Star.
London, England, 1830-10-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 1 LiE JOG it N. 11.5.

HEitsr.n.—lly the official Rta:cmcnt of the Revenue for the p tst
vest.. which will be found in another part of our paper, there
(compared with the preceding ytar) a decrtasa of almost one mato :.
In the Customs there has been an increase of 461,5361: and in ti•t
direct taxes, of 6..f,5641; but the fallir.g Mr in the receipts of the Ex-
cise. the Stamp Duties, the Post-1411-e. and the 3liscAlaneous income,
leaves a net dectease on the total Revenue (..f 943.7561. In the last
quarter there is an increase in the Customs, the Post.office, and the
direct taxes; hut the deficiencies in the Excise. the Stamps, and the
Miscellanies, leave a decrease of 188,8341. as compared with the cot.
responding quarter in last year. This deficiency will be an additional
argument for the retrenchments which, it is said, the Doke of Wel-
lington intends to propose to the new Parliament.

Porr.—lt is with unfaignel satisfaction that we this day lay berme
the public the Official Tables of the amount of the Revenue for the
Tears and Quarters respectively cr.ding on the 10th of October of the
cunent and of the last year. The information conveyed by these offi-
cial statements is of such a nature as cannot fail to afford a high degree
of gratification to the community, and to inspire general confidence in
the solidity of the national resources, and the progressive increase of ra-
tional wealth and prosperity. It is clear that with an equal consumption
of taxable articles, the reduction of taxes would have occasioned& falling
off in the Quarter's Revenue to the amount of 450,0001. But we see that
the actual falling off is no more than 113,354 L The conclusion then is
unavoidable that the actual consumption of the oountry has been pea•. r
—that the country has been in a more prosperous umdition— that d
mass of its people have been enabled to command a larger share of
the comforts and enjoyments of life, in the last Quarter than in th:tt
with which it is compared; or at least that we base now as satisfactory
an indication of these beneficial changes having taken place in the si-
tuation of the country, as if, with taxes unreduced, the statement of
the Revenue had presented to our view a positive increase of receipt t.)
the amount of 337,0001.

CH ROW IC LL—We lay before our readers the Accounts of the Qatar.
tee, ended 10th October, 1830. The deficiency on the quarter ended
10th Octobor, 1830, as compared with the corresponding quarter of
1829, is 188,8311. On the year ended 10th October, 1830, as com-
pared with the year ended 10th October, 1829, it is 943,7361. The de.
crease is chiefly in the Excise, 149,6021. On the Customs there is an
increase of of 40,6931. The Post.ofEce exhibits an increase of 12,0061.
and the Stamps a decrease of 46,320 L On the whole we believe the
public will be surprised that the falling air: the Quarter's Itevante
is not greater than 188,8311. The, nation has been prepared in va-
rious Journals, laying claim to the possession of the confidence
of Government, for a decrease of upwards of half a million on the quar-
ter : so that the comparatively small decrease will almost be considered
as equal to an increase. Was it intended by dwelling so often before.
hand on the immense falling off in the revenue of the quarter, and ac.
counting for it by the holding back of the Beer Duty, and by the repeal
of other duties, to cause the small increase to be the more easily taken
for a considerable increase ? We confess that the accounts of the fall.
ing off in the revenue of the quarter rather surprised us, because during
the whole of the quarter the industry of the country has been prosi.crous.
We hardly remember a period when the various branches of our menu-
turas were in greater activity.

Tura.—The Revenue accounts for the last quarter have been made
up, and present a deficiency, as compared with the previous October
quarter, of 188,8341. the October quarter of 1829, with which that
just elapsed thus stands in unfavourable comparison, having also proved
a defective quarter. As we are not among those who fancy that an
intelligent people ought to be unfairly dealt with by attempting to mys.
tify them in respect of their own concerns, we shall not attempt to
explain away the decreased produce of the excise duties down to the
10th October, by stating a remission of the beer tax which only com-
mences on the 12th. It seems evident that if the consumption of beer
during the last quarter had been equal to that of the corre-
sponding quarter of 18"-9, the revenue created by that consumption
would have been equal also. Had the quantity of beer " brewed and
stored" free of duty (that is, beer duty) during the last quarter, ex-
ceeded the average amount of beer brewed while subject to the duty, the
consequences would have appeared in the malt tax, and gone to swell
the general average of the excise revenue. We must be satisfied, there-
fore, to acknowledge that there has been a reduced enjoyment of this class
of the national comforts during the three months just expired. If it be
asked how this evil may be checked or remedied,we answer there boo cure
but in a system of reduced expenditure. He who cannot augment his
means must set about contracting his expenses, and making en In-
come out of parsimony itself. But we do not agree with tilos,: county
gentlemen who got up a Lincoishire meeting for the repeal of
the malt tax, by way of mitigating the pressure on the commu-
nity. \nen the revenue is already falling, the wisdom of reptaling
a productive tax will bear at least some little time lot consider-
ation. But, undoubtedly, if the malt-tax be taken ff, and the land-
lords, who oppress all the rest of the nation by the corn-lass,
be themselves released fmm any share of the impost on that manufac-
tured corn which goes under the name of malt, a gross injustice will
be committed by Parliament if it do not contrive to open the es he-
irg monopoly in the corn trade, and give some charm to the private
brewer of maintaining, through the import of foreign barley, a compe.
tition with the landed interest a England. In the article of stamps,
there has been, during the last quarter, a falling if of 46,0001. ; and
!under the head of miscellaneous, a decline of about 74,0001. In the
Post.office there has been a trifling improvement ; and in the article
of " Taxes" an increase of 29,0001.

CwsowlcLE.—The independence of Belgium has been declared by
the Provisional Government, a project of a Constitution is preparing,
and a National Congrcu is about to be amembled, to accept or modify
the Constitution to be submitted to it. The Dutch are every where
withdrawing from Belgium. According to the accounts of the Dutch
themselves, Antwerp cannot be much longer retained by them. A Paper
published at the Hague, and a known partisan of the Dutch cause, speaks
of the urgency of preparing the means of defending their own territory ;
and, truly, they say it is lime. "Let the Belgians (they say)
be told—Every people has a right to declare what are its duties.
its rights and its iutetests. By your conduct and your attitude you
have made it evident that you form anothet tietion than ours, and that
you no longer wish to be in common with us. Be it so ! We have
✓.either the right nor the power, nor the will to subjugate you. Out so.
dal union was operated I:y circumstance% independent of our mutual
wishes. The Dutch announce to the Belgians that the
sepera-
don takes place in the most absolute sense; that there *hail
be no longer any relation between the two nations, excepting
those which shall be afterwards established by treaties between power
and power; Mere ilia be no longer isay comitimmily of dynasty.-
The separation may be considered as complete. The Dutch begin to
look to their own safety; well they mar, 'or winter is at hand, and the
Belleau are both more numerous arel mere have than themselves.
With respect to Belgium, the oily question now one for the determi.
nation of the Beigians themselves, namely, the Government which they
shall have. The Prince of I ✓range btu been seeking to conciliate the
Belgians, but the die is cast.

THE NEW POLICE.-A notice was yesterday read by
the clerk, in the church of St. Clement Danes, Strand, stating that a
meeting of the inhabitants would be held, t.n ilueaday evening next, at
the Vestry-room, to adopt measures for the abolition of the hietropm
litan Police Force. The communication was received with marked
satisfaction by the coni,regation. A similar notice was read in the
church of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. convening a vestry, for the same par- .
paw, of the Hamlet of Mile-end Old Town, on Thursday twain. The
parishes of St. Anne, Litnebolnc ; St. Paul. Shadwell ; St. John, Wap.
ping ; St. George, Hanover-square; St. Mary, Islington, sad St.
George's in the East, are about to follow the example ember districts,
and padding the King, Lords, sad Commons, for the abolition of sly
New Polies.

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