The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES-VALUE OF IMPORTS

AND EXPORTS.
Imports.

Value of froe goods
Va.:114 of dutiable good 83,668,620

Total value of imports 5108,434,702
Exports.
Value of domestic produce 1100,183,497
Value of foreign produce ... 10,944,787

$111,128,284

Balance in favour of the United States ... $2,693,582
Gross revenue on the above importation 29,137,060 60
Net revenue on the above importation ... 26,183,570 94

Expenses of collection, &c. 52,953,489 66
It must be recollected, in looking on this table of im-
ports and exports, that only six months of the period of
large importations are included in these returns, and that
since the Ist July the value of the imports is very great.
For the calendar year the result will look far different,
not only as to the balance of trade, but in the amount of
the revenue.

The finances of the Government are fully as favourable
as anticipated. The receipts and expenditures, as given
in the annexed tables, show a very large surplus, but we
should think the expenditures were rather extravagant.

FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TILE YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1844.
Receipts.

Customs
Lands ..
Treasury Notes
Miscellaneous sources

. $26,183,570 94
2,059,939 80
1,677,181 35
261,007 94

Total receipts
Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1843 10,431,507 55

540,813,207 58
Expenditures—Civil list, navy, army, &c. 32,958,827 94

Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1844, 57,854,379 64
ESTIMATES FOR 1845—RECEIPTS.
Customs-ISt quarter, ac-
tual
Customs-3 quarters, esti-
mated

21,071,300

Public lands
Miscellaneous sources

$31,945,018
2,139,857
120,000

$34,204,875 00

Total resources
Expenditures estimated 35,0)9,431 06

Balance in the Treasury, July Ist, 1845 ~,.'7,039,823 58
ESTIMATES FOR 184E-RECEIPTS.
,530,030,302
2,010,000
120,000

Customs
Public lands
Miscellaneous sources

Total resources .
Expenditures, estimated

132,160,302 00

$39,200,125 58
28,193,784 82

Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1846, $11,006,340 76
These estimates are based on as good data as can be
commanded, but they are of little interest or deserving
of much confidence. It is beyond the power of any in-
dividual to estimate, with any degree of accuracy, the
probable position of the finances of the Government so
long in advance. In a country like this it is impossible
to predict what a year may bring forth in commercial
matters. Where is the man that, two years ago,
imagined for a moment that the year 1844 would pro-
duce a revenue from customs larger than any one pre-
vious ? We look upon these estimates as useless, so far
as the purposes of legislation are concerned. Mr. Secre-
tary Bibb can look as far into futurity, as regards this
subject, as any of his predecessors, but the practice is at-
tended with danger, and often leads us all astray.

The TVashington Constitution says, a report has
reached Washington that Mexico has closed her
ports against the United States. No other paper,
however, mentions such a rumour.

The United States Gazette says—" 'We were yes-
terday put in possession of files of papers of three
days later date from Barbadoes. Relative to the new
Colonial Tariff Bill for 1845 we find nothing else of
additional interest than that the Assembly had ad-
journed to meet on the next 26th of November,
without having come to a definitive arrangement on
all the details of the Bill. The next arrival from
Barbadoes will probably bring us the final action of
the Legislature thereupon.

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It was currently reported at the clubs last night,
that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoiot
Sir Henry Po:tinger Governor-General of Canada, in the
place of Sir Charles Metcalfe, who is seriously indisposed.
—Herald.

ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY AT MANCHESTER.
—On Monday evening last a most atrocious attempt to
poison his wife and two children was made by Benjamin
Anderson, a millwright, living at No. 91, Long-street,
Ancoats, Manchester. It appears that for several days
past Anderson, who is in the employ of Messrs. Fair-
burn, the engineers, had been drinking, and on Saturday
spent the entire of his wages in liquor. On Monday
afternoon he carne home about half-past three o'clock
and asked his wife to let him have some tea. Mrs. An-
derson told him that the kettle was on the fire, and as
soon as she had made some for her daughter, who
worked in a factory, s:,e would make him some. lie
immediately became very abusive, and told both his
wife and son (a boy about eleven years old) that they
should not stop in the house, and under a threat of
being beaten they went into the street. Anderson then
bolted the door and refused for some time to allow them
to come in. As she stood near the window, Mrs. Ander•
son saw her husband go to the cupboard and
take a quantity of onions out, which he placed in the
window. After doing something else at the cup-
board, Anderson opened the door and left the house
without getting any tea. As soon as he was gone,
Mrs. Anderson again ventured, and made some tea,
sweetening it with brown sugar, which she noticed
was speckled with white spots, but did not suspect any
harm. Upon tasting the tea, however, she was much
surprised at its nauseous taste, which was accompanied
by a burning of the mouth. She had remarked to her
son that the sugar was covered with white spots. She
then made some more tea, which she sweetened
with sugar from the same basin as before, and,
finding that the tea had the same burning unplea-
sant taste, she sent for a neighbour, named Cooper, who
likewise tasted the mixture. They then made a little
coffee, sweetening it with sugar which was wrapped in
the cupboard, and found it entirely free from any offensive
taste. Upon examining some flour and meal which were
also in the cupboard, they were found to contain a plen-
tiful admixture of the same sort of ingredient which had
been fonnd in the sugar. After consulting with Mrs.
Cooper, Mrs. Anderson took the white powder off the
sugar to a druggist. Mr. Turner, druggist, after a slight
inspection, at once stated that sugar of lead had been
mixed with it. Information was then given to the
police, and the husband was apprehended and brought
yesterday, at the Borough Police-court, before D. Maude,
Esq. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, when
the flour, meal, and sugar will be subjected to an analysis,
and the proper means taken to secure the attendance of
the witnesses.—Liverpool Lourier.
COMMITTAL OF A POOR-LAW GUARDIAN FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—An inquest was held by Mr. Evans, the
coronet., on Friday last, at the union workhouse, at Ross,
on the body of au old woman, named Mary Jones, 82
years of age, whose death, it was alleged, had been occa-
sioned by ill-usage and exposure to cold, through being
improperly removed as a pauper to the above mentioned
union. The evidence taken was exceedingly voluminous,
but the facts may be briefly told. The deceased was in
the receipt of out-door relief from the Ross union, and
on the 2d of last month she walked from the parish of
Llangarren, where she resided, to Ross, in order to apply
to the board of guardians for an increased allowance,
which was granted her. On her return home, being ex-
ceedingly infirm, owing to her great age, she became so
lame and exhausted on the road as to be quite unable to
proceed, and one of the board coming up, and finding
her in that helpless condition, she was removed home in
a cart. She then became so ill as to keep her bed, and
a day or two afterwards, her state being made known
to tho guardians, one of them persuaded her to go
into the workhouse, where she would be taken care of
and properly attended to; she refused, saying she had a
great objection to the workhouse. Her condition be-
coming worse, the parish surgeon attended her,
and by his treatment the somewhat recovered. On
the 14th, however, Mr. Garness, one of the guardians,
accompanied by his son, and Thomas Lewis, and
Edward Tourney, went and forcibly removed her to the
workhouse, without the usual medical certificate for the
removal. The deceased having an extreme dread of the
union house, and fearing that she would be forced to
enter it, locked all the doors of the cottage, so as to pre-
vent them removing her. They, however, broke in, and
one laying hold of her head and the other of her legs,
they carried her out and placed her in a cart on some
straw, with a blanket put round her, she at the same
time violently exclaiming that " she would not go." The
workhouse was reached about four o'clock, where the
master all:pitted her, not in obedience to the order of
the guardian who carne with her, as it was informal, but
owing to the critical condition of the poor creature, who
was suffering most severely from the cold, the frost
being very intense during the day. A few days after-
wards she was attacked with illness, which terminated
fatally. Mr. Jones, one of the medical officers of the
union, gave it as his opinion that the deceased's death
was the result of a diseased heart, which might have been
hastened by the sudden exposure to cold. The jury, after
a most careful and deliberate consideration, returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter" against Samuel Garness, the
guardian, Thomas Garness (his son), Thomas Lewis,
and Edward Tourney, who were forthwith committed to
the gaol for trial. The case has produced the greatest
sensation throughout the whole county.
MYSTERIOUS PARCEL.—Yesterday information was
forwarded to the metropolitan police of the following
mysterious circumstance. It appears that a common
white wicker reticule basket was received at the Universal
Booking-office, Regent-circus, between the hours of four
and eight, P.M., on the 11th ult., addressed to Mr. Mus-
prat, ironmonger, Winchester, Hampshire. On the sth
instant the basket was opened at Winchester, and on re-
moving some loose paper at the top, a calico bag was,
found, containing a light-coloured oil-silk bag, which on
being opened, the body of a newly-born male child pre-
sented itself. The basket is quite new and is marked on
the bottom with the letter "A, with two small marks
over it, supposed to be the maker's private marks. An
inquest has been held upon the body, and is adjourned to.
the 20th inst.