The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-01 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S TAXES.

The Times publishes what is evidently an official state.
ment with respect to the payment of Queen's taxes. It
is explained, with regard to income tax, that there is no
alteration whatever in respect to the payment of income
tax on dividends arising from public funds or shares, on
interest of moneys, or on salaries. The tax under each of
these heads will be deducted at the time of payment, exactly
as before. "The income tax chargeable in respect of houses
or lands, and on profits of trades or professions, for which
an assessment is required to be made in and fog• the year
ending the sth of April, was formerly, by maw, payable
quarterly; but the first and second quarters have, in prac-
tice, been generally collected together in October, leaving
the third quarter to be collected in January, and the
fourth quarter in the following April. Under the
present law the tax for the whole year ending
the sth of April will be collected in a single
payment to be made in the month of January of that year.
As to land tax and inhabited house duty it is pointed
out that these taxes are chargeable as before, the house
duty being rated on the current annual value of the pro-
mises in the year of assessment, ending the sth of April.
They were payable in moities, on the 20th of September
and 20th of March of such year. The whole year's tax
will now be payable in one sum in the month of January.
" Assessed taxes were chargeable in respect of the
greatest number of articles (male servants, carriages,
horses, &c.) kept or used at any one time during the year
ending sth of April. These taxes became due onlg in the
year succeeding that in which the articles were kept, and
were payable in moieties on or after the 20th of September
and 20th of March. Thus of the assessed taxes on articles
kept in the year 1868, ending sth of April, 1869, one
moiety has, or should have been, already paid, and the
remaining moiety will have to be collected in April next.
No tax has been or will be charged in respect of any
article kept between the sth of April, 1869, and the Ist of
January, 1870.
The new excise licences, which are in lieu of the
assesssed taxes, come into operation on the Ist of Janu-
ary, 1870. These licences must be taken out during the
month of January, or within twenty-one days from the
time at which any of the articles are taken into use, and
will hold good until the 31st of December, 1870. To faci-
litate the obtaining of the licences, forms of declaration
have been prepared, and are being forwarded to all persons
whose names appear on the lists of assessed tax payers; others
may obtain them by application by letter, or personally,
at Somerset House, or at any of the places indicated in
the notices affixed to the church-doors, &c. The licences
will only be supplied on the delivery of these forms, pro-
perly filled up, together with the amount of the duties pay
able. The foregoing explanation will make it evident that
no one can be called upon to pay taxes twice for the same
articles for any one year, or to pay duty twice in respect of
income tax, inhabited house duty, or land tax for any
portion of a year.

The Palestine and the Sinai Exploration Funds
have been united.

REPORTED STOPPAGE OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE
OF LONDON.—The Architect says that the main drainage
works at Barking have experienced, if report be true, a
serious check. The fracture of an important part of the
pumping machinery is stated to have so disabled the whole
that for a considerable number of hours working was
impossible, and it has only been with great difficulty that
in the City the sewers have been kept at all clear_

GOVERNMENT ).IADE PAINT---Another change
is to be made at Chatham dockyard. Hitherto all the
paint used in the dockyards of the United Kingdom, and
also in the Royal dockyards abroad, has been made in the
paint factory at Chatham yard. The Lords of the Admi-
ralty have ordered that this manufactory shall be closed
as soon as the orders now in hand are completed. No
doubt the Admiralty intend in future to obtain their
supply of paints by contract.
DISTURBANCES IN KILKENNY.—Serious distur-
bances aro happening at Kilkenny between the townsmen
and the soldiers. The other day a dispute arose between
two soldiers of the 65th and a party of workmen who were
drinking in a public-house. The townsmen attacked
the soldiers with stones, but assistance having been ob-
tained from the barracks, the mob were resisted at the
point of the bayonot, and, in turn, stoned by the soldiers.
The following night there wore seventeen soldiers drinking
in the same, place, and the affray was renewed, with a
similar result. The soldiers when attacked drew their
bayonets, chased the towns people through the streets, and,
taking up stones, beat the mob away with their own
weapons. A strong picket afterwards patrolledthe streets,
and order was restored.

THE GOVERNMENT POWDER MAGAZINES.—AII
apprehensions of danger to the dockyard and other
Government establishments at Chatham, and to a popula-
tion of some 60,000 people living in the locality, from the
great powder magazines at Upnor Castle will soon be at an
end. But one more cargo of powder has to be removed;
then the deteriorated powder in themagazine will be taken
away to be remanufactured, and the building will become
harmless. It is understood that no dangerous amount of
any kind of explosive substance will henceforth be kept in
any magazines at Chatham. The powder taken from Upnor
is conveyed to the magazines at Purfleet, but it will not
remain there, but be distributed among the various powder
magazines in different parts of the country, so that Lon-
don will not be in anygreater peril from the Purfleet stores
of powder than it has been hithert
THE REMOVAL OF CAPTAIN MADDEN.—The
Dublin Daily Express characterises the removal of Captain
Madden from the commission of the peace as " a glaring
instance of profligate abuse of public authority." It
has come to this (says the Express) a country gentle-
man cannot, in defence of law, and in tho interests of
society, assail the conduct of a particular Ministry
without being accused of insulting his Sovereign,
and being degraded from office in his county. The conduct
of the Chief Secretary is the best as it is the most recent
justification of Captain Madden's charges that the func-
tions of Government in this country are prostituted to the
vilest party purposes. If the Ministry cannot gas the
press, if they cannot stop the right of meeting, they can at
least shew the country magistracy that amongst them they
will tolerate no criticism—no interference with their
administrations of affairs.

THE FACULTY AND THE WELSH FASTING GUM--
The B titiSh .111edical Journal, in a note on the Welsh fast-
ing girl, says : " It ought in justice to be made known that
the medical gentlemen in London, who were en rapport
with the committee in Wales, kept writing daily to the
local surgeons to guard against any symptoms of exhans-
tion in the fasting girl, and to administer nourishment
nolens volens, should there be any appearance of seriouE
change in her condition.

THE BISHOP OF MANCESTER'S FUNERAL.—The
funeral of Dr. James Prince Lee, first Bishop of Manches-
ter, took place on Friday in the burial-place attached to
St. John's Church, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester.
The funeral cortege was not large, the late Bishop
having expressed a wish to be interred aj privately as
possible. It left Mauldeth Hall a little after twelve
o'clock. The hearse was preceded by a number of car-
riages filled by gentlemen who had attended without invi-
tation, and near the church about sixty of the clergymen
of the diocese joined the procession. The service in the
church was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Tongc, the rector,
and that at the grave by the Rev. Dr. Durnford. The atten-
dance of spectators was not large, and nothing occurred to
disturb the impressiveness of the proceedings.
• The strange death of the man Wilson, who was an
inmate of the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, na longer appears
wrapped in mystery. The Liverpool Courier says that "a
fellow patient in the institution has come forward with
evidence implicating two of the attendants in an assault on
the deceased while he was in their charge, and the jury have
so far believed the witness that they have committed the
num for trial on a charge of ragiulaugliter."

.lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Morning. Evening.
SATURDAY 12 min past 1 40 min past 1
SUNDAY 5 min past 2 - 28 min past 2
MONDAY 50 min past 2 15 min past 3
TuusHAv
WEDNESDAY l2 min past 4 35 min post 4
THURSDAY 52 min past 4 12 min past 5
FRIDAY 30 min past 5 .50 min past 5

t,tur
.......,
Spanish 3 per Con —
MONEY MARKET Do. Account —
Do. 1867
4 Do. Account
Latin AND Do. New Deforroa —
Do. Passive —
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account —
---- • Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan —
Do Government, 1864 —
CITY, Two o'CLocK. Do dc, 1868
Dec. 31. To-day being New-year's Day there were no Turkish 6 per Cent
Do Account
Royal High- transactions in the funds at the Stock Exchange.
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
the grounds
The discount transactions at the Bank, which Do Account
were on Thursday extraordinarily heavy, were Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
)Old walked yesterday of less magnitude. Do. Account 69f
The Corn Market yesterday was heavy in conse- Do £lOO Bonds .
7Oi
quence of the change to damp weather, and prices
Do.)0 un
tepeoercetnt. 186.)
4 si, 1
were weaker, although nominally unaltered. Do 6 per Cent., 186 e —
The sum of £3,000 in bar gold was taken to the Do. Account j ,
;1-EN CB Bank yesterday, and 25,000 sovereigns were with- D. 4 per Guaranteed
Venezuela
drawn for the West Indies. Do C per Cent. 1864 ..
It seems now to be expected that the £450,000 of Dividends ou tho above payable in Loudon.
Australian gold to arrive by the incoming Penin- Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 por cent., Ex. 25f.
sular and Oriental steamer will be taken for expor- Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gni' —
ECISION tation to France. De. 4 par Cent. Certificates ..... —
Franck Rontes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
The directors of the Colonial Bank have resolveds6l
.) to declare, at the half-yearly meeting on the 6th it, tpttoav, b
Accountper e+ nt . 1861, Ex. 551
564
c, Jan. 1. inst., a dividend and bonus of 7 per cent. CLOSING PRICES.
ained an in- The colonial produce markets have been par- Jonsols, Money ts2l Ixd
I)2i xd
tially closed during the Christmas week. There Do. Account, Jan. 6
restraining are indications, however, of an improved demand
of " Mary for THE REVENITE,
some articles, including coffee, sugar, and rice.
Taylor for —AI—.
Cotton has also been rather inactive ; a few public
ised by her. sales are declared for the ensuing week, when busi-
nnen-
I.—The following is an abstract of the gross produce of
the Revenue of the United Kingdom in the uncle
l the injunc- fleas will be fully resumed. The tea market re- tinned periods, ending Dec. 31, 1869, compared with
sole right to mains quiet.
the corresponding periods of the preceding year :
A circular from Messrs. Dent, Palmer, and Co. -
states that the interest of Mr. Thomas Dent and Quarters ended
Dec. 31. Mr. Richard Whiteman Fall in their firm ceased yes-
er Main ar- terday, and that Mr. Greville Horsley Palmer and March 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31,
Mr. Thomas James Reeves have been admitted as 1869 1869 1869 1869
3E. partners. £ £ £ £
5,485,000 5,515,000 5,133,000 5,740,000
Mr. John Hodgson has announced his retire- Customsxcise .
5,00,000 4 971,000 4,1:6,000 5,45 ',OOO
went from the firm of Grant, Hodgson, and Co., Stamps
)tation dug-431,000 1,430,000 3 8,000 59',000
tobacco brokers, which will henceforth be carried Taxes.eperty Tax
i• on by Mr. George Grant and Mr. James Chambers Post-office 1,2 02,000 1,12 ,000 1,203,, 00 1,180,000
Crown Lands
... 1081. under the same style; Mr. John Henry Schmidt, litsce i aneous
... 1131. in the Havanuah trade, has been joined by his son, Total? 20,109.885 18.847.044 15,820,740 16,581,702

Mr. John Hodgson has announced his retire-
ment from the firm of Grant, Hodgson, and Co.,
tobacco brokers, which will henceforth be carried
on by Mr. George Grant and Mr. James Chambers,
under the same style ; Mr. John Henry Schmidt,
in the Havanuah trade, has been joined by his son,
and the firm will henceforth be Schmidt, Son, and
Co.; and, Mr. George Thomson having retired from
the shippicg and insurance firm of Anderson and
Thomson, that business will in future be carried on
under the name of Anderson, Anderson, and Co.
The extreme range of Consols during the year
just ended has been only about 2 per cent., while
that of the preceding 12 months was 34- per cent.,
and the difference between the opening and closing
quotations of the year shows a decline of In
railway stocks, which had previously experienced
an aggregate reduction of about 17 per cent. in
1866 and 1867, and a recovery of about 5 per cent.
in 1868, there have been wide fluctuations, some
descriptions showing an improvement of 10 or 20
per cent, and others a fall of like magnitude. Me-
tropolitan, which three years back was at about
130, and which on the Ist of January last was at
about 105, is now at 811-. The Bank of England
bullion at the end of lvst year stood at £18,445,858.
It reached its highest point, Z 21,032,677, on the
25th of August, and is now £19,196,622. At the
Bank of France the total at the commencement
was £44,310,000; after advancing to £50,673,000
it is now £49,488,000. On the ear-is Bourse the
range of fluctuation in Rentes has been 34 per
cent., and the result of the movements of the year.
has been to establish an advance of 24 per cent
With respect to the declared value of our ex-
portations, the Board of Trade tables, which thus
far comprise only 11 months of the year, purport to
show a total of £174,450,252 against £164,824,654
in the same period of the year 1868, or an increase
of 6 per cent. The changes iu the Bank rate of
discount, which were only two in number last year,
have this year been seven. On the Ist of January
the rate was 3 per cent., by the 6th of May it had
risen to 4f per cent., in August it was down to 24
per cent., and it has now for two months been
again at 3 per cent. In the cotton market the
price of midland upland, which was about lOid.
per lb. on the Ist of January, is now about 114 d.
In the wheat market there has been a decline of
9s. in addition to that of 183. sustained in 1868,
the average price, which in January was 523. BJ.,
having fallen last month to 433. Bd.—the lowest of
the year.

... 108.- -----7 urown Lanus . 40.,0, .-=,,,,,, ..,...,.-
under the same style; Mr. John Henry Schmidt, Mistei aneous 1,088,858 762,011 668,740 56 ,iO2
Il3i-. in the Havanuah trade, has been joined by his son, Total? 20,109.835 18,847,014 15,226,740 16,581,702
... 113. and the firm will henceforth be Schmidt, Son, and
... 115. Co.; aud, Mr. George Thomson having retired from Quarters ety!ed
... 109. , the shippicg and insurance firm of Anderson and
Thomson, that business will in future be carried on March 3 , Juue 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31,
... 131 i. 1868 1866 1865 1868
under the name of Anderson, Anderson, and Co. - -
il
... 21i. The extreme range of Consols during the year Customs 5,51x x x £
7,000 5,453,0'0 5,488,000 5,998,000
... 25 0. Exci.e 5,742,000 +.857,000 4084,000 5,431,000
just ended has been only about 2 per cent., while Stamps
... 301 e. that of the preceding 12 months was 3} per cent., Taxes
Property Tax
Corn, old ' and the difference between the opening and closing Post-ofti e 1,100,00.) 1.120,000 1,1,0,000 1,150,000
Crown Lands
quotations of the year shows a decline of f. In Miscelameous
railway stocks, which had previously experienced -- -
Totals
Dec. 30. an aggregate reduction of about 17 per cent. in
'late Com.; 1866 and 1867, and a recovery of about 5 per cent. ear ended
Dec.ec. 31, 1869. Dec. 31, 1868.
Her dates
in 1868, there have been wide fluctuations, some
descriptions showing an improvement of 10 or 20 x x
xcliange at Custom; 22,07 ,003 22,48 ',OOO
per cent, and others a fall of like magnitude. Me- Excize 20,700,000 20,214,000
v,3 5,000 9,174,000
tropolitan, which three years back was at about stain vo
2,774,000 ,477,000
Ta, es
70t1/ Havre, 130, and which on the Ist of January last was at Proper.y Tax
IC°L 7.°,1i Lnceds
same day about 105, is now at 811-. The Bank of England ;-,61;.00 3;9,, 00
Crow.,
bullion at the end of lt!st war stood at £18,4-15.858. Mtsce 1 neous
----

Total

70, 15,374

71,8 0,677

11.—Increase and Decrease in the periods ended Dec. 31
18(i, as compared with corresponding periods of the

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According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s
report the week's receipts of cotton at American
l3orts have been 114,000 bales, ,and since the Ist
September 1,3 8,000 bales; shipments to England,
37,000 bales ; to France, 5,000 bales ; to the
Continent, 61,000 bales ; and since the Ist Sept.,
700,000 bales. Stock, 385,000 bales. diddling,
cost and freight per steamer.

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BRITISH FUNDS -CLOSING PRICES.

li OVERNMENT rUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account, Jan. 6 924 1
3 per Cent. Reduced 92 4
New 3 per Cent
Now 21 per Cent. Jan. 1.N91
Do. 5 per Cen J 9.12.1873
6.uunities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for Si, yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (lied Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exctioqul, Hills, £l,OOO, 24 p. Ct. March
Da. 3 do. June
Do £lOO, £2001& £5OO — 1
Bauk of England Stock, 41 per Cent
IJ(,. opening
Canada 4 per Cent.. Bonds —
nter-Colonial Omnium
INDIAN dOTERNMENT SECURITIES
lndi t stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874... Shut
Do. Opening, for Account —
DJ. a per Cent. July, 1880
De 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888
Do. Enfaced Papei 4 per Omit. ••• 914
Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ... —
Do. 51 per Cent. May 1879 —
Da 0 per Cent., Rup. Dare. 1872..
Do do 18!"1,.., —
Do. do. 1882 —
Dt-,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
E°. Bon!, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO •..
o. under £l,OOO —

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent
Do. Account
Auvtrian Bonds 5 per cent
Do. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do. li per Cent. 1852 751
Do. do 1858..... 741
Do. do 1860 —
Do. do., 1863 75
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
1)c. Account......
IS .enos Ayres 6 per Cent.
Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Ouilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 4k per Cent..„ 76
Do. 3 per Cent.,
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Do. 6 per cent. 1867 ........ • — ,
C loaduan, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 ........ . —
Danubian Principalities, 7 For Cent —
Do. Account
tDo 8 per Cent., 1867 ... .
cuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent U4ntian, 7 per Cent.... Bll
Do Second Issue —
Do.
450 t. Bonds —
Do,
1864
Do,
A.ccount —
Do.
al5O Bonds
figßernts, 1863 ..•.«
80171
D0..£100 Bonds BOl
Government Railway Debeutures..... 10u 99i
Gree,g 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups. —
Do. Coupons
~
Gitatetnala:s per Cent .. —
Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p.,Ct., all pd
Do. Account —
Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 —
_Do. Account o.
Do Maremmana Railway 57
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
Do. 1864
Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French --
Oiontovideau 6 per Cent.......... ••
Mccrish Imperial 5 yar Cent
New Granala ...................................
Do 3 per Cen _
Do. Deferred
Do Laud Warrants(l6aare;) .................... 7-4
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account
Do 41 per Cent. (lh:'.arren) ••• ---
Do 4} per Cent., 1862 -. —
Do Account
Do 6 per Ceut.,1862
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'e :Y..;1 4}
Do. do. 1867
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 k,,,r Cent., 182 z, £ St
Do 41 per Cent 1850 -
Do 11 per Cent., 1860 ..
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent, 1862 ... 85f
Do :do, Scrip
Do. Angle-Dutcb, 1864, £lOO Bonds..
Do. do. £B4 15.<2. d 0...,
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9Ol
Do. do £B4 15s. do
Do Nicolas Railway 6si 5
Bardinisu 5 per Cent —

Total 3
Net Do :r ase

2,0 5,3 3

11I.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Re-
ceipts in the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1869, the issues
out of the same, and the Charges on the Consolidated
Fund at that date, aud the Surplus or D eticieney of the
Balance iu the Exchequer on Dec. 31, 1869, in respect
of such Charges :

Income received. ay shown in Account I. .. Z 16,531,702
Amount received as advances in aid of Ways and
1 000 000
Means ... .. .. •• •••
Amount raised by Exchequer Bonds, issued per Act
3.! and 33 Vict., cup. 22 ... ... ... 700,00
Amount received in repayment of Advances for
Public Works, &c. .. .... .. .. 492,570

X 14,724,272

Excess of the Sums charged on the Consolidated
Fund on Dec. 31, 1e69, payable iu March Quar-
ter, 1870, above the Balance in the Exchequer at
that date, viz :
Excess of Charge in Great Britain .. 45,83 ,2G9
Surplus over Charge in Ireland .. 702,5 ,1
Is, Lt. deficiency *5,127,758
*Charge on Dec. 31, 18 .. 8,9.:1,584
Paid out of Growing Produce in Dec
Quarter, 1869 • • • •
.. 653,634

Portion of the Charge pa) able in March
Quarter, 1870 .. 8,237,950
To meet which there was in the Exche-
quer on Dec. 31,188) • • .. 3,110,193

Net deficiercy as above .. XS, X 27,753

£23,852,030

Net deficiency of the balance in the Exchequer to
meet the charge on Sept. 30, 156.1, as per last
... £3,689,875
account
Amount issued to repay Advances in aid of Ways
a ... 1,000,000
and Means
Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Ser •
vices (including £700,0.,0 Exchequer Bonds
paid off, and X 300,000 for Abyssinian Expe-
dition) ... 10,210,57
Charge of the Consolidated Fund on Dec. 31,
1111•0 v, viz.:—
Interest of the Permanent
Debt £R,084,656
'Terminable Annuities 1,b70,818
interest of Exchequer Bonds 11.375
Interest of Exchequer bills 19,845
Interest of Deficiency Ad-_,a;
vances

......,
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consoli-
dated Fund 332,85)
Advances I orPublicWorks,&c. 465,653
Paid out of Urowing Produce
in Dec. Quarter, 186) ... Xe83,G34
Payable in March Quarter, 117 v 8,2z7,950
-----

8,921,684

03,852,030