The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

70,3 3,436

67,812,292

IL—lncrease and Decrease in the periods ended March 31' 1866, as compared with corres ponding periods of the
preceding year:—

Quarter enBded Mai. year ended
1 ..
Increase. Decrease. -----Increase. —Decrease.
- 4
1 X--
________—_.
X
Cue oms
••a , • •
'29,3,000
ItAcise
Stamps
•• 76,000 S ,00J ' •
. • •
Taxes
• • 14,000 58,.00 ..
Prop, rty Tax
Post-Office .• •• • • • • 150,000 ..
Crown Lands ~ 6,01 •• )
.. 10,000 • •
Miscellaneous
Tota's
••• ~.. r,_

Tota's . _ _
l‘et Decreas

349,814
;e ~354,1

,734,000
18 Net D,

478,000 2,979,144
rease !,501,144

lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other
Receipts of the Quarter ended March 31, 1866, the appli-
cation of the same, and the Charge of the Consolidated
Fund for the said Quarter, together with the surplus or
deficiency upon such charge :
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Con-
solidated Fund, fbr the Quarter ended
Dm 31, 18e5, viz.:—
Great Britain .
Ireland

£9:0,724

----- lncome received, as shown in Account I 17,7 Z 9109,721
2,965
Amount raised on account of Porttficatioas.
per 27 and 28 Vict., o. 109
Amount raised by the issueof Exchequer Bonds,
pea Act 28 and 2) Vict., c. 29
1,000,005
Amount received in repayment of Advances for
Public Works, &c.
Ditto for New Courts of Justice -

100,000

3 1,0,Z0
46,000

Balance, being the Deficiency on March 31, 1866, £20,151,709
upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund
in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends,
and other charges, payable in the Quarter
to June 3.0, 1868, and ior'whick Exchequer
Bills (Deficiency; wilt be 'issued in that
Quarter
2,132,674

Amount applied out of' the Income in Redemp-
tion of Deficiency 15111 s issu d in the Quar-
ter to March 3., 1866, for the charge of the
Cunsolidated Fund in Great Britain on
Deo. 31. 1865 :
Total Deficiency Z2,573604
Deduct— Amount 11 deomed ,
with Sinking Fund ..... 220,000

422 287, 73

--- Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Ser-
2,353,6:4
vices
10,C21,739
Amount Advanced for New Courts of Justice
Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended sibrch 31, 1846, viz.:—
Interest of the Permanent
Debt £5,595,040
Terminable Debt
Princip.i of Exchequer Bills 1,2 8,900
Interest of Exchequer bills 53.912
Interest of Deficiency Bills
The Civil List 102,171
Other Charges on Consoli-
dated Fund 455,580
Advances for Public Works,&c. 269,18
Sinking Fund

Burping Balance in Ireland beyond the charge of 9,329,425
the Consolidated Fund in Ireland fur the
cuarter ended .:arch 31, ,866 642,705

£22,287,473

CHARLES DICKENS AND CUCKSTONE,

The Sunday Times thus graphically descants on
three speeches at the Theatrical Fund Dinner :
Charles Dickens spoke well, as he always does,
though almost too shortly. An after-dinner speech
cannot indeed well be too short, but such speakers
as Dickens cannot often be encountered ; and those
who are fortunate enough to be present on an oc-
casion like the present are inclined to regard as
grudging and parsimonious the brevity which, in
fact, is dictated by good sense, good taste, and
knowledge of the world. In these days, when pho-
tographic portraits are multiplied by thousands, and
permeate all our cities, towns, and villages, there
are few who can be strangers to the personal ap-
pearance of 'Mr. Dickens. His appearance, how-
ever, undoubtedly adds weight to his oratory ; and
when the well-graced and singularly felicitous sen-
tences he always combines are delivered with the
full charm of voice and manner he possesses, the
result, of course, is wonderfully pleasing and im-
pressive. There was little in his speech he delivered
on Wednesday evening to distinguish it from any
similar speeches lie has before delivered. Its only
defect was, as we have hinted, in very fact, a grace,
and the regret men experienced when the voice left
off ringing in their ears was, in fact, a tribute to the
art of the speaker. About Mr. Buckstone's success
nothing surely need be said. Everything that Buck-
stone does is Buckstonian—that is to say, irresistibly
comic—and the power of voice and manner over an
audience was never more convincingly shown than
on the present occasion, when the utterance of the
simple words "My Lord Mayor" convulsed half
his audience with laughter. His speech was, how-
ever, very clever, and the tone of humorous though
respectful persiflage with which he treated the Lord
Mayor tickled vastly his audience. There was, in
fact, a species of duel between Mr. Buckstone and
the Lord Mayor, in which, though no hurt was re-
ceived on either side, one or two very vigorous
lunges were forcibly given and dexterously avoided.
The story about the borrowed armour tickled the
audience immensely, and the twinkle of the speaker
showed that he himself relished the joke not a whit
the worse for being a trifle mischievous. His re-
ference to the possibility of his having been an al-
derman was told also well, and the retort of the
Lord Mayor that Mr. Buckstone was better in his
place as a brilliaat actor than as a second-rate alder
man, was fair and successful, though, perhaps, no
altogether well founded.

WARREN'S BLACKING.—When the great black-
ing-maker of London despatched his agent to Egypt
to write on the pyramids of Ghiza, in huge letters, " Buy
Warren's Blacking, 30, Strand, London," ho was not
" cheating" travellers on the Nile. His blacking was really
a superior article, and well worth the price charged for it;
but he was " humbugging" the public by this queer way of
arresting attention. It turned out just as he had antici-
pated that English travellers in that part of Egypt Were
e
indignant at this desecration, and they wrote bacektetone
London Times (every Englishman writes or tdhernoa to
denouncing
" write to the Times" if anything goes wrougo?e,nt
pyramids
the "Goth" who had thus disfigured thesetetearne,
~Buy War-
by writing on them in monstrou,s
Ti he Times published
ren's Blacking, 30, Strand, London."
several of those awful,
these letters, and backed them up
peculiar to the great
maker, "Warren, 30
as a man who had uo respect for
Strand," was stigmatised
andit was hinted that he would pro-
tho ancient patriarchs, .
grand, and
dictatorial
ntaltVohilicahl tehdeit:lraic:lkinYg
bably not hesitate to sell his blacking on the sarcophagus
of Pharaoh, ,o r any other" mummy—if he could only
make
b‘yit. In fact, to cap the climax, Warren
was
denounced
"humbug." These indignant articles were
copied into all the provincial journals, and very soon, in
this manner, the columns of every newspaper in Great
m o n e
as ya
Britain were teeming with this advice : " Try Warren's
Blacking, 30, Strand, London." The curiosity of the
public was thus aroused, and they did " try" it ; and, find-
ing it a superior article, they continued to purchase it,
and recommended it to their friends, and Warren made
a fortune by it. He always attributed his success to his
having "humbugged" the public by his unique method of
advertising his blacking in Egypt ! But Warren did not
cheat his customers, nor " practise an imposition under fair
pretences." He was a humbug, but he was au honest, up-
right man, and no one called him an impostor or a cheat.
The liumbugs of the World. 13:i P. T. 13arnum .. ,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB 13ETTDTG—THIS DAY,
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Peail Diver (taken)
sto 1 agst Drum (taken)
7 to 1 agst Whalebone (taken)
7to 1 agst Ealing (taken)
10 to 1 agst Peeress (taken)
10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken)
100 to 8 agst Neroli (taken)
Very little betting. Most of the members being at New-
market and the Ealing and Blackheath Races.
MAN

'CHESTER BETTING-SATURDAY.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Eakring (taken)
Bto 1 agst Whalebone (taken)
10 to 1 agst Drum (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
14 to lon the field (offered)
20 to 1 agst Delight (taken freely)
100 to 3 agst Redcap (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
7to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken)

SPORTING NO .CES.

41.-

The Newmarket Handicap has a very small acceptance.
Pearl Diver, from the forward position he occupied in
the Northamptonshire Stakes, is now first favourite.
Eakring and Whalebone have likewise been backed fur
small amounts. Black Prince is not expected to run. From
the very indifferent lot that will contest the race, it is ro
use looking beyond PEARL DIVER or EARRING to furnish
the winner. The Eighth Biennial Stakes, which will be
decided over the Rowley mile, has a brilliant entry of
• fifty-eight, but much of the interest attaching to the
race has been destroyed through the scratching of
Lord Partsmouth's Robin Hood. The pick of the
horses engaged are Mount Palatine, Mazeppa,
Monarch of the Glen, Westwick, Claros, Ischia,
The Primate, The Student, The Peer, King
Hal, Geojerat, Magician, Custaloga, Ammunition, La
Dauphine, Lochiel, Staghound, Dalesman, Tomahawk,
Warwick, and Gladiator. Neither The Student nor The
Peer is likely to run, but as Monarch of the Glen, Mount
Palatine, Westwick, Staghound, Dalesman, Gladiator, The
Primate, and Ischia will probably join issue, the contest
is sure to be exciting, and though Monarch of the Glen
and Mount Palatine are said to be vastly improved horses,
The Primate and Dalesman carry my confidence. In
the half mile Beacon Stakes nine two-year-olds have been
engaged, the entry including Mr. Chaplin's Derby colt
Hermit, Achievement, Photographe, and Hornet. If
Hermit is brought out he will win, but in his absence
Photographs may just beat Achievement, who, how-
ever, is reported to be a splendid filly. On Wednesday the
Derby Trial Stakes and the Column Stakes are the only
closed races of note. In mile and half Derby Trial Stakes
King Charming, Proserpina, Gontran, Archimedes, Christ-
mas Carol, The Grinder, and other horses have been nomi-
nated against Gladiateur, but as the French horse is well
he will have no difficulty in winning.
To the mile Column
Stakes there are 16 subscriptions, and as Young Monarque
is reported unfit, Crown Prince or Beelzebub should be the
winner of the stakes. On Thursday, the Seventh Biennial
Stakes, the Claret Stakes, and the Abingdon Stakes are the
principal items in the card ; 79 horses are entered for the
Seventh Biennial Stakes, the list including Pantaloon,
The Duke, King Charming, Ostregar, Tennyson, Anti-
Macassar, Chimney Sweep, Audax, Nukuheva, Friday,
Sydmonton, Kangaroo, Archimides, Al, and Jezabel. The
Duke, though the distance is further than he likes, will
probably be the favourite, but it is on the cards for him to
be defeated by SYDMONTON or FRIDAY, both of whom can
stay the severe ditch in course. On Friday the Bennington
Stakes, D.M., must fall to Esca ; the Port Stakes, T.M.M.,
to the Duke or Zephyr; and the 100 Sovs Sweepstakes)
D.M., to Dalesman.

The Student, after having been nearly knocked out for
both the Two Thousand and Derby, has now assumed a
more healthy appearance for both events. No doubt he
will either be knocked out altogether this week or see half
his present price. Rustic, after receding a point or two,
is now as firm as ever. On Public form he has no right to
be at his present short price. Those who keep keying
against him will have no cause to regret it when the race
is over.

A FRESH MAN.

Murder in Paddington.

Daniel Elmore, Bridge-terrace, Harrow-road, was taken
into custody last night for the murder of his wife. At ten
o'clock last night the prisoner met his wife with another
man outside a public-house, when angry words passed be-
tween them, which resulted in Elmore knocking his wife
down, kicking her in the stomach, and then running away.
A police constable picked the poor woman up, had her con-.
veyed to the police-station, and the surgeon called in, who
stated that the woman must have met an almost instanta-
neous death.

The unfortunate woman has left several small "children.
Latterly she had been much addicted to drink, and this led
to repeated quarrels with her husband, who is a dairyman
in the service of Mrs. Evans, Harrow-road. He was ap-
prehended a short time time afterwards in a publichouse
in the Harrow-road.