The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

THE RE VEN UE.

Thera is every reason to expect that the quarter's
revesue will show a very trifling decrease, if any, when
compared with the corresponding quarter of last year,
notwithstanding the reductions which the Chancellor
cf the Exchequer was able to make in the last session.
The brick duties, 700,0001. a year, were wholly abandoned,
and yet we find the Excise so prosperous, in the other
items, as scarcely to miss the total loss in this. The
buoyancy of the revenue of Excise is one of the most
convincing and conclusive proofs of the wide-spread pro-
spt rity and occupation of the great mass of the people. The
Stamps, although greatly reduced, will not exhibit the
signs of that reduction in full in the present quarter,
since a great increase of business, which was kept back
for the change, will probably show its effect upon the
present quarter, which, to its full extent, cannot be
hoped for again. The Customs fluctuate, but will show
well in spite of the great reductions that have tiken
place. These are the chief items which mark the state
of the country. The others will probably vary very
little, and will be shown by the tabular returns.
In the mean time the large amount of public
deposits exhibited in the weekly returns of the Bank of
England, amounting to the sum of nearly half a million
shows that the debtor and creditor
ul
4rllor of the Exchequer stands well,
and cdionthcirat hisincrease
the
e weekly,baanhca at the end of the financial year is more
likely to increase than to be diminished, notwithstanding
the taxes he has relaxed or reduced, and the sums that
are in course of expenditure in liquidation of the public
debt.—Sunday Paper.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHER2f.—From Dee. 17 to Dec. 23: Passengers,
166,621 f.; goods, 267,156 f.; total, 433,777 f.
ROUEN.—From Dec. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengers,
53,558 f.; goods, 8-1,942 f.; total, 138,500 f,
Havntc.—Frona Dec. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengere,
17,555 f.; goods, 37,239 f. ; total 54,794 f.
ORLEANS•—From Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers,
66,622 F. ; goods, 128,3,16 f.; total,
.194,968 f.

13ormAux.—From Dec. 16 to Dee. 22 : Passengers,
28,815'.; good?, 49,500.; total, 78,321 F.

VIERZOIY —l;rom Dec: 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers,
34,331 E; goods, 44 2321.; total, 78,563 f.

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BOULOGNE.—From Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 : Passengers,
12,336 f.; goods, 17,285 E; total, 29,621 f,

DIEPPE.—From Dee. 15 to Dec. 21 : Passengers,
3,052 f.; goods, 7,741 f.; total, 10,793 f.
NANTEs.—From Dec. 14 to Dee. 20 : Passengers,
14,2981.; goods, 11;262f.; total, 25,560 f.
STRASBURG —From Dem 16 to Dee. 22 : Passengers,
58,4771.; goods, 53,699 f.; total, 117,174 f.
BALE.—From Dee. 9 to Dee. 15 : Passengers,
17,6731. ; goods, 20,175 f.; total, 37,843 f.
MONTEREAU. —From Dee. 10 to Dee. 16: Passengers,
8,257 f.; goods, 15,842 r.; t'Aal, 24,099 f.

MARSEILLES.—FrOM Dec. 3 to Dec. 9: Passengers,
39,084 f.; go..ds, 27,917 f.; total, 67,001 f.

LYONS. —From I)ec. 8 to Dec. 14 : Passengers,
102,650 f.; goods, 61,115 f.; total, 163,7651.
CIIARTREB.—From Dec. 9 to Dec 15: Passengers,
23,3841.; goods, 13,2351.; total, 36,6191.

MAIL STATIONS. SOUTHAMPTON AND THE U.S. LINE•
OF-BATTLE-SHIP PENNSYLVANIA. - Great efforts are
being made by the Mayor and leading gentlemen
of Southampton to promote its interests as a mail-
station. Memorials have been addressed to the Presi-
dent of the United States, requesting that Southampton
may he made the port of debarkation for the
United States' line-of-battle-314 Pennsylvania on
her arrival with the contributions of the West to the
EKposition of 1851. Negotiations have been opened
with the railway company to convey them free to the
metropolis; and steam commanders are being moved to
publish testimonials to the valuo of Southampton as a
port for steamers of all burden. Oar Liverpool readers
,hould reflect on these spirited apd antagonistic exer-
tions.—Liverpool

AN AMERICAN JUDGE.—" When I was travelling
to Massachusetts, some twenty years ago," said a traveller,
" I had a seat with the driver, who, on stopping at the post-
office, saluted au ill-looking fellow on the step, with Good
morning, Judge Saunders; I hope you're well, sir?' After
leaving the office, I asked the driver if the man he spoke to
was really a judge? Certainly, sir,' he replied. We had
a cock-fight last week, and he was judge.'"

Our latest accounts from London report that the
recent movement on the London and North-Western Line is
now almost exploded. Upwards of three hundred applica-
tions from engine• drivers, &c., have been received by the
Directors; and the infatuated course of the employees is ex-
pected to meet with entire defeat.—Liverpool