The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1847.

THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

The return of the Revenue for the quarter ending
the 10th of October, 1847, exhibits, as might have
been anticipated, evidences of the pressure under
which we have been labouring for the last three
months. On the quarter there is a decrease under
every head save those of Post-office and Taxes, the
former of which exhibits a trifling increase of
3,945/., and the latter an increase on the quarter of
5,0001. It is gratifying to find that the Post-office
revenue continues to increase year by year, and quar-
ter by quarter, whatever may be the circumstances
of the country. During the prosperous years 1844
and 1845, the Post office revenue exhibited a steady
increase, and during the years of pressure 1846
and 1847, the increase still continues. These
results prove to demonstration the sound-
ness of the principles of Mr. ROWLAND HILL ;
and we congratulate the friends of " a cheap and
uniform system of postage" on the decisive and suc-
cessful result of this great experiment. The total
decrease on the revenue fur the quarter is 1,507,2301.,
on the revenue for the year, 1,042,2681. It must,
however, be recollected that a portion of this de-
crease is attributable to the cessation of the payment
by China, on account of the expenses of the late war.
Ibis will account for 227,6441. of the decrease
on the quarter, and for nearly a million of
the deficiency on the year. The Customs ex-
hibit a decrease of 374,191/. on the quarter,
but an increase of 267,2241. on the year, the total
amount of Customs revenue being for the quarter
4,936,6441., and for the year 18,418,1571. The de-
crease on the quarter can be accounted for by the
fact that during the corresponding quarter of last
year considerable sums were received as duty on the
the
importation of foreign corn, whereas during the
quarter just expired all grain was admitted duty free.
We are sorry to observe a large decrease in the Ex-
cise revenue, as this indicates a diminished power of.
consumption on the part of the great masses of the
people in consequence of the severe pressure of dis-
tress. The diminution in the Excise revenue on the
year amounts to 159,914/ , and on the quarter
to the enormous sun, of
641,9801., the total
Excise revenue for the quarter bein 3,539,9461.,
and for the year 12
,0.t.;10181. The great
decrease has taken place in
receipts from the
duties on malt and on British
for the
spirits.
revenue received from Stamps The total
3,7ll,9ty4asealarecashrnoowuinntgs
to 7,135,3781., for the quarter to 1 7
an increase on the year of 152,2491., 10
the quarter of 66,4191. To the increase,' both
on
zi the
year and the quarter, under the head of Taxes, we have
already alluded. The total revenue derived from this
source for the year amounts to 4,329,6771., and for the
quarter to 213,8851. The Property-tax has yielded
for the year 5,438,4531., and for the quarter
1,918,645/., showing an increase on the year of
106,996/., and a decrease on the quarter of 53,4831-
The increase in the Post-office on the quarter, as
we have already stated amounts to 5,0001., on the
year it amounts to 57,0001.—the total amount of
revenue derived from this source being, for the year,
859,0001., and for the quarter, 222,0001. Under
the I:E..ud Crown Lands there is a decrease on the
quarter of 4,5,000/., no revenue having been
.derived
from that source during the quarter ending Oct. 10,
1847. The decrease under this head on the year
a•nounts to 48,0001. The Miscellaneous revenue
for the quarter amounts to 73,1261., and for the
year to 202,8371., showing a decrease on the
year of 153 2081., and on the quarter of
104,7841. This decrease, however, is rather
apparent than real, inasmuch as during the corre-
sponding quarter of last year 227,6441. of China

money was brought to account. The total Income
for the quarter is 12,843,3141., and for the year
49,552,879/., showing a decrease in the year of
1,042,2681., and a decrease on the quarter of
1,507,230/. The total Charge for the quarter is
7,791,665/. The surplus of the Consolidated Fund
for the quarter is 856,134/.; and the surplus of Re-
venue, after providing for the charges on the Conso-
lidated Fund, and for the payment of Supply ser-
vices in the quarter, is 729,195/.

A palace intrigue has dissipated all the patriotic
visions of SALAMANCA.. The restoration of General
NARVAEZ to power is a catastrophe so remarkable
and unexpected that it has startled the political world
as with a thunderclap. Paris, Madrid, and London
were equally amazed at the intelligence that the Duke
of VALENCIA:WaS again in the ascendant. The Minis-
terial organs of M. GUIZOT were for the time being so
bewildered by an occurrence of a character so propi-
tious and unanticipated that they contented them-
selves with the simple publication of the news con-
veyed by the French telegraph, reserving their com-
ments until such time as the information should be
corroborated by the explanations of their Spanish
correspondents. In our own capital the
first brief announcement of this extraordinary
transferrence of the government from the
hands of the enterprising Progressista SA-
LAMANCA to those of the execrable Afrancesado NA R•
VAEZ, was heard as something incredible and preter-
natural. The more sanguine of the wellwishers of
the late Administration would at the first blush have
equally withheld their credulity from a telegraphic
dispatch recounting the arrival of travellers from
Atalantis, or the importation of a cargo of bullion
from the merchants of El Dorado. Even the late
Minister of Finance was originally informed of his
downfal when whiling away an evening in a box at
the theatre. All were astonished, and doubtful if not
actually incredulous, at the first declaration that
NARVANZ had supplanted SALAMANCA. Yet such
actually proves to be the last alternation of affairs in the
Spanish metropolis, and now that time has permitted
them to recover from their first agreeable surprise, the
Paris journals are breaking silence, and commenting
with a complacent egotism upon this abrupt revival of
influence to the Afrancesados.

A momentary examination of the facts of this
Ministerial change assures us, however, that it
has arisen from no vast combinations of faction,
from no subtle contrivances of diplomacy, from no
moral predominance of principle, but from the mi-
serable effervescence of personal passion, and the con-
temptible casualties of a palace intrigue. If ISA-
BELLw bas again wilfully fallen before the seduc•
tions of the Guizot Cabinet, she has fallen like
DANAE—a shower of gold has been the means of
her abasement. It would be frivolous indeed to deny
that the funds placed at the disposal of the Duke of
VALENCIA, simultaneously with his recent journey
from the Tuileries to the Prado, have exercised a
marvellous influence over those individuals who are
known to sway the judgment of her Most Catholic
MAJESTY. The key which has opened the doors of
the Council Chamber to Don RAMON MARIA
NAnVAEZ, is a key of gold. And now that the event
has actually transpired, now that curiosity and
amazement have been diminished by the revelations
of the initiated, it is only surprising that the autho
rity of SALAMANCA was not previously subverted,
and the worshippers prostrate long ago before the
golden calf of Afrancesadoism.

In exulting over the accession of General NAB'.
VAEZ to power, as President of the Council of ➢linis-
ters, we nevertheless conceive that the palliators of
French intrigue are singularly premature, and egre-
giously open to the charge of temerity. That our
impressions in this respect are not altogether un-
founded is shown by the spirit in which the obser-
vations of the Journal des Debats itself are ex-
pressed. It evidently regards the Duke of VALENCIA
in his new position with a joyful but hesitating
admiration. It exults at the formation of a Cabinet
with a Moderado majority in the Cortes, and it
yearns to receive intelligence that NARVAEZ is proving
himself the most faithful, as ne is already the most
illustrious, representative of the party of which that
majority is composed. The question is, therefore,
will General IsTeavAin fulfil the insidious aspirations
of his French supporters ? Is he ascending the curule
chair merely to betray his country, bound hand and
foot, into the possession of Louis PunarrE ? Or is
he one of those profound and crafty patriots who
strive to extricate their native land and their Sove-
reign from the toils of the enemy by a pretence
of villa ny and an appearance of fraud ?
NARVAEZ may yet obliterate the recollection of his
atrocities by the adoption of a most magnanimous
policy; he may yet, by his correspondence with the
royal intriguer of the Tuileries, present to posterity
a conflict of guile historically analagous to the ever-
memorable strife of craftiness between the most
wonderful diplomatists of their own or of perhaps
any age—MACHIATELLI and Cxsait BORGIA. For
MACHIAVELLI, with all his ruthless astuteness, was a
patriot, and NARVAEZ may yet prove his disciple.
Correct, therefore, as the Constitutionnel is in say-
ing that " Spain is under the government of chance,
tempered by palace intrigues," we cannot but believe
that her ultimate restoration to happiness and pros-
perity may result from these very fortuitous events.
Hope can never forsake the peninsula while the SOVE-
REIGN is young and resolute in the retention of her
independence, while the hearts of Spaniards are loyal
to their QUEEN and their Constitution, and while
their arms are nerved by love and reverence for the
maintenance of their nationality. Brief as has been
the existence of the Salamanca Cabinet, it has deserved
for itself the grateful recollections of the people, for
solely through its instrumentality has the perturbed
reign of ISABELLA been graced by the decree of a
comprehensive political amnesty. By the publi-
cation of that amnesty Senor SALAMANCA has ensured
to himself the eulogistic mention of the future his-
torian of Spain. That at least may be a consolation
to him for the misfortune of finding himself thrust
from authority long before the fulfilment of his
patriotic aspirations.

Tipperary has long acquired a fearful celebrity for
the scenes of riot and disturbance, of destruction of
property and resistance to the law, bloodshed and
murder, by which its soil is defiled, and in which too
many of its inhabitants are participators, if not by
being actually present, aiding and abetting at the
perpetration of the outrages, at least by a foreknow-
ledge that such things are in contemplation, and a
withholding of such information as would enable the
victims to escape from the machinations of the con-
spirators, and also by affording every assistance in
their power to the offenders to enable them to evade
pursuit, and to escape the punishment due to the crimes
they have committed. A wide-spread conspiracy is
organized in almost every locality, in opposition to the
law. A sanguinary code has been established for
the punishment of those who dare to counteract the
decrees of the midnight legislators, secret tribunals
are created before which complaints are lodged and
investigated, questions of life and death are debated
by the self-constituted judges, and sentence passed
without the victim being made aware of what is
objected against him, or being allowed any opportu-
nity of offering his defence. The frightful assassinations
by which the public feeling is outraged are generally
speaking regarded by the peasantry as the execution
of a merited sentence, and there is no lack of execu-
tioners to carry into effect the decree of the court.
The old man of the mountains could not rely with
greater certainty on the obedience of his assassins,
or the immolation of his enemy, than the blood-
thirsty miscreants miscreants who have pronounced the judg-
ment
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prepared for any atrocity,
the pursuit until he has effected his fearful purpose.
Regardless of consequences to himself, he will let
slip no opportunity. He does not seek to shelter
of night,
himself under the darkness but
even in the face of the noontide
the full light of heaven, sheudn, thein
blood of his fellow-man, and retire coolly from the I
scene of his iniquity, not fearing pursuit or interrup-
tion from the neighbouring peasantry. Such a state
of things is indeed lamentable. It is impossible to
hope for a permanent improvement in the condition of
the country while it is permitted to exist. How can
they hope for the introduction of capital into the
country, while there is neither security for life or
property in l'he district ? How can they rail at the

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