The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-06 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1835.

Our readers will find in another part of The Sun
the official tables of the income and expenditure of the
United Kingdom for the year and quarter ended the
sth inst., compared with the official returns of the
national income and expenditure for the year and
quarter ending the sth of July 1834. The defalcation
which this view of the income of the country pre-
sents would be rather alarming, were we not aware
of the causes which have produced it, and of the
facility with which the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER may employ them to swell his budget,
before he is again called upon to lay the items of the
national revenue before the House of Commons.
Upon the receipts of the year just ended, compared
with the year ending in July, 1834, there is a decrease
of 1,758,8861., and upon the expired quarter com-
pared with the corresponding period, there is a de-
ficiency amounting to 656,4071. It will be seen, by
comparing the decrease on the year and quarter just
ended, that the defalcation in the national income is
rapidly progressing ; for the decrease on the income
of the quarter as compared to that on the year
is pretty nearly in the ratio of four to one. In the
Customs there is an increase in the year of 2,457,5151.
and in the quarter of 384,4201. The Post Office de-
partment shows an increase in the year of 23,0001.,
but the increase on the quarter only amounts
to 4,0001. On the Miscellaneous Estimates there is
likewise an increase on the year of 13,7361., and or,
the quarter:of 5,3141. The decrease is in the E-eciee,
the Stamps,. and the Tax departments. The decrease
in the Exqiscis on the year 3,194.(465/, and on the
quarter 551,4611.,--an enormous defalcatioa indeed,
were it not augmented by the transfer of the: tea duties
from the Excise to the Customs department. The
surplus on.the_custops does not
.cover this deficiency,
but this again is accounted for by the tea trade not
having yet entirely adjusted itself under the law
for opening the trade to China. When it does, there
will be a positive surplus, over and above the coveting
of the falling off in the Excise, in this departmelit of
the public income. There is also a decrease on the taxes
in consequence of the repeal, of the House- Duty.
The decrease on the Stamps is 131,574/. on the year,
and 72,142/. on the quarter. Now the deficiency here
created is partly owing to -the total repel of the Stamp
duty on Almanac:ks, and partly to the publication
of Republican Penny Journals, which are circu-
lated in Tr.tlions all over the country in open defi-
ance of the Stamp Laws. Tne deficiency created in
the -natkemal income by the nefarious traffic in un-
stamped Newspapers is not only immense, but it is
also a public rolfoery of those who yield a willing
obedience to the laws. The Government must strike
at the root of this growing evil, by lowering the
stamp duty, and so enabling honest men, of suf-
ficient enterprise, to put down this infarnoia-
system -of trampling upon the laws. The
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER NYIII likewise
require to alter and improve the Jaw for pre-
venting the publication of Ilnstamped newspapers.
The way to do this effect-daily, is to seize the papers at
the different offices where they are printed, together
with the printing
esses and other materials for carrying
on such illegal 'eraffic. It is the excess of cruelty, as
well as folly, to inflict the whole punishment unon
venders, 0r..t0 make the crime consist in vendin, The
way, tg, be effective, must seize upon the printed 'papers
wherever found, without regard to the mode of their
distribution.

It may he remembered that, a few days since, at a
Protestant meeting which took place at Exeter Hall,
an Orange parson, named M‘GHEL, delivered a flerte
philippic against, what he called, " the tcncts of the
Roman Catholic Religion." •The materials for this
diatribe he drew from DENS'S System of Theology, a
workpublish4d-in the year 1808, and which he sad j