The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY is, 1844.

whole to 15,094,889 f. The sum paid for railroads
had been only 1,364,508 f., leaving to be disposed of
'in 1843 14,135,492 f. The result of that year's esti-
mates could not yet be exactly ascertained, but he
should not be much wrong were he to value at 118
or 119 millions the expenses of public works to be
paid out of the loan—expenses which, put down in
the budget for 75 millions, were increased by the
sums brought forward from 1842 by credits granted
by special laws. The expenses of railroads were, he
supposed, about 39,500,000 f. Subtraction being then
made of the 75,294,889 f. imputable to the first third
of the loan, there remained about 80 millions to be
paid by the floating debt, and recoverable : one-
half from the other portion of the loan not yet ne-
gotiated, and the other half from the reserves of the
sinking fund, which were to be disposable after the
payment of the deficiencies of the ordinary budgets.
Not only was it easy to provide for all those de-
mands with the customary resources of the floating
debt; but when last year they dropped a hint of a
slight rise in the interest of Treasury Bonds, as a
means of remaining masters of the moment in the
negotiation of the loan, they had been obliged
speedily to lower the rate of that interest, to prevent
the assets from rising to an exaggerated rate, to the
detriment both of the circulation and of the Treasury.
They had also reduced the advances of the Receivers-
General, as much as the prudence which ought
always to be observed in such matters would permit.
Those measures had produced the effect which was
expected, and, nevertheless the assets of the Treasury
had remained more than sufficient to ward against
all eventualities to such circumstances. It had
appeared to the Government opportune—and they
hoped that the Chamber would now approve of their
decision—not to make use, during the year that had
just finished, of the faculty which the law accorded
them, of issuing the whole or part of the other two-
thirds of the loan. They had judged it preferable to
allow the first to class itself definitively and public
credit to gain strength. They could do so without
danger, since the situation of the country allowed
them to announce, as they had done last year, that
whilst they reserved to themselves the right of profit-
ing by circumstances, they held themselves fully at
liberty to wait for a favourable moment for negotia-
ting the remainder of the loan. He now came to the
budget of 1845, of the different dispositions of which
he would give a summary, and would begin with the
ordinary servic3. An augmentation of 2,749,532 E,
applicable to the Three per Cents., was caused by the
consolidation of the bonds of the sinking fund. As
they were unable to fix beforehand the period for the
issue of a new series of the loan, and the nature of
the funds in which it would be issued, it has been
decided on to provide for the service from the
resources of the floating debt, and an increase
of 1,500,000 f. on the interest of that debt was
proposed. In consideration of the advantages secured
by the law of 28th April to all the holders of
transferable offices, it is proposed to fix at 3 per cent.
the interest of the caution money of that class of of-
fices. This will produce a saving of 800,000 f. The
calculation of probable extinctions showed a diminu-
tion of 1,440,000 f. in the payment of life annuities.
A saving of 286,050 E had been effected in the allow-
ances to members of the Legions of Honour. A saving
of 22,500 f. had been effected in the budget of the de-
partment of justice. That of public worship showed
an increase of 136,400 f., caused principally by the
creation of fresh chapels of ease, and the salaries to
Protestant clergymen. The budget of foreign affairs
presented an increase of 144,100 E, of which 30,000 f.
was devoted to bring up to 200,000 f. the credit for
extraordinary missions. The credits demanded by
the Minister of Public Instruction exceeded those of
1844 by 205,400 f., 91,000 f. of which were provided
for in the budget of receipts ; the surplus was in-
tended for the creation of two inspectors-general,
the establishment of new professorships, the crea-
tion of two new royal colleges, and the increase of
the rent of the building occupied by the Royal Aca-
demy of Medicine. The department of the Interior
gave a decrease of 300,000 f. on the allowance of
foreign refugees but an addition of 50,000 f. for the
persons employed in the central administration, and
some augmentations to little importance reduced the
actual saving to 278,744 E The departmental service
allowed an increase of 100,985 f. The department of
agriculture and commerce,-not requiring to repeat the
credit of 500,000 E for the exhibition of national in-
dustry, a saving in that department of 401,565 f. was
effected. The department of public works presented
an increase of 1,425,500 f., but that increase in reality
'amounted to 2,717,500 E, and was, as may be easily
perceived, only reduced to the former sum, in conse-
quence of a reduction of 1,070,000 E on the credit
appropriated to rebuilding various bridges, and
of another credit of 222,000 f. on that of the
Normal School. Whatever may have been the
desire of the Government to avoid any increase,
yet the above are so well justified, that they could
not fail to be readily admitted. The expenses of
this department'merited an exception, and the Govern-
ment felt satisfied that the consent of the Chamber
would be given to the increase of the grant; of
1,403,000 f. for the maintenance of royal roads; of
600,000 f. for that of rivers, and particularly of the
Rhone and the Rhine ; of 150,000 f. for sea-ports,
and of 135,000 f. for keeping up buildings of public
interest. The receipt and expenses of the carrying on
the lines of railroad executed by the State had also
been concluded. The war department, compared
with 1844, showed a total reduction of 2,127,374 f.
On the expenses connected with Algeria, an in-
crease ,of 1,516,229 f. was demanded, viz., 500,000 f.
for the expense attendant on colonisation; 315,000 f.
for roads; 310,000 E for the support of convicts
in the different workshops, and other objects. In
the budget of the Marine important changes had
been made. Instead of the former classification of
ships, under the name of disponibilite de rade
and commission de port, an intermediate class
had been substituted, called commission de rade.
Vessels belonging to this class would be provided with
all their materiel, but would have less men than when
in a state of disponibilite de rade, but more than when
en commission deport. Their crews would consist of men
who had hitherto been kept inactive on shore. This
change would not only be favourable to the general in-
struction of the seamen, and leave a number of men
available to the merchant-service, but would also ef-
fect a considerable saving to the State. The budget
ofl 1844 contains a credit of 24,984,500 f. for the pay
and clothing of the crews and the marines for an ef-
fective force of 160 vessels, 'including sixteen
en disponsibilite de rade, and four en commission de
port. A credit of 23,998,5001 r. would now suffice
for 190 vessels, 30 of which would be en disponibilite de
rade, with a much larger number of steamers.
The Minister of Marine demanded that the
saving which he had effected by this ar-
rangement should turn to the benefit of the
materiel of the navy. The state of the supply
of stores in the arsenals had been the object of too
repeated and just complaints for the Chamber not to
congratulate itself on seeing the grant of this branch
of the service increased by nearly one million, with-
out adding to the general charges of the State. The
other changes effected in the budget of the Marine
nearly. balanced each other, the difference consisting
only in a diminution of 143,734 f. The principal
augmentations applied to the military and civil
officers ; 122,000 f. were for the promotion of 100
enseignes de vaisseaux to the rank of lieutenant, and,
for indemnities for lodging paid to officers not em-
barked ; for hospitals, 209,000 f. ; 111,000 f. paid for
the freight of stores from one arsenal to another; and
547,203 E for the colonial service. The most important
reductions were under the head of victualling, and
for the colonial service. Under the former head was
a sum of 457,1921. in consequence of the change
in the system of the classification of vessels, and
under the latter 719,982 f., of which 143,000 E
were in consequence of the advanced state of the works
at Fort Bourbon. One chapter alone now remained
to be mentioned as far as the Finance Department
was concerned, viz., the expenses of the Treasury. It
presented an increase of 70,000 f., in consequence of
the development of the operations in Algeria. The
expense of the regie and the collection must increase
in proportion to the amount of the productions, since
it comprised a large sum by wayof discount allowed
on the receipts. Savings effected on some articles,
reduce for 1845 the increase to 227,990 f. Amongst
the numerous charges included in this sum was an
amount of 106,800 E for the expenses incurred by the
special agents of the direct taxes in fixing the duty on
patentes in different parts of the country. The credit
destined for the purchase of tobacco had been in-
creased 2,200,000 E over the budget of 1844. Supple-
mentary credits had besides been opened on anterior
budgets, and the Administration had been thereby
enabled to profit by the fall in the price of Ame-
rican tobacco, to complete their reserve stock.
This circumstance permitted the augmentation
to be maintained at 1,200,0001. The continual in-
crease in the consumption rendered necessary consi-
derable expenses under the head of land labour, which
reduced to 535,000 f. the diminution effected under
this head. Little remark was required on the extra-
ordinary service of the budget, which was divided
into two parts—the expenses chargeable on the pro-
duct of the loan, and those which the law of the 11th
June, 1842, had left provisionally to the charge of
the floating debt. The credits, which in former
years had been opened by anticipation to the Minister
of Public Works, had exhausted some of the sums
granted by the law of 25th June, 1841, and reduced-
his demands for 1845 to 22,311,344 E, consequently-
the total credit of the first part was but 62,431,3446'
That of the second part amounted Only to
thirty-four millions, and was .the consequence of tile-
ws previously voted. The propositions which wine
submitted relative to railroads in the course oftbe
n the examination eth.thise recei-
pts; It wouilcl be
necOary to observe that', the changes which ,tbey
presented, compared with the estimates for 1844,
proceeded from two causes : first,
.the increase of
products during the last twelii ruouths kuoirn at

the time of the preparation of the budget, and which,
according to custom, had served as the bases for the
calculations ; and secondly, the circumstances which
would operate in 1845, but which did not in 1843,
and which would exercise an influence on the results
of the new budget. An increase of 2,475,0001. had
taken place in the receipts on the taxes on doors and
windows, and on patentes ; on the revenues and sale
of domains, as estimated from the ordinary receipts
of 1843, there was an increase of 1,163,000 f. An
increase of 14,251,000 f. had arisen on the following
indirect receipts, viz. :
Registration dues, and stamps
Customs .. .. 5,373,000
Indirect taxes, tobacco, and gunpowder 2,864,000
But this increase has been reduced to 14,119,000 f. by
a falling off of 138,000£ in the receipts of the Post-
office. Another increase of 1,424,000 f. had arisen
from the receipts of the University, of those of Algeria
and the Colonies. The amount of the receipts for
1845, therefore showed an increase of 19,181,2301.
The increase arising from circumstances connected
with the estimate of 1845 amounted to 11,720,715 f.,
•
and were as follows :-
1. Suppression of the funds of non va- F.
leurs by cessation of trade • • 600,000
2. Consequences of the law of July 2,
1843, on Sugars
3. Reduction from 5 per cent. to 3 per
cent. on the sums allowed for waste
on Salt
4. Probable results of the New Customs'
Ordonnance in Algeria
5. Produce of the carrying on the
Northern Railroad 400,000
6. Purchase of Lands for Railroads 3,000,000
7. Increase of sums arising from labour

in Prisons

The Marquis de Dalmatie, who had been re-elected
for Castres (Tarn-et•Caronne), took the oaths and
his seat

The discussion on the Address was fixed for Mon-
day next.
The ehamber adjourned at half-past four.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Jan. 15.
The Lord Chancellor did not sit till 11 o'clock today.

MASSIE v. DRAKE.

The Court was occupied the whole morning with the
arguments in this case, which were commenced on Sa-
turday. The question on the case relates to the taxa-
tionpf a Solicitor's hill, and possesses no roint of interest
except to the parties corwerned.

650,000

8. Sundries 1,375,715

Total
By uniting these two categories, a total of
30,940,945 f. was given. According, however, to the
rules which had been adopted, a diminution of
1,922,783 f. was anticipated, the principal of which.
were 657,500 E which the Commission on the Budget
of last year had added to the produce of the forests ;
514,000 E for the increase in value added to the
budget of 1844, in the valuation of indirect produc-
tion, in consequence of circumstances connected with
that estimate, and which could not be again brought
into the budget of 1845 ; 284,173 f. for the non-
reproduction of the provisions in the budget of 1844,
and of sums to be received from the railroad compa-
nies, the realisation of which could not take place in
1845. These different items reduced the excess of
the receipts to 28,988,1621., on deducting from which
an increase of expense above stated of 741,892 f.,
showed an improvement in the budget of 1845, com-
pared with that of 1844, of 28,246,270 E In making this
comparison, it must be remarked that there are included
not only the credits comprised in the vote, of the
budget of 1844, in which there was a presumed ex-
cess of expenses of 24,947,836 f. ; but also the credits
opened by three special Bills in the course of the ses-
sion, which had added to that excess a sum of
2,480,0001., and had raised it to 27,427,836 f. This
sum was less than that of the increase stated in the
estimate of 1845 by 818,134 E It was in fact, to
this last figure, that arose, according to the proposi-
tions of the Government, the excess of the receipts of
the budget of 1845, the resources of which amounted
to 1,276,925,2311., and the expenses to 1,276,106,797 f.
It only remained for him to make mention of the
various articles comprised in the budget of receipts.
The most important were connected with the execu-
tion of Art. 2of the budget of 1842. By the terms
of that article, it was in this session that new plans
were made for levying in the departments both the
personal and propertty contributions, and that on
doors and windows. To effect this, the Government
had only at its disposal the -returns made in compli-
ance with the Acts of April 21, 1832, July 14, 1838,
and the census of 1841. The two first-mentioned Acts
had been allowed to be insufficient, and a new set of
returns were ordered in 1841. The Chamber was
aware of the obstacles thrown in the way of an ope-
ration now acknowledged to be perfectly legal. The
information then acquired was altogether inadequate
to the object proposed; but the various investigations
which the Government had ordered showed that the
oresent assessment was not so vicious as had been sup-
posed. In place, therefore, of immediately modifying
the assessments, and for certain inequalities substi-
tuting others, it had appeared to the Government
better to introduce a Bill which should, by degrees,
remove all disproportions that might exist in the
several departments of the kingdom. By that
means, the contingent of each department would
be diminished each year, as well for the property
contributive depending on the houses destroyed as
personal taxes of the occupiers of those houses. It
would be augmented only in proportion to the real
value of the new constructions really occupied by
the inhabitants. He proposed to fix the propor-
tion in which the augmentations were to take place
by twentieths. The total amount of the value of
habitations, such as it appeared from the late census,
was 533 millions, and might be estimated at 30 or 40
more, if the difficulties which prevented that opera-
tion being properly executed, were taken into consi-
deration. The produce of the twentieth, applied to
that amount only, furnished 28 or 29 millions, whilst
the personal and property contingent amounted to 34
millions. The diminution would, therefore, be rela-
tivelv greater than the additions, if it could not be
proved that from the increasing wealth of the country
the houses to be erected would much exceed those that
were allowed to disappear. The Government felt
convinced that no loss would accrue, and to act
with still more consideration, the departmental
assessment was not to be increased until the third
year after the commencement of the new
buildings. A Bill should be laid before them for
this purpose. As to the question both of doors
and windows, no difference of opinion has ever arisen
between the Government and the rate-payers, for the
simple reason that the assessment could be made
without
be seen by a table an-
dengaged in it being obliged to
n an-
nexed if the legal number was
xt
produced the inquiries made during the
•
would be 28,056,450 f., or
census,nei
enforced,
routhto the
thehhathe
:n
u officers
proveds .
budget,
de
prgr
olse
btt,
dyu
would
4,500,000 f. more than in 1844. They did not intend,
however, insisting on the rigorous exercise of the law
so as to produce that sum, the new mode of assess-
ment being fully adequate to obtain the result they
arrived at. An article relative to the indirect taxes had
for its object to furnish, at the cost of a very trifling
sacrifice to those landlords who had a great number of
tenants, the means of delegating to them the charge of
paying their taxes. Two articles would be proposed to
the Chamber relative to indirect taxes, one intended to fix
of
article 15 of the law of 15th June,
other to furnish the most efficacious
tlhBe4l and meaning t h
e
means of preventing the frauds which were practised
on the revenue in the article of potable liquors, parti-
cularly spirits. The Hon. Minister concluded by
stating that the equilibrium of the budget which he
had just presented had not been obtained by omissions
or u expenses, or by the exaggerations
in
the t
presumed
ts, but declared that the result
was e xreealreaasntudi
Insedisncorefercee.ipTwo conditions were, however,
he added, necessary to secure this result—the con-
currence of all the powers of the State, and a perse-
verance in the line of policy consecrated by that as-
sistance. It was in the hands of the Chamber, and he
felt assured it would not be compromised.
" Art. 1. Credits are opened to the amount of
1,372,538,1411.,. for the expenses of the estimates of
1845, as follows :--

not in a perfect state of sanity, was brought up, charged
with stewing a cloth cloak from the house of Mr. C.
Evans, of V.-re-street, Lincoln's Inn fields.
The prisoner, it appeared, took lodgings in the prose-
cutor's
house about a week ago, and, after he had been
there about three days, he suddenly left, taking with him
the cloak in question, which was worth 30s. Yesterday
ke returned to the house, and asked if he and his wife
could have a bed. lie was then given into custody.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied that he 111,1 taken
the cloak. If he had done so it was not very likely that
he would have gone back to the same house to ask for
a bed.
Mr. HALL said he thought the prisoner had been
charged with a similar offence, before him, on a former
occasion, and, if he recollected rightly, he made the
same defence

The prisoner—Yo4, Sir, I was *ent to Clerken
and there tried, Laud ,entenend to three months' imprison-
ment. The reason of that was, that the certificate or
my insanity did not arrive in time.
The priso-er was remandel teat search .might bn male
ior the cloak.