The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING 0

T. 10, 1851.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 10th of October, 1850, and 10th o.
the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

October, 1851, showing

• I s QUARTERS ENDED
A YEAR 11 QUARTERS ENDED
i ended 1! ~..___.------A YEAR
ended* I
Year ended Oct. 10. Quarter ended Oct. 10
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Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 10, 11 Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 10,
1850 1850 • 1850 1850 1850 II 1851
II lB5l 1851 I 1851 1651 Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
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i £ X - X X X 1 X X X ! •C X , £
4- £ £
Customs ............... 4,72630 - 4,432,684 4,333,708 5,251,883 18,73ti,805 , 4,59(1,705 4,548,266 4,318,218 5,335,073 18,798,262 I Customs ........• • . 59,457 •• . • 83,190 ....
Excise •.
• .... ••. • • • 3,625,061 1,859,473 3,325,225 4,103,343 12,913,102 II 3,715,920 1,930,539 3,419,810 4,139,854 13,256,120 i Excise ••.••• .. • • • • 343,018 •• .. 36,511
Stamps .•••••• • • • • • • • 1,509,860 1,538,125 1,590,767 1,507,028 6,145,780 1 1,459,721 1,548,008 1,525,492 : 1,432,564 5,965,715 !
IS,it.aotilLir)sty.
T..a.x.... ........ .. .. 179,995 •. • • 74,464
Taxes • 1,897,961 177,231 2,073,281 186,613 4,335,086 , 1,923,053 167,784 2,045,2311 165,025 4,301,093 ! Taxes
Property TaX........-... 40,394 2,069,608 1.029,935 1,867,96: 5,413,701 418,730 2,089,950 976,881 i 1,970,136 5,355,697 ! .. • • 58,004 2,272 ....
Post,,,olllce •..• , . .... 152,000 231,000 210,000 227,000 820,000 I 152,000 2i2,000 240,000 i 306,000 970,000 , Post-ofliee ..... .... 150,000 79,000 •••• ~ •
Crown Lands ••••• • ~ • • 60,000. 40,000 40,000 20,000 160,000 i 60,000 40,000 30,000 1 40,000 170,000 ! Crown Lands ••• . • • 10,000 .... 20,000 ..
Miscellaneous .;........ 58,408 47,960 81,474 28,727 216,569 II 20,391 21,974 91,241 1 28,452 162,058 :Miscellaneous.- .. •• .. 54,511 •• .. 275
RepaymtsolAdvnes. -
Total Ordinary Revenue 12,473,314 10,395,981 12,681,290 13,192,459 .18,743,033 112,346,520 10,668,518 12,646,873 ;13,317,104 48,979,015 1 Total .. .... • • 562,475 3:6,503 220,973 96,327
Imprest Moneys, &c. .. 125,087 301,7.19 135,827 121,615 684,288 II 132,246 261,765 139,770 ! 124,330 (158,111 ! Imprest Moneys, &e. 26,177 2,715 ••..• • • •
Repayments orAdvances 124,909 • 91,400 188,289 293,813 698,411 11 135,116 141,908 123,409 I 165,255 565,688 , •• • • 132,723 .... 128,558
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Total Income • • 12,723,3:0 110,789,130 13,005,406 13,607,8861 50,125,742 ~12,613,882 11,072,191 12,910,052';,13,606,689 50,202,814
Total ........ 562,475 485,403 223,683 224,885
Amount applied to Con- •'
solidatcd Fund# ..... • • 8,236,315 5,967,008 8,200,639 8,779,169 31,183,131 . 7,655,164 5,868,205 7,975,091 8,794,247 30,292,7071 435,403 E Deduct Deduct
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Ditto, as Advances .•• • . 374,172 296,337 291,823 421,334 1,383,716 ! 198,204 429,684 364,7481 286,617 1,279,253 Decrease. Increase 11 223,688
Ditto, _-
as part of Ways &
Means of the Year ~...1 4,112,923 4,525,795 4,512,944 4,407,333 17,558,895 II 4,760,514 4,774,302 4,570,213 ! 4,525,825 Increase Decrease
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77,072 on on the 1,197
Total ~• • .1
1
:12,723,310 10,789,140 13,005,406 113,607,88Gj 50,12.5,742 I ! 12,613,882 11,072,191 12,910,052 '13,606,689 50,202,814 I the Year. Quarter.
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Exclusive of Advances.

No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the 10th Octobe,., 1850, and the 10th October, 1851.

Quarters ended Oct. 11l

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1851

Quarters ended Oct.lo.

CHARGE.

1850

Permanent Debt .......... .........
Terminable Annuities•.......
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund .......
Sinking Fund .................... •• • •
The Civil List
...... • • • • • • • • • • .• • • • • • • • • • • •
Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund ••.•.•••• • •• •• " .... • • ••• ..
For Advances ..

Total Charge • • ....

The Surplus

The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarter ended sth
July, 1851
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended 10th Oct., 1851, in part •of Sums granted •by Parliament out of the
Consolidated Fund for Supply Services • • • • .. • • ...... • • .... • • „ • • • „ . • • „ • „ .................
Surplus Consolidated Fund

The Surplus of Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the Consolidated Fund, and for the payment of
Supply Service in the Quarter ended 10th October, 1851.. ..... •

we gain this common-place moral from the closing of the
Exhibition, ittnay be that, while— •
" As sadder and as wiser men,
We rise the morrow morn"—

we may have to thank Hyde-park for a deeper truth than
any connected with its immediate aspect.
Still, even with such an abatement to our self-com-
placency—with this melancholy sense of short-comings,
public as well as individual—we have much to be grate-
tul for. How much can only be estimated by taking a
retrospect of the possible failures of what has been but
one happy and protracted triumph. It cannot be said
that all the evil omens which attended the first concep-
tion and progress of the Exhibition were etishthlioerwpiiyrmo
jaaegieid-t
na
ta rfiyr
first
tr
received,illu ory b
oVt
he Very coldlyhome andinde e wa
abroad.a
wearily did it win its way to public confidence.. It was
conceived in days of anxiety at home, and in the very
thick of wars abroad. Rocked in a somewhat dingy,
if actively manipulated, cradle in John-street, Adelphi,
the infant Hercules had much to undergo before
it achieved the first of its triumphant labours.
The serpents, or rather blind-worms of indiffe-
rence and opposition, were not strangled at a single
squeez... Tho first advances of the committee were
nut very warmly responded to. A successful meeting
at the Mansion-house was followed by no very abundant
train of subscriptions. The manufacturing districts,
though the first to overcome, were not the last to express
their doubts and difficulties. When all was still most
uncertain as to the extent to which exhibitors would
accept the general invitation, it was' only at the very last
moment that Mr. Paxton appeared. There was cer-
tainly a knot worthy of some divine untying when the
Diviaity at length descended in a car of glass and iron.
And, up to the very eve of May-day—as all who lived in
London society could bear witness—there were, to say
the least, as many ominous as auspicious forebodings.
We were to be overthrown by hordes of Red Republicans
—property and chastity were to be seriously imperilled
—dark hints of an elmeute,in the very presence of Royalty
itself, were scattered—surmises of unknown, and therefore
more terrific, dangers to our laws, our principles, and
our social state, moral, sanitary, and political, were
freely suggested—our trade was to be ruined—and
London was to be given up to savage bands of plotters
against Church and State. Nor was this all. The
building would be unsafe—it would be too hot, or too
cold, or both; the galleries would breakdown, the walls
would spread, the columns would sink, the girders would
snap, every pocket was to be picked, every stall was to
be rifled, and what irresistible robbery spared fire was
to consume and rain to destroy. Property and public
peace in the Crystal Palace would net be worth a week's
purchase. And so generally had these apprehensions
extended that it is a fact, which there is now no occasion
to conceal, that within three days of the Ist of May it
Ras by no means certain that her Majesty herself—not
the least firm-hearted of her sex—had not all but deter-
mined not to be present at the opening.
Amidst such an array of antecedent difficulties, when
every detail of the scheme—the prize question,
the publication of prices question, the site question, the
building question, the admission question, and the like
—had received open er ill-concealed opposition from a
large portion of the press, it is with no small satisfac

Lion that We review our own consistent and unfaltering
support of the Exhibition.. Our confidence in the work

itsolf—iu the objects at which it aimed—in the judg-
ment and discretion of the Commissioners—iii the ma-
jestic power of British
:nfeetlhitergr o,
results,
titlltise, Englishim people
—lei—intthc,good sense and good
uediate and distant,titeedfl effects
siconf tihtaat,ocounld-
produce, not only as to
stea
con-
fidence with which we met and in • ' foreigners—and
and unimpaired. And if, from this
ourselves,dytrustfu trustfulness, we seem to
a proofand
but upon the common
family of mankind—was from the
have omitted one of paramountfirst clear, dis-
tinct,of the subjects of our this emuneration
value and influence,
house, their labour is but lost that builwtocifete"ll
we can point back to topics long
a world-famed,
in these columns, for
forgottenA " Except the that
havehandled
not
Lord build the
w or I d - that,yiide,
a
world-embracing
vision of beauty, pomp, end power, now goes the way
which every human institution has gone, or must go. It
is perhaps well that it should be cut of in the very midst
of its glory, rather than it should preach the vanity of
human things in the less dignified shape of a thing of
senility and laded splendour. We realize the vastness
It by its extinction in its pride. departs not without
blessing, as it has existed crowned with honour and ap-
plause. The grandest epitome of the world's riches, i n-
telligence, and skill which mankind
has ever witnessed
—its monument and memories - are circumscribed but by
the world itself. All nations have
its treasures to our shores, and
all contributed to send
history. It will be a talc for the Krenations will
listen
to
its
a-haired man of half a
century hence, to tell of the London
is long likely to be " The Great Exhibition." of 1851, ned of what
tell of it as marking an era whenlhibiton." lie
may
nations first began
to understand their mutual relations and their common
interests—when the arts of elegance and taste were first
introduced into the hives and cottages of society—when
school boy and school girl, artisan l
col-
lier and hind, barbarian, Scythian,
stud ploughman,
and serf,
were for the first time brought into association,"'bond,
with the rich and worthily- endowed, both
not only
s,oth in station and
in education, but with the truer rie
.s and the higher
educational powers of civilization, science,
when art became practical, and whenthe
dullest skillutili-
tarianism was taught the usefulness of beauty and
form—when, in a single day, nearly one
ten thousand human beings were collected under a
single roof without a single infringement of law and
order—whet), during the space of six months, the world's
largest city received more than double
its
popula-
tion—and all this, not only without occasion for a sin-
gle additional bayonet or sword, but almost without the
need of once wielding a policeman's staff. If these are
not triumphs of the highest moral kind, then has the
Exhibition been an emphatic failure and a national mis-
fortune. But if otherwise, we may SUM up its results,
in the words of one wise in his simplicity, and which,
though written in the last century, are on this day re-
markably applicable:—
" These are the gifts of Art, and Art thrives most
Where Commerce has enrich'd the bus-,
coast;
Ile catches all improvements in his night,
Spreads foreign wonders in his country's sight,
Imports what others have invented well,
And stirs his own to match them, or excel.
'Tis thus, reciprocating each with each,
Alternately the nations learn and teach ;
While Providence enjoins to every soul
A union with the vast terraqueous whole,
(From the Herald.)
Tbo last sun has risen en the "Crystal Palace,"—so
far, at least, as the public and its original and
accom-
plished purpose are concerned. A feeling of
sadness
steals over us as we record it—a sadness that will have
many sharers. And yet we would not it were otherwise.
The mighty monument of enterprise and skill has nobly
served its purpose. The is
"Exhibition" over—the
triumph is complete. The " building" is to come down.
With its after destiny we at this moment have no concern.
So far as regards its present site and use, "Detenda esti;
Our readers may take our word for it. We have,
as yet no standard whereby to measure the
probable consequences of the gigantic under-
taking. That it has stimulated the industry and
called forth the creative faculties of our own
countrymen in every branch of manufacture and
of art no one can deny. It has shown to the nations
of
the world what each can do; animating, inspiring, and
instructing all. National prejudices, antipathies and
animosities, have given way before the "natural magic "
of its influence. We have heard from the lips of fo-
reigners of all classes that it has given them her
h. ig,
juster, kindlier views of England and the English, of
our powers, products, manners, habits, institutions, even
of our climate, than they had before. We would instance
especially our French and our American neighbours as
foremost iu there acknowledgments. Who shall attempt
to set, es yet, the full value on such admissions? A
mighty lesson has been unfolded for mankind, bidding ail
to note and to acknowledge the bounty, and the
Power, and the wisdom, and the goodness,
and the glory of Almighty God. The
lesson, cannot will
, wi not, havo been read in vain.
it has been indeed a coloeial project. The vastuess of
its proportions arc open to the eyes of all—its success,
its
praises, are in the mouths of all—and a general
-,'ap-
preciation of what has been accomplished, and must have
been overcome, is, broadly spearing, no doubt floating
in the minds of all. But those alone who are conversant
with large works, who know how clear, and vigorous,
and cemprehenbive.must be the grasp that tie mull ads