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fact is, that the stimulus given to manufactures 1
by the opening of China to our merchants has
somewhat subsided. The manufacturing districts
are still the seats of much distress, occasioned by the
lack of full employment in some of the staple commo-
dities. Though in the exhibition afforded by the
official tables of revenue there is much cause for
gratitude, there is nothing to justify boasting—much
less is there anything to warrant the slightest cessa-
tion from legitimate exertions to obtain that much-
desired abrogation of the existing restrictions upon
commerce, without which the same consequences will
be entailed on our manufacturers and merchants, and
the same suffering poured out upon our labouring
population, which have formerly resulted, at intervals,
from an " insane and cruel policy."
STANDARD.—The increase in the revenue upon
the year, as compared with the year ending October
10, 1843 (itself a year of increase), amounts to the
great sum of 1,395,349/. The increase upon the
quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of last year, to 520,9441. This, however, is but
an inadequate index to the rate of improve-
ment, for, setting aside the miscellaneous or casual
payments (such as the Chinese ransom, &c.,
1,375,0001.), for both years, the increase upon
the regular constant revenue would be upwards of
two millions three hundred thousand pounds sterling.
The net revenue of the year amounts to 50,741,622/. ;
and of this no less than 20,243,5051. is from the Cus-
toms—an increase in this department alone of
1,723,165/. since last year; such has been the rapid
improvement of foreign trade, such the effect of the re-
ductions of the tariff. The improvement in the Excise
upon the year has not been so great, but it has been con-
siderable (173,8981.), and on the quarter there has
been a trifling decrease, 5,660/. This has been as-
cribed to the temperance movement, we think, with-
out reason, for though the happy movement in ques-
tion may, and probably does, operate generally to
prevent an increase in the Excise, there is no
ground for supposing that it has been more
active in the last than in any of the other
three quarters of the year. It is much more
natural to account for the trifling decrease in
the last three months, by imputing it to the late-
ness and perhaps deficiency of the barley har-
vest, which must have seriously affected the malt
trade, from which so great a portion of the Excise
revenue is derived. The year's increase upon the
Stamps amounts to more than 69,000/., upon the
Property-tax to 106,413/, upon the Post-office to
82,0001.—such is the state of the Revenue as com-
pared with last year; but the just way in which to
appreciate the merit of that financial system, of which
it is the result, is to compare it with the state of the
revenue as the present Ministers blind it three years
ago. This we may, perhaps, undertake to do here-
after.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 9, 1844.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Jacques
Just Barbet, as Consul at Port Louis, in the Mauritius,
for his Majesty the King of the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Louis Arnold Van den Berg, as Consul for Portsmouth
and Southampton for his Majesty the King of the Ne-
therlands.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Thomas Snowe as Consul at Dublin, and of Mr. William
Henry Brockett as Vice-Consul at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
for the Republic of Texas.
HORSE GUARDS, OCT. 2.

The Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation
of Field Marshal the Commander-in- Chief, to appoint
Brevet Major John Henry Cooke, half pay Unattached,
to be one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentle-
man at Arms, vice Kincaid, retired.
WAR OFFICE, OCTOBER 11.
4th Regiment of Foot—Captain G. T. Hume, from
half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice C. S. Teale, who
exchanges, receiving the difference ; Lieutenant R.
Hawkes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hume, who
retires ; Ensign J. Hallowes to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice ilawkes ; G. H. Twemlow, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hallowes, Oct. 11.
22d Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. R. Croker, from half-
pay Portuguese Service, to be Captain, vice W. B.
Kelly, who exchanges ; Lieut. E. Dunbar to be Captain,
by purchase, Croker, vice who retires ; Ensign W. H.
Budd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dunbar ; W.
T. De Wilton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Budd, October 11.
63d Foot—Lieut. W. Howard, from 3d Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Thorp, appointed Paymaster, Oct. 11.
89th Foot—Ensign W. Duff to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Romer, deceased, Sept. 11 ; C. H. E. Hol-
loway, Gent., to be Ensign,, without purchase, vice Duff,
Oct. 11.
BREVET.—Capt. G. T. Hume, of the 4th Foot, to be
Major in the Army, June 28th, 1838.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland.
Royal Westmorland Militia—G. A. F. Bentinck, Esq.,
to be Captain, vice Yeats, deceased.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
having certified to the Commissioners fur the Reduction
of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th
Geo. IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
beyond the actnal expenditure thereof, for the year
ended the sth nay ofJuly, 1844, amounted to the sum
of one million seven hundred and seventy thousand and
eighty pounds, nine shillings, and eightpence.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of four hundred
and forty-two thousand five hundred and twenty pounds,
two shillings, and fivepence (being one-fourth part of
the said surplus of one million seven hundred and seventy
thousand and eighty pounds, nine shillings, and eight
pence) will be applied, under the provisions of the said
Act, between the 12th day of October, 1644, and the sth
day of January, 1845, to the following purposes, viz.:—
s. d.
To be applied to the purchase of Stock 42,520 2 5
To be applied to the purchase of Exche-
quer Bills, made out in pursuance of
the Act of 57th Geo. la, cap. 48 400,000 0 0

£442,520 2 5

Add Interest receivable on account of
Donations and Bequests, to be applied
to the purchase of Stock