The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

TEE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING OC

OBER 10, 1846.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Nct Produce of the Revenue of Great BritainiL
Decrease k . ears andh
Qu
heaarters ended 10th of ()etcher 1845, and
Increase or on eacd thereof. '

oth of October, 1846, shuwing the

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR- Year ended Oct. 10. Quarter ended Oct. 10
~.- •-••••!-----4 t ended r 4 I ended r.--......_____, (--.-........_-,
5, July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, i/
April 5 July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 10,
1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1846 1846 1846 1846 1846 Increase. Decrease. Increase. 1 Decrease.
Jan. 5, April
.....____.
•••••--- ----- -----
X £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
,354,789 ?,961,918 4,523,391 5,310,835 18,150,933 Customs .•• • • • .....
££ £ £ £
Customs
4,902,135 4,402,506 4,499,543 4,848,363 18,652,552 4
Excise .... ...... .... .. 3,230,940 1,917,435 2,965,684 3,955,106 12,0( 9,215 3,338,837 1,626,458 3,104,711 4,181,926 12,251,932 Excise 182,717 •• • • 226,820 -
1,730,495 1,174,364 6,983,129 Stamps . -
21,759 . • • • 5,811
Stamps . ...... .. .. .. .. 1,601,658 1,742,461 1,837,076 1,780,175 6,961,370 1,792,402 1,685,808 •..
Taxes 1,880,490 145,945 2,000,567 201,279 4,228,241 1,876,051 146,142 2,006,427 209,940 4,238,560 Taxes 10,279 •• • • 8,661 -
Property Tax. ..... .. .. 487,541 1,905,711 909,991 1,823,883 5,127,126 386,985 1,963,882 1,009,162 1,972,128 5,332,157 Property Tax ••• • • • 205,031 .• .. 148,245 -
Post-office ..... .. ...... 146,000 178,000 155,000 209,000 668,000 189,000 215,000 181,000 217,000 802,000 Post-office .•••• • . • • 114,000 •• • • 8,000 -
Crown Lands .... .. .. .. 50,000 35,000 30,000 30,000 145,030 25,000 45,000 - 45,000 115,000 Crown Lands 30,000 05,000 -
•• • •
Miscellaneous ... .... .. 9,190 415,016 13,652 465,102 902,960 369,471 91,522 458,001 405,554 1,324,548 Miscellaneous ••• • • . 421,588 •• • • 59,548
•• • •
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Total Ordinary Revenue 12,307,954 10,742,124 12,411,518 13,312,908 48,774,504 12,332,535 9,735
I ---
5-90 13,013,187 14,116,747 49,198,259 Total .••• • • • • 955,374 531,619 869,198 65,359
Imprest Moneys, &c. .. 146,759 206,007 29,262 24,591 406,619 64,034 52,909 73,939 33,815 224,747 Imprest Moneys &c. •• • • 181,872 9,224
Repayments ofAdvances 250,980 418,545 182,354 473,881 1,325,760 404,179 456,473 111,607 199,882 1,172,141 Repamnts ofAdvn' cs. •• • • 153,619 •• .. 273,999
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Total Incom9 ... 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 13,811,380 50,506,883 12,800,798 10,245,172 13,198,733 14,350,444 50,595,147 ' Total
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a Deduct
Amount applied to Con- Decrease.
solidated Fund ••• • .. 9,830,758 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 34,229,370 7,859,997 5,468,355 8,476,134 7,617,435 29,421,921 867,110 [ D Deductecre as e 339'35'5
Ditto, as Advances .•• • . 262,001 380,000 101,501 550,000 1,293,502 615,077 140,000 91,501 472,500 1,319,078 ---
Ditto, as Ways & Means Increase Increase
of the Year. ••••• • • • • 2,612,934 3,713,599 4,266,071 4,391,407 14,984,011 4,325,724 4,636,817 4,631,098 6,260,509 19,854,148 88,264 i on 539,064 on the
the Year. Quarter.
Total . .... 12,705,693 11,366,676 12,623,134 13,811,380 50,506,883 112,800,798 110,245,172 13,198,733 ?14,350,444 5%595,147

Total

No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the 10th October, 1845, and the 10th October, 1846.

Quarters ended Oct. 10,
- __.......

CHARCE•

Permanent Debt • ......... ... ~ ~.. , ......, .... ~.... ~,,, „ , ...
Terminable Annuitie5.............................
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consoli(
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
For Advances . • . • • • • • • • • • • • .. . ...... .............

5,540,730
1,320,492

dated 'Fund

705,118
98,782
460,955

Compensation • • • • • • • •

472,500

Total C]

:harge • • • • • • • • • •

8,598,077
5,762,370

The Surplus • • • • .... • • • • •

14,360,447

rnsolldated Fund for the Quarter ended
'und for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846,

The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Co)
July 5, 1846, and paid off out of the growing produce of that F
after deducting 810,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund • • • • • •
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846, in part of
the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services•• • • • • • • • ....... • • • • • •
The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846 •
The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet
Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846 ••• • • • ..... •••••• • • • • • •

229,344

the sums granted by Parliament out of

498,138

the charge on the Consolidated Fund,

727,482

example. Hudson, as O'Doaoghue was exactly
fitted, and he rattled through the part in the most
joyous manner imaginable. It is, perhaps, the best
thing he has yet done. Howe, as Ormonde, exhibited
great pathos where the exhibition of feeling was neces-
sary, and was easy and gentlemanly throughout. Be
is mellowing into a first-rate actor. Of Webster's
Killicrankie it is impossible to speak too highly. In
the delineation of such quaint and eccentric characters,
as that of the old Scotch Major, no one on the stage can
come near him. The piece was admirably mounted, and
the views of Hampton Court, its gardens and its
grounds, which constituted the scenery, were perfect
pictures, and so accurate that
"Each path and every alley green,
Dingle and busby dell,"
could be at once recognised.

ADDITIONS TO THE METRO
POLIS WESTWARD.
It is instructive to observe how rapidly the progress of
centralisation is advancing, and it may be by the aid of
railroads, civilisation also. According to the city records
at Guildhall, it appears that on the 7th of July, 1580, by
a proclamation, dated at Nonsuch, by Queen Elizabeth,
all persons were prohibited from building houses within
three miles of any of the city gates of London, and va-
rious other regulations were ordered to be enforced to
prevent any further resort of the people to the capital
from distant parts of the country.* In the year 1602,
just one year before Elizabeth expired at Richmond, ac-
cording to the Feelers, vol. xvi., p. 448, another procla-
mation was made for restraining the increase of buildings
in the metropolis, by which she commands all persons to
desist from any new building of any house or tenement
within three miles of London, only one family to live in
any house ; empty houses erected within seven years not
to be let, and unfinished buildings on new foundations to
be pulled down.t In the following month another pro-
clamation was made for restraining the increase of build-
ings, and for the " voyding of inmates" in the cities of
London and Westminster, and for the space of three
miles distanet
Immediately after the demise of the Queen, her suc-
cessor, James 1., issued a proclamation, whereby " mul-
titudes of dwellers in straight roomes" were prohibited
and newly erected houses commanded to be pulled
down.§ Several other proclamations were made in this
reign, James remarking that the growth of the capital
resembled the head of a rickety child, in which an ex-
cessive influx of humour drained and impoverished the
extremities, and at the same time generated distemper
in the overloaded part.
Soon after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
(1605-6) another proclamation was issued regarding the
increase of new buildings in and about the metropolis ;
and from this time to the accession of the house of
Hanover but little mention is made of Government in-
terference.
The prophecy of old Mother Shipton, whose effigy still
adorns a road-side public house, near Hampstead, has
not yet been consummated. The old sybil said, that
" when London reached Hampstead, the former would
decline and fall." Notwithstanding this, Somers Town,
Camden Town, Pentonville, Finsbury and Islington,
Hoxton and Holloway, have all, by a persevering spirit
of building, joined Hampstead and Highgate, and it is
impossible to breathe freely until we get still further
north.
Eastward from Aldgate Pump, through Mile-end to
Stratford-at-Bow, there is not a sqnare foot of vantage
ground ; and southward, from the Elephant and Castle,
a goodly ten miles may be traversed from any point of
the compass, without meeting with a single untenanted
spot. To the westward, the overgrown wen of London
bids fair to shake hands with Windsor, from Albert
Gate, where Hudson's mansion stands.
To Hammersmith all is continuation of brick and mor-
tar ; new churches, new hospitals,ll and other public
buildings, rise up in rapid succession. But there is an-
other gate from which we may diverge, that of Tyburn,
and heavy indeed would be the task of counting the end-
less rows of newly-built mansions • whether we pro-
gress towards Bayswater, or to Harrow, we may find
about a dozen new churches, and yet another new hos-
pital in the course of erection, St. Mary's, Paddington,
of which that excellent friend of humanity, the member
for St. Albans, Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., is a warm
advocate and supporter.
The princely manificence of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde
Park, is almost incredible--each mansion has a splendid
conservatory, stabling for four horses, harness-rooms,
double coach-house, with loft and sleeping-rooms. It is
built on a gravelly soil, and is half a mile in length, ter-
minated by the new parish church (St. John's.) Another
church has been recently erected at the north end, near
the contemplated private entrance for her Majesty to the
Great Western Railway. Westbourne-terraeuT is forty
feet wider than Portland-place," and seventy feet above
high water mark, the ground-floors being on a level with
the attics of Eaton and Belgrave-squares. The ground
owner of this immense estate is William Kingdom, Esq.
The rentals of these princely residences vary, the lowest
being 3501. per annum, and the highest 5501.
Gloucester-terrace, parallel to Westbourne-terrace,
presents another noble range of houses, of which the
rentals each average 1301. Oxford and Cambridge-ter-
races are all of recent construction, as are Sussex-gar-
dens, Sussex-square, Gloucester-terrace, St. Phillip's
Church, Westbourne-street, and Kensington Garden-
terrace, leading into the Uxbridge-road. We have said
nothing of St. John's Wood or Pimlico, and their exten-
sions; enough has been stated to startle the contempla-
tive or reflecting mind. It may be added that there are
aearly forty different building societies in London, form-
ing a sort of joint-stock partnership for the erection of
houses in the suburbs of the metropolis.

* Mait land, i., 264. Feeders, vol. xvi.
Howe's Stowe, p. 812. Howe's Stowe, p. 827.
On the Brompton-road, opposite the York-terrace, arises
the western wing and principal entrance of the new Hospital
for Consumption. and Diseases of the Chest, which, when
finally completed, will rank among the first of our metropoli-
tan charities. A sum of nearly 14,0001. has already been
expended in its erection. The architect is Frederick J.
Francis, Esq., of Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, and the
builders Messrs. Bird, of Hammersmith. When completed,
accommodation will be afforded to 200 indoor patients.
¶ The ground on which these modern palaces are erected is
church property, and leased for a period of ninety-eight
years, granted by the Bishop of London and trustees of the
Paddington estate.
" Comparative width of the principal streets of London :

ft in.
Dover -street ... ••• 44 0
South Audley-street 45 0
Park-street ... 47 9
Albemarle-street ... 49 5
Wimpole-street ... 51 6
Brook-street ... ••• 53 1
Bond-street ••• ••• 56 6
Upper Grosvenor-st• 57
Great George-street..• 57 21
Harley-street ..• ••• 57 3
Grosvenor-street ••• b 0
Bruton-street ... 59 3
Nottingham-place ,60 6
Curzon-street .•. 59 9
Gower-street 60 0

ft. in.
Harley-street, Upper 62 6
Gloucester-place ... 69 0
Baker-street ... 69 6
Devonshire-place ... 71 9
Oxford-street ... 72 8
Great Cumberland-pl. 74 3
Pall-mail 79 9
St, arnes's-street ... 85 3
Regent-street ... 88 0
George-t,, Hanov. sq. 112 0
Horse Guards ... 118 0
Portland- place ... ... 125 0
Oxford and Cambridge
terrace ... ... 157 9
Westbourne-terrace... 165 0

SVGA' .—A return to thell House of Commons, of
the quantity of sugar exported from the territories of
the East India Company in the years 1844 and 1845 re-
spectively, has just been delivered. It is signed T. L.
Peacock, Examiner of Indian Correspondence. The re-
turns from Calcutta are given one year in Bengal, the '
other in Indian maund.s ; those from Madras and Bom-
bay in cwts.; those from Prince of Wales' Island, Singa-
pore in Malacca, in. peculs. Whether the examiner has
abstained from translating the various weights into a
common standard for the purpose of keeping the total
from the knowledge of the vulgar, or whether the au-
thor of "Headlong Hall " was in too great a hurry to
give himself the trouble, it is not for us to determine.
But there is an air of cavalier resistanco of inquiry about
from Mr. Peacock not having condescended
offoLedasdoemnheadlilffi-sterueletyt.
Ithnecornevtuerrtniugratthheerwecihgahrtactue.reite
whether his mounds are "factory" 0,. ,‘ , ,?
We have assumed that they -
... .
nazaar inaunus-*
' "-
them at 75 lbs. tr-
have t9-keil
i are factory, and
sufficient
approxim- '
—.cad of 74 lbs. 10 oz., as
a interpret,
purpose. We venture to
from
,a,ion for our
the returns 1
;se of the country gentleman,
.ur the 30th April respectively :-- t 9 explain
Ist May to
ii.,....1,046,973 • I,3b° 4
Bombay
Wales'l l d . 7,968 • Prince of san ..
no return.
(6 alv36a "' **
...".""
35 171
Ikte.(4oB"' *** 85,186
' singapore
. , 87,945 no return.
96,360
no return.
1843-4—cwts. 1844:57
98 nO return.
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