The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-11 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1834.

The Revenue Accounts for the year and quarter
ending the 10th of October, 1834, which have just
been published, are, we are happy to announce, very
satisfactory. The increase for the year ending the
10th of October, 1834, compared with the income of
the preceding year, is 313,4481., but a comparison of
the Revenue of the quarter just ended with that of the
corresponding quarter in 1833, gives a decrease of
230,0641.—a great Cle,rea3C certainly, but still by no
means equal to what the country was prepared for,
from the large reduction of taxes which was effected by
the Reformed Parliament.

The total income for the year ending the 10th of
October, 1833, amounted to 43,028,392/. ; the in-
come for the year just ended is 43,341,8401., which
gives on the last year an increase of 313,448/.

Some of the heads under which an increase and
decrease have been experienced, have surprised us by
the way in which the various reductions in taxation
have operated. The increase has been in the Cus-
toms, Stamps, Imprest, and other monies ; the de-
ficit in the Excise, Taxes, and Post-office depart-
ments. The increase on the year was—Customs,
985,2541.—.5tamp5, 102,355/.—lmprest and other
monies, 139,7311.: and the decrease was—Excise,
596,6091.—Taxe5, 259,9851. Post-office, 38,0001.
The contrast between the decrease in the Post-office
department and the Taxes is extraordinary, as the latter
includes the whole of the falling off that has been felt
from the repeal of the house-duty. On the whole, how-
ever, the accounts for the year are calculated to give con-
fidence to the country in the wisdom and sound policy
which hitherto directed the reductions that have taken
place in the public burdens. It is natural that at first
some difficulty should be experienced in filling up the
hiatus which any reduction, however trifling, must
effect in the revenue of the kingdom ; but increased
consumption in some other quarter will soon more
than counterbalance for a much greater temporary evil.
At present we are in the condition of a husbandman
who has just sowed his fields—to all outward appear-
ance poorer than he was when the seed was in his
barn; but, in point of fact, the owner of a future har-
vest which promises an hundred fold increase.

The LORD CHANCELLOR was received at Salis-
bury yesterday, we understand, in a way which must
have been highly gratifying to him. The guest of one
of the most honest and steady Reformers in the coun-
try, who has lived long enough to see the plants in full
growth and bearing, of which he sowed the seeds in
times when to labour for the public good seemed as
hopeless a task as it was an arduous one—surrounded
by the most honourable inhabitants of one of the most
opulent and respectable cities in the West of England,
eager to show how much they respected his talents and
esteemed him for his worth, and in a place, where,
.if any where, his enemies might have been supposed to
have had the power to create an unfavourable impres-
sion respecting him received by the whole mass (with
one or two exceptions) of the gentlemen and trades-
men of a great City, as a friend or a brother, his
Lordship must have been more gratified than words
can describe. We are assured, by a person who hap-
pened to pass through Salisbury yesterday, that of
nearly two thousand persons who had assembled to offer
their congratulations to his Lordship, there did not ap-
pear to be one who did not feel as though the City
was honoured by a visit from such a distinguished
guest, and who did not appear to be eager to express
his esteem in language, the import of which could not
be mistaken.

But we are told there were two or three persons in