The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

BUDGET OF la PENSES

The budget of the year 1857 presents an increase of ex-
penses of 96.770,6361 r. Tue Ministry of Finance, the
Ministry of Public Works, and the Ministry of the Iu
tenor share unequally almost the whole-,f this increase.
The credits accorded tii the Ministry of Finance for the
year 1856 are or, the whole 771.798.0e0tr. The credits
demanded for 1857 amount to 848,228,064 fr. There re-
'cults for 1857 au increase of expenses of 77,861,749 f,
palely compensated by a reduction Of 1,432,585 f. ; thns
the increase is in reality 76,-429,164f. In this auemen-
ta,ion the public debt alone is 52,762,211 f. The .-estitu-
tione, negative values, arid premiums en the exportation
of merchandise are set down for a sum of about
18 000,000 fr. ; it is the exact amount of that expense,
which, however, is not a real expense ; but it has been
thought rie,ht, from the experience of the last few years,
to put it down at once at its veritable amount, which
has never been done before. Then come the surveil-
lance of the cuhiration and the increase in the manufac-
ture of tobacco fur more than 4,000,0001 r,, and finally
a small augmentation in the exiiense of collecting the
taxes and revenues The Ministry of Public Wurks re-
ceives a erant superior. by 14,491.559 fr. to that of 1856;
and 14,478,001 fr. of the incre ree arise from the engage-
Merite contracted by the Stale w th the railway com-
panies. The credits of the Minisfry of the Irverior in-
crease by o 979,140 fr vie , 2,507,600 fr. for the depart-
mental, and 1,471 540 fr, for the general service. The
first of these expenses is the necessary consequence of the
special laws which have authorised extra,. rdieary taxes
The second results prineipally from the augmentation in
the ordinary expenses, and the cost of coriveymg
prisoners condemned by the courts of la w, and
likewise of the extension of the telegraphic service
In fine, gentlemen, the comparison of the receipts
and expenses presents a surplus of receipzet of
15.417,3481. That amount may appear email, when
compared with the total et supplementary ere fits which
each year has seen produced, and ageinst which the
faculty of transfer from one ministerial department to
another has not been hirheito, perhaps, a sufficient re-
medy. But the ativernment of the Emperor hopes more
and more to restrict the supplementary credits, and to
confine them to rare cases, that is to say, to want,
really urgent and which could not have been foreseen.
We may also hope that the real amount of the expendi-
ture of the year having been at once truly stated, as is
the case in the present instance, will enable us to make
a still greater reduction ;n the supplementary credits.
Finally, gentlemen, the strict evaluation of the e-ti-
mates, as regards the receipts of the year 1857, warrants
our belief that the resources of the year will, in point of
fact, exceed the estimates, and lead to that final balance
of income and expenditure which ie the desired object
of your efforts and of ours ; a result, nevertheles=, dif-
ficult of attainment, especially when our annual expenses
comprise considerable sums devoted to great public
works, friiitml Uwe-talent'', in fact, ensuring future
wealth, but weighing without compensation on the pre
sent time.

E. BOINVILUERS, President of the Section of Finance

CAMILLE GODELLE Onincillor of State ;
AD. Vurrar. C puneillor of State.
The budget of 1357 mly be thus briefly summed up
Ordinary and extraordinary ex-
penses . .
Ordinary and extraordinary re-
ceipts .

. 1,695,057,1641 r

: . 1,710,474.512

Surplus of receipts . . 15 417.348
The ordinary expenAes are . . 1,541.493 164
Tao ordinary. receipts „ . 1,709,345.226

Leaving a surplus of . . 67,852,062
Extraordinary
work . . 53,564,000 fr,
Extraordinary
receipts . 1,529 23E3

Remainder . . 52,434,714

Leaving a surplus. of .. . . 15 417.343
as stated above. It must be b irne in mind that, in the
above figures of the 0u.1;;,t, the exceptional ex enses
which the war nectissitates are not it:chided, such outlay
being covered only oy means of extra.irdinary resources.
The resources in question are n•it set down in the re-
ceipts, any more than the excepti mal outlay is amongst
the expenses. Only a crsilit of 2,000,000 fr. is to be
opened to the Minister of War to pay toe military pen-
sions of the year 1857.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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The steam-transport Europa. Cap'. Leitch, nrrived at
Spithead yesterday tbortii.,g• from Kazatch, Constanti-
nop,e, Malta, Gibraltar, C irunna, and Ferrol
with the steam .hattery. Glatton, 14. Capt. Cumming
in tow all the way. She brought. as pa4.engers, Mr. J.
Huntley, master, late of her Majesty's ship Resistance ;
Mr. J. Andrews, a-sistant clerk, late of her Majesty's
ship Glutton ; Lieutenant Sir C. F. W. Cuffs, of the
66th Regiment ; 25 men of the Glatton, from Constan-
tinople, 12 invallis from the fleet, poe sergeant of tit.
Turkish Contingent, one officer's servant of ditto, two
men from her Haj-stv's ship Simomm, 11 passenger-
from ditto, two invalids from her Majesty's ship St.
George, at Lisbon, and stores, &C.
Her Majesty's ship Hawke, 60, screw.hlockship, Cap
fain Omman,,ey, left Spithead yesterday at noon for
Plyinneth with marin,s.
'Cue General S,re.w C•onpany's steam-ship Argo, Capt
Hyde, transport Ni., 81, embarked at .ntliampton yes-
terday tlie horses And troops ~f Royal Horse Artillery
previously enumerated in The Sun.
The Hydaspes transport, No. 87, will, it is expected.

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receive on board Horse Artillery to-day. 'f'ne Argo will
sail fu. the Crimea some tune thi4 afternoon. The Pe
nineular and Oriental Gunpany's steam-ship Candia
screw transport No. 213, sailed for the Crimea yester
day morning. •
The Cornet steam-vessel towed the Ringdove despatch
gun-boat from Cowes to Portsmouth yesterday morning
The Bustard ano•Banterer steam gun-boats were taken
hits dock yesterday for repars, jnd the Forward and
Beaver taken out. The troop-ship Resistance, Master-
CorruM4nder Hall, was paid wages at Portsmouth yester-
day, and lur crew granted leave. The Glatton, floating
battery, is ors: red into harbour.
Her Majesty's jun-boats Manly, Magnet, Mastiff, and
Mistletoe, built by William Briggs and Sons, left Sun-
derland for London yesterday.
The Pelter, 2, screw steam gun-boat, Lieut.-Com-
mander Wm. F. Lee, left Sheerness yesterday morning
for Portsmouth, to join the squadron at Spithead.
The Amphion, 34 guns, screw steam-frigate, Captain
Ilenry Chad-., left Sheerness yesterday morning to pro-
need on a trial of her machinery.
Capt4in Otter, of her Majesty's steam-ship Firefly, re-
ceived instructions yeseerd.Y 'morning to prepare hastily
f.A. sea, so as to ha ready to leave Woolwich imme.diately
for the "'Baltic. She will proceed to Portsmouth to-day
to coal.
Tire Dee, Master-commander Pullen, sailed 'run
Woolwich yesterday mf,rning with machinery, &c.,
- for
P esrnouth and Plymouth.

The exterior walls of the new foundry and shell fAs-
tory at Woolwich are fast rising towards completion,
and such is the expedition with which the works are
carried on by the contractors that, although it was only
a few days since that the foundation stone was laid, the
building has assumed a, very forward state. The window
frames base been adju,ted and fixed, the walls being
about 14 feet high. The paper factory is likewise pro-
gresing rapidly towards completion, and it is expected
will commence operations in the early part of April.
The eneines and machinery are being delivered, and are
from the firm of Mesrs. Hick, of Bolton. It is calcu-
lated that immeace facilities will bo obtained by that
acquisition to the Royal Arsenal departments, which
will supply not the paper alone, but likewise provide the
pulp with which the cartridges are prepared.
The transport Norman left Woolwich yesterday morn-
ing foi the Critnea, with the troops and horses men-
tiored in The Sun of Tuesday.
The Admiralty have conveyed to the storekeeper of
D.rat..rd dockyard an expression of their lordships' satis-
faction end approbation of the exertions of that officer
and the two senior clerks of his department, and of the
tnau,.er chid. the responsible duties of providing and
chipping st,res durng the pressure occasioned by the
War was conducted.

Mr.. Evans Evans-was yesterday appointed surgeon t•
t'ao C6r,ii.,ral)t, a. d Mr. Richard Mumferd, second
master to the Pere., erance._

• Large numberA of recruits are arriving at Chatham
Barracks to join the depots of the provisional battalion.
On TueSday evenin,_, a considerable number arrived from
London, bhiefly for the depots of the 20th, 43d, 64th,
84th,.aiid Regiments. Besides the above, a party
of cccroit j,ined the head-quarters of the Medical Staff
Corps at the Casemate Barracks.
An ord,..r hasr been received by Colonel Sandham, the
director of the Royal Engineers establishment at Bramp-
ton BArrark, directing that 320 noncommissioned offi-
cwrs and privates of tike corps of Royal Sappers and
Miners, with lb officers of the Royal Engineers, are to
prepare for immediate embarkatioh. ie 111direteed
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that they ere act i$ tic patio,.