The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL' S.
So many have left to partake of the Christmas festivities
'a the country, that it is now a difficult matter to muster
Members sufficient to constitute " a House ;" such was
the case yesterday, the few remaining in town being kept
'lv/ay by the unfavourable state of the weather. Business,
Is a necessary consequence, is at a stand still, and, in all
Probability, will continue so till the early part of the en-
king month, by which time the North country lot will
'gin to move Southward : it will include Mr. Watt's
llobastes, Colonel Cradock's Emigrant, Mr. Vansittart's
Slight filly, Mr. Walker's Delirium, Mr. Walker's Co-
tillion, Lord Sligo's Oaks filly Famine (by Humphrey
Clinker, now at Middlebam, and spoken highly of), and
Ilre or three others.
THE GREAT ST. LEGER.
, The nominations for this Stakes will take place at York,
'lett/market, and London, to-morrow week. The South
country will be powerful.

The Government has given orders for the
midnight mass, formerly celebrated on Christmas•eve, to
be again passed over this year.
THE COMMERCE OF LIVERPOOL AND
torgoox.—Surprising as the commercial rise and progress
of Liverpool appears, when viewed by itself, and as an
abstract example of a town raised by its own efforts and
enterprise from original insignificance to greatness and
Wealth, it stands in no less striking and advantageous a
light when seen in comparison with other places, the
most favoured in point of commercial advantages, and
under the most flourishing state of their trade. This we
are enabled very forcibly to exemplify by a statement of
the comparative receipts of custom duties at the ports of
Liverpool and London during a period of 32 years ; by
Which it will be observed, that while the contributions to
the revenue at the latter place have, between 1800 and
1882, considerably less than doubled themselves, those of
Liverpool, between the same years, have multiplied to
tear)), four times their amount. These are the gross
receipts at the two ports respectively :--
Year. London. Liverpool.
1800 £5,663,704 £1,058,578
1805
1810
1815
1820 ............... 7,474,387
1824 ............... 7,679,409
1830 ............... 10,307, 2eß
1862 ............... 9,334,"99
By the above table it will be seen that, in the year 1800,
the duties of Liverpool were not equal to a fifth of those
Of London, whereas in the last year they amounted to
nearly one half. They would have approximated still nearer
to that proportion if the calculation had been upon the
net receipts, as there is a considerable amount returned at
the latter place in the shape of drawbacks upon sugar to
Germany, &c. ; thus, the net sum paid into the Exchequer
from the port of London, during the last year, was ooly
7.876,660/., 'and from Liverpool it was 3,711,382/.
There is another' curious fact exhibited by this document
'—namely, that the revenue from the port of Liverpool is
now within a small amount of what the revenue of London
was about the commencement of this century, so that,
calculating the increase at the same ratio, we should have
to difficulty in ascertaining the time when Liverpool will
have come up, in point of imports and export, with her
town metropolitan rival...-Liverpool Courier.