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NERVOUS DEBILITY.

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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL
LEGISLATION.
The following are the suggestions contained in the docu-
rnent prepared by. an eminent commercial authority, portions
of which have been published:—
Pro forma View of equalizing the Annual Revenue and
Expenditure, presuming that the Excise and Assessed
Taxes, and the Stamps on Marine and Fire Assurances,
and also the Duties of Customs (except eight) should be
abolished, and adding Distilled Spirits and Malt, now
under the Excise, to the Customs, and Excise Licences to
the Stamps : abolishing all other of the Assessed Taxes,
and the whole Excise establishrhent.
First. Assuming the total annual expenditure

not to exceed'
• Revenue necessary to meet this expendi-
ture, to be raised as follows :-
4. From duties on (1) Tea; (2) Sugar and
Molasses ; (3) Coffee and Cocoa • (4) To-
bacco; (5) Distilled Spirits; (6) 'Wines;
(7) Dried Fruits; (8) Spices...i2l,soo,ooo'
2. Rome Distilled £5,000,0001
Spirits •
.1
Malt, who- • ••••
M.
thee made at r 10,000,000
home or .im- 5,000,000
ported from
abr0ad..........
3. Stamps, leaving out Marine and Fire In:
surances, and including licenses now under
the Excise
4. Unredeemed Land-tax
Deficit

£50,000,000

31,500,061

7,500,000

1,200,000
9,800,000

£50,000,000
This deficit is to be levied, not by doubling, or rather more
than doubling, the present income-tax, but by the less in-
quisitorial and more direct and equitable plan of an annual
assessment in the pound upon the annual value of all realised.
property. And surely 11,000,000/., includinahe unredeemed
land-tax, out of 50,000,000/ of total taxation, forms but a
small proportion of the total sum to be levied directly.
The reason that we include only eight articles in the Cus..
toms duties, is on the sound principle that if an article is to
be taxed when consumed, it should be so taxed without any
difference being made as to the place where produced; the
consumer always paying the full market price of the article
he consumes, including every tax upon it.
There is no manufactured article which yields a revenue of
any consequence except silks; which, being an article of
luxury, though not included above, we have less objection to
its being taxed than any other. The duty might be modi-
fied so as to produce 250,0001. a year. Gloves yield 28,000/. ;
woollen manufactures about 17,000/.

If Parliament, however, should determine not to abolish
the window and other assessed taxes, except the unredeemed
land-tax, then our pro forma view of financial revenue would
stand as follows :

Customs £21,500,000}
Malt and home- distilled £31,500,000
spirits 10,000,000
Stamps, excluding Marine and Fire In-

surances
V. Assessed Taxes

V. Deficit to be levied on all realised pro-
perty

7,500,000
4,500,000

6,500,000

Total revenue £50,000,000
INCOME-TAX, COLLECTED IN THE YEAR ENDED
STH APRIL, 1843.
England and Wales :
Schedule A, lands, tene- Income.
ments, &c., in respect of
the property thereof., ... £73,728,429
Schedule B, lands, *c., in
respect of the occupancy
thereof
Schedule C, annuities, di-
vidends, etc.
Schedule D, profits or gains 50,296,645
Schedule E, public officers,

Tax.

£2,150,412

298,763

812,983
1,466,985

Om _

8,936,831

260,657

£181,322,202 £4,989,8(X)

Scotland
Schedule A.

9,284,383

Produce of Tax in Scotland
on all the Schedules 394,324
9,284,3831., at 7d. in the pound, should produce 270,794 L,
leaving for the remaining four schedules 123,5301., equal to
394,3241., which sum, collected at the same rate as those
four schedules produced in England, indicates an income of
4,680,9591, showing the total income of Scotland to be
13,965,3421., and of Great Britain 195,287,5441., exclusive
of incomes under 1501.

In 1801, the assessments for England, including
incomes above 1504, amounted to £74,676,894
The income from assessments under 150/. per
annum, and not under 60/., amounted to

Difference, being incomes above 1501. per ann. £56,571,654
Now, if 56,571,654 : 11,105,240 : : 195,287,544 :
62,499,831; and if the incomes under 1501., and above 601.,
from all the schedules be in 1844 in the same proportion to
those above 1501., as in
.1801 (and there is no reason that
they should not), then the total income of Great Britain in
1844 should amount to 257,787,375/. We consider that of
this amount 200,000,0001. may be estimated as the rents and
profits of all realised property—viz., the rents and profits on
all lands, tenements, houses, and constructions, including
factories, warehouses, docks, ship-yards, railways, canals,
public funds, Bank oiEngland Stock, East India and South
Sea Stock, and the stock and shares of all Companies whose
stocks and shares are bought and sold in the market.

GOLD MINES IN RussiA.---An account has been
laid before Parliament of the produce in gold of the washings
of the mines in Siberia and Oural, carried on upon account
cf the Crown and of individuals, from 1830 to 1842 inclu-
sive. In the years mentioned the total produce of mines be-
longing to the Crown was 2,053 pouds (one pond being equal
to 36 pounds avoirdupoise). The produce of mines belonging
to individuals was 4,118 ponds. The grand total shows the
produce in gold of the washings of the mines in Russia to
have been, in the years mentioned, 6,171 ponds, or about
13,770,0001. The increase latterly has been enormous, in the
amount raised .by individuals—the average annual amount
having been about 250 ponds; while, in 1842, it reached 740
ponds, or 1,650,0001.
MR. BARON PLATT.—The members of the Home
Circuit held a meeting last week, at the chambers of Mr. Sergeant
Channel, at which it was resolved that the Learned Baron should be
invited to a most magnificent entertainment, as a mark of the high
esteem in which he is held by the bar. The Learned Baron has ac-
cepted the invitation, and the dinner will consequently take place at
the Albion Tavern, on Friday evening next. Mr. Russell Gurney is
to preside as chairman, in his new capacity as leader of the circuit.
The banquet will be of the most costly description, and the tickets are
two guineas each.
PUGILISM.—CHURCH AND BURTON.-- On Tuesday
was tile evenful day fixed for the fight between these men, who were
matched for 501. a-side ; and, from their well-known merit as bruisers,
the pugilistic fancy anticipated a fine display of fistic science. Burton
is a Leicester man, and Church a member of the London ring. Ar-
rangements were made for an aquatic excursion, and the Nymph
steamer was " specially retained" for the belligerents and their
friends, and Gravesend was the locality selected. The steamer started
from Hungerford Pier with a large assemblage of the " admirers of
milling," Burton, under the wing of " Jens Burn," and ar-
rived at their destination in the confident hope of meeting their an-
tagonist, when, "lo and behold," Church was non eat inventus. Wry
faces were made, and hard words used, but to no purpose. A war-
rant haying ts'ued against Church, and who (as was stated) had been
arrested at his training quarters, the stakeholder intimated that Bur-
ton was entitled to the prize-money, and the milling fancy made their
exit, greatly disappointed and chagrined,