The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-03 00:00:00

THE REVENUE.

The accounts of the receipts of the revenue for the
year and for the quarter respectively ending on the sth
01 July will not be made up before Wednesday night
next, nor published before Thursday. Whilst it is im-
possible to calculate how much may continue to be re-
ceive& during the very last few days of the quarter, it is
of course impossible to speak with perfect accuracy of
the comparative receipts of the year and of the quarter
about to end with the corresponding periods of the last
year. This much, however, we are enabled to say, that
the deficiency on the quarter, as compared with the
quarter ending July 5, 1847, will be slight, and the
tailing off on the year will not be so great as has been
generally dreaded. This state of things is most encou-
raging, when it is recollected that the quarter and the
year ending July 5, 1847, with which the present is com-
pared, were both unusually prosperous, having shown a
large increase over the year 1846. The whole receipts for
the year ending July 5, 1846, amounted to 50,056,0831.,
whilst at the same period of 1847 the receipts were
51,060,1091., although in the first year more than one
million of China money was included in the amount. IF,
therefore, we had to compare the present with the year
ending July, 1846, it would show a most gratifying in-
crease. And even when compared with the unusual
prosperity of last year, the condition of the revenue for
the year just ended is such as to excite no fears for the
buoyancy and stability of the resources of the country.
The returns will certainly show much less unfhvourably
than was apprehended some time back. The revenue
for the quarter is especially calculated to afford well-
grounded hopes of returning prosperity. The excise is
the only considerable item upon which a positive in-
crease is to be expected. This is to be attributed to the
improved activity in the malt trade, and also to the fact
of the carriage duties having been transferred from the
Stamps and Taxes to the Excise department. This
latter circumstance, as well as the limitation of trade
and banking operations, will account for a serious fall-
ing-off in the department of Stamps and Taxes. The
Customs, too, we regret to say, will not exhibit
so prosperous a condition as might be wished. The
convulsed state of Europe has, no doubt, done much to
check the increasing prosperity in that important branch
of cur revenue, to which we looked forward with so
much confidence. The payments for the last few weeks
on account of corn duties have been considerable, but
these have been, in some degree, counterbalanced by the
, quantity of colonial sugar which has been kept back,
; waiting the new duties expecting to be imposed after
the sth of July. These are the most important items
of revenue. The property and income tax is neces-
sarily of a steady character. Tho smaller items will
show no increase as compared with the prosperous cor-
responding
,quarter of last year. These comparisons
are made as to the receipts only, and have no refer-
ence to the relation of the receipts with the expendi-
ture of the year, of which the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer was able to give a much less unfavourable estimation
on Friday evening in the House of Commons than had
been previously looked for. In every point of view,
,herefore, there is ground for hope and congratulation.
—Observer.

BURFORD'S PANORAMA ROYAL, LEICESTER-
SQUARE. - The following distinguished visitors have
recently honoured the Panoramas with their company:—
The Duke de Nemours, Duke d'Aumale, and Monsieur
Guizot; Prince Metternich, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke
of Brunswick, the Duchess of Buccleugh, Marchioness
of Thomond, Countess of Norbury, Lady Gaysborough,
Lady Coutts Trotter, Lady Martins, Sir Robert and
Lady Robins, Mrs. Sheriff Hill, Mrs. Watson Taylor,
Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun, Minister and Consul of the
Hanse Towns and Kingdom of Saxony; Lord and Lady
Castlereagh, Major Beckler, Mr. Andrew Drummond
and family, Sir Augustus and Lady roster, Sir H. J.
Brickman, Lady Currie, Lady Burne and Hon. Miss
Burne, Lady Bell, Lady, General, and Miss Galloway,
Miss Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Ureathead, Hon. S. Per
cival, Sir R. 11. Inglis, General Hunter Blair and family,
Lady Vaughan, Earl and Countess of Stamford, Hon.
Mr. Poucher, Madame Bunsen and daughters, Mr. and
Mrs. Bosanquet, Lord and Lady Sudelev, Lord Shadwell,
Sir Edward and Lady Hayes, the Earl- and
family, yet and and
family, Sir George and Lady Talbot, Lady Holsle,
Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Cardigan and wady,
Lady Webster, Lady Williams, Sir John and Lady
Anderson, Hon. Mrs. Goldsmith, Hon. Mrs.
.Dent, the
Countess of Mansfield and family, the Marquis of The-
mond, Sir Eustace Ceril, Lady Melrose, Lord. and Lady
Morton, Lady Buller, the lion. Mrs. Hardinge, and
Mrs. Joddrell, Marquis of Northampton, the lady. and
daughter of Dr. Jelf, Mr. and Lady Luisa Finch,
Viscount Mahon, Lady Brougham, Lady Mallett, Lord
Mornington, Lord Adair, Lady and the Misses Hawar-
den, Mrs. Scott Warning ILO. Miss Coventry, Sir
Claudius and Lady hunter, Dirs. hicks Beach, &c., &c.