The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-06 00:00:00

No. 17,325.] LONDON, THURSDAY .
.vEzNI

THE Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng-
land do hereby give notice,
That on and aft( r the Ist of May nest, the business of the Bank
of England will CLOSE at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, instead of
at Five, as at present

JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary.

April 5, 1848

VITRSUANT to a DECRETAL ORDER of
the lIIGII COURT of cHANCERY in England, made In
certain causes of " Baltic v. Jackson," " Baillie V. 11111," " Bantle
v. Jackson," "Bantle v. Fobes," " Baillie v. Doraville," and " Bairn°
v.. Jackson," bearing date the 6th day of March, 1848, all that Plan-
tation called Rutland Vale, situate in the parish ofst. Pancras, in the
Island of St. Vincent, in the West Indies, with the works and build-
ings thereupon, together with the appurtenances thereunto.helong-
ing, including the plantation or estate formerly called or known as
Oliver's Estate, and also including certrtin mountain and other lands,
held and enjoyed with the said plantations and estates, but all which
premises are now and for many years past have been known as the
Rutland Vale Estate, will be put up for SALE, by PUBLIC AUC-
TION, with the approbation of Sir WILLIAM Heaf,E, one of the Mas-
ters of the said Court, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn, in
the county of Mid Ilesex, on WEDNESDAY, the sth day of July, 1848.
Further particulars as to the times for payment of the purchase-
money and otherwise will be shortly printed, and may be had (gratis)
at ti,e said Master's Chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery -
lane, London ; of Messrs. Ihde, Boys, and Austen, of 6, Ely-place,
London ; Thomas Smith, Esq., 15, Furnives-inn, London , Messrs.
Le Blanc and Cook, 18, New Bridge-street, London ; J. T. Sanders,
Esq , 31, Ely-place, London ; and at the said place of sale.

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TIIE QUARTER'S REVENUE.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The quarterly return of the revenue pre•
tents little matter for remark, but is on the whole of a
cheerful character. The public is already prepared for
rho unfavourable result of the comparison between the
last and the previous year; the fact of a decrease on the
ordinary revenue to the amount of near two millions
having figured prominently in the debates of the session.
Resigning the year just ended, therefore, to those who
will probably take this opportunity of thrice killing thy•
slain, we will proceed at once to the comparison of the
quarter just ended with the corresponding quarter last
)evr. There has been a slight decrease, to the amount
of 55,0231. in Customs. The state of the Continent,
and the consequent stagnation of trade at home,
are quite sufficient to have accounted for a much
more considerable fulling off. In the Excise
there has been an increase to the amount of
349,7361., partly owing to the prejudicial effect of the
high prices of corn on the consumption of fermented
and spirituous liquors in the first three months of last
year; and partly, also, it appears to an alteration in the
form of the accounts, a portion of the Stamps being
collected by the officers of the Excise. Hence a de-
crease or 198,6141. under the proper head of the Stamps.
Where has been a slight increase on the assessed taxes
of the quarter. The other differences are but trifling.
Upon the ordinary revenues there is thus an increase on
the quarter of about 70,000/. An instalment of China
money, detained last year at the Cape for the expenses
of the Kafir war, has been lately released by a Parlia-
mentary grant for that specific purpose, and enters the
account, imparting an illusory appearance of prosperity
to the quarter. We have, however, only to congratulate
ourselves that things are not worse than they might
have been. It is something that the present year begins
rather better than the last. _ _

CHIZONICLE.—The returns for the quarter ended
April 5, 1848, and fur the financial year -ended on the
same day, were made up last night at the Treasury, and
are published in another portion of our paper, so far as
Great Britain is concerned :—those for Ireland will be
received in a few days, and in the course of next week
the annual balance sheet will be presented to Parlia-
ment, and printed for general use. It is consolatory to
know, in the meanwhile, that the statement is much
more favourable than even the anticipations of Sir C.
Wood, or than might have been expected under all the cir-
cumstances of the case; and we are entitled to draw from
it some very favourable inferences with respect to the im-
mediate future. The comparison with the quarter ending 5
April, 1847, is most trying for the quarter just now closed:
the full effect of the artificial and temporary prosperity
occasioned by the undue extension of railway works, was
reit in 1847, and the consequences of the Irish famine
and of the Irish expenditure had not yet begun to tell.
The comparison, therefore, which 1848 bears with 1847
is matter for surprise, as well as for congratulation,
though, in order to a full understanding of the case, it is
necessary also to review the corresponding quarter of
the year 1846, which our readers will remember, was a
very favourable year of revenue; the surplus shown by
Mr. Goulburn on the sth April, 1846, amounting (exclu-
sive of China money) to more than one million arid a
half. In the first two months of the present year, i. e.,
the two months ending sth March, the following articles
have been charged with duty for home consumption, as
compared with the two preceding years, viz.:—

Butter ...

1848.
27,954

1847.
34.801

Cheese...
Cocoa ...

54,515
660,651

1846.
20.762 cwts.

69,204 24,221 ...
745,823 536,338 lbs.

Coffee ... 6,675.789 7,393,131 6,066,564 ...
Currants. 53,217 39,124 31,537 cwts.
Raisins... 25,677 23,108 16,017 ...

Pepper 609,986 651,158 532,637 lbs.
Rum 532,621 406 892 424,217 gallons.
Brandy
Sugar
Tea

Wine ... 1,007,962 1,052,518 1,038,474 gallons.
in nearly every instance an increase upon 1846, and in
some even in 1847. These are the articles which prin-
cipally enter into the consumption of the people, and
may be therefore considered indicative of their power of
contributing to the indirect taxation of the country. It
is impossible that any brisk revival of trade should be
experienced until the storm which has so recently broken
upon our continental neighbours shall have been suffi-
ciently diipersed to give ground for commercial opera-
tions. But it is consolatory to perceive, that even in the
midst of the greatest gloom and depression there is an
irrepressible tendency towards increase of consumption
and illeroStgf, of revenue_

ADVERTI SER.—A tabular view of the Revenue re-

turns for the year and quarter ending yesterday, the
sth of April, will be found in another part of our paper.
We congratulate the country on the results which they
exhibit. They will occasion an agreeable surprise.
They are much more favourable than any one antici-
pated, and much more so than there seemed any ground
to expect. It was generally feared, that owing to the
deep and almost universal depression in trade which has
prevailed during the entire quer er, there would have
been a consi,terable deficit as compared with the corre-
sponding quarter ot last year. Instead of this we have
the gratitying duty of announcing that there is an in-
crease to the extent of no less than 402,5751., the total
amount for the quarter ending the sth April, 1847, de-
rived from ordinary sources, having only been
10,648,804 L, while for the quarter ending yesterday it is
11,051,3791. And to add to the gratification which this
fact is calculated to afford, the increase mainly arises
from the receipts under the head of Excise, which, as
our readers are aware, is regarded as the surest cri-
terion of the comforts, or otherwise, enjoyed by the
great mass of the community. The augmentation in the
Excise department is not less than 349,736/. The Cus-
toms also make a better appearance than we expected;
for though there is a decrease, it is only to the extent of
55,0231. The only other head of importance in which
there is a defalcation is the Stamps, in which the falling
off in the quarter is 198,614/. This is satisfactorily ac-
counted for by the reduced amount of transfers of railway
and other joint-stock company shares. The Property-
tax does not diminish in prouductiveness. There is, on
the contrary, an increase of 8,5681. on the quarter's re-
turn, as compared with that ot the corresponding period
1847. Under the head of Taxes, we find an increase
of 13 0001. The Post-office receipts are all but sta-
tionary: they are 2,0001. more than they were last year.
On the year there is, necessarily a large decrease, owing
to the unfavourable returns of the three previous
quarters. The year's revenue is 48,800,1411.; last year it
was 51,018,8041. The defalcation therefore on the twelve
months, as compared with the corresponding twelve
months, ending April 5, 1847, is 2,218,511/. But from
the auspicious commencement which we have made in
1848, we trust that at its close we shall have to tell a

very different tale. If we may not hope, with all the
political commotions which are taking place on the con•
tinent, to see a large augmentation in the returns of
1848, as compared with those of 1847, we still do hope
that there will be an increase—one, too, sufficiently de•
tided to justify the belief that the country has fairly
entered on a career of monetary and commercial pros-
perity, which will not receive acy material check for a
series off-years to come.
lIERALD.—The Government journals have very in-
judiciously spread hopeful reports of the state of the
revenue for the quarter just ended, promising us an in-
(Tease of 400,000/: The fact turns out to be so. But
they had not learnt, or had forgotton to add, that there

had been a special sum received from China in the
course of the last quarter, amounting to 465,0211., while
in the corresponding quarter'of 1847 there was no simi-
lar sum, nor any sum whatever. Therefore, in point of
tact, if we set this special receipt of 455,0211. against the
apparant increase, which is only 402,5751., we discover
that the actual result of the quarter is, a decline of about
53,000/. This is so small as to be of no importance. We
detect, however, in the increase shown under the
heads of " Taxes," and "Property-tax," the fruits
of an unusual activity, of which we had heard re-
ports for some time past, on the part of the
collectors. Under some new orders from the Trea-
sury, these officers have been, for some weeks, making
more than ordinary exertions; and we now see some of '
he results. When we
.fied an increase in the receipts
from the Property-tax, we know that there must be
something more than meets the eye. Taken fairly, and
collected in the usual manner, it would be quite impos-
sible that this tax should show an increase, after all the
Comm. rcial calamities of the last six months. The only
other circumstance requiring notice, is the apparently
large increase under the head of the Excise. This, we
are informed, is in a great measure owing to the transfer
of some duties heretofore collected by the Stamp-office;
and accordingly we perceive a considerable diminution
in the receipts of the latter department. Still, however,
the Excise itself may be supposed to show some small
Increase—a fact which is very gratifying, as moderat-
ing, in seine degree, oar fears as to the sufferings enduring
by the working classes. The account for the year
shows more fully than that for the quarter the operation
of the blunderings of the last two years. The "Ordinary
Revenue" shows a reduction or falling off in every item,
except, indeed, the Post-office and the " Taxes," which
latter increase is accounted for by the special exertions
above alluded to. The decrease on the various items of
-' Ordinary Revenue" is 1,831,1491.; the increase in
hose two departments, 136,4131. So that the real
,rdinary revenue has suffered to the extent of almost
1,700,000/. per annum. On the whole, we cannot say
• hat this account justifies feelings either of alarm or of
oxultation. It seems to show, indeed, that the springs
the national prosperity lie too deep to be easily
affected by a new tariff or an Act of Parliament. But
it appears, also, that those who cannot very speedily
uin, may yet do much to damage cur finances; and
,nay lodge us at last, as our present managers appear to
have done, in that most unsafe and discreditable predica•
dent, a revenue unequal to meet the fixed and inevitable
lemands upon it!

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Cape of Good
hope. .

DINNER. TO LORD HARDINGE.
Yesterday evening the directors of the East Indic
Company gave a dinner to the Right Hon. Viscount
Hardinge on his return home from the Government ot
India. The large room of the London Tavern was filled
on the occasion by gentlemen of every rank and of all
distinctions in politics, to testify their admiration of the
civil and military qualities of the Noble Lord. The
room was decorated with a gorgeous display of gold and
silver plate, among which a centre•piece of solid silver,
of a most spirited design, representing prince Maurice
of Orange leading on his forces at the battle of Nieu-
port, was especially admired. The whole appearance of
he room, as well as the recherche nature of the viands,
did ample credit to the well known reputation of Messrs.
Bathe and Breache, the spirited proprietors of the
tavern.
On the right of the Chairman (Henry St. George
Tucker, Esq.) sat Viscount Hardinge, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne' the Duke of
Wellington, Marquis of Anglesey, Earl of Lincoln, Earl
Spencer, Mr. Wigrarn, Earl Delawarr, Earl of Clare,
Earl Grey, Earl of Ripon, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
Stanley, Mr Mastorman, Lord Ashley, Viscount Jocelyn,
Viscount Goderich, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Denman,
Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham,
Right lion. 11.
Goulburn, Right Hon. S. R. Lushington, Sir John Cain
Etobhouse, Sir Frederick Adam, Right lion. W. E.
Gladstone, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, the Lord Chief
Baron, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Arthur, Sir J.
W. Hogg, Sir A. C. Grant, Sir George Pollock, Sir R.
Jenkins, Sir John Macdonald, and Sir G. Grey.
The bottom of the table was occupied by
the Chief
Secretary to the East India Company, Mr. Melvin.On the Chairman's left were the Chevalier Bunsen,
the Deputy-Chairman, the Marquis of Abercorn, Mar-
quis of Londonderry, Marquis ot Clanricarde, Marquis
of Douro, Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Loch, Earl of St.
Germans, Earl Granville, Lord George Bentinck, Mr.
Mills, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Morpeth, Vis
count Mahon, Lord Heytesbury, Lerd Glenelg, Lord
Campbell, Hon. C. S. Hardinge, Hon. Colonel Phipps,
Hon. Major West, Hon. G. R. Trevor, the Vice-Chan-
cellor of England, Right lion. Stephen Lushington,
Hight Hon. R. L Sbeil, Lord Chief Justice Wilde, Right
lion. E. Strutt, Right Hon. C. Buller, Right Hon. W.
G. Hay ter, Hon. A. E. Hardinge, Sir Walter James,
Sir R. EL Inglis, Sir John Croft, Sir J. H. Pelly, Sir E.
Macnaghten, sir I). Dundas, Sir H. Willock, &a.
The following officers, who were present at the battles
on the Sutlej, received invitations to the banquet, viz.:—
Colonel Gowan, C. 8., Colonel Balders, C. 8., Colonel
Smyth, C. 8., Colonel Spence, C. 8., Colonel Petit. C. 8.,
Lieut -Colonel Geddes, Lieut.-Colonel Carnegie, Colonel
Irvine, C.B, Lieut.-Colonel J. A. Thompson, C. 8.,
Lieut.-Colonel Wood, C. 8., Lieut.-Colonel Osborn,
Lieut. Colonel Bradford, Lieut.-Colonel H. I. Phillips,
C.B , Lieut.-Colonel G. L. Davis, C. 8., Lieut 'Colonel
R. Innes, Major Bulkeley, and Major Waugh.
The gallery was graced by the presence of a party of
ladies, among whom we noticed Viscountess Hardinge
and the Hon. Miss Hardinge, the Marchioness of Douro
the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers,
the Countess Delawarr, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Peel,
Lady Vernon, Lady Weir Hogg, Lady James, Lady
Charles Hardinge, Lady Willock, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs.
Wigram, &c.
The cloth having been removed,
The CHAIRMAN proposed, in succession, the health of
"The Queen," "The Queea Dowager," "Prince Albert,
and the other members of the Royal Family."
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said they had met on
that auspicious occasion to welcome back to his
native country the Noble Lord on his right hand.—
(Loud cheers.) The Court of Directors had been
anxious on this occasion to assemble around him the
elite of the land, without reference to party poli-
tics.—(Cheers.) The Court of Directors were always
ready to appreciate talent and public virtue wherever it
was found, and therefore they were prepared cordially
to greet the Noble Lord who now appeared among them.
The early career of Lord Hardinge was well known to
them all. He had served under an illustrious commander
in an admirable school for extending the glories and the
triumphs of his country. But it was to his subsequent
not less glorious career that he wished especially to call
their attention. And here let him state that the war in
which they had lately been engaged in India was not a
war of aggression. It had sometimes been said that this
country was animated by the spirit of conquest and do-
mination, but no one could doubt that this was a war
purely of self defence. We had a ferocious enemy,
anxious to plunder and destroy, and vainly imagining
that they might imitate the example of the Persians,
their predecessors, in ravaging the plains of Hindostan,
and sacking the imperial city of Delhi; but he was
happy to say they were met by the indomitable courage
of British soldiers, with an army led on by able and gal-
lant officers, and where the men, both Sepoys and Euro-
peans, emulated each other in the paths of glory. The
• audacious attempts of the enemy were repulsed, they were
;defeated—were struck down—were driven in terror and
:confusion across the blood-stained Sutlej, to take refuge
in their own country. But it is not my part to dilate
upon questions of war and victory. 1 woura ratner, as
a civilian, be disposed to 'congratulate this illustrious
company upon the establishment of peace., Our army,
proceeding with order and regularity through an enemy's
country, finally arrived at Lahore, where they met with
no resistance, in that territory, where prince after prince
and chief after chief had previously fallen under the
dagger of the assassin. The Noble Lord, in an incre-
dibly short space of time, succeeded in maintaining the
most profound peace, and in establishing, under our
auspices, an efficient native administration, while the
army, from a condition of mutiny and disorder, was
brought under discipline and military rule.—(Great
cheering.) All this had taken place
within a few
months. Was it by
magic ? Did the Noble Lord
wield the wand of Prospero ? No, it was not the
effect of enchantment, it was the effect of a govern-
ment, wise, conciliatory, and just, that had esta-
blished peace, order, and tranquillity, and content-
ment throughout the population. What could he say
more ? The services of the Noble Lord had met with
the high approbation of her Majesty the Queen. He had
received the thanks of bath Houses of Parliament ; his
set vices had been acknowledged by the two bodies
which constituted the East India Company, and he had
no doubt that the plaudits with -which he had been that
night received only echoed the sentiments of a grateful
country.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord HARDINGE was received with prolonged ap-
plause. When it subsided he said he begged to acknow-
ledged the honour which the Court of Directors had
worthy of men if he did not a eciate the flattering
ppr
done him, and he should certainly be the most un-
terms in which they had acknowledged his services. At
the same time he must state that, if he had been
enabled in any measure to fulfil his duty, it
was because he felt he had the confidence of
the Court of Directors, and that confidence
gave him ' weight and authority iu all his acts for the
government of that portion of the empire. He left
the country with the free ct incurrence of Sir
Robert Peel, with whom he had acted for more than
satisfaction of actin
a quarter of a century, and with whom he felt it the
pride and honour of his life to have associated in habits
4 intimacy and confidence.—(Cheers.) He had the
Presi-
dent of the Board
his old friend the Earl of Ripon, who was then Presi-
go under ncd eo rn
Control
, immediate
sotha
di,lntdhill'e
two
years
since
cir-
cumstances he must say that no Governor-General had
ever departed for India under more favourable auspices,
and since his return his services had been amply acknow-
tunidnsetrruthcetisoensof
ledged by his most gracious Sovereign, by the Court of
Directors, and by the succeeding Governments to that
the same confidence reposed in him by
under which he had the honour to act, for he had had
Friend Sir John Hobhouse, the present President of the
Board of Control, and he had obtained the same appro-
his Right lion.
1 bation from the present head of the Government, Lord
John Russell, of which he was justly proud, entertaining,
as he did, the highest respect for that Noble Lord .
(Cheers.) ' Above all, it was his good fortune to obtain
the approbation of that distinguished man under whom
he had spent the early part of his life. And he
would say that at all times, both in civil and military
affairs, his approbation was most cheering to him. Thus
encouraged and supported, he could not fail to devote
out to India without any pro- 1
his best energies to the support of the country. In this
W' en war was threatened against
c he assured the Court of Direc-
torsg'nature. He had fulfilled that
place, four years bet ore
pens
it
thya t 0 life a wwasarlgikoein
withwhom
our arms had never
p thel pledge.—(Cheers.)
onlyge. 7-
nation( C h ee risn.
been tried—with the army trained under Runjeet Singh
—it • hout delay by the Noble Lord, his Gal-
lant was met without delay
and the energy,• ' intrepidity,
Friend, Lord Gough,
his
and gallant spirit which marked
the character, animating
the soldiers, he rolled hack
h tide of invasion, and
rt.,haehowraer hadhad
was flying from the ratuffatts of Lahore.—
ay.thethaerinmY oostecuepxycinelglent spirit of
within sixty days of the firat s ot being fired, the Bri-
tish flag
(bb Cee
eehnne e r
as
t. ) a
nD
animateda
er
ni
discipline, He might also add that the army
and brave after victorthey
was
.as generous
were valiant and brave 1 achieving it ; and to
the ability of Sir John Littler and the discipline of
t
the troops under his command. he 3' owed it, that they
were under no tear of occup)ing and successfully
con-
trolling a great eity"--(Loud cheers.) Since his return,
it was true, he had heard it said that there were Indi-
viduals who still entertained fears of the tranquillity of
the Punjaub being disturbed, and they asked what bad
become of the en inusiastic army who had engaged the
British troops. 1--lis answer to that was, that he was
' tension of tranquillity b • (I..turhed.
under no apprel being disturbed.
Of the 100,000 kikh soldiers arid the 350 pieces of can-
non that were e laaployed against our forces, 30,000 of
these forces wee fa' now employed by our Government,
and superintended' by our officers ; and of the 350 pieces
of cannon, 950 'hal been conveyed to Calcutta—(Cheers)
where, through tE ,e kindness of the Government, they
were destined to ' form a triumphal monument to the
captured them._ body who had c h (Loud cheers.) The
people of the coy. ntry were satisfied and contented,
because they -had been relieved from many
harassing and vexatious imposts. The chiefs
of the country had received their estates from
our Government', and were to continue to hold them
only pending th eir good behaviour. These were his
reasons for third, ;jug that the tranquillity of the country
would net be dis to rbed. But, if he doubted whether or
not tranquillity wo t
tad last, still he was confident that
disturbance w, ould ,not.come from the Seikhs. This was