Star.
London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

Increase ' 221,331
CHARGE OF CONSOLIDATED FUND TO AFAIL 5, 1820.

Ex4%i:quer Annuities
South Sea Company
Bank on thair Capital
Dividends •
National Debt
Civil ielst
Pensions
Impaial Amenities *• *
Ocher Chartres .

4623,750
• 155,456
89,12.5
5,946,078
3,055,348
63,824
63,656
9,173
55,590

••• 00000

Total Charge £ 9,480,000
Surylus • 770,617

£10,4257,617

TIM EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1820.
. THE FUNDS.
!MICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON& O'CLOCK
Bank Stack 217 V. 218
3 per Cent. Reduced 67% 68 ex. div.
3 per Cent. Consols 68% $A A 14
per Cent. 76% ex. div.
4 per Ceiv. 861/4 Vs 1/4 ex. div,
5 per Cent. Navy 1041,4
Bard: Long Annuities 1713-16 ex. div.
Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 68
India Bonds 16s. 18s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) 3s. 2s. 4s. pre.
Commercial 4s. discount
Consols for Account 68 A q %,

According to a statement in the Courier, given
above, the increase of the Revenue for the Quarter
ending the sth instant, compared with last year,
including the proceeds of the new Taxes, is only
£'221,331: This is less than was expected. On
the 18th of March. we stated, from good authority,
that the Revenue was increasing, and at that time it
was expected the amount of increase would have

approximated to half a million by the end of the
Quarter. But yesterday, by au othcialtrick, to which
that prtnended Ministerial Journal, the Courier, was
the ready pander, we were led, with some of the
other Papers, to I,;:ve tLe mrplus on the Consolidated',
Fund, viz. as the increase. The object of
this attempt to decti:e the Public for four-and-tWenty •
hours—the de:eption could last no longer—was, we
have no doubt, connected with some nefarious Stock-
e,ambling of efiicial underlings.

On our error in the amount of the excess, the Times
of this morn;lig, vier stating that we had copied th
paragraph i 11le Courier, "with gratuladons on the
improvenient, as if i: were substantially true," offers
us "a word of advice," namely, never " to insert any-
thing from the Courier without the expression of
Tome doubt as to :its truth, and more especially if
the article copied had the air and appearance of
coming from the T:-easury ; for, it being long ago
found out, at the Bureaux there, that the Courier
did not of himself mind what he said, Ministers'
cared as little what they sent him for insertion, being
certain that his general character would relieve them
• from the imputation of misrepiesentation or false-
hood; but more especially since Mr. VANSITTART

decried the Courier as undeserving of credit, that de-
graded Journal has been obliged to feed upon the
veriest garbage of office, tossed down to it by the
lowest clerks, and probably door-keepers."
We take the " word of advice" in goad part from
our contemporary, as being really well meant ; nor
need we add, that he cannot entertain a greater con-
tempt for the pretended authority of the Courier
dean we do, or of its indiscretion on occasions when

it ought to display a little prudence, were it really
desirous to promote either the cause of morality or
of good order; and on this very subject we would,
from "a principle of liberality," offer in return «a
word of advice" to our monitor. On every occasion
on which the Press can negatively serve the cause
of virtue, by abstaining from publishing what can
only tend to the propagation of immorality and
pernicious principles, the Courier is ever anxious
to disseminate the poison, under the pretext of
*hewing the base character of the men from
whom such productions could first emanate. Wit-
ness the Trial of C4IRLI&E, on which occasion the
• Courier, with great industry, gave circulation to all
the vile blasphemies which necessarily were brought
before the Jury, in support of the prosecution.. But,'
to come nearer to the present moment—no later than
yesterday, the Courier look care to republish the vile
incendiary Proclamation that had been posted at
Glasgow—a publication which no person who wishes
well to society, and'allows himself a moment to reflect,
would wish to see disseminated. We abstained; from

principle, from giving it currency, and shall still keep
our columns uncontaminated with such a foul pro-
duction ; but our monitor has thought fit to give this

very article a place in his columns this moruing.-1
We would advise him, in future, when he sees any
article of this kind brought forward in the Courier,
on the pretext of exposing vice, first to ask himself,
before copying it, whether its circulation does not
promote the cause of immorality ?

Since writing the preceding we have received a
complete and accurate statement of the real compa-
rative produce of the Revenue in the Quarter just
expired, compared with the corresponding Quarter
of last year. The hour at which it seached us, pre-
vents the possibility of our giving the information
to-dall, in the tabular form, with all the particulars,
but the following are the general results ;

Income of Consolidated Fund, for the Qst arter •
ending sth April, 1919 8E11,093,042 S 5}
Ending sth April, 1890 - - 11,090,839 12 10

i Thus the Revenue, including the amount '
received for the New Taxes, is leu in
this Quarter than last year

2,206 10 7i

The Charges on the Consolidated Fund were
in the Quarter 1819 - - X 9,711,617 16 Si
1820 - - 9,500,000 0 0
In the former Quarter, the Civil List is put at X 257,000; in
the latter, at X 63,824. 3s. 6d.

In consequence of the death of King GZORGE
the Consolidated Fund was not liable for the expense
of the Civil List, subsequent to,his decease, but the
expense is equally incurred, though
..not made' a
charge on the Consolidated Fund.

Mails arrived this morning from Holland and
Flanders. The chief article of intelligence, in the Pa-
pers brought by them, is a detailed account of the
expedition sent from Batavia, in September last, to
reduce the Sultan of Palembang. 4, .The difficulty,"
it is said, " of passing the bar with large vessels, and
the delaying of the operations till the season was so
fir advanced, may be considered as the chief cause
of the failure of this expedition."

The Moniteur and other Paris Papers of Tuesday,
arrived this forenoon.

The Chamber of Deputies were chiefly occupied
on Monday with some matters of form, brought
under their consideration by M. BENJ. CONSTANT.
The accounts from Madrid are of a very satisfactory
description. Orders have been sent to Gen. O'Dobioau
to transmit an account to the Minister of War, day by
day, of the state of the proceedings instituted against
the authors of the melancholy catastrophe at Cadiz.
The whole of the troops concerned in the bloody af-
fair have been ordered to leave the place. On the 16th,
the battalion of Guides, 450 strong were sent to Xeres,
and it was to be followei by the other corps in quick
succession. As soon as the city was free of the
litary, the Constitution was to be proclaimed. By a
Decree of the 20th, the KruG has ordered all thv
estates and revenues belonging to the suppressed In-
quisition to be applied to the extinction of the debts
1.1 the State.

4'rencb Five per Cents.—Monday, 73fr. 45c.

We have received letters from Cadiz to the 17th,
and from Madrid to the 23d ult. They abound with
details of The massacre which took place at Cadiz on
the 10th, but they furnish no clue that can enable us to
judge who were the guilty dev i sers of the atrocious plot.