigpt,
Misplaced, but the remarks would tell how they came in.

SALE OF LORD SPENCER'S YEARLINGS.
,ddystone, by Cotherstone, out of Allutnette 135 gs.
r artaesan, by Cotherstone, out of Maid of Fez 140 gs.
Straehino, by Cotherstone, out of Aliens 260 gs.
Conholt, by Thistlewhipper, out of Sophia
/‘arthingale, by Cotherstone, out of Cloak
Chesnut Filly, by Harkaway, out of Agnes 4O gs.

OPENING OF THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK
311ILWAY.—Thursday, the Ist of July, witnessed the
°tining throughout of this important line of railway,
for passenger and goods traffic. The communication by
railway between London and Edinburgh is at length
Weed and
the slight breaks caused by the
Zweed and Tyne. No public demonstration of any kind
es taken place on the occasion; that is reserved for the
time when the bridges over the Tweed and Tyne are
completed.
STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.—By letters
freak Breslau we learn that the inauguration of the
statue of Frederick the Great took place in that city on
Pe 27th ult., in presence of the King and the Prince of
Prussia. Among those who assisted at the ceremony
I" an old veteran, 109 years of age, who had served in
e armies of the groat King. He was dressed in the
• ressian uniform of the time of the seven years' war,
which strugg'e he took part. At four o'clock in the
afternoon his Majesty and the Prince quitted Breslau by
the railway for Berlin.
Sir Edward S. Hutchinson, Baronet. and family,
William Hort, Bart., 111. James, Esq , M.P., Colonel
White, and Captain Ward, embarked, on Sunday last,
o
c,u board the steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, from
St. Ratharine's-wharf, Tower.
peTan FRENCH EMBASSY.—The Count and Countess
§t. Aulaire left Manchester house yesterday for
Arm

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. POTSDAM, JUNE 28.—His Majesty the King has
3114 returned from Silesia.