The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

N 1 N C-,

I,TAIITER

THE REVENUE FOR THE YE

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 5
the Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

ENDING JULY 5, 1851.

th of July, 1850, and sth of July, 1851, ihoiving

,
- QUARTERS ENDED YEAR : QUARTERS ENDED YEAR
--, , ended Year ended. July 5. Quarter ended July 5.
ended ' r.-____-_-
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Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, Jul- y 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 3, I July 5, July 5, ,-------,--._____, r___________-...,
1649 1850 1850 1850 1850 1859 1851 1851 1851 1851 , Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
-- -- .
XXXXXX £ X I £ £ £
Customs •.. ..... .. •. .. 5,253,272 4,729,630 4,432,584 4,333,703 18,740,194 ' 5,251,883 4,596,705 4,548,266 -' 4,318,218 18,715,072 Customs .•••• .•• • • • X £ £
• • • • 25,122 .... 15,490
Excie.. ••••••• • - • • • . 4,287,577 3,625,061 1,859,473 3,325,225 13,097,336 4,103,343 3,715,920 1,980,536 3,419,810 13,219,609 I Excise
Stamps .•••••• • • • • - - , 1,6,6,747 1,509,860 1,538,125 1,590,767 6,325,499 1,507,028 1,459,721 1,548,008 1,525,492 0,040,249 1 Stamps .•.•• • • • • • •• - 94,585 .. ..
.... 285,250
Taxes ••.•• • • • • ....... 203,057 1,897,961 127,231 2,073,231 4,351,530 186,613 1,923,053 167,784 2,045,231 4,322,681 ; Taxes ..... •••• • • • • ... 65,',75
.... 28,849
Property Tax ••••• • • • - 1,914,006 4411,394 2,069,608 1,026,835 5,459,843 1,867,864 418,730 2,089,f,50 976,881 5,333,425 1 Property Tax.. .• . • •• .. 28,050
~ .. 106,418
28,727 20,391 21,974 91,241 162,333 I Miscellaneous •- •....
Post-office ••.••• • • • - - 221,000 152,000 231,000 210,000 817,000 227,000 152,060 272,000 240,000 891,000 1 Post-office 74,000 .-
•• • • 30,000 49,934
20,000 60,000 40,000 30,000 150,000 I Crown Lands . .
Crown Lands .... .. .... 20,000 60,000 40,000 40:04,7140
2160104:700404 1 •• • • 10,000
Miscellaneous ...... ..
_______2l,9o2_ 58,408 47,960 81
I
I .. .. 47,411 9,767
• •
293,813 135,116 141,903 123,409 694,246 'Re - t 3 ' • •• • • '
Total Ordinary Revenue 13,610,561 12,473,314 10,395,9.1 12,681,250 49,161,140 113,192,453 123346,520 10,668,518 12,646.873 48,854,369--...,
T0ta1........ 196,273 503,050 134,3.52 168,769
121,615 132,246 261,765 130,770 655,396 ImprestMone ,s &c 27 411 3,943
Ntellee.S.l 16206:11%1
1122.:900897 39011::,
0509
118385:588297
570,7976287 1 ....
111 me :Li* ,
ins t
e.li 14
tosnoeLs
0.,, papal sofAilvues. 123,449 •• • • •• • • 64,880
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,072,191 12,910,052 50,204,011 I
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Total Income • .113,896,894 12,723,3:0 10,789,140 13,005,406 50,414,730 113,607,386
.12,613,882 11
•
Amount applied to Con- Deduct
soli dated Fund ••• • • 8,298,974 8,236,315 5,967,008 8,200,639 30,702,936 8,779,169 7,655,164 5,868,205 7,975,091 30,277,629 Deduct / 319 .729 138,295
Increase. .3 '' - Increase.; j
Ditto, as Advances .. •.. 490,426 374,172 29G,337 291,823 1,452,738 421,384 198,204 429,684 364,748 1,414,020 ,
Ditto, as cartet Ways & ? Decrease Decrease i• r
-means of th year .. .. 5,107,494 4,112,423 4,525,795 4,512,944 18,259,056 4,407,333 , 4,760,514 4,774,302 4,570,213 18,512,362 '
50,414,750 13,607,886 12,613,882 11,072 191 'l2 910 052 50,204,011 I on 210,739 on the 9.,,354
- -- -- - -
T0ta1....' 13,896,894 12,723,310 10,789,140 13,005,406
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! the Year. Quarter.

Exclusive of

Advances.

NO. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1850, and the sth July, 1851.

Quarters ended July 5. ' Quarters ended July 5.
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„......—.-------..—...........,
1850 1851 i CHARGE. 1850 1851
INCOME.
---- ---------, I
£. £.
.g. £. i Permanent belit .. • ....... .... .
4 333,708 4,333,275 Terminable Annuities—. ...... •.. • • 560,425 567,587
3,331,769 3,430,074 Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund ... • ..• • ....... • ...........
Excise • • • •.... • - ..
Stamps • •
• •
2,045,231 The Civil List .. .. .. .. .... .. .... ........
976,881 Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund (including In 1851 248,5501. discharge of debt to the Equivalent Company) 368,770 379,488
210,000
Post-office
40,000 30,000
PTaroxpeesr•ty—T• ........ ••••••.••• • • • • • • • i : 211,5101:7603
Crown Lands •• . 81,474 91,241 Total Charge ••. . • . ......................... 7,754,012 7,911,413
Miscellaneous
31,682 34,054 The Surplus .. .. ••.• . • .
Imprest and other Moneys • • • • • • • • • •
104,145 105,716
Produce of the sale of Old Stores .. • •
. . 188,289 123,4,.9
13,014,950 12,940,373
Repayments of Advances.
...---- -
13,014,950 12,940,373 The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarter ended sth
April, 1851 • . • . . . .. . . . . •••• 981,869
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended sth July, 1851, •in part of Sums granted by Parliament out of the
Consolidated Fund for Supply Services .. ••..••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • . . . . 4,570,213 •• • •
Surplus Consolidated Fund .............. .......• .•• • • •• •
453,747
ii The probable Amount of Exchequer-Bills required to meet the Charge on the Consolidated Fund in the Quarter
I I ended sth July, 1851.. •• •• . •
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LICHFIELD HOUSE EXHIBITION.
Suggested doubtless by the unrestricted character of
the Great Industrial Exhibition, a gallery of paintings
has very recently been opened to public inspection at
Lichfield House, St. James's-square, the walls admitting
of pictures by living painters of the schools of all coun-
tries. As might be conjectured, the works of art here
collected together are many of them of a most interesting
description, and nearly all of them raised above the dead
level of mediocrity. Traversing the different apart-
ments we occasionally find our attention arrested by the
masterpiece of some illustrious artist, as in the instance
ut Paul de la Ruche's great picture (102) of " Cromwell
looking at Charles I. in his Coffin," a production which,
it will be remembered, was displayed last season on the
walls of the Royal Academy. Actuated possibly
by the same view, most of the foreign contri-
butors have selected for the display of their
abilities some scene familiar to the ideas of Englishmen.
For example, M. Fourau has in 26 pourtrayed an inci-
dent from the life of Chatterton; and in 32 11. Slinge-
neyer has depicted the death of Nelson. In the latter
there is too much of the ghastly reality of bloodshed, and
the position of the wounded admiral with his right leg
thrust out towards the spectator, and consequently fore-
shortened, is disagreeable and awkward. ' Favourite
works by cur own artists may occasionally be recog-
nised, as in 29, C. M. Ward's "Fall of Clarendon." M.
Chauvin's " Flight into Egypt," 30, will be recognised
by all visitors to the Royal Academy collection for the
present season. The last tragic incident in Sir Walter
Scott's "Bride of Lammermoor" has been realized with
painful eareestness in 35, by M. Signol. Lucy Ashton's
figure in the chimney corner is exquoitely painted, her
emoeth ivory shoulder, her delicate but crazed features,
and her thin beautiful fingers dabbled in blood. M.
Lehmann'e picture, 36, of " The Virgin Mary fainting
at the foot of the Cross" is, to our thinking, painful to
behold, every face in the group being a deplorable
failure. The same painter has, in 37, given us a very
French " Hamlet," and in 38 a very French " Ophelia."
M. Scheffer's " Portrait of Louis Philippe," 40, appears
to us a very mahogany coloured caricature. Two most
interesting and admirably artistic productions by M.
Schopin, in one of the upper rooms, command our very
earnest eulogiums, one of them 43, representing "The
Morning of the 18th Brumaire," and the other, 44, the
"Divorce cl Napoleon and Josephine." In the former,
the young General, who has just returned, bronzed and
doubly glorious from the land of the Pharoahs, where he
had more than fulfilled the auguries of his early cam-
paigns in Lombardy, is conspicuous of course amongst
the group of his political and military supporters. Mo-
reau, in the same picture, is noticeable from the circum-
stance of his being the only soldier there in plain clothes.
In the latter production the eye wanders with curiosity
from one figure to another, here resting on the Greek
and Cameo-like visage of the Emperor, here on the
beautiful face of Josephine, recognising in different di-
rections the Prince Eugene, the Queen Hortense, the
arch Chancellor Cembaceres, the dauntless Ney, the
chivalric Murat, and the wily and inscrutable Talley-
rand. M. Gosse, again, has two or three very charming
contributions, 46, one of " Gallileo explaining his As-
taonorcie Tables," 47, " St. Vincent de Paul relieving
the Galley Slaves," and 48, " Camoens saving his Manu-
script." M. Felon's " Thetis rising from the Sea," 61,
is a lovely glee'm of the ancient mythology. Not thus
deserving of praise is 72, " The Farewell of Louis XVI.
end his Family" subject just pourtrayed we under-
stand with consummate genius by the master hand
of Paul de la Ronhe), from the easle of
M. Rossiguon. In its colouring the whole
picture is characterised by a very French and
melodramatic intensity. Quite as melancholy in its
inadequacy is 68, " The Infant Jesus in the Temple " by
M. Sceeffer, a study of a head that might have been mis-
taken for anything rather than what it is said to imply
in the catalogue. Among the portraits in the collection,
besides others of note, we especially remarked an ad-
mirable one, 114, by Madame Bianchi of "M. Guizot,"
and 119 a very characteristic one by Mr. Grant of
" Count D'Orsay." Mr. Lucy's "Landing of the Pil-
grim Fathers on the Coast of America" is rather sombre
in treatment and conceived iu a highly lugubrious and
puritanical spirit. His lesser picture of "Cromwell
being admonished by Dec.r.s. Claypole, his favourite
daughter," is by no means t‘s meritorious, however, as a
work of eat, preferable though it is in con-
ception. Mr. Guctin'a " Grand Marine," 134, is a
really remarkable production, and although we might
protest against the metallic shine upon the ripple of the
writer, the romance thrown over the whole canvas by
his brush, at once bold and luminous, renders us indiffer-
ent to the minor blemishes perceivable amoug so much
that is admirable and excellent. NI. Tschaggeny's " In-
cident from the Field of Battle," 168, though powerfully
thought and vigorously produced, is, nevertheless, too
latniully correct to win tor it a large share of admire-
aou. Yet more can we say this of M. Felix Leuellier's
large and rt markable picture, 179, of " The Early
Christians being Devoured by Wild Beasts," one of the
most hideous nightmares it ever entered into the heart of
painter to imagine, and certainly the most awful and most
painful we have ever in our lives seen delineated. Mr.
J. `'dare's Sin, Death, and Hell undermining the
Rock of Ages," a horrid little ghoul of a picture, in
tno present year's collection of the Royal Academy, is
nothing whatever by comparison. A very clever archi-
teciural drawing of the " New Palace at Westminster,"
175, painted by M. Ouvrie, will be looked upon by
many with interest as a sketch taken in London by a
Frenchman. A sea piece by another French artist,
M.. Bartie envy, is one of the nios t exquisite and masterly
works of art in the whole of the Lichfield House Collec-
tion : it represents, 178, the " Escape of Jean Bart,"
and may be readily recognised by the visitor on the
staircase. The commotion of the waves has never been
more wonderfully portrayed ;; the boat seems abso-
lutely lifted up on the billows. " Henry IV. and his
Children," 182, by M. Roug et; are as brilliantly and
distinctly individualized as portraits from the life.
Of M. Biard's "Henry IV. anti Fleurette" we can only
say that it resembles a very improper Maria with a
quaintly masquerading Sterne, the latter strolling
through a coppice on a trip m ore than ever sentimental.
The daring and pretentious pmiinting by Offtaberzettel of
" St. John preaching in the NV ilderness," and which it
may be remembered was formerly exhibited for the
artist in Bond-street and Pic ci.dilly, has recently been
added to the works of art ;sow on view in Lichfield
House. It deserves an especi a examination as the pro-
duction of a foreign artist of very great ability, and as
revealing on his part a lofty Etriti honourable ambition.
Among the eccentricities in tl to collection will be noticed
214, the sketch of a " Supper• at a Bal Masque," by M.
Hillemach; and among the fit test specimens in the whole
gallery will be observed 225, '" The Frightened Flock,"
a singularly tine example off ha powers of M. Verboeck-
hoven. From the peculiar cl taracter of the whole under-
taking we are sanguine tb at the enterprise of those
artists who have applied Lich field House to the purposes
of this very interesting pieta rial exhibition, will be re-
paid by the patronage of all lovers of art, just now col-
lected together in London from the various countries of
Thristendom.

PERVERSION OF THE tux. F. S. BARFF AND THE
'try. THOMAii DYKES.—The Roy. F. S. Barff, 8.A., and the
Rev. Thomas Dykes, 8.A., who recently resigned their office
as curates in the Holy Trinity Church, were admitted, on
Sunday morning last, into the nomish communion, and re-
ceived the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Chapel, Jarratt-
street, from the hands of the Rt iv. Mr. Mortler. No public
avowal of the change in their principles was made by the
rev. perverts, neither was there any reference made to it in
the sermon preached in the morni ag by the Rev. Mr. Trappes,
the minister of the chapel. Thal in the evening partook of
a controversial nature, being on the question of miracles, in
the course of which Mr. Trappes endeavoured to show that
miracles had ever been the chief mature and characteristic of
"the only true church."--Eastern Counties Herald.
PERVERSION.—On Wednet day week the lady of
the Rev. J. Woodward, whose la to secession to the Roman
i
Catholic Church is an event of such unhappy notoriety in
this city, was formally received .st Clifton Chapel into the
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TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICAI/ON BETWEEN LEEDS
AND HOLY II BAD. —On Wednesday morning, at thirty-seven
minutes past ten o'clock, the town of Leeds was, for the
first time, placed in direct communication with Chester,
Bangor, and Holyhead, and a rapid. onvenntion then ensued
between Park-row, Leeds, and St. George's Channel. The
signals through upwards of 200 miles of wire were sur-
prisingly distinct, and the transinisaion of dispatches and
intelligence Was with thy, utmost facility.—Leeds
.Mercury. effected

TO RIGBY WASON, ESQ.
Sir,—l have perused your letter in The Sun news-
paper, of the 2d instant, addressed to Mr. Winton, the
chairman of the Committee of Exhibitors, and in the
absence of that gentlemaa in consequence of a domestic
affliction, I, as one of the committee, beg to be per-
mitted to address a few remarks to you in answer.
I was somewhat surprised at seeing your reply to the
circular of the committee inserted in a public journal, and
that you should therein intimate an opinion that the
members of the committee were acting an unjust part,
and had committed some error for which they ought to
atone; but as you have adopted the press as the medium
of communicating your sentiments, and to cast reflections
upon the members of our committee, I shall rely upon
the spirit of fairness for which the press is proverbial,
for an insertion of the few remarks I am desirous of ad-
dressing to you.
The exhibitors, you say, ought, in your opinion, to
consider themselves the obliged and not the obliging
parties, and with the view of testing the accuracy of
this opinion, you divide the exhibitors into three
classes :

Ist. Those who, like the Duke of Devonshire and Mr.
Hope, have exhibited objects of art acquired by them-
selves or received from their ancestors.

2d. Those who have exhibited articles from which
they cannot possibly derive any personal emolument, but
who are desirous of bringing under public attention
some favourite object.
3d. Those who have exhibited articles similar to those
in which they deal, frcm the sale of which they expect
to realize a profit.
The first class, you say, " are an obliged party, by
being enabled to confer a benefit upon their fellow-
creatures, by giving them the opportunity of seeing
objects which will arrest attention, stimulate exertion,
and advance the cause of civilization." Are you really
serious, Sir, in suggesting that such men as the Duke of
Devonshire and Mr. Hope should deem themselves under
an obligation by being permitted to exhibit their several
articles in Hyde-park? You cannot be, Sir. You have
taken for your argument the very cases I should have
selected myself to justify the course we are pursuing.
It is partly because there are such as the Duke
of Devonshire and Mr. Hope amongst the exhi-
bitors, that we say the exhibitors ought to have
free admission accorded to them. Such men could have
had no mercenary motives, and you have no right to
divide the exhibitors and to say that the humble artizan
was not actuated by as pure a motive in lodging his han-
dicraft in the Crystal Palace as the Duke of Devonshire
or any other exalted personage in contributing his costly
treasures; and it is not because the high-born and
wealthy care not to claim their right, that the humble
and poor should be denied theirs.
To the second class, you say you yourself belong,
and as it is impossible for you to derive any personal
emolument from your exhibition of the mode by which
you have reclaimed your waste lands, I must presume
you were actuated by a love of country in coming for-
ward as you have; and although you, with those of the
exhibitors whom you have included in the first of the
three classes into which you have divided the exhibitors,
care not to enforce your right, I cannot see that that is
any reason why others similarly influenced should be
compelled to relinquish theirs. I would observe in pas-
sing, that few of our nobility and gentry need be at a
loss to discover persons to whom they might lay themselves
under an obligation, and that you yourself, Sir, might
be "obliged" to your heart's content in reclaiming the,
at present, sterile acres of others.
I come now to the third class. You say they are yet
more obliged, for they hope to reap (and you trust they
will not not be disappointed) emolument from the dis-
play of articles in which they deal. I presume you
allude to sales being made by the exhibitors of goods in
their several trades. Do you not know, Sir, that the
advantage with which you say the exhibitors ought to
be satisfied can only be obtained by direct violation of
the rules of the Commissioners, and of the principle
upon which the whole scheme was founded?—that every
obstacle has been thrown in the way by the Executive to
prevent the exhibitors reaping that advantage? Why
the Commissioners in the very outset of their proceed-
ing prohibited the exhibitors seeking to dispose of their
goods, and expressly declared that the Exhibition was
for their display only, and not for their sale. Prices
were not allowed to be affixed, and it was even published by
the Commissioners that if any exhibitor or servant of an
exhibitor sought to obtain purchasers for their property
from amongst those who came to inspect it, the party so
acting would be excluded the building. Clearly, there-
fore, little thanks are due to the authorities for whatever
pecuniary advantage the exhibitors have derived. I
fear but few of the exhibitors have derived any.
But what matter it every man of us make his fortune?
Assume, if you please, that we are all actuated by the
low and grovelling motives you have attributed to us.
Let the illustrious President of the Commission know
that not a particle of patriotism prompted the response to
the appeal which was made to us. Tell him he has
uttered fulsome flattery in the language with which he
has spoken of the support accorded to his scheme, for
that private and personal motives alone induced that
support. Reiterate, if you please, this libel upon your
countrymen, yet still you touch not the right tor which
we contend. We say that the exhibitors lent their pro-
perty to the Royal Commissioners for the purpose of
exhibition. No intimation was ever made to the ex-
hibitors that they would at any time be denied access
to that property. The exhibitors were led to believe
that the same rules governing similar exhibitions would
prevail in the conduct of this. Every previous exhibition
of the same kind had accorded unrestricted admission to
contributors, and therefore, in the absence of notice that
a contrary rule would prevail at the present one, there
was an implied agreement with the exhibitors that they
would receive the usual privileges accorded upon such
occasions. But the exhibitors have more to sustain their
rights. It was distinctly stated in the publications of
the Commissioners, that with the exhibitors them-
selves would rest the exhibition of their goods;
yet why should I labour again to show that the exclu-
sion of exhibitors is the withholding of a right, a viola-
tion of a custom, or a breach of good faith, and an act
most impolitic as regards the interests of the Exhibition?
My intention was merely to reply to your statement that
the exhibitors were the only obliged parties, and I will
therefore consent to sink the question of right and con-
tent myself with submitting the following case for your
consideration. A friend asks you to travel from Corwar
to Hyde-park, and tells you that by so doing you will
help him to carry out some object he has in view. You
consent to do so, and, at great inconvenience, set out at
once, upon your journey. On your way you are in-
vited to earn, by the exercise of your talent or inge-
nuity, a 101. note, and you do so. You arrive at your
destination and aro warmly complimented and thanked
for the alacrity with which you proceeded to oblige
your friend. He esteems himself under an obligation to
you, and you naturally conclude that if you asked him
to oblige you by the observance of any ordinary civility
of life, he would do so. You relate the good fortune ex-
perienced on your journey, and your friend instantly
replies—" Oh! then I consider I am under no
obligation to you. True, you have done what
I asked you, but you have, whilst proceeding
to do it, put 101. in your pocket which otherwise might
never have reached it—that will pay every expense of
your journey." I know not what your indignation
would be at such treatment, nor is it necessary to de-
scribe what mine would be under similar circumstances;
but suppose you started upon a like errand for another
friend, and he went out of his way to prevent your
earning that 101., but you nevertheless did so, would
you not pronounce it " too bad" if you were told by that
friend that the fact of your having earned that sum in
defiance of his efforts to prevent your doing so, absolved
him from all obligation to you, and laid you under a
great one to him?
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. G. HARRIS.
Exhibtors' Committee-room, 528, Oxford street.
of

ACCIDENT TO LORD' DUNGANNON.—We are sorry
to learn that intelligence was received on Friday evening, at
the town mansion of Lord Dungannon, that his Lordship
had been thrown from his horse while riding in his park, in
Denbighshire, and had fractured his kg, in consequence of
which Lady Dungannon left town immediately to join his
lordship.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOIL DISEASES OF
Ting CHEST.—The corporation of London have munificently
granted a further sum of 100 guineas in ai,l of the funds for
the erection of the new hospital at the Victoria Park, the
foundation stone of which was laid a few days since by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert.