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40th Regiment, have also received officers to embaik
with the detachment of the 12tH Foot :—Lieutenant E.
BUDGET OF RECEIPTS, H. M. Tod, Lieutenant F. W. o,,borne, and Ensign Dc
The fortunate results of the year 1855, to which are N•,ufville Lucas,
joined the hopes of peace which it is now permitted to : Large numbers of recruits are arriving at Chatham
•
entertain, would perhaps seem to authorise a high esti. Barracks to join the depots of the provisional battalion.
mate of the receipts. But the Government has not
On Tuesday evening a considerable number arrived from
I
thought so. Contrary to the course followed in the
1 London, chiefly for the depots of the 20th, 43d, 64th,
latter times, and though events- have thus justified the , 84th, and 86th Regiments. Besides the above, a party
hopes of our budgets, it has considered that it would he ! of recruits joined the head-quarters of the Medical Staff
proper to confine itself within the limit of the receipt re-
! Corps at the Casemate Barrack,
alised in 1=455 and of the estimates admitted by you for , An order has been received by Colonel Stndham, the
director of C.a Rep t! Engineers' establishment at Brornp-
-1856. The indirect taxes anti revenues, on which is con-
ton Barraoke, directing that 320 non commi.siened 4E-
centrated almost exclusively the question of the estimates,
cere and priva'es of the ~orp., of Royal Sappers and
ficured in the budget of receipts for the year 1855 at
891,756,050 f. The budget of 1856, voted by you last Me ere, with 10 offi,:ers of the Rascal E.•gilieers, are to
prepare for immediate enobarkatbn. It is understood
year, estimated them at 929,699,0001. The receipks of
1855 attained for the old duties only 929,474 0001. The that they are to act in the Baltic.
Captain Ogee N company ef the Royal Artillery, eta-
new taxes voted in your lac session, but ass temporary
tined it Baliineodig, got•the r .ute on Saturday to pro-
measure only, have produced for part of the year
1855, 33,100,0001., and will give for the whole ce,ed from Cork le.rnour direct fur the Crimea, to be at-
year 1856, 83 000,000 f. It is on this certain tached to the sth (Hialilaud; Division, under command
oampbell, K C.B. Toe company consists
basis that the estimates which are proposed to you of Sir C din C
of Captain Ely,ee, Lieutenants Walker, Stephenson,
for 1857 repose. It has, however, appeared right
aid, and Assistant-Surgeon Clarke. It. comprise-. 140
to increase by a favourah,e estimate the yield of
~.,unriers and drivers, and 183 horses. They were lately
the duty on potable liquers, remaining however below
the estimates admitted by the budget of 1856. In fact .erveif with new horse appointments.
we may hope that the accidental c.,tueit which have
lowered the amount of that: tax will not he reproduced
in 1857. A similar observation has caused an increase
to be set down in the receipts from the duty on the ma-
nufacture of native sugar. Finally the normal increase
in the proceeds of the tobaoco duties has been taken into
account, but without exceeding for 1857 the estimate of
the budget of 1856. Time, the total produce of the in-
direct taxes and revenues, for the whole of the old and
new duties, will be set down ha the budget of 1857 at
1,031,010,000 fr.

WE FRENCH BUDGET FOR 1357.

BUDGET OF EXPENSES.
The budget the year 1857 presents an increase of ex-
penses of 96,770 636 fr. The Ministry of Finance, the
Ministry of Public Works, and the Ministry of the In
terior share unequally almost the whole ef this increase.
The credits accorded to the Ministry of Finance for the
year 1856 are on the whole 771.793 OltOti. The credit,
demanded for 1857 amount to 848.228.064 fr. Titer-- re-
sulte for 1857 an increase of expenses of 77,861,749 f ,
partly compensated by a reduction of 1,432,585 f. ; thus
the increase is in reality 76,429.164 f. In this augmen-
ta•ion the public debt alone is 52.762,211 f. The eestitu-
tions, negative values, arid premiums eu the exportation
of merchandise are set down for a cum of about
18.000,000 fr. ; it is the ex ,ct amount of that expense,
which, however, is not a real expense ; but it has been
thought rieht, 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 cultivation and the increase in the manufac-
' tare of tobacco for more than 4,000 000 fr., end finally
a small augmentation in the expense of collecting the
taxes and revenues. The Ministry of Public Works re-
ceiver; a erant superior by 14,491,5591 r. to that of 1856;
and 14,478,001 fr. of the increase arise from the engage-
ments contracted by the State w!th the railway com-
panies. The credits of the Ministry of the Interior in-
crease by 3,979,140 fr . viz , 2,507,6001 r. 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 extraordinary taxes
The second results principally from the augmentation in
the ordinary expenses, and the cost of conveying
prisoners condemaed by the courts of law, and
likewise of the extension of the telegraphic service
In fine, gentlemen, the comparison of the receipt„
and expenses presents a surplus of receipts of
15,417,3481. That amount may appear small, when
conaeared with the total of supplementary cre.tits which
each year has seen produced; and against which the
faculty of transfer from one ministerial department to
another has not been hitherto, perhaps, a sufficient re-
medy. But the Government of the Emperor hope., more
and more to restrict the ,supplementary credits, and to
confine them to rare cases, that is to say, to wants
really urgent and which could not have been foreseen,
We may also hope that the reel amount of the expendi-
ture of the year having been at once truly stated. as ie
the cave in the present instance, will enable us to make
a still greater reduction in the supplementary credits.
Finally, gentlemen, the strict evaluation of the e•tt-
mates, as regarls 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 expend,ture which is the desired object
of your efforts and of ours ; a result, nevertheless, ilit-
ficult of attainment, especially when our annual expenses
comprise considerable 811,113 devoted to great public
works, fruit'ul inve•tinent,, in fact, ensuring future
wealth, but weighing without compensation on the pre
sect time.

E. BOINVILLIERS, President of the Section of Finance
CAMILLE GODELLE C uncillor of State;
AD. VUITRY, C,uncillor of State.

Th. budget of 1857 inq b- thus briefly summed up
Ordinary and extraurdulary ex-

penses . . . . 1,695,057,164 fr.
Ordinary and extra,rdinary re-

ceipts

Surplus of receipts
Tile ordinary lexpesses are
Tire ordinary receipts ~

Leaving a, surplus of .
Ezirstor3ioary

1,710,474.512

. 15 417,343
. 1,541.493 164
. 1,709,345 226

67,852,052

LORD E NFL 111,D AV 1) MR. AYA RD.

work.
Extrv.rdinary
receipts .

53,5t34,000fr,

The following corre,ponderwe has been published :
" Wrotha,m-;ark. March 1.
"Sir,—You are represented in tbo papers nf this date
to have applies .1 the svords one of the gr J.sest jobs ever
brought before this 12,m4e, to the forinatiso of the corps
of officers in the regi.nent u,,der my command.
" If any job has been perpetrated I alone am respon-
siOle for it, fur every app,intment in the regiment, with
the exception 4,f the senior captain, has been made at
my Nripestion.

1,529 286

"The. gentlemen who have done me the honour to
serve under my command are, in character, position,
acid independence. as superior to t4is up wormy insinn,-
tioo a 4 they are un-urpa,ssed ny any other c .rp. in t to
re,;tiiar or militia .-rvice, for zeal, activity, and inteHi
gence in the discharge of their duty.
" Ooe .fficer only is related to me.
"If you were ignorant of this fact, commoa decency
should have caused inquiry before you calked of a
family party.'

_
" I hope that you may be able to say that you were
mis-reported, or that you will retract this gr,,undless
and insulting charge before I stigmatise it as it deserves.
" ENFIELD,
Colonel Commanding R,yal Middlesex Rifles.
" A. H. Layard, Esq., M.P."

" 9, Little Ryder-street, March 3.
" My Lord,—The expression of 'job,' which I made
use of in speaking of the regiment of militia of which
you are colonel, dil not apply to the formation of the
corps of officers, as you will perceive by the report of
what I said in the Daily News, but to the fact of the re-
giment having been left 16 months without having been
called out in a time of war, and while the county had
been saddled with a Wm amounting to nearly 10,0001.
for barracks, &c.

"Nor in making use of the words ' family party,'
(lid I mean actual relationship, but political connec-
tion, as is evident from the context, as I mentioned
the names of Mr. Grenfell, Mr. Russell, and Sir Erskine
Perry.

" I am misreported in having stated that Mr. Gren•
fell way Lord Pau►nura'a nephew ; I said, private
secretary.'

" are at liberty to make any use you think fit o.
this letter.

•' rho Lard Enfield."

" A. H. LAYARD,

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

The commission Met on Tueeday, being the first meet-
ing after the appoint•oent of the new membert4, and the
right hon. the• Lord M,yor took the chair upon the
occasion.

The commisBion having. been read,
aputy Peac,ick was unanim)udy electld chairman
for the ensuing year.

Af,er sow preliminary business, the cnitrictor was
summoned for not cle;►nsing Nicholson's Wharf, accord-
ing to his cin tract, and Mr. Nicholson attended and
was heard upon the subject. The c 'ntractor wai ordered
to cleanse the streets leading down to the wharves in
question.

Mr. Haywood, the engineer, laid before the Court a
I tter which he bad received from Mr. Bazalgette, in-
quiring why a sewer was at th t time being r,built in
Fetter-lane, without harine first communicated with the
Board of Works, agreeably to the 69th section of their
act.

Remainder

Mr. Daw, the clerk, stated that the 69th section of
the:Metropolitan Local Manage►nent Act referred only
to district boards and vestries, referred to in the schedules
A. and B in that act ; and that the city of Londen was
not mentioned in such schedules, and that Court was
rit-ithera district board nor a vestry
Mr. Haywood explained the nature of the works
•vhich wera being. done. v:z , the reconstruction of a
part of a dilapidated sewer.

It was then ordered by the court that the engineer
.hould explain the matter to. Mr. B.zilgette.
The Skinners' Company were sum,..ned as freeholders
..f certain small tenements •in Skinner street, Bishopi.
Sale, upon the ceitificate of the medical officer of health
that they were u for 1411,11311 habitation. The law, ill

52,431,714

thA ,;AmpAoy Atien(Ld, And, at fits request, was al-
lowed one week within which to take steps for pulling
down the objectionable buildingß.
Mr. Morgan attended on the certificAte of the medical
officer of health, which chat,,ted him with carrying on, in
Peter-street, a trade injurious to the public health, and
was ordered to di-continue the trade forthwith, which
he promised to do accordingly.
Sundry cases of dangerous buildings were laid before
the Court by the chief clerk, who was instructed to
l;rect the legal proceedings to be taken in reference
thereto immediately.
The Court then adjourned.

Laving a surplus of . 15 417.343
as .tated above. It mu 4 he h irne in mind that, in the
above figures of the ninlg,t, the excepi,i,,nal ex enses
which the war eeessintates are not incliffied, ouch outl4y
being covered only by mean', of extraordinary resources.
The resources in question are not set d.swn in the re-
ceipts, any more than the excep.,i inal outlay is amongst
the expenses. Only a cr,dit of 2,000,0001 r. is to be
opened to the Nlinister of War to pay the military pen-
sions of the year 1857.