The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.- BALANCE-SHEET.

An Account of the Net Public Income of the Unii
Revenue Departments, and of the actual Issue:
Repayments for Local Works, &c.

:ed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended the sth day of January, 1846, after abating the Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several
or Payments within the same Period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying otf Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and

Applicable to ,
~-.—.----------------.,
INCOME OR REVENUE. Consolidated Other Public I EXPENDITURE.
Fund. Services. ' Total.
--
ORDINARY REVENUE AND RECEIPTS. £ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. Funded Debt.—lnterest and Management of the Permanent Debt
Customs 19,695,196 0 4 501,660 110 20,196,856 2 2 Terminable Annuities 3,980,022 11 3
Excise 13,585,582 17 1 - • ••• 113,585,582 17 1
Stamps 7,710,682 19 9 ••• ••• 7,710,682 1,9 9 Total Charge of the Funded Debt, exclusive of 9,4071. 2s. 3d., the Interest
Taxes (Land and Assessed).. 4,223,842 210 ••• •• 4,223,842 210 on Donations and Bequests. , 27,827,265 10 3
Property-tax 5,026.570 0 2 ..• ... 5,026,570 0 2 Unfunded Debt.—lnterest on Exchequer-bills
Post Office ••• 753,000 0 0 ••• ••• 753,000 0 0 — 28,253,872 611
Crown •Lands 120,000 0 0 ••• ••• 120,000 0 0 Civil List 392,165 0 0
ls. and 6d. and 4s. in the £on Pensions and Salaries.... 4,639 15 8 ••• ••• 4,639 15 8 Annuities and Pensions for Civil, Naval, Military, and Judicial Services,
Small Branches of the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown 56,104 16 0 ••• •• 56,104 16 0 &c., charged by various Acts of Parliament on the Consolidated Fund 544,408 8 0
Surplus Fees of Regulated Public Offices 41,839 10 8 41,839 10 S Salaries and Allowances
Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions 175,192 8 3
51,217,458 2 6 501,660 110 51,719,118 4 4 Courts of Justice
769,433 1 2
Miscellaneous Charges on the Consolidated Fund 286,379 13 5
OTHER RECEIPTS.
2,417,223 1 5
6,744,589 7 7
Money from China under the Treaty of August, 1842... 1,142,923 18 9
... ... 1,142,923 18 9 Navyy 6,809,872 10 7
Imprest and other Monies
Money received from the East India Company 60,000 0 0 60,000 0 0 Miscellaneous, chargeable on the Annual Grants of Parliament 2,726,147 3 7
Unclaimed Dividends (more than paid) . ,
... ... ••• ••• ... ...
52,558,693 15 11 I 501,660 1 10 53,060,353 17 9 49,061,411 17 7
i Unclaimed Dividends more than received
, ... ...
49,242,713 6 7
Excess of Income over Expenditure
..• ••• 3,817,640 11 2
153,060,353 17 9
53,060,353 17 9

An Account of the Balances of the Public Money remaining in the Exchequer on the sth
ended the sth day of January, 1846 ; the Money applied towards the Redemption of
Works, &c., with the Difference accruing thereon; and the Balances in the Exchequer

day of January, 1845; the Amount of Money raised by the Additions to the Funded or Unfunded Debt in the Year
the Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt; the Total Amount of Advances and Repayments on Account of Local
on the sth day of January, 1846•

_ -- . -- - - ~ •
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ S. d. ISSUED. X 5. d. £ s. d.
BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the sth day of January, 1845 ' ••• ..•
••• •• • 6,254,113 9 8
To the Commissioners for the reduction of the National
_ Debt, to be applied to the redemption of the Public
Debt :
MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR ENDING THE STHDAY OF JANUARY, 1846, BY By issues per Act 10 George IV., C. 27 3,134,484 0 11
THE CREATION OF FUNDED OR UNFUNDED DEBT. By interests on donations and bequests 9,407 2 3
Exchequer-bills 18,407,3001., charged on Supplies, per Act 7 Victoria, 4,143,891 3 2
Deduct sum applied not in redemption of Funded
c. 14
,
1,343,891 3 2
Exchequer-bills, 9,379,6001., charged on Supplies, per Act 8 Victoria, Unfunded Debt :
To the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills for payment of
c. 23
... ; 9,269,600 0 0 Money out of the Consolidated Fund for payment
18,294,500 0 0 of Public Works, West India Relief, and Shan-
non Bills • , 173,500 0 0
Exchequer-bills for Public Works.—Great Britain (charged on Conso-
bloney out of Ways and Means Grants applied
lidated Fund), per Act 3 Victoria, c. 10
I 24,300 0 0
Exchequer-bills issued for payment of Supply
Bills 18,294,500 0 0
Exchequer-bills, West India Relief, per Act 6 and 7 Victoria, c. 87
18,492,300 0 0
Total amount of advances for Local Works, &c.,
Exchequer-bills, West India Relief, per Act 2 and 3 William IV., c. 125.... 2,700 0 0 under authority of various Act of Parliament ... 2,005,570 13 3
Deduct ditto re-payments, ditto 1,860,897 15 7.1
54,700 •
0 0
144,672 17 7!
Excess of Income over Expenditure
18,361,200 0 0 Balances in the Exchequer on the sth day of July,
••• ••• ••• ••• 3,817,640 11 2 1846
O •.• •.. 8,452,090 0 0-1-
28,432,954 0 10,1 28,432,954 0 WI
Whitehall Treasury Chambers. Jan. 99 1 aln

Whitehall Treasury Chambers, Jan. 22, 1846.

EDW. CARDWELL,

that employer, was afterwards written to, requesting
him to become one of the Vice-Chairmen of the Society,
and he returned a polite letter complying with the re-
quest, and inclosing a donation of five guineas to the
funds. Many more cases might be cited, but he would
not. The next thing was the practicability of what
they advocated. If any said it cow(' not be done, he
denied what was said. Was it impracticable, because
the business could not be transacted in a shorter time ?

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO EDWARD
HIGHT iN, ESQ.

Oa Monday evening last a deputation from the servants
of the Taft• Vale Railway Company, headed by their re-
spected secretary, A. F. Morcom, Esq , waited on Mr.
Edward Highton, the late engineer of the Company, at
his residence, for the purpose of presenting him with a
service of plate, on his resigning his appointment, as a
testimonial of the regard and respect in which he was
universally held by them during the time he had the
management of the line. As a proof of the good feeling
evince:) towards the above-named gentleman, we may
mention that subscriptions were commenced in three
different departments of the railway simultaneously,
having one object, viz., that of testifying the high opinion
entertained of his merits. The testimonial, which was
subscribed to by 259 of the persons in the Company's
employ, consisted of a handsome silver tea-service, of
the newest design, the principle article of which was the
following inscription :—" Presented by the officers and
workmen of the Taff Vale Railway, to Edward Highton,
Esq., C.E., on his relinquishing his appointment as en •
gineer to the Company, in testimony of their cordial
respect and esteem, and of the high opinion they entertain
of his conduct during his connexion with the railway.—
Cardiff, Jan. 19, 1846." The whole reflected the highest
credit on our fellow-townsman, Mr. J. T. Barry, who
executed the order. We understand Mr. Highton is
engaged by the London and Birmingham Company to
lay down and superintend the working of the electric
telegraph, about to be established on a large scale by
that Company, on• a principle to be patented by Mr.
Highton.—Cardiff Paper, Jan. 24.

Was it that the time of the drapers was wholly em-
ployed ? Was there any one in that meeting who had
any occasion to go into these shops or go near them, that
had never seen how many hours of the day they stand
idle ? In fact the hours of business might be easily
reduced to two-thirds of the time at present allotted ;
and he dared any one to get up and even hint the oppo-
site. The cause of the present system deserved the
attention of those who would apply a remedy. The
ladies supported it, but not from inhumanity ; from a
watt of forethought they reserved every business they
had to transact till a late part of the day. Employers
were in many instances men of honourable sentiments,
but a portion of them acted from a selfish motive ; if,
however, no customers came to their shops after a certain
hour of the day, there would be no inducement to them
to oppose early closing. Even on their own motive, if
nothing honourable could affect them,—acting on
their own motive, they would in that case rather
close than keep open, for they would find the gas rather
expensive. The speaker concluded by urging all, and
especially the ladies, to aid the cause which he advo-
cated, at the instance of the association ; and having
read and moved the second resolution, sat down.
The Rev. JABEZ BURNS said it gave him the greatest
pleasure to second the resolution which had been moved.
He said the custom complained of and prevailing was
known to all. Shopmeu were detained in their places
of business from seven o'clock in the morning till eleven
and twelve o'clock at night. Perhaps, however, all were
not aware equally of the magnitude of this custom. It
had been ascertained that 40,000 young men, drapers,
groc, rs and chemists, were subjected to this system of
long hours. That fact was connected with an amount
of distress which arose out of_ it. There were moral
and physical evils resulting from it. There were
three things which might convince persons of the great
evil of the system —there were three things necessary to
human beings, due exercise, relaxation from labour,
and wholesome air. These shopmen were confined for
thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen hours a day, kept standing
behind a counter, a kind of employment which any one
may feel is very wearisome, and which anatomists know
is most injurious to the system. Indeed, at a carpenter's
bench, or labouring as a stonemason, they would be
more healthy, as a comparison of the appearance the
-two classes present might very readily evince. Ladies
were not aware how much they added to the toil of
these young men. Some ladies went into shops, hardly
knowing wherefore, or what they wanted, and so one of
these young men had to find out their wants.—(A laugh.)
Some ladies were not very easy to please, but the young
shoptnan must succeed in making a sale, for on the
event depended his salary and his situation.—(Hear.)
He had to remind them that fresh air was little enjoyed
by that class of individuals. Shops were ill-ventilated,
and the gaslight during tho evenings, with the doors
shut, made the air additionally injurious which they
were compelled to breathe. Out of the system, he said,
came a moral evil and a physical evil, and he might add
an evil intermediate between these—a mental evil.—
(Hear, hear.) By the time these shopmen left their
business the library was shut, the lecture was
over, the doo'r of their friends was closed fur
the night. But the tavern was still open, the
cigar divans might be gone into—the theatres were ac-
cessible—yes, the gambling-rooms might receive these
young men ; and who could attempt to estimate the in-
jury a hich they would sustain in body and in mind, in
interests that were temporal and those that were eter-
nal. The Rev. Gentleman hoped that the meeting would
sympathise practically with the association in their en-
deavours to secure so great an object. He sat down after
seconding the following resolution :
That this meeting, believing the mainstay of the
late hour system to be the habit, on the part of the pub-
lic, of evening shopping, and that it is, above all things,
necessary to point out to the public the nature of the
evil they are unconsciously upholding, cordially approves
of the plan of the Metropolitan Drapers' Association to
send a prize address to every house in London, and
hereby records its willingness, by soliciting such con-
tributions as each can afford, to raise the fund requisite
for so important a step."
The Rev. W. CHALMERS supported the same resolu-
tion in an able and eloquent speech.
A young man in the body of the meeting rose and
m)ved an amendment, to the effect that not only drapers
should be included, but shopmen of all trades—that all
shops, gin-shops, and cigar-shops, should be closed at
an early hour; but the Hon. Chairman satisfied him
that the resolution was so general as to comprehend all
he intended, and he withdrew it accordingly.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. NASH then moved a resolution to the effect that
the system of long hours was stayed up by evening
shopping, and that the association should print and
send a copy of a prize essay on the subject to every
house in the metropolis.
Rev. D. MoottE seconded the resolution, and sup•
ported the spirit of it by a very able address.
It was put by the Chairman, and carried uanirnously.
A vote of thanks was moved to the Gallant Commo-
dore for his conduct in the chair, which was carried with
acclamation. Sir Charles replied, and the meeting
broke up.

COLLISION ON THE EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY.

NEWPORT, THURSDAY EVENING.—An investigation that
occupied several hours this-day, was proceeded with at the
police-court of the town gaol, before Messrs. Wolf and Smith,
county Magistrates, in hearing a series of charges laid against
Mr. John King, the late stationmaster at Stanstead, on the
Eastern Counties Railway, through whose neglect it was
alleged the recent fearful collision on that line was oc-
casioned.
The defendent was arrested a few hours after the accident,
and underwent an examination before the board of directors
at the Shoreditch terminus. The prosecution was referred to
the county Magistrates, and on Monday lie was taken before
Mr. Smith, who released him on bail, to meet the charges of
the Company this day. He was defended by Mr. Taylor, a
solicitor of Bishop's Stortford.
Mr. Widdecombe, of the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany's Solicitor's office, then proceeded to state the nature of
the charges he was entrusted to prefer against the defendant.
They were three in number, the first being laid under the
by-laws of the Company, for endangering the lives and limbs
of her Majesty's subjects ; and the other two under the Act
for the better regulation of railways, called Seymour's Act,
for neglect of duty and impeding the passage of an engine.
The Company hO'd deemed it incumbent to institute the
prosecution for the full protection of the lives and property
of the public, and to prevent, by all possible means, the re-
currence of a similar disaster. The charge against the de-
fendant was a very serious one, and he could assure the
Bench the Company was not actuated by any vindictive
spirit, but only promoted the present proceedings with a
view of punishing him as the law afforded, provided the de-
fendant had so neglected his duty as to jeopardise the lives
of the public. He then called
John Lowe, who stated that he was a guard in the em-
ploy of the Company. He accompanied the goods train
from Ely at half•past nine o'clock on Saturday night, the
train comprising 22 trucks, drawn by two engines, numbered
55 and 56. On reaching within two miles and a half of El-
senham the train came to a stand-still, in consequence of
the slippery state of the rails. The engine 56 was detached
to go on to Bishop's Stortford, to water, and he afterwards
went on with half the trucks, drawn by 55 engine. On ar-
riving at Stanstead the trucks, thirteen in number, were
put in a down line siding, to avoid the main rails, and to
allow trains to pass. Both engines then went on to Stort-
ford and watered, and returned, the 55 engine taking the
trucks left on the line at Elsenham on to London. After
the lapse of some time the engine 56 he saw on the up-line,
close to the station, in readiness to take the trucks from the
down siding, when one of the trucks was found to be off the
rails. As soon as he ascertained the obstruction he went to
the defendant, and asked him if he had got the signals up
and down the line, who replied, "Yes, I have. It's all
right." Witness saw a signal towards London as far as a
bridge, held by a porter, and was more than half a mile
thet requestrails,
assistedmoving towards
t Elsenham. e
truck
tn k
that ile
was did
offn o
from where the engine stood. He also saw a small
red signal lamp on the farther end of the plat-
form
then o
in h
of
the
any one to take a signal down the line. With several others,
when he heard a train coming up ; it was a cattle one. He
instantly ran into the middle of the road with a red lamp in
his hand, when Charles Randall, the driver of the engine,
standing on the up-rails, ready to take the trucks on,
snatched it out of his hand and proceeded to run towards the
approaching train, waving it. It was then not more than thirty
or forty yards distant, the distance being too short to prevent
a collision. It was going at about seventeen or eighteen
miles an hour, and it was not going to stop at the Stanstead
station. The engines of the cattle train struck the one on
the rails in waiting for the trucks, and forced it onwards fifty
or sixty yards, damaging it, much. The cattle-train engines
were driven off the rails, greatly injured, and five trucks con-
taining bullocks, and one of the trucks on the siding was also
completely smashed. The engine-driver, stoker, and guards
escaped injury by jumping from the train. One of the drivers
and one of the stokers were hurt. The time of the collision
was about a quarter to seven o'clock on Sunday morning. It
was twilight; he could see half a mile down the line. Could
not say that the defendant saw the stationary engine on the
up-rails; he did sot tell him of it being there.
By the BENCH—After the collision saw the defendant come
out of the station, and he did not appear to be sober Ile said
to witness, " This is a bad job, Lowe ; what is to be done?"
Witness answered that it was, and inquired where the man
was who was sent down the line with the signal lamp. De-
fendant replied that he did not send a man down, but he had
got a light on the platform. Witness observed that he had
deceived him in saying that the signals were all right up and
down the line. The defendant might have been of much
service after the collision, but he did not in the least assist or
give any directions.
Cross-examined—The defendant knew what lie was
about. It was dark and rainy, and a man sitting up
during the whole night was likely to appear drowsy in the
morning. Cattle •trains are in the habit of passing up the
line all hours of the night. Nobody knows when they are
coming.
The facts of the case having been so recently before the
public, it is unnecessary to pursue the evidence Kirther.
The Court was then cleared of strangers, and after a short
consultation of the Magistrates, they expressed their judg-
ment, to the effect that as there was a doubt suggested to
them upon the applicability of the Act of Parliament they
had determined upon sending the case to the quart, r sessions,
requiring the defendant to put in good sureties for his ap-
pearance to answer any charge or indictment that might
be preferred against him. The Bench further observed, that
if they had adjudicated upon the case, they would have con-
victed the defendant, but in order that full publicity should
re
be given of the enormity of the offence, they had 3:1 s,, yed to
send it to another tribunal, as it would
9PerAte in checking
the recurrence of similar offences.
The defendant was then cammitted for trial,
N T'

We regret to lesrn that Thomas Miller (the poet
basketimker, late of "this town) is at present labouring
under total deprivation of sight, in consequence of an attack
of erysipelas. This visitation derives additional interest
from the fact that in the present instance the calamity has
befallen one of Nature's most gifted children, whose genius
has revelled in the picturesque beauties of his native land,
aind who, in his works, has de,cribed with inexpressible
smplicity and pathos the scenes and incidents of rural life.
To add to the disaster, a numerous family of young children
a dely dependent on the literary exertions of Mr. Miller.—
Nottingham Review.
INTERMENT OF TIIE DEAD IN CH URCIIYA RDS. —Mr.
Anderton, one of the Common Council members for Farring-
don Without, has given notice of the following motion; which
will be discussed in the next Court:—" That this Court do
petition Parliament to pass an Act to prohibit interment of
the dead in churches and churchyards within the city of
London and other large cities and towns, and prevent the
violation of waves." The honourable member has given
notice that a petition be presented to both Houses of Par-
liament to pass an Act to prevent nuisances arising from the
smoke of steam-engines and furnaces in manufactories and
bumtnster, and steam-boats on the river Thames.
oN ARTFULLY A PPLIED.—
Adored And
Angelic Amelia,—Accept An Ardent And Artless Amorist's
ALLITERATION
ERAT situatel in and near the cities of London and West-
Affections; Alleviate An Anguished Admirer's Alarms, And
Answer An Amorous Applicant's Avowed Ardour. Ah,
Amelia ! All Appears An Awful Aspect : Ambition, Av4rlced
And Arrogance! ipasi Are' tfrAptive Allurempnts, And
Abase .An Ardent
, Attachment. Appease An Aching And
Affectionate Adorer's Alarms, A-d Anon Ackowledge
Alliance
Affianced Albert's As Agreeable And Acceptable.
Anxiously Awaiting An Affectionate And Affirmative
Answer, Accept An Ardent Admirer's Aching Adieu:—
any
ALBEET.—AIb
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Ew -ARIFF.—In the schedule published on Wed-
nesday,
ties to byo
authredority, the followil g item appeared amongst
the dbt uced Plain linen and , not other-
wise enumerated or described,
and whetherdiaper chequered or
striped with dye, yarn, or not, for every 100/. value 101." A
corrected list was issued with the Votes yesterday, in.
the above paragraph is omitted. whicly