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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA

THE REVENUE FOR. THE Y.

EAR AND QUARTER ENDING J

LY 5, 1846
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No. I.—An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue of Greal

Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1845, and sth of
or Decrease on each head thereof.

July, 1846, showing the Increase

QUARTERS ENDED rEAIt QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
-&_____ • --, elided - , , --A , ended • Year ended July 5. Quarter ended July 5
Oct.'_.-___.--A- -- r- ....A__________,
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Oct. 10, 1 Jan. 5, . April 5, July 5, July 5, Ot 10, Jan. 5, April 5 July 5, Jaly 5, !
1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1846 1846 1846 1846 ' Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
----- - £
I££,-£ X X X X 1
Customs .............. 6,002,855 1 4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,548 19,807;044 ' 4,848,363 4,394,789 3,961,918 4,523,391 17,688,461 Customs ... •
£ £
' £
•- •• 2,118,983 23,843 £
-
Excise . ..... .... ~.... 3,900,890 3,230,940 1,917,485 2,90,684 12,074,999 3,955,106 3,333,837 1,626,458 3,104,711 12,,25,112 1 Excise .... • ..... • • •• • • 49,887 13(:).,0.2. 7
108781
Stamps ........... .. .. 1,665,638 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 6,846,883 - 1,780,175 1,702,402 1,685,868 1,730,495 6,988,940 1 Stamps .••••• • :. • • 142,057 •• • •
Taxes . • . -
Property Tax.. .. .. .... ' 1,958,711 487,541 1,905,711 91-9,991 5,261,914 1,823,883 386,085 1,963,882 1,009,162 5,183,912 . Property Tax. ••• • • • ... 78,042 99,171 -
Post office 200,000 146,000 178,000 155,000 679,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 181,000 , 794,000 i Post-oftice ..... .... 115,000 •• • • 26,000 -
Crown Lands •••• • • • ... 10,000 50,000 35,000 30,000 125,000 ' 30,000 25,000 45,000 - 100,000 , Crown Lands .•• • • • 725,277 25,000 .... 30,000
Miscellaneous . • ..... .. 220,961 9,190 415,016 13,652 658,819 465,102 369,471 91,522 458,001 1,384,096 i Miscellaneous ••• • • • •• • • •• • • 444,349 -
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Total Ordinary Revenne 14,220,544 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 49,652,140 13,312,908 12,332,535 0,735,790 13,013,187 48,394,420 !
! Total .. .... • • 983.792 '2,271,512 733,250 136,581
rest Moneys, &c. .. 28,117 146,759 206,007 29,262 410,145 24,591 64,084 52,909 73,939 215,523 Imprest Moneys, &c. •• • • 194 6 44,677 --
Repayments of_tilvances 123,692 250,980 418,549 182,354 975,571 473,881 404,179 456,473 111,607 1 1,446,140 ' RepamntsofAdvncs. 470,569 70,747
• ... • ...
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Total Income ... 14,372,353 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 51,067,856 113,811,380 12,800,799 10,245,172 13,195,733 i 50,056,083 Total ........ 1,454,361 2,466,131 782,927 207,328
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Amount applied to Con- 1 Deduct - ,), 1 Deduct
solidated Fund .. •. .. 11,264,625 9,830,758 7,273,077 8,255,562 36,024,022 1 8,869,973 7,859,997 5,468,355 8,476,134 30,674,459 : -increase 11,454,361 20 0,3
Decrease.
Ditto, as Advances .•• .. 184,225 262,001 360,000 101,501 927,727 550,000 615,077 1 140,000 91,501 1,396,578
1) Us, as Ways & Means I Decrease Increase
of the Tear.......... 2,923,903: 2,612,934 3,713,599 4,266,071 13,516,107 1 4,391,407 4,325,724. 4,636,317 4,631,098 1 17,085,046 on 1,011,773 575,599 on the
----- ----, the Year. . Qum ter.
Total... •• 14,372,353: 12,705,693 11,366,679 112,623,13.1 i 51,067,856 113,811,350 12,800,798 10;245,172 13,198,733 1 50,056,083 .

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

Quarters ended Jnl3 5.
/ -
INCOME. 1843 1 1846 \
X. X.
Customs •••.••.• • • • • • • • ............ 4,499,543 4,523,391
Excise ..... ...... .................. 2,980,683 3,117,181
Stamps .............. • • ............ 1,837,076 1,730,495
Taxes . . 2,000,562 2,006,427
Property Tax .... . • ....... .
Post-office • • •
Crown Lands .. . .. •••• • • • • 30,000
Miscellaneous •• • •
Produce of Money received from China 440,000
Imprest and other Moneys ••••• • • • • • "29,262 ' 73,939
Repayments of Advances .• •
12,638,133 13,211,203
To Cash brought to this Account to be
applied to pay off Deficiency Bills.. 250,000
12,588,133 13,211,203

Quarters ended July 5,

5,650,119
618,886
1,407
595,150
98,004
370,584

MAGAZINES —(CON TIN LIED.)
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
To an enterprising young legislator, desirous of distin-
guishing himself, we could not recommend a subject more
promising than that of army jobs. Of the grossness of
the jobs perpetrated in the army, we had no idea until
we read Colonel Firebrace's paper on jobs in general,
in the present number of the United Service. The
following extract, partially anatomising what the writer
calls the great job in the army, is long, but the subject
is so important that we feel it necessary to give it :
" All the regiments that were raised up to the end of the
eighteenth century, however proud they may be of their fame
and honour at the present day, were originally raised by job.
A sort of contract was given to gentlemen, some of whom
were not officers at the time, to raise regiments ; they made a
bargain with subordinates, few or none of whom had been
previously in the army, to raise a certain number of men, and
according to their success in that way, they were rewarded
with Ensigncies, Lieutenantcies, and companies, the Colonels
retaining the absolute property in the regiments so raised,
with all the profits of clothing, &c., and the regiments bore
for many years afterwards, and until they were numbered,
the names of these worthy personages, who turned the affairs
into an excellent job. Many of the inferior ranks, who only
gave their assistance to their patron for the sake of getting a
sort of position in the world, and some pay, or were actuated
by the vanity of wearing the King's livery, soon found out
that they had mistaken their trade, and that a soldier's life
was not what suited them. In this dilemma they applied to
their Colonel, who, pitying their embarrassment, said he
would endeavour to release them from their engagements, for
a con-si-de-ra-tion, not openly to be avowed, but by permit-
ting these persons to sell their commissions to others whom
he would nominate. A portion of this traffic no doubt fell to
the Commandant, in the shape of commission, &c. The job
of raising the men originally, was one of constant deception,
fraud, debauchery, and drunkenness. Such was the origin of
the British army, and I blush to say, that it still bears about
with it undoubted traces of its polluted birth.
"The Colonels, who had not unfrequently expended large
sums in these levies, looked on the soldiers of their respective
corps exactly as the Russians and Poles do on their serfs;
the rigour of martial law hung constantly over their heads,
and as to any amelioration of the hard life of a soldier, or
bestowing any instruction on him beyond the drill, they
would just as soon have thought of sending him up in an air-
balloon. Besides the original bargains between those who
retired and those who purchased, the Colonel had all the
waifs and strays, men dying or being killed, or resigning,
whose commissions he might dispose of as he pleased; when
it might not appear decorous to sell the commission, he had
only to put in his own natural son, or that of any friend. I
have known myself of a General Officer pensioning off his
butler in this manner. There were no records kept at head-
quarters, and officers might be kept on the pay-lists years
after they were dead; and as in the early stages, the Colonel
had the whole management of his corps, he might continue
drawing the pay of dead officers and men, if not withheld
by principle. I can perfectly recollect in the regiment I was
in, that we had a Captain in our pay-lists who had been
dead five years—who got his pay I never heard. To help
along the emoluments of the poor Colonel, he was allowed a
certain number of imaginary beings—men of straw—for
whom pay was drawn, under the name of non-effectives,
which name was borne after I went into the army; it was
afterwards altered to commuted allowance, and is now given
in the infantry to the Captains of companies, for the repair
of arms, and to meet any losses they may suffer from deser-
tion or dying in debt. A vestige of these non-effectives fur
the benefit of the Colonel is still to be found in the cavalry,
where they are called hautbois—not amiss, for they are all
en Pair. Further to assist the Colonel who had spent money
in raising a regiment, he was made a tailor, and, I rejoice to
say, he still continues so—the cabbage being denominated
off-reckonings?
" The Colonel thus, besides his pay of 20s. a-day, had the
sale of the commissions of his regiment, and all the, under-
hand negotiations inseparable from such transactions. He
might draw the pay of dead officers and men, as there was no
check on him ; he had invented for his use a set of imaginary
beings, for whom he drew pay; and he was master-tailor of
his regiment. I ask if this was not altogether a very nice
job?
" These little pickings were not thought adequate reward
for their arduous services, and they were promoted in large
batches to the rank of Major-General, and successively to
Lieutenant-General and General, and this is the respectable
origin of General Brevets, which in time of war annually
hoisted up, like sacks of flour through a miller's loft, a cer-
tain number of officers, whose commissions were dated in one
year, without the slightest reference to talent, ability, or
even bodily capability. Without running through the long
succession of these promotions, I may be allowed to notice
the last year of war-1814.
"'l here were in the "Army List" of that year 5 Field-
Marshals, 87 Generals, 196 Lieutenant-Generals, and 321
Major-Generals ; give to each of the last-named rank a com-
mand of 3,000 men, and it would require an army of 963,000;
give the whole of the 609 Generals the same small command
of 3,000 men each, and it would require an army of 1,827,000.
Of these 609 Generals, I have counted out 188 that never saw
the face of an enemy, and at least as many more who were
never entrusted with any command as General Officers;—
and, I ask, is this not a splendid job?
"Notwithstanding the Brevets are far apart since the
Peace, one might have supposed that thirty years would
have entirely done away with this burden; but I find by
the "Army List" of 1843, that there were still 414 General
Officers receiving pay; of these, 42 are since dead, leaving a
balance of 372: give each of these, as before proposed, a com-
mand of 3,000 men, and we should have a numerical force of
1,116,000 men, just about the strength of the British army—
striking off the million.
But this is not all ; the power of selling half-pay com-
missions has given occasion to the grossest jobbing, and
the consequence of all this is, that the officers of the
British army are, generally speaking, profoundly igno-
rant of their profession, and would, in the opinion of the
writer of this article, be found utterly incompetent to
defend their country in case it should be invaded. He
also makes out a strong case of jobbing against the
Ordnance Department. The statements contained in
this paper may be exaggerated, but unless they are
altogether fictious, the writer has made out a prima
facie case for inquiry, and we join with him in expres-
sing a wish that Mr. Hume would devote his attention
to the subject. This magazine in addition to its valu-
able papers on professional subjects, contains, as usual,
much pleasant reading.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING

MAGAZINE.

There is in this number of Douglas Jerrold a most va
luable paper, entitled Ireland and the Irish," which it
would be well that all those who talk or write
about Ireland should read, and that those who
are called upon to legislate for that unfortunate
and ill-used country, should study. That Ireland is
suffering under great and intolerable evils it is impos-
sible to deny, the question to be considered is, how are
those evils to be remedied?
" There is but one true remedy for the evils of Ireland, and
it is comprised in one word—JUSTICE ; justice to her toiling,
ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed children. She might, with a fair
claim to being heard, ask of England mercy, and a helping
hand as well. From her she has received the deer wounds
that vet rankle in her sides; but let her receive justice, free
and Unstinted justice, and rapidly will the evils of her condi-
tion disappear, and plenty and prosperity visit her. This is
vague : I will explain what I mean. It is security for life
and property—the cant phrase of some of her doctors, but
not as they mean it :—security, not for the lordling in his
castle, he does not require it, but for the peasant in his cottage ;
not for the landowner, but from him ;—security to the poor
man for the just results of his industry. There are robbers
and murderers in Ireland who disturb its whole moral and
physical constitution, and prevent its progress ; but they are
not clad in rags or frieze, but in brocades and broad cloth,
reclining in saloons, living in clubs and palaces, and received
and acknowledged in the houses of the great—not the puny
midnight assassin doing his solitary murder, but wholesale
slaughterers, who sweep away whole families by tens and
hundreds at a time—not the caitiff wretch, driven by penury
to snatch from the traveller his gold, and trembling for the
consequences, but men of titlekoblemen, as they are called,
wresting from the trembling hand of penury the bread of life,
from the toiling hand of industry its hard-earned profits, and
doing the whole with legal sanction, according to Act of
Parliament.
" To do that justice, to effect that security, the whole sys-
tem of landed tenure should be altered—it is at present most
artificial and absurd. Improvements are proposed, and they
show a disposition to grapple with the monster evil of Ire-
land, but they are but tinkenngs. It is not enough that a
simple form of lease should be appointed ; landholders should
be obliged to give them, by decreeing that in all disputes
about land, where there is not documentary evidence to the
contrary, and in all doubtful cases, the occupier should be
deemed to be the owner. £his is the case with regard to all
other property ; why is land an exception ? Thus would
the granting of leases be enforced. These should be as simple
as possible, and always at the expense of the landlord, as
they would be for his protection, and not that of the tenant.
With regard to the proposal to remunerate the tenant
for improvements, the writer considers it good, as far
as it goes, but it does not go to the root of the evil;
to do that the writer says every encouragement and faci-
lity must be given to the purchasers of land :
" The laws of entail and all the legal difficulties and tech •