The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-01 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 18i5.

The Financial Returns for the year, three-
quarters, and quarter, are now before the public,
and every person can form his own opinions how
far the calculations of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer have been verified by the results obtained.
It must be remembered, in dealing with these au-
thentic elements, that in some respects, as in the
quarter, the comparison with the corresponding
terms, will represent only the fiscal additions
made by Sir G. CORNEWILL LW'S, while the
longer terms exhibit also the enlarged imposts
intrcduced by Mr. GLADSTONE, when acting on
the principle that the full burdens of the War
should be met from actual revenue, and that no
portion thereof should fall on posterity. With
this view he doubled the Income Tax, from which
he expected to receive an increase of more than
six and a half millions of rounds sterling
(6,557,0001.) He added nearly a third to
the Malt Duties, requiring 4s. per bushel
in place of something less than 2s. 9d., remodelled
the impost on Sugar, from which he was to re-
ceive 700,0001., and enhanced the tax on Scotc h
and Irish Spirits, by which he expected to gain
450,0001. With these and other points of less
importance the Right Honourable Gentleman an-
ticipated obtaining no less than 10,157,0001. for
the revenue beyond the reeeipts of the preceding
year ; and that from extra sources he could pro-
vide for the whole of the War expenditure.

His successor, Sir G. C. Luwis, had, however,
a very different tale to narrate, notwithstanding
the GLADSTONE charges. He required no less
23,000,0001. more than he could hope to obtain,
and this he proposed partly to raise by way of
loan, and partly by additional taxes. 16,000,0001.
sterling were borrowed at a very high rate, nearly
411 per cent., or 720,0001. being added to the
charge by the depreciation caused in consequence
of pressing sales of Stock held on account of the
Savings' Banks just at the time when he was
on the eve of contracting a large addition to
the public debt. 5,300,0001. was to be raised by
new taxation. Of this the Income Tax was credited
for 2,000,0001. sterling by the increase of 2d. in
the pound, the new charge being is. 4d. in place
of ls. 2d., as it had been left by Mr. GLADSTONE.
; The " corn of the tropics " was charged an
additional 3s. per cwt., calculated to produce
1,200,0001., in addition to the 700,0001. im-
posed by the Aberdeenito financier—the results
whereof every pater familias has had the oppor-
tunity of learning by sad experience. Scotch and
rxish,Spirits were to give a million, in addition to
the 450,0001. previously promised, while ld. per
I b. on Coffee was expected to yield 150,0001., and
per lb. on Tea 750,0001.

Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the Snow to, the
BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUNNIER,
Double Pantomimic Transmogrificatim,
The Two Harlequins ... Signor Verroni and Herr Furth,
The Two Columbines ... Meas. Bolen() and Marie Charles.
The Two Pantaloons ... Messrs. Tanner and Death* Johnson,
The Two Sprites ~, The Brothers Elliott.
The Two Clowns ... Harry Boleno and Toni Matthews.
A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Boleno.
Buttered Peas—Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop't up—
Pop't in, and pop't out—Equal Division—Principal and In-
terest—How to evade the Act—Betting versus Cigars—
" What's the odds so long as you're happy ?"—The Right Tip
—flow to raise the Wind—The Odds to the Hod—List, oh,
hat !—Wrong to-back-her, and no Returns—Settling Day, a
te,„Cular Settler—Gone for the Leger—ln for the Oaks- A
Bankrupt's Stock, and a Case of Bale, concluding with a
tegolar Smash,
A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno.
A sweet Place—Honesty the best Policy—Honey and Whacks
(W.„ ax)—Rieing Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a
nooa—lt Beetioves you to Beehare when you attack a Bee-
hive—Swarming and Warming—Enlarged Heads upon a New
Pri,neiPle--Dornestie Bees—Long Needles—Royal Summons
--4s-rrival of Queen Bee and Suite—Grand Charge—Tableau.
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT—PARIS EXHIBITION—A
. CAFE BESIEGED.—BoIeno.
.3.'ho Meeting of All Nations (Russian excepted)—Fraternisa-
ton—Cordiality of the Allies—. All the Werld's a Stage l"
—Arrival of the World and his Wifo, and the whole of his
Family, commencing with their Eldest Daughter, the " Fa-
shionable World ;" followed. by the " Sporting World ;" the
" Dramatic World ;" the " World upside down ;" the "Wide
World ;" the " Wicked World ;" and the " World in Arms."
Lodgings at a Preenium—Not a bed to be had—" My Lodging
"—Clown and Pantaloon go Down
Is on the cold (coal) Ground
to Bed—" A Sweet Good, Night to all."
A SCENE OF CONFUSION (LAID IN BEDS),
"To bed, to bed"—" "Cis when to Sleep the World retires"
—The Night Mare, which makes Clown a little "hears Ax
Thick as Three in a be il—A Night Concert, which dis-concerts
odgers— " We
„wee go home till morning"—Putting
the L
there on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop,
the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment--Fire !
Fire! Fire !—The ll,Smee in an Uproar - Speedy Exit of some I t'a ratan".
of the Lodgers, which finisher; with " Confusion worse cos.founded."
f The total increase on the year is 8,327,0531.,
m von) than three-fourths !whereof is from the un-
THE ViFST END AND THE CITY,
Scott's Tavern, Ha '•
k •.e, and Samuel Brothers, Ludgate- ra edified Property Tit; the apportionment whereof
hill—Measures wed men—Hits °Hits and Skits at Everything and
Everytleing—lnn R alad Outs— Shoe-black Brigade—A Polished is just as inequitable and oppressive as ever, for
Gan s 5
Duet between the Clown and a Blacking-
kettle —Howlett 'm Hair Dy tht V Ain* months, 3,251,1741. of which, the Pro-
for
oFaleehood fraxned— Coloured Imitations—The Sydenham per tjr Tax, still constitutes the chief element,
Tr ueers—Heig it ne
—1
- - Fashion_ G • Mlt and Hops—All-
Whille e the quarter gives but 321,4751., or little
B°PP's Pale Ale. Genuine and theneuWtheest—Sca —Scott's Lot, and a
P6aCe for Public Favour.
ONE, LONDON, m ort ) than three-fourths of the addition to the
a n s Tea Eetablishment, St.• Paul's—"
A Visit to D kiN'UMBER item, the Property Tax •; there being in other
ales est"—Bohemians and Teetotallln to g mitt
rials—The Magic Chest and the Enchanted
Drawing Mate-
gets Tea in it, and Pantaloon gets t Teapot—Clown r espet As a deficiency to be accounted for. We thus
quence—Omnibus Companies on the &allot Water in copse-
,System and the New A
I find,
System, and the System that don't assist k ln incontrovertible evidence, that the very
tion, and final discovery of the " ' era—Strong Opposi- r, cb jeC,,A. to the indirect taxation
Places"—Whack, bang, flip-flap, he Right
Men in their Right. 1 4 d©: 'nfaeabtleed4dthaeitkonbjects for which they were
" LAST SCENE OF ALL that enTle h e
ptreistos, and mango to have
strange eventful History." enac e ~ a
Doors open at Half peat Six, and corarnen cast on the
as we pointed out at the
consumerstime,
“t
Seven. i a heavytd
bl'lndrdtehnath'as been

The total amount of the extra taxation in the
two+ years' budgets were close on Sixteen Millions
Ste rling (15,157,000/.) So far for the promi2es
hel .d forth by the Financial Ministers—we have
no w the opportunity of judging of the per-