The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

SPAIN.
MADRID, JAN. S.—Senor Mon brought forward his I
long expected budget in the Congress to-day. 'The
estimates of income for 1845 embrace several new taxes,
while a great number of old taxes are repealed. The
following are the estimates as presented, the first five
sources of revenue being new ones, in place of others re-
pealed:—
Impost on revenues derived from real pro- Reals.
350,000,000
petty
Duty on mortgages 18,000,000
Duty on the principal articles used for in-
ternal consumption 160,000,000
Contributions levied on trade and manu-
-25,000,000
factures
Ditto on the rent of houses
Customs revenue . 120,000,000
Fourth part of confiscations, &c.
Ten per cent. on administration of property 2,000,000
Fines decreed by tribunals, &c.
Stamped paper, &c.
Twenty per cent. on Crown property
Titles granted 200,000
Tobacco
Salt
Saltpetre, sulphur, and gunpowder
Playing cards
Lotteries
Bull of the Cruzada
Ditto called Indulto Cuadragesisual 1,100,000
Military encomiendas, &c 3,458,000
Mines
11Lfountains
state property administered by the Minis-
!ers of Finance, Marine, and War
Tolls of roads, canals, lighthouses, &c

682.300
12,500,000
2,800.000
1,297,500
520,000

Mint
National printing• office
Renta de Poblaccon
Tax on wine and oil, exported from Anda-

3usia
Tax called Arbitrios de Atnortizacion
Ditto from Boards of Commerce
Ditto „ Boards of Health
Produce from schools of public instruction
HYdrographic Board
From Astronomical Observatory
Ditto College at Malaga
Ditto College at Seville
InLserpratation of Languages
Deposits
Patents',. &c
Montes PlO2 •
Employments granted
Arrears expcwted from taxes, hereafter to
be extinguished
Ecclesiastical revalues, during vacancies
Three per cent. on offerings to Rome
Passes to cross the line 3 of Gibraltar
Reimbursements—Tax levied on grandees

400,000
6,000,000
2,400,000
750,000
6,652,577
186,000
210,000
25,358
10,500
20,000
150,000
6,000

130,000
1,100,000

110,000,000
600,000
200,000
228,376

And titled men
Excess of colonial revenues •

3,750,000
40,000,000

1,210,635,353
The taxes to be taken off, and the arrears of which are
included in yhe budget, are the following :—Rentas
Provinciales yielded 101,800,000 reals. Equiva-
lents, &c., 40,000.000. Frutos Civiles, 17,300,000.
Tax of Culto y Clero 74,000,000, together with
the present duties levied at the gates of towtts,
which is merged in the general tax on consumption,
and the small taxes called Manda Pia, Medias
Anatas, Donatum from Navarre and the Basque pro-
vinces, ditto from cemmerce, half per cent. on morgages,
itax on right of succesabn to property &c., and the one
lefied on householders in Madrid, in place of billetting
troops.
The estimates of expenditure are stated as follows:
Reels.

vtd Ro,

'2l Family

Queeß ,yL _
Legislative bodies " 000 ...•••• 979,000
Ministry o'f Foreign Affairs
Ditto Grace and Justice
Ditto Home Department
Ditto,War, including the new Guardia Civil 323,419,845
Ditto Marine and Colonies
Ditto Finance 362,558,540
Sinking Fund Board
Clergy and Public Worship

1,205,522,688

The above estimates, supposing the new taxes can be
levied, show an excess of revenue of 45 millions of reels.
Senor Mon also presented the following project of law:—
" Art. 1. The expenses of the State for the year 1845,
am fixed at 1,205,522,688 reels.
" Art. 2. The Government is authorised to proceed to
the arrangement of the national debt, both foreign and
domestic, and to satisfy, according to that arrangement,
the interest of that not comprehen•led in the estimates of
expenditure for 1845, with the excess of public revenues
and contributions, and with a
.prudent increase of the
same. An account to be given in due time to the Cortes
of the use made of this authority,
" Art. 3. The right of cesantea and jubilice on,' i.e.,
retirement from office on a pension, is only to be con-
ceded to those who serve by royal appointment, and
whose salaries are equal to or exceed the sum of 16,000
reels iNer annum. This disposition is not to have retro-
active e;fect, all rights acquired previous to this law being
hereby recognised.'
The above projects were sent to the Committee of the
Sections to report upon. They were received in silence,
there being no ms.rks either of approbation or disappro-
bation from the ChArnber.

THE ANTI-CORN.LA LEAGUE.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The shrewdest opponents of the Anti-Corn-law
League have been apt to think that its chief trial
would be found in a season of commercial prosperity.
Not a few of its friends have been of the same opinion.
If the influence of the League depended on temporary
causes, or if it were merely an expreasion of that
sharp, impatient discontent which arises from physical
distress, the opinion would have been well founded ;
for Englishmen do not love political agitation for its
own sake ; and with comparatively cheap food and a
thriving trade, they would have cared little for the
most eloquent philippics against monopoly. The
event has not only not borne out, but has sig-
nally and totally falsified these anticipations. The
power of the League has been tested by a season of
prosperity ; and for the result look to the meeting of
last night. Never since the metropolitan assemblages
commenced was the vast area in which they are held
crowded by a larger or more enthusiastic mass of
human beings. Never did the agitation preeent an
aspect of more resolute or more triumphant confi-
dence. This remarkable organisation displays
none of the fitfulness—none of the alterna-
tions of success and adversity which are com-
monly said to mark poplar movements. Nulla
vestigia retrorturn is its motto. It loses no ground
that it has once gained ; but moves steadily onward
with sagacity and courage—never hesitating to look
difficulties in the face, 'or failing to take practical
measures to overcome them. A body like this will
do something more than repeal the corn-laws, if that
repeal be delayed much longer. Surely Sir Robert
Peel and others professing Conservative principles
should meditate on the position taken by the Leave
on opening the campaign for the new year. They
lay it down as an axiom that nothing is to be hoped
from the present House of Commons. The repeal of
the corn-law is to be carried out of doors. How ?
Not by any revolutionary change, nor yet by mere
speeches; but simply by acting on the constituencies.
Let us, says Mr.CObden, use the means at our disposal for
enlarging and securing the constituencies of the three
great counties, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Middle-
sex—the three counties which have been raised to
their pre-eminence, not by the aristocracy or by any
monopoly system, but by the inch:imitable industry
of the people. Mr. Cobden is right. What he
proposes is undoubtedly practicable, and if done
will be decisive. The day which sees free-traders
in Parliament for Yorkshire, Lancashire, and
Middlesex, will be the last of the corn-laws. But
in the meantime, what are the indirect conse-
quences of the agitation having taken this turn ?
One inevitable consequence is, to bring the House
of Commons, as ,nova constituted, into increased dis-
credit with the people, Is it worth while, merely
for a short postponement of the inevitable fate which
awaits the corn-law, to keep discussion constantly
alive on the discordancy between the opinions of
P'srliament and the opinion!' of the people. The
loudest cheer of those that greeted Mr. Cobden last
night from an immense assemblage of the middle
class, was that which was called forth by his declara-
tion that the constituencies required to be enlarged,
and that the sooner the power was really transferred
to the middle and working classes the better. Mr.
Cobden hinted at no organic change, and evidently
meant no other extension of the franchise than could 'I
be effected under existing laws. But his audience
• seemed to put a larger meaning in hii words,
and responded to them with an earnestness which-
showedt no ordinary discontent with the pre-
sent system. We cannot think it wise for those
who dread organic change to drive men into
these discussions. The idea of free trade has
been taken up.by the public with a strength of con-
viction which will not now stop at any obstacle. A
good deal may be sacrificed in the attempt to check
its progress, but no object can possibly be gained to
set against the sacrifice. Sir Robert Peel has all his-
life long made the mistake of looking more to what
is thought in the House of Commons than to what is
thought in the country. He judges only from hear-
say of the most vigorous expressions of public opi-
nion. It would really do him a great deal of good to
pay a visit to Covent-garden.
(From the Morning. Advertiser.)
The League met last night, and afforded the mo-
nopolists another proof of its vitality. It looked any-
thing but a corpse. Never did it manifest greater
-vigour. Never did it seem more resolved to live—
vever more determined not to die, until it has ac-
complished the great mission which it was formed to
;fulfil. The speakers were,. as usual, eloquent, ener-
g,
stic and full of hope. The audience was most en-
thtuisstic. The number present was immense.
Eve ry part of the house was crowded. There was a
viaib,.) sympathy between the speakers and the au-
dience-, ti of a sentiment was uttered by Messrs.
Cobden, Milner Gibson, and Fox, which the thou-
sands assombled did not greet with a cordial re-
sponse—in wardly felt where not audibly expressed.
The pewee, Is of the county registrations was one of
the principal topics of the evening. It is an iinpor-