The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

The revenue tables for the quarter and the year ending
the 31st of December are published. The revenue re-
ceived during the whole year is is £71,268,955, shewing
an increase over 1869 of £553,581. There is a decrease in
customs of £1,868,000, almost covered, however, by an
increase of £1,698 in excise ; shewing that while our
trade has fallen off our consumption of alcholic beverages
and luxuries has largely grown, There is also
a decrease of £345,000 from stamps, £71,000 from
property tax, and .£50,000 from the Post Office. On the
other hand, there is an increase of £197,000 assessed
taxes, £500,000 telegraph service, Crown lands; £16,000,
and miscellaneous £476,581. The actual receipts for the
year have been :—Customs, £20,205,000 ; Excise,
£22,437,000 ; Stamps, £9,020,000 ; Taxes, 2,971,000 ;
Property Tax, £7,460,000 ; Post-office, £4,650,000 ' • Tele-
graph Service, £500,000; Crown Lands, £379,000; Mis-
cellaneous, £3,646,955 ; total, £71,268,955. The total in
1869 was 270,715,374. The balances shew a net deficiency
of £5,911,303; but :.flowing for the reductions in the
budget, there seems, to the Times, every prospect that
Mr. Lowe will be able in April to shew a surplus on his
estimate of something like £4500,000,

MR. RUSKIN AND THE WORKMEN OF
GREAT BTITAIN.

Under the title of " Fors Clavigera," Mr. John
Ruskin, the eminent art critic, has published, in a
pamphlet form, the first of a series of letters "to
the workmen and labourers of Great Britain." Let-
ter 1 is dated " Denmark-hill, Ist January, 1871,"
and commences : " Friends, —We begin to-day
another group of ten years, not in happy circumstances.
I am not an unselfish person, nor an evangelical one ; I
have no particular pleasure in doing good, neither do I
dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for
it in another world. But I simply cannot paint, nor read,
nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like, and
the very light of the morning sky, when there is any—
which is seldom nowadays, near London—has be-
come hateful to me, because of the misery that I
know of, and see signs of, where I know it
not, which no imagination can interpret too bit-
terly. Therefore, as I have said, I will endure it no
longer quietly ; but henceforward, with any few or many
who will help, do my poor best to abate this misery.
But that I may do my best, I must not be miserable
myself any longer ; for no man who is wretched in his
own heart, and feeble in his own work, can rightly help
others. Now my own special pleasure has lately been
connected with a given duty. I have been ordored to en-
deavour to make our English youth care somewhat for
the arts ; and must put my uttermost strength into that
business. To which end I must clear myself from all
sense of responsibility for the material distress around
me, by explaining to you, once for all, in the shortest
English I can, what I know of its causes ; by pointing
out to you some of the methods by which it might be
relieved ; and by setting aside regularly some small per-
centage of my income, to assist, as one of yourselves, in
what one andall we shall have to do; each of us laying by
something, according to our means, for the common ser-
vice; and having amongst us at last, be it ever so small,
a national store instead of a national debt. Store which,
once securely founded, will fast increase, provided only
you take the pains to understand, and have perseverance
to maintain, the elementary principles of human economy,
which have of late not only been lost sight of, but wil-
fully and formally entombed under pyramids of
falsehood." Mr. Ruskin is anxious that working men
should understand " what money is and how it is got, and
what it is good for, and bad for." Mr. Ruskin begs those
he specially addresses to convince themselves of the
greatly comfortable, greatly formidable fact, that their
prosperity is in their own hands—that only in a
remote degree does it depend on external matters,
and least of all, on forms of government. He
points out what he considers the ridiculousness of the divi-
sion of parties into Liberal " and " Conservative,' and
maintains that there is no opposition between those two
kinds of men. " There is," he says, "opposition between
Liberals and Illiberals ; that is to say, between people
who desire liberty and who dislike it. lam a violent
Illiberal ; but it does not follow that I must be a Conser-
vative."

MR. FAWCETT, M.P., ON THE CONDITION OF

EN6L kND.

In the .Fortnightly Review for this month, Mr. Fawcett
has written a very able article, headed "To what extent
is England prosperous?" of which the following is an
extract :—"The well being of a country cannot be mea-
sured by its exports and imports ; the true test is to
ascertain how many people are there in it who have
made a proper provision for inevitable con-
tingencies, and are in a position to discharge the
responsibilities which they have assumed." It is idle to
congratulate ourselves upon our vast national wealth
when we know that as each winter recurs there are in the
richest metropolis in the world 150,000 paupers. Except
in two or three exceptionally situated counties, the agri-
cultural labourers are unable to save from their wages
sufficient to maintain them for a fortnight. And that
this applies with almost equal force to other employ-
ments, is shewn by the rapidity with which, upon
any depression of trade, as, for instance, in Lancashire
during the American war, the operatives were compelled
• to apply for relief. This unfortunate state of things is
not to be remedied by State assistance to emigration.
The Statr must either grant assistance to all who apply
for it, or to those only who are unable to emigrate. In
the first case, we should empty the country of all its most
energetic and enterprising labourers ; in the second, we
should be imposing a tax upon the industrious and
prudent for the benefit of the improvident and the idle."

SALE OF RACING STUD AT. TATTERSALL'S.
The first sale of horses for the new year at Tattersall's
took place yesterday, two lots of which excited more than
ordinary attention. The first lot was that of horses in
training sold without reserve, by order of the exe-
cutors of the late Mr. Joseph Luxon, which
went at the following prices :—Woodland Mary,
f., 3 years old, by Defender, out of Calot, 17 guineas ;
Plenipotentiary, g., 5 years, by Musjid, out of Mary. by
Idle Boy, 50 guineas ; Devizes, g., 3 years, by Defender,
out of Hopeful Duchess, 24 guineas ; Miss Barrington,
4 years, by Skirmisher, out of Mary, by Idle Boy, 17
guineas ; Oxygen, c.m., 4 years, by Defender, out of
Madeline, 26 guineas ; Aynho, g., 3 yeais, by
Defender, out of Ada de Clare, 17 guineas ;
Several brood mares, the boxes, and two-year-olds went
for similarly low prices, and the auctioneer said the ani-
mals were being almost "given away." The sale of
stallions belonging to the same owners met with no better
luck. Defender, by Melbourne or Windham, out of
Ellen Horne, went for 80 guineas ; Ariel, by
Voltigeur, out of the Wizard's dam, 42 guineas ;
and Langham, by Rattle, out of Subterfuge,
for 31 guineas. The next sale was a draft of horses in
training from the stud of T. E. Walker Esq. ; those
having engagements to be sold under Lord Exeter's con-
ditions—no forfeits for not running, Sir George, 3
years, by Claret, out of Columbine ; engage-
ments for 1871, The Derby, 12th Stamford Bien-
nial at Wolverhampton, Great Yorkshire Stakes,
St. Leger, and Doncaster Stakes ; 3.5 guineas. Fresh-
man, 3 years, by Oxford out of ild Beauty; engaged
in the Column Stakes, Newmarket Craven Meeting,
Epsom Derby, and the Grand Prize of Paris ;_ 15 guinea.
Ainsty, 3years, by Lord Clifden out of Lady Grosvenor ;
engaged in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, New-
market First Spring Meeting, Midsummer Stakes, July
Meeting, St. Leger, Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot,
Drawing Room Stakes at Goodwood, Great Yorkshire
Stakes, St. Leger, Doncaster Stakes, and Second Year
of the Third Beaufort Biennial ; 690 guineas. Notwith-
standing the dulness of prices, the attendance was large.

WKECK OF A BARQUE.—The barque Coromandel
of Liverpool, from Philadelphia, laden with petroleum/
oil, went ashore on Sunday, at one o'clock, and became a
total wreck. The crew of nineteen hands were all saved.
Part of the cargo is likely to be saved.
THE LAST AMERICAN GRIEVANCE.—It is under-
stood that the Government has issued instructions to the
cruisers in the Canadian waters to the effect that, while
the inquiry into the action of the Fishery Laws is pending,
they are not to seize any more United States ships.--
Dundee Advertiser.

CANADA—THE WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH TROOPS.
—The New York Times of the 20th ult. says " The
Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John A.
Macdonald, in reply to a deputation who asked permis-
sion to open a railroad through grounds formerly used by
the British troops, in Kingston, Ontario, said he was
convinced British troops would be back within five
years."
A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.—On Sunday the
wife of a gardener named Handley was burned to death in
Stirling. Handley and his wife had, it is alleged, been
quarrelling, and he left the house, locking the door. On
returning, an hour and a-half later, he called in assistance
to lift the charred corpse of his wife, which was lying
on the floor near the fire. Handley has been lodged in
prison, charged with complicity in his wife's death.
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN.—Their
Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian, accom-
panied by Colonel and Mrs. George Gordon, left Frog-
more at 12.20 p.m.,yesterday, and drove to the Slough
station of the Great Western line, at which place the
12.30 p.m. train from Paddington specially stopped for
the purpose of conveying their Royal Highnesses to
Rea.ding, from whence they proceeded on the Basingstoke
line to Gosport, en route to Osborne, to visit her Majesty
and the Royal Family.

SMUGGLING CASE. —At nine o'clock yesterday
morning two customs' officers stationed at St. Aubyn's
Quay, observed a boat pushing off towards the
Henri, a French vessel, which had not obtained a clearance
note. The officers having suspicions, gave chase, and
coming up with the boat jumped into it, and found in it
2501b5. of tobacco, which had not passed the Customs.
The vessel was taken to St. Helier's, and detained,
pending orders from the Department, Somerset House.
EXETER CATHEDRAL.—Exeter Cathedral is to be
restored, and towards the cost one member of the chapter
alone has given.£s,ooo, and four other individuals subscribed
£2.000 amongst them, The chapter gave 40,680, but
the nobility and gentry of Cornwall and Devon only
subscribed £3,390. The architects, Mr. Gilbert Scott and
his son, will devote their attention simply to therestora-
tion, preservation, and better display of the ancient
features of the sacred edifice. The works will be com-
menced at once.

TRUCK COMMISSION AT BIRMINGHAM. The
Truck Commission opened at the Town Hall, Birming-
ham, yesterday morning. Persons in the service of
Messrs. Griffiths and Foster, Wednesbury, gave evidence.
Henry Dudey, the shop cheque clerk, said that others
than employes dealt at the company's shop ; did not
know what workmen did. or did not deal there.—
George Holloway, shop manager, attended fairs,
and bought cattle. The company had a farm
for grazing. Witness bought the best he could. Private
persons often gave the company's shop the preference.
The names of the men who did not deal at the shop were
not taken domin. Witness had never known men spoken
to for not dealing there. Silas Lees, cashier, said in 1869
£24,500 waxspent itthe shop. £4,000 of this was spent
by Butties, £1,900 by managers and foremen, £17,000 by
workmen and £3,500 by private persons.

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UNUSUAL PUBLIQATION OF BANNS 1W A CLERGY-
MAN.—The Irish Timls remarks : A very unusual occur-
rence took place in Castleknock Church on Sunday last,
and will be repeated, we presume, on the next two Sun-
days. The rector published his own banns of marriage,
and also those of his son. The former is to be united next
month to a rich heire*s. in Sussex, shortly after she comes
of age, and the latter to the eldest daughter of one of the
masters in the Court of Chancery, who is nearly related
to several of the noblest familieS in Ireland. It is a strange
coincidence that the two fathers of the younger couple are
about to marry their grandnieces, which, though an un-
usual connection, has beeu pronounced by Dr. Stephens,
the highest legal authority on the subject, to be strictly in
accordance with the laws of God and man, and is, we
fancy, more remote than that of first cousins, which has
been sanctioned by the example of some of the highest
dignitaries in Church and State.

SUN, LONDON, T IJES DA Y , JANUARY 3, 1871.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The War Office has at last made arrangements for the
immediate production of a large number of Henry-Mar-
tini rifles for the army.
The Flying Squadron, under the command of Rear
Admiral F. B. Seymour, C. 8., will leave England to-day.
It is feared that the Psyche, which struck on a sunken
rock off Cape Molino, with the Eclipse Expedition, is
like to become a perfect wreck.