The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-06 00:00:00

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5, 1846.

No. I.—An Abstract of the N:I Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1845, arAd sth a
or Decrease on each head thereof.

July I, 1d46, showing the Increase

QUAE.TERS ENDED . YEAR QjARTERS ENDED YEAR H Year ended July 5. 'Quarter ended Jul y 5.
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• Oct. 10, Jan. fp, April 5, July 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, . April 5 July 5, July it, i ..
. 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1848 1 1846 1846 1846 , Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
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£££X£l££ X X X 1 £ £ £ X
Customs .•..••• • • • • . • • 6,002,855 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807,044 4,848,363 4,364,789 3,961,918 •4,523,391 17,688,461 Customs .. . •• • • 2,118,583 23,843 -
Exc:s2.• .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,960,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 2,965,684 12,074,999 3,955,106 3,338,837 1,626,458 3,104,711 12,025,112 I Excise •• • . .........., 49,887 139,027
Stamps . .... ...... 1,665,688 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,883 1,780,175 1,792,402 1,685,868 1,730,495 6,980,940 ' Stamps . ......... ..
142,057 • • . • . • • • 106,581
Taxes 201,439 1,880,490 145,945 2,000,567 4,228,441 201,279 1,876,051 146,142 2,006,427 4,229,899 Taxes ............. 1,458 •• • • 5,860 -
Property Tax .. .. .. • ... I 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 91,9,991 5,261,954 1,823,883 386,985 1,963,882 1,009,162 5,183,912 Property Tax...... 78,042 99,171 •s-
Post-0dice.............• • -
200,000 146,000 178,000 155,000 679,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 181,000 794,000 i Post-oflice 115,000 •• • • 26,000 -
Crown Lands. 10,000 50,000 35,000 30,000 125,000 30,000 25,000 45,000 - 100,000 i Crown Lands ....... 725,
277
25,000 • • • • 30,000
Miscellaneous ...-. . • • . 220,961 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 465,102 369,471 91,522 /58,001 1,384,0961 Miscellaneous
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7.•
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..069 .. . .
.... 444,349 - • • • •
Total Ordinary Re-venue 14,220,544 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,682,140 13,312,903 '12,332,535 9,735,790 13,013,187 48,394,420
47234:655911
40644:017804
45562:497039 Total ...... • • 983.792 2,271,51 - 738,250 136,531
Irnpfest Moneys, &c. •• ' 28,117 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145
194,612 44,677
.... - RepaymentsotAdvances 123,692 250,980 418,545 182,354 975,571
70,747
, I Total Income ... 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,856 113,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,172 13,198,733 i 50,050,083 1, Total .... .• .• 1,454,361 2,41:73,134 782,927 207,328
17131:620375 1,2441
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Amount applied to Con- i 11, i,
I Deduct Deduct
1,454,361 207,3281
solidai ed Fund
increase Decrease.
Ditto, as Advances
Ditto, as Ways & Means !
of the year .. .. .. ..
on 1,011,773 575,599 on the
,
Total 14,372,35:„ i , 2,705,693 .11,366,679 l
12,623,134 51,067,856 • 13,811,380 J 12,800,798 10,245,172 13,198,733 50 056,083 . the Year. Quarter.

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1845, and the sth July, 1846.

Quarters ended Jnll 5

1845 I 1846

CIIARGE.

Permanent Debt • • • • •• • • • • •'• " " '• • ' • • " ••• • " '• • • • • •• • • ••
• • ••
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Terminable Annuities— • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ....
Sinking Fund • • • • • • • • • • • ' • - • • • • • • "
The Civil List . • • • • • •• •
Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund ..
To pay off Exchequer Bills, raised per Act 6 and 7 Vict. c. 87, for Opium Compensation .
ForAdyances ..

Total Charge ......

The Surplus • • • • • • • •

The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund tbr the Quarter ended
Anti 5, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1846,
after deducting 900,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •• ••
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended July 5, 1846, in part of
the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services ...... ...............
The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1846 .
The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet
Quarter ended July 5, 1846 •••• •• •• •• ••• •

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X the sums granted by Parliament out of

the Charge on tl e Con, ,a 1 Fund,

nicalities surrounding its sale and transference should be
done away with, and it should be rendered as easy for a
man to buy an acre, or ha!f an acre of land, as a cow or a
sheep. The immense tract of country kept waste by the
nominal titles which a few possess to them, should be given
up to the husbandman, the value of those nominal titles paid,
and the drones driven from the hive. When such things are
done, a free and independent resident proprietary would
spring up. In a few years the greater portion of the land in
Ireland would change its owners, greatly to the advantage
both of the present owners and the tillers of the soil. The
country would be held by five millions of its own people,
instead of by fire hundred foreigners. The advantages are
obvious. Its wastes would be reclaimed, its fruitfulness in-
creased an hundred fold, its population would be all busy
and industrious, we would hear nothing of discontent or dis-
turbance, and plenty would overspread the land
" I have now stated my case and given my proofs. To my
mind, it is as clear as daylight, that all the political vicissi-
tudes, not only of this country but of England, are traceable
to the land monopoly, and the absurdities of land tenure.
It is not merely an Irish question ; but with y3u English it
is not, as with us, one of life and death. You have large
and profita:de manufactories to provide bread for your people ;
and your land-owners, though too often opposed to anything
that-has a tendency to elevate humanity, are yet English-
men, and live in England, and are consequently less likely to
abuse their power, and more under the influence of sympathy
and public opinion. Yet you are deeply interested : this
worst of the heir-looms of accursed feudalism yet remains;
it must be struck down by the same hands that felled the
giant monopoly. No greater boon could be conferred on our
involved aristocracy, than to give them facilities, and urge
on them the necessity for selling off large portions of their
estates; most of them are only nominal owners, and are in
reality but a sort of land-agents to a host of money lenders.
lawyers, and relatives. It is for such reason, and in connexion
with measures of a more comprehensive character, that the
proposed expedient of compensation to tenants would be of
value; it would force sales, for few of our proprietary would
be able to pay for improvements in their lands, and there-
fore should sell them."

There is much fierce in the above observations, and
it is true that England is as much interested as
Ireland in getting rid of insolvent proprietary of mere
nominal landowners, and substituting for them a solvent
proprietary, who would have not only the desire, but
the capital, to improve their estates to the utmost.
" St. Giles and St. James" is continued in this num-
ber, and we have papers by Cooper, the Chartist poet,
by Angus Roach, and by several of our old favourites.
but the paper of the number undoubtedly is " Ireland
and the Irish."

Quarters ended Julys.

6,670,128
643,844
1,559
1,585,609
97,835
438,490

101,501

8,533,966
4,349,167

12,868,133

5,650,119
618,886
1,467
595,150
98,004
370,584

91,501

7,425,01
5,785,5i2

13,211.203

1,953,799

4,631,097
5,785,552

1,154,445