The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-07 00:00:00

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rue :

LONDON.
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1828.

We publish, in another column, the detailed

accounts of the Revenue of Great Britain, for

the Quarter and Year respectively, ended on the
sth January inst. The decrease of the Revenue

during the Quarter, as compared with the cor-
responding Quarter of last Year, is not so great
as had been expected, and does not amount to so

large a sum even as we had anticipated on
Saturday. The decrease is only 188,002/. This

arises from a diminution of receipts, under the

following heads :

Customs 11,304
Excise 240,955
51,000

Yost-office.

303,287

But an increase having taken place of 25,564/.
under Stamps, 11,487/. under Taxes, and

78,234 i. under miscellaneous heads, the total

decrease in the Quarter is, as above stated,

188,002/.

The decrease in the Year is still less. The
produce of the three preceding Quarters of the
Year having exceeded the produce of the corre-
sponding Quarters of 1826 by 172,0001., the de-
crease in the whole Year ending the sth January,
1828, notwithstanding the deficiency of the
present Quarter, is only 5,9931.

Under the variety of gloomy reports which
have been in circulation relative to the falling off
of the Revenue, it is consolatory to find that the
total decrease ofthe Year is ofso trivial an amount.

We wish, however, that we could consider the

result as entirely satisfactory. The decrease
of 779,7091. in the amount of the Revenue of

Excise in the Year, and the still larger propor-

tionate decrease of that source of income in the
Quarter of 240,9831., skews a diminished con-

sumption of various articles essential to comfort
and luxury ; while the decrease of the Post-
office Revenue likewise proves that a less active

internal trade has been carried on ' than during

former periods. The increase in the Customs
in the Year does not compensate for the decrease
in these heads, for probably the whole increase
which has taken place, arose from the Duty on
Foreign Corn let out of Bond ; and the decrease
in the last Quarter, though not of itself of great
amount, is important as chewing that the ratio
by which this branch of the public income was
before increasing, is not maintained.
On the whole, the character of the present
statements do not alter the opinion we have on
former occasions expressed. They need not
excite alarm, but they must awaken considera-
tion ; and as it is hardly possible, under existing
circumstances, that any very material 'eduction
of national expenditure can be made, the neces-
sity which we have so frequently pointed out of
of additional taxation, or of the partial abolition
of the Sinking Fund, is become more evident.
It may be interesting to give in one view the
amount of the Revenue of Great Britain in each
of the last four years, and the aggregate amount
of the Customs and Excise in each of those
years.

TOTAL INCOME OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Year ending sth January, 1825 £48,812,759
1826.

1827 46,650,672
1828.. 46,644,670
AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF CUSTOMS AND

EXCISE.

Year ending stla January, 1825 £35,353,022
1826 34,718,875
1827 33,516,036
1828 ..... ...• 33,361,403
We shall probably revert to the subject at an

early period.

CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN FRANCE.

We received yesterday the Paris Papers of
Friday, and the Gazette de France dated Satur-
day morning. The former contained ►arious
speculations relative to the persons who were to
compose the new Ministry ; but all uncertainty

upon the subject has been dispelled by the
arrival this morning of the Moniteur of Satur-
day, containing the following Royal Ordinance :

" ORDINANCE OF THE KING.
" Charles, by the grace of God, King of France and
Navarre.

" We have ordained and tie ordain as follows:

" Article I.—The Count Portalis, peer of France, is
named Secretary of State for the Department of Justice.
" The Count de la Ferronays, Peer of France, is named
Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs.

" The Viscount de Caux, member of the Chamber of
Deputies, is named Secretary of State for the Administra-
tion of War.

44 The presentation to the offices vacant in the army will
be hereafter made by our well-beloved son the Dauphin.
The nominations will be counter-signed by the Minister for
the Administration of War.

" The Viscount de Martignac, member of the Chamber
of Deputies, is named Secretary of State for the Depart-
ment of the Interior.

" Certain duties of the Minister of the Interior are
separated ; they are those which relate to commerce and
manufactures, in order to be re-united to the present
duties of the bure•m of Commerce and Colonies.

" The Count de St. Cricq, Member of the Chamber of
Deputies, is named Secretary of State President of the
superior Council of Commerce and of the Colonies.
" The Count Roy, Peer of France, is named Secretary
of State for the Department of the Finances.
" 2. In future public instruction will no longer form
part of the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs.
"3. Our Secretary of State for the Department of the
Marine and of the Colonies is charged with the execution
of the present ordinance.

" Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, the 4th of Jan.,
1828, and the 4th of our reign.

(By the King) " CHARLES.
" The Peer of France, Minister Secretary of State for
the Department of the Marine and of the Colonies,
" Comte de CHABROL."

Then follow two other Ordinances of the
KlNG—the first, naming the Count de VILLELE,
Count de PEYRONNET, Baron de DAMAS,
Marquis de CLERMONT TONNERRE, and
Count de CORBIERE, Ministers of State, Mem-
bers of the Privy Council. And the second
elevating the Count de VILLELE, Count de
PEYRONNET, and Count de CORBIERE, tO be
Peers of the Realm, by way of consolation to
them for the loss of office.

It is impossible at this moment to surmise
what effect this change may have upon the
general policy of France, but we trust that who-
ever may be the Minister of that country, he
will be convinced that the true interests of the
nation require a steady adherence to those prin-
ciples for the preservation of peace which M.
VILLELE invariably acted upon.
The express which brought the Moniteur left
Paris before the business at the Exchange corn.
menced, and we are therefore at present ignorant
of the effect which the official announcement of
the change may have had on the public secu-
rities. On Friday, when it was tolerably well
known who would succeed to office, the Three
per Cents. varied between 68f. and 68f. 25c.
We have given in another column a few ex-
tracts from the Papers of Friday and Saturday.

The Paris Papers, received this morning, con-
tain a paragraph from Nuremberg, dated the
30th ult., which states, that an English courier
passed through that town on the preceding day,
charged with despatches for our Ambassador, at
Vienna, from Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, Who
had arrived at Corfu.

Brussels Papers to the sth inst. inclusive, and
the Nuremburg Corespondent of the 24th ult.
reached us last night, of which the following are