The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

(From the Globe.)

The official returns of the Public Revenne, contained
in the Globe of yesterday, confirmed the anticipations
we were enabled to offer on the preceding day, as to
the results they would present. There is, as we stated,
an aggregate decrease on the year ending Jan. 5, 1841,
as compared with that of 1840, of 254,000/. ; but on
the quarter ending Jan. 5, 1841, there is, as compared
with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year, an
increase of 80,602/. The Customs present a decrease
on ►.he year of 85,8731., and on the quarter (31368,399/.
This decrease has been occasioned by circumstances
which, to some extent, are causes of congratulation. Toe
abundant harvest with which Providence last year, in spe-
cial mercy, favoured this country, so affected the averages
as to raise the importation duties to an amount which
effects an exclusion of corn of foreign growth, and con-
sequently reduces the Customs duties, which, when the
markets are high, are paid on the importation of corn
from foreign countries. The continued high prices of
coffee, sugar, and other articles of colonial produce, have
also tended to diminish the amount of duties received on
the liberation of these articles from the bonded ware-
houses ; as purchasers for retail have been naturally un-
willing to make large purchases with a diminished de-
mand occasioned by the less quantity consumed by
the labouring classes. The increased -difficulty of
procuring articles of which, when the prices are
low, the poor are the largest consumers, is
obvious, and the result on the revenue is equally
plain. A rapid improvement is, however, visi-
ble in our West India colonies within the last few
months, and there is now a certain prospect of obtaining
yet more abundant supplies from them of the articles
which have recently been supplied in lesser quantities at
an advanced rate of charge for production, while the poe
pulation were in a state of transition from forced to free
labour. We may therefore anticipate an improvement,
where there has been a deterioration in the revenue from
this cause. The same ob,Trvations will apply to the dimi-
nution of revenue which the high price of tea has tended
to occasion. The amount of duty received on this ar-
ticle of constant and universal consumption is large ; and
has always been found to be in proportion to the facili-
ties afforded to the labouring classes to obtain it. The
disputes with China raised the price of tea to an en-
ormous extent ; and the result naturally was a greatly
diminished consumption, and consequently a corres-
ponding decrease of revenue. The anticipated perma-
nent arrangement of the dispute with China, and the
more secure and advantageous basis on which the trade
will henceforth be placed, will give an impetus to corn
mercial intercourse with that country before unknown.
These are advantages in which all will share, and from
which the revenue will in future be largely augmented.

(From the Standard.)
We are all one nation, with one interest, and that
one interest is best promoted by, as far as we may, equa-
lising and extending our industry and prosperity through
every part of the United Kingdom. And we have
urgent motives for doing so. Engtand has now the lead
in manufactures, but she must exert all her energies to
keep that lead ; for the cheaper rate of living on the
Continent of Europe, and :the abundance of water
power, gives her continental rivals an advantage
which it will demand all her resources to combat
with success. The first and the most obvious of
these resources is to bring into use the idle popula-
tion of Ireland, running to waste like their mountain
streams, adequate to put in motion 100,000 mills.
Sir Robert Peel, in reply to some dull Anti-Corn-law
orator, made the wise declaration that it is " neither
possible, nor, it it were possible, desirable for us, to
prevent the establishment of manufactures on the Con-
tinent, because, through whatever means our near neigh-
bours acquire wealth, we must profit by it." But if we
must profit by the wealth of strangers, it surely follows,
a fortiori, that we must profit by the wealth of our fel.
low subjects, who, besides the necessity of sharing all
our burdens, must, to a great extent, share with us all
their gains. Can any one doubt that the manufactories
of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, ice., have en-
riched the rest of England ? and why shall not manu-
factories in Irish counties have the same effect ? We
have said enough, and perhaps, for one day, more than
enough, upon this subject ; therefore we must postpone
what we could wish to add as to the deep interest which
the agriculturists of England have in particular, that
Ireland be made, as far as possible, a manufacturing
country.

(From the Courier.)
We are not amongst the number of those who, re-
joicing in the glories of the British arms, and the vindi-
cation of British honour, in the East and the far East,
would, with niggard hand, mete out that share of
meritorious participation in achievements destined to
historic renown, which corresponds as justly to the
head which conceived es to the hand by which exe-
cuted. The triumphs of Syria and of China redound
scarcely less to the honour and reputation of the Go-.
vernment at borne, by which in the first place the ma-
terials acre prepared and combined, than of the gal-
lant officers and men of the sea and land lorces em-
ployed, who have so nobly discharged the duties of
their mission and so pre-eminently re-established the
waning splendour of• their country's fame. To the
Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs it must be no mean
gratification to have his name associated side by side
with those of men so distinguished in arms as the
Gallant Stopford, Napier, and Elliot. Having our-
selves also, with sonic reservation only in respect of di-
plomatic forms on the preliminary discussions with
France, recorded our assent, and yielded our bumble
support to the general policy of Lord Palmerston both
on the Egyptian and Chinese questions, it would ill be-
come us to withhold the frank expression of our opinion,
that when decisive action was deemed necessary, the
►ncasureo adopted for Tendering it effectual to the end