The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

THE BteVENUE.

The revenue accounts for the quarter will be
made up to Tuesday night next, the 30th inst.
There will be an increase of something like
300,000/. in the Customs as compared with the
c)rresponding quarter of last year. This favour-
able result is very much to be attributed to the
large 'quantities of tees which wtra kept over to
take advantage of the reduced scale of duties. Con-
sequently, the deliveries of tea were unusually
large in the month of April, and the duties thereon
form en exceptional increase, which will not occur
again until a similar drop in the descending scale
of duties shall take effect. In the meantime the
actual increase—where a deficiency was calculated
upon—shows that that the import duties continue
to exhibit a rising and a progressive tendency, in
spite of every reduction. The grain which paid
duty is much less than it was at the same period
last year.
In the Excise, the expected deficiency from the
reduction of the duty on malt was calculated at
no less than from 800,000/. to 1,000,000/. The
actual reduction will probably not amount to one-
half of that sum. The whole decrease upon the
Excise will probably not be more than 400,0001.
This is all the more a matter of congratulation,
since a great portion of the balance of this amount
arises from the still increasing consumption.

The stamps and taxes exhibit a steady increase,
showing the progressive character of our commer-
cial relations, and the improVed r• venue deiiired.
from the transfer and succession of land.

The falling off in the • inc )me-tax will be
much smaller than was expecte 1, owing to the
reduction of the duty only having taken place
upon official salaries, and upon the re-
cipient.; of in'erest in the public securities, which
were always collected closely—deducted, in fact,
from the payments made by the Bank. Upon the
other schedules the tax was not collected so quickly,
and a great amount of the income tax due before
the Ist of April has only been collected in this
quarter.. The 161 in the pound ceas©d on the Ist
of April, or dwindled to the old 7d. in the pound
—the war 9d. being taken off—but the effect of
the reduction will not tell upon the revenue fully
during the greater part of the year, since the
arrears due and payable by the public ate of the
old 16d. rate.

The whole deficiency will probably be less than
400,0001.—a :urn far less than. the large reduc-
tion of taxation would have lid us to expect.—
Observer.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF CROWN DAY Saturday,
June 27.—Admissions on payment, 2,689; ditto by
season ticketc., 3,265: total visitors, 5,954.

THE ART TREASURES —The admissions
on Thursday, the half-crown day, showed a slight falling
efF. The returns were :—Admitted by season tickets,
3 620 ;on payment, 3,206 ; total, 6,826. Of these,
2,048 arrived by railway. The attendance on Friday
was not numerous, but especial interest was given to the
gathering by the attendanca of the members of the
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, who 1..5-semblcd
semblcd to the number of 200 or more, from Liverpool,
Chester, Warrington and Manchester. Mr. J. C.
Deane has fitted up an anteroom to the private apart-
ment in which her Majesty is to be received, which is
handsomely furnished with tapestries, armoury, and
statuary. The whole arrangements are all that could
be desired for taste and elegance.

CHICAGO AND EIIROPZ DIRECE—Here are two para-
graphs worthy to be placed together. (From the Chicago
Press.) "The Lakes and the Ocean.—The good barque
Andrew Stevens lies in the river, almost ready for
sea, with the placard 'For Glaego w' conspicuously ex-
hibited in her rigging. She will make the trip both out
and return and will bring into our river packages
fresh fro n European markets. We learn that her bill
of return freight is already being made up to a consider.
able extent. It would seem to be an opportunity of
which our business houses interested would not be slow
to avail themselves. Messrs. A. Johnson and Co. de-
sire to interest the business community in this new
enterprise, and through their representatives at Glas-
gow, Liverpool, and London, will make purcaases of
British and foreign merchandise for parties here on the
most liberal terms." (From the Montreal Herald )
" Liverpool to Chicago Direct.—Yesterday the schooner
Madeira Pet, of Guernsey, Captain Grange, a schooner
of about 120 tens, arrived here from Liverpool for Chi-
cago. Sho has on board a full cargo of 240 tons mea-
surement goods, consisting of steel, iron, crockery, and
paints. She made the passage in 35 days and received
for freight 3601. sterling. Hence upwards and till her
return to Montreal her freight will be at the current
rates per month f ships of her tonnage."
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