Star.
London, England, 1825-01-05 00:00:00

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THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.

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The Quarter's Revenue will not be made up until
late this evening, and we consequently shall not be
enabled to give the official returns until to-morrow ;
we have, however, already prepared our Readers to
expect that they will exhibit such an increase as will
prove the great prosperity of the country; and we are
now enabled to give some further details. The amount
of4the Customs Revenue; for the Year ending the sth
of January. DM, was £10,418,000; that of the
Quarter ending to-day will ,be about £10,250,000,
leaving an apparent deficiency of about £160,000;
but if we take into account the repayment of the Silk
Duties, £450,000, and the remission of the repealed Du-
tie. on Wool. Silk, Coals, &c. to the amount of about
£700,000 durirg the year, it wine seen that the in-
crease of the Customs alone, for the Year ending this
• day, presents an increase of nearly a million over that

of last year.
The Revenue of the Customs for the Quarter ending
sth January, 1824, was £2,854,205 ; the produce of
the Quarter ending to-day, will be about 0,820,000 ;
exhibiting a deficiency (from the causes we have stated)
of about 0.5,000 on the Quarter.
In the Excise, the returns will be found still more
flourishing ; and we believe we do not over estimate the
increase of this important branch cf the Revenue, when
we state, that it will exceed that of the corresponding
by more than half a million; and
the year, over that of 1823, will be
tundied thousand pounds.
seen, that while taxes are repealed and
the amount,trr.nearly a million in the
improves frrapidly as not only to
, but to yield another million more:
more indicative of the real prosperity of
agricultural, and manufacturing in.
country, or of the sound policy of his
Ministers, than the fickgishing state
and if it continues this 19 increase,,
enabled to foUow up their preceding ye-
by the repeal of others.
r c which proves -the
of the • ambler classes of society,

and this is, that lb* increase of the Revenue is geoltally
hi articles almost essential to their time: 11ley wilt re-
ceive an additional benefit in the repeal of the remain-
ing
portion of the duty on salt, which ceases, this day.
We yesterday stated, that the British Cabinet had
come to the resolution of formally acknowledging the
independence of the Republics of Mexico, Colombia, and
Buenos Ayres. This resolution was adopted at the
Cabinet Council held on Friday last, when it was
agreed that the three Republics above-named were in a
sufficiently settled state, and their respective Govern-
ments, sufficiently organized to be admitted into the great
family of Nationi. Commercial treaties will conse-
quently be immediately entered into with these States.

It is understood that the overwhelming arguments,
advanced by the two great leaders in Parliament in
the Cabinet, backed, as it must have been, by the
known liberal and humane wishes of hisMAJESTY for the
happiness of 17,000,000 of oppressed people, as well as a
due regard for the interests of his own empire, were suf-
ficient to decide this great stroke of British policy—so
important to the naval and commercial interests of this
country. We understand that the Cabinet was una-
nimous on this question; and that those Members who
at a former period advised delay, now felt that the,
time was come when the recognition of the independ-
ence of the three States of Colombia, Mexico, and
Buenos Ayres, ought to be nn longer delayed.

Accounts of an unfavourable nature are said to have
been received from the East Indies, via Bourdeaux. It
is even reported that the Burmese had gained some
advantages, and were within a few leagues of CAlcutta.

Dispatches were received at the Colonial Office,
Dow rling-street, this day, from New South Wales,
dated the 14th of August. The c01..n.y was rapidly
improving, particularly in agriculture, for which every
encouragement is given to free settlers, by Goveinn.enr.

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This forenoon we received the Monitor and Consti.
tutionnet of Monday, by ex:sresi. On Sund.iy, Cttnnuts
X. received a deputation of the Cowl of Caseation, pno
the Council Royal of Public Instruction, and several
other public bodies, to pay thti, congratulations on the
New Year. Their Addre-ses ,nd the KING'S answers
occupy a considerable portion of the Malheur. The
following is the answer of hi, MAJESTY to Comte de
Ss7.t.:, President of the Court ot C.t,sation:—

" MONSIEUR-1 am vet y sensible ci the sentiments you
express, in the name of the first C,,iiit in my kingdom.
I calculate on your devotion, in.seconding all the efforts
I shall make to render France happy. You are right,
Monsieur, in saying that legitimacy is the surest gua.,
rantee of the public good ; but I must add, that the
magi,tracy has always been, and always will be, the
firmest support of legitimacy.
" Continue, Gentlemen, to administer justice with
the same impartiality, discharge all your duties with
the same vigilance, and I shall not be unmindful of the
zeal by which you are always distinguished."
The bazar in Paris has been destroyed by fire. It',
contained several elegant shops, richly furnished, the'
whole of which were destr.'yed, together with the build-
ing.
Several merchants, who had money iii their to
spective offices, have recovered it, but in a state of
fusion ; jewels of all scuts were found, mixed with the
rubbish. The famous serpent Boa, eighteen feet long.
which was exhibited in a room in the bazar, perislie.
in the flames, as well as other leptiles, but happily
human lives were lost.

The _Emperor of RUSSIA ha; addressed a receipt to
the Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, charging him to
exercise the most rigorous surveillance over all publica-
tions that touch on religion or public instruction, in or-
der to prevent any from being published that h.tve not
received the sanction of the Synod.

These Papers contain accounts fiom Madrid of the
20th ult. Lists have been made by the twenty-twi'
different Chiefs of the Captaincy-General of the Pl
vince, of the military charged with offences,their names,
the corps to which they belonged, and the Fi,cal bent e
whom they have been examined. It is not known what
is the object of preparing these lists; but it is said to be
thought to relate to as act of clemency on the part
of the KIND.

The Trappist is said to have exchanged his sword for
the crozier, and is travelling through the country,
preaching union, conciliation, and mutual pardon. It
is thought he has been employed by Government for
that purpose. A letter in the Constantiennel, however,
gives another version of his conduct.
General Sir Jolts DowNin is at Cadiz, as Inspector-,
General for organizing a corps of Royalist Vo-
lunteers in Andalusia. Accounts from Carthagena
state, that several persons who had been in the prisons
there for political offences, have been discharged.
Among them was the Prince Pto.
A great alarm appears to have been excited on the
coast of Catalonia by the landiagpf a few smugglers, to
take in water. It was reported that a body of Consti-
tutionalists had landed, and the military in Barcelona
were put in motion to oppose them, when the mistake
was discovered. The following is an extract from the
Constitution net of Monday :
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
MADISID, Decorate in.
" General Bassecourt, as you have seen, publibhed a Proclama-
tion at Valencia, in which he announced a landing of two hundred
Constitutionalism. Government ordered him to depart immediately
for the coast, with a considerable force, consisting of live Regiments
of the line. General Basemen was deceived, and the debarkation
was only a body of smugglers, who landed to obtain water; but I
-can auvre you, some more fresh troops have been put in move-
ment for the coast, and others are going foethe same destination.
The number of vessels which have been seen on the coot, at dif-
ferent points, are seventeen, all having troops on board to land.
—The rumour prevails that the Constitutionalists are organising
at Tangiers d considerable expeditions but the above report must be

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Militia under the name of Royal Volunteers.
" Sir William A'Court, at Lisbon, has sent a note to the King or
Portugal, which requires, in the name of his Britannic Majesty, the
dismissal of General Pamplona, Minister of War. It is thought
that the Independence or the Brasil., with the Modification dictated
by Great Britain, will take place."
French trines on Monday, 103 f, 15c.

Quarter of last year
that the increase on
nearly nine bandied
Thus it will be see
duties remitted, to tl
year, the Revenue
cover that deficit; by
nothing can be mor
the commercial, ai
terests of this con
MAJESTY'S Minisi
of the Revenue : ae
they *ill be enable
ductions of taxes
There is another
creasing happiness

' taken with entice:. General Mends Is iliansirfrlni in Walla.%
to organise the volunteer clip: be snleoeds mom dMa The
Trappist, to whom it wasihonght di:atm endliwn
be given, has received orders tdpben " Is a Capuchin =
at Burgos ; be has left Madrid fte Mine Viso, but insteafilfgalng
to the place indicated to him, be has gone to Loom. 'The
French General commanding at Coronas, has disirmed all the