The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock.

VERDI'S OPERA. OF MACBETH. The
whole of the first Act of this Opera, now produced
for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts
being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eve:
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They will perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi-
tion to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 18.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
34—highest since noon yesterday.
71—lowest this morning and during the night.
80—this day at noon.

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BAROMETER,---29'97.
WIND, South-Westerly to W.S.W. ; moderate, with
fine breeze, and cloudy sunshine. A heavy storm of
ightning thunder and rain began last evening, and con-
tinued for some time.

The financial statement made last evening has
in effect surpassed the most sinister of the popular

anticipations. Before entering, however, on any

analysis whatever of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget for

the current year, it will be advisable to cast a re-
trospective glance at the actual balance now struck
between the income calculated upon for the past
twelvemonths by the right hon. gentleman's
immediate predecessor and the actual expen-
diture for the same time —an expenditure,

it must be remembered in the first instance,

increased by more than £5,000,000 additional for

the augmentation of our military and maritime

armaments. It is due to Mr. DISRAELI at once to

assert as distinctly as possible that for that increase

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in the national disbursements by more than
£5,000,000, he at any rate cannot be regarded as

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in any way responsible. It is an augmentation in
the expenditure that cannot reasonably be taken
into account when examining into the question as
to the verification or the falsification of
his calculations or expectations on introducing
his last Budget as Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S

Exchequer. Those anticipations of his have, upon
the whole, in reality been actually exceeded, and
in several instances very considerably exceeded,

by the results arrived at upon his estimates. The
right hon. gentleman's estimate, for example,
upon the Customs' revenue was placed by him at
an aggregate of £23,400,000, whereas the actual
receipts have amounted to £24,117,000—or
£717,000 additional. His estimate again for
Stamps he placed moderately at £7,850,000,
whereas the receipts under the head of that item
of revenue were £8,005,000—0r £155,000 addi-
tional. As the accumulated proceeds of the in-
come-tax, moreover, Mr. DisRABLI counted upon a
total of £6,100,000, the actual receipts for the year
under that heading being, on the contrary,
£6,683,000—or £583,000 beyond his most sanguine
expectations. Altogether, the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer having calculated the national estimates
at a total of £63,920,000, and the actual receipt 3
for the year having amounted, on the contrary, to
as much as .£65,477,000--there proves to be an
excess of more than one million and a half sterling,
or, to put the actual amount itself, an excess of
precisely £1,557,000. Had the year otherwise been
an ordinary year, had there been no necessity
during the lapse of it for any additional ex-
penditure in the way of military and
maritime armaments, in the way of defence
against the contingency of war, and even of inva-
sion—there would have remained a clear surplus
of £BOO,OOO over the gross amount of the national
disbursements. In literal truth there is this sur-
plus now before us upon the balance-sheet of the
nation— there is this surplus of £BOO,OOO upon the
balance for the nation of its ordinary income and
its ordinary expenditure.
Extraordinary circumstances have rendered it
imperative, however, that that ordinary expenditure
should be increased by the remarkable addition
of over £5,000,000 for defensive preparations
by sea and land—liabilities, for the adoption of
which the Chancellor of the
Exchequer is not so

much accountable as—the nation itself directly, and
indirectly, or rather, intermediately, the Secretary of
State for War, and the First Lord of the Admiralty.
It is solely and exclusively by reason of these
increased military and maritime armaments—
the glory of inaugurating which belongs by right
respectively to the right hon. JONATHAN PEEL,
Major-General, and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, G.C.B.
—it is alone by reason of the defensive preparations
which had been imperatively insisted upon through
the Press by the People themselves, that the
otherwise inevitable surplus of £BOO,OOO upon the
year has been transformed into p. deficiency, upon
the current peal:, of exactly £4,867,000! The de-
ficiency, observ, e, is below £5,000,000 ; and the one
solitary cause I For that deficiency—the increase of
the defensive a rmaments by sea and land—exceeds
£5,000,000. For that difficulty, therefore, the
present Chan te ellor of the Exchequer's immediate
predecessor e as snot for one single instant be held in
any way wha ever responsible. It is a difficultyr4

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1859.