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N 0.16,707. LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING

EAST INDIA LIOiNE, 2„sth march, 106.
TIIE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA.
STOCK.

LADIDS AND GENTLENEN7---
The ELECTION, of, SIX DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA
COMPANY being appointed for.WEDNESDAT, the Bth April next. the
favour of your Vote and Interest is requested for the following
Gentlethen,
JOHN COTTON, Esq.
• JOHN LOCH, Esq.
CHARLES MILLS, Esq.
WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELEY PLO,WDEN, Esq.

HENRY SHANK, Esq.
HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Esq..
Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen. your most ob,dient
Servants,
W. L. Melville
J. Petty Muspratt
J. Oliphant
Archibald Robertson
John Shepherd
M. T. Smith
W. H. Sykes
F. Warden
John C. Whiteman
W. Wigram
Henry Willock
Wm. Young
Aig by proxy may obtain }otter of,
'rummy, in this House. '-

Henry Alexander
W. Astell
W. B. Bayley
Robert Campbell
Russell Ellice
A. Gallaway
J. W. Hogg
R. Jenkins
J. L. Lushington
George Lyall
E. 3laenaghten
John Masterman

Proprietors desirous of voti,
attorney for that purpose at the Ti

EAST INDIA HOUSE MARCII 25, 1546.
TO THE
PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA
STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
Having the honour of being recommended to you by the Directors
of the East India Company, as Candiddtes for the Direction, to be
chosen "this year, we take the libertY of requesting the favour of
your vote on tl'e day of election, WEDNESDAY, the Bth of April next.
We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, your most obedient and most
humble servants,

JOHN COTTON.
JOHN LOCK.
C. MILLS.
W. H. C. PLOWDEN.
SHANK.
• H. St. G. 'PUCKER.
*,,,* Proprietors desirous of Toting byproxy may obtain a letter 01
attorney tor that purpose at the Treasury, In this House.

EAST INDIA. HOUSE, JAN. 28, 1846.
THE COURT of DIREOTORS 't3f the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the TRANSFER-BOOKS of the said. COMPANY'S STOCK
will be SHUT on TUESDAY, the 3d March next, at Three o'clock,
and OPENED AGAIN en TuultsDAY, the 9th April following.
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be held at
their 'HOUSE in Leaddnhall-street,.on WEDNESDAY, the Ws April,
1846,- from Nine o'clock In the Morning until Six o'clock in the
Evening, for the ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the said
Company for four years.
That the form of a Letter of Attorney, and of a Declaration for
enabling Proprietors of East India stock to Vote by Proxy on this
occasion, may be obtained on application at the Treasury in this
House.

That the LISTS of the MEMBERS of the said COMPANY
will be ready to be delivered on MONDAY, the 234 March next.
. JAMES C. MELVILL Secretary.

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCKS.
NTTICE is hereby given that all BAGGAGE,
PRESENTS, &c., lying at the BAGGAGE WAREHOUSES,
East or West lulla Docks, landed previous to the Ist January, 1843,
WILL BE SOLI) for payment of Charges, unless the same shall he
paid on or before the 30tH day of April next.
Lists of the said Goods taay be inspected at the Baggage Warehouses,
Eastern or Western Docks.
By order of the Court of Directors,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
Dock Houge, No. 8, Billiter-square, March 12, 1846.

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represent generally the prosperity of the country. The
Customs accordingly show 'a decrease in the quarter of near
half-a-million : and in the whole year of near two millions
and a half. The Excise shows a similar deficiency of about
300,0001. on the year, and about 340,0001. on the quarter.
Against this may he set an increase of near 400,0001. in the
Stamps, and about 90,0001. in the Post-office, both which items
may be placed to the account of the railway mania. On the
total ordinary revenue there is a decrease for the quarter of a
million, for the year of two millions and a half; on the total
income, 1,100,0001. for the quarter, and 2,327,0001. for the
year. Of the last-mentioned sum about 300,0001. is merely
incidental, which, being deducted, leaven an actual decrease
of a little more than two millions. These figures, however,
exhibit merely the positive amount of receipts in the quarter
and year ending the sth of April, 1845, as compared with the ,
like period in 1846, The former year was one of unexampled
prosperity, great commercial activity, and unprecedented spe-
zulation. The present year, although it shows less of these signs
of advancement, is nevertheless remarkable for that which is,
after all,
.the true index of national prosperity—an excess
of income over expenditure. This excess for the present
year is about two millions and a half. It would be super-
fluous to particularise the many important reductions that
were made in the Customs' duties in the years 1844 and 1845.
Those of 1844 were but imperfectly developed in 1845, and
both have produced more or less effect upon the results of
1846. The bold experiment of Sir Robert Peel has hardly
yet received a proper trial. Great changes, of course, require
a lengthened period to develope themselves, and it cannot Le
denied that the lapsed interval has been both naturally arid
politically unfavourable to financial prosperity. It would be
equally superfluous to mention in detail the petitions lately
presented to the House of Commons from the great cont.
mercial cities of England and Scotland for a proof of the in-
jurious effect which the uncertain state of the Customs'
department has exercised upon time relations of trade.
during the last few months. These. which are by far
the most active months of the year in all departments
of commerce, have been rendered flat and dull by the pro-
tracted decision of the House of Commons on the great
question which now agitates the empire. There is ample
evidence in the shape of tra.t.mg circulare and petitions and
l?"4ll2NtarY-PPlPert's greatest ,jmmr, has. been in
icted upon the ordinary tran3actioiiilof t iTfruinerce by the
stadium immune ioguendi that La, seized upon the chartered
legislators of the lower House. These gentlemen may con-
gratulate themselves upon having Rat a drag upon the
wheels of trade, and stayed the progress of the state machine. '
If they can find any satisfaction in this reflection, no one, we
think, will be found to interfere with their perfect enjoy-
ment of it. But, with a view to check their pride, we must
remind them that their powor is limited to a temporary
check. The progress of improvement rill go on in spite of
them, and the next quarter will probably evince, by a
sudden reaction, that the protectionist via inertce is but a mo-
mentarygravitation, and that the onward impulse of national
prosperity ii happily far superior to their powers of ob-
sti notion.

(From the Morning Herald.)
The accounts of the Revenue, for the year and quarter
ending yesterday, have been made up. The exposition is a
discouraging one, and it proves that Sir Robert Peel's newly-
adopted Whig-Radical and free-trade policy must be followed
by the same results that attended the adhesion to the same
policy by his Whig-Radical and free-trade predecessors.
The total decrease of revenue upon the year is no less than
two millions three hundred and twenty-seven thousand
pounds sterling. In the Customs the decrease is more than
two millions and a half ; in the Excise 338,8221. These two
items would by themselves account for more than the aggre-
gate decrease but that they are in part balanced by a casual
payment of about three quarters of a million of ransom money
from China. It has been stated, indeed, that the decrease
in the Customs is to be • accounted for by the antici-
pated reduction of duties on imports, from Sir Robert Peel's
free-trade measures, but the returns will not bear out this
solution ; for the decrease is least in the last quarter when,
only, the free- trade measures could be anticipated. In the
last quarter it amounts to no more than 440,588/. In that
quarter there is, however, a fearful decrease upon the more
important domestic sources of revenue ; beginning with the
Excise, which presents a decrease on the quarter of no less
than two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds, the in-
dex to a future annual decrease of greatly more than one
million sterling. The last year, too (the Premier has boasted
of it), has been a year of unexampled manufacturing pros-
perity, with this result, that there has been a decrease in the
property and income tax, though a small one. Now this de-
crease, whatever its amount, proves one of two things—viz.,
either the manufacturers who talk of having doubled their
capital within the year, have made false returns to
the Property and Income-tax commissioners,—or the other
payers of property and income-tax have lost in the year as
much as the manufacturers have gained. There is no escape
from this dilemma. Thanks, however, to the property and
income-tax, and to the Chinese indemnity, :there is still a
surplus of income above expenditure. But for the property
and income-tax, and the Chinese indemnity, this surplus
would be a deficiency—a deficiency as great as any that oc-
curred during Lord Alonteagle's or Mr. F. Baring's ad-
ministration of the Exchequer. The country must therefore
content itself with the consolatory assurance that, if the free-
trade policy is to be persevered in, the property and
income-tax are rivetted on it for ever rivetted on it
with a certainty of enormous augmentation. Let
not men deceive themselves. Ths people who
in 1122 (when the free-trade policy was introduced by Mr.
Huskision) were able to pay, without inconvenience, sixty-
four millions in taxes upon consumption, are now able to pay
but forty-five or forty-six millions. Why? Because before
1822 we made the foreigner pay for our labour—because now
the foreigner and the millowner divide the fruit of our labour
between them. Let not men, then, deceive themselves with
these facts before them,...esenelain that Sir Robert Peel de-
ceives them ; Sir Robert-Peel can now deceive no man. True,
be said last year that the property and income-tax should
terminate with 1848 ; but, look to the revenue returns, and
look to his free-trade projects, and there see the terms of his
next proposition—for a renewal, aye, and a large augmenta-
tion of the property and income-tax. These terms are ex-
pressed in a familiar and even vulgar phrase—" No compul-
byvoiaa t emau st
national Sir
bankruptcy. RobertPeel
Wine
compul-
sion, only you amkeasythe renewal
and aggravstion of the property and income-tax indispen-
all now see
the trick.

(From the Post.)
The statement of the quarter's revenue, made up to Satur-
day night, has just been officially issued. We regret to say
that the result is a deficiency, as compared with the cor-
responding quarter of last year, to no less an amount than
1,121,504/. It is probable that on another occasion we shall
discuss these returns in reference to the causes that may
have led to the deficit, and the prospect that it holds out;"
but we cannot allow the present opportunity to pass with-
out protesting against the obvious unfairness of a Govern-
ment article put forth on Saturday in the columns of a
morning Contempory by way of anticipation of the
official statement. e can see the convenience of break-
ing a fall—of letting down as easily as possible a
Cabinet, of which the chief merit in public estimation had
hitherto been, that it possessed the faculty of making the
income of the country equal at least to its expenditure; we
cannot, however, understand that the most honest way •of
concealing a large deficiency is artfully to mix up "Receipt
and Expenditure" 'with " Revenue" merely, and thus to
convey an impression that the falling otr in the latter is
merged in the surplus of the former. The melancholy truth
for the public to look to is, that the quarter just completed
has produced less by above a million sterling than did the
corresponding quarter of last year, and that a large item of
the deficiency is one that implies a diminished consumption
of the comforts of life by the industrious classes of the com-
munity.

(From the Advertiser.)
We publish, in another part of our paper, the revenue re-
turns for the quarter and year ending April sth, 1846. Our
readers will see with regret, but not • with surprise, that
there is on the year, as compared with the year ending sth
April, 1845, a defalcation to the extent of 2,327,219/. ; and
en the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of last year, a decrease of 1,121,504/. Here, then, we have
the natural results of that stagnation of trade, which has
been produced by the factious opposition to the free-trade
measures of Sir liobert Peel. No better proof could be given
of this, than is afforded by the factithat the two branches of
the revenue—the Customs and Excise—whicliconstitute the
best test of the trade of the country, and the condition of the
people, are those in which the greatest falling off has taken
place. The deficiency in the Customs, on the year, is
2,512,1131.; and on the quarter, as compared with the cor-
responding quarter of last year, of 440,5881. The defalcation
in the Excise on the year is 338,8221., and on the quarter
291,0271. We trust that the state of the revenue will not be
lost en those who have hitherto so pertinaciously opposed the
Government measures. If they persevere in their present
course, they will not only seriously embarrass the financial
affairs of the country, but they will put in imminent peril in-
stitutions of the realm, which, of all others, they are most
anxious to see preserved. _

(From the Daily News.)
The stagnation of trade throughout the country by the
uncertainty which attends the fate of the measures now be-
fore Parliament affecting commercial operations, has pro•
duced the usual effect upon the revenue of the quarter just
closed. The real value of the indications of 'national de-
pression gathered from these accounts, is, however, not to:
be fairly estimated, till we take into account on the one
hand the effect on the revenue of the recent repeal of cer-
tain duties, and on the other the rapidly advancing Nos-
parity of
our manufactures and commerce down to the
closing months of the last year. Something is to be allowed
for sources of revenue relinquistsPti,
beta's
we can state the
net results of Parliamentary delay and commercial depres-
sion in the diminution of the national income. It is neces-
sary to observe that an allowance must be made also for an
500,000/. to the revenue, as compared with that
extraordinary increase which took place in the quarter
quarter is very
en ding 10th October,wine laBnttoinne tohre atltynoouonttheorfCaursttoicmi
e::
which
paid upon corn,
added nearly
rioeansethur otnheanAr of the three pre-
of the same quarter of 1843 ; and also for the circumstance
ettake into consideration the fact that
that the October quarter is uniformly the heaviest one of
quarter of
the year. After allowing for these circumstances, it
if taken as indicating6rinheeraeadsoefoftl ernweidul
pre-
ceding, iibi
lie
.gsreeAeanut
greater
iiafnt i tyle,hroeapidsooer
populationiethael. tsiacmle se
during one-half of the April quarter of last year,
duties were virtually in operation as in the same
this year, the decrease of revenue in the latter becomes still
moors striking. In short, the diminution of the revenu f Customs and Excise,- in the first three months of 184 e roams
the average
thec o
taxed, m pa
diminishedrawithneddw i
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therefore
001
consumption
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somea
re threestill mouthsheli n-
might have been anticipated. A more than
diminution has undoubtedly taken place in
earnings of the manufacturing population, from the
state of trade; and neither wages nor profits have furnishedalc
to the people nearly the same means -of purchasing articles
taxed to the Customs and Excise, since all commercial
doubtfulraagtoi
,on si n oa of atuinsciyi)pe
anmagnitudetsieonb3 fthteh
Legislature.
e ae suspended,sus
which

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—.Taunton, April 3.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
Mr. Sergeant
cAINEB V. Mill.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.--This was an action
fur a breach of promise of marriage,
year an election of a school•
Mr. Sergeant King
lake and Mr. Fitzherbert appeared for the plaintiff. Mr.
Cockburn and Mr. Ball conducted the defence.
KibillgrialiFeitsztlai etrebdelt•th let acvaisnegoo ptehnee
jdutrlyi e. p lea.l ings,
Robert Wilson—l am master of the union house at Cerne,
aLdtresswas
took
ikniL44,. inrill:le)riechwere
five
or
lia,
candidates,
and