The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

THE NEXT BUDGET.—The Sunday Gazette says

" It is not difficult to assume that at the meetings of
the Cabinet, which commence next Wednesday, the very
earliest question to be considered will be one having an
important influence on the next Budget. In au adminis-
trative sense its immediate settlement is imperative, while,
as regards its effect upon Ministerial interests next session,
it will probably be no less important than even the great
question of reform. We allude to the dimensions of the
two great departments of expenditure—the army and navy.
We have only to look to the Recruiting Commission, and
the scarcely doubtful fact that some additional pay must be
recommended by it as a means of filling the ranks, and to
the proceedings in connection with the arming of our troops
with breech loaders, in order to come to the conclusion
that General Peel will ask his colleagues for increased es-
timates, while it is clear from Sir John Pakington's own
language that he cannot bring the navy to the condition in
which he contends it ought to bo without an expenditure
beyond the ordinary rate. However consistent the
Chancellor of the Exchequer may be to his objection
to " bloated armaments," however anxious he may
be to produce a satisfactory budget, and have some-
thing to give away, even though he disappoint
friends who cry out so loudly against the malt tax, there
are some improvements which it will be impossible for him
to resist, and which, if carried out, must be paid for. On
the other hand, although the revenue returns are marvel-
lously good, they are good only in the sense of not show-
ing as largo a falling of as was anticipated, in consequence
of Mr. Gladstone's great remissions. By the time that Mr.
Disraeli comes to provide for the service of the year the full
effect of these remisions will have been felt ; and if we
bear in mind that they involve a reduction of more than
£5,500,000 in two years, and look to the probably unfavour-
able influence of the harvest upon the excise and other
returns, we can only say that, without an increased expen-
diture, Mr. Disraeli would not do badly to provide for the
year 1867-8, and keep s few hundred thousands as a balance
out of our present rate of taxation. We speak somewhat
upon a rough guess, but still we are convinced not far from
the mark, when we say that if the plans now before the
Government are carried out, the increased charges for the
army will not be very much under a million. Those for
the navy must also bo considerable. Under these circum-
stances, ono of the first things which the Cabinet will have
to consider will be the character of the next Budget. Tho
efficiency which they cannot neglect is incompatible with
the retrenchment with which they would like to identify
themselves, and the reconcilement of the two objects is not
the least difficult of the formidable questions to which they
must address themselves now that they aro about to enter
in earnest upon the business of Government.
ARRIVAL& AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—In
the monkey-house several specimens, including another
pair of spider-monkeys, of which there are now six of three
different species ; and also one of that curious-looking
animal which has come to be known as the "jew-monkey."
This little fellow has a frizzled crop of hair on the scalp,
and a most respectable black frizzled beard, which imparts
a ludicrous physiognomy. It is a timid, gentle creature,
prone to be affectionate to those who tend it, but is much
less energetic and intelligent than the cebi or "ring-tails,"
and it belongs to the group of South American monkeys
with nonprehensile tails, though constituting,with others,
a very distinct genus of that series, of more quiet de-
meanour than the little petulant marmozets and others
with which most visitors to the gardens aro familiar. A
pair of small pardino cats, also from South America ; and
two more Arctic foxes, making eight in all. It is only
when a number aro kept together that the Arctic fox
seems to thrive in captivity. The cats are to be seen in
the house for small quadrupeds, and are associated in the
same cage with a remarkable pretty genet from Western
Africa.—Lanl and Water.
CIVIL LIST PENSION.—Her Majesty has been
pleased, through Lord Derby, to confer a pension of £75 a
year on the widow of the late Mr. Godfrey Sykes, formerly
a pupil and teacher of the Sheffield School of Art, and the
architectural decorator of tho South Keuminton NUM=

The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New
York on the 20th inst., arrived here to-day with 330
passengers and $21,825 in specie. She landed 77
passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7 p.m.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (Morning).

Mr. Secretary Stanton is reported to have asked
to be relieved of his present post, and to be ap-
pointed United States Minister at Madrid. Mr.
Stanton, it is added, will be succeeded in the Secre-
taryship of War by General Sherman.
_ _

The Governor of Maryland has summoned the
police commissioners, on Monday next, to answer
certain charges preferred against them. The
Northern Radicals are said to be organising to pre-
vent the Governor from removing the commissioners.
Considerable political excitement prevails, and an
armed collision is apprehended between the con-
tending parties.
The Texan House of Representatives have re-
jected the constitutional amendment.
Mr. Wendell Phillips has made a speech urging
the impeachment of President Johnson, and his re-
moval from office pending his trial.
Secretary M'Culloch's annual report will, it is
stated, show a surplus of revenue over expenditure
of $38,000,000.
Influential persons are pressing the Administra-
tion to make a formal demand upon the British
Government for a settlement of the Alabama
claims.

It is reported that the Federal Government is
about to adopt a more active policy in Mexican
affairs.

A Fenian meeting has been held at Rochester, at
which it was determined to adopt retaliatory mea-
sures if the Fcnians in Canada were punished.

CANADA.

Tonorrro, Oct 15.
The Fenian prisoners were arraigned here yester-
day. Their trial will take place next week.

MEXICO.

NEW YORE, Oct. 20.

Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the 13th
inst. state that General Castelnau had arrived there,
and had set out to meet Marshal Bazaine.

A deputation from the mercantile community of
Matamoros had waited upon the Emperor Maximi-
lian, and requested his Majesty to occupy Mata-
moros, declaring that the whole population would
rise for the empire.

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 30.

The North German Lloyd's steamer America,
from New York, passed the Needles at 12.5 p.m.

to-day.

MARKETS.--This Day.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 lOs; clover,
£4 lOs to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 16s to £2 4s per load.
Demand inactive.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 108 to £4 15s Od; clover,
£4
lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
Inquiry limited.
WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 15s ; clover,
£4
lOs to £5 158 Od ; and straw, £1 lfis to £2 48 per load.
Trade heavy.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The market is very quiet; and :prices generally
exhibit no change of importance.
SuciAn.—The demand continues very inactive for low
and inferior descriptions, and prices show in some instances
a slight downward movement.
,COFFEE.-A fair demand has been experienced for both
Plantation and Native Ceylon, and late rates are in most
instances well supported.
RICE.—The late decline has been recovered, and there
continues to be a good inquiry for cleaned descriptions.
TaLLow.—Business has been very quiet, and prices have
shown little change of importance. P.Y.C. on the spot is
quoted 44s 3d to 440 6d, December 44s 9d, and January to
March 45s 6d per cwt.

THE LIBEL ON THE QUEEN.—We should have
thought that enough had been said on this subject, but as
some people who ought to know batter aro not satisfied we
insert the following :—" That in the case of the libel re-
specting the private life of the Queen further steps had
been rendered unnecessary, the Editor of the Gazette de
Lausanne having caused a paragraph to be inserted in a
subsequent number recognising its falsehood, and express-
ing regret that it had found a placo in its columns."—
Tinto,

The Tumuli of the Yorkshire Wolds.

The third week of the scientific examinations of
she British barrows in Yorkshire has been spent by
he Rev. Wm. Greenwell, of Durham, and with him

Capt. Egerton, of Londesborough, Dr. Neis, Rev.

F. Simmons, rector of Dalton, Rev. Canon Mus-
grave, rector of Etton, and others, on the Goodman-
ham Wolds, near Enthorpe, on the estates of Lord
Londesborough. The removal from Weaverthorpe

proved to be one from a district where inhumation
had been the regular custom to one exclusively of
cremation. A group of barrows of various sizes were

opened, varying from 12 to 40 yards in diameter,
and from lift. to Eft. high, all being more or less
ploughed down. They were situate on rising and
sloping ground in one of the smaller wold valleys,
and probably the whole group of burial mounds num-
ber about 30. Of these some were opened in 1809,
and many others at different times since. All are
made of soil, mixed with flint and chalk, and some-

times very large pieces or blocks of flint. The results
of the openings showed that nearly all the bodies were
burnt, and that the burnings had been made on the
spot, an unusual circumstance only previously found in

,he examination of the small tumuli at Castle Howard.

One barrow, however, revealed a highly important
feature. Barrow No. 4 showed that the body was

placed before burning in precisely the same position
as the non-cremation people placed their bodies in
the ground. The burnings had been very imperfect
and the body was but charred, the bones showing
the doubled-up position admirably. This seemed a
remarkable and important discovery, showing that
the custom of contracting the body for burial as
adopted by the supposed aborigines was continued

by the later race, who burnt the body and collected
the fragments. The pottery found during the week
was also remarkable. Several urns were found ac-

companying the burnt burials, but none of them con-
tained burnt bones, and with one exception were
miniature cinerary urns, and not like those which

accompany but do not contain burnt bodies. There
was also a singular absence of flint implements, both

with the bodies and in the material of the houes, and
what was further remarkable the searchings made

in the adjoining fields showed that flint chippings
and implements were particularly scarce in the sur-

face soil. The researches, however, were on the
whole of a peculiar nature and of great interest.
The barrow first opened was 16 yards in diameter,
and 4ft. high. Four and a half yards east of centre,

and a little above natural surface, an urn was met

with, measuring Bin. in height, the rim overhanging
and ornamented with punctured markings in the
clay, arranged in squares of nine impressions. This
urn was empty and upright, and about Ift. west of
it a second urn, also upright, was found, the pottery
being quite plain, but the rim overhanging. The
bottom of this second urn was on a level with the
top of the first. Both urns were surrounded with
burnt earth, mixed sparingly with charcoal, and
both were p taced amid singularly scanty remains of
burnt bodies, of which the first was of a young per-
son, and the second much y ounger—a mere child.
The centre of the hone yielded nothing—the bodies
having been burnt and interred on the same places.
Two chippings of foreign flint and one long scraper
(" thumb flint"), very like the type of the one found
with the red urn in the Ganton barrows, were the
only implements found in the barrow.
The second barrow was of 12 yards diameter and
2ft. high. Five yards east-south-east of centre, on
the plane, a burnt body was found, quite like those
of the first barrow, and also burnt on the spot.