Star.
London, England, 1826-01-20 00:00:00

REVENUE OF IRELAND.

It is with extreme pleasure that we lay before our
Readers the official statement of the Irish Revenue for
the year recently elapsed.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE WET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE
OF IRELAND, AS PAID INTO THE EXCHEQUER THERE,
IN THE YEARS SNOED STH JANUARY, 1825, AND STH
JANUARY, 1826-...(1N BRITISH CURRENCY).

1 Yeas ended Year ended
!Jan.s, 1823. Jan. 5,1626. Increase. Decrease.
X. 2. 2. 2.
Customs - - 1,087,999 1,347,268 259,269 ...
Ex. se . 1,654,56 1,479,865 ... 174,891
Stamps - - i 490,945 450,690 ... 40,255
Post Office - 76,615 78,462 1,847 .
Miscellaneous - 379,775 268,515 ... 111,260
-- -..-- -----
Total - -j
3,690,090 , 5,624,800 261,116 326,406

261,116 126,406
...............
261,116
.............
ae65,290

Deduct Increase -

Decreaie in Year ended sth January, 1826 -

•
Noes—ln the Year 1824, upwards of Jet 50,000, a debt due to
the Crown, was paid, and which, if deducted from the Income of
that Year, will leave an increase in the Revenue of the Year ended
Sth January, 1526, of about £90,000.

This account demonstrates that, notwithstanding the
lirge repeals and reductions of duties by different
Acts of the last Szssion, the Revenue of Ireland for
the year 1825, has virtually exceeded that for 1824.
Nor has the augmentation arisen from a single source,
but it has embraced the mos: intpottant branches of
the public Revenue.
The Customs and Excise, as our Readers know, can-
not be fairly considered under their svarate heads.
owing to the transfers of duty recently made from the
latter of these departments to the former; and it is
therefore necessary to take them together, thus:— -
Customs and Excise . 1025 . . £2,827.133
Ditto . . . 1824 . . 2,742.755

Increase in INS • • .e 84,373
Tho Stamp Duties have diminished, from causes
which it would be too long here to d tail, but which
rnanitestly cannot imply any falling off in the geheral
resources of a country where the duties on foreign im-
portation and domestic consumption are on the increase.
The Post (glee exhibits an increase of 1,8471.
The Miscellaneous articles of 1824, included the
payment of a large debt due to the Crown. Deducting
this, the produce of the year would be about 225,0001.
whereas that of 1825 is above 268,0001. giving an in-
crease here of above 40,0001.
This view of the Irish Revenue strongly confirms the
remarks made on IrelAnd in the CHatactu.oa of the
EXCHEQUER'S speech on opening his last budget—
"No part of the KING'S dominions," said he, "holds
oat more powerful inducements to the application of
capital, no soil would be more productive of valuable
fruit, none could more gratefully repay the labour of
cultivation." The, experiment of cultivating it is in a
course of trial : and the result is seen in these gratifying ,
financial statements.

But this is no: the only use to be made of the docu-
ment before us. Let us see how it bears on the Finances
or the United Kingdom. Ntr. ROBINSON, in February
last, estimated the total produce of the year, including
the sums paid by the Trustees' of Half-pay, at
.56,44.5,3701. subsequently to which there was a return
of duty on Wines in Stock, which excelded 1,000,0001.
and there was an omission to exa:t the duty on to..
bacco to the amount of 350,0001. which (wk.-deductions
would reduce the estimate to somewhat less than
55.100,0004 Nnw the actual produce of the Revenue
in E:igland was 48,573,8191. and in Ireland 3,624,800/.
and the payment by the Trustees 4,470,3701• making
altogether 56,663,9891. so that the actual and esti-
mated income will stand thus :

Actual Income for 182 S .
Estimated ditto (without deductions)

£56,668,989
56,445,370

Surplus prodact
Or, more correctly—
Actual Income for 11125
Estimated ditto (with deductions)
•
Surplus product . X 1,560,989
Again, if we compare the actual Income with the esti-
mated Expenditure, we shall still-find a surplus: .
Actual Income 5t56.6118,9119

. £223,619

X 56,6611489
55,100,000

Esdmated Expenditure
Surplus Income • . . i 1667,147
It is to be observed, that Mr. ROBINSON only took cre-
dit, in his Budget. for a surplus oi 4434284 so that the
actual result is frls 6191. betterthan the original esti-
mate ; and this. be it remembered, in spite of all the
commercial difficulties incident to the late unprece-
dented panic.

54,001.344

The new Spanish tariff' is extremely unfavourable
towards the trade of Great Britain.

The King of Bavaria has, since his recent accession,
distinguished himself by many acts of kindness and eco-
nomy—among others, by his reductions of the public
charges, and the Sumptuary regulations established by
him for his private establishment. There is anikher in
novation made by him which deserves the highest praise.
It is this—the Director of Police made to him the usual
report of the police spies of Munich s " I release you
henceforth from this duty," said the young King ; " I
do not want to be made acquainted with scandalous
anecdotes, or to penetrate the secrets of families." This
was at once an act of virtue and of wisdom.

• Tuesday evening, Mr. TIMoTMY BALDING, a re-
spectable inhabitant of Greenford, Middlesex, on his
return home, after spending the evening convivially
with a party of brother tradesmen, was taken suddenly
ill, and, betere medical aid could be procured, he died.
Saturday evening last, a fire was discovered upon the
premises of Mr. SHIILDRAKE, situate at Aldham, near
Hadleigh, which must inevitably have consumed the
whole of the buildings, together with the corn of all
descriptions, and stock, bat for the exertions of the
family. The fire was happily got under, after burning
about an hour, and consuming two or three loads of
wood, a gig, Ste. and some of the paling adjoining.
Monday night the 9th inst. the large stable occupied
by Mr. Wright, horse-dealer of Uppiogham, was com-
pletely in flames. Every exertion was instantly used;
both the engines were quickly at work; and although
the conflagration happened in the dead of the night, a
great number of persons collected together, whose
efforts were priQcipally directed to prevent the adjoining
houses from beedmiog a prey to the flames ; and hap-
pily, in about an hour and a half all CAWe for alarm on
that head was removed. The mass of fire in the mean-
time bad spent itself in completely destroying the
stable, with six valuable hones (hunters), beside] hay
and corn: from the first moment of discovery not one
of the horses could possibly be saved. . .