The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The o►T►cial statement of the Year's Revenue, up to the'
Lth inst., exhibits, as was anticipated, a sensible falling off
from the amount collected during the year 1825.
The receipts at the Treasury for that year con-
stituted a SUM total of £48,573,820

Those for the twelvemonth just concluded

Deficit £1,923,14E1

Here is a falling off to the extent of nearly 2,000,0001.
sterling, or a little more than 4 per cent..upon the revenue
of 1825. Upon the .last quarter, as compared with the
corresponding one of 1825, there is, instead of any dimi-
nution, a positive increase of about 143,0004 ; but when
it is considered that each of the- three preceding quarters
of the last year fell; short .of its corresponding quarter of
1825, by, viz., the quarter ending -
Aiwa 6 £824,000 1
.hdy 5 - • _ . .
• 647,000
October 5 ' -- ' 8.15,000

and that the last" quarter, as we said ibefore, presents,' in-
stead of so large a defalcaticin, a certain increase," though a
small one, some proof is afforded of a check being given to
the rapid progress of financial decay, and of a better pros-
pect being opened for hereafter. It ought to be observed,
that in the above quotations from the accounts of previous
quarters, we have taken what is called the ordinary re-
venue, not including " imprest" and other monies; and
that if the same course be adopted with the last quarter,
the increase will have to be diminished about 20,0001. If
we seek, however, to determine the state of the country
during the year 1826, from an examination of those
branches of revenue in which the amount was most sen-
sibly diminished, we shall see that the decline has not been
symptomatic of a much straitened capacity in the bulk of
of the nation for providing themselves with those articles
of comfort from a reduced or enlarged consumption of
which the most important and unquestionable inferences
can be drawn respecting the. condition of the people. In
the three last quarters of 1825, after the transfer from the'
Excise to the Customs of a certain branch of duties had
begun to operate, the excise for the three last quarters of
1826 fell short of that revenue for those of the previous
year by 182,000t;—no very striking deficit in an income
of nearly 18,000,0001. sterling. In the stamps, the decay
of our internal revenue has been most conspicuous—that
for the year amounting to 720,000/. ; and that the quar-
ter's deficit on stamps only, notwithstanding the general
tendency to improve, has amounted to upwards of
130,000/. To speak our true sentiments; if this branch of
revenue has in former years been fed unnaturally by the
pernicious excesses of the bank-note system, and of bills of
exchange thrown into circulation to serve the purposes of
a desperate spirit of unsound adventure, we should not be
greatly disposed to grieve for this evidence of its contrac-
tion within the bounds of safety and sobriety. However,
with the tables now before us, and an admitted fall of
two millions sterling in the national income, we trust that
from decency, if more solid grounds be wanting, no new
extravagancies will be proposed by the King's Ministers to
Parliament, or received with favour by those who would
say we libelled them, were we to describe them in any
thing less than representatives of the people of England.—
Times.

We have already noticed the extreme importance of the
selection about to be made of a successor as Commander
in Chief of the Army, to that illustrious personage, to-
wards whom our sentiments have ever been more sincerely
respectful than those of many whose demonstrations of
attachment were more assiduous and plausible, and fawn-
ing than our own. The. arrangement, we have reason to
believe, is yet unsettled—and in the exact degree in which
we admire the principles on which his late Royal High-
ness so zealously and disinterestedly administered the
powers of his extensive and delicate command, is our so-
licitude that those principles should suffer no suspen;ion,
nor the memory of him by Whom they were established, ,
no disgrace in the choice of a successor. It appears to us
that there can be little difference upon the expediency, of
re-constituting the Horse-Guards as aptly as possible, with
a vieW to its independence on the Cabinet. If the straight'.
course of military patronage be turned by the sinister in-
fluence of Court favour and intrigue, we may bid adieu
to the British Army, such as it has been bequeathed to
us by the Duke of York. Another Prince of the Blood
Royal, emery way competent to succeed him, it might in-
deed be not easy to discover. And if the old project of a
military board-be resumed, we shall make no scruple of •
declaring that a more preposterous, dangerous, and perni-
cious instrument for the administration of a military force
cannot by the wit of man be suggested. The Board of
Admiralty ought to be a sufficient warning against the
adoption of its counterpart for the government of the Bri-
tish Army. The responsibility is, in appearance, dis-
persed amongst six members, while the whole effective
power is actually concentrated in a single hand, and the
prospect of impunity, therefore, for the head of the Board,
is in the proportion of five to one, as regards the quantum!
of real abuse of power which belongs to him. If we add,
that the First Lord of this mighty Board, which nomi-
nally divides among its members, but really secures to a
single individual of them the entire patronage of a naval
body, containing, perhaps, above 10,000 officers, high and
low, and on which depends so largely the honour and ,
greatness of England—that this First Lord, we say, bej,
sides his professional office as a naval functionary, exer-
cises also the political office of a Cabinet Minister,
and must necessarily feel those various and innumer-
able temptings to "guilty preferences and vindictive
exclusions, which -importune every man holding a
high political appointment, that is to say, every
member of a party in the kingdom, to a party. dispensation
.of the loaves and the fishes, instead of one governed by
an uptight estimate of the merits which present themselves
to his choice,—we need not wonder any more at the mur-
murings, both loud and deep, which burst from wronged
and heart-broken naval veterans, whose strength is still
perfect in spite of their. wounds, whose spirit has
been deadened by disappointment only, and whose humble
supplications for common justice are met too often by an
avowal from some bold underling of the ante-chamber, that
" services without interest confer no title to promotion."
Against such a system, notorious and intolerable, but the,
defects of which, m practice, it is impossible to cure, we!
would join in a solemn protest with all friends of an effi-
cient army, while it is yet time, and before the scheme be
actually put in execution. Let the command of the army
be given to a single man, of eminent rank, of independentl
circumstances, of tried rmness, of matured experience, of
unwearied diligence, of unimpeached integrity, with a love
of the military life and character ingrafted on him by an ,
hundred victories, and with an habitual circumspection in
1
his professional conduct, inspired and nourished by jealous-
for his well-earned fame. If a personage like this can be
found in the British empire, he is marked out for Commander-
in-Chief—no other place becomes him. If such a man
be in the Cabinet—where he is not wanted—let him va-
cate the unimportant seat, and establish himself where the
nation calls for his more useful services. We should not
wish to see the Duke of Wellington expose himself any fur-
ther to the fatigues and perils of actual war. He has of tint
species of glory quite sufficient. His nobler ambition must
have been more than satisfied with what he hss dony
for his country—his selfish airal)itien, with the returns
which she has made to him. We have no
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right to ask, nor
has the gallant Duke any motive to desire, that a new ac
count should be opened on the field of battle between him
and fortune; but he can serve at home, and teach others
how to imitate and emulate their master. We should bel
unjust to the Duke of Wellington if we did not conclude
by stating, on authority which there is no room to doubt,
that his administration of the Ordnance has been marked
not more by severe economy than by inflexible justice;
insomuch, that in the ungrateful task of reduction, under
which a frequent necessity must arise for mortifying the
well-founded hopes of men grown old in their country's
service, and for repaying with disappointment the most
conspicuous merit, even the sufferers under this discou-
raging course have been the foremost to acquit of all un-
fair or unequal pressure the hand by which it was directed.

IWe therefore do' trust that, all things Considered, the
country will unite with us in resisting the hazardous ex-
periment of a military board for the government of the
'British army—in demanding the secession of the Duke of
IWellington from the Cabinet, where, as a politician, he is
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of his natural place, and in fining him at the head of
'the military power of the empire, where it is not pobable
il
that, with his qualifications, he can fail to render Eng-
land a second series of the most important and honourable
services.

A reported speech of a person in office.

[lbid.]

Though the Lisbon mail, which arrived on Friday,
brought accounts only to the 23d of December, the details
of the intelligence received by it were more complete than
those which reached us by the steam-vessels which left;
Lisbon on the 2fith. It is stated in a private letter,
dated the 23d, that the Princess Regent of Portugal has,
in consequence of the manner in which the request made
to the British Government to send out troops was com-
plied with, addressed a letter to his Majesty, expressive of
her gratitude and that of the Portuguese people for
the efficient • aid thus promptly afforded. Indeed, all,
classes, at. least at Lisbon, have vied in testifying the
warmest feelings of satisfaction at this measure. In!
our last we gave the vote of thanks which passed!
the Chamber of Deputies unanimously, and which is'
to be followed up on the next meeting of the Cortes by a'
more solemn expression of the gratitude of the Portuguese
nation. It would also be seen, from the extracts in our
paper of Saturday, that a deputation had been appointed
by the Chamber of Peers to wait on the Princess Regent
and express the satisfaction of that assembly at what had
taken place. We gave some time ago, in our reports of
the sittings of the Cortes, the proceeding on which the
application of the Portuguese Government to ours was
founded ; but as the decree authorising the introduction of,
foreign troops is an important document, we insert a literal
translation of it in another column. The speech of the
Princess Regent on the closing of the session of the Cortes
(see The 7inses of Wednesday, Jan. 3,) has obtained, as
our letters inform us, general approbation. The Bishop
of Viseu, Minister of the Interior, who was at the head of
the Commission for proroguing the Cortes, and who,inthe
absence of the Princess Regent, read the speech, possesses
much influence in Portugal, in consequence of his merited
reputation for virtue and talents. He has great weight
with the superior clergy; and it is expected that, through
him, they will all be induced to give their support to the
Constitutional Government. The ordinary session of
the Cortes, which, according to the Charter, is to con-
tinue during the space of three months every year, was to
commence on the 2d instant. While measures are thus
taking at Lisbon to secure to the Portuguese nation the
benefits of the Constitution, the Government of France is
lendeavouring, in concert with our Government, to coun-
teract the machinations of the Jesuitical party in .Spain,l
and to avert a war between that country and Portugald
!It is, however, still uncertain whether the efforts made for;
!attaining this object will be ultimately successful. A Spa-
!nish army is assembling on the Portuguese frontiers; and
Fit is to be apprehended that this army may eventually,
either with or without the orders of its Government,
make an attack on Portugal. Indeed, it does not appear
that Ferdinand has any real wish that his mili-
tary commanders should obey the public orders of his Go-
vernment ; for, instead of dismissing those who' have
,openly abetted and assisted the Portuguese rebels in the
invasion of their country, he shows himself perfectly sa-
tisfied with their conduct. General Longa, one of the
most culpable of those commanders has just been appointed
to the situation of Chamberlain. We hear, also, by let-
ters from Portugal, that when Magessi and his followers
were driven back into Spain, they- were re-equipped for
a new inroad at Badajoz. The Spanish authorities of that
place received the rebels with open arms, and supplied
them with 6,000 cartridges and 12 cruzadoes in money.
Such is the manner in which. promises solemnly made by
Ferdinand's Government have been fulfilled

We cannot help thinking, that in the Ultimatum and
corresponding answers thereto, whieh the Quotidienne has
put forth as having passed between the negotiators in
Madrid, on the part of Portugal, and his Catholic Ma-
jesty, there is great confusion. In the absence of direct
!information, we are prepared to say, that the Ultimatum
submitted to King Ferdinand by Portugal and her ally,
Great Britain, and the only one that has been presented
as such, contains four points; viz.—First, the recognition
of. the Constitution of Portugal and of the Government
established there; secondly, the disavowal, on the part of
Spain, of all interference in the arming of the Portuguese
Refugees; thirdly, the surrender of all warlike stores con-
veyed from Portugal to Spain; and fourthly, Guarantees
that no future Armaments shall be allowed within. the
Spanish territory against Portugal. These four points
embrace the heads of the Portuguese quarrel with Spain.!
The first, of course, includes the sending of a Minister to
Portugal, as without this step, no recognition can be con-g
plete. The second is the only mode of obtaining satisfac-
tion for the aggression committed on the Portuguese ter-
ritory, as it implies, that if the King has taken no direct
part in the armament complained of, for his own honour,
to prove that his kingdom is not in a state of anarchy, he 1
is bound to punish the guilty parties 'who" have thus em-1
broiled him, and endangered the peace of his realm. The
third point is only the enforcement of an act of justice, or 0
rather of a compliance with the stipulations of a solemn g
convention, entered into very few weeks before it was t
broken by acts committed within the Spanish territoryj
and embracing only a small amount of property, car.°
'ried away by Portuguese deserters. The fourth is the
imost difficult of all, as it is impossible to anticipate the
nature of the guarantees the complainants may be satis-
fied with, having already experienced that Conventions
with King Ferdinand are little more than waste paper.,
'As far as the answers go, as published by the Paris
Apostolicals, they are curious, and certainly convey the!
private sentiments of the Spanish Cabinet, on more topes!
than those immediately referring to Portugal; yet we
cannot imagine they have been submitted to paper, as a
reply to the Ultimatum. We shall consider them seriatim.
Ferdinand is made to say, that the Portuguese Ambassador
withdrew from Madrid of his own accord, and without pro-
vocation ; whilst the Portuguese Government declared to
the Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon, that his mission was
terminated. This is not the fact. At the time of the
death of King John the Sixth, a Portuguese Charge
d'Affaires was residing at Madrid, and he so continued

after the King's death; nay he is still there. On the es-
tablishment of the Constitutional Charter in Poitugal by
the next heir to the Crown, the Infanta Regent sent Count
de Villa Real to Madrid, as the Minister Plenipotentiary of
Portugal, but he was never received as such by his Catholic
Majesty, who, of course, by this act, refused to acknow-
ledge the Government of Portugal, under its new form.
After fruitless endeavours to obtain the object of his mis-
sion, no other alternative was left the Count but to with-
draw, particularly as he saw a public armament going on
against his country. After such conduct, it is clear the
Spanish Minister could not continue to reside in Lisbon.
From the death of King .John to the time the Constitu-
tional Charter arrived from Brazil, friendly relations ostei.
sibly existed between the Courts of Portugal and Spain;
[but it was evident that Ferdinand was in the interests of
lhis sister, the Queen Dowager, and her wishes were, that
tiler second son, the Infante Don Miguel, should ascend
the Throne, to the exclusion of his elder brother, as this
was the only means by which she could gratify her own
'ambition and revenge. Unfortunately, King John Madel
as the paper alluded to in the supposed answer of
nwill,
King Ferdinand to the Ultimatum, was never signed by'
him, and bears only the signature of his Minister for the
time being. It was published, previous to the King's
death, in the form of a Decree, dated at the Palace of Bern
I -,
posta, March 6th, 1826, and enacts that, " in order
to provide for the Government of the Kingdoms
.and Dominions of Portugal during the illness un-
der which he, the King, was then suffering,
he
public affairs to his daughter, the Infanta Isabella Maria,
the Cardinal Patriarch, the Duke de Cadaval, Marquess

de Valadal, and Count dos Arcos, by whom the public of-°
.
fairs were to be conducted, and in case of death, till the
legitimate heir and successor to the Crown had given his
orders on the subject." Such is the substance of the last
will and intentions of the .late King of Portugal ; but
they bear only the simple signature of his Ministers. In/
the treaty concluded at Rio de Janeiro by Sir C. Stuart,l
on 29th August, 1825, and ratified by John VI. on 15thl
of November following, by .which act the Independence!
of Brazil, and its absolute separation from Portugal was'
lacknowle.iged, no mention whatever is made of the line!
' of accession to the throne of Portugal being thereby broken.l
John VI. assumed the title of Emperor of Brazil, by his
Ison's consent, in like manner as it was implied that the,
latter, at his father's death, should assume all the rights
to which he was entitled by the laws'of the realm and of
primogeniture. All would have gone on well, as far at
least as Ferdinand and his sister were concerned, if no
constitutional charter had been granted by Don Pedro,
and if the Queen Dowager had been appointed Regent,
as then the summit of her wishes would have been attain-
ed. She would then have had ample scope for the grati-
fication of all her private and political propensities, and
her brother's absolute and despotic government would not
have been endangered. Don Pedro, however, secure of,
his own rights to the throne, and supported by England,l
granted a constitution to Portugal, by a marriage of his
younger brother with his own daughter, the next lawful
heiress, secured to him the throne of his ancestors, as he.
becomes king from the moment his spouse bears a child,
and even if there were any previous disputes, they would,
then cease. In the present contest, it is welCknown, Don
Miguel has not interfered. On the contrary, he has taken
the oaths to the constitution against which his uncle and
mother now object, and as soon as the Portuguese man-
of-war, on its way from Rio ,de Janeiro to Trieste,
arrives, it is well understood he will embark for theßrazils.l
The other parts of the reported answers refer only to the
1
negociations which England is at present pressing on the!
attention of the Spanish Government. It is very possible
that his Catholic. Majesty hal been told that no guarantees
he can offer are satisfactory, unless he changes hicsystem
of government; but we cannot think that any more dislike
is evinced to M. Calomarde than M. Salmon, or any of
the other Members of the Spanish Cabinet.. on Tadeo
Calomarde was a clerk in the Secretary of State's Office
for Grace and Justice, during the reign of Charles IV. In
1808, he followed the cause of the nation, and in 1809, he
was raised to the rank of first clerk in the same depart-
ment, in consequence of his apparent adhesion to the Con-
stitution. He is now, indeed, the organ of Clerical
fanaticism, and the supporter of a despot, possibly contrary
to the expectations of his countrymen ; but he is not dis-
tinguished by any particular mark, more than his colleagues,
which could render him individually offensive either to
England or Portugal. As far as regards the future con-
duct of Ferdinand, it is impossible to anticipate any thing
certain so long as the British Envoy remains in Madrid,
although it is well known that the Apostolical Junta tell
him not to uptke a sacrifice, o'r submit to the smallest hu-
miliation, pledging themselves, on these conditions, to sup-
port him through thick And thin. Our Envoy is carrying
on urgent negociations, independent of Portugal, but not
in the shape of an Ultimatum, and, perhaps, of a more,
galling and harrassing a nature than if they bore that
character, as, for example, the payment of British claims,
the recognition of South American independence, &e. The
enforcement of these demands, and the support given to
Portugal, have embittered Ferdinand against us, mid his
Apostolicals vent their spleen against us for what they say
we have done with the Spanish emigrants in Gibraltar, as
well as towards their quondam Colonies. Time only can
chew the result.—Morning Chronicle.

No political occurrence since the death of his late Ma-1
jesty and that of the Princess Charlotte, has created more
general sympathy than the protracted sufferings and de-t
miss of the Duke of York ; and, if it be any consolation
to those most nearly connected with him,
" To read his bisety in a nation's eyes,"
That mournful gratification is afforded them in as marked,.
and intelligible a manner as evi4i occurred. Independent I,
of the Duke's general merits; and his high claim, upon
`public gronnds, to the affection and regret of the people,
we believe it may justly be said of him, that no man—of the
preSent age at least, and perhaps of any other—ever left be-
hind ,1
him so many persons whom he had personally served
and obliged. Great and extensive as the patronage of the!
British army has of late years been, yet there may have
been other public men who have.-enjoyed as great, if not •
greater, means of serving others, than has devolved upon
the late Commander-in-Chief; but no man, we can confi-
dently affirm, ever bestowed patronage with more zeal,
governed by discretion, with more disinterested justice
and discrimination, than have marked the late lamented
Prince's conduct in the arduous and important duty of
officering -the British army. Up to the 'latest hour that
the progress of a mortal disease allowed his mind to act,
his dying energies were exerted in framing and promul-
gating an act of humanity and justice to a class of the ser-
vice, which financial impediments had hitherto prevented
his doing. But not to the officers of the army alone werei
his cares extended;—to the soldier in every grade and
every station, from the recruit to the retired veteran at
Chelsea, he was in fact a parent and a friend. We dwell
the more earnestly upon this topic, because seeing as we
do a disposition in some part of the Press to dwell upon
some faults which were to be found in other parts of the
Duke's character, we say that such defects, incident as
they are to human nature in its most unexceptionable form,
are as nothing compared to his high Merits in that office
which it was the good fortune of the country to see his
Royal Highness fill. The highest merit which can be
assigned any man is to excel in that department or oc-
cupation to which it belongs. This merit the Duke of
York possessed in the highest possible degree. It is but
little to the praise of a physician to hear it said that he isi
a good lawyer; or-of the lawyer, that he is a sound divine :1
but to say, as we are justly entitled to do of the late.Com-I
mander-in-Chief of the Army, that he did more to raise
its character, both at home and abroad, than all who had
ever gone before him, while we.do i,hiria no more than jusH
tire, yet we raise a monument to his name, which must,
hand it down to posterity among the patriots and states-
. men of the world. Placed as the crown is upon the head
of one who reigns, in the truest sense of the word, in the
hearts of his people, and so nearly-of an age as the Duke
was-to his Majesty, there. were few, if-tury- who ever con-
templated his succeeding to the throne. His Royal High-
ness may, however, be said to have possessed more actual!
uncontroulled power anti patronage than the Constitution
assigns to the King himself; and may therefore be said to
have reigned by anticipation, and to have raised the honour
• and character of his country as high as any Monarch could
have done. Peace to his manes t Let those who cavil
at his faults but call to mind the splendour, the usefulness
and the integrity of his services, and then let those who
• are without fault throw the first stone. Towards the
Prince who succeeds him in the succession, we cannot
breathe a more sincere wish, or urge a stronger recommen-,:
dation, than that- he should strive to- rival his deceased
brother in the affections of the people, over whom he ma:7:,
eventually be called to reign ; nor can that be more effec-i
Nally done, than by displaying u Aiinilarly Warm attach-1
ment to the interests, the welfare, and the honour of thatl
service in which the Duke of Clarence passed his early]
life, as has so eminently distinguished the military career
and ardour of the Duke of York.---Morning Herald.
We_ wish it were possible for the, Tinier and Morning,
Chronicle to hear and know the observations. made, and
the feelings expressed, in every circle, by their ready-pre-1
Pared effusions of malice over the remains of the Prince!
whom the country has just lost. Persons of all parties,l
and of all opinions—military or civilians--women--nay,,
even children, old enough to feel the 'dash of shame kind-j
ling on their cheeks, have joined in the cry of loathing and'
diSgust excited by these cold-blooded, these premeditated,'
insults upon. the memory of one whose body: was not cold
while their envenomed slanders were printing. Death,
which awakens a generous sorrow even for an enemy—
which disarms - vengeance, and imposes a manly silence

upon human frailties, seemed here but the signal to'i
quicken enmity, and to kindle malice. Good God ! Whom
could they hope to please by such an impure offering
What man delights to revel in the violations of the se-1
pulchrel But admitting there are persons, which respect!
for human nature teaches us to deny, who can gloat'
,upon so heartless an " exhibition, what must we think?
of those by whom it is provided ? We did, at one time,i
intend to collect this worse than offal, even at the hazard]
of disgusting our own readers, in vindication of the cen-1
sure we have expressed. But no ; they who are incredu-!
Ilous must go to the fountain head; there let them read,l
l and sicken as they read. We saw it lately asserted in
some French paper or other, among those blunders which
Parisian journalists so habitually make in such matters,l
that the Times was now the organ of Ministers—we be-I
lieve the writer went so far as to say, specially the organ,
of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs—and the Timer,
proud of the mistake, copied the statement into its own
columns, without comment or contradiction. Here is
convincing proof of the connexion! This is the first in-
cense offered up by the new convert at the shrine of his
patron saint I We recommend it to those who made the
discovery. By a further exercise of similar sagacity, or
by a display of similar knowledge, they may announce
that Cobbett is in the pay of Lord Liverpool and Mr.
Peel, and the Morning Chronicle has become the organ
of the Lord Chancellor.—New Times.

The official accounts of the state of the Revenue, which
we publish this day, must be gratifying to all, except those
whom nothing but disasters can gratify. As contrasted
with the quarter immediately preceding, the Revenue for
the quarter ending on the sth of this month presents an
excess of more than 18.5,000/. If we compare it with the
corresponding quarter in the preceding year, we find that
there has been an increase of 142,998/. ; and that, too, in
spite of a decrease of 134,2281. on the produce of the
Stamp Duties—a diminution which no one can lament,
since it is concomitant of the cessation of that spirit of
muchchi e c
yeta speculation
quarter
endingfrom
the
ewset
hh
January,a ve
sufferedlB26,
was was affected only partially by that crisis, of which the
whole, commercial world, in America no less than in Ett;•
rope, felt the effects ; for, though the career of specUlation
had been for some months previously becoming gradually
more moderate, it was not till December, 1825, that the
tempest broke loose; and of course it was in the earlier
period of 1826, rather than in the concluding quarter
of 1825, that its effects on the Revenue became appa7
rent. That, under such circumstances, the produce of the
Ilast Quarter's Revenue should more than equal the pro-
duce of the concluding quarter of the former year, is all
that a reasonable man could desire, and more than a can-
'dons man would have anticipated.' An important pecu-
liarity in the results of the Finance Accounts for the by-
gone year—a peculiarity seldom found in the fluctuations
of the revenue, even in periods of acknowledged pro-
sperity, is this—that, throughout the four sucessive guar-.
ters of the year, the revenue has been regularly, and in-
variably, and progressively improving. The produce of-
the first quarter is under ten millions; and of the second
a little exceeds twelve millions; the revenue of the next
three months was somewhat more than twelve millions
and a quarter; and the three months just elapsed
have yielded upwards of twelve millions and a half.
Where now are the assertions and predictions of
those, who saw, or pretended to see, in the natural
and temporary variations of our finances, the com-
mencement of speedy and inevitable ruin ? No man
lean now deny, that, during the last nine months, we have
been gradually recovering from the effects of those cow-
,
inercial distresses, which marked the commencement of
1826. A comparison of the total produce of the Revenue
in 1825, with its produce, in 1826, shows the mighty en-
ergy of that inherent tit renoratrix, which so soon repairs
the effects of any temporary injury which England may
sustain. Nearly the whole of 1825, was a period of great
activity, and bold speculation; that year was concluded,
and the next was ushered in by a convulsion in the
commercial world, which disturbed all the usual oc-
cupations of capital, and checked almost every branch
of industry. That evil was followed by the, misfortune of
a harvest, not very abundant in any species of grain ;
'and, in some species, extremely deficient. If, therefore,
the Revenue of 1826 had fallen very greatly short of
'that of 1825, we should not have been surprised at the
result ; and, though the temporary loss would have been
a matter of regret, we should not have augured the less
favourably of the future permanent prosperity of the coun-
try. The difference, however, between the produce of the
ordinary Revenue, in 1825 and 189 G, is only 1,923,1-18 L ;
of which, 120,219/. arises, under the head of the Stamp
• Duties. The diminution in the
car not be a subject , of re-
oduce of the Stamps,
as we have already remarked, cann
gret ; for it arises partly from the removal of sortie
d the Stamp Duties last
•
year, but principally from
our return to a sounder system of commercial en-
cessation of
from
1;94, and 1825,
ttehropsreisewialdnd
spceiercoulalatitoionist: and
which, fr?
"of apparent p -
gave rise to so many transfers
Pecuniary ro
perty, and to so -many
lirethrieelorteN,voou)t.eoarfs the ys
goes-
Lion, the the difference between
and this difference may be accounted-
about 1,200,000/. ;
con-
tracts. Putting the Stamps,
c buy the reduction of our taxes
.
In in a great measur
Assessed Taxes, and in the imposts on hemp, coffee, rum,
That diminution, frilling
In the Session of 182 a, a diminution took place in .t.l;
spirits, cider, and wine; amounting,. the whole, to
only on a
occasioned a loss to
part of 18- ,
ee
mtleleasN;iarreisot:Ns,
the revenue of that
than 650 000/.
year of not more t• i , ; but, as it operated
hmichino:Tr.reidluues--
throughout the whole of 2G, it must have affected the
revenue of last year to the full extent of the 1,526,0004
This circumstance alone accounts for 900,000/. Then,
about 1,526,,50000/c.casi
in
kisson brought forward in 1825, as well as some others
reduc-
tions
otifs
imposts
intot s
involvedour es at
which were introduced in the last Session. The_se minor
items will go some way towards the remaining 300,000/,
which is all the difference between the revenue of 189.5
and the revenue of 1826, that we have still to account for.
Even if that difference could not be referred to our own
financial measures, or to accidental circumstances, it would,
be too inconsiderable to deserve serious consideration in
the natural fluctuations of so immense a revenue as ours.
• 7-Ibid.

ANECDOTE OF T lIER E V. SAVES LEY.—Mr.Wesley
had a clerk, a well-meaning, honest, but weak, and vain man.—,
He believed the rector, his master, to be the greatest man in the,
parish, if not in the county ; and himself, as he stood next to
him in church ministrations, to be next to him in worth and im-'
portance. Ile had the 'advantage and privilege of wearing out
Mr. Wesley's cast-off clothes and wigs, for the latter of which his.
bead was far too small ; and the figure he cut in it was most
crously grotesque. The rector finding him particularly vain of
one of those canonical substitutes for hair which he had lately re-
ceived, formed the design
to mortify him in the presence of that:
congregation before which John wished:to appear in every respect
what he thought himself, the next person in importance to his,
master. One morning before church time Mr. W. said, " John,i
I shall preach on a. particular subject to-day; and shall choose my'
own psalm, of which I shall give out the first line, and you shall
proceed as usual." John w.is pleased;' and the service went
forward as it was wont to do till trey came to the singing, when'
Mr. Wesley gave out the following line
".Like to au owl in ivy bush,"

. . I
This was sung ;--and the following line, John peeping out of the
large canonical. wig in which his head was half lost, gave out with
an audible voice and appropriate connecting twang,_
" That rueful thing am I !" 1

The whole congregation, struck with John's appearance, saw, andl
felt the similitude, and burst out into laughter. The rector was
pleased ; for John was mortified, and his self-conceit followed.
This is the same man, who, when King William returned to
London after'some of his expeditions, gave out in Epworth Church,
—" Let us sing to the praise and glory of God, a Hymn of my
own composing :
King William ie come home, come home,
King William home is come ;
Therefore let us together sing
The hymn that's call'd Te D'um,"
Clarke's Memoirs of the "Wesley Family-

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The demand this week has been limited for most articles of
produce. In British Plantation Sugar only about 4,50 hhds. have
been sold at steady prices. In East India, about 500 bags, mid-
dling white Bengal have been sold at 765: fid. In 'Molasses, 150
puncheons have been sold at 28s. to2Bs. 6d., for Demerara. In
Coffee, only a few small parcels, making about 50 tierces,
chiefly Jamaica, at former rates. In Cocoa, Ginger, or Pi-
mentos nothing done. In Rum there has been somewhat better
demand, and 150 puncheons, (Demerara chiefly) at 2s. 6,3.
!common Leewards. In Dyewood, the sales are confined to '7O
:tons Campeachy Logwood, at 8/. 15s. to 9/. ; 25 tons solid Ni-
caragun Wood, at 191. 10s. and 221. Turpentine is very firm
!at 12s. for good quality. The sales are 1,500 barrels good at
1125., and 800 middling at 10s. 9d. per cwt. In Tar nothing
done. Ashes are rather lower; Montreals, SOO Pots sold at 275.
.and 275. Sd. for New, and at 245. Sd. at 255. Sd. for damaged ;
50 new second Montreal Pearl, at 245. and 10 barrels old firsts
at 275. 6d. Carolina Rice dull, 60 to 70 tierces (screened} sold
at 225. and 225. 6d. In East India Rice nothing done. Nothing
done in Saltpetre. In Hides the sales are 1,350 Buenos Ayres
salted, at 51d. a 6d. 700 North American, at 40., and 2,200
dry salted Brazil, at bid. per lb. The demand for Shumac is
improved, 160 bags Sicily sold at 125.: Malaga at 12s. ; and
Trieste, at 9s. per cwt. 50 bales Turkey Madder Roots have
been sold at 39.. Philadelphia Quercitron Bark, at 12s. 3d.
Gibraltar Cork Tree Bark, at 101. ss. Tallow is lower.

' The demand for Cotton this week has been moderate, and upon
the whole, prices may be said to be a little lower, about *d. The
sales are as follow :-3,300 bags Upland-Georgia, at 6d. a 7P.
850 New Orleans, at 7d. to 80. ; 250 Alabama, at 7d. to 7d.
20 Sea Islands, at 120. to 13p.; 50 Stained Sea Island, at
qd. to 70. ; 400 Pernambuco, at 10d. to I Id. ; 500 Maran-
ham, at 94d. to 94d. ; 100 Bahia, at BP. to 9d. ; 100 Mines,
at 80. ; 50 Demerara, at Bd. to 9d. ; 700 Egyptian, at 7d.
to 80. ; 100 Surat, at sd. to 6d. ; and 50 Bengal, at 5P.—
making a total of nearly 6,500 bales. Of which 700 American
and Egyptian have been taken on speculation, and 500 bags
Brazil for export. The import for Cotton is 2,617 bags in the
week.

In Olive Oils there has been nothing doing. Seed Oils are
steady but in a very limited request. Fish Oil. are leas inquired
for, and prices are a trifle lower. Newfoundland Cod now offers
At 25/. ss. to 25/. 105. per tun. Palm Oil steady at 27/. with a.
fair demand. Oil of 'Turpentine is in better revert, and 681. per
tan is now obtained. Fine Carolina Rice is scarce, a parcel of
67 casks has brought 22e. to 22a. 6d., ordinary is dull of sale at
20s. There has appeared some inquiry for Hides; the sales ef-
fected are 2,290 dry salted Brazil Ox and Cow at 6+1., 1350
we salted Buenos Ayres Ox and Cow at bp. to 6d., and 700
salted New York Ox and Cow at 41d. per lb. In Horse Hides no
sales. Hemp remains steady with a very limited demand. In
Tallow the business has been very trifling.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS

DURING LAST NYELK.

- 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Peace.
Per Quarter. s. to a. s. to s. S. to s. s. to a. a. to S.
Andover. ..........w. 54/ .... 36 _
......
Carlisle------.. 60 35 ..... 35 _
..... _ __ _
liexham.------- 52 CO 39 .42 35 40
Morpeth .... 46 53 39 40 26 32 46 50
Newcastle --.......—, 48 61 35 40 34 :38 48 54 56 6,1
1 ItomseY * 30 54 32 .36 28 32 50 58 56
Sunderland......,.. . 56 60 _ _
.....
......
....
....
7 2 7 6 5 0 5 4 4 6 6 2 6 6 8 0 8 0 9 0
Winchester ~........, 54 :3;; _ _
.....
..... _
.....
Per Bushel. e. d. r. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. (I, s. d.
----"..(Staff*.) 9 0 9 2 6 6 70 5 0 5 9 9 0 9 6 0 0 0 0
Birmingham...... 7 4 8 4 6 6 7 0 5 3 5 9 7 4 8 8 9610 0
Coventry Newcastle
ert on --... 69 76 49 5 0 30 40 60 66 00 06
Penrith ............. 00 76 00 5346 00 00 00 00 00
5taff0rd........,..-.. 8 G 9 0 76 8 0 5 6 6 8 8 6 9 0 0 0 00
Warwick 70 7 8 5 0 5 9 5 0 6 0 6 8 7 8 8 0 90
Worcester 74 90 53 6 6 4 6 53 80 90100 12 0
Per 8011. •
Barnardcastle 12 0160110 14 0 6 6 7—o 15 0 —.O 13 0'
Darlington 130 16 010 6 110 60 11 011 0 14 0 11 6 120;
Durham 12 9 15 010 0 11 0 86 8610 0 /2 010 0 11 01
Stanhope 13 0 139 o,s) 10 0 70 00 00_ 0 0 00 00'
Stockton 12 3 13 6 0 0 0 0 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
Wolsingliam ........ 136 16 010 0 106 80 96 00 00 00 00j

SCOTCH MARKETS.
EIMNBURGPI CORN MARKET..—Jan, S.

Our market continues to he thinly supplied with all sorts of
Grain, and prices remain without any material alteration. Top:
price of Oats is Is. lower, but this owing to no fine samples be-
ing in market. The demand was good, and general prices fully'
higher than last market.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease.
First
Second SO 04 28s 0.5 27s Od ess Sd
Third Vs Od 26s (hi 246 04 25s Od
There were 6:2 bolls of Wheat in market, 602 of which w
Average, 28s. Dd. 6-12ths

Beanq.
29a fkl
2Ss Ocl
V 54
.re sold.

EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET.--Jm
The supply of Sheep was short of last week ; scarcely 2000,
higher. White-faced, 225. to 245. ; Black-faced, 19s. to
pr
lices
265. ; Ewes, 15s. to 20s. ; a very quiek sale, and from 2s. 6d.
Ito 38. higher than last week. In the Grassmarket the number
of Cattle was much the same as last week (46), prices rather
lower ; best, is. Od. to 7s. tid.; inferior, from 6s. Od. to is. ;
a very dull sale, and a number unsold ; the show was not so
good as last week,

Beef, per lb.
Mutton—,
Lamb, per quarter
Tallow, per lb.
Quartern Loaf
Potatoes, per 1 llb.

PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &e.
Os. 4EI to 0,1:7d. Fre,b Butter, per lb. 10d. to Os. Od.
0 4 0 7 Salt Ditto----- 10 0 0
0 6 0 0 Ditto, per cwt. --Ws. 0 0 0
4) 0 6 Eggs, per dozen ..... 1 2 0 0
1 6 3 0 Oat Straw (kemp.)— 0 19 :6
0 0 5 Wheat Ditt0—,.....11 0 19 6
0 9 010 Barley Ditto 6 0
0 6 0 0 Good Hay, per st. 1 3 1 4

GLASGOW CORN
Not much business doing,
Wheat, per .2-101 b. s. (1. 6. (1.
British, old :SO 0 to 31 0
-- new 2O 0 31 0
Canada, five 2B 0 31 0
Irish 27 If 30 0
Barley, per 3201 b
Englsh 33 0 310
Scottish
Irish 2B 0 32 0

MARKET.—Jan. 3.

and no alteration in prices.
Oats, per 2tUlb. 1. d. ii. d.
Irish 2loto 38 6
British — 0 0
Beans, per ViOlb
(Efiglish
Scottish
Pease, Scottish 27 0 29 0
Oatmeal, per 1401 b 2 0 24 0
Flour, per 2901 b.