The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-17 00:00:00

LONDON, SA.TIIRDAY, APRIL 16, 1858.

On Monday evening, the financial scheme will
be fully developed. The Chancellor of the Elk-
chequer will explain " the ways and means" by
which he hopes to be enabled to provide for
every demand on the Treasury, and to maintain
the national character for prompt payment of
every just demand. As we have already stated,
he has peculiar difficulties to encounter—difficul-
ties not of his own creation, but bequeathed to
him by his predecessors. "The Oxford pet,"
Mr. GLADSTONE, laid the foundation. He had a
handsome balance to his credit, when he conceived
thenotion, since signalised as "the GLADSTONI abor-
tion," of converting a considerable portion of the
national debt into stocks paying less interest, and
thus effecting a considerable saving in interest. It
was a good idea, but very badly executed. The
most seedy "punter" at a Gorman gambling house
would be ashamed of the total absence of calcula-
tictu displayed by the " heaven-sent" financial
lEnister. Had he been guilty of so erave a mistake
he would have abandoned his vocation, confessing
with shame and regret his total unfitness for the
occupation. But as there is a difference between
irder on a large and a small scale, so there is in
financial blundering. A clerk who lost his employers
1,000/. by a gross and palpable error of judgment
would be dismissed with ignominy from his situa-
tion; Stirone who has cost the nation a thou-
wi.d times a thousand pounds is a model financier,
awl has a right to criticise projects which do not
en-tsr into such dashing speculations, and have no
oongerp with gambling of any description.
We have already pointed out that it
is the imperative duty of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer—as a matter of common justice to
the overburdened tax-payers, at least, to renew
the six millions of Exchequer Bonds created by
GLAns-rota, and which, as we have explained,
not by any means "destroy the beauty of the
invention." Parliament only sanctioned the sub-
stitution of one description of stock for another.
It never contemplated that ten millions of debt
we re to be annihilated, and that the Exchequer
was to be denuded of its balances and compelled
to sue " with bated breath and deep humility"
Xer advances from " the Old Lady" to enable it
meet the irresistible demands. It may be very
well to pay off the debt, but the reduction was
purchased at too high a price. The nation suf-
fered severely from the process. But it was not
merely the ten millions thus paid away without
the slightest necessity or even pressure, that
rep resents the amount for which the existing tax-
payer has been victimised for the sake of pos-
terity. There is, besides, the Sardinian Loan
of two millions sterling, the interest whereof
is duly paid, with a sinking fund for the
reduction of the principal. Now, we unhesi-
tatingly Say that this two millions is an
available credit, of which the Financial Minister

should take adYantage. It should be sent into
the market and sold for the benefit of the Trea-
sury ; and this, added to the ten milliens squan-
dered by Mr. GLADSTONE, WO uld giTe nearly
double the anticipated deficier.cy—the damnosa

kereditas bequeathed by Sir G. C. LEWIS to his
successor. In addition to this there was the
sum paid for the redemption of the Sound Dues,
which might, and ought to have been spread over
a quarter of a century, but which was at once
liquidated. This makes nearly thirteen and a
half millions, for which the present tax-payer is
entitled to credit against posterity, and less
than half the amount would enable the
Financial Minister to meet every probable
demand, and the balance would be avail-
able for the reduction of the taxes on pru-
dence, knowledge, and other matters which have
strong claims for the attentive consideration of the
Financial Minister. We cannot, however, at
present, anticipate anything in the way of reduc-
tion. If Mr. DISRAELI does not largely enhance
the imposts by which even Paterfamilias is

assailed, we shall have cause to bless the change
that placed him in the situation occupied by Sir
G. C. LEWIS.
We trust and hope that he will do some-
thing with respect to the income-tax. There

are two millions waiting for acceptance that can
easily be made available in 1859. If the D.CRBY
Cabinet were so ephemeral as the Times and
Post would wish us to believe, it need not care
much respecting the provision for next year ; and
should therefore not embarrass itself by providing
ror the future. But if, as we anticipate, the
Budget should prove satisfactory to the nation—
the foreign policy is all that could be desired, and
the voice of faction is hushed by the knowledge
that the country would not sanction any descrip-
tion of foul play or factious opposition—then
we may hope that Lord DDRBY and his colleagues
will remain in power until, by some act either of
commission or omission, they excite the indigna-
tion of the people, and prove that they are not
prepared to legislate in accordance with the spirit
of the age.

The difference between Lord CLARENDON and
Lord MA.LMESSIIRY is becoming more perceptible
every day. The former permitted the English
engineers, WATT and PARK, to linger in a Neapo-
litan prison nine mouths, while he was courteously
t etnonstrating with Signor CA.RAVA, and asking as
co favour permission for the English Consul to ob-
tain an interview with men innocent of any crime,
who were illegally captured and illegally detained,
under circumstances of the most intolerable cruelty
and hardship. The other has already not only
insisted on good treatment, but obtained their
discharge and restoration to their country. Nor
is that all. A demand for compensation—ample
and liberal compensation—has been preferred ;
and unless we are greatly mistaken, it will
be supported by the irresistible arguments of a
most efficient Envoy Extraordinary,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer clearly ex-
plained the present state of the case last night.
He showed that there were two distinct questions
arising, one of which he properly designated as
‘,4 the national," and the other as the " interna-
tional " question. The first referred to the treat-
ment of our countrymen, Warr and PARK. On
that point the present law officers of the Crown
were unanimous. They did not wander off into
specious conjecture, to find excuses for BOILBA, or
to prevent the British Government from demand-
ing justice for the British subjects for the flagrant
grievances to which they were subjected. No,
they delivered a straightforward and intelligible
opinion that " the detention and imprisonment of
W Aug and PARK we re illegal." The an-
nouncement of this fact was received
with enthusiastic cheers from all sides of
the House, which were, if possible, increased
when it was stated that Lord MALME3RIIRY had
already forwarded a despatch to Naples demand-
ing compensation for the grievances experienced
by our countrymen. This is as it should be.
This is indeed maintaining the honour and dignity
of Great Britain, and defending the rights of even
the humblest British citizen. This is no diplo-
matic humbug or vacillation in this course.
The iv international" question has not yet been
decided, and for a very good reason. It was
only on Saturday last that most important docu-
ments in reference thereto were received, and
they were forthwith submitted to the Attorney-
General. But the Right Hon. and Learned
Gentleman has been ever since busily engaged
in reference to the State trial still pending, and
he certainly could not bestow that attention
on the sibject, which it so imperatively required.
Nor was it so pressing, for it did not relate to
the interests of individual citizens, whom Eng-
land was bound to protect, but was rather one
affecting the comity of nations—a matter in which
all the States of the civilised world were equally
concerned. On that there must not only be the
opinion of the law officers, but also conferences
with the representatives of other nations, in order
that all may, so far as practicable, act in concert.
We have spoken of a very efficient Envoy Ex-
brdardinVy, whom we believe to have been sent
to enforce the demands of our Government.
That Envoy is Lord LYONS, and his arguments
will be sustained and supported by the
guns of a British naval squadron the
real peace-makers who speedily dispose of
every difficulty, and induce opponents to take
very moderate views respecting " vexei ques-
tions." It has been announced that Lord LYONS
has sailed from Malta in some unknown direc-
tion. Tunis was guessed at—but what could
he do at Tunis ? There he could not,
by any possibility, be required. But his
presence in the Bay of Naples would be very op •
portune. The Royal salute delivered from a
British tea would be a striking demonstration
that would bring Botts), and his advisers to a
sense of their situation. If Lard MALMESBURY
has suggested this course it will give additional
reason to rejoice at the advent to power of the
DERBY Cabinet. But even shou'd it not ba so,
the decided course adopted in demanding
compensation for the injury inflicted on
our countrymen makes the conduct of Lord
MA LIiESILIRY stand out in broad contrast to that
of Lord CLARENDON, and shows that, so far as
foreign affairs are concerned, we have indeed
profited by the retirement into private life of
Lord PALSURSTON and his Foreign Secretary.

Yesterday Admiral `NALCO TT sustained the
honour of the British flag, like a true blue, in right
goJdearnest. Our wooden walls were once the boast
cf freemen, "as our hearts of_oak," are still the
boast and hope of the nation. The man of all
others who shone forth the most conspicuou3 in
our great struggle for independencr, and who by
his daring deeds achieved triumphs unequalled,
was adored in his life, only to be for-
gotten after the sacrifice of that life in devo-
tion to his country. We exulted in his
heroism yet delayed to honour his name. At
1 mgth stung by a sense of shame for national
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to complete, the Government support was solicited
to do ample justice to the greatest of our naval
heroes. That support was, indeed, accorded—
but so parsimoniously that a foreign Monarch
stept forward to save our national cha-
racter from disgrace by freely subscribing a
large sum 1 Still, the proposed honour to
NELSON was tarnished by the beggarly reluc-
tance of men, who, themselves, lived on
the national bounty, and wasted millions by
their folly where a few thousands would have
crowned the memorial with a nation's grateful
sense of glory.

And yet many Ministries promised to corn-
plete the column erected to NELSON, but
somehow or other contrived to evade their
promises or forget their purpose. Happily for the
honour of our country, due homage will be done
at last. Admiral WALCOTT brought the subject be-
fore Parliament last evening in a manly spirit, and
much to our delight he was generously supported
by Mr. WILLIAMS--a member who deals more
in substracting from, than in adding to
our national expenses. We gladly re-
cord this to his honour. Mr. WILLIAMS
deser►es well of the people of Lambeth,
as does Mr. DISRAELI of the nation at
large. We shall not detract from the noble
eloquence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by
any terms of our own, for his praise is now
echoed from the hearts of the British people.

We direct attention to his speech that people
may see with what earnestness he enters into the
subject, and takes upon himself, though crip-
pled by a poor exchequer, the responsibility
of fulfilling the wishes of the country by completing
a monument which shall no longer be a people's
shame, but a nation's glory.

at their head 'a
certain Nasser, an old inamelliZier
Mehemet Ali. In the second affair Nasser sur-
rounded half of the army of Gosmaa Bey, and
massacred without mercy all the Egyptian
soldiers who fell into his hands. Arak Bey,
governor of the Soudan, is animated with the
best intentions ; but it must not be concealed that
it will be long before the savage and warlike nations
confided to his management will admit Egyptian
rule, and that it will require the most persevering
efforts on the part of Said Pacha, and a consider-
able force, to reduce them to submission."

A letter from Mostar of the 2(1 says :—" The
Turkish troops are still iu the camp of Stolaz, and
it is not improbab!e that hostilities will soon break
out. The commanders Kadti Pacha and Selim
Pacha have 12,000 men, one-third of them regular
troops, and 2,000 irregular cavalry, under their
orders. The greater part of these troops are only
at two days' march from Trebigne, but they do
not appear in any haste to arrive there."

According to the Indepenclance of Brussels the
idea of referring the dissension between the Two
Sicilies and Sardinia to arbitration gains favour in
diplomatic circles, and the King of the Nether-
lands is spoken of as likely to be chosen arbitrator.

The Second Chamber of Holland resumed its
labours on the 13th, when M. Rochussen, the
minister for the colonies, explained the poli-
tical programme of the cabinet. It may be
summed np in these few words :—To promote
the better appreciation and the more general
approval of the constitutional ideas of the pre-
sent epoch ; and to speedily realise what the gene-
ral interests of the country most urgently call for.
" Such," the honourable Minister declared, "is
the object of the present Ministry, and the basis
on which its members have consented to take
office."

The Madrid journals of the 12th do not contain
news of much importance. The bill on the hon-
ours to be paid to distinguished men, presented by
the Government to the Senate, enacts that no
monuments to such men shall be erected at the
expense of the Government, except forty or fifty
years after their death, and then invirtue of a law ;
also that monuments which privr..ii 3 individuals may
raise shall only be in cemeteries. The committee
of the Congress on the bill on the press had pro-
posed various amendments favourable to journals.

Accounts from Venice state that the Count and
Countess de Chambord are still in that city, but
will shortly return to Germany. M. Berryer has
lately passed a week with the count and countess,
and he subsequently visited the Duchess Regent at
Parma. He has since returned to Paris.

"It is positively stated at Berlin," says the
Cologne Gazette, " that Russia intends to give
notice of the cessation of all her treaties of naviga-
tion andcommerce with other States, and to modify
them iu conformity with the new Customs Tariff,
taking the treaty between France and Russia as the
model. The relations of Russia with foreign coun-
tries will thus become more free, and will acquire
more extension. It is thought that the treaty of
commerce between Russia and Prussia will also be
revised."

According to advices from Cattaro, received by
the Cologne Gazette, a band of Montenegrins in-
vaded the Austrian territory on the 2d April and
opened fire on the garrison of Castel-Lustna. They
had hoped by this step to divert the attention of
the Austrians from a -vessel laden with gunpowder
which stood in the offing, ready to run her cargo.
But the Montenegrins were repulsed, and the
vessel was obliged to stand out to sea again.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT.

OP HIS DECEASED WIFE.

The Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived.
A. royal decree reorganises the General Commission
Statistics, and fixes the salaries of the commis-
sioners and of its officers. In the Congress the
bill relative to the levy of 25,000 men had been
approved of, and in the Senate a bill relative to the
honours to be paid to distinguished men was pre-
sented. The Esparta denies, on authority, that
Borges, th• Carlist chief, has reappeared in the
mountains of Catalonia.

)AY E V
_APRIL n, 1858

CWINTELLIGENCE—(This Day;

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.)
BROOK V. BROOK.--MARRIAGE AT ALTONA OF A BRITISH
SUBJECT DOMICILED IN ENGLAND WITH THE SISTER

Vice-Chancellor Stuart this morning delivered his
judgment in this case, which involves the question of the
validity in this country of the marriage at Altona, in the
duohy of Schleswig Holstein, where, by the lex loci, such
marriages are said to he legal, of a PriLish subject domi-
ciled in England with the sister of his deceased wife.
The following are the facts of the case :—ln 1847 Char-
lotte, the first wife of the late William Leigh Brook, of
Meltham-hall, near Huddersfield, died. By her he had
one son and one daughter. In 1850, William
Leigh Brook intermarried at Altona in the duchy
of Schleswig-Holetein, with Emily, the sister of his
deceased wife. On the 17th of August, 1855, Mrs.
Brook died at Frankfort of cholera, and two days after-
wards Mr. Brook died of the same disease at Cologne.
By his second wife Mr. Brook had one son and two
daughters. By his will, which was dated on the day of
his death, Mr. Brook gave his real and personal estate,
which was of considerable value, to the children of his
two marriages in certain proportior.s. In 1856 Charles
Armitage Brook, the son by the second marriage, died.
If the second marriage was valid, and the children
thereof, therefore, legitimate, the son of Mr Brook by
his first marriage succeeded by inheritance to Charles
Armitage Brook's share of Mr. Brook's real estate, and
the four surviving children of the two marriages suc-
ceeded as next of kin to Charlee Armitage Brook's share
of Mr. Brook's personal estate. But if the second
marriage was invalid, and the children thereof therefore
illegitimate, the Crown was entitled to Charles Ar-
mitage Brook's share of Mr. Brook's real and personal
estate. Further, if the marriage of Mr. Brook with
the sister of his deceased wife was valid, the duty pay-
able by the surviving children of the second marriage
on their succeeding to their father's property would be
only 11. per cent, whereas if such marriages were inva-
lid, and they should be illegitimate, they would pay the
duty of 101. per cent., which is the duty payable by
strangers who succeed to the property of a deceased
person. The contest in the present case, which was a
suit for obtaining a declaration by the Court of the right's
and interests of all parties in and to Mr. Brook's real
. and personal estate, was between the eldest son by the
first marriage, who claimed to be the heirat-law of
Charles Armitage Brook, and all the surviving children
of the two marriages, who claimed to be the next of kin
of Charles Armitage Brook on the one hand, and the
Crown on the other hand. Letters of administration

bad not yet been taken out to Charles Armitage
Brook. Prior to the sth and Gth of Wm. IV., cap. 54,
the marriage of a widower with the sister of his de,
ceased wife was voidable in the Ecclesiastical Court, as
being a marriage within the prohibited degree of affinity,
bat such marriage was voidable only during the life of
both parties, and, if not avoided daring the life of the
parties it could not after the death of either be questioned.
In 1835, however, that Act, which is entitled "An Act
to render certain Marriages valid and to alter the Law
with respect to certain voidable Marriages," was passed,
and by the first section, it was enacted that all mar_
riages celebrated before the passing of the Act between

persons within the prohibited degrees of affinity should

not thereafter be annulled for that cause by any sentence
cf the Ecclesiastical Court, unless pronounced in a suit
then pending ; and by the second section it was
enacted that all marriages celebrated between
persons within the prohibited degrees of con-
sanguinity or affinity should be absolutely null
and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
On the 4th of Dec., 1857, Mr. Justice Crewmen having
had the case referred to him for his opinion, delivered it
at great length, in doing so said—" In this case I have
been called upon by Vice-Chancellor Stuart to assist
him by giving my opinion as to the validity or invalidity
of a marriage solemnized at Altona, in the kingdom of
Denmark, between William Leigh Brook and Emily
Armitage, the sister of W. L. Brook's former wife, then
deceased. In answer to certain inquiries, the chief
clerk of the Vice-Chancellor certified as follows :—`That
W. L. Brook and Emily Armitage were respectively,
up to and at the time of such marriage, and at the time
of their respective deaths, domiciled in England, and that
they had not any permanent residence in the country,
where they married ; that the marriage between W. L.
Brook and the said Emily Armitage was a lawful marriage
according to the law of the duchy of Holstein ; and
that, according to the same law, the children of such
marriage are legitimate children," Upon the latter
part of the certificate it was observed in argument that
it must be taken as a certificate that such marriages be-
tween Danish subjects are good, and aot that the Danish
courts would hold them good when solemnised between
the subjects of another country domiciled in that country
where such marriages are prohibited by law. The opinion
which I have formed in this case renders it unnecessary
to inquire into that matter. For, even assuming that
in Denmark the marriage now in question would be
held good, I think that by the law of England it was
invalid, and the children of the parties to it illegitimate."
His Honour, after citing at great length a number of
cases and authorities bearing on the point, said, the
conclusion arrived at by Mr. Justice Cresewell was cor-
rect, and he therefore agreed with him that the mar-
riage between William Brook and Emily Armitage,
which was celebrated in Holstein, although a valid mar-
riage by the law of that country was not valid in
England.

THE FORTHCOMING BUDGET.

(Prom the Times.)

For producing a really strong effect there is nothing
like putting great things in a small compass. Years ago,
when country cousins were brought once in their lives
to London, and introduced to the novelty of city scenes,
they used to be taken to the Bank of England, where
they were shown, among other marvels, a small cinder
about half the size of a walnut. After being permitted
to handle and examine for a minute or two this unpro-
mising relic they were told that it represented about
seventy millions of money—real genuine money, such
as rents were ?aid in, and all the business of life trans
sacted with. Toe simple truth was, that the little cinder
formed the ashes of the bonfire which had been kindled
with the disused and cancelled Bank of England notes,
but wonderful was the impression created by the con-
trast between the reality and the symbol. At this mi-
nute, however, there lies before us a piece of paper, the
appearance of which is still more extravagantly at vari-
ance with its import and its disclosures. In dimensions
it is not half as large as a playbill. It is not thickly
covered with figures, nor anything like so difficult to
comprehend as a railway time-table. To be sure, the
items of the account seem rather large, but not much
larger than those in a Portug*ese hotel bill, where your
reckoning is made out in reis, and where a light and tem-
perate refection appears to have cost you about 13,000
pieces of some coin or other. Yet this short, compact and
easily calculated account, which might be entered without
much compression on two pages of a lady's pocketbook,
actually contains the whole income and the whole ex-
penditure of the British nation, not may to a single
pound, but to a single penny. The entire cost of every
kind of public outgoing is summed up, item by item, to
an odd eightpenoe ; and the entire produce of every
species of tax is given to an odd threepence. So com-
pendious is the exposition that in introducing it to the
reader we shall rather expand than contract it, but the
end will be such a " ready-reckoner" as will make every
man a match for the Chancellor of Exchequer when he
opens his Budget next Monday. One thing only need
Le premised—though rather a significant one, certainly,
and that is, that the unit of notation is a million of
pounds sterling.
With this preface, however, let it be understood that
our income, in round numbers, amounted to 68—that is
to-say, 63,000,000/. How was it obtained ? In this
manner :—Duties laid upon imported commodities,
lumped under the name of " Customs," produced
23,000,000/. ; duties levied on commodities of home
manufacture, 18,000,0001. ; and Stamp Duties,
7,000,0001. Taxes, properly so called, yielded only
3,000,0001. ; for, though in common conversation we
apply this term to every species of impost paid into
the. public treasury, it is confined in official accounts
to those particular duties which are laid upon
land or " assessed " on certain well-known luxuries.
Here, in rough reckoning, is 50,000,000/., and this
sum --or, as we should rather express ourselves, the
sum derived, whatever may be its amount, from these
sources—constitutes what may be called the regular in-
come of the nation. Odd things come in besides., just as
they might in any private household. There are
" miscellaneous" receipts ; bits of " lucky money" from
some quarter or another, bringing in a million or two ;
and, in addition to these, the State manages the Post-
office at a profit, and gets another easy million out of
that. Call the whole 55,000,0001., and it will be some,
where about the mark. But then there comes something
beyond the regular income—something raised under
pressure on extraordinary principles to meet extraordi,
nary demands. Such is the Property and Income-tax,
which produced last year 12,000,0001. Add this to the
55,000,0301., and the gross amount of the whsle national
revenue-67 millions odd—is pretty clearly obtained.
And, now, where did all this money go to ? Here is
the wonderful and not very comforting discovery. we
didn't spend or want to spend for our own particular
and actual domestic requirements one-sixth of this snm.
All our civil services of every kind and description
could be paid for by 10,000,0001. All that we should
need if we were never going to war again, or bad never
been to war already would be covered, or nearly so, by
that sum. Then what became of the balance of
57,000,000/.1 We can very soon answer. Fully
half of it—or all but 29,000,000/.—went to
pay the interest and charges of our perma-
nent and floating debts—to satisfy the creditors of
whom we borrowed money in times past. On the other
half, 23,000,000/. goes to the army and navy, and about
5,000,0001. is consumed in getting the above-mentioned
revenue fairly in ; for now, owing to an improvement
in the public reckonings, all items of income are brought
to account in the gross, and the expenses of collection
charged afterwards. Here, then, is the expenditure of
the country simplified to anybody's satisfaction.
It is a sad thing to look at—a very annoying thing to
find, that such a prodigious amount of money runs away
upon old scores and insurance, while such a much
smaller sum would meet all our present occasions. This
is very disagreeable, no doubt ; but it comes of
human nature, after all. The stoutest economist in
the country has probably just such another account in
his own private ledger. He borrowed money to start
with. and has got to pay interest on it. He insures his
He and property highly for the sake of those who come
after him, and, what with local rates and taxes, sub-
scriptions and sacrifices, he finds that out of 1,0001. a-
year income he is hard pressed to find an odd 501. for a
holyday. The most precise housekeeper in the quietest
town in the kingdom knows perfectly well, and will
feel as she reads these lines, that what she eats or
drinks or spends upon herself comes to a mere no-
thing in her whole yearly expenditure. She may
scrape and save as she pleases, but the money is
curie to go. People knock at the door for it every day.
It is carried off by one man after another on some pre-
tence or another, till next to nothing remains behind.
Whether the establishment is large or small signifies
little ; the difference is only in degree, not in kind. It
is the "establishment," in any case, and not the indi-
vidual, which swallows the money up.
Then, what have we ever gained, or what do we gain
now ! Everything that makes us what we are. Folly,
utterly profitless folly, there has been, no doubt; but
there is really a return for these outgoings, though it ie
commonly overlooked and forgotten, both by the nation
and by individuals too. The individual gains that very
quiet and comfort in which he passes his clay—the abso-
lute peace of the town and highway, the infallible secu-
rity for property and life, the comparative purity of the
air around him. The nation gains its character, its re-
putation, and its safety—a safety which enabled us,
even in war time, to traverse the seas with perfect
freedom, and which has never for centuries been dis-
turbed by the presence of an enemy in these islands. It
would be far better if wars could cease, but it would
lalso be better if crime could cease. The army, after
all, is net a more painful necessity than the police. The
money spent upon courts of law, prisone, penal settle-
ments, and penitentiaries is spent quite as unsatis-
factorily as that lavished upon iron ordnance and
rockets. If the world was a sinless world we should
escape all these burdens together ; but its way is linked
with that of the flesh and the devil, and we must face
things as they stand.
There is another fact, however, and one of some little
consequence, which ought to be noticed in any business-
like sketch of a balance-sheet. The ends didn't quite
meet ; in fact, we were more than 2,000,000/. short last
year. But upon this it should be remarked that we paid
an extraordinary million and a quarter as compensation
for the Sound Dues, and 2,000,0001. for redemption of
Exchequer Bonds, otherwise the balance would have
been on the right side of the account. Then our means,
as at present arranged, will fall off next year ; for, as
our extraordinary demands are presumed to be ceasing,
our extraordinary supplies will be diminished accordingly,
am( the Property and Income-tax fell 2d. in the pound
on the sth inst. This deduction will shear off a tolerable
slice from the 12,000,0001. without a corresponding
Navin being yet visible on the other side. To get over
this hitch on the beet terms practicable will be the duty
of Mr. Disraeli, and we have only to wait till the day
after to-morrow to learn how he succeeds.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

We understand that Major-General Gascoigne will
succeed to the colonelcy of the 69th Regiment, rendered
vacant by the death of General Sir Ralph Darling.
Major-General Lord Rokeby, K.C.8., has during the
last few days been engaged in his half-yearly inspection
of the Foot Guards.

The Hero, 91, line-of-battle screw steamer, proceeded
as far as Gillingbarn.reach after her launch from Chat-
ham Dockyard on Thursday afternoon, and yesterday
was towed to Sheerness Dockyard to be supplied with
her machinery. The launching draught cf this vessel
was 18 feet 3 inches forward, and 19 feet 7 inches aft ;
her " break" in launching was only 21 !ache%
The Duck freightship, Weal master, has completed
taking in her war stores at Chatham dockyard, and will
mail for Portsmouth this day.
The Aid is being laden at Chatham with war stores
for Devonport and Pembroke dockyards.
The undermentioned qualified cadets from H.M.S.
Illustrious have been removed to H.M.S. Victory :
Messrs. W. J. S. Wharton, C. Johnstone, J. Hop, A.
Hutchinson, A. D. Douglas, F. Dodewortb, W. Jocelyn,
A. H. Du Boulay, W. H. Brackenbury, and J. Hext.
The freightship Flying Foam, laden with war stores,
yesterday embarked a number of rockets from Woolwich
Arsenal, and sailed for her destination. The freightship
Millicent was yesterday appointed by the War Depart-
ment to ship stores from Woolwich for Newfoundland.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, C on-
wander Joseph Dayman, employed last year in bringing
home the valuable cargo of marble antiquities front
Budrurn Bay, yesterday hauled alongside the coaling
wharf in Woolwich basin and commenced taking in
fuel and sea stock. Many of her late officers and ship's
company have been re-appointed under the new commis
sion, the whole a whom have taken up the r berths o❑
beard. Her sailing orders have b,len issued fa. the 24th
inst., whence she is to proceed to Plymouth to join the
,Agamemnon for a trial cruise in paying out the electric
cable.

ENCOURAGEMENT TO LIFE INSURANCE BY TILE POST-
OFFICE.—Thu operation of the regulations for encourag-
ing provident habits among the Post-office employes by
aiding them to ensure their lives, is thus satisfactorily
exemplified during the past year. Ttie amount paid
in
aid of premiums in 1857 was 2,1291., aid the amount for
which the officers who received aid had insured their
lives was not less than 280,000/. These facts strongly
demonstrate the providence of the Post-office officare.—
Call Service Gazette.

CORK Buoys FOR LETTER•BOXES.—IIad tbe.e been
in general use 13 mouths ago, when the late Queen °I
Oude, in the hurry to embark, in the East Indre=,
dropped a box containing piwious stones, &c., amount-
ing to 50,0001., as a preeeut to our Queen, aid which,
alth.ungh it happened in purt, Las never been found by
the divers, the same might easily have been recovered.
—Qivil 'Service Gazette,

THE DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO INDIA.

Further papers on this subject have just been
issued (in continuation of those presented at the
end of 1857). They conclude a long series of de-
spatches from Governor Sir G. Grey, of the Cape
of Good Hope. In the first of these, dated the
28th of October, Sir G. Grey says he cannot
possibly comply with a demand of 500 horses for
the Government of Bombay and at the same time
furnish 1,000 horses for Calcutta. He proposes
to send 280 horses to Bombay and to send
no more thither -till 1,000 had been shipped
for Calcutta. On the 2d of November Sir George
refers to the very exaggerated statements of the
force then serving in the colony, and adduces
figures to prove that on the 31st of July, 1857 (in-
cluding the German Legion), the force in that
"command" but slightly exceeded 10,400 raxk and
file, and was very deficient in cavalry. "Nothing
but the presence of this force," adds the Governor,
" prevented a war which would have been as ex-
pensive and lasting as other Caffre wars have been.
. . . . . Let the consequences be what they
may, I shall do my duty, and not, in so far
as I can prevent it, permit any imprudent risk
to be incurred." The force in the colony
in August, 1852, was 13,122, and strong in cavalry.
Under the same date Sir G. Grey gives a list of 92
officers and 1,743 men under orders for China, who
had been diverted to India. Sir G. Grey enters
into a long and elaborate defence of his conduct
about the transmission or non-transmission of regi-
ments ; he says that a " misconception" has arisen
from the use of the term " regiment" in a nu-
merical point of view ; and he expresses his fear,
from certain expressions, that he shall be considered
to have fallen short of the instructions sent him
from home. He asserts that he will not attempt,
by sending weak regiments, to enable himself to
say that he has sent "so many" regiments, but
that the force sent shall be useful and efficient. On
the 3d Nov. the despatch of 1,095 horses to India
(in all) is reported to the Colonial-office. Sir G.
Grey, on the sth Nov., says that he intends to
complete the horses demanded by the Government
of Bombay. He estimates that four troops of horse
artillery have been sent on to India, seven field
batteries, and, in addition, 19 or 20 companies of
artillery, with several cavalry regiments; he thinks,
therefore, more than 1,000 horses will be required
to render the forces effective in the field. Sir G.
Grey at this date again harps on the actual paucity
of the force in the colony as an excuse for not send•
ing out the six regiments originally demanded for
India and Ceylon. He considers certain previous
(discretionary) instructions of the Ist of August
non-applicable to the present state of affairs, and on
these the Governor decides to act in preference.
He again raises an alarm about the Caffres, but says
that he will send such troops to India as he thinks
he may send with safety. On 11th November Sir
George "intends" to forward 2,000 barrels of flour
to Calcutta at once, although half the supply
was only asked for six months thence. Other
horses were from time to time despatched. On the
2Gth of December Sir George tells the Colonial
Secretary that it would be impossible to send the
45th Regiment to India, as it was broken up in
detachments, but he promises its concentration as
soon as two young regiments reach the colony from
home. Mr. Secretary Labouchere, in his despatch
to Sir G. Grey, eulogises his aid to India in the
way of horses ; as regards the despatch of troops,
referring to the original demand for six regiments,
and to Sir G. Grey's actual despatch of only four
with a detachment of artillery, he says :
"I am bot insensible to the weight of the reasons
which you allege for not having fully carried into effect
the instructions of her Majesty's Government in regard
to the number of regiments which you were to send
from the Cape ; and I am unwilling to urge you to
weaken the military defences of the colony beyond what
in your deliberate judgment you may consider indispen-
sable to its security. You will, however, bear in mind
that any troops you can spare will assuredly be readily
provided for and usefully employed in India ; and her
Majesty's Government rely with confidence on your as-
surance that you will afford to the utmost extent of your
power such assistance to the Government of India as cir-
cumstances will admit of. Your greater proximity to that
country may give you opportunities of doing so without
the delay which would be occasioned by reference to
England ; and her Majesty's Government think it best
not to fetter your discretion and that of the Commander
of the Forces by more definite instructions in this
respect."
This letter was dated the sth of February, 1858,
and on the sth ult. the Government (Lord Stanley
being then at the head of the Colonial Office) ap-
prised the Governor of the Cape that the reserve
battalion of the 12th Foot was to be withdrawn
from the Cape without further relief.