The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-05 00:00:00

RECEIPTS.

Revenues £41,294,595
Local Taxes to meet Transfer to Local

Budgets
Railway Earnings
Debt
Add Local Funds

:500,000
651,210

--- 10,442,099
Supplies from London
Estimated Cash Balance on the 30th April,
1861

£67,431,391

DISBURSEMENTS.
Charges in India, less transfer
to Local Budget £34,748,939
Transfer to Local Budget 500,000

35,248,939
Interest,Railway Capital in India 35,300

35,286,239

Debt 9,693,205
Add Prize Money 950,000
Local Funds

11,049,205
Supplies to London
Estimated cash balance on the 30th April, 1862 14,264,302

£67,481,391

The liberal supplies that have poured into the
North-West Provinces have had a material effect in
alleviating the distress and sufferings caused by the
famine. We have no very recent accounts regard-
ing the famine, nor of the state and prospects of
that part of the country.
At the close of the official year, 'on the 30th of
April, 1860, £26,415,056 had been expended on
railway works in India. It is estimated that a
further sum of £8,375,223 has been expended in the
course of the official year now brought to a close,
making in the whole £37,790,279—ab0ut a tenth
of the paid-up capital of all the railways of the
United Kingdom. It was estimated at the begin-
ning of the Indian official year that at its close, on
the 30th ult., there would be £1,978,399 standing
to the credit of the railway companies, but it is
now calculated that £454,478 will have been ad-
vanced to them beyond the amount paid by them,
making a difference of £2,432,877 to the Indian
Government. Of the large expenditure of the
current year about £6,000,000 will be in India.
The Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary
notifies, under instructions from the Governor-
General of India in Council, that on and after the
29th of April the import Custom duty on cotton
twist and yarn shall be reduced to 5 per cent. Go-
vernment have thus repealed so much of the late
Mr. Wilson's financial scheme as imposed an extra
duty of 5 per cent. on British twists and yarns in-
troduced into this country. The duty is now placed
at 5 per cent., as formerly, instead of 10 per cent.,
hitherto charged. It was found that the addi-
tional tax was paid by the producers in England,
and the trade suffered in consequence. A great
reduction has occurred in the consumption of
cotton in England during the current year. The
quantities taken for home spinning{ to the 14th
of March, at Liveepool, were, in 1860, 566,990,
and in 1861 only 416,930 bales, leaving a
reduction of 149,660 bales; buf it must be remem-
bered that a panic for cotton arose in the English
market in December last, and spinners may have
got into unusually large stocks, which the present
high rate of money induces them to work up. At
the same time a reduction in Ihe consumption is
otherwise apparent. The exportations of cotton
cloths from England in January, 1860, were at
the declared value £2,888,624 ; in January, 1861,
£3,o22,B36—increase £134,212 ; which was not
quite in proportion to the increase of the quan-
tities, although cotton itself was higher in
price. Cotton yarns were exported from England
in Jan., 1860, to the amount of 16,883,9051 b., at a
declared value of £789,879 ; and in Jan. last to the
extent of only 8,125,2731 b., valued at £408,339, or
less than in the corresponding month of 1860 by
£381,540, which, after reckoning the increase on
cloth, or £134,212, leaves as a reduction in the ex-
portation of cotton for the month a sum of .1;247,338.
By the casual arrival, on the evening of the 6th
inst., of her Majesty's Indian naval steamer Lady
Canning, from Aden, we received London files to
the 10th April, and the regular English mail of the
18th April arrived last night.

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