The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-06 00:00:00

TIIE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JANUARY 59 1840.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1839,
.and sth of Jannary, 1840, sheaving the Increase
or Decrease on each head thereof.

YEAR
QuA wr ras ENDED
ended
QUARTERS ENDED IYear ended Jai. 5. Quarter ended Jan. &
/„.....-......------------__--„\ ended ,-.....----.....,
/
April 5, 1 July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5" Jan. 5, Aprll 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5,
. 1833 1933 1838 1839 1839 1839 1839 18311 1840 1840 Increase. I Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
--- -___
Customs.-Consolidated Duties 3,153,007 3,453,032 3,990,050 3,750,032 - 3,497,823 3,825,871 4,484,752 3,805,719 - - _
Sugar Duty applicable to Consolidated
493,&M 1,045,462 - - - _
472717),3(2761 191:R495°2,15132 68845,1334 - -
Fund 303,268 1,316,348 - -
1,479,221 1,104,356 -
- 420,423 - 1,293,234 973,586 - -
Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies 605,395 -
- ---
--.--- ----
----- -----
Total Cu5t0m53,627,18048.4388 11,864,11419154729 4,411,5691841511 4,871,3332570311 5,776,016113159 43.,
75,083
Excise 1,,05 8&3 2,437,1°2
, i -RI '194 1 6Q.,134 1,751,476 1,521,123 6,612,927 1,640,253 1,647,423 1,6.9,724 1,587,061 6,574,461 33,466 65,938 199,919
Stamps
-"*"-' ''' -Q, •- - ' • -.- ;lia 328 045 1 586 689 3 654 818 176 140 1 639 372 311 283 1 581 694 3 711 794
Taxes.H.,„A„ 130;,76_ 1,09,- , , , , , , ,__
___, _ , p.p• , , 36,976 1,990
Post Office
3ro Toti . 381,000 410,000
, ;.. ~ , 4,769,400 45,4;330,295791
365,000 1,525,000 392,000 369,000 407,001 3,1,000 1,519,000
65,,W 0 40,000 170,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,n, 0 160,000 6,000 14,000
Crown Lands 65,000 10,000
Miscellaneous ZB4l lo.no
.
8,376 6,340. 80,704 35,545 14,611 17,654 IEI,BOO 86,610 5,906 17,997
'
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....___
Total Ordinary Revenue 8,006034 10,899,544 12,126,127 12,000,730 43.e62,292 8,537,318 11,152,050 12,366,826 11,788,!36 43,344,330 836,509 54,466 65,938 30,3,2'-:.9
:120,758 28,424 125,060 609,260 31 853 591,625 41,42 d 41,992 416,996 92;114 13,068
Imprest and other Moneys • 35,018
127,660 194,524 193,716 8(4,462 125,786 20.,462 234,045 176,890 719,183 19177.21 Re-payments of Advances 88,56218,626
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, , 8129714 11,347,9(52 12,349,075 12,349,263 44,176,e14 8,694,957 11,656,137 12,61;4297 12,0 7,018 45,000,409 971,225 146,830 65,938 408
Total 1nc0me..,183
The Amount applied to the Consoli- Deduct
6,750,952 9,641,134 9,596,403 32,469,638 6,009,031 6,602,324 9,,V4,564 8,772,340 `.',0,778,759 Decrease. Deduct
dated Fund lncrease.
146,,30 65,938
Ditto, as Advances, and to pay off Ex-
co 78,150 126,000 50,900 257,350 421,877 172,400 231,761 98,692 923,r 30 cchequer Bills, issued as Advances 3,2
6,481,149
Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means
4,518,860 2,381,941 2,702,8(10 11,449,026 2,264,249 4,880,913 3,016,972 3,135,098 13,298,120 Increase on
of the Year 1,645,365 Decrease or.
----- *
------ the Year. the Quarter
8,129,714 , 11,347,962 12,349,075 13.349,263 414176,014 8,694,957 11,656,137 12,649,997 12,00 ',OlB 45,,,0,),409 824,395
Total •..... 342,245
11
No. 11.-Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1839, and the sth January, 1840.
Quarters ended Jan. 5.
M
t..------.------N
INCOE. 1839 1810 CHARGE. Quarters ended Jan,
3.,.
' 1839 ....-.
------
3,750,052 3,8415,719 Permanent Debt.
Customs.-Consolidated Duties Terminable Annuities 8,107,779 8,172,543
Sugar applicable to the
...... Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 735,907 737,727
Consolidated Fund _-_---- Sinking Fund 8,165 10,920
3,750,032 3,805,719 The Civil List -
Total Customs Other charges on the Consolidated Fund
3,649,496 3,418,707 Charge on account of Advances, the repayment of which are carried to Consolidated Fund
Excise -. 1,521,1 1,587,062 O,OOO
11,104,869
0,,e1' 2
Stamps l.sqtvsy 1,594,699 Total Charge
Taxes
Post Office
Crown Lands ~,..
36,047 18,900
Miscellaneous
125,000 41,99•1
'The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1839, 1426;213
lmprest and other Aioni6s
193,716 176,890
Parliament out of the Consoh_ ------
rodenudceed oLtnhast.FitiBnido,forintpahertQourarttheer einfinndesldgJraann.teds,
nlQ4y
Repayment of Advance -
11,267,213 11,031,869 aAndmpottuindtorissouutt‘dofinthteheg
The 4,818,347
dated Fund fbr Supply Services
To Cash brought to this Account
'The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, laur 3,135,988 -
to be applied to pay off Deficiency
50,000 1,503,094 1,632,892
8i115.... •••••• The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated F ,------
11,20,24 11,104,869 I' Jan. 5,1810 Fund, Quarter ended 1 '
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it ; and there is no hope of any permanent improve-
ment till Toryism is trampled down as a noisome
weed. Tory policy is the source of the discon-
tent amongst the working classes, for the Tories
are the authors of the coercive, restrictive system
which both injures and insults them, and the
greater part of the enormous annual expenditure ne-
cessary to preserve political obedience.

The trial of Mr. FROST promises now to be
shorter than was expected. The case for the pro-
secution was closed on Saturday evening, rather
unexpectedly, and the defence will begin this day.
Some of the witnesses appear to have been impro-
perly described, which prevented them being exi-
mined. We presume that others whose names
were not mentioned in Court were liable to the
same objection, which shortened the business.

It does not appear to us that a very formidable
case has been made out against Mr. FROST, un-
less his being in authority over armed men be
proved by his humane act in releasing Messrs.
BROUGH and MATTHEWS. We are not quite clear
that in the end a case will not be made out against
the opposite party. What were those secrets
which Mr. HAWKINS (from whom it was
extorted in cross-examination that he had
visited the Rev. Mr. COLE on the morLing
of the riot, one of the active Magistrates in
committing the prisoners) had with the Rev.
Gentleman ? What is meant by special constables
going out of the town to get information of what
was going forward in the hills ? If party virulence
was great on one side, is there no reason to
suppose that it was equally great on the
other ? and if democracy threatened to be
orampant,thosi d
ims
cirgehdti t
silt
maeuatnhso,rwityhichhaviet
huasseedrevyzee
employed, to secure its ends and aim ? We do not
like the appearance of things, and wish both par
ties a good deliverance.

We must add that the Spectator asks whether
it be expedient that the three Judges should
acknowledge their inability to perform the
duty especially required of them, the interpreta-
tion of an Act under which the trials take place ?
Other journalists, we notice, have been struck, as
well as ourselves, with the little security a treason
law which depends on so many technicalities can
afford to the country in these times of general
excitement and general discontent, and, like our-
selves, insist on the necessity of reforming the
treason law. There is one class of writers, the
disciples of Mr. BENTHAM, from whom we yet
expect many remarks in consequence of the strong
light in which the beauty of Judge-made law has
been set by this trial.

Our readers are already aware that on the 10th
instant the plan of the Universal Penny Postage,
as regards the interior of the United Kingdom,
will come into operation. The Government has
honourably kept faith with the Parliament and
the country, and we have no doubt but that the
country in its turn, notwithstanding the sneers and
ill-concealed vexation of the Tories, will keep faith
with the Government, by cheerfully co-operating
to prevent any defalcation in the revenue. The in-
dustrious and commercial classes, for whose benefit
more especially this measure was intended, will not
henceforth, we trust, be found guilty of evading
the law, and defrauding the revenue by the trans-
mission of letters otherwise than through the Post-
office. Under the old system the smuggling of
letters by carriers, by stage-coach and steam-boat
travellers, and by every other mode of conveyance
that human ingenuity could devise, was not only
allowable, but meritorious, as without a breach
of the law persons in humble circumstances
could not afford to communicate with the
distant members of their own families. An ob-
servance of the old Post-office regulations must
have dried up the fountains of natural affection in
oheartsnd w of t
h thehis child,poor. thTehweiffeatwhietrhehoeurldhnuosbtacnodr:
ttrhheseepbrother with his sister, without the friendly as-
sistance of the village waggoner, or stage-coach
driver. This was not thought a hardship by the
Tories, for they regarded it as no part of the
business of the humbler classes to read or write, or
affection. They regarded, and continue to regard,
eventh to
e poor feela
as
born
ties of kindred and fraternal
ne
to
toil for the Squire and the
Parson ; not to think, or to attempt giving expres-
sion to thought, Instead of seeking parental ad-
vice the absent son or daughter was recommended
to consult the Parson of the parish, or the
Squire's maiden sister, (of course, an antiquated
spinster of forbidding features, rancorously se-
vere morals, and evangelical principles,)in order
that he or she might owe everything to
the condescending benevolence of their supe-
riors. But a brighter day is beginning to dawn
upon the children of toil. Their claims to think
for themselves, and their right to communicate their
affectionate feelings one to another, are recognised
and established. There are none so poor but they
can afford a
Penny as often as they may wish to
write a letter ; and we trust there will be none su
base or so ungrateful to the Government as to
evade in any way the payment of a sum so trifling.
It must be carefully borne in mind that when
the postage is not pre-paid it twill be doubled upon
the receiver. This regulation, which has 'been
carped at as unreasonable by the Tory Journals,
will have the effect of Making
the pre-payment ge-
neral, and thus saving the: Post-office and the
.
letter carriers much time, trohble, and confusion.
Few persons will be so unreasonable as to put
their correspondents to' an unnecessary expense
merely to keep a penny id their own pocket,
especially as the doing io will wear the

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semblance of want either of respect or courtesy.
Besides it ought to be remembered that the penny
pre-paid, and thus directly remitted to the Trea-
sury, will produce a greater revenue to the Go-
vernment in the long run than the twopence col-
lected at the door by the letter-carrier and passing
into the coffers of the Post-office.
With the establishment of the Penny Postage
the privilege of franking, Parliamentary and
official, will be abolished. The abuse of official
franking has long been notorious to the
country. Six months have not elapsed since
an official frank was employed to carry, post-
age free, a lady's dress from London to a
remote part of Scotland. This fact we had from
the mouth of the gentleman who sent the dress ;
and we need not state to our readers, that it forms
but an everyday illustration of a system which we
are very glad to see will cease to exist in the course
of the current week. With regard to the abolition
of Parliamentary franking, we must confess
that we are not surprised to find the measure un-
popular among the Conservatives. We could
ourselves, if we thought proper, enumerate an hun-
dred Members of the House of Commons, whose
Legislative labours never consisted of more than
franking letters, and voting with their party on di-
visions. These personages will be henceforth but
mere ciphers. Deprived of the privilege of frank-
ing they will be stripped of all their consequence.
Half their occupation, and the only half too, that
procured them any share of notice in the lobby of
the House of Commons, at clubs, at public
dinners, and in tradesmen's shops, will
be gone. Franking formed the great bu-
siness of the aristocratic striplings who found
their way into the House of Commons, and was
regarded as a no small inducement by many of
them to seek seats in that House. But by the
hard-working and conscientious Members of Parlia-
ment, the abolition of the franking privilege will
be accepted as a boon from the Government. It
will rid them of much trouble and impertinent in-
trusion. Of course all who write to them after
the 10th will pre-pay their letters, as it would be
very unjust indeed to compel the very persons who
voted for a reduction of the postage to pay a pe-
nalty, in the shape of a double charge, for their
patriotism.

But while we demand for the Government the
gratitude of the country, and particularly of the
commercial and industrious classes, for the esta-
blishment of the Uni form Penny Postage, we would
not have them unmindful of the individual claims
of the authors of that: truly valuable measure. Had
it not been for the ui 'ceasing efforts of Mr. WAL-
LACE, Member for Greenock, and Mr. ROWLAND
HILL, the country might have been for twenty
years to come witTiout a penny postage. But
something more tha a bare acknowledgement of
this fact is necessar y to testify the national appre-
ciation of such invaluable services, and the time is
at hand when that s omething should be forthcoming.
A hint to the public is all that we conceive neces-
sary upon such a subject. The public-spirited will
not fail to act upo n it. At least, such is our con-
fident expectation..

We learn from a good source that amongst Mr*
FROST'S friends the strongest hopes are entertained
that a verdict of acquittal will pronounced. We
trust that such be the case, though we know
nothing of the e vidence for the defence ; so will the
scandal be av(iided of running even the risk of
condemning hi na by an ex post facto, Judge-made
law. At the same time it is publicly stated that
the Governmt nit means to institute other prosecu-
tions against the prisoners for riot and sedition.
Before it tat ces that very unusual step it will, we
hope, well c:o nsider all the circumstances of the
case, First,. it ought ,to refer to the state of parties
in that rem ote district, and be quite sure that
nothing, ei:t her of omission or of commis-
sion, procmded from the local authorities
which might; tend to disgust all good men with a
further pros ecution. It has always appeared extra-
ordinary to us that the Government was in the
most compl ,ete and total ignorance of any contem-
plated mov,ement till it actually burst forth. Our
astonishine nt has changed to a feeling of a different
character, S ince we have read the evidence, and
seen the F tccount of the communication between
Mr. HA' WKINS and the Rev. Mr. COLES.
Secrets ii ndeed What were they ? Before
the Gov e rnment institutes a further presecution,
we pray it to look well into the conduct
of the le ,cal authorities, and the state of parties in
and about Newport, and we pray it not to allow it-
self to be made a cat's-paw of to gratify local or
sectarian arilice.

Next we, would have the Government consider
well the sta to of feeling iamongst the unrepresented
masses. V That might be• the effect on them of in-
stituting ne• v prosecutions) after the first have failed,
we pretend not to conjecture, but we are assured by
those who know them in Wales that it would be most
irritating. The people have need of anodynes, they
want to be soothed and composed, not stimulated
and goadc'd. by Tory medicines into fury and mad-
ness. Su ch a course, perhaps, to encounter a second
failure--(for the complicat ion of the law makes it
a most uncertain instillment to work with)—would
be most delightful to the Tories, but we take leave
to say that it would be most disastrous to the Whigs
and the country.. For Heaven's sake, let us not,
in the present h alf-maddened state of the popula-
tion, have anything which they can construe into
persecution. To the Whigs, for a long forbearance,
unfortunately departed from in the end, and for
a temperate ap plic•ation of the law, the country is,
we take leave I ►ositively to assert, most deeply in-

!,-,l)ter.l. HaLI tlit: 'Furies been la olike their Cuci-
cion would have bound the bulk of the Irish and
the followers of the Convention into one heartily
co-operating mass, and the Government would
most assuredly have been bearded, if not overthrown.

The draft of an Address to her MAJESTY from
her faithful Irish subjects will be found in another
part of the paper. It is eloquent, loyal, and, what
galls the enemies of Ireland more, it is strictly true
It exhibits that hitherto distracted country, for the
first time during many centuries, in a state of great
tranquillity, a condition to which it has been
brought by the mild and just government of
Lord NORMANBY, whom the Tory Lords at- ,
tempted to crush, and in which it has
been confirmed by his successor, whom
the Orangemen first flattered and then reviled.
Peace to them is gall and wormwood : their jour-
nals are therefore moving heaven and earth to ex-
cite a civil war—first, by libelling and insulting the
Catholics ; and next, by cheering on the Orange-
men to fight for themselves. The allusion to this
diabolical attempt is full of good sense, and breathes
a spirit of meekness which forms a glorious con-
trast to the incendiary spirit which animates the
men that would trample every Catholic to death.
" We respectfully submit (the words with which
it concludes) that there is neither wisdom, nor hu-
manity, nor Christian charity, in a party that seeks
to irritate and provoke, as well as to oppress, mil-
lions of their fellow-subjects."

We have received letters from Constantinople and
Alexandria, the former of the 17th and the latter
of the 18th ult. We hive likewise received the
Journal de Smyrne of the 19th, and the Harle-
quin, a Maltese Journal, of the 23d, bringing late,
but unimportant intelligence from the East. Of
political news of interest there is hardly a syllable
in these letters and papers. The Eastern question
was to all external appearances as far removed from
a final adjustment as it appeared to be on the morn•
ing of the battle of Nezib. Baron STURDIER, the
Austrian Ambassador's negociations had failed ;
while M. PONTOIS, " the perfect diplomatist,"
scarcely took pains to conceal from the Porte that
he rather appeared as the partizan of the VICEROY
than the Representative of France.

The Porte, in pursuance of the plan of reform
pointed out by the Hatti Scheriff, has established a
Council of Justice, without the consent of a majority
of the members of which no law can henceforth be
promulgated. All projects of law are to be regu-
larly debated in the Council, and the speeches
thereupon, and the objections of the minority, re-
gularly entered in the books kept for the purpose.
This is a mighty stride on the part of the Porte
towards a representative system of government.
No fewer than twenty-seven merchant vessels
were either wrecked or disabled in the late gales
in the Black Sea. None of them were English.
The French steamer Veloce, having the French
Ambassador to the Court of Teheran on board,
was driven into Sinape, where she underwent re-
pairs. The Metternich, the Crescent, and the
Russian Government-steamer Nicholas, narrowly
escaped foundering.

Colonel HODGES, the British Consul-General
at Alexandria, had arrived in that city, and pre-
sented his credentials to the VICEROY. His
Highness is in excellent health and spirits, to
which the disunion among the Representatives
of the Great Powers at the Porte is sup-
posed greatly to contribute. The number
of English travellers in Egypt is very great,
and the VICEROY is represented as exceedingly
anxious to provide for their accommodation
and insure their safety in travelling through
his dominions. The English and French fleets
were at Vourla ; but Admiral STOPPORD was
ordered to return to Beshika Bay when the weather
would permit. The complaints of English tra-
vellers of the want of courtesy on board Freneh
steamers in the Mediterranean are so loud and so
frequent that we are surprised that no British Com-
mercial Company has yet thought of starting a line
of opposition packets.

The dissolution of the present Lisbon Cabinet
is stated in the letters from that capital, dated the
30th ult., brought by the Juno steamer, which ar-
riveal at Falmouth on Saturday from the Tagus, to
be one of the great objects now aimed at by the
Anti-Anglican faction. The noisy slave-traffiick-
ing demagogues, who are for selling their shirts to
raise funds for the destruction of the British
Navy, are mad for the restoration of the Baron
SABROSA to power, especially as his Excellency
gave them hopes of a speedy and cheap settlement
of the question of the Foreign Debt by making it
appear that Great Britain, instead of being a:creditor,
was largely indebted- to PortUgal. On the 2d inst.
the QUEEN was to open the Cortes in person,. and
on the evening of the 30th all the Senators and
Deputies in Lisbon were invited to th 2 Hotel of the
Foreign Minister Count VILLAREAL to hear the
Royal Speech read. From an outline furnished
to us, but for which we have not room in our co-
lumns of this day, it appears to be a very satis-
factory document. One paragraph is devoted to
to the reprobation of the slave-trade, another to the
hope of a specific settlement of the differences with
England, and a third to the recommendation of a
measure for the liquidation of the Foreign Debt.
The only miscellaneous news received is comprised
in the following extract from a letter addressed
to a Morning Contemporary :

" Two notorious Guerilla chiefs have been killed
during the past week—Francisco Larginho, near Beja,
who, on endeavouring to escape from his escort, was
shot, and Maurel Jose Espada in a rencontre in thw
Serra de Milhae ; on his person was found the sum of
53,450 reis, a spy-glass, and other valuables.
" Public security in the northern provinces every
day,becomes more precarious ; large bodies of highway-
men go about with impunity attacking whole villages.
The other day an officer of the tobacco contract was
stopped between Valhelas and Sarzodo, by a strong
banditti, and eased of 1,400 milreis, about 3501. ster-
ling, also three horses and his baggage, with which
they succeeded in getting off safely, notwithstanding the
officer was strongly guarded and well armed.

Sailed on the 27th, the French war corvette L'Aigle
for Brest ; on the 28th, the British brig of war Trin-
culo, for Cadiz.

" Foreign Ships of War in the Tagus—Donegal and
Revenge, British ; Le Blonde, French.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 30th ult., re-
ceived last night, contains the following extract
from a letter from the Turkish capital, dated the
1 1 th, on the subject of the betrayal of the Ottoman
fleet. We have already sufficiently expressed our
conviction as to the share which the French Ad-
miral had in that infamous transaction. The real
facts of the case will soon be established; for we
feel assured that the Opposition in the Chamber
of Deputies will not rest satisfied with the Mi-
nister of Marine's clumsy paragraph in the columns
of the Moniteur ; and even were they to do so, it
is not possible that the Cabinet of London would
suffer the question to rest where it is, now that the
door to the fullest inquiry is opened
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. return to the important
information given by Mr. Forth, and more especially by
Mr. Avedic, interpreter on board the Turkish Admiral's
ship, at the time of the defection of the Capitan Pacha, in-
formation, which seems essentially to implicate the French
policy. Admiral Lalande seems to have made die greatest
impression on the mind of the Capitan Pacha, by the as-
surance that Chosrew and Halil Pacha, the supposed
betrayers of their country, and at the same time Achmed's
enemies, had formed a plan in concert with the English to
deliver the Turkish fleet to the Russians. This, It is said,
threw the Turkish Admiral into a dreadful state of pc r-
plexity and alarm, and, by frightening him with the

The Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Carrington, has been
oebgiluistast
will
remainombe Abbey,
Wyc
aetntwehrticaiiinimngaganpifiacret)n- oft
stela' et
tNh
until,
the meeting of Parliament.—AyiestbzTy New&
The Marquis of Douro, with his lady, visited on his way home from Scotland.
It is Ili 5
Lordship's intention to meet his
conituents
to the sitting of Yarliaraent.— st
VorfoTh Chroni pre vicras
cle.
The Earl of Stradbroke has given the munifi-
cent donation of 2001. towards the National Education
Fund of the Deanery of Dunwieh, and has consented
to become President of the Committee at that place,
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